Category: contemporary instrumental

Episode 375

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Time to get our hush on with 90 minutes of nice, quiet music. No bumps, no surprises, no stops. One might go so far as to say you could meditate to this one. Don’t get used to it, though…

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Start      Giles Reaves, The Unknown, Wunjo*
19.25     Igneous Flame, Incandescence, Opaline
30.46     Manitou, Quiet stillness rests on the Algiers Motel, Shadows of a Detroit Winter Sun
37.34     Neuro… No Neuro, When I Wake Up and See You, Let’s Be Happy
42.18     Jeannine Schulz, TAI (Peace), Ground. The Gentle
45.45     Carey Moore, St. Matthews, Life Is Ugly. Make Pretty Art.
49.59     Scott Lawlor, Capturing Sunlight, Show Me the Glint of Light
53.40     Biome, Rain Temple, The Shores of Temenos
58.06     Conni St. Pierre, Snowfields, Mountain Spirits
1.03.39  r beny, Overgrowth, Full Blossom of the Evening
1.09.19  Andrew Lang, Confluence, Momentary Senses
1.13.17  Dreamhub, Andromeda, Moments in Space
1.18.47  Blear Moon, Must, Fallow
1.22.10  Eyes Cast Down, Exquisite Divination of Patterns, Divinations

*Out of print. If you want it, you can find it through resellers, which I do not link to.

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Episode 373

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New year, same show. Same unserious host. Same great music for 90 minutes for the same great listeners.

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Start       Atomi, Adela, Little Floating Oracles
8.44       Christopher Alvarado, The Aesir, A Whispering Sanctuary
15.03     Desensitized, Logic of Expression (Praetoreum), Chaos In Premonition
20.10     DEN SORTE DØD, Dyster Kold Mörker, Undergangen
23.20     Mike Clay, Clouds of Creation, Somewhere in Space and Time
28.35     Daryl Groetsch, Waves Rolling In, Ease
37.49     Soft Generator, Know, Ack▪Now▪Ledge
55.58     The Kids And The Cosmos, Shinshan – We Shine, Ambient Mixtape Vol.1
1.02.06  James Asher, Dance of the Light, Anthology
1.06.15  Joerg Dankert, Between the Meantime Part 10, Between the Meantime
1.11.59  Computerchemist, Moonfloating, Where the Clouds Touch the Sky

Episode 372

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It’s the last show of 2022, but we’re not going to look back. Oh no, my friend. We are going to stare straight down the barrel of a fully loaded Holding Tanks and say, with an appropriately unnerving grin, “Let’s see what you’ve got.” Seventeen cuts of goodness, that’s what.
As ever, thank you for being here, whether it’s been the whole year or you’re just figuring out that this is a thing. And for the long-timers…you da best.

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Start       PurpleAndroid, Anguilliform, Irrational Hero
5.57       Corben, Calculating Colours, Sun Variants
10.34     San Mateo, Interoception, Exspiravit Luminaria
16.05     Sven Laux & Fione, There Was No Togetherness, Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different
22.14     Bett Butler & Joel Dilley, Where We Go From Here, Gracia
27.19     Samer Fanek, Desert Rush, Call of the Desert
30.30     Sharon Fendrich, Dryad’s Rejoice, Sapphire Oak
35.32     Joseph L Young, Secrets of Stone, Into the Unknown
40.23     Many Pretty Blooms, Spurious Realities, Bow & Clatter
46.48     Emme, New Dawn by the Lake, Talking to the Spheres
52.58     Federico Mosconi, A Rainy Picture, Outdoor Melodies
56.31     Isaiah Rizzo, Mother, Between Light & Shadows
59.34     Fred Baty, Into the Past, The Upper Air
1.02.58  Matt Christensen & P.M. Tummala, Yellow 4, Yellow Works
1.09.07  Exedra, Obelisk, Time and Emotion
1.13.00  Jacek Doroszenko, Synthetic Skin, Bodyfulness
1.21.13  Tom Eaton, The Invisible Shore, Shades of Fog

Episode 371

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Whither shall we wander this time around? To groves of musical grooviness and gardens of unearthly aural delight? Sure, you could put it that way. Or we could just call it 90 in the Holding Tank, drenching ourselves in good new music.

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Start       Blue Is Nine, Deserts Burn, Far And Wide
5.29       Gemini Revolution, South Pole, Switching In and Out of Consciousness
11.42     Conrad Praetzel, Blue Poppies, Adventures Into Somethingness
18.52     Darren McClure, Invique, Slow Up, Speed Down
25.43     Drifting In Silence, Preconscious Mind, False Awakening
31.59     David Wahler, Invictus, Collection
36.13     Robert Scott Thompson, Ascension, Ascension
48.03     Aaron Martin, From the Dust We Breathe, The End of Medicine (Original Score)
53.03     Bruno Sanfilippo, Crypto, Redes*
58.48     Michael Gettel, Medano Creek, The View from Here
1.03.47  Kirk Kadish, Crumb Zap Trucker, Peace Movements
1.17.49  Giant Skeletons, And Miles to Go Before I Sleep, Sleep Tides
1.24.09  NCT333, The struggle, a goat hoof, Last Summer of Cicadas

*You will hear me pronounce this as “reeds” because I am a monolingual numbskull who often can’t be bothered to do some reading about the things I play on my show. It is “ray-days,” essentially, and is Spanish for “networks.” In my defense, “rede” is an archaic English word meaning counsel or story. So maybe it was just my limited readings of Chaucer sneaking up on me and not the fact that I am myself somewhat archaic. 

Episode 370

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Strap in for a fresh round of the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental out there. We start off with some primal grooves and wind up somewhere deep in space. Enjoy.

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Start      Byron Metcalf & Dashmesh, Deep Time 6, Heart of the Deep Time
7.32       Ashtoreth, Rite IV, Rites III-IV
22.41     now|here, Drag (Holy Breathing), The Wayfarer
30.47     Mathoms, Airlift, The Woe Trumpets
34.58     Quindicesimo Arcano, Il Male Non Perdona!, Il Funesto Viaggio di un Oscuro Indagatore
37.59     Daniele Gottardo, Reflection Garden, InkBlot
48.09     Liminal Drifter, Cut Out, Cortisol 22
53.36     Djam Karet, The Other Side, Island in the Red Night Sky
1.00.36  Subtle Shift, Sunlit Depths, Somber Frequencies
1.08.17  Parallel Worlds, Dark Energy, Dark Energy
1.18.19  Loneward, Unbroken Horizon, Our Unyielding Sky

Brief bit of opening music came from AShamaluevMusic.com

Episode 369

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Oh, nothing much. Just 90 more minutes of really tasty musical treats. Things get a bit droney for a while, and we spend a good bit of time with contemporary composers. Definitely an episode for those with eclectic tastes. We’re all over the map here. Settle in, open mind.

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Start      Audio Mainline, Butterfly, Rebirth
5.12       Andrew Heath, The Arms of Morpheus, Quiet Noise
13.04     Orphax, Less is More (excerpt), Less is More
28.41     Ryan Huber, Skytaker, Duopoly
34.44     Daigo Hanada, Toki, Satori
38.18     Morimoto Naoki, Itsuka, Soak
42.08     Federico Mosconi, Outdoor Melodies, A Rainy Picture
45.38     Slow Clinic & Matt Atkins, Brushstrokes (pt.1), Earthtides I
50.49     Flavia Massimo, Steps, Glitch
55.34     Edu Comelles & Rafa Ramos, Sania Murta, De Camp
1.03.57  Kevin Kastning, Sándor Szabó & Balázs, Major Fourth Ethereal Five, Ethereal Five
1.11.12  Ben Zucker, None Were Things, Having Becames
1.16.43  Letna, Sava, Starigrad
1.22.31  Glåsbird, Thakita, Himalaya

Episode 365

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Resisting the urge to do the obvious theme show, I instead opted to take you deep into the Holding Tank again. We kick off with some beats, wind down to drifts, and get a bit acoustic on the back half. There’s a quick stop in the middle, just to irk some listeners and see who sticks around. ;-)

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Start      Altus, Recon, Anthropoaliena
7.34       ORIOM, Sun Šamaš, Roots Of Deliverance
15.23     Playback Head, Hometown Dawn Chorus, First Sounds
19.03     A View from a Window, The Blossom After the Bud, A View from a Window
22.23     Willebrant, Cowwarr III, Cowwarr___
31.23     Zero Ohms, Across the Seven Skies, Cloudwalker & the Ascent
36.56     Mingo, Wirehead, Datadream Ambient Session
46.49     Bruno Sanfilippo & Aukai, Collab1 (single release)
52.16     Rubin Henkel, Bi, Restless
56.13     David Franklin w/Michael Manring, Back, in a Different Place, Passings
1.00.22  Seamus O’Muineachain, Foraging for Wild Garlic in a Light Snow, Different Time Zones
1.03.37  Simon McCorry, Momentary Lapse of Memory, The Illusion of Beginnings and Endings
1.07.09  The June Rise, Summoned by the Tides, Birds
1.10.53  David J Pena, The Arrival, Winds of Change
1.14.00  Bill Freas, Ultraviolet Pathways to Imminent Nostalgia, Extraordinarily Transcendent Tuesdays of the Electric Glowworm
1.19.25  Christopher Alvarado, The Child Was Never Alive (Twilight Transmissions – Adrenaline Mix), Huntu Mix
1.23.36  Sunken Cathedral, Arid Winds – Parched Land, Of the Dying Year

Episode 364

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Took a look at the Holding Tanks and the download queue and made an Executive Decision: time to go back to focusing on all the good new stuff I’ve had coming in over the last few months. You haven’t seen the last of the library, but we’ll close those doors for a bit. I promise you won’t mind much.

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Start      Liquid Terrain, Ripples, Ripples
8.18       B. Ashra, Happiness, Fluffy Spirals
13.57     For the Glory of Nothing, Cassiel Rising, Saturn (compilation)
19.03     TheAdelaidean & Deepspace, Star Cradle, Antigravity
30.24     Earnest Woodall, Roswell Phenomenon, Tales Under The Full Moon
36.03     now|here, Anancasm, The Wayfarer
42.19     Monoheart, Lo ‘mperador del doloroso regno (Canto XXXIV), Inferno*
47.00     Tobi Morare, Berlin Vibes, Soul Kitchen
49.12     Sky Creature, Light Reflected, Bear Mountain/Childworld
51.59     Lis Addison, Rhythm of Earth, Elements
57.49     Paulina Fae, Play, Glow
1.01.33  Matthew Burtner, You Sink Into the Singing Snow, Icefields
1.08.17  litmus0001, From Cloud to Sea (excerpt), From Cloud to Sea
1.23.23  Aaron Oppenheim, Toil, Labor

*The album was sent to me with no title, so at the time of recording I figured it was self-titled. On the release day of the podcast, the artist got back to me with the actual title, Inferno.

Episode 363

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We’re off to a slick start with some smooth sax and sliding our way down into some drifty grooves. Then we’re off to the library to visit some old friends. (One going back to ’05!)

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Start      Gian Berselli & Jérémy Marais, Insight, Creative Stillness
5.52       Headland, Bullfinch, Bullfinch
21.59     Alan Matthews, Andalusia, All That I Can See
25.20     Jonny Lipford, Believing Your Truth, Balance
32.34     Ümlaut, 120 Degrees, Grand Trine
37.56     Julien Demoulin, Solar Dust Drone, Dreams In Digital Dust
48.04     Khara, Currahee, There Were Heroes Amongst Us
56.18     Kodomo Gate, 5A, Frozen in Motion
59.58     Bob Holroyd, Flow, Blueprint
1.03.28  Jeff Greinke, Outflow, Other Weather
1.07.50  Slow Dancing Society, Spokane Falls, Torchlight Parade Vol II
1.12.25  Tom Eaton, Stars Above Great Water, Elements Part Four: Water
1.22.00  Numina, Drift Catalyst, Eye of the Nautilus

Episode 362

Hypnagogue1 Comment

A smooth blend of styles, kicking off with some sequencery goodness and primal grooves. Another of the Forgotten starts the second set, and we’ll get downright homey before it’s through. Enjoy.

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Start      AeTopus, First Ones, Urbus
4.40       Craig Padilla, Continuum, Parts 1 & 2, Discovery of Meaning
19.56     Colin Rayment, Winding Along The Flåm, Polyphonic Memories ll
29.05     Biloba Green, #4F7942, Biloba Green
34.23     Jarguna & Chris Russell, Thunderbird, Transmissions from Serpent Mound
40.31     Byron Metcalf, Arrival Of The Elves, Adventures in Synaptic Exploration
55.20     12 Followers/Meteo Xavier, Ornamekias – A Slight Wave From the Hill Above, Espers
1.02.02  Gargle, Hibernation, Wading in Shallow Waters
1.07.52  Force for Good, Homeless, Innocence
1.15.00  Robert Thies & Damjan Krajacic, The Abandoned Monastery, Blue Landscapes III: Frontiers
1.20.30  Lena Natalia, Just Around the Bend, Second Youth
1.23.59  Todd Mosby, Sylphs, Aerial Views