I make it a habit to keep track of tracks that give an “ooh” moment, either while I’m shuffling the Newish queue or when the library is picking out the music in the office. And sometimes, I refer back to those tracks I’ve tracked and I make a podcast out of them. A mix of new and library this time, with the tracks from the stacks up front.

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Start      Lopside, A Thoughtful Goodbye, Junedecember
5.08       Ykymyr, Girl, City
8.25       metlay!, Fade to Purple, Fade
22.51     Cryobiosis, The Corridors Beneath, Within Ruins
26.39     Lucette Bourdin, Cathedral Jam, Drum-atic Atmospheres
37.29     Pavel Fedorov, Thermae, Fondness
41.54     David Norland, Thursday Optimism, Glam Tear Stain
46.04     FLOW, Blue Umbrella, Promise
50.10     Joe Frawley, Pink Elephant Suitcase, Haunt Not
55.26     Vivien Le Fay, Ecolalia, Ecolalia
1.00.56  MUUR, Bod (excerpt), Bod
1.16.15  Hermetic Brotherhood of Lux-Or, To Die in a Decayed Country, Sex and Dead Cities
1.21.56  Gray Acres, Touchstones, Material Forces

Long-time listeners know the drill—when the mood says to head for darkness, off we go. That’s where we’ll spend the first 30 on this journey. A quick break, and then it’s into places less grim and more lively.

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Start      Li Yilei, 5:28, 0:00
4.54       Bas van Huizen, Resonantendamp, Kulverzuchter
10.21     Monocube, Actio in Distans, Substratum
16.09     Ebauche, Umbilical Transfer, Formic Syntax
20.49     Sutekh Hexen, Sub Stratus, S/T
32.24     George Johnston, This Has Happened Before, In Perpetuity
43.23     Medo’s Little Trap, Birds on the Snow 3, Birds on the Snow
47.14     Perpetual Motion, Viaje del Corazon, Dance of Two Souls
50.36     Real Vocal String Quartet, Exist, Culture Kin
57.57     Seamus O’Muineachain, Impossible to Know, City of Lakes
1.03.13  Yoshitaka Ito, Resonance, A Boy Walking Another Planet
1.08.33  General Fuzz, Circle Up, Study Music
1.14.15  Confluent Phase, Enceladus, Ad Astra

I’m glad that you listeners seem to enjoy the Half-hour Spotlights, because I very much like throwing them together. This time around we’ll focus on Michelle Qureshi, and surround her with some deep cuts from the library.

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Start      Mirror of Dreams, The Orrery at Twilight, Land of Forgotten Destiny
8.48       Christopher Alvarado & Ari Porki, The Grey Deluge, Menagerie of Clouds
15.34     Mara’s Torment, Resolution, Dexterity
25.24     Palancar, Essential Oil, Shallow River Flowing

Hypnagogue Half-hour Spotlight: Michelle Qureshi
35.14     Face of Things, Harmonic Dreams
40.45     Velvet Rains, Seventh Wave
48.26     Stars Seen, Seventh Wave
53.54     A Thousand Ways, Short Stories
56.32     River of Calm, Short Stories
59.19     Give Us This Day, Silver Chord

1.05.52  Zinovia, Emerge to Breathe, The Gift of Affliction
1.09.43  Mikronesia, Black Rain, Sick With Silence
1.16.00  MusSck, These Blind Eyes of Mine, Digital Ninja
1.19.03  Second Culture, Glass Samurai, Thunder Conjuring Mind
1.22.42  Visiting Cat, Watcher of Game Shows, Host

Plenty of sounds to explore, including a deep 30-minute immersion in the music of Loren Nerell.

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Start      Gunnar Spardel, A Day in a Lifetime, Simplicity in a Complex World
6.42       Grayhawk, The Banteay Srei Temple, Voice of the Ancestors
11.34     Spices Peculiar, Bridge to Santosa, Coastline
20.05     David Wright, Stranger Days Parts 5&6, Stranger Days
28.27     Western Edges, Very Good On The Rushes, Prowess
31.42     Witnesses, Signals, II

Hypnagogue Half-hour Spotlight: Loren Nerell
38.08     No Suffering, No Consciousness, No Sound, Live at Soundquest Fest 2010
47.18     Liquid Metal Stasis, The Venerable Dark Cloud
54.56     Persistence of Dream Imagery, Slow Dream
1.03.09  with Mark Seelig: Mulu Caves – Sarawak, Malaysia, Cave Dwellers

1.15.09  Henry Courgette, Quietude, Qaptain Quolshed’s Cosmic Quest
1.18.54  A Spot on the Hill, Coffee, Birdsong, and You, A Need That Runs Too Deep
1.23.21  MALK, The Sunken Place, WMAIDIT
1.26.49  Laura Masotto, Lucciola, Fireflies