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.
There are a lot of drone textures in this episode, designed to take you to a deeper place. Okay, some of this gets down into some darkness, but I’ll energize the ride as we get toward the end. Enjoy.
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. ;-)
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.
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.
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.
Time to wrap up year 13 with a nice, longer-than-normal dive into the library to celebrate the music that’s kept me going (and kept you coming back) all this time. My genuine thanks go out to all the musicians and labels who’ve kept the show fed with delicious music all this time, and to all the listeners who’ve kept my ego fed just by being here. Let’s get the party started.
Start Sundaug, Desert Oasis, Nocturnality 4.05 miserable.noise.club, Dead Poetry, Thoughts On The Impasse* 7.37 Michelle Qureshi, Dreaming in Color, Seventh Wave 11.26 Amy Faithe, Moments, The Ascent 21.23 Dolmen, bleedbeginbegone, Terra Firma 28.33 Indigo Symbol, As They Lay Still, Zenith 41.49 Steve Roach, Electro Erotic, Fever Dreams III 53.28 Integral, Schlaflos, Rise 58.11 Rhizomorph, Khasafa, Xenofilika 1.03.39 Darshan Ambient, Black Mountain Morning, re:Karma 1.08.50 Atomic Skunk, Owl, Base Camp 1.17.01 Mount Maxwell, Q&A, Only Children 1.30.44 Ann Licater, Echoes in the Mist, Beyond the Waves 1.36.05 Will Ackerman, Tom Eaton & Jeff Oster, It Had To Be Like That, Brothers 1.40.46 Bruno Sanfilippo, Peter, Lost & Found 1.45.42 Zero Ohms, The Poetics of Space, Sweven 1.52.36 Igneous Flame, Ritva, Sylvi 2.00.17 Phillip Wilkerson, Among the Nebulae, The Stars and Afterward 2.06.34 Giles Reaves, Darkness Into Light, Sacred Spaces**
*It appears the artist has removed this album. However, if you like what you heard, hit their Bandcamp page (in the link) and check out their other work. **Most of Giles’ early albums are not readily available for download. You can find them for sale on various sites. As a rule, I do not link to those types of sites as the artist may not directly benefit. Also, check out his new work with Tony Gerber.
A shadowy first set full of newer music gives way to some sequencer-driven cuts from the library. There’s a point where you’ll want to buckle up. It gets wild… Enjoy.
There’s beauty and there’s darkness and then there’s dark beauty. We’ll dabble in all of those to start. The second half gets its funk on a bit and, to be honest, erupts in a bit of post-rock glory. But it all quiets down in the end. Shall we?
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