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5/1/2023
7 : 4
Stars of the Lid
Good morning. Today we're listening to Stars of the Lid, an ambient duo from Austin, TX. Despite their being ambient canon, the last time we featured them was March 2019. Adam Wiltzie and Brian
4/28/2023
7 : 4
Sasse
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Sasse, a Finnish electronic music producer based in Berlin. In the '90s, he was part of
4/27/2023
7 : 4
Scott Joplin
Good morning. Today we're listening to Scott Joplin, an American pianist and composer. Born in Texas circa 1868, Joplin grew up in a musical family and at a young age set out as an itinerant
4/26/2023
7 : 14
Golden Brown
Good morning. Today we're listening to Golden Brown, an instrumental music project from multi-instrumentalist Stefan Beck, who's based in Colorado. Beck combines guitars and synths to create
4/25/2023
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 175
Listen now | Good morning. Today's mix features a whole bunch of ambient and instrumental excerpts from Mac DeMarco's 9+ hour album One Wayne G, which he released this past Friday. There are
4/24/2023
7 : 4
William Orbit
Good morning. Today we're listening to William Orbit, an English producer and keyboardist from Palmers Green outside London. We first recommended him back in 2020. Born in 1956, Orbit dropped out
4/21/2023
7 : 4
Juan Atkins
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Juan Atkins, an electronic music producer and DJ from Michigan. In the 1980s, Atkins along
4/20/2023
7 : 4
Ahmad Jamal
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ahmad Jamal, an American jazz pianist and bandleader from Pittsburgh. Jamal, whom we first recommended in May 2021, passed away on Sunday at age 92. At age 3,
4/19/2023
7 : 34
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou
Good morning. Today we're listening to and remembering Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian pianist and composer. Sister Guèbrou, whom we've featured twice before, passed away on March 25
4/19/2023
7 : 4
Manzanita y Su Conjunto
Good morning. Today we're listening to Manzanita y Su Conjunto, a Peruvian band that formed in Lima in the late 1960s. Berardo 'Manzanita' Hernández, the band's leader, learned guitar
4/19/2023
7 : 4
Alice Sara Ott
Good morning. Today we're listening to Alice Sara Ott, a German-Japanese classical pianist. We first featured her last June. Ott fell in love with the piano at age three while attending a concert
4/19/2023
6 : 25
James Holden
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to James Holden, an English electronic music producer based in London. Holden grew up in
4/19/2023
5 : 44
Liquid Mind
Good morning. Today we're listening to Liquid Mind, an ambient music project from Los Angeles-based composer Chuck Wild. In the '70s, Chuck entered the music industry as a producer and
4/19/2023
5 : 25
Flow State Episode 174
Listen now (116 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with several ambient tracks, including new favorites by Liquid Mind and Travis McKay and old favorites from Oneohtrix Point Never and Rudy
4/11/2023
7 : 5
Flow State Episode 173
Listen now (105 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with a few ambient pieces from Blood Incantation (they switched from death metal to ambient last year 🤘), Nico Georis, SidiRum, and Bianca
4/10/2023
7 : 4
North Americans
Good morning. Today we're listening to North Americans, an ambient country duo based in Los Angeles. We first featured them in 2021. The band consists of pedal steel guitarist Barry Walker and
4/7/2023
7 : 4
SidiRum
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to SidiRum, an Argentinian electronic music producer based in Buenos Aires. Since 2014, he's
4/6/2023
7 : 4
Branko Mataja
Today we have a guest recommendation from Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey, the erstwhile publisher of Trillium, whom you can follow on Twitter. Good morning. Today we're listening to the legendary
4/5/2023
7 : 14
Nico Georis
Good morning. Today we're listening to Nico Georis, an American keyboardist and composer from California. Now based in Death Valley, Georis has played keyboards across a range of genres including
4/4/2023
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 172
Listen now (111 min) | Good morning. Today's mix begins with an hour of selections from Ryuichi Sakamoto's discography. Specifically, we play his ambient music, then solo piano, film scores,