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12/5/2022
8 : 4
Pinkcourtesyphone
Good morning. Today we're listening to Pinkcourtesyphone, an American experimental electronic artist from Washington, DC Growing up in the suburbs, the artist rebelled against his environment but
12/2/2022
8 : 4
Pole
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Pole, an electronic music project from German musician Stefan Betke. Born in Düsseldorf, he
12/1/2022
8 : 4
Mal Waldron
Good morning. Today we're listening to Mal Waldron, an American jazz pianist from New York City. Waldron started playing jazz in New York in the '50s, accompanying the likes of Charles Mingus,
11/30/2022
8 : 4
Vanessa Wagner
Good morning. Today we're listening to Vanessa Wagner, a French classical pianist. We've recommended her two times just in the last 18 months, but two new records both from this month call for
11/28/2022
5 : 4
Zakè & 36
Good morning. Today we're listening to Zakè & 36, a couple ambient producers from Indianapolis and the UK respectively. We first recommended them last December. That was when the pair released
11/23/2022
8 : 4
JakoJako
Good morning. We'll be off tomorrow and Friday. Today we're listening to JakoJako, an electronic music producer based in Berlin. While growing up she studied guitar and classical piano, but
11/21/2022
8 : 4
Arovane
Good morning. We'll be off on Thursday and Friday this week. Today we're listening to Arovane, a German ambient artist and sound designer. Thanks to Bram for the recommendation. Growing up in
11/18/2022
8 : 4
Byron the Aquarius
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Byron the Aquarius, a pianist and electronic music producer originally from Alabama. Byron,
11/17/2022
8 : 4
Jan Hammer
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jan Hammer, a Czech-American keyboardist and composer. Born in Prague in 1948, Hammer took up piano at age 4. By 1968, he was studying composition at the
11/16/2022
8 : 4
Brendan Eder Ensemble
Good morning. Today we're listening to the Brendan Eder Ensemble, a project from LA-based drummer and composer Brendan Eder. Since graduating from Santa Fe University of Art & Design in 2009,
11/14/2022
8 : 14
Applefish
Good morning. Today we're listening to Applefish, an ambient project from UK-based guitarist and producer Nik Davies. Davies describes Applefish as “a musical exploration of life on Earth.” Using
11/11/2022
8 : 5
Modeselektor
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Modeselektor, a German electronic duo made up of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. The duo
11/10/2022
11 : 54
Ami Dang
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ami Dang, a Punjabi-American sitarist, composer, and vocalist from Baltimore. At age 12, Dang started playing sitar, with a focus on North Indian classical
11/10/2022
11 : 34
Pete Rock
Good morning. Today we're listening to Pete Rock, an American hip-hop producer from The Bronx. Rock was born to Jamaican immigrant parents and as a teenager picked up DJing from his father, who did
11/7/2022
8 : 4
Corntuth (Flow State Records 006)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Corntuth, a Brooklyn-based ambient music composer. Corntuth's latest record, Letters to My Robot Son, is the third LP they've put out on Flow State
11/4/2022
7 : 4
Ciel
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Ciel, a producer and DJ born in Xi'an and based in Toronto. She got into electronic /
11/3/2022
7 : 4
Dizzy Reece
Good morning. Today we're listening to Dizzy Reece, a Jamaican jazz trumpeter from Kingston. Born in 1931, Reece switched from saxophone to trumpet at age 14, and at 16 moved to London to pursue
11/2/2022
7 : 4
Carl Stone
Good morning. Today we're listening to Carl Stone, an experimental composer from Los Angeles. We first recommended him in early 2020. Stone began experimenting with computer music in the '80s,
10/31/2022
7 : 4
Kuniyuki Takahashi
Good morning. Today we're listening to Kuniyuki Takahashi, a Japanese composer, producer, and sound engineer. We first recommended him in 2019. The record label Music from Memory published his
10/28/2022
7 : 4
Kornél Kovács
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Kornél Kovács, a Swedish-Hungarian electronic music producer and DJ. We first recommended him