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8/26/2022
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Perfume Advert
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Perfume Advert, an electronic music duo from Middlesbrough, England. Between 2013 and 2016
8/25/2022
7 : 4
Lalo Schifrin
Good morning. Today we're listening to Lalo Schifrin, an Argentinian pianist and composer. Schifrin grew up in Buenos Aires and at 20 won a piano scholarship to the Conservatoire de Paris. His
8/24/2022
7 : 4
Colleen
Good morning. Today we're listening to Colleen, the solo project of French musician Cécile Schott. We first featured Colleen back in May 2019 via a guest recommendation. Over the past two decades
8/22/2022
7 : 4
Erland Cooper
Good morning. Today we're listening to Erland Cooper, a Scottish multi-instrumentalist and composer. Since 2010 Cooper has put out music with bands Magnetic North and Erland & The Carnival, but
8/19/2022
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Prins Thomas
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Prins Thomas, a Norwegian producer and DJ. Thomas founded Nordic disco alongside Todd Terje
8/18/2022
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Mansur Brown
Good morning. Today we're listening to Mansur Brown, a multi-instrumentalist and composer from London. Brown's primary instrument is the guitar, which he can shred. On his original works, he
8/17/2022
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Yumiko Morioka
Good morning. Today we're listening to Yumiko Morioka, a Japanese pianist and composer. Morioka studied piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the '70s, finding special inspiration
8/15/2022
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Jon Hassell
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jon Hassell, an American trumpet player and composer from Memphis. Hassell studied music composition in New York and Cologne, learning from avant-garde
8/12/2022
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Shinichi Atobe
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Shinichi Atobe, a Japanese electronic producer. We first featured Atobe back in July 2020.
8/12/2022
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Almanacs
Good morning. Today we're listening to Almanacs, an ambient project from Honduran musician Wilmer Murillo. We learned of Almanacs from the great music newsletter Bounce Chord. Since 2016 Almanacs
8/12/2022
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Bowery Electric
Good morning. Today we're listening to Bowery Electric, an American post-rock band from New York City. In 1993, Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener, two employees of Interview magazine, met
8/8/2022
7 : 4
Kilometre Club
Good morning. Today we're listening to Kilometre Club, a Toronto-based ambient producer and multi-instrumentalist. Since 2020, Kilometre Club has put out 19 records, including 6 scores for the
8/5/2022
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Bonobo
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Bonobo, a British multi-instrumentalist, producer, and DJ. He just released a new LP,
8/4/2022
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Monster Rally
Good morning. Today we're listening to Monster Rally, a producer and visual artist from Cleveland, Ohio. As a teenager, his musical journey began as a member of screamo band Driver Side Impact.
8/3/2022
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Scanner
Good morning. Today we're listening to Scanner, an ambient music project from English musician and writer Robin Rimbaud. Thanks to Matt for the recommendation on our recent reader thread. Scanner
8/1/2022
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Oliver Coates
Good morning. Today we're listening to Oliver Coates, a British cellist and electronic producer. We first featured him back in October 2020. That was when he released his LP skins n slime, an
7/29/2022
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Glenn Underground
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Glenn Underground, a house producer and DJ from Chicago. Born in 1971, he came up in Chicago
7/28/2022
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Melissa Aldana
Good morning. Today we're listening to Melissa Aldana, a Chilean jazz saxophonist and band leader. Born in Santiago, Aldana originally took up alto sax at age six but switched to tenor upon hearing
7/27/2022
7 : 4
Monique Haas
Good morning. Today we're listening to Monique Haas, a French classical pianist. She was born in Paris in 1909 and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. She toured the world and became renowned
7/25/2022
7 : 4
Brian Eno
Good morning. Today we're listening to Brian Eno, an English music producer. Eno coined the term ambient music, and we've featured him several times on Flow State. Eno realized that music can