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4/9/2024
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Flow State Episode 222
Listen now (104 mins) | Good morning. Flow State episodes are now available on Spotify for paying subscribers – just link your Substack account to unlock them. Email us if you have any issues.
4/8/2024
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Sawako
Good morning. Today we're listening to and remembering Sawako, a Japanese ambient producer from Nagoya. Since the early 2000s, she's created “sound sculptures” which blend nature recordings and
4/5/2024
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Jlin
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Jlin, an electronic music producer from Gary, Indiana. Since 2015 she's put out complex
4/4/2024
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Johnny Dyani
Good morning. Today we're listening to Johnny Dyani, a South African bassist and pianist. Thank you to Megan Pillow for the recommendation. Born in 1945 in Eastern Cape, he joined the integrated
4/3/2024
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Kelly Moran
Good morning. Today we're listening to Kelly Moran, an American pianist and composer from Long Island. We first recommended her about five years ago. She studied music in Michigan and California,
4/2/2024
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Flow State Episode 221
Listen now (92 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with a scientifically proven calm-inducing track from Marconi Union. At least that's what NPR reports. Then we play some new great ambient
4/1/2024
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T.R. Jordan
Good morning. Today we're listening to TR Jordan, an American ambient musician based in Washington, DC. Since 2020 he's put out recordings of tender synth lines on tape loops, whose mechanical
3/29/2024
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Gooooose
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Gooooose, a Chinese electronic music producer based in Shanghai. The project is from Han Han,
3/28/2024
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Alice Coltrane
Good morning. Today we're listening to Alice Coltrane, an American multi-instrumentalist and bandleader from Detroit. She exhibited prodigious talent at a young age, and went on to play in her
3/27/2024
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Medasin
Good morning. Today we're listening to Medasin, an American producer from Dallas. For the better part of a decade, Medasin has produced Flume-like fusions of festival EDM and bedroom beats. Last
3/26/2024
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Flow State Episode 220
Listen now (111 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with a collaboration between ambient legends Steve Roach & Robert Rich. We then include some new music by Golden Brown, Annie Aries,
3/25/2024
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MIZU
Good morning. Today we're listening to MIZU, a cellist and electronic producer based in New York City. She trained classically at Juilliard and has collaborated with Flow State favorites Rachika
3/22/2024
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Four Tet
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Four Tet, an English electronic musician. We first recommended him about four years ago. A
3/21/2024
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3/21/2024
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Cassie Watson Francillon
Good morning. Today we're listening to Cassie Watson Francillon, an American harpist from New Orleans. Francillon picked up the harp (figuratively) at an early age, and over time accumulated
3/20/2024
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Bruce Kaphan (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Bruce Kaphan, an American pedal steel guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up playing a variety of instruments and settled on the pedal steel
3/19/2024
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Flow State Episode 219
Listen now (100 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with a synth/field recording piece by Aiko Takahashi. We then play some ambient music by Sonja Tofik & Mar-Ilena, kita kouhei, and Lara
3/18/2024
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Sonja Tofik
Good morning. Today we're listening to Sonja Tofik, a Swedish sound artist and producer. From Stockholm, Tofik got into electronic music as a teenager and began creating it herself at 19 when she
3/15/2024
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Joey Beltram
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Joey Beltram, an American dance music producer and DJ from Queens. He grew up in New York
3/15/2024
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Minwhi Lee
Good morning. Today we're listening to Minwhi Lee, a Korean composer, guitarist, and singer from Anyang. Born in 1989, she attended the Korean National University of Arts where she co-founded the