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8/4/2023
7 : 14

D.K.

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to DK, the electronic music moniker of Dang-Khoa Chau. Since 2014 he's been putting out
8/3/2023
7 : 4

Angus MacRae

Good morning. Today we're listening to Angus MacRae, a British composer and multi-instrumentalist. His mother was a piano teacher, often playing classical music around the house. Angus started
8/2/2023
7 : 4

Hollie Kenniff

Good morning. Today we're listening to Hollie Kenniff, a Canadian-American multi-instrumentalist and composer. We previously featured her in January 2022. Her new album from February, We All Have
8/1/2023
7 : 4

Flow State Episode 188

Listen now (93 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with a few ambient tracks from Japanese producer Hakobune, French composer Maxime Denuc, and Americans Forest Management and Tim Hecker. We
7/31/2023
7 : 4

Ensemble Dedalus

Good morning. The Flow State summer T-shirt is on sale here. Today we're listening to Ensemble Dedalus, a French ensemble based in Toulouse. Founded in 1996 by guitarist and composer Didier Aschour
7/28/2023
7 : 4

Yoshihiro Sawasaki

Good morning. There's a new Flow State T-shirt, which you can buy here while supplies last. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Yoshihiro
7/27/2023
7 : 4

Tortoise

Good morning. Today we're listening to Tortoise, a post-rock band from Chicago. We first recommended them back in November 2019. Like their tracks, the band itself took shape step by step through
7/26/2023
7 : 4

Ylia

Good morning. Today we're listening to Ylia, a Spanish producer and sound designer based in Málaga. As a DJ, Ylia's sets are fast-paced and ravey, but on her solo records since 2020, she's
7/25/2023
7 : 4

Flow State Episode 187

Listen now (102 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with French multi-instrumentalist Akusmi, his Moondog-like track “Cogito.” Then we move into the usual ambient openers, this time from Luke
7/24/2023
7 : 4

Daryl Groetsch

Good morning. Today we're listening to Daryl Groetsch, an American ambient music producer based in Portland, Oregon. Since the early aughts, he's put out almost a hundred records, mostly under
7/21/2023
7 : 14

Andrea

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Andrea, an Italian electronic music producer from Turin. Andrea began his musical career as a
7/20/2023
7 : 4

Béla Fleck

Good morning. Today we're listening to Béla Fleck, an American banjo player from New York City. At 15 he was wowed by the fast-paced pluckings of bluegrass duo Flatt & Scruggs. Going on fifty
7/19/2023
7 : 4

Shida Shahabi (Interview)

Good morning. Today we're listening to Shida Shahabi, a pianist and composer based in Stockholm. We previously recommended her in October. Shahabi was born in Sweden to Iranian parents who had fled
7/18/2023
7 : 4

Flow State Episode 186

Listen now (116 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with a David Byrne track from 1991 off a lesser-known solo album called The Forest, recently cited as inspiration by comedian John Mulaney. We
7/17/2023
7 : 4

Davi Music (Flow State Records 008)

Good morning. Today we're listening to Davi Music, a producer and multi-instrumentalist from Chicago. His new album, which came out on Friday, is the eighth LP from Flow State Records. Good Morning
7/16/2023
14 : 15

Kate Liu

Good morning. Today we're listening to Kate Liu, a Singaporean American classical pianist. Thanks to Max for the recommendation. Born in 1994, Liu took up piano at age 4 and was promptly recognized
7/16/2023
13 : 44

Home

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Home, a synthwave project from producer and synth enthusiast Randy Goffe. Growing up in Punta
7/11/2023
7 : 4

Flow State Episode 185

Listen now (109 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with the premiere of the newest Flow State Records release, Good Morning Deja Vu by Davi Music, which comes out this Friday. We'll be
7/10/2023
7 : 4

Hideyuki Hashimoto

Good morning. Today we're listening to Hideyuki Hashimoto, a Japanese pianist from Osaka. Now based in Kagawa, Hashimoto started off his piano career by improvising. “I started to improvise, not
7/7/2023
7 : 4

Al Wootton

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Al Wootton, an electronic music producer from South London. In 2009 he started putting out