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6/4/2022
2 : 40
Chaos in the CBD
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're playing Chaos in the CBD, a New Zealand electronic music duo of brothers Ben and Louis Helliker-Hales. (
6/2/2022
7 : 14
Slow Attack Ensemble
Today we have a guest recommendation from Kevin Maguire, author of the newsletter The New Fatherhood. I wandered into Discos Paradisos, Barcelona's best record store, investigating a recently
6/1/2022
7 : 4
Celer
Good morning. Today we're listening to Celer, originally formed by Danielle Baquet aka Chubby Wolf and Will Long in 2005. Since Baquet's passing in 2009, it's been Long's solo project,
5/30/2022
8 : 4
Zimoun
Good morning. Today we're listening to Zimoun, a Swiss artist and sound designer from Bern. Zimoun, who has an oeuvre of art installations, treats music as sculpture. His Guitar Studies distill the
5/27/2022
7 : 4
Solomun
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Solomun, a Bosnian-German DJ and producer. Solomun was born in then-Yugoslavia and raised in
5/26/2022
7 : 4
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Good morning. Today we're listening to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a Canadian post-rock band from Montreal. Formed in 1994 by guitarists Efrim Menuck and Mike Moya and bassist Mauro Pezzente, the
5/25/2022
7 : 4
Ólafur Arnalds
Today we have a guest recommendation from Ollie Peart, co-host of the podcast The Modern Mann, who explores his own mental health in his new newsletter. Ólafur Arnalds is a mash-up of Nils Frahm, Sigur
5/23/2022
7 : 4
Vangelis
Good morning. Today we're listening to Vangelis, a Greek composer and synth player originally from Thessaly. Vangelis (pronounced van-GHELL-iss) is best known for the soundtracks he created for
5/20/2022
7 : 4
Sandilé
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Sandilé, an electronic music producer and DJ based in Cologne. Sandilé is a student of techno
5/19/2022
7 : 4
Xisco Rojo
Good morning. Today we're listening to Xisco Rojo, a guitarist and composer based in Madrid. Rojo toured around the world with a wide range of bands and created this solo project in 2013. As he
5/18/2022
7 : 4
Ann Annie
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ann Annie, a synth player and guitarist based in Portland, Oregon. We initially discovered Ann Annie via their meditative YouTube videos featuring modular
5/16/2022
7 : 4
Davi Music (Flow State Records 004)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Davi Music, a producer and multi-instrumentalist from Chicago. We first featured Davi Music back in March 2021. We love his use of synths and cassette tapes,
5/13/2022
7 : 4
Jamal Moss
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Jamal Moss, an electronic music producer and DJ from Chicago. Thank you to the great music
5/12/2022
14 : 34
Dedekind Cut
Good morning. Today we're listening to Dedekind Cut, an ambient/experimental music project from the Sacramento-born and -raised Fred Warmsley. Originally producing tracks under the name Lee Bannon,
5/12/2022
14 : 14
Donald Byrd
Good morning. Today we're listening to Donald Byrd, an American jazz trumpeter from Detroit. Coming up in New York in the '50s, he collaborated with artists like John Coltrane and Thelonious
5/9/2022
7 : 4
Hélène Vogelsinger
Good morning. Today we're listening to Hélène Vogelsinger, a French composer and sound designer. We first featured her in December 2020. Vogelsinger is a modular synth maestro. The entrancing
5/6/2022
7 : 4
Flamingosis
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Flamingosis, a beat producer from New Jersey. Flamingosis digs up flamboyant and gritty soul/
5/5/2022
7 : 4
Oscar Peterson
Good morning. Today we're listening to Oscar Peterson, a Canadian jazz pianist. Born in Montreal in 1925, Peterson was trained by a student of a student of Franz Liszt. By age 9, Peterson's
5/4/2022
7 : 4
2003 Toyota Corolla
Good morning. Today we're listening to 2003 Toyota Corolla, an electronic music producer from New Jersey. Identifying with the vaporwave movement, 2003 Toyota Corolla produces subdued, soothing
5/2/2022
7 : 4
Akashana
Good morning. Today we're listening to Akashana, an ambient project from UK-born Alliz Espi. Also known as Sana, Akashana makes music expressly for meditation, yoga, and other mindful practices.