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11/15/2021
8 : 4
Jon Hopkins
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jon Hopkins, an English electronic music producer. Hopkins studied classical piano in his teens and was heavily influenced by composers such as Ravel and
11/12/2021
8 : 4
Vril
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're playing Vril, a German techno producer and DJ from Hannover, Germany. Vril makes dubby techno, but he
11/11/2021
8 : 4
Enya
Good morning. Today we're listening to Enya, an Irish keyboardist, composer, and singer. Enya Brennan grew up in County Donegal, Ireland, and got her musical start playing keyboard in her
11/10/2021
9 : 27
Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher
Good morning. Today we're listening to Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher, Polish composers who play piano and cello respectively. We previously recommended Hania's solo piano records, but we
11/8/2021
8 : 4
Picnic
Good morning. Today we're listening to Picnic, an ambient production duo whose members hail from Kansas City and Melbourne. Thanks to Ilya for the recommendation. Picnic's self-titled album
11/5/2021
7 : 4
Carl Craig
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Carl Craig, an American techno producer and DJ from Detroit. In the late '80s, Craig
11/4/2021
7 : 4
Wes Montgomery
Good morning. Today we're listening to Wes Montgomery, an American jazz guitarist from Indianapolis. Montgomery picked up the guitar at age 20 after hearing a Charlie Christian record. He worked
11/3/2021
7 : 4
Nat Bartsch
Good morning. Today we're listening to Nat Bartsch, an Australian pianist and composer. Thanks to doll and Peter for the recommendation. Bartsch's neoclassical music is influenced by “
11/1/2021
7 : 4
Sofie Birch
Good morning. Today we're listening to Sofie Birch, a Danish synthesist and composer based in Copenhagen. Her ambient pieces combine modular synth improvisations with recordings of analog
10/29/2021
7 : 4
Basic Channel
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Basic Channel, a German electronic duo founded in Berlin in 1993. Shortly following the fall
10/28/2021
7 : 4
Masayoshi Takanaka
Good morning. Today we're listening to Masayoshi Takanaka, a Japanese guitarist and composer from Tokyo. Thanks to Scott for the recommendation. Takanaka played guitar and bass in bands in the
10/27/2021
7 : 4
Clara Rockmore
Good morning. Today we're listening to Clara Rockmore, a Lithuanian thereminist. Born in 1911 in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, Rockmore was a violin prodigy and enrolled in conservatory at age
10/25/2021
7 : 4
Anna von Hausswolff
Good morning. We're back. Today we're listening to Anna von Hausswolff, a Swedish pipe organist and singer/songwriter based in Gothenburg. Her music is hard to classify. “She's too
10/18/2021
7 : 4
What music are you working to?
Since we're off this week, we wanted to start a thread for Flow State readers to share what they're listening to. What album or artist are you w…
10/15/2021
7 : 4
Burial
Good morning. We're taking next week off. We will start a recommendation thread to hold you over. We really appreciate your support 🙏 It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat
10/14/2021
9 : 26
Jung Jae-il
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jung Jae-il, a Korean composer and multi-instrumentalist. Jung has perhaps the most-listened score in the world right now with Squid Game, the Korean
10/14/2021
9 : 24
BADBADNOTGOOD
Good morning. Today we're listening to BADBADNOTGOOD, a jazz trio from Toronto. The group – drummer, keyboardist, bassist – formed in 2010. They caught our attention initially with jazz covers of
10/11/2021
7 : 4
Rhucle
Good morning. Today we're listening to Rhucle, a Japanese ambient producer based in Tokyo. Rhucle makes truly ambient music in that he samples sounds from his environment and sets them to synth and
10/8/2021
7 : 4
Metro Area
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Metro Area, a house music duo from New York. In the early aughts, the duo released a string
10/7/2021
7 : 4
Red Garland
Good morning. Today we're listening to Red Garland, an American jazz pianist originally from Dallas, Texas. In the '50s, Garland joined the Miles Davis Quintet and exerted a formative influence