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5/21/2021
7 : 4
Lord Tusk
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Lord Tusk, a London-based electronic producer. We first heard his music on DJ Moxie's
5/20/2021
7 : 4
Mikel
Good morning. Today we're listening to Mikel, a beatmaker who's part of GameChops, a record label dedicated to video game music. GameChops licenses classic video game compositions like Zelda
5/19/2021
7 : 4
Jordane Tumarinson
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jordane Tumarinson, a French composer and pianist. Tumarinson makes minimalist solo piano recordings that often feature slow-moving arpeggios. He cites
5/17/2021
7 : 4
Brian Eno
Good morning. Today we're listening to Brian Eno, an English producer who turned 73 on Saturday. An inventor of ambient music, Eno put out meditative synth records in the '70s including
5/14/2021
8 : 34
Skee Mask
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're playing music from Skee Mask, a German electronic music producer. Skee Mask creates scintillating synth
5/14/2021
3 : 12
Ralph Lundsten
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ralph Lundsten, a Swedish electronic music composer. Born in 1936, Lundsten started making electronic music in the '50s on instruments he built himself.
5/14/2021
3 : 11
Zopelar
Good morning. Today we're listening to Zopelar, a Brazilian dance music producer. It's a little upbeat for a Thursday rec but you only live once. Zopelar is a fixture of the São Paolo
5/10/2021
7 : 4
Green-House
Good morning. Today we're listening to Green-House, an ambient producer based in Los Angeles. Thanks to Mike for the recommendation. Green-House just put out their first LP, Music for Living Spaces
5/7/2021
7 : 4
Xyla
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Xyla, an electronic music producer from Houston, Texas. Last year she produced an excellent
5/6/2021
7 : 4
Page McConnell
Today we have a guest recommendation from Peter Bucciarelli, a physician from New Orleans. We're listening to Page McConnell's Maybe We're The Visitors. Page is best known for his work as
5/5/2021
7 : 4
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou
Good morning. Today we're listening to Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian pianist and composer. We first recommended her two years ago. We were reminded of the beauty of Guèbrou's
5/3/2021
7 : 4
Jordan De La Sierra
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jordan De La Sierra, a composer and pianist from California. Thanks to Gui for the recommendation. De La Sierra composed minimalist, longform pieces that
4/30/2021
7 : 4
Facta
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're playing music and DJ sets from Facta, a producer from London. Facta co-founded the label Wisdom Teeth with
4/29/2021
7 : 4
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ali Shaheed Muhammad, a producer, DJ, and arranger from Brooklyn. He's known as a member of A Tribe Called Quest, the hip-hop group for which he created
4/28/2021
7 : 4
Joep Beving
Good morning. We're back. Today we're listening to Joep Beving, a Dutch pianist and composer. Beving's first few albums were solo piano, featuring pieces he composed on a German piano
4/22/2021
7 : 4
Laurie Spiegel
Good morning. Today we're listening to Laurie Spiegel, an American composer, synthesist, and programmer. We first recommended Spiegel last May. In the '70s she wrote music composition software
4/21/2021
7 : 4
Pauline Oliveros
Good morning. Today we're listening to Pauline Oliveros, an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. We first recommended Oliveros last July. In the 1960s Oliveros experimented with tape and
4/20/2021
7 : 4
Suzanne Ciani
Good morning. Today we're listening to Suzanne Ciani, an American synthesist and composer. Ciani studied classical composition at UC Berkeley in the late '60s and then worked in Don
4/19/2021
15 : 44
Walter Wanderley
Good morning. Today we're listening to Walter Wanderley, a Brazilian organist and composer. Wanderley's albums in the 1960s spread bossa nova around the world including the US where he recorded
4/19/2021
15 : 38
Éliane Radigue
Good morning. Today we're listening to Éliane Radigue, an electronic music composer from Paris. We first recommended her music last June. We're re-upping her Trilogie de la Mort, which uses