This episode features Stellaterra’s great “Radiant” release — a loving tribute to Berlin School. We also will hear Mahorka’s “Talking Pictures” release, with contributions from many Mahorka artists, each taking a still from famous movies as a prompt.
We’ll round out the second hour with some extra tracks from Ether, Team Metlay, and Rinse, Repeat.
This show features tracks built on sounds from the CONET Project: recordings of “numbers stations”. These radio stations are coded messages to spies, alerting them as to what decryption keys they should be using.
On the surface, they are mysterious strings of numbers or letters in the international phonetic alphabet, recited by synthesized voices: excellent raw material for electronic musicians.
This episode features tracks from two releases from the PublicSpaces Lab netlabel:
There’s also a short Equinoctal performed live in this episode!
We premiered (at least for our listeners) Thom Brennan’s Aftermath release, which came out the week before this episode was recorded, and rounded out the show with two releases from Bump Foot, the Fail EP from Drugstore, and the gnomic QX#55’s 6+6=12.
Thom has come through with his usual smooth, deceptively simple sequencer-driven melodies, and the other two contrast nicely with a bit more attitude and interesting explorations of timbre.
Two Kahvi releases, one featuring 4T Thieves and Pandacetamol, and the other featuring various Kahvi artists. Lots of beats and a couple of great remixes.
This episode features tracks named (or containing) “ether”, bands whose names contain “ether”, and the whole of Comm’s great album, Ether.
There’s lots on ambience in the first half, and plenty of beats in the second.
No balrogs this episode, but lots of percussion: your regular Western drum set, synthetic percussion, the good old 808, Middle Eastern percussion, …even the piano! Lots of different kinds of percussion this show.
Many different albums featured this episode:
Originally, this episode was meant to be a feature of the ARP 2600, but the weekend before it was recorded, Darwin Grosse died. He was a friend of many of RadioSpiral’s DJ’s, a great force in musical education, one of the founding members of Cycling ’74 (home of Max), and an excellent musician, especially on the 2600.
We decided to feature Darwin’s music to remember him, so this episode features two full albums and a few tracks from a third:
His podcast, Art + Music + Technology, is still up and a great resource for electronic musicians.
This episode’s theme is equinoxes, a thing near and dear to Equinox’s heart.
The feature for this episode is Max Corbacho’s new release, Equinox, which is the first full hour and a quarter of the episode. The latter part of the episode includes a new five-part Equinoctal, Manhattanhenge, and Lucette Bourdin’s Crossing the Equinox to round out the episode.
This episode features three new albums:
Tonight’s episode premieres Shepherd Drift, a new album from the Kahvi Collective. Shepherd Drift is the 2019 artists compilation, and is almost three hours of great music. We excerpted about two hours worth for this episode, with everything from drifty ambience to serious beats. As always, Kahvi comes through with another exceptional album!
