Flow State

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a piece from Ari Balouzian’s score for the film You Can See Everything . We continue with new ambient by Gollden and Space Ghost, followed by a favorite from Stars of the Lid. There are two tracks from the new experimental compilation Rooms released by Dublin-based label Lota (h/t Philip Sherburne...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a new ambient track by Líom, followed by a dub ambient track by Acid Springfield. There are two ambient/field recording pieces, one by Ben Seretan and the other by Saapato. We play a favorite composition by the late Daniel Lentz (h/t Evan). Then more new ambient music by Windy & Carl with Optigan...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a 2003 composition by William Basinski, followed by new music from marine eyes & Líom, Chihei Hatakeyama, and Midori Hirano. We play a track by Chris Remo from the video game Gone Home . There are some new instrumentals by Gollden, Julia Gjertsen & Nico Rosenberg. We play two tracks from two great...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a beautiful new track from Isik Kural, followed by new ambient by Maxime Denuc and elijah jamal asani. There are instrumentals by M. Sage and K. Leimer, and then a long new ambient piece by Windy & Carl (who have a new album out). There’s a saxophone-led instrumental by Cole Pulice and then a guit...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient music by Hayes Bradley, Asio Silver, and The Black Dog. We revisit a favorite from the Harold Budd compilation Budd Box and then some more new instrumentals by Midori Takada & Jakob Bro, Cephas Azariah, and Le Motel. There’s a track from the prolific Oren Ambarchi’s record from last ye...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix premieres the new Corntuth record, The Nightingale Floor , which comes out next week on Flow State Records and Aural Canyon. “I made this record after what felt like a very long series of journeys that took me away from making music for a while,” Corntuth wrote. “Here are the things I overheard, the sounds a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with Ludwig Göransson’s piece “Sirens” from The Odyssey . There’s new ambient by Francesca Heart, Exportion, Sarah Davachi, and Carmen Villain. We revisit a Harold Budd track from his score for I Know This Much Is True . There’s an incredible cover of Led Zeppelin’s “The Rain Song” by Irish pedal steel...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a new track from harpist Lara Somogyi’s new album, a [time] patterned , which is a collaboration with cellist Clarice Jensen. It continues with several longform ambient pieces by anthéne, Hayes Bradley, and Charlemagne Palestine. We play a piece from John Carroll Kirby’s new solo piano album. The...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a track from Matthewdavid’s new ambient EP, Lysergic Snack Bar . That’s followed by some ambient classics by Chihei Hatakeyama, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Asmus Tietchens. There’s new music by Damian Dalla Torre, Total Blue’s Anthony Calonico, and Moola (h/t a closer listen ). In the last 20 or so...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient music from TUAWKI, Christopher Willits, Lara Somogyi & Rob Moose, and Cole Pulice. We play a track from Italian pianist Runaway Horses and a newish ethereal collaboration between Duval Timothy & Carlos Niño. There’s a really nice piano-led instrumental by Tony Njoku, and a track from y...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient collaborations: one by Foam and Sand & Six Missing, another by Artefakt & KMRU. Additional new ambient music comes from Cephas Azariah, Sarah Davachi, Almost an Island, and Patricia Wolf. We play a couple highlights from recently recommended albums by Sofie Birch, BCMC, and Eden Aureli...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a Kane Parsons ambient track from 2024, followed by other ambient selections from Sun Kin, Metric System 1981, Ibukun Sunday, and BCMC. There are newer instrumental tracks by Durutti Column (whose new album is his first in 16 years), Sofie Birch, and Ancient Infinity Orchestra. We replay a great M...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a newish ambient track from James Bernard, who’s put together a guest mix for next week. There’s some more ambient after that by Hayes Bradley, Haruhisa Tanaka, Slow Attack Ensemble, and Hirotaka Shirotsubaki. Then a period of sort of psychedelic/electronic instrumentals from Jonny Nash & Tomo Kat...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix is all trip-hop, mostly from the ‘90s. Trip-hop is a subgenre of electronic music that uses the beat template of hip-hop – drum loops and samples – with elements of jazz, lounge, ambient, and dub. There are some usual suspects in this tracklist like Massive Attack, Portishead, and Nightmares on Wax. But in p...

Today we have a guest mix from Noémi Büchi, a Swiss-French composer and pianist from Zürich whom we recently featured . She recorded a mix of instrumental favorites from around the world – over a dozen countries across 23 tracks. Artists include Oneohtrix Point Never, Thomas Bangalter (new record), Nico Jaar, Laurel Halo, Father Dionysios Tabakis (π. Διονύσιος Ταμπάκης), Klara Lewis, Grand River...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with two tracks from Rock Burwell’s recent score for the movie Obsession . Then there’s new ambient music by Gollden, Eluvium, Líom, and James Bernard – two tracks from Bernard’s new LP. We revisit some vaporwave favorites from Oneohtrix Point Never, luxury elite, and FM Skyline. The pace picks up with...

Today’s mix is selections from the discography of DJmegan23, an electronic musician based in Los Angeles. She fuses all kinds of music together: video game soundtracks, trap, ambient, jersey club, vaporwave… Her latest EP is Good Luck, Megan! This mix is 59 tracks, mostly a minute or two long, that are instrumental but occasionally include her producer tag. A brief conversation with DJmegan23 prec...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new music from Eluvium, Líom, and Blood Incantation (they have a new ambient score out). Then some acoustic instrumentals by Natalia Tsupryk & Angus MacRae, Laurence Pike, Ry Cooder, and Clear Path Ensemble. We play the “Thinkin Bout You” cover from Flea’s trumpet album, and a track from Duval Tim...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix is all Boards of Canada, following their release of Inferno , their first album in 13 years. We put together a tracklist and sourced 18 recommendations from the community, with three tracks being recommended twice. This mix covers all of Boards of Canada’s LPs – from 1998 to 2026 – as well as several EPs and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a new track by a. vos , followed by a collaboration between Alaskan Tapes, Blu Miles, and Ann Annie. Also new ambient by Maston & Greg Foat, Eluvium, Exportion, and Black Boboi. We excerpt a single by ambient trombonist Kalia Vandever, and then play a track from guitarist Bill Orcutt’s new record...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with instrumentals by Hania Rani and Harold Budd. There’s some ambient country, beginning with a track off of SUSS’s new album, followed by Corntuth, Golden Brown, Joe Webb, Daniel Lanois, and Lau Ro. There’s a live recording of Suzanne Ciani featuring Actress. Then some band instrumentals by Zero 7 an...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with solo piano works old and new, by Harold Budd and Linus Alberg respectively. There are some ambient pieces by Seconds, Blanket Swimming, Alaskan Tapes, marine eyes, Lara Somogyi, and SUSS. We excerpt a track from the new self-titled album by Setting – more on them later this week. We revisit an ove...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a 2020 track from William Basinski called “The Wheel of Fortune.” The ambience continues with Masahiro Takahashi, miska lamberg (h/t Stephan Kunze ), and Joanna Brouk. There’s a 1977 collaboration between sitarist Kalyani Roy and pianist V. Balsara. We continue with electronic instrumentals by Tom...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient music by Skerik, Seconds, Pan-American, and David August. There are a couple older fourth world tracks by Jon Hassell and Harold Budd. Jazz comes from Aaron Shaw (new album) and Nala Sinephro. We play a couple experimental finds: a solo guitar impromptu by Master Wilburn Burchette and...

Today’s mix is a label edit of greyfade, a New York based label founded in 2019. The label was started by producer and designer Joseph Branciforte dedicated to experimental music and “system-based works.” The idea is that an album is a conceptual universe made up of sound, arrangement, physical material, artwork, and text. The mix includes works by taylor deupree , Phillip Golub , Greg Davis , Cat...