Etheric Currents

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. T...

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 attitud...

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.

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 t...

Tonight’s show features two new albums: a short EP from 4T Thieves (whose retirement from music seems greatly exaggerated) and a unique album from Konejo, The Moodygoer — filled with ambience from many, many movies — each excerpt about a minute of ambience from a movie, accompanied by an improvised soundtrack, plus a live Equinoctal, Stranger Around These Parts.

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: In Utera, a new – and first! – album from AntiMonos. “His music is built from emotions, stories and experiments. Its objective is to take us to different worlds and to offer the listener to be at the center of this journey, to appropriate it to shape their own story.” Obscure Matrix [Cyberwave Edition], a collaboration between Humanfobia, a “dark electronic,...

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!

You know those days when you come home and look in the fridge and realize you forgot to go shopping, and still have to make dinner? That’s today’s show, except our library is full of tasty things; we’ve got a random selection of whatever sounds good tonight, with Loren Nerell, Shalmaneser, grum-pé, those Thom Brennan tracks we didn’t play from last week, and a lot more.

This episode features a new album from Thom Brennan, “Typhoon“, a very deep and complex ambient album from Oberlin, “The Dymaxion Variations” (so good our listeners insisted on staying late to have me play the track I’d left out for time!), and Faex Optim’s space-age “Mercury“.

This episode brings together a number of short releases from the Monotonik netlabel, from izmar, sleepy town manufacture, jiva, Akira Kosemura, bliss, planet boelex, lackluster, and Ollie Cram. More beats than usual tonight!

Tonight’s show is a little different; rather than featuring a number of tracks by the same artist, I’ve instead chosen to select tracks that vaguely follow my own history of people I’ve met over they years in electronic music, from the earliest days of email lists and Usenet newsgroups right up to the current day: RadioSpiral, Discord, and Second Life. We’ll hear music from Team Metlay, CASSIEL, T...

This episode, we feature multiple artists from the Monotonik netlabel, and feature two full albums from Troupe (It’s Really Pretty Simple After All) and Tatsu (August). We’ll also have the albums Sound of Subnatura, Hexual Ceiling, Emotions in a Box, and several other albums.

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: Runi Graph, For I know that the view of a tree is not subjective Various Artists, Our Lives in the Bush of Disquiet Jaymuhsin, Designing the I...

This episode centers around π , circles, and irrationality — whether loving things irrationally, or irrational motives; circular motion, or music that feels circular. There were technical issues during the broadcast, apparently occurring somewhere between the broadcast machine and the streaming server — Gypsy Witch had to literally kill the connection before the show could be restarted – so the se...

This episode, we feature two new albums: one from Kahvi, a theme and variations via remix of the title track, Heimferd, by HRYM, with remixes by 4T Thieves, Keiss, Mitoma, Murya, and Abdicant. The second has an unusual and happy story attached to it: it’s a new release from Thom Brennan, Eventide, which was recorded in the early 00’s and lost in Thom’s archives. He found it while cleaning up earli...

Tonight we have a new album from Kahvi, Flagstaff Mountains by Escher Adams, and two by Wolfgang Nachahmer – Tryptychon and Nachtwache. We’ll also hear a pre-recorded (because I couldn’t get my hardware to cooperate) Equinoctal, Converted to Light. I hope to be performing more Equinoctals as time goes on.

This episode features three artists from the Mahorka netlabel: Encased in Amber, Virtually J, and V. Encased in Amber’s album, Parallel Worlds, is a real treat! Beautiful timbres, excellent performances, and a great melodic sense. Encased in Amber says about themselves: The music of Encased in Amber tells it’s stories through an intricate mesh of melodies and texture. Described as downtempo, ambie...

This episode features a new-to-me artist, The Pencil-Case, who combine spoken word, electronica, and a whole lot of other influences into a unique sound of their own on their album, Euclidean Fractales, described as “a blend between electronica, breakbeat, ambient, [and] abstract-hip-hop, with a post-rock sensibility”. Since this gave us only one hour of music, I’ve paired it with an album by Chro...

This episode features the music of 4T Thieves — a great blend of electro beats and ambience. 4T Thieves (Nik Racine) is the founder of the Kavhvi Collective netlabel, one of the best places to find great electronica, and has been around since back in the Amiga demoscene in the ’90’s, with releases on Kavhi, Zenopolæ, Mahorka, Monotonic, among many. Racine has “semi-retired” from music making, conc...

This week’s episode features three albums from the Bumpfoot netlabel. Abandoned mixes sampling, electronics, and ethnic percussion into music that is reminiscent of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Based on a set of photographs taken in Vanatau in 2014, this EP (one wishes it were longer!) “…explores abandoned places and their broken dreams. The fractured beauty of abandoned places can tell wonderfu...

A short episode this week, only one hour, as Equinox had an early-morning appointment and had to stop early. This episode features the new Kahvi compilation, Ringworld. It’s an eclectic mix of tracks, and the episode is a selection from the two hours plus of music. We’ve chosen mostly beat-oriented tracks, but there’s a little abstract electronica mixed in. Pridefool – Dystopian Ideall – Faex Opti...

On this episode of Etheric Currents, we’ll be hearing tracks from Forrest Fang, featuring his new album, Forever Cascades. He says, “Though my walks near the San Francisco Bay were initially a way for me to clear my head, I also found myself drawn to the cycles and cadences of tides and aquatic life that shifted gradually from season to season. I was seeking a similar underlying cadence or pulse i...