Flow State

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today is April 14th, so the mix opens with ten different versions of the Aphex Twin track. We start with the original and then play renditions on synth (Loscil), acoustic guitar (Shane Parish), brass (The Westerlies), harp (Jemima Thewes), pedal steel (Pedal & Lever Society), and more. We play two tracks from Corntuth’s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix is inspired by the Artemis II mission to the moon, which yesterday set the record for the farthest humans have ever been from earth. The mix plays space-themed instrumental music by Brian Eno, Ashra, Mort Garson, Applefish, Soft Machine, and more. There are two pieces from Alex North’s rejected score for 200...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with an instrumental by Ethel Cain, whose ambient works we discovered via the gentle voices guest mix . We continue with more ambient pieces by Lauren Helene Green, Chantal Michelle, Meg Bowles, Vinnie Who, and David August. We play an early selection from The Caretaker’s magnum opus, Everywhere at the...

Today we have a guest mix from Green-House, the Los Angeles-based duo of Olive Ardizoni & Michael Flanagan. They just released their new album, Hinterlands , which true to form is gentle, intriguing, inventive, and fun. We’ve featured their music a couple times before and interviewed them back in 2023 . Their guest mix includes Flow State favorites Vangelis, John Carroll Kirby, Ariel Kalma, Nala S...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix is all film scores, following the Oscars this past Sunday. The scores nominated this year are all featured: Alexandre Desplat’s Frankenstein , Jerskin Fendrix’s Bugonia , Ludwig Göransson’s Sinners , Jonny Greenwood’s One Battle , and Max Richter’s Hamnet . Those are interleaved between classic themes (by Be...

Today’s mix is by the artists featured on the new ambient compilation gentle voices, vol. 1 . Anita Tatlow and Cynthia Bernard (aka marine eyes ) convened 20 women artists from 15 countries, pairing two artists together on each of the ten tracks. This mix begins with the album and then plays 20 tracks selected by the artists (the selector is noted in parentheses). The compilation was “released ahe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix is inspired by Ben Cardew ’s recent report on Daft Punk member Thomas Bangalter DJing with Fred Again. We cherry-picked instrumentals from across Daft Punk’s discography beginning with “Nightvision” from Discovery. That’s followed by tracks from TRON: Legacy and the drumless edition of Random Access Memories...

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 Yeong Die, Líom, Chantal Michelle, and KMRU. We play a track from Nine Inch Nails’ score for TRON: Ares , which has the usual Reznor/Ross foreboding sweetness. There are jazz pieces old and new, by Pino Palldino & Blake Mills, Matthew Halsall, the Phi-Psonics, and Keith Jarret...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient pieces by maharishi yogo, Líom, and Blanket Swimming. There’s some jazzy ambient by Shabaka and Bill Frisell, then some solo instrumentals by Danz CM, Linus Alberg, and Golden Brown. We play a couple new leftfield pieces by Geologist, Duval Timothy & Yu Su, and Greg Foat et al. Then th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new longform ambient pieces by zakè, Ryan J Raffa & Sam Prekop, and Rafael Anton Irisarri. We move into an ethereal piece by Aisha Vaughan and then an ambient jazz track by Fabiano do Nascimento and E Ruscha V. There are a couple community recs – Anna von Hausswolff (h/t Ryan) and Li Daiguo & Slim...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with an ambient jazz piece by Max Jaffe, Jeff Parker, and Spencer Zahn that came out at the end of last year. There are new singles by KMRU & Fennesz, Green-House, and David Moore. We play music by artists who just won Grammys on Sunday including Carla Patullo, ARKAI, and Blake Mills. Then a couple ext...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a couple long ambient pieces by Oscilation Circuit and Steve Roach. There’s a track from Peter Gabriel’s mostly instrumental 1985 album, Birdy , called “Slow Water.” Then some new compositions by Max Richter (from the Hamnet score), RIOPY, and Kelly Moran. We play some jazz instrumentals new and o...

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 Tapes and Topographies, Joe Harvey-Whyte & Paul Cousins, Cédric Elisabeth, and Pagination. There are some electronic instrumentals by Bochum Welt, Wa Wu We, and Craven Faults. We play a standout track from Satsuki Shibano’s Wave Notation 3 record, followed by a classic Ariel...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a new collab between Christina Vantzou, John Also Bennett, and Oliver Coates. Then we play ambient pieces by Loscil, Six Missing, and Max Richter – an orchestral piece from his new score for Hamnet . Then some neoclassical / jazzy pieces by A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Cyril Guiraud & Omree Ga...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a track from Daniel Lopatin’s score for Marty Supreme . We continue with an ambient piece by Guenter Schlienz (h/t Cow Tools), and then some new ambience by Loscil, Hayes Bradley, Aylu, and Mor Elian. There are a few jazz pieces by Chris Williams, Catherine Tang, and an old favorite from Moondog....

Today we have a guest mix from Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, an American composer from the Pacific Northwest now based in Los Angeles. Her new album, Thoughts on the Future , comes out this Friday and about which she wrote, “This composition is shaped by loss, written with the quiet intention of holding someone through the unholdable.” We premiere that album here, and the rest of the mix is Smith’s hand-...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix consists of mostly new singles. We open with ambient music by Francesca Heart, Golden, marine eyes , and Rob Winstone. Then a new classical piece by Alanna Crouch and a performance of Harold Budd’s “Pavilion of Dreams” by harpist Nailah Hunter and thereminist Alia Mohamed. We move through instrumental compos...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with some new ambient music by Ess Whiteley, Sofie Birch, Driftless Region, Phil Cook, Lawrence English & Stephen Vitiello, and Laurie Torres & Nailah Hunter. We excerpt some newish piano pieces by Rachel Grimes and Armin van Buuren. Then the synthesizers intensify with Slow Riffs, KMRU, cehryl, and On...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix is provided by Seconds, whose fourth LP, Drafts , is the latest release on Flow State Records (more on that tomorrow). It’s now available for free/name your price on Bandcamp and is released under a Creative Commons license. This mix plays most of the Drafts tracks out of order, following the usual Flow Stat...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix consists mostly of new music. There are new ambient works by Alaskan Tapes & Blue Miles, CFCF (from the Sounds of Taiwan compilation ), and Saapato. We play Gloria Cheng’s solo piano performance of John Adams’ “China Gates” from the ‘90s. Then, two tracks from Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider’s new ambient albu...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a synth meditation piece by JD Emmanuel from 1982. There’s new ambient music by Jon Porras, Funcionário, U, and Martina Berther & Philipp Schlotter. We play some new instrumentals by The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Hayes Bradley, and Golden Brown. There’s a miraculous solo ukulele performance of “...

Today’s mix is entirely sourced from friends of Flow State: musicians, curators, label heads, music fans. The 37 tracks that were contributed are quite varied: obscure favorites, recent loves, artists’ own tracks (including several unreleased). The only artist picked twice was Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. In honor of the big three oh oh, this mix is available to everyone. If you’re not already a F...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with acoustic instrumentals by Unchained and Golden Brown. There’s a Torus track which reimagines a Postal Service riff for ambient ears (thanks Richard for the tip). We play some new ambient music by Funcionário, Emily A. Sprague, Kelly Moran, and Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe. There’s a single from Lia Ko...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a track from Nala Sinephro’s new score for The Smashing Machine . Then we have some new ambient music by Metric System 1981, Blanket Swimming, and Steve Hauschildt. There’s a neoclassical piece by Alanna Crouch and a Satie piece performed by Reinbert de Leeuw (thanks Thomas Thompson ). There are c...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with the titular piece from Jonny Greenwood’s new score for One Battle After Another . There are a few other pieces from that score sprinkled throughout the mix. Then we have new ambient music from Emily A. Sprague, Kayla Pichichero, and Christopher Willits. We play a composition by the late great Dani...