Etheric Currents

This week’s episode is featuring music that combines many genres: jazz, electronica, latin, Bollywood, drum and bass, and whatever else the artists felt like into a nicely chilled mix that, for lack of a better word, I’m calling electro-cool. In the first half we’ll be hearing from Nameless Dancers, Damare, Nienvox & 813, and Duis. Nameless Dancers features afro-beat percussion, tasty keyboards, a...

This week’s episode features a new-to-me artist, Massimo Discepoli. Massimo wears a lot of hats: incredibly accomplished drummer, teacher, multi-instrumentalist. Nheap is the monicker under which he has released several CC-licensed albums, which allows us to play them here. We’ll hear from the albums Skymotion, Clouds Under the Table, The Ambient Sides, Flying and the Silence, and Realight. All ar...

This week’s episode has music from the Kahvi Collective’s One Synth and One Synth II releases, plus a few tracks from their Tangents release to make up the full two hours. The One Synth releases have a gimmick: each track is done with a single synth, multiracked as necessary, and because we have a fair number of musicians (and a synth expert in the form of Mr. Spiral himself), we played a bit of G...

Tonight’s episode features tracks that evoke space, space travel, or spaceflight, from several different netlabels, some more obscure than others. Since this was a themed episode rather than a “selected tracks” one, we have many more artists for you this week: Geolm’s Waves of Tomorrow, on Wavelike Fodor Balazs’s Astronaut Farmer, on Dusted Wax Point’s Human Music II, on Digital Diamonds Nøi2er’s...

This episode premieres Juta Takahashi’s new release, Miyabi. It is a patient meditation on repeating sequences, subtly orchestrated to change over time from one for to another, like seasons changing from winter to spring, and will give you time to settle in and be with the changes as they unfold. Miyabi has its intense moments, but they evolve naturally as the music flows quietly and calmly, movin...

The episode features the 100th release from the Camomille netlabel, Cycles. This is a big compilation, over 2 hours long and 57 musicians. The tracks are well-selected and hang together nicely in that Camomille headspace: a little abstract, a little beat, laid-back and quiet. Tonight’s tracks: Délusions circulaires – Muhr Daddys Sailboat Down The River – Blisaed Just a thing from yesterday – Mikae...

This week’s episode features music from the Camomille netlabel. Camomille was founded in 2002 by Vincent Fugère “out of the love of ambient music, camomille tea and as a representation of what inspires him to do music”. Camomille has (or perhaps had — there have been no releases for a while!) a very specific sound: “naive, idm electronics mixed with new age and emotional hip-hop”, which fits very...

This episode uses the piano as a touchstone — tracks from both the RadioSpiral Library and from Creative Commons releases. We will have a little more ambient music, as fits the title, but there are still some gentle beats for those looking for them. The criterion for selection was that the track at least starts with a piano interlude, whether acoustic or electric. Some tracks are piano alone, and...

In this episode, we’ll be hearing tracks for several engaging nu-jazz and post-rock artists. These two genres are deconstructions and recombinations of their base genres with influences from others, sometimes far outside the originals. We’ll be listening to some folks who have integrated ambient and abstract electronica sounds and feels into jazz and rock. We’ll start off the the artist Springtide...

Tonight’s episode on Etheric Currents is “terrible name, great music”, because we’ll be hearing music from the Ogredung label. Pause to let that sink in. Or not. This label is an Italian one, and released from 2001 to 2007. It’s is a very eclectic label — everything from straight melodia to ambience, dark and light, to absolute mind-ripping noise. We’ll stay on the melodic end this evening, with s...

Tonight we’ll be hearing some excellent Berlin-School tracks from a band by the name of Klangwald. In 2012, they released two EPs and one full album on the Kreislauf netlabel: Tomato Juice and Ginger Tea (EP) Tolerance and Courage (EP) Stressless Life (full album) We’ll be hearing all three in full tonight, with a few tracks from Different Skies and Chromadrift to fill the time out to two hours. A...

This episode’s music comes from the Finnish netlabels Milk and Five Musicians. Five Musicians was the earlier of the two, and specialized in distributing music from the demoscene – music composed using trackers, specialized programs that did sample playback, controlled by scores written out as text files. Demoscene music was often distributed on floppy disk through physical mail. Five Musicians te...

Tonight’s episode is a selection of tracks from the Backtrack, Dewtone, and One netlabels, all of which briefly flowered in the early 2000’s and then disappeared. Backtrack lived for two years, from 2004 to 2006, but put out some really excellent music. The two albums featured, Crepuscular by Troupe (released when he was sixteen and already a damn fine musician) and ::micromania:: by vitax are exc...

This show (the first official Etheric Currents) features tracks about round things: circles, rounds, and spheres. All tracks are from the RadioSpiral library, but some are from artists we don’t play as much, and some are seldom-played tracks from artists we play a lot of. Tonight’s show runs more ambient than not, and more abstract than beaty. Note to podcast listeners: we cut short a track, Eric...

The premiere soft-open episode of Etheric Currents! Equinox plays tracks from artists who, for one reason or another, only have a single track in the RadioSpiral library.