Flow State

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...

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...