Flow State

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 Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee as well as Alaskan Tapes & Lutes Jennings. We move through some sweet instrumental compositions by Tracy Chow, Cole Pulice, Kaela, and Bea Brennan. We play Claire Chase’s inventive arrangement of Steve Reich’s “Vermont Counterpoint” for flute. The...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with an Ariel Kalma piece called “Open Like a Flute.” That’s followed by a new Brian Eno track, “Big Empty Country II,” a collaboration with composer Beatie Wolfe. We continue with a whisper of an ambient track by Sun Dawei, courtesy of Concrete Avalanche ’s recent post . Then pieces by Aarktica (a new...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with an 11-minute richly textured ambient composition from Benoît Pioulard’s forthcoming album. We play some more ambient by Abul Mogard, Warmth, Green-House, and Kara-Lis Coverdale. There’s a brilliant collaboration between Natural Information Society and Bitchin’ Bajas. We play two tracks from Sam Wi...

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 The Cosmic Tones Research Trio that came out last year. We continue with some new instrumentals by Rindert Lammers and Wilson Tanner. Hat-tip to marine eyes for sharing Alanna Crouch’s music – we feature her solo piano composition “longing” here. We play some jazz pieces b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm In the spirit of Flow State hero and spirit animal Brian Eno, we took a cue from Oblique Strategies and put this mix in alphabetical order by track name. One implication of this strategy is that Rindert Lammers’ “Closing Credits” appears on the mix before his “Opening Credits.” Another is that we hear club banger Passar...

Today’s mix is a label edit of RVNG Intl., a Brooklyn-based label founded in 2003. (We pronounce it “revenge” but their website says , “As for the correct pronunciation of RVNG, please consult the cosmos.”) We’ve featured many RVNG records over the years, so we were delighted to pore through their archives with Matt, the founder. This fully instrumental mix comes on the heels of the label’s latest...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with violinist Esther Abrami’s outstanding performance of Satie’s classic “Gymnopédie No. 1” as arranged by Svetoslav Karparov. That’s followed by a great early ‘90s jam by Tokyo’s Natural Calamity and a colossal composition by Loscil from his new album, Lake Fire (highly recommend). The mix proceeds w...

Today we have a guest mix from Elori Saxl, an American composer from the midwest who has a new score out for the documentary Texada . This mix is defined mostly just by what I’ve been listening to lately, but I did notice I tended to lean into North American composers and specifically those whose music seems to reflect the North American landscape and its vastness. It feels fitting for a mix celeb...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix goes out to Earth, aka Gaia, the best planet in the universe. It’s two hours of music that features field recordings of mother nature or is inspired by natural surroundings. Mort Garson’s majestic “Plantasia” opens the mix. Then we have a new track by Evan Shornstein (aka Photay) and Will Epstein, who record...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a new multi-track cello composition by Theresa Wong, followed by a 2020 ambient recording by Photay. There’s some new ambient-ish music by Spirituals, Nico Georis, Jäverling ◇ von Euler, and Lara Somogyi. We excerpt the new Barker album, Stochastic Drift , specifically the track “Fluid Mechanics.”...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix begins with two ambient pieces by Oneohtrix Point Never (from his 2009 LP, Russian Mind ) and Harold Budd (from his 2011 LP, In the Mist ). We play a beautiful, epic new collaboration between guitarist Joel Shearer and cellist Clarice Jensen called “The Clear Light of the Void.” Then some new music by HxH, B...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s episode opens with a track from Elijah Fox’s excellent new album, Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles . There’s a 2020 piece by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and an archival Basinski-like track by Kenneth James Gibson. We play ambient works by Omni Gardens, Gustavo Denouard, and Àngeles Rojas. There are some sol...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with an upbeat track: Phoenix’s first single, the instrumental “Heatwave,” which we discovered via Derrick Gee’s Lot Radio set from last April. (We slowed the track down a bit.) Then there are atmospheric tracks by Saapato (in collaboration with James Bernard, marine eyes , and Patricia Wolf ), the Bre...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient tracks by Dance et al., Yumiko Morioka/Takashi Kokubo, Gunn/Truscinski Duo, and Max Cooper. We excerpt two tracks from the new Whatever the Weather album. There are string instrumentals by Brandee Younger, Barry Archie Johnson, Ami Fukui, and Rebellius. There are some classic jazz perf...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm We’re revisiting a community favorite episode that was originally posted in January 2024. This mix opens with a piece from Phill Niblock, an American avant-garde composer who passed away last week. We play his thirty-minute collaboration with cellist Arne DeForce from 2013. We also commemorated Iasos, playing a few trac...

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 Kilometre Club and Olga Anna Markowska. We play through an atmospheric composition by Eiko Ishibashi from the Drive My Car OST (as selected by Laurie Torres last week). We play new quasi-jambient pieces by Gunn / Truscinski Duo and Little H Collective. We excerpt one track fr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with pure ambient by Pavel Milyakov & Lucas Dupuy, Mathias Grassow, Lawrence, and Hiram. There’s a new single from Elori Saxl’s upcoming score for Texada , and a track from Sam Gendel’s new live album, Live at Union Station . We play three tracks from Ofir Ganon’s 2017 record, Pollen / Promises . There...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s episode opens with a track by The Album Leaf from the For LA, Vol. 1 benefit compilation we featured yesterday. We excerpt tracks by Clem Leek and Julia Gjertsen from that volume as well. Gjertsen’s piano segues to Víkingur Ólafsson and Yama Warashi – the latter recently released the tender LP At My Mother’s Pia...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with the “Music of Wellness” track from the TV show Severance . We play some other gentle ambient pieces by Zane Trow, Sgarz, David Bowie (produced by Brian Eno), and Yumiko Morioka. We play through recent instrumental discoveries from Rubey Hu (h/t Jake ), Oksana Linde, Laurie Torres, and Charlie Hunt...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix is all music from Ghostly International in honor of their recent reissue of Studio’s 2006 record, West Coast . Thanks to Sam Valenti IV for the assistance (check out his newsletter, Herb Sundays ). We begin with the first track from West Coast , a 15-minute jam called “Out There.” We follow that up with Galc...

Today’s mix is all vinyl and available to everyone, in support of dublab’s record sale for fire relief this Sunday at Sound & Vision in Los Angeles (more info here ). The mix starts with a ten-minute Hiroshi Yoshimura classic, followed by several pieces from the Healing Together compilation by Sachi Kobayashi, Patricia Wolf , marine eyes , Clarice Jensen, and more. We play a few tracks from Flow S...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a KMRU track and then a couple of scores: Theodore Shapiro’s Severance and Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks . There are piano-led instrumentals by Greta Morgan (more on her tomorrow) and molly leach. We play two new guitar instrumentals from Blue Lake and SUSS – the latter is an ambient country cov...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s episode opens with calm ethereal ambient tracks by Mount Shrine, Fergus Jones et al., Ibukun Sunday, and Bibio. There’s a great instrumental single by Daisy Rickman that we discovered via Astrid Sonne’s recent NTS show . Then some more guitar from Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays and Mamer (h/t Concrete Avalanche ’s Best...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s episode opens with a Harold Budd track and then moves into new ambient music by Mark Barrott, Seefeel, Bibio, More Eaze, Florian T M Zeisig, and Fennesz. There’s a Dave Van Ronk solo guitar arrangement of Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag.” Then some instrumentals by BADBADNOTGOOD et al. – they had a new album in 2...

Here’s our list of our 50 favorite albums released in 2024. The mix plays a track from the first 25, in order. In the list, we link to our recommendation post of the album where available. Paying subscribers can access the Best of 2024 Spotify playlist via this page . This is our last post of the year. We’ll be back on Monday, 1/6. Have a great new year. * Total Blue - Total Blue * Lia Kohl - Norm...