Flow State

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a choral piece, “Hymn of the Cherubim,” which was recently recommended on Herb Sundays by Kevin Kelly, who cites the track as his go-to writing music. That’s followed by ambient pieces from William Basinski, Imaginary Softwoods, and Billow Observatory. There’s some new classical from...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with some ambient canon: Hiroshi Yoshmiura, Harold Budd, and Georgia Kelly. There are a couple tracks from ANNA’s new album, Intentions , which is worth a separate listen. There’s ambient country from William Tyler, Chuck Johnson, and North Americans, as well as a longer instrumental cut...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a bunch of ambient tracks from Gallery Six, Eluvium, Adam Pacione, and Celer. We linger on ambient/electronic with James Ellis FOrd, Aarktica, and Billow Observatory. Galcher Lustwerk has a new ambient record out, from which we excerpt two tracks. There’s solo guitar from Kaki King a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a bunch of recent ambient tracks by Michiru Aoyama, KMRU, and Masahiro Takahashi. There’s a classical interlude consisting of two pieces by Debussy (whom the late Ryuichi Sakamoto loved ) and Clara Rockmore’s theremin performance of “Summertime” by George Gershwin. We play a few guit...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with the world premiere of Flow State Records 007: Seconds , the second album from Seconds. That’s the first 40 minutes. The remaining two hours are “kinetic ambient” tracks that influenced the record, mixed by the artist. First there’s classic minimalist influences from Moondog, Steve Re...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a classic ambient piece from Stars of the Lid, followed by new music from Aquatic Dreamer and Loscil. We move into a few new Laraaji tracks, including a Jon Hopkins piano rework of one. There’s some Arovane and Kid606, followed by a Scott Joplin waltz and Amanda Whiting’s ethereal ha...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix features a whole bunch of ambient and instrumental excerpts from Mac DeMarco’s 9+ hour album One Wayne G , which he released this past Friday. There are some genuine Brian Eno-esque ambient pieces on there. We also play new music from Flow State Records’ Davi Music and a new favorite from Golde...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with several ambient tracks, including new favorites by Liquid Mind and Travis McKay and old favorites from Oneohtrix Point Never and Rudy Adrian. We play a couple newer tracks from Locrian and Alice Sara Ott before diving into a tribute to jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, who passed away last w...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a few ambient pieces from Blood Incantation (they switched from death metal to ambient last year 🤘), Nico Georis, SidiRum, and Bianca Scout. We continue to celebrate the discography of Ryuichi Sakamoto. We also recently lost Ethiopian composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou, who we re...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix begins with an hour of selections from Ryuichi Sakamoto ’s discography. Specifically, we play his ambient music, then solo piano, film scores, experimental electronic music, and an instrumental from Yellow Magic Orchestra, the band he co-founded in the late ‘70s. The second hour features new mu...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with the first of two felt piano tracks from The Vernon Spring, followed by ambient works from Snufmumriko, Michiru Aoyama, and Brian Eno. We preview tomorrow’s recommendation via Muscut Records, and then feature some experimental tracks from Patricia Wolf and Slowly Rolling Camera. Instr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix contains a whole bunch of recommendations from our recent thread , plus some selections from NTS shows Sounds of the Dawn and Thea HD . We open with new ambient music from the prolific Michiru Aoyama, as well as Lara Somogyi and Ann Annie. There’s some canonical ambient (Jon Hassell, Brian Eno)...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a track from Minecraft , followed by a long, almost New Age track from Portland-based Former Selves. There’s another long piece from Terry Riley, followed by a new ignorable yet interesting track from Brian Eno. We wend our way through the lobby music of Final Fantasy XIII before rip...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode inverts the usual track order. We open with new acoustic instrumentals from Lucinda Chua, Ironsides, and Hayden Pedigo. We preview some upcoming Flow State music from Bruce Kaphan, Hayes Bradley, and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. We highlight Ryuichi Sakamoto’s contribution to the After Yang soun...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with ambient tracks from Ekin Fil, Brian Eno, and Khotin. We move into some guitar instrumentals from Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross ( Bones and All OST ) and Bruce Kaphan. There’s some more experimental electronic from Concepión Huerta and Kramer. We resurface a live ambient jazz track from...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a couple ambient pieces before moving into solo piano from Simeon Walker and Feist. There’s a brief synth detour with Suzanne Ciani and Tangerine Dream, followed by ambient Americana from Pat Metheny and Steve Roach/Roger King. We present a Flow State edit of a track from Zelda: Ocar...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with ambient pieces from Loscil, Aphex Twin, and Abstract Aprils. There’s a classical music section, with artists contemporary (Julia Gjertsen, Geosmin, Thomas Bangalter) and dead (Debussy, Beethoven, Dvořák). We move into guitar instrumentals from Pat Metheny, Rosinha De Valença, and NEU...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode opens with ambient/classical pieces from Huerco S., Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher, Susumu Yokota, and the Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd. There’s an experimental track from Brian Eno, David Byrne, and guitarist Giacomo Baldelli which came out just a few months ago. More ambient/classical comes...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with two Harold Budd tracks from the ‘80s. Then there are some instrumentals from SUSS, Brian Green, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. We play some film music from Deuter and CUTS, and then play some krautrock including an experimental live recording from Harmonia. We close out with a Television inst...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with an Oliver Coates composition from the Aftersun soundtrack. It’s followed by ambient pieces from Mette Henriette, Tujiko Noriko, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The middle section has Cole Pulice, Suss, and a couple selections from Mac DeMarco’s new instrumental record. We wrap with selections...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s subscriber mix opens with new ambient tracks from Brendan Eder Ensemble, Almanacs, and Yara Asmar. Then we play some instrumentals from Molly Lewis (for The Birdsong Project), Black Sabbath, and Sven Wunder. There are a few ‘90s favorites from Air, Ween, and Lemon D before we close it out with a Ja...

Good morning. Today’s mix is dedicated to the memory of MF DOOM. Starting around the 52-minute mark we showcase his very overlooked talent as a beatmaker. We play a bunch of our favorite DOOM instrumentals and then end with his first hit: “Peachfuzz” by his early group KMD. Before the DOOM tribute, we play some current ambient/electronic favorites, including tracks by Nils Frahm, Domenique Dumont,...

Good morning. We’re sending this week’s subscriber mix out to everyone. We haven’t done this since January, and there are a lot of new people. This mix is for our subscriber Tyler, who’s introduced us to a number of artists we’ve recommended in this newsletter, including Stars of the Lid. The main featured artist is Trent Reznor. If you like this mix, claim your own by becoming a subscriber and wr...