Optic Echo Presents

Big thank you to Fragile X for providing the guest mix this week, who runs the Bricolage label out of Glasgow, Scotland. For more information on him and his music, check out his bandcamp and soundcloud below:  https://soundcloud.com/fragilex https://twitter.com/fragilex13 01. Fragile X - Departure From Nowhere (Maps for the Lost) / 0:00  02. Patricia Wolf - The House By The Pond ( Slow Sketch : Vo...

KMRU- Logue b1 https://kmru.bandcamp.com/album/logue-2 Ilyas Ahmed + Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- You Can See Your Own Way Out a1 https://shiningskullstudio.bandcamp.com/album/you-can-see-your-own-way-out Mary Lattimore- At the Dam a2 https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-dam Andrew Chalk- Higan a1 https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/higan Innode- Syn b2 https://innode.bandcamp.com/alb...

Thank you to thiefteam for providing the guest mix this week. Jason helms the highly recommended Form the Head podcast (and record label), highlighting PNW ambient, experimental, and electronic artists in long form conversations. www.formthehead.net   www.soundcloud.com/thiefteam   0:00 SciFiSol - Hypnosis Black Ocean - Alien Tung  1:50 Synth Witch - The Ritual (Drumless Mix) - Synth Witch  4:55 m...

Sarah Davachi- All My Circles Run  a3 https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/all-my-circles-run   Solidarity Hymn- For a Wandering Beam of Sun  a2 https://solidarityhymn.bandcamp.com   Tomaga- Intimate Immensity  a4 https://tomaga.bandcamp.com/album/intimate-immensity   One Million Eyes- Brama  a2 https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/brama   Non Dolet- V  b4 https://timereleasedsoun...

Children’s Garden of Grass a4.5 Amulets- Blooming  a2  https://amulets.bandcamp.com/album/blooming Dakim- youdecide  b7  https://ddustdirect.bandcamp.com/album/youdecide Paradise Cinema- s/t  b3  https://paradise-cinema.bandcamp.com/album/paradise-cinema Ai Yamamoto- Love Me Tender  a1  https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/love-me-tender Bone Thugs n Harmony (K&D)- 1st tha Month b2 Cheech and Chong- s/...

Big thank you for Chelidon Frame for providing the guest mix of Italian ambient! For more information, including recent albums, check out his bandcamp and website: https://chelidonframe.bandcamp.com/   https://chelidonframe.site   01 - 00:00 - e-cor ensemble - Lipstick On a Pig (from "Lipstick On a Pig") 02 - 04:51 - Camilla Pisani - Music Makes Victims (from "Frozen Archimia") 03 - 13:49 - Gianlu...

Thank you Christoph for providing this week's guest mix. If you've been following OEP for a while you've heard his music. For more info on him, his music and his label, Monochrome Editions, check the following links: www.christophberg.com   www.monochromeeditions.com   https://christophberg.bandcamp.com   Maleem Mahmoud Ghania w/ Pharoah Sanders The Trance of Seven Colors (A1)  Jon Hassell -  Theo...

Emily A. Sprague- Hill, Flower, Fog b1 https://mlesprg.bandcamp.com/album/hill-flower-fog-2 Napoleon Hill- Think and Grow Rich b8 Daedelus- Exquisite Corpse a3 https://daedelusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/exquisite-corpse Allred & Broderick- What the Fog b1 https://dauw.bandcamp.com/album/what-the-fog Meemo Comma- Neon Genesis a3 https://meemocomma.bandcamp.com/album/neon-genesis-soul-into-matter Rich...

Big thank you to worriedaboutsatan for putting together this week's guest mix. Check out Gavin's past releases, including labels n5MD and Past Inside the Present, here: https://worriedaboutsatan.bandcamp.com http://worriedaboutsatan.co.uk 1. some birds outside my window from 2019 2. Hot Tap - 999 [Please Hold] 3. HTRK - Body Lotion [Body Lotion] 4. FRKTL - Prologue [Prose Edda] 5. King Midas Sound...

Big thank you to John McCaffrey / Part Timer for providing this week's guest mix. For more info, check out his bandcamp page: https://parttimer.bandcamp.com PS check out his Clickits record on Moteer if you are able to find a copy! Time Artist- Album- Track 00:00 Toan- Volta No Vento- Magnetophonie 02:52 Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti- U,I- I Can’t Even See Myself 10:34 BlankFor.ms- Works For T...

Big thank you to Wife Signs for putting together this week's guest mix. Check out their recent release on Healing Sound Propagandist (Past Inside the Present sublabel) entitled "Beneath the Weight of Care": https://healingsoundpropagandist.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-weight-of-care Twitter: @WifeSigns 1 Menelik Wèsnatchèw - "Tezeta" 00:00  2 Federico Durand - "Se Hizo De Noche" 04:21  3 Ironomi...

RZA- Ghost Dog a1    Ana Roxanne- Because of a Flower a1 https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/album/because-of-a-flower-2 Erik K Skodvin- Anbessa a2 https://erikkskodvin.bandcamp.com/album/anbessa Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- Love is a Stream a1 https://shiningskullstudio.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-a-stream-2020-edition Soft Pink Truth- Shall We Go On a1.4 https://thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/album/shall-we-g...

Big thank you to City of Dawn for providing this week's guest mix. Find out more information on them by checking out their extensive back catalogue on bandcamp: https://cityofdawn.bandcamp.com/ https://linktr.ee/cityofdawnmusic City Of Dawn- Avenoir : Avenoir (0:00 - 08:15) Joshua W Bruner- Sifting Thoughts : Viewings ( 08:20 - 16:48) Flower & Frequency- Temple of Daydream : Gathering on the Grass...

https://headphonecommute.com/2021/01/26/optic-echo-presents-best-vinyl-of-2020/ KMRU- Peel c1  Jake Muir- The Hum of Your Veiled Voice b2  Lucy Gooch- Rushing a2  Quiet Places- Volume 1 a1  TR Jordan- Just for You a1  Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson- Rain Shadow a2  Fadi Tabbal- Subject to Potential Errors and Distortion a4  Tape Loop Orchestra- Returning Two a1.2  36 & Zakè- Stasis Sounds for Lo...

Big thank you to Neglect for providing this week's guest mix. Check out my favorite album by Joseph, Western Romance Novels, and others on his bandcamp below: www.neglectsound.bandcamp.com www.soundcloud.com/neglectsound Kaiwa - Stasis (Weathervane)  Strategy - The Babbling Brook (Longform Editions)  Music For Sleep - Pedra (self release)  TM 404 - 303/303/303/303/707/808 (Kontra Musik)  Graintabl...

I did a mix for Ryan at ASIP for his excellent isolatedmix series, which included an interview: https://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/2020/11/17/isolatedmix-104-optic-echo 01. The Orb- Orbvs Terrarvm  c1.1 02. Pinkcourtesyphone- Sentimental Something  b1 03. W Tang- Instrumentals  b1 04. Night Sequels- Children of the Night Make Music  c2 05. 36- Dream Tempest  b 06. Lucy Gooch- Rushing  a2...

Big thank you to Elias Foley, head of Tamarack Music here in Portland. Check out his release from earlier this month, Network 1: Post Human on bandcamp, and his appearance on the Form the Head Podcast here: https://tamarackmusic.bandcamp.com/album/network-1-post-human https://formthehead.net/fth063-elias-foley/ Al Mothlath - Dead Traveler Saint Abdullah - Brown Eyed People of Rafsanjani Echo Wande...

  Big thank you to Ryan / Lost Tribe Sound for providing this week's guest mix. Be sure to check out the gorgeous releases on the Lost Tribe Sound label by following the links below: https://losttribesound.bandcamp.com http://losttribesound.com Mt Went- Resistance Toàn- Tortue Holy Mountain Beast- Hunt, of wood and fire Sarah Davachi- Play the Ghost  yadayn- Ergens Buen Aurelio Malazar- pró.digo ...

This was the final mix of my downtempo series, dating back to 2006. I started Optic Echo Presents that summer on the Portland Radio Authority. Peace Orchestra- Peace Orchestra d2 Kruder/Dorfmeister- G-Stoned b1 Psapp- The only thing … b5 FSOL- Lifeforms 12" a1 Lemongrass- Voyage … d3 The Orb- Back to Mine f3 Lemon Jelly- Spacewalk 10" b1 Lali Puna- Scary World Theory a4 Low Profile Society- Blue T...

Thank you to William Selman for providing this week's guest mix. Check out William's bandcamp page to listen to his releases including Naming Before Names: https://williamselman.bandcamp.com and his label's bandcamp: https://critiqueofeverydaylife.bandcamp.com Bernard C - Les Chantes Révolutionnaires II - Les Chantes Révolutionnaires (Illusion Production 1983) Yoshi Wada - Earth Horns with Electro...

Big thank you to Whettmen Chelmets for providing the guest mix this week. Check out his bandcamp to find a number of albums of his, including his recent split release "Theme Variations": https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/theme-variations https://whettmanchelmets.bandcamp.com 1 - Nate Scheible - “I Don’t Give a Fuck if You Like Me” - Prions and Scrapie - 00:00 2 - Lake Mary & M. Sage...

Space Afrika- Primrose Avenue a1.1 https://wheretonow.bandcamp.com/album/primrose-avenue Max Richter- Voices a1 Haunted Ghost- New Life Paeans a3 https://specialspeciesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ssr020-haunted-ghost-new-life-paeans Belong- October Language a2 https://spectrumspools.bandcamp.com/album/october-language Sarah Davachi- Cantus, Descant c3 https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/cantus-...

Big thank you to Isaac Helsen, 1/2 of the ambient label Past Inside the Present, for providing this week's guest mix. Check out his release Remnants Series I - VIII on the PITP label here: https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/remnants-series-vol-i-viii https://pitp.bandcamp.com [0:00] Oiseaux-Tempête — Notes From The Mediterranean Sea [3:56] Idlefon — Pickers Of Empty Cocoons (with Nima Pourkarimi) [7:...

Knxwledge- 1988 a9 https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/1988   Hood- Cold House b5  Savath & Savalas- Immediate Action b1  Fila Brazillia- AnotherLateNight d1  Christina Vantzou- Multi Natural  a5 https://edicoescn.bandcamp.com/album/multi-natural   J. Douglas Edwards- Ca$hing Objections a1.2 Inventions- Continuous Portrait  a5 https://inventions.bandcamp.com/album/continuous-portrait   Greg Gives...

Big thank you to Stijn for providing this week's guest mix. Check out his recent releases at his bandcamp site including Frameless and his project Silent Vigils:  https://stijnhuwels.bandcamp.com 1. Joachim Badenhorst: Daimonjiyama 2. CV & JAB: Stone Circle 3. Ian Hawgood: To Bow, To Ascend 4. Claire M. Singer: Rionnag A Tuath 5. Sawako: Field near the Airport 6. Jake Muir: Yaupon 7. Belly Full Of...