Optic Echo Presents

Big thank you for Zakè, co-owner of the phenomenal Past Inside the Present label, for putting together this week's guest mix. Included are unreleased and upcoming albums on the label. Check out the label's bandcamp for more information, as well as Zakè's latest release, Coppice Movements, on his own Zakè Drone Recordings label: https://pitp.bandcamp.com https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/coppice...

Thank you to Gregory Euclide, artist and label owner of Thesis, for putting this guest mix together. Check out his label's bandcamp and his personal page for information on his art below:  https://thesisproject.bandcamp.com https://www.gregoryeuclide.com   Night of Acacias- Movietone  Together Apart- Solo Andata  Late Summer Early Autumn- Takeshi Nishimoto  Oil Bread- Emilía  Belgien- Swod  Except...

Dedekind Cut- $uccessor b3 https://dedekindcut.bandcamp.com/album/uccessor-ded004-lp Gia Margaret- Mia Gargaret b1 https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com/album/mia-gargaret Ben Shemie- A Single Point of Light a5 https://benshemie.bandcamp.com/album/a-single-point-of-light Loscil-Sea Island c3 https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/sea-island Ben Bondy-Sibling a1 https://bblisss.bandcamp.com/album/sibling Jul...

Big thank you to Ryan Griffin, label owner of A Strangely Isolated Place, for putting together this vinyl mix. Check out his mixes and bandcamp sites for top notch music: https://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/mixes https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com   1. Pauline Oliveiros - I of IV [Odyssey, 1967] 2. Arovane - The Storm [CCO, 2000] 3. Christina Vantzou - Music For a Room with a Vaulted...

Huge thank you to my PDX friend Marcus Fischer for putting together this guest mix. I have known him for over a decade, and before he went ambient big w/ 12k he was the one putting together all the ambient show fliers and playing most of them (all for free of course). He is the guy that you go on tour with and he plays different sets every show while you play the same exact thing every stop. He is...

Forest Management- Encounter a1 https://forestmanagement.bandcamp.com/album/encounter Alex Haley- Tells the Story a1 Cremation Lily- Processes and Instruments of Normal People… a3 https://cremationlily.bandcamp.com/album/the-processes-and-instruments-of-normal-people-trying-and-failing-falling-and-water-running-2 Belong- Common Era b5 https://belong.bandcamp.com/album/common-era Beatriz Ferreyra-...

Big thank you to CM Wolf for putting together this week's guest mix. He runs the Variform sound gallery here in downtown PDX with his wife Patricia, find out more at https://www.variform.org/   Susan Epps - Streets of Recovery  Maggi Payne - Ahh-Ahh (ver 2.1)  Francesco Messina - Fine Novecento  Sea Urchin - Natal Uranus, il Corpo Sotto la Sabbia (Single edit)  Shining Lotus - Water Trance cassett...

new music by: Anthéne- https://mailbox-label.bandcamp.com/album/transit-transition   ASIP- unreleased (Archives 01)  RAI- https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/album/peripeteia   Equal Stones- https://equalstones.bandcamp.com/album/hands-of-a-murderer   Federico Durand- https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/alba   Eluvium- https://fieldworks.bandcamp.com/album/ultrasonic   Dedekind Cut- The Expanding Domain...

Big thank you to Rubén Alonso / Fax for providing this week's guest mix. Check out his new album out with Ibarra on Fallen Moon Records entitled Black Echo : https://fallenmoonrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/alonso-x-ibarra-black-echo   http://faxmusik.com   Bufferin Memories (Excerpt 1)- Raymond Scott  The Revolt Of Aphrodite- Primitive World  Pool- Martina Lussi  Weight- Sary Moussa  Formas Aparen...

Nik Francis Trio- Floats the Wind b3: https://topology.bandcamp.com/album/floats-the-wind Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma a4: https://flying-lotus.warp.net/release/123645-flying-lotus-cosmogramma Dedekind Cut- Tahoe b1: https://leebannon.bandcamp.com/album/tahoe-ded007 VA- Beyond the Blues b6.2 Serengeti- Dennis 6E a2: https://kennydennis.bandcamp.com/album/dennis-6e Swamp Dogg- Love, Loss and Auto Tune...

Big thank you to Kuma for providing this week's guest mix from Vancouver, BC. For more information including sounds from his various side projects and his radio show, check the links below https://soundcloud.com/kuma   http://www.thekonspiracygroup.com   Susannah And The Magical Orchestra - Hallelujah Sigur Ros - Sleep 1 Aphex Twin - Blue Calx Pinkcourtesyphone - Afternoon Theme (long version) Sha...

Featuring new music by: 36 & Black Swan- https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/in-four-parts Helm- https://hhelmm.bandcamp.com/album/chemical-flowers Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson- https://chuckjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/rain-shadow Jim Guthrie- Below OST a1 Pilote- Doitnowman a2.2 36 & Black Swan- In 4 Parts b2 Helm- Chemical Flowers b3 Future Sound of London- Yage a1 Prefuse 73- Vocal Studies + Upr...

Big thank you to Rafael Anton Irisarri for providing this week's guest mix. Check out some preview tracks off his new album, Peripeteia, out May 22nd on Dais Records: https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/album/peripeteia   00:00 Lars Blek - Nattarbete (gar01) 03:52 Julianna Barwick - Afternoon 07:59 Mary Lattimore - We Wave From Our Boats 11:41 Fennesz - Live At Empty Bottle 15:54 Benoît Pioulard - If I...

Thank you to Tim Westcott/wndfrm for providing this week's guest mix for us. Tim's latest releases can be found on his bandcamp: https://wndfrm.bandcamp.com/ https://opticecho.bandcamp.com/album/seed Chloe Alexandra- walks/flowers Richard chartier- location burke jam- decreation Robert curgenven- doors open and, with the breath of the wind, we are subsumed steve roden- airforms Lawrence English- a...

We are happy to have a guest mix from Hotel Neon. Check out their recent albums on Archives including Vanishing Forms and Means of Knowing on their Bandcamp: https://hotelneon.bandcamp.com   Ulla- https://ullastraus.bandcamp.com/album/tumbling-towards-a-wall   Paulastretch- https://paulastretch.bandcamp.com/album/shellbody   Christina Giannone- https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/redemption   Ida Toni...

Thank you to Derek Hunter Wilson for providing this instrumental mix for us. You can find his recent Abstraktes Vol. 1 and other releases on his Bandcamp: https://derekhunterwilson.bandcamp.com Benedicte Maurseth & Åsne Valland Nordli - “Alde” Marcos Balter / yMusic - “Bladed Stance” Daniel Pioro - “Dust iii. rest” Mette Henriette - “The Taboo” Niksen - (Untitled) David Lang / Lisa Moore - “wed” M...

featuring new music by: Merrin Karras- https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/northwest-passage Eleh- https://elehreleases.bandcamp.com/album/living-space Jacaszek- https://jacaszek.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-film Teebs- https://teebs.bandcamp.com/album/anicca Derek Hunter Wilson- Travelogue b4 Beyond the Blues- s/t b2.2 Merrin Karras- Northwest Passage a2 Eleh- Living Space b1 Holli...

Huge thanks to Patricia Wolf for putting together this wonderful mix for us. Find more about about Patricia on her soundcloud, twitter, and her amazing Cellular Chorus site (and see it live if you live in the PNW). https://soundcloud.com/patriciawolf_music https://twitter.com/patwolfmusic https://www.cellularchorus.com Fennesz- Agora [TOUCH] Ulla- Smile [Experiences Ltd] Steven Legget & Laura Reid...

New music: Ocoeur- https://n5md.bandcamp.com/album/everything   Zaké- https://polarseasrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/carolina   Blinkar från Norr- https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/metaphors-for-things   Suite & SirJacq- https://dakotasuiteandquentinsirjacq.bandcamp.com/album/the-indestructibility-of-the-already-felled   Slow Dancing Society- https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/the-di...

featuring new music by: T.R. Jordan- https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/just-for-you   36 & Zakè- https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/stasis-sounds-for-long-distance-space-travel   D. Lynch & A. Splet- Eraserhead OST a1.4 Talkdemonic- Eyes at Half Mast a5 Moss- Pork 070 aa1 Loess- 3D Concepts a1 Koen Holtkamp- Field Rituals b2 Deaf Center- Vintage Well 7” b1 Orla Wren- Butterfly Wings Make a2 T.R. Jordan...

featuring new music by: North Atlantic Drift: https://northatlanticdrift.bandcamp.com/album/pillars Eluvium: https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/album/virga-i HB / BP: https://dauw.bandcamp.com/album/i-suppose-im-your-future LF / RAI: https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/una-presencia-en-la-brisa Valiska: https://thesisproject.bandcamp.com/album/print-track-06-valiska-birds-and-rectangles N...

Thank you to Headphone Commute for hosting! Orla Wren feat. Aaron Martin- The Blizzard that Birthed Her 10” b2 Dialect - Loose Blooms b3 Ezekiel Honig- Folding in on Itself b2 Odd Nosdam- Flippies Best d2 Low- Double Negative b6 Pye Corner Audio- Black Mill Tapes 1 a2 Lali Puna- Our Inventions a5 Max Richter- Infra b1 Eluvium- Wisdom for Debris l2 Padang Food Tigers- Born Music a2 Jefre Cantu-Lede...

For Headphone Commute: Good morning and welcome to 2020. We kick off another century with our annual tradition of celebrating the music of the yesteryear, by presenting to you our favourites and recommendations. There will be enough here to fill your shelves and empty your wallets, and all that is coming up in just a couple of days, but we open up our tribute with another vinyl-only mix by Mike Je...

featuring new music by: Christoph Berg- https://christophberg.bandcamp.com/album/tape-anthology-vol-1-2 Hammock- https://shop.hammockmusic.com/album/silencia A Winged Victory-https://awvfts.bandcamp.com/album/the-undivided-five K. Leimer- https://firstterracerecords.bandcamp.com/album/irrational-overcast Christoph Berg- Tape Anthology vol. 1 b3 Hammock- Silencia b3 Daedelus- The Bittereinders b2 O...

Featuring new music by: Telefon Tel Aviv- https://telefon-tel-aviv.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-are-not-enough   Saariselka- https://saariselka.bandcamp.com   Benoît Pioulard- https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/sylva   Warmth- https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/wildlife   Meemo Comma- https://meemocomma.bandcamp.com/album/sleepmoss   William Ryan Fritch- Birkitshi a7 36- Memories in Wide Sc...