Sequences Magazine

Welcome to Sequences. We are delighted to bring you another podcast flowing with so many aspects of electronic music, names who you all know with some of their latest works, & more new artists to grace our airways too. These include Jonny Woods 100% solar-powered studio featuring a variety of esoteric modular synthesizers, like those from Buchla and Wiard. Laroth & Spuntic on TXT recordings specia...

It’s great to see more new acts on our latest edition, eleven in total, Reinhardt Buhr creating a one-man improvisational band, hypnotizing drumming & ensnaring electronic patterns Andrea Belfi has become renowned for, Australian TheAdelaide, crafts soundscapes inspired by solitude & confinement, blessed with 80’s sound Cyclotimia heads towards rhythmic post-industrial influenced by Tangerine Drea...

We will keep this short with 19 artists on this edition, back to our usual 3-hour slot. All the genres you love in Electronic music are here from Berlin School to Ambient textures, experimental to modular scores. No vintage track this time with so much new music arriving. Opening track from Sam Rosenthal & Jarguna, their first electronic/ambient collaboration "Sun washed Evening Fire", featuring t...

We’ve decided to extend this edition to 4 hours to accommodate a stack of new releases that have steadily come in over the last few weeks. I know this is a long session but you can always take time for a break, have a drink, or whatever you fancy. Before we get the show on the road, here are newcomers to Sequences, 4th Eden from Wales composing melodic, spacial tuneful sounds. If Massive Attack or...

French musician Zanov, opens this podcast with his latest release “Chaos Theory”, composing music that is both simple & complex, orderly & unpredictable. The modular synth project of Helene Vogelsinger with her debut album, “Contemplation”, exploring a combination of evolutive patterns, ambient textures, voices, orchestral instruments & field recordings. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Leila Ab...

Hi everyone, I hope you are all safe & well with the current pandemic, signs in some countries' normality is slowly opening up again. Introducing the feminine side, Japanese composer Ryo Utasato with a rich body of work that runs the gamut from electronica to ambient to world music to rock and beyond. Under her own name, Caroline McKenzie uses piano, synthesizers & her voice to make rather calming...

We welcome you to another special edition, the music of David Parsons, an influential musician who has been so important in our genre of electronic sounds. I came to hear David’s music in 1983, the album ‘Sounds of the Mothership’ by accident when visiting a classical record shop, from that day I have a big fan of his unique blend of Western technology & Eastern music. David continues to live in N...

I’ve got to say this is one of our more melodic, sequential & tuneful edition, but not without a few more ambient tracks of ancient-modern sacred space music, and experimental complex sonic tapestries verging on the dark side. We like to welcome the musicians featured for the first time on Sequences. Icing Wolf with her great mix of 80's EM, ranging from Jarre to TD, another melodic release from L...

A couple of new editions to Sequences, Gloam Audiocraft, covering many crossover genres from dark ambient to neo-classical, two from The Ambient Zone, Benoit Pioulard relying on guitar & voice as a basis for his work & Luca Longobardi a classically trained musician interweaving electronic nuances & atmospheric soundscapes, a fragile skeleton of melancholy. Nicholas Gunn who has produced and compos...

As you know its been a trying time over the last couple of months for all of us as we fight, “the virus”, especially for our friends & listeners in Europe, UK & the USA who have lost many love ones. Here in Australia, we’ve been fortunate to have kept the death rate very low. With most of us in lockdown, we hope our latest edition will for the next 3 hours give you some relief away from this devas...

As we like to feature the female side of electronic music, we are happy to say the following are featured for the first time on Sequences. Carolina Eyck is known as one of the best theremin soloists worldwide. Polish multi-instrumentalist Olga Wojciechowska, known as Strië, a multi-instrumentalist whose work drifts between modern classical experimental music. Klairzaki is a one-woman-band composer...

All calm here in Oz, for now, unfortunately this can’t be said about some of our friends in the UK, up to their waist in water over the past month. Onboard with this edition includes Hollan Holmes, ten impassioned electronic compositions influenced in part by the Berlin school. A compilation of dynamic, pulsating sequencer-driven pieces by grum~pe . Magnificent, majestic and immersed soundscapes c...

It’s been a crazy spring/summer here in Oz, after all the fires & drought, the rains came, fires out but now the floods, landslides & extensive beach erosion, especially in New South Wales & Victoria. Heaviest falls in 30 years, some having a years worth in 48 hours & more to come. Let's look on the bright side we still have some storming music for you and I must omit it’s a very diverse selection...

Always like to give you a rundown of new artists appearing on Sequences, starting with Timo Kaukolampi, with a throbbing and pulsating ambient piece, exploring the modular side of electronics, two US female musicians, Ann Annie’s self-exploration of dreams, textures, rhythms & uplifting, transportive and meditational sounds of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, played on a Buchla Music Easel modular synth, co...

G’day listeners, we are here to take you on another journey into oceans of atmospheric textures, expressive rhythmical dynamics and the unexplained dark tones, cast by our selection of talented musicians who take you on their journey into the sounds of this New Year. As always, featuring the female side of this genre, Danish synthesist Sofie Birch cosmic caresses & jazz dusting of reality departur...

As we start a new decade we wish all our listeners, happy New Year. Ten new acts grace this first edition of 2020. On the Russian Zoharum label, one half of Konstruktivists, Cathedra, a 2 CD set focusing on ritual, industrial & classical soundtrack pieces, for TXT, Midnat, Spuntic & Beta Consciousness, taken from Nagual Series, a 5 CD box set with 15 artists contributing almost 6hrs of music. Wint...

It’s been another exceptional year of music on Sequences, from not only our regulars but many of the new artists we’ve promoted throughout the last twelve months. We would like to thank all the musicians, labels and listeners who have supported us in 2019. Happy Christmas, roll on the new year. Now we come to our last edition before we enter 2020: Since his very first CD release in 1993, Andy Pick...

This will be our last edition of the year, but wait, we have another one of those specials, to come before Christmas. More new names to add to the list appearing on Sequences. Frank Tischer a German keyboardist & singer, who ventures out into different genres besides electronic music. The luminous ritual and the cosmic soundscapes of Starburst Galaxy, twin guitar experimental improvisations by TEA...

Well! Christmas is nearly upon us, although here in Oz with summer only a few weeks away, it’s not the same for Mick, having fond memories of time spent in the UK with family & friends. You can call him a humbug, but there’s always some musician or label in our genre who must bring out a yuletide record, for him it just doesn’t work. You will be pleased or not, to note our lineup, as it is always...

The girls are certainly making their impact on this edition, together there are five solo & two collaborative projects. There’s experimentation & passion in the music which ranges from chill-out to abstract ambient, hazy downtempo to cavernous drone spaces, with a special mention to classical reinterpretations by Murcof & Vanessa Wagner, especially on the beautiful moving Valentina Silvestrov work...

We are in our seventh year of starting Sequences podcasts, beginning with easy accessible electronic music, i.e. sequential, Berlin school, ambient & more, but steadily over the years expanded our range to include strange & varied electronics, even the weird & experimental. Sometimes asked why don’t the podcasts be more like DJ mixes, that flow easier on the ear, but that’s not us, not only do we...

Welcome back, hope you all enjoyed our special edition on Erik Wollo, more to come later in the year. Lets now continue our look at more new releases, with some info on the new musicians to appear on Sequences. The deep drones embedded in neoclassic arrangements, of strings, interweaved with field recording by Imaginary Landscapes. Off Land’s beat-less, seamless, ambient kaleidoscope. Hypnotic pat...

Erik Wollo Special Edition: When it comes to the electric guitar in Electronic Music one name that is always at the forefront, Norwegian professional musician Erik Wollo. After over 30 years of innovative writing and recording, he has developed his own style, playing and composing not only very expressive synthesiser parts, but also blending it with his own guitar style. With this special edition...

With this edition it’s another interesting mix, pushing the boundaries of electronic music. It’s always good to have the female side of the genre, speaking of which, two grace our airways, Angelina Yershova exploration of evocative textures, synthesized with the experimental explorations of the piano & the minimalistic ambient side to Jodie Lowther. Expressive ambient music of Giest, Neil Foster &...

The adventure continues, with some of the latest releases in our world of electronic music. Melodic sequential tunes from Johan Tronestam & Moonbooter. Michael Neil teams up with Kristoff Beckerunique, going under the name of RKM, a brand of live improvised electro, experimental, chill out soundtracks. Rich, melodic, rhythmical, interlocking sequencer driven sounds, from the master Steve Roach. Th...