Sound Contours

Ambient heat and luminescent drones from contemporary artists and composers for bathing in the light ecstatic or brooding in the blinding sun. On this episode, tons of 2016 tracks are featured alongside seldom heard classics, all by thinkers who truly know how to focus their (and our) senses. Tracklist: Shigeto – Deep Breathing, Irezumi – Contemplations, Benoît Pioulard – Of Ever...

Feel it. Tracklist: Pharaohs – Beyond Within, Musiccargo – Sol Lucet Omnibux, Jib Kidder – Remove a Tooth, The Chemical Brothers – Dream On, Flamingods – Yuka, Morgan Delt – Little Zombies, Animal Collective – Graze, Nice Nice – Big Bounce, Dalhous – Bolder and Lighter Than the Beat from a Wing, Cloudland Canyon – An Arabesque, Spirituali...

Last in the Dutch Waves series, Building Brains is a post-punk mix for the open mind. Holland’s contributions to post-punk were restlessly creative and aesthetically experimental: industrial noise, synthesizers, modern classical, dub and krautrock grooves all made an impact. You might hear an acoustic guitar or a chamber orchestra. You might hear a dreary jam session, driven by a repetitive...

Wild, uptempo post-punk slammers from Holland in the ’80s. If the spirit of Dutch new wave can be captured in a single mix of dark, eccentric party tracks? Here’s your candidate. Tracklist: Kiem – Short Memories, Das Ding – H.S.T.A., De Div – Walk, Güler – Princess Parade, La Voix Qui Rit – Huba Huba, Flue – Some-Times, Minny Pops – Time, Mekanik Kom...

New wave poses. Art rock techniques. Cyberpunk poetry. Gothic moods. Alien synths. Caterwauling guitars. Scrap yard funk. Tractor tire basslines. Abandoned factories. It’s post-punk, it’s’ Holland, it’s the 80s. Tracklist: Mecano – Autoportrait, The Tapes – March, Coitus Int. – Bonanza, Nine Circles – The Rose, Mekanik Kommando – Money For Plea...

It’s magic. Tracklist: D/P/I – Dead Hearts, Durlin Lurt – Magic, Knxwledge – BuildMyWrld[ArowndJew], J Dilla – So Far To Go (Instrumental), Bullion – You Still Believe In Dee, Charles Trees – Memories, Gobby – Immortality, Sharpshooters – Don’t Turn Away, FloFilz – Paramahansa, mieksneak. – Script, Lone – 2 Is 8, TOKiMONSTA &#...

Rum punch from a coconut. Plastic hula skirts. Vivid fantasies. More dreamy 70mm music, tuned in to terra-cotta tiles, potted palms and those infinity pools behind your eyelids. Many thanks to the incredible Exotica 45s project and of course astral exploration affionado Flash Strap for pointing me in the direction(s) of so many solid old slabs of wax, mixed here with a few contemporary cuts that h...

Don your rose-colored glasses as the beach vibes flourish on this hypnagogic springtime mix, and let yourself traverse a coastal trail of cooled out beats, rich chords and pleasant, sunny textures. Tracklist: Hammafest – Wunderer, Sweet Valley – Bros Beyond, The Avalanches – Since I Left You (Cornelius Remix), Towa Tei – Technova (La em Copacabana), Kiraz – Daydream,...

SC’s second modern classical episode focuses on the dynamic between words, other mouth-made sounds and music. Talking, spoken word, speech as composition, speech in composition, lyrics sung as if meant to be spoken, poetry: It’s all here. Let the language (and lack thereof) wash over you in a wave of modernist beauty. Tracklist: Bang on a Can All-Stars, John Cage – An Open Cage,...

The first in our percussion-heavy Wild Gems series, this episode is an exotic time travel odyssey taking place between 1959 to 2012, visiting tons of great moments in hard funk, psych rock and groovy Latin music along its journey. Selections hail from the international psychedelic continuum, and the exploitative proto-“world music” LPs of orchestrators like Martin Denny and Arthur Lyma...

The second in our Electronic(a) series, this tasty 90-minute installment of diverse electronic gems is sure to dislocate listeners to a whole new season. Tracklist: Penguin Cafe Orchestra – The Snake and the Lotus (The Pond), Illangelo – Shattered Paradise, Ccolo – Peace Me Babi Dub, Anchorsong – Oriental Suite, Gold Panda – I Suppose I Should Say ’Thanks’ Or Some Shi...

I’m excited to share a new mix I’ve curated with dublab for the organization’s upcoming event Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. This set traverses many eras, weaving together decades in an exhibition of classical ambient music’s various roots and branches. From the awesome folks at dublab: “Travel through the Light Lock corridor as it is trans...

Fire up your eardrums with some essential cuts of global electonica, alternative pop, and other sounds from around the world. Tracklist: Mexican Institute of Sound – Cumbia Meguro, Souleance – Secoue, The Very Best – Guju Guju, M.I.A. – Space, The 2 Bears – Muizenberg (Remix), Armadillo – Neón, Chancha Via Circuito – Jardines feat. Lido Pimienta, Domenico...

Launch head-first into 100-minutes of nocturnal beats and compositions, all hailing from 2015. Tracklist: Jun Miyake – Mad Funny Balance Town, Nosaj Thing – Uv3, sealab 2012 – long. too long, El Mahdy Jr. – B Side (Excerpt), Shigeto – Do My Thing, Arca – Front Load, Puto Anderson & Deejay NinOo – Gravidez, Normal Nada – Tarraxinha da Calopsit...

Enter a 2-hour set of songs, sounds and surprises. Tracklist: George Delerue – Capri, DJ Raff – Sudakaizbeautiful, Flying Lotus – Camera Day, Caribou – Silver, Gobby – Quickie, Harbour – Heartbeat (Prettymuch), Spectre – Black Abstract Italiano, Lifted – Medicated Yoga, Clark – Com Re-Touch / Pocket for Jack, Le1f – Fry Dem, Kitkkola &#82...