Etheric Currents

Episodes

1. 10

   Terrible Name, Great Music

   Tonight's episode on Etheric Currents is "terrible name, great music", because we'll be hearing music from the Ogredung label. Pause to let that sink in. Or not. This label is an Italian one, and released from 2001 to 2007. It's is a very eclectic label -- everything from straight melodia to...

   Apr 30, 2026

   2h 00m
2. 9

   The Camomille Netlabel

   This week's episode features music from the Camomille netlabel. Camomille was founded in 2002 by Vincent Fugère "out of the love of ambient music, camomille tea and as a representation of what inspires him to do music". Camomille has (or perhaps had -- there have been no releases for a while!) a...

   Apr 30, 2026

   2h 07m
3. 8

   Radiant & Talking Pictures

   This episode features Stellaterra's great "Radiant" release -- a loving tribute to Berlin School. We also will hear Mahorka's "Talking Pictures" release, with contributions from many Mahorka artists, each taking a still from famous movies as a prompt. We'll round out the second hour with some…

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   Jul 4, 2023

   2h 01m
4. 7

   Numbers Stations

   This show features tracks built on sounds from the CONET Project: recordings of "numbers stations". These radio stations are coded messages to spies, alerting them as to what decryption keys they should be using. On the surface, they are mysterious strings of numbers or letters in the…

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   Jul 4, 2023

   2h 01m
5. 6

   Thom Brennan’s “Aftermath” and Two Bump Foots (Feet?)

   We premiered (at least for our listeners) Thom Brennan's Aftermath release, which came out the week before this episode was recorded, and rounded out the show with two releases from Bump Foot, the Fail EP from Drugstore, and the gnomic QX#55's 6+6=12. Thom has come through with his usual smooth,...

   Jul 3, 2023

   1h 55m
6. 5

   Away Space and Requiem for a Neural Network

   Two Kahvi releases, one featuring 4T Thieves and Pandacetamol, and the other featuring various Kahvi artists. Lots of beats and a couple of great remixes. 4T Thieves and Pandacetamol, Away Space Various Artists, Requiem for a Neural Network

   Jul 3, 2023

   2h 01m
7. 4

   Exploring the Ether

   This episode features tracks named (or containing) "ether", bands whose names contain "ether", and the whole of Comm's great album, Ether. There's lots on ambience in the first half, and plenty of beats in the second. Tone Ghost Ether, Condor Sail Curve Ether, Comm

   Jul 3, 2023

   2h 03m
8. 3

   Drums, Drums in the Deep

   No balrogs this episode, but lots of percussion: your regular Western drum set, synthetic percussion, the good old 808, Middle Eastern percussion, …even the piano! Lots of different kinds of percussion this show. Many different albums featured this episode: Runi Graph, For I know that the view of…

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   Jul 3, 2023

   2h 04m
9. 2

   Darwin and the 2600

   Originally, this episode was meant to be a feature of the ARP 2600, but the weekend before it was recorded, Darwin Grosse died. He was a friend of many of RadioSpiral's DJ's, a great force in musical education, one of the founding members of Cycling '74 (home of Max), and an excellent musician,...

   Jul 3, 2023

   1h 59m
10. 1

    Typhoon / Dymaxion Variations / Mercury

    This episode features a new album from Thom Brennan, "Typhoon", a very deep and complex ambient album from Oberlin, "The Dymaxion Variations" (so good our listeners insisted on staying late to have me play the track I'd left out for time!), and Faex Optim's space-age "Mercury".

    Jul 25, 2022

    2h 17m
11. “Four Days” and “The Moodygoer”

    Tonight's show features two new albums: a short EP from 4T Thieves (whose retirement from music seems greatly exaggerated) and a unique album from Konejo, The Moodygoer -- filled with ambience from many, many movies -- each excerpt about a minute of ambience from a movie, accompanied by an...

    Jun 20, 2022

    1h 55m
12. Equinoxes

    This episode's theme is equinoxes, a thing near and dear to Equinox's heart. The feature for this episode is Max Corbacho's new release, Equinox, which is the first full hour and a quarter of the episode. The latter part of the episode includes a new five-part Equinoctal, Manhattanhenge, and...

    May 30, 2022

    1h 48m
13. In Utera, Humafobia, Ambient Box

    This episode features three new albums: In Utera, a new – and first! – album from AntiMonos. "His music is built from emotions, stories and experiments. Its objective is to take us to different worlds and to offer the listener to be at the center of this journey, to appropriate it to shape their...

    May 23, 2022

    1h 58m
14. Shepherd Drift

    Tonight's episode premieres Shepherd Drift, a new album from the Kahvi Collective. Shepherd Drift is the 2019 artists compilation, and is almost three hours of great music. We excerpted about two hours worth for this episode, with everything from drifty ambience to serious beats. As always, Kahvi...

    May 16, 2022

    2h 08m
15. Leftovers Day

    You know those days when you come home and look in the fridge and realize you forgot to go shopping, and still have to make dinner? That's today's show, except our library is full of tasty things; we've got a random selection of whatever sounds good tonight, with Loren Nerell, Shalmaneser…

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    May 9, 2022

    2h 21m
16. I Know You! (a personal tour of the RadioSpiral library)

    Tonight's show is a little different; rather than featuring a number of tracks by the same artist, I've instead chosen to select tracks that vaguely follow my own history of people I've met over they years in electronic music, from the earliest days of email lists and Usenet newsgroups right up…

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    Apr 19, 2022

    1h 57m
17. Monotonik Sampler

    This episode brings together a number of short releases from the Monotonik netlabel, from izmar, sleepy town manufacture, jiva, Akira Kosemura, bliss, planet boelex, lackluster, and Ollie Cram. More beats than usual tonight!

    Apr 4, 2022

    2h 06m
18. Monotonik, with Troupe and Tatsu

    This episode, we feature multiple artists from the Monotonik netlabel, and feature two full albums from Troupe (It's Really Pretty Simple After All) and Tatsu (August). We'll also have the albums Sound of Subnatura, Hexual Ceiling, Emotions in a Box, and several other unnamed albums.

    Mar 28, 2022

    1h 58m
19. π Day

    This episode centers around π , circles, and irrationality -- whether loving thing irrationally, or irrational motives; circular motion, or music that feels circular. There were technical issues during the broadcast, apparently occurring somewhere between the broadcast machine and the streaming...

    Mar 14, 2022

    1h 33m
20. New and found again: Heimferd and Eventide

    This episode, we feature two new albums: one from Kahvi, a theme and variations via remix of the title track, Heimferd, by HRYM, with remixes by 4T Thieves, Keiss, Mitoma, Murya, and Abdicant. The second has an unusual and happy story attached to it: it's a new release from Thom Brennan…

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    Feb 28, 2022

    2h 04m
21. Flagstaff Mountains, Wolfgang Nachahmer, and the first Equinoctal

    Tonight we have a new album from Kahvi, Flagstaff Mountains by Escher Adams, and two by Wolfgang Nachahmer – Tryptychon and Nachtwache. We'll also hear a pre-recorded (because I couldn't get my hardware to cooperate) Equinoctal, Converted to Light. I hope to be performing more Equinoctals as time...

    Jan 31, 2022

    2h 03m
22. Mahorka: Encased in Amber, Virtually J, and V

    This episode features three artists from the Mahorka netlabel: Encased in Amber, Virtually J, and V. Encased in Amber's album, Parallel Worlds, is a real treat! Beautiful timbres, excellent performances, and a great melodic sense. Encased in Amber says about themselves: The music of Encased in...

    Jan 27, 2022

    2h 01m
23. Feature: The Pencil-Case and Chromadrift

    This episode features a new-to-me artist, The Pencil-Case, who combine spoken word, electronica, and a whole lot of other influences into a unique sound of their own on their album, Euclidean Fractales, described as "a blend between electronica, breakbeat, ambient, [and] abstract-hip-hop, with a...

    Jan 21, 2022

    1h 48m
24. Featuring: 4T Thieves

    This episode features the music of 4T Thieves -- a great blend of electro beats and ambience. 4T Thieves (Nik Racine) is the founder of the Kavhvi Collective netlabel, one of the best places to find great electronica, and has been around since back in the Amiga demoscene in the '90's, with…

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    Jan 19, 2022

    1h 58m
25. Abandoned/Disremembrance/Monorails

    This week's episode features three albums from the Bumpfoot netlabel. Abandoned mixes sampling, electronics, and ethnic percussion into music that is reminiscent of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Based on a set of photographs taken in Vanatau in 2014, this EP (one wishes it were longer!)...

    Jan 3, 2022

    1h 45m
26. Kahvi: Ringworld

    A short episode this week, only one hour, as Equinox had an early-morning appointment and had to stop early. This episode features the new Kahvi compilation, Ringworld. It's an eclectic mix of tracks, and the episode is a selection from the two hours plus of music. We've chosen mostly…

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    Dec 20, 2021

    1h 07m
27. Forrest Fang: Forever Cascades and More

    On this episode of Etheric Currents, we'll be hearing tracks from Forrest Fang, featuring his new album, Forever Cascades. He says, "Though my walks near the San Francisco Bay were initially a way for me to clear my head, I also found myself drawn to the cycles and cadences of tides and aquatic...

    Dec 13, 2021

    2h 08m
28. Electro-cool: Nameless Dancers, Lavoura, and more

    This week's episode is featuring music that combines many genres: jazz, electronica, latin, Bollywood, drum and bass, and whatever else the artists felt like into a nicely chilled mix that, for lack of a better word, I'm calling electro-cool. In the first half we'll be hearing from Nameless...

    Dec 13, 2021

    2h 05m
29. Massimo Discepoli’s Nheap: Ambient Jazz

    This week's episode features a new-to-me artist, Massimo Discepoli. Massimo wears a lot of hats: incredibly accomplished drummer, teacher, multi-instrumentalist. Nheap is the monickker under which he has released several CC-licensed albums, which allows us to play them here. We'll hear from the...

    Dec 6, 2021

    2h 12m
30. Netlabel space beats, on Wavelike, Dusted Wax, and Kavhi

    Tonight's episode features tracks that evoke space, space travel, or spaceflight, from several different netlabels, some more obscure than others. Since this was a themed episode rather than a "selected tracks" one, we have a lot more links for you this week: Geolm's Waves of Tomorrow, on…

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    Nov 28, 2021

    2h 09m
31. Kahvi: Playing Guess-the-Synth with One Synth I and II

    This week's episode has music from the Kahvi Collective's One Synth and One Synth II releases, plus a few tracks from their Tangents release to make up the full two hours. The One Synth releases have a gimmick: each track is done with a single synth, multiracked as necessary, and because we have…

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    Nov 27, 2021

    2h 07m
32. Juta Takahashi’s “Miyabi” and Dusted Wax Chill

    This episode premieres Juta Takahashi's new release, Miyabi. It is a patient meditation on repeating sequences, subtly orchestrated to change over time from one for to another, like seasons changing from winter to spring, and will give you time to settle in and be with the changes as they unfold....

    Nov 8, 2021

    2h 03m
33. Camomille: Cycles

    The episode features the 100th release from the Camomille netlabel, Cycles. This is a big compilation, over 2 hours long and 57 musicians. The tracks are well-selected and hang together nicely in that Camomille headspace: a little abstract, a little beat, laid-back and quiet. Tonight's tracks:...

    Nov 1, 2021

    2h 04m
34. Piambient: Piano-based electronica

    This episode uses the piano as a touchstone -- tracks from both the RadioSpiral Library and from Creative Commons releases. We will have a little more ambient music, as fits the title, but there are still some gentle beats for those looking for them. The criterion for selection was that the track...

    Oct 18, 2021

    1h 57m
35. Nu-Jazz and Post-Rock on La Bél

    In this episode, we’ll be hearing tracks for several engaging nu-jazz and post-rock artists. These two genres are deconstructions and recombinations of their base genres with influences from others, sometimes far outside the originals. We’ll be listening to some folks who have integrated ambient...

    Oct 11, 2021

    2h 09m
36. [20210927] Berlin Recess, with Klangwald

    Tonight we'll be hearing some excellent Berlin-School tracks from a band by the name of Klangwald. In 2012, they released two EPs and one full album on the Kreislauf netlabel: Tomato Juice and Ginger Tea (EP) Tolerance and Courage (EP) Stressless Life (full album) We'll be hearing all three in…

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    Sep 27, 2021
37. [20210913] Stays Crunchy – Milk and Five Musicians

    This episode's music comes from the Finnish netlabels Milk and Five Musicians. Five Musicians was the earlier of the two, and specialized in distributing music from the demoscene - music composed using trackers, specialized programs that did sample playback, controlled by scores written out as…

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    Sep 13, 2021

    1h 56m
38. [20210906] Backtrack, Dewtone, One

    Tonight's show is a selection of tracks from the Backtrack, Dewtone, and One netlabels, all of which briefly flowered in the early 2000's and then disappeared. Backtrack lived for two years, from 2004 to 2006, but put out some really excellent music. The two albums featured, Crepuscular by Troupe...

    Sep 6, 2021

    2h 02m
39. [20210830] Round and Round

    This show (the first official Etheric Currents) features tracks about round things: circles, rounds, and spheres. All tracks are from the RadioSpiral library, but some are from artists we don't play as much, and some are seldom-played tracks from artists we play a lot of. Tonight's show runs more...

    Aug 30, 2021