Optic Echo Presents

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Optic Echo Presents

Love of ambient, experimental, & modern classical with downtempo roots. We highlight current music in these genres, with old favorites snuck in. OEP sets are vinyl, guest mixes contain all formats.Listen live Tuesday evenings 6-8pm on XRAY.FM, 91.1 / 107.1 FM KXRY Portland, streaming www.xray.fm (previously Portland Radio Authority 06-13).These mixes are a digest version of our 2-hour radio show, recorded from home on 3 turntables, usually the day after our FM broadcast.Podcast: www.opticechopresents.com (also apple / google podcast)Thank you for listening!profile pic by: Marc Fischerwww.twitter.com/opticecho

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    OEP 3/17/26: K2

    another ambient mix for headphones    Sea Oleena- Weaving a Basket a2 https://seaoleena.bandcamp.com/album/weaving-a-basket Elijah Jamal Asani- as long as I long to memorise your sky a1.3 (excerpt) https://elijahjamalasani.bandcamp.com/album/as-long-as-i-long-to-memorise-your-sky Black Swan- From the End of Time b1 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-end-of-time Papillon- s/t a2.2 (excerpt) https://goncalofcardoso.bandcamp.com/album/papillon Mizu- Forest Scenes a1 https://iammizu.bandcamp.com/album/forest-scenes Koen Holtkamp- Field Rituals b3 Tim Hecker- Harmony in Ultraviolet c1 https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/harmony-in-ultraviolet Stars of the Lid- Tired Sounds of a3 (excerpt)  https://starsofthelid.bandcamp.com/album/the-tired-sounds-of Romance & Dean Hurley- River of Dreams a4 https://romancedeanhurley.bandcamp.com/album/river-of-dreams Deaf Center- Pale Ravine a4 https://deafcenter.bandcamp.com/album/pale-ravine Eluvium- (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality b2 https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/album/whirring-marvels-in-consensus-reality Jon Hopkins- Music for Psychedelic Therapy a2.2 https://jonhopkins.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-psychedelic-therapy Environements- 10 b1 Joel Shearer- Listening a2 https://joelshearer.bandcamp.com/album/listening Isabel Pines- Fables a2 https://isabelpine.bandcamp.com/album/fables Rod Modell- Northern Michigan Snowstorms c1 https://silentes.bandcamp.com/album/northern-michigan-snowstorms Hammock- Nevertheless b1  https://hammock.bandcamp.com/album/nevertheless Warmth- Parallel Inflection b1 https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/parallel Infinite Body- Carve Out the Face of My God a1 https://infinitebody.bandcamp.com/album/carve-out-the-face-of-my-god Willamette- Echo Park b4 https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/echo-park Luke Schneider- For Dancing in Quiet Light a1 https://lukeschneider.bandcamp.com/album/for-dancing-in-quiet-light Kwes.- Kinds b1 https://kwesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/kinds Black to Comm- Seven Horses for Seven Kings d2 (excerpt)  https://blacktocomm.bandcamp.com/album/seven-horses-for-seven-kings Meitei- Komachi b6 https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/komachi   Optic Echo Presents  Tuesdays 6-8pm PST  91.1 / 107.1 FM PDX  www.xray.fm

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    OEP: Best vinyl of 2025

    Thank you to Headphone Commute for featuring this mix: https://www.patreon.com/c/HeadphoneCommunity   Aiko Takahashi- The Grass Harp  https://laaps.bandcamp.com/album/the-grass-harp King Caiman x Dirty Art Club- Infrared Orchids  https://kingcaiman.bandcamp.com/album/infrared-orchids Snakeskin- We Live in Sand  https://snakeskinband.bandcamp.com/album/we-live-in-sand El Huervo- The Fire Burns  https://elhuervo.bandcamp.com/album/the-fire-burns Midan- Letter to Brazil  https://midan.bandcamp.com/album/letter-to-brazil Tim Hecker- Shards    https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/shards A Lily- Saru l-Qamar  https://alily.bandcamp.com/album/saru-l-qamar Nicolas Melmann- Musica Aperta  https://melmann.bandcamp.com/album/m-sica-aperta Richard Hronsky- Pohreb  https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/pohreb Black Swan- From the End of Time  https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-end-of-time Disiniblud- s/t  https://rachika.bandcamp.com/album/disiniblud Oneohtrix Point Never- Tranquilizer  https://oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp.com/album/tranquilizer Patricia Wolf- Hfafnamynd  https://patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/album/hrafnamynd Alchemist- Mixed Fruit vol 1: Pineapple Ginger  https://www.discogs.com/release/34123273-Alchemist-Mixed-Fruit-Vol-1-Pineapple-Ginger Romance- Love is Colder than Death  https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-colder-than-death Natas Kunas- Blue Radiance  https://nataskunas.bandcamp.com/album/blue-radiance Old Saw- The Wringing Cloth  https://lobbyartrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-wringing-cloth Almost an Island- s/t  https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/almost-an-island Abul Mogard- Quiet Pieces  https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-pieces Claire Rousay- A Little Death  https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/a-little-death Nxxxxxs- It’s the Only Way to Escape  https://nbbeats.bandcamp.com/album/its-the-only-way-to-escape 36 & Zake- Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel III  https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/stasis-sounds-for-long-distance-space-travel Jason Van Wyk- Inherent  https://jasonvanwyk.bandcamp.com/album/inherent-3 Charif Megarbane- Hawalat https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-funk-030-hawalat Taylor Deupree & Zimoun- Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations https://zimoun.bandcamp.com/album/wind-dynamic-organ-deviations Malibu - Vanities https://mmmmalibu.bandcamp.com/album/vanities

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    Optic Echo Presents 10/7/25

    Patricia Wolf- Hrafnamynd  a5 https://patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/album/hrafnamynd Sontag Shogun x Lau Nau (Amulets rework)- Paivakahvit  a6 https://beaconsound.bandcamp.com/album/p-iv-kahvit Disiniblud- s/t  a1 https://rachika.bandcamp.com/album/disiniblud Kreng- Grimoire  b4 https://kreng.bandcamp.com/album/grimoire Alchemist- A Doctor, Painter & an Alchemist…  a3 Infinite Body- Carve out the Face of my God  a6 https://infinitebody.bandcamp.com/album/carve-out-the-face-of-my-god Virtual Dream Plaza- Eternal Connection (edit)  a1 https://geometriclullaby.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-connection Alva Noto- Xerrox vol.5  d2 https://noton.info/product/n-062/ Anthéne- Descendre  a1 https://anthene.bandcamp.com/album/descendre Peace Orchestra- s/t  d2 Alethe- mntngr  a3 https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/album/mntngr BlankFor.ms- After the Town was Swept Away  b3 https://blankforms.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-town-was-swept-away A Lily- Saru I-Qamar  b1 https://alily.bandcamp.com/album/saru-l-qamar Inventions- Continuous Portrait  a3 https://inventions.bandcamp.com/album/continuous-portrait  Black Taffy- Out Moon  a2 https://blacktaffy.bandcamp.com/album/out-moon Low- Double Negative  a1 https://lowtheband.bandcamp.com/album/double-negative Blue Lake- The Animal  a1 https://bluelake1.bandcamp.com/album/the-animal   Optic Echo Presents Tue 6-8pm PST 107.1 / 91.1 FM PDX www.xray.fm

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    Optic Echo Presents 7/22/25

    Elori Saxl- Texada OST  a4 https://elorisaxl.bandcamp.com/album/texada-original-score Natas Kunas- Blue Radiance  a2 https://nataskunas.bandcamp.com/album/blue-radiance Twit One- Sit-in  b3 https://twitone.bandcamp.com/album/the-sit-in Jacaszek- Treny  b2 https://jacaszek2.bandcamp.com/album/treny j.o.y.s.- s/t  b1 https://joys.bandcamp.com/album/j-o-y-s Marsen Jules- Herbstalub  a3 https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/album/herbstlaub Romance- Love is Colder than Death  b2 https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-colder-than-death Morgan Willis - Supernova  a2 https://morganwillisofficial.bandcamp.com/album/supernova Night Sequels - Children of the Night Make Music  a3 https://attacknine.bandcamp.com/album/the-children-of-the-night-make-music Ben Frost- By the Throat  a4 https://benfrost.bandcamp.com/album/by-the-throat VA (La Rusa Negra)- Section 173.14  a1 https://betabodegacoalition.bandcamp.com Grand River- Tuning the Wind  a1 https://grandrivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/tuning-the-wind   Optic Echo Presents Tue 6-8pm PST 107.1 / 91.1 FM PDX XRAY www.xray.fm

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    OEP 5/6/25: K1

    ambient mix for headphones  More Eaze & Claire Rousay- No Floor  a1 https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/no-floor  Desert Sand Feels Warm at Night- Dream Desert  a1 https://geometriclullaby.bandcamp.com/album/desert-sand-feels-warm-at-night  Jonsi & Alex- Riceboy Sleeps  b1.2 https://riceboy.bandcamp.com/album/riceboy-sleeps-2019-remaster  Black Swan- From the End of Time a5 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-end-of-time  Dialect - Advanced Myth  a4 https://dialect-trax.bandcamp.com/album/advanced-myth  Luke Wyland- Kuma Cove  b4.2 https://lukewyland.bandcamp.com/album/kuma-cove-2  Coral Morphologic & Nick León- Projections of a Coral City  b2 https://balmat.bandcamp.com/album/projections-of-a-coral-city  Environments- 4                                Warmth- Parallel Inflection  a2 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-inflection  Anthene- Held  a1 https://oscarson.bandcamp.com/album/anth-ne-held  Belong - October Language  a2 https://spectrumspools.bandcamp.com/album/october-language  Eluvium- Static Nocturne (Life Through Bombardment 2)- f1.2 https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/track/static-nocturne  Tim Hecker- Radio Amor  c3 https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/radio-amor  Drape- Forage  a1 https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/forage-presence  Jon Hopkins- Music for Psychedelic Therapy  c3 https://jonhopkins.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-psychedelic-therapy

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    Optic Echo Presents 3/18/25

    Eevee- Beat Tapes 1-5  b3 https://eeveebeats.bandcamp.com/album/eevee-beat-tapes-vol-1-10  The Books- Lemon of Pink  a5 https://books.bandcamp.com/album/the-lemon-of-pink  Francisco Lopez- untitled #228  a1 https://franciscolopez.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-228  Biosphere- Substrata (alternative)  c2 https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/substrata-alternative-versions  Death’s Dynamic Shroud- Heavy Black Heart  a2 https://deathsdynamicshroud.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-black-heart-3  Inventions- Blanket Waves  b1 https://inventions.bandcamp.com/album/blanket-waves  Come Le Onde- L’immensa solitudine…  a1 https://oscarson.bandcamp.com/album/come-le-onde-limmensa-solitudine-delle-montagne Ibukun Sunday- Harmony / Balance  a2 https://ibukunsunday.bandcamp.com/album/harmony-balance Dirty Art Club - Hexes  a1 https://dirtyartclub.bandcamp.com/album/hexes Bohren- Black Earth   d1 https://store.pias.com/release/168347-bohren-der-club-of-gore-black-earth?lang=en_GB Zake & BP- Eve  c1 https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/eve Spongetaker- Everywhere at the end of Bikini Bottom  a2 https://vappasko.bandcamp.com/album/everywhere-at-the-end-of-bikini-bottom Aeson Zervas- s/t  a5 https://heatcrimes.bandcamp.com/album/s-t Alan Watts- Why Not Now /Dhyana  a1 Optic Echo Presents  Tuesday 6-8pm PST  KXRY Portland  www.xray.fm 

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    OEP: Best Vinyl 2024

    Thank you to Headphone Commute for continuing to feature our best of the year mixes. Check out an interview by HC about my record collection: https://headphonecommute.com/2024/10/31/mike-jedlicka-ill-show-you-mine/  Tracklist:  Sweeps- Retrofuture  a2 /  Brenk Sinatra &  Wun Two- Tango & Cash  a6 /  Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea- Reveries  a2 /  Not Waving & Romance- Wings of Desire  a2 /  KRM & KMRU- Disconnect  d2 /  Andrew Tuttle &  Michael Chapman- Another Tide Another Fish  a4 /  Damu the Fudgemunk- Piece of Action  a2 /  Belong- Realistic IX  a5 /  Marine Eyes- To Belong 7”  b1 /  Emil Rottmayer- Total  b1 /  Chop!- Tune in  b6 /  Blockhead- Mortality is Lit  d1 /  Billow Observatory- Calique / Soliton  b3 /  Rafael Anton Irisarri- Facadisms  b1 /  Voyage Futur- Inverted Land  b2 /  Markus Guentner (Pepo Galan)- Kontrapunkt  b2 /  Duster and Dirty Art Club- Anhedonia ii 7”  a1 /  Andrew Prahlow- Secrets from the Outer Wilds  b11 /  Infinity Frequencies- Hologram Person  b1 /  Cowboy Sadness- Selected Jambient Works vol. 1  a2 /  Nala Sinephro- Endlessness  a2 

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    OEP: best vinyl of 2023

    Big thanks to Mike of Headphone Commute for posting my best of mixes over the past 10+ years!!   Cruel Diagonals- Fractured Whole a3 ビクター MKII- Tokimeki No Beat a5 JJ Whitefield- Ethio Meditations / Drama al Dente a2 Romance & Dean Hurley- River of Dreams b3 Spencer Doran- Season: a letter to the future b2 Sven Wunder- Ultramarine 7” a1 Маяк- Выше звезд a1 More Eaze- Strawberry Season a2 Steve Gunn & David Moore- Reflections Vol. 1: Let the Moon Be a Planet a1 Black to Comm- At Zeenath Parallel Heavens a2 Bana Haffar- Intimaa’ b2 Heinali- Kyiv Eternal a3 Brock Berrigan- Breaking Bread a2 Apollo Brown- This Must Be the Place b2 One Million Eyes- Iris a1 Secret Pyramid- A Vanishing Touch a5 Eluvium- (Whirring Marvels in) Consensus Reality a3 Voyage Futur- Wellen b3 Jake Muir- Bathhouse Blues a1.1 Limousine- Skymall a6 Funkmammoth- Life’s Delights b8 Jana Winderen- The Blue Beyond a1.3 From Overseas & Zake- Demain, Des L’aube a2 Quiet Places- Volume 2 b1.3

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    Optic Echo Presents 2/7/23

    ビクター MKII- 夏色 Summer Colours a7  https://mkii.bandcamp.com/album/summer-colours Pronoia- DJ Kicks f1 https://k7records.bandcamp.com/album/dj-kicks-thievery-corporation-2 Penelope Trappes- Healing Together c2 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/healing-together-a-compilation-for-mental-health-recovery Night Sequels- Children of the Night Make Music b1 https://attacknine.bandcamp.com/album/the-children-of-the-night-make-music Jon Hopkins (Nils Frahm remix)- I Remember 10” a1 https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/album/i-remember Marine Eyes + IKSRE- Nurture a1 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/nurture Hammock- Love in the Void a1 https://hammock.bandcamp.com/album/love-in-the-void MACマイナス- Updated Floral Experience (更新された花の経験) b3 https://aloecitywrld.bandcamp.com/album/updated-floral-experience Kenny Segal- Happy Little Trees a4 https://kennysegal.bandcamp.com/album/happy-little-trees TIBSLC- Hypertranslucent b1 https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/hypertranslucent 28 timed (realistic)- Sound Effects b4 Sweet Valley- Eternal Champ 2 a4 https://sweetvalley.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-champ-ii 28 timed- Sound Effects a5 Forest Management- Palm Life a4 https://forestmanagement.bandcamp.com/album/palm-life-2 Ras G- Ghetto Sci-Fi b1 The Orb- Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld b1 Brock Berrigan- The Scenic Route b8 https://brockberrigan.bandcamp.com/album/the-scenic-route  

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    OEP best vinyl of 2022

    Thank you to Headphone Commute for featuring our best of mixes for 12 years now!   Patricia Wolf- See Through a5 Viul & Benoit Pioulard- Konec b1 KMRU & Aho Ssan- Limen a2 Ohbliv- SLPHNC III a2 36- Symmetry Systems b3 Andrew Tuttle- Fleeting Adventure a1 Burial- Antidawn b1 Heather Woods Broderick- Domes a1 Andrew Tasselmyer- Limits b1 Pinkcourtesyphone- Shouting at Nuance c1.2 Jason Van Wyk- Descendants a3 William Fowler Collins- Hallucinating Loss b2 Marine Eyes- Chamomile a2 Flughand- Ten Hits b4 Ian William Craig- Music for Magnesium_173 a1 William Basinski & Janek Schaefer- … On Reflection a2 From Overseas & City of Dawn- Misty Memories a2 Location Services & Derek Hunter Wilson- Wake b1 Raum- Daughter b3 Corey Fuller & Richard Skelton- Thesis 20 a1

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    Optic Echo Presents 11/22/22

    Lucy Liyou- Welfare/Practice d1 https://lucyliyou.bandcamp.com/album/welfare-practice Ras G- Baker’s Dozen b1 https://rasgtheafrikanspaceprogram.bandcamp.com/album/bakers-dozen-ras-g Knxwledge- Buttrskotch 7” b4 https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/buttrskotch-lr023 Wøunds- No Beauty in theWorld a2 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/no-beauty-in-the-world Locrian- New Catastrophism a1 https://locrian.bandcamp.com/album/new-catastrophism Christina Vantzou- N.5 a4 https://christinavantzou.bandcamp.com/album/no-5 Heather Woods Broderick- Domes b4 https://heatherwoodsbroderick.bandcamp.com/album/domes Shafiq presents- Frequency Clash a2 https://shafiqhusayn.bandcamp.com/album/shafiq-husayn-presents-jank-random-vs-earle-leonne-the-frequency-clash Aphex Twin- Raising the Titanic a1 Delarosa & Asora- Backsome EP a1 Clutchy Hopkins+- Icebox a4 https://icebox.bandcamp.com/album/icebox-remastered From Overseas & City of Dawn- Misty Memories b2 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/misty-memories The Dead Texan- s/t a1 https://starsofthelid.bandcamp.com/album/the-dead-texan Viul & Benoit Pioulard- Konec c1 https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/konec   Optic Echo Presents Mon 6-8pm PST 107.1 / 91.1 FM PDX www.xray.fm

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    OEP 7/19/22: Fragile X guest mix

    Big thank you to Fragile X out of Glasgow for providing the guest mix. We recommend checking out his bandcamp, as well as his label, Bricolage: https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com https://fragilex.bandcamp.com 01. Yumi Iwaki / Through The Leaves (Muzan Editions : 2021) 02. William Selman / Bubble House In Shallow Depth (Mysteries of the Deep : 2020) 03. Otik / Been Here (Twin System : 2020) 04. Michiru Aoyama / Seven Colors (ta‚lem :2017) 05. Lori Scacco / Other Flowers (Mysteries of the Deep : 2018) 06. Oreste / Minas Mare (On Board Music : 2021) 07. G?Ûs / Serenity (For Sofia) (Self Released : 2021) 08. Hoshin / Upekkha (Databloem : 2020) 09. Fragile X / An Echo Of An Echo (Soundtracking The Void : 2021) 10. Minimal Drone GRL - Skylab (Bricolage : forthcoming 2022) 11. Subpneuma - Coma Lirico (Black Chrysalis Archives : 2022) 12. Internazionale - No Soldiers (Janushoved : 2019)

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    Optic Echo Presents 4/26/22

    Valance Drakes- A Patternless and Endless Soul a2 https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-patternless-and-endless-soul Carlos Casas- Mutia b1.3 https://carlos-casas.bandcamp.com/album/mutia Fennesz + Sakamoto- Cendre 10”s a2 https://fenneszreleases.bandcamp.com/album/cendre Drape- Forage / Presence b2 https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/forage-presence Cremation Lily- Dreams Drenched in Static a1 https://cremationlily.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-drenched-in-static Oddisee- Odd Tape a5 https://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tape The Orb- Little Fluffy Clouds 12” b2 Drum & Lace- Natura b2 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/natura Raum- Daughter b1 https://grouper.bandcamp.com/album/daughter Tim Hecker- The North Water OST b4 https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/the-north-water-original-score Awakened Souls- Night Songs a1https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/night-songs Howie Lee- Birdy Island b2 https://howielee.bandcamp.com/album/birdy-island TR Jordan- Dwell Time b4 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/dwell-time

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    OEP 3/29/22: Kuma guest mix

    Big thank you to Kuma for providing the guest mix! For more info on him, check the following links: http://kuma.bandcamp.com http://thekonspiracygroup.com 00:00 - Arushi Jain - My People Have Deep Roots 01:30 - The Sight Below - Dour (Marcus Guenter Remix) 06:00 - Higher Intelligence Agency - Speec3 (ConoidTone Reformed By Autechre) 10:15 - Sven Laux and Logic Moon - At The End Of The Day, It Felt Like A Goodbye 13:30 - Sophia Loizou - Genesis 92: The Awakening 16:15 - Simon McCorry - Migrations 19:00 - Sarah Neufeld - Tower 21:00 - Sarah Davachi - Hours In The Evening 24:00 - Rhucle - Dry Bubbles 30:30 - Penelope Trappes - Awkward Matriarch (Mother’s Blood Version) 31:45 - Marcus Fischer and the OO-Ray - Deluge 36:30 - Patricia Wolf- Distant Memory 39:30 - Mary Lattimore - Baltic Birch (Paul Corley Remix) 43:15 - Kuma - Vipers Are In The Grass 46:00 - Hollie Keniff - Four Sides Of The Forest 49:50 - The Slaves - 111 52:30 - Noveller - Red Room Remix 54:10 - IKSRE - Untitled 59:00 - Autechre - VietRmx21

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    OEP 3/15/22: Wife Signs guest mix

    Big thank you to Wife Signs for coming back for another OEP mix! For more information, including his latest album, "Beneath the Weight of Care", check the following links: https://wifesigns.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-weight-of-care https://twitter.com/wifesigns  Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - "Stureby House Piano" - 00:00 Shida Shahabi - "Abisme" - 04:34 Laurence Guy - "Mutual Disappointment is a Terrible Thing" - 08:29 Michael Nyman - "1–100" (Excerpt) - 11:23 Tim Hecker - "Ghost Writing, Part 1" (Excerpt) - 11:48 Wife Signs - "For the Ozark Hellbender" - 13:20 Warmth - "The Creek" - Wildlife Addendum - 16:36 Jon Hopkins - "Heron" - 21:08 More Eaze - "Leave" -  24:16 Wife Signs - "Mischief and Craft" - 31:32 Austin Rockman - "Blue Vow Mender" - 34:03 Teodorico Pedrini, XVIII-21 Musique des Lumiéres, Jean Christophe Frisch - "Premier divertissement chinois No. 1, Tsein foung young" - 35:42 Joseph Shabason - "Treat it Like a Wine Bar" - 38:08  Nuno Canavarro - "Cave" - 43:56

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    Optic Echo Presents 3/8/22

    Patrica Wolf- I’ll Look for You in Others b1 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/ill-look-for-you-in-others  Eevee- Seeds b3 https://eeveebeats.bandcamp.com/album/seeds  Julianna Barwick- Healing is a Miracle a1 https://juliannabarwick.bandcamp.com/album/healing-is-a-miracle  Gia Margaret- Mia Gargaret b1 https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com/album/mia-gargaret  More Eaze- Two Futures 7” b1 https://fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-futures  Delia Derbyshire- The Dreams b1 Non Dolet- V a2 https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/v  Cruel Diagonals- Disambiguation a4 https://crueldiagonals.bandcamp.com/album/disambiguation  Suzanne Ciani - @0 b4 https://coldcut.bandcamp.com/album/0  Sarah Davachi- Antiphonals a2 https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/antiphonals  Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift b1  https://holliekenniff.bandcamp.com/album/the-quiet-drift  Lucy Gooch- Rushing EP a3 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/rushing  Amby Downs- Liminal a3 https://ambydowns.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-2  Mary Lattimore- At the Dam b1 https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-dam  Claire Rousay- A Softer Focus a2 https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/a-softer-focus   

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    OEP 3/1/22: Part Timer guest mix

    Part Timer is back for a 2022 OEP guest mix (thank you John)! We highly recommend checking out his Bandcamp page: https://parttimer.bandcamp.com/ 00.00 Enrico Coniglio and Matteo Uggeri - j'essaie de reduire mes medicaments 02.40 Bluhm - the mirror of my soul 06.30 Gallowglas - the gloaming 09.08 Origamibiro feat. VDU - morel 13.03 Midori Hirano - patterns 17.55 Asa Chang and Junray - hana 24.08 Panoptique Electrical - the whisper in your head 24.50 Soley - blows up 29.51 Erik Enocksson - what drove her shivering into the cold, cold sea 33.44 Gilded - erosional 37.17 Alapastel - new world healing centre

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    OEP 2/15/22: City of Dawn guest mix

    Big thank you to City of Dawn for providing this week's guest mix. For more information (including some top notch collaborations w/ Zaké), check the following links: https://linktr.ee/cityofdawnmusic  https://cityofdawn.bandcamp.com  City Of Dawn- Inland 0:00 Housekeys- If you want to go to Sleep 4:39 Christina Giannone- Telepathy 12:10 Andrea Cortez- I am Listening 18:00 ATOP- An invisible Presence 23:40 Isaac Helsen - White Pine (With Christina Giannone) 31:44 Hakobune- Second-hand sunlight 36:23 Joshua W Bruner – Somehow Sleeping 44:00 Billow Observatory- Red Morning 46:23 Diane Arkenstone- Bathed in Light 51:30 City of Dawn- For my Parents 55:40

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    OEP 1/11/22: Reliqs guest mix

    Huge thank you to Reese for providing the first guest mix of the year. For more information on him check his website at: https://reesebowes.com Listen to a 4 turntable, surround sound set I shared with Reese back in 2016 here: https://www.mixcloud.com/opticecho/oep-41016-4-turntable-set-w-reliqs-at-six/ 1 Hildur Guðnadóttir 2 Laura Cannell/Rhodri Davies 3 Judith Tripp 4 Motion Sickness Of Time Travel 5 Sarah Davachi 6 Kali Malone 7 Klara Lewis 8 Sheila Chandra 9 Nicholas Chase/Robin Lorentz 10 Ruth Anderson 11 Sarah Davachi 12 Daphne Oram/Daz Quayle/Andrea Parker 13 Julia Holter 14 Eve Beglarian/Robin Lorentz 15 Johanna Beyer/Allen Strange/Stephen Ruppenthal/David Morse/Brenda Hutchinson/Donald Buchla/Charles A 16 Maria w Horn 17 Pauline Oliveros 18 Julianna Barwick 19 Éliane Radigue/Silvia T arozzi 20 Jocy de Oliveira 21 Kara-Lis Coverdale 22 Pauline Oliveros 23 Motion Sickness Of Time Travel 24 Field Works/Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith 25 Jasmine Guffond 26 Else Marie Pade 27 Kelly Moran

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    OEP Best Vinyl of 2021

    Huge thank you to Headphone Commute for supporting my best of mixes for 11 years now! Here's the track list: Clare Rousay- A Softer Focus b1  Dialect - Keep Going Under a1  Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers- A Cassowary Apart a2  A Winged Victory for the Sullen- Invisible Cities a6  Good Weather for an Airstrike- Kenopsia 10” b1  Félecia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- Un Hiver En Plein Été b3  ---__--___- The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid a5  Peter Broderick (Bing & Ruth remix)- The Wind that Shakes the Bramble a4  Lina Filipovich- Magnificat a2  Grouper- Shade a1  Suss- Promise b2  Zakè & Marine Eyes- Unfailing Love b1  Jake Muir- Mana a5  Bell Orchestre- House Music b1  Anthéne- Held b4  Lawrence English- Observation of Breath a2  Awakened Souls & From Overseas- Keep the Orange Sun b3  Jason Van Wyk- Threads b1  Space Afrika- Honest Labor a1  Nosdam + Rayon- From Nowhere to North b1  One Million Eyes- Brama b3  Abul Mogard- In Immobile Air b1  PDP III - Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves a1  Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift b1  Valance Drakes- A Patternless and Endless Soul a1  Drape- Poem to Night b1

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    OEP 9/21/21: Keep The Orange Sun guest mix

    Huge thank you to Keep the Orange Sun for providing the guest mix this week. The trio split things up with James Bernard taking the beginning, From Overseas mixing the middle, and Marine Eyes closing out the set.  New album out this Friday on Past Inside the Present: https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/keep-the-orange-sun From Overseas- California sound collage Squarepusher- Tommib Help Buss (0:09)  Bochum Welt- La Nuit (2:05) Jordi Savall- Prelude Pour Mr. Vauquelin (5:57) Murcof- Rostro (7:32) Radiohead- Treefingers (14:46)  Hammock-Always Before Your Eyes (18:22)  Slowdive- Rutti (21:54)  Cocteau Twins- Pearly Dewdrops’ Drops (31:47)  Keep The Orange Sun- Keep The Orange Sun (35:52)  Julianna Barwick- Forever (39:50) Jonas Munk- Minimum Resistance (44:51) poemme- symphony of meadow (49:45) From Overseas- California sound collage

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    Optic Echo Presents 8/17/21

    Claire Rousay + More Eaze- An Afternoon Whine a2.2 https://clairerousaymoreeaze.bandcamp.com Jason Van Wyk- Threads b3 https://n5md.bandcamp.com/album/threads Sarah Davachi + Ariel Kalma- Intemporel b2 https://blacksweat.bandcamp.com/album/intemporel Andrew Tuttle + Padang Food Tigers- A Cassowary Apart a2 https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/album/a-cassowary-apart Eevee- Seeds b6 https://eeveebeats.bandcamp.com/album/seeds Kreng- L’Autopsie Phénoménale De Dieu a3 https://kreng.bandcamp.com/album/lautopsie-ph-nom-nale-de-dieu City of Dawn- Where the World Quietly Sing Their Song b2 https://elgranerecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-world-quietly-sing-their-song On- Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not a1 AM Boy- s/t a3 https://attacknine.bandcamp.com/album/am-boy Clickits- s/t a2  Optic Echo Presents Tuesday evenings 6-8pm PST 91.1 / 107.1 FM PDX www.xray.fm

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    Optic Echo Presents 7/13/21

    Christina Vantzou- Six Cellos for Sol Lewitt a1.2 http://sonicpieces.com/release/six-cellos-for-sol-lewitt/  Murcof- The Alias Sessions a3 https://murcofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-alias-sessions  Max Richter- Voices 2 a1 https://www.maxrichtermusic.com/2021/03/29/voices-2-released-9-april-2021/  Dr. Atmo & Mick Chillage- Ruhleben c1 https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/ruhleben  Zakè and Marine Eyes- Unfailing Love b2 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/unfailing-love  Space Afrika- Untitled (To Describe You) 10” b3 https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-to-describe-you-ost  Marcus Fischer- Monocoastal a3 https://marcus-fischer.bandcamp.com/album/monocoastal-10th-anniversary-edition  Knxwledge- Kauliflower a2.1 https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/kauliflowr  Land Trance- First Séance a5 https://landtrance.bandcamp.com/album/first-s-ance  Florian TM Zeisig- Music for Parents b2 https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-parents  Bre’r- Bathing for the Betterment of Cold Drink b4 Eluvium- Virga II b1 https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/album/virga-ii 

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    OEP 5/25/21: Fragile X guest mix

    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 : Volume 2) / 03:12  03. Natalie Beridze - Waves Future ( DE - Sounds from Georgia) / 06:22  04. Cyme - Biyangdo (Jeju VA) / 09:23  05. Iuna Niva - To Grow The Hands, To Bend The Spine (Six Ways To Bend The Yoke Of God) / 15:42  06. Jorengthericecake - Media Of Testimony (Seasons 2020 S/S) / 19:44  07. Obay Alsharani - Nattåg (Sandbox) / 25:04  08. Artefakt - The Lost Centre (Monsoon) / 28:08  09. Modeo - Nobody Sleeps (3 Years of Oslated VA) / 31:21  10. Fragile X - Reverie (Between Worlds) / 34:27  11. Minimal Drone GRL - Cross Country 365 Days (Ancestral Origins) / 39:56  12. Leit Motif - A Lovers Reincarnation (Till We Have Faces) / 52:00  13. Gallery Six - A Wonderfully Ordinary Life (Blue In The Midsummer) / 57:23  14. Fabio Orsi - Just For A Thrill 1 (Just For A Thrill) / 60:45 

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    Optic Echo Presents 5/18/21

    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/album/syn Lali Puna- Our Inventions a3 https://lalipuna.bandcamp.com/album/our-inventions Bohren & der Club of Gore- Black Earth d1 https://bohrenundderclubofgore.bandcamp.com/album/black-earth Zakè & City of Dawn- Frizzell & Duque: A Sorrow Unrequited a1 https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/frizzell-duque-a-sorrow-unrequited Optic Echo Presents Tuesday evenings 6-8pm PST 107.1 / 91.1 FM KXRY Portland Streaming www.xray.fm

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    OEP 5/4/21: thiefteam (Form The Head) guest mix

    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 meroitic - garden - vital body  7:21 Naarky (micrometerman mono) - quickening-gathering (light shower mix) - stop the world and delay it while it catches back up  12:40 Patricia Wolf - Pas De Deux - Sotto Le Stelle  15:40 Felisha Ledesma - 7-00 AM (excerpt) - Sweet Hour  17:46 Production Unit Xero - Stirring - Music For Astral Travel Vol 1- Shadows and Reflections (HTX054)  23:15 Joel Shanahan - Floating Figure Sleeps Alone - Frozen Clock Hovering  27:45 Shanna Sordahl - When Blood Turns To Bone (excerpt) - When Blood Turns To Bone 31:01 dweomer - The Tramman Elder - Crann Ogham  34:30 Moss Wand - Sun Worship (excerpt) - Ritual Vibrations  37:45 Marcus Fischer + Ted Laderas - February 29th (excerpt) - February 29th  41:30 user 18081971 - qu 1 - qu 1  44:25 Hugo R.A. Paris - Heliophagis - Threaded Habitat  47:55 St.Petersburg Sound Systems - Oblachnost - PTM 003 - Oblachnost EP  50:25 Torrey Pines - Sunshine Through the Rain - Overlook  56:30 Tomu DJ - Wild Woods - Ambient 2  64:40 Elrond - Segment Three (excerpt) - Spark  Optic Echo Presents  Tuesday evenings 6-8pm PST  107.1 / 91.1 FM KXRY Portland  Streaming www.xray.fm  

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    Optic Echo Presents 4/27/21

    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://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/v  Black Swan- Repetition Hymns  b4 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/repetition-hymns  Bugseed- Impression  b1 https://cheebacheebarecords.bandcamp.com/album/impression  Fila Brazillia- Powerclown  c4 https://filabraz.bandcamp.com/album/power-clown  Pepo Galán- Human Values Disappear  a2 https://elmuellerecords.bandcamp.com/album/human-values-disappear  Zakè (Hotel Neon remix)- Geneva  a1 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/geneva  Black to Comm- Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens  a1.2 https://blacktocomm.bandcamp.com/album/oocyte-oil-stolen-androgens  M Peters & C Leek- Thesis 19  b2 https://thesisproject.bandcamp.com/album/thesis-19-mark-peters-clem-leek  Dag Rosenqvist- Vråen Centrum  a1 https://laaps.bandcamp.com/album/vr-en-centrum 

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    Optic Echo Presents 4/20/21

    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/t a3 Emeralds- Does it Look like I’m Here  a1 https://emeralds.bandcamp.com/album/does-it-look-like-im-here Lyra Pramuk- Fountain  a1 https://lyrapramuk.bandcamp.com/album/fountain Xela- The Dead Sea a4 Daedelus- Exquisite Corpse  a1 https://daedelusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/exquisite-corpse Quiet Places- vol 1  b1 https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1 Inventions- Continuous Portrait  a4 https://inventions.bandcamp.com/album/continuous-portrait Orb- Adventures Beyond a1 Boards of Canada- Geogaddi d4

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    OEP 4/13/21: Chelidon Frame guest mix

    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 - Gianluca Favaron | Anacleto Vitolo - Carbosilicon Machines (from "Overgrowth") 04 - 17:57 - meanwhile.in.texas - Beautiful Decay (from "Heimat") 05 - 21:53 - Alessandro Barbanera - Still locked In The Dream (from "Selected Ambient Works From Italy", COMP) 06 - 26:12 - Andreij Rublev - Out of Time (from "endings & beginnings") 07 - 30:09 - Luigi Turra - Poetry (from "0/1" COMP) 08 - 36:09 - Joel Gilardini - Sputnik (from "The Age Of Space") 09 - 40:59 - Demetrio Cecchitelli - Meta Language (from "Relief") 10 - 45:50 - Chelidon Frame - Commutazione (from "YUME III", COMP) 11 - 52:12 - Edoardo Cammisa - Towards a Flux (from "Flux")

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    OEP 4/6/21: Christoph Berg guest mix

    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 -  Theory in Malaya (B2)  Illtet -  Gain (B4)  Solo Andata -  Ritual (B)  Don Cherry / Jon Appleton -  Don Jon 7” (A)  Moor Mother -  Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes (B5)  Lucy Railton -  Paradise 94 (A5)  Svarte Greiner -  Knive (B2)  Alvin Curran -  Canti Illuminati (A)  Maki Asakawa 浅川マキ-  One (B)  Colin Stetson -  New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (B3)  Áine O’Dwyer -  Gallarais (B3)  Murcof / Philippe Petit -  First Chapter (B1)  Daniela Casa -  Arte Moderna (A4)  Kazue Sawai 沢井⼀一恵- 現代邦楽の世界 (A1)  Ryuichi Sakamoto (S U R V I V E Version)- Async - Remodels (C3)  Optic Echo Presents Tuesday evenings, 6-8pm PST 91.1 / 107.1 FM PDX www.xray.fm

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    Optic Echo Presents 3/30/21

    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 Richard Skelton- These Charms May Be Sung Over a Wound a3 https://phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/album/these-charms-may-be-sung-over-a-wound Dialect - Under ~  Between a5 https://dialect-trax.bandcamp.com/album/under-between Dakim- Voices b5 https://ddustdirect.bandcamp.com/album/voices Eluvium- Life Through Bombardment v1 a1 https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/album/lambent-material Pan American - Cloud Room, Glass Room a1 https://panamerican.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-room-glass-room 36 & Awakened Souls- Other Side of Darkness b3 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/the-other-side-of-darkness Louis Sterling- Adisceda a2 https://louissterling.bandcamp.com/album/adisceda Claire Rousay- A Softer Focus b3 https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/a-softer-focus

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    OEP 3/32/21: worriedaboutsatan guest mix

    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 - Sumtime [Waiting For You] 6. Marta Mist - Marta's Lament [Years: Singles Collected 2010-2012] 7. Broadcast - Tears In The Typing Pool [Tender Buttons] 8. Troye Sivan - Could Cry Just Thinkin About You [In A Dream] 9. worriedaboutsatan - Speak To Me [Circles I] 10. Kode 9 & The Spaceape - Sine [Memories Of The Future] 11. Keith Hudson Meets King Tubby - Satia [Rough Guide To Dub] 12. me walking around Leeds in 2010 13. Falconetti - Magna Via [A History Of Skyscrapers] 14. Amusement Parks On Fire - At Last The Night [Out Of The Angeles] 15. Cloud Boat - Dréan [Book Of Hours] 16. Caroline Polachek - The Gate [Pang] 17. Pye Corner Audio feat. Faten Kanaan - The Darkest Wave [The Darkest Wave] 18. Marie Davidson - Excès de Vitesse [Un Autre Voyage] 19. worriedaboutsatan - Für Immer [Providence] 20. me walking to a lift in an apartment block in Manchester, 2012

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    OEP 3/9/21: Part Timer guest mix

    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 Tape and Piano- Nothing Selfless 13.50 Grotta Veterano- Ennio’s Muse (compilation)- L’estate (For M) 17:00 Jacaszek- Glimmer- Goldengrove 20:24 Emanuele Errante- Yon- Myself & I 23:59 Phil Tomsett- The Sound of Someone Leaving- It’s Not an Escape, It’s a Release 27:44 Isnaj Dui- Unstable Equilibrium- Klangfarbenkreis 31:39 Olga Wojciechowska- ASIP 2020 Label Compilation- Labyrinth Made of Labyrinths 35:12 Cass.- Magical Magical- Murph’s Dream 37:59 Herion- Out & About- Lindos 41:02 Zake- Orchestral Studies Collectanea- Motion 43:08 Tokyo Bloodworm (remixer: Children of the Wave)- Palestine Remixes- Blind Daughters of Gaza (Blind Daughters of Melbourne Remix) 47:56 END Optic Echo Presents Tuesday evenings 6-8pm PST Streaming www.xray.fm 107.1 / 91.1 FM KXRY Portland

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    OEP 2/23/21: Wife Signs guest mix

    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 - "歩風" 05:50  4 Kibrom Birhane, Etsegenet Mekonnen - "Tizita" 09:49  5 Anenon - "Open" 15:09  6 Wife Signs - "In an Outworn Cage" 18:21  7 Justin Walter - "Red Cabin" 24:18  8 Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - "Homesickness, Pt. 1" 25:37  9 Djivan Gasparyan - "I Will Not Be Sad in This World" 9:24  10 [Artist unknown] - "Shipibo Song" 35:35  11 Metei - "Seto"37:07  12 Lilien Rosarian - "Moss Hugs All Walls" 38:36  13 Trevor Powers - "2166" 41:45  14 Marz - "The Rain Rains" 45:39  15 Celer - "Text Me When You Wake Up" 48:51  16 Eleanor Cully - "Lark in the Clear Air" 55:35

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    Optic Echo Presents 2/16/21

    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-go-on-sinning-so-that-grace-may-increase Mokira- Chill Out a2 https://kontra-musik.bandcamp.com/album/chill-out William S Burroughs- Break Through in Grey Room b4 Orla Wren- The Blind Deaf Stone d1 https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/the-blind-deaf-stone Black Swan- Repetition Hymns b3 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/repetition-hymns Black Taffy-  Opal Wand a3 https://blacktaffy.bandcamp.com/album/opal-wand Knxwledge- Anthology b5 https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/anthology Dedekind Cut- American Zen b2 https://dedekindcut.bandcamp.com/album/american-zen-ded003-ep-17-se DJ Food- Kaleidoscope b2.1 https://djfood.bandcamp.com/album/kaleidoscope Eduardo Briganty- Microgramas b5 https://elmuellerecords.bandcamp.com/album/microgramas Hammock- Longest Year a2 https://hammock.bandcamp.com/album/longest-year-2020 Zakè- Orchestral Studies Collecctanea a5 https://hammock.bandcamp.com/album/longest-year-2020

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    OEP 2/9/21: City of Dawn guest mix

    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 (16:49 - 26:08) City Of Dawn- Flowering Smile : Aubade ( 26:09 - 31:50) dottie- Lark : Collection (31:51 - 35:20) Heavy Stars- Heavy Stars : Portico (35:22 - 42:51) Akkad The Orphic Priest- The Four : The Four (42:52 - 54:16) zaké- Descent : Coppice Movements (54:17 - 56:28) Willamette- New York Heat : Echo Park (56:29 - 59:15)

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    OEP: best vinyl of 2020

    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 Long-Distance Space Travel a2  Valance Drakes- Freedom is it’s Own Kind of Slavery b1  OFFTHESKY & The Humble Bee- We Were the Hum of Dreams b3  Inventions- Continuous Portrait b4  Sarah Davachi- Cantus, Descant a3  WL (Patricia Wolf remix)- ADHD (flexidisc)  Night Sea- Still b1  Pepo Galan & Sita Ostheimer- Contact b3  Windy and Carl- Allegiance and Conviction b1  Gia Magaret- Mia Garget b1  Haunted Ghost- New Life Paeans a3  Claire Rousay- Both b1.2  R beny - The Dashboard Cast a Spectral Glow a1  Black Brunswicker- Thesis 18 b1.2  Secret Pyramid- Embers b2

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    OEP 12/1/20: Neglect guest mix

    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)  Graintable - Universal Ash (Ransom Note) Antenes - Take Me To The Birds (For A) (Silent Season)  Wa Wu We - Where Colors Are The Birds (Hypnus)  Stanislav Tolkachev - Farewell (Semantica) Coil - MU UR (segment) (Threshold House) Jake Muir - melting like the stars (Sferic) El Mahdy Jr. - Last Breath (Zam Zam) Laraaji - Meditation No. 2 (Editions EG) Neglect - Inlet Nova (Weathervane)  Daniel Menche - October Larynx Part Two (self release)

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    isolatedmix 104 - Optic Echo

    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 07. Eluvium- Life Through Bombardment vol2  f1.2 08. William S Burroughs- Break Through in Grey Room  b4 09. Wanderwelle- A State of Decrepitude  a3 10. Future Sound of London- Lifeforms  b3 11. Clickits- Moteer 001  b4 12. Orla Wren- Butterfly Wings Make  a4 13. Ceeys & Constant Presence- Thesis 17  a1 14. Hildur Gudnadóttir- Chernobyl  a1 15. Four Tet- Sixteen Oceans  a4 16. Tom Scott- Hilldrop  b1 17. Dakota Suite (Hauschka remix)- The Night Just Keeps Coming In  a4

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    OEP 11/17/20: Elias Foley guest mix

    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 Wanderer - Post Human Network [Echo Wanderer Refix] Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Diviner Photek - The Sea Fadi Tabbal - Ceremony by the Sea Maarja Nuut - Underneath There Is SciFiSol - Just A Game Telefon Tel Aviv - standing at the bottom of the ocean; Heather Perkins - Happiest Time Of His Life (Help Yourself) Via Dekum - Cloud Annex The Cinematic Orchestra - Wait For Now/Leave The World (featuring Tawiah) Elias Foley - Post Human (Moments)

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    OEP 11/3/20: Lost Tribe Sound guest mix

      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  Sebastian Mullaert with musicians of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich- Moonwaker  Honey Stretton- Bed  ’t Geruis- Tree Weeping (Lacrima) Lucrecia Dalt- Turmoil Warui Musuko- 日の出なし Bamboo Music- Trembling Air William Ryan Fritch- Threshing Floor Carlo Giustini- B1. Dallo Spiraglio, Esci Piano Claire Deak & Tony Dupé- Procession The Stranger- Providence of Fate Sailcloth- Small Birds by Two Tracks William Ryan Fritch- Movement III Optic Echo Presents  Tuesday evenings 6-8pm PST  107.1 / 91.1 FM KXRY Portland Streaming www.xray.fm

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    Downtempo #12 (2006)

    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 Toytronic b3 Moss- Pork 064 a2 Thievery Corporation- Barrio Alto 10" a1 Bonobo- Dial M for Monkey b2 Coldcut- Man in a Garage a1 The Orb- Live 93 b1 Corker/Conboy- Radiant Idiot a2 Bola- Soup c2 Thievery Corporation- Sounds from the … c2 Daedelus- Exquisite Corpse b7 DJ Shadow- Number Song EP a1 Dusted- When we were young a1 Tosca- j.a.c. a1 VA- Jip 2 a2 Nightmares on Wax- Carboot Soul a1 Efterklang- Tripper a2 Lali Puna- I thought I was … a5 Fog- Check Fraud b2

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    OEP 10/13/20: William Selman guest mix

    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 Electronic Drone - Earth Horns with Electronic Drone (Edition Omega 2009) crys cole - The Nonsuch - Beside Myself (Students of Decay 2020) Steve Roden - Stills for Guru Dutt - A Thousand Breathing Forms (Sonoris, 2020) Eva-Marie Houben - Erwartung 1 (second editions, 2019) Roland Kayn - Garten der Luste, Abschnitt I - Garten der Luste (Reiger Reeks, 2001) Alexandre Spence - Sleep in Nothingness - Waking, She Heard the Fluttering (Room40, 2019) Thomas Koner - Spitsbergen (Hour 8) - La Barca (Records DK, 2015) David Dunn - Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond - Angels and Insects (¿What Next?, 1992) Dick Raaijmakers - Canon 4: Super Sub-Trahere - The Complete Tape Music of Dick Raaijmakers (Basta, 2006) Ludger Brummer - Deconstructing the Double District - 9 Trajectories (Ina-GRM, 2018) Yann Novak - Scalar Field (orange, pink, orange) - Scalar Fields (Room40, 2019) Folke Rabe - What?? (Sec ond Version) - What?? (Dexters Cigar, 1997) Dean Roberts - Kompakt Arcade - All Cracked Medias (Mille Plateaux, 1998) Mika Vainio - In a Frosted Lake - Black Telephone of Matter (Touch, 2008) Kuriharu Akiyama - Music for Resting - Environmental Music for Dining Room of Atheletes' Village in Tokyo Olympics 1964 (Edition Omega Point, 2009) Michel Redolfi - Sunny Afternoon at Bird Rock - Sonic Waters #2 (Hat Hut, 1989) Christoph Hermann and Brunhild Ferrari - Stürmische Ruhe - Stürmische Ruhe (Not on label, 2020) Budhatiya Chattopadhyay - Well-Tempered City Book I - Well-Tempered City Book I (Touch, 2020) Jake Muir - Black Smokers - Acclimation (Dragon's Eye, 2018) Phil Julian - Interval 6 - Carrier Dynamic (fancyyyyy, 2020) Toshiba Tsunoda -Solid vibration from the concrete pavement of a pier where the fish market used to be held - Reflection-Revisiting (Erstwhile, 2019) Guy Hobsbawm - Blanquistes du Nil - Communes Qui Poussent Comme Des Champignons (Mysteries of the Deep, 2020) Kate Carr - I ran up and down the steps of the dam - Overheard in Doi Saket (3 leaves, 2014)

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    OEP 10/6/20: Whettman Chelmets guest mix

    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 - “Towards a Golden Light” - Shepherd’s Bridge - 01:51 3 - Jake Muir - “Green Eyes” - Lady’s Mantle - 03:36 4 - Acef Stripe - “The Stuffies are Not Sleeping” - Foxy - 05:17 5 - Andrew Tuttle - “Burwood Heights Convenience” - Alexandra - 06:22 6 - RA - “Overcoming Sadness” - The Meditations of Zera Yacob - 07:39 7 - Pulse Emitter - “Ripples” - Swirlings  - 09:29 8 - Siavash Amini and Saaad - “Calm in Resignation” - All Lanes of Lilac Evening - 11:39 9 - Assassin of Sound - “Artic (66° 30’N)” - Earth Suite - 14:31 10 - Binaural Space - “Good Night Spacemen” - Boyhood - 16:31 11 - Nhung Ngyuen - “Bittersweet” - An Ordinary Narrative - 18:34 12 - Cruel Diagonals - “Topography of an Affliction” - s/t - 22:12 13 - clair rousay - “buy my blessing” - “i’ll give you all of my love” - 24:00 14 - Chorchill - “Human Submarine” - Nachtfisch - 24:53 15 - Wife Signs - “Burning Off the Nuance” - Beneath the Weight of Care - 26:59 16 - Whettman Chelmets - “But I Need to” - I Don’t Want to Let Go, but I Need to Let Go - 29:24 17 - Amy Cutler - “riddles of the firmament” - Oro Tape (Fieldtrips of the Damned) - 32:58 18 - qualchan. - “glass.” - Micrographia - 35:08 19 - Lucy Liyou - “Who You Feed” - Welfare - 35:33 20 - Lowering - “Just a Fever” - Sleep in Perpetual Storm - 36:52 21 - Matt Jencik - “Night Gallery Pause” - Dream Character - 38:19 22 - Forest Robots - “It’s Quietest at the Edge of the Crestline” - Timberline and Mountain Crest - 41:36 23 - Ghost Signs - “We Haunt These Cities Like a Half Remembered Dream” - The Holy Ghost and other Lost Souls - 44:47 24 - Barraco Barner - “20200420 Pops” - 20200419-20200422 - 46:47 25 - Barraco Barner - “20200421 There’s a Payoff I Promise” - 20200419-20200422 - 48:45

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    Optic Echo Presents 9/29/19

    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-descant Félicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- Limpid as the Solitudes b1 https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/limpid-as-the-solitudes Jacaszek & Kwartludium Catalogue Des Arbres b1 https://jacaszekreleases.bandcamp.com/album/catalogue-des-arbres Quiet Places- Volume 1 a1 https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1 Knxwledge- Hud Dreems b2.3 https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/hud-dreems Aphex Twin- Drukqs a2 R Beny- Eistla a5 https://rbeny.bandcamp.com/album/eistla Sustainer- Anticuario a1 https://rottenmaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/anticuario

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    OEP 9/22/20: Isaac Helsen guest mix

    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) [7:16] Cyberian — Sanctuary of Pain [14:14] Christina Giannone — Renunciation [21:20] KMRU — Why Are You Here [30:08] Forest Management — Blue Leaves [34:04] Siavash Amini — Moonless Garden [42:16] NUM — Isolated Room [48:12] Jayve Montgomery — Here Is Where We Now [52:30] Clarice Jensen — Day Tonight [59:22] Cat Tyson Hughes — A Lovely Walk [1:02:14] Saltbreaker — Extraction 1 [1:04:04] NUM — Blue

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    Optic Echo Presents 9/15/20

    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 Peter Space- s/t  a2  Claire Rousay- Both  a1 https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/both  Imaginary Softwoods- Annual Flowers in Color  a2 https://imaginarysoftwoods.bandcamp.com/album/annual-flowers-in-color-2020-remaster  Rival Consoles- Articulation  a1 https://rivalconsoles.bandcamp.com/album/articulation  KMRU- Opaquer b2 https://kmru.bandcamp.com/album/peel  Solvent- Subject to Shift  b1 https://solvent.bandcamp.com/album/subject-to-shift  Olga Wojciechowska- Maps and Mazes b5 https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/maps-and-mazes  Tape Loop Orchestra- Returning One b1.2 

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    OEP 9/8/10:Stijn Hüwles guest mix

    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 Stars: Skipandwow 8. Soccer Committee: Acapela 9. Minamo & Moskitoo: Atypical Dialogue 10. Adriaan De Roover: Voor Damiaan 11. Kali Malone: Sacrificial Code 12. Bird Traps: Vadhana 13. Mads Emil Nielsen: Leuchtkäfer 14. Ishmael Cormack: Slow Weaver 15. Silent Vigils: Wake

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    OEP 8/25/20: Zakè guest mix

    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-movements EU customers: https://www.juno.co.uk/labels/Past+Inside+The+Present+Us/ [00:00:00.000] Pallette 'It's The Little Things, Pt.I' [00:11:24.098] Ai Yamamoto 'Love You Tender' [00:22:10.827] Pepo Galán & Sita Ostheimer 'You Are Like A Ghost Lover' [00:25:49.820] AUSKLANG 'Ruhe' [00:35:43.083] Carlos Ferreira 'Still Breathing' [00:39:48.011] Jörgen Kjellgren 'Warm Luminous' [00:51:35.482] Christina Giannone 'Illusions' [00:58:49.272] (end)

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    OEP 8/4/20: Gregory Euclide guest mix

    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 Memories- Insa Donja Kai  Fourier- Marcus Fischer + The OO-Ray  Lumberton- Rafael Anton Irisarri  Sight Unseen- Dustin O’Halloran & Benoît Pioulard  Lac des Arcs- Julia Kent  Angel of Loll- Loscil  Loss- Death Blues  Come Silence- Dag Rosenqvist  Betty- Simon Scott  Hollow- Seaworthy + Taylor Deupree  I’m Never Not Thinking About You- Olga Wojciechowska  For Misty- Heather Woods Broderick  Lisbon, OH- Bon Iver  Up to Pizmo- Labradford  First- yMusic  Optic Echo Presents  Tuesday nights 6-8pm PST  107.1 / 91.1 FM KXRY Portland  Streaming www.xray.fm 

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Love of ambient, experimental, & modern classical with downtempo roots. We highlight current music in these genres, with old favorites snuck in. OEP sets are vinyl, guest mixes contain all formats.Listen live Tuesday evenings 6-8pm on XRAY.FM, 91.1 / 107.1 FM KXRY Portland, streaming www.xray.fm (previously Portland Radio Authority 06-13).These mixes are a digest version of our 2-hour radio show, recorded from home on 3 turntables, usually the day after our FM broadcast.Podcast: www.opticechopresents.com (also apple / google podcast)Thank you for listening!profile pic by: Marc Fischerwww.twitter.com/opticecho

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