Etheric Currents

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 extra tracks from Ether, Team Metlay, and Rinse, Repeat.

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 international phonetic alphabet, recited by synthesized voices: excellent raw material for electronic musicians. This episode features tracks from two releases from the PublicSpaces Lab netlabel: Number Stations [PS015] Number Stations Part II [PS025] There’s also a short Equinoctal performed live in this episode!

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, deceptively simple sequencer-driven melodies, and the other two contrast nicely with a bit more attitude and interesting explorations of timbre.

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.

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.

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, especially on the 2600. We decided to feature Darwin’s music to remember him, so this episode features two full albums and a few tracks from a third: Infernal Data Machine 2600.repast Fresco His podcast, Art + Music + Technology, is still up and a great resource for electronic musicians.

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 improvised soundtrack, plus a live Equinoctal, Stranger Around These Parts.

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 Lucette Bourdin’s Crossing the Equinox to round out the episode.

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 own story.” Obscure Matrix [Cyberwave Edition], a collaboration between Humanfobia, a “dark electronic, experimental, ghost computer music project from Rancagua, Chile”, and α Ori, a “glitch, noise, experimental project created by Julien A. Lacroix from France”. It’s a fantastic ambient techno album. Ambient Box, by Rog (Roger Guerrero), which bills itself as ambient, but is a lot more, with great beats and a lot of complexity. “The concept for this material was conceived on the idea of mantras and prayers. Every sound was recorded through my daily experience in the environment I live, specially in these circumstances worldwide bringing a different layers of what I usually go for dance beats. I wanted to preserve a lot of techno elements in each track without losing what I wanted to bring to the table – meditation in a noisy city where sound pollution is real. I questioned myself how I can organize all these sounds and make them intimate and beautiful.”

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 comes through with another exceptional album!

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, grum-pé, those Thom Brennan tracks we didn’t play from last week, and a lot more.

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“.

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!

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 to the current day: RadioSpiral, Discord, and Second Life. We’ll hear music from Team Metlay, CASSIEL, Thom Brennan, Loren Nerrell, Tantroniq, Cousin Silas, Mercaptan, Ozone Player, our own Gypsy Witch and ʞu¡0ɹʞS, and many more.

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 albums.

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 a tree is not subjective Various Artists, Our Lives in the Bush of Disquiet Jaymuhsin, Designing the Inevitable V, 23.56.04 Izmar, Stuff Frank Molder, Tronik Mossa, The Town Hall

This episode centers around π , circles, and irrationality — whether loving things 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 server — Gypsy Witch had to literally kill the connection before the show could be restarted – so the sections that were interrupted, restarted, or skipped were dropped from this recording. Nothing like a little weirdness to go with an irrational number!

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, Eventide, which was recorded in the early 00’s and lost in Thom’s archives. He found it while cleaning up earlier this year, and has released it for us, almost 20 years later; it’s still a fresh and lovely recording. We round out our slightly-short second hour with a track from Thought Guild’s Archiphonic release, to match the old but new tracks from Thom.

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 goes on.

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 Amber tells it’s stories through an intricate mesh of melodies and texture. Described as downtempo, ambient, and dreamy, Encased in Amber puts forth the concept that each time a piece of music is written it crystallizes what was felt and processed in that moment of time, like a fossil caught in amber. What I can say is that it’s a great premiere album, and the artist assures me that there’ll be another release later this year. It’s only a half-hour long, so we’ve got some unapologetic techno from Virtually J’s Autocracy Mage and some cool-down tracks from V’s 23.56.04 to fill out the rest of the podcast. As always, I’ve linked to the Bandcamp pages for these albums; they’re pay-what-you-like, so support the artists to whatever extent you can. Enjoy!

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 post-rock sensibility”. Since this gave us only one hour of music, I’ve paired it with an album by Chromadrift, The Story So Far, to fill us out to the second hour. Lots of beats, and a nice wind-down in the second half. Enjoy! Podcast listeners, we’d love to have you join us, either in Orlov in Second Life, or on our Discord server at radiospiral.chat. Etheric Currents broadcasts Mondays, 6-8 Pacfic time, on radiospiral.net.

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 releases on Kavhi, Zenopolæ, Mahorka, Monotonic, among many. Racine has “semi-retired” from music making, concentrating on photography at the moment, but has produced a great catalog of releases; we’ll be listening to a selection from a number of different albums on this episode. Kick back and let the beats wash over you. As always, support the artists by picking up albums from Bandcamp if you can, or from archive.org if you can’t — and pass it on! Details – Circles – Halcyon Days – Glass – Electronic Tonalities – Electro Cool – Is Anybody There? – The Journeyman Project – The Singles – The Beginning – The Digital Lagoon – Winter – The Abyss – Fulcrum

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!) “…explores abandoned places and their broken dreams. The fractured beauty of abandoned places can tell wonderful narratives.” The artist is Timeofhex (Cissi Tang), and this is (so far) her only available release. Second up is Kevin Bryce’s Disremembrance, a more traditional electronica album covering a wide range of styles, from Boards-of-Canada-like dreaminess to Berlin School sequencer pulse. It’s a concept album, tracing the life of a young boy, from walking at night in a field, to grown up to be an astronaut, and launching into space. Last is Tracy Chow’s Music for Monorails, an intriguing shoegaze/electronica mix; its ambient roots are a nod to Eno’s Music for Aitports. This episode is a bit shorter, but the three albums fit together so well that I didn’t feel that shoving in another unrelated fifteen minutes would really make things better. Enjoy!

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 beat-oriented tracks, but there’s a little abstract electronica mixed in. Pridefool – Dystopian Ideall – Faex Optim Avatar – Astrobotanist South West – Andrew Gatenby Unklar – Notstandkomitee Endorphin – O.donm Doppler Shift – Stellaterra Mofo (Full Monty Mix) – Bassoniq Mowk – 3 Mint High Up in the Sky – Kunds M.u.d – Tony and Eileen’s Wedding Crying Dream – The Oracle Model

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 life that shifted gradually from season to season. I was seeking a similar underlying cadence or pulse in these pieces that would evolve over time.” He has also been publishing (on Facebook) a series of photos taken during his walks; if you’re on Facebook, I recommend checking them out. We’ll hear a selection of tracks from this album as well as a number of others from his discography. If you’re not familiar with his style, Fang combines Frippertronics, Asian instruments, gamelan, and heavy studio processing to build lovely headfuls of sonic sculpture. His titles reflect his interests in mathematics and his love of the natural world. Tonight’s show will have fewer beats than usual, but plenty of rhythms. It’s a more lean-back-and-close-your-eyes episode this time – take a deep breath, let it out, and let’s listen.

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 Dancers, Damare, Nienvox & 813, and Duis. Nameless Dancers features afro-beat percussion, tasty keyboards, a full-up brass section, and an outstanding drummer and bassist. Damare tilts more toward electronica, with excellent keyboard work, both electric and acoustic, and heavily manipulated samples. Nienvox and B13 conbines jazz and trip-hop into a dance-oriented mix, and, last, Duis mixes heavier electronics, jazz, and funk into a fascinating and unpredictable mix. Due to unforseen circumstances, I had to push my break to a little later in the show, so I played a couple of unannounced tracks from Lavoura, a great band from Brazil, with their updated take on bossa nova and Latin jazz. A minor emergency caused me to cut the second set a bit short, but the podcast episode will have the tracks we missed live: more Lavoura, a few fusion tracks from Martin Lowack’s SlowDrive, and then a last couple tracks from Lavoura and Nameless Dancers to round us out the the full two hours. Nameless Dancers: Morning Touches Damare: Hologram Summer Nienvox & 813: From the Bottom of Nowhere Duis: Duis Lavoura Ayizan Deep Safe/Alyeda Mirã Nu Steps Photosynthesis Martin Lowack: SlowDrive

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 monicker under which he has released several CC-licensed albums, which allows us to play them here. We’ll hear from the albums Skymotion, Clouds Under the Table, The Ambient Sides, Flying and the Silence, and Realight. All are available via Bandcamp, and can all be picked up for less than $5 US — a real bargain. Nheap combines electronica and sophisticated jazz into a delicious package, with plenty of beats and a large helping of cool. I was stoked to have found these releases, and I hope you’ll find them as much fun as I.

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 a fair number of musicians (and a synth expert in the form of Mr. Spiral himself), we played a bit of Guess the Synth in chat and in Second Life, which you’ll hear a bit of in the voiceovers. Gimmick aside, these are great tracks by excellent performers, and I think you’ll really enjoy this episode.

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 many more artists for you this week: Geolm’s Waves of Tomorrow, on Wavelike Fodor Balazs’s Astronaut Farmer, on Dusted Wax Point’s Human Music II, on Digital Diamonds Nøi2er’s Beyønd Reality (Vacuum) (LP), on Dusted Wax Liminal Space – The Remixes, on Kahvi Merlune’s Yellowstoned, on Dusted Wax Shortforms, on Kahvi Cosmic Lullabies, on Musictrade Niteffect’s Nip in the Bud (self-released) Hurley/Vnuk/Good, The Moss Garden Sessions (self-released) Abyssal Plains’s Chimera, on Kahvi Violent Public Disorderaz’s Sadness in Square, on Dusted Wax Geolm’s intriguing bits of life, on Wavelike split phase’s compendium, on Noisy Vagabond Many hours of great music on those releases — enjoy!

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. Miyabi has its intense moments, but they evolve naturally as the music flows quietly and calmly, moving inevitably forward like time itself. Miyabi is available from Juta’s website, and I highly recommend picking up your own copy (support our artists!). The second half of the show features two EPs from the Dusted Wax netlabel, Jazz One’s 1995, and Ego Dome’s Neurocentric. True to the artist’s name, 1995 spins jazzy loops and hip-hop rhythms together to build laid-back beats — imagine Monk getting recruited for a mix by Public Enemy. Neurocentric uses a different timbral and rhythmic language, energizing and relaxing, like listening to an android singing its own version of jazz standards in a smoky club. Lounge Track Me and My Shadow No More Clouds Scatterbrain Intergalactic Sesh Zephyr Shadow of the City Trust Yourself Summer Night’s Dream Valium Momentary Bliss It’s an episode to wind down with, and I hope you enjoy it as much as our listeners did.

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: Délusions circulaires – Muhr Daddys Sailboat Down The River – Blisaed Just a thing from yesterday – Mikael Fyrek A possible – Vim citrate de bétaïne – kaneel Dauphin’s Flag – Talve Halftone Patterns – The Open Directory Project Innere Leer – Beatslaughter Sleever – Seathasky the knak – imtech After pi trak – Lackluster shimmer – transient Libertae – Mikael Fyrek Rebirth – MigloJE telluric – epoq Hotel Walls – Mattia Marchi Our Happy Life – Kyle Dawkins Warm Elixer (feat. Travis Nobles) – Shiftless Noon At House Tuesday – Pocka Farine five roses – Ilkae Saraa – Julien Neto Glass – Twerk B Fulcra Mulch – Fah Seduction theme from Milano Brothers IV 1998 – Makunouchi Bento

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 very specific sound: “naive, idm electronics mixed with new age and emotional hip-hop”, which fits very well with RadioSpiral’s combination of ambience, beats, interest, and beauty. The episode features a sampling of tracks from a number of releases: “Sanctity”, from Benefit of the Boomerang’s Legend of the Final Thread “Lilt” from the album of the same name by Shiftless “And Now My Love IS When We Say” from …Goodbye by Brainwash “Despite All Resolutions”, “van der Rohe”, and “Off the Eastern Shore”, from Cheju’s Despite All Resolutions “Yellow Leaf Fell from the Tree” and “The Window’s Open and My Hands Are Cold” from Echion “Amoureux” from Amoureux, by Mistrial “myopic” from myopic, by Melissa Welch (an outstanding long-form piece that flies through many genres) “The Mailbox” and “Space Dominates” from Shiftless (Ryan McKenney)’s Cloudburst “blessed”, “the day we met”, and “presets” from Xerxes’s Presets, and “Scar Tissue” from his Scar Tissue Line Noise’s Soul Clouds EP, with “Lexei londer”, “Pegasus”, and “Venutian [sic] girl passage” And finally, from the Featherfoil compilation, “Dubchant” by Plosive and “Philosophy of Time Travel” by Alex Young All of these release are available on archive.org. Enjoy this upbeat and unpredictable set of tracks from Camomille!

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 at least starts with a piano interlude, whether acoustic or electric. Some tracks are piano alone, and others are piano as part of a larger ensemble. The tracks from Appro, Kai Engel, Kevin Bryce, Mischa Dioxin, and Ketsa are all from the Free Music Archive, and are only a selection of the tracks available from those artists. Tracks from CASSIEL are available from his CUBE series, and Joe McMahon’s 3AM release is available on both Bandcamp and the Internet Archive. Metlay!’s track is on The Hundredth Mantra, available from the Internet Archive. The other artists – Joe Frawley, Robert Rich, EugeneKha, the Different Skies Ensemble, and Team Metlay – are available on commercial releases. In addition, this episode premieres a new track from Equinox Deschanel, An Echo of the Ancient Shores. We hope you’ll enjoy this not piano-based, but perhaps piano-vectored episode.

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 and abstract electronica sounds and feels into jazz and rock. We’ll start off the the artist Springtide, from Tokyo, Japan, and segue into tracks from releases on the La Bél netlabel, listening to a selection of tracks from several artists there – the Italian group Another Brick, with trumpet, bass, and Ableton Live/Push; ykymr, again from Tokyo; Safir Nou, from Spain, with their combo of cinematic soundtracks, post-rock, and Mediterranean jazz; and Cuarto, with a fascinating take on Spanish guitar combined with abstract electronics. The second hour features two albums from Menion, a group from Italy who describe their music as “visionary electronic post rock mixed with dark ambient ingredients”. They combine acoustic guitar and a wide range of electronics, from drum machines to percussive Stockhausenesque timbres, with subtle processing tying it all together into flowing textures with surprising harmonic twists; lyrical passages with bleeps and squarks fitting in beautifully; heavy metal shattering under its own weight: adventurous music with something unexpected around every corner. The music is all available from the Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/), but we strongly suggest you buy the music direct from the artists at their Bandcamp pages where possible!

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 ambience, dark and light, to absolute mind-ripping noise. We’ll stay on the melodic end this evening, with some side trips to abstraction, beats, and the less-noisy end of their spectrum with a sampling of tracks from their more than 80 releases. It’s a a wild trip from gentle melodies through wacky fractured beats and back out again; see you on the other side. Again, all of these are available via the Netlabel Archive and are hosted at the Internet Archive, archive.org. If you’re looking for a deserving charity, the Internet Archive is a non-profit supported by contributions, and if you download music from them — or host it there — consider sending them a few bucks as a thank you. Neither RadioSpiral nor I are associated with the Archive other than via our gratitude that they exist; they’re just good folks who could use your support.

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 full tonight, with a few tracks from Different Skies and Chromadrift to fill the time out to two hours. After releasing these works under a Creative Commons license, they released a few more albums on the Stereo Poems and Digital Kunstrassen labels, eventually choosing to start their own label, Klangwald Recordings, continuing to release their own music as part of that label up to 2013; the label is still releasing recordings – one was released in 2021 – but there’s been no new music from them since 2013, which is unfortunate. A few tracks are up on Soundcloud, but, alas, are not CC licensed, so we can’t play them. We can, however, play these, and they’re really great. I hope you’ll enjoy an upbeat evening of what Klangwald calls Couchmusik.

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 text files. Demoscene music was often distributed on floppy disk through physical mail. Five Musicians tends toward uptempo pieces with quite a bit of swing. We’ll start off with several tracks by the artist Necros, including a very unusual live performance with an actual band and a collaboration between Necros and Basehead. We’ll then hear Jeroen Tel’s aptly-named “Chaos Control”, and then a longer, contemplative piece by Basehead alone, “The Zen Garden”. We round out our sampling with pieces by the remaining two of the Five Musicians, Stalker and ceniq. We’ll then switch to the Milk netlabel to fill out the first hour. Milk was a more eclectic label; it did cover the demoscene a bit as well, but branched out into other forms and more experimental, but still rhythmic and upbeat music. First we’ll hear “microwaves” from walkkah, and then “la noche verde” to round out the first hour. In the second, we’ll hear Milk’s willingness to try anything once, twice if it was fun, as we shift into other styles. We start with JJe’s ambient “children of the light”, then Lime’s jazzy “Bulentoi”, K.Ylikulju’s semi-classical “at[1]” and “at[2]”, amon’s minimalist/field recording “sequencer by the sea”, and tiger’s electronic tribute to Apollo 11, “aw 1”. The Kiova Project then gives us a cinematic “amor manifesto”, and then ressu’s “ameepa” straddles multiple styles – pure electronica, drum and bass, and flowing melody. S.Louhela’s “vetac (phylatys)” then crosses abstraction and 60’s lounge music in a fascinating combination. Last, we hear “fingers” from Spark, another hard-to-describe, bouncy yet mournful, crossing of genres, and daze’s wild electro-funk “luminette”. There’s so much good music here it simply wasn’t possible to fit all the great stuff on these labels into a two-hour show. Particularly recommended is tiger’s “Sirius” album on Milk. Check out the catalogs for both these labels on the Netlabel Archive: Five Musicians and Milk, and prepare to be surprised and pleased at both of these great collections of music!

Tonight’s episode 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 (released when he was sixteen and already a damn fine musician) and ::micromania:: by vitax are excellent uptempo electronica. Then we switch over to Dewtone, in existence from only 2004 to 2005, but which put out a lot of nice tracks. We’ll hear from (val)liam’s “early reflections”; transient’s “rotation” single and a track of theirs from the Ogredung “whole symesta” release; and shift’s excellent field-recrding-driven “amphibian (stereo mix)”, from the “[dt002]” compilation. The second hour features tracks from the One netlabel, which was around from 2004 to 2007. We’ll hear recue’s excellent “Between Stations”; a track from plosive’s “one remixes” and his “pavlovian fear” from “101”; two great tracks from the “deepmove mode” release; kwook!’s “Immiscible”; Rivel’s “Sum”; a track from Karl-Johan Nilsson’s “The Seams”; and finally two tracks from plosive’s own “neutral” release. The full archive of each of these netlabel’s releases are available via the wonderful Netlabel Archive: Backtrack, Dewtone, and One, all three. There is much, much more music at the end of those links. As always with netlabels, your mileage (and enjoyment) may vary, but a little virtual crate-digging may find you even more tracks that you’ll love.

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 ambient than not, and more abstract than beaty. Note to podcast listeners: we cut short a track, Eric Peter Schwartz’s “Hex Circle”, because it was distorting unpleasantly. Rather than subject everyone to the distortion and the chopped-off song, we’ve omitted it entirely.

The premiere soft-open episode of Etheric Currents! Equinox plays tracks from artists who, for one reason or another, only have a single track in the RadioSpiral library.