Today we have a guest mix from Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, an American composer from the Pacific Northwest now based in Los Angeles. Her new album, Thoughts on the Future, comes out this Friday and about which she wrote, “This composition is shaped by loss, written with the quiet intention of holding someone through the unholdable.” We premiere that album here, and the rest of the mix is Smith’s hand-picked tracks that influenced it. The influential artists include many pianists, including Nils Frahm, Dustin O’Halloran, Ólafur Arnalds, Hania Rani, and Chilly Gonzales. Several Philip Glass pieces appear, performed twice by Bruce Brubaker. There’s a chamber rendition of Aphex Twin’s “Avril 14th” by Daniel Hope et al. Towards the end, there’s an electronic/neoclassical piece by DjRUM, as well as a gorgeous minimalist string composition by Anne Müller. This mix is available to everyone. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - I Miss The Way You Swim

0:09:27 - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Thoughts on the Future

0:16:17 - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Dying Is a Normal Part of Life

0:21:29 - Nils Frahm - Them

0:25:12 - Max Richter & Grace Davidson - Path 3 (7676) Pt. 1

0:26:32 - Dustin O’Halloran - An Ending, a Beginning

0:28:38 - Kara-Lis Coverdale - Touch Me & Die

0:31:56 - Grandbrothers - Bloodflow

0:39:33 - Yiruma & Ólafur Arnalds - We Contain Multitudes (piano reworks)

0:43:48 - Caroline Shaw, Roomful of Teeth & Brad Wells - Partita for 8 Singers: 3. Courante

0:52:40 - Philip Glass & Bruce Brubaker - Opening

0:58:24 - Hania Rani - Glass

1:02:43 - Jóhann Jóhannsson et al. - Flight from the City

1:08:44 - Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

1:12:42 - Jon Hopkins - Feel First Life

1:17:02 - Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker - The Tearjerker Returns

1:20:24 - Bing & Ruth - Starwood Choker

1:26:35 - Luke Abbott - Tree

1:29:42 - Roedelius & Arnold Kasar - Rolling

1:33:13 - Philip Glass & Bruce Brubaker - Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Two

1:39:25 - Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - 23:53

1:44:31 - DjRUM & Zosia Jagodzinska - Creature, Pt. 1

1:49:09 - Aphex Twin, Daniel Hope, et al. - Avril 14th

1:51:10 - Anne Müller - Drifting Circles

1:57:55 - Felix Rösch - Berceuse

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Today’s mix consists of mostly new singles. We open with ambient music by Francesca Heart, Golden, marine eyes, and Rob Winstone. Then a new classical piece by Alanna Crouch and a performance of Harold Budd’s “Pavilion of Dreams” by harpist Nailah Hunter and thereminist Alia Mohamed. We move through instrumental compositions by Cluster & Brian Eno, Laurie Spiegel & Erik Hall, Woo, and SML. The Magic Hours & TUAWKI contribute an exotica rendition of Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmas Time Is Here.” The pace picks up with Orbital and Mor Elian, and we wrap with a new single from DjRUM. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Francesca Heart - Le Canella

0:02:15 - Gollden - desamor

0:05:21 - marine eyes - marigolds

0:07:57 - Rob Winstone - beach

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Today’s mix opens with some new ambient music by Ess Whiteley, Sofie Birch, Driftless Region, Phil Cook, Lawrence English & Stephen Vitiello, and Laurie Torres & Nailah Hunter. We excerpt some newish piano pieces by Rachel Grimes and Armin van Buuren. Then the synthesizers intensify with Slow Riffs, KMRU, cehryl, and Oneohtrix Point Never. The last thirty minutes or so see a higher BPM with Move 78, Chihiro Yamanaka, Four Tet, Tortoise, and finally Seconds. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Ess Whiteley - Mycelial Circuit Board Dreams

0:05:55 - Sofie Birch - The Sun XIX

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Today’s mix is provided by Seconds, whose fourth LP, Drafts, is the latest release on Flow State Records (more on that tomorrow). It’s now available for free/name your price on Bandcamp and is released under a Creative Commons license. This mix plays most of the Drafts tracks out of order, following the usual Flow State mix template of starting with ambient and then going more upbeat. The new tracks are interspersed with various influences, including Felicia Atkinson, Harold Budd, Brian Eno & Cluster, Patricia Wolf, Air, and Gesaffelstein. We hope you enjoy (we’ll be off Thurs-Fri this week).

0:00:00 - Seconds - Red Nape

0:06:00 - Felicia Atkinson - Blue

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Today’s mix consists mostly of new music. There are new ambient works by Alaskan Tapes & Blue Miles, CFCF (from the Sounds of Taiwan compilation), and Saapato. We play Gloria Cheng’s solo piano performance of John Adams’ “China Gates” from the ‘90s. Then, two tracks from Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider’s new ambient album, The Passing. There’s more new stuff from cehryl, Opsin, Tortoise, not even noticed, and Clark. Finally, we play one of the new singles from Oneohtrix Point Never’s album Tranquilizer, which comes out this Friday. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Alaskan Tapes & Blu Miles - Blank Slate

0:02:46 - Jorgen Gustafsson - Recently

0:07:21 - CFCF - Crickets in Public Toilets

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Today’s mix opens with a synth meditation piece by JD Emmanuel from 1982. There’s new ambient music by Jon Porras, Funcionário, U, and Martina Berther & Philipp Schlotter. We play some new instrumentals by The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Hayes Bradley, and Golden Brown. There’s a miraculous solo ukulele performance of “Claire de Lune” by Harry Kalahiki. Then some more upbeat stuff by Carrier, Binary Algorithms, and Mulatu Astatke. A new single from the mysterious, talented German producer Siriusmo concludes the mix. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - JD Emmanuel - Attaining Peace

0:05:03 - Jon Porras - Ceremony Stone

Today’s mix is entirely sourced from friends of Flow State: musicians, curators, label heads, music fans. The 37 tracks that were contributed are quite varied: obscure favorites, recent loves, artists’ own tracks (including several unreleased). The only artist picked twice was Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. In honor of the big three oh oh, this mix is available to everyone. If you’re not already a Flow State supporter, help us keep going to episode 500 by becoming a supporter today. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Minutemen - Cohesion– Brianna Bartelt (Building Songs)

0:01:54 - James Bernard - Impermanence (Unreleased)– James Bernard

0:08:11 - Joy Guidry & Elizabeth Steiner - Hold and Be Held– Ana Gavrilovska (Sick Sad Motherslug)

0:12:34 - Aix Em Klemm - Prue Lewarne– Andrew Tasselmyer (Sound Methods)

0:17:22 - marine eyes - Catching Light (Unreleased on digital)– marine eyes (cloud collecting)

0:19:05 - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Start of Things– Adam Offitzer (Hear Hear)

0:21:51 - Robert Fripp - Music for Quiet Moments 20 - Pastorale - Madison 10 Nov 2007– Davi Music

0:27:07 - Gollden - Red Sun– Collette Andrea

0:32:44 - Qasim Naqvi - Plastic Glacier– Stuart Bogie

0:39:39 - In Transit - A.2829– Stephan Kunze (zensounds)

0:44:28 - FogChaser - shadow of a cloud (Unreleased)– Fog Chaser

0:47:38 - SUSS - Salt Flats– Bob Holmes (SUSS Newsletter)

0:50:54 - Knopha - Mist 雾– Jake (Concrete Avalanche)

0:55:21 - Marika Takeuchi - Breathe Out– Marika Takeuchi

0:57:45 - Paul Grimstad - The Florentine Codex (Socrate)– Paul Grimstad

0:59:36 - Belle Chen - Passages of Time– Burke Turner

1:03:08 - The Advisory Circle - Sundial– Asmi Shetty (MORPHINE)

1:06:25 - Ángeles Rojas - Breathe into the Forest, Into the Bird, Into the Song (Extract)– Ángeles Rojas

1:10:32 - Rafael Anton Irisarri - Secretly Wishing for Rain (William Basinski & Gary Thomas Wright Rework)– Karen Vogt

1:17:48 - Ofir Ganon - Decatur– Ofir Ganon

1:19:45 - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Love Would Shatter– Melted Form (Hum, Buzz, & Hiss)

1:23:12 - Derek Monypeny - Blit– Derek Monypeny

1:29:20 - Arvo Pärt, Gidon Kremer & Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - Fratres– Michael Cirigliano II (Shades of Blue)

1:40:02 - Cluster - Zum Wohl– Corntuth

1:46:27 - Francesca Heart & Polonius - Flux Faux– Saapato

1:48:47 - Channelers - Calling on the Voice of– Jacqui Devaney (Dinner Music)

1:52:28 - Finis Africae - El Secreto de la 12– Gabriel Brady

1:58:52 - Percy Faith & His Orchestra - The Theme from “A Summer Place”– Chris Dalla Riva (Can't Get Much Higher)

2:01:08 - Rafiq Bhatia - Aviary I | Sunrise– Michael Cina

2:11:19 - Steve Hauschildt - Dividua– Sam Valenti IV (Herb Sundays)

2:15:30 - The Herbaliser - The Sensual Woman– Annie Schiller

2:18:58 - KZA - Routine– Shawn Reynaldo (First Floor)

2:25:22 - A.L.I.S.O.N - June– Jason Kottke

2:29:11 - Lemna - Diffuse Reflection– Daniel Garber

2:33:45 - Paul Keeley - Doormatica (Original Mix)– Kevin Alexander (On Repeat Records)

2:38:42 - Lawrence English - Dock (Unreleased)– Lawrence English

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Today’s mix opens with acoustic instrumentals by Unchained and Golden Brown. There’s a Torus track which reimagines a Postal Service riff for ambient ears (thanks Richard for the tip). We play some new ambient music by Funcionário, Emily A. Sprague, Kelly Moran, and Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe. There’s a single from Lia Kohl and Zander Raymond’s June record In Transit, and two tracks from John Thayer’s new LP, Winds Gate. We play a favorite Ryuichi Sakamoto piece, as well as two songs from Blue Lake’s new album. We wrap with a demo from an upcoming Flow State Records release. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Unchained - Rambler

0:05:26 - Golden Brown - A Word Spoken by the Sunlight

0:07:26 - Unchained - Bocal

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Today’s mix opens with a track from Nala Sinephro’s new score for The Smashing Machine. Then we have some new ambient music by Metric System 1981, Blanket Swimming, and Steve Hauschildt. There’s a neoclassical piece by Alanna Crouch and a Satie piece performed by Reinbert de Leeuw (thanks Thomas Thompson). There are cosmic instrumentals by Francesca Marongiu, Golden Brown, and Woody Jackson. We play two tracks from Sven Wunder’s new album, Daybreak, and some similar music by Cochemea and Butcher Brown. The mix concludes with pianist Julian Davis Reid’s great new cover of “What a Wonderful World,” featuring Lenard Simpson on alto sax. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Nala Sinephro - Dawn

0:02:11 - Shere Fraser & Metric System 1981 - Everlasting Peace

0:04:54 - Blanket Swimming - Cloudlove

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Today’s mix opens with the titular piece from Jonny Greenwood’s new score for One Battle After Another. There are a few other pieces from that score sprinkled throughout the mix. Then we have new ambient music from Emily A. Sprague, Kayla Pichichero, and Christopher Willits. We play a composition by the late great Daniel Lentz (thanks Evan for the tip). There are two pieces by jazz pianist Craig Taborn, who recently was awarded a MacArthur grant. There’s a new composition, “Requiem,” by composer Eunike Tanzil. Then we play some more upbeat music by Buildings and Food (she has a new EP out), Aphex Twin, and finally LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER (thanks to Aidan for that one). Slightly more experimental sounds on this mix than usual – we hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Jonny Greenwood - One Battle After Another

0:03:00 - Emily A. Sprague - Osaka