Flow State

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Today’s mix opens with harpist Mary Lattimore’s new collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Walt McClements. We then play a few recent favorites from Michael A. Muller, Kamaal Williams, Hayden Pedigo, and DBH. There’s a nice jam track from Chiminyo et al. before we sink into a 30-minute raga jam from Liberate Elemental Forces. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements - The Poppies, the Wild Mustard, the Blue-Eyed Grass

Good morning.

Today’s mix opens with a few ambient favorites from Celer, Anna Peaker, marine eyes, and Kenji Kihara. There’s a piece from Yunchan Lim’s new collection of Chopin études, followed by piano pieces by Michael Vincent Waller and Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross. There’s a new Double Geography track (h/t Philip Sherburne) and two DBH fingerstyle guitar tracks (h/t Hayden Pedigo). There’s jazz by Jasmine Myra, Zoh Amba et al., Guy Lafitte, and Oren Ambarchi et al. We wind down with an excellent Leon Weber rework of Steve Reich and finally “End Credits” by Cabasa. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Celer - In the Intimate Hours

0:04:25 - Anna Peaker - Flora of Sleep

Good morning.

Today’s mix opens with a couple ambient favorites from Rafael Anton Irisarri and Ellen Arkbro. We select a couple Brian Eno tracks from the set that accompanies the new Gary Hustwit documentary on the ambient pioneer. We then play through some Saapato, Perila, Carmen Villain, and The Balloonist. There’s an excerpt from Thom Yorke’s new score for the film Confidenza. There are instrumentals from The Balloonist, Suzanne Ciani, Ivan the Tolerable, and Actress. We close out with a collection of Juan Atkins tracks (see our interview with him from Friday), capped by a piece from Daft Punk’s Tron soundtrack. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Rafael Anton Irisarri - The Clock

0:03:54 - Ellen Arkbro - Mountain of Air

Good morning.

Today’s mix follows a different order than most Flow State mixes. Whereas the usual mix accelerates from ambient to dance – mirroring the progression of our Monday to Friday recommendations – this mix ebbs and flows like a sine wave. We begin with Dario Marianelli’s standout track from the V for Vendetta score, “Evey Reborn.” We then go through some instrumental favorites from Photay, The Beatles, Santo & Johnny, Stella Phonic, and Marisa Anderson. There are a couple live jazz recordings from the newly released Oscar Pettiford Memorial Concert performance from 1960. We wind down with Bach, Bond, and a longform Can-like new jam from Water Damage. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Dario Marianelli - Evey Reborn

0:03:37 - Photay - Illusion of Seclusion

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Today’s mix includes a lot of new ambient releases, starting with Pan-American’s recent collaboration with Kramer. There are new tracks from Kiasmos, Davi Music, marine eyes, Fax, Isabel Pine, Adam Wiltzie, Kelly Moran, SUSS, and more. We play two tracks from Nathan Micay’s recent soundtrack for Time Bomb Y2K on HBO. There’s a Solange instrumental from 2002 which was produced by The Neptunes. We wrap with a recently released 1977 recording of a Can live jam. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Pan-American & Kramer - Plants Used for Weaving

0:03:37 - Rafael Toral - Soft Energy I

Good morning.

Today’s episode opens with a new KMRU track. Then we move through Pan-American and a recommendation of his, Perila & Ulla. There are soundtracks from Ari Balouzian, Alexandre Desplat, and Henry Mancini. Then we get into jazz with Jasmine Myra, Santo & Johnny, and Eiko Ishibashi. We revisit standout dance music from Powder, 2652, and Yetsuby. We wind down with Rich Ruth and Luciano Michelini – the latter composed the Curb overture, and the track is his solo piano rendition of it. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - KMRU & Kevin Richard Martin - Differ

0:04:56 - Patrick Sansone - Press to Null

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Today’s mix opens with a few tracks from Sawako, whom we recommended yesterday. We continue with two T.R. Jordan tracks and an excerpt from Ari Balouzian’s new score for the FX documentary Spermworld (more on Thursday). There’s some guitar-led instrumentals by Khruangbin and Daniel Lanois. Then more electronic tracks from Wil Bolton and Move D. Of course we play the new Kamasi Washington and André 3000 collaboration, followed by exceptional instrumentals from Marcos Valle and Fela Kuti. We wrap with a new Oneohtrix Point Never track. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Sawako - looped labyrinth, decayed voice

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Today’s mix opens with a scientifically proven calm-inducing track from Marconi Union. At least that’s what NPR reports. Then we play some new great ambient pieces from Tewksbury, David Cordero, T.R. Jordan, and Medasin. Film score composer Dustin O’Halloran premieres some great focus music, and we follow that with Flow State classics from Ironsides, Alice Coltrane, and Henry Mancini. We wrap it up with The Messthetics and 2562. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Marconi Union - Weightless Part 1

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Today’s mix opens with a collaboration between ambient legends Steve Roach & Robert Rich. We then include some new music by Golden Brown, Annie Aries, Slowfoam, and MIZU, as well as some classics from David Darling and Bruce Kaphan. There are a few Four Tet tracks – a couple from his new album Three and a couple from the early part of this century. We wrap with a new Cardi B instrumental. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Steve Roach & Robert Rich - LightBorn

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Today’s mix opens with a synth/field recording piece by Aiko Takahashi. We then play some ambient music by Sonja Tofik & Mar-Ilena, kita kouhei, and Lara Somogyi. There’s some solo piano by Eren Önsoy and Nils Frahm, along with instrumentals by LI Yilei and Minhwi Lee. A couple new tracks from Jasmine Myra and Air – the latter just released a record of Moon Safari extras. The mix crescendos with Ivan the Tolerable and Bill Orcutt, and then wraps with a classic jungle tune by Goldie. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Aiko Takahashi - It Could Have Been a Beautiful Night