Flow State

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Today’s mix opens with the world premiere of Flow State Records 007: Seconds, the second album from Seconds. That’s the first 40 minutes. The remaining two hours are “kinetic ambient” tracks that influenced the record, mixed by the artist. First there’s classic minimalist influences from Moondog, Steve Reich, and Kraftwerk. Then we get into more recent motoric electronic from Oneohtrix Point Never, Nils Frahm, and Tim Hecker. Then there’s some actual techno from Max Cooper and Avalon Emerson. There’s a brief passage of footwork music – which inspired the 160BPM of Seconds – from DJs Paypal, Spinn, and Rashad. We close out with a plea from Can (which has the only vocals of the mix). We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Seconds - The Trial

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Today’s mix opens with a classic ambient piece from Stars of the Lid, followed by new music from Aquatic Dreamer and Loscil. We move into a few new Laraaji tracks, including a Jon Hopkins piano rework of one. There’s some Arovane and Kid606, followed by a Scott Joplin waltz and Amanda Whiting’s ethereal harp. We wrap with electronic music from Purelink, Sasse, and Szun Waves. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Stars of the Lid - Articulate Silences, Pt. 1

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Today’s mix features a whole bunch of ambient and instrumental excerpts from Mac DeMarco’s 9+ hour album One Wayne G, which he released this past Friday. There are some genuine Brian Eno-esque ambient pieces on there. We also play new music from Flow State Records’ Davi Music and a new favorite from Golden Brown (rec coming soon). We also feature some classics from William Orbit and Steve Reich. The last hour plays some more Ahmad Jamal pieces (RIP), a Men I Trust instrumental, and classic house (Frankie Knuckles) and techno (Drexciya). We end with an instrumental shoegaze track from Lovesliescrushing. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Mac DeMarco - 20191229

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Today’s mix opens with several ambient tracks, including new favorites by Liquid Mind and Travis McKay and old favorites from Oneohtrix Point Never and Rudy Adrian. We play a couple newer tracks from Locrian and Alice Sara Ott before diving into a tribute to jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, who passed away last weekend and whom we’ll be recommendi…

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Today’s mix opens with a few ambient pieces from Blood Incantation (they switched from death metal to ambient last year 🤘), Nico Georis, SidiRum, and Bianca Scout. We continue to celebrate the discography of Ryuichi Sakamoto. We also recently lost Ethiopian composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou, who we remember via her piece “The Homeless …

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Today’s mix begins with an hour of selections from Ryuichi Sakamoto’s discography. Specifically, we play his ambient music, then solo piano, film scores, experimental electronic music, and an instrumental from Yellow Magic Orchestra, the band he co-founded in the late ‘70s. The second hour features new music from Applefish, Lorenzo Morresi, and Masahiro Takahashi. Plus there are some new discoveries from Vijay Iyer, Nadi Qamar, and Ariel Pink (an instrumental). We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

0:05:42 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - meditation app (from Black Mirror)

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Today’s mix opens with the first of two felt piano tracks from The Vernon Spring, followed by ambient works from Snufmumriko, Michiru Aoyama, and Brian Eno. We preview tomorrow’s recommendation via Muscut Records, and then feature some experimental tracks from Patricia Wolf and Slowly Rolling Camera. Instrumentals next from crowd favorite H…

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Today’s mix contains a whole bunch of recommendations from our recent thread, plus some selections from NTS shows Sounds of the Dawn and Thea HD. We open with new ambient music from the prolific Michiru Aoyama, as well as Lara Somogyi and Ann Annie. There’s some canonical ambient (Jon Hassell, Brian Eno) and some contemporary classical (Alexis Ffrench, Alice Sara Ott). We preview upcoming recs Hermanos Gutiérrez and Mike Dillon before wrapping up with Tatsuro Yamashita and Mark Dwane. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Michiru Aoyama - getuku

0:02:47 - Lara Somogyi - álom

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Today’s mix opens with a track from Minecraft, followed by a long, almost New Age track from Portland-based Former Selves. There’s another long piece from Terry Riley, followed by a new ignorable yet interesting track from Brian Eno. We wend our way through the lobby music of Final Fantasy XIII before ripping two artists directly from the most recent Ambient Country podcast: Jimmy Giuffre and North Americans. Next there’s Bill Evans, a cathartic number from the Heat soundtrack, and a 2018 composition from Steve Reich (recorded last year by the LA Philharmonic). We slightly edit a Madlib beat. Takeshi Terauchi, whom Bandcamp recently called Japan’s “surf rock god,” closes us out. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - C418 - Minecraft

0:03:37 - Former Selves - Future Nostalgia

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Today’s episode inverts the usual track order. We open with new acoustic instrumentals from Lucinda Chua, Ironsides, and Hayden Pedigo. We preview some upcoming Flow State music from Bruce Kaphan, Hayes Bradley, and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. We highlight Ryuichi Sakamoto’s contribution to the After Yang soundtrack, “Memory Bank,” as well as the track “Fecundity” from The JuJu Exchange’s new album, JazzRx. We celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon by playing its instrumental “Any Colour You Like” before moving into the long ambient tracks. The final two 20-minuters are from the new collection Women Take Back The Drone which is available now on Bandcamp. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Lucinda Chua - An Avalanche

0:03:08 - Ironsides - Changing Light