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Today’s mix is all Boards of Canada, following their release of Inferno, their first album in 13 years. We put together a tracklist and sourced 18 recommendations from the community, with three tracks being recommended twice. This mix covers all of Boards of Canada’s LPs – from 1998 to 2026 – as well as several EPs and a remix of Boom Bip. The focus is instrumentals, though a vocal moment here or there was hard to avoid. Attributions of recommendations are under the corresponding tracks. There’s a longer free preview available on this one. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Boards of Canada - Gemini (excerpt)

0:00:04 - Boards of Canada - Corsair–Michael Cina

0:02:30 - Boards of Canada - Sundown

0:04:28 - Boards of Canada - Open the Light–Kenneth James Gibson

0:08:26 - Boards of Canada - Satellite Anthem Icarus–Cowboy Sadness / David Moore

0:13:07 - Boards of Canada - Seven Forty Seven–Philip Sherburne

0:19:02 - Boom Bip - Last Walk Around Mirror Lake (Boards of Canada Remix)

0:22:45 - Boards of Canada - Left Side Drive–Sarah Farley

0:26:41 - Boards of Canada - Roygbiv–Stuart Bogie

0:28:22 - Boards of Canada - Everything You Do Is A Balloon–Colin Nagy & Antonio Caballero

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Today’s mix opens with a new track by a. vos, followed by a collaboration between Alaskan Tapes, Blu Miles, and Ann Annie. Also new ambient by Maston & Greg Foat, Eluvium, Exportion, and Black Boboi. We excerpt a single by ambient trombonist Kalia Vandever, and then play a track from guitarist Bill Orcutt’s new record with cellist Mabe Fratti. There are two tracks from the Life Aquatic soundtrack: one by Sven Libaek and the other by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo. Drums come in with Seefeel, tamanaramen, Yuni Wa, and Larry Heard. A hypnotic track from Karim’s debut LP leads into the Mothersbaugh track to close. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - a. vos - halos

0:02:44 - Alaskan Tapes, Blu Miles, Ann Annie - In-Cloud

0:06:24 - Maston & Greg Foat - Carving Jade

0:08:53 - Eluvium - Communication

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Today’s mix opens with instrumentals by Hania Rani and Harold Budd. There’s some ambient country, beginning with a track off of SUSS’s new album, followed by Corntuth, Golden Brown, Joe Webb, Daniel Lanois, and Lau Ro. There’s a live recording of Suzanne Ciani featuring Actress. Then some band instrumentals by Zero 7 and Setting, before electronic music by Satoshi Tomiie and Jereon Search. A synth composition by Nine Inch Nails alum Alessandro Cortini closes out the mix. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Hania Rani - Esja

0:04:10 - Harold Budd - Down the Slopes to the Meadow

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Today’s mix opens with solo piano works old and new, by Harold Budd and Linus Alberg respectively. There are some ambient pieces by Seconds, Blanket Swimming, Alaskan Tapes, marine eyes, Lara Somogyi, and SUSS. We excerpt a track from the new self-titled album by Setting – more on them later this week. We revisit an overlooked Steve Reich piece, “Octet,” performed by his ensemble in 1980. The pace picks up with TUAWKI, Maston & Greg Foat, and Zopelar. We end with a Kaytranada track. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Harold Budd - Haru Spring

0:04:25 - Linus Alberg - Falter

0:09:00 - Seconds - Slope

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Today’s mix opens with a 2020 track from William Basinski called “The Wheel of Fortune.” The ambience continues with Masahiro Takahashi, miska lamberg (h/t Stephan Kunze), and Joanna Brouk. There’s a 1977 collaboration between sitarist Kalyani Roy and pianist V. Balsara. We continue with electronic instrumentals by Tomaga, Anthony Naples, James Holden, Yu Su, and Keytronics (h/t Jacqui Devaney). There are two unreleased house tracks from a forthcoming Flow State Records release. We end with a Squarepusher cut from the ‘90s. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - William Basinski - The Wheel of Fortune

0:02:41 - Masahiro Takahashi - Soundwalker

0:04:57 - miska lamberg - I remember the day the world lost color

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Today’s mix opens with new ambient music by Skerik, Seconds, Pan-American, and David August. There are a couple older fourth world tracks by Jon Hassell and Harold Budd. Jazz comes from Aaron Shaw (new album) and Nala Sinephro. We play a couple experimental finds: a solo guitar impromptu by Master Wilburn Burchette and a loungey track by the… Lounge Lizards (via an Angine de Poitrine interview). We found an orchestral instrumental cover of George Harrison’s “Beware of Darkness” by Mary Fahl. The pace picks up with Mammo, Paperclip Minimiser, and Youandewan. There are two tracks by Skee Mask (one a vinyl rip). The mix concludes with André 3000’s breakneck rendition of “My Favorite Things” from The Love Below. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Skerik - Synesthesia

0:07:12 - Seconds - Slope

Today’s mix is a label edit of greyfade, a New York based label founded in 2019. The label was started by producer and designer Joseph Branciforte dedicated to experimental music and “system-based works.” The idea is that an album is a conceptual universe made up of sound, arrangement, physical material, artwork, and text. The mix includes works by taylor deupree, Phillip Golub, Greg Davis, Catherine Lamb, Kenneth Kirschner, and more. There’s a Flow State edit of a piano loop by Golub. Check out more of the label’s collection on Bandcamp, including Branciforte’s new collaboration with Belgian jazz musician Jozef Dumoulin. This mix is available to everyone. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Taylor Deupree - Snow-Sand (For Clarinets, Vibraphone, Cello, & Percussion)

0:15:49 - Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin - ⊐

0:23:10 - Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann - 4.19

0:30:33 - Phillip Golub - Loop 3

0:38:40 - Taylor Deupree - Temper (For Clarinets & Shaker)

0:52:42 - Kenneth Kirschner - July 8 2017 – xi.

0:57:30 - Phillip Golub - Loop 5

1:06:10 - Greg Davis - Pierpont

1:12:10 - Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann - 1.13

1:18:50 - Taylor Deupree - Stil. (For Vibraphone & Bass Drum)

1:37:14 - Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann - 5.5.9

1:45:31 - Greg Davis - Proth

1:49:38 - Catherine Lamb & Ghost Ensemble - VI.

1:54:27 - Philip Golub - Loop 7 (Flow State Edit)

1:57:10 - Greg Davis - Sophie Germain

2:02:40 - Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin - ⊐

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Today is April 14th, so the mix opens with ten different versions of the Aphex Twin track. We start with the original and then play renditions on synth (Loscil), acoustic guitar (Shane Parish), brass (The Westerlies), harp (Jemima Thewes), pedal steel (Pedal & Lever Society), and more. We play two tracks from Corntuth’s forthcoming LP on Flow State Records (due out in July). Then, new music by SUSS, Alanna Crouch, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri, and Seefeel. We end with Angine de Poitrine whose microtonal math rock is sensational. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Aphex Twin - Avril 14th

0:01:51 - Vanessa Wagner - Avril 14th (Loscil Remix)

0:06:50 - Shane Parish - Avril 14th

0:08:38 - The Westerlies - Avril 14th

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Today’s mix is inspired by the Artemis II mission to the moon, which yesterday set the record for the farthest humans have ever been from earth. The mix plays space-themed instrumental music by Brian Eno, Ashra, Mort Garson, Applefish, Soft Machine, and more. There are two pieces from Alex North’s rejected score for 2001: A Space Odyssey as well as a piece from Matt Morton’s all-Moog score for the 2019 documentary Apollo 11. On Sunday, Artemis crew member Victor Glover radioed in these extemporaneous remarks: “You guys are talking to us because we’re in a spaceship really far from Earth, but you’re on a spaceship called Earth… Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we’re doing is special, but you’re the same distance from us... In all of this emptiness – this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we called the universe – you have this oasis, this beautiful place where you get to exist, together.”

0:00:00 - Matt Morton - The Burdens and the Hopes (Apollo 11 OST)

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Today’s mix opens with an instrumental by Ethel Cain, whose ambient works we discovered via the gentle voices guest mix. We continue with more ambient pieces by Lauren Helene Green, Chantal Michelle, Meg Bowles, Vinnie Who, and David August. We play an early selection from The Caretaker’s magnum opus, Everywhere at the End of Time. Then some piano pieces by Alfa Mist and Jesse Hackett before playing SUSS’s new single, “Sunset II.” We recently discovered Acetone’s chill cover of “Midnight Cowboy” by John Barry. Then drums come in with Rejoicer, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Superpitcher, and Makam. Los Destellos play a cumbia cover of Beethoven’s “Für Elise.” Towards the end there’s dub techno by Priori, a disco instrumental by The Funkin’ Machine, and a video game-like track by prodBigMike called “iluvslapbass.” We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Ethel Cain - Radio Towers

0:04:55 - Lauren Helene Green - Horses At Fire Water Lodge

0:08:27 - Chantal Michelle - The Stream