Hypnagogue Podcast

Hypnagogue Podcast episodes:

• 04.25.2024

  Episode 407

  I’ve been thinking that I should start titling my shows like some other more popular podcasts do. Like, ones that tie into a theme such as “Silent Messages of a Distant Past” or “The Space Between the Dark Stars.” Let’s...

  
• 04.11.2024

  Episode 406

  Settle in. I want to tell you a story….a mystery, really, about The Albums That Went Missing. Oh, it’ll mystify you and maybe bring a chill to your soul, but in the end it turns into 90 really good minutes...

  
• 03.28.2024

  Episode 405

  From a gently dark start, we launch into long drifts and emerge in a lighter space. Then it’s off to the library where we just might encounter…one of those. Start      Hessien, Design the Ageless Soul, The Alchemist9.20   ...

  
• 03.14.2024

  Episode 404

  Contrary to the well-known internet error message, you’ve found the latest episode of the Hypnagogue Podcast! For your efforts, I’ll reward you with 90 minutes of the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music. It’s all Holding Tanks today, and...

  
• 02.29.2024

  Episode 403

  Happy Leap Year Day! (Is that a thing?) From a very New Age kind of start (c’mon, we open with a Reiki thing) through pulsing funkiness to a quite quiet endpoint, this one’s pretty much what you’ve come to expect....

  
• 02.15.2024

  Episode 402

  It’s all Holding Tank this time through, bringing you quiet drifts, New Age-y tunes, a bit of chant, and more. Plus, it’s possible that I offend an artist. Start      Chronotope Project, Unwinding the Dream (remix), Chronology6.16     ...

  
• 02.01.2024

  Episode 401

  What do you do when you’ve reached 400 podcast episodes? Keep going, I guess! We’ll stick to the Holding Tanks this time through and for the most part keep things a bit on the down-low. (That’s what the cool kids say,...

  
• 01.18.2024

  Episode 400

  400? What’s up with that? Yes, your presumably favorite podcast has now happened 400 times, and we celebrate with an hour in the library and an hour of new stuff. (Plus, I indulge in a couple personal favorites!) Enjoy, and...

  
• 01.04.2024

  Episode 399

  New year, same old show. You know, the one that brings you nothing but the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music and has that host who doesn’t seem to take this seriously? Yeah, that one. Ready for more of...

  
• 12.21.2023

  Episode 398

  Taking our leave of 2023, we do so in a manner most casual, stretching out, biding our time, meandering as one does, unrushed and–oh, who am I kidding? We’re getting lazy for the last show of the year, airing out...

  
• 12.07.2023

  Episode 397

  A storm of fiery guitar kicks this one off, pulling bits of New Age and electronic music in its wake. Then we get comfy in the library, greeted by some post-rock (with its own bits of fiery guitar), and hang...

  
• 11.23.2023

  Episode 396

  Kicking off with some fun uptempo stuff, we’ll work our way across this 90-minute landscape to end up somewhere much quieter. Start      Test Card, The Blank Code Re-Write, Channels5.48       Beukotreug, Hydra, Cosmic Spring10.33     Space Art,...

  
• 11.09.2023

  Episode 395

  Get the children to safety in the bunker! There’s a theme show a’comin!Yeah, it’s that time again. Mr. Shanahan gets a “clever idea” and runs with it. (And yes, this is the one I talked about on 393…) Look at...

  
• 10.26.2023

  Episode 394

  Not only do you get 90 minutes of great music this time around, but the show hits a bit of a milestone. Any guesses? I won’t spoil it here. Thanks for listening! Start      Yulio, Acid Barcelona, Cosmic Fractal4.46 ...

  
• 10.12.2023

  Episode 393

  Half a dozen from the Holding Tanks before we take a lengthy dip into the library stacks. Second set goes a little bit of everywhere, and has one of those artists who just happens to nail both song AND album...

  
• 09.28.2023

  Episode 392

  Might as well start off in contemporary instrumental/electroacoustic territory since I’ve been getting a lot of good stuff in that fits that bill. In the latter half it’s back into the library to revisit some friends. Start     Michael Whelan,...

  
• 09.14.2023

  Episode 391

  Okay, this one might start off a little strange, but we’re getting toward the bottom of the Holding Tanks and it’s getting time to reload ’em. Back half of this one is a trip to the library. You like the...

  
• 08.31.2023

  Episode 390

  You know how this goes: you set aside 90 minutes and hope to enjoy the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music. Good news: you get a bit of all of that here, including tracks from a couple albums I...

  
• 08.17.2023

  Episode 389

  After an episode with just a handful (literally) of tracks, let me toss a bit more than a dozen at you this time around. As a bonus treat, I mangle some Italian, reference Nikki Minaj, put you on hold at...

  
• 08.03.2023

  Episode 388

  A lazy podcast, but with a purpose! I saw that in adding to my “Tracks to Play” doc I had noted several that were fairly long. So I decided to lump them together. There are only five, and as tends...

  
• 07.20.2023

  Episode 387

  How would I characterize this episode? I have no friggin’ idea. It just came together like this. We’re going a little bit of everywhere. Start      Computerchemist, It Could be Paradise, Mysterious Cave of Eternal Theta 10.22     Altus,...

  
• 07.06.2023

  Episode 386

  From a funky start to a quiet close, I think you’re gonna like this one. And that’s all I have to say about that. Start      B. Tweel, Anybody Home, Bring in the Lampstand and Light its Lamps2.47   ...

  
• 06.22.2023

  Episode 385

  The first half skews electronic; then we tack around and set a course for acoustic/New Age territory. Seventeen big cuts for your aural consumption. Start      Oaki, Taodide, Irwan Alos4.24       Sova Stroj, Sequence, Travelling Waves I12.49   ...

  
• 06.09.2023

  Episode 2: The Revisiting

  So I was wrong about episode 2 being on archive.org. So here you go. Start       Austere, Citadell, Rorrim6.49       Dave Preston, Be Alive, Be13.43     Igneous Flame, Earthly Guitar, Satu18.40     Jonathan Block, Dissolve, The Anatomy of...

  
• 06.08.2023

  Episode 1…again

  Just a little birthday surprise I probably should have saved for a landmark birthday (or done back at the 10th birthday…). Thanks to the Endless Giant Spreadsheet of Goodness I was able to recreate the flow of the very first...

  
• 06.08.2023

  Episode 384

  Wrapping up year 14 with another big dive into the library. Help yourself to a pair of hour-long sets for this birthday bash–and to be honest, I’d need a lot more time to even remotely do justice to the amount...

  
• 05.25.2023

  Episode 383

  ’round about midstream, this flow decided it might like to be at least a little lazy. Pulled up at eight nice, deep tracks and we keep things mostly on the quiet side. Probably for the best since we’ve got a...

  
• 05.11.2023

  Episode 382

  As you may know if you listened last time, there’s been an unusual amount of flute-based music coming into the tanks lately, so we will start things off there. A quick stop and then we’re off again, powered by some...

  
• 04.27.2023

  Episode 381

  Holding Tanks 1 and 2 continue to drain even as I fill Tank 3, and the result is an interesting flow that weighs a bit heavily on the dark, quiet side. Some of this music has sat waiting for me...

  
• 04.13.2023

  Episode 380

  Let’s start off with a few Artists John Forgot before diving into the Holding Tanks for some clearly more unforgettable (by me) music. Start       D.K., Full Consciousness, Eighteen Movements7.55       Diropel, Turmuta, Yhnpivtr11.43     Jeremy Keenan, Intone,...

  
• 03.30.2023

  Episode 379

  I wouldn’t go so far as to call this a lazy podcast, but… It’s only got eight tracks, some of them are pretty long, and it stays quite quiet. So, semi-lazy, and you still get 90 minutes out of it....

  
• 03.16.2023

  Episode 378

  A nice balance of light and dark in this one. When we hit the shadows we don’t stay long, but the sensation may linger. All in all this one stays fairly low-key. Start       Howard Givens & Madhavi Devi,...

  
• 03.02.2023

  Episode 377

  Bit of a short first set, but as usual it ends right where it was supposed to. We get into some intriguing spaces in the second set, and bring it all in for a smooth and quiet landing. Start   ...

  
• 02.16.2023

  Episode 376

  Back we go into the Holding Tanks, hooks baited for reeling in delicious music. In the second half we take off on a global tour, starting in New Age-y places. But you know how it goes here–we could end up...

  
• 02.02.2023

  Episode 375

  Time to get our hush on with 90 minutes of nice, quiet music. No bumps, no surprises, no stops. One might go so far as to say you could meditate to this one. Don’t get used to it, though… Start ...

  
• 01.19.2023

  Episode 374

  Let’s head down to the library, dust off some albums and see how they sound. (Spoiler alert: pretty darn good!) Start       Kyron, Domum, Perdurabo4.55       Green Isac Orchestra, Hapi, Green Isac Orchestra11.20     Snowdrops, Odysseus, Volutes24.34   ...

  
• 01.05.2023

  Episode 373

  New year, same show. Same unserious host. Same great music for 90 minutes for the same great listeners. Start       Atomi, Adela, Little Floating Oracles8.44       Christopher Alvarado, The Aesir, A Whispering Sanctuary15.03     Desensitized, Logic of Expression...

  
• 12.22.2022

  Episode 372

  It’s the last show of 2022, but we’re not going to look back. Oh no, my friend. We are going to stare straight down the barrel of a fully loaded Holding Tanks and say, with an appropriately unnerving grin, “Let’s...

  
• 12.08.2022

  Episode 371

  Whither shall we wander this time around? To groves of musical grooviness and gardens of unearthly aural delight? Sure, you could put it that way. Or we could just call it 90 in the Holding Tank, drenching ourselves in good...

  
• 11.24.2022

  Episode 370

  Strap in for a fresh round of the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental out there. We start off with some primal grooves and wind up somewhere deep in space. Enjoy. Start      Byron Metcalf & Dashmesh, Deep Time...

  
• 11.10.2022

  Episode 369

  Oh, nothing much. Just 90 more minutes of really tasty musical treats. Things get a bit droney for a while, and we spend a good bit of time with contemporary composers. Definitely an episode for those with eclectic tastes. We’re...

  
• 10.27.2022

  Episode 368

  There are a lot of drone textures in this episode, designed to take you to a deeper place. Okay, some of this gets down into some darkness, but I’ll energize the ride as we get toward the end. Enjoy. Start ...

  
• 10.13.2022

  Episode 367

  Here’s my prediction: you’ll love the first part of this episode, and then you may wonder what the heck I’m thinking. My show, my rules. :-) Hang on and dig the ride. Start      Ryan Summers, Harbor Buoy, Deeply...

  
• 09.29.2022

  Episode 366

  No stops on this one, even when we roll into unusual territory. For the most part things stay quiet, with bits here and there to make sure you’re still with us. Start      Darkroom, Our Damage Catches Up With...

  
• 09.15.2022

  Episode 365

  Resisting the urge to do the obvious theme show, I instead opted to take you deep into the Holding Tank again. We kick off with some beats, wind down to drifts, and get a bit acoustic on the back half....

  
• 09.01.2022

  Episode 364

  Took a look at the Holding Tanks and the download queue and made an Executive Decision: time to go back to focusing on all the good new stuff I’ve had coming in over the last few months. You haven’t seen...

  
• 08.18.2022

  Episode 363

  We’re off to a slick start with some smooth sax and sliding our way down into some drifty grooves. Then we’re off to the library to visit some old friends. (One going back to ’05!) Start      Gian Berselli...

  
• 08.04.2022

  Episode 362

  A smooth blend of styles, kicking off with some sequencery goodness and primal grooves. Another of the Forgotten starts the second set, and we’ll get downright homey before it’s through. Enjoy. Start      AeTopus, First Ones, Urbus4.40     ...

  
• 07.21.2022

  Episode 361

  Maybe you’ve been here for a lazy podcast before–but you’ve never been here for one this lazy. Nothing’s under 25 minutes. Four cuts that run mighty, mighty deep. Drift on, my friends, and I’ll chat with you in about 103...

  
• 07.07.2022

  Episode 360

  There are great themes for podcast episodes … and then there’s this theme. But let me circle back with you once you’ve gotten around to listening. Have a ball. Start      Michael Bruckner, Circles of Joy, Recycled Life8.53   ...