Optic Echo Presents

https://headphonecommute.com/2021/01/26/optic-echo-presents-best-vinyl-of-2020/

KMRU- Peel c1 

Jake Muir- The Hum of Your Veiled Voice b2 

Lucy Gooch- Rushing a2 

Quiet Places- Volume 1 a1 

TR Jordan- Just for You a1 

Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson- Rain Shadow a2 

Fadi Tabbal- Subject to Potential Errors and Distortion a4 

Tape Loop Orchestra- Returning Two a1.2 

36 & Zakè- Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel a2 

Valance Drakes- Freedom is it’s Own Kind of Slavery b1 

OFFTHESKY & The Humble Bee- We Were the Hum of Dreams b3 

Inventions- Continuous Portrait b4 

Sarah Davachi- Cantus, Descant a3 

WL (Patricia Wolf remix)- ADHD (flexidisc) 

Night Sea- Still b1 

Pepo Galan & Sita Ostheimer- Contact b3 

Windy and Carl- Allegiance and Conviction b1 

Gia Magaret- Mia Garget b1 

Haunted Ghost- New Life Paeans a3 

Claire Rousay- Both b1.2 

R beny - The Dashboard Cast a Spectral Glow a1 

Black Brunswicker- Thesis 18 b1.2 

Secret Pyramid- Embers b2

Big thank you to Neglect for providing this week's guest mix. Check out my favorite album by Joseph, Western Romance Novels, and others on his bandcamp below:

www.neglectsound.bandcamp.com

www.soundcloud.com/neglectsound

Kaiwa - Stasis (Weathervane) 

I did a mix for Ryan at ASIP for his excellent isolatedmix series, which included an interview:

Big thank you to Elias Foley, head of Tamarack Music here in Portland. Check out his release from earlier this month, Network 1: Post Human on bandcamp, and his appearance on the Form the Head Podcast here:

https://tamarackmusic.bandcamp.com/album/network-1-post-human

Al Mothlath - Dead Traveler

Big thank you to Ryan / Lost Tribe Sound for providing this week's guest mix. Be sure to check out the gorgeous releases on the Lost Tribe Sound label by following the links below:

https://losttribesound.bandcamp.com

Mt Went- Resistance

Optic Echo Presents 

This was the final mix of my downtempo series, dating back to 2006. I started Optic Echo Presents that summer on the Portland Radio Authority.

Peace Orchestra- Peace Orchestra d2

Thank you to William Selman for providing this week's guest mix. Check out William's bandcamp page to listen to his releases including Naming Before Names:

Bernard C - Les Chantes Révolutionnaires II - Les Chantes Révolutionnaires (Illusion Production 1983)

Big thank you to Whettmen Chelmets for providing the guest mix this week. Check out his bandcamp to find a number of albums of his, including his recent split release "Theme Variations":

https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/theme-variations

1 - Nate Scheible - “I Don’t Give a Fuck if You Like Me” - Prions and Scrapie - 00:00

2 - Lake Mary & M. Sage - “Towards a Golden Light” - Shepherd’s Bridge - 01:51

3 - Jake Muir - “Green Eyes” - Lady’s Mantle - 03:36

4 - Acef Stripe - “The Stuffies are Not Sleeping” - Foxy - 05:17

5 - Andrew Tuttle - “Burwood Heights Convenience” - Alexandra - 06:22

6 - RA - “Overcoming Sadness” - The Meditations of Zera Yacob - 07:39

7 - Pulse Emitter - “Ripples” - Swirlings  - 09:29

8 - Siavash Amini and Saaad - “Calm in Resignation” - All Lanes of Lilac Evening - 11:39

9 - Assassin of Sound - “Artic (66° 30’N)” - Earth Suite - 14:31

10 - Binaural Space - “Good Night Spacemen” - Boyhood - 16:31

11 - Nhung Ngyuen - “Bittersweet” - An Ordinary Narrative - 18:34

12 - Cruel Diagonals - “Topography of an Affliction” - s/t - 22:12

13 - clair rousay - “buy my blessing” - “i’ll give you all of my love” - 24:00

14 - Chorchill - “Human Submarine” - Nachtfisch - 24:53

15 - Wife Signs - “Burning Off the Nuance” - Beneath the Weight of Care - 26:59

16 - Whettman Chelmets - “But I Need to” - I Don’t Want to Let Go, but I Need to Let Go - 29:24

17 - Amy Cutler - “riddles of the firmament” - Oro Tape (Fieldtrips of the Damned) - 32:58

18 - qualchan. - “glass.” - Micrographia - 35:08

19 - Lucy Liyou - “Who You Feed” - Welfare - 35:33

20 - Lowering - “Just a Fever” - Sleep in Perpetual Storm - 36:52

21 - Matt Jencik - “Night Gallery Pause” - Dream Character - 38:19

22 - Forest Robots - “It’s Quietest at the Edge of the Crestline” - Timberline and Mountain Crest - 41:36

23 - Ghost Signs - “We Haunt These Cities Like a Half Remembered Dream” - The Holy Ghost and other Lost Souls - 44:47

24 - Barraco Barner - “20200420 Pops” - 20200419-20200422 - 46:47

25 - Barraco Barner - “20200421 There’s a Payoff I Promise” - 20200419-20200422 - 48:45

Space Afrika- Primrose Avenue a1.1 https://wheretonow.bandcamp.com/album/primrose-avenue

Big thank you to Isaac Helsen, 1/2 of the ambient label Past Inside the Present, for providing this week's guest mix. Check out his release Remnants Series I - VIII on the PITP label here:

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/remnants-series-vol-i-viii

[0:00] Oiseaux-Tempête — Notes From The Mediterranean Sea