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No show this week! Sorry! Just a quick hello and goodbye until we come back for the first episode of 2026 next week.

SOME of the BEST of 2025. Enjoy.

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Old Saw - The Wringing Cloth (Lobby Arts)

Cerys Hafana - Angel (Glitterbeat)

Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok - Uncontrollable Thoughts (Morr Music)

Sam Prekop - Open Close (Thrill Jockey)

Holden & Zimpel - The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community)

Kelly Moran - Don't Trust Mirrors (Warp)

Milkweed - Remscéla (Broadside Hacks)

HAYWARDxDÄLEK - HAYWARDxDÄLEK (Relapse)

Barker - Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound)

Milian Mori - Triality (Raster)

james K - Friend (AD 93)

Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away (Mexican Summer)

Track Listing

Old Saw - Blood Sumac [0:00]

Cerys Hafana - Ffarwel i f'leuenctid [6:33]

Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippk - Rainbow Road [10:06]

Sam Prekop - Font [15:05]

Holden + Zimpel - Incredible Bliss [20:19]

Kelly Moran - Lunar Wave [27:32]

Milkweed - The Pangs of Ulster [30:37]

HAYWARDxDÄLEK - Antiphony [34:46]

Barker - Positive Disintegration [38:59]

Milian Mori - Ballad [44:33]

james K - N'Balmed [49:38]

Hayden Pedigo - Small Torch [53:15]

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When's the last time I posted two "vintage" episodes back to back? I think... never? Well here we are. Turns out the holiday season stays busy right up until the holiday. Beyond daily life my "recreational" listening has been mostly consumed with rallying the usual year end lists, so I think you can expect a couple of semi-fresh episodes to round out the year. For now though, episode 005, again from the halcyon days of 2004/2005. Remember? Enjoy.

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Fires Were Shot - Solace (Asphodel)

Various - Narrowminded Split Series (Narrowminded)

--->Living Ornaments - "Vruchtvless"

Troum - Tjukurrpa (Transgredient)

Greg Davis - Somnia (Kranky)

Metaxu - Rumours of War (No Type)

Dead Texan - S/T (Kranky)

Accelera Deck - Ipsissima Vox (tbtmo)

Various - All Tomorrows Parties 1 (ATP)

--->Broadcast - "DDL"

Various - Calla "Custom" (Quatermass)

--->Metrotech - "Promenade rmx"

Tinkertoy - Electric Wilderness (Noise Factory)

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Effortless (Hefty)

Christian Kleine - Valis (Morr)

Various - Degradazione Digitale (Microsuoni)

--->Stephan Mathieu - "Sommer in Schafbrueche"

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No label links again this week... but you can Google, can't you?

It's been more than a year since we've posted a "vintage" episode, but the various time consuming year end obligations make this as good a time as any to indulge. So here is one from the vaults, episode 004 from way back when. When? Well around 2004 / 2005 roughly. Enjoy.

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Philip Blackburn - Hecho in Cuba (Innova)

Various - Antiopic Allegorical Power v.6 (Antiopic)

--->Presocratics - "If They Come in the Morning"

Bird Show - Green Inferno (Kranky)

Mike Ladd - Negrophilia: The Album (Thirsty Ear)

Bill Horist - Lyric Suite (Accretions)

Marilyn Lerner - Luminance (Ambiances Magnetique)

Ross Bolleter - Crow Country (Pogus)

Ercklenz / Neumann -Oberflachenspannung (Charhizma)

Various - Antiopic Allegorical Power v.6 (Antiopic)

--->duul drv - "under words, there is something hidden"

Various - Kangmaschine_Soundmachine (Ritornell)

--->Twerk -"Metamaschine"

Strategy - Drumsolo's Delight (Kranky)

Ulf Langenheinrich - Degrees of Amnesia (Asphodel)

Various - The Unaccompanied Voice (Secretly Canadian)

--->Songs:Ohia - "The Calling Bird"

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Kara-Lis Coverdale is a Canadian artist based out of Montreal. Bringing together backgrounds in piano and composition with Sacred music and electroacoustic work, Coverdale has been amassing an impressive catalog of work including three new albums this year alone. Her most recent, Change in Air, was recently released by Smalltown Supersound. She is this week's spotlight artist.

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Kara-Lis Coverdale - A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever (Smalltown Supersound/2025)

Kara-Lis Coverdale - A 480 (Constellation Tatsu/2014)

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Changes in Air (Smalltown Supersound/2025)

Kara-Lis Coverdale - From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound/2025)

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts (Boomkat Editions/2017)

Kara-Lis Coverdale / LXV - Sirens (Umor Rex/2015)

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Aftertouches (Sacred Phrases/2015)

Track Listing

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Circularism [0:00]

Kara-Lis Coverdale - A 478 [3:34]

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Boundlessness [8:17]

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Flickers in the Air of Night [12:51]

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts (excerpt)[16:43]

Kara-Lis Coverdale / LXV - Sub-fall (to) [20:42]

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Saps /h [26:51]

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Bill Orcutt has a kind of bifurcated musical history. Having started as co-founder of 90s noise rock outfit Harry Pussy, he took a very extended leave from playing and recording until the late 00s when his current run began. Though he has a greater variety of outlets and modes, we've stuck to his most recent guitar work taken from his own Palilalia Records on which his most recent, Another Perfect Day, was just released. He is this week's spotlight artist.

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Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow (Palilalia/2019)

Zoh Amba & Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - The Flower School (Palilalia/2023)

Bill Orcutt - Bill Orcutt (Palilalia/2017)

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out of Sound (Palilalia/2021)

Bill Orcutt - How to Rescue Things (Palilalia/2024)

Bill Orcutt - Jump On It (Palilalia/2023)

Bill Orcutt - Another Perfect Day (Palilalia/2025)

Track Listing

Bill Orcutt - All Your Buried Corpses Begin to Speak [0:00]

Zoh Amba & Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Moon Showed But No You [4:54]

Bill Orcutt - Ol' Man River [10:03]

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Thirteen Ways of Looking [13:15]

Bill Orcutt - The Wild Psalms [16:22]

Bill Orcutt - A Natural Death [21:35]

Bill Orcutt - For the Drainers [24:34]

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Since the beginning of this millennium Chris Clark has been one of the most reliably inventive electronic musicians to emerge from the Warp records roster. His newest album, Steep Stims, is the lastest to be recently release on his own label, Throttle. He is this week's spotlight artist.

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Clark - Death Peak (Warp/2017)

Clark - Turning Dragon (Warp/2008)

Clark - Cave Dog (Throttle/2023)

Clark - Empty the Bones of You (Warp/2003)

Clark - Kiri Variations (Throttle/2019)

Clark - Iradelphic (Warp/2012)

Clark - Body Riddle (Warp/2006)

Clark - Clark (Warp/2014)

Clark - The Last Panthers (Warp/2016)

Clark - Steep Stims (Throttle/2025)

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Clark - Aftermath [0:00]

Clark - Gaskarth / Cyrk Dedication [2:03]

Clark - Meadow Alien [6:53]

Clark - Slow Spines [10:34]

Clark - Cannibal Homecoming [14:10]

Clark - Black Stone [17:40]

Clark - Springtime Epigram [19:35]

Clark - Sodium Trimmers [21:07]

Clark - Naomi Pleen [24:43]

Clark - Gift and Wound [26:36]

photo from Jesy Fortino's Flickr account.

Jesy Fortino is not a tremendously prolific artist. That is why every new recording under her alias as Tiny Vipers or in collaboration with artists like Grouper, Balmorea, or The Sight Below feels like a gift. On her newest album, Tormentor, she returns to the spare acoustic sound that defined her early work. She is this week's spotlight artist.

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Tiny Vipers - Hands Across the Void (Sub Pop/2007)

Tiny Vipers - Laughter (Ba Da Bing!/2017)

Mirrorring - Foreign Body (Kranky/2012)

Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth (Sub Pop/2009)

Tiny Vipers - Ambience 3 (Box Bedroom Rebels/2015)

Tiny Vipers - Tormentor (Bandcamp/2025)

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Track Listing

Tiny Vipers - Forest on Fire [0:00]

Tiny Vipers - The Summing of Moments [6:30]

Mirrorring - Fell Sound [10:19]

Tiny Vipers - cm [16:31]

Tiny Vipers - Tape II [19:31]

Tiny Vipers - American Prayer[24:23]

Rafael Toral is a Portuguese artist who has been exploring his fascination with sound, silence, electronics, space, and the electric guitar for more than three decades. His newest album, Traveling Light, was recently released by Drag City. He is this week's spotlight artist.

Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution (Moikai/2024)

Rafael Toral - Open Space (Bandcamp/2020)

Rafael Toral - Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance (Staubgold/2001)

Rafael Toral - Liveloop (Noise Precision Libary/2009)

Rafael Toral - Electric Babyland / Lullabies (Tomlab/2002)

Rafael Toral - Traveling Light (Drag City/2025)

Track Listing

Rafael Toral - Intro + Changes [0:00]

Rafael Toral - III.III [6:10]

Rafael Toral - We Are Getting Closer [9:34]

Rafael Toral - Liveloop 2 [13:11]

Rafael Toral - slo [21:28]

Rafael Toral - Solitude [26:26]

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Jon Porras first came to prominence as part of the San Francisco psychedelic drone duo Barn Owl along with Evan Caminiti. He is also the author of a good number of solo albums including the newest, Achlys, just released by Shelter Press. He is this week's spotlight artist.

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Barn Owl - Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey/2010)

Jon Porras - Black Mesa (Thrill Jockey/2012)

Jon Porras - Arroyo (Thrill Jockey/2020)

Jon Porras - Orilla Oscura (Immune Recordings/2012)

Jon Porras - Light Divide (Thrill Jockey/2014)

Jon Porras - Achlys (Shelter Press/2025)

Track Listing

Barn Owl - Night's Shroud [0:00]

Jon Porras - Candlelight Mirage [2:10]

Jon Porras - Arroyo [7:34]

Jon Porras - Holy Hex [14:49]

Jon Porras - Pleiades [19:23]

Jon Porras - Sea Storm [24:15]

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