This episode will feature space-themed compositions. The concept of outer space travel has served as inspiration for many artists across the decades. I’ve selected some works that span the early 1960s to about 1980.

This episode is devoted to the music of Harold Budd who passed on December 8, 2020 at the age of 84.

This is my seasonal selection of vintage electronic holiday music. Here's to looking forward to a peaceful and harmonious new year.

In this episode we’ll listen to some tape collages of industrial sounds and some industrial style music. For the latter, we’ll hear works by Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and Merzbow. In between are various sounds of industry made between 1923 and 2003. In the Archive Mix we’re going to hear a segment of the amazing Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed played against some battle sounds from World War II.

For this episode, we are going to listen to examples of turntablism from its more recent history, where the turntable is combined with other electronics and audio processing. It will also include some examples of glitch music made with manipulated or damaged CDs. But before we get to those examples, I will revisit a theme from the previous episode in which I explored the roots of what I call Maximum Turntablism.

For this episode, I thought I would provide a history in recordings of the turntable in experimental music. This will be a two-part series. We’ll go from 1924 until 1979 in this episode, finishing with a more modern work by Marina Rosenfeld from 1999. In the next part, we’ll take a broader listen to turntablism and the related style of CD-glitch music in more recent times.

In post-World War II Japan, interest grew in Western music. Among the genres that sparked interest was electronic music, then taking off in experimental music circles in North America and Europe. In this two-part series, we'll listen to examples of formative electronic music on tape and in performance prior to the synthesizer. Part 1 covers 1953-1963. Part 2 covers 1960 to 1975.

In post-World War II Japan, interest grew in Western music. Among the genres that sparked interest was electronic music, then taking off in experimental music circles in North America and Europe. In this two part series, we'll listen to examples of formative electronic music on tape and in performance prior to the synthesizer. Part 1 covers 1953-1963. Part 2 covers 1960 to 1975.

This episode is the conclusion of my three-part miniseries on the history of vintage electronic jazz. Part 1 concerned the use of electronic music on tape with jazz musicians; Part 2 explored the amplification of jazz instruments and the tricked-out sounds that could be created. Part 3 explores the arrival of the synthesizer as a new expressive instrument in jazz.

In part 2 of this mini-series of my podcast. we’ll listen to musicians who added electronic sounds live while performing with their electrified instruments.