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absci radio 1310 – follidh + chris widman

APHEX TWIN, JON HOPKINS, TRISTAN ARP + MIDLAND top new music for this episode of ABSTRACT SCIENCE from hosts JOSHUA P. FERGUSON + HENRY SELF. JOSHUA keeps it mostly ambient, downbeat + chillout for his set, with a few jazz-meets-electronics selections in the final moments. HENRY turns in a moody set touching on lush downtempo, house, techno + ambient. [aired 24 Octember 2024 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM]

>JOSHUA P. FERGUSON
Aphex Twin “Rhubarb Orc. 19.53 Rev” (Selected Ambient Works Vol 2, Warp, 2024)
BZDB “Dancesing” (Jump Ship, Sit Lean, Be Still, Stand Tall, AD93, 2024)
Gi Gi “Far-Flung” (Dreamliner, Quiet Time Tapes, 2024)
Marysia Osu “seatime” (harp, beats & dreams, Brownswood, 2024)
Four Tet “Skater” (Three, Text, 2024)
Tristan Arp “Life After Humans” (a pool, a portal, Wisdom Teeth, 2024)
Fergus Jones “Heap” (Ephemera, Numbers, 2024)
Carmen Villain “Nutrition” (Nutrition EP, Smalltown Supersound, 2024)
SML “Feed the Birds” (Small Medium Large, International Anthem, 2024)
The Elephant “What? You Don’t Like Beauty” (In the Room, Original Cultures, 2024)

>HENRY SELF
Nubya Garcia “Odyssey (Outerlude)” (Odyssey, Concord Jazz, 2024)
Google Earth “Tendril Embrace” (Street View, Tiny Telephone, 2024)
Nilüfer Yanya “Ready for Sun (Touch)” (My Method Actor, Ninja Tune, 2024)
TSHA “Lonely Girl” (Sad Girl, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Jon Hopkins “Part II – Palace/Illusion” (Ritual, Domino, 2024)
Caribou “Come Find Me” (Honey, Merge, 2024)
Midland “You Said You’d Be Good” (Fragments of Us, Graded, 2024)
M-High feat. Chicago Hustle “”Devil” (DisOrder, 2024)
Galaxy 2 Galaxy “Journey of the Dragons” (Underground Resistance, 1993)
Will Gregory Moog Ensemble “Parabolic Sleuth” (Heat Ray – Deluxe Edition, Mute, 2024)
Nubya Garcia “Water’s Path” (Odyssey, Concord Jazz, 2024)
Hermitude “Lift Me Up” (Mirror Mountain, Elefant Traks/Nettwerk, 2022)
Peder Mannerfelt “Big Ball” (Roman Flügel Remix) (Peder Mannerfelt Produktion, 2024)
Hassan Abou Alam “Hella Mega Drive” (Shouts 2021, Rhythm Section International, 2021)
Brijean “Roxy Mountain” (Macro, Ghostly International, 2024)


absci radio 1340 – joshua p ferguson + henry self

New music from TWO SHELL, COIDO, HAINBACH, TIM REAPER + KLOKE + more, on this Abstract Science podcast, hosted BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B + LUKE STOKES. BILL begins the program with a mix of 2 step + UK garage, peppered with Baltimore Club, techno + house. LUKE follows with a set of ambient + downtempo, punctuated by a bit of techno + jungle. [aired 07 November 2024 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM]

>BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B
Two Shell “Everybody Worldwide” (Y̴͍̐o̴̱͋u̶̬͒n̴̹͘g̴̩͆ , 2024)
DJ Swisha & OSSX “Smooth Landing” (Not On Label, 2024)
Metrodome & Sl8r “Wheel Out!! (Mash Up Ya Waist Mix)” (Weasel Dust, 2024)
Soul Mass Transit System “Bomb Edit” (Not On Label, 2024)
Operator P & 1TK “Planet Hype” (9D5Dance, 2023)
Gemi “Faster” (Time Is Now, 2024)
Stones Taro “Horse From Igloo” (Lost City Archives, 2024)
So Solid “Dilemma” (Holloway VIP, Not On Label, 2024)
Tom Marsi “Live Ur Life” (Not On Label, 2024)
Hodge “Right There” (fabric, 2024)
Coido “Ritterstep” (YUKU, 2024)
Pangaea “Squid” (Hessle Audio, 2023)
DJ Beverage “Moving On” (Not On Label, 2024)
Bop “Déjà vu” (Time Is Now, 2024)
Kobe JT “Dreaming” (Time Is Now, 2024)
Oyubi “OK” (Trekkie Trax, 2023)

>LUKE STOKES
Developingrhythm “10 Lines” (Filtered Lounge, Broque, 2024)
Malcom Pardon “Enter the Void” (The Abyss, The Leaf Label 2024)
Simon Fisher Turner “Barefeet” (Instability of the Signal, Mute, 2024)
Chrystabell & David Lynch “Sublime Eternal Love” (Cellophane Memories, Sacred Bones, 2024)
Hainbach “Flashlight Dance” (The One Who Runs Away Is The Ghost OST, Seil Records, 2024)
Nelson Devereaux “Garden” (Infinity, Youngbloods 2024)
Dialect “Late Fragment” (Atlas of Green, RVNG, 2024)
Passepartout Duo and Inoyama Land “Abstract Pets” (Radio Yugawara, Total Union 2024)
Will Gregory Moog Ensamble “Archamedies’s Screw (Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project, Mute, 2024)
Emanuel Eisbrenner “Matrize” (nexXT EP, Self Released, 2024)
Laertes Vs. Worg “Alba Longa (original mix)” (Orazi e Curlazi EP, Lykos Records 2024)
Nico van Wersch “Psychose 9” (Psychose, Naked Records, 2024)
Tim Reaper & Kloke “Alienation” (In Full Effect, hyperdub, 2024)


absci radio 1342 – whoa-b + luke stokes

LEIFUR JAMES, PEVERLIST, LP GIOBBI + HERBERT lead off new music for the episode of the ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast hosted by JOSHUA P. FERGUSON + HENRY SELF. JOSHUA leans into his love of jazz-adjacent electronic sounds with his set, moving through chillout, atmospheric drum n’ bass, leftfield beats + lo-fi house. HENRY picks things up seamlessly, turning up the dial on groove-laden house, ambient soul + slo-mo disco. [aired 11 November 2024 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM]

>JOSHUA P. FERGUSON
Maribou State “Bloom” (Hallucinating Love, Ninja Tune, 2024)
LeFtO Early Bird “I Sing to Find Peace of Mind” (Jana Rush remix) (Motherless Father: Club Versions, Brownswood, 2024)
Peverelist “Pulse XIV” (Pulse Echo EP, Livity Sound, 2024)
PFM “One and Only” (Looking Good, 1995)
United Future Organization “LOVE” (Kruder & Dorfmeister Sessions) (The K&D Sessions 25th Anniversary, !k7, 1999/2025)
Fergus Jones “Heima” (Ephemera, Numbers, 2024)
Jichael Mackson “Shangri La” (Wait for It, Ilian Tapes, 2024)
Leifur James “Wake Up Spring” (Magic Sands, Night Time Stories, 2024)
L’Eclair “Lotus” (Stone Pixels, 2024)
Flying Lotus “Let Me Cook” (Spirit Box, Brainfeeder, 2024)
Jahari Massamba Unit “Boppin'” (YHWH is LOVE, Law of Rhythm, 2024)
Mr Scruff “So Long” (Keep It Unreal, Ninja Tuna, 1999)
Herbert “Fallen” (Part 9, Accidental Records, 2024)
Quantic “Born Again” (Instrumental) (Tropics, Aus Music, 2024)

>HENRY SELF
Leifur James “Euphoria” (Magic Seeds, Night Time Stories, 2024)
LP Giobbi “Succession” (Dotr, Counter, 2024)
Vegyn “Debold” (Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds, PLZ Make It Ruins, 2019
Ebbb “Swarm” (All At Once, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Mermaid Chunky “Chaperone” (Slif Slaf Slof, DFA, 2024)
Cruisic “Inspector Norse” (Flower, 2019)
Jamie Porteous “Nervous” (Teela, Music for Dreams, 2024)
Collettivo Immaginario “Luna Gioia” (Space Grapes, 2024)
Nala Sinephro “Continuum 7” (Endlessness, Warp, 2024)
Nilüfer Yanya “Wingspan” (My Method Actor, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Frameworks feat. Ben Williams “Coming Back” (Imagine Gold, Loci, 2019)
Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett “Supersymmetry” (Her, Milan, 2021)
Ben Böhmer “Martin” (Bloom, Ninja Tune, 2024)
808 Beach x Amy Douglas “Whatever Daddy Says” (Toucan Sounds, 2024)


absci radio 1343 – joshua p ferguson + henry self

JUSTINDEMUS guest mix + new music from EPROM, OBJEKT, SKEE MASK, SHED + more on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast hosted by CHRIS WIDMAN. Chicago-based experimental electronic artist, designer, DJ, and video editor JUSTINDEMUS begins the program with a percussion-driven + bass-heavy mix of breakbeat + left-field club sounds. For the second hour, WIDMAN begins with a bit of the dream/internet-born HIT EM genre, followed by uptempo bass/techno hybrids + closing with downtempo sounds, including a brief memorial to the pioneering J SAUL KANE aka DEPTH CHARGE (RIP). [aired 21 November 2024 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM]

>JUSTINDEMUS
Audrey “Calling” 
Anunaku & DJ Plead “Wheele”
Nikki Nair “Joan” 
Alien D “2 Great Tastes”
Color Plus “No Problem.”
Deflector “Ice5”
Bakongo “Level Cowbell”
Plebeian “2”
Fatherhood “Ya Carrying”
Happy Colors “Palante”
LT “Gale Force” 
Alien D “Spicy Action”
Astrolith “Ultragel”
Jensen Interceptor “Carter’s Green Factory”
FYI Chris “Scum of the Earth (feat. Thick Richard)”

>CHRIS WIDMAN
EPROM “The Search” (Thank You, Dream Girl., Tabula Rosa, 2024)
Matmos “A Grave Covered In Slime” (Thank You, Dream Girl., Tabula Rosa, 2024)
Relativity Lounge “dusktop” zero-sum EP (Satelite Trax, 2024)
Objekt “Chicken Garaage” (Kapsela, 2024)
Skee Mask “1414 Dub” (D, 2024)
Merrick Brown “Deep Drum Chants” (VA Series Vol.1, Dingning23, 2024)
Shed “TLSQ” (Applications, Ilian Tapes, 2024)
Damon Wild “Subtractive Synthesis (The Advent Remix) (Synewave NY, 2001)
Monolake “Cute Little Aliens” (Studio, Imbalance Computer Music, 2024)
X-Altera “Citybound TV” (Groundswell, Bopside, 2024)
Lokua “Terraformer Supreme” (unreleased)
Depth Charge “Han Do Jin (Even Heroes Have to Die)” (Vinyl Solutions, 1989)
Throwing Snow “Tides” (Isthmus, Houndstooth, 2024)
Can “Thief” (Delay 1968, Spoon, 1981)
Oliver Nelson “Stolen Moments (Telefon Tel Aviv remix)” (Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked, Impulse, 2005)


absci radio 1344 – justindemus + chris widman

BEST OF 2024 featuring THE BUG, DJRUM, DRUMSKULL, CHATEAU FLIGHT, FCUKERS, FLOATING POINTS, GLASS BEAMS, JOHNNY FROM SPACE, PIEZO, SAM LINK, SISTER ZO + SAM BINGA, SKEE MASK, THREE HANDS OF DOOM, TSHA + many more on this extended ABSTRACT SCIENCE year-in-review podcast. Co-hosts CHRIS WIDMAN, BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B, JOSHUA P FERGUSON + HENRY SELF mix 4 hours of future music favorites from 2024. [aired 05 + 12 December 2024 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM]

>CHRIS WIDMAN
Stenny “Hazy Grove” (Maha, Ilian Tape, 2024)
Monolake “Global Transport” (Studio, Imbalance Computer Music, 2024)
Skee Mask “Stomp” (ISS010, Ilian Tape, 2024)
Sam Link “Mae” (Stone Wheel EP, Satellite Trax, 2024)
Machinedrum “Capone” (RISE, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Om Unit & James Bangura “Ruffneck” (Rushing 1621, Local Action, 2024)
West Norwood Cassette Library “Jump Up (Get Beat Down) (Rawtrachs Remix)” (WNCL Recordings, 2024)
Joy Orbison “flight fm” (Toss Portal, 2024)
The Bug “Bodied (Send For the Hearse)” (Machine, Relapse, 2024)
Three Hands of Doom Ring “Dirt” (Three Hands of Doom, Nyege Nyege Tapes, 2024)
Struction “Flip” (Basis, Ilian Tape, 2024)
gyrofield “Cold Cases” (These Heavens, XL, 2024)
Samurai Breaks & Napes “Wavelord Bizniz” (Wavelord Bizniz EP, Hooversound, 2024)
Objekt “Ganzfeld” (Djrum Remix – short edit) (Kapsela, 2024)
Plaid “Unions” (VINT, Lapsus Records, 2024)

>BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B
Ivy Lab "Look Away" (Sneaker Social Club, 2024)
Liquid DnB-like Ambient Grime "02 Garage Mix" (Sneaker Social Club, 2024)
Omagoqa & General C’mamane "Indumezulu" (The Other Side, 2024)
Piezo "Thoughts, Heavy" (Foodman Remix, Ansia, 2024)
Chimpo "Slime Climb" (Pineapple Records, 2024)
Danny Scrilla "I Gotta" (Perfect Records, 2024)
Two Shell "Everybody Worldwide" (Y̴͍̐o̴̱͋u̶̬͒n̴̹͘g̴̩͆ , 2024)
DJ Swisha & OSSX "Smooth Landing" (Not On Label, 2024)
Gemi "Faster" (Time Is Now, 2024)
Bored Lord "Vernal" (Not On Label, 2024)
DJ Beverage "Ride" (Diamonds Take Time, 2024)
Coido "Wedge" (Twenty Twenty, 2024)
Sister Zo & Sam Binga "Chop Dat" (Amy Kisnorbo & Sam Binga Remix, Pineapple Records, 2024)
The Glitch Mob "L-EV8" (Twenty Twenty, 2024)
Drumskull "Scrolling Shooter" (Hooversound Recordings, 2024)
Kinoteki "BB-Heart+Soul" (Tabula Rasa, 2024)
Carlos Corté$ "Oasis" (Broken Lip Remix, BSN Posse, 2024)

>JOSHUA P FERGUSON
Fergus Jones “It Should Be (Free)” (Ephemera, Numbers, 2024)
Total Blue “Chaparral” (Total Blue, Music from Memory, 2024)
Gi Gi “Dreamliner” (Dreamliner, Quiet Time Tapes, 2024)
Chateau Flight “Clair de Lune a Mykonos” (La Folie Studio, Versatile, 2024)
Jonny from Space “Level Skip” (Back Then I Didn’t But Now I Do, Incienso, 2024)
Priori “To See Our Secret Die” (This But More, NAFF, 2024)
Fields of Mist “Orbital Mist” (Biospore Farmers, Ilian Tapes, 2024)
Jichael Mackson “Good Morning Sunshine” (Wait for It, Ilian Tapes, 2024)
Jahari Massamba Unit “Rubato Love” (YHWH is LOVE, Law of Rhythm, 2024)
Glass Beams “Black Sand” (Mahal, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Tristan Arp “invisible cities” (a pool, a portal, Wisdom Teeth, 2024)
Donato Dozzy “Lucrezia” (Magda, Spazio Diponible, 2024)
Jamie xx “Falling Together” (In Waves, Young, 2024)

>HENRY SELF
John Glacier “Emotions” (Like a Ribbon, Young, 2024)
Four Tet “Loved” (Three, Text, 2024)
Mount Kimbie feat. King Krule “Empty and Silent”(The Sunset Violent, Warp, 2024)
Caribou “Honey” (Honey, Merge, 2024)
Elkka “Make Me” (Prism of Pleasure, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Floating Points “Key103” (Cascade, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Peggy Gou “Find the Way” (Gudu, 2024)
Fcukers “Tommy” (Baggy$$ EP, Technicolour, 2024)
Âme, Curses “Shadow of Love” (Innervisions, 2024)
TSHA feat. Caroline Byrne “Sweet Devotion” (Sad Girl, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Vegyn “Makeshift Tourniquet” (The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, PLZ Make It Ruins, 2024)
Kim Gordon “Psychedelic Orgasm” (The Collective, Matador, 2024)
Mk.gee “Rylee & I” (Two Star & the Dream Police, R&R, 2024)
Nala Sinephro “Continuum 7” (Endlessness, Warp, 2024)


absci radio 1346-1347 – best of 2024

@networkerror

No longer lit by the bright ambient light of our CDJ's, this week on CENTER BOOTH we plunge into the dark abyss for our very first live hardware set, and who better to break us in than the legendary Providence-based artist Isabella Koen, a veritable mastermind of the craft. Not only is she known for her crushing live sets in clubs around the world, including at Basement and Nowadays here in New York, Tresor and Draaimolen Festival abroad, just to name a few, she's also a literal Professor of Electronic Production and Design at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston. And if that wasn't enough hats to wear, she's also set to open a new listening bar called Piccolo in Providence, bringing further richness to a city already brimming with talent and creativity.

For her set at CENTER BOOTH, she works with a rather concise sibling-setup of an Elektron Octatrack mk1 and an Elektron Rytm mk2, utilizing a diverse range of propulsive programmed rhythms to wade through thick sonic sludge. The result is a powerful, triumphant sound that never fails to throw crowds into a frenzy. We're in awe of this one, totally confounded by her unique ability to weave together an intricate array of dissonant sounds and somehow make it make complete and utter sense. The experience of seeing it in person is baffling and heroic, garnering a response that is both guttural and genuine. It's an honor to have her grace our stage, and to give you a taste of this inimitable East Coast artist.

For further listening, check out her excellent releases on Peder Mannerfelt Produktions, iDEAL Recordings, Rank+File, and Synthetic Pleasures. 

https://youtu.be/5T4i_KL4Dl8?si=k7gAn-sIGNSFJkVq
https://www.lettonne.dance/


Isabella Koen – Center Booth ◎ S2E06

[EP059] Guest mix by Eamon Ivri (https://soundcloud.com/lighghtmusic).

Aired via https://soundcloud.com/stegi-radio-athens.

Tracklist:

Eamon Ivri - field recording in TestSite Cork 17th May 2025 mildly edited
cosmo - slowly falling leaves
Nomadic Flute Brother - far away stroms
Billy Gomberg - early learning
metaxu - Side B (i) 
Lake Rosseau and Divine Foray - Not Water
Mícheál Keating - Abandoned Quarry, Ballyneety
Loula Yorke - Everything Beating at the Same Brittle Pulse
Sleepdial - Earthbeamer
metaxu - Side B (vi)
VHS MIDNIGHT STYLE - prion disease (feat. rretroactively)
JQ & Nick Malkin - Dashcam
Famous Tex - leanon 
veno 3000 - grunewald
auffthorn - factory strings
JQ - Empty Hearth Of The Maze
Romeo Poirier - Trace palmaire
auffthorn - remote viewing
Sleepdial - Blue August
metaxu - Side A (iii)
Eamon Ivri - [combined] phone recording “clay thoughts” February 2025 + field recording 
snippet “fountainstown beach” mildly edited April 2025

Commissioned by Stegi Radio
Produced by Onassis Stegi

Eamon Ivri

Stegi | evo-natura with Eamon Ivri ― 31st August 2025

Berlin-based selector and half of DJ duo Lazy Calm Raga, digging for strange connections, leftfield loops, and strictly brainbangerz.

edit_hhhhh @ Kiosk Radio 12.09.2025

Taken from Conrad Pack's 'Praise EP' on SELN Recordings.
Order here: selnrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/praise-ep

Out October 1st 2025
Mastered by Mike Grinser at Manmade

Conrad Pack - Guidance

Dj Krot [03.10.25]

Gaul Plus "Hissing Nest" [+FILE003] is now available for pre-order in both digital and vinyl formats and releases officially on November 28, 2025. We're thrilled to make the announcement alongside the single release of "Public Screamer" – a firestarter of a track with a vocal feature from James K that is as majestic as it is brooding.

@gaulplus @neutral_cloud @jamesk_1

Written and Produced by Gaul Plus
Vocals by James K
Vocal Mixing by Loric Sih
Mastered by Loric Sih

Design and Layout by Gina Lee
Artwork by Cato Ouyang

Gaul Plus – Public Screamer (feat. James K)

October 2025 marks exactly ten years since the first broadcast of Radio Punctum. It was an episode of the show Altershapes that aired live from a makeshift studio, shared as a Shoutcast streaming URL on forums as it seceded from the now-defunct Radio Streetculture to found its own station.

To celebrate this special occasion, we are releasing a massive compilation featuring music from our station's past and present residents, friends, and collaborators.

The curatorial aim was to capture the breadth of our musical programming.

Expect anything from ambient to goregrind, ambitious experimental pop to outsider songwriters, and meticulous digital soundscapes to electro and gabber bangers, as well as electronic post-punk stylings — all mastered with great care by Yukimura at Mustakillah Studio.

And so concludes the first ten years of this traveling circus.

Drop out, turn on, tune in!

@andriy_k

Butterfly Effect (10 Years Of Radio Punctum)

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rec delivers a whispered assemblage, half-awake, softly felt remembrance of something living beneath as a continuum, that never quite reveals its walls completely through the relentless tension of existence, where acoustics let it breathe and dissolve at once, folding into loops that feel like memories re-entering the body like an intoxicating smoke: a door left slightly open, guiding in a slumber of blurry syllables: warm, ghostlike, departing and stretching the softness until it becomes a migrating pulse, hope of the hearts humming in the distance without knowing they’re heard.

rec is a Tbilisi-based musician, tracing between parallel worlds of the same purpose under his own label and a mix series @expiredsound.

@rreecc

Amulet 066: rec

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