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absci radio 1314 – joshua p ferguson + henry self

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

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