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CARIBOU, JAMIE XX, BONOBO + YAEJI are the highlights for this episode of ABSTRACT SCIENCE with hosts JOSHUA P. FERGUSON + HENRY SELF. JOSHUA runs through a slate of recent house-ish highlights then drops the tempo for a downtempo coda. HENRY eases in with an update to the proto-techno classic E2-E4 and unwinds from there with a mix of leftfield house, indie-ambient + electro. [aired 26 September 2024 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM]

>JOSHUA P. FERGUSON
Tim Sweeney & Lauer “Dance to T&P” (acid mix) (Platoon, 2024)
Erol Alkan “Sub Conscious” (Tin Man remix) (Phantasy Sound, 2015)
Anatolian Weapons “Ego (Naked)” (Beyond EP, Subject to Restriction, 2024)
Caribou “Volume” (Honey, Merge, 2024)
Phil Asher & James Massiah “Time & Space” (Rekids, 2015)
&me “As Above So Below” (Pampa, 2018)
Axel Boman “Space Drag” (Studio Barnhus, 2024)
Kornel Kovacs “Lighthouse” (Radio Koko, Numbers, 2015)
Jamie xx “Dafodil” (In Waves, Young, 2024)
Kid Sundance “GESTe” (Meer Seconden, Ilian Tape, 2024)
Leifur James “Smoke in the Air” (Magic Seeds, Night Time Stories, 2024)
Nala Sinephro “Continuum 10” (Endlessness, Warp, 2024)

>HENRY SELF
Alex Kassian “A Reference To E2-E4 By Manuel Göttsching” (Test Pressing, 2024)
Seefeel “Multifolds” (Everything Squared, Warp, 2024)
Neutrals “How Did I Get Here” (New Town Dream, Slumberland, 2024)
Michael Cignarale “Let Your Body Go” (Maximum Airtime, 2024)
Emanuel Satie “Happy” (Innervisions, 2024)
LOR “Face of the Tortured” (Elseware, 2024)
Bonobo “Expander” (Ninja Tune, 2024)
Deer Jade “Firmament” (Innervisions, 2024)
Slowdive “Kisses” (Sky II) (Dead Oceans, 2024)
Ebbb “Himmel” (All At Once, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Hawksmoor “Glass Teeth” (Oneironautics, Soul Jazz, 2024)
Yaeji “Booboo” (XL, 2024)

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absci radio 1336 – joshua p ferguson + henry self

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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)

BUY NOW

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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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Viernes 28 NOV: Isabella Lovestory afterparty w/LSDXOXO, 1OO1O, Word of Command, Niebla

wₒᵣd ₒf cₒₘₘₐₙd 🎧  NTS 10.12.25 • 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 @ Drama Radio Bar

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