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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Chris Widman is a Chicago DJ that defies easy classification. Host of the weekly radio program Abstract Science (since 1997 and a DJ since 1995), he is at the forefront of breaking new styles, crossing genres and re-introducing forgotten music. Whether DJing for the dancefloor or the armchair, Widman is known for his adventurous mixing of dubstep, techno and everything else, creating his own form of crowd-pleasing sonic warfare.

Abstract Science airs Thursdays 10pm-2am CT on WLUW-Chicago 88.7fm.

Kimochi Sound / Continental Drift Records / Otake Records / Cervidae Recordings / Blankhaus / Golden Ratio Radio

Upcoming performances: 
- etc radio - DJ (Chicago/Incheon/Leipzig) 09.19.2025
Past:
- Wax 'n Cats - live (Chicago, IL USA) 07.13.2025
- Gramaphone Records - live (Chicago, IL USA) 07.12.2025
- Diane's Hunting Club - live (Fractal Forest, IL USA) 07.04.2025
- Process x Continental Drift - live (Portland, OR USA) 06.26.2025
- Lu15 - live (Tubingen, Germany) 06.07.2025
- Schlacthaus - live ((Tubingen, Germany) 06.06.2025
- Inch By Inch Record Store - live (Leipzig, Germany) 05.31.2025
- Continental Drift Records presents An Evening With Kimochi Sound - live (Process - Portland, OR USA) 01.30.2025
- Inch By Inch Pop-Up Record Shop at Amsterdam Dance Event 2024 - live (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 10.16.2024
- Karpaten Tanz - live (Tubingen, Germany) 03.29.2024
- Believe You Me - live (Portland, OR USA) 03.16.2024
- Speck's Records & Tapes - live (Portland, OR) 02.17.2024
- Drips Botanical Elements - DJ (Omaha, NE USA) 06.09.2023
- Gramaphone Records - live (Chicago, IL USA) 05.05.2023
- Murasaki Sake Lounge - DJ (Chicago, IL USA) 05.06.2023
- Cafe Kiez Dessau - live (Dessau, Germany) 04.29.2023
- Lu15 - live (Tubingen, Germany) 04.22.2023
- Tardes Nanai (Los Andes, Chile) 02.04.2023 
- Casa de Salud (Concepcion, Chile) 02.03.2023
- Off The Grid (Oklahoma City, OK USA) 01.16.2023
- Cool Room (Chicago, IL) 06.18.2022
- In-store at 606 Records (Chicago, IL USA) 06.18.2022
- Podval (Chicago, IL USA) 06.17.2022
- The Goods Thursdays (Chicago, IL USA) 06.16.2022
- etc radio (original composition) 08.20.2021
- Diane's Hunting Club (Natural Fractal Farms/IL) 07.01-07.05.2021
- Delayed 05.28.2021 (Brooklyn, NY USA)
- GRIM (Rocket Radio) 01.10.2021 - (Verona, Italy)
- Research & Development (Smart Bar/online) 12.19.2020 - (Chicago)
- etc radio (DJ set) 07.06.2020 
- Diggers Festival (La Kulture/online) 05.14.2020 -(France)
- Groove.Cafe streaming live performance 03.27.2020 9 pm to 11pm CST (https://groove.cafe/live/)
- P4P presents Thanks4Giving (Brooklyn, NY) 11.30.2019
- Off The Grid (Oklahoma City, OK) 11.02.2019
- Housepitality (San Francisco, CA) 08.07.2019
- Diane's Hunting Club (in the woods west of Chicago) 07.06.2019
- Halcyon Record Shop (Brooklyn, NY) 04.26.2019
- Lu15 (Tubingen, Germany) 04.12.2019
- Antuset Sunsets (Valparaiso, Chile) 02.17.2019
- Patio K-fe (Los Andes, Chile) 02.15.2019
- Casa de Salud (Concepcion, Chile) 02.14.2019
- Santo Remedio (Santiago, Chile) 02.13.2019
- Base Camp (Puerto Natales, Patagonia) 02.11.2019
- Bar Bulnes (Punta Arenas, Patagonia) 02.10.2019
- Parties4Peace Thanks-4-Giving (TBA, Brooklyn NY) 11.18.2018
- The Social Room (Hong Kong) 09.15.2018
- Diane's Hunting Club (somewhere in, IL) July 6-8 2018
- etc radio on-air set (Chicago, IL) 06.15.2018
- Bushwick A/V (Brooklyn, NY) 05.13.2018
- Kimochi Sound Label Night (Osnabruck, Germany) 05.11.2018
- La Kulture (Strasbourg, France) 04.27.2018
- Lu Hausbar (Tubingen, Germany) 04.26.2018
- Bushwick A/V (Brooklyn, NY) 11.04.2017
- Off The Grid (Oklahoma City, OK) 10.20/21.2017
- Golden Ratio vol. 10 (Marz, Lincoln NE) 10.06.2017
- Records On The Roof (Black Circle Records, Lincoln NE) 09.30.2017
- Middle Of Nowhere Music Fest (Iowa City) 09.01.2017
- Diane's Hunting Club (Chicago, IL) 07.02.2017
- Off The Grid Summer Warm-Up (The Powerhouse, OKC, OK)06.24.2017
- Re:birth Festival (Chiba, Japan) May 12 - 14 2017

For American-born live performer and producer Conoley Ospovat, music is something deeply personal - a means of expressing and sharing the most heartfelt of emotions.  Hypnotic techno performances that are entirely self-produced and improvised take the listener on journeys through sound and emotion, texture and feeling. With his longest live set to date clocking in at close to 10 hours, these musical journeys weave together the variety of styles that comprise his vast and growing catalogue of original material.

Drawing from a diverse range of influences including techno, house, early electronica, synthpop, post-punk, jazz, and improvisational jam bands, Conoley creates uplifting dance music that is an interpretation of the world in sound. From hardware synthesizers and drum machines to ethnic acoustic instruments, field recordings and chopped-up audio to guitars and vocals; Conoley brings a finely-honed musical sense to his productions and performances based on more than 25 years in the studio and on stage.

He has performed live across America, Asia, and Europe.  He has supported the Wighnomy Brothers, John Tejada, Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts, Extrawelt, and Los Hermanos. He has shared bills with Move D, Pier Bucci, Robag Wruhme, Gerald Mitchell, DJ Nobu, Modern Deep Left Quartet, and Marc Schneider.

Conoley has recently released on Otake Records, Cervidea Recordings, Kimochi Sound, Blankhaus, Teorema, and Continental Drift Records.

Ospovat co-founded Continental Drift Records with c_olvrin in 2009. He is currently based in Lincoln, Nebraska USA.

*Bookings: shantievantimusic@gmail.com
*Otherworldly Ambiguity* (Evanti)
"Liminal Radio" WIIT.FM second Mondays, 1-3pm CST
*Research & Development

Shanti is a Chicago-based DJ who explores philosophical themes of existential angst and ambiguity through surreal, foreboding, apocalyptic techno, angsty EBM, and squishy acid soundscapes. Her sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition.

Shanti also hosts a monthly radio show "Liminal Radio" on WIIT 88.9FM Chicago every second Monday of the month, 1-3pm CST featuring inspiring guest DJs.

Upcoming Sets:
3/27: Transport, Cactus Club (Milwaukee)
3/28: Flowers of Romance, Smartbar (Chicago)
4/4: Minimal Detroit (Detroit)
4/11: Chicago Electronic Music Conference
4/18: Green Machine, Club Hospitality, Flow State , TBA (Chicago)
5/1: Blood Rave, Sleeping Village (Chicago)
5/29: TBA Chicago

2025:
3/7: Kimbark Fourth Estate (Chicago)
1/30: PLAY, Public Works, Chicago
1/8: Techno Jungle, EQ San Diego
12/31: Transitions Perc Trax, Smoke & Mirrors, Chicago
11/28: Otherworldly Ambiguity Feat. Function, Podlasie Club, Chicago
11/22: Freedom from Choice, Intellephunk and Enemy Records, Minneapolis
11/1: Sanctum Fest and Afters, Chicago 
10/23: Research & Development, The Whistler, Chicago
10/11: Senders, Life on Marz, Chicago
10/10: Polygonia, Smartbar (FORMAT, R&D), Chicago
9/20: DJ Nobu, Smoke & Mirrors (R&D), Chicago
9/6: Life on Marz, NFC Records, Chicago
8/24: Sinister, Chicago
7/27: The Great Beyond, Franklin, MN  
7/17: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie
7/11: Musique Électronique, Madison, WI 
6/27: FreshCorp, Spot Lite, Detroit
6/26: Research & Development, The Whistler
6/20: Rrose, Flowers of Romance, Smartbar
5/29: Bordello Aperitivo, Amsterdam , NE
5/24: Ø [Phase] , NERV, Smoke & Mirrors
5/9: Aurora Halal, Smoke & Mirrors
4/26: BLOODLUST, TBA
3/15: Mictlan Underworld, TBA 
3/4: H.O.T.H., California Clipper 
2/22: Flowers of Romance, Smartbar 
1/30: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie (Evanti)
1/25: VELVET, Los Angeles, TBA 

2024:
12/13: Zenker Brothers, Smoke & Mirrors 
11/27: Research & Development, Podlasie 
11/2: Protocol & Dimibowie
10/25: Braid Records, Podlasie 
10/12: Usual Suspects and Temple, Montrose Beach 
9/1: NEW BLOOD, Research & Development, The Whistler 
8/31: Dark Forest, TBA 
8/29: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie (Evanti)
8/3: INFERNO, Mictlan, TBA 
7/14: Green Machine, Techno BBQ
7/6: Beloved Radio Night, California Clipper 
6/27: The Goods, Swig (Evanti)
6/22: YardJamz
6/14: Errancy, Hyde Park 
6/1: Wisteria, The Whistler 
5/23: entropic, Smartbar 
5/18: Lumina by HzM 
4/20: Vampire's Ball 
4/18: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie
4/5: Smoke & Mirrors 
3/23: Vamplified, Surround Chicago 
3/17: Otherworldly Ambiguity, The Whistler (Evanti)
3/7: Stankbugz Radio 
2/13: Wisteria, The Whistler (Evanti)

E-Tik hails from the suburbs of Chicago. Always listening to a wide variety of music, he fell in love with the sounds of the UK bass scene in college, and fell into DJing shortly afterward. E-Tik started playing dubstep and grime but quickly branched out into UK garage, broken techno, and jungle. He got his start going back to back with FoleyDub on Sub.FM, which led to him taking up his own monthly residency on the station beginning in 2020. He has opened for the likes of Mungos HiFi, J:Kenzo, and others, focused on low frequency, meditative sounds across BPM and genre.

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