Field Tracker

Episode 1 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5FM. A selection of my favourite ambient works.

Setlist:

Stars of the Lid – Dungtitle (in A major) (1:41)
Kyle Bobby Dunn – Last Minute Jest (8:36)
Sawako – April ~ From Sea Shell (10:33)
Taylor Deupree – Weather (16:05)
Tetsu Inoue – Inter Link (21:10)
Loscil – Zephyr (33:42)
Tim Hecker – The Piano Drop (38:50)
Adam Pacione – Washed Ashore (43:00)
Christopher Bissonnette – Jour et Nuit (51:00)
Eluder – The Path Leads to the Solution (58:20)

Field Tracker #1 - Favourite Ambient; Feb 5, 2012

Episode 3 of the Field Tracker radio program on CJSR 88.5FM. Audibly instrumental ambient works.

Setlist:

Drafted By Minotaurs -  Blueprints for Sunbuilding(0:00)
Brian McBride – Several Tries (in an Unelevated Style) (12:15)
Stars of the Lid – Hiberner Tojours(21:25)
A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Requiem for the Static King Part 1 (23:07)
Mountains – Map Table (27:32)
Seaworthy – Ammunition 4 (33:18)
Lawrence English – Watching it Unfold (38:20)
Richard Skelton – Brook (45:38)
FM3 – Track 1 – (53:52)
Christopher Bissonnette – Tempest (57:00)


Field Tracker #3 - Acoustic; Feb 26, 2012

Episode 4 of the Field Tracker radio program on CJSR 88.5FM. 100% Canadian ambient music this week

Setlist:

Tim Hecker – The Piano Drop (0:00)
Mark Templeton – Safely into March (5:30)
Kyle Bobby Dunn – Canyon Meadows (17:16)
Christopher Bissonnette & David Wenngren – A Deceptive and Distant Howl (25:30)
Mid Pines – Deep Unto Deep (35:00)
Tim Hecker – Currents of Electrosasy (48:23)
Loscil – Halcyon (53:11)

Field Tracker #4 - Canadian Ambient; March 4, 2012

Episode 5 of the Field Tracker radio program on CJSR 88.5FM. Ambient music based around field recordings.

Setlist:

Seaworthy and Matt Rosner – Meroo Forest (0:00)
Seaworthy and Matt Rosner – Meroo Stream (4:00)
Solo Andata – Woods Flesh Bone (7:32)
Taylor Deupree – Rusted Oak (22:33)
Sawako – Ex.O.Tico. (33:10)
Brian Eno – Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks hills) (36:50)
Sleepytown Manufacture & Unit 21 – Swollenguest (44:05)
Beautumn – Acoustic Nerve (48:36)
Biosphere – Spring Fever (54:10)
Willamette – We’re Still Here (59:10)
Willamette – Echo Park (1:00:28)


Field Tracker #5 - Field Recording Centered; March 11, 2012

Episode 6 of the Field Tracker radio program on CJSR 88.5FM. Dreamy, lonely, dark, malaise ambient.

Setlist:

Eluder – Moon Plea (0:00)
Aless – But It Will Not Bleed(7:28)
Leyland Kirby – And Nothing Comes Between the Sadness and the Scream (14:53)
Willamette – Suicide Dream (23:00)
Milieu – Many Calm Streams (26:50)
Kiln – Drala (29:16)
Tomasz Bednarczyk – Drawing (31:55)
Tetsu Inoue – Sour Cloud (38:13)
Biosphere – Sphere of No-Form (42:35)
Stars of the Lid – Goodnight (49:30)
Adam Pacione – Always (Reprise) (57:30)

Field Tracker #6 - Lonely Ambient; March 18, 2012

Episode 7 of the Field Tracker radio program on CJSR 88.5FM. This week consisted of a history of the career of ambient/electronic composer, Tetsu Inoue, starting from his first releases in 1993 up to his latest release in 2007.

Setlist:

Tetsu Inoue & Pete Namlook – Tokai (0:00)
Datacide - Deep Chair (excerpt) (13:15)
Tetsu Inoue - Low of Vibration (18:47)
Tetsu Inoue & Jonah Sharp - Morphing Cloud (excerpt) (32:04)
Tetsu Inoue, Atom Heart, & Bill Laswell - Green Paste (excerpt) (41:11)
Tetsu Inoue - Health Loop (46:28)
Tetsu Inoue & Taylor Deupree - Interior/Tone (56:10)
Tetsu Inoue & Adam Deutsch - Field Tracker (excerpt) (60:16)
Tetsu Inoue – O Shape (66:14)
Tetsu Inoue - Symphony H20 (72:45)

Field Tracker #7 - Tetsu Inoue In-Depth; March 25, 2012

Episode 10 of the Field Tracker radio program on CJSR 88.5fm. This week consisted entirely of live ambient music recorded and released by the performing artist.

Setlist:

Christopher Willits – Improvisation Tokyo June 30, 2006 (0:00)
Taylor Deupree – Tasogare: Live in Tokyo [April 11, 2010] (excerpt) (8:57)
Steve Roden – Amnesia Berlin, 2004 (excerpt) (20:26)
Sawako, Richard Chartier, Shinjro Yamaguchi – November 9, 2007 (excerpt) (25:52)
Tim Hecker – Mort Aux Vaches (excerpt) (33:13)
Adam Pacione – Elevator Bath 10 Year Anniversary Showcase Set August 16, 2008 (excerpt) (41:09)
Aidan Baker – Live in London May 14, 2007 Part Two (48:49)
Beautumn – Everfields (57:00)
Mugen – Fabrica Plant 25 October 2004 (64:42)

Field Tracker #10 - Live Ambient; April 15, 2012

Episode 11 of the Field Tracker radio program on CJSR 88.5fm. This week’s playlist was composed by guest ambient DJ David Letersky and consisted of ambient tracks centered around or featuring vocals.

Setlist:

Giuseppe Ielasi – (another) Stunt (0:00)
Atlas Sound – On Guard (7:32)
Loscil – The Making of Grief Point (11:09)
Savvas Ysatis & Taylor Deupree – Like Ice on a Summer’s Day (22:46)
Biosphere – Times When I Know You’ll Be Sad (27:31)
Aix Em Klemm – The Girl With The Flesh Colored Crayon (33:10)
Sawako – A Last Next (36:38)
Fourcolor – Iris (familiar) (41:41)
Windy & Carl – My Love (46:39)
Brian Eno – 1/2 (55:51)

Field Tracker #11 - Vocal Ambient; April 22, 2012

Episode 12 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. This week was curated by guest DJ David Letersky and focuses on dark, almost nostalgic drones.

Setlist:

Stars of the Lid – Down 3 (0:00)
Kyle Bobby Dunn – Small show of Hands (9:12)
Windy & Carl – Songs for the Broken Hearted (15:12)
Endlessly – Mira (28:49)
Eluder – Recollection (37:39)
Pjusk – Sygge (46:02)
Christopher Bissonnette – Provenance (52:42)
Brian Eno – A Clearing (63:06)

Field Tracker #12 - Nostalgic Drones; May 6, 2012

Episode 14 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. This week I showcased some free ambient albums available for download around the web. Particularly from http://distancerecordings.com/ and http://www.archaichorizon.com/

Setlist:

Logic Moon – Polygon Garden
Conelrad – Approach
Offsets – Synthetic Sleep
Aidan Baker – Part Three
Northern Valentine – Rue d’Auseil
Dead Formats – Twenty Six Years of Dust
Heroines of the USSR – March 3rd
Implex Grace – Waves:Nostalgia

Field Tracker #14 - Free Ambient; May 20, 2012

Episode 16 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. Week two of freely available ambient music. Check out Distance Recordings, Archaic Horizon, Panda Fuzz Recordings, and Eluder for this week’s set of releases.

Setlist:

Spectra Ciera – Windy Walls
Bernhard Gunter – Infinity for Guitar
Doogie – The Hall The Door The Place
Daw Nusk – The Sky Is The Land
Beau Finley – Graves of Children
Voder – Jokulsarlon
Aidan Baker – 01
Aless – Honeyed
Eluder – Wraith

Field Tracker #16 - Free Ambient 2; June 3, 2012

Episode 15 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. This week consisted or 15 tracks from the 25 track ambient collaborative release, instagr/am/bient, in which ambient artists swapped instagram photos and created short ambient companions to the photos.

Setlist:

Oootini – My Other Lens is a Leica
Smyth – The Space Between
Benjamin Dauer – In Reference to Time
J butler – Sundown
Atlastop – A Bursting Yellow Heart Landed in the Collapsible Forest
Steiner – A Place I Used to Call Home
Radere – Snow Noise (Overhead)
Mark Rushton – Float
Warren Craghead III – Some Found Things
Evan Cordes – At the Window
Richard Ginns – Mauldeth Rise
Linda Aubry Bullock – Near Cedar
Ted James – You’re Trying to Focus, but it’s Too Far Away
Christopher Bissonnette – Downwards
Naoyuki Sasanami – Fugetsu
Marcus Fischer – Up Above the Hill-Sky
Wooden Walls – Meter Maid
Tom Vourtsis – Black Eyes

Field Tracker #15 - Instagr/am/bient; May 27, 2012

Episode 21 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. Ambient soundtracks of video games.

Setlist:

Jeremy Soule – Morrowind – Silt Sunrise
Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Akari Groves – Okami – Himko’s Palace
Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Akari Groves – Okami – Cave of Nagi
Solar Fields – Mirror’s Edge – Prologue
Jerry Schroeder – Hexic – Underlow
Tomoki Kanda, Kahimi Karie – We Love Katamari – Blue Orb
Oval – Rez – Octaeder
Minako Hamano – Super Metroid – Maridia (underground)
Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka – Earthbound – Final Battle
Eric Brosius – Thief – Framed
Eric Brosius – Thief – The Sword
Eric Brosius – Thief – Trail of Blood

Field Tracker #21 - Video Game Ambient; July 22, 2012

Episode 22 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. Ambient music composed through the piano.

Setlist:

The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Leyland Kirby – Not As She Is Now But As She Appears In My Dreams
Brian McBride – Piano ABG
Brian Eno – Thursday Afternoon
Concert Silence – Untitled V
Moons – Glass
Tosca – 2504/1 (Session 11)
Aloof Proof – The Ghost Ship
Eluder – Ritual 7

Field Tracker #22 - Piano Ambient; July 29, 2012

Episode 20 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. The return of ambient techno and synth-based ambient. Special two hour episode.

Setlist:

The Field – Sun & Ice
Ellen Allien – Caress
Jetone – Phoedra IV
Electricwest – Never Enough
Concert Silence – Untitled
Morgan Greenwood – Snowing Slow
Brian Eno – Events In Dense Fog
Christopher Willits – Finding Ground
Tetsu Inoue – Q-Tip
Dolphins Into The Future – On The High Seas
Oneohtrix Point Never – Submersible
Mist – Mist Stream
Imaginary Softwoods – Crystal Pond
Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here
Oneohtrix Point Never – When I Get Back From New York

Field Tracker #20 - Ambient Techno 2; July 15, 2012

Episode 25 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. Music of the great Canadian Tim Hecker.

Setlist:

Tim Hecker – Ghost Writing 1 + 2
Tim Hecker – Without Borders
Tim Hecker – Midnight Whispers
Tim Hecker – Trade Wind, White Heat
Tim Hecker – Celestina
Tim Hecker – Chimeras
Tim Hecker – Norberg
Tim Hecker, Aidan Baker – Fantasma Parastasie
Tim Hecker – 200 Years Ago
Tim Hecker – Apondalifa
Tim Hecker – Hatred of Music 1
Tim Hecker – Sketch 1

Field Tracker #25 - Tim Hecker in-depth; August 26, 2012

Episode 24 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. Episode of the extreme drones.

Setlist:

Harold Budd – The Oak Of The Golden Dreams
Klaus Schulz – Dungeon
Eliane Radigue – Kyema
Greg Davis – Cosmic Mudra
Toshimaru Nakamura – 3rd Rhythm Guitar
La Monte Young – Drift Study 14

Field Tracker #24 - Long form drone; August 12, 2012

Episode 23 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. Experimental ambient music filled the airwaves this week.

Setlist:

Volcano The Bear – Russian Milk
Spartak – Ostpolitik (draft 1)
Fennesz – The Colour Of Three
Doron Sadja – Landscapes, Headaches, and Heartbreaks
Doublends Vert – Cistern 1
Gregg Kowalsky – Tape Chants IX
Ryoji Ikeda – Untitled #25
Toshimaru Nakamura – & Tetuzi Akayama – May 11, 2002
HACO – Bugfield 2 ‘No Wave’ ‘Sleep’ ‘Wake Up’ With Human Operation (Powerbook G4)

Field Tracker #23 - Experimental; August 5, 2012

Episode 27 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. Hypnotic ambient this week. Music to put you in a trance.

Setlist:

Lawrence English – The Surface of Everything
Aless – Keepsake
Northern – Crossing
Eluder – Drift With Me
Tetsu Inoue – Health Loop
Adam Pacione – Washed Ashore
Stars of the Lid – The Atomium: Part Two

Field Tracker #27 - Hypnotic; September 9, 2012

Episode 26 of the Field Tracker radio show on CJSR 88.5fm or cjsr.com. An episode of brilliant ambient artists who for one reason or another I had not played yet.

Setlist:

Hammock – City In The Dust On My Window
Labradford – Recorded And Mixed At Sound Of Music, Richmond, VA
Eluvium – Everything to Come
Willits & Sakamoto – Levitation
Ekkehard Ehlers, Paul Wirkus – Wilem
Voder – Vatunjokoll
Shuttle 358 – Slowly In…
Komet – Looping 4=D

Field Tracker #26 - Overlooked artists; September 2, 2012

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