Astral Projections 2021

KEXP ~ PACIFIC NOTIONS - part 5

Vibey techno

Vocal Ambient

modular synth ambient

Elektroniskt i P2 - 3

Kids

T.Milly👑- Silhouette (Remix)

https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/secret-garden

In Spring 2021, Mike Paradinas (µ-Ziq and the owner of Planet Mu) spoke to long time friend and past label signing Hannah Davidson (Mrs Jynx) about the therapeutic power of writing music when times are tough. Both had recently been dealing with the loss of a parent due to cancer, and fresh from writing Scurlage, Paradinas suggested a collaboration.

“I’ve always thought Hannah’s melodic sensibilities chime well with my own," says Paradinas, "and I've wanted to collaborate with her for a long time, since [her 2010 album] 'Shark Carousel' in fact, because she'd written some melodies that I wish I had.”

In a matter of weeks the two collaborated online, sending stems back and forth, each encouraging the other and fitting perfectly together. 

“After about ten days we had ten tracks we were happy with." adds Davidson, "It was exciting to hear what Mike would do with the stems I sent, and equally exciting to see what he thought of my additions to his stems.”

Overall the result is an opus of deeply personal moments of grief, depicted in a feeling of serene, misty tranquility that makes it easy to get lost in. Davidson and Paradinas settled on the title 'Secret Garden' due to the melodic vista which unexpectedly opened up before them on the final track. The album truly is a melodic exploration that is so often missed in this genre. 

There are twists and turns in mood, from the pastoral loveliness of 'Jynxiq' and 'Unheard Melodies' which fall away to the dubby beats of 'Hi Jynx'; the sadness of 'Loss' leading into the beatless forlorn 'The Ballad of Darth Vader. The album ups the pace with the muffled kicks and warm atmosphere of 'Afternoon Sunshine', which sets the tone for the happier mood of the second half. This all leads up to the album's denoeument in final track 'Secret Garden' whose naïve meandering synth melodies, orchestral accompaniment and glockenspiel end the album in happy resolution.

µ-Ziq & Mrs Jynx - The Secret Garden

Commuter train-scented electronic dub that meets modular synth sounds.Modus loneliness in a shimmer of starry skies.
The feeling of eternity in the endless inner journey.
Snowy tape delays and asthmatic melodica.
Melodic intoxication.
Ingenmansland is the recipe for traveling boredom that lets you dream away in an organic electronic dub bubble!
Behind the name Gävle-Stockholm Dub we find the duo PRO424 and Slim Vic.
Maximilian (Pro424) and Viktor (Slim Vic) met in 2014 at Fylkingen in Stockholm when Lamour was looking for new artists for their club. The two quickly became friends and shared not only their interest in music but also their fascination for beards, cats and environmentally friendly vehicles.

Ingenmansland [PROMO]

Stora vreden i Storvreta

fragments

august 31st

'Tread', out now on Brainfeeder: https://rossfromfriends.lnk.to/treadSo

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Tread

Revellers

Happy Halloween!  Who doesn't love a little necromancy? Originally aired 10/22/21 on IFM.

Tracklist:

LashTal - Invocation of Nag-Zhig
Body Without Organs - Isis and Thoth
Executive Slacks - Sexual Witchcraft
Pink Industry - The Corpse
Zero Kama - Azure-Lidded Woman (Pregnant Womb of Non)
Dali's Car - Cornwall Stone
Bill Nelson - 7th Circle
O Yuki Conjugate - Dusk, Dead Heart
LashTal - Thoum Aesh Neith
Popol Vuh - On The Way
Slutet - Old Blood Kapala
Dolorian - In the Locus of Bone
Dusthallowed - A Prayer to the Coming Silence

Clips from The Mummy (1932) Boris Karloff, Zita Johann

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS 17: "Necromancy"

Rembihnútur (Liminal re-work by Paul Corley)

First aired on the Dream Machine, Intergalactic FM on 11/5/21

Full tracklist: 
Domenique Dumont - +371
t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - 手放す
Brian Eno - Atmospheric Lightness (excerpt)
Ruth Anderson - Pregnant Dream
Jason Kolar - Corners
(sound collage // field recordings, by me. Hawaiian airlines flight, ATC chatter, birds chirping, fluorescent light buzz, static, tape loops)
Windows 96 - Mind Mirage
Cygnus - IBM Minus
Com Truise - Terminal
Poison Girl Friend - Fact 2
Mariska Neerman - Finding our way back home
Mystes System - Online Chess 
Pulsum - Distilled existence
CN - Isis 
Skoddie - Composition 1
Ruth Anderson - So What
Boards of Canada - Under the Coke Sign
((Windows 95 Startup sound slowed 4000% excerpt, ATC chatter))
Japanese Telecom - Pagoda of Sin
Nav Katze - Tightrope

Astral Projections 18 - The Frontrooms

Special frost moon eclipse episode, originally aired 11/19 on Intergalactic FM's Dream Machine Channel

Tracklist:
Unknown Artist
(Nosferatu the Vampyre castle ambience)
Popol Vuh - On the Way
Paul Bowles - Here I Am
Fashiongore - Soliloquy of the Damned
Nocturnal Phase - Silence Will Never Tell You Lies
Heavenly Bodies - Spittle of the Moon
Emme Ya - Distant Black Sun
(Isabelle Adjani - Possession subway scene audio)
Test Dept. - Dark Eyes
The Doubling Riders - Nights
(Nosferatu ambience)
Yearner - Winter Mantra 1
Yearner - Winter Mantra 2
Compressio Cerebri - Tiermuttergestandis.Abdrift
Pablo's Eye - A Pagan Use
Forseer - White Robe Tied

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS 19: "Frost Moon Eclipse"

Episode 20 of Astral, originally aired 12/3 on Intergalactic FM Dream Machine 

Tracklist:
Smackos - Telecom Mountain Computer
Smackos - the Screen is On
Thomas Dolby - the Wreck of the Fairchild
Thomas Dolby - Airwaves
Kraftwerk - Radioland
Radio Rabotnik TV - Leader
Alva Noto - Xerrox Monophaser 2
--mixed with moon bouncing recording by HAM radio operator K7AGE
Hank & Slim - Dark Cloud Lightning
--mixed w/ Skoddie's Renegade Radio collage
KLF - Rock Radio into the nineties and beyond
Schloss Tegal - Black Static Transmission
--EAS Tornado Warning for Ohio
Esther Venrooij - Arthur
Hank and Slim - Strange Lights on the Prairie
--Alice Springs Australia - School of the Air found audio
Gianni Gebbia / Tiziano Popoli / Massimo Simonini - Radio Cuore
Pyrolator - Happiness
KWC 92 - Dreaming of You
Clandestine - Radio Rhythm

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS 20: "Radio Magic"

A winter solstice episode.  Originally aired 12/17/21 on #intergalacticfm

Soft Machine - Carol Ann
Harold Budd & Brian Eno - An Echo of Night
Daniel Lentz - Instrumental (from Apologetica)
Jack Smith - Cold Starry Nights
Tor Lundvall - Blankets of Snow
Biosphere - Mestigoth
Appalachian Winter - Call of the Lonesome Wind
Sleipnir - Ghost of the Final Battlefield
Field Works - And Blue Green Spruce
Suplington - Limbo State
Depressive Silence - Depths of the Oceans
Soul Whirling Somewhere - Landed
Daniel Lentz - Instrumental 3 (from Apologetica)
Suplington - Procession
Pablo's Eye - That Night Together With Her
Slender Vittles - Simply Having Xmas

Astral Projections 21 - Winter Solstice

Drift Below

I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon

Moon In Your Eye

Radio Replacement

Rest Proof Clockwork

Ralome (feat. Mason Bee)

https://patrikbergalmkvisth.ffm.to/solskurrework

I'm so pleased to share that my rework of LUCHS's song 'Solskur' is out now.

After selecting 'Solskur' to rework, Patrik shared that the piece is actually the emotional centerpiece of the album for him, and is a homage to his mother who passed away from cancer in 2019. As a mother of three sons, this project was deeply meaningful to me. I knew how personal it was to Patrik and I wanted to honor the original song, while at the same time putting a different spin on the song with the thoughtfulness of his original intact. Because the original song was driven by solo piano, I took certain sections of the piano motifs and created mini-vignettes which I re-arranged throughout the remix and used them as a platform to create ambient beds of textures with his piano, my voice and various added synth elements.

LUCHS (Patrik Berg Almkvisth) - Solskur - Hollie Kenniff Rework

Bring Your Friends

Overstrung but Underdamped

this is a sketch of mine from 2020, before i was releasing any music as marine eyes. i recently shared this on bandcamp via my new collection 'lessons in letting go: sketches + b-sides'

find that here: https://marineeyes.bandcamp.com/album/lessons-in-letting-go-sketches-b-sides

thanks for listening <3

triggers

@synkro

I'm running back to me feeling homesick
soon I might recall the savory flavor
of what will ease me until I'm mellow
I move so the floor beneath me transforms into a flow
does it really matter if I'm loved beloved unloved
if I submerged deep in dirt and died slow
-li al

We breathe in oxygen, transform it into carbon dioxide and breathe out. One simple witness of transforming matter. With this album I became aware of this inevitable movement and my deeply rooted need to live that. So I could not restrict myself any longer not to surrender to it, to the creative flow.
Very new and important to me was to collaborate with such immensely talented artists. It has elevated and transformed my production skills & process. I feel very honored to connect, learn and transform matter - together.
-Chewlie

credits:
„Run“ features a piano recording of Rahelle Fischer
„Beloved feat. Synkro“ features a voice sampled from „Księżyc - Zakopana“
„Home“ features vocals from li al

composed & mixed by Julia Häller
remixed by Leese
features with Tinkah, Synkro & Fiesta Soundsystem
mastered by Precise Master
released by YUKU @yukumusic
Poem written by li al
coverart by Julia Häller

all rights reserved

Beloved Feat. Synkro

Lunatic Harness

Hasty Boom Alert

Nepenthe

Labyrinthine

Aphex Twin's Ageispolis from the Selected Ambient Works

Aphex Twin - Ageispolis

Title track from my album - full blossom of the evening

Available on cassette and digital - https://rbeny.bandcamp.com/

full blossom of the evening

from album "Too Many Voices" (2016)
https://www.discogs.com/Andy-Stott-Too-Many-Voices-/release/8444700

Too Many Voices

Andy Stott - New Romantic

From the album Light Pipe on Room40. RM498

M.Geddes Gengras - Nave (Edit)

Kinematic Wave

All songs written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mike Schmidt. Not like anyone would try to take credit for this anyway.

Blue Dome Glowing

...acid resurrection, it cannot be stopped...

Teik Arô - acid resurrection pt.5

Taken from the album 'Crush', released 18 October on Ninja Tune: https://floatingpoints.lnk.to/crushSo

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Crush

Anasickmodular

The More You Know

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Mister Lies "Lupine"

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Jesse was late again, but I don’t mind I’ll wait for him
Jesse gets mean sometimes
But I don’t mind, he’s got a lot on his mind.
And dammit Jesse. It’s true. I do love you
And dammit Jesse. It’s true. I do trust you

Jesse’s a mess again
So I lie awake with him
And he’s holding on to something I can’t see
But it’s alright, I’m safe with him

And dammit Jesse. It’s true
I do, love you
And dammit Jesse. It’s true, I do trust you

And he could be bad, and turn his back;
He could break all his promises. But when I see Jesse I smile.
When I see Jesse I smile.
He could be bad, and turn his back;
He could break all his promises. But when I see Jesse I smile.
When I see Jesse I smile.

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In the late 90’s, east-side LA was in the throws of a post-indie explosion; a network of stoned bands ranging from neo-psychedelia to pseudo-country overran Spaceland (our generation’s Troubadour) and the local Silverlake Lounge. I was playing freakbeat records twice a week in dive bars, half of Spacemen 3 was crashing at my house (my drop-out roommate was Sonic Boom’s tour drummer) and it was during this blur that I met Raymond Richards, a clean-cut all-American pedal steel guitarist playing in Mojave 3 (the country-tinged 4AD side project of shoegaze royalty, Slowdive). I was instantly swept off my feet, head over heels in love with Raymond's weeping tone — the most chill-inducing, emotionally responsive dialog I’d had with music since discovering Satie as a child — it was then and it is now, truly haunting. After a year of personnel trials, my roommate and I stole Raymond for our own band, and not only did he smother our songs with his enchanting steel, he was virtuosic with a variety of atypical instruments such as baritone guitar and theremin, he utilized them all. The band was short-lived — I split to jam with Ariel Pink, Raymond fled to Portland, then me subsequently to New York City — but in founding the ESP Institute years later, there was always a recurring mental note; "we must make Raymond’s pedal steel album." I had managed to wrangle his blessed performance on a remix for Project Club’s 'El Mar Y La Luna', but it took almost a decade until I once again wore the producer hat and we began working on 'The Lost Art Of Wandering', a title borrowed from Sam Shepard’s 'Stories'. Spiritually candid, expansive yet enveloping, this is the strung-out, visceral country music that simply radiates from Raymond. Each song is his set of coordinates in a vast open terrain, holding a sentimental familiarity, a truthful longing for the simple comforts that diffuse life’s complications, a place to get lost. —Lovefingers

Produced by Lovefingers
Cover image - Barbara and Michael Leisgen, Eintauchen [detail], 1972

[ESP070] The Lost Art Of Wandering

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[ESP070] RAYMOND RICHARDS - B3 - Idaho Falls, Idaho - SNIPPET

Dreamcycles - Future Lights and Archetypes

sitequeeste.bandcamp.com/album/future…d-archetypes
Available 1 May 2020 exclusively on Bandcamp. Available 29 May 2020 on all digital platforms.

Dreamcycles, the moniker of Irish-Canadian artist Jennifer Moore, emerges from the ashen present to deliver her conceptual debut mini-album Future Lights and Archetypes. Operating at the node between technological reality and speculative fiction, Moore transforms ethereal bedroom pop and monolithic electronics into uncanny soundscapes to explore what she describes as the “landscape of a future global economy.”

Moore’s imagination conjures a new order of global governance which uses data to assess the competencies, characteristics, and productivity capacity of its citizens. Predictive analytics are used to shuttle humans around the globe in a tightly choreographed dance of space, labour and capital. Spanning a perspective both personal and systemic, the Dublin-based producer guides the listener through her sober invention, anchoring its alienating events around simple longings for home.

Across six tracks, present-day sonics are repurposed to create warped atmospherics. “If I wanted to see the world, I’d have to imagine it,” says a disembodied voice on opening track ‘Memory (Temporary Access)’. Pitter-patter footsteps, playing children, and whirring device noises swirl around the words: harsh, familiar, and ultimately unsettling. ‘Fonn Abhaile’ follows—its vaporous synths matched by breathy vocals—but ‘Abrasive Routes’ reveals the haunting potential of Moore’s psychoacoustic constructions. News report snippets detailing the Dublin financial district jostle with screeching high-definition cars. “It’s become the most extraordinary contrast to everything else here,” recites a roving correspondent, cataloguing inequalities suffused into the electronic artist’s home.

As the mini-album progresses, the emotional intensity rises. ‘Memory Laneways’ pairs an elegiac refrain with industrial kicks before ‘Playing with the Concrete’ offers a moment of brightness. “You look good when you’re smiling,” sings Moore over a distant sinogrime melody, followed by her closing, and most affecting track, ‘Final Goodbye.’ Meditations on belonging are swept along by circular, trance-like synths whose closing destination is bittersweet: euphoria tempered by the artist’s sombre backdrop.

Moore describes Future Lights and Archetypes as a “post-extraction artefact.” Through its diary entries, radio clippings, and fragmented songs, the mini-album resembles an object hewn from a fully-realised world, like an Ursula K. Le Guin novel refracted through machine learning. Keen listeners might also detect a flicker of Grouper’s place-based musings or even the crumbling electronics of Actress. But this release melds intimacy with pulsating stimuli, Moore’s gaze oriented firmly towards the human cost of an omniscient technological future.

Future Lights & Archetypes

Dreamcycles - Final Goodbye

Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0we7tkr-jh4&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=rbeny

r beny - Spring in Blue

Tatu : All The Things She Said

After almost a year off the air, Astral Projections is back on the air my friends! Now you can catch me on intergalactic.fm on the Dream Machine channel.  Permanent schedule to follow.  Today's tracklist:

Jon Hassell - Slipstream
Jonny Nash - Agape
Bill Nelson - The Whole City Between Us
Benedek - Tengu's Mystery
LOG ET3RNAL - LOG 4
Ben Bondy - Jeeem Etanzel
Pablo's Eye - A Long Standing Dream
Jan Van Den Broeke // June11 - A Peaceful Vale
Pontiac Streator - Trizlang Gem ft. Ulla
Suso Saiz - Ya Son Dos Los Cielos
Kona Triangle - Craig y Don Lightshow
MJ Lallo - The Channeled Voice
Suspended Memories - Distant Look
Helene Vogelsinger - Astral Projection

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS 01 - "Astral Projection"

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ASTRAL PROJECTIONS 01 - "Astral Projection"

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