Inner Space was Jaroslav Kovaricek's Saturday evening program. Like Dreamtime, it aired from 10:30pm until midnight, on ABCFM in Australia. Inner Space ran for several years in the early 1990s.

Inner Space with Jaroslav Kovaricek – War

Inner Space with Jaroslav Kovaricek – Nature

Inner Space with Jaroslav Kovaricek – Loving Peace

Inner Space With Jaroslav Kovaricek – The World in Our Eyes

'Dreamtime' was an ambient/new age/electronic/experimental/Australiana musical program that ran from the early 1980s to the early 90s. It was produced and hosted by Jaroslav Kovaricek, and aired on ABCFM in Australia.

I was in my mid-teens when I first began staying up late on Sunday nights to listen to Dreamtime. I'd lie in the dark, and let the music carry me off to beautiful, faraway places. Together with the host's soothing, almost hypnotic voice, and the iconic Dreamtime theme (which I believe Jaroslav Kovaricek himself composed), these weekly 'musical journeys' were a formative part of my adolescence. They were an escape into a world that was innocent, calming, yet powerfully emotive. 

In the late 80s, I decided that the music was too beautiful to listen to just once, and began recording the 90-minute episodes on cassette tapes.The quality was pretty poor - at first I had to place a tape recorder in front of my little portable boombox speaker, as the boombox itself had no radio-to-tape recording feature. You can hear in these early recordings how scratchy the tapes sounded. In the early 90s I was given a better stereo system, and could record from the radio directly with one system. I played these tapes over and over and over, often at night and during school holidays, as I shut myself in my bedroom and painted. Or dreamed.

The tapes sat in storage from the late 90s until a couple of years ago, when  I stumbled upon a cheap little tape-to-digital recorder in an electronics store. I bought it, with the notion of digitising all my Dreamtime tapes. Mainly to back them up. But also to share them, as I'd discovered that lots of other people had been searching for episodes. I wondered if the program had influenced peoples' lives as much as it had mine. Maybe it did, and you're one of them. If so, I hope this turns out to be a moving journey down memory lane for you.

My Dreamtime tapes are some of the most precious things I own. The recordings are scratchy, fuzzy and sometimes frustratingly faint. But in a way, that, at least to me, only makes them more special. The white noise has a character of its own. It also makes those original airings of Dreamtime seem so very far away.

I wish I had recorded more episodes. And that instead of recording over the ones I was slightly less fond of at the time (cassette tapes weren't cheap to a kid back then!) I'd kept them all. But I'm glad to still be able to share these.

I hope you enjoy Dreamtime once again. And may it take you on a musical journey designed for relaxation, meditation and dreaming in stereo.
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Dreamtime 2

There is a Dreamtime 1 in my collection, but the recording is so old (mid 80s) and the quality is so poor and chopped up, it's virtually inaudible. So the dreaming begins with this, my second recording of the program.
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These Dreamtime episodes are purely for nostalgic purposes. But at the request of any artists or labels featured in the music featured here, I'll respectfully remove any uploads.

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