The Midnight Voyage is an epic journey through the endless realm of electronic music. If you have the desire to feel the rhythm, to feel inspired by beautiful sounds, then tune into the show every Thursday night/Friday morning from 10 PM to 1 AM. It happens on 90.3 FM WUTK in Knoxville, TN broadcasting from the University of Tennessee. For those out of reach of the station, you can also tune it in online at http://www.wutkradio.com/listen. To listen, all you have to do is install either Real Player or Real Alternative.

You can download Real Alternative at the following link:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.php?d=4763&s=65

On the show, you can hear a wide variety of electronic music both old and new, covering a vast array of sub-genres and styles. The main goal of the show is to provide listeners with creative, inspired electronic music in whatever form it may take, whether it makes you wanna get down, freak out, or just close your eyes and let it take you to that special place. The Midnight Voyage features psychedelic and experimental styles of music including trance, techno, breakbeat, drum n bass, house, industrial, downtempo/chillout, post-rock, and everything in between. Also, on the first show of every month, you can catch a live in-studio DJ set from local Knoxville artist Dialectic Sines, who brings the crazy psychedelic sounds that will warp your brain and take you to another dimension! Hear music by Dialectic Sines at http://www.myspace.com/dialecticsines. Last but not least, tune into The Midnight Voyage for chances to win tickets to upcoming electronic music shows and festivals in and around Knoxville!

Then join us for MIDNIGHT VOYAGE LIVE, every Friday in Knoxville's Old City, where you can groove to the artists you catch on the airwaves! 
Tickets at
http://themidnightvoyage.com/

For those of you who aren't so genre-bent, some other artists/musicians you can hear on the show include:

- Shpongle
- Ott
- Younger Brother
- Dialectic Sines
- 4matiks
- Fast Nasty
- Bassnectar
- Royksopp
- The Juan Maclean
- Pendulum
- Ratatat
- MSTRKRFT
- Justice
- The Crystal Method
- Paul van Dyk
- Kraftwerk
- The Orb
- Flying Lotus
- STS9
- Thievery Corporation
- Autechre
- The Album Leaf
- Sigur Ros
- Boards of Canada
- God is an Astronaut

The show is a never-ending journey, and I'm always open to comments, suggestions, and requests, so please feel free to post them here. Also, feel free to start discussions about music or post any kind of cool videos or photos you have relating to anything about electronic music.

For playlists, go to http://www.myspace.com/midnightvoyage903

Finally, if you create your own electronic music and think it would sound good on the show, feel free to e-mail me at bpcoakley@gmail.com and we can discuss further. Hope to hear from some of you creative people out there.

The Midnight Voyage
Every Thursday night 10 PM to 1 AM
90.3 FM WUTK Knoxville, TN
http://www.wutkradio.com/listen
Request line: 865-974-2535

http://www.myspace.com/midnightvoyage903

Hosted by DJ Psychonaut and featuring live in-studio DJ mixes from Dialectic Sines on the first show of every month.

Peace, everyone!!!

The Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) writes, "There's no denying that Sonmi's ethereal creations fall within the realm of electronic music. However, the band translates those delicately layered landscapes into live drums, guitars and synth for a space-worthy show that retains the performance element often lost by its peers...This band's instrumental prowess and carefully crafted atmospheres can hang with any rock show..."

Sonmi is based in the funky, artist-laden city of Asheville NC, which is also home of one of music's most innovative musical creators, Bob Moog. Sonmi’s sound portrays both the forward-thinking edginess of Asheville, as well as the organic natural landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sonmi consistently explores the delicate balance between natural humanism and the harder side of modern technology in their compositions.  Initially formed in the winter of 2006, the electronic-pop-experimental band Sonmi began as three individually experienced young musicians reaching for the outskirts of their musical comfort zones. Early Sonmi tracks were comprised of electronic ideas of each member, brought to the group and expanded upon by the whole.The intricacies in their songwriting can be traced back to the individual band members and their musical backgrounds. After first sitting down at a piano at the young age of 7, Michael McBride (aka Peripheral - keyboards, samples, electronics) became fascinated with the endless boundaries of electronic music from first hearing artists like Prefuse 73 and Boards of Canada.  With a BA in music education and a minor in percussion performance, drummer David Mathes (drums, electronics) has mastered an impressive variety of percussion instruments, as well as performed with with Drum Corps International as a World Finalist.  After hearing bands such as M83, Boards of Canada, and Aphex Twin, he also studied electronic composition and synth design. Coming from both a father and a brother who played guitar, Robert Garmhausen (guitar, synth) studied piano and later became intrigued with the guitar sounds of indie and post-rock bands such as The Cancer Conspiracy and The Appleseed Cast. As the newest member, Nigel Gilmer (bass, synth) was entrenched in an aggressive solo project that featured live loops, bass, synth and djembe where he utilized complex rhythms and was inspired by such artists as King Crimson, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Jon Hopkins. The focus of Sonmi has been to marry the chemistry of the live musicianship with electronic programming and synths, and to challenge the lines between human performance and technology.  Striving to break out of the sequencing trend and live up to the demanding presence of being a live band, they focused on the live show and aimed to capture that chemistry in the studio. In 2012, six years, an unreleased EP, and a member stronger, the band has done just that.


The new album, Almost Human, explores the realms of the warm synth landscapes of the ambient “Vespers” and “Approaching Avarice”, ranges to the aggressive guitars, samples, and drums of “AutoprOn”  and carries listeners to the textured rhythms in the meter of 7 of the opening track, “Salem”.  

Aside from crafting a new album, Sonmi has been on the rise on live performances as well.  Having graced the festival circuit at MoogFest, Camp Bisco, Rootwire, Trinumeral, BeleChere, Gnarnia, LAFF, Tron-A-Thon and Luminescence, they have also shared the stage with Bonobo, Break Science, Benga, Pnuma Trio, Glitch Mob, BlueTech, Emancipator and Papadosio.  

Beyond Almost Human, what can you expect from Sonmi?  Driving beats, impeccable melodies, and natural and electronic landscapes lushly layered in smart composition.  

For more information about Sonmi - http://www.sonmiband.com

Booking - booking@sonmiband.com

For media requests, please contact David Mathes at dave@sonmiband.com 

been interested in making electronic music for a few years but have never taken it past tinkering and a few demo songs

looking to find the time to get some serious work in to try and find my groove , i'm lookin towards an ambient/idm/glitch vibe  ...with a massive neo-tokyo buzz

equipment i'm working with at the moment is ableton live 8 (which i'm finding excellent) , my ol' roland sh-201 , korg kaos pad , old vtech drums , shakuhachi japanese flute , bass , is bout it

some of the artists who i love and look to be influenced by are :

biosphere
squarepusher
brian eno
prefuse 73
autechre
i am robot and proud
the flashbulb
lemon jelly
four tet
modeselektor
tetsu inoue 
aphex twin
venetian snares
boards of canada
carbon based life forms     ......and many more

lookin for as much constructive criticism as you can provide , hope to get some tracks rollin soon


Iam Somnus (bassist for Sonmi) was created with the intention of purposive composition and the complete live real-time recreation/performance of the recorded tracks at shows via the Ableton Live looper. All beats and most synths and sounds are created originally. Ambient recordings, custom circuit bent instruments, analogue synths, bass guitar, homemade samples and a host of percussion hand drums are the host of sonic elements. After Sonmi and Kings of Prussia slow down I plan on bringing the enlightenment I am receiving now from playing with these great musicians of Sonmi and Kings of Prussia and developing Iam Somnus once again!!


This is an old account but a nice document of where I came from. I now make generative music systems for PlantWave.

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Tadoma is the work of Joe Patitucci, multi-instrumentalist and sound collage artist.

Inspired by journeys physical and chemical, Tadoma’s 2010 release, Field Notes, presents the listener with a kind of sonic slideshow. Places reveal themselves through a fog of reverb and drones as tracks seamlessly move us from one image to the next. Each piece weaves melodies through sounds the way memory is entwined in our senses. They feel familiar but confounding, leading us to listen deeper and find new places within ourselves.

Tadoma’s performances incorporate live-looping of toy instruments, drum machines and samples to create enveloping lo-fi soundscapes that morph into everything from 70s kraut pastorals to fuzzy idm; drawing comparisons to legends like Popol Vuh and Vangelis as well as contemporary artists Chris Clark, Bibio and Boards of Canada."

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