Portland-based ambient artist Patricia Wolf pays tribute to the late Julee Cruise in our latest specialist mix.

“The enchanting voice of Julee Cruise is unforgettable once you've heard it.” says Wolf. “The news of her passing and to learn that she was suffering so much breaks my heart. I hope she is now at peace.”

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Julee Cruise: Mixed by Patricia Wolf

Leaf through songwriter Calvin LeCompte’s monthly selection via The Uline Catalog…



 
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The Uline Catalog w/ Calvin LeCompte 110425

672 - Recorded live on June 24, 2025

Ambience for the night: Apovrasma - Nachtschade
https://apovrasma.bandcamp.com/album/nachtschade

**Playlist**
1) Arbor - The Moon's Veiled Horn
2) Maniac Butcher - Unholy Confessional Blasphemy...
3) XificurK - Dead Man Walking
4) Scrying - No Face Left To Haunt Me
5) Ferriterium - Chapitre 2
**talk**
6) Rites of Tara - Rebirthed in the Cauldron
7) Togg - Burned In The Cave
8) Fiery Serpent - Canto IV : Pondera Peccati
9) Αχέροντας - The Chalice of Fiery Transmutation
**talk**
10) Ara - Bei meinem Blut

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#672 - 06-24-25

Escorial

Ata Kak's first new song in over 30 years!

Ata Kak created a peculiar slice of Ghanaian music history with his debut album “Obaa Sima”. While it barely made a ripple at the time of its release in 1994, the cassette found a new life online in 2006. A not-so-underground cult obsession grew after it appeared on  the blog Awesome Tapes From Africa as its very first post, a sort of manifesto for the project. His addictive amalgam of left-field electronic music and Twi-language hiplife reached surprising levels of awareness among music fans of many stripes. The mystery behind the musician’s identity grew. Eventually Yaw Atta-Owusu came out of the shadows, from his quiet home in Kumasi, to tour the world playing high-energy, sweat-soaked performances at major festivals like Glastonbury, Sónar and Pop Montreal. 

Now, for the first time since 1994, Ata Kak releases new music. Honed in studios around Kumasi over the last several years, the songs feature the rapper-singer’s acrobatic rap, signature scatting, dramatic drums and even traditional Akan harp. The compositions are more ambitious than his earlier work, with more complex arrangements and layered harmonies. Ata Kak’s new songs are also the natural expression of a restless artist—he is a prolific poet and author of a half-dozen books, as well as an active gardener and busy painter. 

Born in Ghana in 1960, Ata Kak wasn’t always involved in music. But his travels and openness to the world lead him into the music industry. While living in Germany, he was invited to play drums in a reggae band and subsequently played in highlife bands in Ontario after moving to the Toronto area. He recorded “Obaa Sima” there at his home studio and released it in Ghana in 1994. He didn’t participate in music much in the intervening years until “Obaa Sima” was reissued in 2015. He started performing his song live with the help of a brilliant cast of London-based musicians and has toured three continents and played to thousands of fans in venues of all kinds.

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Texan experimentalist Claire Rousay creates a melancholic, folk-ambient mix that is inspired by her past lives

Dazed Mix: Claire Rousay

682 - Recorded live on September 09, 2025

Ambience for the night: Arthur - In Front of the Abyss & Art of Grotesque
https://arthur666.bandcamp.com/

**Playlist**
1) Zmyrna - Canticum quartum decimum
2) Fellwinter - Immortal Gates
3) Banshee - IV
4) Mgła - World-Without-Us
5) Örastimar - Zum Moohl!
**talk**
6) Todverhexen - grausamer Kurs
7) Sargoth - Christian Blood
8) Tronus Abyss - La Maschera del Suicidio
9) Groza - Asbest (Live At Ragnarök)
**talk**
10) Medieval Demon - Archaic Sacrificial Rites

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#682 - 09-09-25

683 - Recorded live on September 16, 2025

Ambience for the night: Telikekh Hektakht - Ihmisten Ikuinen Kärsimys
https://nocturnalnecromanticorder.bandcamp.com/album/ihmisten-ikuinen-k-rsimys

**Playlist**
1) Beherit - Pimeyden Henki
2) U Kronakh - The River Named Opir
3) Utgard - Wotan
4) Sivyj Yar - Над страшной пропастью рдяный восход
**talk**
5) Lijkschouwer - All What Did the Blade Reveal
6) Bok - Doctrine of the Sulphur Kiss
7) Гробъ - Самодива/Wood Nymph
8) Мракобес - Вълча Кръв/Wolf's Blood
9) Beherit - Metal of Death
**talk**
10) Volahn - Enigmas del Abismo

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#683 - 09-16-25

Regular hours from the D.C. archivists and record label, famed for uncovering + documenting folk and global traditional music.  
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Smithsonian Folkways w/ Paredon Records Special 011025

Avant-garde musician and composer Jim O'Rourke pulls stops by once a month, pulling an hour of picks from his extensive record collection. 
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Jim O'Rourke Steamroom  021025

Through The Years: 2000's London w/ J PANG: 10th October '25

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#682 - 09-09-25

Never Stop The Madness

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