This instalment of the Forecast series comes from the heart, mind and laptop of Nat Earthsine. Nat was, until very recently, a resident of Glasgow before making the move to the much more temperate and far less monochromatic city of Manchester, so the mix was created as a kind of soundtrack for this upheaval. Think John Carpenter's stabby synth lines for Escape from New York, only it's an hour and a bit of meandering genre hopping, the escape is from a puddle soaked west coast of Scotland and not an 80s future Big Apple, and there's nary an eyepatch'ed Kurt Russel in sight. 

Please keep an eye out for Nat’s upcoming tape label "Listen to Believe", check out his productions AFTER listening to this mix and Godspeed on wherever your journey takes you.

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Forecast 068: Nat Earthsine

The third in the Holy TrinTity of issues focusing on Hellenic mythologies. Really can’t promise it won’t become Tetralogy next year. But yeah, it became a tradition to do Grecian olive-hued melange before heading to Crete each June.

This season won’t be an exception. There’s always a moment during a rather long flight to Greece when you can no longer binge on unwatched TV, impersonate working on your laptop or solve puzzles. These selecciones are for that moment. As well as for subsequent imbibing of tsikoudia while taking in Aegean vistas and car rides to the ancient Aptera or one of the Lefka Ori’s gorges.

This time around I was triggered by the story that one Heraklion-dwelling historian once told me. A hypothesis that the myth of Atlantis might have been inspired by the catastrophic volcano eruption and subsequent tsunami around 1500 BC. The one that destroyed most of the cities and villages on Crete and Ancient Thera (modern Santorini). Effectively precipitating the decline of the Minoan civilization.

Long story short, that's a tiny fraction of diverse music that has to do with lost islands/continents, sea-bound mythology, civilization-destroying natural cataclysms and yes, the ever-terrifying story of Atlantis.

I said diverse, but what does it mean? Well, there’s some authentic traditional Greek music (actually Cretan one); some less authentic approximation of the ancient one (Paniagua’s reconstruction of the ‘Hymn to the Sun’); a few thematic extractions from Robert Ashley’s ouvres; some sun-lit jazz-adjacencies (Sun Ra, Hasell, Hosono, Vallon); a bit of olden synthy/proggy library music (Benoît Widemann, Joel Vandroogenbroek); a pinch of avantgarde (George Crumb); a drop of disco and vintage popular fare (John Forde); a dollop of aquatic new age (Toshifumi Hinata, J.D. Emmanuel)… Something like that. I think it worked out ok. Should pair nicely with watermelon and raki.

Full tracklist at:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-let-me-take-you-to-atlantis

Hermetic Journals: Let Me Take You To Atlantis

for the backroom and basement dwellers among us, summer offers a rare side quest to less darkened surrounds. fase uno of these dances are ye olde aluminium room 2s that navigate the a-roads and home our journeys. 

I got this mix just in time for one of those trips two weeks back. dubbed out, cosmic, with zero concern to conform, it’s 3hrs ov mix totally at ease with letting go. music like this could only come from one of the realest, jaye ward. being introduced to jaye’s sounds from early on has been of one of life’s better coincidences. 

reaching back to those early days, jaye always reminds u that [somehow] this thing is still alive.

jaye ward

Presenting some curious and disjointed musical phrases.

http://www.instagram.com/ddddoula

???? with Doula @ The Lot Radio 08-24-2024

Tune into Ghost Notes Worldwide for that post-twilight sound. Night time music of all strains, with blunted R&B and hip hop instrumentals, neo-downtempo productions, slow jams, and hazy dancefloor sounds. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/impey/episodes/impey-14th-november-2024

Ghost Notes Worldwide w/ Nicky Soft Touch & Nymity 141124

Broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (21.12.2024)

Artist: @karim-semin

Karim Semin @ Radio TNP 21.12.2024

A monthly collection of blurred collage, aural experiments, and tonal in-betweens with sound artist and musician Felisha Ledesma. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/felisha-ledesma/episodes/felisha-ledesma-4th-january-2025

Felisha Ledesma w/ 6JJACOB 040125

Melbourne based producer YL HOOI share an hour of dub, electronics, postpunk and more every month... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/yl-hooi/episodes/yl-hooi-9th-january-2025

YL HOOI 090125

New music label that explores the more experimental and ethereal. Sister label to Emotional Rescue.

Zongamin - Zoomy Mix [14.02.25]

“I start associating your voice with ….”, for a while ML has been part of the NTS community, jingling around, airing his monthly 150 Session out of Berlin’s North, where all seasons give reasons. For clarification, creation, inspiration. One hour of poetic and musical explorations, questions, and curiosities. Circling around daring electronics, ethno-sonics, jazz-constructivism, minimalism, open structured digital dopamine, risky dub excitement and other sounds, that still need to be written. No country, no flag – outernational without a cause! 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/150session/episodes/150session-10th-may-2025

150 Session: Voices 100525

Nosedrip - SANPO 156 (Lockdown Series)

Transmissions to the aether • des bruits colorés
https://snowsovgethen.com/

Hermetic Journals: Let Me Take You To Atlantis

Snows ov Gethen