Expand Your Musical Horizons – 68

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Fonogeri welcomes us to this episode

An hour of stunning chillout and balkan beats awaits you in episode #68. Hungarian chillout artist Fonogeri introduces this playlist (in Hungarian and English) and shares one of his tracks with us. Following that is 14 more tracks–a mélange of chilled-out grooves that range from trip hop to Balkan beats to nujazz.

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And here’s more Goulasch Exotica for you!

Expand Your Musical Horizons – 62

uploaded 15 March 2010

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Episode 62 features over one hour of sophisticated chillaxing. With an introduction from musician Celeste Lear and her unreleased and memorable track “Beautiful Complications,” it offers trip-hop, dub, and ambient chill from netlabels and indie labels. You’ll also hear a few artists new to this podcast series. Included are tracks from new releases on the netlabels Budabeats, Dusted Wax Kingdom, Fresh Poulp, and Sutemos, as well as new releases on indie labels Cosmicleaf and SINE Music. So tune in and go get your favorite headphones!

Introduction from Celeste Lear

1.  CELESTE LEAR – Beautiful Complications (stream from her www.myspace.com/celestelear)

2. ABSTRACODE – Incuatic (from the EP “68,” download from the Dusted Wax Kingdom netlabel, www.dustedwax.org)

3. MAGIC MOON – Shadows (breeze mix) (ccMixter remix, download from www.ccmixter.org)

4. CROOKRAM – Missione Pericolosa (from the release “Through Windows,” download from the Budabeats netlabel, www.budabeats.com)

5. ASTROPILOT – Florentin (from the compilation “Cafe Tel Aviv – Middle East Chillout,” buy from iTunes)

6. MINDGUM – Metamorphisis (hear at www.mindgum.ru)

7. ZAZEN – Serenity (from the release “Self Control,” download from the Fresh Poulp netlabel, www.fresh-poulp.net)

8. VALDI SABEV – Endless Sky (from the release “Impressions, Volume 1,” on Cosmicleaf Records. Buy from iTunes or Amazon)

9. STRANGEZERO – Melting Pill (from the release “Newborn Butterflies,” download from Jamendo, www.jamendo.com)

10. KLANGSTEIN – Deep Dive (from the album “Resturlab 2.0,” from SINE Music. Buy from iTunes or Amazon)

11. STOCKFINSTER. – Mitglieder (from the release “Dead Line,” download from the Sutemos netlabel, and see his Bandcamp page)

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Remember when I played the Crookram remix of “No fun, no fun” in episode #40? Here’s the video for it!

Expand Your Musical Horizons – 61

uploaded 22 February, 2010

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Enjoy the new track from Artemis!

It’s time for a new episode — another hour of mostly chilled trip hop, downtempo, and ambient. But, as usual, to keep you from getting too sleepy, there’s always a little bit of an edge. So this episode kicks off with Lost Soul Refuge’s “Amphitheatre.” We’ve also thrown in a couple of cumbia tracks and a nice, blunted new track from Crookram. But there’s plenty of relaxing grooves, as well. Don’t miss the new track from Artemis, whose new album, “Auralei,” just released this month!

THE TRACKLIST:
1. LOST SOUL REFUGE – Amphitheatre (from “The Calling,” download from Ground Floor Records netlabel – www.groundfloorrecords.com)
2. PLANET BLISS - Halo (from the album “Various Net Releases – Down Tempo,” listen or download at Last.fm)
3. REDQUADRO – Morning Wave (from the compilation “Tunguska Chillout Grooves,” download from www.jamendo.com)
4. LEERMOND – Kastanien (from the release “Castanea,” buy from ReverbNation or listen at www.jamendo.com)
5. SAGRESSE AND CROOKRAM – Epilogue (from the EP “Escape,” download from the BankRupt Recordings netlabel)
6. BLEEPOLAR – Cumbia Voladora (more from radio canalh)
7. DJ VADIM MEETS (PACO) MENDOZA – Fosforito (from the compilation “Mexican Dubwiser Presents Volume 1 – Sonidos de Hoy y Siempre,” download from ny.remezcla.com)
8. THE WARHEADS – She Was Happy There (from the release “The Sorrow The Pity My Guitar and Her,” listen on their website at www.thewarheads.com, buy from Amazon.com)
9. ZEN BABOON – Cabeça Alta (from the compilation “Ambient Planet Volume 2,” buy from iTunes)
10. ARTEMIS – Easy (from the album “Auralei,” buy from Magnatune, iTunes, or Amazon)
11. RAJA FFM – Feels Like Underwater (remix, download from ccMixter.org)
12. PIGO PEGORARO – Atelie (from the release “Duplo Territorio,” listen at jamendo.com)

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If you like Pipo Pegoraro’s music, enjoy this music video!

Expand Your Musical Horizons – 42

DJ Zen introduces this episode, and includes a track from his first Altar Records release, as well as from his newest compilation on Kagdila

uploaded 12 April, 2009

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Special episode with DJ Zen of Altar Records!

We’re going to enjoy an hour of psyambient, downtempo, dub, and other chilled-out grooves. But first, we begin with a brief conversation with DJ Zen, who introduces his new record label, Altar Records. He describes the releases that are still to come in 2009 and 2010 (titled with elements names: “Water” “Fire,” “Earth,” and “Ether”). Then he shares a Zymosis track from Altar’s first compilation, “Air.” Immediately following that, we can bliss out on a track fromAquascape, which is on DJ Zen’s other newest compilation release on Kagdila Records, “Peace Therapy 3.”

The rest of the episode includes favorite ccMixter remixers like cdk and The Extreme, a new track from Klangstein from a brand-new chill release that’s coming up from Germany’s SINE Music in May, and plenty of artists you haven’t heard before on “Expand Your Musical Horizons,” like Intergalaktik Sound, Derek Oldman, Max Loginov, ioeo, Kalabi, Inga Ambrosia, and Norway’s brilliant Mind Over MIDI.

If you download the podcast, you can link to the artist and music pages while you play it in iTunes. Enjoy….

introduction by DJ Zen, Altar Records

1. ZYMOSIS – Zeta Bieng (from “Air,” Altar Records, www.altar-records.com)

2. AQUASCAPE – Vacuum Fields (from “Peace Therapy, volume 3,” buy from discogs.com)

3. CDK – ElementS (remix…from ccMixter.org)

4. IOEO – triptrack2 (from “triptracks,” www.jamendo.com)

5. MIND OVER MIDI – Imaginary Circles (free download from Last.fm)

6. KALABI – Dandelion (from the album “Dandelion,” www.magnatune.com)

7. INTERGALAKTIK SOUND – Liberaton (from “Dub Tentacles vol 1″ download from www.fresh-poulp.net)

8. THE EXTREME – Matter of Time, remix with Shannon Hurley, vocals (from ccMixter.org)

9. DEREK OLDMAN – Notch (from “Unidentyfied City,” www.jamendo.com)

11. MAX LOGINOV – Secret Island (from “Tunguska Chillout Grooves, volume 2,” www.jamendo.com)

11. KLANGSTEIN – DeepDive (from “Cosmic Chill Lounge, Volume 3,” SINE music…buy at iTunes beginning on 1 May)

12. INGA AMBROSIA – 5th Dimension (from the album “Abysal Plane,” buy at Amazon.com)

Did you enjoy Mind Over MIDI? Here’s another track by this great Norwegian artist:

Expand Your Musical Horizons – 41

Echo Slightly shared a track with us from their release on Nonexistent Recordings. Great stuff!

uploaded 19 March, 2009

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Another hour of downtempo goodies, including some laid-back latin, a little bit of cinematic ambient, and some trip hop. It’s great headphone music, filled with sonic details that you’ll enjoy. You’ll hear some favorite artists from previous episodes, like StrangeZero and Tracing Arcs, and you’ll hear some artists you haven’t heard before in this podcast, like Aquilone (thanks to Muertepop) and Orphidice (thanks to mrsvee in the U.K.).

There’s plenty of Jamendo.com tracks in here, so you can easily wheel over to that site and listen to their whole album if you enjoy them. And finally, a special thanks to Non-Existent Recordings for contacting me about the delightfully trip-hoppy Echo Slightly, whose album (“Birds Fly South”) is for sale at CDBaby.com and through iTunes.

Enjoy!

1. AMNIS – Esprit Libre (from “Deuxieme essai,” www.jamendo.com)

2. SILVIA O – Te Amare (SilviaO Dry Mix) (www.jamendo.com or www.ccmixter.org)

3. AXIAL – Papaloko (from “Axial, volume 1″ from www.jamendo.com)

4. VVSDESIGN – Dawn in the Dark (download from www.jamendo.com)

5. STRANGEZERO – Walking Into Zero (from the “Walking Into Zero” EP, www.jamendo.com)

6. FLUXO – Prévia do Amanhã (from “Prévia do Amanhã,” www.jamendo.com)

7. ZEROPAGE – Ambient India (from “Ambient Pills,” www.jamendo.com)

8. ECHO SLIGHTLY – You Set Me Up (from the album “Birds Fly South,” buy from iTunes or CDBaby.com…artist site at  www.myspace.com/echoslightly, label at www.nonexistent-recordings.com)

9. LAVINIA JONES – Serafime (from the album “@ngel” at www.jamendo.com)

10. TRACING ARCS – Paradise Lost (bitter suite) (from the album “Fin-Remixes and Lost Children,” download at www.jamendo.com)

11. AQUILONE – Sonic Line (from the album “Aeleria,” download from www.archive.org or from www.muertepop.com)

12, ORPHIDICE – Coming Home (from “Manifesto,” www.archive.org, or see the Manifesto compilation at www.mrsvee.co.uk/mrsvee/)

For a special treat, here is a music video of Lavinia Jones from the ’90s!!

Expand Your Musical Horizons – 39

Fauna is from Russian Federation and they're one of the Jamendo artists in this episode.

uploaded 01 February, 2009

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This episode is a full one-hour long, filled with chilled-out tracks that are sonically complementary to each other…some with vocals, but most without. Ten tracks in all, and the first seven feature artists who release their work onJamendo.com….many whom you’ve heard in previous episodes of “Expand Your Musical Horizons.”

In addition, we’ve got an Arthur Oskan track from our friends at Decibel Palacerecords in Canada, a class Spiral Staircase track, thanks to Ioda Promonet, and a lovely remix from Sawtooth, one of the ccMixter crew.

Spiral System
“T.O.P.” (mp3)
from “In Your Dreams”
(Macro Records)

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1. TRYAD – Witness (from “Public Domain,” www.jamendo.com)

2. FAUNA – 14th Floor (from “Have U Ever Talked to Angels?” www.jamendo.com)

3. BEN OTHMAN – Hamammet (from “Lounge Café Tunis ‘Intellectuel,” www.jamendo.com)

4. MAZE – The One (from “Blue Heaven,” www.jamendo.com)

5. STRANGEZERO – Prologue from an Epilogue (from “The Neverlands,” jamendo.com)

6. AMANYTH – A Town Called Kill (from “Demo,” www.jamendo.com)

7. SIGNS OF SILENCE – This World (from “An Utopian Dream,” www.jamendo.com)

8. ARTHUR OSKAN – Ulysses (from “1995-97| The Auracle Sessions Volume 1,” Decibel Palace Records, buy from iTunes or Amazon.com)

9. SPIRAL SYSTEM – T.O.P. (from “In Your Dreams,” buy from iTunes or Amazon.com)

10. SAWTOOTH – Beyond the Dunes (remix from www.ccmixter.org)

Expand Your Musical Horizons – 35

A track from Hol Baumann's album "Human" is featured here (from Ultimae Records)

posted 10 November 2008

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There’s plenty of orchestral chillout in this episode. You’ll hear plenty of lush strings and synths and piano, with lovely chilled beats behind them. You’ll even hear some lovely sounding spanish guitar.

We start out with a gorgeous track from DJ Answer in Serbia. You heard one of his tracks in episode 34. Then we pick up the pace with a jazzy track from Sunburn in Cyprus...one you’ll be humming long after this podcast is over.

We’ve got three more artists from Jamendo in this episode: Strange Zero (from Greece), Feather Drug (from France), and PascaleB (also from France). You might find yourself dreaming happily to their music.

Two artists in this episode release their music on netlabels: the trip-hoppy Throwing Snow (Bulgaria) was on a Dusted Wax Kingdom compilation, and Bichi (Denmark) had his track on a compilation on a Spanish netlabel, Plataforma LTW.

Alex, a remixer from Belgium, put together the lovely instrumental track, “Improvisation on Friday” and put it on ccMixter.

Hol Baumann (France) is an artist from the Ultimae record label in France. Thank you to Hol and Vince and everyone at Ultimae for letting me include this track, one of my favorites from his album “Human.” Ultimae is NOT a netlabel, so please go to your favorite music seller online and buy his music…or any of the artists on Ultimae.

And finally….Liquid Crystal (Russia) with his track, “Baja Mar.” I found out about Liquid Crystal because he posted a note on Last.fm, and I found his MySpace website and begged him for a track. So thank you, Alex, for letting me share it here!

1. DJ ANSWER- City (from the album “French Train” on Jamendo.com)

2. SUNBURN IN CYPRUS – Could Have Been Love (from the album “Feng Shui Rescue” — buy from iTunes or Amazon)

3. THROWING SNOW – Majesty (from the compilation “Dusted Beats, Volume 2,” from the netlabel Dusted Wax Kingdom)

4. STRANGE ZERO– Twin Eyes (from the album “Blue Trees, 7 Miles,” on Jamendo.com)

5. HOL BAUMANN – Breathe (from the album, “Human,” from Ultimae Records. Buy from iTunes, Amazon, ambient.us, Psyshop, Ultimae, etc.)

6. FEATHER DRUG – Timeless (from the album “Nuages synthétiques,” on Jamendo.com)

7. ALEX (ccMIXTER) – Improvisation on Friday (feat. the 7 a.m. Association) (download from ccMixter.org)

8. BICHI – Yoga (from the compilation “Popular is Wrong,” on the Plataforma-LTW netlabel)

9. PascaleB – Voyage (from the album “Nuance,” on Jamendo.com)

10. LIQUID CRYSTAL – Baja Mar (www.myspace.com/liquidcrystalsound)

Expand Your Musical Horizons- 18

Beats Antique had a track in this episode from their album, "Tribal Derivations"

Originally broadcast in November, 2007

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This episode features a few favorites and a few artists new to Expand Your Musical Horizons. We’re starting out with Electrix, from Berlin, Germany, and a track called “Spicy Sand.” Electrix is in the process of releasing his album “On the Rhodes” for sale online at venues like Musicload, and hopefully soon, iTunes, so please support him! Next, we have The Kirbi, from Russia, with “Fairy Tale,” a track from a net release titled “The Trembling of the Turbid.” Following that is “Paralelos” fromPolifonia Visual in Japan—a track from their album released on the Konfort Records netlabel.

Track 4 introduces a San Francisco combo known as Cubik and Origami, with “The Real Estate,” from their self-titled album (for sale on iTunes). Following that, another track from one of my favorite remixers, CDK (from Canada) with “October (in the end mix), featuring Calendar Girl.”

Then: meet Melou, a group that began in Guatemala and has members from all over the world, but who now live in Barcelona, Spain. Their highly acclaimed track, “Sweet Love,” is from their album “Communication.”

Melou
“Sweet Love” (mp3)
from “Communication”
(Whatabout Music, LLC)

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Then comes a track called “Pendahl,” from an artist named Shane Hendricks in the USA, who also goes by the name Sonic Deviant. This track is thanks to the Podsafe Music Network.

But there’s more. Another great music ensemble from the San Francisco Bay Area makes their debut here: the popular Beats Antique, from Oakland, California, with their track “The Lantern.” Following that is multi-talented Vate, from Mexico/Spain, with “Marimba.” And finally, we introduce a German electronica artist named Matthias Springer, who released his EP, “Mechanik,” on a German netlabel known as Gargan Records.

track 1: Electrix, Spicy Sand. Please check out his website and Musicload.de for more information on how to buy his music!

track 2: The Kirbi, “Fairy Tale,” from “The Trembling of the Turbid.”

track 3: Polifonia Visual, “Paralelos,” on the Konfort Recordsnetlabel.

track 4: Cubik and Origami, “The Real Estate,” from their album “Cubik and Origami,” available for sale on iTunes and Amazon.

track 5: CDK, “October: In the End Mix (featuring Calendar Girl),” from ccMixter.org.

track 6: Melou,”Sweet Love,” from their album “Communication.” See buying info on the right.

track 7: Sonic Deviant, “Pendahl,” thanks to the Podsafe Music Network

track 8: Beats Antique, “The Lantern,” from their album “Tribal Derivations,” available for sale at Amazon and music shops with good taste!

track 9: Vate, “Marimba,” from the album “Volk,” available on Jamendo.com

track 10: Matthias Springer, “Slow Motion,” from the Mechanik EP on Gargan Records netlabel in Germany

If you liked the Beats Antique track, here’s a snippet of them performing at Burning Man 2009:

Expand Your Musical Horizons, podcast 14

Two Loons for Tea had a track featured in this episode

Originally released in September 2007

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Episode 14 of “Expand Your Musical Horizons” kicks off with an artist in Taiwan who goes by the name of MoShang. He’s released an album called “Asian Variations (Various Artists Remixed by MoShang),” which, as the name implies, features MoShang remixes of a number of talented electronica artists.

Next, we move onto a nujazz/downtempo track from an ensemble known as Polifonia Visual. They’re based in Tokyo, but released through a netlabel in Mexico called Konfort.

A couple of remixers from ccMixter are featured in this episode: cdk from Canada, and DJ Blue from the USA.

We’ve got more tracks from newly released albums, too: “Surrounder (club mix)” from the Grains of Sound release “Rays of Life, Volume 1 (downtempo),” which you can buy from their website; “Sunset Room” from the album “Nine Lucid Dreams” from Two Loons for Tea; and “Stegerwald” from Ambrish, which is one of the featured tracks on a new compilation from Chillom Records in India called “Azaad – E.”

But that’s not all. We’ve also got a track from Liquid Frame in Italy called “Ride Away (ambient mix)” and a great track from The Incognito Traveller (thanks for the recommendation, Bextravagant!) called “Chaleur,” which is also released on the Konfort netlabel in Mexico.

Playlist:

Track 1: MoShang/Tafubar “The Wicked Thoughts of You (MoShang Asian Space Mix),” from the album “Asian Variations- Various Artists Remixed by MoShang”

Track 2: Polifonia Visual, “Jupiter Funky,” from their album D//01 on the Konfort netlabel

Track 3: CDK (remixer), “Sunday Night Fog,” available through ccMixter.org

Track 4: Grains of Sound, “Surrounder (club mix),” from their album “Rays of Life (volume 1, downtempo),” available for sale through their website

Track 5: Two Loons for Tea, “Sunset Room,” from their third album, “Nine Lucid Dreams,” available for sale through iTunes

Track 6: Liquid Frame, “Ride Away (ambient Mix),” from their album “Constance,” available through Jamendo.com

Track 7: The Incognito Traveller, “Chaleur,” from their “Incognito Traveller EP” on the Konfort netlabel

Track 8: DJ BLUE, “Hear Me (feat. 21 Pele and Tacet),” from ccMixter.org

Track 9: Ambrish, “Stegerwald,” from the compilation “Azaad – E,” available for sale through Chillom Records

More MoShang:

Expand Your Musical Horizons, podcast 12

Madstyle's track from his "Chillusion" release on the Phonocake netlabel is one of many featured in this episode.

Originally broadcast in July 2007