Every two weeks the Hypnagogue Podcast offers 90 minutes of the best ambient, electronic, New Age, and contemporary instrumental music, from downtempo to upbeat and beyond.
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HEARTS of SPACE is a nationally syndicated ambient - space - contemplative music series started in 1983. We can't legally podcast the entire program (blame the RIAA!) but we offer our weekly 30 second promos to give you a quick sample. You can stream the new shows free all day every Sunday at www.HOS.com.
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Spacemusic brings you the best of electronic (dance)music, interviews with great musicians, soundseeing tours in the City of Rotterdam, entertainment for everyone. Perfect music and atmospherics that keeps you company at your work, in your car, in your bed. Enjoy!
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Welcome to Spacemusic Season 12. We made it to the Future! .... and we are providing the soundtrack for you. This is your Ambient and Electronic music station, featuring EM artists from all around the globe. This podcast channel is free available in 96kbps mp3 format. For better audio quality and higher bitrates: visit Ambient.Zone and check our memberships!
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A weekly programme of ambient and atmospheric music from across the ages and around the world, heard on Australian public radio since 1989. Ultima Thule weaves a mix of ambient, trance, drone and chillout electronica, spacemusic, ancient, mediaeval and neoclassical creations, traditional and world music, soundtracks, cool jazz and impressionist soundworks into an exquisite, chatter-free 90-minute musical narrative.
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SUMMER...inspires an even more ethereal brand of Ambient electronica. Whether flying or floating on the balmy breezes, the sounds are airy and the movement is light and buoyant. The words we use to describe the moods it creates are superlative: joyous, blissful, ecstatic, delightful — even heavenly. And when it comes to heaven, for some reason we p…
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Music can get a little weird at times–ever notice that? Well, you might this time around. But it all flows and lightens across time, so that’s good, right? If nothing else, you get to hear your host apologetically mangle someone’s language for the umpteenth time. So worldly. Enjoy. Start SKSSS & Koiwa, 88888, […]…
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IN THE LAST FOUR DECADES, the ardent world of Indian devotional music has been transformed by an international group of world and ambient musicians. Inspired by this venerable heart-centered vocal tradition called bhakti, working with both traditional and progressive Indian musicians, they've stretched the boundaries and expanded the atmosphere of …
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, the combination of ambient nature sounds and electronic music was actually an innovation in the 1970s. And you may be surprised that the idea had a history in European classical music, especially in England and France. In England, it was the so-called "pastoral" composers like ARNOLD BAX and RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, who created or…
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The quest to clear out the older stuff in the Holding Tanks continues! (But only for a bit.) I’ve also got fresher stuff to offer–and watch out for that track with lyrics. Hey, it happens. Start Parallel Worlds, Timeflow, Fragmented6.13 Krakenkraft, Vibrofluxx, Sononymic14.09 IDTiL, Beneath the Patina, Artefacts with Artifacts20.04 […]…
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THE ARRIVAL OF PRACTICAL ELECTRONIC SYNTHESIZERS in the late 1960s and early 1970s caused a sensation around the world, but nowhere more than Germany. Postwar German artists were restless, intent on leaving behind all forms of traditional German music, as well as the Rhythm & Blues roots and song structure of popular Anglo-American rock. An innocen…
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HAWAII, ladies and gentlemen: our 50th state, a subtropical archipelago of 137 volcanic islands arising from the Pacific Ocean, 2000 miles southwest of the U.S. mainland. Unique in many ways, it's a rich multi-ethnic melting pot of indigenous Hawaiian, Polynesian, East and Southeast Asian, and North American cultures. All this diversity gives Hawai…
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The unfortunate reality is that sometimes, artists hang out in the Holding Tanks for a good long while–too long, in fact–waiting for me to get around to putting them into an episode. So this time out my goal is to try to clear out some long-lingering music and give these folks their due. Quite a […]By Hypnagogue
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The primal sound of prehistoric hand drums, brought to the present by space-defining ambient electronics. In the 1980s, elements of ancient indigenous music were embraced by electronic musicians searching for an earthy, vital sound to balance the dematerialized tones of electronic instruments, ground the atmospheric soundscapes of ambient, and gain…
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Flying and floating: two weightless activities we associate with the airy skies and watery delights of summer. Of course, spacemusic allows you to fly and float all year 'round, but somehow it's even more enjoyable in the warm weather months. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we ride the air currents and float on blissful waves, on a program…
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Even on my best days here I’m just making it up as I go, trying to find the way one piece rolls into the next to keep you immersed in the sound. So let’s do that again. Let’s see if I guessed correctly. Quick stop at the midway point to say hi. Start Cartas de […]By Hypnagogue
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The yearly anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776, has become a festive national holiday with food, music, and fireworks, celebrated by millions of Americans of all ages and backgrounds, in every part of the United States. It’s a good time to revisit the roots of Ambient Americana—influences from Am…
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Underlying the political and religious differences that have provoked centuries of unrest in the Middle East and North Africa is the landscape—an austere region of desert and mountains, transected by great rivers: the Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates. This environment, along with centuries of cultural exchange, accounts for a rough musical unity acr…
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The world’s gone wild over artificial intelligence! So why not join in? Come check out the first episode powered by AI.* I’m sure it will lead to 90 minutes of good stuff from the holding tanks.*Clearly, it’s a bit. Start Jeff Greinke, Late Rain at the Station, Oceanic6.34 SLITES, The Spaces […]By Hypnagogue
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Armed with a studio full of synthesizers and powerful production software, many electronic musicians will create sonic images of vast, cold, cosmic space. Others will conjure up infectious sequencer rhythms, and attract a high energy crowd with electronic dance music. Still others, following the great European symphonic tradition, will electrify th…
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Chthonic exhalations from Flaer, Ambient Monkeys, Aegri Somnia and Fragmented Dreamscapes.
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Sisyphean phantasms of an opaline night: new and recent releases on Swedish label Cryochamber, featuring Mount Shrine, Apocryphos and Fractalyst.
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Waiting on the shores of what might have been with I Am Afraid Of You, Blutung, EtherKraken, Simon Serc, Al Jewer and Andy Mitran.
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A simple, pasive imagining: new sounds from Scott Cole, Matthew Coffman, Liquid Mind, Dream Cycle and ENIL Sounds.
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Temporal shadow of a shimmering lifeform, with music by Courtney Swain, Hyunhye Seo, William Basinski, Steve Roden and Cremation Lily.
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New and recent releass on Audiobulb Records and Perceptual Tapes, showcasing Strangebird Sounds, Will Bolton, The OO-Ray and Spectrical.
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The spirit voice of transfigured ancestral beings, featuring Medicine Drum, Liquid Bloom, SAdu Sensai, Entheogenic, Bluetech, Ian Boddy and Xavier Rudd.
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To celebrate our 1500th epic episode, a selection of epic music from the North and the East - featuring Florence and the Machine, Nytt Land, Heilung and Farya Faraji.
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Feasting on a dragon's flesh... ravenous sounds from Julian Lage, Petteril, Not Waving, Dream Carpets, Clive Wright and Erythrite Throne.
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Grey firmament over a green land, with High Skies and Thorny.
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Dream of an interstellar wasteland... with the sounds of Zenith, State Uzurae, Terminus Void, David Helpling, Sverre Knut Johansen.
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Chaos and lucidity: new music from Blue Is Nine, Boy Lucid, Darren McClure, Moss Covered Technology and Keosz.
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A secret, whirring marvel, from Fred Again, Brian Eno, Eluvium and Soufferance.
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Translucent, placid, violet repose... with Robert Scott Thompson, DEborah Martin, Jill Haley and Bart Hawkins.
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Irregular orbit of an indisposed impostor, with music from Brian Eno, Orbital Patterns, Krakenkraft, Billy Yfantis and Moship.
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