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Listen for Etheric Currents every Monday. Host Equinox Deschanel (aka Joe McMahon IRL) explores the RadioSpiral library, looking for both seldom-heard gems and audience favorites, mining the vast reaches of Creative Commons music, and may indulge in an occasional Equinoctal improvisation from time to time. With a relaxing combo of beats and ambience, we hope you’ll tune in, groove a bit, and relax.

  1. Radiant & Talking Pictures

    07/25/2023

    Radiant & Talking Pictures

    This episode features Stellaterra’s great “Radiant” release — a loving tribute to Berlin School. We also will hear Mahorka’s “Talking Pictures” release, with contributions from many Mahorka artists, each taking a still from famous movies as a prompt. We’ll round out the second hour with some extra tracks from Ether, Team Metlay, and Rinse, Repeat.

  2. Numbers Stations

    07/04/2023

    Numbers Stations

    This show features tracks built on sounds from the CONET Project: recordings of “numbers stations”. These radio stations are coded messages to spies, alerting them as to what decryption keys they should be using. On the surface, they are mysterious strings of numbers or letters in the international phonetic alphabet, recited by synthesized voices: excellent raw material for electronic musicians. This episode features tracks from two releases from the PublicSpaces Lab netlabel: Number Stations [PS015] Number Stations Part II [PS025] There’s also a short Equinoctal performed live in this episode!

  3. Thom Brennan’s “Aftermath” and Two Bump Foots (Feet?)

    06/27/2023

    Thom Brennan’s “Aftermath” and Two Bump Foots (Feet?)

    We premiered (at least for our listeners) Thom Brennan’s Aftermath release, which came out the week before this episode was recorded, and rounded out the show with two releases from Bump Foot, the Fail EP from Drugstore, and the gnomic QX#55’s 6+6=12. Thom has come through with his usual smooth, deceptively simple sequencer-driven melodies, and the other two contrast nicely with a bit more attitude and interesting explorations of timbre.

  4. Away Space and Requiem for a Neural Network

    06/20/2023

    Away Space and Requiem for a Neural Network

    Two Kahvi releases, one featuring 4T Thieves and Pandacetamol, and the other featuring various Kahvi artists. Lots of beats and a couple of great remixes.

  5. Exploring the Ether

    06/13/2023

    Exploring the Ether

    This episode features tracks named (or containing) “ether”, bands whose names contain “ether”, and the whole of Comm’s great album, Ether. There’s lots on ambience in the first half, and plenty of beats in the second.

  6. Darwin and the 2600

    07/04/2022

    Darwin and the 2600

    Originally, this episode was meant to be a feature of the ARP 2600, but the weekend before it was recorded, Darwin Grosse died. He was a friend of many of RadioSpiral’s DJ’s, a great force in musical education, one of the founding members of Cycling ’74 (home of Max), and an excellent musician, especially on the 2600. We decided to feature Darwin’s music to remember him, so this episode features two full albums and a few tracks from a third: Infernal Data Machine 2600.repast Fresco His podcast, Art + Music + Technology, is still up and a great resource for electronic musicians.

  7. “Four Days” and “The Moodygoer”

    06/21/2022

    “Four Days” and “The Moodygoer”

    Tonight’s show features two new albums: a short EP from 4T Thieves (whose retirement from music seems greatly exaggerated) and a unique album from Konejo, The Moodygoer — filled with ambience from many, many movies — each excerpt about a minute of ambience from a movie, accompanied by an improvised soundtrack, plus a live Equinoctal, Stranger Around These Parts.

  8. Equinoxes

    05/31/2022

    Equinoxes

    This episode’s theme is equinoxes, a thing near and dear to Equinox’s heart. The feature for this episode is Max Corbacho’s new release, Equinox, which is the first full hour and a quarter of the episode. The latter part of the episode includes a new five-part Equinoctal, Manhattanhenge, and Lucette Bourdin’s Crossing the Equinox to round out the episode.

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Listen for Etheric Currents every Monday. Host Equinox Deschanel (aka Joe McMahon IRL) explores the RadioSpiral library, looking for both seldom-heard gems and audience favorites, mining the vast reaches of Creative Commons music, and may indulge in an occasional Equinoctal improvisation from time to time. With a relaxing combo of beats and ambience, we hope you’ll tune in, groove a bit, and relax.

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