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abstract science is future music radio: a weekly exploration of innovative electronic music and its roots since 1997. this staple of chicago’s airwaves investigates the current evolution and influence of dj culture, dance music and experimental sounds on a global level. co-hosts CHRIS WIDMAN, HENRY SELF, LUKE STOKES + JOSHUA P FERGUSON showcase the latest releases alongside underground classics, overlooked gems, exclusive live performances, interviews and dj mixes. past guest include AMON TOBIN, APPARAT, BONOBO, BURAKA SOUND SYSTEM, CONVEXTION, DAEDELUS, DEADBEAT, DJ KRUSH, FOUR TET, JAGA JAZZIST, JUAN ATKINS, LUKE VIBERT, MONOLAKE, MODESELEKTOR, PLAID, RJD2, ROBERT RICH, SLEEPARCHIVE and SQUAREPUSHER. more info at abstractscience.net

  1. 5H AGO

    best of 2025 – absci radio 1398-1399

    BEST OF 2025 featuring BAMBINODJ, BARKER, BIOSPHERE, BROKEN LIP, DAN CURTIN, DANIEL AVERY, DJ POLO, DJRUM, IMPÉRIEUX, KINOTEKI + DJ FLP, MARIE DAVISON, NICK LEÓN + JOHNNY FROM SPACE, PAUL ST. HILAIRE, PURELINK, TORTOISE, WEVAL + many more on this extended ABSTRACT SCIENCE year-in-review podcast. Co-hosts CHRIS WIDMAN, BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B, JOSHUA P FERGUSON + HENRY SELF mix 4 hours of future music favorites from 2025. [aired 04 + 11 December 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >CHRIS WIDMAN Lapalux “Bias Angel” (On The Grid, LPLX, 2025) Coen “Headbanger” (Moshpit, Maloca, 2025) Verraco “Basic Maneuvers” (XL Records, 2025) Dan Curtin “Trust Blind” (The 4 Lights, De:tuned, 2025) Surgeon “Soul Fire” (Shell~Wave, Tresor, 2025) Fjaak +J.Manuel “Binder” (Tectonic Sound, Tectonic, 2025) Weval “Dopamine (DJ Edit)” (Ninja Tune, 2025) Dean Grenier “View Source” (Hand Works Music, 2025 Impérieux “Fena” (Hessle Music, 2025) Barker “Stochastic Drift (Stochastic Drift, Smalltown Supersound, 2025) jonathan d. valdez “Music Frozen Dancing” (Perception, 2025) Deft + Manni Dee “Busy Bee” (Swamp Season, Hooversound, 2025) Batu “Clump” (Question Mark, Lethal Press, 2025) Undulae “Temple Of Symmetry” (Temple Of Symmetry EP, Satellite Era, 2025) Slikback “Data” (Tempa, 2025) easygoingtech “909local” (easygoingtech, 2026) >BILL BEARDEN Kinoteki & DJ FLP “160 Proof” (Limiting Factor, 2025) AJ Tracey & Jorja Smith “Crush” (Casement Remix, Not On Label, 2025) Proc Fiskal “UK Torrent” (Shleekit Doss, 2025) Freedjom “13-8=0_0” (DJ Strawberry’s Düğün Fix, Beat Machine, 2025) Nectax “Soundboy Gambit” (Over/Shadow, 2025) Sully “The Wash” (Fabriclive, 2025) Broken Lip “Neighbourhood” (pt.1+2, Iberian Juke, 2025) Cesco “Flump” (Pineapple Records, 2025) JD Reid & Hagan “Leaf” (Baby Gravy, 2025) TMSV “Dimensional” (Perfect Records, 2025) Darama & Kush Arora “Rattle” (Not On Label, 2025) bambinodj “Carrier” (OST, 2025) DJ Polo “Currents” (Night Slugs, 2025) Anecho “Spiritual Blitz” (Dimeshift, 2025) Low End Activist “Wave 03” (Best Intentions, 2025) L-VIS 1990 “Low Pulse” (Club Djembe, 2025) >JOSHUA P FERGUSON Bitchin Bajas “Skylarking” (Inland See, Drag City, 2025) Damon Locks “Hold the Dawn in Place (Beyond pt 2)” (List of Demands, International Anthem, 2025) Stone “Feely” (Dream Curtain Eternally Gentle, 3XL, 2025) Headache “Most Undo Tomorrow” (Thank You for Almost Everything, PLZ Make It Ruins, 2025) Stereolab “Immortal Hands” (Instant Holograms on Metal Film, Warp) Space Dimension Controller “Reflect Itself” (Six Beginnings, Test Pressing, 2025) Coatshek “Triple Virgo” (Sound Bath, Dark Entries, 2025) Sam Prekop “Font” (Open Close, Thrill Jockey, 2025) Biosphere “Like the End of the World” (The Way of Time, AD 93, 2025) Paul St Hilaire “Mary Jane Greenfield” (w/ The Producers, Kynant, 2025) Tortoise “Works and Days” (Touch, International Anthem, 2025) Djrum “Waxcap” (Under Tangled Silence, Houndstooh, 2025) james K “Hypersoft Lovejinx Junkdream” (Friend, AD 93, 2025) Sven Wunder “Misty Shore” (Daybreak, Piano Piano, 2025) >HENRY SELF Dijon “my man” (Baby, R&R/Warner, 2025) Oklou “Blade Bird” (Choke Enough, True Panther, 2025) Oneohtrix Point Never “D.I.S.” (Tranquilizer, Warp, 2025) John Glacier “Emotions” (Like a Ribbon, Young, 2025) Daniel Avery “Tremor” (Tremor, Domino, 2025) caroline “Beautiful Ending” (caroline 2, Rough Trade, 2025) FKA Twigs feat. PinkPantheress “Wild and Alone” (EUSEXUA Afterglow, Young, 2025) Marie Davidson “Statistical Modelling” (City of Clowns, Deewee, 2025) Effy “2011” (The Syndicate, Fragrance, 2025) Destroyer feat. Fiver “Bologna” (Dan’s Boogie, Merge, 2025) Amaarae & Charlie Wilson “Dream Scenario” (Black Star, Interscope, 2025) Whatever the Weather “3°C” (Whatever the Weather II, Ghostly International, 2025) Maria Somerville “Violet” (Luster, 4AD, 2025) Nick León feat. Jonny From Space “Metromover” (A Tropical Entropy, TraTraTrax, 2025) Darkside “S.N.C.” (Nothing, Matador, 2025) Purelink feat. Loraine James “Rookie” (Faith, Peak Oil, 2025) The post best of 2025 – absci radio 1398-1399 appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.

    4h 5m
  2. DEC 11

    absci radio 1395 – mina mills + whoa-b

    MINA MILLS guest mix + new music from BARKER + RAY7, L-VIS 1990, IMAGINARY NUMBER + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B. Special guest Chicago-based DJ + producer MINA MILLS begins the program with a midwest focused mix of classic warehouse techno + rave house. BILL follows with a set of UK club, techno, breakbeat + garage. [aired 13 November 2025 of WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >MINA MILLS Monobox- Downtown B1 [M-P 311] {1997} Jomanda- I Like It (Acapella) [RB 6001] {1993} Damon Wild- Red Dog [SWRR001] {1996} Felix K- MSCL [FLXK#1] {2018] Tadpole- Plug Out [AB012] {1997} C. Garette- Untitled (Box Blaze & Deetron Remix) [ARMALYTE 005] {2000} Subsounds- Shape Three [SUBSOUNDS 007] {1997} Scrappy- Freeze (Ron Hardy Edit) [RDY 45] {1998} Dave Tarrida- Stem The Flow [TRESOR 126] {1999} Beat Junkies- I Am Sorry [CTM9806-1] {1998} New Order- I Don’t Care [0-20546] {1986} Christian Smith & John Selway- Reflective Mode [TR-012] {1999} Basic Implant- Chilla [AUDIOLP01] {2000} Lil Louis And The Diamond Corp.- War Games (Unfortunately True Mix) [DM015] {1988} Mark Bernard-The World [DM251] {1998} Cherry Bomb- Latination [MM 041] {1998} Dimi Angélis & Jeroen Search- De Novo [TRAUT 009] {2011} Thompson & Lenoir- Can’t Stop The House [HJA 870001] {1987} Green Velvet- La La Land (Floppy Sounds Vocal Mix) [RR2007-1] {2001} Angel Alanis- Assault The Audio [CTM-9813] {1998} Access 58- Abstract Funk [A58-003] {1999} Shaka- Due Corde (Rmx) [REV 002] {2000} Jadakiss (Featuring Anthony Hamilton)- Why! (Instrumental) [INTR 11181-1] {2004} Static Drum- External (Technasia Remix) [LOG021B] {2001} Indo- Are U Sleeping (H&F Vox Mix) [ARM 0004] {1993} >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Masaka Masaka “Nothing Makes Sense” (Hakuna Kulala, 2024) Barker & Ray7 “Wiretap #1” (Leisure System, 2025) B. McQueen & Theorist “Chives” (Wisdom Teeth, 2025) DJ Fitness “Rooster Dub” (Isla, 2025) L-VIS 1990 “Soul Motion” (Club Djembe, 2025) Bodhi “LVLZ” (Hotflush Recordings, 2024) Fixate “Conundrum” (Exit Records, 2024) SpacePose “Injure” (Not On Label, 2024) Imaginary Number “I’m In” (YUKU, 2025) Pearson Sound “Hornet” (Hessle Audio, 2024) TMSV “Hangplant” (Perfect Records, 2025) TSVI & DJ Plead “Twos and Fours” (AD 93, 2024) K-Lone “Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah” (Aus Music, 2024) Holloway “Echo Tone” (Instinct, 2020) Wreckx-n-Effect “Rump Shaker” (DJ Cosworth Refix, 2025) Walton “Drowsy” (Not On Label, 2020) The post absci radio 1395 – mina mills + whoa-b appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.

    2 hr
  3. NOV 24

    absci radio 1393 – chris widman

    New music from JASMÍN, LAPALUX, JOE MILLI, WANDERIST, JASSS + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by CHRIS WIDMAN. WIDMAN begins the program with a mix of mutant bass music (drawing on broken techno, electro + breakbeat), followed by percussive house and club sounds. For the second hour, WIDMAN continues with ambient jungle + footwork before sliding into atmospheric downtempo sounds, capped off by in memoriam selections (RIP D’ANGELO + JACK DEJOHNETTE) [aired 30 October 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >CHRIS WIDMAN Gyrofield “Rorschach (ft. Flo State)” (Suspension of Belief, Kapsela, 2025) Identified Patient “Return” (Reset, Dekmental UFO Series, 2025) MUADEEP “Seventh Seal” (Omega Man, 2025) Om Unit & Delay Grounds “Ease” (PRIMARY FOREST 03, CEE, 2025) Jasmín “Bite the Hand” (Hassle Audio, 2025) Farsight “Ron Hudson” (Superclásico, Vol. 2, Clasico, 2025) Pearson Sound “Zoomies” (TD10, Timedance, 2025) pdqb “10000 Gauß (Dopplereffekt Gaussian Surface Remodel)” (Sermons of the Electrofying Messiah, Synaptic Cliffs, 2025) Lapalux “Bias Angel” (On The Grid, 2025) Barker & Ray7 “Wiretap #1” (2025) Joe Milli “Keep That Wire” (Deep Forest EP, Livity Sound, 2025) Amaliah “Hypnosis” (Peach Discs, 2025) DJ Swisha “Say Det” (First Hand Smoke, 2025) Mister Bellini “Nye” (Resurrected Trax, Deep Shopping, 2025) Wanderist “For You” (Imagine, Aus Music, 2025) Rob Amboule “Siltie” (Siltie EP, Craigie Knowes, 2025) Shapednoise “Oblivion Step” (Absurd Matter 2, Weight Looming, 2025) Lone “Ascension.png” (Ascension.png, 2025) DJ Spinn and TEKLIFE “Already” (Break Yo Back EP, Teklife, 2025) DJ Trax “Cubic Nature (DJ Trax Remix)” (Suburban Architecture, 2023) Malibu “Lactonic Crush” (Vanities, Year, 2025) JASSS “Kindness Over Talent” (Eager Buyers, AWOS, 2025) Andrea “Silent Now” (Due in Color, Ilian Tape. 2025) Shackleton “El Din (Part 1)” (Mordant Music, 2008) D’Angelo & The Vanguard “Back To the Future (Part I)” (Black Messiah, RCA, 2014) Jack DeJohnette “Sorcery” (Sorcery #1, Prestige, 1974) The post absci radio 1393 – chris widman appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.

    1h 59m
  4. NOV 14

    absci radio 1391 – joshua p ferguson + henry self

    PAUL ST HILAIRE, CLOVERDALE, NIGHTMARES ON WAX + TORTOISE lead off new music from JOSHUA P. FERGUSON + HENRY SELF on this edition of ABSTRACT SCIENCE. JOSHUA oscillates between indie-electronic, ambient, deep house + jazz-ish sounds on his first hour set. HENRY picks up with a breaks-heavy set drawing on electro, techno, IDM before a late-set comedown into chillout territory. [aired 16 October 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >JOSHUA P. FERGUSON Kieran Hebden & William Tyler “Secret City” (41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s, Temporary Residence Limited, 2025) Tortoise “Oganesson” (Broken Social Scene remix) (International Anthem, 2025) Bitchin Bajas “Graut” (Inland See, Drag City, 2025) Sam Prekop “Open Close” (Open Close, Thrill Jockey, 2025) Paul St Hilaire & Gavsborg “Confidential” (w/ the Producers, Kynant Records, 2025) Lord of the Isles “United Wire” (Signals Aligned, Dusk Delay, 2025) Ezra Feinberg “Pose Beams” (Gold Panda remix) (Tonal Union, 2024) Sarathy Korwar “We Take Things for Granted” (There is Beauty, There Already, Otherland, 2025) Makaya McCraven “Imafan” (Off the Record, International Anthem, 2025) Sven Wunder “Liquid Mountains” (Daybreak, Piano Piano, 2025) >HENRY SELF Cloverdale “Lunatics” (Channel 303, Vibrancy, 2025) Human Rebellion X Power “Fake Reality” (Midi Mode, 2024) The Third Man “Fast Train to Edinburgh” (Before We Begin, Ai, 2008) Link “Amenity” (The First Link EP, Evolution, 1992) Ryan James Ford “Roscoh Denk” (Six Stair EP, Sävy, 2020) Denham Audio “Feel the Panic” (Lobster Theremin, 2020) Ellia Jaya & Poppy Wright “Disconnect My Mind” (Three Six Zero, 2025) Eliza Rose feat. The Trip “Weekend” (Defected, 2025) John Glacier feat. Sampha “Ocean Steppin'” (Like a Ribbon, Young, 2025) Sasha / Emerson “Scorchio Revisited” (Trance Wax Ten, Trance Wax, 2024) UFO “UFO” (Smugglers Way, 2025) Nightmares on Wax feat. Yasiin Bey “Bang Bien” (Echo45 Sound System, Warp, 2025) Yukimi “Get It Over” (Ninja Tune, 2025) The post absci radio 1391 – joshua p ferguson + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.

    1h 60m
  5. NOV 7

    absci radio 1389 – whoa-b + henry self

    New music from K-LONE, L-VIS 1990, KIERAN HEBDEN + WILLIAM TYLER, PEPE LINK + more on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B + HENRY SELF. BILL begins the program with a mix of uk garage, grime + breakstep. HENRY follows with an uplifting eclectic selection of baeleric + synth funk sounds, bookended by epic club cuts in memoriam. (RIP JD TWITCH of OPTIMO (ESPACIO) + RON CARROLL). [aired 02 October 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Novelist “Feel The Heat” (Not On Label, 2025) Rygby “Taormina” (Not On Label, 2025) K-Lone “Upside Down” (Tempa, 2025) Anecho “Spiritual Blitz” (Dimeshift, 2025) L-VIS 1990 “Low Pulse” (Club Djembe, 2025) JD Reid “SIREN DE PULSE (FODE FM) (DUB)” (Baby Gravy, 2025) Coido “Deathbox” (YUKU, 2024) Darama & Kush Arora “Heart Meter” (Not On Label, 2025) Kaval “It Just Begin” (KVLDUB, 2025) Obeka “Accelerata” (Future Bounce, 2025) Pugilist “Mannequin” (Ruff Kutz, 2025) Dubrunner “Blackheart” (Menace, 2025) T5UMUT5UMU “Twisted Thorns” (USI KUVO, 2025) JLSXND7RS “GYPSY TRITON VIP” (Not On Label, 2025) Hooverian Blur “Wacky Robot” (Sneaker Social Club, 2025) Bodhi “Demeter 227” (Unknown To The Unknown, 2024) JIALING “MELTING POINT 溶點” (Not On Label, 2025) Om Unit “Snagged” (Not On Label, 2024) Ivy Lab “Curves” (20/20 LDN, 2024) >HENRY SELF Boris “Buzz-In” (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix) (Scion Audio/Visual, 2009) Fatima Yamaha “What’s a Girl to Do” (Dekmantel, 2015) Kieran Hebden, William Tyler “Secret City” (41 Longfield Street Late ’80s, Temporary Residence Ltd., 2025) Dope Lemon “Dust of a Thousand Stars” (Golden Wolf, BMG, 2025) Lawrence Hart “The Wave Cry” (Come In Out of the Rain, Domino, 2025) Pepe Link “Belfast” (Scenes From My Soul II, Music For Dreams, 2025) Faithless feat. Nathan Ball & Amelia Fox “Thinking” (Champion Sound, Faithless, 2025) TUAWKI & The Magic Hours “Da Funk” (Made of Steel, the universe as we know it, 2025) Underworld “Techno Shinkansen” (Strawberry Hotel, Smith Hyde Productions, 2024) Hardsoul feat. Ron Carroll “Back Together” (Classic Main Mix) (Soulfuric, 2003) The post absci radio 1389 – whoa-b + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.

    2 hr
  6. OCT 17

    absci radio 1382 – whoa-b + chris widman

    T5UMUT5UMU, DJ POLO, LINQUENCY, SLIKBACK + more are featured on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast hosted by WHOA-B + CHRIS WIDMAN. BILL begins the program with gqom + african influenced UK club sounds. WIDMAN follows with hi-energy techno/bass hybrids, drum n bass + downtempo. [aired 14 August 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Omagoqa “Stop & Go” (Not On Label, 2025) Dominowe ft Aquatic “Street Fighter” (Not On Label, 2025) Glisten “Basop” (Not On Label, 2025) SpacePose “Loyalty” (Not On Label, 2025) State OFFF “I Need Some Baile-Gqom” (Not On Label, 2023) T5UMUT5UMU “Oasis” (USI KUVO, 2025) Aryu Jassika “The Dark Side of The Zoom” (Swak Catalog, 2025) JD Reid & Hagan “Leaf” (Baby Gravy, 2025) AfroNerd “Time Travellers” (FOMP, 2025) Kaval “Soundclash” (KVLDUB, 2025) Pigmnt “Ancient Technology” (Not On Label, 2024) DJ Plead & rRoxymore “Round Echoes” (Smalltown Supersound, 2024) Surreal Sessions & ZVRI “Hayabusa” (DRMTRK, 2024) DJ MP3 “Ngabenuza (Gqom Power Mix)” (Not On Label, 2024) JLSXND7RS “The Joker” (DRMTRK, 2025) DJ Polo “Currents” (Night Slugs, 2025) Obeka “Gombey” (Not On Label, 2025) >CHRIS WIDMAN Badawi “Last DJ of the Apocalypse” (UPA, 2025) Skee Mask “SB Did It First” (E, 2025) Linquency “Access Glands” (Gaussia, 2025) Soul Mass Transit System “Up In Da Club” (HAUSDOGS001, 2025) KiNK & Raredub “You And Me” (Mutual Rytm, 2025) Ma Sha “Sealegs” (Hydrofall, Steel City Dance, 2025) Slikback “Knot” (Attrition, Planet Mu, 2025) Eusebeia “Beneath The Surface” (Undertones FFF “True Independence” (MASSIV, 2025) No Nation “Jailhouserock” (MASSIV, 2025) DJ Crystl “Let It Roll (Kiljoy Remix)” (Function Records, 2025) DJ Food “The Crow…” (Kaleidoscope, Ninja Tune, 200) Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes “Desert Nights” (Expansions, 1975) The post absci radio 1382 – whoa-b + chris widman appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.

    2 hr
  7. OCT 2

    absci radio 1380 – joshua p ferguson + luke stokes

    SAM PREKOP, K-LONE, JOHN CARPENTER + VEGYN lead off new music selections for this ABSTRACT SCIENCE pod hosted by JOSHUA P. FERGUSON + LUKE STOKES. JOSHUA goes in for leftfield electronics, minimal house, rhythmic bass + dubby sounds for his set. LUKE follows with a heady mix of hardcore, ambient + techno. [aired 31 July 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >JOSHUA P. FERGUSON Sam Prekop “Light Shadow” (Open Close, Thrill Jockey, 2025) Jeremy Greenspan & Borys “But Wait There’s More” (Jiaolong, 2016) Loop LF “Mcc” (Pattern Gardening, Wisdom Teeth, 2025) Jose Gonzalez “Heartbeats” (Logic1000 remix) (Mute, 2025) Lake People “Tomorrow’s Happiness” (Phase Transition, Mule Musiq, 2017) Verses GT “Unknown” (S/T, LuckyMe, 2025) Om Unit “Can You Dub It?” (Self released, 2024) Josi Devil “Restless Sleep” (Hessle Audio, 2025) K-Lone “Pressure” (Pressure EP, Tempa, 2025) FaltyDL “Brazil” (Maddslinky remix) (Mu20, Planet Mu, 2015) Donato Dozzy & Sabla “Forma II” (Morpho, Gang of Ducks, 2025) Martyn “Velvet” (3024, 2007) L-VIS 1990 “Low Pulse” (Summer Heat, Club Djembe, 2025) ESG “UFO” (A South Bronx Story, Soul Jazz, 2000) >LUKE STOKES Rebekah Del Rio “Lorando” (Mulholland Dr. Soundtrack, Warner Bros, 2001) John Carpenter “Night” (Lost Themes 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition, Sacred Bones, 2025) Apaull “Dogma(x)” (Dogma(x) EP, Furnace Room records, 2025) Kassie Krut “Reckless (COIDO Remix)” (kassie krut (expanded EP), Fire Talk, 2025) Marumari “splingclouds” ( Hidden Tracks and Rarities 2001-2005, carpark records, 2025) Nørus & DJ Whipr Snipr “If I Could Fake One Emotion” (Gravitational Attraction, Nerang Recordings, 2025) Vegyn X Air “La femme d_argent (Vegyn remix)” (Blue Moon Safari, Parlophon, 2025) Michael Fassbender “Hello David” 2012 Gabriel Brady “Untitled” (Day-blind, Tonal Union, 2025) Yann Tiersen “Arne” (Rathlin From A Distance.The Liquid Hour, Mute, 2025) Emanuel Eisbrenner “Doctors Theme” Thirty Years, Self released, 2025) Nicolas Bougaïeff “Womb” (Prime Funktion, Mute, 2025) Rashad Becker “Zero Hour” (The Incident, Clunk, 2025) THE NGHBR$ “LET’S GO (HOME)” (I Know Where You Live, Good Skills, 2025) Sextile “Resist” (Yes, Please, Sacred Bones, 2025) Karassimeon “Aethernova” (Aethernova EP, Ritmo Fatale, 2025) The post absci radio 1380 – joshua p ferguson + luke stokes appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.

    1h 60m
  8. SEP 22

    absci radio 1379 – whoa-b + henry self

    New music from DJ SPRINTER, LOW END ACTIVIST, TURNSTILE, LAWRENCE HART, FEVER RAY + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B + HENRY SELF. BILL begins the program with a “kitchen sink 130 [bpm]” set of breakbeat, uk garage, club, grime + electro. For the 2nd hour, HENRY rides downtempo grooves into classic house + industrial techno. [aired 24 July 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B DJ Sprinter “Extra” (Not On Label, 2025) Pugilist “Run It” (Ruff Kutz, 2025) Sonia Calico “Howling Wolf” (More Time, 2024) Coido “Mueviti” (Twenty Twenty, 2024) Skee Mask “Panic Button” (Ilian Tape, 2025) T5UMUT5UMU “武者 Musha” (Sneaker Social Club, 2024) Low End Activist “Wave 03” (Best Intentions, 2025) Greazus “Freek Hour” (Twenty Twenty, 2024) Funk Assault “Sacred Arsenal” (Primal Instinct, 2024) Volster “Turned” (Secession, 2025) Patrick Brian “Nothing No1” (Sneaker Social Club, 2022) Piezo “Bbent” (Nervous Horizon, 2023) Trail “Velasquez” (1985 Music, 2022) Toasty “The Knowedge” (Hotflush, 2004) Terror Danjah “Green Street” (Planet Mu / After Shock, 2005) Henry Greenleaf “Come On” (Dime Shift, 2024) >HENRY SELF Purelink feat. Loraine James “Rookie” (Faith, Peak Oil, 2025) Carl Craig “A Wonderful Life” (Desire: The Carl Craig Story, Planet E, 2025) Turnstile “Ceiling” (Never Enough, Roadrunner, 2025) Aphex Twin “Windowlicker” (Aubrey Fry & Abandoned Technologies Remix) (soundcloud.com/aubreyfry, 2025) Jeanette Thomas “Shake Your Body” (Chicago Connection, 1987) William S x Sam Girling “I’ll Never Let You Go” (Nothing Else Matters, 2022) Pulsac “Knights of the Jaguar” (We Shine In The Darkness, 2024) Maya Jane Coles feat. Kim Ann Foxman “Burning Bright” (Joyce Muniz Remix) (I/AM/ME, 2013) The Cure “And Nothing Is Forever” (Trentemøller Rework) (Mixes of a Lost World, Polydor, 2025) Lawrence Hart “Daydreamers” (Come In Out Of The Rain, Domino, 2025) Fever Ray “I’m Not Done” (Therapy Session) (Rabid/Mute, 2025) Roddy Lima “Night Time” (Experts Only, 2025) Joyce Muniz feat. Karl Michael “In Der Nacht” (Zeitkapsel, Joyce Muniz, 2023) The post absci radio 1379 – whoa-b + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.

    2 hr
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abstract science is future music radio: a weekly exploration of innovative electronic music and its roots since 1997. this staple of chicago’s airwaves investigates the current evolution and influence of dj culture, dance music and experimental sounds on a global level. co-hosts CHRIS WIDMAN, HENRY SELF, LUKE STOKES + JOSHUA P FERGUSON showcase the latest releases alongside underground classics, overlooked gems, exclusive live performances, interviews and dj mixes. past guest include AMON TOBIN, APPARAT, BONOBO, BURAKA SOUND SYSTEM, CONVEXTION, DAEDELUS, DEADBEAT, DJ KRUSH, FOUR TET, JAGA JAZZIST, JUAN ATKINS, LUKE VIBERT, MONOLAKE, MODESELEKTOR, PLAID, RJD2, ROBERT RICH, SLEEPARCHIVE and SQUAREPUSHER. more info at abstractscience.net

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