Sound Contours

The lounge chair's in the right place. Most of the umbrella's still standing. It's everything else that's gone. Bid farewell to civilization with this dramatic mix of post-nuclear lounge tunes -- a fantasia of slunk grooves, dramatic orchestral arrangements and exotic percussion. Join me for our last few sips of wine cooler ever, at the last party anyone will attend, here on the last patios anywhere. Tracklist: Submerse - It's All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses, Les Baxter - Thinking Of You, Esquivel and His Orchestra - So Rare, Paul Tanner, Andre Montero and His Orchestra - Holiday On Saturn, Martin Denny - Hypnotique, The Surfmen - Aloe Oe, Armando Sciascia - Black Sand, Frank Hunter and His Orchestra - White Goddess, Ron Goodwin - The Moon, George Shearing - Lotus Land, Warren Baker and His Orchestra - Malayan Nightbird, Piero Piccioni - Eros In Hiro, Jerry Byrd - Bird Of Paradise, Frank Comstock and His Orchestra - Out Of Space, Henry Mancini - Lujon (Slow Hot Wind), Decibels A Go-Go - De 9 A 6, Andre Popp Presents Elsa Popping and Her Pixieland Band - La Java Du Diable, Russ Garcia and His Orchestra - Red Sands Of Mars, Stan Applebaum, His Orchestra and Chorus - Undiscovered Island, Tak Shindo - Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Johnny Spencer and The Kona Koasters - Monsoon, Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again (1939 Version)

The only way out is through. Wild Gems III will get you there. Tracklist: Roger Roger and Nino Nardini - Strange Motion (Nature Nocturne), Los Amaya - Bailen Mi Rumbita, Indian Rope - Purple Mania, Ike Mathews - African Feeling, Erkin Koray - Karli Daglar, Goat - Try My Robe, Wadih Essafi - Aandak Baharia Ya Rayess, The African Brothers International Band - Wompe Masem, Aby Ngana Diop - Sapaly, Roj - Bongo Workout, Aldo Tamborrelli - Indian Feeling, Hervé Roy and Pierre Bachelet - Pachydermes and Cie, Alessandro Alessandroni - Collata, Omar Khorshid - Rakset El Fadaa, Okay Temiz - Dokuz Sekiz, Un Dos Tres Y Fuera - San Juan, Tambor Y Fuera, Can - Smoke (E.F.S. No. 59), Mac Talla Nan Creag - Grugaigian Chant, Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects - Roof Fish Suck, The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band - Sao Sakit Mae, Beaver and Krause - People's Park, Flamingods - Gojira, Albert Marcoeur - Controle-Vitesse-Pusssance, Agitation Free - Ala Tul Canal Din, Georgia - (Open Voice)

Mind Train aka Wild Gems II picks up where the first Wild Gems left off, taking us further down the stoney path through a vibrant and concerted wilderness of psych, exotica and eclectic international rock records. Tracklist: Budapest Radio Orchestra - The Lights of Hong Kong, Yoko Ono - Mindtrain, Erkin Koray - Sir, Bharat Karki and Party - Calcutta Calcutta, Fred Weinberg - Aum Mau Mau, Dick Hyman - Topless Dancers of Corfu, Bo Dollis and The Wild Mangolias - Handa Wanda, Bernard Gérard - Crocodile Porte-Clé, Stereolab - Iron Man, Ersen - Gafil Gezme Saskin, Cem Karaca and Apaslar - Gilgamis, Pierre Henry - Jericho Jerk, John Hill - Io, Morgan Delt - Barbarian Kings, Selda - Yaylalar, Kalyanji-Anandji - Bansarai Babu Beats, The Piranha Sounds - La Turbie Pirhanienne, Raymond Guiot - Primitive Spirit, Ananda Shankar - Dancing Drums, Zafer Dilek - Tokat Sarması, Los Diablos Rojos - El Guapo, Banda Eletrica - Soy Loco por ti America, Yma Sumac - Gallito Ciego (One-Eyed Rooster), Los Henry's - Cumbia del Amor, Abelardo Carbono - Guana Tangula

Enjoy a mix of vintage Luk Thang 45s, ripped from a stack of singles brought over from Thailand by our cousin and good friend. Here's the best hour of material. I try to provide an authentic rendering of each disc, while avoiding the harsher surface noise, clicks, and scratches from the vinyl. Information about some of these Luk Thang picks is available online, but many remain mysterious. My partially reconstructed tracklist has tunes by Sangsuree Rungroj, Sayan Sanya, Winai Bundarak, and Chaloemphon Hit Donchai, but we know up to ten other unknown artists are featured. Who, for instance, is behind the cover of Serge Gainsbourg's J'taime Moi Non Plus? Whatever the answer, dip into the retro vibe of Thai Town, the first of four new episodes to be released over upcoming weeks tracing the varying strains of sound among international musics. Tracklist: Sangsuree Rungroj - Mixed, Sayan Sanya - Unknown, Sayan Sanya - Some Old Love, Sayan Sanya - Do Not Fall For The Rumor, Sayan Sanya - Borderman, Unknown Artist - J'taime Moi Non Plus, Chaloemphon Hit Donchai - Past Love Buddhist Lent Day, or Past Love Rainy Season, Chaloemphon Hit Donchai - Won Mae Engagement Girl, Winai Bandurak - Mexican Sunflower, or Tree Marigold

House music for the nest: These selections of micro, minimal, lo-fi, glitch, ambient and deep house hang together like insulating drapes -- subtle head music heaving and pulsing in the stillness of a calm room, with steady, four-on-the-floor background beats and tightly knit bass lines that like to lead the groove. Synth pads and vocal samples line the space like wallpaper. Zone out and enjoy. Tracklist: Afterhours - Defragment #2, Body-San - One Million Brazillion Dollars, Stimming - No. 17, Ishmael - No Chaser, Letherette - Without You, Farben and James Din A4 - Please Excuse My Face, Jan Jelinek - They, Them, Jetone - Octan, Rod Modell - Syria, Martin Schulte - City Night, Thomas Fehlmann - Atlas 2, Elka - BBX1999, You're Me - Oot Re Mi, Perfume Advert - Auspice, Anders Ilar - Gramineous Glow, Martin Buttrich - Stop Motion, Ricardo Villalobos - Hireklon, Farben - Silikon, Nosaj Thing - NR2, Moodymann - Why Do U Feel, Gold Panda - Mediaevil, Francesco Tristano - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Euphoric vibes, sculpted tones and melodic (at times challenging) beats converge for a brisk tour through the industrial cyberpark of tomorrow. The hoverboard has its soundtrack. Tracklist: Yasuaki Shimizu - Tachikawa, Radiohead - I Am Citizen Insane, Rival Consoles - Morning Vox, Ada - You and Me, Rabit - Glass Harp Interlude, Aphex Twin - Milk Man, Iller - Bending Oddity, Kwes. - Hives, Arca - Dignity, Kahn, Commodo and Gantz - Kibosh, Knxwledge - Dntleave, Bullion - Don't Talk (Close Your Eyes), Gold Panda - Autumn Falls, Gobby - Hyuna, Bjork - Innocence (Alva Noto Unitxt Remodel), Jlin - Nandi, Kutmah - Darkening Of The Light, Henry Wu - Expensive Ghetto (Feat. Mo Kolors), Cakedog - 24 HRS, Moiré - Gel, Beat Spacek - Alone In Da Sun, Dabrye - In Water, James Place - High Rise (Rainier), Bibio - Saint Christopher, Baths - Seaside Town

It's the sound of momentum: Hand drums, mallet instruments and mesmeric beats cut an exotic path through the worlds of global electronica and avant-garde techno. Tracklist: You're Me - Walled Garden, Mestre Geraldo E Su Bateria - Mistura #2, Don't DJ - Evolve, Black Merlin - Reef Play, Tyondai Braxton - Greencrop, Clap! Clap! - Sahkii's Elevation, Cut Hands - Inchantment, Tony Allen - Asiko (In A Silen Mix), YPY - Gazing Beat, African Head Charge - Timbuktu Express, Banabila and Machinefabriek - Awake, Andew Pekler - A Savage Topography, Michael Turtle - Zoote Pointe, Don't DJ - Disparata 69, Francis Bebey - Binta Madiallo, NV - Bells Burp, DJ Eye - (iii), BD1982 - Coney Island High, Elysia Crampton - Dummy Track (Feat. Why Be and Chino Amobi), Bateria Fantastico De Potela - Demonstracao de Som e Andiamento, Lucy - A Millenia Old Adversary, DJ Paradise - Mbizi (R)

The second of two mixes compiling excellent 2016 instrumental music, fashioned for wet weather and a cool state of mind. This one's got (somewhat) more of a rock bent. Enjoy. Tracklist: So Percussion - Drumkit Quartet No. 51 (Chicago Realization), Thor Harris - 12 Ate, Anna Meredith - Blackfriars, Christopher Tignor - The Will And The Waiting, F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm - Day One Three, Suzanne Kraft - Bank, Raime - Dialling In, Falling Out, Szun Waves - Orb Light, nonkeen - Glow, Daedelus - Hold Sway, BADBADNOTGOOD - Here and Now, Kikagaku Moyo - Melted Crystal, The Eye of Time - I could sleep for thousand years, Billington-Tramposh - Live January 13 2016, Mica Levi and Oliver Coates - Xhill Stepping, Mark Pritchard - Cycles Of 9, Plaid - Wen, Guy Blakeslee - Maja (Queen of The Storm) Movement 3, Oren Ambarchi - Hubris Part 1, Odd Nosdam - Endless 432 (Feat. Teebs)

The first of two mixes compiling excellent 2016 instrumental music, fashioned for wet weather and a cool state of mind. Tracklist: Mica Levi and Oliver Coates - Mob of Waters, Olof Melander - Travelers, Body-San - Voices 1, Foodman - Waterfall, Barnaby Carter - Cold Weather Warm Soul, You're Me - Applet W, Don't DJ - The Grey Shrine, Autechre - spTh, Banabila and Machinefabriek - Strokjes, Suzanne Kraft - Scripted Space, Kane Ikin - Echoic, Jilk - Baby Hannah, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Stratus, Masayoshi Fujita and Jan Jelinek - Helio, Andrew Pekler - Theme From Tristes Tropiques/Avian Modulations/Life In The Canopy, Seiho - The Dish, Ian William Craig - Lost On Time, Part 1, Nicolas Jaar - Leaves, Ash Koosha - Ooh Uhh, Burial - Young Death, Pendant - Des Vieux Temples, weeVanStood - black.exe

My mood at the end of an era. This Best Of 2016 mix offers neither the very best songs nor representation for the very best albums of 2016. Instead it condenses some of the year's very best tracks from some of the year's best albums into a cloud of sentiment--a Top 40 mix defined by its vintage, covering the songwriters and producers I like most (plus a few one-offs). Enjoy. Tracklist: Laura Mvula - Bread, Chairlift - Crying in Public, Jenny Hval - Period Piece, Cross Record - Steady Waves, Radiohead - The Numbers, Bon Iver - 22 (OVER S∞∞n), Mitski - Your Best American Girl, Suuns - UN-NO, Tobacco - Human Om, Gobby - Mysterioso, Alex Smoke - Dire Need, Nicolas Jaar - Three Sides of Nazareth, David Bowie - Lazarus, Flamingods - Anya, Cloudland Canyon - An Arabesque, Morgan Delt - Don’t Wanna See What’s Happening Outside, Animal Collective - Golden Gal, Danny Brown - Lost, Mark Pritchard - Beautiful People (Feat. Thom Yorke), Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Rare Things Grow, James Blake - Choose Me, Bibio - With The Thought of Us, Santigold - Banshee, Nite Jewel - Kiss the Screen, Blood Orange - Better Than Me, Jessy Lanza - It Means I Love You, Olga Bell - ATA, El Guincho - Cómix (Feat. Mala Rodriguez), Kaytranada - GLOWED UP (Feat. Anderson .Paak), A Tribe Called Quest - Whateva Will Be (Feat. Consequence), KOOL AD - UP DOWN FREESTYLE (Prod. DJ MUSTARD), KA - That Cold and Lonely, Clipping - Air ‘em Out, Gaika - VSOP, Foodman - Mid Summer Night (Feat. Diskomargaux), MJ Guider - Lit Negative, Nite-Funk - Let Me Be Me, Anna Meredith - Something Helpful, Julianna Barwick - Beached, Babyfather - Militant

It's 35 swag beats from 34 of my favorite producers this year. All 2016 everything. Shitty year; awesome sounds. Reap the harvest. Tracklist: Parks Burton - dlab1, Four Tet - Evening Side (Oneohtrix Point Never edit), Nicola Cruz - Invocacion, GOALS - Sugar Crush, Brother Mynor - david duchovny hides in the broom closet, Ccolo - Exoticaspeakerjam, GUNDAM - Bikini Beach, Al Dobson Jr. - White Rum, mieksneak. - Mililiters, Kaytranada - DESPITE THE WEATHER, FaltyDL - Bridge Spot, Gold Panda - Pink and Green, Daedelus - Special Re: Quest, Commodo - Solid Gold Telephone, Dakim - may hope (beatitude 4), Saafron - Host Body, Olof Melander - Slow, Abu Ama - Efendi Remix, Bwana - Failed Escape (Where You Belong), Seiho - Peach and Pomegranate, Andy Stott - New Romantic, Submerse - Sidequests, Mark Pritchard - Under the Sun, Oval - re, Nosaj Thing - N R 3, Jilk - Be Heart, Weval - You###re Mine, Etch - Technicolor Daydream, Moiré - Brixton, Hiele - Verwelkoming, LinG - Canthem, T_A_M - Myelin Sheath, Don’t DJ - Fall (4 Interesting Music), Swarvy - RC, DJ Earl - Lotta A$$

Lose yourself in an atmosphere of allied electronic artistry, from collaborators in turn-of-the-millennium Japan. Cocoon ("Maju" in Japanese) features work by artists who played in Audio Sports, Maju, Neina, Hosomi, Kangaroo Paw and Synapse -- with particular focus on musicians Aki Onda and Sakana Hosomi. Their overlap outlines a scene that paralleled Nobukazu Takemura and the Childisc label, and resulted in some of the most innovative, glitchy ambient and post-rock music of the time. Listen up, and let the sonic boundaries break down. Tracklist: Audio Sports - So, That Was the Beginning, Maju - Eyelids Not Yet Open, Kangaroo Paw - Phlizz, Audio Sports - Banana (Joy Mix), Aki Onda - Cattleya, Hosomi + Ryo Miyashita - nog, Neina - Quit Elegance, Maju - Within Time, Without Words, Kangaroo Paw - Cat’s Cradle, Audio Sports - Never Personal, Tujiko Noriko - Tablet for Memory, Aki Onda - Fish Don’t Know it’s Raining, Hosomi - sp, Maju - Yawning in an Afternoon’s Monotony, Synapse - Soap Bubble, Maju - Once Again, I Revert to That Perspective, Neina - Symmetry, Aki Onda - Chrysanthemum, Kangaroo Paw - Osusowake, Audio Sports - I Met You On the Street, Maju - Dust it Off and Make Sure Which Way is Up, Aki Onda - It’s Gone, Hosomi - bl-ib, Maju - Chabashira, Audio Sports - Return to 1 More, Aki Onda - Orange, Neina - iris-in, Maju - Facing Backwards, Aki Onda - Mellow, Maju - Meguro, Aki Onda - Eclipse, Aki Onda - I Tell a Story of Bodies That Change, Sakana Hosomi + Chihei Hatakeyama - Collapsing Huge Glaciers and the Sun

Keigo Oyamada’s vibrant Trattoria Records, a Polystar-owned imprint that lasted from 1991 to 2002, stood out among the core labels of Tokyo’s Shibuya-kei scene. It also provided a home to Oyamada’s brilliant Cornelius project, in which counterpoint, syncopation and sampling invaded — nay, parasitized — the sunny alt-rock sound of the ‘90s. If Cornelius could encapsulate Shibuya-kei’s eclectic, hyper-pastiche type of retro-chic and its flair for experimentalism on a single record, Trattoria reflected a broader vision where sounds like baroque pop, noise rock, psych, shoe-gaze, trip-hop, lounge and J-pop soccer anthems would all live on one roster. This mix pairs Cornelius tracks with Oyamada's production work, while setting aside Trattoria’s Western artists -- and its more overt J-pop, alt-rock and avant-garde sounds -- in favor of the label’s most inclusively adventurous (adventurously inclusive?) Japanese material, showing off what Shibuya-kei was truly capable of. Tracklist: Cornelius - 1969, Cornelius - The Micro Disneycal World Tour, Dots + Borders - 7 Juillet, Salon Music - Golden Brown, Cornelius - Smoke, Indian Rope - Lovely Dada, Flipper’s Guitar - Southbound Excursion, Yasuharu Konishi - Opening Theme, Takako Minekawa - Plash, Cornelius - Star Fruits Surf Rider, Hideki Kaji - Kanojyo Ga Yoko Wo Muku Riyuu, Citrus - Your Building, Kahimi Karie - Son of a Gun, Cornelius - New Music Machine, Venus Peter - Walk Out, OOIOO - Be Sure to Loop, Salon Music - Wanna Be Tied, Takako Minekawa - Lullaby of Gray, Yoshie - Espacio Verde, Cornelius - Point of View Point, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her - Sister Sister, Indian Rope - Go West, Citrus - Everysong Landed Near by His Fire Place, Cornelius - How Do You Feel, Kahimi Karie - Le Roi Soleil, Hideki Kaji - Ivy Ivory Ivy, Hiromix - Yume Wo Yoku Miru Hito No Hanashi, Luminous Orange - Ken-Ban, Cornelius - 69/96 Girl Meets Cassette, OOIOO - Asozan, Salon Music - Sleepers, Buffalo Daughter - Great Five Lakes (Cornelius Remix), Yoshie - 7 Colobe 8 Oqui, SKYEYE - 7EYE7, Rovo - KNM!, Cornelius - Fly, Indian Rope - Purple Mania, OOIOO - Mountain Book, Citrus - Big Day Coming from Northwest, Cornelius - Thank You for The Music

A small label run by Nobukazu Takemura in Kyoto from 1994 to 2007, Childisc was subtly groundbreaking. Takemura was at the cutting edge: beyond just granular synthesis, his output randomizers affected melody, his glitches (the sounds of ordered processes going awry) became pleasant listening, MIDI noise was incorporated into music, and the voices of robots -- hidden like kodama in a personal computer -- were friendly and cute, rather than isolating and threatening. Though he deserves his own episode, Takemura put out most of his best work on Childisc and honed a singular aesthetic there, curating the work of lesser known yet likeminded artists from around Japan and pairing it with his own. Childisc was about mystery and wonder -- a pairing of experimentalism and whimsy, where cute or kawaii voices and melodies were peppered with challenging bursts of blips and bloops. Electronic noises were slyly recontextualized as atmospheric music or percussion instruments; trip-hop and breezy, Brazil-inflected beats were joined by cheap Casio keyboards played with childlike playfulness; and ambient landscapes would skitter along without necessarily arriving at a horizon... Tracklist: Lullatone - If I Had a Harp I Would Play it Every Day, Asao Kikuchi - What Must They Be Saying?, Yabemilk - Caprice Salad, Slowly Minute - Happy Birth and Sweet Blue, Nobukzau Takemura - Sign, Hyu - Hyper Function, Kiyoshi Izumi - Tengwar, Suppa Micro Pamchopp - A Secret Sense of Panic, Nobukzau Takemura - Cons, Aki Tsuyuko - A Happy Day, Child’s View - grill, Arrow Tour - Fever and Heater, Hirono Nishiyama - ひまわり, Arche Type - Ciao Ciao Bambina, Asao Kikuchi - Fireworks, Nobukazu Takemura - The Cradle of the Light, Slowly Minute - The Song of The Sun In Autumn’s Holiday, Kiyoshi Izumi - Zephyr, Koota Tanimura - Meet Me In The Next Living, Gutevolk - Mizuno Soko (Live Version), Nobukzau Takemura - Conical Flask, Nobukzau Takemura - Chrysalis Part 2, Eiji Mitomi - Centaurea, Hyu - Egg Plane, Nobukzau Takemura - Mahou No Hiroba, Nobukzau Takemura - Lost Treasure (4th Version), Kiyoshi Izumi - Graflicker, Slowly Minute - Whisper Magic (2003 Slowly Minute Mix), Nobukzau Takemura - Anemometer, Eiji Mitomi - Rainbow, Sako - Sheep Negotiation

On this global bass mix, energy is central: Rhythms of the Afro-latin world are brought together in a transatlantic call-and-response between Africa, Europe, South and Central America -- a swirl of synthetic and acoustic beats, a weaving of sampled and recorded voices, a synthesis of roots and branches -- joined by producers from nearly every continent. The second Global Electronic episode, Global Antenna mixes digital cumbias from post-EDM Mexico, Argentina and Ecuador with a selection of high-energy clave-rooted beats and kuduros from all over the Portuguese-speaking world, while dropping in hip-hop and dancehall-inflected beats that flip sounds from locales as far-flung as Bollywood. It matches French MPC producers ventriloquizing Brazilian MPB samples with Italian producers ventriloquizing Central African tribal recordings, and blends the latest electronic techniques with classic Latin percussion instruments and African mbira. It selects from African artists living part-time in Europe, and even listens in on a few like-minded producers in Japan, Turkey, Colorado, and California. Tracklist: The Very Best - Ufumu, Nicola Cruz - Cumbia del Olvido, Psilosamples - Soldadinho do Aripe / Periquoto Cara-suja, Souleance - Mais Um, Frikstailers - Cumbia Frikera, Ccolo - Immortal Birds Diwali, Al Dobson Jr. - Malfuf - Nebetia, Daniel Haaksmen - Aho, Clap! Clap! - The Rainstack Fable, Magnus P.I feat. Penya - Search It Out, Dengue Dengue Dengue - R2, Mala - Inga Gani, Underspreche - Flowers From the Lake, Anchorsong - Butterflies, Chancha via Circuito feat. Lido Pimienta - Jardines (Tremor Remix), MORO - SALVE SUA VIDA, Gossamer - J-cruise, Nicola Cruz - Mantis (Xanga Remix), DJ Marfox - Cobra Preta, DJ Kolt and DJ Perigoso - Perseguição, Clap! Clap! - (E) Earnest, Ibibio Sound Machine - Uwa The Peacock (Eki Ko Inuen Uwa), Mbongwana Star - Suzanna, El Guincho - Antillas, Thug Entrancer - Curaga, Los Chapillacs - Marcha del Chullachaqui (Deltatron Remix), Africaine 808 - Yes We Can't, Abu Ama - Tired in Istambul

Holographic sounds for a Schwinn Beach Cruiser. Make the bike path glow. Tracklist: Bop - Fragments, Weval - You Made It (Part I), Al Dobson Jr. - Vibration, Armadillo - Aves del Valle, Don't DJ - Southern Shore, The Invisibles - Wing, John Wizards - Leuk, Seiho - DO NOT LEAVE WET, Jose Larralde - Quimey Neuquen (Chancha Via Circuito Remix), Balam Acab - See Birds (sun), Co La - White Silver Sands (Radiowave Version), Anchorsong - Monsoon, Nerftoss - Virtue Walk, The Avalanches - Subway/Going Home, The Day - Boots In the Pool, Disclosure - Feel Like I Do (Feat. Al Green), Kaytranada - LITE SPOTS, Cornelius - Drop, Bibio - A Mineral Love, Al Dobson Jr. - In the World, Botany - Anchor, Arawak - Accadde A Bali, Flamingods - Majestic Fruit, Gold Panda - I Am Real Punk, Mice Parade - Pursuant to the Vibe, Mount Kimbie - Adriatic, K15 - Mist, Submerse - No Continues Kid, TOKiMONSTA - Waiting For the Break of Dawn, Michael Turtle - Maid of the Mist, Teebs - Arthur's Birds, Gossamer - Okuma

Ambient heat and luminescent drones from contemporary artists and composers for bathing in the light ecstatic or brooding in the blinding sun. On this episode, tons of 2016 tracks are featured alongside seldom heard classics, all by thinkers who truly know how to focus their (and our) senses. Tracklist: Shigeto - Deep Breathing, Irezumi - Contemplations, Benoît Pioulard - Of Everything That Rhymes, Manu - Yawning In An Afternoon's Monotony, Naemi - Procel (Original Mix), Lucy - A Selfless Act, Guitoo - Snow Noiz, Christina Vantzou - Valley Drone, Sean MCCann - Guardian, Ian William Craig - Expanding Hope Into Caverns, Anenon - Panes, Huerco S. - The Sacred Dance, Zomes - Life On The Wheel, Julianna Barwick - Nebula, Tim Hecker - Up Red Bull Creek, Trees - sonm ambient 2, Ben Lukas Boysen - Sleepers Beat Theme, Felicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - ME, Harbour - best self, Don't DJ - Southeast Subterrane, Matthewdavid's Mindflight - Venusian Sunset, Mark Pritchard - ?, Benoit Pioulard - II, Kane Ikin - Autophasic, Alessandro Cortini - Di Passaggio Leafar Legov - MX Home, M. Geddes Gengras - Threshold, Grouper - Made of Air

Feel it. Tracklist: Pharaohs - Beyond Within, Musiccargo - Sol Lucet Omnibux, Jib Kidder - Remove a Tooth, The Chemical Brothers - Dream On, Flamingods - Yuka, Morgan Delt - Little Zombies, Animal Collective - Graze, Nice Nice - Big Bounce, Dalhous - Bolder and Lighter Than the Beat from a Wing, Cloudland Canyon - An Arabesque, Spiritualized - Electric Mainline Part One, Zomes - Cosmovital Force, The Avalanches feat. Father John Misty - Saturday Night Out, Gwenno - Chwyldro, Vytas Brenner - Araguaney, Woodsman - Beat the Heat, Soft Circle - Shimmer, The Chemical Brothers - Wonders of the Deep, Stereolab - Moogie Wonderland, Caribou - Sun, The Boredoms - two circles, Deakin - Good House, Sun Araw - Horse Steppin

Last in the Dutch Waves series, Building Brains is a post-punk mix for the open mind. Holland's contributions to post-punk were restlessly creative and aesthetically experimental: industrial noise, synthesizers, modern classical, dub and krautrock grooves all made an impact. You might hear an acoustic guitar or a chamber orchestra. You might hear a dreary jam session, driven by a repetitive bassline and ornamented with bleeps and bloops. Or, pleasant ambient tones. A grinding synth instrumental. Sheet metal being cut. An entire factory coming to an abrupt halt. Some obtuse improvised non-music recorded direct to cassette at a squat somewhere in Amsterdam. A piano. Tracklist: De Fabriek - Take Four, Ensemble Pittoresque - Several Sunsets, Flue - Legacy, Mekanik Kommando - Scars - Run Tintintin Run, Bazooka - Rood / Wit, Nasmak - 4 Our Clicks, Edward Ka-Spel - Hotel Rouge, Prof. Einstein - Le Jardin Noir, Van Kaye and Ignit - Chapel, Nexda - ThreeSeventyFive, The Visitor - Tranceparent Whirled, Ensemble Pittoresque - Building Brains, De Div - Pasodoble, Minny Pops - Mono, The Young Lions - Marie and Jane, Storung - Dimensie 4, Mecano - The Mutant Jasz, Kiem - Request to Obtain, Coitus Int. - The Threat, Genetic Factor - Action Spot, Ensemble Pittoresque - Auratorium, Van Kaye and Ignit - Schmerz, Ende Shneafliet - Crusoe’s Roots, Smalts - Werktitel 7, Z’ev - Untitled, The Young Lions - Spade Reverie, S.R. Emmer - Ein Schnellboot am Ganges, Sammie America’s Mam - The Stockhausen Sound, Mekanik Kommando - First Snow, Flue - Refuge, Vice - L’Autostrada, Edward Ka-Spel - Lisa’s Christening, Muziekkamer - Syncopes

Wild, uptempo post-punk slammers from Holland in the ’80s. If the spirit of Dutch new wave can be captured in a single mix of dark, eccentric party tracks? Here's your candidate. Tracklist: Kiem - Short Memories, Das Ding - H.S.T.A., De Div - Walk, Güler - Princess Parade, La Voix Qui Rit - Huba Huba, Flue - Some-Times, Minny Pops - Time, Mekanik Kommando - Entangled By Colors, The Actor - Picture 210, The Project - Money and Morals, The Tapes - Night After Night, Dojoji - Quincunx, Cargo Cultus - Le Peste, W.A.T. - Sub, Storung - Europe Calls, Tent - Distances, Ensemble Pittoresque - Program, Van Kaye and Ignit - Negroe in N.Y., Nine Circles - Twinkling Stars, Vice - See!, Coitus Int. - In Jutland, Nasmak - Plaster, De Div - Dit Moment, Kiem - Moneyman, Ensemble Pittoresque - A Distant Dance, Minny Pops - Tracking, Ende Shneafliet - The Day Detlef Macha Won, Mekanik Kommando - Icefield, Pee Dee - Tiuri, Tent - The Fear, Nasmak - Me Rex, The Tapes - Hot Line, Vice - Fiction Tales, Nine Circles - Here Come I, W.A.T. - Ivanhoo, The Actor - Lights, Plus Instruments - Bodies

New wave poses. Art rock techniques. Cyberpunk poetry. Gothic moods. Alien synths. Caterwauling guitars. Scrap yard funk. Tractor tire basslines. Abandoned factories. It's post-punk, it's' Holland, it's the 80s. Tracklist: Mecano - Autoportrait, The Tapes - March, Coitus Int. - Bonanza, Nine Circles - The Rose, Mekanik Kommando - Money For Pleasure, De Div - Lichaam Op Het Laken, Kiem - Time Doesn’t Heal, Das Ding - Makimo, Vice - Stirring Up The Fire, Ensemble Pittoresque - Lovesong, Minny Pops - Ice Cube Wall, Nasmak - Duel (With Unequal Arms), Mick Ness - You In Me, De Div - Marianne H., Neon - Standing On The Other Side, The Gentry - Escape, Storung - Radio Lines, Sammie America’s Mam - Find a Form, Vice - The Beast, Flue - Esmafarja, Edward Ka-Spiel - Tick Tock, Tent - Chase Horizons, Mekanik Kommando - First Reprise, Nasmak - Silhouette, Stephen Emmer - Teracotta Trimmings, Mecano - March of The Iron Workers, Ensemble Pittoresque - Ash Grey As Sunday, Nine Circles - What’s There Left, Tent - You Will Fall, Sammie America’s Mam - It’s Slipping Away, The Gentry - Senses

It's magic. Tracklist: D/P/I - Dead Hearts, Durlin Lurt - Magic, Knxwledge - BuildMyWrld[ArowndJew], J Dilla - So Far To Go (Instrumental), Bullion - You Still Believe In Dee, Charles Trees - Memories, Gobby - Immortality, Sharpshooters - Don’t Turn Away, FloFilz - Paramahansa, mieksneak. - Script, Lone - 2 Is 8, TOKiMONSTA - Fool, Sweet Valley - Where Will I Go, Mndsgn - On (Paralysis), Samiyam - Ronald, Blank Blue - Eyes Closed, Jib Kidder - Recognition, Nobody - Girls Alone (Muzak mix, with Ikey Owens), Teebs - While You Doooo, Axton Frick - That Moment When Everything Feels Right, Baths - Lovesick Synthetic, Bibio - You, Koushik - Coolin’ (Instrumental), Grass Mirror - Suunrizer, Knxwledge - Remember Who You Are, oriJanus - Sol Love, Odd Nosdam - Sisters,Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky

Rum punch from a coconut. Plastic hula skirts. Vivid fantasies. More dreamy 70mm music, tuned in to terra-cotta tiles, potted palms and those infinity pools behind your eyelids. Many thanks to the incredible Exotica 45s project and of course astral exploration affionado Flash Strap for pointing me in the direction(s) of so many solid old slabs of wax, mixed here with a few contemporary cuts that harken to those original years of le exotique. Tracklist: Jimmy Nanaro Trio - Driftwood, The Surfmen - Fire Goddess, Bill Justis - The Dark Continent Contribution, Esquivel and His Orchestra - La Bikina, Eden Ahbez - Myna Bird, Roger Roger and Nino Nardini - Coconut Coast, Les Baxter - Batumba - Bruno Nicolai - Shan, Gene Moles and The Softwinds - Maria (The Wind), Mike Cooper - Paumalu Sunset Beach, Arthur Lyman - Shangri-La, Terry Snyder and The All Stars - Aloha Oe, Jun Miyake - Relaxn’, Martin Denny - Stardust, Dominic Frontiere - Venus Girl (Ix-Koben), Armando Scascia - Nostalgic Sea, The Sound Breakers - Marooned, The Wailers - Driftwood, Cal Tjader - The Bilbao Song, Piero Piccioni - Eros in Hiro, The Three Suns - Bali Ha’i, Paul Tanner with Andre Montero and His Orchestra - 20th Century Venus, Henry Mancini - Dreamsville, Frank Hunter and His Orchestra - Temple Bells, Martin Denny - Jungle Drums, Kenny Dorham - Lotus Flower, Ron Goodwin - The Rings Around Saturn, The Ebbinghouse Sound - Turkish Delight, Herman Clebanoff and His Orchestra - Sueno Flamenco, Stony Starr - Theme for Moongazers (Part 1)

Don your rose-colored glasses as the beach vibes flourish on this hypnagogic springtime mix, and let yourself traverse a coastal trail of cooled out beats, rich chords and pleasant, sunny textures. Tracklist: Hammafest - Wunderer, Sweet Valley - Bros Beyond, The Avalanches - Since I Left You (Cornelius Remix), Towa Tei - Technova (La em Copacabana), Kiraz - Daydream, [offbeatninja] - $enpai [Walkin’], Jib Kidder - Cruising 1, Karriem Riggins - Summer Maddness S.A., sealab 2012 - raddest of them all, Co.fee - Liv Inn, Co La - Come Softly (Accumulation Version), Daedelus - Pre-munitions, Caribou - Boreal Forrest Opper, Koushik - Forest Loop, Tim “Love” Lee - Everybody Loves the Jungle, Lone - Jaded, Brother Mynor - drew barrymore watches saturday morning cartoons (feat. Ojmacoj), Afterhours - Night and Day, Black Monk - Hummin In The Sun, Hint - Plucker, Olof Melander - Forward, Yesterday’s New Quintet - Broken Dreams, Floating Points - For Marmish, Cornelius - Tone Twilight Zone, Malcolm McLaren - Obatala

Our second modern classical episode focuses on the dynamic between words, other mouth-made sounds and music. Talking, spoken word, speech as composition, speech in composition, lyrics sung as if meant to be spoken, poetry: It's all here. Tracklist: Bang on a Can All-Stars, John Cage - An Open Cage, Philip Glass - Knee 5, Gavin Bryars - A Man in a Room, Gambling: #3, Christopher Tignor, John Ashberry - A Boy, David Lang, Anonymous 4 - Love Fail: Forbidden Subjects, David Byrne - Social Studies, John Cage - The City Wears a Slouch Hat: Pt. 8, Roberto Cacciapaglia - Sei Note in Logica: Part II, John Cale - Legs Larry at Television Centre, Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks, Laurie Anderson - World Without End, Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives: The Park (Privacy Rules), Dean Blunt - 8, Bang on a Can All-Stars - A Wonderful Day, Mutamassik - Not Having To Choose Between Killing And Being Killed (P.S.A.), Scott Johnson - John Somebody: Involuntary Song #3, Julia Wolfe - Flowers, Steve Reich - Different Trains: 3. After the War, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe - Shelter: I. Before I Enter, Frederic Rzewski, Group 180 - Attica, Meredith Monk - Last Song, Moondog - Two Quotations in Dialogue

The first in our percussion-heavy Wild Gems series, this episode is an exotic time travel odyssey taking place between 1959 to 2012, visiting tons of great moments in hard funk, psych rock and groovy Latin music along its journey. Selections hail from the international psychedelic continuum, and the exploitative proto-"world music" LPs of orchestrators like Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, among other sources like Peruvian chicha and French soundtracks. Tracklist: Martin Denny - Temptation, John Hill - Amalthea, Ersen - Kozan Daği, Alessandro Alessandroni feat. I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni - Spiagge Azzure, Sam Spence Orchestra - Wie Ein Blitz, The Wrecking Crew (as Christopher Monte) - Giants of Bombora, Atomic Forest - Obession ’77, Resonnance - O.K. Chicago, Adventure Time - Kick It, Gérard Levecque & Claude Romat - Grey Pepper (Africadelic In Safari Mood); (Montparnasse: Africadelic's the Name N° 2; with percussion by Black Colored Drums), M. Ashraf (feat. A. Nayyar) - Main Hoon Play Boy, Fred Weinberg - Big Fat Woman, Bharat Karki & Party - Dancing Rope, The Aay Jays - Lal Qalander Lal, The Son of P.M. - Azava Leela (Guaracha), Les Brown, Jr. - Drum’s Safari, Telegraph Avenue - Sungaligali, Lucía de La Cruz - Toro Mata, Marty Manning and His Orchesta - Night On Bald Mountain (from “The Twilight Zone”), Twistin’ Kings - Congo (Part 1), Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo - Imagination, Arthur Lyman - Jungle Fantasy, Jacques Loussier - Clara’s Jerk, Los Beltons - Cumbia Pop, Mandingo - Chant of the Virgins (Columbia: The Primeval Rhythm Of Life), Erkin Koray - Estarabim, Troupe Majidi - Essiniya, Aisha Kandisha’s Jarring Effects - El Mouka, Papete & Luís Lopes - Berimbalis, Manzanita y Su Conjunto - Serrano Con Orgullo

The second in our Electronic(a) series, this tasty 90-minute installment of diverse electronic gems is sure to dislocate listeners to a whole new season. Tracklist: Penguin Cafe Orchestra - The Snake and the Lotus (The Pond), Illangelo - Shattered Paradise, Ccolo - Peace Me Babi Dub, Anchorsong - Oriental Suite, Gold Panda - I Suppose I Should Say ’Thanks’ Or Some Shit, Inner Science - Lighting, submerse - whyarentyou, Four Tet - Plastic People, [offbeatninja] - You and I (You’re Not Alone), Henry Wu - Just Negotiate (feat. Simeon Jones), James Blake - Postpone, Tribilin Sound - El Carmen, Co La - Smooth Solidarity, Jib Kidder - My Baby (feat. Julia Holter), Twin Sister - Kimmi In a Race Field (Balam Acab Remix), IRIS - Planetarium, Javelin - Goal Wide, Sam Spence - Sunken Ship (Version 2), Virtual Flannel - Black Bunnyhug, DTCPU - Lucky Dragon feat. Geodesic, Deantoni Parks - Down, J Dilla - Oh Oh, GOALS - Ghost Run, Dudley Perkins - Falling, submerse - thinking about you, Nicolas Jaar - Shame, Cross Record - Lemon, Sam Prekop - The Republic 3, Fennesz - Aus

I’m excited to share a new mix I’ve curated with dublab for the organization’s upcoming event Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. This set traverses many eras, weaving together decades in an exhibition of classical ambient music’s various roots and branches. From the awesome folks at dublab: “Travel through the Light Lock corridor as it is transformed by a dublab produced soundtrack of “furniture music.” Considered as the origins of ambient music and coined by French composer Erik Satie, this soundtrack along with lighting inspired by the work of James Turrell will be the perfect passage between the Grand Stern Hall and the Founders Room.” Tracklist below. Overture: Claude Debussy – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun: Très Modéré (Herbert Von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker) (c. 1894) - First Movement: Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne No. 11 in G minor Op. 7 No. 1 – Andante sostenuto (Nelson Freire, piano) (c. 1840), Erik Satie – Gnossienne No. 5 (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano) (c. 1889), John Cage – In a Landscape (c. 1948), Max Richter – Written on the Sky (c. 2004), Sylvain Chauveau – Nuage II, Nuage III (c. 2007), David Lang – Memory Pieces: III. Wed (Lisa Moore, piano) (c. 2005), Erik Satie – Trois Gymnopédies (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano) (c. 1888), Arvo Pärt – Spiegel Im Spiegel (Angèle Dubeau, violin; La Pietà orchestra with piano) (c. 1978), Federico Mompou – Mùsica Callada, Cuaderno Uno (Herbert Henck, piano) (c. 1974), Ólafur Arnalds – Romance (c. 2009), Nils Frahm – Over There, It’s Raining (c. 2013), Jóhann Jóhannsson – Melodia(III) (c. 2008), Erik Satie – Vexations (Excerpt) (Ars Nova Ensemble) (c. 1894), Toru Takemitsu – Uninterrupted Rest I-II (Yuji Takahashi, piano) (c. 1973), Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann) – Alma (c. 2008), John Cage – Dream (Hildegard Kleeb, piano; Roland Dahinden, trombone) (c. 1948), Erik Satie – Gnossiennes No.1-4 (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano) (c. 1890-91), Federico Mompou – Mùsica Callada, XXIII. Calme-XXIV. Moderato (Herbert Henck, piano) (c. 1974), Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann) – Early in the Park (c. 2010) Second Movement: Greg Haines – Two Rotations (c. 2011), Bang On a Can All-Stars – 1/1 (c. 1978, Brian Eno/Robert Wyatt; arr. Michael Gordon), Olivier Messiaen – Fête des Belles Eaux (Ensemble d’Ondes de Montreal, ondes martenot) (c. 1937), Arnold Schoenberg – III. Farben (from Five Orchestral Pieces) (Berliner Philharmoniker) (c. 1909), Gustav Mahler – Adagietto: Sehr Langsam (Gunther Herbig, conductor) (c. 1902), Kronos Quartet – Spem in Alium (c. 1570, Thomas Tallis), Erik Satie – Tapestry of Wrought Iron (Ars Nova Ensemble) (c. 1917), Max Richter – Sunlight (Louisa Fuller, violin) (c. 2006), Arthur Russell – Tower of Meaning – 2 (c. 1981), Brian Eno/Johann Pachelbel – French Catalogues (Variation on the Canon in D Major) (c. 1975; c. 1696) Finale: Gavin Bryars – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Excerpt) (c. 1971), Morton Feldman – Rothko Chapel: V (c. 1971)

Fire up up your eardrums with some essential cuts of global electonica, alternative pop and other sounds from around the world. Tracklist: Mexican Institute of Sound - Cumbia Meguro, Souleance - Secoue, The Very Best - Guju Guju, M.I.A. - Space, The 2 Bears - Muizenberg (Remix), Armadillo - Neón, Chancha Via Circuito - Jardines feat. Lido Pimienta, Domenico + 2 - Possibildade, Cornelius - Night People, Moreno + 2 - Enquanto Isso (Meanwhile), Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express - Azov, Ibibio Sound Machine - Got to Move, Got to Get Out! (Ana), Mbongwana Star - Shégué, Alsarah & The Nubatones - Fugu (Chancha Via Circuito Remix), Shigeto - Pulse, Nicola Cruz - Colibria, Rebel Musical - The Silver feat. Full Violet, Ibeyi - Stranger Lover, Afroelectro - Omin, Jorge Drexler - El Triángulo de las Bermudas, Orchestra of Spheres - Dieuleul-Dieuleul (Remix), Populous - Brasilia feat. Giorgia Tuma, Algodon Egipcio - La Condicion (La Prueba A), Gepe - Estado de Vista, Amon Tobin - Nova, Romperayo - Dando Vueltas en Ovni, Basokin - Mulume feat. Mi Amore

Launch head-first into a 2-hour set of nocturnal beats and compositions, all hailing from 2015. Tracklist: Jun Miyake - Mad Funny Balance Town, Nosaj Thing - Uv3, sealab 2012 - long. too long, El Mahdy Jr. - B Side (Excerpt), Shigeto - Do My Thing, Arca - Front Load, Puto Anderson & Deejay NinOo - Gravidez, Normal Nada - Tarraxinha da Calopsita v2, Dawn Richard - Swim Free, yuk. - purple, Gossamer - 3d Relief, Iller - Healings, Lilacs & Champagne - Euro Blow, Gantz - Supreme A, Nomine - To the Sky (feat. lustina), Event Cloak - Care and Control, Suzanne Kraft - Never Heated, Nicolas Jaar - Don’t Break My Love, John Lemke - Grass Will Grow, Julia Holter - Vasquez, Rival Consoles - Low, Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Remnants, Beauty Pill - Dog With Rabbit in Mouth Unharmed, James Pants - My Body, katie dey - fear o the dark, Tito Wun & Lorenzo Merluzzo - Drugs, Fifto - Dan Lo

Launch head-first into a 2-hour set of songs, sounds and surprises. Tracklist: George Delerue - Capri, DJ Raff - Sudakaizbeautiful, Flying Lotus - Camera Day, Caribou - Silver, Gobby - Quickie, Harbour - Heartbeat (Prettymuch), Spectre - Black Abstract Italiano, Lifted - Medicated Yoga, Clark - Com Re-Touch / Pocket for Jack, Le1f - Fry Dem, Kitkkola - Blue Winking, Heathered Pearls - Perfume Catalogue, Tujiko Noriko - Tablet for Memory, Airhead - Masami, Stereolab - Rainbow Conversation, Ahnnu - Elastic, Kutmah - 3rd Eye (Short Version), Múm - Faraway Swimmingpool, Ikonika - Let a Smile Be (Y) Our Umbrella, Pantha du Prince - Welt Am Draht (Animal Collective Remix), John Wizards - Limpop, Mount Kimbie - Sketch on Glass (Original Mix), Deru - Drink it In, Dalhous - DSM-III, Oneohtrix Point Never - Nassau, DVA - No Survi, King Krule - Brain’s Dead, DRC Music - Three Piece Sweet Part 1 & 2 (feat. Bebson), Tortoise - As You Said, Burnt Friedman & Jake Liebezeit - Sikkerhead, Nu Sound - Wordless Piece