Podcasts about liquid city

Keiichi Matsuda is Director of Liquid City a design practice on the bleeding edge of XR, working with the world's top technology companies to define concepts of the future. He is a designer and film-maker exploring the collision of physical and virtual, as technology transforms society, and new realities are born. His work has been widely exhibited and got viral success online. HYPER-REALITY was awarded Vimeo's “Best Drama of 2016,” Listen to this episode to learn: - How a dystopian prediction almost became true - A different approach to controlling your creative process assisted by AI - Keiichi's take on how AI and XR can generate value - His surprising approach when staying up to date with AI tech *** ALL SHORT MOVIES ON YOUTUBE: Hyper Reality Merger Agents *** CONNECT WITH KEIICHI:

Matt Kim is the technical creative director at inworld.ai creating demos to show off their NPC platform, which was featured in my previous episode #1263 in the MeetWol demo by Liquid City and Niantic. I was really impressed with how my interactions with inworld.ai seemed to go beyond the limitations of ChatGPT and existing tech demos of large language models. Their website elaborates on how they're taking NPCs to the next level by saying how they add, "configurable safety, knowledge, memory, narrative controls, multimodality, and more. Craft characters with distinct personalities and contextual awareness that stay in-world. Seamlessly integrate into real-time applications, with optimization for scale and performance built-in." The low-latency responses is one of the more noticeable features, which makes a huge difference. I had a chance to catch up with Kim at AWE to dig into a bit more of some of the features that they've built for NPCs on their inworld.ai platform. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Keiichi Matsuda is one of the deepest thinkers in the field of XR. He is trained as an architect, and he's currently the director of Liquid City, a small design studio based in London that is engaged developing cutting-edge AR applications and creating speculative design film and written essays that give us a sneak peak at the future of immersive and spatial computing technologies. Matsuda created one of the most influence cautionary tales of augmented reality called HYPER-REALITY in 2016, which I did a deep dive with him back in 2018 in episode #639. He's currently working with Niantic on some more speculative film essays, which should be launching soon. Matsuda was at AWE 2023 showing off a couple of recent projects including an AI agent named Wol in collaboration with Niantic's 8th Wall, that has the intention to explore the idea of personalized education. He was also showing off his really cool AR game called Overbeast, which is a highly-original and unique social AR game that combines farming with giant boss battles of AR beasts that fill the entire sky. We had a chance to unpack all of his latest projects, and do a deep dive into how they used inworld.ai to create Wol that has mix of magical glue of large language model technology that keeps interactions novel, fresh, but also bounded by the customized set of knowledge that you enter. I'll be diving in a bit deeper into inworld.ai in the next episode. Also be sure to check out Matsuda's provocative essay on KamiOS that's uses pagan animism as a metaphor to describe how AI + XR will be infusing our lives. "KamiOS channels the spirit world using AR. When you put on your headset, you will be introduced to many different gods who will guide you through your virtual and physical life. Gods of navigation, communication, commerce. Gods who teach you, gods who learn from you. Gods who make their home in particular objects or places, and gods who accompany you on your journey." This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Matt Hern began to examine urban displacement when he first encountered an empty lot in the northeast sector of Portland, OR. This corner was the site of a community resisting against gentrification. In this episode, Chris Gondak speaks with Matt Hern about the inspiration for his book, and the battles that many urban communities are fighting across North America. Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space--not to mention craft-beer bars and locavore food trucks. But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. This is not circumstance; the city has a long history of officially sanctioned racialized displacement that continues today. Over the last two and half decades, Albina--the one major Black neighborhood in Portland--has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies. African Americans in Portland were first pushed into Albina and then contained there through exclusionary zoning, predatory lending, and racist real estate practices. Since the 1990s, they've been aggressively displaced--by rising housing costs, developers eager to get rid of low-income residents, and overt city policies of gentrification. Displacement and dispossessions are convulsing cities across the globe, becoming the dominant urban narratives of our time. In What a City Is For, Matt Hern uses the case of Albina, as well as similar instances in New Orleans and Vancouver, to investigate gentrification in the twenty-first century. In an engaging narrative, effortlessly mixing anecdote and theory, Hern questions the notions of development, private property, and ownership. Arguing that home ownership drives inequality, he wants us to disown ownership. How can we reimagine the city as a post-ownership, post-sovereign space? Drawing on solidarity economics, cooperative movements, community land trusts, indigenous conceptions of alternative sovereignty, the global commons movement, and much else, Hern suggests repudiating development in favor of an incrementalist, non-market-driven unfolding of the city. Matt Hern is Codirector of 2+10 Industries, teaches at multiple universities, and lectures widely. He is the author of Common Ground in a Liquid City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Matt Hern began to examine urban displacement when he first encountered an empty lot in the northeast sector of Portland, OR. This corner was the site of a community resisting against gentrification. In this episode, Chris Gondak speaks with Matt Hern about the inspiration for his book, and the battles that many urban communities are fighting across North America. Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space--not to mention craft-beer bars and locavore food trucks. But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. This is not circumstance; the city has a long history of officially sanctioned racialized displacement that continues today. Over the last two and half decades, Albina--the one major Black neighborhood in Portland--has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies. African Americans in Portland were first pushed into Albina and then contained there through exclusionary zoning, predatory lending, and racist real estate practices. Since the 1990s, they've been aggressively displaced--by rising housing costs, developers eager to get rid of low-income residents, and overt city policies of gentrification. Displacement and dispossessions are convulsing cities across the globe, becoming the dominant urban narratives of our time. In What a City Is For, Matt Hern uses the case of Albina, as well as similar instances in New Orleans and Vancouver, to investigate gentrification in the twenty-first century. In an engaging narrative, effortlessly mixing anecdote and theory, Hern questions the notions of development, private property, and ownership. Arguing that home ownership drives inequality, he wants us to disown ownership. How can we reimagine the city as a post-ownership, post-sovereign space? Drawing on solidarity economics, cooperative movements, community land trusts, indigenous conceptions of alternative sovereignty, the global commons movement, and much else, Hern suggests repudiating development in favor of an incrementalist, non-market-driven unfolding of the city. Matt Hern is Codirector of 2+10 Industries, teaches at multiple universities, and lectures widely. He is the author of Common Ground in a Liquid City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Matt Hern began to examine urban displacement when he first encountered an empty lot in the northeast sector of Portland, OR. This corner was the site of a community resisting against gentrification. In this episode, Chris Gondak speaks with Matt Hern about the inspiration for his book, and the battles that many urban communities are fighting across North America. Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space--not to mention craft-beer bars and locavore food trucks. But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. This is not circumstance; the city has a long history of officially sanctioned racialized displacement that continues today. Over the last two and half decades, Albina--the one major Black neighborhood in Portland--has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies. African Americans in Portland were first pushed into Albina and then contained there through exclusionary zoning, predatory lending, and racist real estate practices. Since the 1990s, they've been aggressively displaced--by rising housing costs, developers eager to get rid of low-income residents, and overt city policies of gentrification. Displacement and dispossessions are convulsing cities across the globe, becoming the dominant urban narratives of our time. In What a City Is For, Matt Hern uses the case of Albina, as well as similar instances in New Orleans and Vancouver, to investigate gentrification in the twenty-first century. In an engaging narrative, effortlessly mixing anecdote and theory, Hern questions the notions of development, private property, and ownership. Arguing that home ownership drives inequality, he wants us to disown ownership. How can we reimagine the city as a post-ownership, post-sovereign space? Drawing on solidarity economics, cooperative movements, community land trusts, indigenous conceptions of alternative sovereignty, the global commons movement, and much else, Hern suggests repudiating development in favor of an incrementalist, non-market-driven unfolding of the city. Matt Hern is Codirector of 2+10 Industries, teaches at multiple universities, and lectures widely. He is the author of Common Ground in a Liquid City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Matt Hern began to examine urban displacement when he first encountered an empty lot in the northeast sector of Portland, OR. This corner was the site of a community resisting against gentrification. In this episode, Chris Gondak speaks with Matt Hern about the inspiration for his book, and the battles that many urban communities are fighting across North America. Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space--not to mention craft-beer bars and locavore food trucks. But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. This is not circumstance; the city has a long history of officially sanctioned racialized displacement that continues today. Over the last two and half decades, Albina--the one major Black neighborhood in Portland--has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies. African Americans in Portland were first pushed into Albina and then contained there through exclusionary zoning, predatory lending, and racist real estate practices. Since the 1990s, they've been aggressively displaced--by rising housing costs, developers eager to get rid of low-income residents, and overt city policies of gentrification. Displacement and dispossessions are convulsing cities across the globe, becoming the dominant urban narratives of our time. In What a City Is For, Matt Hern uses the case of Albina, as well as similar instances in New Orleans and Vancouver, to investigate gentrification in the twenty-first century. In an engaging narrative, effortlessly mixing anecdote and theory, Hern questions the notions of development, private property, and ownership. Arguing that home ownership drives inequality, he wants us to disown ownership. How can we reimagine the city as a post-ownership, post-sovereign space? Drawing on solidarity economics, cooperative movements, community land trusts, indigenous conceptions of alternative sovereignty, the global commons movement, and much else, Hern suggests repudiating development in favor of an incrementalist, non-market-driven unfolding of the city. Matt Hern is Codirector of 2+10 Industries, teaches at multiple universities, and lectures widely. He is the author of Common Ground in a Liquid City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-west

Matt Hern began to examine urban displacement when he first encountered an empty lot in the northeast sector of Portland, OR. This corner was the site of a community resisting against gentrification. In this episode, Chris Gondak speaks with Matt Hern about the inspiration for his book, and the battles that many urban communities are fighting across North America. Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space--not to mention craft-beer bars and locavore food trucks. But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. This is not circumstance; the city has a long history of officially sanctioned racialized displacement that continues today. Over the last two and half decades, Albina--the one major Black neighborhood in Portland--has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies. African Americans in Portland were first pushed into Albina and then contained there through exclusionary zoning, predatory lending, and racist real estate practices. Since the 1990s, they've been aggressively displaced--by rising housing costs, developers eager to get rid of low-income residents, and overt city policies of gentrification. Displacement and dispossessions are convulsing cities across the globe, becoming the dominant urban narratives of our time. In What a City Is For, Matt Hern uses the case of Albina, as well as similar instances in New Orleans and Vancouver, to investigate gentrification in the twenty-first century. In an engaging narrative, effortlessly mixing anecdote and theory, Hern questions the notions of development, private property, and ownership. Arguing that home ownership drives inequality, he wants us to disown ownership. How can we reimagine the city as a post-ownership, post-sovereign space? Drawing on solidarity economics, cooperative movements, community land trusts, indigenous conceptions of alternative sovereignty, the global commons movement, and much else, Hern suggests repudiating development in favor of an incrementalist, non-market-driven unfolding of the city. Matt Hern is Codirector of 2+10 Industries, teaches at multiple universities, and lectures widely. He is the author of Common Ground in a Liquid City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Hern began to examine urban displacement when he first encountered an empty lot in the northeast sector of Portland, OR. This corner was the site of a community resisting against gentrification. In this episode, Chris Gondak speaks with Matt Hern about the inspiration for his book, and the battles that many urban communities are fighting across North America. Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space--not to mention craft-beer bars and locavore food trucks. But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. This is not circumstance; the city has a long history of officially sanctioned racialized displacement that continues today. Over the last two and half decades, Albina--the one major Black neighborhood in Portland--has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies. African Americans in Portland were first pushed into Albina and then contained there through exclusionary zoning, predatory lending, and racist real estate practices. Since the 1990s, they've been aggressively displaced--by rising housing costs, developers eager to get rid of low-income residents, and overt city policies of gentrification. Displacement and dispossessions are convulsing cities across the globe, becoming the dominant urban narratives of our time. In What a City Is For, Matt Hern uses the case of Albina, as well as similar instances in New Orleans and Vancouver, to investigate gentrification in the twenty-first century. In an engaging narrative, effortlessly mixing anecdote and theory, Hern questions the notions of development, private property, and ownership. Arguing that home ownership drives inequality, he wants us to disown ownership. How can we reimagine the city as a post-ownership, post-sovereign space? Drawing on solidarity economics, cooperative movements, community land trusts, indigenous conceptions of alternative sovereignty, the global commons movement, and much else, Hern suggests repudiating development in favor of an incrementalist, non-market-driven unfolding of the city. Matt Hern is Codirector of 2+10 Industries, teaches at multiple universities, and lectures widely. He is the author of Common Ground in a Liquid City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Disc 44: Liquid City (1994 - 95): Pure noise wall! Somebody is going to yell at txt for saying he doesn't like Throbbing Gristle but oh well

This week’s episode is all about beer and food. Jeff chats with professional brewer and OG Ballast Point-er Colby Chandler, and professional eater/founder of Eating Drinking San Diego, Edwin Real. The guys discuss beer and food pairings, the eating “experience”, and what makes San Diego such a special culinary and “Liquid City”. Old friends, Edwin and Colby reminisce on Beer Brunches, talk about the culture that Edwin has built within his EDSD community, and discuss the similarities and differences between beer vs. wine pairings. Later, the guys are joined by Ballast Point Sous Chef, Chuy Hernandez, with another amazing recipe to try at home. Can you say Victory at Sea Braised New York steak…? Talk about a mouthwatering pairing.1 Colby Chandler is in the house6:50 Edwin Real from Eating Drinking San Diego joins to discuss beer and food pairings, the eating “experience”, and what makes San Diego such a special culinary and “Liquid City”38:20 Chef Chuy is back with another special pairing for you to make at home, Victory at Sea Braised New York steak

Tracklist 01 Blocks & Escher - Gulls [METALP015] 02 Subwave - Minimal Love [MICROFUNK005] 03 Patient - Calling Out 04 Hydro & War - At The End Of The Day [SYMMLP008] 05 Cybin - Visions [INTRIGUE16] 06 Random Movement & Jaybee - Good Enough 07 Lenzman - Food (Feat. Konny Kon) [METACD013B] 08 Simplification & Translate - Desire 09 Subsid & MSdoS - Whistle 10 Solera - Anywhere But Here 11 Villem & McLeod - Kukicha [SPEAR087] 12 Ted Ganung, Dirty Genes & Mariella - Weight Of The World [LQBDIG276] 13 Lenzman - Rain (Feat. Children Of Zeus) [METACD013B] 14 Technimatic - All Our Yesterdays [SHA148] 15 Imba - Could Have [SV050] 16 Seba - Inside Yourself [SECOPS022] 17 Dissident - Sparkling Lake [MICROFUNK005] 18 Blocks & Escher - Wings [METALP015]

01. Lowr & Anna Pancaldi - Other Side [SPEAR100] 02. Data 3, Koherent - Latitude [SHA144] 03. John B - If U Need Anything [SPEAR100] 04. DJ Marky - Hard Hands [SYMMLP008] 05. Halogenix - Soulide [RECIPELP002] 06. Seba - Curved Boundaries [SUICIDE103] 07. Daat - Orange Line (Deep Blue Remix) [OSRORG002] 08. Blocks & Escher - Shiver [NARRATIVES002] 09. Mosaic - Classified [INTRIGUE16] 10. Technimatic - Let It Fall [SHA148] 11. Alexvnder - What Do I Love [TF018] 12. Villem & McLeod - Labooko [SPEAR087] 13. dBridge - Your Bit Crushed Heart [EXITLP019] 14. Mystic State - Attitudes [CKRA005] 15. Transparent - Only One [CKRA007] 16. Lenzman - Misty [METACD013B] 17. Walk-r - Wallflower [SPEAR100] 18. Mystic State & Philth - Marble [CKRA005]

Northern Europe's answer to Venice, Hamburg is a liquid city with water everywhere.  You can SUP through the city, enjoy white sandy beaches, visit the largest historic warehouse district in Europe, see the miniature wonderland, chocolate museum and where the Beatles hung out in the 60's.  You might just need a longer break away...

Matt Hern began to examine urban displacement when he first encountered an empty lot in the northeast sector of Portland, OR. This corner was the site of a communty resisting against gentrification. In this episode, Chris Gondak speaks with Matt Hern about the inspiration for his book, and the battles that many urban communities are fighting across North America.  ​​​​​​​Matt Hern is Codirector of 2+10 Industries, teaches at multiple universities, and lectures widely. He is the author of Common Ground in a Liquid City.

Episode 41 is part of the Spring 2017 issue! Read ahead by picking up your copy here: http://www.glittership.com/buy/     A Spell to Signal Home by A.C. Buchanan     “Ash.” The voice is at once close beside me and yet muted, as if the sound is being filtered through a dream or a long stretch of time, a universe drawn out like an endless vibration of music. I can taste the sweetness of blood in my mouth, but no syllables emerge and my body feels heavy and soft. “Ash.” Beyond the voice are the sounds of a living planet. It’s hard to pinpoint how the noise of life and the noise of machines differ, when one can so easily mimic the other and both contain so much variety, the boundaries between them blurred, but it’s unmistakable. This is no barren outpost, no hub of spinning metal; this is a result of millions of years of evolution, web-like ecosystems tangling into one another. It will differ from all others and yet on another level it will be the same as all others, interlocking chains of consumption and relation and habitat. “Ash, we’re going to need to get you out. Can you talk to us?”     Hello, welcome to GlitterShip Episode #41. This is your host Keffy and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you. We have a poem and a GlitterShip original for you today. Our poem is "Songs of Love and Defense in the Dawn" by Hester J. Rook.   Hester J. Rook is an Australian writer and co-editor of Twisted Moon magazine, a magazine of speculative erotic poetry (twistedmoonmag.com). She has previous prose and poetry publications in Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Liminality Magazine, Strangelet and others. She's on Twittter @kitemonster and you can find her other work on her site http://hesterjrook.wordpress.com/.     Songs of Love and Defense in the Dawn by Hester J. Rook     I am bird song the whole of me, thrumful the nattering hiss of the seawind through my whispered bones. They seek to rewrite me call me raucous, unwieldy, liar, schemer, temptress until I am heavy (but weightless) like a pelican skimming belly over water. They speak as though their story can varnish them with righteousness despite the hurt they cause; rewrite our histories. But I am birdsong and ironbark; my words are warnings and heralds of the crisp                                                                      lipbitten dawn bright as the frosted wingtips of the black swans gliding through silver. I am birdsong and I am louder than the thunderstorm and softer than the gathering dusk on the hills fiercer than teeth in a kiss and unafraid I gather up my feathers and I shield.     Our original short story is "A Spell to Signal Home" by A.C. Buchanan. A.C. Buchanan lives just north of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. They're the author of Liquid City and Bree’s Dinosaur and their short fiction has most recently been published in Unsung Stories, the Accessing the Future anthology from FutureFire.net and the Paper Road Press anthology At the Edge Fierce Family. They also co-chair LexiCon 2017 - The 38th New Zealand National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention and edit the speculative fiction magazine Capricious. You can find them on twitter at @andicbuchanan or at www.acbuchanan.org.     A Spell to Signal Home by A.C. Buchanan     “Ash.” The voice is at once close beside me and yet muted, as if the sound is being filtered through a dream or a long stretch of time, a universe drawn out like an endless vibration of music. I can taste the sweetness of blood in my mouth, but no syllables emerge and my body feels heavy and soft. “Ash.” Beyond the voice are the sounds of a living planet. It’s hard to pinpoint how the noise of life and the noise of machines differ, when one can so easily mimic the other and both contain so much variety, the boundaries between them blurred, but it’s unmistakable. This is no barren outpost, no hub of spinning metal; this is a result of millions of years of evolution, web-like ecosystems tangling into one another. It will differ from all others and yet on another level it will be the same as all others, interlocking chains of consumption and relation and habitat. “Ash, we’re going to need to get you out. Can you talk to us?” I keep thinking that it’s important to answer, but each time the thought begins it’s pushed away into sucked up by the humid air. My mind drifts back, past the negotiations on Feronia station, through the twelve years of my blossoming diplomatic career, to Volturna, the ocean planet where I grew up, and the warm waters we splashed and played and relaxed in, and I think it might be my sister Francie’s voice calling me but I pull myself far enough into consciousness to realize that it’s too high-pitched, too alien… There are hands on my body, and words: don’t think anything’s broken, still breathing. I realize the air is breathable, which means we’re almost certainly on a terraformed planet, and yet there’s so much life, much more than is usually imported. I feel hands beneath me, my body being lifted, dragged, set down. There’s a bright light—sunlight—through my eyelids. Fragments of words come to me, words that I memorized long ago. A spell for safety in travel. But it’s in an older English than my native tongue, and so, so far away that I see only occasional words, faded ink on thick paper. I still don’t know what sandalwood is, and I think I need to stay awake, but I’m so tired…     When she was ten, Francie had edited the family spellbook, inserting “she or” and “her or” and “hers or” in blue ballpoint, her unsteady hand unused to holding a pen. I thought Dad would yell, even though he didn’t yell often, because the book was hundreds of years old and had come from Earth, but instead he turned the large pages one by one and said it was a fair point, and that it was at least a more useful amendment than the “tastes disgusting” comment written in cursive on at least two pages. Dad didn't really believe in spells, but the book was important enough to him that when our parents first came to Volturna he'd asked for an exemption on the dimensions (but not total volume, he'd never push it that far) permitted for cultural and religious items, family heirlooms. Mum brought a Bible from the Scottish arm of her family, and the korowai she graduated in, even though she didn't feel right taking it so far from her whanau, because her grandmother—approaching ninety at that point—insisted, saying she’d have her own children one day and they needed to be connected. We didn't quite know what that meant. Earth fascinated us, but in the same ways as tales of every other world fascinated us. Volturna was our home, and we knew its waters in an instinctive way our parents' Terra-born generation couldn't quite understand. And so on the day that Francie narrowly avoided being in trouble for her annotations, much like any other, we stripped off and yanked on our rashguards and shorts, a process we'd perfected through practice to a matter of seconds. Mine were in the wash so I was wearing my slightly-too-small spare set, lilac with a frill around the edge of the shirt. All Francie's pairs were black. In a few years I would be required to tell the doctors about how much I hated my body, and I'd rewrite this scene for them then, tell them I cried every time I had to change and was too ashamed to do so even in front of my sister.  The truth was that as long as people got most things about me right I could deal with my body. I'd never love it, but I could not think about it easily enough. “Go!” Francie yelled, and she yanked open the hatch and we dived out without hesitation, over the narrow platform, into the warm water around us. I ducked to wet my hair and then Francie did the same, hers chopped short and uneven. I envied it for a minute as mine smacked across my face. “Oy!” Dad's voice yelled at us from inside. “What have I told you about closing this thing after you?” We'd heard him alright, but if we were going to close it we'd have to walk onto the platform and down the first two steps before we could reach to close it. Waste of time. “Sorry, Dad. Could you throw me a hair tie?” “You kids will be the death of me.” But sure enough one dropped down into my outstretched hand before the hatch grated shut. We'd been in our new apartment a little over two years, moving because our parents had decided Francie and I should have our own rooms. It was on the edge of town and taking a few strokes out we could see it spread out before us; the buildings and walkways rising out of the waters that covered the planet. The flag the council had chosen, a blue circle ringed with white light against the black of space, fluttered from the higher structures. We had never seen land, and it was only when we opened the spellbook that we felt we might be missing out.     When I wake again there are drugs coursing through my veins and dampness seeping through my clothes. I open my eyes and see sunlight mottling through the trees above me. I remember being at a reception to mark the conclusion of negotiations regarding access to the route between Feronia Station and Auuue. The subject had been straightforward in itself, but was critical in its implications, setting the terms for future engagement between the Terran and Auuueen governments. So, having sealed a new treaty, we were feeling good. I’d had a key role in these negotiations, more than was typical for a third level diplomat, and it was hard not to take that as a sign that promotion was on the horizon. I had a glass in my hand and the sweet after-taste of spiced Auuueen seafood in my mouth, and was surely blessed that I’d not only secured a career that gave me the opportunity to travel the galaxies, meet high ranking people and hopefully effect some change for the better, but also one where the gown I wore—shimmering layers of deep-green over a blue-black underlay—was an utterly appropriate expense claim. I sit up and dizziness hits, nausea growing in me. I force myself to stay upright, pressing my knuckles firmly against the damp ground. There’s something rustling in the bushes to my right, birds flying overhead. My memories after the reception are brief and fragmented. I remember a distress call, drawing us out of FTL, being unable to get back to anything beyond light speed. “Cay?” I say, operating by guess work. My throat is dry. “I’ll be right with you.” His voice is behind me. I ease myself round, bit by bit, every muscle hurting. He’s tending to the injured leg of the ambassador, who seems, mercifully, to be otherwise unhurt. The only non-human on the shuttle, Cay’s wiry frame belies its near unbreakability. I shift my weight so I can balance, rub my eyes. “We crashed?” “Emergency landing. This shuttle is built for capitals and ambassadorial stations, not wilderness, which seems to be all this planet has.” Looking up I can see the blue sky, the gaping wound in the forest canopy we must have hurtled through. “Is… did everyone?” “Everyone’s alive, yes. Some injuries, but I think with treatment everyone will be okay. Getting out of here is going to be more of a problem. Don’t try and stand up—I put you on Combamex to speed up your healing time, but it will make you woozy for a while. Flashes of memory. “There’s a… this is classified information…” the ambassador had said, as we all stared in panic. She’d paused, briefly, grappling with the weight of disclosure even though all our lives were at stake. “There’s a planet… Silvanus. It’s a wildlife reserve, for species from Terra. Breathable atmosphere. Uninhabited, but it’s our only chance. We can be there in a week, two at the most.” Against Cay’s advice, I stand. Vertigo hits and I vomit, just a little, cling to a tree and manage to stay upright until it passes. Insects are buzzing all around, and the damaged shuttle is behind me. Just a few meters away the forest opens out into a clearing. The ground is covered with orange flowers, smelling of warmth, rising out of the soil to greet us.     “Marigold. Hematite. Elder. Rue. Tiger’s eye.” I list the unfamiliar ingredients, trying to picture, smell, taste such far away substances. “Tiger’s eye? Did they really use eyes from tigers?” “It’s a type of rock.” Francie was thirteen and could make me feel small without even trying. “What are cloves?” She wasn’t asking me. The device on her wrist responded near instantly. Terran spice, made from aromatic flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum. Native to the Maluku Islands in Indonesia. Francie threw her arms down in despair. “We’re never going to be able to find any of this stuff.” Mum had said I had to be patient with Francie when she got upset like this, that she was going through a confusing time, and that I’d understand soon enough. I understand confusion, I had wanted to say. I want the androgen blockers and I want to wear dresses and I’m not a boy, but I don’t think I’m the girl I’ve always told you I am either. But I didn’t say anything like that. Not to Mum and not to Francie. Not for a long time. I perched on an inflated cushion and looked at my sister. “You could just tell her you like her?” I suggested. Francie wailed. “I don’t think you could understand any less if you tried! I’m out of here!” We used to dive into the water to escape, but now Francie barricaded herself in her upstairs room. I put away the book, because we had to be very careful with it, grabbed the largest mug I could find and hit the strawberry setting on the milkshake maker, hoping that despite all my own confusion, I at least had a few years before I needed to be worrying about love potions.     We all gather in the clearing. I allow the Ambassador to lean on my shoulder as she walks. She’s short, as those who grew up constrained by Terran gravity usually are, but she cuts an imposing presence. Perhaps that’s why I find it so hard so use her name. Still, I admire her much more than I fear her. If anyone can get us home, I feel, it’s her, but her face is pale with shock and she says little. Aside from us, the group comprises two other diplomats, the pilots, a security guard and two guests flown by special arrangement between governments: Cay and an elderly human. Solomon, the pilot, his uniform crumpled and ripped on one sleeve, looks at the Ambassador, seeking her permission to lead this meeting. She accepts, gratefully, and he summarizes our current position. Our FTL drives are near completely destroyed—by what, he can’t tell, but there’s zero prospect of fixing them. Even if we could launch the shuttle, an unlikely prospect in itself, there are no stations or inhabited planets reachable on our support systems. He’s been trying to get a distress signal working, but no luck so far. He’ll keep trying. The good news, he continues, trying to keep us optimistic, is the breathable air, the hospitable climate, that we have three day’s supply of food and with our databanks intact there is no doubt we can find food on this world. We spend the day exploring the immediate area, administering medical treatment, working fruitlessly on sending a signal. The nine of us sleep, eventually, bunched together with spare clothes pulled over us like blankets. We try not to think about the future.     “What’s oregano?” Francie, now fifteen, had digitized the spellbook in response to Mum’s complaints about her getting her oily fingers all over it. Only I knew that at night she’d creep downstairs and pull it from the shelf, holding it in her arms as if it exuded some comfort. I’d mocked her, once, for being so attached to those archaic, impossible beliefs, and she’d cried and I’d never mentioned it again. “It’s a herb…” said Dad. “…for pizza,” said Mum, her eyes looking far away. Dad squinted, looked at the screen. I propped myself up on my hands to see what he was looking at A Spell to Prevent the Conception of Child. This was going to be good. Francie looked down and her skin, paler than mine, blushed bright red. “Oh, no no no,” she stumbled, pointing desperately at the lower part of the screen as I enjoyed every second. “This one. A Spell to Aid Understanding of Numbers. I have an exam next week.” “That’s kind of like cheating though, isn’t it?” I asked our parents. This day was getting even better. “But of course, Ash, you don’t believe in spells so it can’t make any difference to your sister’s results, can it now?” My mood deflated rapidly. It was fun while it lasted. Francie couldn’t be pregnant in any case though; she’d gotten her implant about the same time I got mine, though mine was larger—three circles under the skin of my upper arm, one releasing an androgen blocker, one for estrogen and one for progesterone. “So where do I get oregano from?” Francie insisted impatiently. “That’s not how spells work,” Dad replied. “There’s nothing special about oregano that helps you with maths. It’s about focusing your mind. You can use something else as long as it fits right for you. Why don’t you go for a swim and see if you feel drawn to something you could use instead?” “So what now?” Mum said when Francie had left. “She’s going to drag in a load of seaweed because she thinks it bears some resemblance to oregano? Well I hope you’re going to be the one cleaning it up.” Dad shrugged. “Yeah, I’ll do that. I’ll do a lot more than a bit of cleaning to get her through the next few weeks. If she’s out there in the water and the fresh air, maybe she’ll relax a bit. Staring at those numbers a thousandth time isn’t going to help her half as much as a break. These spells work sometimes, you know, just not how you’d expect.”     “Who would do this?” I ask the Ambassador. Cay has cut a tree-branch into a cane of sorts, and we’re walking out through the clearing in search of running water. “I thought the days of war were behind us.” She sighs. “I was running a list through my head all night. There are a few governments I think would like to kill us, a couple of separatist or nationalist factions that object to their governments’ treaties with us. But they didn’t just want to kill us. If they had they could have blown us up outright. But they drew us out and disabled our drives where they thought—because Silvanus is classified—there were no habitable planets. They didn’t just want us to die, they wanted us to die slowly.” My chest feels tight at the thought, even though the air is clear and full of oxygen. I hear a long howl in the distance. I hold up my wrist and it senses, reports back: Howler monkey (genus Alouatta monotypic in subfamily Alouattinae). It takes us more than an hour, with measurements and sheer instinct guiding us, to find water, but suddenly we’re beside a small but fast flowing stream, just narrow enough to jump. We smile at each other, perhaps our first smile on Silvanus. While the air is humid enough for us to condense sufficient drinking water, we still need to wash ourselves and clean our clothes. This find won’t solve all our problems, but it will help, and right now that counts for success. There’s something moving on the other side of the river. Something large. I’ve been trained on the use of arms, as everyone entering the diplomatic service is. I’ve never expected to use one outside a carefully controlled range. But before we set off, the guard handed me a stun gun, and now I draw it, awkwardly. It all happens at once; a snarl, a lunge towards us, huge and fast, across the stream. I fall backwards as I fire, rolling over on the rocks, panicked. It takes some time before I realize I’m safe. The Ambassador helps me to my feet. “Tigers,” she says, bitterly. “They seem so beautiful, don’t they? And yet…” I nod, still shaking. “Same with people. I don’t think whoever did this was after us, our government, our missions. I think they were after me.” “Who?” I shouldn’t be asking such a question, but at the same time I was almost killed too and might be stranded on this planet with weird animals forever, so I think I deserve some answers. “Someone I once loved.” The tiger lies motionless by the river. “You can’t trust everyone, Ash. Believe what you know.”     Francie left home to share a tiny apartment in New Venice with a friend, two hours away by boat. I took over her larger bedroom, packed everything she left behind into four small boxes. When I visited her she’d poured me wine and we’d eat fried rice from a little shop beneath her apartment. Afterwards I’d crash on an inflatable mattress in her kitchen and listen to the boats and the spray against the windows and the clinking of bottles. When I woke one morning she was already studying, even though it was a Saturday. There were no universities on Volturna yet, but she was in an amalgamated program with video-conferenced lectures, a practical engineering placement and three block courses a year from visiting lecturers. “Coffee?” she asked, considerate of my seventeen-year-old, early morning brain. I signaled yes, trying to unpick the disaster that was my hair. Dad called Volturnan coffee a hideous imitation and refused to touch it, but like most of our friends, Francie and I swilled it near constantly. “What are you studying?” I asked, looking over at her screen, caffeine in my hands at last. “Case study from Glar. You know that weird planet where the local life-forms change how everything operates, including all the buildings.” I did, vaguely. She showed me a picture. “Well it means that some things aren’t possible, but they can also do things like this…” “How does that even stay up?” The giant structure seemed to be almost floating in the air, anchored to the ground at just one small corner. Francie showed me a screen full of equations. I shrank in mock horror. “Magic,” I said. “I’m just going to believe that it’s magic.”     I hold my wrist beside plant after plant. About half it recognizes automatically; for others I have to input data: color, size of leaves, flowers. I’m building a list, edibles and poisons. This one is easy. Origanum vulgare, my device says. Colloquially known as oregano, a common species of Origanum, a genus of the mint family (Lamiaceae). Safe, edible herb for humans, although allergies are recorded. And I remember something in my personal data files, something I haven’t looked at in a long time. I sit on a fallen tree, bring up the projection of pages many hundreds of years old. A Spell to Send a Message Home And on it, Francie’s childish hand over the calligraphy. When a traveller wants to signal home SHE OR he must do the following… Snippets of Francie’s voice, so young, so far away: you have to call her “she”. She’s my SISTER! Francie’s edits weren’t just about her, I realize. She was defending me. When I was eighteen, I downed a half bottle of a terrible orange flavored liquor before I told her that maybe I wasn’t a woman and could she please say they, not she and then I cried on her balcony because I felt like I was backing down and like I’d been lying all my life, and she’d told me to come inside before I vomited on one of her neighbors’ heads as they walked out of their door and then I laughed and then I did vomit, bitter orange disgustingness over the balcony and into the water below. Francie threw me a towel and said that she loved me but not quite enough to clean up after me. Another memory, two years later: my family seeing me off to my first internship. I would not see Volturna—or any of them—for three years. Francie checking, one last time, that I had a copy of the spellbook in my data files. You need to be connected. It’s been nearly twenty years since I tried to cast a spell, but Francie once said it was in our blood, so perhaps that doesn’t matter. Here on Silvanus I find more than half of what I need. That which I cannot, which perhaps grows in cooler or warmer climes, I find alternatives for, following my father’s advice and looking up pictures, then letting myself be drawn to a flower or a rock. I project up the image again, weightless pages before me with the writing of generations. I use my finger as a stylus. SHE OR HE OR THEY OR SIE OR CO OR E OR OR OR OR OR OR OR… I finish my work. I close the book. And from the distance, from beyond the black of space and its spinning stations, through traffic routes and past more planets than I could ever remember, from Volturna’s deep waters and floating towns, my sister signals me home. END     “Songs of Love and Defense in the Dawn" is copyright Hester J. Rook 2017. “A Spell to Signal Home” is copyright A.C. Buchanan 2017. This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library. You can support GlitterShip by checking out our Patreon at patreon.com/keffy, subscribing to our feed, or by leaving reviews on iTunes. Thanks for listening, and I’ll be back soon with a reprint of "The Passing Bell" by Amy Griswold.

01. Alex Tweaker - Everlast 02. Lenzman - Golden Age (Full Vocal Mix Feat. Dan Stezo & Steo) 03. Alix Perez & Ivy Lab - Maiden 04. Quadrant, Kid Hops & Iris - Solar Wind (Kantyze Remix) 05. Arcatype - Tempest 06. Artificial Intelligence - Take Me There (Feat. Steo) 07. LM1 & Kharm - Inversion 08. Intelligent Manners - Stay True 09. Malaky - Yesterday 10. Sapphire - Stop The Time, I'll Come Off 11. Kelayx - Vicious 12. Incident - Slumbery 13. Invisible Landscape - Go On And Cry 14. Facing Jinx - Back To The Start 15. Lenzman - Got My Mind Made Up 16. Calibre - Space Time (Feat. Cleveland Watkiss) 17. Arcatype - Old Fashioned 18. Alix Perez & Ivy Lab - The Last Light 19. Alex Tweaker - Legacy 20. Goldie - Broken Man

01. Etherwood - Under The Surface (Feat. Vinny Ferraro) 02. Dualistic & NCT - The Unknown 03. Quadrant, Kid Hops & Iris - Eternal September (Feat. Collette Warren) 04. Bachelors Of Science - Before You Go (Feat. Dylan Germick & Audio Angel) 05. Liz-E & Lauren Archer - My Heart 06. Halogenix - Paper Sword 07. Zero T - Macushla 08. Icicle - UR In My Head 09. Submorphics Feat. TRAC - Higher Ground 10. Paul SG & Soultec - Wishful Thinking 11. A-Sides - Reminisce (Feat. Spikey Tee) 12. Lynx - Only She Knows 13. Metrik - Borealis 14. Gerra & Stone - Tender Touch 15. Tokyo Prose - Tell Me 16. Joakuim - Monday Mood 17. DJ Zinc & MC Fats - Move That Sound (Mr Joseph Remix) 18. Utah Jazz - Runaway 19. Seba & Paradox - It's All Love 20. Reza - Chemistry

01. Goldie - Inner City Life (Full Length) 02. Seba, Paradox & Robert Manos - Lie To Me 03. Gerra & Stone - Almost U 04. Pro Luxe - Radiance 05. Berkheya - Vertical Horizon 06. Ulterior Motive - Muted (Feat. James Sunderland) 07. Bop - Charge Me (Feat. Diagram) 08. Break - Pushing Me On 09. Gerra & Stone - Release My Soul 10. Klute - Just What You're Feeling 11. June Miller - Further Seems Forever 12. Sub Zero - Hearts On Fire 13. Etherwood - The Rain Will Fall (Feat. LSB) 14. Urban Deep - You Know I Know (Nookie DNB RMX) 15. Jubei - Incognito (Feat. Jerome Thomas) 16. Technimatic - Flashbulb 17. Legion & Logam - Afterthought 18. Gerra & Stone - These Words 19. Greg Packer & Danny Rhodes - Salt Air (Feat. Natalie Slade) 20. [re : jazz] - Inner City Life (Original By Goldie)

Today's episode of Adrian Has Issues is jam-packed with laughs! Adrian is joined by New York-based artist Soo Lee. Known for her work on acclaimed titles like Fight Like A Girl and Liquid City, Soo is set to release the her new comic Hysterics, in which she is both the writer and artist. In true AHI fashion the conversation covers a myriad of topics including female anti-heroes, Korean cinema and the Netflix series Narcos. So sit back, relax and pour yourself a margarita (hold the salt) and enjoy! Follow Soo Lee online: Website Twitter Tumblr Please leave a rating and review for AHI on iTunes and Stitcher. Doing so helps the podcast grow and reach new potential listeners. As always, thank you for your support!

Today's episode of Adrian Has Issues is jam-packed with laughs! Adrian is joined by New York-based artist Soo Lee. Known for her work on acclaimed titles like Fight Like A Girl and Liquid City, Soo is set to release the her new comic Hysterics, in which she is both the writer and artist. In true AHI fashion the conversation covers a myriad of topics including female anti-heroes, Korean cinema and the Netflix series Narcos. So sit back, relax and pour yourself a margarita (hold the salt) and enjoy! Follow Soo Lee online: Website Twitter Tumblr Please leave a rating and review for AHI on iTunes and Stitcher. Doing so helps the podcast grow and reach new potential listeners. As always, thank you for your support!

01. Nebula - Escher 02. Facing Jinx - Missing You (Feat. Collette Warren) 03. Eschaton - Boson (Parallel Remix) 04. Macc - Change & Stay The Same 05. Fushara - Continuum 06. Mindmapper & Fre4knc - Milsani 07. Greg Packer & Danny Rhodes - About The Sea 08. Protone, RoyGreen, Mystic Trip - Lush (Feat. Lynu) 09. Bachelors Of Science - Control 10. Halogenix - Beyond The Bounds 11. Gamma - Midnight Heat 12. Snaper - Dissonant 13. Fada - Dyssomnia 14. El Humo De Nieve - Shining Darkness 15. Greg Packer & Danny Rhodes - Barriah Dub 16. Eschaton - Bohr (Ursa Remix) 17. BCee Feat. Philippa Hanna - Morning Star 18. Bachelors Of Science - The Space Between 19. ASC - Focus Inwards 20. Bachelors Of Science - Don't Hold Back (Feat. Dylan Germick)

01. Acid Lab - Beyonder 02. Axiom - Dark Skies Vocal VIP (Feat. Lady Katee) 03. Bladerunner - Stay 04. BCee - Begins With You (Feat. SPY) 05. Blue Sonix Feat. Michael Moulton - Luv Me (Logistics Remix) 06. Break - All Around 07. Drifta - Hold It Down 08. Greg Packer & Danny Rhodes - One Love 09. Intelligent Manners, Malaky - Tears 10. John B - Connected (Feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw) 11. June Miller - Reach Out (Feat. MVE) 12. Jazzatron - All What You Want 13. BCee & Villem - I Believe (Feat. Frank Carter III) 14. Nautilus - We Got You 15. Fracture & Neptune - Customtone (Feat. Martin Fieber) 16. Aristocrats - The Teller 17. Kubiks - Silverline (Feat. Monique) 18. Blue Motion & Furi Anga - Switchblades 19. BCee - Summery (Feat. Philippa Hanna) 20. Mac Elliott - Like It Is You Me

01. Adam F - Music In My Mind 02. Blu Mar Ten - Headturner (2014 Remaster) 03. Greg Packer & Danny Rhodes - Let The Rain Fall (Feat. Natalie Slade) 04. Payback & Soul Connection - You Bring The Sunshine 05. Villem & Mcleod Feat. Durban - Sara's Smile 06. Gerra & Stone - LIES 07. Friction & Technimatic - Floating Frames 08. Hoax - Kinson 09. Greg Packer & Danny Rhodes - Immersed 10. Dexcell - Elevate 11. Heart Drive - Aut0mated Love 12. Bop - Deep Space 13. Mark System - Waiting For A Meaningful Title 14. Flowrian - Luciano 15. Zero T, Icicle & Steo - Go 4 Yours 16. Payback & Soul Connection - The Greatest Con 17. Rainforest - Moon Gazing 18. Nebula - Ice Sculptures 19. ICR - So Unloved 20. Greg Packer & Danny Rhodes - Gone Away

01. ASC - Distance Between Us 02. Philth - One Perfect Moment 03. FD - Luisa's Move 04. Ivy Lab - Baby Grey 05. Break - They're Wrong (Calibre Remix) 06. Eveson - Softly Spoken 07. Influx Datum - So Sweet 08. Philth - Attraction 09. Seba - Nightrider 10. RoyGreen & Protone - Random Thoughts 11. SpectraSoul - Hearts 12. Vector & Macca - Celestial 13. Bachelors Of Science, Ben Soundscape, Collette Warren - Love Lost 14. Villem & Mcleod - Keeper Of The Sun 15. FD & System - So Real 16. Ben Soundscape, Superior Selectionz, RoyGreen & Protone - Panoramic (Roygreen & Protone Remix) 17. Survival - Panorama 18. Joakuim - Miles Away 19. Arp XP - Sickness Of Time 20. RoyGreen, Protone, Monologue, LaMeduza & Survival - Through The Alps (Survival Remix)

01. Arp XP & Reza - No Control (Feat. Kayka) 02. Sinistarr & Kiat - Black Diamonds 03. Zero Tolerance & Survival - Cold Blood 04. Break & Hydro - Dream Sequence 05. Mutated Forms Feat. Tali - Tiny Little Pieces (Total Science Remix) 06. Mage - Game Of Light & Paints 07. Scott Allen & Flame - Drifting Away 08. Nuage - Mirrors 09. Quadrant, Lukeino & Homemade Weapons - Mayday 10. Leonux - Fusion 11. Phil Source & Paul T - Razzyrova 12. Roy Green, Protone & Monologue - Break 13. June Miller - Converge 14. Arp XP & Reza - When You Gone 15. Pennygiles - Stories Untold 16. RoyGreen & Protone - Dusk (Feat. Ben Soundscape) 17. Paramount - Ivory 18. Nelver - Heroes Will Fall (Feat. YM) 19. Strife II - Beacon City Skyline (Deep Mix Feat. Dennean) 20. Mr Foul - Pause For Thought

01. Arp XP - Closer (Feat. Estel Luz) 02. Quadrant, Kid Hops & Iris - Solar Wind 03. Paramount - Distant Silhouette 04. RoyGreen, Protone & Chap - Gray Jazz 05. Phil Tangent - We Don't Talk Anymore 06. Nuage - Eversky (Anile Remix) 07. Survival - Even Now 08. Roygreen & Protone - What's Left Of It Is Gone 09. Total Science - Positive Vibration 10. Phil Tangent - Contrition 11. Arp XP & Reza - Unknown Feelings 12. Jubei - Paloma 13. Spectrasoul - Falling Down 14. Joakuim - Chilled 15. Villem & Mcleod - Another Star 16. Mage - Journey 17. Arp XP - Uneasy 18. Nymfo - Whenever You Need Me 19. K Dan - Heal Us All (Naibu Remix) 20. RoyGreen & Protone - Alice (Feat. LaMeduza)

01. Nasty Habits - Liquid Fingers 02. 2D33P - Secrets Of The Universe 03. Y2D - Prose 04. Survival & Paul T - Go Back 05. Disept & Mage - Silence 06. Stereotype - Waiting For You 07. Joakuim - Rouge 08. Spectrasoul - UnEarthed 09. Amparo - Cruise Line 10. Mr Joseph - Forgotten Emotions 11. Seba - Blaze And Fade Out (Maxi Version) 12. Nitri - Musica 13. Paul T & Survival - Sunshine 14. Nuage - Different Places 15. Joakuim - Unconscient 16. LSB - The Hurting 17. Stress Level & TC1 - Indigo Run 18. Flowrian - Banani Code 19. Soul Intent - Synthetic 20. Nasty Habits - Liquid Fingers (Goldie Remix)

01. Goldie - Kemistry 02. Getz - Labrynth 03. Estereo - Have A Dream (Silent Dust Remix) 04. Inertia - IFKK 05. Hibea - The Form (Phil Tangent Remix) 06. Lenzman - Wordsworth 07. Intersolar - Breaking The Dawn 08. Command Strange & Dynamic - So Much Tenderness 09. Eastcolors - I Don't Know Why 10. Macca - Days Gone By 11. Mechanizm - Aluminion 12. Nuage - Between Trees 13. Atom - Analog Books 14. Parallel - A Glimpse At The Dawn Of Time 15. Malaky - Late Nights 16. Seba - Painted Skies (Feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw) 17. Skyweep - Broke My Eyes 18. Soultec - Moments In Time 19. Bank - Hard Cache 20. Goldie & J Majik - Sunray 2

01. N4M3 - Too Late 02. Goldie Pres. Rufige Kru - Sometime Sad Day 03. Getz & Nuage - Gallactica 04. Estereo & Marlyn - Winteria 05. ASC - Heliocentric 06. Spectrasoul - Ish Chat 07. Arkaik - Lost 08. Bloodtypes - Broken Apache 09. Marcus Intalex - Astro Dance 10. Toez - Raindrop (Refix) 11. 2D33P - Life As Emotion 12. Survival - Blunted 13. Paul T & Edward Oberon - What Do I Do 14. Vector - After You Go 15. Phase - Ways Of Thought (Feat. LaMeduza) 16. Survival - Blue Sky 17. Spectrasoul - Sometimes We Lie... 18. SPY - Love Hurts 19. Nitri & Jinadu - Searching (Break Remix) 20. Nuage - Don't Hide These Feelings (N4M3 Remix)

01. Strife II - Piano Intro 02. Paramount - Silence Of Spirits 03. Stealth - Silent Dream (Feat. Altair) 04. Anile - Another Year 05. Breakage - Hidden Track 06. Gerwin - Lonely 07. Bcee - Make You Mine 08. Phil Tangent - Giving Up The Ghost 09. Dexcell - Dont Look Back 10. Physical Illsuion & Kryptomedic - We Feeling What We Doing 11. Eastcolors - I Become Older 12. Hibea - Butterfly 13. Vector & Macca - Autumn (With 3quent) 14. Treex - All I Need 15. Presents - Inner Rhodes 16. Pixel - Mankind 17. Phil Tangent - Plesure Trip 18. Soul Connection - Sweetness 19. Strife II - Protaras 20. Radioactive Watermelon - Duality Of Being

01. Gerwin & Nuage - Hidden Dreams 02. Big Bud - State Of Mind 03. Bjorn - Inside My Soul 04. Boymerang - Urban Space 05. Nuage - Cold Memoires 06. Big Bud - Darker Than Blue 07. LTJ Bukem - Suspended Space 08. Nuage - Don't Hide These Feelings 09. Blu Mar Ten - All Thoughts Are Prayers (Marcus Intalex Remix) 10. SIN & Mutated Forms - Talk To Me 11. Nuage - I Have Never Seen Mountains 12. Utah Jazz - Loops For Days 13. SPY - Sleepy Hollow 14. Plain Dialogue - Cafe 43 15. SpectraSoul - Light In The Dark (Feat. Terri Walker) 16. Potential Badboy - Sunshine (Feat. Yush) 17. Marcus Intalex - Sell Your Soul 18. Big Bud - Transmission 19. Boymerang - Lazarus 20. Nuage - Moonlakes

01. Furney - Wasted Dreams 02. Bladerunner - Hypnotising 03. BCee - Keep The Faith (Marucs Intalex Remix) 04. D-Bridge - Last Straw (Feat. Steve Spacek) 05. DJ Marky & SPY - Mystic Sunset 06. Hybrid Minds - Im Through 07. Furney - San Demus 08. Klute - Come Back 2 Me 09. Hybrid Minds - Lost 10. Bungle - Don't Look Back 11. D-Bridge - Inner Disbelief 12. Marcus Intalex - Virgo 13. Phil Tangent - Lunar 14. SPY - Generation (SPY Remix) 15. Klute - Will You Still Love Me 16. J.Majik & Wickaman - Ritual 17. Hiatus - Save Yourself (Ray Keith Remix) 18. Phil Tangent - Billies Smile 19. BCee - Keep The Faith (Seba Remix) 20. D-Bridge - So Lonely (Consequence Remix) 21. Bungle - Memories (Feat. Ad Apt) 22. Netsky - Let's Leave Tomorrow

01. Jrumhand & Tidal - Vanished 02. 2D33P - The Dream 03. Boymerang - ACID 04. Blu Mar Ten - Sweet Little Supernova 05. Apex - Falling 06. Salaryman - Gentle Wind 07. Getz - Square Of Pegasus 08. Roygreen, Protone & Monologue - Midnight 09. Jrumhand - The Slow Train South 10. Alexus - Sweet Promises 11. MSDOS & Blade - Cold In Summer 12. Command Strange, Dynamic & Intelligent Manners - Down With This 13. Soul Connection - Forever More 14. Paul SG & Carter - Untake 15. Toez - On My Mind (Feat. Janice Tsao) 16. Salaryman - The Cesspool 17. Nuage & THRN - Don't Exist 18. RoyGreen & Protone - Left Behind In Sadness 19. Sunny Crimea - I Want It 20. Alexus - Friends

01. Hybrid Minds - Meant To Be 02. Salaryman - Secret Memories (Feat. Static State) 03. Bungle - Astral Travel 04. A-Sides - Spiritual Synergy (Feat. Jo-S) 05. Stealth & Stylus - One Way 06. Amparo - Call Me 07. Flowrian - A Day To Remember 08. Scott Allen - Inner Beauty 09. Lynx - Passing Time 10. Soul Connection - Blue Note 11. Static - Bad For Me 12. Nuage - Missing You 13. Bungle - Aura 14. Nuage - September Song 15. Jrumhand - Tomorrow 16. Amparo - Under A Maple Tree 17. A-Sides - Undeniable 18. Technimatic - The Golden Section 19. Soultec - I Hear You Knocking 20. Sundesire & Nelver - Evening Stars

01. Spectrasoul - Knuckle Waltz 02. Gerwin & Nuage - Lying Portraits (Feat. 2Shy) 03. Alexus - Take A Nap 04. Flowrian - 600 Feet Under 05. Command Strange - If U Wanna Make A Love 06. Mist-I-Cal - Spiritual Thing 07. RoyGreen & Protone & Monologue - Storming 08. Jubei - Outcast 09. Kjell - The Dynamic 10. Technimatic - Solace 11. Dynamic - Tokyo Blur 12. Flowrian - Cinnamon Garden 13. Hosta - When You Were Mine (VIP Mix) 14. ST Files - Moods 15. MOS - Stories 16. Flowrian - Casandra 17. Utah Jazz - Slice Of Nature 18. Nuage - Above Time 19. Rowpieces - Concept Of Love 20. Sabre & Stray & Halogenix - Oblique (Feat. Frank Carter III)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of London. To T.S.Eliot it was the “Unreal City”, to Wordsworth “Earth has not anything to show more fair” but to Shelley, “Hell is a city much like London”. At the start of this twenty-first century the capital city covers an area of 625 square miles, is home to 7 million souls, and has an economy which at more than £115 billion is larger than that of Saudi Arabia, Ireland or Singapore. Is this modern metropolis still the place that the poets described? Can there be such a thing as a history of a city, which in each generation sucks in its communities from around the country and around the globe? In a city whose buildings have been razed, whose people have been decimated and whose borders have been dramatically redrawn, what is there that connects it to its own past?With Peter Ackroyd, author of London: The Biography; Claire Tomalin, author and biographer of Samuel Pepys; Iain Sinclair, poet, novelist and author of Liquid City and Lights Out for the Territory.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of London. To T.S.Eliot it was the “Unreal City”, to Wordsworth “Earth has not anything to show more fair” but to Shelley, “Hell is a city much like London”. At the start of this twenty-first century the capital city covers an area of 625 square miles, is home to 7 million souls, and has an economy which at more than £115 billion is larger than that of Saudi Arabia, Ireland or Singapore. Is this modern metropolis still the place that the poets described? Can there be such a thing as a history of a city, which in each generation sucks in its communities from around the country and around the globe? In a city whose buildings have been razed, whose people have been decimated and whose borders have been dramatically redrawn, what is there that connects it to its own past?With Peter Ackroyd, author of London: The Biography; Claire Tomalin, author and biographer of Samuel Pepys; Iain Sinclair, poet, novelist and author of Liquid City and Lights Out for the Territory.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of London. To T.S.Eliot it was the “Unreal City”, to Wordsworth “Earth has not anything to show more fair” but to Shelley, “Hell is a city much like London”. At the start of this twenty-first century the capital city covers an area of 625 square miles, is home to 7 million souls, and has an economy which at more than £115 billion is larger than that of Saudi Arabia, Ireland or Singapore. Is this modern metropolis still the place that the poets described? Can there be such a thing as a history of a city, which in each generation sucks in its communities from around the country and around the globe? In a city whose buildings have been razed, whose people have been decimated and whose borders have been dramatically redrawn, what is there that connects it to its own past?With Peter Ackroyd, author of London: The Biography; Claire Tomalin, author and biographer of Samuel Pepys; Iain Sinclair, poet, novelist and author of Liquid City and Lights Out for the Territory.