Exploring the Ether

Numbers Stations

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

Radiant & Talking Pictures

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

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

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

Away Space and Requiem for a Neural Network

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

Exploring the Ether

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