Idyllic Music Podcast Library

All The Podcast Episodes

The City at Night | Episode 217 |

They Are Not What They Seem | Episode 216 |

Cheesy Beats and Firecrackers | Episode 215 |

It's cinematic music with modern beats nostalgic for camp Hollywood tropes and tv
variety shows but ultimately it all leads back to Walter Wanderley’s elevator classic ‘Summer Samba’.
Featuring...
Life Socks | Suhov | Chill Carrier | Holizna | Polkavant

Artificial Intelligence and Music Culture | Episode 214 |

2nd Generation of Electronic Music Artists | Episode 213 |

This week we take a look at the second generation of electronic music artists.
Standing on the shoulders of giants like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and Wendy Carlos.
Featuring...
Winterstrand | Genestar | Tang Kai | Xena Supermoog | Victoria Darien

Anima Mundi | Episode 212 |

This week we’ll look at Anima Mundi. Thought to be a vital force that permeates the earth,
it is believed to be the feminine creative power of God who nourishes the material world.
Featuring...
Mindseye | Planet Boelex & Lisa’s Antenna | Kopasetik | MEDL4 | Frequency Decree | In Vitro

Chill Out Downtempo | Episode 211 |

This week we will celebrate our 15th anniversary of podcasting independent downtempo music and artists.
Looking back I am happy to report most continue to make music or have a presence on the web.
Featuring...
Lovespirals | Artemis | Karmacoda | General Fuzz | Subtronix | DubOne!

The Luminescence of Candles | Episode 210 |

Mindwandering | Episode 209 |

This week we will focus on mind wandering. When your attention drifts from the task at hand.
Most of us feel this mild disassociation routinely. When you feel a million miles away.
Featuring...
Red Wine Riots | Aphilas | Dreza | Eva Schlegal | Azoora | Just Banks

Personal Correspondence | Episode 208 |

Before and After | Episode 207 |

Pastoral Beats | Episode 206 |

This week it’s pastoral beats. Warm gentle electronica that evokes memories
of carefree and less stressful times. It’s music of comfort and consolation.
Featuring...
Saduint | IRP System Sound | Monokle | Esem | FX-Labs

Darkness and Light | Episode 205 |

This week we’ll ponder our tricky relationship with darkness and light. Light shows what is apparent and actual.
We see things for what they transparently are but in the darkness all things are possible.
Featuring...
Secret Archives of the Vatican | Broke for Free | Plurabelle | Love Spirals | Neutrix | Revolution Void

Espionage | Episode 204 |

This week we’ll look at espionage. It’s spies and spooks, coups and active measures.
It’s a shadowy world. All cloak-and-dagger.
Featuring...
Karmacoda | Hector Zarate | Frank Dorittke | DTR | The Policy Wonks

The Golden Age of Online Music Distribution | Episode 203 |

The Ability to Forgive | Episode 202 |

This week, we'll look at the ability to forgive. It's a mistake to think forgiveness is universal,
not everyone is wired with the ability to move on from an insult.
Featuring...
Dive Index | Fascinating Earthbound Objects | Soft and Furious | Rich Sudney | Down Review

The Quiet Mind | Episode 201 |

This week, we'll try to quiet the mind. It's a defense mechanism really as we try to cope
with a world that has seemingly sped up beyond our capacity to keep up.
Featuring...
No Finger Nails | Oz Alchemist | Juliet Hotel | Animadvert | The Chill Conspiracy | Infinite Livez

Downtempo Electronica | Episode 200 |

Downtempo electronica is a very broad category of electronic music.
Over 200 episodes and 1000 songs, we realized that the sound and feel of these songs fall into two categories.

Headphone Electronica | Episode 199 |

This week, it's headphone electronica. Music created with the meticulous detail
that only listening through headphones can reveal.
It's electronica mixed, produced and, ultimately, consumed by people wearing headphones.
Featuring...
Eva Schlegel | sleepinghills | Weldroid | Thorazin

A Life at Sea | Episode 198 |

This week we'll examine a life at sea. Joseph Conrad wrote that
"there is nothing more enticing, disenchanting and enslaving."
More troubling is what lies beneath
Featuring...
Band of Mad Women | IOTA | MMPSUF | Sleepy Town Manufacture | beat.dowsing | Leon Somov

Harmonics | Episode 197 |

This week, we'll listen for harmonics. We mostly think of harmonics as an element of music
but there is a more fundamental physical quality underneath it all. Wave patterns are all around us.
Featuring...
Sleepy Koala | Garaz | Dlay | MindsEye | Cutside | DU3normal

Empathy | Episode 196 |

Number 10 | Episode 195 |

This episode of idyllic music is brought to you by the number ten. It sits comfortably between nine and eleven,
matches our fingers quite nicely and is the base for the decimal system nearly everyone uses every day.
Featuring...
Ketsa | Navasa | Marque and Reprisal | Kirk Pearson and BIT | Vir Nocturna | Dissolved and Nonima

Winter | Episode 194 |

This week, we'll look at the final season, the end of the cycle, of winters past and cold.
It's a time many of us would like to hold up in bed for the duration, with it's shortened days and cold nights.
Featuring...
Hungry Lucy | Winterstrand | Sara Grey | Mystral | Gorowski

After a Relationship Ends | Episode 193 |

This week, we'll look at the effort it takes to pull yourself together after a relationship ends.
Some seek sympathetic ears while other withdraw into solitude.
Featuring...
General Fuzz | Kognitif | The Ganzfeld Effect | BASIC | Reflection

Regrets and Reconciliation | Episode 192 |

Proximity and Happenstance | Episode 191 |

This week, we'll look at proximity and happenstance. The idea that just by being near another person
or event can change the future for better or worse. Mostly the difference is unnoticable in the noise.
Featuring...
Hypersleep | Tab & Anitek | Refold | All India Radio | Cling | Ben K. Adams | Little Glass Men

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Word Salad | Episode 190 |

This week we'll look at word salad.
On for never forward northbound play pea small black loo peter colin forget lung
scrabble come free sweet massacre mutations broke flying daddy.
Featuring...
Peterloo Massacre | Broke For Free | Daddy Scrabble | Sweet Play | Northbound | Small Colin

Ends of the Universe | Episode 189 |

This week we'll try to imagine the ends of the universe. It's one way to restore some perspective
while your world is spinning around you. The vast emptiness of space, its cold, hollow expanse…
Featuring...
Rukirek | Dive Index featuring Natalie Walker | Jagoa | Me Zion Dread | Strad

Recovery and Second Chances | Episode 188 |

This week, we'll look at recovery and contemplate the possibilities inherent in second chances.
Do they bring new focus and opportunity or squandered through indecision and inertia.
Featuring... Aris H, Garmisch, Nic Bommarito, Jazzafari, Citizen Crane, and Ishdub

Tipping Points | Episode 187 |

This week we'll look at tipping points. The value of the parameter in which the set of equilibria
abruptly change. Sometimes we are quite aware of these changes other times not.
Featuring...
Minds of Infinity | Karmacoda | Zoungla | Max Lilja | Phone Booth Robbers

Semantic Memory | Episode 186 |

This week we'll look at episodic or semantic memory. Where we store past events and learned meanings
long-term. Memories of place,time and sounds. Memories we can't actually have had.
Featuring...
Marushka | Scenery | Brujo's Bowl | Antonia Vai | Kaminanda |

Chronology of the Universe | Episode 185 |

This week, we'll look at the chronology of the universe. Don't blink because most of the important stuff
happens between 10 to the 43rd seconds and 1 second after the big bang.
Featuring...
Tycho | Skeleton Trees | Arne Mulder | Artemis | Dubsalon | Chad Lawrence |

Look into the Fire | Episode 184 |

This week, we'll look into the fire. Mesmerizing as it is, fire is a perfect metaphor for
love, desire and passion. From the dazzling white of 1,500 °c to dull red of 700, fire's ability to warm…
Featuring...
Home Video | Jerome Chassagnard | Sparrow Orange | Peter Gabriel | and Aire Redtree

Intimacy | Episode 183 | |

This week, we'll look at intimacy. The need for, the mechanics, complications and consequences of.
Yeats lamented that "the heart-revealing intimacy,that chooses right, and never finds a friend.”
Featuring...
C85 | Howard, Hayward, Frith and Laswell | Almamegretta | Smooth Gene-Star | Saltillo

The Illusion of Permanence | Episode 182 |

This week, we'll look at the illusion of permanence and the inevitably of change.
The tricky thing about change is that it is often not even perceptible. Gradual and incremental…
Featuring...
Canola Tenderfoot | Module | Starfrosch | Scopes | Philip TBC | JIKJAX

Emotional Isolation | Episode 181 |

This week we’ll look at emotional isolation. It seems the more we reach out the less we feel.
It might be the continuing fragmentation of society but increasingly many of us are alone and not by choice.
Featuring...
White Blush | Bioscape | Niyaz | Soulacybin | Winterstrand | Kate Martin

Love's First Heartbreak | Episode 180 |

When young untested emotions are at their most potent and everything seems so damned important.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes from the first moments of our first great sorrow.
Featuring...
Globular | Jah Wobble | Zeus Scientist | EeBoO | mmpsuf | Chriss SoLo

Saraswati | Episode 179 |

This week, we'll head to the sub-continent for inspiration. In particular, Saraswati, the goddess
of knowledge, music, arts and science. We can all take as our Muse this expression of modern progress.
Featuring...
Maido Project | Joel Enzo | The Flavor Foundation | Dubtrak | First Rebirth

Fata Morgana | Episode 178 |

We'll look at mirages. Fata Morgana is named after the fairy shapeshifting half-sister of King Arthur.
We come to rely on the normally stable optic perceptions that make up our daily experiences.
Featuring...
Nicky Cairney | ShaMANoiD | Mustard Tiger | Rabbit Hole Revelations | Artemis | Merge of Equals

Number 3 | Episode 177 |

From religion to physics and beyond, the number 3 is everywhere. The atom has 3 main components.
Almost all faiths have a core aspect containing 3 parts.
Featuring...
Nicolas Eller | Radioactive Sandwich | Ovalys

Paths to Spiritual Enlightenment | Episode 176 |

This week, we'll explore the many paths to spiritual enlightenment.
It might come in a journey, a ritual of repetition or a chemical. Each method is personal.
Featuring...
Hinkstep | Subroute Roots | General Fuzz | Marilyn Carino | Scopes

Epic Dreams | Episode 175 |

When Things Get Wobbly | Episode 174 |

This week we’ll consider those times when things get wobbly.
The feeling that things that once seemed solid and unchanging are now less so.
Featuring...
The National Pool Auma | Metaharmoniks | Lovespirals | The Esoteric Gender | Korev

The Zeitgeist | Episode 173 |

The Summer Travel Season | Episode 172 |

The world's a mighty big place filled with destinations that can be
both beautiful and dangerous, often times in the same city.
Featuring...
Jordan Reyne Secret Archives of the Vatican Tikki Masala Project 5am My Bubba & Mi Chris Pettit

Women and Men | Episode 171 |

The equally compelling perspectives they bring to music. Even in parts of the world
where traditional divisions between men and women remain, within the arts those walls are collapsing.
Featuring...
Endless Blue Boleros En Femeni Fuji Kureta Babbaracos The Crisis Project Sarah Fimm

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The Contemplative Life | Episode 170 |

This week, we'll consider the contemplative life most often associated with religious devotion.
The conscious decision to notice things. The little details of life that we often skip right past.
Featuring...
Orange Crush | Natalie Walker | Motionfield | vitamins for you | Text Adventure | Asaguare

Deceptions and Delusions | Episode 169 |

This week, we'll look at deceptions and delusions and how it requires the need to believe
and ultimately deceive. It is one of our most powerful tools in coping with emotional pain.
Featuring...
PlanetsCitizens | Naoned | Dave Gerard | Floating Spirits | Ovalys | Alik Project |

True Self | Episode 168 |

Looking for the light that makes us strive for something better. It might be the agonizing reappraisal
of one's efforts and motives over a lifetime or the search for enlightenment contained in so many faiths.
Featuring...
Dr Freebs | Cling | Twin Muses | PiliPili | Merlune | Dub One!

Sun Worship | Episode 167 |

Cleansing Power of Fire | Episode 166 |

It's a concept so broad as to include ancient elements of Egyptian, Christian and Druid rituals
as well modern ideas about the birth of the universe. Fire can lead either to brilliance or devastation
Featuring...
DeeW | Dive Index | Maido Project | kesakoo | Uniform Motion | Black Widow Voodoo Cult

Abbreviations and Acronyms | Episode 165 |

You see them everywhere from texts and license plates to government forms and love notes. These brevis
or shortenings have become the bane of writers and lovers of language across all cultures.
Featuring...
2% | The Reverend Shortboy | WEED | Alien S | Alec Troniq | Rho

Unbearable Sadness | Episode 164 |

This week, we'll look at the unbearable sadness that marks the end of relationships. The cold numbness
deep inside of those unaware and most pained continues on in a hundred ways.
Featuring...
Delgarma | Garmisch | Cobrider | Billy Cote and Uniit Carruyo | Full-Source | tumc

A World of Possibilities | Episode 163 |

The future is more open, blended and diverse than it was even a generation ago.
That means there is more opportunity for progress and enlightenment even in the face of entrenchment.
Featuring...
Raja | Arze Kareem | PiliPili | Nu Shooz Orchestra | Tracing Arcs | Jah Wobble and The Nippon Dub Ensemble

Hidden World of Esotericism | Episode 162 |

This week, we'll try to fathom the hidden world of Esotericism. It's a fool's errand; really,
because the point is that certain things are kept by a narrow circle away from the rest of us.
Featuring...
x-structure | Tang Kai | Dive Index | Sister Overdrive | Sekotis | Secret Archives of the Vatican

The Wars Men Wage | Episode 161 |

This week, we'll look at the wars men wage with all its glory and tragedy. How something so awful
can be a source of honor. It's the story of mankind for better or worse and war's moral paradox.
Featuring...
Kate Martin | Drifting In Silence | Jelle | Bill Laswell | CC Asia

Camus' Invincible Summer | Episode 160 |

This week, we'll lay back and taking in Camus' invincible summer. In times of ambiguous environments,
artificial seasons, climate controlled offices and 24 hour shopping malls, its nice to revel in the easy season.
Featuring...
Guitorb | Sunburn In Cyprus | Incidental Fusion | Peach Stealing Monkeys | This One | John E. Flash

Promises and Lies | Episode 159 |

When Ali Campbell sang of the sorrow and pain from the serpent's song of a lovers deceptiveness,
he also implied that acknowledging those lies led to hope and healing.
Featuring...
Sabian | Vela | Null Device | Wordless Poem | Lucky Cat

The Plant World | Episode 158 |

Turning the sun's energy into life from nutrients in the soil and atmosphere is so fundamental
to our existence that its hard to believe we would do anything to disrupt it.
Including Rho, Hands Upon Black Earth, Analog Fury, Sitchin, and Seth Master.
Featuring...
NetLabel Coalition | Rho | Hands upon Black Earth | Analog Fury | Sitchin | Seth Master

Tall Tales | Episode 157 |

Stories and fables of exaggeration and entertainment, some fantastic and others with morals. They have
a morsel of truth spun out to the absurd across every culture but reaching a zenith in 19th century American
folktales like Paul Bunyan, Brer Rabbit, Little Babaji and John Henry.
Featuring...
Ixtlan | Erosops | Refrag | Sounda | Botany Bay | Capt. Beefheart

Migrations and Aspirations | Episode 156 |

This week, we'll look at migrations and aspirations. For millennia, people have moved from one place
to another seeking better lives. The sorrow of leaving behind the old and struggle
to establish the new have marked every one of us.
Featuring...
Mar.ch | Kristian Wølner | Flow.ers | Heartical | USB

The Sweet and Lowdown | Episode 155 |

This week, we'll look at at the sweet and lowdown. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
Swing music's rhythmic style was what moved hips out on the dance floor.
Featuring...
Mudville | Gone, Gone Gone | Sliptone | King Dubby | Graphics Groove | Terence Blanchard |

High Altitude Air Travel | Episode 154 |

Nothing strikes the imagination like following contrails left behind a jet aircraft in the late afternoon sky.
Who is on board? Where are they going? Are they beginning an adventure or heading home?
Featuring...
The Twombley Spiders | The Atomica Project | Ray Garrido | Metastaz | Boneshaman | Innereyefull

Drought | Episode 153 |

The images of drought, the cracked and barren soil, the dust clouds and snapshots of fishing boats
stranded in a dry lake bed speak to the loneliness of emotional drought.
Featuring...
Entertainment For The Braindead | Enjumi | Artemis | Peterloo Massacre | Stockfinster | Synaecide

Chapters | Episode 152 |

Readers know how an author uses them to pace a story, setting up cliffhangers, jumping storylines
and setting natural breaks but we chapters are even more appearent in our life stories.
Featuring...
New Haven | Hungry Lucy | Alik Project | Youth Reference | Rude Corps | Massive Attack

River Life | Episode 151 |

This week, we'll look at life along the world's great rivers. Down on the banks is
often rough, hard scrabbled and often dangerous.
Featuring...
Eugene Kha | Electrobone | Arnolds Records | Psilodump | Double6project

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Best of the Last 50 | Episode 150 |

The Mythology of Women | Episode 149 |

Hypnotic Electronica | Episode 148 |

This week, we'll hear from five artists making deeply layered dense and hypnotic electronica. It is a
reaction to a pretty predictable sera of recordings featuring four chord progressions and pedestrian beats.
Featuring...
Ed Drury | Melorman | Northcape | Bitbasic | Wordless Poem

Unknown Unknowns | Episode 147 |

This week we'll look at known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
They are by unknown, unsigned artists, well known indie bands and arena popular stars. All podsafe.
Featuring...
46 Bliss | Ellen Vate | Ann Wilson | The Entry | Tom Waits

The Downcast and Sorrowful | Episode 146 |

This week, we'll look at the downcast and sorrowful. All the songs this week have an underlying sadness.
They are small vignettes of personal loss and helplessness and yet they are not uncomfortable or painful.
Featuring...
Idmer | Owen | Aydio | Gilo | The Sugar Clouds | Aereal

The Final Day | Episode 145 |

It's something we all have in common. Everyone of us will die. To some it's simply a transition
from one world to another. While others see it as the moment our atoms are dispersed back into the universe.
Featuring...
Cycle Hiccups | Nulleins | Omnisine | Kiri Nami | Kosik | Rs3

Enormity and Scale | Episode 144 |

Whether it's astrophysical or personal, size and distance is often difficult to gauge.
Often we feel so distant when in fact we share much more in common with each other than not.
Featuring...
Blisaed | Bersarin Quartett | God Is An Astronaut | Calender Girl | Messian Dread

Landing on the Moon | Episode 143 |

This week, we marvel at the July 20th 1969 landing on the moon. It continues to awe and inspire.
Featuring...
Canola Tenderfoot | the silk demise | Makaras Pen | Anonymous Horses | Gabriel

The Phoenix | Episode 142 |

This week, we'll examine the Phoenix. The Firebird, Fêng-Huang, Ho-oo, Benu, or Yel.
This myth cuts across almost every ancient culture symbolizing death and rebirth;
for the Phoenix is said to consumed by fire every 500 years only to be reborn among its own ashes.
Featuring...
Aphone | Eigenheimer | The Orientalist | Phour Trakk | Hands upon Black Earth | Ecovillage

Angels and Derivations | Episode 141 |

This week, we'll look at Angels and derivations, warnings and votaries. These nine Independent artists
are unafraid the bare the unvarnished, emblazon their influences and balance the devilish with the angelic.
Featuring...
J.S. Marti | Tronic Koi | Scarlet Hideout | Will Kriski | Half Past Sun | The Flavor Foundation | One Blue Nine | Jardín Solar

Old World v. New World | Episode 140 |

This week, we'll look at the antiquated idea of old world versus new world especially in music and art. Cultures
measured by millennia are incorporating modern sounds and instruments in ways that unthinkable in the past.
Featuring...
Chris Martin | Phasen | Degiheugi | Azzurro, Hyqo and Volfoniq | Refrag | All India Radio

Procrastination | Episode 139 |

This week, we'll look at the human tendency to put things off. The time between when we can exercise
influence over events and that moment when they are decided for us. That fine line between free will and fate.
Featuring...
Mister Frendo | Subtronix | CD | Colab | Rude Corps | The Chill Conspiracy

Education and Educators | Episode 138 |

This week, it's world studies as we look at education and educators from ancient Greece to the local school.
The syllabus is wide open with Bangguru, Nobara Hayakawa, Artemis, Jikjax, Elam, PiliPili and Bruce McCosar.
Featuring...
Bangguru | Nobara Hayakawa | Artemis | Jikjax | Elam | PiliPili | Bruce McCosar

Memories | Episode 137 |

This week, we'll look at memories and the way we twist them inside out sometimes to serve our own purposes.
Looking back are 46 Bliss, Pierre the Moon, MoVox, Screenatorium, Classic SciFi and Catsauce.
Featuring...
46bliss | Pierro the Moon | MoVoX | Screenatorium | Classic Scifi | Catsauce

Jazz - The Great American Art Form | Episode 136 |

This week, we'll look at the great American art form as it finds its way into the 21st century.
NuJazz continues to evolve in ways that are both striking and familiar.
Featuring...
Bernd Burnson | Kristin Mainhart | Kesakoo | Skipless | Beatropolis

Solids | Episode 135 |

This week, we'll look at solids. Objects that appear to be solid are made up of molecules that are never
actually in contact with each other and solids have thermal energy, their atoms vibrate.
Featuring...
Mujaji | Proviant Audio | DJ Limpet | Dr Ektoplazmic

Post Modern Character | Episode 134 |

Finding True Love | Episode 133 |

Melancholia | Episode 132 |

Restorative Power of Water | Episode 131 |

This week, we'll drink in the life giving and restorative power of water. While water is the most abundant
molecule on Earth's surface and nearly 60% of the human body is water, we often take it for granted.
Featuring...
USB | Tracing Arcs | General Fuzz | Orange Crush | Lili Hirakawa

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Hope for the Future | Episode 130 |

This week, we'll look at the need to move beyond our troubled pasts and embrace hope for the future.
Each of these tracks evokes a specific moment particular to American history over the past 25 years.
Featuring...
Downliners Sekt | Naoned | Sans Edge | Tryad | Silence

Path to Redemption | Episode 129 |

Waiting to hit bottom to know when to climb back up often ignores the notion that the journey may well be
circular. Redeeming themselves for us this week at Owen, DigiTube, Argon 40, Vate, 33Canales and Babbaracos.
Featuring...
Owen | DigiTube | Argon 40 | Vate | 33Canales | Babbaracos

Mind-Expanding Possibilities of Travel | Episode 128 |

Whether global or microbiological, it the movement of bodies, objects and, ultimately, ideas, that allow us the
benefits of progress. With enLounge, Victoria Mosley & The Sublimes, Indidginus, Null device and Electric Salmon.
Featuring...
enLounge | Victoria Mosley & The Sublimes | Indidginus | Null Device | Electric Salmon

Human Weakness | Episode 127 |

Whether physical, emotional or spiritual, we all make blunders and mistakes. It's what we do afterward
that counts. We'll hear from five artists who realize this and take the next step toward growth and healing.
Featuring...
Peach Stealing Monkeys | Electricwest | Entertainment for the Braindead | Picou | Dep

What's Underneath | Episode 126 |

This week, we'll look at what's underneath. Not necessarily inferior, lesser, or subordinate but from the
unique perspective of looking up. Gazing upward are Dive Index, Alikproject, Under, Asa Zen'Sei and Nenes.
Featuring...
Nenes | Asa Zen'Sei | Under | AlikProject | Merz

Invisible Forces or Spirits | Episode 125 |

This week, we'll take a look at idea that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits, which affect
the lives of the living. Much of today's electronic club music employs many techniques shared by shamanism.
The beat, repetitive vocal samples and binaural beats.
Featuring...
Kmotiv | Secret Archives of the Vatican | Bone Shaman | Banderlog | Sara Ayers

Strange Overtones | Episode 124 |

This week, we'll look at Strange Overtones. It's not only the title of a new collaboration between modern music
giants, David Byrne and Brian Eno but also in a harmonic sense, it's a complex and intriguing musical tone.
Featuring...
Dikital | Cling | Lesley Dodd | David Byrne and Brian Eno | J-CLX | Vincent Wood

Cosmetics | Episode 123 |

Altering the appearance without affecting the body's structure or functions. It's by definition superficial
but can change perceptions. Musical remixes are in essence cosmetics but so are tattoos and eyeliner.
Setting the foundation for us this episode.
Featuring...
Pipo Pegoraro | Obedientbone | Mavro | ElodieO | Crystal Palace

Percussive Side of World Music | Episode 122 |

Seven bands will add subtle electronics to the inherently primitive act of striking a note. Providing the skins
for us are Sub Dub, Conduct Unbecoming, Fraud Fix, Lendi Vexer, DJ Diganta, Queenie and Siberian Newspaper.
Featuring...
Sub Dub | Conduct Unbecoming | Fraud Fix | Lendi Vexer | DJ Diganta | Queenie | | Siberian Newspaper

Cooperative Relationships | Episode 121 |

This week, we'll look at the essential symbiosis of independent artist and podcaster. Independent artists
and podcasters can help each other in a world of tight play lists and tighter labels.
Featuring...
Anneke Laurent | Yimino | Gilo | Nihaya Tree | Annie Goliath

Jazz | Episode 120 |

The great American art form as it finds its way into the 21st century. Jazz continues to evolve taking the cut
and paste technology of hip hop and using it to disassemble, rearrange and rethink the process of improvision.
Featuring...
Avatar | Psychedelicious | Sharon Robinson | Chillerstadt | Groove Inc. | Beatropolis

Unlikely Pairings | Episode 119 |

When Joe Venuti's violin first played Jazz, or Kraftwerk hit the top of the charts with computer music,
or The Beatles covered Little Richard, the world got a bit smaller, less separate and more inclusive.
Featuring...
Antony Raijekov | Dildo | g (hu) | Messian Dread | Moosefrog | Meme

Feedback and Reverb | Episode 118 |

This week, it's feedback and reverb, the mathematics of sound and physics of music.
Looking into this super symmetry are Way, The Stringed Theory, postscript, Roll Film and Ronan Dec.
Featuring...
Way | The Stringed Theory | postscript | Roll Film | Ronan Dec

Artists in Exile | Episode 117 |

Not those forced from their homes through turmoil but the more romantic expatriation of Henry Miller,
Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene. The 'Lost Generation', living in hotels, on allowance and awaiting inspiration.
Featuring...
Azoora | Kesakoo | Juliet Hotel | Darren Scott Nesbit | The Chill Conspiracy

The Creative Process | Episode 116 |

This week, we'll examine the stages of the creative process. Vision and Hope. Excitement, Clarity, Obsession
and Resolution. Look for these in music of Screenatorium, Lasswell, Synthetic, Electric Hippies, Fauna and Endlos.
Featuring...
Screenatorium | Lasswell | Synthetic | Electric Hippies | Fauna | Endlos

When Fashion Comes Full Circle | Episode 115 |

This week, we'll look at the tension created when fashion comes full circle.
"A dread of the past and fear of the future. You're brand new, You're retro" - Tricky -
Featuring...
Polished Chrome | Return To Mono | Letters In Numbers | Cassettes Won't Listen

Mendacity | Episode 114 |

There was a time, not long ago, when you could assume a benchmark of truthfulness. Not from everyone or about
everything but you could feel fairly secure in the notion that you weren't being lied to about the big things.
Featuring...
Trifonic | QuiOui | The Silk Demise | Orange Crush | DRT | Humus Luminus Quinslonn | Tacet

Ruins and Relics | Episode 113 |

This week, we'll look at ruins and relics. Places long abandoned for more promising prospects. Whether
ancient or post-modern they recall a measure of greatness that evokes more sadness than nostalgia.
Featuring...
Steric Hindrance | NeiLicis | Clear Plastic | Rude Corps | Sardinia Bass Legalize | Electric Salmon

The Edge of the World | Episode 112 |

Pioneers:the Music of the Orb | Episode 111 |

Blending the pioneering electronica of Tangerine Dream and the beats of Chicago's warehouse scene with
the deep dub of 'Scratch' Perry and Byrne and Eno's Bush of Ghosts sampling, The Orb remain a central pillar of
today's electronic music.
Featuring Music inspired by...
The Orb

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The Path We Follow | Episode 110 |

This week, we'll look at the choice each of us must make between the physical and the moral,
happiness and virtue. How we choose to define the greater good sets the path we follow in life.
Featuring...
Canola Tenderfoot | Salaryman | Scanlan | I Aware | Elika

Another Globetrotting Episode | Episode 109 |

This week, it's another globetrotting episode of Idyllic Music as we find inspiration in 3 continents
in a mashup from 5 countries including Italy, Senegal, The U.S. Sweden and the Netherlands.
Featuring...
Ten and Tracer | l’Orchestre A-Dakar | Black Era | MarinuZz | Please

Dub - Take a Poke at Satan | Episode 108 |

Dub is to Reggae what Trip Hop is to Hip Hop. The studio becomes an instrument
and creative uses for echo are played by clever producers. The basics go back to analogue reel-to-reel
tape recorders experimented on in Jamaica by the likes of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, King Tubby and Scientist.
Featuring...
Inadubstate | Soo P and the Outsider | Yamasaki | Dr. Awkward | Atomica | Jah Wobble | Foa Hoka

Metaphors, Similes and Allegories | Episode 107 |

We'll look at metaphors, similes and allegories. These color our languages and influence the way we
describe music. Adding relish and piquancy are Iambic, Karmacoda, Plastercluster, TCK and Rafael Aragòn.
Featuring...
Iambic | Karmacoda | Plastercluster | TCK | Rafiralfiro

First Romance | Episode 106 |

Land of the Long Winters | Episode 105 |

This week, the chill out continues in the land of the long winters.
Five artists from the Baltic region provide the heat for this frigid episode of Idyllic music.
Featuring...
Fauna | Milieu | Sirk | Bersarin Quartett | Margareds

Beginnings and Endings | Episode 104 |

This week, we'll look at the coming and going, beginnings and ends and the state of things
at those two points. Starting and stopping with us on this episode are...
Featuring...
Korev | Artemis | Lex Nasa | Savoir Vivre

The Boarding House | Episode 103 |

Where people of all stripes rent rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes weeks, months and years.
Boarders who otherwise would have nothing in common might share evening meals and a common living room.
Featuring...
Fringe | Musetta | Jamdeluxe | Minor Chill | Echo TM | Peach Stealing Monkeys

Adventure | Episode 102 |

The Sun | Episode 101 |

This episode we'll look at the Sun. The periodic table lists 117 elements in the universe yet the sun is
mostly just hydrogen and helium. Its simplicity belies its enormous life giving value.
Featuring...
CLING | Omihoshbin | Subtronix | 2 Bone Giants | Vim Cortez | Amanda Jayne

Best of Downtempo Electronica Mix | Episode 100 |

The Patient Ear | Episode 99 |

This week, we'll contemplate the patient ear. The following five tracks require time.
Each one finds its stride at precisely the right moment for that song and that make them special.
Featuring...
DJ HerbalJ | Audiokonstrukte | Terence Blanchard | Wurlitztraction | Misosoup

East Meets West | Episode 98 |

This episode, East meets West for a soft clash or happy mesh of global culture.
It's the musical migration that may be our best hope toward understanding and acceptance of each other.
Featuring...
DubDriver | TOKYO507 | Omnisine | Mystic Village | Soma Sonic

Fair Trade Music | Episode 97 |

This episode barters in fair-trade music. Three things have changed music, for better or worse.
First came the marriage of music and video. Then the wide access to inexpensive studio software
Featuring...
Laki Mera | The Chill Conspiracy | Lich | to the sea with me | Radio Orphans

Mythical Places | Episode 96 |

Transportation | Episode 95 |

This episode, we'll look at transportation. It's the getting from one place to another that
takes up so much of our time whether it's physically or spiritually.
Featuring...
USB | Under | Crisopa | Aquanaut | HypNo

Distinctive Contributions | Episode 94 |

This week, we'll look for the lost, the secret, the rushed and hypnotic with
the help of four bands who have made distinctive contributions to independent music.
Featuring...
Bluba Lu | Kalahari Surfers | QuiOui | Volfoniq

City Life | Episode 93 |

This week, it's city life and what it takes not to be overwhelmed. Taking us through the structure, disorientation,
density and sanctuaries of respite are DJ Shiro, Dive Index, Confused Man, Danieto and Macrostructure.
Featuring...
DJ Shiro | Dive Index | Confused Man | Danieto | Macrostructure

The Brusque and Abrupt | Episode 92 |

It seems as if we live in a time of rapid change, speeding up yet halting in fits and jerks. It is demonstrated
in the area of climate change, where the theory of abrupt, tipping point change is becoming more widely accepted.
Featuring...
Alif Tree | Iam0pen | Gisela | Krael | Jeff Mallon | Anji Bee

The One and No Other | Episode 91 |

'The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is
one of life's major mysteries" It explains how years after love goes sour, you can be haunted by that failure.
Featuring...
Blind Divine | Chris Martin | Dive Index | Countertop Hero | Lemonchill

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The Blue Side of Love | Episode 90 |

This episode, it's the blue side of love. The agonizing reappraisal that comes after infatuation
with the help of Big Wheel, Kristin Mainhart, The Banjo Consorsium, Fez Dispenser, Velvet Chain and Deerfoot.
Featuring...
Big Wheel | Kristin Mainhart | The Banjo Consorsium | Fez Dispenser | Velvet Chain | Deerfoot

Embracing Another Culture | Episode 89 |

This week, we'll hear five songs by artists and musicians who have internalized the sounds
of their adopted homes or stepped outside their native cultures to embrace the beats of another.
Featuring...
Amanda Jayne | Virculum | Suzanne Vega | Stervhia | Lion of Joppa Soundsystem

Sister Cities | Episode 88 |

This week, we'll look at sister cities. Not in any formal sense but closely related nonetheless.
We have four bands and four cities whose cultural and artistic proximity could just as easily be one.
Featuring...
Mavro | Chill Factor-5 | Tricky | Bubblelawn

Foreknowledge and Hindsight | Episode 87 |

The ability to know what might happen and inability to profit from that knowledge.
Like Camus' unused train ticket found at his fatal car crash or lyrics of a song made clear over time.
Featuring...
Jamdeluxe | Nihaya | Owen | Tryad

The Empty Space | Episode 86 |

This week, we'll search for the empty space, the gap or missing part. A spot devoid of all things
but meaning with help from Lacunae, Aaron the cutter, DS-Art, Max Cavallera and Egon.
Featuring...
Lacunae | Aaron the cutter | DS-Art | Max Cavallera | Egon |

Diverging Points | Episode 85 |

We'll look at points in time that determine an endless series of possibilities. Paths that diverge
then meander back and cross again. The future may be unwritten but which future.
Featuring...
Motionfield | Ecovillage | SAHR | Peach Stealing Monkeys | Waverider | Gabriel

Ones and Zeros | Episode 84 |

This episode we choose between ones and zeros. The choice of on or off.
Calculations for a digital age where the earthly pursuits of the past are but nostalgia.
Featuring...
Jeankal | Synthastazia dot exe | Frank Molder | Mabafu | Jah Wobble

What Might Have Been | Episode 83 |

This week's Rorschach looks at things that might have been had we taken the time to see what was hidden
in plain sight. With Calm, Mr.S, Peeping Tom, Two Loons for Tea and Jazz from Terence Blanchard.
Featuring...
Calm | Mr.S | Peeping Tom | Two Loons for Tea | Terence Blanchard

Sustainability and Cooperation | Episode 82 |

Musicians create and if they are good enough or plain lucky, they can take their songs on the road
and sell a few tickets. Independent artists ask only a bit of cooperation from us.
Featuring...
Kristin Hersh

The Key Ingredients | Episode 81 |

The Sun and water are the key ingredients for life, as we know it. I'd like to suppose music to that short list as well.
We'll hear all three in the voice of Portal, Surbahar, Omihoshbin, Band of Mad Women, and The HellBus.
Featuring...
Portal | Surbahar | Calender Girl | Omihoshbin | Band of Mad Women | The Hellbus

The Current State of Electronic Music | Episode 80 |

For a long time it was defined as music played on synthesizers. Today's electronic music is
so broad as to defy easy categorization but for one element. It is, more often than not, assembled digitally.
Featuring...
MoShang | Ikarus | K-Shan | The Silk Demise | The Twombley Spiders | Toneless Symphony

Being Alone | Episode 79 |

Just as a sad movie can raise your spirits and the blues make you joyful sometimes
being alone can be rejuvenating, This week we'll feel out the many aspects of being alone.
Featuring...
Simone and Flu | Grove of Hellion | All About Max | Hungry Lucy | Chico Correa | Ici Aussi

Near Consciousness | Episode 78 |

This week, we'll look at that short period between emerging from sleep to actually opening your eyes.
Through Natalie Walker, cognitive dissonance, Karmacoda, A Weekend At Lesters, Blue Vitriol and Org
Featuring...
Natalie Walker | CoGnItIvE dIsSoNaNcE | Karmacoda | A.W.A.L | Blue Vitriol | Org

The Illusion of Contact | Episode 77 |

The sheer counter-intuitiveness that on a sub-atomic level nothing actually touches anything else. Whether
it's the landing of a boxer's blow or the gentle lapping of waves on a shore, contact remains elusive.
Featuring...
Robert Stephan | BlackEra | Phasen | Siksha | Mark.Nine | Matera

Tongues and Grooves | Episode 76 |

This week, we'll explore tongues and grooves from 5 bands that build on
individual contributions to realize a vision beyond a single person.
Featuring...
Chillerstadt | prod13F | Messian Dread | William Lamy | Alchemy Groove

Elegance | Episode 75 |

To some it's an antiquated old world charm but in troubled times it really more a last stand against barbarism, in all its forms.
Showing their poise on this episode of Idyllic Music are Elsiane, Big Wheel, Conduct Unbecoming, Radium88 and Bitkit.
Featuring...
Elsiane | Big Wheel | Conduct Unbecoming | Radium 88 | Bitkit

The American West | Episode 74 |

This week, we'll tour the American West, where the sunsets are purple and red and yellow and on fire.
A west not of Wayne but of McCarthy with a myth of epics and truths in small stories.
Featuring...
Amy Abdou | Judith Owen | Beatropolis | DRY | Blip Blop

The Summer Beach Novel | Episode 73 |

This week, we skim the summer beach novel, preferably a mystery with clues, characters,
steamy scenes and exotic locales. We'll find all that and more on this episode.
Featuring...
Indy | Compulsive Behavior | sexmusic | Benzene Vapours | Grzyb

Home | Episode 72 |

This week, we'll look at home, a place both physical and emotional. Where you want to return to when away
and get away from whilst there. Your feelings may be warm, cold, nostalgic or presently realistic.
Featuring...
Puracane | Acid42 | Mudville | Susis Männer | Datassette

Perceptions and Expectations | Episode 71 |

This week, we’ll look at perceptions and expectations. Bringing personal prejudice to the sensory world.
The slate this week includes AMY B, The Drake Equation, Sr. Aye, Balún and Saurio.
Featuring...
AMY B | The Drake Equation | Sr. Aye | Balún | Saurio

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The Ominous and Foreboding | Episode 70 |

The unsettling feeling that something is about to happen. Filmmakers know
the power of a soundtrack to convey this and so do the six artists on Idyllic Music this week.
Featuring...
IamOpen | Zero State Reflex | USB | Scanlan | Rajaz

Successful Pairings | Episode 69 |

This week we look at matchings, successful pairings in twos and threes through the music
of Garden Hose Universe, Luminous, PNFA and Jotch, Finn The Giant Meets Sandmonk and Mr. Frendo.
Featuring...
Garden Hose Universe | Luminous | PNFA | Finn The Giant Meets Sandmonk | Mr. Frendo

The Glacier | Episode 68 |

A force of nature whose pace is so deliberate as to define slowness of movement yet whose
disappearance is so rapid we may never truly know its relationship to the planet and ourselves.
Featuring...
Bersarin Quartett | Dream LAX | Chris Martin | Sirk | Corwin Trails | The Dandelion Council | The Serendipitous Cacophonies

Romance in Unusual Places | Episode 67 |

Clouds | Episode 66 |

Joni Mitchell once sang of seeing angel’s hair and feather canyons everywhere
whilst looking at clouds and this episode we'll look at this phenomenon musically.
Featuring...
The Projects | PAAX | I Am Dog Biscuit | Ekayani and the Healing Band | Analog Chill

Barriers | Episode 65 |

This week we look at barriers, stumbling blocks and things that hold you back
through the music of Neko Neko, Tricky, The Divine Madness, JT25, Estado Avanzado and Lily Lavandula.
Featuring...
Neko Neko | Tricky | The Divine Madness | JT25 | Estado Avanzado | Lily Lavandula

Europe | Episode 64 |

This week, we give a nod to a loyal and substantial listenership in Europe. A number helped,
in no small measure; by my comedic inability to correctly pronounce names and song titles in so many languages.
Featuring...
Munkie | Simon V | Noise Relations | Sardinia Bass Legalize | Juno6

Step It Up | Episode 63 |

This week, we 'Step It Up' as part of the worldwide effort to stem climate change
as musicians and artists in hundreds, perhaps, thousands of places rally against pollution.
Featuring...
Black Era | Orange Crush | Artemis | Dan West | Mist

The Somnambulist | Episode 62 |

This week, we explore the world of the somnambulist, whose cycles of sleep and states of conscience
are represented by Essenza, Sixx, Waverider, Zeos and Jules Nerve.
Featuring...
Essenza | Sixx | Waverider | Antony Raijekov | Jules Nerve

The Wind-up Music Box | Episode 61 |

This week, we key up the remarkable windup music box. A device simple in design yet sophisticated
enough to play everything from bedtime lullabies to Mozart. This episodes songs share those same qualities.
Featuring...
Winterstrand | Kryptide | Beatnik | Uniquetunes | Single Cell Orchestra

Great International Cities | Episode 60 |

This week, we’ll look at the influence of the great international cities of New York, Leon, Montevideo and Hong Kong.
Featuring...
Mudville | Jeff D Clark | Ema Walker | Saurio | Lex Nasa

Moody Grooves | Episode 59 |

On this episode, well hear from Velvet Chain, Tough Chic, Sunburn in Cyprus, Orange Crush and Misosoundz.
We'll begin in Los Angeles with the moody grooves of Velvet Chain.
Featuring...
Velvet Chain | Tough Chic | Sunburn in Cyprus | Orange Crush | Misosoundz

Folkartronica | Episode 58 |

It has a kind of 'Folk Art' appeal that is, at turns, democratic and subversive.
We'll hear from 5 bands that may or may not employ this new movement in music.
Featuring...
6-lyss | Spinning Merkaba | Evolve | Portal | P-vibes

The Blue | Episode 57 |

This week we'll look at the blue. The space between the white and the black
where notes have freedom to bend creating color, emotion and feeling.
Featuring...
Mavro | I Awake | Kyran | Skizzo Franick | Rude

Youth And Experience | Episode 56 |

Colors at Night | Episode 55 |

Not the neon variety but the colors you might not even notice at first.
When the spectrum of light just might be playing tricks on you.
Featuring...
EeBoO | Welder | Katie Turner | ruby jean and the thoughtful bees

World Multiculturalism | Episode 54 |

Again I am reminded of just how small our world has become and the richness to our lives
when we experience the music and culture of others around the globe.
Featuring...
Irina Mikhailova | Dreaming Blue | Conduct Unbecoming | Alchemystic | Salam

The Circular | Episode 53 |

This week we look at the circular, whether in travels, time or logic with help from Mr. Frendo, Mystical Sun, Endlos and Emzk.
Featuring...
Mr Frendo | Mystical Sun | Endlos | Emzk

Trip Hop - Flattery | Episode 52 |

Trip Hop often features urban beats, sometimes drenched in echo and reverb to create a trippy, eerie, almost
menacing sound. The term is often dismissed by the artists most closely associated with it.
Featuring...
Day One Symphony | Electric Salmon | The Chill Conspiracy | Tricky | DRT

The Wide World | Episode 51 |

This week we'll visit both hemispheres in search of the Idyllic provided by Apjiw, Munkie, Kalahari Surfers and Alienation.
Featuring...
Apjiw | Munkie | Kalahari Surfers | Alienation |

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The 50th Episode | Episode 50 |

The Breaks | Episode 49 |

This week we'll look at break downs, breaking points and tough breaks, in general
with the help of sleeve channel, a.W.A.L, adam fielding, postscript and lunar.
Featuring...
Sleeve Channel | A.W.A.L | Adam Fielding | Postscript | Lunar

The Classical World | Episode 48 |

This week, it's the classical world of tragedy, love and war.
Telling the tales are elsiane, sirk, ici aussi, classic scifi and greenman.
Featuring...
Elsiane | Sirk | Ici Aussi | Classic SciFi | Greenman

The Solstice | Episode 47 |

The true measure of the new year as dictated by the planet. It marks the seasonal change,
the longest and shortest and celebrated by aeroflux, cantaloup, contact, martin herzberg and jeff rosiana.
Featuring...
Aeroflux | Cantaloup | Contact | Martin Herzberg | Jeff Rosiana

Opportunity | Episode 46 |

This week we'll look at opportunity and we'll start this episode with maido project's jazzy mix
of electronic music and acoustic instruments from their home base in france.
Featuring...
Maido Project | The Engineer | aphone | Sound(e)scape | Tryad

The Boudoir | Episode 45 |

This episode, we consider the boudoir, whether furnished with a bed of grass, four posts or cardboard,
through the music of owen, centerpole, my toys like me, joana smith and the reel banditos.
Featuring...
Owen | Centerpole | My Toys Like Me | Joana Smith | The Reel Banditos

Opposites | Episode 44 |

This week it's a mix of soft and loud, rough and smooth, of heaven and earth, sometimes within the same song.
It comes from the music of totosh, to the sea with me, mr.S and xenn, justin r and nervegasm.
Featuring...
Totosh | to the sea with me | Mr. S | Justin R | Nervegasm

Musical Cornucopia | Episode 43 |

Solitude | Episode 42 |

This week, we'll look at states of solitude, in place and time.
We'll begin in seattle with zero state reflex and the lonely hour of '3am'
Featuring...
Zero State Reflex | The Drake Equation Michl Bridge; | Brigitte Bijoux

Resurrection and Return | Episode 41 |

This week, its resurrection and return. We'll mark the moment with the downtempo music
of endless blue, indy, projexam, juliet hotel and ella blame.
Featuring...
Endless Blue | Indy | Projexam | Juliet Hotel | Ella Blame

Contrasts and Connections | Episode 40 |

This week we'll seek contrasts and connections from the music of
the projects, chico correa, morcheeba, monotape and rettward von doernberg.
Featuring...
The Projects | Chico Correa | Morcheeba | Monotape | Rettward von Doernberg

Mists and Apparitions | Episode 39 |

This episode, we'll slip through mists and apparitions to hear the music of Acidhead, Aidor, USB,
Idyllic and Electric Salmon. We'll begin this episode with the trip hop of fantasma italiano Acidhead.
Featuring...
Acidhead | Aidor | USB | Electric Salmon

Unplugged | Episode 38 |

Although the term 'unplugged' has become cliché, nothing could be more idyllic.
These switched off independent songs have accumulated and become inevitable.
Featuring...
Jen Gloeckner | Under | Brian Dondo | The Brobdingnagian Bards

A Snapshot | Episode 37 |

This week we'll attempt to capture musical moments in time that might otherwise be lost like tears in the rain
by way of Obedientbone, Chris Martin, Omnisine and Symbiosis. I'm Jim Nye.
Featuring...
Obedientbone | Chris Martin | Omnisine | Symbiosis

Atmospheric Sounds | Episode 36 |

On this episode we'll hear from Vitamins for you, Hungry Lucy, Slam Orchid and Sublimatus.
We begin in Winnipeg with the atmospheric sounds of Vitamins for you featuring the vocals of Emm Gryner…
Featuring...
Vitamins For You | Hungry Lucy | Slam Orchid | Sublimatus

Lost in Translation | Episode 35 |

This week i must apologize beforehand because nearly all the bands in this podcast were found at
remarkable german or dutch language websites and i am embarrassingly ill-equipped to translate their content..
Featuring...
Politicide | Base-Box | Izmar | Mabafu | Sans Edge

Amateur | Episode 34 |

The term amateur shares the root of amour or to love. Making music just for the love of it is as noble an
enterprise as one can undertake. This week we'll hear from Amy, Azeruz, Nexus6, Demetrius Neutaja and Rude Corps
Featuring...
Amy | Azeruz | Nexus6 | Demetrius Neutaja | Rude Corps

A Sense of Calm | Episode 33 |

Idyllic Music is all about reflection, prayers, meditation and a sense of calm. To that end we'll hear
the downtempo music of Digital Droo, Grouse, Nucleus Roots and Digital Love. I'm Jim Nye.
Featuring...
Digital Droo | gROUSe | Digit All Love | Nucleus Roots

Acuity and Detail | Episode 32 |

On this edition of idyllic music, acuity and detail are the watchwords as we hear from
Artemis, Texture, Spiral Soundsystem, X-Ray Dogs and Keito. I'm Jim Nye.
Featuring...
Artemis | Texture | Spiral Soundsystem | X-Ray Dogs | Keito

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A Clutch of Catchy Songs | Episode 31 |

The very best music often defies easy categorization.
This week we'll hear 5 songs by bands that are simply impossible to pigeonhole.
Featuring...
Force Theory | DJ Eric ILL | Null Device | Worried about Satan | Fall of Snow

Lazy Summer | Episode 30 |

Time comes and goes while in the idyll, like a lazy summers day without
nearly enough time to do all the nothing you had planned.
Featuring...
Kat Yidaki Egyptian Nursery PNFA | Paddington Breaks

Inspired By | Episode 29 |

On this episode we’ll hear from five artists who wear their inspiration on their musical sleeves.
Featuring...
The Digital Nasty | Modular Heaven | Thomas Trotter Jahspre Jillene Siegfried Gautier

Perspective | Episode 28 |

This week we look for perspective from other worlds both inside and out by way of Electronic Music songs.
Featuring...
Axiotronic Neutrix Cogito Ergo Sum | Flower of Cables Euch

The Strident and Haunting | Episode 27 |

This episode runs from the strident to the haunting and nuanced.
Featuring...
AraLow | Collide | dynamik | SCUM

A Worldwide Search | Episode 26 |

This week we climb the highest mountains and search the foggy lowlands for Idyllic Music.
We have found it in The Chill Conspiracy, Lunascape, Mist, Numina and Karmacoda.
Featuring...
The Chill Conspiracy | Lunascape | Mist | Numina | Karmacoda

Fusion | Episode 25 |

The Independent Artist | Episode 24 |

Starting us of this week Independent UK based producer USB mixes
sweeping melodic counterpoints to effect for the reverb drenched 'We Disolve'
Featuring...
USB | Indy | Putty | General Fuzz

Two Sides to Everything | Episode 23 |

On this episode , we'll hear from the U.K., Bipolar is the studio project of producer J.B.Purcell.
Here is is teamed up with vocalist Trudi Lawrence for 'Too Late'
Featuring...
Bipolar | Authist and Dubone | The Hellbus | Mangomad | Youth Reference

Podsafe Music | Episode 22 |

This podcast plays podsafe music or songs played with specific permission of the artist.
This week I was lucky enough to obtain that go ahead from 5 bands I have admired for many months.
Featuring...
Lendi Vexer | Sexmusic | The Silk Demise | Puracane | Profetas de Zion

Koyaanisqatsi | Episode 21 |

The music that I find most interesting is a bit off kilter, unpredictable or somewhat out of balance.
Koyaanisqatsi, if you will. Each of the next 5 songs displays those qualities to one degree or another.
Featuring...
Invisible Asps | Vim Cortez | Queenie | Kommbat | Shadowproject

The Universal Language of Music | Episode 20 |

This 20th episode of Idyllic Music reminds me how utterly universal a language music is.
We'll hear recordings from Russia, the U.S. France and the U.K.
Featuring...
Compulsive Behavior | Victoria Mosley | Cyndi Vellmure | a Coisa Louca

Jazzy Chill Out | Episode 19 |

Most bands would be happy to approach the level of work German-based Sunburn In Cyprus, has achieved
but this long time project is actually an avenue to produce electronica outside of members regular musical work.
Featuring...
Sunburn in Cyprus | Maido Project | Judith Owen | 22 | Refrag

Inviting Introspection | Episode 18 |

Idyllic Music always invites introspection. Sometimes you'll find it in a rural village,
sometimes a stretch of beach or a large American city.
Featuring...
Falling You | Portal | Tems | Minor Chill

A Trans-Atlantic Exchange | Episode 17 |

This week a trans-atlantic exchange sets the mood as we hear independent electronic music.
Featuring...
Mellow Dramas | MI:GFU Shagg | Isotrak | Sidway

Artists from Great Cities | Episode 16 |

This week, we hear the music of artists from the great cities of milan, san francisco, montreal
by way of caracas and also the hinterlands of wales.
Featuring...
The Warheads | Musetta | Subtronix | Triple Erre

Atmospheric and Ambient | Episode 15 |

On tap this week we'll hear from sunburn, elika, huttenlocher, the geminiac and jigli b.
Featuring...
Sunburn | Elika | Huttenlocher | The Geminiac | Jigli B

The Musical Cross-Pollination | Episode 14 |

This week we'll begin in the american heartland with indiana-based vocalist natalie walker and the very delicate 'no one else'.
Featuring...
Natalie Walker | Syrin | MoShang | Zeropage

The Groove is the Thing | Episode 13 |

This week the groove is the thing as we bounce from poland to the uk to croatia then canada and finally pennsylvania.
Featuring...
Mr.S | Leroy Forbes | Deerfoot | Stabilizer

Pushing the Vibe | Episode 12 |

This week we look to canada, the u.K., dallas and chicago for the electronica music of five artists
Featuring...
Adam Fielding | Acapulco Soundlab | Monotronaut | The Flavor Foundation | Quantum Soul

Podcasters Special Edition | Episode 11 |

This week we focus on music by those who work both sides of the podcasting microphone.
Many bands publish podcasts for self-promotion. Other podcasters look to promote the work of others.
Featuring...
Love Spirals | Permanent4 | Radio Orphans | Misanthropy

A Heady Mix | Episode 10 |

This week Greenman starts off this set of downtempo electronica with a heady mix of celtic and arabic influence.
Featuring...
Green Man | Korpus Kallosum | Alu | Gamsters

The Protest | Episode 9 |

From ontario, jeff rosiana composes score music for tv and film. Today he's in the foreground.
I hope you have a frisbee handy. This is mushroom beach.
Featuring...
Jeff Rosiana | Scanlan | Psychonada | Zool

Downbeat Electronica | Episode 8 |

This week downtempo electronic head kmotiv creates deceptively simple tracks in his studio in arkansas.
Featuring...
Kmotiv | Sleeper's Opera | Danny K | Digit All Love | Antony Raijekov

A Life Aquatic | Episode 7 |

This week we get started with ohio-based songwriter, pale beneath the blue and the lyrically introspective 'inside'
Featuring...
Pale Beneath the Blue | Spacebum | Broken Sleep

Indie Music | Episode 6 |

This podcast is entirely dependent on the support of the independent music community.
Featuring...
Indy | Karmacoda | Djust Feel It | The Engineer |

American Downtempo Artists | Episode 5 |

On this episode we hear from American Downtempo artists hungry lucy, blaminak,
idyllic, kristen mainhart and kojima and remain statesside in the search of good music.
Featuring...
Hungry Lucy | Blaminack | Kristin Mainhart | Kojima

Electronic Music | Episode 4 |

We start in the dry heat of the sonoran desert with electronic music from phoenix-based the hellbus. This is 'four o'clock sun'
Featuring...
Hellbus | Aqualash | Cling | Dub One

Searching the Globe | Episode 3 |

This week we venture across two oceans in search of electronica music.
From chicago, atomica features lauren cheatham's sultry jazz-inflected vocals for a song they call 'delorian'
Featuring...
Atomica | Zerobae | Refrag | The Sound Gallery

The 2nd Episode | Episode 2 |

Idyllic Music is more about the vibe than the genre. From west london this is tripstar featuring
nu jazz vocalist anna-karin karlsson and instrumentalist bt robb.
Featuring...
Tripstar | Day One Symphony | Absentmachine

The Idyllic Music Podcast | Episode 1 |

Welcome to the idyllic music podcast featuring charmingly simple, serene, pastoral and contemplative songs.
Idyllic music can trip hop or ambient, jazz or downtempo. It’s by definition music of the world.
Featuring...
Endless Blue | Joy | Takt frequenz | Idyllic

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