This episode brings together a number of short releases from the Monotonik netlabel, from izmar, sleepy town manufacture, jiva, Akira Kosemura, bliss, planet boelex, lackluster, and Ollie Cram. More beats than usual tonight!

This episode, we feature multiple artists from the Monotonik netlabel, and feature two full albums from Troupe (It's Really Pretty Simple After All) and Tatsu (August). We'll also have the albums Sound of Subnatura, Hexual Ceiling, Emotions in a Box, and several other unnamed albums.

This episode centers around π , circles, and irrationality -- whether loving thing irrationally, or irrational motives; circular motion, or music that feels circular. There were technical issues during the broadcast, apparently occurring somewhere between the broadcast machine and the streaming server -- Gypsy Witch had to literally kill the connection before the show could be restarted – so the sections that were interrupted, restarted, or skipped were dropped from this recording. Nothing like a little weirdness to go with an irrational number!

This episode, we feature two new albums: one from Kahvi, a theme and variations via remix of the title track, Heimferd, by HRYM, with remixes by 4T Thieves, Keiss, Mitoma, Murya, and Abdicant. The second has an unusual and happy story attached to it: it's a new release from Thom Brennan, Eventide, which was recorded in the early 00's and lost in Thom's archives. He found it while cleaning up earlier this year, and has released it for us, almost 20 years later; it's still a fresh and lovely recording. We round out our slightly-short second hour with a track from Thought Guild's Archiphonic release, to match the old but new tracks from Thom.

Tonight's show is a little different; rather than featuring a number of tracks by the same artist, I've instead chosen to select tracks that vaguely follow my own history of people I've met over they years in electronic music, from the earliest days of email lists and Usenet newsgroups right up to the current day: RadioSpiral, Discord, and Second Life. We'll hear music from Team Metlay, CASSIEL, Thom Brennan, Loren Nerrell, Tantroniq, Cousin Silas, Mercaptan, Ozone Player, our own Gypsy Witch and ʞu¡0ɹʞS, and many more.

Tonight we have a new album from Kahvi, Flagstaff Mountains by Escher Adams, and two by Wolfgang Nachahmer – Tryptychon and Nachtwache. We'll also hear a pre-recorded (because I couldn't get my hardware to cooperate) Equinoctal, Converted to Light. I hope to be performing more Equinoctals as time goes on.

This episode features three artists from the Mahorka netlabel: Encased in Amber, Virtually J, and V. Encased in Amber’s album, Parallel Worlds, is a real treat! Beautiful timbres, excellent performances, and a great melodic sense. Encased in Amber says about themselves: The music of Encased in Amber tells it’s storiesthrough an intricate mesh of melodies and texture.Described as downtempo, ambient, and dreamy, Encasedin Amber puts forth the concept that each time a pieceof music is written it crystallizes what was felt andprocessed in that moment of time, like a fossil caughtin amber. What I can say is that it’s a great premiere album, and the artist assures me that there’ll be another release later this year. It’s only a half-hour long, so we’ve got some unapologetic techno from Virtually J’s Autocracy Mage and some cool-down tracks from V’s 23.56.04 to fill out the rest of the podcast. As always, I’ve linked to the Bandcamp pages for these albums; they’re pay-what-you-like, so support the artists to whatever extent you can. Enjoy!

This episode features a new-to-me artist, The Pencil-Case, who combine spoken word, electronica, and a whole lot of other influences into a unique sound of their own on their album, Euclidean Fractales, described as “a blend between electronica, breakbeat, ambient, [and] abstract-hip-hop, with a post-rock sensibility”. Since this gave us only one hour of music, I’ve paired it with an album by Chromadrift, The Story So Far, to fill us out to the second hour. Lots of beats, and a nice wind-down in the second half. Enjoy! Podcast listeners, we’d love to have you join us, either in Orlov in Second Life, or on our Discord server at radiospiral.chat. Etheric Currents broadcasts Mondays, 6-8 Pacfic time, on radiospiral.net.

This episode features the music of 4T Thieves — a great blend of electro beats and ambience. 4T Thieves (Nik Racine) is the founder of the Kavhvi Collective netlabel, one of the best places to find great electronica, and has been around since back in the Amiga demoscene in the ’90’s, with releases on Kavhi, Zenopolæ, Mahorka, Monotonic, among many. Racine has “semi-retired” from music making, concentrating on photography at the moment, but has produced a great catalog of releases; we’ll be listening to a selection from a number of different albums on this episode. Kick back and let the beats wash over you. As always, support the artists by picking up albums from Bandcamp if you can, or from archive.org if you can’t — and pass it on! Details – Circles – Halcyon Days – Glass – Electronic Tonalities – Electro Cool – Is Anybody There? – The Journeyman Project – The Singles – The Beginning – The Digital Lagoon – Winter – The Abyss – Fulcrum

This week’s episode features three albums from the Bumpfoot netlabel. Abandoned mixes sampling, electronics, and ethnic percussion into music that is reminiscent of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Based on a set of photographs taken in Vanatau in 2014, this EP (one wishes it were longer!) “…explores abandoned places and their broken dreams. The fractured beauty of abandoned places can tell wonderful narratives.” The artist is Timeofhex (Cissi Tang), and this is (so far) her only available release. AbandonedThe Spirits Are RestlessPersistence of the SeaLight and ShadowThe Spaces Beyond Second up is Kevin Bryce’s Disremembrance, a more traditional electronica album covering a wide range of styles, from Boards-of-Canada-like dreaminess to Berlin School sequencer pulse. It’s a concept album, tracing the life of a young boy, from walking at night in a field, to grown up to be an astronaut, and launching into space. Rye in BC evening sunsA walk in the forestVenus Plus YThe Decaying and the PaintedAM/FMDisremembranceSpas N JunkI Make You a SpacemanThe Road to Mars Last is Tracy Chow’s Music for Monorails, an intriguing shoegaze/electronica mix; its ambient roots are a nod to Eno’s Music for Aitports. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue SkiesMyakkaLinlithgowHonour With a UFC StartNilWe Are GrootVoyage to Vinland This episode is a bit shorter, but the three albums fit together so well that I didn’t feel that shoving in another unrelated fifteen minutes would really make things better. Enjoy!