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Along with our Experimedia Label Special currently running on Headphone Commute, we have a very special mix for you from the label! Featuring new and upcoming releases from many of our favorite and a few new labels, this 80-minute journey across ambient and experimental music is a perfect mid-week surprise! Something that’s definitely needed on this [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental
Cole Pierce – LAKE ODESSA
A long time contributor, a sonic curator, and musical journey vanguard, Cole Pierce, returns to Headphone Commute’s podcast series with his latest auditory map – LAKE ODESSA. This latest installment is more than a mix – it is an extension to Pierce’s sound installation for the Born Digital Exhibition at CAM Raleigh, which is opening today (January, [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental
Optic Echo – Best Vinyl of 2011
For this vinyl only mix, Mike Jedlicka of Optic Echo selects over 90 minutes of his favorite releases on wax for this Best Vinyl of 2011 journey. Full of incredible ambient soundscapes and modern classical marvels, Jedlicka crafts an itinerary worthy of repeat revisits and appropriate for another end of year celebration. Besides being a programming [...]
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Tags: ambient, best of 2011, modern classical
It still hasn’t snowed on the east coast of the US. The temperature does dip below 30, but then there are days when it’s over 50 degrees, and the sun is blaring into my studio, its warmth so strong I still haven’t turned on the heat. The trees have shed their withered leaves, but the [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical
Richard Chartier – A Wintery Mix
Today we are honored to share with you a special mix from Richard Chartier. With numerous releases on his very own LINE, as well as 12k, Raster-Noton, Room40, Spekk, Die Stadt and many other experimental labels, Chartier is a highly regarded sound artist, manipulator and sculptor of ambient, minimal, and reductionist electronic music. I could continue [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental, minimal
PvC – Stillness
My good friend and accomplice in exploration of beautiful music, Peter van Cooten, returns to Headphone Commute to showcase some of his favorite selections from 2011. And what a great way to start off the year! Here is an introduction from Peter: This mix obviously found its name from the lovely intro (and outtro) track [...]
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Tags: ambient, minimal, modern classical
In 2011, Headphone Commute’s mixes have been more popular than ever. As long as you keep listening, we’ll keep on producing podcasts for your commute! As a matter of fact, we’ve already started scheduling some amazing artists for 2012, and are all booked up until March! So keep your dial on our frequency and be [...]
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Mix : Nils Frahm – Plagiat
Before the year is officially over, we manage to squeeze out yet another mix. This is our 70th podcast! If you’re just discovering our mixes, it’s time to subscribe via iTunes and download all of our previous releases (we’re thinking of cleaning up the archives and only keeping the last year online)! For this end [...]
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Tags: modern classical, neo classical, piano
Over the last year, Headphone Commute has produced and hosted numerous mixes from our favorite selectors, DJs, and artists. Today we look back at some of our most popular podcasts as picked by YOU! After all, it is you, the listener, who votes on these favorites just by listening! Oh, and speaking of voting, click [...]
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We’ve got another special treat for you today! Selecting his favorite tracks for his own headphone commute, Martin Juhls takes us on a journey through chilled out ambiance of pure arctic bliss… Just look at the track names from his selections: Frozen Signpost, Polar, Abandoned Wind, Radiant Ice… This is a perfect soundtrack for the [...]
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Tags: ambient, ambient dub
It’s getting chilly out there… Here’s something to drop into your coffee as you wake up all hot-headed and ready to take on the world. Whether you want to chill out with these beats, or (as in my case) just waking up and need something to give you that tiny boost, I promise you will [...]
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Tags: dubstep, post-dubstep
Mix : Vuurwerk – Vuurmix
Mixing it up a bit with some bass heavy post-dubstep and instrumental west-coast beats is a selection of tracks from a somewhat mysterious Belgian artist going by the name of Vuurwerk (tr. “fireworks”). With a four track EP under the belt, the ‘post-apocalyptic tree house’ / ‘whatever’ / ‘music made by a couple of kids’ [...]
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Tags: post-dubstep
Mix : Cole Pierce – WORD
Today we welcome back Cole Pierce for his fourth podcast on Headphone Commute to tickle our ears with is unique selection of obscure sounds that would otherwise have escaped us. Cole’s mixes are always more than just a collection of tracks – it’s a whole story wrapped in an enigma only as mysterious as its [...]
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Mix : HC – Time Released Sound
Today I am proud to share with you one of the mixes on which I have been working on for some time now. A special compilation showcasing Time Released Sound – a label run by Colin Herrick featuring hand made limited edition releases by Shaula, Fabio Orsi, Alessio Ballerini, Paper Relics, Maps And Diagrams, Antonymes, [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical
Welcome to another Headphone Commute Mix! I hope you’ve been enjoying the ride – I know I have! All this wonderful music turns into the soundtrack of my life! Today I am honored to host an exclusive mix from Christoph Berg, recording under the alias Field Rotation. As usual, much can be said about the [...]
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Tags: ambient
On today’s Headphone Commute Podcast we feature a very special mix from one of the performing artists at Seattle’s Decibel Festival, teasing you with a preview of things to come. The festival is only a few weeks away, but the party has already started! On this mix, Ctrl_Alt_Dlt showcases his favorite latest tunes, delivering a [...]
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Tags: tech house, techno
Welcome to the world of Debian Blak, where beats and bass copulate in a blissful marriage. Profiled in Headphone Commute’s Sound Bytes column on post-dubstep, Leeds-based Rowan Perkins has been turning heads in the community dominated by loyal followers of Mount Kimbie, James Blake, Flying Lotus, and friends. For this exclusive and very special mix, [...]
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Tags: bass, dubstep, post-dubstep
I had quiet a busy weekend. A late Saturday night party left me stumbling through Sunday, half asleep and tired. At least I could keep my mind happy with this mix from Orangewarrior. Originally subtitled “Bliss Drone Ambient Chill Mix” the two hour mix features a “selection of very ambient tunes that I regularly enjoy [...]
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Tags: ambient, downtempo
Mix : HC – Sound Mind
It’s been nearly a year since I sat down to put together a mix of my own. For our 60th Headphone Commute podcast, I enter the world of sound, where stillness, space, and silence are just as important as frequencies and din. For over an hour I take you through an ambient journey that slowly [...]
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Tags: ambient
Fans of clicks and glitch rejoice! Raster-Noton is in the house! Matt Storey, aka Vinyl Matt selects his favorite Raster-Noton cuts to create one of the most eclectic and challenging mixes on Headphone Commute, showcasing the label’s finest artists, such as Kangding Ray, SND, COH, Mika Vainio, Grischa Lichtenberger and of course, Alva Noto himself. [...]
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Tags: abstract, experimental, glitch
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