Idyllic Music Podcast | Trip Hop - Downtempo - Electronica

This week we consider the glacier, 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. The chillout this week includes Bersarin Quartett, Dream LAX, Chris Martin, Sirk, Corwin Trails, Idyllic, The Dandelion Council and The Serendipitous Cacophonies.

This week we'll look at love, sex and romance in unusual places. Where lovers meet in body, soul and locale through the music of Your Hand in Mine, Subtronik, Cling, Der Grosse Reibach and Ice Sun.

Joni Mitchell once sang of seeing angels hair and feather canyons everywhere whilst looking at clouds and this week we'll look at this phenomenon musically through the work of The Projects, PAXX, I Am Dog Biscuit, Ekayani and Analog Chill.

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.

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 is so many languages. Our exercise continues through the Music of Munkie, Noise Relations, Simon V, Sardinia Bass Legalize and Juno6.

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. We step it up with the help of Black Era, Orange Crush, Artemis, Dan West and Mist.

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.

This week, we look at the remarkable windup music box. A device simple in design yet sophisticated enough to play everything from bedtime lullabies to Mozart. This episode's songs share those same qualities. They are by Winterstrand, Kryptide, Beatnik, Uniquetunes and Single Cell Orchestra.

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

First a reminder that all show notes and band website links can be found at www.idyllicmusic.com where you will find a wealth of information about the music you hear on this and every other episode of Idyllic Music. This week, well hear from Velvet Chain, Tough Chic, Sunburn in Cyprus, Orange Crush and Misosoundz.

This week we'll explore the 'Folkartronica' made possible by the Creative Commons license. Dozens of websites have cropped up offering sound clips of various elements of established songs. These clips are then mixed, blended or mashed into something new. This new license allows artists to use the work of others under specific, usually, non-commercial guidelines. It has a kind of 'Folk Art' appeal that is, at turns, democratic and subversive.

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. To that end, we'll enlist the music of Mavro, I Awake, Kyran, Skizzo Franick and Rude.

This week we'll look at youth and experience as we hear from 6 artists running from the teens to midlife. We'll hear from Victoria Mosley and The Sublimes, Big Wheel, Onderboven, Soo P and the Outsider, The Publicity Stunt and The Flavor Foundation.

This week we'll look at colors at night. 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. Our guides this week are EeBoO, Welder, Katie Turner and ruby jean and the thoughtful bees.

Again I am reminded of just how small our world has become and the richness given to our lives when we experience the music and culture of others around the globe. Contributing to that wealth this week are Irina Mikhailova, Dreaming Blue, Conduct Unbecoming, Alchemystic and Salam.

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

This week we'll look at flattery in its more sincere form with five bands that readily show their influences while remaining unique and individual. They are Day One Symphony, Electric Salmon, The Chill Conspiracy, Tricky and DRT.

This week we'll visit both hemispheres in search of the Idyllic found in the music of Apjiw, Munkie, Kalahari Surfers and Alienation.

This week will mark the 50th episode of Idyllic Music. Several messages reached me this week at [email protected] asking how we intend celebrate this milestone. The answer is to follow through on our commitment from the onset to present the very best music we find for any particular week. And so we will hear from Ikarus, Ventriloquist, Smashed Toy, Artemis, Fear Called Living and I am Dog Biscuit and

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.

This week, it's the classical world of tragedy, love and war. Telling the tales are Elsiane, Sirk, Ici Aussi, Classic SciFi and Greenman.

This week, it's the solstice. The true measure of the New Year as dictated by the planet. It marks the seasonal change, the longest and shortest and in their way it is celebrated by Aeroflux, Cantaloup, Contact, Martin Herzberg and Jeff Rosiana.

This week we'll look at Opportunity and we'll start this episode with Maido Project's breezy mix of electronic music and acoustic instruments from their home base in France.

This week, 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.

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.

This week's cornucopia includes the musical bounty offered up by Tinta, Volfoniq, Bitstream Dream, LaLuceNazione, Qui? Oui! and David Last.

This week, we'll look at states of Solitude, in place and time, by way of the music of Zero State Reflex, The Drake Equation, MichL Bridge and Brigitte Bijoux.

This week its resurrection and return. We'll mark the moment with the music of Endless Blue, Indy, Projexam, Juliet Hotel and Ella Blame.

This week we'll seek contrasts and connections from the music of The Projects, Chico Correa, Morcheeba, Monotape and Rettward von Doernberg.

In the spirit of the season this week, we'll slip through mists and apparitions to hear the music of Acidhead, Aidor, USB, Idyllic and Electric Salmon.

Although the term 'unplugged' has become cliche, nothing could be more Idyllic. Over the past few months, these switched off songs have accumulated and become inevitable. This week, we'll hear from Jen Gloeckner, Under, Brian Dondo, Juli and The Brobdingnagian Bards.

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.

This week we'll hear from Vitamins For You, Hungry Lucy, Slam Orchid and Sublimatus.

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. It's a small thing in that the music speaks eloquently enough to make up for my shortcomings. Featuring Coma Research, Base-Box, Izmar, Mabafu and Sans Edge.

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.

Idyllic Music is all about reflection, prayers, meditation and a sense of calm. To that end we'll hear the music of Digital Droo, gROUSe, Nucleus Roots and Digital Love.

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.

The very best music often defies easy categorization. This week we'll hear 5 songs by bands that are simply impossible to pigeonhole. Beginning with Brooklyn-based Force Theory who combine the melodic phrasing of soul with an organic baroque electronica. This is 'Boards'

Milestones come and go while in the Idyll like a lazy summers day without nearly enough time to do all the nothing you had planned on doing. This one features Kat Yidaki, Egyptian Nursery,PNFA, Paddington Breaks and Strekie. Dutch bass player Kat Yidaki begins this 30th episode of Idyllic Music with 'H2'

This week we'll hear from the Digital Nasty, Modular Heaven, Thomas Trotter, Jahspre, Jillene and Siegfried Gautier

This week we look for perspective from other worlds both inside and out by way of songs by Axiotronic, Netrix, COGITO ERGO SUM, Flower Of Cables and Euch.

This week, episode 27 runs from the strident to the haunting and nuanced featuring the music of Aralow, Collide, Dynamik and SCUM and a my space spotlight.

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.

Episode 25 finds us globe hopping once again, from Copenhagen, Prague, Raleigh, San Francisco and Warsaw. We'll hear from Thulla, The Grooveblaster, Floex, Dan West, Curium and FSP.

Stephen McAlister has a new feature this week that points out some great streaming music by influential artists found on MySpace. More on that later in the show. This week we'll hear from USB, Indy, Putty and Gen. Fuzz.

A reminder that many of the songs you hear on this podcast can by purchased through the Cornershop at idyllicmusic.com to help support the artists. This week, we'll hear from Bipolar, Authist and Dubone, The Hellbus, Mangomad and Youth Reference.

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. They are Lendi Vexer, Sexmusic, The Silk Demise, Puracane and more recently, Profetas de Zion.

The music that I find most interesting is often least likely to be heard widely. It might be 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. We'll hear from Invisible Asps, Vim Cortez, Queenie, Kommbat and Shadowproject.

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. from the likes of Compulsive Behavior, Victoria Mosley and The Sublimes, Cyndi Vellmure and a Coisa Louca.

This week we celebrate the Grand Opening of the Cornershop at idyllicmusic.com. You will find links to many of the songs you hear on this podcast and a quick, easy way to support those bands and this podcast. Musically, this week we'll hear from Sunburn in Cyprus, the Maido Project, Judith Owen, 22 and Refrag.