
Show overview
The Eternal Now with Andy Ortmann | WFMU has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 109 episodes. That works out to roughly 110 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 59 min and 1h 9m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Music show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 20 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 49 episodes published. Published by WFMU podcasts.
From the publisher
A comprehensive exploration of contemporary experimental, psychedelic, noise & other obscure music. Hosted by Andy Ortmann (curator of the Nihilist Records label and member of longtime noise project Panicsville) presenting his obsessive perspective on the new difficult music. Peripheral and relating genres, including ethereal, electronic & extreme metal should also be expected in this weekly program. Sit back and relax into the hallucination amplification of The Eternal Now.
Latest Episodes
View all 109 episodesEffervescent Earworms from May 14, 2026
Shovelling the WInd from May 7, 2026
In Between and Outside of the Lines from Apr 30, 2026
Out of Tune and Out of Order from Apr 23, 2026
Sidebands and Peppermint from Apr 16, 2026
Daydream Weaving from Apr 9, 2026
Karl Korte & Elizabeth Mannion - "The Whistling Wind" - Computer Music From the Outside In The Exploited - "Power Struggle" - Death Before Dishonour Faust - "Jennifer (excerpt)" - IV Ângela Valle E Eustáquio Sena - "Simone" - Selva De Pedra (Trilha Sonora Original Da Novela) Jean-Pierre Decerf - "Contours" - Pulsations Pieter Verlinden - "Theme 19 (Générique et Générique Variation 1)" - The Belgian Soundtrack: A Musical Connection of Belgium with Cinema 1961-1979 Au Vol - "Seascapes (For Helen Frankenthaler)" - Anthology of Experimental Music From Canada Amon Duul II - "Rattlesnakeplumcake" - Lemmingmania The Feed-Back - "The Feed-Back (excerpt)" - The Feed-Back S.C. Sharma - "Dance Music 1" - NID Tapes: Electronic Music From India 1969 - 1972 Lingua Ignota - "DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR" - Caligula Don Voegeli - "Caribbean Cruise" - Oscillations 2 Igor Wakhevitch - "Materia Prima" - Docotor Faust https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163057
Nothing Fries Faster Than a Fear from Apr 2, 2026
Attrition - "You Will Remember Nothing" - The Attrition of Reason Gut Logic - "Somatose" - Manifestation vol.1 Various Artists Kraftwerk - "Elektro Kardiogramm" - Elektro Kardiogramm CD single Current 93 - "The Seahorse Rears to Oblivian demo III" - The Seahorse Rears to Oblivian Clark Ashton Smith - "The Nightmare Tarn" - The Muse of Hyperborea Algebra Suicide - "Seasonal Zombies" - The Secret Like Crazy African Head Charge - "I Want Water" - Drastic Season Indians in Moscow - "Indians in Moscow" - Big Wheel The Tom & Marty Band - "Algiers" - SNX boxset Marina La Palma - "Colette" - Bad Alchemy #5 The Gerogerigegege - "All Night Nippon" - split w/ Bastard Noise Bruce Haack - "Rain of Earth" - Together https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162817
Blinded By Comfort from Mar 26, 2026
Anthony Moore - "Ready Ready" - Flying Doesn't Help Elmulab - "List" - Microprocessor 8080A Luc Ferrari - "Étude aux accidents" - L'oeuvre Electronique (10-CD Box) BOP - "Other Options (excerpt)" - And So It All Ended V.D.B. Joel / Florian Voelxen - "Cascades" - Contemporary Pastoral and Ethnic Sounds Maria De Alvear & Antoine Beuger - "Besando El Tiempo (9/10.2 1995)" - Besando El Tiempo Cozmic Corridors - "Dark PAth" - Cozmic Corridors Leather Nun - "No Rule" - Slow Death Phallus Dei - "Prolog" - Pontifex Maximus Autechre - "777" - LP5 Raglani - "Days of Evaporation" - Give Wonder Yves Daoust - "La Gamme" - Musical Portrait series Diana Deutsch - "Introduction" - Musical Illusions and Paradoxes Trevor Wishart - "Journey (excerpt)" - Journey Into Space https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162576
Episode 400 from Mar 19, 2026
Ilhan Mimaroglu - "Fragmentation" - Music For Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar Mira Calix - "A Mark of Resistance (excerpt)" - Ansent Origin Pan Sonic - "Fermi (excerpt)" - Gravitoni Nasmak - "The Only Thing I Remember Is Your Taste And Your Smell" - Sound Cosmodel (V/A) Asmus Tietchens - "Fast Food" - Der Fünfte Himmel Psycho Sin - "Life's Getting Ridiculous" - Forward to the Caves Current 93 - "The Ballad of the Pale Christ" - Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow Lesego Rampolokeng & the Kalahari Surfers - "Transitions" - End Beginnings Guido & Maurizio de'Angelis - "Savana" - Ironmaster La Guerra Del Ferro (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Alien Sex Fiend - "I'm Not Mad (excerpt)" - Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain Pink Industry - "Not Moving" - Who Told You, You Were Naked Six Feet Under - "Revenge of the Zombie" - Warpath United Mutation - "Wake Up" - Dark Self Image Barbara, the Gray Witch - "Witchcraft Surprises" - Barbara, the Gray Witch Stereolab - "Peng! 33" - Peng! Mark Shreeve - "Storm Column" - Legion https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162365
Maraton Mania pt 2 from Mar 13, 2026
Strangulated Beatoffs - "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" - The Beatoffs Władysław Komendarek - "Bolero" - Klasytronika Thomas Brinkmann - "untitled" - Studio 1 - Variationen Luc Marianni - "Ecran Lunaire" - Video Screens Control Annie Anxiety - "Soweto Suntan" - Devastate to Liberate v/a S.B.O.T.H.I. - "178" - Nichts Niemand Nirgends Nie! Repulsion - "Acid Bath" - Horrified Markus Eichenberger - "Atemketten Nr 27/8+Do (Pt One)" - Bad Alchemy no.6 v/a The Organ Grinders - "Hall of Hours" - Out of the Egg DUG DUG'S - "No Te Asustes (Es Sólo Vivir)" - Cambia, Cambia Dr.Know - "War Theater" - Wreckage in Flesh Jacula - "Triumphatus Sad" - In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162167
Pledge Drive '26 pt.1 from Mar 5, 2026
Davy Jones - "Head movie promo" - Head proomo Bongwater - "The Porpoise Song" - b/w You Don't Love Me Yet KONSTRUKTIVIST - "Mansonik No.1" - Psykho Genetika Strawberry Switchblade - "Jolene (extended mix)" - 12'' Album Joy Division - "Day of the Lords" - Unknown Pleasures Anima - "Freeano Forte (excerpt)" - Der Regt Mich Auf / A Controversy Negativland - "Unknown Jamming (excerpt)" - unknown source Denis Dufour - "Blue Rocket on a Rocky Shore" - Complete Acousmatics Vol.1 Jeffrey Stolet - "Imagined Destinies" - Music from SEAMUS, vol. 25 (V/A) BENE GESSERIT - "Syanoq!" - Music For The Fun Of It https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161921
The Scott Foust & Éliane Radigue Appreciation Hours from Feb 26, 2026
ANSCHLUSS - "Tout Suite Nice" - Anschluss Idea Fire Company - "The Wheelhouse; Parts 1-4" - The Fourth Dimension is Money XX Committee - "Damarc" - Network Éliane Radigue - "Untitled side at 16 RPMs" - Σ = a = b = a + b Éliane Radigue - "Untitled side at 45 RPMs" - Σ = a = b = a + b Éliane Radigue - "Part 1" - Triptych [Recorded in 1978] Éliane Radigue - "Koume" - Trilogie De La Mort https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161690
Infertile Ears Sow Barren Concepts from Feb 19, 2026
Electric Samurai - "Sounds of Silence" - Switched on Rock Juan Blanco - "La Fuga" - Aguas Territoriales, Caballos Nino Nardini and Roger Roger - "Expectation" - Studio Ganaro: Space Oddities 1972-1982 VA Biota - "Vagabones pt.2 (excerpt)" - Rackabones Strange - "Kiss of a Butterfly" - Transluscent World Egisto Macchi - "Crostacei" - Fauna Marina Akutt Innleggelse - "Tenk Na!" - Cleanse the Bacteria v/a Chris Connelly - "Nuffield Theater (extract)" - White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly Plays Throbbing Gristle) Cozmic Corridors - "The Summit (excerpt)" - Cozmic Corridors Füxa - "City" - Accretion Charles Amirkhanian - "History of Collage" - Mental Radio Cyclobe / Nurse With Wound - "Untitled (excerpt)" - Paraparaparallelogrammatica (Angry Electric Finger 2) Lary Seven - "TINITUS" - Larynx https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161446
Turning Sideways Towards The Sun from Feb 12, 2026
Unlocked Youth - "Entr'Acte" - Entre'Acte Douglas Jorgenson - "Mixed Emotions" - iatrogenics Einstürzende Neubauten - "Womb (excerpt)" - 2 x 4 Dieter Schnebel - "Glossalie: Teil II (excerpt)" - Glossolalie To Live and Shave in L.A. - "Root of Pop Compulsion" - Helen Butte vs Masonna Pussy Bad Smell Joel Vandroogenbroeck - "Fairy Tale" - Far View Rudimentary Peni - "The Flame of Insanity" - Echoes Of Anguish Residents + Renaldo & The Loaf - "The Shoe Salesman" - Title in Limbo Negativland - "Then" - Guns O.L.D. - "Supermarket Monstrosity" - OLD Fred Frith - "Dancing in the Street" - Best of Rapl v/a Polyphonic SIze - "Logique Polygonale" - Saison 1979-82 Thomas Hinter - "12 Franzos'" - Bad Alchemy 21 Sky Bird - "Pasolini's Trembling" - INTENTA: Experimental & Electronic Music from Switzerland 1981-93 Hanatarash ハナタラシ - "Hanatara Hopper" - Hanatarash 3 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161227
Architecture for Airwaves from Feb 5, 2026
Sun City Girls - "Soft Fragile Egg-shell Minds" - Dante's Disneyland Inferno Robbie the Werewolf - "Drums and Guns" - Robbie the Werewolf: at the Waleback Arsenal - "When Heads Collide" - Factory Smog Is A Sign of Progress Lars-Gunnar Bodin - "On Speaking Terms II - Poem No. 4/No. 5" - The Pioneers: Five Text-Sound Artists (V/A) Rafael Flores - "Racaille" - Commando Bruno (1981-1987) S.C. Sharma - "After the War" - The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972 Ruth Anderson - "SUM" - split w/Annea Lockwood Gérard Torres - "1999" - C'est La Vie, Monsieur Louis Rudolf Komorous - "Anatomy of Melancholy pt.2 / 1974" - Portrait series Floating Di Morel & Ulf - "White Nights O.T.M. (excerpt)" - ULF / FDM Autechre - "Silverside" - Amber Butthole Surfers - "Mark Says Alright (live 1986 Amsterdam)" - Acid House Jean Jacques Perrey - "Island in Space" - The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160992
Time Has Come To Stay from Jan 29, 2026
Damien Storm - "Realms Destiny" - Ghost Town Human Egg - "Egg" - Human Egg Popol Vuh - "Oh Wie Weit Ist Der Weg Hinab" - Letze Nachte Chris Carter - "AB/7A" - DOA: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Jean-Baptiste Barriere - "Situations Extremes" - Pandémonium: Non, Jamais L'Espérance (Perspective Pour Une Politique Païenne) Cirith Ungol - "Atom Smasher" - King of the Dead Department S - "Is Vic There? (French version)" - Is Vic There? 7" Rino De Filippi - "Ingranggi" - Nel mondo del lavoro Emily Faryna - "Nothing Near" - Tape Works 1984-1990 Tuxedomoon - "L'etranger" - Suite en Sous-Sol Prurient - "Cocaine Daughter" - Frozen Niagara Falls Brett Naucke - "Universal Voltage" - Ground Fault Matinee https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160772
Severe Sounds for a Polar Vortex from Jan 22, 2026
Cecilia ± - "Quiji" - The Other Side of This Side László Hortobágyi - "Asa-Panangis (Hindubisthan-Gat) (excerpt)" - El-Horto Ang José Vicente Asuar - "Estudio No1 en LA Mayor" - Así Habló El Computador Texas Chainsaw Massacre - "trailer" God Bullies - "Cemetery" - Dog Show Trop Tard - "La Mort est Humaine" - Photodrame Jean-Claude Nachon - "Le Programme Matuer Dans L'Amatrice" - La Femme Objet Fursaxa - "Texas Song" - Fursaxa Organum - "Part 1" - Tower of Silence Zoviet France - "Fidgety Foot" - Look into Me Francis Dhomont - "Chambre de enfants" - Foret Profonde Dissecting Table - "Answer" - Ultra Point Of Intersection Exist Miharu Koshi - "Ryugujyo No Koibito" - Parallelisme Den Sai Kwan - "+1" - Vanity Demos https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160533
A Tangled Web Inside The Bread from Jan 15, 2026
Johnny Legend - "Rubber Room" - b/w The Night Of The Sadist Luc Mariani - "Synthetic Suite No.2" - Six Synthetic Suites Ulrich Blume - "While My Synthi Gently Weeps" - Ground Your Ears ! (Impulsive Music Electronical Created) Kaleidoscope - "Snapdragon" - Faintly Blowing Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot" - Daydream Nation Pierre Henry - "Rumeurs" - La Ville. Die Stadt Spykes - "Side 2 excerpt" - Sax & Electronics 4 Emerald Web - "Flight of the Raven" - Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales Priscilla McLean - "Night Images (Studio Techniques)" - Electronic Music From The Outside In Johanna M, Beyer - "Music of the Spheres" - New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media: Women in Electronic Music Rashad Becker - "themes V" - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II Ata Ebtekar - "Picture of a Whisper" - Persian Electronic Music, Yesterday and Today 1966?-?2006 Blue Phantom - "Diodo" - Distortions Claudio Rocchi & The Effervescent Elephants - "Niente di Meno" - Claudio Rocchi & The Effervescent Elephants https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160305
The Inevitable Incomprehensible from Jan 8, 2026
Ìxtahuele - "Zebra Limo" - Pathways to Paradise Negativland - "The Gun and the Bible" - Free Luc Ferrari - "Numero Quatro, Ronda Spain, June 2001 (A Group Of Spanish Tourists In A Museum)" - Les Anecdotiques: Exploitation Des Concepts N° 6 Butthole Surfers - "Ricky" - Double Live no artist - "Ghost Combo (excerpt)" - Halloween Stereo Sounds Lemon Kittens - "The Hospital Hurts the Girl" - The Big Dentist Shapoval Sextet - "Oh, Get Ready, Cossack, there will be a March" - Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (V/A) Esplendor Geometrico - "Rotor" - Mekano-Turbo Sauveur Mallia - "Electronic Africa" - Automation Vol.2 Sohail Rana - "Khyber Mail" - Khyber Mail 400 Blows - "Beat the Devil" - b/w The Beat Continues G.I.S.M. - "Nation's Prosperity" - Military Affairs Neurotic Ragger - "Sunflower Slow Drag" - Euphonic Sounds https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160076
HNY from Jan 2, 2026
Foetus - "Succulence" - Halt Henry Kaiser - "Devil in the Drain" - Devil in the Drain Psychick Television - "Detri-Mental Gain" - A Real Swedish Live Show Luc Mariani - "Bereneice's Game (excerpt)" - Video Screens Control Twenty Sixty Six And Then - "At My Home" - Reflections Ralph Lundsten & Leo Nilson - "Na, op 22, 1966" - MUMS: Musik Under Millioner Stjarnor Brigitte Bardot - "Contact!" - Brigitte Bardot Harry Forbes - "Colour Graphics" - Video Tech1 Angelo Baroncini/Bruno Battisti D'Amario - "Stressing Heart" - Music For Movement Violent Force - "Vengeance and Venom" - Malevolent Assault of Tomorrow Laurie Spiegel - "Crying Tone" - Obsolete Systems Richard Truhlar - "Monologues for a Mannequin" - Kali's Alphabet Roland Kovac - "Bits" - Electronic Toys Vol.1 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159870