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Sonixcursions:022 Podcast

The existential dread meter is running high these days, and listening to music is one of the only things that can take my mind off the news. Here’s a half-hour break from the daily grind with a selection of kosmische, ambient, electronic and radiophonic tunes pulled from the latest releases.

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The Soundcarriers “At The Time” (0:00) – their first new music in eight years, from the album Wilds.

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Sonixcursions:005

Gather round friends for a menagerie of songs inspired by the British band Broadcast and assorted loose associations. The sound of simulated wood grain and shag carpeting, reel-to-reels and tube amplifiers. Homegrown oscillating synthesizers that pulsate over the beat of an iridescent Gretsch trap set. Simultaneously from the future and the past, decked out in the accoutrements of 1960’s post-modernity.

Vanishing Twin (“Cryogenics Will Save Your Life”) are good candidates for carrying on the sound that Broadcast had exemplified – a prominent rhythm section with well defined and melodic bass lines, overlaid with bloops, bleeps, chimes and chords – with a mysterious chanteuse leading the whole thing. Their 2019 release The Age Of Immunology is probably one of my top faves of last year.

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This is Sonixcursions, exploring the far reaches of modern music – spacerock, dreampop, post-rock, shoegaze, electronic, ambient and other outersounds from that end of the spectrum.

My name is Ryan Anderson, music aficionado, technologist, and former editor/publisher of Masstransfer zine. I’ve been following (and contributing to) these genres for almost 25 years now and these are my favorite bands and albums.

Every so often, I release a Podcast featuring new music blended with songs from days past. You can subscribe using Apple Podcasts, or just play the podcast on the blog page. Thanks for tuning in!