Still Audio: Calm, Free Electronica

Just to let you know that Still Audio 20 is now being prepared and should be uploaded over the next couple of days.

This podcast will feature an exclusive track from the excellent The Nature of Light, so stay tuned!

A spacey theme this time round, with special thanks to our first artist IsaVis, with a track from her new album “Cosmico Divino”. For details of how to buy Cosmico Divino on CD, check out her web site at http://www.isavis.com. This track also features Eugene on the venerable theremin, one of the earliest electronic instruments.

Track 1

• Artist Country: Italy
• Artist: IsaVis
• Album: Cosmico Divino
• Track: Mission 11
• URL: http://www.isavis.com

Track 2

• Artist Country: Macedonia
• Artist: Every Kid on Speed
• Release: Rocketship Remixed
• Track: 3/ Disko Pigg Automated Deep Space Tour Remix
• URL: http://www.diplomatik.net/dplnet004.html

Track3

• Artist Country: Germany
• Artist: Chillheimer
• Release: Morning Moon
• Track: 1/Morning Moon
• URL: http://www.archive.org/details/rfr013

 

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Minimal clicks, field recordings and lush ambience all round. Rhythmic, but not overly dancy. Also includes not one but two tracks from the excellent Insectorama label. Why? Because I simply couldn’t decide which one to include. It’s all good.

Track 1

• Artist Country: Russia
• Artist: Ivity
• Release: Blur EP
• Track: 1/Blur
• URL: http://www.insectorama.de/index.php?m=3

Track 2

• Artist Country: Greece
• Artist: dimonib (Nikolis Dimosthenis)
• Release: Auxiliary Outputs LP
• Track: Auxiliary Output 1.6
• URL: http://www.deepindub.org/did019-dimomib-auxiliary-outputs-lp/

Track 3

• Artist Country: Ukraine
• Artist: Pasha Slatkin
• Release: First Dive (Compilation)
• Track: Heat Of Breath
• URL: http://www.deeplimit.net/en/release/dplm08/

Track4

• Artist Country: Netherlands
• Artist: Flip and Tou
• Release: Dynastic
• Track: 7/Row Ya Boat
• URL: http://www.insectorama.de/index.php?m=3

 

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Sorry about the delay. Tracks are selected, I just need to get some editing done. This will probably be later tomorrow.

Deep, dark, ambient sounds from orchestral to wall-shaking soundscapes. Must be listened to with a decent set of headphones/speakers to appreciate at it’s very best.

Track 1

• Artist Country: USA
• Artist: The Nature of Light
• Release: Shores of Jupiter
• Track: 4/Ocean Deep Eyes
• URL: http://www.webbedhandrecords.com/wh099-the-nature-of-light-shores-of-jupiter/#more-117

Track 2

• Artist Country: Germany
• Artist: EXurban
• Release: Leerstand Untergrund
• Track: 03/Seelenkinder
• URL: http://www.exurban.de/music%20news/music_releases.html

Track 3

• Artist Country: Scotland
• Artist: Mosca
• Release: PhCH001-1
• Track: 8/Brand New Polaroid
• URL: http://www.phantomchannel.co.uk/releases.html

 

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Head-filling chords with a little acoustic guitar to keep the pace nice and slow.  Road tested with a nice long run, it worked well.

Track 1

• Artist Country: Germany
• Artist: Morgenklang
• Release: Supafeed 006/Deep Dive
• Track: 1/Dive Control
• URL: http://www.supafeed.net/?seite=seite_releases

Track 2

• Artist Country: Germany
• Artist: spaceTourist
• Release: This Year Summer
• Track: 3/Mareta
• URL: http://www.digilog.gr/diginet016.htm

Track 3

• Artist Country: Portugal
• Artist: Tiago Sousa
• Release: The Western Lands
• Track: 3/The Writer
• URL: http://www.restingbell.net/releases/rb030-the-western-lands

Track 4

• Artist Country: The Netherlands
• Artist: Dominique Jacquinet
• Release: Floating
• Track: 2/Boulevard Road
• URL: http://www.this-side.net/releases/tup004

 

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An eclectic mix. Free-form nu jazz (think re-assessed Weather Report) followed by simple, downtempo elecronica, rounded off by an un-edited performance on the Tenori-On from Norman Fairbanks.

Track 1

• Artist Country: Portugal
• Artist: Platform
• Release: tube118/Templates
• Track: 3/Haphapénaway
• URL: http://www.monocromatica.com/netlabel/releases/tube118.htm

Track 2

• Artist Country: Italy
• Artist: Minidudes
• Release: shift_05/Minidudes The remixes
• Track: Blastini (Tatsu Reisen im Winter Mix)
• URL: http://www.shift-netlabel.com/release_05.html

Track 3

• Artist Country: USA
• Artist: Norman Fairbanks
• Release: Living Near The Valley
• Track: Fake City
• URL: http://www.normanfairbanks.com/valley.html

 

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It’s stable and functional. You need a player capable of handling Vorbis audio streams.

Possibly the easiest way for Windows users to access the stream is to download Winamp. Alternative options may be found here, such as ways of getting Windows Media Player to work with Vorbis.

Then, simply point your player here.

Experimentation continues. Trying a different approach. If you can support OGG streams, click here. (This means Winamp or Linux users for now)

I’m experimenting with streaming Still Audio via SHOUTcast. So far so good. You can listen to the stream by searching for “Still Audio” here, or (for the moment at least) clicking here.

Update: No more SHOUTcast. Only Vorbis for now. You can add the following URL to your stream player (Winamp etc): http://www.stillaudio.com:8000/stillaudio.ogg.m3u