Podcasts by Idyllic Music Podcast | Trip Hop - Downtempo - Electronica
Podcast Host Jim Nye has over 200 episodes of Chilled Downtempo Electronic Music. Independent Trip Hop, Dub, Jazz and Electronica since 2006. All our podcasts are evergreen, undated and universal. Each show has between four and eight songs lasting around thirty minutes.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #218 - Occam's Razor from 2023-08-13T04:27:50
This week we’ll look at the life serving skill of reason. The process in deciding if something is true. It’s based on reducing assumptions and making the best choice under the circumstances. The...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #217 - The City at Night from 2023-03-15T23:39:31
This week, we’ll listen to The City at Night. From the time the sunsets until dawn, the city changes neighborhood by neighborhood, from glittering to gritty, from evening to the early morning it...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #216 - They Are Not What They Seem from 2022-12-09T21:10:25
This week we’ll hear from seven artists who are not what they seem. Not entirely anyway. We make assumptions and have expectations that are not always met at first blush. Like the name of a band...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #215 Cheesy Beats and Firecrackers from 2022-09-04T20:59:41
This week we’ll lay out a spread of Cheesy Beats and Firecrackers. Embracing the schmaltz and finding our inner groove. It's cinematic music with modern beats nostalgic for camp Hollywood tropes...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #214 - AlphaGo from 2022-06-03T17:56:34
This week we will reflect on how artificial intelligence is influencing music culture. People's ability to learn from each other, from teacher to student, from mentor to novice...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #213 - Electronic Music’s 2nd Generation from 2022-02-07T20:25:27
This week we take a look at the second generation of electronic music artists. Standing on the shoulders of giants like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and Wendy Carlos, a decade later these artists ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #213 - Electronic Music Second Generation from 2022-02-07T20:25:27
This week we take a look at the second generation of electronic music artists.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #212 - Anima Mundi from 2021-09-29T17:00
This week we’ll look at Anima Mundi or the ‘Soul of the World’. Thought to be a vital force that permeates the world, the Anima Mundi is believed to be the feminine creative power of God.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #211 - 15th Anniversary from 2021-05-06T11:00
This week we will celebrate our Crystal or 15th anniversary of podcasting independent Downtempo Music and Artists. Looking back I am happy to report most continue to make music or have a presence o...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #210 - The Luminescence of Candles from 2021-01-28T17:00
This week we’ll look at the luminescence of candles, of wax and tallow. Mostly used in celebrations and ceremonies these days, candles brought light to the darkness for early lives constrained by t...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #209 - Mind Wandering from 2020-10-08T17:00
This week we will focus on mind wandering. When your attention drifts from the task at hand. Most of us feel this mild disassociation routinely. When you feel a million miles away. While it can be ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #208 - Personal Correspondence from 2020-07-11T17:00
This week we will look at personal correspondence. Any private communication revealing private thoughts usually between just two people. It is often easier to put your true feelings down on paper. ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #207 - Before and After from 2020-04-17T17:00
This week, we will look at change beyond the tipping point. The “no going back.” Before and After. How we accept and adapt to our new situation will take every effort. Embracing a new future takes ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #206 - Pastoral Beats from 2020-01-15T23:00
This week it is Pastoral Beats. Warm gentle Electronica that evokes memories of carefree and less stressful times. It is music of comfort and consolation led by deceptively simple melodies over inc...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #205 - Darkness and Light from 2019-11-20T23:00
This week we will look at our tricky relationship with darkness and light. Light shows what is apparent and actual. We see things for what they transparently are but in the darkness all things are ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #204 - Espionage from 2019-08-17T23:00
This week we will look at espionage. It is spies and spooks, coups and active measures. It is a shadowy world. All cloak-and-dagger. Carried out by those we will never know. Of the things that are ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #203 - Golden Age of Online Music Distribution from 2019-06-19T20:00
This week, we look back at the golden age of online music distribution. For much of the past two decades netLabels and OMD communities have provided a safe and easy way for musicians to upload thei...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #202 - The Ability to Forgive from 2019-03-17T20:00
This week, we'll look at the ability to forgive. It's a mistake to think forgiveness is universal. While nearly everyone agrees the aggrieved and forgiven find the experience positive, not everyone...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #201 - The Quiet Mind from 2019-01-12T17:00
This week, we'll look to quiet the mind. It's a defense mechanism really as we try to cope with a world that has seemingly sped up beyond our capacity to keep up. The stress and anxiety it creates ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #200 - Best of Mix - Organic Electronic Music from 2018-12-05T17:00
This week, on the 200th episode of Idyllic Music, regular listeners of this podcast will find another best of mix unencumbered by the usual patter so that you can burn them directly to the blank CD...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #199 - Headphone Electronica from 2018-11-02T01:00
This week, it's headphone electronica. Music created with the meticulous detail that only listening through headphones can reveal. It's electronica mixed, produced and, ultimately, consumed by peop...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #198 - A Life at Sea from 2018-09-15T20:00
This week we'll examine a life at sea. Joseph Conrad wrote that "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting and enslaving." More troubling is what lies beneath the swells and awful stirrings of ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #197 - Harmonics from 2018-07-25T20:00
This week, we'll listen for harmonics. We mostly think of harmonics as an element of music but there is a more fundamental physical quality underneath it all. Wave patterns are all around us. We kn...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #196 - Empathy from 2018-05-20T20:00
This week, we'll try a little empathy. The ability to understand and share another person's feelings, experiences and emotions. It is a power sorely missed these days. Research seem to suggest ther...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #195 - Number 10 from 2018-03-15T20:00
This episode of Idyllic Music is brought to you by the number ten. It sits comfortably between nine and eleven, matches our fingers quite nicely and is the base for the decimal system nearly everyo...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #194 - Winter from 2018-01-09T20:00
This week, we'll look at the final season, the end of the cycle, of winters past and cold. It's a time many of us would like to hold up in bed for the duration, with it's shortened days and cold ni...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #193 - After a Relationship Ends from 2017-11-29T20:00
This week, we'll look at the effort it takes to pull yourself together after a relationship ends. Some seek sympathetic ears while other withdraw into solitude. We'll hear just what it takes from G...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #192 - Regrets and Reconciliation from 2017-09-07T20:00
This week, it's regrets and reconciliation. Regrets? I've had a few but by and large, I've moved on. It seems a measure of success by how little regret we take to our graves. The trick, of course, ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #191 - Proximity and Happenstance from 2017-08-24T20:00
This week, we'll look at proximity and happenstance. The idea that just by being near another person or event can change the future for better or worse. Mostly the difference is unnoticable in the ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #190 - Word Salad from 2017-06-24T20:00
This week we'll look at word salad with Peterloo Massacre, Broke for Free, Sweet Play, Daddy Scrabble, Northbound and Small Colin.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #189 - Ends of the Universe from 2017-05-06T20:00
This week we'll try to imagine the ends of the universe. It's one way to restore some perspective while your world is spinning around you. The vast emptiness of space, its cold, hollow expanse is t...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #188 - Recovery and Second Chances from 2017-04-12T20:00
This week, we'll look at recovery and contemplate the possibilities inherent in second chances. Do they bring new focus and opportunity or squandered through indecision and inertia. It is a dilemma...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #187 - Tipping Points from 2017-01-07T15:00
This week we'll look at tipping points. The value of the parameter in which the set of equilibria abruptly change. Sometimes we are quite aware of these changes other times not but they occur in ev...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #186 - Semantic Memory from 2016-11-16T15:00
This week we'll look at episodic or semantic memory. Where we store past events and learned meanings long-term. Memories of place,time and sounds. Memories we can't actually have had but still reso...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #185 - Chronology of the Universe from 2016-09-17T15:00
This week, we'll look at the Chronology of the universe. Don't blink because most of the important stuff happens between 10 to the 43rd seconds and 1 second after the Big Bang. From the planck epoc...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #184 - Look into the Fire from 2016-07-06T01:00
This week, we'll look into the fire. Mesmerizing as it is, fire is a perfect metaphor for love, desire and passion.From the dazzling white of 1,500 degrees C to Dull Red of 700, fire's ability to w...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #183 - Intimacy from 2016-04-14T01:00
This week, we'll look at intimacy. The need for, the mechanics, complications and consequences of. William Butler Yeats lamented that The heart-revealing intimacy,That chooses right, and never find...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #182 - The Illusion of Permanence from 2016-01-23T19:00
This week, we'll look at the illusion of permanence and the inevitably of change. The tricky thing about change is that it is often not even perceptible. Gradual and incremental, it often takes a c...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #181 - Emotional Isolation from 2015-11-14T11:00
This week we look at emotional isolation. It seems the more we reach out the less we feel. It might be the continuing reliance on the intrawebs or fragmentation of society but increasingly many of ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #180 - Loves First Heartbreak from 2015-08-10T23:00
This week, we'll look at loves first heartbreak. When young untested emotions are at their most potent and everything seems so damned important. As George Eliot so aptly put it. There is no despair...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #179 - Saraswati from 2015-05-23T19:00
This week, we'll head to the sub-continent for inspiration. In particular, Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, music, arts and science. While it's not unusual for ancient cultures to personify thi...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #178 - Fata Morgana from 2015-01-17T19:00
This week, we'll look at mirages. In particular the superior mirage known as Fata Morgana, named after the fairy shapeshifting half-sister of King Arthur. We come to rely on the normally stable opt...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #177 - The Number Three from 2014-11-20T19:00
This week's episode of Idyllic Music is brought to you by the number 3. It is, I believe, the most ubiquitous symbol man has created throughout history. From religion to physics and beyond, the num...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #176 - Many Paths to Spiritual Enlightenment from 2014-10-16T01:00
This week, we'll explore the many paths to spiritual enlightenment. It might come in a journey, a ritual of repetition or a chemical. Each method is personal.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #175 - Epic Dreams from 2014-09-22T01:00
This week, we'll experience Epic Dreams. Dreams that are so compelling and so vivid the details remain with you for years. When you wake up from an Epic Dream, you feel that you have discovered som...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #174 - When Things Get Wobbly from 2014-08-25T01:00
This week we will consider those times when things get wobbly. Not the early 20th century trade union but the feeling that things that once seemed solid and unchanging are now less so. They may be ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #173 - The Zeitgeist from 2014-07-18T13:00
This week we'll look at the Zeitgeist. This moment in time, our collective meme and the era of uncertainty. It's an era that portends the age of human technology while celebrating a kind of spirtit...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #172 - Summer Travel Season from 2014-06-18T13:00
This week, we'll ponder the summer travel season. The world's a mighty big place filled with destinations that can be both beautiful and dangerous, often times in the same city. We'll hear from six...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #171 - Women and Men from 2014-05-24T13:00
This week we'll look at women and men and the equally compelling perspectives they bring to music. We have come a long way from days when gender roles were specific and restricting. Now we find eve...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #170 - The Contemplative Life from 2014-04-23T13:00
This week, we'll consider the contemplative life most often associated with religious devotion. On this episode of Idyllic Music we'll focus instead on the secular. The conscious decision to notice...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #169 - Deceptions and Delusions from 2014-03-12T01:00
This week, we'll look at deceptions and delusions and how the two often blend into the other in a sort of symbiotic fashion. It requires the need to believe and ultimately deceive. It is one of our...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #168 - The Search for Self from 2014-01-19T23:00
This week, we'll explore the search for self. Looking for the light that makes us strive for something better. It might be the agonizing reappraisal of one's efforts and motives over a lifetime or ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #167 - Sun Worship from 2013-12-25T23:00
This week, we'll explore the belief that all that we know of God can just as easily be attributed to the sun. Of course, sun worship is as old as civilization and even in an Old Testament context, ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #166 - Cleansing Power of Fire from 2013-11-24T11:00
This week, we'll welcome the cleansing power of fire. It's a concept so broad as to include ancient elements of Egyptian, Christian and Druid rituals as well modern ideas about the birth of the uni...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #165 - Abbreviations and Acronyms from 2013-10-18T05:00
This week, we'll look at abbreviations and acronyms. You see them everywhere from texts and license plates to government forms and love notes. They might be cute and clever or confusing and inscrut...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #163 - A World of Possibilities from 2013-09-20T06:00
This week, we'll breathlessly await a world of possibilities. The future is more open, blended and diverse than it was even a generation ago. That means there is more opportunity for progress and e...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #164 - Unbearable Sadness from 2013-09-11T06:00
This week, we'll look at the unbearable sadness that marks the end of relationships. Whether the result of the discovery or admission of infidelity or the euphemism of 'growing apart', the cold num...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #162 - Hidden World of Esotericism from 2013-08-17T18:00
This week, we'll try to fathom the hidden world of Esotericism. It's a fool's errand; really, because the point is certain things are kept by a narrow circle of the enlightened or initiated away fr...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #161 - The Wars Men Wage from 2013-07-27T18:00
This week, we'll look at the wars men wage with all its glory and tragedy. How something so awful can be a source of honor and how Napoleonic ego can lead us into horrific conflict. It's the story ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #160 - Camus' Invincible Summer from 2013-06-16T06:00
This week, we'll lay back and take in Camus' invincible summer. In times of ambiguous environments, artificial seasons, climate controlled offices and 24 hour shopping malls, its nice to revel in t...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #159 - Promises and Lies from 2013-04-20T06:00
This week, we'll look at Promises and Lies. When Ali Campbell sang of the sorrow and pain from the serpent's song of a lovers deceptiveness, he also implied that acknowledging those lies led to hop...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #158 -The Plant World from 2013-03-23T06:00
This week, we'll marvel at the plant world. Turning the sun's energy into life from nutrients in the soil and atmosphere is so fundamental to our existence that it is hard to believe we would do an...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #157 - Tall Tales from 2013-01-17T06:00
This week, we'll look at tall tales. Stories and fables of exaggeration and entertainment some fantastic and others with morals. They often contain a morsal of truth spun out to the absurd across e...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #156 - Migrations an Aspirations from 2012-12-05T06:00
This week, we'll look at migrations and aspirations. For millennia, people have moved from one place to another seeking better lives. Whether it was for better hunting, soil or jobs the migration w...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #155 - The Sweet and Lowdown from 2012-11-10T06:00
This week, we'll look at at the sweet and lowdown. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. Ellington knew it and Irving Mills codified it but many of today's singer-songwriters from Jack ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #154 - High Altitude Air Travel from 2012-10-25T06:00
This week we'll scan the skies of high altitude air travel. Nothing strikes the imagination like following contrails left behind a jet aircraft in the late afternoon sky. Who is on board? Where are...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #153 - Drought from 2012-09-14T18:00
This week, we'll examine the drought. At any one time a goodly part of the world experiences Meteorological Drought with consequences measured in tens of thousands or even millions of lives. The im...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #152 - Chapters from 2012-08-17T06:00
This week we'll look at chapters. Readers know how an author uses them to pace a story, setting up cliffhangers, jumping storylines and setting natural breaks at the end of a sitting so you can go ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #151 - River Life from 2012-07-24T06:00
This week we'll look at life along the world's great rivers. Despite the fact that nearly every major inland city is located along side a major waterway, life down on the banks is often rough, hard...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #150 - Best of the Last 50 from 2012-06-06T06:00
This week, we'll celebrate Idyllic Music's 150th episode by looking forward. Fifty shows ago we offered up two CD ready mixes of the best vocal and instrumental tracks of the previous 100 programs....
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Idyllic Music Podcast #149 - The Mythology of Women from 2012-05-17T06:00
This week we'll look at beauty and terror as seen in the mythology of women. Stories though out history mostly told by men of power and tragedy, love and treachery featuring the likes of Aphrodite,...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #148 - Hypnotic Electronica from 2012-04-24T06:00
This week, we'll look at five artists making deeply layered dense and hypnotic electronica. In the early part of the decade Minimalism, glitch and even chiptunes were a reaction to what became a pr...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #147 - Unknown Unknowns from 2012-03-05T06:00
This week we'll look at known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. For several weeks, half a dozen great songs have lingered on the desktop as I've looked for ways to include them on the sh...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #146 - The Downcast and Sorrowful from 2012-02-22T06:00
This week, we'll look at the downcast and sorrowful. Baruch Spinoza defined sadness as the transfer of a person from a large perfection to a smaller one. All the songs on the show this week have an...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #145 - The Final Day from 2012-01-20T06:00
This week, we'll look at the final day. It's something we all have in common. The fact that everyone of us will die. To some it's simply a transition from one world to another. While others see it ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #144 - Enormity and Scale from 2011-12-16T06:00
This week, we'll look at enormity and scale. Whether it's astrophysical or personal, size and distance is often difficult to gauge. Everyone has seen artist renderings of the solar system depicting...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #143 - Landing on the Moon from 2011-11-07T06:00
This week, we marvel at the July 20th 1969 landing on the moon. Although this achievement took place 40 years ago and great strides have been made is subsequent years on furthering our reach into t...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #142 - The Phoenix from 2011-10-11T06:00
This week, we'll examine the Phoenix. The Firebird, Feng-Huang, Ho-oo, Benu, or Yel. The myth of this self- rejuvenating bird cuts across almost every ancient culture often symbolizing death and re...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #141 - Angels and Derivations from 2011-09-16T06:00
This week, we'll look at Angels and derivations, warnings and votaries. These nine artists are unafraid the bare the unvarnished, emblazon their influences and balance the devilish with the angelic...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #140 - Old World v. New World from 2011-08-18T06:00
This week, we'll look at the increasingly antiquated idea of old world versus new world especially in music and art. Cultures measured by millennia rather than centuries are borrowing and incorpora...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #139 - Procrastination from 2011-07-13T06:00
This week, we'll look at the human tendency to put off until later what we could do today. It is the period of time between when we can exercise influence over events and that moment when they are ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #138 - Education from 2011-06-12T06:00
This week, it's world studies as we look at education and educators from around the world from ancient Greece to the local school down the street. The syllabus is wide open as we hear from Bangguru...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #137 - Memories from 2011-05-24T06:00
This week, we'll look at memories and the way we twist them inside out sometimes to serve our own purposes. Looking back on this episode of Idyllic Music are 46 Bliss, Pierre the Moon, MoVox, Scree...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #136 - Jazz from 2011-03-17T06:00
This week, we'll look at the great American art form as it finds its way into the 21st century. Jazz continues to evolve in ways that are both striking and familiar. Just as Charlie Parker and Char...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #135 - Solids from 2011-02-15T06:00
This week, we'll look at solids. The two hardest things to grasp about them are that objects that appear to be solid are made up of molecules that are never actually in contact with each other and ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #134 - Post-Modern Character from 2011-01-25T06:00
This week, we'll look at the shortcomings and foibles of the post modern character. Not nearly the deadly sins but some common universal human weaknesses we all can recognize. Pointing them out to ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #133 - Finding True Love from 2010-11-02T06:00
This week, we'll look at the unlikelihood of finding true love. Not that it doesn't happen all the time, it's just that's it's amazing that it happens at all. Bookstores are filled with attempting ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #132 - Melancholia from 2010-10-16T06:00
This week, we'll look at the many aspects of melancholia. In particular, German Renaissance master Albrecht Durer engraving of the same name. We can linger over the many symbols of mathematics and ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #131 - Restorative Power of Water from 2010-09-11T06:00
This week, we'll look at the life giving and restorative power of water. While water is the most abundant molecule on Earth's surface and nearly 60% of the human body is water, we often take for gr...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #130 - Hope for the Future from 2010-08-19T06:00
This week, we'll look at the need to move beyond our troubled pasts and embrace hope for the future. Each of these tracks evokes a specific moment particular to American political history. We'll he...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #129 - Path to Redemption from 2010-06-23T06:00
This week, we'll look at the path to redemption. Waiting to hit bottom to know when to climb back up often ignores the notion that the journey may well be circular. Redeeming them selves for us thi...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #128 - Mind Expanding Possibilities of Travel from 2010-05-12T06:00
This week, we'll look at the mind expanding possiblities of travel. Whether global or microbiological, it the movement of bodies, objects and, ultimately, ideas, that allow us the benefits of progr...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #127 - Human Weakness from 2010-04-12T06:00
This week, we'll look at a human weakness. Whether physical, emotional or spiritual, we all make blunders and mistakes. It's what we do afterward that counts. We'll hear from five artists who reali...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #126 - What's Underneath from 2010-02-15T06:00
This week, we'll look at what's underneath. Not necessarily inferior, lesser, or subordinate but from the unique perspective of looking up. Gazing upward are Dive Index, Alikproject, Under, Asa Zen...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #125 - Invisible Forces from 2010-01-25T06:00
This week, we'll take a look at idea that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits, which affect the lives of the living. It's a belief that predates most mainstream religions a...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #124 - Strange Overtones from 2009-12-14T06:00
This week, we'll look at Strange Overtones. It's not only the title of a new collaboration between modern music Giants, David Byrne and Brian Eno but also in a harmonic sense, it's a complex and in...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #123 - Cosmetics from 2009-11-16T06:00
This week, we'll look at cosmetics or altering the appearance without affecting the body's structure or functions. It's by definition superficial but can change perceptions of oneself and others of...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #122 - Percussive Side of World Music from 2009-10-12T06:00
This week, we'll listen to the percussive side of World Music. Seven bands will add subtle electronics to the inherently primitive act of striking a note. Providing the variation for us are Sub Dub...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #121 - Cooperative Relationships from 2009-09-17T06:00
This week, we'll look at the essential symbiosis of independent artist and podcaster. This mutualism is best put forward by an association of cooperative relationships. In particular, an Associatio...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #120 - America's Great Art Form from 2009-08-10T06:00
This week, it's the many flavors of America's great art form. Jazz. For more than a century this style of music has refused strict categorization. From Bop to Rag, Funk to Swing the cool sounds of ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #119 - Unlikely Pairings from 2009-07-20T06:00
This week we'll try unlikely pairings. Nowhere are they more readily accepted than in music. When Joe Venuti's violin first played jazz, or Kraftwerk hit the top of the charts with computer music, ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #118 - Feedback and Reverb from 2009-06-15T06:00
This week, it's feedback and reverb, the mathematics of sound and physics of music. Looking into this super symmetry are Way, The Stringed Theory, postscript, Roll Film and Ronan Dec.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #117 - Artists in Exile from 2009-05-04T06:00
This week, we'll look at artists in exile. Not those forced from their homes through political or legal turmoil but the more romantic expatriation of the kind envisioned by Henry Miller, Ernest Hem...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #116 - The Creative Process from 2009-04-06T06:00
This week, we'll examine the creative process. Painter Kimberly Brooks offers up and octet of stages of which six match the songs on this episode of Idyllic Music. They are Vision and Hope. Excitem...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #115 - When Fashion Comes Full Circle from 2009-03-16T06:00
This week, we'll look at the tension created when fashion comes full circle. As Massive Attack's Tricky points out you have "A dread of the past and fear of the future. You're brand new, You're ret...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #114 - Mendacity from 2009-02-16T06:00
This week we'll spotlight mendacity. There was a time, not long ago, when you could assume a benchmark of truthfulness. Not from everyone or about everything but you could feel fairly secure in the...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #113 - Ruins and Relics from 2009-01-12T06:00
This week, we'll look at ruins and relics. Places long abandoned for more promising prospects. Whether ancient or post-modern they recall a measure of greatness that evokes more sadness than nostal...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #112 - The Edge of the World from 2008-12-29T06:00
This week we'll explore the edge of the world. A point on the horizon that marks the end of what is known and all that lies beyond. It's a gray, ill-defined area that defies the usual measurements....
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Idyllic Music Podcast #111 - The Orb Special from 2008-12-08T06:00
This week, we'll feature the music of the Orb. Of all the bands that inspired us and helped formulate the scope of this program, it was The Orb's determination to move the mind as well as the hips....
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Idyllic Music Podcast #110 - The Path We Follow from 2008-11-24T06:00
This week, we'll look at the great choice each of us must make between the physical and the moral, happiness and virtue. How we choose to define the greater good sets the path we follow in life. Th...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #109 - Another Globetrotting Episode from 2008-10-20T06:00
This week, it's another globetrotting episode of Idyllic Music as we find inspiration in 3 continents in a mashup from 5 countries including Italy, Senegal, The U.S. Sweden and the Netherlands. We'...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #108 - Take a Poke at Satan from 2008-09-22T06:00
This week, we'll take a poke at Satan, The Devil, Beelzebub or El Diablito. Whether or not you think he is an actual being or a manifestation of our universal need to personify evil, the concept of...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #107 - Metaphors, Similes and Allegories from 2008-05-19T06:00
This week, we'll look at metaphors, similes and allegories. These Figures of Rhetoric color our languages and influence the way we describe music. Adding relish and piquancy to this addition of Idy...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #106 - First Romance from 2008-03-10T06:00
This week, we'll look at the excitement, obsession, twists, and serenity of first romance. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. Exploring the first time on this edition of...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #105 - Land of the Long Winters from 2008-02-25T06:00
This week, the chillout continues in the land of the long winters. Five artists from the Baltic region provide the heat for this frigid episode of Idyllic music. They are Fauna, Milieu, Sirk, Bersa...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #104 - Beginnings and Endings from 2008-02-18T06:00
This week, we'll look at the coming and going, beginnings and ends and the state of things at those two points. Starting and stopping with us on this episode are Korev, Artemis, Lex Nasa and Savoir...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #103 - The Boarding House from 2008-02-11T06:00
This week we'll consider the boarding house. Where people of all stripes rent rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes weeks, months and years. Boarders who otherwise would have nothing in commo...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #102 - Adventure from 2008-02-04T06:00
This week, it's adventure. The kind imagined by the great turn of the century authors like Kipling, Burroughs, Wells and Verne. 100 years hence on Idyllic Music, we offer Sublimatus, Daakoon, Conra...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #101 - The Sun from 2008-01-28T06:00
This week, we'll look at the Sun. The periodic table lists 117 elements in the universe yet the sun is mostly just hydrogen and helium. Its simplicity belies its enormous life giving value in both ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #100 (Instrumentals) from 2008-01-21T06:00
This week, on the 100th episode of Idyllic Music, we hope to honor the many regular listeners of this podcast with CD ready mixes of the best instrumental tracks heard on the show over the past two...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #100 (Songs) from 2008-01-21T06:00
This week, on the 100th episode of Idyllic Music, we hope to honor the many regular listeners of this podcast with CD ready mixes of the best vocal tracks heard on the show over the past two years....
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Idyllic Music Podcast #99 - The Patient Ear from 2008-01-07T06:00
This week, we'll contemplate the patient ear. The following five tracks require time. At least they did for me. Each one finds its stride at precisely the right moment for that song and that make t...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #98 - East meets West from 2007-12-31T06:00
This week, East meets West for a soft clash or happy mesh of global culture. It's the musical migration that may be our best hope toward understanding and acceptance of each other. Helping us along...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #97 - Fair Trade Music from 2007-12-17T06:00
This week, we'll look at fair-trade music. Over the past several years, three things have changed the course of popular music, for better or worse. First came the marriage of music and video and th...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #96 - Lost Horizon from 2007-12-10T06:00
This week, we'll look beyond the Lost Horizon for the mythical places, hidden and elusive. They are known by names like El Dorado, Shangri-La, Avalon, Atlantis or Utopia. Guiding our way on this ep...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #95 - Transportation from 2007-12-03T06:00
This week, we'll look at transportation. It's the getting from one place to another that takes up so much of our time whether it's physically or spiritually. So we'll explore the conventional and n...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #94 - Distinctive Contributions from 2007-11-26T06:00
This week, we'll look for the lost, the secret, the rushed and hypnotic with the help of four bands who have made distinctive contributions to independent music in their home countries. They are Bl...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #93 - City Life from 2007-11-19T06:00
This week, we'll look at city life and the effort it takes not to be overwhelmed by it. Taking us through the structure, disorientation, density and sanctuaries of respite are DJ Shiro, Dive Index,...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #92 - The Brusque and Abrupt from 2007-11-12T06:00
This week, we'll look at the brusque and abrupt. It seems as if we live in a time of rapid change, speeding up yet halting in fits and jerks. It is demonstrated in the area of climate change, where...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #91 - The One and No Other from 2007-11-05T06:00
This week, we'll look at the One and no other. Novelist Iris Murdoch said 'The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's m...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #90 - Blue Side of Love from 2007-10-29T06:00
This week, we'll look at the blue side of love. The agonizing reappraisal that comes after infatuation with the help of Big Wheel, Kristin Mainhart, The Banjo Consorsium, Fez Dispenser, Velvet Chai...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #89 - Embracing Another Culture from 2007-10-22T06:00
This week, we'll hear five songs by artists and musicians who have internalized the sounds of their adopted homes or stepped outside their native cultures to embrace the beats of another. They are ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #88 - Sister Cities from 2007-10-15T06:00
This week, we'll look at sister cities. Not in any formal sense but closely related nonetheless. We have four bands and four cities whose cultural and artistic proximity could just as easily be one...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #87 - Foreknowledge and Hindsight from 2007-10-08T06:00
This week, we'll look at foreknowledge and hindsight. The ability to know what might happen and inability to profit from that knowledge. Like Camus' unused train ticket found at his fatal car crash...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #86 - The Empty Space from 2007-10-01T06:00
This week, we'll search for the empty space, the gap or missing part. A spot devoid of all things but meaning through the help of the definitive Lacunae, Aaron the cutter, DS-Art, Max Cavallera and...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #85 - Diverging Points from 2007-09-24T06:00
This week we'll look at points in time that determine an endless series of possibilities. Paths that diverge then meander back and cross again. The future may be unwritten but which future. Present...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #84 - Ones and Zeros from 2007-09-17T06:00
This week, we look at ones and zeros, the choice of on or off. Calculations for a digital age where the earthly pursuits of the past are but nostalgia. Forging on and remembering the old at Jeankal...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #83 - What Might Have Been from 2007-09-10T06:00
This week's Rorschach looks at things that might have been had we taken the time to see what was hidden in plain sight. Providing the hindsight without recrimination are Calm, Mr.S, Peeping Tom, Tw...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #82 - Kristin Hersh Special from 2007-09-03T06:00
This week, we'll look at sustainability and cooperation. One of the searing truths of the music you listen to is that it don't come easy. Musicians create and if they are good enough or plain lucky...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #81 - The Key Ingredients from 2007-08-27T06:00
This week, we'll explore the essentials. In fact, The Sun and water are the key ingredients for life, as we know it. I'd like to suppose cool music to that short list as well. We'll hear all three ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #80 - The Current State of Electronic Music from 2007-08-20T06:00
This week, it's the current state of electronic music. It's become the laziest handle for a genre since Alternative. For a long time it was defined as music played on synthesizers but that time has...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #79 - Being Alone from 2007-08-13T06:00
Just as a sad movie can raise your spirits and the blues make you joyful sometimes being alone can be rejuvinating, This week we'll feel out the many aspcts of being alone through the music of Simo...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #78 - Near Consciousness from 2007-07-30T06:00
This week, we'll look at that short period between emerging from sleep to actually opening your eyes. A state of near consciousness through the music of Natalie Walker, cognitive dissonance, Karmac...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #77 - The Illusion of Contact from 2007-07-23T06:00
This week, we'll examine the illusion of contact. The sheer counter-intuitiveness that on a sub-atomic level nothing actually touches anything else. Whether it's the landing of a boxer's blow or th...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #76 - Tongues and Grooves from 2007-07-16T06:00
This week, we'll explore tongues and grooves from 5 bands who build on individual contributions to realize a vision beyond a single person. They are Chillerstadt, prod13F, Messian Dread, William La...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #75 - Elegance from 2007-07-09T06:00
This week, we'll revel in elegance. To some it's an antiquated old world charm but in troubled times it really more a last stand against barbarism in all its forms. Showing their poise on this epis...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #74 - American West from 2007-07-02T06:00
This week, we'll tour the American West, where the sunsets are purple and red and yellow and on fire. A west not of Wayne but McCarthy with a myth of epics and truths in small stories. So with a na...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #73 - Summer Beach Novel from 2007-06-25T06:00
This week, we look at the summer beach novel, preferably a mystery with clues, characters, steamy scenes and exotic locales. We'll find all that and more with the help of Indy, Compulsive Behavior,...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #72 - Home from 2007-06-18T06:00
This week, we'll look at home, a place both physical and emotional. Where you want to return to when away and get away from whilst there. whether your feelings are warm, cold, nostalgic or presentl...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #71 - Perceptions and Expectations from 2007-06-11T06:00
This week,we'll look at perceptions and expectations. Bringing personal prejudice to the sensory world. The slate this week includes AMY B, The Drake Equation, Sr. Aye, Balun and Saurio.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #70 - The Ominous and Foreboding from 2007-06-04T06:00
This week we look and the ominous and foreboding. The unsettling feeling that something is about to happen. Filmmakers know the power of a soundtrack to convey this and so do the six artist on Idyl...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #69 - Successful Pairings from 2007-05-28T06:00
This week we look at matchings, successful pairings in twos and threes through the music of Garden Hose Universe, Luminous, PNFA and Jotch, Finn The Giant Meets Sandmonk and Mr. Frendo.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #68 - The Glacier from 2007-05-21T06:00
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 th...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #67 - Romance in Unusual Places from 2007-05-14T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #66 - Clouds from 2007-05-07T06:00
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...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #65 - Barriers from 2007-04-30T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #64 - Europe from 2007-04-23T06:00
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 lan...
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Idyllic Music 63 - Step It Up from 2007-04-16T06:00
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 ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #62 - The Somnambulist from 2007-04-09T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #61 - The Wind-Up Music Box from 2007-04-02T06:00
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 ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #60 - Great International Cities from 2007-03-26T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #59 - Moody Grooves from 2007-03-19T06:00
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...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #58 - Folkartronica from 2007-03-12T06:00
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 cl...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #57 - The Blue from 2007-03-05T06:00
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 Awa...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #56 - Youth and Experience from 2007-02-26T06:00
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 Outs...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #55 - Colors at Night from 2007-02-19T06:00
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...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #54 - Multiculturalism from 2007-02-12T06:00
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 ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #53 - The Circular from 2007-02-05T06:00
This week we look at the circular, whether in travels, time or logic with help from Mr. Frendo, Mystical Sun, Endlos and Emzk.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #52 - Flattery from 2007-01-26T06:00
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 C...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #51 - The Wide World from 2007-01-19T06:00
This week we'll visit both hemispheres in search of the Idyllic found in the music of Apjiw, Munkie, Kalahari Surfers and Alienation.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #50 - The 50th Episode from 2007-01-12T06:00
This week will mark the 50th episode of Idyllic Music. Several messages reached me this week at idyllicmusic@cox.net asking how we intend celebrate this milestone. The answer is to follow through o...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #49 - The Breaks from 2007-01-05T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #48 - The Classical World from 2006-12-29T06:00
This week, it's the classical world of tragedy, love and war. Telling the tales are Elsiane, Sirk, Ici Aussi, Classic SciFi and Greenman.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #47 - The Solstice from 2006-12-22T06:00
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, Canta...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #46 - Opportunity from 2006-12-15T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #45 - The Boudoir from 2006-12-08T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #44 - Opposites from 2006-12-01T06:00
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 Nerv...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #43 - Musical Cornucopia from 2006-11-24T06:00
This week's cornucopia includes the musical bounty offered up by Tinta, Volfoniq, Bitstream Dream, LaLuceNazione, Qui? Oui! and David Last.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #42 - Solitude from 2006-11-17T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #41 - Resurrection and Return from 2006-11-10T06:00
This week its resurrection and return. We'll mark the moment with the music of Endless Blue, Indy, Projexam, Juliet Hotel and Ella Blame.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #40 - Contrasts and Connecttions from 2006-11-03T06:00
This week we'll seek contrasts and connections from the music of The Projects, Chico Correa, Morcheeba, Monotape and Rettward von Doernberg.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #39 - Mists and Apparitions from 2006-10-27T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #38 - (Unplugged) from 2006-10-20T06:00
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...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #37 - A Snapshot from 2006-10-13T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #36 - Atmospheric Sounds from 2006-10-06T06:00
This week we'll hear from Vitamins For You, Hungry Lucy, Slam Orchid and Sublimatus.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #35 - Lost in Translation from 2006-09-29T06:00
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...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #34 - Amateur from 2006-09-22T06:00
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 N...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #33 - A Sense of Calm from 2006-09-15T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #32 - Acuity and Detail from 2006-09-08T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #31 - A Clutch of Catchy Songs from 2006-09-01T06:00
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 melo...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #30 - Lazy Summer from 2006-08-25T06:00
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, Pad...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #29 - Inspired By from 2006-08-18T06:00
This week we'll hear from the Digital Nasty, Modular Heaven, Thomas Trotter, Jahspre, Jillene and Siegfried Gautier
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Idyllic Music Podcast #28 - Perspective from 2006-08-11T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #27 - The Strident and Haunting from 2006-08-04T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #26 - A World Wide Search from 2006-07-28T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #25 - Fusion from 2006-07-21T06:00
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.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #24 - The Independent Artist from 2006-07-14T06:00
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...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #23 - Two Sides to Everything from 2006-07-07T06:00
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 D...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #22 - Podsafe Music from 2006-06-30T06:00
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 L...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #21 - Koyaanisqatsi from 2006-06-23T06:00
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...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #20 - The Universal Language from 2006-06-16T06:00
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, Victor...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #19 - Jazzy Chill Out from 2006-06-09T06:00
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 th...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #18 - Inviting Introspection from 2006-06-02T06:00
Idyllic Music always invites introspection. Sometimes you'll find it in a rural village, sometimes a stretch of beach or a large American city. This week we'll hear from Falling You, Portal, Tems a...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #17 - A Trans-Atlantic Exchange from 2006-05-26T06:00
This week a trans-Atlantic exchange sets the mood as we hear from Mellow Dramas, MI:GFU, Shagg, Isotrak and Sideway.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #16 - Artists from Great Cities from 2006-05-19T06:00
This week, we hear the music of artists from the great cities of Milan, San Francisco, Montreal by way of Caracas and also the hinterlands of Wales. They are represented by The Warheads, Musetta, S...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #15 - Atmospheric and Ambient from 2006-05-12T06:00
On tap this week we'll hear from Sunburn, elika, Huttenlocher, The Geminiac and Jigli B
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Idyllic Music Podcast #14 - Musical Cross-Pollination from 2006-05-05T06:00
This week we'll hear the music of Natalie Walker, Syrin, MoShang and Zeropage.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #13 - The Groove is the Thing from 2006-04-28T06:00
Featuring Mr.s, Leroy Forbes, Ivan Kapec, Deerfoot and Stabilizer. This week the groove is the thing as we bounce from Poland to the UK to Croatia then Canada and finally Pennsylvania. We begin wit...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #12 - Pushing the Vibe from 2006-04-21T06:00
This week we look to Canada, the U.K., Dallas and Chicago for the music of Adam Fielding, Acapulco Soundlab Monotronaut, The Flavor Foundation and Quantum Soul
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Idyllic Music Podcast #11 - (Podcaster Special Edition) from 2006-04-14T06:00
Featuring Anji Bee, Permanent4, Radio Orphans, Idyllic and Misanthropy. This is a podcasters special edition. This week we focus on music by those who work both sides of the podcasting microphone. ...
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Idyllic Music Podcast #10 - A Heady Mix from 2006-04-07T06:00
Downtempo, Ambient, Trip Hop, Jazz and Dub featuring Green Man, Korpus Kallosum, Alu, and Gamsters
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Idyllic Music Podcast #9 - The Protest from 2006-03-31T06:00
This week we'll explore the music of Jeff Rosiana, Scanlan, Psychonada and Zool
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Idyllic Music Podcast #8 - Downbeat Electronica from 2006-03-24T06:00
Downtempo, Ambient, Trip Hop, Jazz and Dub featuring Kmotiv, The Sleeper's Opera, Danny K, Digit All Love and Antony Raijekov
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Idyllic Music Podcast #7 - A Life Aquatic from 2006-03-17T06:00
Downtempo, Ambient, Trip Hop, Jazz and Dub featuring Pale Beneath the Blue, Spacebum, Broken Sleep and Point of Good Origins
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Idyllic Music Podcast #6 - Indie Music from 2006-03-10T06:00
Downtempo, Ambient, Trip Hop, Jazz and Dub featuring Indy, Karmacoda, Djust Feel It, The Engineer and Brozil
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Idyllic Music Podcast #5 - American Downtempo Artists from 2006-03-03T09:00
On this edition of the Idyllic Music Podcast we hear from Hungry Lucy, Blaminak, Idyllic, Kristen Mainhart and Kojima This week remain statesside in the search of good music.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #4 - Electronic Music from 2006-02-24T15:00
Downtempo, Ambient, Trip Hop, Jazz and Dub featuring The Hellbus, Aqualash, Nevertheless, Dub One and Cling
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Idyllic Music Podcast #3 - Searching the Globe from 2006-02-17T15:00
Downtempo, Ambient, Trip Hop, Jazz and Dub featuring Atomica, Zerobae, Refrag and The Sound Gallery. This week's edition of Idyllic Music takes us across two oceans in search of music.
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Idyllic Music Podcast #2 - The Second Episode from 2006-02-10T15:00
Downtempo, Ambient, Trip Hop, Jazz and Dub featuring Kevin Christensen, TriGMTar, absentmachine and Day One Symphony
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Idyllic Music Podcast #1 - The Idyllic Music Podcast from 2006-02-03T15:00
Downtempo, Ambient, Trip Hop, Jazz and Dub featuring Endless Blue, Joy, Takfrequenz and Idyllic
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