Journeys through strange and different music, taking you through experimental electronica and space rock, meandering down the paths of world and folk music, and flirting with the downright odd and obscure. Astroquarian is a music podcast with a difference.
After a bit of a break from podcasting, we found ourselves downloading tracks for a new Astroquarian this evening. While it’s a little too late to record it today, rest assured we’re alive and ready to record again - this week. Promise!
Love from T&T at Astroquarian
Here it is at long last. Astroquarian 18. We take you from French saxophonic dubelectro into blissed out Arabian ambience, thence to flowery London psychedelia, and into acoustic psy-trance, and more. Enjoy!
Playlist
Utiopika - Kesakoo
1000 and 1 Nights - Triplexity
The Outcast - The Golden Dawn
Érase una vez el cuento - Stidiek
Ice Castle - Kirsty Hawkshaw
Novice Cream - Doc Pilot
El Cedro - Ruben van Rompaey
Our recording environment has not improved much but that has not stopped us stocking up for not just Astroquarian 18 but we are only two tracks short for edition 19!
Strong in the forthcoming editions on tracks from Magnatune and Jamendo (new website, much better!) we’ve really stretched our own ideas on what we consider alternative, interesting, eclectic and good. I maintain I have a broader repertoire than T… see what you think.
Once we can plan to be in on the same evening we may get to record both at the same time.
Good golly gosh, another Astroquarian! AQ17 is brought to you this month by the power of ginger wine.
Playlist
Lovely - Alexeye Nov
Bullets Have More Eloquence Than Words - Gustav Bertha
A Lake - LVX Nova
Baba Gee - Stargarden
Deuterium - Oniric
Delays Delays - Dan Tharp
Soldier Trapped In A Drunken Spell - 2012
Welcome back, it’s been a while! Hot off the press, here is the latest Astroquarian, number 16. We bring you a bit of trance, some collaborative Creative Commons and public domain wizardry, medieval music with a bizarre twist, some progressive jazz, and some blissful synth music.
Playlist
Superstring - Indiginus
Witness - Try^d
Green Sleeves - Catgut
Etincelle - Vincent Bernay
Wind’s Eye - Thursday Group
Synth Vintage Analog Techno - Guardian Mind Mix
The Arrival - Katchoolik
Album Releases
As mentioned and played in previous podcasts, the new Annot Rhül album, Who Needs Planes or Time Machines, When There’s Music and Daydreams / Lost in the Woods, has been released, and it’s simply stunning. Get it from http://www.annotrhul.com/ and say that we sent you!
We have selected seven artists for the next podcast, and over the coming week we’ll plan our playlist for Astroquarian 16.
We are constantly amazed at the wonderful music that there is out there in the world, music not shackled to huge corporations, fuelled by the urge to share through Creative Commons, or through podcast specific websites such as the Podsafe Music Network. And musicians can still make money! Look at Magnatune’s 50/50 royalty ratio, and Jamendo’s BuzzTeam for donating to artists you like.
There are still the electrical grounding problems to overcome, so you might have to bear with us for a while until we can resolve it - tips and suggestions are welcomed!
After a long break we return to bring you the best of podsafe talent, interesting, strange, wondrous music.
Playlist
Slo Fiz - DigiTube
Analogue Equ of Ja II - Dreamweaver
Theoria - Human Response
Dragaicuta - Panacea
Raga Ragu - Podcast Troubadour
Linda Morena - The Headroom Project
Wicker Pilots - Zilla
Music courtesy of:
Magnatune.com and the Podsafe Music Network.
Well, we’ve moved house, had a battle to get an internet connection, got online, had earthing problems with our mixer, and one of us has suffered broken bones, but despite all of that, we’re still on course to record Astroquarian 15 in the next few days.
The playlist is quite superb, chilled, and psychedelic. A fitting return for Astroquarian after nearly 2 months of podcast silence.
Keep your ears peeled, it’s not far off, we promise!
[Update] - We’re still offline. A problem at our telephone exchange means that we have to wait yet another week..!
We are taking a short break from show-planning for the next few weeks. The studio is moving yet again, this time to (hopefully) more permanent climes. In the meantime we continue to pick up interesting and good music for AQ 15 and beyond.
We are always open to suggestions so please… suggest! Email astroquarian [at] gmail [dot] com.
The playlist is underway for AQ15, as well as an idea that we might do an “Analogue Astroquarian” sometime in the next few months dedicated to the analogue synthesizer. Emails will be sent, letters will be written. Music will be played.
Although we don’t seem to get many comments on the blog or many emails to astroquarian [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com the server seems to think that there are lot of you out there. Hundreds of you. Thousands in some cases.
Well, we hope you’re enjoying our idiosyncratic little podcast, and that you continue with us along our musical discoveries.
