It’s aliiiiive!
Hot off the press, and back by popular demand, the newly invigourated Astroquarian 19 has finally materialised for your listening pleasure.
Many thanks to those who emailed or left a comment asking when we’d be back.
Playlist
Happy End – Jordan’s Folk
Om Mani Padme Hum – Sky Sownd Omniversity
Ne Po Pogrebu Bochonochek Kata – Kitka
Dubliftment – Natti I
True Gemini – Rob Costow
Cullule – Maya de Luna
Trilogy: Lemurian Dance – Ishwish
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
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!
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!
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.
This may be the smallest Astroquarian podcast to date but it is not small in character. Big music from around the world and across the genre-bending skies we fly…
Playlist
Aurora Borealis – Annot Rhül
medium IV – pan:core
La Rotta – White Owl
Night Message – ioeo
Mein Mann – Doc
Futurengine – Psychetropic
Cod Liver Oil – Great Big Sea
Music courtesy of:
mp3underground.net, Jamendo.com, Magnatune.com and the Podsafe Music Network.
Welcome to Astroquarian, podcasting the best in independent alternative music since last year sometime. AQ12 features some stunning genre-stretching but spacey music from Norway, some electro from Africa, psychedelic dub from Dorset, driving beats from Sweden, and some good, solid prog rock from Florida, USA.
Click play, subscribe, or download Astroquarian 12, put on your headphones, and indulge yourself in some listening pleasure.
Playlist
Fata Morgana – Tremolo Wankers (buy from mp3undergound.net)
There’s nothing impossible – Deus
5/4 – Seid (buy from mp3underground.net)
Moonbase Dub – BubbleDubble
Ghost Children – Annot Rhül (buy from mp3underground.net)
The Miracle Field – The Reverse Engineers
Sacred – Beat Under Control
Acknowledgements
Big thanks to Sigurd Lühr Tonna of Annot Rhül and mp3underground.net for acquiring permission for us to play Seid and the Tremolo Wankers. And indeed to introducing us to his own projects, more of which we will play in the future.
And a big thank-you to Mr Kevin Ellis for providing the Bubble Dubble track to play, especially since there’s one featuring the legend that is Nik Turner… More from them in the future too 
This edition also contains tracks provided courtesy of Magnatune.com and the Podsafe Music Network
