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.
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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!
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.
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.
It’s finally here, about a month later than anticipated but worth waiting for, we hope. This edition gives you funk, jazz, surreal space rock and even some nerdy rap, with all sorts of music by all sorts of people. As a first, we have music from Jamendo.com, another Creative Commons music site. So for your delectation:
Playlist
Gaza Strip Mall - Amanda Monaco 4
Mek We Jump - Burning Babylon
Adventure in a white black hole - Omars Attacks
Sea World - Naked
Indian Funk - Bloingo
These towns - Moshe Chouraki
Nerdy Gospel - CSHC
Music courtesy of:
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
World and world class music in AQ 11. From being lost in Tokyo you will find yourself in India, thence to France, held hostage by a pasta, Iran, California and beyond! We end with a good old-fashioned drinking song. Listen out for an interesting lyrics competition…Billy Sugarfix’s Surreal O’Rama.
Playlist
Lost in Tokyo - easyflow
Minor Song - Anup
Ne Quittez Pas - Hoxman
Spaghetti Terrorist - Christopher
Shabnam - Kourosh Zolani
Timeagain - hands upon black earth
Jedi Drinking Song - Dust Rhinos
Acknowledgements
This edition contains tracks provided courtesy of Magnatune.com and the Podsafe Music Network
Another fireside (well, stoveside) alternative music podcast from Astroquarian. You’ll hear new material from three of the artists featured in previous episodes, and some material to keep your ears on their metaphorical toes. Enjoy!
Playlist
Hyper Tension - Liquid Zen
Nantes - Echo
Fag da Deaf Edge- dotCommunism
Sjorok - Ambient Light
Story of a Boy - 2012
Zeak Dub - Bagas Degol
Historia - Henrik Anttonen
Acknowledgements
Liquid Zen are played courtesy of Magnatune. Bagas Degol appear courtesy of cornishmusic.com
All other tracks can be found on the fantastic Podsafe Music Network.
Just when you think we’re on an ambient world music streak, it all goes ROCK! then GOTH! Then surf…
Welcome to the eclectic music podcast that is Astroquarian.
Playlist
Too Tight - Falik
Levier D’Armement - Liquid Zen
Roots Fi Cool - Burning Babylon
Son of Ambriel - Cargo Cult
The Blitz - The Groove Mine
The Devil’s Hand - Ethereal
Sambuca - Dammit Boys
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Magnatune and the Podsafe Music Network for providing many many hours worth of music for us to lose ourselves in.
