Matrix - Groovetech Radio - 1999!

Hi everyone, 

Long ago, when the Internet was still sorta cool & way groovier, there was Groovetech Radio, out of Seattle. I listened to so many great sets! Learned how it was done. Found some archives. Enjoy this one!

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Veronica's Mix 351!

Hi everyone, 

My own Mix 351 features: Actress, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Fennesz, Four Tet, Infected Mushroom, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, John Zorn, Sphongle.

17 years on Spiritplants Radio! Thanks for listening!

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Klaus Schulze's Moondawn!

Hi everyone,

This was Schulze going full into the Berlin School of electronic music, as it's called. But, truly, it's just a trippy cool album to leave the shore with . . ..

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John Zorn and Dave Lombardo's Memories, Dreams, & Reflections!

Hi everyone,

Here is a good description of this fantastic record: "Drum shaman Dave Lombardo and renegade sax alchemist Zorn are at their freewheeling best here and their connection has never been tighter. Intense, telepathic, filled with love, surprise, respect, and an insatiable curiosity, this is an unexpected but inevitable meeting of two old friends who are also two modern musical masters."

One word: WOW!

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John Zorn's Fantasma / Prolegomena!

Hi everyone,  

Zorn is a rock star in his own jazzy classical noisy beautiful way. A multi-dimensional dreaming of music. Enter his realm. Evaporate in bliss . . . 

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John Zorn's Nocturnes / Impromptus!

 Hi everyone,

A-mazing new music from one of my favorite brilliant genius composers! 

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Aphex Twin's Music from the Merch Desk (2016–2023)! [Part 2]

Hi everyone,

I love this quote from James: "You think with your language so your language dictates how you think. But when you're making music it doesn't. That's why I love making music so much. You're not limited by vocabulary and words. You will fall into patterns and trends but you can access whatever you want. You can't do that with language. Yeah, you could look up some more words I suppose but it's infinite with art, with music. That's the best bit about it basically."

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Aphex Twin's Music from the Merch Desk (2016–2023)! [Part 1]

Hi everyone,

Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin, is fucking brilliant, back-when or yesterday. This compilation built up from vinyl releases at shows of his in recent years, & it never lets up with the trippy electronic madness. Share it with someone loved, or just met. Hit the pipe slow or hard. Love it!

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Infected Mushroom's REBORN!

Hi everyone,

One reviewer says: "With this album Infected have completely rebuilt nine of their classic old school tracks from scratch, painstakingly revamping each track with up-to-date technology."

And it's true. The Israeli psytrance duo has done that. But I think when artists go this deep into their old work, they are making a statement to themselves, as much as to their fans. Hence, this album title. I love this album! Simple 'nuff! :)

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Klaus Schulze's Timewind!

 Hi everyone,

Klaus Schulz was one of the pioneers of German "Cosmic Music," among other labels, using a sequencer in this 1975 album . . . one track is live in the studio, the other layered. Turn on? Tune in? Come along, kids!

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Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II!

Hi everyone,

Richard D. James said making this music was sourced in lucid dreaming, called it like "standing in a power station on acid." Only his second album, yet he was already reinventing electronic music for new listeners, and for long-time listeners who needed new greatness. Three hours of brilliance. Turn on, tune in . . .

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sunflwr's heard it in a dream, lullaby for lisa rowe, & heard it in a rework!

Hi everyone,

sunflwr is a Los Angeles–based electronic music producer who has released an amazing amount of work this year! Sample just some of these with me! :)

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Rival Consoles' Night Melody & Landscape from Memory!

 Hi everyone,

Rival Consoles music from 2016 & new from 2025! So much fun! :)

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Rival Consoles' Articulation & MindsEye!

 Hi everyone,

Rival Consoles is a British music producer whose work is restless, ethereal, & really catchy in a trippy fun way. Spend some time with me & this great music-maker!

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Actress's Tranzkript I & Remixes!

Hi everyone,

Actress's Tranzkript I was released 22.03.2025 in Tokyo at Modern Obscure Music XI anniversary pop-up. And, for fun, remixes of all sorts of good music! Enjoy! :)

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Brian Eno & Beatie Wolf's Lateral!

Hi everyone,

This is what these geniuses call it: "electric-country-dream-music." Wow! Enjoy!

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The Orb's Komfort / The Dream / Tokyo On-Air (30.June.1993)!

Hi everyone,

Here is a nearly endless stream of brilliant beautiful musics. Just lay back, come on in . . .

Enjoy!

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Sparklehorse & Fennesz / Ozmotic & Fennesz / Christian Fennesz & Jim O'Roarke!

Hi everyone,

Fennesz has worked with many great collaborators over the years. These three albums are wonderful releases!

Enjoy!

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William Tyler's Time Indefinite!

Hi everyone,

Of the brilliant Tennessee postmodern guitarist's new album, Pitchfork.com writes on point:

The LP’s 48 minutes are filled with tiny snatches of AM-style theme music, inaudible intonations, God-fearing hymns, and mechanical racket, and swathed in ghostly, deteriorating production that suggests these warped snippets have lasted into a post-cataclysmic future. Voices echo on several inclusions, the garbled speech of the long dead. 

Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
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Orbital's Lush EP Plus!

Hi everyone,

UK Godfathers of Rave (as someone called them) re-release this 1993 EP, with a couple of new re-mixes. Just fine to lose one's mind in bounce-bounce-bouncing space & time.

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Actress's Hazyville!

 Hi everyone,

Debut album, what a gem, & one the man himself said is a great way to get to know his music. Try it! :)

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's In Summer & On the Echoing Green!

Hi everyone,

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's wonderful music continues to amaze & delight me. Deep deep flow. Deep deep magick.

Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's Speaking Corpses & You Can See Your Own Way Out!

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share more of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's amazing music. There is deep beauty here, there is medicine. There is good path forward by way of these sounds. Listen with me . . .

Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's Tracing Back The Radiance & Gift Songs!

Hi everyone,

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is an amazing multi-instrumentalist whose music travels you deep & down into spaces that teach & comfort & tickle sometimes. Come, enjoy!

Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
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Seahawks' Infinite Echo & Time Enough for Love!

Hi everyone,

UK's Seahawks is a GREAT electronic group that makes music to soothe the anger, the upset, the fear many of us feel these days. Tune in & get some salving music in your souls :)

Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
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Fennesz's Endless Summer & Black Sea & Last Day of May!

 Hi everyone,

Fennesz's Endless Summer (2001) & Black Sea (2008) & Last Day of May (2025) takes us all over the brilliant artist's career! Wow!

Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
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Fennesz's Mosaic!

Hi everyone,

This is such a delightful album! Imagine watching it from the unseen beach on the album's cover . . .

Enjoy!

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Fennesz's Venice 20!

Hi everyone,

Been awhile since I've played any Fennesz. Then his 2004 album Venice was given a 20th anniversary release, with bonus songs! Even more good goodness.

I love what Jon Wozencroft writes on Fennesz.com: “The edge of days. The early days of computers. I bought my first one in 1989, a Mac SE with a hard disk of 20mb and a screen not much bigger than A5, black and white of course. It cost £2000 but the argument was, it would save on typesetting and yes it did, up to a point. Until one morning just three years later, I switched it on and it blew up in a puff of an electrical surge and that was that – oh shit, an ex-computer, its burnt-out hard disk fit only for the skip.

"By the early 90s, Apple had introduced its first range of laptops, the 'Powerbook' series, but I was having none of that incendiary plastic and instead opted for the 'Duo' which was a convenient hybrid between laptop and desktop, mostly because there wasn’t a problem with the absence of a floppy-disk drive and better still you could use a SyQuest disk for larger file back-ups. There was no internet at this point unless you were in the top flight, but in 1993/94 you could feel music was becoming decidedly more immaterial and abstracted in anticipation of what was around the corner.

"Laptop music starts around this time and straight away it’s a marriage between punk dissidence and technology. Aphex Twin might have been the headliner of this move but in essence it not only enabled everyone to save on artwork and printing costs, it meant that recording studios and live performance were no longer such financial barriers. In other words, a paucity of money no longer inhibited expression. You could blast out. For a while at least.

"It’s difficult to imagine now, 30 years later, that the mid-90s were a point of utter musical and performative transformation. The technology was seen as a form of revenge against analogue hierarchies and the first example of the WFH (working from home) change that would really take hold during the Covid years, 20 years later. That however is a separate subject.

"We had close associations with the formation of Mego. Rehberg and Bauer made a series of essential CDs with us in this period, to say nothing of the impact of Ryoji Ikeda’s '+/–' which invented the glitch classification. Errors were made musical and into this slipstream came a long-term relationship with Christian Fennesz who brought melody, harmony and something essentially romantic to this configuration. What that ‘romanticism’ is, now or then, is an essential part of the allure of Fennesz’s sound."

Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
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John Zorn's Ou Phrontis!

Hi everyone,

Jazz Messenger describes this wonderful record: "Ou Phrontis means 'Who Cares' in Greek. Inscribed on the lintel above the door of T.E. Lawrence’s cottage at Clouds Hill it symbolized a place where Lawrence felt at home, free from the cares of the world. This fourth CD from the dynamic piano trio of Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, and Ches Smith (Suite for Piano, The Fourth Way, Ballades), presents eight challenging Zorn compositions inspired by stoic philosophy and science."

Just wonderful. Fine & wonderful.

PeaceNstarZ,
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Actress's October 9 / 6pm-7pm

Hi everyone,

This recording is on YouTube, posted back in 2020. What a treat!

Here's the link too!

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Actress's Даррен Дж. Каннінгем!

Hi everyone,

Here is a short description from Exystence.net of this great new (2023) album:

Shortly before Actress appeared on Oslo-based Smalltown Supersound with the ambient-leaning 2024 full-length Statik, the producer made a mix for Resident Advisor’s essential weekly podcast series, consisting entirely of unreleased material. Bearing the title of the artist’s real name, Darren J. Cunningham, translated into Ukrainian, the mix was given a standalone release by Smalltown later in the year.

Wow! What a record!

PeaceNstarZ,

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Ishq's Deep Space Objects!

Hi everyone,

Based in Cornwall, England. Ishq is Matt Hillier and Jacqueline Kersley. I stumbled back into this album from 2012, deep in my collection. And wow! Just let it loose!

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