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Love of ambient, experimental, & modern classical with downtempo roots. We highlight current music in these genres, with old favorites snuck in. OEP sets are vinyl, guest mixes contain all formats. Listen live Tuesday evenings, 6-8pm PST on XRAY.FM 91.1 / 107.1 FM KXRY Portland, OR
Episodes

Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
OEP 10/13/20: William Selman guest mix
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Thank you to William Selman for providing this week's guest mix. Check out William's bandcamp page to listen to his releases including Naming Before Names:
https://williamselman.bandcamp.com
and his label's bandcamp:
https://critiqueofeverydaylife.bandcamp.com
Bernard C - Les Chantes Révolutionnaires II - Les Chantes Révolutionnaires (Illusion Production 1983)
Yoshi Wada - Earth Horns with Electronic Drone - Earth Horns with Electronic Drone (Edition Omega 2009)
crys cole - The Nonsuch - Beside Myself (Students of Decay 2020)
Steve Roden - Stills for Guru Dutt - A Thousand Breathing Forms (Sonoris, 2020)
Eva-Marie Houben - Erwartung 1 (second editions, 2019)
Roland Kayn - Garten der Luste, Abschnitt I - Garten der Luste (Reiger Reeks, 2001)
Alexandre Spence - Sleep in Nothingness - Waking, She Heard the Fluttering (Room40, 2019)
Thomas Koner - Spitsbergen (Hour 8) - La Barca (Records DK, 2015)
David Dunn - Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond - Angels and Insects (¿What Next?, 1992)
Dick Raaijmakers - Canon 4: Super Sub-Trahere - The Complete Tape Music of Dick Raaijmakers (Basta, 2006)
Ludger Brummer - Deconstructing the Double District - 9 Trajectories (Ina-GRM, 2018)
Yann Novak - Scalar Field (orange, pink, orange) - Scalar Fields (Room40, 2019)
Folke Rabe - What?? (Sec ond Version) - What?? (Dexters Cigar, 1997)
Dean Roberts - Kompakt Arcade - All Cracked Medias (Mille Plateaux, 1998)
Mika Vainio - In a Frosted Lake - Black Telephone of Matter (Touch, 2008)
Kuriharu Akiyama - Music for Resting - Environmental Music for Dining Room of Atheletes' Village in Tokyo Olympics 1964 (Edition Omega Point, 2009)
Michel Redolfi - Sunny Afternoon at Bird Rock - Sonic Waters #2 (Hat Hut, 1989)
Christoph Hermann and Brunhild Ferrari - Stürmische Ruhe - Stürmische Ruhe (Not on label, 2020)
Budhatiya Chattopadhyay - Well-Tempered City Book I - Well-Tempered City Book I (Touch, 2020)
Jake Muir - Black Smokers - Acclimation (Dragon's Eye, 2018)
Phil Julian - Interval 6 - Carrier Dynamic (fancyyyyy, 2020)
Toshiba Tsunoda -Solid vibration from the concrete pavement of a pier where the fish market used to be held - Reflection-Revisiting (Erstwhile, 2019)
Guy Hobsbawm - Blanquistes du Nil - Communes Qui Poussent Comme Des Champignons (Mysteries of the Deep, 2020)
Kate Carr - I ran up and down the steps of the dam - Overheard in Doi Saket (3 leaves, 2014)

Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
OEP 10/6/20: Whettman Chelmets guest mix
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Big thank you to Whettmen Chelmets for providing the guest mix this week. Check out his bandcamp to find a number of albums of his, including his recent split release "Theme Variations":
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/theme-variations
https://whettmanchelmets.bandcamp.com
1 - Nate Scheible - “I Don’t Give a Fuck if You Like Me” - Prions and Scrapie - 00:00
2 - Lake Mary & M. Sage - “Towards a Golden Light” - Shepherd’s Bridge - 01:51
3 - Jake Muir - “Green Eyes” - Lady’s Mantle - 03:36
4 - Acef Stripe - “The Stuffies are Not Sleeping” - Foxy - 05:17
5 - Andrew Tuttle - “Burwood Heights Convenience” - Alexandra - 06:22
6 - RA - “Overcoming Sadness” - The Meditations of Zera Yacob - 07:39
7 - Pulse Emitter - “Ripples” - Swirlings - 09:29
8 - Siavash Amini and Saaad - “Calm in Resignation” - All Lanes of Lilac Evening - 11:39
9 - Assassin of Sound - “Artic (66° 30’N)” - Earth Suite - 14:31
10 - Binaural Space - “Good Night Spacemen” - Boyhood - 16:31
11 - Nhung Ngyuen - “Bittersweet” - An Ordinary Narrative - 18:34
12 - Cruel Diagonals - “Topography of an Affliction” - s/t - 22:12
13 - clair rousay - “buy my blessing” - “i’ll give you all of my love” - 24:00
14 - Chorchill - “Human Submarine” - Nachtfisch - 24:53
15 - Wife Signs - “Burning Off the Nuance” - Beneath the Weight of Care - 26:59
16 - Whettman Chelmets - “But I Need to” - I Don’t Want to Let Go, but I Need to Let Go - 29:24
17 - Amy Cutler - “riddles of the firmament” - Oro Tape (Fieldtrips of the Damned) - 32:58
18 - qualchan. - “glass.” - Micrographia - 35:08
19 - Lucy Liyou - “Who You Feed” - Welfare - 35:33
20 - Lowering - “Just a Fever” - Sleep in Perpetual Storm - 36:52
21 - Matt Jencik - “Night Gallery Pause” - Dream Character - 38:19
22 - Forest Robots - “It’s Quietest at the Edge of the Crestline” - Timberline and Mountain Crest - 41:36
23 - Ghost Signs - “We Haunt These Cities Like a Half Remembered Dream” - The Holy Ghost and other Lost Souls - 44:47
24 - Barraco Barner - “20200420 Pops” - 20200419-20200422 - 46:47
25 - Barraco Barner - “20200421 There’s a Payoff I Promise” - 20200419-20200422 - 48:45

Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Optic Echo Presents 9/29/19
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Space Afrika- Primrose Avenue a1.1 https://wheretonow.bandcamp.com/album/primrose-avenue
Max Richter- Voices a1
Haunted Ghost- New Life Paeans a3 https://specialspeciesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ssr020-haunted-ghost-new-life-paeans
Belong- October Language a2 https://spectrumspools.bandcamp.com/album/october-language
Sarah Davachi- Cantus, Descant c3 https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/cantus-descant
Félicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- Limpid as the Solitudes b1 https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/limpid-as-the-solitudes
Jacaszek & Kwartludium Catalogue Des Arbres b1 https://jacaszekreleases.bandcamp.com/album/catalogue-des-arbres
Quiet Places- Volume 1 a1 https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1
Knxwledge- Hud Dreems b2.3 https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/hud-dreems
Aphex Twin- Drukqs a2
R Beny- Eistla a5 https://rbeny.bandcamp.com/album/eistla
Sustainer- Anticuario a1 https://rottenmaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/anticuario

Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
OEP 9/22/20: Isaac Helsen guest mix
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Big thank you to Isaac Helsen, 1/2 of the ambient label Past Inside the Present, for providing this week's guest mix. Check out his release Remnants Series I - VIII on the PITP label here:
https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/remnants-series-vol-i-viii
https://pitp.bandcamp.com
[0:00] Oiseaux-Tempête — Notes From The Mediterranean Sea
[3:56] Idlefon — Pickers Of Empty Cocoons (with Nima Pourkarimi)
[7:16] Cyberian — Sanctuary of Pain
[14:14] Christina Giannone — Renunciation
[21:20] KMRU — Why Are You Here
[30:08] Forest Management — Blue Leaves
[34:04] Siavash Amini — Moonless Garden
[42:16] NUM — Isolated Room
[48:12] Jayve Montgomery — Here Is Where We Now
[52:30] Clarice Jensen — Day Tonight
[59:22] Cat Tyson Hughes — A Lovely Walk
[1:02:14] Saltbreaker — Extraction 1
[1:04:04] NUM — Blue

Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Optic Echo Presents 9/15/20
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Knxwledge- 1988 a9 https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/1988
Hood- Cold House b5
Savath & Savalas- Immediate Action b1
Fila Brazillia- AnotherLateNight d1
Christina Vantzou- Multi Natural a5 https://edicoescn.bandcamp.com/album/multi-natural
J. Douglas Edwards- Ca$hing Objections a1.2
Inventions- Continuous Portrait a5 https://inventions.bandcamp.com/album/continuous-portrait
Greg Gives Peter Space- s/t a2
Claire Rousay- Both a1 https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/both
Imaginary Softwoods- Annual Flowers in Color a2 https://imaginarysoftwoods.bandcamp.com/album/annual-flowers-in-color-2020-remaster
Rival Consoles- Articulation a1 https://rivalconsoles.bandcamp.com/album/articulation
KMRU- Opaquer b2 https://kmru.bandcamp.com/album/peel
Solvent- Subject to Shift b1 https://solvent.bandcamp.com/album/subject-to-shift
Olga Wojciechowska- Maps and Mazes b5 https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/maps-and-mazes
Tape Loop Orchestra- Returning One b1.2

Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
OEP 9/8/10:Stijn Hüwles guest mix
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Big thank you to Stijn for providing this week's guest mix. Check out his recent releases at his bandcamp site including Frameless and his project Silent Vigils:
https://stijnhuwels.bandcamp.com
1. Joachim Badenhorst: Daimonjiyama
2. CV & JAB: Stone Circle
3. Ian Hawgood: To Bow, To Ascend
4. Claire M. Singer: Rionnag A Tuath
5. Sawako: Field near the Airport
6. Jake Muir: Yaupon
7. Belly Full Of Stars: Skipandwow
8. Soccer Committee: Acapela
9. Minamo & Moskitoo: Atypical Dialogue
10. Adriaan De Roover: Voor Damiaan
11. Kali Malone: Sacrificial Code
12. Bird Traps: Vadhana
13. Mads Emil Nielsen: Leuchtkäfer
14. Ishmael Cormack: Slow Weaver
15. Silent Vigils: Wake

Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
OEP 8/25/20: Zakè guest mix
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Big thank you for Zakè, co-owner of the phenomenal Past Inside the Present label, for putting together this week's guest mix. Included are unreleased and upcoming albums on the label. Check out the label's bandcamp for more information, as well as Zakè's latest release, Coppice Movements, on his own Zakè Drone Recordings label:
https://pitp.bandcamp.com
https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/coppice-movements
EU customers: https://www.juno.co.uk/labels/Past+Inside+The+Present+Us/
[00:00:00.000] Pallette 'It's The Little Things, Pt.I'
[00:11:24.098] Ai Yamamoto 'Love You Tender'
[00:22:10.827] Pepo Galán & Sita Ostheimer 'You Are Like A Ghost Lover'
[00:25:49.820] AUSKLANG 'Ruhe'
[00:35:43.083] Carlos Ferreira 'Still Breathing'
[00:39:48.011] Jörgen Kjellgren 'Warm Luminous'
[00:51:35.482] Christina Giannone 'Illusions'
[00:58:49.272] (end)

Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
OEP 8/4/20: Gregory Euclide guest mix
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Thank you to Gregory Euclide, artist and label owner of Thesis, for putting this guest mix together. Check out his label's bandcamp and his personal page for information on his art below:
https://thesisproject.bandcamp.com
https://www.gregoryeuclide.com
Night of Acacias- Movietone
Together Apart- Solo Andata
Late Summer Early Autumn- Takeshi Nishimoto
Oil Bread- Emilía
Belgien- Swod
Except Memories- Insa Donja Kai
Fourier- Marcus Fischer + The OO-Ray
Lumberton- Rafael Anton Irisarri
Sight Unseen- Dustin O’Halloran & Benoît Pioulard
Lac des Arcs- Julia Kent
Angel of Loll- Loscil
Loss- Death Blues
Come Silence- Dag Rosenqvist
Betty- Simon Scott
Hollow- Seaworthy + Taylor Deupree
I’m Never Not Thinking About You- Olga Wojciechowska
For Misty- Heather Woods Broderick
Lisbon, OH- Bon Iver
Up to Pizmo- Labradford
First- yMusic
Optic Echo Presents
Tuesday nights 6-8pm PST
107.1 / 91.1 FM KXRY Portland
Streaming www.xray.fm

Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Optic Echo Presents 7/28/20
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Dedekind Cut- $uccessor b3 https://dedekindcut.bandcamp.com/album/uccessor-ded004-lp
Gia Margaret- Mia Gargaret b1 https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com/album/mia-gargaret
Ben Shemie- A Single Point of Light a5 https://benshemie.bandcamp.com/album/a-single-point-of-light
Loscil-Sea Island c3 https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/sea-island
Ben Bondy-Sibling a1 https://bblisss.bandcamp.com/album/sibling
Julianna Barwick-Healing is a Miracle a4 https://juliannabarwick.bandcamp.com/album/healing-is-a-miracle
Terror Train-s/t a5 https://attacknine.bandcamp.com/album/terror-train
Bohren & Der Club of Gore-Sunset Mission a1
Simon Scott-Migrations b1 https://simonscott.bandcamp.com/album/migrations
Delia Derbyshire-The Dreams a3
Black Brunswicker & Lucy Gooch & Zaké-Thesis 18 a1 https://thesisproject.bandcamp.com/album/thesis-18-black-brunswicker-lucy-gooch-zak
Florian T M Zeisig-Coatcheck a2 https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/coatcheck
The KLF-America: What Time is Love? 7” b1
Optic Echo Presents
Tuesday nights 6-8pm PST
107.1 / 91.1 FM KXRY Portland
Streaming www.xray.fm

Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
OEP 7/21/20: Ryan Griffin/ASIP guest mix
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Big thank you to Ryan Griffin, label owner of A Strangely Isolated Place, for putting together this vinyl mix. Check out his mixes and bandcamp sites for top notch music:
https://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/mixes
https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com
2. Arovane - The Storm [CCO, 2000]
3. Christina Vantzou - Music For a Room with a Vaulted Ceiling [Temporary Residence, 2020]
4. Blinkar från Norr - Other Days [A Strangely Isolated Place, 2020]
5. Pauline Anna Strom - In Flight Suspension [Rvng Intl., 2017]
6. Autechre - Piezo [Warp, 1994]
7. Aardvarck - U Are, When U Not Think [Crowd, 2019]
8. Aphex Twin - On (D-Scape remix) [Warp, 1993]
9. Sophia Loizou - Silver Nemesis [Kathexis, 2016]
10. Skanfrom - Midnight Romance [Thrill Beat Construction, 2001]
11. Aphex Twin - On [Warp, 1993]
12. Blanck Mass - Chernobyl [Rock Action, 2011]
13. Murcof & Vanessa Wagner - Farewell O’World O’Earth [Infiné, 2016]
14. Secede - The King Of Sanda [Lapsus, 2019]
15. Susumu Yokota - Gekkoh [Leaf, 1999] / Steve Reich - Come Out [Odyssey 1967]
16. Seefeel - Through You [Too Pure, 1993]
17. Neozaïre – Graves Creek Tab [Fauxpas Musik, 2016]
18. Low - The Son, The Sun [Sub Pop, 2018]
19. Roberto Musci - Claudia, Wilhem R. And Me [Raw Material, 1984]