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Episode 2023-05: RRAREBEAR, Geotic, Tobias and more

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 29 Jan 2023):

• mtbrd – Damn Fine Coffee
    Release: Damn Fine
    Label: SMOOV
• Monster Rally – Grassy Crystals
    Release: Botanica Dream
    Label: Monster Rally
• Arms and Sleepers – A Mission to Prague
    Release: Black Paris 86 (15th Anniversary Edition)
    Label: Arms and Sleepers
• AstroLogical – Symbiosis
    Release: Private World – EP
    Label: Bastard Jazz Canada
• Edamame – Lungs Full
    Release: Virga
    Label: Abandon Building Records
• Sundrenched – Autumn Memories
    Release: The Sundrenched Lofi Guitar Ensemble Vol 4
    Label: Dust-Tone
• Koresma – Waves
    Release: South – EP
    Label: Koresma
• Treetalking – Move With Purpose
    Release: The Unknown
    Label: SXN
• Hello Meteor – Monsoon Landing
    Release: Welcome To New Cascade
    Label: Evergreen Prefecture
• RRAREBEAR – Ginger
    Release: Relief
    Label: RRAREBEAR
• High Tides – Zolar
    Release: Zolar – Single
    Label: Rad Cult
• Geotic – Accept
    Release: To Not Now Nor To Ever Despair
    Label: Basement’s Basement
• Chemtrails – Soft
    Release: Taking Things Lightly
    Label: Chemtrails
• Tobias – Shiver
    Release: Shiver – Single
    Label: Tobias
• Teen Daze – Paradiso
    Release: Paradiso – Single
    Label: Flora
• wowflower – Untuch
    Release: Self Portrait
    Label: Street Corner Music

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Photo: “White Pass, Klondike Gold Rush NHP, Alaska”. Credit: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Park Cultural Landscapes Program/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-04: Digitalverein, rosequartz, Hu and more

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 22 Jan 2023):

• Nitemoves – Antipode
    Release: Antipode – Single
    Label: Mechanical
• Arvo to me – Into Change
    Release: Into Change
    Label: Inner Ocean Records
• M-Cubed – Out of Hiding
    Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 7
    Label: SVNSET WAVES
• Arms and Sleepers – Hurry Slowly (Manatee Commune Remix)
    Release: Swim Team Remixed
    Label: Arms and Sleepers
• Chemtrails – Elapse
    Release: Taking Things Lightly
    Label: Chemtrails
• rosequartz – interlude
    Release: interlude – Single
    Label: SVNSET WőõVES
• Machinedrum – Endless <3
    Release: Vapor City Archives
    Label: Ninja Tune
• Richard Alfaro – Inside
    Release: Refract
    Label: Richard Alfaro
• Home – Tides
    Release: Odyssey
    Label: Home
• Hu – North
    Release: Navigate – EP
    Label: anon recordings
• The Sight Below – Wishing Me Asleep
    Release: Murmur – EP
    Label: Ghostly International
• Digitalverein – Next to Mont Royal
    Release: Tiefer Ins System
    Label: Seven Villas Voyage
• mu arae – A Far Away Place
    Release: Rising Tides 011
    Label: SVNSET WAVES

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Photo: “Antelope Spring Waterfall”. Credit: Chickasaw National Recreation Area/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-03: Slag Boom Van Loon, Space Ghost, MossGatherer and more

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 15 Jan 2023):

• P.SUS – What We Feel
    Release: Open Ears Open Mind Open Heart
    Label: P.SUS
• Bowcraft – Monorail
    Release: Many Distant Cities
    Label: 1469535 Records DK
• Space Ghost – 4 Am
    Release: 4 Am – Single
    Label: Tartelet Records
• MossGatherer – Standing Right There
    Release: Out There – EP
    Label: XVI Records
• Rykard – North Cormorant Obscurity
    Release: Arrive The Radio Beacon
    Label: Hunya Munya Records
• Blackbird Belle – I Know
    Release: Microcosm
    Label: Inner Ocean Records
• GlobulDub – Hoverin’
    Release: Hip – Hop Symposium Vol. 3 (Childhood) – Single
    Label: Chill Masters Records
• Richard Alfaro – Field
    Release: Refract
    Label: Richard Alfaro
• Orange Crush – Invocation
    Release: Autumn Reflections
    Label: Orange Crush
• Slag Boom Van Loon – Poppy Seed (Boards of Canada Remix)
    Release: So Soon
    Label: Planet Mu
• Xky – Shapes
    Release: Mercury EP
    Label: Xky Music
• Freud – Cuban Episode
    Release: Velvet Dance – EP
    Label: Substruct Audio
• Bakradze – An Evening With John
    Release: Restless
    Label: Space Hardware

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Photo: “Deer and Split-row Fence”. Credit: Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-02: Telepopmusik, Monster Rally and more

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 08 Oct 2023):

• Telepopmusik – Smile (Natural High Remix)
    Release: Smile (Natural High Remix)
    Label: Universal Music Publishing France
• Monster Rally – Ginger on the Wind (feat. Mira Cook)
    Release: Menagerie – Single
    Label: Gold Robot Records
• Thrupence – Winston
    Release: Voyages
    Label: Thrupence
• Floating Forest – Dream Palace (Special Edition)
    Release: Nature Sounds After Dark
    Label:
• Oscar Oscar – Himeji
    Release: Himeji – Single
    Label: Majestic Casual Records
• Southpaw – Sincerly A Girl U Once Knew
    Release: Park63
    Label: 695581 Records DK2
• Koresma – Waves
    Release: South – EP
    Label: Koresma
• Able the Giant – Better Tomorrow
    Release: Beat Supply: Crate07
    Label: Beat Supply
• TheNoiseMachine – Don’t Worry So Much
    Release: Midnight Musings – EP
    Label: 2750455 Records DK
• Altitude. – The Camp
    Release: Knight – EP
    Label: Inner Ocean Records
• Sun Glitters – Beside Me
    Release: Everything Could Be Fine
    Label: Sun Glitters
• Macroblank – Covert Red
    Release: RARE PSALMS COLLECTION VOL.3
    Label: Macroblank
• Lone – Echo Paths
    Release: Always Inside Your Head
    Label: Greco-Roman
• TOR – City 66
    Release: Oasis Sky
    Label: Youth and Progress Recordings
• WMD – Another song about Ruby
    Release: Sophrosyne
    Label: WMD

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Photo: “Winter Kayaking, Lake Clark Sunset”. Credit: Lake Clark National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-01: Elven Mirrors., t.quoise, Ramakhandra and more

• Elven Mirrors. – Deep And Solemn
    Release: Chrono
    Label: Azlyn Records
• Laflamme – Bo-Tree
    Release: Canopy – EP
    Label: Canopy
• t.quoise – Life in Reverse
    Release: Life in Reverse
    Label: Soundsphere
• Bowcraft – Saltair
    Release: Many Distant Cities
    Label: 1469535 Records DK
• Catching Flies – Silver Linings
    Release: Silver Linings
    Label: Indigo Soul
• IG88 – Want
    Release: Want – Single
    Label: IG88
• Galactic Language – Spacial Echoes
    Release: Arrival
    Label: Galactic Language
• Casino Versus Japan – Marilyn Set Me Free
    Release: Hitori + Kaiso (1998 – 2001)
    Label: Attacknine Records
• Rykard – North Cormorant Obscurity
    Release: Arrive The Radio Beacon
    Label: Hunya Munya Records
• Melorman – Salty Air
    Release: For the Sun
    Label: Same Difference Music
• Ramakhandra – Haku (Rumtum Remix)
    Release: Haku (Rumtum Remix) – Single
    Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
• Dylan Stark – Northern
    Release: Heartland
    Label: Civil Music
• Frameworks – Rotations
    Release: Imagine Gold
    Label: Loci Records

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Photo: “Mt. Carrie”. Credit: Olympic National Park/NPS photo, public domain [i].

Episode 2022-52: Christopher Willits, The Sight Below, Machinedrum and more

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 25 Dec 2022):

• Cialyn – Second Wave
    Release: Sour Leaves
    Label:
• Third Person Lurkin – Adrift
    Release: The Lake of Woods
    Label: Bad Taste Records
• Tycho – Ascension
    Release: Dive
    Label: Ghostly International
• Hello Meteor – Charcoal and Ash
    Release: The Coastal Obscure
    Label: Evergreen Prefecture
• Shigeto – Olivia
    Release: No Better Time Than Now
    Label: Ghostly International
• lover girl – Soft Lights
    Release: Stay Asleep – Single
    Label: SXN
• Christopher Willits – Clear
    Release: Opening
    Label: Ghostly International
• Dan Black – Hot Cocoa
    Release: Winter
    Label: DystopiaPop
• Telefon Tel Aviv – Life Is All About Taking Things In and Putting Things Out
    Release: Fahrenheit Fair Enough
    Label: Ghostly International
• Lusine – Jetstream
    Release: Language Barrier
    Label: Hymen Records
• The Sight Below – Wishing Me Asleep
    Release: Murmur – EP
    Label: Ghostly International
• Soular Order – Sonder
    Release: 01/21 (A Live Album for Jamuary)
    Label: Soular Order
• Machinedrum – Endless <3
    Release: Vapor City Archives
    Label: Ninja Tune
• Boards of Canada – Turquoise Hexagon Sun
    Release: Music Has the Right to Children
    Label: Warp Records

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Photo: “Frozen Upper Falls” (The waters of Frijoles Creek following over the Upper Falls can freeze almost entirely during serious cold snaps in mid-winter). Credit: Bandelier National Monument, National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2022-51: Visitors, Gold Panda, Almanacs and more

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 18 Dec 2022):
We’re posting this a little early based on a very reasonable request

• Elven Mirrors. – Deep And Solemn
    Release: Chrono
    Label: Azlyn Records
• Invention & Ben Bada Boom – Scala Naturae (ft. Evil Needle)
    Release: Holism
    Label: Blvnt Records
• Visitors – Nothing is Necessary
    Release: Nothing is Necessary – Single
    Label: Visitors
• Gold Panda – New Days
    Release: The Work
    Label: City Slang
• Almanacs – Coyote Blanco
    Release: Spirits of the River
    Label: Mystery Circles
• Hello Meteor – Tobacco and Rain
    Release: Community Broadcasting
    Label: Evergreen Prefecture
• Teen Daze – Rainwater Coffee
    Release: Rainwater Coffee – EP
    Label: Teen Daze
• Elsa Hewitt – Tiny Dancer
    Release: Citrus Paradisi
    Label: ERH
• Space Ghost – 4 Am
    Release: 4 Am – Single
    Label: Tartelet Records
• Lusine Icl – Jetstream
    Release: Language Barrier
    Label: Hymen Records
• The Faded – Uncertainties
    Release: Uncertainties
    Label: The Faded
• Steve Moore – Beloved Exile
    Release: Beloved Exile
    Label: Temporary Residence Ltd.
• Tycho – From Home
    Release: Past Is Prologue
    Label: ISO50 Records

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Photo: “Blackwater Pond Reflection”. Credit: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2022-50: Pablo Bolivar & Sensual Physics, upusen and more

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 11 Dec 2022):

• Lord RAJA – Dipteres Pt. 2
    Release: Rubies – EP
    Label: Ghostly International
• Shepard – Not Bad Enough
    Release: Against Our Nation
    Label: Shepard
• upusen – Tape End
    Release: Birds
    Label: Midwest Collective
• Orange Crush – Invocation
    Release: Autumn Reflections
    Label: Orange Crush
• Sun Glitters – Too Much to Lose
    Release: Everything Could Be Fine
    Label: Sun Glitters
• Shigeto – Miss U
    Release: No Better Time Than Now
    Label: Ghostly International
• Takeleave – Calibu
    Release: Inner Sea
    Label: Project Mooncircle
• Swimming TV – Falling
    Release: Raindance – EP
    Label: Cosmonostro
• Arms and Sleepers – Disintegrating In Your Soul
    Release: Former Kingdoms Remixed
    Label: Achillea Music
• Eyukaliptus – Summit
    Release: The Moon_tape
    Label: 857594 Records DK
• Koresma – Offshores
    Release: Offshores – Single
    Label: Koresma
• Pablo Bolivar & Sensual Physics – Backen Punch
    Release: Details Am Rande
    Label: Seven Villas
• Tycho – A Walk (Kolombo Remix)
    Release: Dive (Deluxe Version)
    Label: Ghostly International
• Garden City Movement – Move On (Teen Daze Remix)
    Release: Entertainment – EP
    Label: BLDG5

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Photo: “Periwinkle [Vinca major]”. Credit: Alcatraz Island/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2022-49: Teebs, Gold Panda, Deep Shoq and more

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 04 Dec 2022):

• Teebs – NES
    Release: Did It Again – Single
    Label: Brainfeeder
• Birocratic; Brock Berrigan; iamalex & Philanthrope – Brockoli
    Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2021
    Label: Chillhop Music
• Gold Panda – New Days
    Release: The Work
    Label: City Slang
• Telefon Tel Aviv – Lotus Above Water
    Release: Fahrenheit Fair Enough
    Label: Ghostly International
• Sun Glitters – Outside (Howlings Remix)
    Release: Outside (Howlings Remix)
    Label: DFXFWXU Collective
• Lord RAJA – Dipteres Pt. 2
    Release: Rubies – EP
    Label: Ghostly International
• Anenon – Dreamer (For Mary Jane)
    Release: Sunsets and Clocks – EP
    Label: Non Projects
• Deep Shoq – Marathon
    Release: Pause – EP
    Label: SVNSET WAVES
• Chrome Sparks – Enter the Chrome Forest
    Release: Goddess – EP
    Label: Future Classic
• Macroblank – can’t fight it
    Release: RARE PSALMS COLLECTION VOL.4
    Label: Macroblank
• Sloslylove – Secret Dreams
    Release: Secret Dreams
    Label: Sloslylove
• Decisive Koala – Locate Memories
    Release: Locate Memories – Single
    Label: Decisive Koala
• Yu-Utsu – Sun
    Release: Sun – Single
    Label: 憂鬱
• il:lo – Vega
    Release: Vega
    Label: Nettwerk Music Group

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Photo: “View from Behind the Ice Wall”. Credit: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (NPS Photo), public domain [i].

Episode 2022-48: gonima, Aphex Twin, Boom Bip and more

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 27 Nov 2022):

• Arms and Sleepers – Greetings from Tokyo
    Release: Black Paris 86
    Label: Arms and Sleepers
• Aphex Twin – IZ-US
    Release: Come to Daddy
    Label: Warp Records
• Anenon – Dreamer (For Mary Jane)
    Release: Sunsets and Clocks – EP
    Label: Non Projects
• Rykard – North Cormorant Obscurity
    Release: Arrive The Radio Beacon
    Label: Hunya Munya Records
• Cepia – Hoarse
    Release: Natura Morta
    Label: Ghostly International
• Mvnners – Waking up Next to Someone You Love
    Release: Camden
    Label: SXN
• Boom Bip – Last Walk Around Mirror Lake (Boards of Canada Remix)
    Release: Corymb
    Label: Lex Records
• Gold Panda – New Days
    Release: The Work
    Label: City Slang
• gonima – Warm Season
    Release: Strands
    Label: SVNSET WAVES
• Aphex Twin – Alberto Balsam
    Release: …I Care Because You Do
    Label: Warp Records
• Casino Versus Japan – Marilyn Set Me Free
    Release: Hitori + Kaiso (1998 – 2001)
    Label: Attacknine Records
• Komodo – Concept 11
    Release: Still Life
    Label: Points Records
• Ametsub – Snowy Lava
    Release: The Nothings Of The North
    Label: Mille Plateaux
• 20HoursAfterDawn – Sweetness Of Fake Pollution
    Release: Sun Will Crackle – EP
    Label: I Low You records

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Photo: “Winter Atop Cadillac”. Credit: Acadia National Park/National Park Service photo, public domain [i].