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Sequences Podcast No 131 Here is our second edition for the double bill of podcasts this month, this time leaning on the more, shall I say the lighter side, although we have a varied musical lineup featuring cinematic scores, ambient/dark ambient, ethereal guitars, other worldly sounds and much more. We start the journey through the music of Erik Wollo, showcasing heroic guitars cinematic synth orchestrations dynamic & emotional, a trademark of his recording career. Playlist No 131 01.28 Erik Wollo ’Wind Journey 1’ (album Wind Journey) www.spottedpeccary.com 06.25 Erik Wollo ‘Dreamlines’ 11.40 Erik Wollo Passage Of Time’ 16.14 Keith Richie ‘Alive!’ (album Xenogenesis Volume 1: Dawn) https://keithrichie.bandcamp.com/yum 19.10 Keith Richie ‘Awakening’ 21.29 Keith Richie ’Nikanj’ 26.16 Levente ‘Vanishing 1’ (album Lost Works) https://levente.bandcamp.com/album/lost-works, 27.47 Levente ‘Salvador Dali: The Art of Cinema’ 32.42 Levente ‘Carl Friedrich Schinkel: Cathedral Towering Over Town’ 36.00 Fiona Joy ‘Sto

Were back, hope you enjoyed our best of Sequences to fill in while Mick was away for a month, it was great to look back at some of the musical highlights we had over the last five years, definitely do this again. Now on to our regular podcasts for July, it was decided after a hectic month & numerous promos coming in, there will be two editions together for this month, one the more uptempo stuff, which includes, Berlin Schoo,l sequential, melodic & progressive side of electronic music the other, with cinematic, piano, cosmic, ambient & dark ambient etc. To many to mention in the lineup for these two issues, as always, just check out our podcast page on our website for playlists & bio pages. We kicked off with the new release by Air sculpture, ‘TravellingLight’, a live album from the E-Day Festival 2015, the most intense playing from the guys you will hear. Sequences Podcast no131 Berlin School: Sequential: Melodic: Progressive: Chill -Out: 02.00 Airsculpture ‘Travelling Light’ (album Travelling Light) **

Holiday over & jetlaged after visiting family & friends in the UK & France for the last four weeks, attending one music festival, E-Scape, while I was there. Here is the second compilation of tracks from our catalogue of music from 2012 to 2017 “Sequences Best of Vol 2” Lots of new releases to through for our next regular podcasts in July. Playlist: Sequences, Best Of Vol 2 00.00 Wolfgang Spyra ‘Staub’ http://www.derspyra.de 09.13 Synco ‘Mysterious Inventions’ (album 85 to 89) www.groove.nl 18.51 Robert Schroeder ‘Moments’ (album Paradise) www.sphericmusic.com 23.31 Battery Dead ‘Liquid Light’ ( Album Shades) www.syngate.net 31.52 Da Capo ‘Tempo Rubato’ 37.32 Andy Pickford ‘Questions’ www.andypickfordmusic.com 43.58 Damian Skrzynski ‘Wait Before You Sleep’ (album Touching The Clouds) 49.49 Mark Dwane ‘Anomalies’ (album Anomalies) www.markdwane.com 55.29 Stan Dart ‘Movement 3’ (Album Launch Approval) www.stan-dart.com 01.07.40 Wojciech Kania ‘Ultimate’ https://soundcloud.com/alberia 01.10.33 Ryo Utasa

Sequences best of Volume 1 00.00 Tigerforest ‘Touch The Sky’ (album Tides Of Day & Night) www.tigerforest-music.com 05.46 Walter Christian Rothe ‘Eagle’ www.grooveunlimited.de 11.36 Thy Veils ‘Adancime Live’ (album Singles) www.thyveils.com 20.14 Airsculpture ‘Live’ www.airsculpture.com 34.24 Mark Jenkins & Alquima ’Sunrise Teotihuacan’ http://www.markjenkinsmusic.com/ 37.43 Manuel Gottsching ‘Live at the Ambient Festival, Poland 2013’ www.ashra.com 47.57 Bernd Kistenmacher ‘Beautiful Moments’ (album Live & Studio Tapes 1992) www.berndkistenmacher.com 1.01.30 Jesper Sorensen ‘Skyrider’ (album Skyrider) www.jespersorensen.bandcamp.com 1.06.29 Cosmic Ground ‘Legacy’ (album Cosmic Ground) www.cosmicground.bandcamp.com 1.15.34 Grzegorz Majcherczyk ‘Heroica’ www.majcherczyk.pl 1.19.04 Ole Hojer Hansen ‘The Dome Pt 2’ (album The Dome) http://www.electribute.com 1.25.43 Constance Demby ‘Lotus Opening’ (album Set Free) www.constancedemby.com 1.31.23 Chris Spheeris ‘Desires Of The Heart’

Before we proceed with our latest podcast, some news. Mick will be going to the UK & France in a couple of weeks time for a month, so, this will be the only podcast for May & possible only time for one in June. Not to leave you without your dose of electronic music from us or have withdrawal symptoms, we decided to do a best of Sequences to tie you over, to be released the end of May. Because of the thousands of tracks we have from our shows, we’ve called it volume one, picked randomly and quickly. Those musicians not on there, don’t worry your time will come later. On with our latest edition again is mixed bag of genres, dark ambient from Divided By Two, Red Planet Orchestra & Inner Vision Laboratory, the ethereal atmospherics of Erik Wollo, mighty 70’s sounds of Node , sci-fi themed electro symphonic trek by Sveere Knut Johansen, with David Helping, Johan Tronestam’s melodic sequential sounds, lengthly epics of early Kosmische and Berlin Underground tones of Von Haulshoven, plus many more outstanding relea

A lot of new faces on Sequences again, which includes two female musicians, the dark heavy music of Ecstasphere & The other side of who’s? brooding heartbeat of sparkling sounds. On the male side, Suduaya purifying melodies & driving baselines, the colourful intense approach by, Lewis James, intimate choral layers from Irezumi, Herd Of Instinct progressive rock album, transformed into slow moving soundscapes, melodic, downtempo, electronics by Rykard, Angel Mario Passotti’s exploration of the universe and imaginative sounds of Giant Skeletons. Our blast from the past features two tracks from, ‘The World Of Bleep & Booster’, featuring the duo of Stephen Singleton, of the Vice-Versa ABC fame & Dave Lewin released in 1994. That brings us to our opening track from Nord, who we have featured over many years, with this new album, ‘The Tree Of Life’, there’s a definite prog influence throughout. Playlist no 128 02.09 Nord ‘The Wise Man’ (album The Tree Of Life) https://nordmusic.bandcamp.com 14.06 Suduaya ‘F

You better get your dancing shoes on for this edition, only joking, although there’s a fair amount of sequential melodic and uptempo tunes here. Included is epic soundtracks, dark doom laden & heavy organ sounds from Albert Pulstar, Adamennon & Gavin Morretti, World music from Karmarius & Nitish Kulkarni, with VA7 & Mysture on the fringes of instrumental prog rock, tracks from Yves Potin’s reworked & remastered previous albums, touches of Jazz & experimentation here, ambient music from The Long Light & K Markov, the latter with minimalistic rhythms, a touch of Berlin school with sequencers in full flow by Akikaze, continuing his melodic and infectious tunes Jesper Sorensen and Jarguna’s, ethno organic sounds with added sequencers. Blast from the past is the almost gothic synth ambiences of 3rd Millennium’s Choice Volume 2, from the avante gard musician Peter Frohmader, released in 1991. Playlist No127 02.04 Mysture ‘Love’s A Mystery’ https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Mysture 06.56 Mysture ‘Leather Boots At Ni

For those of you who have time off for this Easter holiday and feeling bored, why not join us for a few hours, on our musical journey with the latest edition of Sequences. Out of the 18 musicians here, 11 make their first appearance. On the more ambient side we have Jeff Greinke rich textured soundscapes, Off Land’s dreamworld, the mysterious sound of Sampan Viking and Loomer’s sequential ambient music with him occasionally using the accordion, The melodic sounds taken care of by Nils Frahm intricate compositions, the lush cinematic worldly music of Sampan Symbion, influences of psychedelic from Harald Gramberg. and ex Kinetix member Colin Jordan with his new band Axxent Opaque. I would like to welcome three of woman on this issue, dark apocalyptic themes by Dalys and from South America Valesuchi & Sobrenadar rhythmical melodic tunes. Although not electronic, our vintage track comes from the pure mighty sound of the Baroque organ on the 1976 Hymns Spheres, in the hands of Keith Jarrett, who milks all availabl

Welcome all to another feast of eclectic electronic music, now into our 6th year, bringing you musicians from all corners of the globe. Joining us on this three hour journey are: Beyond Berlin & SpiralDreams with their sequential Berlin school sounds, Rayspark exploring ever changing long form ambient pieces, Martin Neuhold & Romerium’s improvisation collaboration, Mindphaser’s spacial journey, surrealistic ambience of Robert Rich, avante garde sound manipulation and musical space-shaping by Bob Holroyd, Thy Veils founder Daniel Dorobantu ethereal ambience and many more outstanding tracks for your enjoyment. Our vintage track is from the 1980 release Atmospheres by Adelbert Von Deyen, who sadly passed away this year.. We begin with some tasty German synth rock from Michael, Tommy & Sammy, known as P’Faun. Sequences Playlist no 125 01,59 P’Faun ’sp’roque Part 2’ (EP sp’roque) https://pfaun.bandcamp.com/album/sproque-ep 12.08 Patroux ‘The Visitor’ http://patrouxambientmusic.wixsite.com/monsite 17.25 Patroux

Hi everyone, it’s that time again to immerse yourself into a host of great electronic music presented by Sequences coming from a very wet, hot & steamy Queensland. Although we love the melodic & accessible side to electronic music, be it Berlin School, Chill-out, New Age and so on, the experimentation of ambient atmospheric music takes us into the fascinating collage of sounds beyond the boundaries of easy listening and throes up so many aspects of what man and machines can do, haunting & captivating, but don't worry, we are still bringing a good choice of diverse sounds, accessible & listenable, which are mostly from new album releases. Taking care of the ambient & the experimental side include, Numina, David Gerard, Juta Takahashi, Spacetime Continuum, K Ambient Sounds, Claudio Casanueva & Shall Remain Nameless, this leaves us with Ryo Utasato, Stephan Whitlan, Dask, Karmarius, Ron Boots & Others & Daniel Pierzecki, covering symphonic, sequential, melodic & even a touch of prog rock sounds. Our vintage trac

After the uptempo rhythmical & sequential electronics being more dominate in the first two editions of the new year, we are back with a varied mix, to include the ambient space sounds with the duo Perceptual Dreams & Syndromeda, ethnic instruments & minimalist soundscapes by Forest Fang, Strom Noir, described as guitar & loop based with a melancholic feel, the powerful mix of blended electronics & acoustic space atmospheres, by J.Arif Verner, & the huge wall of sound from Red Planet Orchestra. New comers to Sequences are, Finish composer Janne Hanhisuanto, interestedly, using only the SYNA D.I.Y. polyphonic synth on his latest release, Spanish musician Llia Rodriguez, known as Hypnodial creating a canvas of layered ambiance, Shaun & Clive from MonkeyTrial, a brand of rhythmical scores electronica & guitars, with our only female Enlia, a French musician giving us textured atmospheres & haunting melodies. As some of our friends are freezing their butts off in the northern hemisphere, we’ve chosen a suitable vin

Welcome to our second podcast of the New year 2018, already flowing with some great music in electronic sounds, On board with this edition includes tracks from new albums by, Eagle, Jesper Sorensen, ToXyGeNeDK, Rene Van Der Wouden, giving us rhythmical sequential music with a touch of Berlin School, Ian Boddy & Eric Wollo’s third collaboration of haunting electronics & guitar, Kristain Westergaard mighty epic scores, the ambient sounds of Patrick Pique & Flica, the latter a more minimal approach, WilyEPeyote & Ivan Black sonic collage of intricate sounds, the spacial ambience in Napoca Experiment, Deep Imagination’s deep sounding notes with jazzy tones, leaving Eifel Music & Shamall veering on the prog rock side. Ending this session, our golden oldie track Puls, coming from the echoed guitar textures on the 1979 release Uberfallig by Gunter Schickert. Playlist no122 Jesper Sorensen ‘Rendevouz’ (album Dark Star) https://jespersorensen.bandcamp.com Jesper Sorensen ‘Communication’ Eagle ‘The Lost Kosmonaunt’

Happy New Year to all our listeners. We kick off at the beginning of 2018 with a selection of mostly new releases from some of our regulars, with seven new names added to Sequences. This edition focus’s on more melodic, uptempo electronics, which certainly lifts the spirit of the music energy wise, driving sequencing, pounding percussion featured in a lot of the sounds, not to say there are some quieter moments with ambient, neo-classical and chill out tracks to lighten the load on the senses. On a sad note, we lost recently a great musician and friend, Wolfgang Gsell from Germany, a prolific composer and collaborator with many of our electronic musicians, featured are two tracks from one of his last recordings, on the album Space, with Johan Tronestam. Also like to mention Robin of Morphieusmusic losing his partner to cancer recently, you can hear his special moving tribute to her on, The Owl And The Lily. Playlist no121 02.04 Altocirrus ’Touchwood’ (album The Alchemists Head) www.altocirrus.bandcamp.com

With Christmas upon us shortly and Mick being busy with other projects, we decided to split the next edition into two parts, which will be the only ones to play out the year. Firstly a feast of melodic uptempo music, progressive, jazzy and energetic, Kraftwerk influenced tracks too, with Berlin School rounding off a storming set, sequencing heaven for some of you. While you catch your breath we delve into the second session part 2. Ambient music, light & dark, spacey and experimental, creating atmospheric, futuristic, dramatic soundscapes, truly engaging. From all team we would just like to say thanks to all the musicians who have graced our airways throughout the year and listeners tuning in, have a happy Christmas and we look forward to bringing you more great music in the New Year. Sequencest no 120 Part 2 00.00 David Wide ‘Mirror Of Our Soul, Featuring Chiara Oppizzi’ http://www.davidwide.com/ 06.30 M. Persson-Sounds In The Vast Ocean I Found You’ (album Musicformessier & Friends Constellations 111,

With Christmas upon us shortly and Mick being busy with other projects, we decided to split the next edition into two parts, which will be the only ones to play out the year. Firstly a feast of melodic uptempo music, progressive, jazzy and energetic, Kraftwerk influenced tracks too, with Berlin School rounding off a storming set, sequencing heaven for some of you. While you catch your breath we delve into the second session part 2. Ambient music, light & dark, spacey and experimental, creating futuristic dramatic soundscapes, truly engaging. From all team we would just like to say thanks to all the musicians who have graced our airways throughout the year and listeners tuning in, have a happy Christmas and we look forward to bringing you more great music in the New Year. Sequences Podcast no 120 Part 1 01.50 Mac Of BionighT ‘Driving Force’ (album Visible Galaxies) http://www.macvibes.com/HOMEE.html 13.50 Franck Goupil ‘Returning Home’ (album Cosmosis) www.franckgoupil.com 21.42 Franck Goupil ‘Floating In

Well it’s getting nearer that time for the Christmas festivities, although with Mick being based in Australia and it’s their summer here to, it doesn’t feel quite the same as back in the UK especially when temps here can reach 40c, and I don’t think he’s going to stick to the traditional Christmas day meal of prawns here in Oz. On to the music, besides our usual suspects who have grace our airways in the past we welcome Pauline Strom a blind keyboardist from the USA, Mark Griffiths whose early works were on Electronical Dreams a well known cassette label in the UK in the 80’s & 90s, Galactic Underground a new project by Johan Geens better known as Venja, Siddartha Barnhoorn’s spacial immersion into deeper ambient music, Spanish composer Adrian Sandoval a more progressive synthesist and Macro noise’s accessible tunes. Our blast from the past is Rolf Trosel’s Test tanz, from the 1981 album Inselmusik, recorded entirely on the ppg Wave computer 360, enjoy the show. Sequences Podcast no119 02.07 Galactic Under

Here at Sequences we continue to bring you some of the best new music found in the EM scene..Again having a healthy balance of electronics from the more melodic uptempo style to atmospheric ambient stuff, some erring on the experimental side, but still accessible. Included in this latest edition we have Andy Pickford’s marathon release Pareidolia, clocking in at over three & half hours, more sequential melodies from Jeffrey Koepper on Transmitter,, French composer Alpha Lyra emotional cosmic trip on Ultime atome, from the dark side, Approaching Dark Space by Phobos and the mighty melodies of Johan Tronestam on Luther, with many more outstanding sublime musical journeys to savour. Vintage track comes from Pillion’s 1980 Enigmas album, sourced from a original vinyl LP which was never released on CD, because their master tapes and the remaining albums were destroyed in a fire at their record company. Opening for this three hour podcast we have two tracks from Johan’s Luther album, enjoy. Sequences podcast no1

Over three quarters of the way now into this New year and we’ve certainly had some outstanding music from established & new musicians featured on Sequences, with an increase in listeners especially on Soundcloud, with some of the newer editions attracting over 2500 plays. As with previous podcasts we cover a wide range of electronic music from Berlin School to Chillout, ambient to synth rock. Marcel Vinaros, Epilogue, Chris Coco, Samora & Wolfgang Nachahmer are here for the first time on Sequences. Mick was shocked to hear the passing of his very good friend Klaus Hoffman Hock from Germany. He will be sadly missed by all fans and musicians who have had the pleasure of working and talking to such a lovely human being, his charm, professionalism & wit will never be forgotten, bon voyage my good friend, another journey awaits you. As a tribute we’ve included in this podcast one of our favourite tracks, the beautiful & serene ‘La Vie’ from Colours Of Time by Mind over Matter, the group he formed in 1986. Not s

After having virtually no rain since May in Queensland, it finally came in the beginning of October, temps dropped to a more comfortable level, especially welcoming when compiling this podcast in front of those warm computers & devices. I’ve had an upgrade to my vocabulary, although Mick saids he doesn’t hear any difference, what do you think? In this edition we have some of our favourite artists showcasing their latest works, including Ivan Black, Sequential Dreams, Keith Richie, Nord, Bouvetoya & Thy Veils, latest project from Michael Bruckner & Hans Dieter Schmidt, going under the name of ‘Bridge To Imla’, with more new names added to roster of artists appearing on our podcasts. We picked the pulsating & energetic track ‘Mercalli’s Scale’ from the1992 album ‘More Live By Popular Demand’, by Ron Boots, Eric Heijden & Friends for our blast from the past. Be prepared to be blown away by the latest Sequential Dreams release Metamorphic Waves, this release is highly recommended for lovers of space roc

With it being a busy month for Mick, this will be our only edition instead of the normal two. We always like to focus on giving you a preview of new releases and hearing some outstanding musicians with different styles in Electronic Music, it’s all here for your ears. You will notice a lot of new names introducing their tunes on Sequences including, Jorg Schaaf, Quest, Fryderyk Jona, David Gerard, Rick Batyr, Bobbotov, Danutz, Hammock & The Heisenberg Compensators with some great music from melodic floating sounds to beautiful neoclassical scores. Our vintage track comes from French composer Bernard Xolotl’s 1983 LP Procession, with the seductive tones of violinist Daniel Kobialk joining him on that release. We open with Translunar’s rhythmical and melodic new release Robots, enjoy. 01:53 Translunar ‘Timestorm’ (album Spaceman) www.translunarmusic.com 08.34 Translunar ‘Rise Of The Robots’ 12,53 Rick Batyr ‘Synchronize, Feat Tikki Masala’ (album Unfolding) https://www.pranasoundstudio.com 23.41 Rick Batyr ‘