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Good day listeners welcome to podcast no96, what a great lineup we have for you, with the opening track from the stunning new album by Tiger Forest getting the show on the road. Usual suspects here with their latest projects to fill the void with some outstanding sounds. First timers include Citizen-X, composing music on ios devices, iPhones and iPads. Norwegian Ivor Hansen, music styled on ambient and new age, Daniel Segerstad from Carbon Based Lifeforms new solo release under the name of SYNC24, veteran Spotted Peccary artists Howard Givens and Madhavi Devi, delicately traverse subtle electronic-ambient wonderlands and finally Holland Phillips music categorised as “new age, although very varied. Those who can’t get enough of Berlin School will find our blast from the past to their liking, the Synco track mysterious Invention part 1 was a serious player in this field when it was released in 1990, That’s enough from me, sit back & relax for the next three hours and immerse yourself into the music we all love

Welcome possums to another feast of eclectic Electronic music, as diverse as ever. Lets introduce you to our new faces on Sequences, Mythical Records introducing two female artists, Natasha who approaches a brand of experimental classical music and Melisande’s dark ambient neoclassical sounds, Hungarian Polytron, a future retro musician with his first full length album, B J M Mario Bajardi with expressive melodies and textures of orchestral richness, universe gazer Phillippe Kessler, and lastly German pianist and multi-instrumentalist Bernward Koch, lighting up the scene in New Age music over the last few decades. New releases include Steve Roach, who adds to his vast catalog ‘Shadow of Time’ in a style reminiscence of Structures From Silence and Quiet Music, Arcane who musically mimics the self propelled nature of the ‘Automaton’ and DeeperNET exploring downtempo of electronic music, just a few to be played on this issue. From 1979 we give you ‘In The Regions Of Sun Return’, Michael Garrison’s debut album w

G’day everyone. Here we go again with a batch of new releases for your enjoyment.A great mix of genres as always from previous musicians who have graced our airways over the years, these include Robert Scott Thompson’s distinctive innovative electronics, SpiralDreams infectious sequencing, the symphonic score of Moeckesch, melodic melodies of Rudolf Heimann to name but a few. It’s a pleasure to welcome on board Psychonavigate records, Ireland's leading chill-out ambient and electronic music label, we are previewing two of their latest albums, definitely one to watch. Our blast from the past comes from Tim Blake’s first solo album in 1977, ‘Crystal Machine’, after his departure from Gong, he was noted for being the first live act to introduce laser lighting in the entertainment world. We now hand you over to Synchronised, with his second release, Galaxy. Playlist No94 01.59 Synchronised ‘Intergalactic Rendevous’ (album Galaxy) https://synchronized.bandcamp.com 10.12 Synchronised ‘Pulsar’ 16.44 Rudolf Heiman

G’day listeners, welcome to the latest podcast no93. As always we are introducing several new releases to come our way over the last few weeks, some of these include new follow up albums from Colin Rayment & Bovetoya on the Syngate label. The ethereal gothic and dark ambient group Black Tape for a Blue Girl 11th release,’These Fleeting Moments’, ‘The Downland Shores’ from Levente, born in Transylvania’s Hungary now based in the UK, and Saul Stokes releasing his own different respective on electronic music with ‘Objects & Phenomena’. Those who haunt our airways on a regular basis are Jack Hertz’s Antarctica, 'Curated Ambient Works' from Ivan Black and ever dependable Stan Dart’s take on the arrival of Nasa’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. Listen out for Moby’s extract from 4 hours of quiet music he’s made over the last few years, and you can download it for free on his website, just the thing for yoga sleep or meditation. Blast from the past comes from 1979, Visions Of Dune from Bernard Szajner, inventor of the

Great to have you with us again for our first July edition number 92. For our British fans, immerse yourselves in the music we have here today, and for brief moment in time forget about what the future holds for you after Brexit, quite an unexpected result from all of us around the world. We take you on a journey of exquisite sounds from Europe & the USA and always include multiple genres in electronic music, celestial to chill-out cinematic to experimental and more, Kurtz Minefields, Mario Raposo , William Bowden, Malcom Galloway and Vox are new comers to Sequences, and I’m sure they have some great music here on offer, Our blast from the past comes from one of Mick’s favourite bands of the 70’s & 80’s, Popol Vu, timeless music from the soundtrack to ‘Aguirre, The Wrath Of God’. We leave you now with one of the best bands to come out of eastern Europe this century , the celestial, eclectic, fusion world, of Thy Veils. Sequences Podcast no92 02.10 Thy Veils ’Sun Sun’ (album Singles) www.thyveils.com 13.1

Welcome to all our listeners from around the world. Already we are half way into 2016, time certainly passes us by quickly these days and it’s been another good year for the music we all love, looking forward to what comes in the next half. We’ve come up with some more excellent music to make the time with us pleasurable, and introduce you to a few more new names, aired on this podcast for the first time. There’s plenty of diversity in this edition which we always try to achieve, perhaps not all the music here is to everybody’s taste, but hopefully it makes it more interesting to hear sounds that you might past by. Take look at playlist to see our lineup and bio pages on our website. Lastly, we would like to welcome back ex Tangerine Dream player, Peter Baumann with 'Machine Of Desires', his first solo album since 1983, We now leave you with two tracks from the excellent new album by Battery Dead, called Yield To Gravity. Playlist no 91 02.13 Battery Dead ‘This One Place’ (album Yield To Gravity) www.mello

G’day everyone from all the team at Sequences to our first June Edition, and what a show we’ve got for you, Three cracking new albums from Melllow jet records, the visionary member of the Romanian group, Thy Veils, Daniel Dorobantu, with his new solo release, David Wrights 1995 London Planetarium concert, remastered, Mythos epic musical concept album based on Jules Verne’s novel, calling it, ‘Around The World In 80 Minutes, otherworldly deep space music from Andrew Forrest’s Harmonics Trilogy, the wonderful spacey flowing ambient album ‘Liquid Moon’ by Jim Ottaway and mystic experimental sounds from Traumkraft. We must mention our new players to Sequences, Helsinki based Haraamo’s experimental ambient music, Portuguese Jos D’almeida creating atmospheric minimalist sounds, melodic sequencer driven compositions of Sequentonal, percussion laden score of Karmaben, and experience the weird soundscapes of Strange and Borderlines who make their first appearance at this years B-wave festival in Belgium, they will b

G’day Listeners, welcome to the new edition. Opening on this one is Andy Pickford’s No 2, in the series of the Vanguard releases, Steve Jolliffe with his new album ‘Cyclone Spheres’, a return to those magic days nearly 40 years ago when he joined Tangerine Dream for the ‘Cyclone’ album. AD Music’s special release for E-scape 2016, featuring contributions from the artists appearing there in June and a new one by Ketil Lien, ‘Exosphere’, formerly known as Wim. Another find from my neck of the wood, is Jim Ottaway, releasing 25 independent recordings since 2004, covering many genres, including space ambient, electronic dance, new age relaxation and music for film and television. ZANOV one of the earliest French musicians to start innovating in the world of electronic music from 1976, introduces us to his latest works, ‘Open Worlds’. The prolific UK composer Ivan Black, with two more ambient style download releases and many more outstanding musicians with their new music. Our blast from the past, is taken from e

G’day everyone, it’s that time again to bring you more juicy tracks from our music world, to keep you entertained. If you can’t get enough of Berlin School , we have some cracking tracks in that style to satisfy your habit. There’s also a good mix of ambient to chill out, cinematic to experimental music to, from the US, Australia, Europe & the UK. Special mention must go to Keith Richie’s monumental release of the Maestro Interstellar Suite, a truly work of art in this field. We are again introducing classic tracks from the early years on forthcoming issues. Our chosen track is from the 1990 album, ‘The Dome’ by Ole Hojer Hansen. We pay our tribute to Jeff Koval known as Terra Ambient, who died to soon, at the age of 44, a sad lost to the ambient community. You can hear a track from his first album for the Spotted Peccary label, 'Wanderlust'. From my part of the world, Oz, we introduce you to Kl(aus), one of the very few bands we get from there, using vintage equipment to get that Berlin school impr

Welcome listeners to our 87th edition. We are already nearly 4months in from the start of 2016 and in that time we’ve certainly had a great deal of outstanding new music to share with you on our podcasts. Many of you probably saw the announcement on Facebook, that we will be celebrating our 25th year of Sequences and our 100th podcast towards end of this year. We have a host of musicians who will be contributing new music for that special event, definitely something to look forward to. As always, we are promoting mostly new albums on this show, again the mix of electronics are varied and diverse, do check out the bio pages for info on those appearing. I leave it to Mike Shipway and Steve Smith of Volt to get the show on the road with their latest album, A Day Without Yesterday. Sequences Podcast no87 01.51 Volt ’Through The Black Hole’ (album A Day Without Yesterday) *** www.groove.nl 16.26 Paul Nagle ’Space Tadpoles’ (album Beyond L-Dopa) www.bogusfocus.com/pn/ 26.24 Paul Nagle ‘Take It Easy’ 39.03 Rober

G’day one and all, welcome to our new edition, bringing some of  the latest releases from both sides of the globe, it always surprises us with the amount of quality electronic new music out there in the genre we love to hear. Every year we are adding a host of new names to our podcasts who produce creative and beautiful sounds. As most of you know, we are aired on several music sites, the choice is yours, now we’ve been added to Dice radio based in Greece and started to stream Sequences every day of the week between 1and 6 pm, we presume this is European time, includes several of our recent 2016 shows. Don’t forget to check out the bio pages on our website, this especially for the new listeners on Dice radio. Now, stop what your doing and allow some time to immerse yourself into the music with Colin Rayment & Stan Dart’s collaboration, Less Gravity, kicking off this edition, enjoy. Playlist No 86 01.59 Colin Rayment & Stan Dart ‘Less Gravity’ www.colinrayment.com 10.56 DigitalSimplyWorld ‘Let’s Go’ *** ww

G’day Ladies and Gentlemen, hold on to what you are doing and come with us into the oceans of atmospheric textures, expressive rhythmical dynamics and the unexplained darktones, cast by our selection of talented musicians who take you on their journey into the sounds of this millennium and the far reaches of the universe….. It has been said in the past that electronic music is cold and distant from the machines, far from it, in the hands of the composers they can express the emotions and passions of any genre of music in this present day…. All the usual suspects are here on the latest edition, with exception of Angelina Yershova evocative and mysterious sounds and Gregorius with his elegant guitar based ambient music…. We kick off with Mercury Antennae’s latest haunting dark wave release, ‘Beneath The Serene'. Sequences no 85 Track List. Mercury’s Antennae ‘Le Spectre Concubine’ (album Beneath The Serene) www.projekt.com Mercury’s Antennae ‘Silivren’ Johan Tronestam ‘Back Into Orbit’ (The Long Journey) w

G’day listeners, welcome to the first of two March editions, featuring mainly recent new releases. With this issue it’s certainly one which has gathered a host of diverse sounds in this genre. We take you through a journey of berlin school, cinematic, ambient, cosmic, ethnic, pure experimental,and new age, from some outstanding musicians in their field of electronic music, Let the show begin with Nord, who has graced our airways numerous times. Sequences No84: Track List 01.30 Nord ‘Hydra’ 1 ’ (album Hydra) *** www.nordmusic.ro 12.24 Cycles Of Moebius ‘Looop’ (album First Cycle-R ) www.c-o-l-o-u-r-s.com/artists/cycles-of-moebius 20.28 Cycles Of Moebius ‘Going’ 24.13 Cycles Of Moebius ‘The Art Of’ 27.35 Sequentia Legenda ‘Amira’ (album AMIRA) www.sequentia-legenda.com 37.14 Space Sweeper ‘Oceana Galactica’ (album Alien Oceans) www.silbermedia.com 47.40 Brian Brylow ‘The Space Within’ www.facebook.com/brian.brylow?fref=t 54.32 MaEasy ‘Lion Space Cage’ (album Urberfunk) www.maeasy.de 58.39 KI(aus) ‘Jam W

G’day listeners, here we are again with some of our regular musicians with their new projects and the music certainly lives up of what we expect from them. Kuutanna has been busy with a new collaborative venture going under the name of Luna Firma,with the style of music in ambient soundscapes, Jack Hertz always surprise us with his more experimental side but accessible, Syndromeda and Mac Of Bionight takes us to a higher plain of other worldly sounds and the power house of Ryo Utasato from Japan producing exceptional dynamic music, and few more surprises to keep you entertained, New faces on Sequences include Keith Richie and J.L. Benlloch, with an exclusive preview of Stan Dart’s working tracks from his new album expected later in the year. We kick off with three tracks from Ryo’s catalog of music with that oriental twist, enjoy. Playlist no 83 1.51 Ryo Utasato ‘Kurenai’ https://www.reverbnation.com/ryoutasato 6.04 Ryo Utasato ‘Frozen Flower’ 10.36 Ryo Utasato ‘Dreams Of Dawn’ 12.58 Keith Richie ’Seattl

Hello possums, welcome to our new edition packed with some class acts in the field of electronic music. It’s been a stressful few days for mick getting this one ready for you, with the mercury touching nearly 40C here in Oz, and the humidity just drains away your energy, It seems this month we’ve had a lot of music in the ambient style again, cosmic to experimental, including some of our favourites who we have known for many decades now, Erik Wollo, Craig Padilla, Forest Fang & Steve Roach among them. A couple of Berlin School excursions from Space Megalithe and Andreas Meyer, with Jack Hertz who has been a prolific musician over years teaming up with Scott Lawlor, another collaboration under his belt. The opening track comes from our Norwegian friend Erik Wollo. 1.49 Erik Wollo ‘Revealed In Time’ (album Visions) http://www.wollo.com 7.45 Erik Wollo ‘Misty Blue’ 14.23 Steve Roach ‘Emotions Revealed’ (album Emotions Revealed) *** www.steveroach.com 26.14 Craig Padilla ’Stonington Moon’ (album Heaven

This is the second podcast of the month, featuring ambient cosmic cinematic and experimental sounds, which at times are truly uplifting, combine this with other worldly sounds and you have a journey were you can let go of the outside world and absorb this sometimes strange but beautiful music, definitely night time listening, sweet dreams or maybe nightmares. Playlist no81 1.22 Psicolorama ‘The Kidnapped Life’ (album The Garden & The Pool: Maryanne’s Diaries On The Farm) 15.06 Souls Swirling Somewhere ‘One Of These Days Some Eyes Will Be Opened’ (album Eating The Sea) 19.55 Neorus ’Shine’ (album Heaven) http://neorus.bandcamp.com/ 25.48 Neorus ‘Heaven Part 1’ “ “ 37.08 Neuronium ‘Ionic Shadows’ (album Jamais Vu) http://www.neuronium.eu 46.48 Neuronium ‘Ledeliredevieillir’ *** “ “ 57.08 The Fragile Fate ‘Lilliam Ocean’ (album Lilliam Ocean) https://carpesonum.bandcamp.com/album/lilliam-ocean 65.27 The Fragile Fate ‘Configuration’ “ “ “ 73.15 Steve Roach ‘Vortex 1 & 2 (album

G’day folks, welcome to a double bill with our podcasts, Mick has a busy month ahead,so, we are putting out two editions together… A little bit different this time,number 80 showing the more uptempo electronics, maybe a little toe tapping is not out of the question to,with the light and dark ambient styles on number 81, Take it slow it’s a lot to take in, six hours of great music. 1.27 Alexis Voice ‘Voyager’ (album Synthetic World) https://www.facebook.com/pages/ALexis-Vo... 4.56 Alexis Voice ‘Reflection’ 8.16 Alexis Voice ‘Explorer’ 12.14 Arcane ‘Catacomb’ https://paullawler.bandcamp.com/album/contagion 17.08 Arcane ‘Pier Theme’ (album Contagion) 22.34 Johan Tronestam ‘Event Horizon’ http://www.teamquasar.se 28.03 Johan Tronestam ‘Reflections’ (album Best Of Johan Tronestam 2010-2013) 33.42 AnAstromo ‘Captain Nemo’ http://anastromo.bandcamp.com 39.34 AnAstromo ‘Freediver’ (album Underwater Time) 46.26 Trapecio ‘Proxima Centauri’ https://www.facebook.com/hernan.perezdigiovanni 54.23 Trapecio ‘Magnetar’

G’day listeners, we have had a ton of stuff come in over the last month, so, we decided to finish the year with a bumper edition with an extra hour, might be best to delve into the music in two sessions. Mick said “some might call him a humbug, but there will be no takes on Christmas classic songs this year, he’s not a fan of this in electronic music” It’s been another exceptional year of some truly great sounds from not only our regulars but many of the new artist we’ve promoted throughout the last twelve months. We would like to thank all the musicians and listeners who have supported us in 2015, bring on 2016. Have a great Christmas, see you all next year. Sequences Podcast No79 01.03 Sequential Dreams ‘Across Dimensions’ (album Lost Dimensions) *** http://www.bordersedge.com/news/sequentialdreams-lostdimensions 17.00 Sequential Dreams ‘One Thousand Years’ “ “ “ 22.54 Dreamweavers ‘ Til The End Of Time’ (album Love Fusion) https://dreamweavers7.bandcamp.com/ 28.49 Dreamweavers ‘Melt

G’day listeners, we bring you a special edition podcast no78. All the sounds you hear are from the German label, SynGate. The owner Killian Cabguy who doesn’t just gives us Berlin School and classic electronic styles, takes the music further with the SynGate Luna label, promoting ambient, avant garde and experimental music, enjoy. Syngate Special podcast no79 00.00: Alien Nature & Stan Dart ‘Requiem’ (album Accelerator) 07.00: Alien Nature & Stan Dart ‘Xterminator’ 17.25: Betzler & Bruckner ‘To The Flame Of Hope’ (album Two) *** 27.23: Betzler & Bruckner ‘Gaia’ *** 39.13: Fringo Chills ‘Bimetall’ (album First Time) *** 47.55: Fringo Chills ‘Blue Atmospheres’ *** 59.24: TM Solver ‘Polar Night’ (album Svalbard) *** 70.17: TM Solver ‘Arctic Dream’ 77.13: Rainbow Serpent ‘Transmissions’ (album Pulse) *** 88.03: Rainbow Serpent ‘Pulse part 3’ 98.16: Anders Jorgensen ‘The Good,The Bad & The Modular’ (album Greatest Hits) 106.24: Anders Jorgensen ’Tsing Tao’ 115.55: Syndromeda & Mac Of BIOnighT ‘Obsidian’ (

G’day everyone, welcome to Sequences, I know a lot of you from the other side of the globe are tasting their first days of winter, but It’s certainly been hot & humid here in Australia, which coincidently brings us to some hot releases on this issue. Several of the artists, Robert Rich and Unisphere were recently seen performing at B-Wave & E-live festivals. There’s certainly some great music here again, covering a multitude of genres we all love, Spiral Dreams Infectious rhythms, Electron 7 and Ahidema cinematic approach, Black Tape For A Blue Girl dark wave to name but a few. To get the show on the road we have Michael Vermey, known as Anhidema appearing for the first time for Sequences, with the powerful track, Crusader. Sequences Podcast No77 1.44 Anhidema ‘Crusader’ http://www.anhidema.com 6.10 Electron7 ‘Sea Of Sand’ (album A Secret Place-Musical Manna) http://www.wix.com/artist/electron7 11.10 Electron 7 ‘The Promised Land’ 21.49 UNIsphere ‘Obviously Orbiting’ (album Endless Endeavour) www.gro