Welcome to Arctic Circle Radio…

Hi…

Welcome to Arctic Circle Radio…

You’ll be able to hear what is inspiring the AC on a weekly basis in three shows – The Hut (me and a bunch of mp3s) and The Circle (a guest artist from the AC world compiling a weekly mix).  And Arctic Circle Radio which is now on Resonance FM (with much of the above but also with live guest and live sessions).

How do you listen? Well you can listen now by downloading the pocast.  Scroll down to the show you want to hear and either press the play icon or click on the download link. Or you can listen every Tuesday night to Chill (on your digital radio) at 10pm to hear the latest shows or 104.4 Resonance FM (we’re on summer break and return in September). Simple eh?

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Ben
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The Circle – Mix by Lost Idol (Edition 37) 1 August 10

Brought to you by Arctic Circle Radio, the Circle is a new weekly podcast that takes you on a one-hour journey based on the most simple and significant of shapes. Every Circle is unique; formed from a guest curator’s musical landscape and they all share the same revolutionary quality: each one ends at the point where it began.

Edition 37 – Mix by Lost Idol

download :http://media.libsyn.com/media/arcticcircle/37lostidol.mp3

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Like your quintessential Brit it’s inevitable that the Circle mix I’ve put together is based around the weather, or more specifically the seasons. Although recorded on one of those all too rare clammy summer evenings, I chose to start with Max Richter’s yearning ode to autumn, unquestionably my favourite season. Next we pass through a brand new Lost Idol track which reflects on the summer gone & looks towards the long, icy nights ahead, leading into the reassuring ambience of Fennesz like a fizzing warm glow on a bitter winter’s night. To Rococo Rot herald the gentle movement of spring with shuffling drums as life begins to stir in the hedgerows, while Brightonian instrumentalist Yawning Gulf conjures long, hazy afternoons spent squinting at the sun. The latter part of the mix draws us back full circle; with the endless possibilities of summer gone the leaves must fall, the darkness draws in & once again Max Richter reminds us of the sweet melancholy of autumn.

1. Black To Comm – Jonathan (Type)
2. Max Richter – Autumn Song 2 (Fat Cat)
3. Lost Idol – In Time & Space (Cookshop)
4. Fennesz – Vacuum (Touch)
5. LJ Kruzer – Frum (Uncharted Audio)
6. Roll The Dice – Guadeloupe (Digitalis Industries)
7. To Rococo Rot – Seele (Domino)
8. Jaga Jazzist – Toccata (Ninja Tune)
9. Implosion Quintet – (Don’t) Quack The Duck (Commodity)
10. Yawning Gulf – Last Day (self released)
11. Jonathan Krisp – 43 Crash (Cookshop)
12. Kirmann & Hodge – Piano Interrupted Pt.1 (Lobe)
13. Digitonal – A Lighter Touch (Just Music)
14. Jacaszek – Rytm To Niesmiertelnosc II (Miasmah)
15. Black To Comm – Jonathan (Type)
16. Max Richter – Autumn Song 1 (Fat Cat)

myspace.com/lostidol

The Hut (Edition 33) 1 August 10

Welcome to the Hut; a weekly velvety soft sonic celebration brought to you by Arctic Circle Radio. The Hut is a refuge, a cocoon of the finest in new music, spinning a warm glow from the outer-reaches of the snowy wastelands. Presented and produced by Ben Eshmade (with additional sounds and magic from Sone Institute),the Hut is a one-hour transmission from an intensely beautiful musical world.

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Edition 33 with music from The Boats, The Real Tuesday Weld, Martha Tilston, ISAN, Ólöf Arnalds and Rafael Anton Irisarri.

The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me – Dreamcasts

The Hut (Edition 32) 25 July 10

Welcome to the Hut; a weekly velvety soft sonic celebration brought to you by Arctic Circle Radio. The Hut is a refuge, a cocoon of the finest in new music, spinning a warm glow from the outer-reaches of the snowy wastelands. Presented and produced by Ben Eshmade (with additional sounds and magic from Sone Institute),the Hut is a one-hour transmission from an intensely beautiful musical world.

download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/arcticcircle/32hut128.mp3

Edition 32 – music from Eyebrow, Shannon Stephens, David Hurn, Coldstream, Dirty Projectors, Stornoway & Grasscut.

The Circle – Mix by Sone Institute II (Edition 36) 25 July 10

Brought to you by Arctic Circle Radio, the Circle is a new weekly podcast that takes you on a one-hour journey based on the most simple and significant of shapes. Every Circle is unique; formed from a guest curator’s musical landscape and they all share the same revolutionary quality: each one ends at the point where it began.

Edition 36 – Mix by Sone Instute II

download :http://media.libsyn.com/media/arcticcircle/36soneinstuteII128.mp3

Sone Institute – Circle Mix 2. Curious Radio is an intergalactic steam of conscious sonic journey through the farther reaches of memories, themes and woolly cotton dreams. Are you ready?

Based around the album Curious Memories by Sone Institute.

“A minor classic of British electronic music” – Wire May 10.

Tracks featured from Curious Memories

-          The wind began to switch
-          Dark forest
-          Silver Sea
-          Hobby horse
-          Tiny stars peer over the little roof
-          Lazy London ways
-          French woods
-          On tree hill
-          Tea for four
-          Sleep has its embers

www.myspace.com/soneinstitute
www.frontandfollow.com

The Explorers Club 2010

Sign Up or download a free track: www.l-o-a-f.com/explorer

The Explorers Club is a collaboration between LOAF recordings and Arctic Circle

Together we plan to bring you The Explorer’s Club, a series of special, one-off singles released once a month from 30, or so artists from the four corners of the globe. Iceland, Germany, Japan, Scotland, America, Ireland, France and Australia are just some of the places that these maverick composers and performers hail from.

We were delighted to have such great and established contributors to this project as The Mercury nominated Sweet Billy Pilgrim, the multi talented instrumentalist Peter Broderick, one of Scotland’s best kept secret Bill Wells (as The National Jazz Trio of Scotland), the ever-so-lovely Kama Aina and a piano driven track by Johann Johannsson.

We were privileged to work with such a diverse range of acts, represented by some of the most interesting labels around; Bella Union, Type, Static Caravan, Front & Follow, 4AD, SamadhiSound, Willkommen Records as well as our own blend of ‘Domestic Pop’ thrown in to the mix with contribution by LOAF’s own Montreal-based Oen Sujet and our handsome ‘hommie’ Vincent Oliver.

All of the artists involved create music inspired by the unknown. Our intrepid adventurers travel without maps into the hinterland to bring you back audio treasures capable of transporting your mind to another plane.

But Explorer’s Club isn’t only offering a selection of our favourite established acts. We’ve also been forging into the unknown to bring you some hand-picked, uncharted beauties such as Snowbird (new project of Simon Raymonde and Stephanie Dosen), Mint Julep and Soren Bigum, for whome Explorer’s club will be their debut release. Others are entering into new worlds of collaboration; Andy Nice & Isnaj Dui, Minotaur Shock & J Underwood, Ted Barnes & Emily Barker, Plus Plus & Hybernation and the stunning collective effort of Hauscka & Stephan Schneider.

So why not join us and explore a universe of music from the comfort of your own listening space.

http://lorecordings.greedbag.com/buy/explorers-club-subscription-pack/

Hear are the explorer’s club so far:

Listen to the Explorers Podcast:

Welcome to the Explorers Club I podcast. Contained within is an exclusive interview with Tim Elsenburg (from Sweet Billy Pilgrim), Peter Broderick and Ryan Teague will tell us more about their contributions to this year long musical adventure

Welcome to the Explorers Club II podcast. Contained within is an exclusive interview with david Edwards (from Minotaur Shock), Simon Raymonde (from Bella Union) and Keiron Phelan (from Smile Down Upon Us) will tell us more about their contributions to this year long musical adventure.

Sign Up or download a free track: www.l-o-a-f.com/explorer

The Circle – Mix by Hybernation II (Edition 35) 4 July 10

Brought to you by Arctic Circle Radio, the Circle is a new weekly podcast that takes you on a one-hour journey based on the most simple and significant of shapes. Every Circle is unique; formed from a guest curator’s musical landscape and they all share the same revolutionary quality: each one ends at the point where it began.

Edition 35 – Mix by Hybernation II

download : http://media.libsyn.com/media/arcticcircle/35hybernation128.mp3

Hybernation – Circle Mix 2 (E2 & E8). To celebrate the new Hybernation release on Cotton Goods, Stuart Bowditch has recorded a new Radio mix for Arctic Circle radio. The premise of the Circle Mix is to end up where you began, so he takes you on a journey around the E2 & E8 postcodes of East London, visiting all the locations where he made the field recordings which inspired the tracks on the new album.

In walking the route (70 minutes) you also pass the houses of several other musicians that live in the neighbourhood, so some of their work  has also been incorporated into the mix.

View the journey here

Many thanks to all involved: Craig at Cotton Goods, ambient.space,  Home Normal, Second Language, FBox Records, Paul at the Flea Pit,  Katie, Mark, Antony, Ollie and Ben at Arctic Circle.

http://www.myspace.com/autumnale
http://www.cottongoods.co.uk/

The Hut (Edition 31) 4 July 10

Welcome to the Hut; a weekly velvety soft sonic celebration brought to you by Arctic Circle Radio. The Hut is a refuge, a cocoon of the finest in new music, spinning a warm glow from the outer-reaches of the snowy wastelands. Presented and produced by Ben Eshmade (with additional sounds and magic from Sone Institute),the Hut is a one-hour transmission from an intensely beautiful musical world.

download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/arcticcircle/31hut128.mp3

Edition 31 – featuring music from Polar Bear, El Fog, Message to Bears, Rachael Dadd and Johann Johannsson.

Arctic Circle on Resonance FM (Edition 15) 25 May 10

Arctic Circle on Resonance FM; a weekly velvety soft sonic celebration brought to you by London finest promoter Arctic Circle and its team of penguin assistants. Situated in its own secluded Hut, this show is a refuge, a cocoon of the finest in new music, spinning a warm glow from the outer-reaches of the snowy wastelands. Presented and produced by Ben Eshmade, this show is a one-hour transmission from an intensely beautiful musical world featuring guests and live sessions from its extended family.

download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/arcticcircle/Resonance_15_25-05-10.mp3

Edition 15: On this edition of the show we have Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair aka Grasscut in the studio playing live some track from their forthcoming debut album for the Ninja Tune label. Their music sits somewhere on the little travelled road between electro pop and modern classical. Also on this transmission we catch up with the avante garde Berlin pianist and composer Nils Frahm (Erased Tapes) to talk in detail about his beautiful music.

www.myspace.com/grasscutmusic
www.myspace.com/nilsfrahm

Arctic Circle on Resonance FM (Edition 14) 18 May 10

Arctic Circle on Resonance FM; a weekly velvety soft sonic celebration brought to you by London finest promoter Arctic Circle and its team of penguin assistants. Situated in its own secluded Hut, this show is a refuge, a cocoon of the finest in new music, spinning a warm glow from the outer-reaches of the snowy wastelands. Presented and produced by Ben Eshmade, this show is a one-hour transmission from an intensely beautiful musical world featuring guests and live sessions from its extended family.

download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/arcticcircle/Resonance_14_18-05-10.mp3

Edition 14: On this edition of Arctic Circle Ben Eshmade present a special show featuring a live recording from the Whitechapel Gallery on Friday 30 April with singers Dom Coyote, Sara Lowes and Adrian Crowley.

www.myspace.com/adriancrowley
www.myspace.com/saralowes
www.myspace.com/domcoyote