The Hut (Edition 6) 30 June 09

oensujetWelcome 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.

Edition 6 – Featuring new music from Tosca, Emily Barker, Oen Sujet, Vessels, Celar and Bill Wells and Mahler Shala Hash Baz.

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1 Celer Part 1 Engaged Touches Home Normal
2 Finn Half-Moon Stunned The Best Low-Priced Heartbreakers You Can Own Erased Tapes
3 Tom Friese-Greene Track 8 10 Sketches for Piano Trio LTM
4 Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo Bloated, Blistered, Aching Heart Despite the Snow Everyone Sang
5 Tosca Birthday No Hassle K7
6 James Rutledge Out the Magik Window The Great Ectacy of.. Loaf
7 Bill Wells and Mahler Shalal Hash Baz The Dust of Months GOK Geographic
8 Vessels Remain (Brendon Anderegg Remix) Retreat Cuckundoo
9 Orla Wren The Fish and the Doll The One Two Bird and the Half Horse Flau
10 Nancy Wallace Sleeping Sickness Old Stories Midwitch
11 Plusplus Kerouac Echoes myspace.com/plusplus2
12 Oen Sujet Bird and Binocular Life Given to Quiet Places Loaf
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The Circle – plusplus (Edition 6) 30 June 09

plusplusBrought to you by Arctic Circle Radio, the Circle is a new weekly pad-cast 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 6 – Mix by plusplus: Artists from Japan, Israel, Iceland, Australia, United States, Germany and UK feature on this mix in an attempt to complete a circle of music from around the world that has influenced plusplus in one form or another.  The line of the circle is not direct by any stretch of the imagination, if it were, would it be a true representation of my life or anyone else’s?  No, I doubt it very much.

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1 . Animal Collective  0mins 0 sec  to 1 min 50 sec
Track  =  winters love  1st half of track
Album   =    sung tongs
Label – FAT CAT

2. The Lonesomes 1min 50 to 4min 22 sec
Track     =   Lakeside 5pm
Album   =    This is Cow Fi
Label – LOAF

3. Dirty Three 4 min 33 sec to 9 mins 24 sec
Track     =   Hope
Album   =    Horse stories
Label –  BELLA UNION

4. Motohiro Makashima 9 mins 24 sec to 14 mins 43 sec
Track     =   Stanley Park
Album   =   I Dreamt Constellation Sang
Label – LOAF

5. Plantman 14 mins 45 sec to 18 mins 18 sec
Track     = Closer to the Snow
Album   =    (unreleased)
Label – (unsigned)

6.  Alexandra Vianna  18 mins 17 sec to 21 mins 57 secs
Track     =   Closer to the Snow
Album   =    (unreleased)
Label – (unsigned)

7. The Cocteau Twins 21 mins 57 sec  to 25mins 12 sec
Track     =   Iceblink Luck
Album   =    Heaven or Las Vega
Label – now available on BELLA UNION

8. Sigur ros  25 mins 03 secs to 33 mins 04 sec
Track     =   Olsen Olsen
Album   =    Agaetis Byrjun
Label – FAT CAT

9. Max Richter  32 mins 46 secs to 38 mins 58 sec
Track     =   Europe After the Rain
Album   =    Memory House
Label – FAT CAT

10. Plus+ – 38mins 32 secs  to 44mins 12 sec
Track     =   Song for Sonny
Album   =    Echoes
Label –  unsigned

11. Nina Nastasia – 44 mins 27 secs to 46 mins 18 secs
Track     =   Our Day Trip
Album   =   On Leaving
Label – FAT CAT

12.  Plus+  46 mins 31 secs to 50mins 50 secs
Track     = Evils
Album   = Evils
Label – unsigned

13. The Lonesomes  – 50 mins 50 secs to 52.35 sec
Track     =   On the Lonesome Way Home
Album   =    This is Cow Fi
Label – LOAF

14.   Animal Collective        52. 55 sec to 55 mins 54secs END
Track     =   winters love    2nd half of track
Album   =    sung tongs
Label – FAT CAT

www.myspace.com/plusplus2

The Hut (Edition 5) 23 June 09

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.

Edition 5 – Featuring new music from Helios, Peter Broderick, Tosca, The Boats, Madam and Gavin Bryars.

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1 Helios Hope Valley Hill Caesura Type Recordings
2 Peter Broderick The Dream Music from Falling from Trees Erased Tapes
3 Bill Wells and Mahler Shalal Hash Baz On the Beach Boys Bus GOK Geographic
4 Infinite Scale Landscapes Ad Infinitum Rednetic
5 Tosca Elitsa No Hassle K7
6 Robin Saville Murmuration Peasgood Nonsuch Static Caravan Records
7 The Boats This Song Has Been Intentionally Left Blank Words Are Something Else Home Normal
8 Madam Fall on Your Knees In Case of Emergency Reveal
9 The Low Anthem To Ohio Oh My God, Charlie Darwin Bella Union
10 Isnaj Dui Moodie Sequence Ep Fboxrecords
11 Scratch Too Late feat. Damon Albarn and Talib Kweli Scratch Gold Dust
12 Gavin Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic The Sink of the Titanic LTM
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The Circle – Isnaj Dui (Edition 5) 23 June 09

isnajduiBrought to you by Arctic Circle Radio, the Circle is a new weekly pad-cast 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.

Week 5 – Mix by Isnaj Dui: Delicate bleeps, twinkles and clicks float amongst us constantly whilst everything around us comes in peaks and troughs, ups and downs…and we end up where we began…

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1 – Vernon Elliot / Excerpt from ‘Music’ / Clangers OTM / Trunk / SOUP001CD / 2001
2 – Hulk / Fixed Star Day / Static Caravan / VAN47 / 2002
3 – Tomoyoshi Date / Sunnyside Suns and Sounds / Small Melodies Comp / Spekk / KK05 / 2006
4 – Hauschka / Heimat / Ferndorf / Fat Cat / CD1308 / 2008
5 – Russell Mills/Undark / Shed Lustre /  At Least You Can Die With a Smile on Your Face Comp / Bella Union / BELLACD45 / 2002
6 – Elite Barbarian / Clips / It’s Only When You Get To The End That It All Makes Sense / Front & Follow / F&F001 / 2008
7 – Isnaj Dui /Mushroom Picking /Unstable Equilibrium /Home Normal
8 – Al Brooker / Quixotic / At Least You Can Die With A Smile On Your Face / Bella Union / BELLACD45 / 2002
9 – Vernon Elliot / Excerpt from ‘Music’ / Clangers OTM / Trunk / SOUP001CD / 2001
10 – Owl Service / Scarlet Threads and Silver Needles / A Fabric of Folk / Static Caravan / VAN142 / 2008
11 – Skarabee / Rewinding Metals / Tlon / FBox Records / FBOXCD005 / 2009
12 – Xela / Drunk on Saltwater / The Dead Sea / Type Records / TYPE018 / 2006
13 – Isnaj Dui / Twisted / Isnaj Dui / FBox Records / FBOXCD001 / 2005
14 – Ueno / Untitled (Track eight) / Sui-Gin / Room 40 / RM428 / 2008
15 – Rothko / Give / The Longest Distance Between Two Points / Trace / TRACECD004 / 2009
16 – Fenton / Beautiful Losers / Small Melodies Comp / Spekk / KK05 / 2006
17 – Vernon Elliot / Excerpt from ‘Music’ / Clangers OTM / Trunk / SOUP001CD / 2001

www.myspace.com/isnajdui
www.homenormal.com [new album out via Home Normal late July]

The Circle – Hybernation (Edition 4) 16 June 09

Brought to you by Arctic Circle Radio, the Circle is a new weekly pad-cast 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.

Week 5 – Mix by Hybernation: Life is full of routines, rhythms and occurrences, some of them welcome and others not. However we choose to live our lives we move within these circles and they in turn shape what happens to us, where we end up and what we achieve. This mix can be thought of as a sonic Venn Diagram which represents the people whose circles over lap mine and help to positively shape my routines, rhythms and occurrences.

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Hybernation – Greyhound Park [Rednetic]
Clinker – Normandeau [Clinkersound]
Rothko & Susumu Yokota – Sentiero [Lo]
Dollboy – York Road [Unreleased]
Isnaj Dui – 440 [Fbox]
Hybernation – Slumber [Smallfish]
plusplus – Kerouac [Unreleased]
Reason or Romanza – Save it for the Afterglow [Unreleased]
Fennesz – Saffron Revolution [Touch]
Flotel – Wooden Beard [Expanding]
Deaf Centre – Path to Lucy [Type]
Elite Barbarian – Woods [Front & Follow]
LJ Kruzer – What Was Your Day Like? [Uncharted Audio]
Hybernation – Greyhound Park [Rednetic]

http://www.myspace.com/autumnale

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The Hut (Edition 4) 16 June 09

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.

Edition 4 – Featuring new music from Cortney Tidwell, Biosphere, Orla Wren, A-Line, The Boats and Emily Barker.

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1 Biosphere Birds Fly by Flapping Their Wings Wireless Touch
2 Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo Nostalgia Despite the Snow Everyone Sang
3 A-Line Snow & Felt A-Line Ding Ding Records
4 Andy Nice Ballax The Secrets of Me Front & Follow
5 Cortney Tidwell Oslo Boys City Slang
6 Orla Wren Tugboats and Railroads The One Two Bird and the Half Horse Flau
7 Jana Plewa & F.S. Blumm Dela Cameo Sway Boldy Afar Plop
8 Our Broken Garden The Blinding When Your Blackening Shows Bella Union
9 The Balky Mule Dust Bath Birds The Length of the Rail Fat Cat
10 Plusplus Kerouac Echoes myspace.com/plusplus2
11 Miko Arizona Parade Plop
12 Modern Institute Stairs Excellent Swimmer Expanding Records
13 The Boats This Song Has Been Intentionally Left Blank Words Are Something Else Home Normal
14 Shoreline Shipwrecked Time Well Spent Willkommenn Records

as mentioned: Yann & the Christmas Tree http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0953420582

Sons of Noel and Adrian Live Podcast

unioncjpgIn preperation for Friday 12 June event at the Union Chapel. We though it would be nice to release this exclusive live recording of one of the band involved.

Arctic Circle Radio presents:
Sons of Noel & Adrian

Kernow
Inside Olympia
The Wreck is Not a Boat

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Engineered by Neil Bowerman

Recorded @ Union Chapel (London) 21 June 2008

more on band: www.myspace.com/sonsofnoelandadrian

The Hut (Edition 3) 9 June 09

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.

Edition 3 – Featuring the music of Bella Emerson, The Slow Life, Hildur Gudnadottir, Rival Consoles, Nico Muhly and Extra Life.

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1 Sweet Billy Pilgrim Here It Begins Twice Born Men Samadhisound
2 Valgeir Sigurðsson Equilibrium is Restored Ekvilibrium Bedroom Community
3 Bella Emerson Stellar Minx Hespera Bip_HOp
4 Our Brother the Native Parting Marrows Parting Marrows Fat Cat
5 The Slow Life I Can, You Will The Slow Life Trace Recordings
6 Cathode Stabiliser City Sparkle Plenty Expanding Records
7 Hildur Gudnadottir Elevation Without Sinking Touch
8 Rival Consoles Acid The Decadent EP Erased Tapes
9 Nico Muhly The Only Tune: III. The Only Tune Mothertongue Bedroom Community
10 The Andromeda Mega Express Orchestr Lava Lovers Take Off Alien Transistor
11 Extra Life I’ll Burn Secular Works Loaf
12 Sweet Billy Pilgrim There Will It End Twice Born Men Samadhisound

The Circle – Inch-time (Edition 3) 9 June 09

Brought to you by Arctic Circle Radio, the Circle is a new weekly pad-cast 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.

Week 3 – Mix by Inchtime: This mix is a rather eclectic one which features some of my current favourite bands and songs.

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1. Vashti Bunyan – Here Before – Fat Cat
2. Fleet Foxes – False Knight On The Road – Bella Union
3. Oblong – Sketches Of Staines – Expanding
4. Benge – 1970 Arp 2500 – Expanding
5. Susumu Yokota & Rothko – Lit By Moonlight – Lo
6. Scanner – 1978 Formant Modular – Static Caravan
7. Animal Collective – Loch Raven – Fat Cat
8. pq – Louise On Earth – Expanding
9. Inch-time – Snow Jewel (Robin Saville remix) – Static Caravan
10. Tunng – Hanged – Fulltime Hobby
11. Mike Sammes – Timex – Trunk
12. Fuxa – Thank You Jesus – Static Caravan
13. ASS – It’s In The Gallery – Static Caravan
14. Inch-time – Loss / Hope – Unreleased
15. Fennesz -Grey Scale – Touch
16. Chris Abrahams – Can Of Faces (Excerpt) – Room 40
17. Inch-time – New York Subway Field Recording – Unreleased
18. Inch-time – Before The Storm – Unreleased
19. Cheval Sombre – I Found It Not So – Static Caravan
20. Vashti Bunyan – Here Before – Fat Cat

http://www.myspace.com/inchtime

The Circle – Nowhereians (Edition 2) 2 June 09

nowhereBrought to you by Arctic Circle Radio, the Circle is a new weekly pad-cast 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.

Week 2 – Mix by Nowhereians: the main materials for this mix are mostly my own (in one case a remix) and are entirely taken from the forbidding and nearly obselete piles of DAT tapes that I keep around, including segments of ideas/experiments and masters from various projects from the past 10 years or so.

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00:00-01:31 – Rothko – Eighth Electric Eel (excerpt)
01:31-04:21 – Nowhereians – New York Song/City Park 1st Dec Field Recording
04:21-09:38 – Nowhereians – High Hopes
09:38-13:01 – Nowhereians – Stopwatch is Broken
13:01-15:44 – Nowhereians – Untitled Baritone Guitar/Audiomulch Tune
15:44-22:44 – Nowhereians – Untitled featuring Grace’s Phone Call
22:44-24:18 – Santa Dog – Piano/Organ Interlude
24:18-35:50 – Nowhereians – Long Shuttle Journey (for Jim & Joseph)
35:50-39:10 – Rothko – John Wyndham (unused solo demo recording)
39:10-41:18 – Santa Dog – AMS Delay and Badly Timestretched Girl Interlude
41:18-46:25 – The Monsoon Bassoon – Life In A LiftShaft (Wall of Suss Vol2) Santa Dog Remix
46:25-47:20 – Santa Dog – AMS Delay Interlude No2
47:20-56:39 – Nowhereians – Curses
56:39-59:54 – Rothko – Eighth Electric Eel (excerpt no2)

http://www.myspace.com/nowhereians

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