Hypnagogue Podcast

Episode 406

April 11, 2024 10:06 - 79.8 MB

Settle in. I want to tell you a story….a mystery, really, about The Albums That Went Missing. Oh, it’ll mystify you and maybe bring a chill to your soul, but in the end it turns into 90 really good minutes of music. Ready to hear the tale? Start Tom Sonntag, Unknown Dancer, The […]

Episode 405

March 28, 2024 10:06 - 77.8 MB

From a gently dark start, we launch into long drifts and emerge in a lighter space. Then it’s off to the library where we just might encounter…one of those. Start Hessien, Design the Ageless Soul, The Alchemist9.20 SINKE DÜS, The Pilgrimage, Modus Vivendi13.25 Amongst Myselves, Lost Beach, An Abandoned Day20.51 […]

Episode 404

March 14, 2024 10:06 - 80.4 MB

Contrary to the well-known internet error message, you’ve found the latest episode of the Hypnagogue Podcast! For your efforts, I’ll reward you with 90 minutes of the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music. It’s all Holding Tanks today, and a great mix of styles. Enjoy. Start Brian Fechino, Road to Hapi, Reflection […]

Episode 403

February 29, 2024 11:06 - 82.1 MB

Happy Leap Year Day! (Is that a thing?) From a very New Age kind of start (c’mon, we open with a Reiki thing) through pulsing funkiness to a quite quiet endpoint, this one’s pretty much what you’ve come to expect. (I hope that’s a good thing…) Start Ashron, Flight into the Sun, Reiki […]

Episode 402

February 15, 2024 11:06 - 80.8 MB

It’s all Holding Tank this time through, bringing you quiet drifts, New Age-y tunes, a bit of chant, and more. Plus, it’s possible that I offend an artist. Start Chronotope Project, Unwinding the Dream (remix), Chronology6.16 Hyperion V, Surface Gravity, Accretion Disc10.14 Chogori, Seven Seas, Minor Green13.32 Indian Trap […]

Episode 401

February 01, 2024 11:06 - 79.2 MB

What do you do when you’ve reached 400 podcast episodes? Keep going, I guess! We’ll stick to the Holding Tanks this time through and for the most part keep things a bit on the down-low. (That’s what the cool kids say, right? Humor me.) Off you go. Start David Arkenstone, The World Sleeps, Winterlüde4.52 […]

Episode 400

January 18, 2024 11:06 - 110 MB

400? What’s up with that? Yes, your presumably favorite podcast has now happened 400 times, and we celebrate with an hour in the library and an hour of new stuff. (Plus, I indulge in a couple personal favorites!) Enjoy, and thank you for listening! Start Bob Holroyd, Darwin’s Dream, In Motion/Hollowman6.48 […]

Episode 399

January 04, 2024 11:06 - 81.2 MB

New year, same old show. You know, the one that brings you nothing but the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music and has that host who doesn’t seem to take this seriously? Yeah, that one. Ready for more of the same? Coolness. Let’s go. Start Carlos Dengler, Desert Flora, Private Earth12.28 […]

Episode 398

December 21, 2023 11:06 - 93.6 MB

Taking our leave of 2023, we do so in a manner most casual, stretching out, biding our time, meandering as one does, unrushed and–oh, who am I kidding? We’re getting lazy for the last show of the year, airing out some longer cuts that have been tucked into the Tracks to Play list for a […]

Episode 396

November 23, 2023 11:06 - 84.9 MB

Kicking off with some fun uptempo stuff, we’ll work our way across this 90-minute landscape to end up somewhere much quieter. Start Test Card, The Blank Code Re-Write, Channels5.48 Beukotreug, Hydra, Cosmic Spring10.33 Space Art, Across The Corridor, Personal Duty15.10 Andy Cartwright, Signal Loss, Below The Noise19.15 Daryl […]

Episode 395

November 09, 2023 11:06 - 87.2 MB

Get the children to safety in the bunker! There’s a theme show a’comin!Yeah, it’s that time again. Mr. Shanahan gets a “clever idea” and runs with it. (And yes, this is the one I talked about on 393…) Look at it this way: you get 20 tracks of musical goodness out of it! Enjoy! Start […]

Episode 394

October 26, 2023 10:06 - 84 MB

Not only do you get 90 minutes of great music this time around, but the show hits a bit of a milestone. Any guesses? I won’t spoil it here. Thanks for listening! Start Yulio, Acid Barcelona, Cosmic Fractal4.46 John Scott Shepherd, Titan, Steps To The Stars10.17 M3NASH, Hanging Over the […]

Episode 393

October 12, 2023 10:06 - 85.3 MB

Half a dozen from the Holding Tanks before we take a lengthy dip into the library stacks. Second set goes a little bit of everywhere, and has one of those artists who just happens to nail both song AND album title of the episode! Enjoy the ride. Start Cottage 42C, Weeds like an […]

Episode 392

September 28, 2023 10:06 - 83.3 MB

Might as well start off in contemporary instrumental/electroacoustic territory since I’ve been getting a lot of good stuff in that fits that bill. In the latter half it’s back into the library to revisit some friends. Start Michael Whelan, We Are All Made of Stars, Walk in Beauty, Like the Night4.17 David […]

Episode 391

September 14, 2023 10:06 - 83.2 MB

Okay, this one might start off a little strange, but we’re getting toward the bottom of the Holding Tanks and it’s getting time to reload ’em. Back half of this one is a trip to the library. You like the library, right? (There’s even one of those artists…) Off we go! Start Beluga […]

Episode 390

August 31, 2023 10:06 - 84.4 MB

You know how this goes: you set aside 90 minutes and hope to enjoy the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music. Good news: you get a bit of all of that here, including tracks from a couple albums I had good things to say about on social media. Start Firehand, Deep Learning, […]

Episode 389

August 17, 2023 10:06 - 81.6 MB

After an episode with just a handful (literally) of tracks, let me toss a bit more than a dozen at you this time around. As a bonus treat, I mangle some Italian, reference Nikki Minaj, put you on hold at least once, and may or may not speak two words of Galician. If you’re new […]

Episode 388

August 03, 2023 10:06 - 77.6 MB

A lazy podcast, but with a purpose! I saw that in adding to my “Tracks to Play” doc I had noted several that were fairly long. So I decided to lump them together. There are only five, and as tends to be the case with long tracks, this episode runs pretty quiet. Start […]

Episode 387

July 20, 2023 10:06 - 85.2 MB

How would I characterize this episode? I have no friggin’ idea. It just came together like this. We’re going a little bit of everywhere. Start Computerchemist, It Could be Paradise, Mysterious Cave of Eternal Theta 10.22 Altus, Null Unit, Descender 20.55 Pulse Emitter, Fireflies, Dusk25.54 Surkid, Apparatus Yet, Home Frequencies30.11 […]

Episode 386

July 06, 2023 10:06 - 83.9 MB

From a funky start to a quiet close, I think you’re gonna like this one. And that’s all I have to say about that. Start B. Tweel, Anybody Home, Bring in the Lampstand and Light its Lamps2.47 Nheap XP, Back View, Inside Talk*8.57 Peter Mergener, Ignition, New Horizons18.10 […]

Episode 385

June 22, 2023 10:06 - 83.3 MB

The first half skews electronic; then we tack around and set a course for acoustic/New Age territory. Seventeen big cuts for your aural consumption. Start Oaki, Taodide, Irwan Alos4.24 Sova Stroj, Sequence, Travelling Waves I12.49 Dino Pacifici, Arctic Sky, Geo-Ambient Excursions18.35 Turista Digital, Misión Kepler, Tiempo/Espacio26.13 Bart Hawkins, […]

Episode 2: The Revisiting

June 09, 2023 10:06 - 76.7 MB

So I was wrong about episode 2 being on archive.org. So here you go. Start Austere, Citadell, Rorrim6.49 Dave Preston, Be Alive, Be13.43 Igneous Flame, Earthly Guitar, Satu18.40 Jonathan Block, Dissolve, The Anatomy of Waves*31.51 Larry Kucharz, 1979 No. 03A, Blue Drawings & Text*45.53 Lopside, When, When […]

Episode 1…again

June 08, 2023 22:06 - 81.7 MB

Just a little birthday surprise I probably should have saved for a landmark birthday (or done back at the 10th birthday…). Thanks to the Endless Giant Spreadsheet of Goodness I was able to recreate the flow of the very first episode for you. I assume it wasn’t an uninterrupted show back then, but now it […]

Episode 384

June 08, 2023 10:06 - 119 MB

Wrapping up year 14 with another big dive into the library. Help yourself to a pair of hour-long sets for this birthday bash–and to be honest, I’d need a lot more time to even remotely do justice to the amount of amazing music I’ve been sent and played over the years. I hope you’ll enjoy […]

Episode 383

May 25, 2023 10:06 - 85.1 MB

’round about midstream, this flow decided it might like to be at least a little lazy. Pulled up at eight nice, deep tracks and we keep things mostly on the quiet side. Probably for the best since we’ve got a big party coming soon… Start Max Corbacho, Stillness Glow, Atmospheric Twilight12.18 Altus, […]

Episode 382

May 11, 2023 10:06 - 85.1 MB

As you may know if you listened last time, there’s been an unusual amount of flute-based music coming into the tanks lately, so we will start things off there. A quick stop and then we’re off again, powered by some Berlin School-style energy and ending up with a whole bunch of bass guitar. Start […]

Episode 367

October 13, 2022 10:06 - 83.2 MB

Here’s my prediction: you’ll love the first part of this episode, and then you may wonder what the heck I’m thinking. My show, my rules. :-) Hang on and dig the ride. Start Ryan Summers, Harbor Buoy, Deeply Divided5.25 Seigo Aoyama, First Gale, Prelude for the Spring11.39 Grotta Veterano & […]

Episode 366

September 29, 2022 10:06 - 85.5 MB

No stops on this one, even when we roll into unusual territory. For the most part things stay quiet, with bits here and there to make sure you’re still with us. Start Darkroom, Our Damage Catches Up With Us, The Last Sense To Fade10.26 Ryan Huber, Quickening, Subterrane20.38 J. Doursou, Foliage, […]

Episode 365

September 15, 2022 10:06 - 86.5 MB

Resisting the urge to do the obvious theme show, I instead opted to take you deep into the Holding Tank again. We kick off with some beats, wind down to drifts, and get a bit acoustic on the back half. There’s a quick stop in the middle, just to irk some listeners and see who […]

Episode 364

September 01, 2022 10:06 - 85.6 MB

Took a look at the Holding Tanks and the download queue and made an Executive Decision: time to go back to focusing on all the good new stuff I’ve had coming in over the last few months. You haven’t seen the last of the library, but we’ll close those doors for a bit. I promise […]

Episode 363

August 18, 2022 10:06 - 80.1 MB

We’re off to a slick start with some smooth sax and sliding our way down into some drifty grooves. Then we’re off to the library to visit some old friends. (One going back to ’05!) Start Gian Berselli & Jérémy Marais, Insight, Creative Stillness5.52 Headland, Bullfinch, Bullfinch21.59 Alan Matthews, Andalusia, […]

Episode 362

August 04, 2022 10:06 - 82.1 MB

A smooth blend of styles, kicking off with some sequencery goodness and primal grooves. Another of the Forgotten starts the second set, and we’ll get downright homey before it’s through. Enjoy. Start AeTopus, First Ones, Urbus4.40 Craig Padilla, Continuum, Parts 1 & 2, Discovery of Meaning19.56 Colin Rayment, Winding Along […]

Episode 361

July 21, 2022 10:06 - 92.1 MB

Maybe you’ve been here for a lazy podcast before–but you’ve never been here for one this lazy. Nothing’s under 25 minutes. Four cuts that run mighty, mighty deep. Drift on, my friends, and I’ll chat with you in about 103 minutes. Start Steve Brand, Tides Of Time (excerpt), Tides of Time27.32 Forrest […]

Episode 360

July 07, 2022 10:06 - 85.9 MB

There are great themes for podcast episodes … and then there’s this theme. But let me circle back with you once you’ve gotten around to listening. Have a ball. Start Michael Bruckner, Circles of Joy, Recycled Life8.53 Dave Preston, The Circle Around the Sphere, In These Storms12.23 Failover, North of […]

Episode 359

June 23, 2022 10:06 - 86 MB

Now that the birthday party fervor has died down, we can get back to checking out new music for a bit. Then it’s into the library, beginning with a kind of new and possibly recurring segment… Start Radium88, No Place but Down, We are All Dreaming Now5.56 Glossographs, Woodend, False Owls10.24 […]

Episode 358

June 09, 2022 10:06 - 122 MB

Time to wrap up year 13 with a nice, longer-than-normal dive into the library to celebrate the music that’s kept me going (and kept you coming back) all this time. My genuine thanks go out to all the musicians and labels who’ve kept the show fed with delicious music all this time, and to all […]

Episode 357

May 26, 2022 10:06 - 84.5 MB

Oh, heck, you know the drill. There’s a bunch of great music to soothe your noggin and then some guy blabs in your ear for a bit. If you didn’t like it, you wouldn’t keep coming back! (So thank you for coming back.) Start David Pedrick, The Golden Hour, Aurora4.35 David […]

Episode 356

May 12, 2022 10:06 - 82.8 MB

Once again we start in the Holding Tank to see what’s been sent along. (Turns out it’s a bit of harp, guitar, and piano, among other things.) After that we’ll shuffle through the shelves and see what musical delicacies we can uncover. Bound to be tasty. Start Trine Opsahl, Do Not Simply Pass […]

Episode 355

April 28, 2022 10:06 - 82.6 MB

A shadowy first set full of newer music gives way to some sequencer-driven cuts from the library. There’s a point where you’ll want to buckle up. It gets wild… Enjoy. Start øjeRum, Aftenrøde, Støvfald15.53 Leila Abdul-Rauf, Distortions in Phantasy IV: Disembodiment, Phantasiai 20.42 The Broken Cradle, Awakening, Post Mortal26.15 blochemy, […]

Episode 354

April 14, 2022 10:06 - 83.5 MB

Sequencers light the fuse on this one, which rolls through some work wrapped around spoken word, picks up some tabla and blistering guitar along the way, and, as happens so often here, glides in hushed ambient tones to a mind-salving conclusion. Talk to you in 90. Start LAD, Impulse, Fluidity6.08 Norm […]

Episode 353

March 31, 2022 10:06 - 83.5 MB

Shall we keep things on the quiet side? I believe we shall. Vocal drifts, hushed tones, and deep spaces await. Come in and explore. Start Julien Demoulin, Dissolving in Silence, Everything Forgotten, Everything Remembered5.26 Hiram, First Breath, Water Rise9.01 San Mateo, The Hiding Places, The Mira Variable14.21 Serena […]

Episode 352

March 17, 2022 10:06 - 87 MB

Same length as usual but wow, are there a lot of tracks here. This one stays fairly firmly in New Age/contemporary instrumental territory (so, yes, ample amount of piano because that’s what gets sent my way). Clear out the full 90 for this and treat yourself. Start Riopy, Be a Prelude, Bliss3.34 […]

Episode 351

March 03, 2022 11:06 - 80.4 MB

There’s beauty and there’s darkness and then there’s dark beauty. We’ll dabble in all of those to start. The second half gets its funk on a bit and, to be honest, erupts in a bit of post-rock glory. But it all quiets down in the end. Shall we? Start ‘t Geruis, Le Tombeau […]

Episode 350

February 17, 2022 11:06 - 90.3 MB

It may look like doing 350 episodes of a podcast is an accomplishment, but if you think about it, it’s really just seven sets of 50. So let’s not dwell on the numbers and instead just dig into the music. No spoilers, but there’s a world record on this episode. Start Hollan Holmes, […]

Episodes 350

February 17, 2022 11:06 - 90.3 MB

It may look like doing 350 episodes of a podcast is an accomplishment, but if you think about it, it’s really just seven sets of 50. So let’s not dwell on the numbers and instead just dig into the music. No spoilers, but there’s a world record on this episode. Start Hollan Holmes, […]

Episode 349

February 03, 2022 11:06 - 84.1 MB

Let’s start with another of those artists I downloaded and lost in the mix, only to have them pop up in shuffle to show me the error of my ways. (Trust me, there will be more…) Electronic landscapes give way to a touch of grimness as we move toward the end, but we’ll get kind […]

Episode 348

January 20, 2022 11:06 - 85.6 MB

No explanation needed for this ninety-minute non-stop. Just good sounds, soft flows, and a space to spend time in. Start The Green Kingdom, Arc, Solaria7.47 Off Land, Mind Stream, Excursion15.37 SineRider, Emanant, A Familiar Light19.42 Dionisaf, Walk on the Roof, Lost Rarities26.21 Max Corbacho, […]

Episode 347

January 06, 2022 11:06 - 82.3 MB

Coming to you live from the depths of the holding tank, it’s the first episode of 2022! We’ll open up in contemporary instrumental territory, out there on the New Age border, then slip through a narrow passage of drone and into electronic realms. Off we go! Start Raphael Groten, Care, Potential8.06 […]

Episode 346

December 23, 2021 11:06 - 83.9 MB

Last show of 2021. While other folks are doing their best of lists or holiday-themed shows, you and I are just going to dig into some good cuts from the library and enjoy the ride. Thanks in advance for being a great audience, and I wish you the best in the year to come! Start […]

Episode 345

December 09, 2021 11:06 - 85.8 MB

As you may know, I listen to virtually no music other than that which is sent along for the podcast. True story. And as I Iisten, I keep a list of tracks that catch my ear and make me want to share them with you. Well, the list was getting long so I decided it’s […]