APHEX TWIN, JON HOPKINS, TRISTAN ARP + MIDLAND top new music for this episode of ABSTRACT SCIENCE from hosts JOSHUA P. FERGUSON + HENRY SELF. JOSHUA keeps it mostly ambient, downbeat + chillout for his set, with a few jazz-meets-electronics selections in the final moments. HENRY turns in a moody set touching on lush downtempo, house, techno + ambient. [aired 24 October 2024 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM]
>JOSHUA P. FERGUSON
Aphex Twin “Rhubarb Orc. 19.53 Rev” (Selected Ambient Works Vol 2, Warp, 2024)
BZDB “Dancesing” (Jump Ship, Sit Lean, Be Still, Stand Tall, AD93, 2024)
Gi Gi “Far-Flung” (Dreamliner, Quiet Time Tapes, 2024)
Marysia Osu “seatime” (harp, beats & dreams, Brownswood, 2024)
Four Tet “Skater” (Three, Text, 2024)
Tristan Arp “Life After Humans” (a pool, a portal, Wisdom Teeth, 2024)
Fergus Jones “Heap” (Ephemera, Numbers, 2024)
Carmen Villain “Nutrition” (Nutrition EP, Smalltown Supersound, 2024)
SML “Feed the Birds” (Small Medium Large, International Anthem, 2024)
The Elephant “What? You Don’t Like Beauty” (In the Room, Original Cultures, 2024)
>HENRY SELF
Nubya Garcia “Odyssey (Outerlude)” (Odyssey, Concord Jazz, 2024)
Google Earth “Tendril Embrace” (Street View, Tiny Telephone, 2024)
Nilüfer Yanya “Ready for Sun (Touch)” (My Method Actor, Ninja Tune, 2024)
TSHA “Lonely Girl” (Sad Girl, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Jon Hopkins “Part II – Palace/Illusion” (Ritual, Domino, 2024)
Caribou “Come Find Me” (Honey, Merge, 2024)
Midland “You Said You’d Be Good” (Fragments of Us, Graded, 2024)
M-High feat. Chicago Hustle “”Devil” (DisOrder, 2024)
Galaxy 2 Galaxy “Journey of the Dragons” (Underground Resistance, 1993)
Will Gregory Moog Ensemble “Parabolic Sleuth” (Heat Ray – Deluxe Edition, Mute, 2024)
Nubya Garcia “Water’s Path” (Odyssey, Concord Jazz, 2024)
Hermitude “Lift Me Up” (Mirror Mountain, Elefant Traks/Nettwerk, 2022)
Peder Mannerfelt “Big Ball” (Roman Flügel Remix) (Peder Mannerfelt Produktion, 2024)
Hassan Abou Alam “Hella Mega Drive” (Shouts 2021, Rhythm Section International, 2021)
Brijean “Roxy Mountain” (Macro, Ghostly International, 2024)