BEST OF 2017, featuring BEN FROST, BICEP, THE BUG vs EARTH, CLARK, FEVER RAY, HODGE, FOUR TET, JLIN, MAX COOPER, SPECIAL REQUEST + 40 more selections, on this special extended year-end ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast. co-hosts CHRIS WIDMAN, MR JOSHUA, LUKE STOKES + HENRY SELF mix 4 diverse hours of their future music favorites from 2017. [aired 7 + 14 december 2017 on WLUW 88.7fm chicago]

>CHRIS WIDMAN
Bug vs Earth “Don't Walk These Streets” (Concrete Desert, Ninja Tune, 2017)
Second Storey “Telekinesis Via Fax” (Telekinesis Via Fax, Trust, 2017)
Skee Mask “Kordman Return (Swing Mix)” (2012, Ilian Tape, 2017)
Ploy “Blow Poke” (Intrigued By The Drum, Timedance, 2017)
Ada Kaleh “Palatul De Cleștar” (R&S, 2017)
Lone “Mind's Eye Melody” (Ambivert Tools, Vol. 2, R&S, 2017)
Letherette “Feel It” (EP 4, Wulf, 2017)
Hodge “Swing for the Fences” (Hemlock, 2017)
Killawatt “Crackerjack Cacophany” (47012, 47, 2017)
Detboi “Skin Deep” (Secrets, Metalheadz, 2017)
Special Request “Redrum” (Stairfoot Lane Bunker, Houndstooth, 2017)
Juju & Jordash “Neon Swing” (Dekmantel 10 Years 05, Dekmantel, 2017)

>HENRY SELF
Carl Craig "The Melody" - Versus - Planet E
Todd Terje "Jungelknugen" (Prins Thomas Remix) - Olsen
Bicep "Aura" - Bicep - Ninja Tune
Max Cooper & Tom Hodge "Symmetry" (Vessels Remix) - Emergence Remixed - Mesh
Abra "Fruit" - Rose - Ninja Tune
Fever Ray "Mustn't Hurry" - Plunge - Rabid
Tourist feat. Ardyn "We Stayed Up All Night" (Matthew Dear Remix) - Monday
Clark "Catastrophe Anthem" - Death Peak - Warp
Slowdive "Sugar for the Pill" (Avalon Emerson's Gilded Escalation) - Dead Oceans
Johannes Albert "Giovanni Frizzante" - Frank

>MISTER JOSHUA
Bogus Order "Can You Believe It" — Zen Breaks Vol. 2 — Ahead of Our Time
Dauwd "Macadam Therapy" — Theory of Colours — Technicolour
Red Axes "Paratrooper" — !k7
Talaboman "Loser's Hymn" — The Night Land — R&S
Four Tet "Planet" — New Energy — Text
DJ Sports "Entry Mode" — Modern Species — Fire Cracker
Dungen "Aladdin och Lampen" (Prins Thomas version 2) — Haxan Versions by Prins Thomas — Smalltown Supersound
Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson Two "Disco Kid" — Star Stuff — Carpark
The Heliocentrics "Square Wave" — A World of Masks – Soundway
James Holden & The Animal Spirits "The Neverending" — The Animal Spirits — Border Community
Heiroglyphic Being, Sarathy Korwar & Shabaka Hutchings "Ashrams" — A.R.E. Projects EP — Technicolour
Call Super "Ekko Ink" — Houndstooth
Danny Wolfers "Prophecy Dusting" — Unfolding the Future with Amateur Space Jazz — Nightwind
Kelly Lee Owens "Bird" — Kelly Lee Owens — Smalltown Supersound
LCD Soundsystem "i used to" — American Dream — DFA/Columbia
Vermont "Chanang" — II — Kompakt

>LUKE STOKES
Night Drive - Outer Lines - Night Drive - Roll Call Records
Slugabed - Gold feat. Hairy Hands & Peter Lyons - Inherit The Earth - Anticon
(ghost) - Careful Deception - Everything We Touch Turns To Dust - n5md 
Ben Frost - All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated (Albini Swing Version) - Threshold Of Faith EP - Mute
The Myrrors - Tea House Music - Hasta La Victoria - Beyond Beyond Is Beyond
Christopher Willits - Light And Dark - Horizon - Ghostly International
Fyvr - Hello Darkness - Moved Away - Self Released
Jlin - Latin Spirit - Black Origami - Planet Mu
Blockhead - Coloring Book - Uncle Tony’s Coloring Book - Self Released
Lord Echo - In Your Life - Harmonies - Soundly Records
Kid Koala - The Observable Universe - Music To Draw To : Satellite - Arts & Crafts
Mux Mool - Never Go Home - Implied Lines - Young Heavy Souls
Bibio - Phantom Brickworks II - Phantom Brickworks - Warp
Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch - Wallace - Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack - Epic