best of the year

best of 2017 – absci radio [as1021-1022]

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….

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best of 2016 – absci radio [as0975-0976]

BEST OF 2016, featuring DOMS & DEYKERS, BATU, STRUCTION, MODERAT, KEUDO, TRAUMPRINZ, PLAID, LUSTMORD, NICOLAS JAAR, OCTAVE ONE, + much more, on this special year-end double episode. co-hosts CHRIS WIDMAN, MR JOSHUA, LUKE STOKES + HENRY SELF mix 4 hours of their favorite future music of 2016. true to form, WIDMAN delivers a tight mix…

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best of 2015 – absci radio show [as0931-0932]

BEST OF 2015 selections, including CYGNUS, DEMDIKE STARE, FLOATING POINTS, FORT ROMEAU, GEORGE FITZGERALD, IPMAN, JAMIE XX, KERRIER DISTRICT, LAPALUX, SPECIAL REQUEST + more, are featured on this special end of the year double episode. over 4 hours, co-hosts CHRIS WIDMAN, HENRY SELF + MR. JOSHUA mix through their favorite future music from 2015. as…

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best of 2014 – radio show [as0887-0888]

the best of 2014, including ADDISON GROOVE, APHEX TWIN, CARIBOU, D’ANGELO, FLYING LOTUS, TAYLOR MCFERRIN, MOODYMANN, BEN FROST, TEEBS, TODD TERJE + more, are featured on this special double episode (with all 4 selectors contributing). it was a year of loss–RIP FRANKIE KNUCKLES, MARK BELL, DJ RASHAD + SPACEAPE–and a year of creative renewal. house,…

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thanksgiving drone – radio show [as0883]

our annual THANKSGIVING DRONE program is your soundtrack to digestion and food coma. the curse of doing a thursday night radio show is the obligation to host a broadcast after gorging yourself on food and drink. in answer, we offer up ambient and beatless avant-electronic selections so we can all nod off. this year LUKE…

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best of 2013 (omitted): SHIGETO + KROMESTAR

excellent LPs from SHIGETO (“no better time than now”) + KROMESTAR (“tears of joy”) are the most glaring omissions we’ve noticed, so far, from our “best of 2013” radio show. the former was such a program staple during the year, that each co-host must have assumed one of the others would include the talented michigan…

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best of 2013 radio show [as0834-35]

happy 2014 loyal listeners, welcome to our annual “best of” episode. maybe it was just us, but, 2013 went by in a blur, smearing distinctions between genres and audiences. a year of new fusions and revivals of revivals. while classic house and disco-influenced sounds dominated mainstream pop music, dubstep and grime’s lasting influence fueled a…

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best of 2012 radio show [as779]

aired 12/27/12 with joshua p. ferguson, chris widman, luke stokes + henry self DOWNLOAD THIS SET HERE (fyi: large file 530 MB) >joshua p ferguson John Talabot — So Will Be Now — fin — Permanent Vacation Maxxi Soundsystem — Regrets We Have No Use For (Herbert remix) — Hypercolour Hot Chip — Flutes —…

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2000–2009: Decade In Future Music

THE DECADE IN FUTURE MUSIC (2000-2009) abstract science hosts chris widman, luke stokes and henry self took on the nearly impossible task of summing up a decade of future music–their favorites, the most influential releases and overlooked gems from 2000-2009. [broadcast 07 january 2010 on WLUW 88.7fm Chicago] >chris widman machinefabriek-“chinese unpopular song”–weleer-lampse monolake-“cern”–momentum-ml/imbalance computer…

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