Love of ambient, experimental, & modern classical with downtempo roots. We highlight current music in these genres, with old favorites snuck in. OEP sets are vinyl, guest mixes contain all formats.
Listen live Tuesday evenings 6-8pm on XRAY.FM, 91.1 / 107.1 FM KXRY Portland, streaming www.xray.fm (previously Portland Radio Authority 06-13).
These mixes are a digest version of our 2-hour radio show, recorded from home on 3 turntables, usually the day after our FM broadcast.
Podcast: www.opticechopresents.com (also apple / google podcast)
Thank you for listening!
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Love of ambient, experimental, & modern classical with downtempo roots. We highlight current music in these genres, with old favorites snuck in. OEP sets are vinyl, guest mixes contain all formats.
Listen live Tuesday evenings 6-8pm on XRAY.FM, 91.1 / 107.1 FM KXRY Portland, streaming www.xray.fm (previously Portland Radio Authority 06-13).
These mixes are a digest version of our 2-hour radio show, recorded from home on 3 turntables, usually the day after our FM broadcast.
Podcast: www.opticechopresents.com (also apple / google podcast)
Thank you for listening!
profile pic by: Marc Fischer
www.twitter.com/opticecho
Elori Saxl- Texada OST a4 https://elorisaxl.bandcamp.com/album/texada-original-score
Natas Kunas- Blue Radiance a2 https://nataskunas.bandcamp.com/album/blue-radiance
Twit One- Sit-in b3 https://twitone.bandcamp.com/album/the-sit-in
Jacaszek- Treny b2 https://jacaszek2.bandcamp.com/album/treny
j.o.y.s.- s/t b1 https://joys.bandcamp.com/album/j-o-y-s
Marsen Jules- Herbstalub a3 https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/album/herbstlaub
Romance- Love is Colder than Death b2 https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-colder-than-death
Morgan Willis - Supernova a2 https://morganwillisofficial.bandcamp.com/album/supernova
Night Sequels - Children of the Night Make Music a3 https://attacknine.bandcamp.com/album/the-children-of-the-night-make-music
Ben Frost- By the Throat a4 https://benfrost.bandcamp.com/album/by-the-throat
VA (La Rusa Negra)- Section 173.14 a1 https://betabodegacoalition.bandcamp.com
Grand River- Tuning the Wind a1 https://grandrivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/tuning-the-wind
Optic Echo Presents
Tue 6-8pm PST
107.1 / 91.1 FM PDX
XRAY www.xray.fm
ambient mix for headphones
More Eaze & Claire Rousay- No Floor a1 https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/no-floor
Desert Sand Feels Warm at Night- Dream Desert a1 https://geometriclullaby.bandcamp.com/album/desert-sand-feels-warm-at-night
Jonsi & Alex- Riceboy Sleeps b1.2 https://riceboy.bandcamp.com/album/riceboy-sleeps-2019-remaster
Black Swan- From the End of Time a5 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-end-of-time
Dialect - Advanced Myth a4 https://dialect-trax.bandcamp.com/album/advanced-myth
Luke Wyland- Kuma Cove b4.2 https://lukewyland.bandcamp.com/album/kuma-cove-2
Coral Morphologic & Nick León- Projections of a Coral City b2 https://balmat.bandcamp.com/album/projections-of-a-coral-city
Environments- 4
Warmth- Parallel Inflection a2 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-inflection
Anthene- Held a1 https://oscarson.bandcamp.com/album/anth-ne-held
Belong - October Language a2 https://spectrumspools.bandcamp.com/album/october-language
Eluvium- Static Nocturne (Life Through Bombardment 2)- f1.2 https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/track/static-nocturne
Tim Hecker- Radio Amor c3 https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/radio-amor
Drape- Forage a1 https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/forage-presence
Jon Hopkins- Music for Psychedelic Therapy c3 https://jonhopkins.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-psychedelic-therapy
Thank you to Headphone Commute for continuing to feature our best of the year mixes. Check out an interview by HC about my record collection: https://headphonecommute.com/2024/10/31/mike-jedlicka-ill-show-you-mine/ Tracklist: Sweeps- Retrofuture a2 /
Brenk Sinatra & Wun Two- Tango & Cash a6 /
Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea- Reveries a2 /
Not Waving & Romance- Wings of Desire a2 /
KRM & KMRU- Disconnect d2 /
Andrew Tuttle & Michael Chapman- Another Tide Another Fish a4 /
Damu the Fudgemunk- Piece of Action a2 /
Belong- Realistic IX a5 /
Marine Eyes- To Belong 7” b1 /
Emil Rottmayer- Total b1 /
Chop!- Tune in b6 /
Blockhead- Mortality is Lit d1 /
Billow Observatory- Calique / Soliton b3 /
Rafael Anton Irisarri- Facadisms b1 /
Voyage Futur- Inverted Land b2 /
Markus Guentner (Pepo Galan)- Kontrapunkt b2 /
Duster and Dirty Art Club- Anhedonia ii 7” a1 /
Andrew Prahlow- Secrets from the Outer Wilds b11 /
Infinity Frequencies- Hologram Person b1 /
Cowboy Sadness- Selected Jambient Works vol. 1 a2 /
Nala Sinephro- Endlessness a2
Big thanks to Mike of Headphone Commute for posting my best of mixes over the past 10+ years!!
Cruel Diagonals- Fractured Whole a3ビクター MKII- Tokimeki No Beat a5JJ Whitefield- Ethio Meditations / Drama al Dente a2Romance & Dean Hurley- River of Dreams b3Spencer Doran- Season: a letter to the future b2Sven Wunder- Ultramarine 7” a1Маяк- Выше звезд a1More Eaze- Strawberry Season a2Steve Gunn & David Moore- Reflections Vol. 1: Let the Moon Be a Planet a1Black to Comm- At Zeenath Parallel Heavens a2Bana Haffar- Intimaa’ b2Heinali- Kyiv Eternal a3Brock Berrigan- Breaking Bread a2Apollo Brown- This Must Be the Place b2One Million Eyes- Iris a1Secret Pyramid- A Vanishing Touch a5Eluvium- (Whirring Marvels in) Consensus Reality a3Voyage Futur- Wellen b3Jake Muir- Bathhouse Blues a1.1Limousine- Skymall a6Funkmammoth- Life’s Delights b8Jana Winderen- The Blue Beyond a1.3From Overseas & Zake- Demain, Des L’aube a2Quiet Places- Volume 2 b1.3
Thank you to Headphone Commute for featuring our best of mixes for 12 years now!
Patricia Wolf- See Through a5
Viul & Benoit Pioulard- Konec b1
KMRU & Aho Ssan- Limen a2
Ohbliv- SLPHNC III a2
36- Symmetry Systems b3
Andrew Tuttle- Fleeting Adventure a1
Burial- Antidawn b1
Heather Woods Broderick- Domes a1
Andrew Tasselmyer- Limits b1
Pinkcourtesyphone- Shouting at Nuance c1.2
Jason Van Wyk- Descendants a3
William Fowler Collins- Hallucinating Loss b2
Marine Eyes- Chamomile a2
Flughand- Ten Hits b4
Ian William Craig- Music for Magnesium_173 a1
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer- … On Reflection a2
From Overseas & City of Dawn- Misty Memories a2
Location Services & Derek Hunter Wilson- Wake b1
Raum- Daughter b3
Corey Fuller & Richard Skelton- Thesis 20 a1
Big thank you to Fragile X out of Glasgow for providing the guest mix. We recommend checking out his bandcamp, as well as his label, Bricolage:
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.comhttps://fragilex.bandcamp.com
01. Yumi Iwaki / Through The Leaves (Muzan Editions : 2021) 02. William Selman / Bubble House In Shallow Depth (Mysteries of the Deep : 2020) 03. Otik / Been Here (Twin System : 2020) 04. Michiru Aoyama / Seven Colors (ta‚lem :2017) 05. Lori Scacco / Other Flowers (Mysteries of the Deep : 2018) 06. Oreste / Minas Mare (On Board Music : 2021) 07. G?Ûs / Serenity (For Sofia) (Self Released : 2021) 08. Hoshin / Upekkha (Databloem : 2020) 09. Fragile X / An Echo Of An Echo (Soundtracking The Void : 2021) 10. Minimal Drone GRL - Skylab (Bricolage : forthcoming 2022) 11. Subpneuma - Coma Lirico (Black Chrysalis Archives : 2022) 12. Internazionale - No Soldiers (Janushoved : 2019)
Big thank you to Kuma for providing the guest mix! For more info on him, check the following links:
http://kuma.bandcamp.com http://thekonspiracygroup.com
00:00 - Arushi Jain - My People Have Deep Roots01:30 - The Sight Below - Dour (Marcus Guenter Remix)06:00 - Higher Intelligence Agency - Speec3 (ConoidTone Reformed By Autechre)10:15 - Sven Laux and Logic Moon - At The End Of The Day, It Felt Like A Goodbye13:30 - Sophia Loizou - Genesis 92: The Awakening16:15 - Simon McCorry - Migrations19:00 - Sarah Neufeld - Tower21:00 - Sarah Davachi - Hours In The Evening24:00 - Rhucle - Dry Bubbles30:30 - Penelope Trappes - Awkward Matriarch (Mother’s Blood Version)31:45 - Marcus Fischer and the OO-Ray - Deluge36:30 - Patricia Wolf- Distant Memory39:30 - Mary Lattimore - Baltic Birch (Paul Corley Remix)43:15 - Kuma - Vipers Are In The Grass46:00 - Hollie Keniff - Four Sides Of The Forest49:50 - The Slaves - 11152:30 - Noveller - Red Room Remix54:10 - IKSRE - Untitled59:00 - Autechre - VietRmx21
Big thank you to Wife Signs for coming back for another OEP mix! For more information, including his latest album, "Beneath the Weight of Care", check the following links:
https://wifesigns.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-weight-of-care
https://twitter.com/wifesigns
Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - "Stureby House Piano" - 00:00
Shida Shahabi - "Abisme" - 04:34
Laurence Guy - "Mutual Disappointment is a Terrible Thing" - 08:29
Michael Nyman - "1–100" (Excerpt) - 11:23
Tim Hecker - "Ghost Writing, Part 1" (Excerpt) - 11:48
Wife Signs - "For the Ozark Hellbender" - 13:20
Warmth - "The Creek" - Wildlife Addendum - 16:36
Jon Hopkins - "Heron" - 21:08
More Eaze - "Leave" - 24:16
Wife Signs - "Mischief and Craft" - 31:32
Austin Rockman - "Blue Vow Mender" - 34:03
Teodorico Pedrini, XVIII-21 Musique des Lumiéres, Jean Christophe Frisch - "Premier divertissement chinois No. 1, Tsein foung young" - 35:42
Joseph Shabason - "Treat it Like a Wine Bar" - 38:08
Nuno Canavarro - "Cave" - 43:56
Patrica Wolf- I’ll Look for You in Others b1 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/ill-look-for-you-in-others
Eevee- Seeds b3 https://eeveebeats.bandcamp.com/album/seeds
Julianna Barwick- Healing is a Miracle a1 https://juliannabarwick.bandcamp.com/album/healing-is-a-miracle
Gia Margaret- Mia Gargaret b1 https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com/album/mia-gargaret
More Eaze- Two Futures 7” b1 https://fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-futures
Delia Derbyshire- The Dreams b1
Non Dolet- V a2 https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/v
Cruel Diagonals- Disambiguation a4 https://crueldiagonals.bandcamp.com/album/disambiguation
Suzanne Ciani - @0 b4 https://coldcut.bandcamp.com/album/0
Sarah Davachi- Antiphonals a2 https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/antiphonals
Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift b1 https://holliekenniff.bandcamp.com/album/the-quiet-drift
Lucy Gooch- Rushing EP a3 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/rushing
Amby Downs- Liminal a3 https://ambydowns.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-2
Mary Lattimore- At the Dam b1 https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-dam
Claire Rousay- A Softer Focus a2 https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/a-softer-focus
Part Timer is back for a 2022 OEP guest mix (thank you John)! We highly recommend checking out his Bandcamp page:
https://parttimer.bandcamp.com/
00.00 Enrico Coniglio and Matteo Uggeri - j'essaie de reduire mes medicaments02.40 Bluhm - the mirror of my soul06.30 Gallowglas - the gloaming09.08 Origamibiro feat. VDU - morel13.03 Midori Hirano - patterns17.55 Asa Chang and Junray - hana24.08 Panoptique Electrical - the whisper in your head24.50 Soley - blows up29.51 Erik Enocksson - what drove her shivering into the cold, cold sea33.44 Gilded - erosional37.17 Alapastel - new world healing centre
Big thank you to City of Dawn for providing this week's guest mix. For more information (including some top notch collaborations w/ Zaké), check the following links:https://linktr.ee/cityofdawnmusic https://cityofdawn.bandcamp.com
City Of Dawn- Inland 0:00Housekeys- If you want to go to Sleep 4:39Christina Giannone- Telepathy 12:10Andrea Cortez- I am Listening 18:00ATOP- An invisible Presence 23:40Isaac Helsen - White Pine (With Christina Giannone) 31:44Hakobune- Second-hand sunlight 36:23Joshua W Bruner – Somehow Sleeping 44:00Billow Observatory- Red Morning 46:23Diane Arkenstone- Bathed in Light 51:30City of Dawn- For my Parents 55:40
Huge thank you to Reese for providing the first guest mix of the year. For more information on him check his website at:https://reesebowes.com Listen to a 4 turntable, surround sound set I shared with Reese back in 2016 here: https://www.mixcloud.com/opticecho/oep-41016-4-turntable-set-w-reliqs-at-six/
1 Hildur Guðnadóttir2 Laura Cannell/Rhodri Davies3 Judith Tripp4 Motion Sickness Of Time Travel5 Sarah Davachi6 Kali Malone7 Klara Lewis8 Sheila Chandra9 Nicholas Chase/Robin Lorentz10 Ruth Anderson11 Sarah Davachi12 Daphne Oram/Daz Quayle/Andrea Parker13 Julia Holter14 Eve Beglarian/Robin Lorentz15 Johanna Beyer/Allen Strange/Stephen Ruppenthal/David Morse/Brenda Hutchinson/Donald Buchla/Charles A16 Maria w Horn17 Pauline Oliveros18 Julianna Barwick19 Éliane Radigue/Silvia T arozzi20 Jocy de Oliveira21 Kara-Lis Coverdale22 Pauline Oliveros23 Motion Sickness Of Time Travel24 Field Works/Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith25 Jasmine Guffond26 Else Marie Pade27 Kelly Moran
Huge thank you to Headphone Commute for supporting my best of mixes for 11 years now! Here's the track list:Clare Rousay- A Softer Focus b1 Dialect - Keep Going Under a1 Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers- A Cassowary Apart a2 A Winged Victory for the Sullen- Invisible Cities a6 Good Weather for an Airstrike- Kenopsia 10” b1 Félecia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- Un Hiver En Plein Été b3 ---__--___- The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid a5 Peter Broderick (Bing & Ruth remix)- The Wind that Shakes the Bramble a4 Lina Filipovich- Magnificat a2 Grouper- Shade a1 Suss- Promise b2 Zakè & Marine Eyes- Unfailing Love b1 Jake Muir- Mana a5 Bell Orchestre- House Music b1 Anthéne- Held b4 Lawrence English- Observation of Breath a2 Awakened Souls & From Overseas- Keep the Orange Sun b3 Jason Van Wyk- Threads b1 Space Afrika- Honest Labor a1 Nosdam + Rayon- From Nowhere to North b1 One Million Eyes- Brama b3 Abul Mogard- In Immobile Air b1 PDP III - Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves a1 Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift b1 Valance Drakes- A Patternless and Endless Soul a1 Drape- Poem to Night b1
Huge thank you to Keep the Orange Sun for providing the guest mix this week. The trio split things up with James Bernard taking the beginning, From Overseas mixing the middle, and Marine Eyes closing out the set.
New album out this Friday on Past Inside the Present:https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/keep-the-orange-sun
From Overseas- California sound collageSquarepusher- Tommib Help Buss (0:09) Bochum Welt- La Nuit (2:05)Jordi Savall- Prelude Pour Mr. Vauquelin (5:57)Murcof- Rostro (7:32)Radiohead- Treefingers (14:46) Hammock-Always Before Your Eyes (18:22) Slowdive- Rutti (21:54) Cocteau Twins- Pearly Dewdrops’ Drops (31:47) Keep The Orange Sun- Keep The Orange Sun (35:52) Julianna Barwick- Forever (39:50)Jonas Munk- Minimum Resistance (44:51)poemme- symphony of meadow (49:45)From Overseas- California sound collage
Claire Rousay + More Eaze- An Afternoon Whine a2.2 https://clairerousaymoreeaze.bandcamp.com Jason Van Wyk- Threads b3 https://n5md.bandcamp.com/album/threads Sarah Davachi + Ariel Kalma- Intemporel b2 https://blacksweat.bandcamp.com/album/intemporel Andrew Tuttle + Padang Food Tigers- A Cassowary Apart a2 https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/album/a-cassowary-apart Eevee- Seeds b6 https://eeveebeats.bandcamp.com/album/seeds Kreng- L’Autopsie Phénoménale De Dieu a3 https://kreng.bandcamp.com/album/lautopsie-ph-nom-nale-de-dieu City of Dawn- Where the World Quietly Sing Their Song b2 https://elgranerecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-world-quietly-sing-their-song On- Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not a1 AM Boy- s/t a3 https://attacknine.bandcamp.com/album/am-boy Clickits- s/t a2
Optic Echo PresentsTuesday evenings 6-8pm PST91.1 / 107.1 FM PDX www.xray.fm
Love of ambient, experimental, & modern classical with downtempo roots. We highlight current music in these genres, with old favorites snuck in. OEP sets are vinyl, guest mixes contain all formats.
Listen live Tuesday evenings 6-8pm on XRAY.FM, 91.1 / 107.1 FM KXRY Portland, streaming www.xray.fm (previously Portland Radio Authority 06-13).
These mixes are a digest version of our 2-hour radio show, recorded from home on 3 turntables, usually the day after our FM broadcast.
Podcast: www.opticechopresents.com (also apple / google podcast)
Thank you for listening!
profile pic by: Marc Fischer
www.twitter.com/opticecho