Michael McGarrity + Planetarium – Klippenpfade

It’s been a year since my ambient music neighbour Michael McGarrity appeared on Planetarium and FRISKY CHILL’s Neptunian with his guest mix. We decided a follow-up is long overdue, so he came up with an exciting new format: Sending the mix back and forth between each other after each track (technically, sometimes two). This new form of collaborative set is what I now labelled Interplanetar. This exquisite first edition was first aired on Michael’s FRISKY CHILL show Wander earlier this month. We both added a few more tracks at the end to extend it to around 75 minutes and “Klippenpfade” (cliff paths), exploring both classics and 2021 releases at the same time, is the result.

Michael McGarrity + Planetarium – Klippenpfade (Interplanetar 1)
FRISKY CHILL broadcast (Wander) from May 9, 2021
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p333
Wide release on May 28, 2021
Image by : Soff Garavano Puw

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label Sel
00:00 01 Mathieu Karsenti Twenty Seven Bygones 2020 Slowcraft P
04:30 02 ILUITEQ Springtime Return Soundtracks for Winter Departures 2019 TXT M
09:42 03 Private Mountain Transience STRATUMI (СТРАТУМИ) 2020 Élan Vital P
14:06 04 Purl A Brighter Dream Renovatio 2020 Archives M
16:43 05 Ishmael Cormack Side B The Sunday Project 2020 Ishmael Cormack P
18:10 06 Marine Eyes On This Fresh Morning Idyll 2021 Stereoscenic M
21:15 07 Marine Eyes Shortest Day (Reprise) Idyll 2021 Stereoscenic M
24:45 08 Wodwo Diastereo Chematica 2020 Wodwo P
28:13 09 Jupi/ter The Worm Islands, Pt. 2 2021 Ambientologist M
30:53 10 Sachi Kobayashi Shimmer More Than Just a Dream 2020 Stereoscenic M
32:35 11 Luis Miehlich Spring Haiku 1 Silences 2018 Archives P
36:55 12 Anthéne Whatever Fire is Burning A Light, a Glimmer 2018 Polar Seas P
40:35 13 Rhian Sheehan Between Us and the Dying Starlight A Quiet Divide 2018 LOOP M
44:38 14 Hammock Valkenburgh Columbus (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2017 Hammock P
48:38 15 A Home For Ghosts Hireath Hireath 2020 Rusted Tone M
55:01 16 Slow Meadow Grey Cloud Lullaby Slow Meadow (Deluxe Edition) 2016 Hammock P
58:52 17 Aaron Martin & Dag Rosenqvist Closing Menashe (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2017 Wayfind M
1:03:40 18 Hotel Neon 6:59 AM (Slow Meadow Remix) Context: Remixed 2017 Facture P
1:08:56 19 Poemme Forest Hymn Moments in Golden Light 2018 Poemme M
1:12:11 20 Micah Frank Pine Ridge Cambria 2021 Micah Frank M

Sel : Selected by (M) Michael McGarrity, (P) Planetarium.

02 previously appeared on N50.
04 previously appeared on N65.
11 and 19 previously appeared on P100.
12 previously appeared on BOP18a, N37 and P90.
14 previously appeared on P81.
16 previously appeared on R5, BOP15b and P29.
18 previously appeared on BOP17c and P74.
17-20 are not part of the FRISKY CHILL broadcast.

Best of Planetarium 2020, Pt. 1

As is tradition since 2012, Planetarium’s favourite picks of the last 12 months appear together in a compilation consisting of two extra-length mixes. This past year was particularly challenging to catch up to: The pandemic made plenty of artists spend much more time in their studios and Bandcamp, the primary platform to purchase ambient music from, introduced their fee-slashing fridays. At the moment, my inbox still has about 2500 unread notification mails about new releases sent since August 2020, mostly from labels and artists that I’m not following that closely (I try to cover my favourite labels and artists sooner in a “fast-lane” manner). Chances are high that I’ll come across some more obscure picks in the coming months (follow #PlanetariumRecommends on Twitter!). In any case, Planetarium has seen yet another healthy increase in followers and I’m happy that you keep listening to my mixes. Special thanks goes out to the Select subscribers who are eager to check out limited releases weeks in advance! Off to another, hopefully less depressing year at some point!

Best of Planetarium 2020, Pt. 1
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p320
Released on February 16, 2021
Releases covered up to December 31, 2020
Image by Dasha Kern

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label PAi
00:00 01 Jörgen Kjellgren Cádiz, Pt. 2 Invincible Summer 2020 Past Inside the Present N67
05:24 02 Eternell Imagined Distances Imagined Distances 2020 Sound in Silence
11:16 03 Andrew Lang Momentary Senses / Oulu Momentary Senses 2020 Rusted Tone
16:30 04 Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea Drala Liberamente 2020 Azure Vista
24:07 05 Jogging House Days be 2020 Seil N68
30:17 06 Benoît Pioulard with Pepo Galán & Karen Vogt Try to Be More Realistic Sustain Series, Vol. 1 2020 Ambientologist N68
33:46 07 Julianna Barwick Safe Healing is a Miracle 2020 Ninja Tune J8
38:30 08 Geotic Simothet Oxperls 2020 Basement’s Basement N67
49:48 09 Robot Koch Nebula The Next Billion Years 2020 Modern L7
53:33 10 Andrew Tasselmyer Dream States Associative Mechanisms 2020 Andrew Tasselmyer X6
57:02 11 Hotel Neon All is Memory All is Memory 2020 Facture
1:01:23 12 BLOMMA Finale BLOMMA 2020 Moderna G6
1:05:38 13 Slow Meadow Quintana (Solo Piano) By the Ash Tree 2020 Hammock
1:09:42 14 Merrin Karras Meridian Northwest Passage 2020 A Strangely Isolated Place X6
1:17:47 15 36 & zakè Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel (Stage 1) Stasis Sounds for Long​-​Distance Space Travel 2020 Past Inside the Present X6
1:23:20 16 Steve Good Moon River Nothing is Ever Created or Destroyed 2020 Steve Good N56
1:30:23 17 zakè Passengers (Poemme Remix) Geneva 2020 Past Inside the Present G11
1:35:14 18 Geotic Elinted Oxperls 2020 Basement’s Basements L6
1:45:08 19 Ezra Feinberg Acquainted with the Night Recumbent Speech 2020 Related States G11
1:50:00 20 Sarah MacNeil Siar Northbay 2020 Crow Road G10
1:54:09 21 Pantha du Prince Lichtung Conference of Trees 2020 Modern G6
2:00:40 22 Caspian Circles on Circles On Circles 2020 Triple Crown G10

PAi = Previously appeared in a mix. Others will most definitely be included in a forthcoming Planetarium set.

Salzwüste

Geophon 11
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p313
Limited Select release on December 30, 2020
Wide release on February 2, 2021
Releases covered up to October 31, 2020
Image by Diego Aguilar

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Andrew Tasselmyer Oxide Associative Mechanisms 2020 Andrew Tasselmyer
05:23 02 Andrew Tasselmyer 200508_01.wav May Mornings 2020 Andrew Tasselmyer
13:27 03 Voga feat. Bedroom Union Static Motion 2018 Voga
18:09 04 Jon Law Ver Ver 2020 Perfect Aesthetics
22:45 05 We Are All Astronauts Another Love Another World EP 2020 We Are All Astronauts
28:00 06 Mark Peters & Clem Leek Loyola Thesis 19 2020 Thesis
31:38 07 Polar Moon Daylight Moon As Above, So Below 2020 Past Inside the Present
34:47 08 Tapes and Topographies A Pulse of Durations A Pulse of Durations 2020 Past Inside the Present
38:58 09 Black Brunswicker The Stars in Your Head and the Earth Beneath Your Feet Hidden Amongst the Trees and Foothills 2019 Past Inside the Present
43:10 10 zakè Passengers (Poemme Remix) Geneva 2020 Past Inside the Present
48:00 11 Tony Anderson After the Storm After the Storm 2019 Tony Anderson
53:54 12 AUSKLANG Ruhe Chronos 2020 Past Inside the Present
1:03:07 13 Anthéne Know by Heart Protection 2020 Distant Bloom
1:13:18 14 CEEYS_Brothers.Selke Vice Versa Hausmusik 2020 Neue Meister
1:18:00 15 Ezra Feinberg Acquainted with the Night Recumbent Speech 2020 Related States
1:23:24 16 Isaac Helsen Athabasca Remnants Vol. II 2019 Past Inside the Present

Muschelschalen

Muschelschalen (Neptunian 65) [FRISKY CHILL broadcast from October 25, 2020]
01 Hakobune – Furiko [Polar Seas, 2020 | “Solitude”] {00:00}
02 SineRider – Four Years Away [Sound in Silence, 2018 | “Four Years Away”] {06:28}
03 SineRider – Echeveria [dronarivm, 2020 | “Moonflowers”] {09:36}
04 Sven Laux – Fragment 3 [whitelab, 2020 | “Scattered Fragments of Separation”] {13:41}
05 Jani R – Motion 2 [Jani R, 2020 | “Still Motions EP”] {17:05}
06 Jens Pauly – Tynne [whitelab, 2020 | “Sleeplaboratory2.0”] {23:07}
07 Piotr Michałowski – Phoenix [dronarivm, 2020 | “Gap in Time (Charity Compilation)”] {27:16}
08 Kenji Kihara – 日日是好日 (Today is a Good Day) – 3 [Sphontik, 2019 | “日日是好日”] {31:04}
09 Jogging House – Breaks [dauw, 2019 | “When”] {34:26}
10 Jens Pauly – Below [whitelab, 2020 | “Below”] {38:01}
11 Endless Melancholy – Caught in a Memory [Sound in Silence, 2020 | “A Perception of Everything”] {42:33}
12 Hirotaka Shirotsubaki – North Wharf [Stereoscenic, 2020 | “Music for Artificial Islands 1989”] {47:17}
13 WMD – Watching Boats Through the Fog [Hush Hush, 2019 | “Young Angry Love”] {53:34}
14 Jogging House – Balance [Seil, 2019 | “Lure”] {56:50}
15 Jogging House – Left [Jogging House, 2019 | “Names”] {1:01:21}
16 Jordan Christoff – Iron Goddess [Past Inside the Present, 2019 | “Liminal”] {1:04:45}
17 The Green Kingdom – Sanctum [Verdant Spaces, 2020 | “Sanctum”] {1:12:37}
18 Purl – A Brighter Dream [Archives, 2020 | “Renovatio”] {1:19:10}
19 Poemme – Lacustrine [Facture, 2019 | “Place Language”] {1:21:58}

01-02, 14-16 and 18 are not part of the FRISKY broadcast.

Releases covered up to 2020-07-15.


Image by: https://unsplash.com/@igorrodrigues

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p304
Select exclusive until 2020-11-12

Abklingen

Abklingen (Jovian 4)
01 Hipnotic Earth – Slow Light [Desert Trax] {00:00}
02 Robert Davies – Beds of Fern [DataObscura] {04:29}
03 Grey Frequency – In a Clearing [A Year In The Country] {08:57}
04 John Hayes – Another Word for Happy (Elijah Bisbee Rework) [Sonder House] {13:20}
05 Anthéne – Monologues [Shimmering Moods] {16:22}
06 Delectatio – Lamento [Delectatio] {21:08}
07 Poemme – Red-Tail [Stereoscenic] {25:49}
08 Jonas Munk – Eastern Horizon [Azure Vista] {30:56}
09 A Winged Victory for the Sullen – A Minor Fifth Is Made of Phantoms [Erased Tapes] {35:22}
10 Slow Dancing Society & zakè – Nadir [zakè Drone] {39:11}
11 Malibù – One Life [UNO NYC] {44:40}
12 Will Samson – The Human Mosaic [Wichita] {51:22}
13 Pepo Galán – Growing Seed (for Brian Young) [rohs!] {55:23}
14 Gallery Six – Kimi [Lagerstätte] {1:07:12}

01 and 02 play simultaneously.
13 debuted in Best of Planetarium 2019, Pt. 1.


Image by: http://unsplash.com/@johnwestrock

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p285

Pigmente

Pigmente (Lumen 3)
01 Poemme – Watchful Chickadee [Stereoscenic] {00:00}
02 Olga Wojciechowska – All I Have Not Seen [A Strangely Isolated Place] {07:04}
03 Hollie Kenniff – Nearly Every Day [n5MD] {11:33}
04 Bålsam – Poecil Carolinensis [Neotantra] {16:03}
05 Black Brunswicker – Sevastapol [Stereoscenic] {18:59}
06 Slow Dancing Society – The City Below Us [Hidden Shoal] {24:01}
07 Horizon Diver – Midday Sun [Stereoscenic] {28:26}
08 Steve Good – Resolve / Dissolve [Steve Good] {32:43}
09 Purl – Seraphine Wings [Purl] {41:04}
10 City of Dawn – Elapsed [Healing Sound Propagandist] {44:10}
11 Space Mountain – Ley Lines [Pyramid Blood] {48:29}
12 Yui Onodera – Cromo 4 [Kompakt] {53:59}
13 Light Sleeper – Last Transmission [EL Muelle] {58:59}
14 Benoît Pioulard – Half to Death [Morr] {1:04:09}
15 Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitiello – A Clearing [12k] {1:07:26}
16 Teen Daze – Near (r beny Remix) [Flora] {1:14:56}

01 and 12 previously appeared on Sternwarte 2019, Pt. 2.


Image by: http://pedromgabriel.com/

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p277

Sternwarte 2019, Pt. 2

Sternwarte 2019, Pt. 2 (S7)
01 David Cordero – 25 de Agosto, 3 A.M. [Archives] {00:00}
02 Pepo Galán – Barco Amor (Steve Pacheco Remix) [Archives] {09:58}
03 Yui Onodera – Cromo 4 [Kompakt] {16:22}
04 NAAL – We’re Here. We Will Die [Past Inside the Present] {21:04}
05 Altars Altars – A I [Home Normal] {23:41}
06 Moss Covered Technology – Waiting (In the Shadow of the Holy Ghost) [Healing Sound Propagandist] {26:17}
07 ASC – Hadal Zone [Silent Season] {33:50}
08 B.A.X. – Nature’s Hymn (Reprise) [3rd Avenue] {41:01}
09 Poemme – Watchful Chickadee [Stereoscenic] {45:23}
10 Voyage Futur – Animalia [New Atlantis] {52:09}
11 Jogging House – Magnets [Seil] {56:45}
12 Tomoyoshi Date + Stijn Hüwels – Tou [Home Normal] {1:02:55}
13 Above & Beyond – Slow Buchla Sunshine [Anjunabeats] {1:12:47}
14 Slow Meadow – Everything Is a Memory [Hammock] {1:16:03}
15 Ecovillage – Hold My Hand [eilean] {1:19:15}
16 Hammock – In the Shattering of Things [Hammock] {1:25:02}
17 Hiemal – A Crimson Sky Torn {1:29:41}
18 Parallelism – Eidetic Drone [Tehnofonika] {1:36:13}
19 Anthéne – Silver Screen [Home Normal] {1:46:36}
20 Hakobune – Slowing Expansion [Past Inside the Present] {1:50:28}
21 Marty Hicks – Tolia [White Paddy Mountain] {2:03:16}
22 Hotel Neon – Relic 3 {2:08:35}
23 Jens Pauly – Elde [whitelab] {2:11:03}
24 Alex Bober – Patience [Hidden Vibes] {2:15:17}
25 Federico Mosconi – Light not Light [Shimmering Moods] {2:22:41}
26 Peter Sandberg – Deep [Phases] {2:29:41}
27 Bobby Krlic – Fire Temple [Milan] {2:33:20}

Previous appearances in the order of their respective mix’s release date:
05 in Inselkette (P101).
07 in Schwemmkanal (P108).
19 in Handelskai (N44).
21 in Königsforst (P110).
04 in Ozeanströme (P111).
24 in Dämmerschein (N46).
12 in Hitzeschleier (P113).
18, 23 and 26 in Binnensee (N48).
10 in Le Sanctuaire (OF7).
01 in Widerhall (P114).
15 in Gneis (G2).
25 in Laternen (P116).
11 and 13 in Kaleidoskop (N50).
17 in Teleskop (X2).
08 in Bernstein (G4).
02 in Synthese (L2).
22 in Gezeitenwechsel (N54).
16 in Alpenglühen (J2).


Image by: http://streamweb.deviantart.com/

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p275

Calm Pills + Planetarium

For 2020, I planned to invite more guests to my regular shows than usual. A perfect opportunity just happened, as I was approached by my Mixcloud neighbour Calm Pills aka Alaeddin Khalik. His mixes appeared on FRISKY under his DJ Seroton moniker. However, the Calm Pills series on Mixcloud is a new, a bit slower, but still very harmonious direction. I think his 25th set which he submitted as my FRISKY entry for February is stunning and captures the Planetarium vibe very well.

Calm Pills + Planetarium (Neptunian 56 | Calm Pills Guestmix) FRISKY CHILL broadcast from February 23, 2020
01 Poemme – A Path Between the Clouds [Stereoscenic] {00:00}
02 Steve Good – Moon River {05:04}
03 Wil Bolton – Ropes [Audiobulb] {11:47}
04 Good Weather For An Airstrike – A Quiet Day [Sound in Silence] {22:20}
05 Ben McElroy – Ocean Left Unspoken [eilean] {27:37}
06 Jon Hopkins with King Creosote – Immunity [Domino] {30:10}
07 Slow Meadow – Helium Life Jacket [Hammock] {34:08}
08 Alio Die ≈ Antonio Testa – One Nairb [Hic Sunt Leones] {37:17}
09 Brother Saturn – As Empty as I Seem (Way Out Here) [We Are All Ghosts] {44:15}
10 Ashot Danielyan – C-Meditation [Easy Summer] {49:04}
11 Good Weather For An Airstrike – Storm Fronts [Sound in Silence] {52:03}
12 Pepo Galán – Bleeding Eyes (Shuta Yasukochi Remix) [Archives] {55:59}
13 Blake Ewing – North {1:00:08}
14 Stars Of The Lid – Articulate Silences, Pt. 1 [kranky] {1:01:36}
15 Gallery Six – Awayuki [Stereoscenic] {1:06:07}
16 Moby – Homeward Angel [Mute] {1:09:58}
17 Slow Meadow – Lonesome Summer [Hammock] {1:18:25}
18 Violeta Vicci – Long Farewell [Painted Word] {1:22:10}

01-03 and 18 are Mixcloud exclusives (not part of the FRISKY broadcast).
“Immunity” appeared on Vergänglichkeit and eins.


Image by: Alaeddin Khalik

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p274

Best of Planetarium 2019, Pt. 2

Best of Planetarium 2019, Pt. 2 (BOP19b)
01 Andrew Tasselmyer – Fade from View [eilean] {00:00}
02 Hotel Neon – Burning Mist [Archives] {06:37}
03 Porya Hatami | Aaron Martin | Roberto Attanasio – Xakelêwe [dronarivm] {12:06}
04 Eternell & endlesstrains – Elevation [Stereoscenic] {21:22}
05 Hotel Neon – Rime [Facture] {28:11}
06 Poemme – Falling Snow on a Silent Night [Stereoscenic] {33:58}
07 Hammock – Circular as Our Way [Hammock] {45:03}
08 Lowercase Noises – A Little Time with the Tree’s Roots {51:26}
09 Lowercase Noises – Inselberg [Facture] {55:57}
10 Old Amica – Strelka över Himlavalvet [whitelab] {1:01:09}
11 Warmth – Reflector (Shuta Yasukochi Remix) [Archives] {1:05:46}
12 Vinuela / Rosenberg – Solstice [Seil] {1:13:33}
13 Sigur Rós – Sleep 9 [Krunk] {1:22:23}
14 Gallery Six – In This Perfect Dream [Past Inside the Present] {1:32:57}
15 Hotel Neon – Vanishing Forms [Archives] {1:40:56}
16 Hotel Neon – Drawn Back [Archives] {1:47:07}
17 Ian Nyquist – Obelisk [eilean] {1:51:01}
18 Ian Nyquist – Bring Her Home [eilean] {1:54:58}

Previous appearances in the order of their respective mix’s release date:
11 in Farbempfinden (P106).
17 and 18 in Handelskai (N44)
14 in Königsforst (P110).
03 and 04 in Traumwelt (N45).
01 in Hochebene (P112).
02 and 08 in Dämmerschein (N46).
16 in Ulmenblatt (N48).
10 in Laternen (P116).
15 in Bergform (P117).
07 and 13 in Tropopause (J1).
06 in Teleskop (X2).
09 in Gezeitenwechsel (N54).
05 in Alpenglühen (J2).


Image by: http://sirius-sdz.deviantart.com/

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p272

Synthese

Synthese (Lumen 2)
01 Pepo Galán – Barco Amor (Steve Pacheco Remix) [Archives] {00:00}
02 Marc Barreca – Summerland [Palace of Lights] {06:55}
03 Olga Wojciechowska – Infinite Distances [A Strangely Isolated Place] {12:26}
04 Julia Gjertsen – Caress [Moderna] {17:41}
05 Michael Gordon – Horizon [Polar Seas] {21:56}
06 Simeon Walker feat. Luca Longobardi – Breathe {25:39}
07 Hammock – Afraid to Forget [Hammock] {30:00}
08 Message To Bears – We All Were Swallowed by Sleep {34:22}
09 Jónsi & Alex Somers – Boy [Krunk] {36:58}
10 Channelers – Strange and Familiar [Inner Islands] {40:36}
11 Scott Campbell – Centering [Seil] {47:51}
12 36 – Lahaina Noon [Past Inside the Present] {52:36}
13 Slow Meadow – Pareidolia [Hammock] {55:32}
14 Poemme – First Stars [Hawk Moon] {58:31}
15 Jazzdefector & Slow Clinic – Green Echo [whitelab] {1:04:00}
16 Ashan – String on an Open Plane [Inner Islands] {1:11:25}


Image by: http://unsplash.com/@samaustin

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p265