Hypnagogue Podcast

Settle in. I want to tell you a story….a mystery, really, about The Albums That Went Missing. Oh, it’ll mystify you and maybe bring a chill to your soul, but in the end it turns into 90 really good minutes of music. Ready to hear the tale? Start Tom Sonntag, Unknown Dancer, The […]

From a gently dark start, we launch into long drifts and emerge in a lighter space. Then it’s off to the library where we just might encounter…one of those. Start Hessien, Design the Ageless Soul, The Alchemist9.20 SINKE DÜS, The Pilgrimage, Modus Vivendi13.25 Amongst Myselves, Lost Beach, An Abandoned Day20.51 […]

Contrary to the well-known internet error message, you’ve found the latest episode of the Hypnagogue Podcast! For your efforts, I’ll reward you with 90 minutes of the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music. It’s all Holding Tanks today, and a great mix of styles. Enjoy. Start Brian Fechino, Road to Hapi, Reflection […]

Happy Leap Year Day! (Is that a thing?) From a very New Age kind of start (c’mon, we open with a Reiki thing) through pulsing funkiness to a quite quiet endpoint, this one’s pretty much what you’ve come to expect. (I hope that’s a good thing…) Start Ashron, Flight into the Sun, Reiki […]

It’s all Holding Tank this time through, bringing you quiet drifts, New Age-y tunes, a bit of chant, and more. Plus, it’s possible that I offend an artist. Start Chronotope Project, Unwinding the Dream (remix), Chronology6.16 Hyperion V, Surface Gravity, Accretion Disc10.14 Chogori, Seven Seas, Minor Green13.32 Indian Trap […]

What do you do when you’ve reached 400 podcast episodes? Keep going, I guess! We’ll stick to the Holding Tanks this time through and for the most part keep things a bit on the down-low. (That’s what the cool kids say, right? Humor me.) Off you go. Start David Arkenstone, The World Sleeps, Winterlüde4.52 […]

400? What’s up with that? Yes, your presumably favorite podcast has now happened 400 times, and we celebrate with an hour in the library and an hour of new stuff. (Plus, I indulge in a couple personal favorites!) Enjoy, and thank you for listening! Start Bob Holroyd, Darwin’s Dream, In Motion/Hollowman6.48 […]

New year, same old show. You know, the one that brings you nothing but the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music and has that host who doesn’t seem to take this seriously? Yeah, that one. Ready for more of the same? Coolness. Let’s go. Start Carlos Dengler, Desert Flora, Private Earth12.28 […]

Taking our leave of 2023, we do so in a manner most casual, stretching out, biding our time, meandering as one does, unrushed and–oh, who am I kidding? We’re getting lazy for the last show of the year, airing out some longer cuts that have been tucked into the Tracks to Play list for a […]

A storm of fiery guitar kicks this one off, pulling bits of New Age and electronic music in its wake. Then we get comfy in the library, greeted by some post-rock (with its own bits of fiery guitar), and hang out until, as often happens, we reach a nice, quiet close.Oh, yeah, there’s also one […]

Kicking off with some fun uptempo stuff, we’ll work our way across this 90-minute landscape to end up somewhere much quieter. Start Test Card, The Blank Code Re-Write, Channels5.48 Beukotreug, Hydra, Cosmic Spring10.33 Space Art, Across The Corridor, Personal Duty15.10 Andy Cartwright, Signal Loss, Below The Noise19.15 Daryl […]

Get the children to safety in the bunker! There’s a theme show a’comin!Yeah, it’s that time again. Mr. Shanahan gets a “clever idea” and runs with it. (And yes, this is the one I talked about on 393…) Look at it this way: you get 20 tracks of musical goodness out of it! Enjoy! Start […]

Not only do you get 90 minutes of great music this time around, but the show hits a bit of a milestone. Any guesses? I won’t spoil it here. Thanks for listening! Start Yulio, Acid Barcelona, Cosmic Fractal4.46 John Scott Shepherd, Titan, Steps To The Stars10.17 M3NASH, Hanging Over the […]

Half a dozen from the Holding Tanks before we take a lengthy dip into the library stacks. Second set goes a little bit of everywhere, and has one of those artists who just happens to nail both song AND album title of the episode! Enjoy the ride. Start Cottage 42C, Weeds like an […]

Might as well start off in contemporary instrumental/electroacoustic territory since I’ve been getting a lot of good stuff in that fits that bill. In the latter half it’s back into the library to revisit some friends. Start Michael Whelan, We Are All Made of Stars, Walk in Beauty, Like the Night4.17 David […]

Okay, this one might start off a little strange, but we’re getting toward the bottom of the Holding Tanks and it’s getting time to reload ’em. Back half of this one is a trip to the library. You like the library, right? (There’s even one of those artists…) Off we go! Start Beluga […]

You know how this goes: you set aside 90 minutes and hope to enjoy the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music. Good news: you get a bit of all of that here, including tracks from a couple albums I had good things to say about on social media. Start Firehand, Deep Learning, […]

After an episode with just a handful (literally) of tracks, let me toss a bit more than a dozen at you this time around. As a bonus treat, I mangle some Italian, reference Nikki Minaj, put you on hold at least once, and may or may not speak two words of Galician. If you’re new […]

A lazy podcast, but with a purpose! I saw that in adding to my “Tracks to Play” doc I had noted several that were fairly long. So I decided to lump them together. There are only five, and as tends to be the case with long tracks, this episode runs pretty quiet. Start […]

How would I characterize this episode? I have no friggin’ idea. It just came together like this. We’re going a little bit of everywhere. Start Computerchemist, It Could be Paradise, Mysterious Cave of Eternal Theta 10.22 Altus, Null Unit, Descender 20.55 Pulse Emitter, Fireflies, Dusk25.54 Surkid, Apparatus Yet, Home Frequencies30.11 […]