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The Buddha studied many religions, but he was not satisfied with their practices. He could not find the answer in asceticism or in philosophies. He was not interested in some metaphysical existence, but in his own body and mind, here and now. And when he found himself, he found that everything that exists has Buddha nature. That was his enlightenment. Enlightenment is not some good feeling or some particular state of mind. The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture with each moment as it is, complete and full, is itself enlightenment.
Shunryu Suzuki Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
artist – work psychedelic source – singin’ train Jovontaes – Barbarian Pt.2 Gnod – Pilgrim’s Progress Gailes – Requiem For An Airport Television Newsreader Sadoul Ixchel – სამი The Cure – A Short Term Effect (Trilogy 2003 Live) Lebenden Toten – Near Dark Muslimgauze – Bedouin in Mercedes B1 psychedelic source – pure rain
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• I modified the Suzuki quote with ital language from Joko Beck. One of the most awkward and intimidating things I had to do for the chaplaincy internship was call the Trauma-Neuro Intensive Care Unit meetings to order with a “prayer,” or in my case, a Zen reading. As I was saying before, Zen Mind is a guide toward practicing Zen – starting with posture and leveling up to saving all sentient beings. They weren’t sitting, they were eager for me to stop talking so they could go over patient charts, so I subbed out “sit in the right posture” for “sit with each moment as it is, complete and full.”
• Does everybody know about the extremely prolific Hungarian back yard garden jam band psychedelic source? It is some of the most laid-back psychedelic music I have heard in a long time, except for when it is squalling White Hills-style feedback jams. Their vertical railsides album is of the former variety, with a really nice frame drum thing plus every once in awhile you hear little kids running around. I also keep reading the title as vertical rail-slides because they only thing that would make it more chill is if it was about skating rather than trains. Also most (all?) of the music on their label is NYOP.
• vertical railslides could be the name of this reissue of Jovontaes 2011 Thief of Baghdad album which is “Named after 90s street skater Jovontae Turner, Jovontaes are a group of kids from the Lexington, KY community, tearing up both the psych and skateboarding scenes. Not doing what you’d expect from a bunch of skaters, these dudes are making caveman psych rock yet still sounding way weirder than the standard psych-jam band trying to live in the past of the 60s.” It blends seamlessly into the aforementioned Hungarian garden party jam band, unsurprisingly given the ease with which Midwestern skate kids transform into hippie punks. It isn’t NYOP, but it is only $1.
• Like psychedelic source, the prolific musician Sadoul Ixchel is a source of highly psychedelic tunes, though more in a SWANA-ish goth ambient zone. Much of it available for whatever you’d like to pay. As such, they are an artist whose melancholy spiritual ambience has become a fixture on ID Music. We don’t know much more about them, other than the Traktor DJ software I use to mix the show does NOT like Georgian fonts. It can be hard to keep up with their output, but when they add low key acoustic percussion to the already North African-leaning Grouper-informed gloom, I swoon.
• Sadoul Ixchel’s delicate and downpressing jams make for an easy complement to Robert Smith’s older and wiser version of “Short Term Effect” from The Cure’s overwhelming 2003 Trilogy Live bootleg, a lighthearted performance of the soul-crushing masterpieces Pornography, Disintegration, and the consistently underrated Bloodflowers.
• Watch out for the tinnitus-informed hardcore of Portland’s elusive Lebenden Toten at the end! Their sharp-edged and extremely catchy crasher crust is harder to track down than any other artist I’ve played on the show, I’m guessing they’re one of the most off-putting bands in the ID Music canon for people in my age group, and I absolutely cannot get enough of their Nausea meets Yellow Swans inna Uptown Circle Pit sound.
The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.
Shunryu Suzuki Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
artist – work Clams Casino – Wassup Bitchin Bajas – Jammu (2017.11.30 Hungry Brain, Chicago) Ricardo Villalobos – Samasai Autechre – YJY UX Nadja – Space Time & Absence Ricardo Villalobos & Max Lodebauer – Reblop DEAFKIDS – Cicatrizes Jeri Jeri – Xale Rhythm Clams Casino – Instrumentals Medley
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• I have loved Clams Casino forever. I also used to like Salem and while I still enjoy their Gucci Mane tape, “witch house” with white guys saying the n-word tends to lose it’s appeal if you are more prone to scarfing candied drugs rather than scraping them around with sharp implements. “Cloud rap” from a white guy that helped A$AP Rocky and Lil’ B establish a distinctly psychedelic ‘00s aesthetic holds up much better. I read something once from Clams where he said he found source material by looking up music on youtube using search terms like “blue.” Youtube used to be good, but his vaporous vintage productions will always be the premier lo-fi beats to study, work, sleep, and relax to. Also, who wants to watch Lost Boys again for some reason?
• Bitchin Bajas is obviously a jam band and so while you should buy their albums you can also find some good and loose live recordings on the internet, such as the 2017 Chicago set featured on this broadcast. The “ID Music: Collision Mandalas” newsletter is about some videos I made with Baja Rob for his bird music project, and about the Bajas’ show in Marfa 10 years ago where my friend Sarah and I hung out with them and played an after-hours session tapping and hootin on some (unknown to us) extremely expensive pottery.
• DEAFKIDS are the best ones currently making post-punk post-world acid-house Afro-Cuban D-Beat that also includes heavily manipulated samples of dolphin communication isolation tank acid scientist John C. Lilly, and as such they are always welcome on the ID Music airwaves.
Our multi-channel broadcast media installation includes the following selections:
artist — work
Y/Y and The Drummers – DrumCircle December 23, 2025 (edit) SUNN O))) – 01 soundcheck (2009.10.22) SUNN O))) – Crank (2025.10.19) Lord Mantis – Vile Divinity Actress – Voodoo Posse Chronic Illusion Jay Duncan ft. Ben Vince – In Limbo Alèkpéhanhou – Zozo Piaa! Maral x El Kontessa – Butterfly Magic Eyad – Qalq Autechre – YJY UX Chaka Chawasarira – Hurombo Four Tet ft. Hope Sandoval – Into Dust (Still Falling) islamabad discipline – aankh micholi Mark Ernestus & Ndagga Rhythm Force – Ndiguel SUNN O))) – 01 soundcheck (2009.10.22) (edit) SUNN O))) – Pills (2025.10.19) (edit) Y/Y and The Drummers – DrumCircle December 23, 2025 (edit)
For this first Inter-Dimensional Music: Field Recordings from the Sunn SuperSession, I took fragments from two shows that first caught my attention when I began my ongoing deep dive into the live archive, and mixed them throughout the sort of broad percussive spectrum regular listeners to our airwaves have come to expect.
We start out with blackened sludge metal, in keeping with Sunn’s origins, but quickly detour to ‘80s West African dance music, deconstructed techno, a Kieran Hebden/Hope Sandoval collaboration, and Islamabad Discipline’s “kaleidoscopic exploration of his cultural heritage filtered through a collage of field recordings, guitar mantras, and experiments in traditional forms influenced through his studies with the late Ustad Mohammad Ajmal Khan.” In keeping with Sunn’s minimal written commentary on their live archive, this is a “more dharma rock, less dharma talk” edition of ID Music, free of any announcements or commentary from your host.
I returned to using a four-deck setup, and faded loops of a 2009 soundcheck from the Monoliths & Dimensions tour that features a lot of chanting in-and-out of a recording of the band in their Shoshin Duo configuration performing in Athens, Greece in 2025. This mix of the two performances lurks in the background of the entire set, resurfacing at full volume during in-between moments.
The 2009 recording catches the band in partial ensemble mode—core duo Greg Anderson on guitar and bass, Stephen O’Malley on guitar, with Attila Csihar offering his signature vocal performance that ranges from soaring arias to croaks of gastric distress, and Steve Moore on keyboards and trombone. According to the show notes, it was recorded by “retrodude83 utilizing the Olympus LS-10 Recorder, plus Church Audio STC-9000 with the Church Audio CA-11 mics.”
The 2025 show documents the minimalist setup of Anderson and O’Malley and their guitars, as recorded by “vavmos” who writes “here’s my recording from your recent performance in Athens, Greece, using Church Audio CAFs – Church Audio Ugly 2 – Sony PCM.”
The session is book-ended by excerpts from DrumCircles, an expanding collection of live psychedelic ritual trance music from YslashY and the Drummers of Zevenkamp. It’s not exactly 77 Boa Drum and I don’t know much about the artists beyond the statement of purpose on their label’s Bandcamp profile to “promote experimantal ways of getting into a mediative or trance state of being.” Conveniently, their ethos is also in keeping with the themes of communal rituals discussed above. “Donkse Oog prefers releases by artists who also perform live. everybody can be a studio/laptop artist, but not everybody is able to reproduce their sounds on stage.” Beyond that, the label’s hidden behind a Dutch FB reg-wall so I hope it’s nothing sketchy . . . but I’m a Nag-Champa huffing sucker when it comes to decent long-form drum circle jams like this.
Find the fully annotated setlist and downloads for offline listening in the free Vøid Contemplation Tactics newsletter from Cosmic Chambo Studio.
“Smooth Jazz for Armagideon Times” is the second in our Pure Flow series of newsletter-exclusive mixes. For this volume, it’s two hours of heavyweight jazz and jazz-like abstractions informed by mindfulness practices ranging from the ascetic to the lysergic. It’s a “less dharma talk, more dharma rock” soundtrack for taking it easy while maintaining awareness, a refuge from harsh ‘20s reality, and a chance to recharge before we resume cutting through all of the endless delusions in these Armagideon Times. As always, mixed “live-to-FLAC” from the yoga mat at Cosmic Chambo Studio.
artist – work Six Six (Anthony Pirog | Luke Stewart) – Before (edit) John Coltrane – Om, Pt. 1 (edit) Shabaka – Black Meditation Contours – Eastern Bells ft Beka Reid & Seth Sutton Chicago Underground Duo – Hermeto Jon Hassell – Tonkwave (Maarifa Street Jazzfest, Berlin 2006) Norman W Long – Sikan I Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid – We Dream Free (edit) Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer – Rensenada Chelsea Carmichael – There Is A Place (It’s Not Here) Jamael Dean – Olokun Yesterdays New Quintet – Vibes From The Tribe Suite (For Phil) (edit) Philip Cohran And the Artistic Heritage Ensemble – New Frankiphone Blues Yesterdays New Quintet – Vibes From The Tribe Suite (For Phil) (edit) Bengt Berger & Don Cherry – Tongsi Santana – Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation Spencer Zahn, Jacob Bergson, Austin Tufts – Mile X Shamek Farrah – First Impressions Tortoise – Everglade Creation Rebel – African Space Tortoise & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Love Is Love Six Six (Anthony Pirog | Luke Stewart) – Before (edit) John Coltrane – Om, Pt. 1 (edit)
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