Inter-Dimensional Music

Author: Daniel Chamberlin

  • New Silver Antlers Music

    A welcome return of “dream drift drone Utah” sounds.

  • ID Music for February 2013

    Astronaut StatusID Music extra-planetary operatives are constantly scanning Earth twins for enlightening audio transmissions.

    Chambo and Hollander return to the airwaves of Marfa Public Radio for the Big Bend’s only post-Super Bowl chakra cleanse. Tune in this Sunday, February 3, 2013 from 9-11p (CST). Check back after the show for playlists and more.

    UPDATE: Playlists for 3 Feburary 2013

    9-10p – Crystal Mix by Hollander:
    Crystallite from Crystal Meditations by Don G. Campbell
    The Crystal Star soundtrack from The Crystal Star by Jim Oliver
    The Trombones of Lithia from Crystals by Craig Kupka

    10-11p – Chambo’s Super Bowl After-Party Chillout Zone

    Sand – Mountains – Centralia
    is this and yes – My Bloody Valentine – M B V
    In Our Dreams – Motion Sickness of Time Travel – A Marbled Youth
    Freeflow – Blues Control & Laraaji – FRKWYS Vol. 8
    Night Flight in the Southern Hemisphere – Monopoly Child Star Searchers – The Garnet Toucan
    Spectral Split – Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory – Elements of Light

  • Chambo’s 2012 Heavy Rotations

    ID Music Holiday Greetings

    Chambo’s Top ID Music Jams from 2012, in alphabetical order:

    Actress

    Actress – R.I.P. 

    As we wrote once before … “Less suffocated techno. More shiny fractal ambience. “Shadow from Tartarus” sounds like ice tinkling off the conning tower of Porter Ricks‘ submarine after surfacing in the sparkling glare of Arctic sunlight.”

    Anywhere

    Anywhere – Anywhere

    Mike Watt, Cedric Bixler-Zavala and a dude we’d never heard of from the awesomely named “Liquid Indian” got together for these totally mellow Sandy Bull-inspired astral jams and nobody really said much about it, but it’s amazing.

    Ancient Forever

    Ashan – Ancient Forever

    Sits next to Stag Hare’s Spirit Canoes, Deep Magic’s Solar Meditations, White Rainbow’s New Clouds and Thoughts on Air’s Mallo Yallo as a stone classic of contemporary New Age. Flutes, guitars and all kinds of jingle-jangling old growth vibes.

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  • Inter-Dimensional Music for 6 January 2013

    Illustration by Robert McCall (1973)

    An ID Music scout searches the frozen wastes of the Davis Mountains for fresh snowflake jams (image by Robert McCall, via endthymes)

    Chambo, Hollander and the rest of the ID Music team broadcast the first transmission of the post-Mayan Apocalypse epoch last night from the KRTS studios here in Marfa, Texas. Hollander got things off to a mellow start with in-demand Arica tunes and some welcome guided-meditation.

    Here’s what Chambo played, with links to downloads or streams of the tunes.


    Unoffical video for “Thaw” by Laurel Halo, featuring footage from Philippe Garrel‘s 1968 film, Le Révélateur.

    Vital – Grouper – The Man Who Died In His Boat
    Thaw – Laurel Halo – Quarantine
    Night Work – M. Geddes Gengras – Test Leads
    Open Up The Gate – Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, RAW POWER BAND, The Congos – Icon Give Life
    Hellion Earth – Blanck Mass
    Slow Motion Katrina – Robert Hood – Motor: Nighttime World 3
    Seven Present Tenses – Shackleton – The Drawbar Organ EPs
    Rough Sleeper – Burial – Truant

  • LAST ID MUSIC OF 2012

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    The ID Music team consults oracles for top end-of-time jams. (productlaneevol via r-u-ins).

    The last Inter-Dimensional Music broadcast of 2012 — and thus perhaps the last ID Music broadcast of this human epoch (keywords: Mayan calendar, Daniel “I am friends with Sting” Pinchbeck, “what should I hoard,” etc etc ) — happens tonight (SUNDAY DECEMBER 2) on KRTS from 9-11p (CST).

    Hollander brings mystery tunes. I have new music from Indian Jewelry, Emeralds and Eternal Tapestry among other chill gems/decorative weavings.

    Tune in via antennae at 93.5FM out here in the Big Bend of Far West Texas. It’s marfapublicradio.org for the rest of you.

    UPDATE: Chambo’s playlist after the jump. (more…)

  • ID Music Returns Sunday, 4 November 2012

     

    Chambo, Hollander and the ID Music team preparing the KRTS studios for the November broadcast (via EYERTH)

    Join us this Sunday, 4 November 2012 for our monthly transmission of classic New Age, contemporary Earth-psych and other forms of outer-limits/inner-mind music.

    We’re live on KRTS from 9-11pm (CST). If you’re in Far West Texas, listen at 93.5FM. Stream worldwide at http://marfapublicradio.org/

     

  • ID Music returns Sunday, 7 October 2012

    Parallel-dimension KRTS transmission tower used exclusively for ID Music broadcasts. (via canopied)

    Inter-Dimensional Music returns to the the airwaves of the Trans-Pecos on Sunday, October 7, 2012 from 9-11p (CST) on KRTS, streaming at marfapublicradio.org or available via Big Bend-based antennae at 93.5FM.

    We’ll be doing a tribute show to everyone’s favorite mid-90s New Age soundtrack: music from and inspired by the original PURE MOODS line of dorm room audio aphrodisiacs.

    Tune in, turn on, make out.

  • Keep Marfa Quiet

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    In a county defined by its silence, the most quiet zone of them all: Welcome Reading Room Marfa.

  • Moebius’ Sra: New Translation

    Oh man … Moebius, aka Jean Giraud. If you don’t know already …

    The French graphic novelist and comics legend was like a pervy psychedelic Zelig: He launched the French predecessor of trippy “mature audiences only” comics mag Heavy Metal, Métal Hurlant. Collaborated with Jodorowsky and Michael Moorcock. Did storyboards for Alien, Tron, Willow, The Fifth Element and on and on. His best work — see the Arzach series for starters, or my personal favorite, his “Crystal Portfolio” — is sort of like all the high desert psychedelia parts of Star Wars minus George Lucas’ bummer-nerd trip, or maybe Frank Herbert’s Dune if he’d gone native down in Mexico.

    Plus boobs. Dude often slipped into deeply trippy, taboo-violating sexual illustrations in the pages of Métal Hurlant. He also created strange, violent Western comics featuring a character named Lieutenant Blueberry, stories that hold their own in the Peckinpah/Leone/El Topo universe of surreal, brutalist cowboy mythology.

    Much of his best work was brought to America by Marvel’s edgy Epic imprint in the late ’80s, and while currently out-of-print these volumes are widely circulated by well-meaning preservationists online. (more…)

  • Behind the scenes at ID Music

    Hollander, Chambo and friends prepare the monthly ID Music transmission.

    (RIP Moebius. From his 1986 Crystal Saga portfolio, via Arthur pal John Coulthart)