Inter-Dimensional Music

Tag: Void Contemplation Tactics

  • ID Music 2026.08.23: Zen Mind I

    ID Music 2026.08.23: Zen Mind I

    from VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS
    “Inter-Dimensional Music: Zen Mind Sessions”
    Psychedelic ritual meditation music for beginner minds

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    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

    Annotations:

    • 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.

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  • ID Music: Smooth Jazz for Armagideon Times

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    “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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