Inter-Dimensional Music

Tag: Zen

  • 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.

  • INTER-DIMENSIONAL MUSIC x VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS

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    is your source for ID Music downloads for offline listening, annotated setlists, slop-style Zen, and more thoughts on practicing non-self-improvement. It is a free, monthly-ish newsletter: Blessed are the lurkers, and all subscribers saints!

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  • ID Music 2026.03.15: Field Recordings from the Sunn I

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    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.

  • ID Music: Smooth Jazz for Armagideon Times

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    VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS

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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)

    Find the fully annotated setlist and downloads for offline listening in the Vøid Contemplation Tactics newsletter from Cosmic Chambo Studio. Blessed are the lurkers, and all subscribers saints!