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Edge2.235 NO, SE or Searching for Hodell

Biased as we always are at Edge, most music we let pass by this week is dark, avant garde and up North. Luckily ABBA enlightens us at the opposite end of the show with a warm hearted thank you. But where is Hodell?

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Edge2.234 NL, BE

NL, BE what else than music from this area on planet earth. Mostly the ppl inhabiting this piece of land speak a language understood by a very small percentage of the global populace.

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Edge2.233 NY, NY

New York, New York, with music and field recordings of this (in)famous city of the avant garde.

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Plus field recordings in the background by: The Sound of New York City.

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Edge2.232 Freeform episode 15

Another episode of our infamous freeform series. Sit back and listen. Playlist:

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Edge2.231 Mashup and Sonic Acts XV

This week we pay attention to the impeding Sonic Acts festival in Amsterdam that celebrates its XV anniversary. Further Remote Jeroen intermingles some of his favorite mashup’s.

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Edge2.230 Freeform episode 14

Another freeform episode this week as we ran out of cake and cookies.

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Edge2.229 You want cake, you got cake!

Cookies, kitchen, oven.. cake. An all week cake week. Many tracks were taken from WFMU’s wonderful 160 Versions of Todd Colby’s “Cake”, Kenneth Goldsmith’s crazy collection of covers mostly made by listeners of his radio program. The counter now reads 208 versions while we improvised yet another cake; 209.

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Edge2.228 Ping Pong

You guessed it alright: this week a collection of music based on the sounds of table tennis. Quite amazing so many artists have been inspired by the sound of pong; what about Dolly Parton or Dutch composer / artist Dick Raaijmakers. Follow us on our journey through from the left to the right and back again.

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Edge 2.227 Fairly Minimal.

This weeks focus on artists that create new kinds of minimal music. They often use the absolute minimal auditive elements like very short clicks or beeps.

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  • Nervous – Ride Of The Valkyrie – Curd Duca (album: Switched On Wagner)
  • Between the Two – Janek Schaefer (album: In The Last Hour)
  • 5 M’ Circles – By Autopoieses & Peter Fey (album: Maschinelle Strategeme)
  • The Politics of Digital Audio – Oval (album: Systemisch)
  • T3 (For Dieter Rams) – Alva Noto (album: For 2)
  • R4 – Radian (album: TG11)
  • House ! – RIOU (album: Cone Of Confusion)
  • 01 – SND (album: Makesnd Cassette)
  • Untitled – Pentax (album: Das Album)
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Edge 2.226 Below zero.

Yes, it’s cold. Let’s find some suitable music.

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  • Hold My Cold Hand – Scattered Order (album: Terrace Industry)
  • Arctic Hysteria – The Residents (album: Eskimo)
  • Frozen Gtr – Thurston Moore (album: Trees Outside The Academy)
  • Cool In The North – Touch 33 (album: Magnetic North)
  •  Winter 1 – Max Richter (album: Recomposed)
  • Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole – Venetian Snares (album: Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole)
  • Sneeuw is Overal – Bert & Ernie (album: Kerst)
  • Iceland – Ammer & Einheit (album: Frost 79 40′)
  • In a Frosted Lake – Mika Vainio (album: Black Telephone of Matter)
  • You Are Freezing – Ammer & Einheit (album: Frost 79 40′)
  • Quarnana – Inuit (album: Canada – Jeux Vocaux Des Inuit (Inuit Du Caribou, Netsilik Et Igloolik))
  • Angutinguarq – Inuit (album: Canada – Jeux Vocaux Des Inuit (Inuit Du Caribou, Netsilik Et Igloolik))
  • Qiarpa – Inuit (album: Canada – Jeux Vocaux Des Inuit (Inuit Du Caribou, Netsilik Et Igloolik))
  • South Pole – Quackshot (album: Quackshot OST)
  • It’s Frosty Outside – Ensemble Mescherina (album: Café Sputnik – Electronic Exotica from Russia)
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