Significant Releases of 2017 (non-ranking order)

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AeTopus: Toten Totum (self-released) Aglaia: Picture Frames (Hic Sunt Leones) Alio Die: Time Zone Portal (Hic Sunt Leones) John Luther Adams: Everything That Rises (Cold Blue) AirSculpture: Travelling Light (self released) Aperus: Lie Symmetry (Geophonic Records) Daniel Avery: Song for Alpha (Phantasy) Paul Avgerinos: Mindfulness (Round Sky Music) Alluste: Alien Worlds (self released) Olafur Arnalds: Re-Member (Mercury kx) Axess: Seashore (Spheric Music) David Arkenstone: Colors of the Ambient Sky (QDV Productions) Alluste: Quantum Atmospheres (self-released) Ascendant: Meridian [EX] (Synphaera) Michel Banabila: Imprints (self-released) B Ashra: Ticket to the Moon (Klangwirkstoff) Pete Barnhart & George Wallace: Lamina (Airborn Music) Biome: The Shores of Temenos (Biome Music) Bluetech: Liquid Geometries (DiN) Richard Bone: Niribu (Quirkworks) Annemarie Borg: In Nomine Tellus (gterma) Ian Boddy/Erik Wollo: Meridian (DiN) Steve Brand: Near Series: Glow (txt) Steve Brand: Upwelling: Emergence (Databloem) Marco Beltrami: A Quiet Place (Milan) Meg Bowles: Evensong: Canticles for the Earth (Kumatone) Broekhuis Keller Schonwalder: Yellow (Manikin) Marc Barreca: Shadow Aesthetics (Palace of Lights) Adrian Beasley: SequentSea (self released) Gert Blokzijl: On My Way to 16-6-2018 (self released) Gert Blokzijl: Second Monopology (self released) Centrozoon: 217 IV (Iapetus) Javi Canovas: Dead End-Not (self-released) Suzanne Ciani: Live Quadraphonic (Atmospheric/CYKIK) Cosmic Ground: Cosmic Ground IV (Studio Fleische) Cosmic Ground: Relics vol 1 (self released) Cosmic Ground: Relics vol 2 (self released) Cosmic Ground: Relics vol 3 (self released) Chris Carter: CCCL volume one (Mute) Max Corbacho: Nocturnes II (Silentsun) Chronotope Project: Lotus Rising (Spotted Peccary) Daniel L K Caldwell: Prospect (Lakeshore Records) City of Dawn/Theatre Romance: Wallflower (self-released) Dalot & Sound Awakener: Little Things (Fluid Audio) Jon Durant: Parting Is (Alchemy Records) Datadrift: Interior Motive (self released) dreamSTATE: Ephemeral Drone (E Space) Deuter: Sattva Temple Trance (New Earth Records) Madhavi Devi: The Truth of Being (Spotted Peccary) Dedekind Cut: Tahoe (Kranky) EFSS: Tidal Shift (self-released) Hiroshi Ebina: Evanescent (self-released) Echo Season: Periphery (Synphaera) Danny Elfman: Don't Worry He Won't Get Far on Foot (Sony Classical) Ken Elkinson: Music for Telecommuting (August Son) Paul Ellis: Now Then (self released) Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij: Galaxis (self-released) Endless Meloncholy: Fragments of Scattered Whispers (Dronarivm) Brian Eno: Music for Installations (Astralwerks) The Equinox Project: The Sound of Winter (self released) Errant Space: Seconds (self released) Forrest Fang: Scenes From a Ghost Train (Projekt) The Fellowship of Hallucinatory Voyagers: Tenderness Avalanche (FRG Records) Fhloston Paradigm: Live on Star's End (kingbrittarchives) Fhloston Paradigm: Run (self released) Fiesel & Hertz: The Lighthouse (Aural Films) Nils Frahm: All Melody (Erased Tapes) Free System Projekt & Terje Winther: Spoon Forest (self-released) Forma: Semblance (Kranky) 4 Airports: 4 Airports (self-released) The Gentlemen Losers: Make We Here Our Camp of Winter (Sound in Silence) Frederick Gerchambeau/Bertrand Loreau: Catvaratempo (Spheric Music) The Green Kingdom: Seen and Unseen (Sound in Silence) Jeff Greinke: Before Sunrise (Spotted Peccary) Grey Acres: Grey Acres (Sound in Silence) Gri & Mosconi: Between Ocean and Sky (Slowcraft) Robert Hakalski: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (Singularity) Janne Hanhisuanto: Synastasia (self released) Jon Hassell: Listening to Pictures (ndeya) Steve Hauschildt: Dissolvi (Ghostly International) Tom Hawkins: Nebulus (self released) Helios: Veriditas (Ghostly International) Bob Holroyd: The Cage (self-released) Jon Hopkins: Singularity (Domino Records) Hotel Neon: Means of Knowing (Archives) In the Branches/Bluetech: Behind the Sky (self released) JB(X): Wurzburger Trilogie (self released) Steve Jansen: Corridor (self released) Jarguna & Friends: Trapped vol 2 (Projekt) Johann Johannsson: Englaborn & Variations (Deutsche Grammophon) Johann Johannsson: Mandy (Lakeshore Records) Johann Johannsson: The Mercy (Deutsche Grammophon) Svere Knut Johansen w/David Helpling: The Vast Expanse (Spotted Peccary) KJ: Ex (Dronarivm) Eleni Karaindrou: Tous Des Oiseaux (ECM) Fabio Keiner: 7 Jesei (Exosphere) Steven Kemner: Little Notes (Fluid Audio) Klangwelt: The Incident (Spheric Music) Kloob: Remarkable Events (Winter Light) Patrick Kosmos: Monument (Groove) David Lang: Mystery Sonatas (Cantaloupe Music) K Leimer: Imposed Order | Imposed Absence (Palace of Lights) K Leimer: Mitteltoner (Origin Peoples) K Leimer: Threnody (Palace of Lights) Libera: Beyond (Invisible Hands) Lingua Lustra: Nautilus (Exosphere) Loop Diary: Introduction to the Simple Universe vol 2 (Personal Affair) Dave Luxton: Explorations of Infinity (Wayfarer) K Markov: Abandoning Earth (self-released) K Markov: Abstract (self-released) K Markov: Explorer (self released) K Markov: Frequency (self-released) K Markov: Neural Network (self released) K Markov: Solar Waves (self released) Ken Martin: Evolution CD 1 (self released) Ken Martin: Quadrivium (self-released) Martin Nonstatic: Ligand Remixes (Ultimae) Master Margherita: Border 50 (Ultimae) Tony Masiello: Euponic Interference (self released) Fritz Mayr: Anavo (self released) Fritz Mayr: Outer Space (self released) Byron Metcalf: Inner Rhythm Meditations Vol II (Heartdance) Tom Middleton: Sleep Better (UMC) Gavin Miller: Shimmer (Sound in Silence) Tim Motzer: Luminous (1k Recordings) Tim Motzer/Markus Reuter: Rapture (1K Recordings) Murcof: Lost in Time (Glacial Movements) James Murray: Falling Backwards (Home Normal) James Murray: Landscapes of Love (Fluid Audio) Loren Nerell/Mark Seelig: Cave Dwellers (Seven Tones) David Newlyn: Collected Fictions (Sound in Silence) The Nightcrawlers: The Biophonic Boombox Recordings (Anthology Records) Node: Node Live (DiN) North Atlantic Drift: Departures vol 2 - (Sound in Silence) Numina: The Chroma Plateau (Spotted Peccary) Ombient: The Wings of Halphas (self-released) One Arc Degree: The Glow Beneath (Synphaera) The Orb: No Sounds Are Out of Bounds (Cooking Vinyl) Craig Padilla: Patterns of Thought (self-released) Palancar: Final Theory vol 1 & 2 (Emergent World) Parallel Worlds: Tonal Paintings (Electronique) Parallel Worlds/Dave Bessell: Dystopia (DiN) Pollard/Daniel/Booth: Eight (Electronic Composers Outlet) TJ Porter: Relics (self-released) TJ Porter: Present Future (self-released) Mark Pritchard: The Four Worlds (Warp) Pulse Emitter: Xenharmonic Passages (Expansive) Michelle Qureshi: Meditations (self released) Raison D'etre: Alchymeia (Cyclic Law) ['ramp]: No Sleep 'Til Wilmersdorf (Doombient) Ben Rath: Anything is Possible (Sound in Silence) Juha-Matti Rautiainen: Above Me Weeps the Sky (self released) Remote Vision: Birds Like Earth (Exosphere) Remote Vision: Into Light (Exosphere) Markus Reuter: Live in Pomona 2016 (Iapetus Media) Robert Rich: The Biod (Soundscape) Robert Rich/Markus Reuter: Flood Expeditions: The Gatherings 19 May 2018 (Soundscape) Max Richter: The Blue Notebooks (Deutsche Grammophon) Max Richter: Hostiles (Deutsche Grammophon) Max Richter: Mary Queen of Scots (Deutsche Grammophon) Max Richter: White Boy Rick (Deutsche Grammophon) Steve Roach: Electron Birth (Timeroom) Steve Roach: Mercurius (Projekt) Steve Roach: Molecules in Motion (Projekt) Steve Roach: Return to the Dreamtime (Timeroom) Steve Roach: Slow Heat (Timeroom) Chris Russell: Echo (Spotted Peccary) Chris Russell: Ventus (Earth Mantra) Dean Sabatino: The Unfortunate Math of Existence (self released) H Scott Salinas: A Private War (Varese Saraband) Ben Salisbury/Geoff Barrow: Annihilation (Lakeshore) Arjen Schat: AS self-released) Arjen Schat: Circadian (self-released) Klaus Schulze: Silhouettes (SPV/Oblivion) Paul Schutze: The Sky Torn Apart (Glacial Movements) Sensitive Chaos: Walking a Beautiful World (Subsequent Records) Shadow Motion: Gamelan Project (Personal Affair) Shall Remain Nameless: Untitled (self released) Silent Vigils: Fieldem (Home Normal) Sinerider: Four Years Away (Sound in silence) Skoulaman: Next Step in Evolution (Groove) Forrest Smithson: The Accomplished View (self released) Solaris: Chimera (Exosphere) Solidarity Hymn: For a Wandering Beam of Sun (Fluid Audio) The Soviet Space Dog Project: First Orbit (self-released) Spyra: Dunst (Groove) Staer: The Garden of Forking Paths (self released) Steppe-Scape (Stars of Eurasia): The Great Steppe Live (Iapetus media) Saul Stokes: Expansion (self released) Saul Stokes: The Gatherings 16 November 2013 (CIMA of PA) Stratosphere: Collaborations I (industry8) Alexandra Streliski: Inscape (Secret City) Styrofoam: We Can Never Go Home (Sound in Silence) SubtractiveLAD: Winthin and Without (self released) Sula Bassana: The Ape Regards His Tale (Sulatron Records) Sula Bassana: Shipwrecked (Sulatron Records) Sync24: Ominous (Ultimae Records) Tabo Tago: Kymatica (Iapetus Media) Juta Takahashi: Light and Shadows (Lunisolar) Tangerine Dream: The Sessions II (Eastgate) Tapes and Topographics: Fathoms (Simulacra) Tapes and Topographies: Insomnia Drones (Simulacra) Tapes and Topographies: Opiates (Simulacra) Three Fields: Tells (Installed Worlds) Steve Tibbetts: Life Of (ECM) Transponder: Beholder (Exosphere) Travis & Fripp: Between the Silence (Panegyric) Tropic of Coldness: Frames Waves (Glacial Movements) Twilight Archive: Flow Field (Electrophonogram) Chuck van Zyl: The Gatherings 21 April 2018 (CIMA of PA) Chuck van Zyl: Recitals 2 (Synkronos Music) Chuck van Zyl: Celestial Mechanics (re-issue) (industry8) Chuck van Zyl: The Relic (industry8) Chuck van Zyl: The Xyl File (re-issue) (industry8) Vanderson: Sequenced Thoughts (Spheric Music) Brian Vassallo: Beyond 2 (self released) Vantzou: No. 4 (Kranky) J Arif Verner: From a Distant Horizon (Spotted Peccary) David Wahler: Mosaic (self released) Wavestar II: Nightwinds (Groove) Phillip Wilkerson: Reveries (self-released) Wings of an Angel/Scott Lawlor: Wings of Flight vol 1 (self released) Wings of an Angel/Paul Lawlor: The Wings of Flight Vol 2 (self released) Winterlight: The Longest Sleep Through the Darkest Days (n5md) Erik Wollo: Threshold Point (Projekt) Bernhard Wostheinrich: Elsewhere (Iapetus Media) Thom Yorke: Suspiria (XL Recordings) Various Artists: Elements and Particles (DiN) Various Artists: In Love With The Moon: The Klaus Schulze Birthday Tribute (Aural Films) Various Artists: Krell Music (Aural Films) Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2018 (Kompakt) Various Artists: Structure and Forces (DiN) Various Artists: Victoria Place (Echodisc) 2018 in Review Broadcasts: 30 December 2018 Playlist - Part One 06 January 2019 Playlist - Part Two 13 January 2019 Playlist - Part Three 20 January 2019 Playlist - Part Four

Highlights From STAR'S END : 2018
01.28.18 Live on Star's End by Fhloston Paradigm is released on 23 January 2018 and featured on the 01.28.18 broadcast of STAR'S END 02.11.18 STAR'S END Winter Fundraiser 2018 is a record breaking success! Thanks to Everyone who called in and made a donation, and to our phone-room volunteers: Chaka Benson, Neil Cippon, Dana Blechman, Maria Gremmel, Diane King, Dan Marsh, Herb Quick, Ian Staer, Jeff Towne and Syl Von Wright 04.15.18 Chuck van Zyl performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 06.03.18 Dave Luxton performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 07.01.18 Hotel Neon performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 08.05.18 Jason Sloan performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 08.25.18 Chuck van Zyl performs a Salon Concert for Tony Masiello (and family and friends) in WXPN's Performance Studio (as offered in WXPN's Spring 2018 Fundraising Auction) 08.26.18 Chuck van Zyl performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 09.16.18 Joe Alesi & Greg Sieber perform a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 10.21.18 Ian Boddy performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END October 2018 Beginning with the 10.07.18 edition, an archived stream of each broadcast of STAR'S END is being made available through the WXPN website. To listen anytime, please access: tinyurl.com/starsendarchive 11.11.18 Chaka Benson performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 11.18.18 Saul Stokes performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 12.02.18 STAR'S END preempted for WXPN's 24/7 1980s A to Z special programming 12.23.18 STAR'S END presents the annual Regional Winter Holiday themed show
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