Mark Rushton's (markrushton.com) Ambient Downtempo Electronica Avant-Garde IDM Drifty Music Podcast Podcasts

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Original and live ambient, downtempo, electronica, avant-garde, and instrumental post-rock pop from Mark Rushton and guests Primary Format : Electronica Language : English Also Listed as: City : Cedar Rapisd State/Province : IA Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Mark Rushton's (markrushton.com) Ambient Downtempo Electronica Avant-Garde IDM Drifty Music Podcast Podcasts Methings.com listings of Mark Rushton's (markrushton.com) Ambient Downtempo Electronica Avant-Garde IDM Drifty Music Podcast Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Mark Rushton's (markrushton.com) Ambient Downtempo Electronica Avant-Garde IDM Drifty Music Podcast Mark Rushton Podcast #38 - Ambient Matyk Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish release a new album under the name Ambient Matyk, a collection of live outdoor soundscaping pieces. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #37 - Return To Bohemia Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish return to the Matyk Building in New Bohemia for a 31 minute outdoor ambient improvisation piece. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #36 - More Flow Outtakes Four more tracks that were outtakes from my Flow album. Most of these are relatively minimal ambient/electronica, but weren't picked for a variety of reasons: unfinished, editing issues, didn't fit with the theme, etc. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #34 - Flow Outtakes Four tracks that were outtakes from my Flow album. This is the first of a series of "leftover" pieces of ambient and electronica music from that time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #1 - Hum And Drift Mark Rushton talks about his new web site, MarkRushton.com, and where to buy his new ambient/downtempo/trip hop-ish CD called "Hum and Drift" - Mark provides an 8 1/2 minute "megamix" featuring sections of every piece of music on the album. Visit http://www.markrushton.com or email mark@markrushton.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #2 - Perpetual Vision, Ambient Matyk, Sunday's Drift Mark Rushton plays the track "Perpetual Vision" from his 2004 CD, The Driver's Companion. This is followed by two live Ambient Matyk tracks, a side group Mark is involved with in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that makes live/improvisational ambient/downtempo music. Visit http://www.markrushton.com or email mark@markrushton.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #3 - Anoka-Hennepin, New Untitled Track, 3 Ambient Matyk live songs, and 3 field recordings Mark Rushton starts off with an excerpt of the track "Anoka-Hennepin" a drift piece of ambience from his latest CD, "Hum and Drift" - after that is a new untilted downtempo groove piece. There's also 3 pieces featuring a side group Mark plays live with in Cedar Rapids, Iowa called Ambient Matyk, and finally 3 brief field recordings of birdsong, road noise, and arrange real industrial outdoor ambience. Throughout the podcast are three brief ads. One is for EcoLips.com, a natural and organ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #4 - Ambient, Field Recordings, Dance, Rock, and Remix Mark Rushton starts off with a short ambient piece, National Championship from his latest album, Hum And Drift. The second track is a brand-new arranged field recording called Interference. Next is a work-in-progress that has dance, field recording, and ambient elements. Following that is the track Psychometrics from Mark's 2004 CD release, The Driver's Companion. Immediately following Psychometrics is an 8-minute dance remix Mark created live, improvisationally, in his basement at the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #5 - One 34-minute Untitled Drone/Electronica Piece This piece was recorded at the September 17, 2005, Ambient Matyk (the night before this podcast was initially released). It's just me on laptop and loops, and Jon Harnish on bass guitar and effects box. We work an initial drone sequence into this electronic/somewhat drifty/somewhat industrial-ish piece that's over 34 minutes long. For more about Mark, his music, his original art and framed prints, his CDs, his ringtones, and his podcasts, visit http://www.markrushton.com or email mark@ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #6 - Live From The Iowa City Ped Mall Bass player Jon Harnish and I went to Iowa City on Saturday, September 24, 2005, to create soundscapes in the Ped Mall near the corner of Washington and Dubuque Streets from 6pm to 9pm. This is an 8 minute piece we created towards the end of the evening. It features slowed-down and drawn out electronica, bass sounds, and rendered field recordings I recorded earlier this spring. In the background you can hear skateboarders practicing and, at the end, Jon and I laughing at how I rendered a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #7 - Russia's Very Low Frequency Station This is a piece of drifty ambience that I made with bass player Jon Harnish on Saturday, October 15, 2005, at the Ambient Matyk in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and it's called "Russia's Very Low Frequency Station." The track is about 15 minutes long. The loops I used were significantly slowed down, abused, and pitch-shifted. The shortwave broadcasts I found were recorded live as well. Everything else was done improvisationally and was not overdubbed. After listening to it for a couple ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #8 - Ambient Matyk and Iowa City Recordings From November 2005 Today I have four different pieces of music. The first is an edit of an rhythmic ambient piece called "Signed Away" - a piece I did with bass player Jon Harnish and singer Duke Lancaster at the Ambient Matyk on November 19, 2005. The second piece is one that that Jon and I created in Iowa City on Sunday, November 13th, 2005, in the mini stage area of the Pedestrian Mall, right outside the Sheraton Hotel. Jon and I got a permit from the City of Iowa City and played for a couple of hours u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #10 - September Sky, Parts 1 And 2 Bass player Jon Harnish and I did live soundscaping in Iowa City in September of 2005. It was quite a good session and we got a lot of material. I featured a track from one of these sessions in Podcast #6, which came out in early October of 2005. The first track, what I'm calling "September Sky, Part 1", is very stark with long, drawn-out synth drones and sustained bass. The birds you'll hear were not live, but multi-tracked field recordings done by me. It's a little over 6 minutes long. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #11 - Live At The Ambient Matyk Cafe With The Buddha Machine First up is a live remix of my track The Seedling Mile done at the Ambient Matyk Cafe in the New Bohemia section of downtown Cedar Rapids on March 18, 2006. To find a copy of the original version of The Seedling Mile, check out my CD, The Driver's Companion. Next is a 6 minute track called Buddhametrics. It's another live remix from the Ambient Matyk Cafe on March 18th of 2006. In this case it's a deconstruction of a track I had The Driver's Companion called "Psychometrics" along with one ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #12 - Ambient Electronica Live A live recording from the Ambient Matyk Cafe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Recorded in late April of 2006, it features Mark Rushton on laptop, loops, and live mixing, and Jon Harnish on bass, bass effects, and tempered bass feedback. The first track is a 12 minute improvisational take on "Winter Wind Chimes" - a track originally featured in "studio" form in January's "What Does An Iowa Winter Sound Like?" podcast. After a short break Mark Rushton introduces a second track, which runs about 16 m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #13 - Brine Bass player Jon Harnish and I met up at the Ambient Matyk Cafe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday, June 10th. We had planned to do improvisational ambient soundscaping in public in Iowa City, but it had been raining all day and the temps were about 50 degrees with 20 mph winds, unseasonably cool for mid-June, so we thought it would be better to play indoors.Jon and I created a lot of great music from this session. Here's a track based on a piece of music I created called "Brine" - this is a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #14 - Hum, Metrics, and Rhythm First is a remix of The Hum Of Antique Machines that runs about 6 1/2 minutes. It's a drone-based thing with fuzz and flutter coming in and out. Jon and I recorded it outdoors, so you can hear the birds singing in the background. The original studio version is the first track my latest album, Hum And Drift. After that is a short piece, just under 3 minutes, which is based on shortwave loops and some other rhythm and synth loops used in my remix of Psychometrics, the recording of which appe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #15 - Adsorption, What Works, and Black Box This is a very stripped-down podcast of older material. First up is Adsorption, a rising-and-falling ambient piece from 2002. Second track is What Works, a beat-driven electronic song also from 2002. Final track is Black Box, a melodic, rhythmic, and electronic spectacle from 2003. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #16 - Drain, Anoka-Hennepin remix, and The Advent remix Mark Rushton's two year podcasting anniversary show starts off with a new drone/electronica track called Drain. After a brief break, a "lost" remix of Anoka-Hennepin is played, followed by the original Anoka-Hennepin. The last music featured is an 8 and a half minute remix of The Advent, a beat-driven electronica piece. To find out more about Mark's other podcasts, free MP3s, CD, and digital downloads, visit markrushton.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rushton Podcast #20 - April 2007 - Regeneration X Mark Rushton's latest album, Regeneration X, is profiled. Samples of every track are offered along with commentary by Mark Rushton. Visit MarkRushton.com for more details. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website