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Love of ambient, experimental, & modern classical with downtempo roots. We highlight current music in these genres, with old favorites snuck in. OEP sets are vinyl, guest mixes contain all formats. Listen live Tuesday evenings, 6-8pm PST on XRAY.FM 91.1 / 107.1 FM KXRY Portland, OR
Episodes

Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Optic Echo Presents 3/8/22
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Patrica Wolf- I’ll Look for You in Others b1 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/ill-look-for-you-in-others
Eevee- Seeds b3 https://eeveebeats.bandcamp.com/album/seeds
Julianna Barwick- Healing is a Miracle a1 https://juliannabarwick.bandcamp.com/album/healing-is-a-miracle
Gia Margaret- Mia Gargaret b1 https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com/album/mia-gargaret
More Eaze- Two Futures 7” b1 https://fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-futures
Delia Derbyshire- The Dreams b1
Non Dolet- V a2 https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/v
Cruel Diagonals- Disambiguation a4 https://crueldiagonals.bandcamp.com/album/disambiguation
Suzanne Ciani - @0 b4 https://coldcut.bandcamp.com/album/0
Sarah Davachi- Antiphonals a2 https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/antiphonals
Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift b1 https://holliekenniff.bandcamp.com/album/the-quiet-drift
Lucy Gooch- Rushing EP a3 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/rushing
Amby Downs- Liminal a3 https://ambydowns.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-2
Mary Lattimore- At the Dam b1 https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-dam
Claire Rousay- A Softer Focus a2 https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/a-softer-focus

Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
OEP 3/1/22: Part Timer guest mix
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Part Timer is back for a 2022 OEP guest mix (thank you John)! We highly recommend checking out his Bandcamp page:
https://parttimer.bandcamp.com/
00.00 Enrico Coniglio and Matteo Uggeri - j'essaie de reduire mes medicaments
02.40 Bluhm - the mirror of my soul
06.30 Gallowglas - the gloaming
09.08 Origamibiro feat. VDU - morel
13.03 Midori Hirano - patterns
17.55 Asa Chang and Junray - hana
24.08 Panoptique Electrical - the whisper in your head
24.50 Soley - blows up
29.51 Erik Enocksson - what drove her shivering into the cold, cold sea
33.44 Gilded - erosional
37.17 Alapastel - new world healing centre

Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
OEP 2/15/22: City of Dawn guest mix
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Big thank you to City of Dawn for providing this week's guest mix. For more information (including some top notch collaborations w/ Zaké), check the following links:
https://linktr.ee/cityofdawnmusic
https://cityofdawn.bandcamp.com
City Of Dawn- Inland 0:00
Housekeys- If you want to go to Sleep 4:39
Christina Giannone- Telepathy 12:10
Andrea Cortez- I am Listening 18:00
ATOP- An invisible Presence 23:40
Isaac Helsen - White Pine (With Christina Giannone) 31:44
Hakobune- Second-hand sunlight 36:23
Joshua W Bruner – Somehow Sleeping 44:00
Billow Observatory- Red Morning 46:23
Diane Arkenstone- Bathed in Light 51:30
City of Dawn- For my Parents 55:40

Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
OEP 1/11/22: Reliqs guest mix
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Huge thank you to Reese for providing the first guest mix of the year. For more information on him check his website at:
https://reesebowes.com
Listen to a 4 turntable, surround sound set I shared with Reese back in 2016 here: https://www.mixcloud.com/opticecho/oep-41016-4-turntable-set-w-reliqs-at-six/
1 Hildur Guðnadóttir
2 Laura Cannell/Rhodri Davies
3 Judith Tripp
4 Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
5 Sarah Davachi
6 Kali Malone
7 Klara Lewis
8 Sheila Chandra
9 Nicholas Chase/Robin Lorentz
10 Ruth Anderson
11 Sarah Davachi
12 Daphne Oram/Daz Quayle/Andrea Parker
13 Julia Holter
14 Eve Beglarian/Robin Lorentz
15 Johanna Beyer/Allen Strange/Stephen Ruppenthal/David Morse/Brenda Hutchinson/Donald Buchla/Charles A
16 Maria w Horn
17 Pauline Oliveros
18 Julianna Barwick
19 Éliane Radigue/Silvia T arozzi
20 Jocy de Oliveira
21 Kara-Lis Coverdale
22 Pauline Oliveros
23 Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
24 Field Works/Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
25 Jasmine Guffond
26 Else Marie Pade
27 Kelly Moran

Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
OEP Best Vinyl of 2021
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Huge thank you to Headphone Commute for supporting my best of mixes for 11 years now! Here's the track list:
Clare Rousay- A Softer Focus b1
Dialect - Keep Going Under a1
Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers- A Cassowary Apart a2
A Winged Victory for the Sullen- Invisible Cities a6
Good Weather for an Airstrike- Kenopsia 10” b1
Félecia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- Un Hiver En Plein Été b3
---__--___- The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid a5
Peter Broderick (Bing & Ruth remix)- The Wind that Shakes the Bramble a4
Lina Filipovich- Magnificat a2
Grouper- Shade a1
Suss- Promise b2
Zakè & Marine Eyes- Unfailing Love b1
Jake Muir- Mana a5
Bell Orchestre- House Music b1
Anthéne- Held b4
Lawrence English- Observation of Breath a2
Awakened Souls & From Overseas- Keep the Orange Sun b3
Jason Van Wyk- Threads b1
Space Afrika- Honest Labor a1
Nosdam + Rayon- From Nowhere to North b1
One Million Eyes- Brama b3
Abul Mogard- In Immobile Air b1
PDP III - Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves a1
Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift b1
Valance Drakes- A Patternless and Endless Soul a1
Drape- Poem to Night b1

Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
OEP 9/21/21: Keep The Orange Sun guest mix
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Huge thank you to Keep the Orange Sun for providing the guest mix this week. The trio split things up with James Bernard taking the beginning, From Overseas mixing the middle, and Marine Eyes closing out the set.
New album out this Friday on Past Inside the Present:
https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/keep-the-orange-sun
From Overseas- California sound collage
Squarepusher- Tommib Help Buss (0:09)
Bochum Welt- La Nuit (2:05)
Jordi Savall- Prelude Pour Mr. Vauquelin (5:57)
Murcof- Rostro (7:32)
Radiohead- Treefingers (14:46)
Hammock-Always Before Your Eyes (18:22)
Slowdive- Rutti (21:54)
Cocteau Twins- Pearly Dewdrops’ Drops (31:47)
Keep The Orange Sun- Keep The Orange Sun (35:52)
Julianna Barwick- Forever (39:50)
Jonas Munk- Minimum Resistance (44:51)
poemme- symphony of meadow (49:45)
From Overseas- California sound collage

Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Optic Echo Presents 8/17/21
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Claire Rousay + More Eaze- An Afternoon Whine a2.2 https://clairerousaymoreeaze.bandcamp.com
Jason Van Wyk- Threads b3 https://n5md.bandcamp.com/album/threads
Sarah Davachi + Ariel Kalma- Intemporel b2 https://blacksweat.bandcamp.com/album/intemporel
Andrew Tuttle + Padang Food Tigers- A Cassowary Apart a2 https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/album/a-cassowary-apart
Eevee- Seeds b6 https://eeveebeats.bandcamp.com/album/seeds
Kreng- L’Autopsie Phénoménale De Dieu a3 https://kreng.bandcamp.com/album/lautopsie-ph-nom-nale-de-dieu
City of Dawn- Where the World Quietly Sing Their Song b2 https://elgranerecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-world-quietly-sing-their-song
On- Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not a1
AM Boy- s/t a3 https://attacknine.bandcamp.com/album/am-boy
Clickits- s/t a2
Optic Echo Presents
Tuesday evenings 6-8pm PST
91.1 / 107.1 FM PDX
www.xray.fm

Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Optic Echo Presents 7/13/21
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Christina Vantzou- Six Cellos for Sol Lewitt a1.2 http://sonicpieces.com/release/six-cellos-for-sol-lewitt/
Murcof- The Alias Sessions a3 https://murcofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-alias-sessions
Max Richter- Voices 2 a1 https://www.maxrichtermusic.com/2021/03/29/voices-2-released-9-april-2021/
Dr. Atmo & Mick Chillage- Ruhleben c1 https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/ruhleben
Zakè and Marine Eyes- Unfailing Love b2 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/unfailing-love
Space Afrika- Untitled (To Describe You) 10” b3 https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-to-describe-you-ost
Marcus Fischer- Monocoastal a3 https://marcus-fischer.bandcamp.com/album/monocoastal-10th-anniversary-edition
Knxwledge- Kauliflower a2.1 https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/kauliflowr
Land Trance- First Séance a5 https://landtrance.bandcamp.com/album/first-s-ance
Florian TM Zeisig- Music for Parents b2 https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-parents
Bre’r- Bathing for the Betterment of Cold Drink b4
Eluvium- Virga II b1 https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/album/virga-ii

Wednesday May 26, 2021
OEP 5/25/21: Fragile X guest mix
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Big thank you to Fragile X for providing the guest mix this week, who runs the Bricolage label out of Glasgow, Scotland. For more information on him and his music, check out his bandcamp and soundcloud below:
https://soundcloud.com/fragilex
https://twitter.com/fragilex13
01. Fragile X - Departure From Nowhere (Maps for the Lost) / 0:00
02. Patricia Wolf - The House By The Pond ( Slow Sketch : Volume 2) / 03:12
03. Natalie Beridze - Waves Future ( DE - Sounds from Georgia) / 06:22
04. Cyme - Biyangdo (Jeju VA) / 09:23
05. Iuna Niva - To Grow The Hands, To Bend The Spine (Six Ways To Bend The Yoke Of God) / 15:42
06. Jorengthericecake - Media Of Testimony (Seasons 2020 S/S) / 19:44
07. Obay Alsharani - Nattåg (Sandbox) / 25:04
08. Artefakt - The Lost Centre (Monsoon) / 28:08
09. Modeo - Nobody Sleeps (3 Years of Oslated VA) / 31:21
10. Fragile X - Reverie (Between Worlds) / 34:27
11. Minimal Drone GRL - Cross Country 365 Days (Ancestral Origins) / 39:56
12. Leit Motif - A Lovers Reincarnation (Till We Have Faces) / 52:00
13. Gallery Six - A Wonderfully Ordinary Life (Blue In The Midsummer) / 57:23
14. Fabio Orsi - Just For A Thrill 1 (Just For A Thrill) / 60:45

Wednesday May 19, 2021
Optic Echo Presents 5/18/21
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
KMRU- Logue b1 https://kmru.bandcamp.com/album/logue-2
Ilyas Ahmed + Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- You Can See Your Own Way Out a1 https://shiningskullstudio.bandcamp.com/album/you-can-see-your-own-way-out
Mary Lattimore- At the Dam a2 https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-dam
Andrew Chalk- Higan a1 https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/higan
Innode- Syn b2 https://innode.bandcamp.com/album/syn
Lali Puna- Our Inventions a3 https://lalipuna.bandcamp.com/album/our-inventions
Bohren & der Club of Gore- Black Earth d1 https://bohrenundderclubofgore.bandcamp.com/album/black-earth
Zakè & City of Dawn- Frizzell & Duque: A Sorrow Unrequited a1 https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/frizzell-duque-a-sorrow-unrequited
Optic Echo Presents
Tuesday evenings 6-8pm PST
107.1 / 91.1 FM KXRY Portland
Streaming www.xray.fm