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A weekly programme of ambient and atmospheric music from across the ages and around the world, broadcast on Australian public radio since 1989. Ultima Thule features a blend of ambient, trance, drone and chillout electronica, spacemusic, ancient, mediaeval and neoclassical creations, traditional and world music, film soundtracks, cool jazz and impressionist soundworks, woven together to form an intriguing uninterrupted 90 minute musical narrative.



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Ultima Thule Ambient Music Episodes -

UT 707
Passionate, elemental journeys, from Steve Roach, Matt Coldrick, Matt Hillier, Stephen Humphries and Michel van Osenbruggen.
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UT 706
Places in between, featuring transitional creations from Richard Bone, Robert Scott Thompson, Bob Holroyd, Matt Coldrick, Matt Hillier and Andreas Leifield.
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UT 705
Premonitions from the vapours... with oracular infusions by Robert Davies, Lammergeyer, Entia non, and Nunc Stans.
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UT 704
Featuring absolutely no music whatsoever by Britney Spears.
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UT 703
Ambient rhythms and grooves from Sankt Otten, Markus Reuter, Robert Rich, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Robyn Guthrie, Harold Budd and others.
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UT 702
Sacred liturgical chants from the Coptic, Maronite, Melkite and Old Roman traditions, along with contemporary inspired secular sounds from Constance Demby and Seattle Harmonic Voices.
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UT 701
Higher than the sun, lower than the ground. Euphoric ambience from Primal Scream, Science Force, The Nomad, Massive Attack and Aura.
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UT 700
To mark our 700th edition milestone, we delve into the archives in order to do something we've never done before, in more than 19 years; repeat a programme. Proudly re-presenting the playlist for Ultima Thule programme number one, originally aired on 1 February 1989.
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UT 699
25 years of "Blade Runner", featuring new music for the film by Vangelis - plus the soundtrack to the just-released film "El Greco".
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UT 698
Red moon rising over the serpent's lair, with fevered reptilian dreamings by Steve Roach, Byron Metcalfe, Ma Ja Le, Vir Unis, and Richard Vojlay.
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UT 697
13 February, 2008: we say sorry; history in the making on the floor of Australia's Federal Parliament.
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UT 696
In the Land of Fire; a Patagonian excursion featuring the work of Bruno Sanfilippo, along with the sounds of Jon Jenkins, David Helpling, Patrick O'Hearn and Arto Tuncboyacian.
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UT 695
On the edge of an ambient moment, with sounds by Resonant Drift, Frank van Bogaert and Tor Linlokken.
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UT 694
Ultima Thule celebrates its 19th birthday with another David Parsons world exclusive. This time we present "Atmanaut", the second of two new unreleased albums by the composer. Also in the mix is newish music from Patrick O'Hearn and Bruno Sanfilippo.
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UT 693
The science of consciousness; Pan Electric, Frank Klare and Radium 88 expostulate.
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UT 692
A passage through dark places, with Robert Rich, Diatonis, Voice of Eye, Lustmord, Shinjuku Thief, Paul Schutze and Jeff Greinke.
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UT 691
Unlimited grooves from Ron Boots, Rudy Adrian, Gert Emmens and Paul Ellis.
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UT 690
Presenting "Radio Silence", the new album from Between Interval.
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UT 689
A bit of mid-summer cosmic chill from Pan Electric, Scann-Tec, Xerxes, Oliliuqui and Circular.
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UT 688
An Ultima Thule world exclusive, as we present "Earthlight", one of two new unreleased albums by David Parsons.
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UT 687
Stuart White's ambient life; the music of Diatonis.
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UT 686
The wonderful, enveloping, hitherto uncharted ambient world of Melbourne composer Michael Meara. Also featured is music by Lismore ambient impressionist par-excellence, Peter Ball.
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UT 685
Zen Connection 4, featuring Spiral System, Amanaska, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Tijuana Cartel, Shaman's Dream and The Dub Dentist.
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UT 684
A Gallic diversion, with creations from Francois Elie-Roulin, Hector Zazou, Elizabeth Valetti and Jean-Philippe Rykiel. Also in the mix is music by Laszlo Hortobagyi - who's rather more Hungarian than French.
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UT 683
Essence of diamond, opalescence of pearl; rare beauties from stone and sea by Richard Bone, Johannes Schmoelling, Enrico Cognilio, Code Indigo and Bruno Sanfilippo.
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UT 682
Happy bats flying at night - so says Garret Knobl, age 5, of Blacksburg, Virginia... and who are we to argue? Happy airborne nocturnal chiropterid music courtesy of Richard Burmer and Thom Brennan.
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UT 681
Like sounds through a speaker cone, so are the tones of a mellowdrama; shimmering, coruscating musical creations from Jon Hopkins, Predictive Text and Joey Fehrenbach.
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UT 680
A warning from the elders: shamanic visions of impending apocalypse from Byron Metcalf, Steve Roach and David Parsons.
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UT 679
Chthonic tones and resonances, featuring deep earth music mined from places vast and dark by Steve Roach, Tom Heasley; Matthias Grassow, Jim Cole and Altus.
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UT 678
From Delhi to Timbuktu; music inspired by the rhythms of India and West Africa, from Caitlin Marin, Vas, Azam Ali, Paul Haslinger, Paolo Modugno and Daniel Bouliane.
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UT 677
Generational transience from the Infinity Project, Spacetime Continuum, Terence McKenna and Mystery of the Yeti.
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UT 676
A Latin excursion, with sounds from Jan Garbarek, Magister Perotinus, Arvo Part, John Harle, Deborah Martin and J Arif Verner.
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UT 675
A journey along the Via Poetica with Lisa Indish and Richard Bone.
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UT 674
Presenting music from the film "Atlas Dei", by Robert Rich.
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UT 673
Beauty and the East and the Berber of Seville; tales of a global, pluralist future from the Bombay Dub Orchestra.
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UT 672
Showcasing "Piano Textures", the new album by Bruno Sanfilippo - George's choice for best new ambient recording of 2007, by a country mile.
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UT 671
In the Land of a Thousand Trances the lucid man is king; music by A Produce, Steve Roach, and others.
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UT 670
Extending the classical horizon with new and reimagined works courtesy of Neodrone, Mozart, Handel and Ragnar Grippe.
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UT 669
I can (almost) see through you; the art of translucency with M Andresen (aka Healer) and Jaia.
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UT 668
Trying to remember to forget. A programme of new music from John Lyell, Slow Dancing Society and The Glimmer Room.
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UT 667
Found music from a lost radio, with creations by Mike Oldfield, Darshan Ambient, Code Indigo and Enigmatic Obsession.
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UT 666
Native American inspirations, with the Little Wolf Band, Joanne Shenandoah, R Carlos Nakai, Andrew Vasquez, Coyote Oldman and others.
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UT 665
Shamans on the pilgrim road, featuring sounds from Jeff Kowal, Dan Pound and Anugama.
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UT 664
The distant lights of forgotten places; new music from Andrew Lahiff, Amongst Myselves, John Lyell and Brent A Reiland.
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UT 663
Sonic adventures in Elysium, with new music from Not Drowning, Waving and Azam Ali.
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UT 662
Light in shadow. New ambient nightscapes from Craig Padilla and Diatonis.
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UT 661
Marc Kundalini interviews Jaroslav Kovaricek, producer of the groundbreaking early 1980s ABC Radio show "Dreamtime", and discovers what he's been up to in recent years.
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UT 660
The 1920's silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc" is the inspiration for this week's featured recording, "Voices of Light" by Richard Einhorn. A smattering of mediaeval creations rounds things out nicely.
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UT 659
When the music stops, grab a chair. Teutonic ambience from Sankt Otten, Roedelius, Richard Bone and others.
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UT 658
Drifting on aquatic currents in an ocean of dreams with Diatonis and Thom Brennan.
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UT 657
Subcontinental inspirations and exhalations from Ananda Shankar, Deepak Ram, Adham Shaikh, Gaurau Raina, Tapan Raj and a host of others.
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UT 656
Lucid dreaming with Diatonis, Cyberchump, and Igneous Flame.
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UT 655
The beautiful, quiet worlds of Al Gromer Khan, Alpha Wave Movement, Jim Cole, Richard Bone and Robert Scott Thompson.
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UT 654
Introducing "Sadhana", by English composer Patrick Nunn.
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UT 653
Sailing the Dawn Trader across the Galaxy of Dreams; spacemusic imaginings from John Serrie, Deuter, Ron Boots, Suspended Memories and Robert Rich.
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UT 652
Raising the ambient temperature with new music from Ultimae Records' Fahrenheit Project - as well as from Dan Pound and Neuronium.
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UT 651
Spritual dimensions and physical worlds, as conceived by Richard Bone, Al Gromer Khan, Dan Barrio, Alpha Wave Movement and Jim Cole.
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UT 650
Skies above Skies. Revisiting the beautiful yet little-known 1978 album by Constance Demby.
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UT 649
Out of Africa; ambient inspired by the dark continent.
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UT 648
"New Age" is not necessarily a dirty word. Richard Burmer, Catherine Duc, Suzanne Ciani, John Flomer, Raphael, David Wright and others demonstrate why.
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UT 647
Further interstellar imaginings from Wayne Huff's x1 Project.
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UT 646
Rain or shine? As violent Autumnal electrical storms hit Sydney the answer seems self-evident. Musical accompaniment to the lightshow comes courtesy of Deep Forest, Pilgrimage, Ajantamusic and Code Indigo.
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UT 645
Sometimes floating, sometimes flying. Airborne music by Deep Forest, Killing Joke, The Infinity Project, Michael Brook, Sheila Chandra, Brian Eno and many others.
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UT 644
Hearing heavenly voices from afar, thanks to the talents of Lisa Gerrard, Irene Papas, Dawn Upshaw and Cantillation.
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UT 643
2007, a space odyssey... as realised by Melbourne soundwizard Wayne Huff (aka x1 Project).
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UT 642
A little bit of Antarctica; a whole lot of Greece. Music by Vangelis, Eleni Karaindrou and Stephan Micus.
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UT 641
A programme of new releases from Lisa Gerrard, Loreena McKennitt, Richard Bone and Rudy Adrian.
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UT 640
Strange paradises imagined by Thom Brennan, Nik Tyndall and Stuart Dempster.
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UT 639
Uncommon music from the keyboards of Vangelis.
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UT 638
A grab-bag of delights to commence 2007, from funky Arabic rhythms and boppy mediaeval hymns to echoes of distant Cambodia, and sounds from ancient and future Japan.
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