Passionate, elemental journeys, from Steve Roach, Matt Coldrick, Matt Hillier, Stephen Humphries and Michel van Osenbruggen.

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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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Premonitions from the vapours... with oracular infusions by Robert Davies, Lammergeyer, Entia non, and Nunc Stans.

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Featuring absolutely no music whatsoever by Britney Spears.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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13 February, 2008: we say sorry; history in the making on the floor of Australia's Federal Parliament.

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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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On the edge of an ambient moment, with sounds by Resonant Drift, Frank van Bogaert and Tor Linlokken.

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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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The science of consciousness; Pan Electric, Frank Klare and Radium 88 expostulate.

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A passage through dark places, with Robert Rich, Diatonis, Voice of Eye, Lustmord, Shinjuku Thief, Paul Schutze and Jeff Greinke.

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Unlimited grooves from Ron Boots, Rudy Adrian, Gert Emmens and Paul Ellis.

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Presenting "Radio Silence", the new album from Between Interval.

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A bit of mid-summer cosmic chill from Pan Electric, Scann-Tec, Xerxes, Oliliuqui and Circular.

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An Ultima Thule world exclusive, as we present "Earthlight", one of two new unreleased albums by David Parsons.

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Stuart White's ambient life; the music of Diatonis.

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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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Zen Connection 4, featuring Spiral System, Amanaska, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Tijuana Cartel, Shaman's Dream and The Dub Dentist.

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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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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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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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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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A warning from the elders: shamanic visions of impending apocalypse from Byron Metcalf, Steve Roach and David Parsons.

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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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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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Generational transience from the Infinity Project, Spacetime Continuum, Terence McKenna and Mystery of the Yeti.

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A Latin excursion, with sounds from Jan Garbarek, Magister Perotinus, Arvo Part, John Harle, Deborah Martin and J Arif Verner.

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A journey along the Via Poetica with Lisa Indish and Richard Bone.

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Presenting music from the film "Atlas Dei", by Robert Rich.

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Beauty and the East and the Berber of Seville; tales of a global, pluralist future from the Bombay Dub Orchestra.

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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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In the Land of a Thousand Trances the lucid man is king; music by A Produce, Steve Roach, and others.

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Extending the classical horizon with new and reimagined works courtesy of Neodrone, Mozart, Handel and Ragnar Grippe.

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I can (almost) see through you; the art of translucency with M Andresen (aka Healer) and Jaia.

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Trying to remember to forget. A programme of new music from John Lyell, Slow Dancing Society and The Glimmer Room.

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Found music from a lost radio, with creations by Mike Oldfield, Darshan Ambient, Code Indigo and Enigmatic Obsession.

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Native American inspirations, with the Little Wolf Band, Joanne Shenandoah, R Carlos Nakai, Andrew Vasquez, Coyote Oldman and others.

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Shamans on the pilgrim road, featuring sounds from Jeff Kowal, Dan Pound and Anugama.

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The distant lights of forgotten places; new music from Andrew Lahiff, Amongst Myselves, John Lyell and Brent A Reiland.

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Sonic adventures in Elysium, with new music from Not Drowning, Waving and Azam Ali.

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Light in shadow. New ambient nightscapes from Craig Padilla and Diatonis.

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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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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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When the music stops, grab a chair. Teutonic ambience from Sankt Otten, Roedelius, Richard Bone and others.

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Drifting on aquatic currents in an ocean of dreams with Diatonis and Thom Brennan.

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Subcontinental inspirations and exhalations from Ananda Shankar, Deepak Ram, Adham Shaikh, Gaurau Raina, Tapan Raj and a host of others.

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Lucid dreaming with Diatonis, Cyberchump, and Igneous Flame.

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The beautiful, quiet worlds of Al Gromer Khan, Alpha Wave Movement, Jim Cole, Richard Bone and Robert Scott Thompson.

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Introducing "Sadhana", by English composer Patrick Nunn.

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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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Raising the ambient temperature with new music from Ultimae Records' Fahrenheit Project - as well as from Dan Pound and Neuronium.

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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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Skies above Skies. Revisiting the beautiful yet little-known 1978 album by Constance Demby.

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Out of Africa; ambient inspired by the dark continent.

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"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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Further interstellar imaginings from Wayne Huff's x1 Project.

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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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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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Hearing heavenly voices from afar, thanks to the talents of Lisa Gerrard, Irene Papas, Dawn Upshaw and Cantillation.

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2007, a space odyssey... as realised by Melbourne soundwizard Wayne Huff (aka x1 Project).

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A little bit of Antarctica; a whole lot of Greece. Music by Vangelis, Eleni Karaindrou and Stephan Micus.

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A programme of new releases from Lisa Gerrard, Loreena McKennitt, Richard Bone and Rudy Adrian.

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Strange paradises imagined by Thom Brennan, Nik Tyndall and Stuart Dempster.

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Uncommon music from the keyboards of Vangelis.

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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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