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Ultima Thule Ambient Music Radio
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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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| Date Added |
01-May-2005 |
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Ultima Thule Ambient Music Episodes - | UT 769 | Jon Shapiro lands on planet Ultima Thule with 90 minutes of ambient psychedelia from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, by Philip Glass, Walter Carlos, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Electric Prunes, Mike Oldfield and Tangerine Dream. Freak out! | Get at Short URL | Download UT 769 | Play in Popup.
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| UT 764 | As Brian Eno arrives in Sydney as curator the inaugural "Luminous" festival, we revisit his early ambient releases, including collaborations with Daniel Lanois and Laraaji. Jon Hopkins rounds out the mix. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 764 | Play in Popup.
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| UT 746 | Happy birthday to us! Today - 1 February 2009 - UT enters its third decade as one of the foremost ambient music radio shows on the planet; helping us kick off our year-long anniversary celebrations are the uber-cool ambient now-sounds of Charlie North, Si-O and The Glimmer Room. Turn on, tune in, chill out. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 746 | Play in Popup.
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| UT 742 | To commence the new year in the summery south: portents and signs from the wintry north... with music by Arcana, Dead Can Dance, Jan Garbarek and Birgitte Grimstad... and also presenting "And Winter Came" - the new album from Enya. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 742 | Play in Popup.
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| UT 734 | Voices from the celestial spheres, featuring John Harle, Johan Agebjorn, Deborah Martin, J Arif Verner, Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Casidy... and showcasing the new album by Immersion Theory, "The Icarus Foray". | Get at Short URL | Download UT 734 | Play in Popup.
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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. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 700 | Play in Popup.
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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. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 694 | Play in Popup.
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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. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 684 | Play in Popup.
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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. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 682 | Play in Popup.
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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. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 660 | Play in Popup.
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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. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 646 | Play in Popup.
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| UT 626 | Return to the northern wasteland; revisiting classic analogue creations by Michael Hoenig, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre and Peter Baumann. Also in the mix are new sounds from The Ministry of Inside Things. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 626 | Play in Popup.
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| UT 625 | Cetacean symphony; the inaugural UT outing from Marc Kundalini, featuring expansive oceanic sounds from Vangelis, Eric Serra, Enigma, Pink Floyd, Baaba Maal, Ayub Ogada, Sheila Chandra and a host of others. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 625 | Play in Popup.
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| UT 617 | After five wonderful years, Mike G says farewell to Ultima Thule with a selection of German krautrock and electronic music classics, including works by Peter Baumann, Manual Gottsching, Michael Hoenig and Ashra. Sydney DJ Marc "Kundalini" Cottee will be taking Mike's place in the UT lineup from October. Be sure to make him welcome. | Get at Short URL | Download UT 617 | Play in Popup.
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| UT 521 | Eclectic grooves and atmospheres inclusing classic moments from Global Communication and LSG, selections from the new compilation "Elysian Vibes" and a taste of Tom Middleton's new mix album "The Trip". | Get at Short URL | Download UT 521 | Play in Popup.
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