Nice Fumes

Producer Bad Elephant shares a minimix, and speaks on regenerative patches and our curiosity as humans.

Here's your magic eyeball, use it wisely.

Nicky Smith collaged this week's Nice Fumes, The Streets are Hot Tonight, over six months in 2017. After his piece, we talk about how he gathered samples, and the political sounds of, and impact on, the piece.

Jake Lingan made this week's Nice Fumes, Jebi, out of recordings of the occult. After his piece, we talk about working with tape, intercepting mystery radio broadcasts, and his label No Index, based in Chicago. *due to a problem with the RSS feed, this episode has been republished*

It's raining at the lake. A gunshot flashes through the chatter of frogs.

OSOA guides us on a sonic train ride that starts in LA's Union Station and flashes through worlds.

A cold wind flows through the cave, but who's controlling the mouse?

Gram Hummell created this week's Nice Fumes. After the music, we talk about weaving musical ideas together, and shopping for philosophies in the age of Amazon.

Mike Harris's ddeeaatthhwwaavvee is an ominous synthetic guitarscape. After the music, he talks to me about making the track and improvising in harmony with systems of effects.

Microsleep returns. I talk to Ebi about creating the work, its original placement in the Bennington Museum, making music with room fans, and more.

I'm a tree. Plink, plonk. plunkplunkplunk.

Our first guest set -- an intricate, tingling sound collage of tapes by Ebi Causey.

Sniff the big, billowing clouds of church incense.

This is the very first episode of Nice Fumes, a weekly ambient/electronic music podcast filled with swirling sonic clouds to populate the spaces in your life. I'm your host, Rill Causey. Today, I explain the basics of the show and play its first piece of music. Thank you for listening!