Significant Releases of 2016 (non-ranking order)

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Miktek: Far & Off (Ultimae) Rudy Adrian: Coastlines (Spotted Peccary) Aglaia: Leaves and Thunderstorms (hic sunt leones) AirSculpture: Vanishing Point 1 & 2 (self released) Akasha Project: Spheres (Klangwirkstoff) An Imaginal Space: Loops (self-released) An Imaginal Space: Mythopoesis (self released) Apocyphos/Kammerheit/Atrium Careri: Onyx (Cryo Chamber) David Arkenstone: Beneath a Darkening Sky (QDV Recordings) Ascendant: Meridian (Synphaera) Marvin Ayers: Circadian Rhythms (Wall of Waves) B Ashra: Venus Meditation (Klangwirkstoff) Rene de Bakker: Day Dream (self-released) Julianna Barwick: Will (Dead Oceans) Peter Baumann: Machines of Desire (Bureau B) Hennie Bekker: Beyond Dreams (Abbeywood Records) Biosphere: Departed Glories (Smalltown Supersound) Black Tape for a Blue Girl: These Fleeting Moments (Projekt) Gert Blokzijl: Jurei (self-released) Ian Boddy: As Above So Below (DiN) Ian Boddy: Tone Science (DiN) Booth & Creek: Afterimages (self-released) Matt Borghi: Ambient Guitar (SloBor Media) Steve Brand: Leaving the Hive (Pioneer Light) Steve Brand: The Path of the Heart (Relaxed Machinery) Michael Breuckner: Muzikhala (self-released) Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century (ECM) Javi Canovas: Oscillations (self-released) Chronotope Project: Passages (Spotted Peccary) City of Dawn: Sage (self-released) Comfortlevel7: Mortal (Simulacra) Common Ground: Common Ground (self released) Cosmic Ground: Cosmic Ground 3 (Studio Fleisch) Cosmonauttransfer: The Sky Wants Us (self-released) Council Estate Electronics: Arkita (Glacial Movements) Darshan Ambient: Fire Light (Spotted Peccary) Robert Davies: Afterlight (dataObscura) Dean De Benedictis: Salvaging the Present (Spotted Peccary) Julio DiBenedetto/Anthony Paul Kerby: Falling Into Place (dataObscura) Kyle Dixon/Michael Stein: Stranger Things (Lakeshore Records) Tom Eaton: Abendromen (River Wide Records) Tom Eaton: Indesterren (River Wide Records) Paul Ellis: Ancient Light Having Reached Us (self-released) Paul Ellis: Available Light (self-released) Eluvium: False Readings On (Temporary Residence) Eyes Cast Down: Souls Adrift in Disrepair (self-released) Forrest Fang: The Sleepwalker's Ocean (Projekt) Fictions and Poetics: Our Last Days (dataObscura) Christian Fiesel/Jack Hertz: End of the Steam Age (Aural Films) Christian Fiesel/Jack Hertz: Fast Trains (Aural Films) Filter-Kaffee: Filter-Kaffee 100 (Manikin) Leslie Flanigan: Hedera (Physical Editions) Forma: Physicalist (Kranky) Fourth Dimension: The Core (Synphera) Fous de la Mar: Musiques Pour Films (Elux Records) FSOL: Environment 6 (fsoldigital) Graham Getty/Stephan Whitlam: Even Higher Green (Retrochet Records) Howard Givens/Madhavi Devi: Source of Compassion (Spotted Peccary) Rezo Glonti: Budapest (Dronarivm) Matthias Grassow: The Darklight Quest (gterma) Matthias Grassow: The Nightquest Sessions (gterma) Guitar Pilots: Up and Out (Synkronos Music) Robert Hakalski: Piano 5 (Singularity) Janne Hanhisuanto: Sleepless (self-released) Steve Hauschildt: Strands (Kranky) Havdis: Novemberly (gterma) Vic Hennegan: Space and Shadows (self-released) Jack Hertz: Antarctica (Aural Films) Jack Hertz: Planet Red (Aural Films) Hotel Neon: Live on WPRB (self-released) Hotel Neon: Remnants (Fluid Audio) The Human Voice: Silent Heart (Cyclic Law) Johann Johannsson: Arrival (Deutsche Grammophon) Johann Johannsson: Orphee (Deutsche Grammophon) Peter Kater: Resonance (New Earth) Jeffrey Koepper: Terrelektra (Air Space) Sverre Knut Johansen: Earth From Above (Spotted Peccary) Mark Korven: The Witch (Milan) krill.minima: Sekunden Schlaf (Psychonavigation) Daniel Lanois/Rocco Deluca: Goodbye to Language (Anti/Redfloor Records) Bruno Ender Lee: Studio 88 (self-released) Legiac: The Voynich Manuscript (Dronarivm) Mica Levi: Jackie (Milan Records) Simon Lomax: An Ember Glows (self-released) loscil: Monument Builders (Kranky) Lustmord: Dark Matter (Touch) Lingua Lustra: Essence (Psychonavigation) Dave Luxton: Music for Science and Stargazing (Wayfarer) Dave Luxton: Phantom Circuits (Wayfarer) Marconi Union: Ghost Stations (Just Music) K Markov: After the Storm (self-released) K Markov: Easy Morning (self-released) K Markov: On the Road (self released) K Markov: Species (self-released) K Markov: Traditional Space Tracks (self-released) Martin Nonstatic: Nebulae Live at The Planetarium (Ultimae) Cliff Martinez: Neon Demon (Milan) The Melting Transistor: Ambiverse (self released) Byron Metcalf: Inner Rhythm Meditations (Sounds True) Moby: Long Ambient 1 Calm.Sleep (self released) Modulator ESP: Nova Sequentia (self-released) J Mundok: Plitvice Botany (self-released) James Murray: Eyes to the Height (Ultimae) James Murray: Ghostwalk EP (Ultimae) Mythos: Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Minutes (Groove) Silvia Nakkach: Liminal (Vox Mundi) Pete Namlook/The New Composers: Russian Spring (Psychonavigation) Neuronium: Jamais Vu (Neuronium Records) No Mask Effect: Double or Quits (Psychonavigation) No Mask Effect: Nothing Out There (Psychonavigation) Nord: Hydra (self-released) Nord: Mare Nubium (self-released) Nunc Stans: Elementa (dataObscura) onewayness + dRachEmUsik: Mirrors to the Bonfire (onomastic) The Orb: Cow/Chillout World (Kompakt) Orbit Over Luna: Transit (self-released) Steve Orchard: Peripheral Vision (AD Music) Jim Ottaway: Southern Cross (self released) Craig Padilla: Heaven Condensed (Spotted Peccary) David Parsons: Puja (gterma) Jeff Pearce: Follow the River Home (self-released) Perge: Aural Coefficients Within a Fractal Plane (Perge Music) Phillippe Petit: You Only Live Ice (Glacial Movements) Pollard Daniel Booth: Volume 7 (EEMC) Dan Pound: Shadows of the Heart (self released) TJ Porter: The Outsider (self-released) TJ Porter: Post Factual Society (self-released) Pulse Emitter: Live at the Chapel (self-released) Juha-Matti Rautiainen: The Endless Now (randomizer media) Robert Rich: Harbinger (Ultima Thule) Robert Rich: Vestiges (Soundscape) Robert Rich: What We Left Behind (Soundscape) Max Richter: The Last Days on Mars (BFD) Max Richter: Perfect Sense (BFD) Max Richter: Sleep (Deutches Grammophon) Janet Robbins: I Hear Crow (Star 7 Records) Steve Roach: Emotions Revealed (Projekt) Steve Roach: Shadow of Time (Projekt) Steve Roach: Live in Tuscon Pinnacle Moments (Timeroom) Steve Roach: This Place to Be (Timeroom) Steve Roach/Robert Logan: Biosonic (Projekt) Steve Roach/Robert Logan: Second Nature (Projekt) Darren Rogers: Interstellar Love (self-released) Aria Rostami/Daniel Blomquist: Wandering Eye (Glacial Movements) Ryuichi Sakamoto/Alva Noto: The Revenant (Milan) Scann Tec: Unyt (Ultimae) Arjen Schat: Permafrost (self-released) Ulrich Schnauss: No Further Ahead Than Today (Scripted Realities) Sense: A View From a Vulnerable Place (Psychonavigation) Silentwave: Daiyuzan (gterma) Sonia Skobeleva/Stanislaw Vdovinse: Between Ourselves (Psychonavigation) Jason Sloan: Haven (Slobor Media) Slow Meadow feat. Hotel Neon: Blue Aubade (Hammock Music) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Ears (Western Vinyl) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Euclid (Western Vinyl) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith/Suzanne Ciani: Sunergy (RVNG International) Forrest Smithson: Reversal of Thought (self-released) Alex Somers: Captain Fantastic (Lakeshore Records) Spyra: Staub (Butterfly Collectors) Matthew Stewart: A World Bathed in Sunlight (Spotted Peccary) Saul Stokes: Objects and Phenomena (self released) Stratosphere: Rise (self-releasedProjekt) SubtractiveLAD: Nucleus (self-released) Subverter: Dark Mater Tuxedo (Psychonavigation) Takashi Suzuki: Water and Air (self-released) Syn: Paeridolia (Paeridolia (self-released) Syndromeda: When IN Side Becomes OUT Side (Syngate) The Tangent Project: Threads (self released) Tapes and Topographies: Soft Decibels (Simulacra) Vangelis: Rosetta (Decca) Chuck van Zyl: Recitals (Synkronos Music) Chuck van Zyl: Star's End (Synkronos Music) Chuck van Zyl: The Xyl File (Industry8) Voces8: Winter (Decca) George Wallace: Live From Planet Earth (Airborn Music) Carl Weingarten: An Endless Premonition (Multiphase) Weingarten/Charlton: Where There is Light (Spotted Peccary) Phillip Wilkerson: Waking Across the River (self released) David Wingo: Loving (Back Lot Music) David Wingo: Midnight Special (Watertower) Erik Wollo: Silent Currents 4 (Projekt) Erik Wollo/Byron Metcalf: Earth Luminous (Projekt) Bernhard Wostheinrich: Live at The Gatherings 2015 (Iapetus Media) Bernhard Wostheinrich: Live at Star's End 2015 (Iapetus Media) Bernhard Wostheinrich/G Klares: Nuu-Chah-Nulth (Iapetus Media) Zanov: Open Worlds (self released) Zenith: Zenith (Psychonavigation) Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2016 (Kompakt) Various Artists: Saving Cecil's Pride (Radhaus) Various Artists: Starseed (Synphaera) 2016 in Review Broadcasts: 01 January 2017 Playlist - Part One 08 January 2017 Playlist - Part Two 15 January 2017 Playlist - Part Three 22 January 2017 Playlist - Part Four

Highlights From STAR'S END : 2016
02.07.16 STAR'S END Winter 2016 Pledge Drive is a success! Thanks to Everyone who called in and made a donation, and to our phone-room volunteers: Ken Anderson, Art Cohen, Walt & Cindy Crowder, Joe Salopek and Jeff Towne! Thanks Also to all the labels and artists for their donations of music! 03.20.16 An Ember Glows by Simon Lomax, a live album featuring his 11.22.15 STAR'S END radio concert, debuts on STAR'S END 04.03.16 Guitar Pilots performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 04.03.16 Silent Currents 4 by Erik Wollo, a live album featuring his 10.11.15 STAR'S END radio concert, debuts on STAR'S END 05.08.16 Chuck van Zyl performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 07.31.16 Hotel Neon performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 09.18.16 Modulator ESP + onewayness + dRachEmUsiK perform an all-night 5 hour live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 10.09.16 AirSculpture performs two live in-studio radio concerts on STAR'S END 10.23.16 STAR'S END partakes in WXPN's Binge on the 70s Weekend with a special broadcast of Classic Spacemusic from the 1970s (Vinyl!) - including Mirage by Spacemusic innovator Klaus Schulze 10.30.16 STAR'S END presents a special Halloween Holiday themed show as a special five-hour mix of previously unreleased music by 16 select Spacemusicians (E Pluribus Unim) 11.06.16 Centrozoon performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 11.13.16 Recitals by Chuck van Zyl a live album including a section from his 05.08.16 STAR'S END radio concert debuts on STAR'S END 12.04.16 & 12.11.16 STAR'S END pre-empted for WXPN's 24/7 A to Z special programming 12.25.16 STAR'S END presents the annual Regional Winter Holiday themed show
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