Significant Releases of 2021 (non-ranking order)

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January 2021 Alluste: Beyond the Infinity (self-released) Anantakara: Newt [At Whose Feet is Eternity] (Aural Films) William Basinski: Lamentations (Temporary Residence) Peter Chilvers/Jon Durant: Vista (Alchemy Records) Dreamstate Logic: A Place Outside of Time (self-released) Matthias Grassow: The Dreamquest Sessions (gterma) Hotel Neon: Moments (Sound in Silence) Icarus-Daedalus: Invisus (Antagonist) Kjetil Jerve: The Soundtrack of My Homes (Dugnad) K Markov: Ancient Light (self-released) Tim Motzer: Tear Aside the Veils (1k Recordings) Orbifold C: Apeiron (Groove Unlimited) Colin Rayment: Igneous (Syngate) Roedelius: Selbstportrait Wahre Liebe (Bureau B) Sigur Ros: Odin's Raven Magic (Krunk) Son of Ohm: Wandering Monk (self-released) Sunbeamer: Halcyon (Folded Note) Valot Hill/Dynastor: Midnight Fairytales (Dronarivm) Erik Wollo: The Abandoned Sea (Outlaw Ocean) Various Artists: AEther Waves Vol 2 (AEther Waves) February 2021 Ambientium: Rules of the Stratosphere (self-released) Seigo Aoyama: On the Drift (Audiobulb) Richard Bone: Refraction (Quirkworks) Ron Boots: When It Gets Dark (Groove Unlimited) Steve Brand: Cusp (Pioneer Light) City of Dawn: Nocturne (Heart Dance Records) Roger Eno/Brian Eno: Mixing Colors Expanded (Deutsche Grammophon) Fhloston Paradigm: The Gatherings 21 April 2018 (CIMA of PA) Jeff Greinke: Other Weather (Spotted Peccary) grum~pe: Guided Apophenia (self-released) jarguna: A Peaceful Granular Day (ProjektProjekt) Mathieu Karsenti/Josh Doughty: Exchanges (101075 Records) Işık Kural: Maya's Night (Audiobulb) K Leimer: Music for Open Air (Palace of Lights) Thomas Lemmer: Ambient Nights (Sine Music) K Markov: Chains (self-released) Craig Padilla/Marvin Allen: (Strange Gravity Spotted Peccary) Stephen Parsick: Moon Musick (self-released) Jeff Pearce: In Winter (self-released) Remote Vision: Machine Arcology (Exosphere) Steve Roach: Into the Majestic (Timeroom Editions) Aria Rostami/Daniel Blomquist: Still (Glacial Movements) Darian Scatton: The Watery Aftermath (Folded Note) Arjen Schat: Manifolds (Exosphere) S1gns of L1fe: The Age of Cymatics (Synphaera) Soular Order: Absolve (The Ambient Zone) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Memories of Space (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Star City (self-released) Saul Stokes: One Two Three Locations (self-released) subtractiveLAD: Aftermath (self-released) Tapes and Topographies: A Season of Loss (Glacial Movements) Phillip Wilkerson: The Ease of Being (self-released) Erik Wollo: Recurrence (Projekt) March 2021 Jonathan E Blake: Cosmic Blue (Sine Music) Cartas de Japon: Sequence at the End of the World (Cyclical Dreams) Mark Dwane: Atlantean Apparitions (self-released) fluXus: Atlantic Highway (self-released) I Think Like Midnight: Interim Contingent (Quadrapuss Records) Mathieu Karsenti/Josh Doughty: Exchanges (101075 rRecords) K Leimer: Found Objects (Palace of Lights) Simon Lomax: Notes From the Void vol 1 (Council of Nine) Federico Mosconi: Dreamers and Tides (Dronarivm) Wolfgang Nachahmer: Nachtwache (Syngate) Nemesis/Juha-Matti Rautiainen: Off the Map (Randomizer Media) Loren Nerell: The Gong Prophet (Soundquest Music) Neuro... No Neuro: Object Models (Audiobulb) Jeff Pearce: Hidden Beach [extended] (self-released) Saul Stokes: ilcsepop (self-released) Polypores: Shpongos (Behind the Sky Music) Landtitles: Your Voice in Pieces (Slowcraft) Isostatic: Earth Tones (Exosphere) Steve Roach: Timeroom Livestream 8-22-2020 (self-released) Steve Roach/Serena Gabriel: Temple of the Melting Dawn (Soundquest Music) Forrest Smithson: Dieux (self-released) Softbase: Flow (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Modular Pieces (self-released) subtractiveLAD: Static Clouds (self-released) Van Zyl & Gulch: The Gatherings 28 June 1996 (CIMA of PA) Various Artists: Head Rush (Fruits de Mer) April 2021 Rudy Adrian: As Dusk Becomes Night (Spotted Peccary) Alias Zone: We Only Cane to Dream (self-released) Marc Barreca: The Empty Bridge (Palace of Lights) Beyond Berlin: Epiphany (Groove Unlimited) Ian Boddy/Markus Reuter: Outland (DiN) David Cordero: Lambda (Home Normal) David Darling: The Gatherings 10 November 2001 (CIMA of PA) Dreamstate Logic: Origins (self-released) Howard Givens/Madhavi Devi/Craig Padilla: Precipice of a Dream (Spotted Peccary) The Green Kingdom: Solaria (Sound in Silence) Isik Kural: Maya's Night (Audiobulb) Deborah Martin/Jill Haley: The Silence of Grace (Spotted Peccary) Vikingur Olafsun: Reflections (Deutsche Grammophon) Oriom: Healing Source (Klangwirkstoff) Craig Padilla: Perspectives on the Dream World (self-released) Parallel Worlds: MOA1202 (Moatun 7) Brendan Pollard: Isolated Passages Three (Acoustic Wave Records) Robert Rich: SoundQuest 2021 (Soundscape) Steve Roach: As It Is (Projekt) Steve Roach: Quiet Music (Projekt) Skoulaman: Byssed (Groove Unlimited) Son of Ohm: Reflections (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: A Message from the Future (self-released) Spyra: Hospital (Groove Unlimited) Syndromeda: The Path of Isolation Syngate) Gregory Taylor: Peregrination (Palace of Lights) Tsone: Escape Velocity (self-released) Helene Vogelsinger: (Reminiscence Modularfield) Richard Barbieri: Under a Spell (K-Scope) A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities (Artificial Pine Arch Manufacturing) May 2021 theAdelaidean: Inner Real Life (Projekt) Johan Agebjorn/Mikael Ogren: Artefact (Spotted Peccary) Steve Brand: What is Real (Pioneer light) DASK: Electron Hell (Syngate) Divine Matrix: Heart of the Shaman (AD Music) Brian Eno: Film Music 1976-2020 (Opal) Errant Space: Slow Wave (self-released) Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders/LSO: Promises (Luaka Bop) Fratoroler: Berlin (Syngate) Free System Projekt: The Lost Sessions 2013 (FSP Records) Fusion of Elements: Sessions in the Quantum Field (Syngate) Robert Hakalski: On the First of March the Crows Begin to Search (Singularity) Janne Hanhisuanto: Traveller in Time (self-released) Innesti: Filament and Place (Dronarivm) jarguna: Anatexis (Projekt) Chris Meyer: Sputnik's Ghosts (self-released) Steve Moore: The Gatherings 13 April 2013 (CIMA of PA) Moss Covered Technology: Seafields (Dronarivm) Sensitive Chaos: Closer to Home (Subsequent Records) Shinpal: Blue Stories (Syngate) The Soviet Space Dog Project: The Mathematics of Satellite Motion (self-released) Martin Sturtzer: Illumination Cycle (Synphaera) subtractiveLAD: Rising Tide (self-released) Juta Takahashi: Gems (Lunisolar) Various Artists: Integers and Quotients (DiN) June 2021 John Luther Adams: Arctic Dreams (Cold Blue Music) Balmorhea: The Wind (Deutsche Grammophon) Jon Durant/Stephen Thelen: Crossings (Alchemy Records) Nils Frahm: Tripping With Nils Frahm (Erased Tapes) The Green Kingdom: Empyrean (Dronarivm) Bart Hawkins: Visions of Eden (Spotted Peccary) jarguna/Lam Sadashna: Puja in the Temple of Sound (Projekt) loscil: Clara (Kranky) Dave Luxton: Behind the Machine (Wayfarer Records) Margot Blue: (re)currents (I U We Records) K Markov: Frozen Land (self-released) Dustin O'Halloran: Silfer (Deutsche Grammophon) Panic Girl: Blue (I U We Records) Max Richter: Voices 2 (Decca) Ulrich Schnauss/Jonas Munk: Eight Fragments of an Illusion (Azure Vista Records) John Sellekaers: Observer Effect (Glacial Movements) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Quantum Entanglement (self released) subtractiveLAD: Fade (self-released) Three Point Circle: Proximity Effect (Palace of Lights) Erik Wollo: North Star (Projekt) Various Artists: Matters of the Heart (Behind the Sky Music) Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2021 (Kompakt) July 2021 AES Dana: (a)period. (Ultimae) John Luther Adams: The Become Trilogy (Cantaloupe) Ambiente Solstice: Abandoned Peace (Heart Dance Records) Build: A Development with a Grid of Streets and a Shopping-Center Heart (Audiobulb) Cosmic Ground: Soil 3 (self-released) Fanger/Schonwalder: Analog Overdose: The Pool Concert (Manikin) Huron: Burning the Past to Light Our Future (self-released) Kontroll Raum: Check In (Manikin) K Leimer: Mitteltoner 72 (Palace of Lights) Lisa Bella Donna: Mourning Light (Behind the Sky Music) Moby: Reprise (Deutsche Grammophon) Nigel Mullaney: The Turning (DiN) Murcof: The Alias Sessions (Leaf) Francisco Nicosia: Time (Cyclical Dreams) La Ponto Ensemblo: Ishmael/at Quintessence (self-released) El Principio de Noxa: Hermeneutics (Cyclical Dreams) Juha-Matti Rautiainen: Still Water (self-released) Mark Seelig: The Disciple's Meditation (Projekt) Anne Sulikowski: Tabla Rasa (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Venus Reimagined (self-released) Transponder: Terminae Space (Exosphere) Penelope Trappes: Penelope Three (Houndstooth) Lucas Tripaldi/Toni Jimenez: Donde Habitan los Recuerdos? (Cyclical Dreams) Western Edges: Dependency (Sound in Silence) Erik Wollo: Winter Tide (Projekt) Bernard Wostheinrich: Studio Session 20210518 (Iapetus Media) Yellow6: The Cloud Factory (Sound in Silence) August 2021 John Luther Adams: Lines Made by Walking (Cold Blue Music) theAdelaidean: Sounds Like Rain (Projekt) Carbon Based Lifeforms: Stochastic (Leftfield Records) Chronotope Project: Gnosis (Spotted Peccary) Cosmic Replicant: The Waves (Exosphere) ELEON: Crossover (Heart Dance Records) Fhloston Paradigm: Right Where We Are (kingbrittarchives) Glossographs: False Owls (self-released) jarguna/Ryuzen: Kitsune (Projekt) Kevin Keller: Shimmer (self-released) Lanterna: Hidden Drives (Badman) Latome2: The Art of Desire (Cyclical Dreams) Mikael Lind: Lind (Dronarivm) Lisa Bella Donna: Moogmentum (Behind the Sky Music) MindPhaser: In Time of Lockdown (Cyclical Dreams) Tim Motzer: The Wisdom of Water (1K Recordings) Jim Ottaway: Threshold of the Universe (self-released) Brendan Pollard: Phrases and Protocols (Acoustic Wave) Max Richter: Exiles (Deutsche Grammophon) Steve Roach: Live at SoundQuest Fest 2021 (Timeroom) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Reconstructions Live (self-released) Strangebird~Sounds: Just Passengers (Truthtable) Tapes and Topographies: Monomials (Simulacra Records) Eric the Taylor: As Foreseen (Touched Music) Twilight Archive: Recent Detours (self-released) George Wallace: The Art of Imagining (Airborne Music) George Wallace: The Gatherings 2014/2015 (CIMA of PA) Various Artists: 21st Anniversary (Ambient Ping) September 2021 Steve Brand: Abandoned (Pioneer Light) Andrea Bacci: Sleeping on the Clouds (Heart Dance Records) Lyonel Bauchet: The Diver (DiN) Cosmic Star Babies: Distant Summer Storm (self-released) Daniel & Booth: Circle of Phenomenon (ECO) Desu ExSounds: Figments (Naviar Records) Extraworld: Singularity Beneath (Exosphere) Frore/Shane Morris: Horizon (Spotted Peccary) Joseph Hyde: Spherical Harmonics (Truthtable) K Markov: Dawn Dreamer (self-released) Byron Metcalf: Rhythms of Remembering (Dr Bam's Music) Oar: Adrift (gterma) The Soviet Space Dog Project: The First Patashnik (self-released) Bernhard Wostheinrich: Pagurus Bernardus Session 20210710 (Iapetus Media) Various Artists: Gemstones II (Cyclical Dreams) October 2021 Amin: Sadhana (Syngate) Caterina Barbieri: single (light years) Black Tape for a Blue Girl: The Cleft Serpent [Instrumental & Alternate Mixes] (Projekt) Ian Boddy: Nevermore (DiN) Cosmic Replicant: The Waves (Exosphere) Kelly David: Illusive (Spotted Peccary) Divine Matrix: Celestial Phenomenon (AD Music) Paul Ellis/Daryl Groetsch: Interior Rhythms (Cyclical Dreams) Serena Gabriel (w/Steve Roach): Seeing Inside (Soundquest Music/Projekt) Hinterland: Codes of the Biosphere (Exosphere) Gustavo Jobim: Portal Between Two Worlds (Cyclical Dreams) Keerd: Lost in a Daydream (Over the Moon Music) Anders Klumppe: Incidental Inversion (Cyclical Dreams) Volker Lankow: Remembrance (self-released) Liquid Mind: Musical Healthcare (self-released) Motionfield: Awake (self-released) Off Land: Excursion (Carpe Sonum) Jeff Pearce: In Autumn (self-released) Charles Richard: Sonic Earth (Glacial Movements) SineRider: A Familiar Light (Sound in Silence) Arjen Schat: The Extragalactic Sessions Pt 1 (self-released) Chas Smith: Three Cold Blue Music) subtractiveLAD: Granular Electric Guitar (self-released) Martin Sturtzer: Dyson Sphere Alpha (self-released) Syndromeda: Mythical Pursuit (Syngate) Under the Dome: Thunder Over City Hall (Heimat der Katastrophe) Bernhard Wostheinrich: Live at Floating University 20210901 (Iapetus Media) Hans Zimmer: The Dune Sketchbook (Watertower Music) Various Artists: Horror Films 2021 (Aural Films) November 2021 Ian Boddy: Modulations II (DiN) Enrico Coniglio: Alpine Variations (dronarivm) Rene de Bakker: Dive In - Dive Out (Groove Unlimited) Dweller at the Threshold: The Gatherings 23 September 2000 (CIMA of PA) Paul Ellis: Panoramas 2 (Groove Unlimited) Luigi Verona: Solar Cycle (self-released) Dave Luxton: Dream Sequence (Wayfarer Records) K Markov: River of Souls (self released) Modulator ESP: The Shadow of Poseidon (Groove Unlimited) Martin Peters: Deeper Understanding (Groove Unlimited) Colin Rayment: Evolving Forms (Syngate) Steve Roach/Michael Stearns: Beyond Earth & Sky (Projekt) Arjen Schat: The Extragalactic Sessions Pt 2 (self-released) John Scott Shepherd: Realms Beyond Cyclical Dreams) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Late Night Constructions (self-released) Transponder: Astral Expanse (Exosphere) December 2021 Aperus: Weather Anomalies (Geophonic Records) Jimmy Behan: Here We Are Now (Audiobulb) Forrest Fang: Forever Cascades (Projekt) Christian Fiesel: Carnival Of The Uninvited (Cyclical Dreams) Robert Fripp: Music for Quiet Moments (DGM) Isostatic: Winter's Edge (Exosphere) Scott Lawler: Reflections of Snow (self-released) Lisa Bella Donna: Appalachian Wilderness (Behind the Sky) K Markov: Orion (self-released) Palancar: Nightlands (Emergent World) Panic Girl Washed Ashore (I U We Records) Arjen Schat: The Extragalactic Sessions Pt 3 (self-released) Pabellon Sintetico: Instructions for Building an Orange (Cyclical Dreams) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Tape Operator Constructions (self-released) Benjamin James Stewart: Spaces (Projekt) theAdelaidean & deepspace: Antigravity (Projekt) Umlaut: Grand Trine (Audiobulb) Chuck van Zyl: Votive (Synkronos Music) Phillip Wilkerson/Chris Russell: Dark Measures (Spotted Peccary) Various Artists: Winter Tales (Deutsche Grammophon) 2021 in Review Broadcasts: 26 December 2021 Playlist - Part One 02 January 2022 Playlist - Part Two

Highlights From STAR'S END : 2021
02.07.21 Chuck van Zyl performs a two-hour solo live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 02.21.21 STAR'S END Winter Fundraiser 2021 is another record breaking success! Thanks to Everyone who called or went online to donate over $10,000.00! 07.04.21 STAR'S END presents a special Independence Day themed show in a special mix of music by artists from the USA 08.01.21 Huron performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END as part of this Summer's live on-air/live streamed Space Camp series 08.08.21 Tim Motzer performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END as part of this Summer's live on-air/live streamed Space Camp series 08.15.21 Jason Sloan performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END as part of this Summer's live on-air/live streamed Space Camp series 08.22.21 ST∆ER performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END as part of this Summer's live on-air/live streamed Space Camp series 08.29.21 Hotel Neon performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END as part of this Summer's live on-air/live streamed Space Camp series 09.05.21 Ombient w/Chuck van Zyl performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END as part of this Summer's live on-air/live streamed Space Camp series 08.15.21 STAR'S END Listener/local DJ Scott Kelly provides a wide-ranging special DJ Kel mix for the 4-5AM hour of the 08.08.21 broadcast 09.12.21 STAR'S END presents the specially commissioned 60 minute track The First Patashnik by The Soviet Space Dog Project 10.10.21 STAR'S END presents the specially commissioned 60 minute track For Chuck's Sake by Radio Massacre International 10.31.21 STAR'S END presents a special Halloween themed show in a seamless mix of seasonally spooky music, including the track News Flash by Chuck van Zyl and Halloween Dream by Ian Boddy 11.28.21 STAR'S END presents specially commissioned Thanksgiving Holiday tracks by Chaka Benson, Neil Cippon, Paul Ellis, Forrest Fang, Fhloston Paradigm, Vic Hennegan, Huron, Ombient, Craig Padilla & Bart Hawkins, Craig Padilla & Dust Franks, Jeff Pearce, Carl Ritger, Jason Sloan, Chuck van Zyl, George Wallace and others from the USA 12.05.21 STAR'S END preempted by WXPN's 2021 Album Countdown special programming 12.19.21 STAR'S END presents the annual Regional Winter Holiday themed show which included the unreleased live gift tracks Message From Within Live by Craig Padilla & Skip Murphy and Against the Fall of Night by Chuck van Zyl
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