A one-hour special today courtesy of our friends over at Spotted Peccary Music – thanks guys! Dig into some tasty ambient/electronic goodness today with:

1. TIME BEING – Future Forming – from A Dimension Reflected
2. DEBORAH MARTIN – One Sun – from Deep Roots, Hidden Water
3. JUSTIN VANDERBERG – The Path – from Synthetic Memories
4. BRUNO SANFILIPPO – Slipped Time – from Subliminal Pulse
5. RUDY ADRIAN – Netherworlds – from Distant Stars
6. PAUL ELLIS – The Infinite Minute by Minute – from From Out of the Vast Comes Nearness
7. JEFF GREINKE – Partial Light – from Virga
8. TERRA AMBIENT – Mammoth – from Wanderlust
9. DARSHAN AMBIENT – Mirage – from Dream in Blue
10. DAVID HELPLING/JON JENKINS – To The Ends of the Earth – from The Crossing

For more great ambient, electronic, acoustic and progressive instrumental music, be sure to make the jump to Spotted Peccary online!

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Got an hour-long show for ya today since we’ve only got one podcast for December. This episode’s dedicated to the winter season, enhancing that silent, solitary, contemplative feeling you sometimes get during a long walk after a winter storm, or after you realize you just ran out of that drink that was keeping you toasty.

Track listing (click an artist name for more info):

1. David Helpling & Jon Jenkins – Not Forgotten
2. Kirsty Hawkshaw – In Between
3. Tor Lundvall – Snowy Morning
4. Alex Tiuniaev – Ethereal Winter Ambience Part 1 (Edit)
5. Phillip Wilkerson – Cold Moon Drift
6. Ion – Eternal Flame
7. Bruno Sanfilippo – Surreal Sense (Edit)
8. Igneous Flame – Shimmer
9. Hands Upon Black Earth – Inward
10. Soulwire – Drifting Essence

X3 returns in mid-to-late January after a well-deserved long holiday break. See you in 2011 gang!

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This weekend’s show features rock/pop-based electronic tracks from some amazing artists we think you need to know about if ya don’t already.

Track listing (click an artist name for more info):

1. GLITCH MOB feat. SWAN – Between Two Points
2. MUSIC INSIDE – Cannibal
3. ESPER FICTION – Terror
4. AURADRONE – Indigo Child
5. CURL – Salt Taste
6. 65daysofstatic – Await Rescue

X3 is off the grid for Thanksgiving weekend, which means we’ll see you again on December 11th with more tasty music morsels…
thanks for listening and telling your friends about us!

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Got some dark ambient goodness for ya today in honor of Halloween weekend, bodiless souls and death, that sorta stuff.

First up we haBOOOOO!!!!!! Did I scare ya? Totally didn’t see that comin’ did ya? I know. I’m cool like that.

Here’s the track list:

1. MYSTIFIED – Dark Transition
2. SECRET DRUID SOCIETY – Phobia (Stones Are Moving)
3. INFALLEN – Prologue (Inner Locutions)
4. ASPECTEE – Dianthus

All of these artists and more can be found online at http://www.firstfallenstar.com – check ‘em out for some great music hailing from the dark end of the ambient/experimental spectrum.

… and don’t eat too much candy this weekend dammit.

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This week it’s the sweet soundings of electronic candy from CYBO, a New York-based artist who’s blowing up the internet with her unique sound.

Her music project began in 2004. She started experimenting by meshing her piano, guitar playing and pulsating vocals with distorted electronic drum beats and thick layered ambient pads. Her music gives off a sense of diversity/chaos/beauty/form of expression. Taking it even further and beyond the surreal ambient atmosphere already conveyed through her music, Cybo has created a new style that consists of a melodic ghostly type sound accompanied with hard filled gritty beats, overdriven guitar sounds and layered vocals breaching from afar. Taking subconscious thoughts and creating a visual of effects.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Cybo describes her life living in the city diverse, chaotic and beautiful.
“…I’ve worked on this project alone from the start. I’ve always wanted to create a soundtrack of my life both musically and visually. My music constantly changes. My world is ethereal and my thoughts are obscure. But for the moments that I can sit down and create..I feel like I can breathe and I am limitless…and I would like to share that experience with you…”

“This is my life recorded in a dream…”

Watch for Cyb’s brand new album ECHOESPOND, due out in just weeks, as well as the new CD Saegmeh, her collaboration with musician Esper Fiction.

Track listing:

1. Bleeding Colors (from ‘Speaking as Loud as Silence’)
2. Within the Ice (from ‘Recorded in a Dream’)
3. Collision is Imminent (from ‘Rendered Senseless’)
4. Fiction (from ‘Last Glow Before Darkness [Sessions Mix]‘)
5. Glue (from ‘Void’ – an EP included with the above album)
6. Still Life (from ‘Last Glow Before Darkness [Sessions Mix]‘)
7. The Spaces in Between (unreleased track)

Visit CYBO online at http://www.djcybo.com, and listen for an interview with this multi-talented woman in an upcoming episode of our affiliated podcast, E*SCAPES.

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Time for another cold shower – it’s HEAD SIXES on the X3 this weekend, featuring sensuous vocals from some of independent music’s most mesmerizing talent of the female persuasion.

ELU feat. DEE GONZALES – Bedtime Stories (an X3 Exclusive from Elu’s unreleased upcoming CD)

There. How was that for ya? Bet you’ll sleep like a baby now, unless of course you’re the Master of your Domain.

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30 minutes of ambient goodness today from artists on the Magnatune label: Dave Preston: Spinning Away from the Earth, Robert Rich: Antalieh, Rildrim: Tear-Blind Eyes and Dr. Sounds: Urge.

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Ambient Psy-Trance duo GRAINS OF SOUND recently released their latest triple-volume set ‘SINE LANGUAGE’ – a concept album about the transcendent power of music to communicate beyond the barriers of time and space. Each volume features a hypnotic, futuristic sound, and each explores the different styles and energy levels of dance, chill and zone.

Vol. 1 [UP] – Pulsating bass lines meld with arpeggiating synths to create psychedelic trance, both progressive and minimal, along with hints of house and breaks.

Vol. 2 [DOWN] – Lush, sweeping soundscapes wash over sub bass frequencies and deep downtempo beats, the perfect chill-out groove.

Vol. 3 [UNDER] – Vast evolving layers, organic textures and sentient sounds leave all beats behind, pure ambient intoxication.

This expanded 33-minute episode of X3 features five tracks from SINE LANGUAGE.  The album’s available now on AfterCulture Records (http://www.afterculture.com), and each volume is sold separately in MP3 or CD format at most retailers.

Special thanks to Chris and Jason Sevanick for providing the music for this weekend’s episode!

Grains of Sound official site:
http://www.grainsofsound.net

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‘I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party.’ – Brick Tamland knew what he was talking about.  In our own version of the pants party, you’ll hear ADRAW with the Trance Mix of ‘F.T.’; HUGH CAMPBELL’S ‘Storm’, and BASE BOX with the Club Mix of ‘Old as Ice’. Enjoy this week’s X3.

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