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abstract science is future music radio: a weekly exploration of innovative electronic music and its roots since 1997. this staple of chicago’s airwaves investigates the current evolution and influence of dj culture, dance music and experimental sounds on a global level. co-hosts CHRIS WIDMAN, HENRY SELF, LUKE STOKES + JOSHUA P FERGUSON showcase the latest releases alongside underground classics, overlooked gems, exclusive live performances, interviews and dj mixes. past guest include AMON TOBIN, APPARAT, BONOBO, BURAKA SOUND SYSTEM, CONVEXTION, DAEDELUS, DEADBEAT, DJ KRUSH, FOUR TET, JAGA JAZZIST, JUAN ATKINS, LUKE VIBERT, MONOLAKE, MODESELEKTOR, PLAID, RJD2, ROBERT RICH, SLEEPARCHIVE and SQUAREPUSHER. more info at abstractscience.net
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BEST OF 2025 featuring BAMBINODJ, BARKER, BIOSPHERE, BROKEN LIP, DAN CURTIN, DANIEL AVERY, DJ POLO, DJRUM, IMPÉRIEUX, KINOTEKI + DJ FLP, MARIE DAVIDSON, NICK LEÓN + JONNY FROM SPACE, PAUL ST. HILAIRE, PURELINK, TORTOISE, WEVAL + many more on this extended ABSTRACT SCIENCE year-in-review podcast. Co-hosts CHRIS WIDMAN, BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B, JOSHUA P FERGUSON + HENRY SELF mix 4 hours of future music favorites from 2025. [aired 04 + 11 December 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >CHRIS WIDMAN Lapalux “Bias Angel” (On The Grid, LPLX, 2025) Coen “Headbanger” (Moshpit, Maloca, 2025) Verraco “Basic Maneuvers” (XL Records, 2025) Dan Curtin “Trust Blind” (The 4 Lights, De:tuned, 2025) Surgeon “Soul Fire” (Shell~Wave, Tresor, 2025) Fjaak +J.Manuel “Binder” (Tectonic Sound, Tectonic, 2025) Weval “Dopamine (DJ Edit)” (Ninja Tune, 2025) Dean Grenier “View Source” (Hand Works Music, 2025 Impérieux “Fena” (Hessle Music, 2025) Barker “Stochastic Drift (Stochastic Drift, Smalltown Supersound, 2025) jonathan d. valdez “Music Frozen Dancing” (Perception, 2025) Deft + Manni Dee “Busy Bee” (Swamp Season, Hooversound, 2025) Batu “Clump” (Question Mark, Lethal Press, 2025) Undulae “Temple Of Symmetry” (Temple Of Symmetry EP, Satellite Era, 2025) Slikback “Data” (Tempa, 2025) easygoingtech “909local” (easygoingtech, 2026) >BILL BEARDEN Kinoteki & DJ FLP “160 Proof” (Limiting Factor, 2025) AJ Tracey & Jorja Smith “Crush” (Casement Remix, Not On Label, 2025) Proc Fiskal “UK Torrent” (Shleekit Doss, 2025) Freedjom “13-8=0_0” (DJ Strawberry’s Düğün Fix, Beat Machine, 2025) Nectax “Soundboy Gambit” (Over/Shadow, 2025) Sully “The Wash” (Fabriclive, 2025) Broken Lip “Neighbourhood” (pt.1+2, Iberian Juke, 2025) Cesco “Flump” (Pineapple Records, 2025) JD Reid & Hagan “Leaf” (Baby Gravy, 2025) TMSV “Dimensional” (Perfect Records, 2025) Darama & Kush Arora “Rattle” (Not On Label, 2025) bambinodj “Carrier” (OST, 2025) DJ Polo “Currents” (Night Slugs, 2025) Anecho “Spiritual Blitz” (Dimeshift, 2025) Low End Activist “Wave 03” (Best Intentions, 2025) L-VIS 1990 “Low Pulse” (Club Djembe, 2025) >JOSHUA P FERGUSON Bitchin Bajas “Skylarking” (Inland See, Drag City, 2025) Damon Locks “Hold the Dawn in Place (Beyond pt 2)” (List of Demands, International Anthem, 2025) Stone “Feely” (Dream Curtain Eternally Gentle, 3XL, 2025) Headache “Most Undo Tomorrow” (Thank You for Almost Everything, PLZ Make It Ruins, 2025) Stereolab “Immortal Hands” (Instant Holograms on Metal Film, Warp) Space Dimension Controller “Reflect Itself” (Six Beginnings, Test Pressing, 2025) Coatshek “Triple Virgo” (Sound Bath, Dark Entries, 2025) Sam Prekop “Font” (Open Close, Thrill Jockey, 2025) Biosphere “Like the End of the World” (The Way of Time, AD 93, 2025) Paul St Hilaire “Mary Jane Greenfield” (w/ The Producers, Kynant, 2025) Tortoise “Works and Days” (Touch, International Anthem, 2025) Djrum “Waxcap” (Under Tangled Silence, Houndstooh, 2025) james K “Hypersoft Lovejinx Junkdream” (Friend, AD 93, 2025) Sven Wunder “Misty Shore” (Daybreak, Piano Piano, 2025) >HENRY SELF Dijon “my man” (Baby, R&R/Warner, 2025) Oklou “Blade Bird” (Choke Enough, True Panther, 2025) Oneohtrix Point Never “D.I.S.” (Tranquilizer, Warp, 2025) John Glacier “Emotions” (Like a Ribbon, Young, 2025) Daniel Avery “Tremor” (Tremor, Domino, 2025) caroline “Beautiful Ending” (caroline 2, Rough Trade, 2025) FKA Twigs feat. PinkPantheress “Wild and Alone” (EUSEXUA Afterglow, Young, 2025) Marie Davidson “Statistical Modelling” (City of Clowns, Deewee, 2025) Effy “2011” (The Syndicate, Fragrance, 2025) Destroyer feat. Fiver “Bologna” (Dan’s Boogie, Merge, 2025) Amaarae & Charlie Wilson “Dream Scenario” (Black Star, Interscope, 2025) Whatever the Weather “3°C” (Whatever the Weather II, Ghostly International, 2025) Maria Somerville “Violet” (Luster, 4AD, 2025) Nick León feat. Jonny From Space “Metromover” (A Tropical Entropy, TraTraTrax, 2025) Darkside “S.N.C.” (Nothing, Matador, 2025) Purelink feat. Loraine James “Rookie” (Faith, Peak Oil, 2025) The post best of 2025 – absci radio 1398-1399 appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
MINA MILLS guest mix + new music from BARKER + RAY7, L-VIS 1990, IMAGINARY NUMBER + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B. Special guest Chicago-based DJ + producer MINA MILLS begins the program with a midwest focused mix of classic warehouse techno + rave house. BILL follows with a set of UK club, techno, breakbeat + garage. [aired 13 November 2025 of WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >MINA MILLS Monobox- Downtown B1 [M-P 311] {1997} Jomanda- I Like It (Acapella) [RB 6001] {1993} Damon Wild- Red Dog [SWRR001] {1996} Felix K- MSCL [FLXK#1] {2018] Tadpole- Plug Out [AB012] {1997} C. Garette- Untitled (Box Blaze & Deetron Remix) [ARMALYTE 005] {2000} Subsounds- Shape Three [SUBSOUNDS 007] {1997} Scrappy- Freeze (Ron Hardy Edit) [RDY 45] {1998} Dave Tarrida- Stem The Flow [TRESOR 126] {1999} Beat Junkies- I Am Sorry [CTM9806-1] {1998} New Order- I Don’t Care [0-20546] {1986} Christian Smith & John Selway- Reflective Mode [TR-012] {1999} Basic Implant- Chilla [AUDIOLP01] {2000} Lil Louis And The Diamond Corp.- War Games (Unfortunately True Mix) [DM015] {1988} Mark Bernard-The World [DM251] {1998} Cherry Bomb- Latination [MM 041] {1998} Dimi Angélis & Jeroen Search- De Novo [TRAUT 009] {2011} Thompson & Lenoir- Can’t Stop The House [HJA 870001] {1987} Green Velvet- La La Land (Floppy Sounds Vocal Mix) [RR2007-1] {2001} Angel Alanis- Assault The Audio [CTM-9813] {1998} Access 58- Abstract Funk [A58-003] {1999} Shaka- Due Corde (Rmx) [REV 002] {2000} Jadakiss (Featuring Anthony Hamilton)- Why! (Instrumental) [INTR 11181-1] {2004} Static Drum- External (Technasia Remix) [LOG021B] {2001} Indo- Are U Sleeping (H&F Vox Mix) [ARM 0004] {1993} >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Masaka Masaka “Nothing Makes Sense” (Hakuna Kulala, 2024) Barker & Ray7 “Wiretap #1” (Leisure System, 2025) B. McQueen & Theorist “Chives” (Wisdom Teeth, 2025) DJ Fitness “Rooster Dub” (Isla, 2025) L-VIS 1990 “Soul Motion” (Club Djembe, 2025) Bodhi “LVLZ” (Hotflush Recordings, 2024) Fixate “Conundrum” (Exit Records, 2024) SpacePose “Injure” (Not On Label, 2024) Imaginary Number “I’m In” (YUKU, 2025) Pearson Sound “Hornet” (Hessle Audio, 2024) TMSV “Hangplant” (Perfect Records, 2025) TSVI & DJ Plead “Twos and Fours” (AD 93, 2024) K-Lone “Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah” (Aus Music, 2024) Holloway “Echo Tone” (Instinct, 2020) Wreckx-n-Effect “Rump Shaker” (DJ Cosworth Refix, 2025) Walton “Drowsy” (Not On Label, 2020) The post absci radio 1395 – mina mills + whoa-b appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
New music from JASMÍN, LAPALUX, JOE MILLI, WANDERIST, JASSS + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by CHRIS WIDMAN. WIDMAN begins the program with a mix of mutant bass music (drawing on broken techno, electro + breakbeat), followed by percussive house and club sounds. For the second hour, WIDMAN continues with ambient jungle + footwork before sliding into atmospheric downtempo sounds, capped off by in memoriam selections (RIP D’ANGELO + JACK DEJOHNETTE) [aired 30 October 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >CHRIS WIDMAN Gyrofield “Rorschach (ft. Flo State)” (Suspension of Belief, Kapsela, 2025) Identified Patient “Return” (Reset, Dekmental UFO Series, 2025) MUADEEP “Seventh Seal” (Omega Man, 2025) Om Unit & Delay Grounds “Ease” (PRIMARY FOREST 03, CEE, 2025) Jasmín “Bite the Hand” (Hassle Audio, 2025) Farsight “Ron Hudson” (Superclásico, Vol. 2, Clasico, 2025) Pearson Sound “Zoomies” (TD10, Timedance, 2025) pdqb “10000 Gauß (Dopplereffekt Gaussian Surface Remodel)” (Sermons of the Electrofying Messiah, Synaptic Cliffs, 2025) Lapalux “Bias Angel” (On The Grid, 2025) Barker & Ray7 “Wiretap #1” (2025) Joe Milli “Keep That Wire” (Deep Forest EP, Livity Sound, 2025) Amaliah “Hypnosis” (Peach Discs, 2025) DJ Swisha “Say Det” (First Hand Smoke, 2025) Mister Bellini “Nye” (Resurrected Trax, Deep Shopping, 2025) Wanderist “For You” (Imagine, Aus Music, 2025) Rob Amboule “Siltie” (Siltie EP, Craigie Knowes, 2025) Shapednoise “Oblivion Step” (Absurd Matter 2, Weight Looming, 2025) Lone “Ascension.png” (Ascension.png, 2025) DJ Spinn and TEKLIFE “Already” (Break Yo Back EP, Teklife, 2025) DJ Trax “Cubic Nature (DJ Trax Remix)” (Suburban Architecture, 2023) Malibu “Lactonic Crush” (Vanities, Year, 2025) JASSS “Kindness Over Talent” (Eager Buyers, AWOS, 2025) Andrea “Silent Now” (Due in Color, Ilian Tape. 2025) Shackleton “El Din (Part 1)” (Mordant Music, 2008) D’Angelo & The Vanguard “Back To the Future (Part I)” (Black Messiah, RCA, 2014) Jack DeJohnette “Sorcery” (Sorcery #1, Prestige, 1974) The post absci radio 1393 – chris widman appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
PAUL ST HILAIRE, CLOVERDALE, NIGHTMARES ON WAX + TORTOISE lead off new music from JOSHUA P. FERGUSON + HENRY SELF on this edition of ABSTRACT SCIENCE. JOSHUA oscillates between indie-electronic, ambient, deep house + jazz-ish sounds on his first hour set. HENRY picks up with a breaks-heavy set drawing on electro, techno, IDM before a late-set comedown into chillout territory. [aired 16 October 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >JOSHUA P. FERGUSON Kieran Hebden & William Tyler “Secret City” (41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s, Temporary Residence Limited, 2025) Tortoise “Oganesson” (Broken Social Scene remix) (International Anthem, 2025) Bitchin Bajas “Graut” (Inland See, Drag City, 2025) Sam Prekop “Open Close” (Open Close, Thrill Jockey, 2025) Paul St Hilaire & Gavsborg “Confidential” (w/ the Producers, Kynant Records, 2025) Lord of the Isles “United Wire” (Signals Aligned, Dusk Delay, 2025) Ezra Feinberg “Pose Beams” (Gold Panda remix) (Tonal Union, 2024) Sarathy Korwar “We Take Things for Granted” (There is Beauty, There Already, Otherland, 2025) Makaya McCraven “Imafan” (Off the Record, International Anthem, 2025) Sven Wunder “Liquid Mountains” (Daybreak, Piano Piano, 2025) >HENRY SELF Cloverdale “Lunatics” (Channel 303, Vibrancy, 2025) Human Rebellion X Power “Fake Reality” (Midi Mode, 2024) The Third Man “Fast Train to Edinburgh” (Before We Begin, Ai, 2008) Link “Amenity” (The First Link EP, Evolution, 1992) Ryan James Ford “Roscoh Denk” (Six Stair EP, Sävy, 2020) Denham Audio “Feel the Panic” (Lobster Theremin, 2020) Ellia Jaya & Poppy Wright “Disconnect My Mind” (Three Six Zero, 2025) Eliza Rose feat. The Trip “Weekend” (Defected, 2025) John Glacier feat. Sampha “Ocean Steppin'” (Like a Ribbon, Young, 2025) Sasha / Emerson “Scorchio Revisited” (Trance Wax Ten, Trance Wax, 2024) UFO “UFO” (Smugglers Way, 2025) Nightmares on Wax feat. Yasiin Bey “Bang Bien” (Echo45 Sound System, Warp, 2025) Yukimi “Get It Over” (Ninja Tune, 2025) The post absci radio 1391 – joshua p ferguson + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
New music from K-LONE, L-VIS 1990, KIERAN HEBDEN + WILLIAM TYLER, PEPE LINK + more on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B + HENRY SELF. BILL begins the program with a mix of uk garage, grime + breakstep. HENRY follows with an uplifting eclectic selection of baeleric + synth funk sounds, bookended by epic club cuts in memoriam. (RIP JD TWITCH of OPTIMO (ESPACIO) + RON CARROLL). [aired 02 October 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Novelist “Feel The Heat” (Not On Label, 2025) Rygby “Taormina” (Not On Label, 2025) K-Lone “Upside Down” (Tempa, 2025) Anecho “Spiritual Blitz” (Dimeshift, 2025) L-VIS 1990 “Low Pulse” (Club Djembe, 2025) JD Reid “SIREN DE PULSE (FODE FM) (DUB)” (Baby Gravy, 2025) Coido “Deathbox” (YUKU, 2024) Darama & Kush Arora “Heart Meter” (Not On Label, 2025) Kaval “It Just Begin” (KVLDUB, 2025) Obeka “Accelerata” (Future Bounce, 2025) Pugilist “Mannequin” (Ruff Kutz, 2025) Dubrunner “Blackheart” (Menace, 2025) T5UMUT5UMU “Twisted Thorns” (USI KUVO, 2025) JLSXND7RS “GYPSY TRITON VIP” (Not On Label, 2025) Hooverian Blur “Wacky Robot” (Sneaker Social Club, 2025) Bodhi “Demeter 227” (Unknown To The Unknown, 2024) JIALING “MELTING POINT 溶點” (Not On Label, 2025) Om Unit “Snagged” (Not On Label, 2024) Ivy Lab “Curves” (20/20 LDN, 2024) >HENRY SELF Boris “Buzz-In” (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix) (Scion Audio/Visual, 2009) Fatima Yamaha “What’s a Girl to Do” (Dekmantel, 2015) Kieran Hebden, William Tyler “Secret City” (41 Longfield Street Late ’80s, Temporary Residence Ltd., 2025) Dope Lemon “Dust of a Thousand Stars” (Golden Wolf, BMG, 2025) Lawrence Hart “The Wave Cry” (Come In Out of the Rain, Domino, 2025) Pepe Link “Belfast” (Scenes From My Soul II, Music For Dreams, 2025) Faithless feat. Nathan Ball & Amelia Fox “Thinking” (Champion Sound, Faithless, 2025) TUAWKI & The Magic Hours “Da Funk” (Made of Steel, the universe as we know it, 2025) Underworld “Techno Shinkansen” (Strawberry Hotel, Smith Hyde Productions, 2024) Hardsoul feat. Ron Carroll “Back Together” (Classic Main Mix) (Soulfuric, 2003) The post absci radio 1389 – whoa-b + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
T5UMUT5UMU, DJ POLO, LINQUENCY, SLIKBACK + more are featured on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast hosted by WHOA-B + CHRIS WIDMAN. BILL begins the program with gqom + african influenced UK club sounds. WIDMAN follows with hi-energy techno/bass hybrids, drum n bass + downtempo. [aired 14 August 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Omagoqa “Stop & Go” (Not On Label, 2025) Dominowe ft Aquatic “Street Fighter” (Not On Label, 2025) Glisten “Basop” (Not On Label, 2025) SpacePose “Loyalty” (Not On Label, 2025) State OFFF “I Need Some Baile-Gqom” (Not On Label, 2023) T5UMUT5UMU “Oasis” (USI KUVO, 2025) Aryu Jassika “The Dark Side of The Zoom” (Swak Catalog, 2025) JD Reid & Hagan “Leaf” (Baby Gravy, 2025) AfroNerd “Time Travellers” (FOMP, 2025) Kaval “Soundclash” (KVLDUB, 2025) Pigmnt “Ancient Technology” (Not On Label, 2024) DJ Plead & rRoxymore “Round Echoes” (Smalltown Supersound, 2024) Surreal Sessions & ZVRI “Hayabusa” (DRMTRK, 2024) DJ MP3 “Ngabenuza (Gqom Power Mix)” (Not On Label, 2024) JLSXND7RS “The Joker” (DRMTRK, 2025) DJ Polo “Currents” (Night Slugs, 2025) Obeka “Gombey” (Not On Label, 2025) >CHRIS WIDMAN Badawi “Last DJ of the Apocalypse” (UPA, 2025) Skee Mask “SB Did It First” (E, 2025) Linquency “Access Glands” (Gaussia, 2025) Soul Mass Transit System “Up In Da Club” (HAUSDOGS001, 2025) KiNK & Raredub “You And Me” (Mutual Rytm, 2025) Ma Sha “Sealegs” (Hydrofall, Steel City Dance, 2025) Slikback “Knot” (Attrition, Planet Mu, 2025) Eusebeia “Beneath The Surface” (Undertones FFF “True Independence” (MASSIV, 2025) No Nation “Jailhouserock” (MASSIV, 2025) DJ Crystl “Let It Roll (Kiljoy Remix)” (Function Records, 2025) DJ Food “The Crow…” (Kaleidoscope, Ninja Tune, 200) Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes “Desert Nights” (Expansions, 1975) The post absci radio 1382 – whoa-b + chris widman appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
SAM PREKOP, K-LONE, JOHN CARPENTER + VEGYN lead off new music selections for this ABSTRACT SCIENCE pod hosted by JOSHUA P. FERGUSON + LUKE STOKES. JOSHUA goes in for leftfield electronics, minimal house, rhythmic bass + dubby sounds for his set. LUKE follows with a heady mix of hardcore, ambient + techno. [aired 31 July 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >JOSHUA P. FERGUSON Sam Prekop “Light Shadow” (Open Close, Thrill Jockey, 2025) Jeremy Greenspan & Borys “But Wait There’s More” (Jiaolong, 2016) Loop LF “Mcc” (Pattern Gardening, Wisdom Teeth, 2025) Jose Gonzalez “Heartbeats” (Logic1000 remix) (Mute, 2025) Lake People “Tomorrow’s Happiness” (Phase Transition, Mule Musiq, 2017) Verses GT “Unknown” (S/T, LuckyMe, 2025) Om Unit “Can You Dub It?” (Self released, 2024) Josi Devil “Restless Sleep” (Hessle Audio, 2025) K-Lone “Pressure” (Pressure EP, Tempa, 2025) FaltyDL “Brazil” (Maddslinky remix) (Mu20, Planet Mu, 2015) Donato Dozzy & Sabla “Forma II” (Morpho, Gang of Ducks, 2025) Martyn “Velvet” (3024, 2007) L-VIS 1990 “Low Pulse” (Summer Heat, Club Djembe, 2025) ESG “UFO” (A South Bronx Story, Soul Jazz, 2000) >LUKE STOKES Rebekah Del Rio “Lorando” (Mulholland Dr. Soundtrack, Warner Bros, 2001) John Carpenter “Night” (Lost Themes 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition, Sacred Bones, 2025) Apaull “Dogma(x)” (Dogma(x) EP, Furnace Room records, 2025) Kassie Krut “Reckless (COIDO Remix)” (kassie krut (expanded EP), Fire Talk, 2025) Marumari “splingclouds” ( Hidden Tracks and Rarities 2001-2005, carpark records, 2025) Nørus & DJ Whipr Snipr “If I Could Fake One Emotion” (Gravitational Attraction, Nerang Recordings, 2025) Vegyn X Air “La femme d_argent (Vegyn remix)” (Blue Moon Safari, Parlophon, 2025) Michael Fassbender “Hello David” 2012 Gabriel Brady “Untitled” (Day-blind, Tonal Union, 2025) Yann Tiersen “Arne” (Rathlin From A Distance.The Liquid Hour, Mute, 2025) Emanuel Eisbrenner “Doctors Theme” Thirty Years, Self released, 2025) Nicolas Bougaïeff “Womb” (Prime Funktion, Mute, 2025) Rashad Becker “Zero Hour” (The Incident, Clunk, 2025) THE NGHBR$ “LET’S GO (HOME)” (I Know Where You Live, Good Skills, 2025) Sextile “Resist” (Yes, Please, Sacred Bones, 2025) Karassimeon “Aethernova” (Aethernova EP, Ritmo Fatale, 2025) The post absci radio 1380 – joshua p ferguson + luke stokes appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
New music from DJ SPRINTER, LOW END ACTIVIST, TURNSTILE, LAWRENCE HART, FEVER RAY + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B + HENRY SELF. BILL begins the program with a “kitchen sink 130 [bpm]” set of breakbeat, uk garage, club, grime + electro. For the 2nd hour, HENRY rides downtempo grooves into classic house + industrial techno. [aired 24 July 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B DJ Sprinter “Extra” (Not On Label, 2025) Pugilist “Run It” (Ruff Kutz, 2025) Sonia Calico “Howling Wolf” (More Time, 2024) Coido “Mueviti” (Twenty Twenty, 2024) Skee Mask “Panic Button” (Ilian Tape, 2025) T5UMUT5UMU “武者 Musha” (Sneaker Social Club, 2024) Low End Activist “Wave 03” (Best Intentions, 2025) Greazus “Freek Hour” (Twenty Twenty, 2024) Funk Assault “Sacred Arsenal” (Primal Instinct, 2024) Volster “Turned” (Secession, 2025) Patrick Brian “Nothing No1” (Sneaker Social Club, 2022) Piezo “Bbent” (Nervous Horizon, 2023) Trail “Velasquez” (1985 Music, 2022) Toasty “The Knowedge” (Hotflush, 2004) Terror Danjah “Green Street” (Planet Mu / After Shock, 2005) Henry Greenleaf “Come On” (Dime Shift, 2024) >HENRY SELF Purelink feat. Loraine James “Rookie” (Faith, Peak Oil, 2025) Carl Craig “A Wonderful Life” (Desire: The Carl Craig Story, Planet E, 2025) Turnstile “Ceiling” (Never Enough, Roadrunner, 2025) Aphex Twin “Windowlicker” (Aubrey Fry & Abandoned Technologies Remix) (soundcloud.com/aubreyfry, 2025) Jeanette Thomas “Shake Your Body” (Chicago Connection, 1987) William S x Sam Girling “I’ll Never Let You Go” (Nothing Else Matters, 2022) Pulsac “Knights of the Jaguar” (We Shine In The Darkness, 2024) Maya Jane Coles feat. Kim Ann Foxman “Burning Bright” (Joyce Muniz Remix) (I/AM/ME, 2013) The Cure “And Nothing Is Forever” (Trentemøller Rework) (Mixes of a Lost World, Polydor, 2025) Lawrence Hart “Daydreamers” (Come In Out Of The Rain, Domino, 2025) Fever Ray “I’m Not Done” (Therapy Session) (Rabid/Mute, 2025) Roddy Lima “Night Time” (Experts Only, 2025) Joyce Muniz feat. Karl Michael “In Der Nacht” (Zeitkapsel, Joyce Muniz, 2023) The post absci radio 1379 – whoa-b + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
MECÁNIKO guest mix + new music from FJAAK + J.MANUEL, BATU, HODGE, XTCLVR + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by CHRIS WIDMAN. Chicago-based duo of J.CÓRDOVA + LIQUID CITY MOTORS deliver a guest mix as MECÁNIKO, beginning the program with a set of experimental afro-latin club + uk bass hybrids. WIDMAN follows with techno, dubstep + electro. [aired 17 July 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >MECÁNIKO General Ludd – Marraskuu soso tharpa – Cyclops SIM – Braindance DNGDNGDNG – Caudal Mecániko – Tailwhip Alejandro Marenco – Gusano Sobolik – Signal HEDO HYDR8 – JUST LIKE THAT (Manao Remix) Entrañas – Lentejas Mecániko & Moreit – i love the lasers Pépe – Frog Spirit (Elpac & Mulholland Cream Mix) Joey – Spooky Emote Cardozo, Gypsian – Burning Question E Wata – Cradle To The Grove COIDO – Final Reason DJ LOUI FROM JUPITER4 – Amplificado DJ これからの緊急災害 – M.O.T.A. (Cyberwacha edit) 96 Back – Catford Jewelzz >CHRIS WIDMAN Fjaak + J.Manuel “Binder” (Tectonic Sound, Tectonic, 2025) Ketman Johnson “SouthSide Underground” (Puin, 2025) Batu “Frostbite” (TD10, Timedance, 2025) The Advent “Tres Trax” (Passado Distante, Paraíso, 2025) SW. “thxJA” (TekkNOthing III, Acid Test, 2025) WZ “Organix” (wzshakhta, 2025) Hijinx + Nina “Imminence Obsolete” (Spoox, Innamind, 2025) Daisuke Tanabe “140 Step Project” (Fluid Once, 2025) Eusebeia “Light Exposure” (Undertones, Samurai Music, 2025) Cosmin TRG “Aquator” (Fizic, 2025) Two Shell “Clutch” (IIcons, Y̴͍̐o̴̱͋u̶̬͒n̴̹͘g̴̩͆, 2025) Hodge “Tom’s Tweaks” (Local Action, 2025) K-1 “My Name is DJ K-1 (DMX Krew Mix)” (Puzzlebox Records) XTCLVR “Storm Shadow” (Blessed Loops, sferic, 2025) The post absci radio 1378 – mecániko + chris widman appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
BIOSPHERE, NICK LEON, JAMES HOLDEN + SHERELLE are the new music highlights for this edition of ABSTRACT SCIENCE with JOSHUA P. FERGUSON + HENRY SELF. JOSHUA goes mostly ambient electronic with some underlying techno textures in his first-hour set, ending with a few leftfield + techy selections. HENRY navigates moody chillout, Balearic, throwback electro, and half-way mark turn to dancefloor focused techno + house grooves. [aired 10 July 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >JOSHUA P. FERGUSON Holden & Zimpel “Time Ring Rattles” (The Universe Will Take Care of You, Border Community, 2025) The Black Dog “I Dream in Concrete” (My Brutal Life 2, Dust Science, 2025) Fields of Mist “Deep in the Mountain” (Secrets of the Nebula, Ilian Tapes, 2025) Purelink “Circle of Dust” (Faith, Peak Oil, 2025) Lord of the Isles “Together” (Night of the Endless Beyond, ESP Institute, 2022) Biosphere “All Stars Have Names” (The Way of Time, AD 93, 2025) Juan Atkins & Moritz Von Oswald “Electric Garden (Deep Jazz In The Garden Mix)” (Borderland, Tresor, 2013) LNS & DJ Sotofett “Reach Out” (Globus Trax, Tresor, 2025) Facta “Jets” (GULP, Wisdom Teeth, 2025) Four Tet “Into Dust (Still Falling)” (XL, 2025) Fantastic Twins “When It Fades (We Fade)” (My Dear, My Dear, 2023) Patrick Conway “Loss” (ESP Institute, 2025) Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke “Bugging Out Again” (Tall Tales, Warp, 2025) >HENRY SELF Nick León feat. Jonny From Space “Metromover” (A Tropical Entropy, TraTraTrax, 2025) Count Shirintsu “Cold” (Knights Don’t Cry: A Dungeon Synth Tribute to The Cure, Rusty Pilgrim, 2024) The Cure “I Can Never Say Goodbye” (Craven Faults Rework) (Mixes of a Lost World, Polydor, 2025) Nuel “Quiet” (Fantasia, Apollo, 2020) Mermaid Chunky “Céilí” (Slif Slaf Slof, DFA, 2024) Code Walk feat. Smerz “Guess What” (Doubler, Ex Local, 2017) The Splash Band “The End” (Disco) (The Music of John Carpenter, ZYX, 1983) The Shamen “Possible Worlds” (Imaginary Mix) (One Little Indian, 1991) Automatic “Is It Now?” (Is It Now?, Stones Throw, 2025) Sherelle “Speed (Endurance)” (With a Vengeance, Method 808, 2025) salute feat. Rina Sawayama “Saving Flowers” (Hudson Mohawke Remix) (Ninja Tune, 2025) Effy “The Highest Level” (Not Yours, 2023) Sofia Kourtesis with Daphni “Unidos” (Volver, Ninja Tune, 2025) José González “Crosses” (Bibio Remix) (Mute, 2025) The post absci radio 1377 – joshua p ferguson + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
MITHRA guest mix + new music from ZVRRA, DAN CURTIN, FALTYDL, GYROFIELD, GEORG-I + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by CHRIS WIDMAN. Chicago DJ + SATELLITE ERA label co-founder MITHRA begins the program with a guest mix of left-field drum n bass. WIDMAN follows with lush electro + techno, before moving back into 160 territory to close out. [aired 19 June 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >MITHRA Animistic Beliefs – To Dream About Water [NAAFI] Plebeian – Star Anise [Pseudonym Records] Prettybwoy – Purify (SNKLS Remix) [POLAAR] Juli – Run After Nothing [Egregore Collective] Donato Dozzy & Sabla – Forma I [Gang of Ducks] Quixosis – Burundanger 2 (Flore Remix) [TraTraTrax] Ninja Exotic Machine – Apple Brucho [Early Reflex] Laksa – Bodies [RE:LAX] Gaze – Cuticle [Lovers Rock Recordings] Maude Vôs – Faerie Ring [Woozy] Struction – Sunray [Ilian Tape] Forest Drive West – Nothing Else [Rupture] SAN – Better [Rua Sound] Seta Loto – Complete Walkthrough [Ghosttown] Kop-Z – Revision [Second Born] Ehua – Bricks [3024] Pugilist & Tamen – Resu [Samurai Music] Narvalos – Dakini [XCPT] Forest Drive West – Möbius [Ilian Tape] Vardae – Voices [Annulled Music] Raär – Voodoo [Antiverse Records] Klahrk – &3&4 [SFX] Quartz – Russian Roulette [Rupture] Soreab & KRSLD – Butoh [Baroque Sunburst & XCPT] Skeptical & Loxy – Krakoa [Exit Records] Flower Storm – World’s Creator Is My Ally (Aceed Mix) [Self-Released] Vardae – Voices Of Depossession [Samurai Music] Raär – Minimal Interaction [a-biotic] Djrum – Sycamore [Houndstooth] >CHRIS WIDMAN Abby Echiverri “Armoise” (Ubi Sunt, Abby Digital, 2025) Zvrra “Wooden Rain Tool” (Mica, Qeone, 2025) Scape “One Emul8” (Not Human, Tomorrow, 2004) Dan Curtin “Trust Blind” (The 4 Lights, De:Tuned, 2025) Dean Grenier “View Source” (View Source, 2025) FaltyDL “Speed” (Neurotica, Planet Mu, 2025) Verraco “Basic Maneuvers” (XL Recordings, 2025) gyrofield “Brinjal” (Suspension of Belief, Kapsela, 2025) CoLD SToRAGE “wipE’out” Intro (µ-Ziq Remix)” (wipE’out”-The Zero Gravity Soundtrack, Lapsus, 1995/2023) georg-i “Communication (Metrist Remix)” (Rebuild, Subglow, 2025) Norfik “Crushed Under” (Un-Resolved, 2025) Tayla “Dimensions” (Nexus Records, 1997) Purelink “Circle of Dust” (Faith, Peak Oil, 2025) The post absci radio 1374 – mithra + chris widman appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
New music from ACTUAL, PROC FISKAL, REX THE DOG, LEON VYNEHALL, CALIBRO 35 + more on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B + HENRY SELF. BILL begins the program with a mix of jungle + drum n bass. For hour 2, HENRY follows with a clubby set of house, techno, boogie + baeleric sounds. [aired 12 June 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Actual “Sit Tight” (Not On Label, 2025) Nebula “Sounds From The Jungle” (Future Retro, 2024) Sl8r “Clockwise” (Weasel Dust, 2024) Sully “Stop” (Uncertain Hour, 2023) Pugilist “Better Days” (Not On Label, 2024) Coco Bryce “Life Changed” (Critical Music, 2023) Kessler “Hiyah” (Elicit Records, 2023) Toby Ross “Cool It” (Shall Not Fade, 2024) Paradox “Play Twice Before Listening” (Droppin Science, 2002) Earl Grey “Blue Rhythm” (Hypercharger, 2020) Kinoteki “everything_x2 (Yours to Love)” (Tabula Rasa, 2024) DJ FLP “Crystalline” (Not On Label, 2023) Pearson Sound “Twister” (Hessle Audio, 2024) Tom Jarmey “Meditations” (Wing Theory, 2023) Proc Fiskal “UK TORRENT” (Shleekit Doss, 2025) Machinedrum & Holly “Quasar” (Vision, 2023) >HENRY SELF Rex the Dog “Not Going Home” (VOD, 2025) Shadow Child “Jupiter” (Apollo 1, Food, 2020) 29 Palms “Touch the Sky” (Mango Remix) (Silk Digital, 2009) Orbital “Kinetic” (Live @ Limelight 1992) (Orbital 2 – Brown Album Expanded, London, 2025) Leon Vynehall feat. Poison Anna “Mirror’s Edge” (In Daytona Yellow, Ooze Inc., 2025) The Drin “Persistence” (Elude the Torch, Feel It, 2024) Justice feat. Rimon “Afterimage” (Paranoid London Remix) (Ed Banger/Genesis, 2025) Plastic Bamboo “Touki Bouki” (Cinerama, Star Creature, 2025) Anders Ponsaing feat. Reinhard Vanbergen “Offshore” (Sunset Edit) (Music For Dreams, 2023) Calibro 35 “Jazz Carnival” (Exploration, Record Kicks, 2025) Effy “2011” (The Syndicate, Fragrance, 2025) DJ Misjah & DJ Tim “Access” (X-Trax, 1995) The post abstract science radio 1373 – whoa-b + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
New music from DJ HANK, OYUBI, BROKEN LIP, UNDULAE, SURGEON, BATU + more on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B + CHRIS WIDMAN. BILL begins the program with a 160 bpm grab-bag set of footwork, juke + jungle hybrids. WIDMAN follows with a mix of 2 step, techno, electro + breaks, capped off with his own uptempo section, though leaning more on IDM/hardcore vibes. [aired 15 June 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Djrum “Three Foxes Chasing Each Other” (Houndstooth, 2025) Kush Jones & Oyubi “Beef Noodle” (Trekkie Trax, 2025) Jumping Back Slash “Gatu” (Swak Catalog, 2024) Two Shell “Doom Culture” (Not On Label, 2025) Heavee “Charged Up” (Moveltraxx, 2024) DJ Earl “Different Scroll” (Not On Label, 2024) DJ Hank “Butterfly Sushi” (Not On Label, 2025) Casement “Crush (Casement Remix)” (Not On Label, 2025) Fetus “Bulletproof Home” (Trekkie Trax, 2025) Proc Fiskal “uHazsh” (Shleekit Doss, 2025) La Dame “Kinnara” (Defrostatica, 2024) Oyubi “Somthing They Said” (Not On Label, 2025) Sun People “Discover” (Defrostatica, 2024) Fixate “Scatterbrain” (Exit Records, 2024) Sully “The Wash” (Fabriclive, 2025) Freedjom “13-8=0_0 (DJ Strawberry’s Düğün Fix)” (Beat Machine, 2025) Broken Lip “Life is too short to just have one dog” (Iberian Juke, 2025) Rainforest “Dub Preacher” (Backgrounds Music, 2024) >CHRIS WIDMAN Undulae “Relativity Engine” (Temple Of Symmetry EP, Satelite Era, 2025) Coen “Headbanger” (Moshpit, Maloca, 2025) RITCHRD “Shake (Bastiengoat Remix)” (Listen/Shake, No Bias, 2025) Surgeon “Soul Fire” (Shell~Wave, Tresor, 2025) Lokua “Sandborne” (Source Error, 2024) Frankie Vega “Europa Clipper” (Galactic EP, Urban Kickz, 2025) Batu “Seize” (Question Mark. Lethal Press, 2025) Weval “Dopamine” (Chorophobia, Technicolor, 2025) Mani Festo “Ripper” (Flightpath, 2025) Barker “Stochastic Drift” (Stochastic Drift, Smalltown Supersound, 2025) easygoingtech “pdtkin” (easygoingtech, 2025) DEFT & Manni Dee “Greedy” (Swamp Season, Hooversound, 2025) Norfik “November” (Limited Control, 2024) Amaro Freitas “Uiara (Encantada da Água)” (Y’Y, Psychic Hotline, 2025) The post absci radio 1369 – whoa-b + chris widman appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
ORBITAL, ANTHONY NAPLES, SANDWELL DISTRICT + DARKSIDE lead new music for this episode of ABSTRACT SCIENCE from JOSHUA P. FERGUSON + HENRY SELF. JOSHUA draws inspiration from WISDOM TEETH’s new PATTERN GARDENING compilation, putting together a set of deep, dubby, + minimal-ish house selections—both new and old. HENRY strikes out with a peak-time worthy set, detouring into leftfield and chillout territory on the backend. [aired 1 May 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >JOSHUA P. FERGUSON Orbital & Tilda Swinton “Deepest” (Radiccio, London, 2025) Frankey & Sandrino “The Edge” (Save EP, Innervisions, 2014) Ellen Allien “Our Utopie” (Dust, BPtich Control, 2010) Yoshinori Hayashi “Touch” (Pulse of Defiance, Smalltown Supersound, 2021) MANDY & Booka Shade “Body Language” (Get Physical, 2005) Tee Mango “My Mind Makes Up Monsters” (Kompakt, 2025) Ricardo Baez “Animarara” (The Life of Larry, Mule Musiq, 2025) The Juan MacLean “Leave Me When You Can” (I Can’t Explain, Me Me Me, 2021) Bicep “Orca” (Bicep, Ninja Tune, 2025) DJ Koze “Buschtaxi” (Music Can Hear Us, Pampa, 2025) FTP Doctor & Tenzia “Haus” (Pattern Gardening, Wisdom Teeth, 2025) Anthony Naples “Scanners” (Scanners, ANS, 2025) Air “Kelly Watch The Stars (Vegyn version) (Blue Moon Safari, Parlophone, 2025) >HENRY SELF Sam Alfred “Feel the Friction” (Disorder, 2025) Effy & Mall Grab “iluv” (Fragrance, 2024) Felix “Don’t You Want Me” (Fierce Mix) (Deconstruction, 1992) Liquid “Sweet Harmony” (Dave Spoon and James Talk Remix) (Art & Craft, 2007) Frank Ocean “Lost” (Gabss & Vintage Culture Edit) (soundcloud.com/gabssaiff, 2025) Jackie Hollander & Kamino “LSD” (Excursions: Vol. 4, Experts Only, 2025) Avalon Emerson “Treat Mode” (Perpetual Emotion Machine, Dead Oceans, 2025) Sandwell District “Least Travelled” (End Beginnings, Point of Departure, 2025) Darkside “S.N.C.” (Nothing, Matador, 2025) Barker “Stochastic Drift” (Stochastic Drift, Smalltown Supersound, 2025) Kassian “Limoncello” (Channels, !K7, 2025) Footshooter feat. James Mollison “Surrey Canal Road” (The Oasis, Tru Thoughts, 2025) Horsegirl “Bog Bog” (Versions of Modern Performance, Matador, 2022) The post absci radio 1367 – joshua p ferguson + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
DJ FLP guest mix + new music from PROC FISKAL, OBEKA, HOOVERIAN BLUR + more on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B. Michigan-based DJ FLP begins the program with a guest mix of 160 bpm heaters, following a through-line of footwork touched by ghetto-tech, juke + jungle/dnb hybrids. For the second hour, BILL delves into a diverse set centered on 2 step, breakbeat + uk bass influenced techno + club. [aired 24 April 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >DJ FLP submerse – what you wanna do bonebox x hesk – rock addison groove – eh wut [dj flp edit] stayhigh – work it slick shoota – infinity tap kush jones – oye! drummy – smn dub invt – bounce [ft. panda] heavee – selfless state vip gps tony – feels nice eq why x dj roc – bounce to the left dj static – on the flo dj spinn – i really feel dj orange julius – take off dj manny – ahead of time dj godfather – electro ghetto dj earl – go crazy on dem workz cakedog – slam dunkin a.fruit – promises dj manny x tcj – express lane hesk x koreatown acid – you dj paypal x heavee – so high deft – perky lux familiar x dubsknit – hi demand julio bashmore – battle for middle you [dj rashad remix] nick hook x dj paypal – wit it itoa x a.fruit – slow teleport swisha x acemo – bk tek track kneco – slow downn machinedrum – all i really want >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Ivy Lab “Left With You” (Twenty Twenty, 2024) Bodhi “LFO2” (Hotflush, 2024) TMSV “Dimensional” (Perfect Records, 2025) Holloway “Swift Dub” (Nerve Collect, 2025) Coido “Box” (Well Street Records, 2024) Argo “Hypno” (Encrypted Audio, 2023) Proc Fiskal “10am Est.Rd 2018” (Shleekit Doss, 2025) Dubrunner “Protocol” (Menace, 2025) Obeka “Kololo Drums” (Future Bounce, 2025) Fixate “Issker” (Pineapple Records, 2024) Hooverian Blur “Double Depths” (Sneaker Social Club, 2025) Pugilist “Destructor” (Ruff Trax, 2024) Fiesta Soundsystem “How’s That” (Scuffed Recordings, 2021) Henry Greenleaf “Totally Insane” (Dimeshift, 2024) Martyn “Hear Me” (3024, 2009) The post absci radio 1366 | dj flp + whoa-b | future music radio chicago appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
DJRUM, TORTOISE, FEVER RAY + FLUXION highlight new music from this episode of the ABSTRACT SCIENCE pod with JOSHUA + LUKE. JOSHUA moves through leftfield bass, downtempo, synth oddities + jazz-adjacent sounds throughout his set. LUKE picks up with glitch, deep techno, minimal house + cinematic atmospherics for the second hour. [aired 10 April 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >JOSHUA P. FERGUSON Djrum “A Tune for Us” (Under Tangled Silence, Houndstooth, 2025) GCOM “XO 2 Kapetyn b” (E2-XO, !k7, 2021) Barker “Stochastic Drift” (Stochastic Drift, Smalltown Supersound, 2025) Tortoise “Oganesson” (International Anthem, 2025) The Gaslamp Killer & Jason Wool “Chaos in the Brain” (ANANDA, Cuss, 2024) Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan “A New Town With an Old Sense of Community” (Your Community Hub, Castles in Space, 2024) ODESZA & Theodore Shapiro “Muzak Kier Hymn” (ODESZA Severance remix) (Music To Refine To: A Remix Companion To Severance, Foreign Family Collective, 2025) Cujo “Northstar” (Adventures in Foam, NINEBARecords/Ninja Tune, 1996/2025) upsammy “Background Impact” (Open Catalyst, Dekmantel, 2025) DJ Python “Coquine” (I Was Put on This Earth, XL, 2025) Boards of Canada “Hi Scores” (Hi Scores, SKAM, 1996) Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas “Clock No Clock” (Totality, Drag City, 2025) >LUKE STOKES WM “Take Your Brain” (Brain, black and white records, 2023) Sominaryst “Yes” (Qualia LP, Polygon, 2025) Orti “Kink Fluid” (Green Deserts EP, Hoa record s, 2023) Alec Tronic “Its Not A Feature Its A Bug (Synth Happens Version)” (Early Reflexion, Broque, 2024) Sinemis “It’s Not Fate, It’s You” (Farewell, Injazero Records, 2025) Fever Ray & Saoirse “Looking For A Ghost [Saoirse Remix]” (Looking For A Ghost single, Mute, 2025) David Heine & Konstantin Kost “Choices” (Freedom From Escape, Weiredmouthrecords, 2025) Fvthom “Fangst” (Prea ep, Prea, 2025) Ah! Kosmos & Hainbach “Shelter” (Shelter single, DL FLUU, 2025) Fluxion “Life Motif” (Haze, Vibrant Music, 2025) Minotaur Shock “Molding Physical Air” (It All Levels Out, Bytes, 2025) Henrik Lindstrand “Silver Bridges” (Space Between, Lime Tree Beach recordings, 2025) Arborra “Utopia” (Mind Over Matter, 7k, 2025) The post absci radio 1364 – joshua p ferguson + luke stokes appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
New music from CESCO, HOOVERIAN BLUR, YUKIMI, WHATEVER THE WEATHER, HAAI + TOM VR + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B + HENRY SELF. BILL begins the program with a mix of UK garage + breakstep. For the second hour, HENRY follows with downtempo grooves, before returning to dancefloor sounds centered on synth-driven techno + electro. [aired 10 April 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Zed Bias & DJ Principal “All Night Jam (S. Gurley Remix)” (Public Demand, 1999) Ease Up George “Love Me Or Treat Me” (ec2a, 2025) Metrodome, Sl8r & Motiv “Weasel Dust” (Weasel Dust, 2023) SPMC “Science In The Sound” (GD4YA, 2024) Spatial “Bring Me” (Well Rounded Records, 2012) Cesco “Flump” (Pineapple Records, 2025) Coido “Little Snitch” (Well Street Records, 2024) Big Shot “Stomp (Holloway VIP)” (Waylo, 2024) Pugilist “Sanguine” (Not On Label, 2024) Zoom + DBX “Comin Again (Club Mix)” (Planet Phat, 2000) Fono One “Talk 2 (The Cyclist 3-step mix)” (Rudimentary Records, 2023) Anecho “Step Out” (Dimeshift, 2025) Fixate “Life Aquatic” (Pineapple Records, 2024) Hooverian Blur “Project One” (Sneaker Social Club, 2025) Stones Taro “Stealthy Meow” (NC4K, 2024) Bop “Sparks” (Time Is Now, 2024) >HENRY SELF Nilüfer Yanya “Just A Western” (Boy Harsher Remix) (My Method Actor The Remixes, Ninja Tune, 2024) Jennifer Lara “I Am In Love” (Barrio Katz Edit) (Reggae Edits, Pauken & Trompeten, 2020) Yukimi “Break Me Down” (For You, Ninja Tune, 2025) Whatever the Weather “3°C” (Whatever the Weather II, Ghostly International, 2025) Solid Doctor “A Blazing Mass Of Energy” (Losing Patients Volume Three, Pork, 1995) HAAi & Tom VR “Can’t Stand to Lose” (hard soft rework) (Mute, 2025) Chloé Caillet “Sugar” (Here to Make You Smiile EP, Smiile, 2024) Deer Jade “Firmament” (Innervisions, 2024) Mild Minds “Teardrops” (Gemini, Foreign Family Collective, 2025) Marie Davidson “Statistical Modelling” (City of Clowns, Deewee, 2025) Mani Festo “Baltic Sea” (Continuum, E-Beamz, 2020) Basement Jaxx “Fly Life” (salute Remix) (Atlantic Jaxx, 2025) Torill “Over and Over” (AVI, 1979) The post absci radio 1363 – whoa-b + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
New music from PURELINK, THYSBE, MECÁNIKO, DEAN GRENIER, TECH LEVEL 2 (AKA JUSTIN K BROADRICK), DEFT & MANNI DEE, JONATHAN D. VALDEZ + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by CHRIS WIDMAN. WIDMAN charts a dubwise course through the first hour, touching on downtempo, house, techno, electro + breakstep. After a short hardcore/drum n bass segment, the 2nd hour continues with low-slung grooves followed by experimental sounds + a jazz classic. >CHRIS WIDMAN Purelink “Rookie (feat. Loraine James)” (Faith, Peak Oil, 2025) Gabe & Jude “Gravity Mountain” (Gabe & Jude 007, 2025) Thysbe “I’ve Dreamt of You One Thousand Times” (Lake Effect Records, 2025) Boo Williams “Pleasant Dreams” (The Best Of Boo Williams, 2000/2021) A Made Up Sound “Next (remaster)” (AMS-RE2, 2008) Gustav Brovold “Oakland ave” (Portage Garage Sounds, 2024) Janky Chandelier “Orby Darker” (Dually Noted, 2025) ZeroFG “Wheels Of Steel” (Elemental EP, Pineapple Audio, 2025) Soul Mass “Transit System” (Giv A Lil Luv, Grand Soul Central, 2024) Mecániko “Rustlung” (Compilation No. 4, No Future Berlin, 2025) Dean Grenier “Stars Apart” (Handworks, 2025) Operator “Wanderer” (Cala Serena, Ilian Tape, 2025) Deft “Throat” (Two Years, Hooversound, 2024) Kahn “Abattoir VIP” (Self-release, 2025) Dungen “Out Of Romfjørd” (Otis, Future Retro London, 2024) easygoingtech “acediabangs” (easygoingtech, 2025) Tech Level 2 “Despiser” (Indifferent. EP, Avalanche Recordings, 2025) Djrum “Frekm pt. 1” (Meaning’s Edge, Houndstooth, 2024) Deft & Manni Dee “Busy Bee” (Swamp Season, Hooversound, 2025) Heart Sphere “E.R. (Emergency Relief) (Guitar Mix)” (Basic Spirit, 2021) jonathan d. valdez “Music Frozen Dancing” (self-release, 2025) Shigeto “Nothing Simple (feat. Tammy Lakkis and Cleveland Thrasher)” (Cherry Blossom Baby, Ghostly Intl, 2024) Banding “14Cranes” (self-release, 2025) Jefre Cantu-Ledesma “River That Flows Two Ways” (Gift Songs, March 2025) Dorothy Ashby & Frank Weiss “Alone Together” (In a Minor Groove, New Jazz, 1958) The post absci radio 1362 – chris widman appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
New music from ORA THE MOLECULE, LOESS, JOSS TURNBULL, THE ALTONS, BEN BERTRAND + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast hosted by LUKE STOKES. LUKE begins his 2 hour extended experience with a short run of catchy synth pop, disco + techno, before moving into more experimental territory. Cinematic soundscapes are punctuated with soulful interludes and by the second hour descend into electro-acoustic + minimalist compositions. [aired 20 March 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >LUKE STOKES Q Lazzarus “Goodbye Horses” (Goodbye Horses The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus, Sacred Bones, 2025) Big Black Delta “Pik Pok” (Adonai, self release, 2025) Darwin Chamber X DJ Spun “Find The Missing Letter” (Episode 1 and 2, Self Released, 2025) Nimino “Nothing Perfect” (Shaking Things Up, Counter records, 2025) Ora The Molecule “Løveskatt” (Nobody Cares, Mute, 2025) Loess “Halyard (Battens, n5MD, 2025) Baynk “Fool For You” (Senescene, Virgin, 2025) Joss Turnbull “are you there” (Turmoil, Boomslang Records, 2025) Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor “Lights In The Center” (All worlds, Sacred Bones, 2025) Oklou “ict” (Choke Enough, True Panther, 2025) Hara Alonso “Veins (Veils)” (touch•me•not, Fuu, 2025) Ichiko Aoba “COLORATURA” (Luminescent Creatures, Psychic Hotline, 2025) Laurie Torres “Reflets” (Après coup, Tonal Union, 2025) Sasha “Mosiac” (Da Vinci- Genius, Night Time Stories, 2024) Ben Chatwin “The End” (The Beginning The End, Disinter, 2025) The Altons “Waiting” (Heartache in Room 14, Daptone 2025) Flin van Hemmen “Luxury of Mind” (Luxury of Mind, Self Release, 2025) Erik Klinga “Dawn Chorus” (Elusive Shimmer, Thanatosis Produktionmer, 2025 Tout “I don’t deserve your curses” (Fourth, Trestle Records, 2024) Will Samson “Loshult” (Songs Of Beginning & Belonging, DAUW, 2025) Andreas Lutz “trans2” (Aura Trans, Kasuga, 2025) Ben Bertrand “Event Horizon” (Relic Radiation, Stroom, 2025) Jessica Moss “For UNRWA (Live at Morphine Raum, Berlin)” (FOR UNRWA, Constellation Records, 2024) The post absci radio 1361 – luke stokes appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
New music from DJ BEVERAGE, PRETTYBWOY, MALUGI + WOLTERS, GREEN VELVET + more, on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast hosted by BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B + HENRY SELF. BILL begins the program with a mix of grime, breakbeat + uk club sounds. HENRY follows with a feel-good set traversing hardcore rave, pop edits/remixes, 70s classics + deep house. [aired 13 March 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM] >BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B Slikback “War” (Not On Label, 2020) DJ Beverage “East Leng Shaw” (Not On Label, 2024) Rocks Foe “Clean Sweep (Jersey Mix)” (Twenty Twenty, 2024) JD Reid ft Bossman & Ghetts “Different” (Baby Gravy, 2018) Nikki Nair “One Four Five” (Island F, 2022) Prettybwoy “Tokyo Ice Age” (SVBKVLT, 2025) Sun People “Look Into The Unknown” (Candy Mountain, 2024) Ken Ishii “Stretch” (R&S Records, 1995) FaltyDL “wef EX 2C” (Unknown To The Unknown, 2023) M4A4 “Now I Feel It” (Unknown To The Unknown, 2023) Surly “Back Again” (Juke Bounce Werk, 2022) Paradox “Breakbeater” (Sneaker Social Club, 2023) Om Unit “Amber (pt. II)” (Not On Label, 2024) Bakey “Aftersun Dub” (Not On Label, 2022) Sam Binga & Fracture “Trippin'” (Pineapple Records, 2024) Mabel “Land Eel” (Nehza Records, 2023) Two Shell “Be Gentle With Me” (Young, 2024) Argo “Desaccord” (LDH Records, 2023) >HENRY SELF Malugi & Wolters “Want My Love” (Club Heart Broken, 2025) SoFTT “Como Un Sueño” (SPF Infini: Genesis, Collection Disques Durs, 2024) Destroyer feat. Fiver “Bologna” (Dan’s Boogie, Merge, 2025) Harvey Sutherland “Boy” (Boy, House Anxiety, 2022) Billie Eilish “Wildflower” (Milli.Milio Remix) (millimilio.bandcamp.com, 2024) Naibu feat. Key “Just Like You” (Fracture’s Astrophonica Remix) (Horizons, 2013) Dave Mathmos “You Abandoned Me” (TSTD Edits 03, How Do You Are?, 2019) Jan Hammer Group “Don’t You Know” (Melodies, Nemperor, 1977) Mr. & Mrs. Dale “It’s You” (Free House Mix) (Bigshot, 1989) Linkwood “Nectarine” (System, Prime Numbers, 2009) Ian Pooley “The Times” (The Times, Force Inc., 1996) K-Hand “2 Low Key” (Loveslap!, 2000) Green Velvet “Percolator” (Chris Lake Extended Remix) (Black Book, 2024) The post absci radio 1360 – whoa-b + henry self appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
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