Looking through to find moments where a fusion of genres inadvertently captured the essence of that time. Whether it be a decade, year, hour, or even minute by minute.
Music crafts a time capsule, often better than something that stuck more strictly to a singular sound, image or vision.
Now it is shared, in the moment with collaborators and across time through its puncture of the genre bubble. We find all the disparate elements of each song tracing their lineage in a spiral, a web of interconnection reaching into the present.
- Another TuneAmar
- WantedMartina Topley-Bird
- Parvaneh (Butterfly)Archive
- Keep it togetherHow To Destroy Angels
- Numbed In MoscowPortishead
- Heaven SentEsthero
- Caramel PrisonerAir
- Vit Drowning/Through Your Gills I breatheThe Future Sound Of London
- Elementary Particles (Main Mix)Bowery Electric, Main
- Holding HorsesColleen
- Firefly - Receiver MixAlpha
- ShadowsThe Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
- HeadDeath In Vegas
- HopeDirty Three
- Love TrinityLife Without Buildings
- TrejeitosJun Miyake, Arto Lindsay
- 4am at Toumani'sMalian Musicians, Damon Albarn
- Like SomethingAlfa Mist
- SajniArooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
- Diby (L'ombre)Nahawa Doumbia
About this program
Adorning the early hours of 4-6 am, Opium Audia explores thematic and contextual ties of the underground with a hauntological mix of 80s/90s house, electronic, jungle, post-punk, grunge rock, bossa samba and ambient avant pop. Sounds like a memory, feels like a dream. Maybe it was never real.
