Contact Wave

Contact Wave Contact Wave is a twice monthly radio broadcast on dublab.com highlighting the best underground, exp

We talked with New Age pioneer + film composer Michael Stearns about his early days selling tapes to shops and at festiv...
06/04/2022

We talked with New Age pioneer + film composer Michael Stearns about his early days selling tapes to shops and at festivals, to crafting Planetary Unfolding from his visions of mockingbirds and lunar landers, to his majestic scores for films like Baraka and Samsara.

Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond. This episode features a conversation with ambient and…

Listen back to our dublab segment on the great new 11 LP Harry Bertoia release. We especially enjoyed talking to John Br...
23/01/2022

Listen back to our dublab segment on the great new 11 LP Harry Bertoia release. We especially enjoyed talking to John Brien of Important Records about the work & care that has gone into making these remarkable recordings available to the general public. CC Third Man Records.

Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond. Beginning in the 1950s, renowned sculptor Harry Bertoia…

Happy New Year! Check out our four-hour mix of some of our favorite music of 2021.
31/12/2021

Happy New Year! Check out our four-hour mix of some of our favorite music of 2021.

Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond. Join us for this special end-of-the-year wrap up…

Listen back to our conversation with TANGERINE DREAM:
10/12/2021

Listen back to our conversation with TANGERINE DREAM:

Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond. This week's episode featured an exclusive interview with…

Listen back to last Sunday’s show, including a visit from Amirtha Kidambi and Lea Bertucci. We talked about their two gr...
18/08/2020

Listen back to last Sunday’s show, including a visit from Amirtha Kidambi and Lea Bertucci. We talked about their two great collab albums on Astral Spirits and reflected on the artist’s responsibility in times of upheaval. Hope you enjoy.

Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond. This week, we welcomed guests Amirtha Kidambi and Lea Bertucci…

On Sunday's show, we had a great, timely conversation with Moor Mother and played tracks from Orange Milk Records, Prefe...
03/08/2020

On Sunday's show, we had a great, timely conversation with Moor Mother and played tracks from Orange Milk Records, Preference Records, International Anthem, & more

Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond. This week's episode featured a discussion with Camae…

Listen back to the latest Contact Wave, featuring new Rootless on Flower Room and Carlos Niño/Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on ...
06/07/2020

Listen back to the latest Contact Wave, featuring new
Rootless on Flower Room
and Carlos Niño/Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on International Anthem, classic communal jazz deep cuts, and a convo about art and protest with the profound Luke Stewart

Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond. This week's episode featured a deep interview with…

23/06/2020

Archive of our most recent episode, featuring new co-host Chuck Soo-hoo!

Stream: https://www.mixcloud.com/chris-kissel/contact-wave-062120-levitation-practice/

Nailah Hunter – Talisman
Alan Hawkshaw – Visionary
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – arbadacarbA, gniviL ertaehT
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Door With No Sign
Amirtha Kidambi and Lea Bertucci – Siren Call
glia – deztu
brin – Archigram Living
Joey Largent – Levitation Practice in the High-Order Modal Stasis of Samā’
Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train
C. Lavender – White Oleander/Delphic Oracle Enters the Chasm
Gerald Cleaver – Tomasz
MBRS – Who is Gary Webb
Nicole Mitchell – Negotiating Identity
William Roper – Juneteenth
Navajo Night Chant, Yeibichai Dance
Frank Ricotti – Lovers
Markus Floats – Always
Marc Merza – Cycle Two
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Candyman (Excerpt)
Mamman Sani – Five Hundred Miles
The Dillards with Maggie Peterson – There is a Time
Kazuomi Eshima & Masahiko Takeda – Awakening

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Tune in tomorrow for a one-hour exploration of the ambient side of Atlantic Rhythms, one of my favorite labels right now...
02/05/2020

Tune in tomorrow for a one-hour exploration of the ambient side of Atlantic Rhythms, one of my favorite labels right now. Plus another hour of the mind-bending new music!

Hosted by Los Angeles-based DJ and journalist Chris Kissel, the monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond. This weeks guest is Atlantic Rhythms…

Paying homage to 1988 – year of sepia album covers and restrained synthesizers.Stream: https://www.mixcloud.com/chris-ki...
21/04/2020

Paying homage to 1988 – year of sepia album covers and restrained synthesizers.

Stream: https://www.mixcloud.com/chris-kissel/contact-wave-041920-1988-retrospective/

Talk Talk — I Believe in You — from “Spirit of Eden” (Parlophone) (1988)
Grateful Dead — Stella Blue — recorded June 28, 1988 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (1988)
Ornette Coleman & Prime Time — 3 Wishes — from “Virgin Beauty” (Portrait) (1988)
Trilok Gurtu — Shobharock — from “Usfret” (CMP) (1988)
Music Revelation Ensemble — Blues for David — from “Music Revelation Ensemble” (DIW) (1988)
Nuno Canavarro — Untitled 5-7 — from “Plux Quba” (Ama Romanta) (1988)
Philip Glass — Dance No. 2 — from “Dances Nos. 1-5” (CBS) (1988)
Nick Rowe — The Fire & the Moon — from “The Fire & the Moon” (White Mountain) (1988)
Steve Roach — A Circular Ceremony — from “Return to the Dreamtime” (Fortuna) (1988)
Spacemen 3 — Honey — from “Playing With Fire” (Fire) (1988)
Galaxie 500 — Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste — from “Today” (Aurora) (1988)
Cocteau Twins — Carolyn’s Finger — from “Blue Bell Knoll” (4AD) (1988)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Sunday’s Slave — from “Tender Prey” (Mute) (1988)
Richard Thompson — I Still Dream — from “Amnesia” (Capitol) (1988)
Mary Margaret O’Hara — Dear Darling — from “Miss America” (Virgin) (1988)
Cowboy Junkies — I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry — from “The Trinity Session” (RCA) (1988)
Guy Clark — To Live is to Fly — from “Old Friends” (Sugar Hill) (1988)
Lucinda Williams — Crescent City — from “Lucinda Williams” (Rough Trade) (1988)

A set consisting entirely of tracks released in 1988. TRACKLIST: Talk Talk — I Believe in You Grateful Dead — Stella Blue, recorded June 28, 1988 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Ornette Coleman & Prime Time — 3 Wishes Trilok Gurtu — Shobharock Music Revelation Ensemble — Blues for D...

A new survey of subtle sounds.
08/04/2020

A new survey of subtle sounds.

Alabaster DePlume — What’s Missing Chicago Underground Quartet — Good Days (For Lee Ann) Stewart/Settles/Crudup — 1 No Neck Blues Band — The Natural Bridge Gerycz / Powers / Rolin – Velvet brin — Microdose Skyline Benoît Pioulard — If I could be anything I’d be nothing Dylan Henne...

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