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Cruising Altitude Departure 13, 2014 November 8

Hello friends, it's me, the Captain. Or, let's say, "a" Captain. This life has taken many things away from me but I will always have that. Mind you, I don't always bring this up. It is irrelevant in most social contexts. Every now and then someone will address me in this way, taking me aback (and back). I try, like my colleagues at this site, to live in the present.

And yet: here is a departure from a year ago, posting just now, so it appears I am not doing such a good job. Apologies. It is hard work, my sinecure, my self-repair, and...other tasks. Anyway, this program was, I think, a transition out of an "earthy" phase I went through last fall. Every now and then I must remind myself, it seems, of my proper element. The goal is "pure ego life," whatever the Mattson 2 say.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 November 8, 1400-1500:

1. "Sadness On A Cloud" | Monolog | Merge | Ad Noiseam
2. "Explorer / Cartographer" | Ormonde | Cartographer / Explorer | Gizeh
3. "Devon Saturday" | Tarwater | Adrift | Bureau B
4. "Holding" | Grouper | Ruins | Kranky
5. "Military Saints II" | Virile Games | Wounded Laurel | Hospital
6. "Veery" | Off Land | Quinarian | Psychonavigation
7. "Day Drift" | Koshi Kamata | Seven Most | Offshoot
8. "Astral" | Marcelus | Shine | Tresor
9. "In Repair" | (ghost) | A Vast And Decaying Appearance | n5MD
10. "For You - Deepchord Reconstruction #2" | Fluxion | Broadwalk Tales Remix | Echocord
11. "Blue Anchor" | Kemper Norton | Loor | Front And Follow
12. "Pure Ego Death" | The Mattson 2 | Agar | Um Yeah Arts
13. "Federn Kegeln" | Springintgut & F.S. Blumm | The Bird and White Noise | Pingipung
14. "Cataracts" | Objekt | Flatland | PAN

a warm body

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Cruising Altitude Departure 12, 2014 October 25

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Greetings, friends, Captain Halcyon checking in. It is now summer, the prime season, in my reckoning. Interminable daytime, nights without relief, inescapable drones--that's what it's all about. This "recurring" program, such as it is, would be nothing without it.

I have been working on "branding," and am wondering how this catchphrase strikes you: "music for breathing deeply and pretending the bad things aren't happening." The truth, I have always believed, is what people want to hear. Anyway, I am open to other suggestions.

This sound file is an autumnal program, literally; it seems the bad things were happening, as I seem to have had World War I on the brain. Mud and dead leaves will do that to me. There are some nice passages in here, though, and I'm not even talking about the "aesthetic beauty of death," whatever that might be.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 October 25, 1400-1500:

1. "Eclipse" | Egokind & Ozean | Transition | Traum
2. "Hanging On The Wire" | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake | Vagrant
3. "Coney Storm Drain" | Call Super | Suzi Ecto | Houndstooth
4. "Guelles cassees" | Tindersticks | Ypres | Lucky Dog
5. "City Of Light" | Fennesz | Venice (10th Anniversary Edition) | Touch
6. "Ozymandias" | Camera | Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide | Bureau B
7. "Benares Crescent" | Cedric Stevens | Hanging In the Wires | Discrepant
8. "Teil 2" | Monoton | Monotonprodukt 02 | Desire
9. "Ostbanhof, Spatzen" | Maxim Wolzyn | Intercity Express | SVS
10. "Alter LFO (Interlude IV)" | Chogori | Chogori | Modularfield
11. "Meet Your Creator" | Oneohtrix Point Never | Commissions I | Warp
12. "Lamptest" | Anjou | Anjou | Kranky

pure ego

Cruising Altitude Departure 11, 2014 September 27

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Halcyon here. The last time out, I was in quite a mood. This show brings nothing but [hic] happy memories.

We are currently experiencing fall-like weather, perfect for flying, but alas I do not have the time. I thought I would post this to remind you that I still exist. I do.

Kid Catharsis, who graciously allows me to post here, informs me that Heidi Berry is a "legend" of some sort. I don't doubt it! Nice tune.

I see from the playlist that I was more or less living in the past on this outing. That's fine; I don't have the same problems with that as others do.

Cruising Altitude playlist, 2014 September 27, 1400-1500:

1. "On The Wrong Side of Relaxation" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute - Restless
2. "Below The Waves" | Heidi Berry | Below The Waves | Creation
3. "Exotica" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats | Industrial - Mute
4. "Ananda" | Durutti Column | Chronicle XL [2011 pre-release] | Kooky
5. "Lacuna" | Swallow | Blow | 4AD
6. "Probate" | Biting Tongues | Trouble Hand | Factory
7. "Mas" | Labradford | A Stable Reference | kranky
8. "Billy Bee Song" | Unknown Artist | Potatoes | Ralph
9. "Les Professionels" | Air | Premiers Symptomes | Virgin
10. "Sargasso Sea" | C.V.O. | Natures Mortes - Still Lives | 4AD
11. "Deep, Transcendent Waves of Golden Light" | Naked Island | Naked Island | Peak Oil
12. "Western Test Range (Vandenberg)" | Kora et le Mechanix | Irritating Music for Discerning Snobs Desperate to Impress Their Jaded Friends | Soleilmoon
13. "Roseland" | Rocketnumbernine and Four Tet | Roseland / Metropolis | Text

the creator is currently unavailable

Cruising Altitude Departure 10, 2014 September 13

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Halcyon reporting. Days are warmer and longer, and skies are clearer; it was for these climes that we created this program. This particular episode, however, aired when looming equinox forced me into afternoon duty.

Initially I tried posting this on soundclod, but apparently Siinaii's people thought a bit-starved .mp3 of their tune threatened copyright. When people are 90 years old, wondering why it didn't work out for them and their music, why people ultimately never heard of them or didn't care, I hope they have some nice fables to tell themselves. I mean that. Stories are great fun.

Thank goodness this program is a "mere" pop-up; I'd hate to feel like anything about it "had" to happen.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 September 13, 1400-1500:

1. "En-trance" | Siinai | Supermarket | Splendour
2. "Control Through Prohibition or Supply" | Campbell Irvine | Removal of the Six Armed Goddess | Infrastructure New York
3. "Vapourware 01" | Donato Dozzy | Plays Bee Mask | Spectrum Spools
4. "Dilankex" | Oberman Knocks | Dilankex | Aperture
5. "Baillon Rose" | Opera Mort | Dedales | Alter
6. "Essene" | Mark Barrott | Sketches From An Island | International Feel
7. "Imperial" | Unrest | Imperial f.f.r.r. | Teen Beat - Guernica
8. "Emocor (feat. Hana Kobayashi)" | Oval | Voa | EOVA
9. "Petra Marina [excerpt]" | Lussuria | Industriale Illuminato | Hospital Productions
10. "Loose Joints" | This Mortal Coil | Blood | 4AD
11. "Polyphony of a Metropolis" | Fake the Facts | Soundtrack | Trost
12. "Kolik" | Kaboom Karavan | Hokus Fokus | Miasmah

deep, transcendent waves of golden light.

Cruising Altitude Departure 9, 2014 August 22

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Halcyon, checking in, as I have been summoned. I must have been feeling weak when this program happened, because I caved in to the demands of the schedule. Clearly, my mind was on the sea, and why not? There is no poetry in lakes or creeks.

To address the present: it seems as though my services are no longer required at WRFI, which is probably to our mutual benefit. There will be one more program, for certain, and then after that, who knows? From time to time I will gradually complete the archive with posts like this one, but for now this is an actual departure. Find me on Naked Island, perhaps?

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 August 22, 1900-2000:

1. "Daybreak Comes Soon" | Rafael Anton Irisarri | The Unintentional Sea | Room40
2. "Back to the Sea" | Mark Barrott | Sketches From An Island | International Feel
3. "Credit Line" | Oval | Voa | EOVA
4. "Fracture Fuss" | Moebius, Story, and Leidecker | Snowghost Pieces | Bureau B
5. "Balkanize You" | Tim Hecker | Mirages | Sunblind
6. "Sur La Mer Avec Mon Ami" | Petar Dundov | Sailing Off The Grid | Music Man / N.E.W.S.
7. "Play It As It Lays" | Naked Island | Naked Island | Peak Oil

foolishly entranced.

Cruising Altitude Departure 8, 2014 August 8

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Halcyon here, still chronicling the summer. I see that six weeks had passed between my previous flight and this one. It is reassuring that I refused to conform to the schedule I was assigned. No one can miss me if I don't go away.

It looks like I borrowed some of Kid Catharsis's records for this particular program. I see a lot of things on this playlist that I had been meaning to spin, at some point, but did not get to until this particular departure. "Liquid Light Forms," indeed. They are in my line of vision all the time.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 August 8, 1900-2000:

1. "M'Bondo" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Timon Irnok Manta | Type Vinyl
2. "Heroic" | Oval | Voa | EOVA
3. "Straβenlanterne" | Takeshi Nishimoto | Lavandula | Sonic Pieces
4. "Prism Buzzard" | Edvard Graham Lewis | All Over | Editions Mego
5. "Labrum" | Sean Pineiro | Saved Once Twice | KI
6. "Mille Viviers" | Opera Mort | Dedales | Alter
7. "Popol Vuh III" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus | Drag City
8. "Hoosick" | Koen Holtcamp | Liquid Light Forms | Barge
9. "Vapourware 05" | Donato Dozzy | Plays Bee Mask | Spectrum Spools

unusual interest in terrain.

Cruising Altitude Departure 7, 2014 June 27

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Halcyon here. What a crazy six months it has been. I have been doing radio all too often, and too regularly. I should be singing as the birds do, but these "volunteer" situations have a way of roping you in.

Anyway, this program was the first time I had guests in the cockpit proper. They seemed to enjoy themselves. For my part, I improvised more than perhaps I should have, and that always seems to mean living in the past.

I hope this warm-weather program brings cheer to you in this cold-weather season. May all your dreams be "of the inmost light!"

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 June 27, 1900-2000:

1. "Rhodes Viola Multiple" | Keith Fullerton Whitman | Antithesis | kranky
2. "Critique of the Beautiful" | Steve Hauschildt | S/H | Editions Mego
3. "Sediment" | Oval | Voa | EOVA
4. "Lesser Than The Sum Of Its Parts" | Rafael Anton Irisarri | The Unintentional Sea | Room40
5. "Premonition 34" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Creature that Tasted Sound | self-released
6. "Black & White Jesus" | Biting Tongues | Compressor | Factory
7. "Moments of Being (Reprise)" | Dr. Calculus | Designer Beatnik | 10
8. "A Dream Of TheInmostLight (For Christoph Heemann)" | Current 93 | Foxtrot | Chalice

more soon.

Cruising Altitude Transmission 6, 2014 June 13

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Halcyon here. Such drama and upheaval this life offers. After a 6-month absence, which happened for no reason at all, I returned to the WRFI airwaves, also for no reason. Alas, my "program" is no longer a "pop-up" but a regularly-scheduled excursion for the summer. I refuse to take off before sunrise or to land after sunset, so I can endure this regularity...for now.

I tried to post this on Soundcloud, but was thwarted by their auto-detection software and presented with a copyright claim. I was surprised and hurt by this, not to mention embarrassed that I had shared with you the work of some artist who actually cares about such things. No good can come from such a person, I am sure of it. However, I will follow the lead of Kid Catharsis, my host on this webpage, and upload a complete sonic "document," shameful inclusions and all.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 June 13, 1900-2000:

1. "Signals" | Seefeel | Quique | Modern Classics
2. "Passing Cars" | Steve Hauschildt | S/H | Editions Mego
3. "Nurse" | Basic House | Oats | Alter
4. "Over And Out" | STL | At Disconnected Moments | Smallville
5. "-ada" | Oval | Voa | EOVA
6. "Monarch" | Ethernet | Opus 2 | Kranky
7. "Sub-Atlantic" | Mika Vainio | Kilo | Blast First Petite
8. "The Witness" | Rafael Anton Irisarri | The Unintentional Sea | Room40
9. "Sun & Ice" | The Field | From Here We Go Sublime | Kompakt
10. "Enter the Vortex" | Petar Dundov | Sailing Off The Grid | Music Man
11. "Alleluia" | Sounds & Silence | Classroom Projects | Trunk

fly us again, and recommend us to your friends.

Cruising Altitude Transmission 5, 2013 December 26

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I have a bad habit of overstaying my welcome. So I will be brief. This is another instance of my sneaking into the WRFI command center and engaging in an unauthorized missile launch. A missile of blissful sound.

Boxing Day is one of the year's best days. This one was lovely and cold. Before the cold leaves us, I wanted to share this with you. I give you my heart. Don't give it away, tomorrow or any other time.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2013 December 26, 1200-1300:

1. "Replaced by His Constellation" | Cyclobe | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed
2. "Croupier" | Adam Johnson | Chigliak | Merck
3. "Holleri" | Reformed Faction | Irritating Music for Discerning Snobs Desperate to Impress Their Jaded Friends | Soleilmoon
4. "Soul Kiss" | Spectrum | Volume 4 | Volume 4
5. "Fake '88" | Saint Etienne | Volume 6 | Volume
6. "Last Christmas [PHON.O's Down Edit]" | Wham / PHON.O | Not on album | Soundcloud self-release

off I go.

Cruising Altitude, Transmission 4: 2013 December 11

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Greetings, friends and lovers of Bombast. Captain Halcyon here, dropping in uninvited (by you) as is my wont. Back in December I sneaked into the WRFI cockpit to do this show. I figured on sharing it with you while it was still cold, and sure enough, it is.

A friend of Kid Catharsis, Jim Murphy, dropped by sometime during this broadcast--I think it was during "White Dusk"--and remarked, "this doesn't sound like dance music." Oh Jim! There are many ways to dance.

Anyway--apologies if you were expecting something from Kid Catharsis. He's taking a mental health day--I recommend these!--so I thought I would "fill the void."

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2013 December 11, 1500-1600:

1. "Lazy Calm" | Cocteau Twins | Victorialand | 4AD
2. "Men of the Divine Wind [the Kamikaze]" / "Perspective 3" | 400 Blows | If I Kissed Her I'd Have To Kill Her First | Illuminated
3. "Premonition" | David Sylvian + Holger Czukay | Plight & Premonition | Venture - Virgin
4. "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near" | Coil | Winter Solstice: North | Eskaton
5. "White Dusk" | :zoviet-france: | A Bead to a Small Mouth | Barooni
6. "Cowboys in Bangkok (Coil vs Elph Mix)" | Chris & Cosey | Twist | T & B
7. "Dream 1" | © [Leslie Winer] | Witch | Transglobal

STAY WARM.