September 9, 2023 - Starfield of Dreams

This episode, we are back live with brand new music! Highlighting some awesome post/math rock releases from February! Come tune into hear bands like @nightverses, @aburialatseaband @ifthesetreescouldtalk @redpinemushroomofficial and many more! Really big month of new music so this will be fun!

Playlist:  

• Night Verses "Glitching Prisms (feat. Brandon Boyd)" from Glitching Prisms (feat. Brandon Boyd) - Single
• A Burial At Sea "DALL" from Close to Home
• Erin Malone "Worth More" from Florescence - EP
• The Lightsenders "Root" from The Burning of Llangernyw Yew
• My Unknown Friend "Elbrus Climbing" from Journey of a Lifetime
• Yakhchal "Alex Dalgarno" from Beggars and Comets - Single
• Goodbye Meteor "This Is Not Here" from We Could Have Been Radiant
• If These Trees Could Talk "Trail of Whispering Giants" from Trail of Whispering Giants - Single
• From Beyond These Walls "The Dawn" from The Dawn - Single
• Only Ever "Diatom Bloom" from Diatom Bloom - Single
• goader "Soothsayer" from Soothsayer - Single
• Mason van Kraayenburg "Corona Borealis (feat. Zealand the North)" from Corona Borealis (feat. Zealand the North) - Single
• Schubmodul "Renegade One" from Lost In Kelp Forest
• Red Pine Mushroom "I. Ur" from Enki
• Halfway Line "Tide Pools" from Halfway Line - Single
• Hans Zimmer "Lisan al Gaib" from Dune: Part Two (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

For the first time in 50 years a US spacecraft has made it back to the moon! We’re back baby, Apollo be proud, Artemis here we come, all hail Odie the new Moon King! To celebrate let’s go play some fun, upbeat, fast paced post rock. I’m sure that’s what the probe had in its headphones as it was flying up there. Come party!

Playlist:  

• Hippie Love Party "Dim" from Hlp
• t1tanic "Oppenheimer" from Oppenheimer - Single
• Kaschalot "Distant Light" from Distant Light - Single
• Johnnytwentythree "Exorcism" from Thirty Pieces of Silver
• Ocean Districts "Lemuria" from Phantom Islands
• Degree of Arc "Raptures" from Raptures
• Sloth & Turtle "The Toys Are Back in Town" from Sloth & Turtle - EP
• Methadone Skies "The Velvet Suit" from The Velvet Suit - Single
• rega "VIP" from Million
• Moonlit Sailor "A Century Under the Influence" from We Come from Exploding Stars
• Kitsugaki "Quanta Regis" from Los Que Bailan En Las Sombras
• LOW-PASS "Reconstruct" from Trimurti
• Clean of Core "A Sad Look" from Spectacle
• Ill Considered "First Light (feat. Theon Cross, Kaidi Akinnibi, Robin Hopcraft & Ralph Wyld)" from Liminal Space
• Satellites "A Glorious Death" from Familiar Shorelines
• Kaizo Kids "Snowfall" from Kaizo Kids
• Colin Phils "Trust/Fall" from Trust/Fall

Hello! This episode we’re doing a whole show of psychedelic space rock guaranteed to calm your mind and ease your nerves on that loooong booster flight through the stratosphere. I've done these shows sporadically in the past whenever I felt the psychic pull, but decided to name this one volume one, and start counting from here - why not sounds fun, right!

Playlist:  

• Polyrhythmics "Roller" from Filter System
• The Budos Band "Frontier's Edge" from Frontier's Edge - EP
• Spaceslug "Proton Lander" from Lemanis
• Colour Haze "Turns" from All
• Death Yak "For the Blood" from Bos Mutus - EP
• Pharaoh Overload "Mystery Shopper" from #1
• Mirovia "Enter Rodinia" from Welcome to Rodinia
• Wooden Shjips "These Shadows" from Back to Land (Deluxe Version)
• Gypsy Sun Revival "Pisces, Pt. 2" from Journey Outside of Time
• Frozen Planet 1969 "Sunset Variations" from Meltdown on the Horizon
• Mothership "High Strangeness" from High Strangeness
• Wild Fuzz Trip "Kill the False Being Within" from Kill the False Being Within - Single
• Mount Hush "Black Moon" from Mount Hush
• Familiars "Bonanza" from All in Good Time
• Korolev "Pygmalion's Revenge" from One
• Planet Sun "The Light" from Desert Dream
• Domboshawa "Mariposa" from Efterglans

It’s a loooooong waaaaay to the moon! Inspired by our Challenger Pt 1 ending from last episode I’ve got a show full of long extended tracks – orchestra like movements of post-rock meant for the ultimate escapist listening session.

Playlist:  

• The Protomen "Battle Theme" from Present: A Night of Queen
• We Lost the Sea "Towers" from Triumph & Disaster
• Outlander "Plans" from Downtime
• Red Room Cinema "...At Long Last the Sun Has Set, and the Earth Driftsts Into a Much Needed Slumber" from Red Room Cinema
• Equus "Epona" from Eutheria
• Yndi Halda "Golden Threads from the Sun" from Under Summer
• Alcôve "She Was Buried With Paper Wings" from As We Know It
• Set and Setting "Fear of Obtainment" from Equanimity

Look out, it’s The Lunar Orbit! Bringing you part 2 of new music from December and January. There was way too much awesome music put out to fit into one show, so tune in to hear even more!

Playlist:  

• Absence of Field "The Ghost Ship" from The Ghost Ship - Single
• goader "Mimesis" from Mimesis - Single
• Mieresch "Driving Song" from Obîrșii
• Myriad Drone "Forlorn Hope" from Forlorn Hope - Single
• Infinity Shred "Mapper 2023" from Shadow Jeweler 2023 - Single
• Hereafter "Requiem" from Requiem - Single
• Golden Wreath "I Am Thinking of You" from Guide to the Night Sky - EP
• Cannon Jay "Do You Think We Could Ever Turn This Around?" from Overcast Demos
• uppergaff "Progeny of This Universe" from Quiescent Yet Violent - EP
• into the sun "We, Disciples" from Into the Sun
• Kinder "Winnie Looper" from Desastres naturales para niños
• something in the lake "Listener" from Daylight - Single
• Ov Yore "Loner" from Kalopsia - EP
• Athletics "When to Run" from When To Run - Single
• sleepmakeswaves "Super Realm Park" from Super Realm Park - Single
• We Lost the Sea "Challenger Part 1 - Flight" from Departure Songs

This episode we’re catching up on a ton of new music missed during the holiday season! A lot of awesome releases slipped under my radar while I was focused on winter vibes last month, so many in fact that I didn't even get to all of them on my list. So, join me for part one of our winter releases review and look out for part two next week with even more! 

Playlist:  

• The Mantra Discord "Reach" from Reach - Single
• Ranges "II. Pillar of Mercy / Pillar of Severity" from 33
• Fall Of Leviathan "Spermwhale" from Spermwhale - Single
• Tuber "Eau Rouge" from Joyful Science
• Vaudlow "In Loving Memory" from A Language Unspoken
• SLIFT "Nimh" from ILION
• PARDALS "IV" from S/T II
• Hourglass and Space "Her Calling" from Her Calling - Single
• Fury & Solace "Endswell" from For Our Sons
• Kitsugaki "Riron" from Farravalini - EP
• Sound Collider "The Air Battle of Stralsund" from Anomalies
• Suspension Bridge Workshop "It Ends Where It Begins" from 001
• circle&wind "Colors" from Metamorphosis - EP
• Volkan "Océanos" from Lo que no se puede evitar
• Neolithic "The Younger Dryas" from The Younger Dryas - Single

To commemorate the first 2024 artist announcements from The Post Festival I’m bringing you our Post-Fest Highlights show from last year! Tons of awesome artists were at the Fest last year including Old Solar, Tiny Moving Parts, Whale Fall, Sunlight Ascending, and way more! Tune into this episode to hear them all!

Playlist:  

• Cloakroom "Gone but Not Entirely" from Time Well
• Shipwreck Karpathos "Golden Axe" from Return to Silence
• Tiny Moving Parts "Common Cold" from Celebrate
• Old Solar "Spring Equinox: The Mountains Break Forth in Song" from See
• Facs "Teenage Hive" from Void Moments
• The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die "Heartbeat in the Brain" from Whenever, If Ever
• Lehnen "Mute" from Negative Space
• Pit "RETURN TRIP (Electric Wizard)" from Cynical - Single
• Kowloon Walled City "Wrong Side of History" from Container Ships
• hubris. "Apollo" from Emersion
• Antlerhead "Seen It All" from Seen It All - Single
• The Appleseed Cast "Fishing the Sky" from Mare Vitalis
• Whale Fall "The Dawn Thief" from The Madrean
• SOM "Awake / / Sedate" from Awake - EP
• Still Motions "An Epiphany" from Mirrors
• Arms and Sleepers "Kepesh" from The Organ Hearts
• Sunlight Ascending "(Fall) Old Friends Part Ways" from You Don't Belong Here

Welcome to The Lunar Orbit Best of 2023! Come listen as I struggle to fit all of my favorite post-rock from last year into a 2-hour block – presented in no particular order, and definitely not everything! This episode is a highlight reel, a best off, a sendoff to an awesome year of stellar releases!

Playlist:  

• Explosions In the Sky "Moving On" from End
• Night Verses "Rose Wire" from Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1
• Tempus "Golden Rule" from Vida Colorida
• bellweather "Absent" from Bellweather - EP
• Bear the Mammoth "Unserene" from Purple Haus
• Din of Celestial Birds "Utopia" from The Night is for Dreamers
• D. Majestic and the Spectral Band "The Tallest Man on the Moon" from The Tallest Man on the Moon - Single
• Keep "Everything" from Happy In Here
• Junko Ueda & Poil "Kujô Shakujô, Pt. 3" from PoiL / Ueda
• Golden Hymns Sing 'Hurrah' "Tape Reel Burnout" from The Great Dystopian Songbook III: Songs For the Homeland
• Scaphoid "Gloom" from Echoes of the Rift
• Wolfredt "The Seer" from IIII
• Welmoed "Naga" from Ask & Embla
• The Joy Formidable "Cut Your Face" from Cut Your Face - Single
• Pulse of Silence "Across the Bridge of Illusion" from Across the Bridge of Illusion
• XHM "Morgenstern" from Fractalization - EP
• Often the Thinker "A Mother's Sting" from Sincere Insanity

Alright, this one will take some explaining. As you'll hear at the top of this ep, the archival tool I use to pull episodes off the radio went down, meaning The Lunar Orbit 2023 Christmas Extravaganza has been lost to time....But, I didn't want to leave you with nothing during the holidays, so I've pulled the only previous Christmas episode I have saved, way back from when I first started the show on the radio - this is the 2020 Lunar Orbit Christmas Special.  

It's a little rougher than my newer shows, but I still love it all the same - lots of Christmas spirt, and holiday energy. The ep is full of ambient music, coupled with some post-ish or out there covers of Christmas classic. I also have included a special broadcast from some of earths favorite astronauts wishing everyone on earth a Merry Christmas.  

I can't tell you how sad I am to have lost the 2023 episode - but I hope this makes up for it! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season, and I will be back after the New Year with more new episodes!  

Playlist:  

• "Apollo 8's Christmas Eve Message" arranged by Matthew Tietje
• Bill Vencil as Chords of Orion "Lonely as a Cloud"  
• Bill Vencil as Chords of Orion "Ambient Porch Music"  
• Michiru Oshima "Amazing Grace" from the "Sora no Woto" Original Soundtrack
• Low "Little Drummer Boy" from Christmas
• Explosions In the Sky, Brian Reitzell & Justin Stanley "The Sky Above, The Field Below" from Friday Night Lights (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Lowercase Noises "Stars" from Marshall
• David Crowder Band "Silent Night" from Oh for Joy
• Hammock "Mute Angels" from Departure Songs
• Where the Good Way Lies "Breathe" from The Wonder of It All - Single
• This Will Destroy You "They Move on Tracks of Never - Ending Light" from This Will Destroy You
• Kings (MHM) "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus" from Joy Has Dawned - EP
• Do Make Say Think "107 Reasons Why" from Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
• When the Clouds "November Song" from The Longed-For Season
• David Crowder Band "Go, Tell It On the Mountain" from Oh for Joy
• Hammock "Winter Light (2015 Remaster)" from Kenotic (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [Remastered]
• Lowercase Noises "A Highway Shall Be There" from Carry Us All Away
• The Eagle and Child "What Child Is This (feat. Hunter G K Thompson)" from O Christmas, Vol. II - EP
• Satoshi Ashikawa "Still Sky" from Still Way (Wave Notation 2)
• Fumio Miyashita "See the Light" from White Morning
• Phoebe Bridgers "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from If We Make It Through December - EP
• Lowercase Noises "Migratory Patterns" from Migratory Patterns
• Samuel Bath "Auld Lang Syne" from In the Bleak Mid Winter - Single

A winter themed show this week! Lots of chill, cozy, atmospheric vibes perfect for a hazy winter walk or some contemplation by the fire. A lot of music in this genre can evoke a calm, slower atmosphere which, to me at least, feels perfectly suited to winter, but I made sure to get some music with that holiday chime as well. Hope you enjoy listening!  

Playlist:

• Old Solar "Your Goodness & Mercy" from Quiet Prayers (Redux) - EP
• Explosions In the Sky "Climbing Bear" from Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television)
• False Horizon "Walking Barefoot on Grass" from Transition
• rhubiqs "Motifs in F# Major" from Motifs in F# Major - Single
• Mesozoic "A Slow Success" from We Create Because All Will End
• Pillars "Of Salt and Sea" from Of Salt and Sea
• Codes In the Clouds "Sixes and Seventeens" from Codes in the Clouds
• Mooncake "Chess Knight" from Zaris
• .Less.Is.More. "Birds Aren't Real (Chilled)" from This Small, Finite World
• Winterlight "Memories Are Flotsam" from Gestural Abstractions
• Caspian "Sea Lawn" from The Four Trees
• The Glass Pavilion "Signs & Wonders" from When the Blazing Sun is Gone
• Asleep Within Waves "Middle Cove" from Statera
• Satellites "Tallest Trees" from Familiar Shorelines
• Startle the Heavens "Lull" from All that Is Wild & Alive
• Cats Never Die "Care" from Morphine
• Slow Meadow "Palemote" from Palemote - Single
• Ethereal Silence "Creation of Life" from Creation of Life - Single