SOUNDWAVE : 130 : DAN HANDRABUR

Today’s guest deejay is Dan Handrabur.

Dan records and performs under many names: Dreamdoktor, Dreamlogic, and HAN. I know him as Vuemorph, from the excellent From Here To Tranquility Volume 3 compilation album.

During the summer, I looked over the remainder of the schedule for Soundwave for 2022. There were a few slots open, and I decided to do retrospective mixes featuring music from the Ambient Dub, Excursions In Ambience, and From Here To Tranquility compilation albums. Re-listening those albums inspired me to invite the musicians who appeared on those albums to guest deejay on Soundwave. Dan was the first to send me a mix, which I’m thrilled to share on today’s show. You can expect to hear those mixes in the next few months.

Despite knowing Dan from Vuemorph, I had no preconceptions about what Dan’s mix would sound like. Even so, I was surprised.

Dan Handrabur

Dan calls this his HAN mix and describes it as a post muzika pandemik poem. I don’t know what to make of that. What does it mean to live in a post-pandemic world? Something has shifted. It’s not the same world it was pre-pandemic, and we are not the same people we were two years ago. I’m certainly listening to music through fresh ears, but it took Dan’s mix to cause me to meditate on these matters.

I launched Soundwave to help cope with the stress and isolation of the pandemic lockdown. I told myself that once the pandemic was reasonably under control that the show would have served its purpose and that I’d shutter the project. But it feels like there’s still a reason for Soundwave to exist, and maybe exploring what music is in a post-pandemic world is it.

Something to think about.

Please subscribe to Dan’s Outersanctum Music YouTube channel for more fantastical music.

Join us next week for the Ambient Dub retrospective mix.

See you then.

dan handrabur “applied math”

dan handrabur “low command”

dan handrabur “nonevent”

dan handrabur “onirya”

dan handrabur “proaktiv”

dan handrabur “restored”

dan handrabur “starsystem”

dan handrabur “stitcher”

dan handrabur “psyclick redundancy”

dan handrabur “clockstop”

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