SOUNDWAVE : 126 : MIKE CADOO

Today’s guest deejay is Mike Cadoo, the founder of n5MD, a much loved and respected independent record label based out of Oakland, California. n5MD focuses on ambient, modern composition, post-rock, and experimental electronic music.

As a long-time fan of n5MD, I showcased Mike’s label on solipsistic NATION, my electronic music show, years ago. Mike guest deejayed on Soundwave in 2021 and returns today with a much-needed mix for me.

I can’t go into the details, but last week I nearly died. You’d never know it by looking at me. Physically I’m fine. But I’m shaken. I find that I quickly get emotional about things. Sometimes I have a profound respect for life, all lives. Sometimes I’m filled with existential despair. I’m told this will pass in a few months. In the meantime, I’m having these overwhelming experiences.

Mike doesn’t know this, but his mix helped get me through the week.

Mike has some words about today’s mix below.

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Giulio Aldinucci.

See you then.

My song, “Sunrise at Ironhorse Trail,” included in today’s mix, is from a release that I will be releasing on my personal Bandcamp page on World Alzheimer’s Day. My father passed this January in what can best be described as complications due to mixed dementia. All proceeds will be donated to Hope Hospice, which was very integral in the comfort of my father in the last days of his life, as well as, and maybe even more importantly, my mother’s grief counseling after his passing.

Jon Hopkins & 7RAYS “Ascending, Dawn Sky”

Billow Observatory “Wash Away The Dust”

awakened souls “No Other Place”

Jason van Wyk “Surface Drones”

OKADA “Annihilation”

KMRU “Und”

Mike Cadoo “Sunrise at Ironhorse Trail”

Chris Child & Micah Frank “VarnAw”

SVLBRD “The Vault”

Haunted Ghost “Lost Footage”

Gridlock “Under [Beat Mix] (unreleased)”

Rinnovare feat. Benoit Pioulard “The Be in the Grey is Okay”

Ex Confusion “When I Think of You”

Brambles “Such Owls As You”

Last Days “All the Lighthouses”

Jan Wagner “Kapitel 28”

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