This morning saw the conclusion of our latest archival project. The world's longest-running ambient radio program, Hearts of Space began broadcasting slow music for fast times back in 1973. The original program was a 3-hour set, shortened to its present 1-hour format when the show began public radio syndication in 1983.
Since syndication Heats of Space has aired 1080 hour-long episodes showcasing quality ambient music each week for over 30 years. Innerspace has successfully compiled a complete archive of the show's broadcasts and will continue to add new episodes as they are aired.
We've made sure to uniformly name and tag each program and to include the original broadcast date and a companion track listing with the metadata for each episode.
Beginning next week I'll be moving into a larger office and wanted to create a downtempo chill-out library as a relaxing ambient soundscape for my work day. The Hearts of Space broadcasts will be added to a rotation along with other complete label archives, such as:
- the six phases from the late Pete Namlook's ambient FAX +49-69/450464 label
- the intelligent d'n'b sounds of LTJ Bukem's Good Looking Records and its companion projects
- the first ~150 records on the Ninja Tune label for some jazzy, downtempo electronic music
- a wonderful 330-hour audio archive of psybient albums from Simon Posford and other prominent figures of the scene
- and an additional 72-hour collection of quality psybient mixes by Spacemind
The majority of these selections are not offered by any of the major streaming networks or from current commercial markets, but Innerspace Labs has got it covered.
And you can check out Spacemind's mixes on Youtube. Here's Light Reactions (Remastered)