Drifts is a weekly electronic pop radio show and podcast. Fridays at 10PM EST on WFNP.org.
Announcing Until the Sun is Gone, a special summertime monthly event. Featuring special guests Veracom, Choongum and Spazzkid, and Mirror Kisses. With afterparties curated by SAINT PEPSI. Dates to be announced. Tell your friends.
poster design: Austin Johnson and Drifts
photography: Kristoph Sebastian Gausmann
Finally. After a month of waiting, Show 47 has finally hit the podcast. This week, both Sloslylove and Luxury Elite join us to help send off a season of excellent shows - both of them drop some very special guest mixes and have quite a few interesting things to say. We’ve also got music from a lot - and I mean a LOT - of folks: new stuff from Gold Panda, Pajama People, Vandaam, and GUNGE, and stuff from Eaves, Ghibli, Lord RAJA, Photay, and more round out the set. Thanks for sticking with us for the past eight shows - we’ve got some really exciting stuff to share about this summer later today, so keep your eyes peeled for that! But for now, take a listen:
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LISTEN ON SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/drifts/show-47
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Keep in touch: Feel free to get in contact to request a song for the next show, to send your own music in for airplay consideration, or even just to say hi! Here are the best ways to hit me up:
On this week’s show, Magic Fades drop in to answer some questions about their debut LP, Obsession. While they’re here, they drop a guest mix with some of their inspirations. In the rest of the show, we’ve got new music from Anamanaguchi, Saint Pepsi, Color Plus, c u p, and Simon12345 & The Lazer Twins, and DJ Koze, Abelard, Mister Lies, Serph, Bodhi and more round out the set. Take a listen:
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LISTEN ON SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/drifts/show-46
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Keep in touch: Feel free to get in contact to request a song for next week’s show, to send your own music in for airplay consideration, or even just to say hi! Here are the best ways to hit me up:
On this week’s show, I’m joined by Public Spreads the News. We talk about what it’s like to run his label, Illuminated Paths, and what genres mean in the 21st century. Notably, his guest mix only has one song that was recorded in the past 20 years! The rest of the show is probably one of the ones I’m proudest of yet, and it’s got new tunes by Kelpe, 회사AUTO, Blackedout, and Hearts Bonfire, and 813, Flamingosis, Ghibli, Somepling, Letherette, Palmbomen and more get to join in on the fun. Take a listen:
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LISTEN ON SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/drifts/show-45
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Keep in touch: Feel free to get in contact to request a song for next week’s show, to send your own music in for airplay consideration, or even just to say hi! Here are the best ways to hit me up:
This week, we’ve got TWO guests on the show. The first, Stress (of #SPF420 fame) shares some info about the upcoming SPF420 concert on March 20th and drops a guest mix with some of the people who’ll be playing the show. Later on, Shisa tells me a tale of playing a show at Ikea and drops a mix full of juke and footwork jams. I’m still not entirely sure what juke and footwork are. And, hey, other than that, we’ve got new music from Serph, Mirror Kisses, Small Black, Saint Pepsi, and even two brand new ones from Prism Corp. (who you also know as Vektroid, New Dreams Ltd., Macintosh Plus, etc…). It’s a wild ride this week, so take a listen now:
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Keep in touch: Feel free to get in contact to request a song for next week’s show, to send your own music in for airplay consideration, or even just to say hi! Here are the best ways to hit me up:
This week on the show, Teeel joins me - he talks about what it’s like to run a record label and gives us a taste of what his buddies at Synthemesc have been up to. We’ve also got music by Kodak To Graph, Quixotism, Daphni, The Knife, Shlohmo, Autre Ne Veut, Skeleton Beach, Black Marble, Nosaj Thing, Kashiwa Daisuke, 회사AUTO and a lot, lot, lot more. Take a listen now:
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LISTEN: Streaming option coming soon, as soon as I can figure out how to get HTML5 audio tags to work with Tumblr…
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Keep in touch: Feel free to get in contact to request a song for next week’s show, to send your own music in for airplay consideration, or even just to say hi! Here are the best ways to hit me up:
This week on the show, I delve back into the past - kind of an impromptu Drifts Rewind. I cherry picked some of the best tracks from Show 6, waaay back from the fall of 2010 (and that show, along with a whole bunch of others, will finally be available in podcast form sometime this Summer when I start Drifts Rewind back up). Along with that, tonight we’ve got some new music from Veracom, Keep Shelly in Athens, Cokiyu, Blackedout, and Ghibli; as well as some cuts from the new compilation albums recently put out by AMDISCS and Fortune 500. Perhaps we’ll see some more compilation cuts next week? Only way to find out is to tune in Friday at 10 PM US Eastern time! Take a listen now:
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LISTEN ON SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/drifts/show-42
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(And a quick correction to something said in the show: Keep Shelly in Athens’ new album is called “At Home,” not “Sails.”)
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This week on the show, LAKE RADIO’s Caden Moore joined me for an interview. We talk about his new EP, his creative process, and get some insights into how he got started in electronic music in the first place. He also drops his guest mix - marking the first time that a song from 1927 has been played on the show. Take a listen now:
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Drifts is back, baby! The first show back on FM airwaves aired last night. Zaturn Valley joined me on the show - we talked about his music, and he dropped a nice guest mix. Here’s the podcast and the playlist!
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Hey, everyone! Just a heads up for those of you who aren’t already aware. Drifts is comin’ out of hibernation on Friday, February 1st! The show’s moving to WFNP out of New Paltz, NY and you can tune in every Friday from February 1st on at 10 PM (Eastern Time) to 88.7 FM in the Hudson Valley and online at WFNP.org.
There are a couple of changes under the hood too — the show’s moving back to a 2 hour format! And (almost) every week, I’ll have a guest on the show to help me out with some of that — interviews, guest mixes, and maybe even a live performance here and there! It’s shaping up to be a great season full of fun and interesting things!
So, to reiterate: tune in to WFNP.org on Friday, February 1st at 10 PM ET! I’m really excited to be bringing the show back to FM airwaves once again. Here’s to a great season. Hope you can tune in!
—Will
Last night’s show was the season finale, and to cap off several months of great shows I held a 2-hour special extravaganza! The second half featuring some of my personal favorites from the year so far, but the whole show is full of great tunes that I’m absolutely confident you can fully enjoy. Take a listen:
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HOUR TWO [Best of the Year So Far]:
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There hasn’t been a new episode of Drifts in a month. That’s about to change! We’re back with the penultimate episode of this season… next week’s show is both a request show and a best-of of what’s come out this year, so send in your requests (whether they’re from this year or not) and hopefully we’ll hear them on the show!
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Sorry this one’s up so late. I’ll get out of the way and just let you enjoy it!
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Tonight’s show is a little weird in a way that I’m having trouble describing efficiently. Maybe it’s cause of the tinnitus in my left ear while I was making the show. Maybe it’s just because this is a really strange grouping of songs to put together in one show. All I know is it feels a bit different. Give it a try!
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After like 3 weeks of sitting on my ass, show #35 finally hit the airwaves! When the episode starts out, you might think it’s an ambient show. You’ll soon find out the real theme behind this show, the lowest end of the audible sound spectrum: bass frequencies. Get out your subwoofer for this one.
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School’s out and it’s officially summer. And what does summer mean to you? Summer means pop music to me, so tonight, we’re delving back into the wonderful world of pop. And a couple beats mixed in, too, cause I just can’t help myself.
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Drifts Rewind #3A is finally here - a remake of Show #3’s first hour, nicely wrapped up in podcast form. What’s different this time is that the tracklist information is embedded right in the file - iTunes should show you the artist, track, and album art for each individual song, and you should be able to skip between them individually easily! I’m still not sure whether I’m going to start doing this for every show, as it’s a lot of extra work, but this is a cool tech demo at the very least! Definitely let me know if it doesn’t work correctly for you - I can still probably put up a normal mp3 later on if people are having problems.
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Tonight’s show is a wistful, teary-eyed sendoff of Spring. It sure does seem like Summer’s already here, pushing its way into the limelight, so let’s give Spring one last hurrah with a bunch of awesome music.
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Tonight, the podcast shows up early - I’m exhausted and need to catch up on sleep, so the show isn’t going to be airing at its usual time and instead, the podcast is available now for everyone to listen to on their own time. Enjoy!
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I hope you’re all doing well. Tonight’s show features brand new, never before heard music by Sumuo and Shaky Snakes and a whole bunch of other great glitchy and/or poppy tunes. Take a listen:
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Every week on Drifts, we delve into the stranger side of electronic pop – the stuff that makes your ears tingle, your mind wander, and your heart race.
Drifts started back in September 2010 at WHRW-FM, Binghamton University's campus radio station. I left Binghamton in April 2011, and since then, Drifts has grown into an internet radio show and podcast.
The show returned to FM airwaves on WFNP, out of New Paltz, NY, on February 1st, 2013.
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by clicking "Subscribe to the Podcast."
Will is an unemployed student from upstate New York who loves music, seltzer, and you. Follow him on Twitter.
Intro theme from Show 40 onwards is "Theme for Drifts" by Roentgenizdat. Photography for Show 14 through 39 by William Donaldson. Photography for Show 40 through 48 by Thomas Corbett.
Thanks to everyone who's ever made a song that appeared on the show, and especially to those who've done an interview or guest mix!
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Want your music played on the show? Shoot me an email: driftsradio@gmail.com