ID Music Live from Taos Mesa
A newsletter-exclusive basketball supersession, plus our debut on the Northern New Mexico airwaves
The Inter-Dimensional Music Mobile Soundsystem has relocated to the Taos, New Mexico field office for a few weeks of adobe flossin’, green chile tossin’, hot springs dippin’, and high altitude trippin’. While our blackened New Age and post-world music vibrations have continued uninterrupted on the Far West Texas airwaves of Marfa Public Radio each Sunday at 11pm CT, all of this moving around has slowed the processing of new shows for the public archive: find a very special newsletter-exclusive ID Music Supersession below.
But first, I would like to extend an invitation to all Vøid Contemplation Tactics readers to join me and one of our New Mexico hosts, Spiros Antonopoulos, on the actual airwaves or wi-fires of KNCE 93.5FM Taos on Thursday morning – July 10 – at 4am MT for this month’s full moon edition of his long-running Joyful Noises broadcast. Spiros’ show is two hours of pan-spiritual devotional psychedelia, chanting, divination, and prognostication that is maybe the only DJ session that does what I’m trying to do with ID Music better than the way that I do it. It’s less a matter of actual “DJ” DJ skills, and more about his choices as a selector, and how his heady narration of sincere spiritual practices is hybridized with the arcane lines of sacred audio transmission that extend from Pandit Pran Nath → Alice Coltrane → Pauline Oliveros → Sunn O))) with occasional contributions from OM, Exuma, Kali Malone, Boards of Canada, and Catherine Christer Hennix, depending on how the tarot pulls are affected by the current astrological forecast. Taos’ most elevated morning zoo transmits live in the eighth prahar, a selector rising just before the dawn as a sign of dedication to this most sacred pillar of hip-hop.
Outside of the considerable overlap of our audio libraries, I continue to take inspiration from Spiros’ laid-back, non-dogmatic approach to presenting long-standing and deeply-held spiritual, religious, and philosophical concepts as a way to increase understanding of an existence that is beyond full comprehension, rather than as rote evangelism. Regardless of my isolated individual and arms-length understanding of jyotisha, tarot, or the Guru Purnima goings-on at our local Neem Karoli Baba Ashram and Hanuman Temple, I am curious to learn more about the systems that my comrades rely on to make their way through the world. Even more so when that knowledge is shared over a percolating bend of warm chai, gnostic krautrock, ambient melancholia, blackened bhajans, pastoral drone, New Age illbience, and other ritualistic offerings to color the dawn.
Then on Sunday July 13 Spiros and I will be DJing live together on KNCE for this week’s Roots & Wires session, a two-hour broadcast of high desert livity that begins with tributes to Bob, and moves through locals-only nyabinghi from the land of look behind, through outernational dubbing, and into the ever-expanding cosmos of non-denominational riddims and voicings that bear the blessed marks of the JA diaspora. It’s a post-punky reggae party that runs from 7-9pm MT this Sunday evening. I am deeply stoked to make an appearance on this show that has been on the Taos airwaves for over a decade, and all the more excited for an opportunity to dig deep into the most irie corners of my FLAC crates in the good company of a fellow devoted lifelong slop-style practitioner.
You can also find more of Spiros’ deep commentary on “embodied divination through yoga & tarot,” along with Joyful Noises setlists, and information on IRL manifestations in his SPACECRAFT newsletter . . .
Now on to the Inter-Dimensional Music . . .
ID Music 2025.06.08
Equanimity in Armagideon: Pacers Supersession
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It's the return of Equanimity in Armagideon, a (sort of) semi-annual and/or bi-monthly series focused on blackened iration, downpression in dub, and percussion-focused post-world music. An edited version of this session aired on Marfa Public Radio, but this is the first public broadcast of the full two-hour set that I listen to while watching basketball with the sound turned off.
Language throughout the broadcast on the importance of resting and seeking equanimity on the eve of destruction paraphrased from various sources and read by your host. Our program begins, and eventually comes to an end, with the live sounds of Humming Amps, a project from Growing’s Kevin Doria “born from a love of hands on vibrating strings amplified through rusty, seizing speakers in empty, tired rooms and kept alive by a stubborn desire to please the unpleasable.” As always, you can find more sounds from many of these artists in the Inter-Dimensional Music Bandcamp Library.
If you missed our earlier forary into sports commentary, you can find more of my thoughts about basketball in the two part essay “There’s Always This Moment”:
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Talking and not talking about basketball, Zen center life, barber shops, and reggae
Massive setlist as always. Much love to you in Taos! Pacers-fan Chambo is definitely an unexpected plotline
Awweee.. Shucks.. 🙏 Looking forward to seeing you a few hours, dark and early tomorrow morning! ommm