Galactic Travels - 1998 Monthly Focus Log

Galactic Travels Monthly Special Focus Log for 1998

January's special focus was on French techno artist, Jean Michel Jarre. Each week, one of his CDs was played at midnight.

Date	Artist	Title	Label
1/1	Jean Michel Jarre	Oxygene	Dreyfus
1/8	Jean Michel Jarre	Rendezvous	Dreyfus
1/15	Jean Michel Jarre	Equinoxe	Dreyfus
1/22	Jean Michel Jarre	Les Concerts En Chine Vol. 1	Dreyfus
1/29	Jean Michel Jarre	Zoolook	Dreyfus

February's feature artist was Jonn Serrie.

Date	Title	Label
2/5	Flightpath	Miramar
2/12	Planetary Chronicles Vol. 1	Miramar
2/19	Planetary Chronicles Vol. 2	Miramar
2/26	Ixlandia	Miramar

March's focus was on the artist roster of Groove Unlimited, a label in the Netherlands.

Date	Artist	Title
3/5	Kees Aerts	Slices of Time
3/12	Wavestar	Out of Time
3/19	Syndromeda	Circles of Life
3/26	Tranzit	Voyage

April's focus was on Hemisphere, a group on the Groove Unlimited label.

Date	Title
4/2	From Inside the Cyclone
4/9	Intruders
4/16	Outdoors
4/23	Beyond the Darkness
4/30	Early Reflections

May's Focus was on the early electronic music pioneers who formed the bands known as Kluster and Cluster: Schnitzler, Moebius, and Roedelius.

Date	Artist	Title	Label
5/7	Kluster	Zwei-Osterei	Hypnotic
5/14	Cluster	Grosses Wasser	Gyroscope
5/21	Cluster & Eno	Cluster & Eno	Gyroscope
5/28	Cluster	One Hour	Gyroscope

June's Focus was on DAC Crowell, an unsigned ambient musician who can be found hanging around the Internet. You can visit his web site to find out what this Champagne, Illinois artist is doing at The Aerodyne Works.

Date	Title
6/4	Darkness and Depth
6/11	Indigo Static
6/18	Tranquility Formations
6/25	Harmundum

July's Focus was on Steve Roach's collaborative efforts.

Date	Artists	Title	Label
7/2	Steve & Roger King	Dust to Dust	Projekt
7/9	Roach, Kent, & Newby	Halcyon Days	Fathom
7/16	none	none	none
7/23	Steve & Vidna Obmana	Huizen Concert, Part I	none
7/30	none	none	none

The Huizen Concert is a recording that Steve Roach made of a performance he did with Vidna Obmana at the Fifth Annual Alpha-Centauri Electronic Music Festival. This performance took place at the Theatre 3-in-1 in Huizen, the Netherlands on November 1, 1997 and was provided by Steve on two CDRs (recordable CDs) exclusively for Galactic Travels.

August's Focus was on Steve Roach to make up for the two weeks in July when there was no show.

Date	Artists	Title	Label
8/6	Steve & Vidna Obmana	Huizen Concert, Part II	none
8/13	Steve & Robert Rich	Soma	Hearts of Space
8/20	Steve Roach	World's Edge	Fortuna
8/27	Steve Roach	Dream Time Return	Fortuna

September's Focus was on releases from Mirage, a Canadian label (now defunct, unfortunately) that specialized in electronic/ambient music.

Date	Title	Artist
9/3	Imaginarium	Ma Ja Le
9/10	The Silent Shore	Robert Scott Thompson
9/17	The Ambient Eclipse	Various Artists
9/24	Frontier	Robert Scott Thompson

Another OKTOBERFEST celebrated Galactic Travels-style! The October focus was on Manikin, a label in Germany specializing in electronic music and administered by Mario Schonwalder. Klaus Schulze is on this label so you KNOW there's going to be some Berlin School EM represented here!

Date	Title	Artist
10/1	The Other Face	Detlef Keller
10/8	Future of the Past	Spyra
10/15	More Loops	Keller & Schonwalder
10/22	Script	Fanger & Kersten
10/29	Traveling Backwards	Nightcrawlers

The November focus was on the compilations put together by the cooperative efforts of the members of GoldTri, an internet mailing list devoted to discussing EM and interesting, if less well known artists. GoldTri is a contraction of Golden Triangle, a musical landscape defined by three corners; Progressive, Instrumental, and Electronic.

Date	Title	Label
11/5	GoldTri: Volume One (disc 1)	Stonker
11/12	GoldTri: Volume One (disc 2)	Stonker
11/19	GoldTri: Volume Two (disc 1)	Stonker
11/26	GoldTri: Volume Two (disc 2)	Stonker

The December focus was on Ian Boddy, a synthesist in the UK. He appears on his own label, DiN Records, and on many compilations in the UK.

Date	Title	Artist	Label(s)
12/3	Symbiont	Ian Boddy and Andy Pickford	Something Else
12/10	Phase 3	Ian Boddy & Ron Boots	Groove & Something Else
12/17	The Uncertainty Principle	Ian Boddy	Something Else
12/24	Continuum	Ian Boddy	Something Else
12/31	Rare Elements	Ian Boddy	Something Else

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