Steve Reich 90th Birthday Celebration
One of America’s great composers who also stands with the greatest of any time Steve took his drumming background and focused on rhythmic harmony instead of melody and applied it to a method of composing music utilizing tape loop phasing, canons and repetitive figures to create a new classical music in the 1960’s. This music is known as Minimalism. This morning we will explore Steve’s repertoire performed by his ensemble and others commissioned from his early experiments through his extensive long career. Music for 18 Musicians, Tehillum, Electric Counterpoint, Eight Lines, The Desert Music, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ will be featured. We will also start the celebration with Steve’s influence on progressive art rock forms of the 70’s and early 80’s in the opening set. Join the Melting World this Saturday night
(Sunday 12-5am) for a night of unforgettable music as we celebrate this incredible living composer who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history. Only here at WUSB 90.1 and wusb.fm, where unique sounds begin.

2-5am Nocturnal Electronic Soundscapes
Opening in the Cosmic Hour with Dieter Moebius and Conny Plank (Germany), LoMo (Italy), Cartas De Japon (Argentina)
Time Suspended segment brings Thom Brennan, Variant, Howard Givens & Madhavi Devi (USA)
Deep Drift dreamscape ambient releases from Projekt Records with Alglaia (Italy), the Adalaidian (Australia)

Yesterday was Steve Reich’s 90th Birthday. Next Sunday’s 12-5am Melting World will celebrate the father of Minimalism with a marathon edition of music from one of America’s great composers.

John Coltrane Centennial Celebration-thecoltranehome.org
This past Wednesday 9/23/26 marked the centennial of composer, instrumentalist, primary 20th century musical innovator and Long Island native John Coltrane’s 100th birthday. Here at the Melting World we are celebrating by playing his later material from 1965-1966 featuring music from his second quartet with his wife Alice on piano, Rashid Ali on Drums, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Pharoah Sanders augmenting the quartet on tenor saxophone.
In Melting World style we will focus on their spiritual quest into uncompromising improvisational long form renditions of past popular compositions and more.
The beginning of our show will feature new music from Gary Lucas & Lukas Ligeti, Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa’s 2025 archival release from 1974.
The Deep Drift segment will go to India with a sitar raga from Usted Vilayat Khan.
Only here Saturday night at Midnight (Sunday 12-5am) at the place where unique sounds begin WUSB 90.1 FM and wusb.fm.

2-5am Electro-Goth Cosmic Journey
Starting this morning in the Cosmic Hour with Steven Parsick & Cosmic Hoffman recorded live in Germany 9/10/2000.
The Time Suspended segment takes over the rest of the show with Dead Can Dance (Australia), Rasa (USA & Germany),
Hana (USA), Holger Czukay (Germany).
New music on the Quiet Details label with Variant (Detroit), 90’s ambient on the Hypnos label with Saul Stokes (Oakland).

Early morning psychedelic adventure
We begin this morning’s show in the Supreme Level Intensity Segment with
Instrumental psych from Hieronymus Dream (Greece), Trigona (Australia), Salvatore (Norway), King Buffalo (USA).
Neo Krautrock from Electric Moon (Germany).
Next up an extended Cosmic Hour with music from Porcupine Tree (UK),
the 30th anniversary of Klaus Shulze’s landmark 90’s recording “Are You Sequenced?
The Time Suspended Segment presents a new Robert Rich live recording from
WXPN Philadelphia’s Stars End “Space Camp”from 8/2/26.
New music in the Deep Drift Segment from the Projekt Label with Aglaia (Italy).

2-5am Imaginary dream music
This holiday weekend we conclude two Spring Projekt releases
“Entering Elysium”and “Sphere l”
The Cosmic Hour opens this morning’s show with new electronic music from the
Neo Ouija label with LoMo (Lorenzo Montana from Italy) and Parallel Worlds (Bakos Sirros from Greece)
Krautrock Cloud with Cluster recorded live at the Knitting Factory NYC on the 1996 First Encounter Tour.
Deep Drift ambient from Misleading Structures (Lithuania) and el culto (Germany) label mix “Nightflight”

This 12-5am mind melting show will focus on the genre known as Fusion.
Originally conceived in 1969 to incorporate electric instruments, rock rhythms and studio techniques into jazz. Over time Fusion has expanded to include composers, instruments and musicians from multiple styles and genres. This morning we explore the beginnings and evolution of this mostly instrumental virtuoso music featuring
Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis,
Bill Laswell & Tony Williams, Mateo Mancuso, Jonas Hellborg & Shawn Lane, Brand X, David Torn, Jean-Luc Ponty, TEAR, PAKT and many others. In the Cosmic Hour we present Bang On A Can playing Terry Riley’s In C.
This Sunday at 12:00am (Saturday night at Midnight) only here where unique sounds begin, WUSB

This 2-5am edition is an archival show from 12/30/25.
We start in the Cosmic Hour with sequencer synth from Europe with
Node (UK), Fanger & Schönwalder, Martin Stürtzer (Germany).
The Time Suspended segment covers American Ambient with new music from
Jeff Pearce, Innesti, processed cello with Lena and Todd Gautreau’s projects Tear Ceremony and Tapes and Topographies.
The Deep Drift segment brings part one of the timelesss ambient recording from Klaus Wiese (Germany) “Maquam”

This morning we present an epic archival show from 2/25/24 featuring
Space psych from Oresund Space Collective (Denmark), Black Moon Circle (Norway),
The Spacelords (Germany), Pilot Voyager (Hungary)
Not so recent psych from Hawkwind, System 7 (UK), Anubian Lights (USA & UK)'
Kikagaku Moya & Ryley Walker (Japan & USA)
Krautrock innovators Can archival release Paris 1973 in memory of Damo Suzuki (1950-2024)
Space ambient from Sphäre Sechs and Drone ambient from Thomas Köner (Germany)

2-5am ambient waves
Nomadic electronic Krautrock with Brainticket (Belgium, Switzerland)
Part 2 of 2 from the latest sequencer release from Thom Brennan (USA).
A different electronic project from Ludvig Cimbrelius (Sweden) Abroco de Vapor.
Music from the Data Obscura label with Anthony Paul Kirby’s ambient project Nunc Stan’s (Canada).
Experimental drone from 2005 with M Griffin (USA) on the Hypnos Secret Sounds sub label.

A Global Journey Through Experimental Musical Realms.
European psych with Moonseeds (Germany), Psychedelic Source Records (Hungary), Jagannatha (France), Gravitic Imploder (UK) to open the show at midnight. The Cosmic Hour brings both old and new with
music from the golden age of electronic music,
Manuel Göttsching recorded live in France on 12/14/76 and
live sequencer synth from Steve Roach’s new Projekt release.
Part 2 of 2 Tarotplane’s Kosmische Dark, Stratosphere (Belgium) Projekt release Sphere 1 and
Cosmic Ground’s (Germany) latest release “Orgone Forest” in the Time Suspended segment.
Brand new long form guitar ambient from Jeff Pearce (Indiana) in the Deep Drift Segment.

2-5am ethnic outer space musical orbit

Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté (Mali), Loop Guru (UK), Nostalgia (Germany), Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell (USA & UK) in the first set.
Bruno Sanfillipo (Spain) reworked Hypnos release from 2012,
Misleading Structures (Lithuania) in the Time Suspended segment.
Max Corbacho’s landmark ambient release “The Talisman” 20th anniversary and Eternell (Sweden) in the Deep Drift segment.
Ian Boddy(UK) showcasing a new synthesizer module in the Cosmic Hour

Electro Krautrock Cloud Adventure
German electronic music with Karl Bartos, Kraftwerk, Cluster & Eno
then aboard the way back Krautrock Cloud with Grobschnitt and experimental
Neo Krautrock with Hypnodrone Ensemble.
American synth with the latest from Thom Brennan.
New guitar ambient from Stratosphere (Belgium)
German electronic ambient with Cosmic Ground, Mystic Land
in the Deep Drift segment.

2-5am ubiquitous electronic sound experience throughout the decades in the opening set with Psychic TV (UK), Micheal Brook (Canada),
Higher Intelligence Agency (UK), Yoshihiro Hanno (Japan) & Mick Karn (UK),
Part 4 of 4 Eat Static (UK) recorded live @Ozora Fesival, Hungary 2024 in the Cosmic Hour.
Planetarium soundtrack space music from John Serrie (USA), Todd Gautreau and his ambient drone project Tapes And Topographies in the Time Suspended segment.
Long form ambient from Germany with Nautic Depths and Louigi Verona in the Deep Drift segment.

Elevated Plateaus of Consciousness
This morning’s 2-5am electronic edition featuring Micheal Brückner (Germany)
recorded live for Cyclical Dreams 2023 Cyclical Fest in the Cosmic Hour.
New music on the Projekt label from Forrest Fang, Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel in the Time Suspended segment.
Autumn of Communion (UK) in the Deep Drift segment

Seasonal Grateful Dead Catacomb This Sunday 12:00-5:00am
(Saturday night@midnight)
As the Summer Solstice arrives with the yearly shortest night of darkness we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s June 1976 tour with a five hour edition of Melting World.
After a period of semi inactivity and reset the band altered their sound and touring system by playing multiple theater dates in six cities across the US.
Drummer Mickey Hart rejoined the band, new tunes were introduced, tempos increased while the jamming became more concise.
Join us for three magnificent set segments from Boston Music Hall June 9,10,11 and music from adjacent jam friendly bands in this special show as we celebrate fathers, grandfathers and the Don Quixote’s of Rock and Roll-The Grateful Dead.
Melting World-A Psychoactive Listening Experience

2-5am Nocturnal Mind Expansion
New Projekt releases from Forest Fang, Serena Gabriel & Steve Roach.
electricwaves (echospace313) in the Time Suspended segment.
Bart Hawkins recorded live at Cyclical Fest 2023 in the Cosmic Hour.
A Slow Taste of Night Air (UK) long form ambient in the Deep Drift segment.

The 12-5am Ubiquitous Listening Experience
Instrumental Krautrock from Günter Schickert, latest recordings from Papir (Denmark), Trigona (Australia), Temple Fang (Netherlands)
in the Supreme Intensity Level segment.
Part 2 of Arjen Schat’s (Netherlands) live recording at the DEMMF 2025 in the Cosmic Hour.
a601-2 (Detroit, echospace 313) in the
Time Suspended Segment.
Aglaia’s (Italy) Database and Archives,
Part 2 of Altus “Time Collection”
and a long form ambient composition from Mathias Grassow in the Deep Drift segment.

2-5am Musical Continuum.

Melting World meteorological alert:
Look towards the sky during the Deep Drift segment
between 4:30-5:00 and the Blue Moon will be waiting for you!
More details here https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/when-is-the-next-blue-moon/

New music:
Erik Wøllo’s (Norway) Projekt release “Snow Tides”-part 2.
Cosmic Hour:
Soft Machine (UK) 1969 multi media soundtrack “Spaced”.
Time Suspended segment:
Eat Static(UK) live at Ozara Festival 2024, Part 3 on f 4.
Deep Drift segment:
Altus (Canada), The Time Collection.
Jeff Pearce (Indiana) recorded live-Star’s End, WXPN Philadelphia

Safe Harbor Instrumental
First set electronic variations from UK: EDM with System 7,
Spacerock with Ozric Temtacles, Din label collaboration from
Parallel Worlds (Greece) & Dave Bessell (UK).
Electric Orange (Germany), Part 2 of the continuous mix of
Acid Mothers Temple’s (Japan) “AMT 24”
in the Supreme Level Intensity segment.
New collaboration from Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel (Sonoran Desert),
new music from Jeff Pearce in the Time Suspended segment.
Scott Lawlor’s unique cover of Pink Floyd’s
“Atom Heart Mother” and new long form ambient from Mick Chillage
to send you off in the Deep Drift segment.