Mathias Grassow memorial tribute part 2 of 3.
The German ambient innovator who created a distinct personal sound using the electronic drone as his primary musical focus died 8/13/25 in a tragic drowning accident. His music often has a meditative, emotional and spiritual context, which induces deep feelings of introspection in listeners. Despite his music having no commercial potential he released a staggering amount of music throughout his forty five year career. This morning our Time Suspended segment will be expanded to the second half of our show featuring collaborations Mathias recorded with Klaus Wiese, Alio Die, Marcel Trenton and Tomas Weiss for Part 2 of our Mathias Grassow
Melting World remembrance in the second half of our show. The first half will have Krautrock from Electric Orange, Vibravoid and part 2 of a live recording with psychedelic electronic rave from Eat Static.
Part 3 on 9/7/25 The Deep Drift segment will encapsulate our full show with Mathias’s deepest and longest compositions that transport listeners into alternative states of reality.

https://mathiasgrassow.bandcamp.com/music

This 2-5am edition brings
adventurous music that explores the boundaries of musical form with
Pharaoh Sanders, Miles Davis, Alice Coltrane, Frank Zappa, Dylan Ryan (USA)
Robert Wyatt, Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition (UK)
Moonhang (Japan)
Holzer Czukay (Germany) in the Cosmic Hour.
Loren Nerell & Mark Seelig in the
Time Suspended segment

From Loud to Quiet, the full musical dynamic.
Starting this morning’s show real heavy with Scorch Trio (Finland & Norway),
Kaliyuga Express (UK & Norway)
Dead Kennedy’s (USA).
Krautrock with Faust from 1971,
New Fusion with Anchor and Burden (Germany).
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts make an appearance at
Jones Beach next Saturday 8/23.
We play a few tunes from
Neil & Crazy Horse
Space rock with Oresund Space Collective
(Denmark).
Grateful Dead Catacomb segment with part 3 of 3 second set
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
3/16/73

Mathias Grassow 1963-2025
German ambient innovator died 8/13/25. Part 1 celebrating his music on today’s extended Time Suspended Segment.
Part 2 will be a special memorial on the next 5 hour Melting World on 8/31/25.

A journey through morning darkness
2-5am edition with psychedelic electronic from Bionaut (USA), Subsonic Experience (Germany), Autumn of Communion (UK).
Australian Krautrock with Rob Shiels and his projects Trigona & Circling Dunes.
Cosmic Hour experimental ethno ambient with Rapoon (UK) recorded live at a New Jersey house concert in 2011.
Ambient Collaboration of Abul Magard &
Rafael Anton Irissari (Serbia & USA) recorded live in Netherlands 10/24 at Le Guess Who? Festival in the Time Suspended Segment

An imaginary journey of shifting sonic surrealism with the latest psychoactive series installment from The Legendary Pink Dots
(UK, Netherlands)“Chemical Playschool 23”.
The latest release from Stereolab (UK & France)
Krautrock from Brainticket (Switzerland), Golem (West Germany) from 1973. New psychedelic from Temple Fang (Netherlands).

WLIR was inducted into LIMEHOF at Great South Bay Music Festival last Sunday 7/27/25. Before the format change to New Wave in 1982 WLIR was an exceptional progressive station from 1972-1982.
This morning the Melting World is proud to present a few tunes from a great WLIR radio concert with Peter Tosh (Jamaica). Former WLIR dj and current WUSB host of “Musicality” (alternating Thursday’s 10:00am-noon) himself inducted into LIMEHOF, introduces this great radio concert recorded live at My Father’s Place in Roslyn on 7/4/78.

The Cosmic Hour brings synth from Thought Guild (USA), Cosmic Ground (Germany), The Soviet Space Dog Project (UK).
The Time Suspended segment brings ambient from Altus (USA), centrozoon (Germany), Mathias Grassow & Heikki Lindgren (Germany & Finland)

Ubiquitous sound worlds during this 2-5am edition with
Ian Boddy, Ron Boots, & Harold van der Heijden (UK & Netherlands)
Church of Hed (USA), Hyldýpi (Iceland), habn (Spain),
Pastoral ambient from Robert Davies (USA), purl (Sweden)
Deep ambient in the Time Suspended segment with a long form release from
Craig Padilla (USA),
Space music from Jaja (Germany)

Mind melting soundtrack psychedelic with
Gong from Virgin Records 1973 release “Flying Teapot”,
More new psyche from
Psychedelic Source Records (Hungary).
Krautrock with Amon Duul ll from 1972’s
“Wolf City”
Rave culture lives on in the Cosmic Hour with a new UFO space release from
Eat Static (UK).
Detroit techno dub with a live release from CV313.
Grateful Dead Catacomb Segment with part 2 Nassau Coliseum 3/16/73
Deep long form ambient in the
Time Suspended segment with
Nautic Depths (Germany)

Mid July electronic journey with drums, synths and guitar
tribal ambient from Byron Metcalf & Shane Morris (USA),
90’s rave with The Orb (UK),
Fax label from 1994 with
Pete Namlook (Germany) & Richie Hawtin (UK, Canada).
Sequencer synth from Sequencia Legenda (France),
Progressive guitar with Brian Gingrich (USA)
Psychedelic guitar with part 2 of Pilot Voyager’s
Water Side Reverie (Hungary)
Ambient guitar from Jeff Pearce (USA)
Steve Roach’s latest Projekt release “The Reverent Sky”

Alternating 2-5am installment.
Electronic melting world fusion with
Alpha Wave Movement (USA),
Pilot Voyager (Hungary),
Vangelis (Greece),
Illuvia (Peru),
Circling Dunes (Australia),
Travis & Fripp, Mark Shreeve (UK),
Deep drift ambient from
M Griffin, Steve Roach (USA)

German Electronic with Tangerine Dream from 2020 & 1972,
Thomas Fanger, winter soundscapes with Deep North.
Parallel Worlds (Greece), Trigona (Australia).
Spacerock with Harvey Bainbridge (UK),
Neo Krautpsyche with Dividenthal & Aumgn.
Grateful Dead Catacomb new monthly segment
featuring archival releases from 1969-1981.
First up-Nassau Coliseum 3/16/73 first set segment
with Bill Graham introducing the band.

This 2-5am installment opens with 90’s
electronic laptop integration from
Banco de Gaia,
Future Sound of London (UK).
Cosmic Hour Sequencer synth from
Ministry of Inside Things (USA),
Steve Jolliffe (UK)
Ambient in the Time Suspended segment with Andrew Tasselmyr, Kelly David (USA),
Norah Lorway (Canada), Markus Reuter (Germany),
Lingua Lustra (Netherlands),
new music from Mathias Grassow (Germany)

Six hour mind melt journey with The Spacious Mind (Norway), Alien Planetscapes (Queens NY), Stereolab (UK , France),
Part 3 of Pink Floyd’s “Live At Pompeii” 2025 Steven Wilson remix and remaster of the original master audio tapes to the film.
Synth in the Cosmic Hour with Daniel Pollard (UK), Steve Roach (USA), Kubusschnitt (Netherlands), Mikkel Rev (Norway).
Ambient in the Time Suspended segment with Arborescence (France) & Alio Die (Italy), Bence Ambrus (Hungary),
M Griffith (USA)

A rare live show in the 2-5am alternating world melt.
Industrial from Ministry (USA), Suicide Commando (Belgium),
LMFMD (Germany), Opeth (Sweden)
The Cosmic Hour has Daniel Pollard (UK), Cosmic Ground (Germany), Stone Rebel (France)
The Time Suspended segment brings Tuluum Shimmering (UK) covering Black Sabbath

Memorial Day Weekend brings
European psychedelia with the latest from Acid Rooster (Germany), Psychedelic Source Records (Hungary),
Domboshawa (Sweden).
Pink Floyd’s “Live At Pompeii” great archival audio remaster from
Steven Wilson.
The Cosmic Hour Brings
Cartas de Japón (Argentina),
Mindphaser (Chile),
Vir Unis & James Johnson (USA)
The Time Suspended segment features ambient with the latest collaboration from
Alio Die (Italy) & Arborescence (France),
Autumn of Communion (UK).
New music from the Projekt label with
Pietri Zollo (Italy), Erik Wøllo (Norway)

This morning’s 2-5am journey goes deep into the final two 75 minute segments of ambient composer Robert Rich’s sleep concert music. Our third installment features parts 5 & 6 of a seven and a half hour studio recreation utilizing his full instrumentation- hardware and virtual synths, PVC flutes, field recordings and extended slow motion drones. The sleep concert is an important subset of his long career as an electronic composer which he developed as a student at Stanford University playing communal music concerts in the dorm lounge during a full sleep cycle with the audience laid out on the floor in sleeping bags. Originally released as the first Blu-Ray audio in 2014 “Perpetual” the source material is a 16bit 96db Bandcamp AIFF download.

This morning’s Mothers Day audio alternate reality starts with music from Primus’s first album from 1990 covering The Residents followed by The Residents recorded live at the Paraiso in Amsterdam in 1986, Praxis recorded at Bonnaroo in 2004. Five hours to melt your mind with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention recorded at The Whiskey in 1968, Korai Öröm (Hungary), Oresund Soace Collective (Denmark). Electronic space in the Cosmic Hour with Timeshard (UK), Zero Gravity & The Brain (LA-USA),Ozric Tentacles, Thom Brennan and Steve Roach recorded live in Boulder Colorado 10/24. The Time Suspended deep drift segment we play Ravi Shankar recorded in San Francisco in 1967, Pilot Voyager (Hungary) Purl & Deflection.

This morning’s journey goes deep into the ambient world of Robert Rich’s sleep concert music. Parts 3 & 4 of an eight hour studio recreation utilizing his full instrumentation, PVC flutes, samples and extended drones, an important segment of his long career as an
ambient electronic composer.
He developed the sleep concert as a student at Stanford University playing communal music concerts during a full sleep cycle. Originally released as the first Blu-Ray audio in 2014 “Perpetual” is also available as a 16bit 96db Bandcamp multi format download .

This morning a suprise beginning with avant rock from Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, Thinking Plague, David Bowie and Chicks on Speed.
Neokrautrock from Minerall (Germany)
Electronic in the Cosmic Hour from UK’s
Din label with Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle),
new music from Parallel Worlds (Greece), Cosmic Ground (Germany).
Ambient in the Time Suspended segment with intrusion (USA),
The latest release from Eternell (Turkey via Sweden).

In anticipation of the 2025 Radiothon
Progressive rock marathon from 9:00pm 4/18- 8:00pm 4/19 we will play two European progressive bands,
Magma, their ep from 2015 “Slag Tanz”
Also, the latest archival release from the original Krautrock band Can.
New heavy psych from Psychedelic Source Records (Hungary)
Laurie Anderson-tribute to Amelia Earhart
Cosmic hour-Radio Massacre International (UK) latest Cuniform release
Galactic Furnace part 3.
Aestrata (Germany) latest ambient release on El Culto

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This morning’s journey begins with Buckethead who will be performing @Patchogue Theater on April 16.
Jonas Hellborg & Shawn Lane with Micheal Shrieve, Micheal Delville playing Jimi Hendrix, Steven Wilson along with dissonance from PAKT recordied live in 2023, Lightwave recorded live in a French cave.
The Cosmic Hour brings a long set by Chuck Van Zyl recorded live on Stars End.
The Deep Drift Segment brings Ambient from Blanket Swimming (USA),
Pilot Voyager (Hungary), Eternell (Sweden).