#gentle daps

Gainesville, Florida-based producer Natasha Home (aka Sunmoonstar) has been on the Gentle Daps radar since wowing us with a pair of great albums in 2015. Now she has offered up her own entry in the series by blessing us with 93 minutes of ambient and new age splashed with a few bright peaks of experimental pop and classical.

Baby Armie explores vintage synth-driven children's music for Gentle Daps' 20th episode.

Gentle Daps returns to its roots in soft pop, soft prog, ethereal, and fusion with this two-year anniversary episode mixed by yours truly.

Portland-based ambient artist Opaline has gotten regular coverage here on AiMT, so I am thrilled that he's been kind enough to offer up this latest entry in the Gentle Daps series. It's a live mix made up entirely of vinyl and cassettes, and it continues the new age theme of the past few Daps episodes. The format choice is fitting considering Opaline's thick release schedule of cassettes in recent years. His most recent is called Open Source and is available on Hacktivism Records. Stream/buy it and the rest of Opaline's extensively serene catalog over on his Bandcamp page.

Beat Bachs is a Fayetteville-based DJ and jack of all trades. He's been active in radio for 16 years and counting with a few different projects, namely the film industry talkshow The Drive-in Speakerbox. That show got its start as a spotlight on film scores (and still incorporates film score material between talk segments). Beat Bachs, who goes by The Boom Operator on the show, has been amassing a gigantic collection of scores over the past decade for the show. He was kind enough to pour over this entire archive and pick out the quietest, dreamiest pieces he could find for Gentle Daps XV. For more of Beat Bachs' projects, check out Art Amiss, a local art collective of which he's the president.

This is Tanner's third ANTS Podcast contribution. This time around he's taken a timeout from the smooth disco-house of his previous offerings to share this small wealth of dad-centric guilty pleasures for Gentle Daps. Music by Yes, Trevor Rabin, Biosphere, Can, Tears for Fears, Aphex Twin, Black Sabbath, Paul Horn, Ralph Dyck, The Alan Parsons Project, Andreas Vollenweider, Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Harold Budd, and Cocteau Twins.

Ana Cabaleiro is a photographer based out of Vigo, Spain. She has fronted the Microphones in the Trees music blog for nearly a decade since its 2005 inception. With a lean toward obscuro strains of ambient and folk, Ana focuses her blogging energies on unearthing lost full lengths via vinyl and cassette rips as well as spotlighting new releases. She posts several times a week, and her own 50- and 100-track quarterly MP3 mixes are bursting at the seams with impossibly rare gems. Given her prolific work on the site and her love for music of the quieter persuasion, I knew she could put together an epic Daps playlist, and she did! Please enjoy, and when you're done, go take a look at Microphones in the Trees if you haven't already. You won't be disappointed. Music by Joe Veneux, Bob Kindler, Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble, Eric Vann, Tim Wheater, Joël Fajerman, Inner Travels, Tim Clark, Emerald Web, Camille Sauvage, Sergei Nikitin & Tatiana Nikitina, Heino Jurisalu, James Clarke, James Fox & Mac Prindy, Jackalope, Marcey Hamm, Children of Scarfolk Primary School, Tim Robertson, Jacques Lasry, and Ravi Shankar.