While there are a huge number of artists slotted to perform at this year’s Mutek festival, Vince highlights some of his favourites, ranging from the mellow ambience of German pianist Nils Frahm to the more dance floor driven aggression of new Jon Hopkins material.

Check out this great mix of electronic and experimental sounds and get a feel for some of the great artists performing at Mutek. Download the free mp3 mix from the Soundcloud player below, or check out the archived video above.

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Vince Pollard’s ithinkx Show: Episode #18: Tracks Played

1. “Do” by Nils Frahm (from Screws)
2. “Part 1″ [Excerpt] by Matthew Herbert (from The End Of Silence)
3. “Luxury problems” by Andy Stott  (from Luxury Problems)
4. “Footprints” by Juan Atkins & Moritz Von Oswald (from Borderland)
5. “Assembly ” by Robert Hood (from Motor: Nighttime World 3)
6. “On Board” by Graze (from Graze EP)
7. “Ocean Drive (Schamane)” by Brandt Brauer Frick (from Miami)
8. “Calico” by John Roberts (from Fences)
9. “Stately, Yes.” by Efdemin (from Efdemin)
10. “Caves” by Nosaj Thing (from Drift)
11. “Eye Signal” by Jon Hopkins (from Immunity)

Fresh of the release of their highly anticipated new album, Shaking the Habitual, The Knife are as experimental as ever. As Vince notes, for fans who are expecting another iteration of their famous pop single “Heartbeats,” the Knife make little effort to replicate the career-changing track.  However, the album retains some of the trademark ‘Eastern’ sounding melodies and themes, as well as classic ‘Knife’ vocal work, the Swedish duo show no signs of slowing their exploration of their avant-garde take on electronic music.

Additional highlights include a new track from The Black Dog, who revert to a more 90s-influence techno sound in their most recent work compared to what can be heard on their preceding Liber series.

Vince also features a track from Pursuit Grooves called “Great Light Regions,” which was recently self-released as a part of her new album Broadcasting A Sensory Sequence (B.A.S.S), which sandwiched between a couple of interesting tracks from AtomTM and Heterotic.

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Vince Pollard’s ithinkx Show: Episode #17: Tracks played

A major highlight from this episode includes a wonderful new track from Actress, who follows up last year’s R.I.P with arguably his best material since his 2010 album, Splazsh. Vince also highlights German electronic group To Rococo Rot’s The Amateur View in his classic album feature, playing three tracks from the 1999 album.

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Vince Pollard’s ithinkx Show: Episode #16: Tracks Played

Additionally, Vince revisits some classic electronic tunes with some music from Richard D. James’ (Aphex Twin) Polygon Window alias, ranging from heavily acidic to more mellow piano-driven sounds.

Check out the archived live stream of this episode of the ithinkx show in the video player above, or download the free mp3 podcast version from the Soundcloud player below. Track list will be available shortly.

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Vince Pollard’s ithinkx Show: Episode #15: Tracks Played

Contrasting the eerie, darker tracks in this episode is a comedic work from Boom Bip’s latest project; Music For Sleeping Children. Created with artist Charlie White, Music For Sleeping Children is an EP based on real interviews with five different teenage girls. Audio samples were taken from these interviews and used heavily in Boom Bip’s productions, yielding hilarious results.

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Vince Pollard’s ithinkx Show: Episode #14: Tracks Played

Keeping the quality caliber high as usual, Vince keeps listeners up to date on some of the newest electronic music, minimizing the endless sifting through digital mediocrity that is often associated with discovering new music online. Check out this episode of the ithinkx show in the video player above, or download the free mp3 podcast from the Soundcloud player below.

Vince Pollard’s ithinkx Show: Episode #13: Tracks Played

Also included is a couple of tracks from Matmos’ most recent project, The Ganzfeld EP, which as Vince explains, was created from recordings taken during a sensory-deprivation study in which the musicians recorded their auditory experiences, then used these recordings as the basis for the tracks on the EP.

Up-and-coming Toronto-based electronic musician and Sound In Motion artist Knowing Looks is also featured in this episode, with a track called “Cytal Fink,” which was recently praised highly in a review in Resident Advisor.

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Vince Pollard’s ithinkx Show: Episode #12: Tracks Played

1. “Very Large Green Triangles (Edit)” Matmos (from The Ganzfeld EP)
2. “Come (feat. Jesse Boykins III)”Zodiac (from Zodiac EP)
3. “The Glow” Seams (from Tourist/Sleeper)
4. “Braille” Shelter Point (from Forever For Now EP)
5. “A Clone Is A Clone” Acid Pauli (from mst)
6. “All The Secrets” Flying Lotus (from Until The Quiet Comes)
7. “Holding” Old Apparatus (from Realise EP)
8. “Blurred Pictures” ASC (from Out Of Sync)
9. “Carrion Crow” Stefan Goldmann (from 17:50)
10. “Lion’s Lawn” Pursuit Grooves (from 91 Fellows)
11. “Empowering Change (Version)” Diamond Version (from Technology At the Speed of Life / Empowering Change EP)
12. “Cytal Fink” Knowing Looks (from We Are Family Vol. 1 EP)
13. “Zulu Compurar (feat. Okmalumkoolkat)” LV  (from Sebenza)
14. “Just Waves” [excerpt] Matmos (from The Ganzfeld EP)

Included in this episode are tracks from Jacaszek, Matthew Dear, Solvent, Gold Panda, Shigeto and many more. Additionally, Shigeto will be performing in the coming weeks at the Music Gallery’s X Avant Festival; something definitely worth checking out if you’re in Toronto.

Vince Pollard’s ithinkx Show: Episode #11: Tracks Played

1. Tycho “Coastal Brake” (from Dive)
2. Dabrye “We’ve Got Commodity” (from One/Three)
3. Solvent “Poly Ensemble” (from Apples & Synthesizers)
4. Matthew Dear “Fighting Is Futile ” (from Beams)
5. Lusine “Two Dots” (from A Certain Distance)
6. Shigeto “Ann Arbor Part 3 & 4″ (from Lineage)
7. Mux Mool “Valley Girls” (from Wax Rose Saturday EP)
8. Gold Panda “Before We Talked” (from Lucky Shiner)
9. Audion “Your Place Or Mine” (from Suckfish)
10. Jacaszek “Dare-gale” (from Glimmer)
11. Willits + Sakamoto “Levitation” (from Ancient Future)
12. Beacon “Into The Night” (from For Now EP)
13. Michna “The Tabernacle At Pendrell Vale” (from Moving Mountains EP)

Also included are tracks from Tin Man and Deadbeat, among others. Check out this episode of the ithinkx show, download the free mp3 podcast from the SoundCloud player below, or dig the video above.

*Edit: The Spectrum Spools label is an offshoot of Editions Mego. Vince says in the podcast that it was an offshoot of Ghostly; Spectral Sounds is the Ghostly offshoot.

Vince Pollard’s ithinkx Show: Episode #10 – Tracks Played:

1. “The Sour Cherry Is Ripened” Eril Fjord (from Mondoka)
2. “From Sterling to Snow” Ricardo Donoso (from Assimilating the Shadow)
3. “Thrown” Kiasmos (from the Thrown EP)
4. “Hydrus” Gatekeeper (from Exo)
5. “Finger Paint” Tin Man (from Neo Neo Acid)
6. “Alamut” Deadbeat (from Eight)
7. “Cremon” Dieter Moebius and Asmus Tietchens (from Moebius + Tietchens)
8. “Spirit Form” D’Marc Cantu (from A New World)
9. “Higher Ground” TNGHT (from the TNGHT EP)
10. “Default” Atoms For Peace (Default single)
11. “Overdrive” Untold (from Change In A Dynamic Environment 12″)
12. “Wildest Moments” Jessie Ware (from Devotion)
13. “February 8th, 1990 – Ashland, Ohio” Outer Space (from Akashic Record (Events: 1986-1990))

In the ninth episode, Vince shares a varied selection of new tunes. Opening with a few darker, more industrial sounding tracks, Vince then lightens things up with a crazy Oneohtrix Point Never remix from Matmos, who schizophrenically samples a huge timbral palette in the busy re-working of the original. Stay up to date on some of the newest quality electronic music with Vincent Pollard on his ithinkx show.

Vince Pollard’s ithinkx Show: Episode #9: Tracks Played

1. “301-305″ Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury (from Drokk: Music Inspired By Mega-City One)
2. “Of Blackest Grain To Missive Ruin” Paul Jebanasam (from Demiurge Variations)
3. “Dust March” Bandshell (HES021)
4. “Replica (Matmos Remix)” Oneohtrix (from Dog In The Fog: Replica Collaborations & Remixes)
5. “The Eagle” DeWalta (from Wander)
6. “Visitor” Cassegrain & Tin Man (from Carnal)
7. “Paper & Felt” Hugo Frederic (from Filtered)
8. “Happy Jazz” Super Magic Hats (from Filtered)
9. “Apologies” S_P_A_C_E_S (from Filtered)
10. “Frozen Land” Delta Funktionen (from Traces)
11. “Perihelion” Forever Sound (from Tiles)
12. “Stilla” Bam Spacey (from Land EP)