The great Southern lands known today as Australia and New Zealand were once called "the Antipodes" (an-TIP-ohdees) by the British. The word literally means 'the other side of the world.' If you tunneled straight down from the British Isles through the center of the earth, Australia is roughly where you'd emerge — upside down, of course.
Even after it was colonized by the British, for centuries Australia was seen by the rest of the Western world as remote, exotic, and inaccessible. And even in the internet age, this isolation has meant that Australian music, art and culture has often gone unnoticed. Yet since the late 1970's, Australia has seen talented composers creating rich veins of contemporary music, including space-creating instrumental music in a variety of styles.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space guest-produced by our Australian colleague MIKE G (the man behind the essential web site AmbientMusicGuide.com) a selection of ambient and atmospheric music by Australian artists from the 1980's to the present, on a program called "ANTIPODEAN SPACE."
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