"HEARTS OF SPACE" Radio Program Tape from 1984
These cassettes were recorded off of the “Hearts OF Space” radio show hosted by Stephen Hill in the early 80s, on what was WABE public radio broadcasting. I just finished transferring these tapes to the computer today. Recorded on these tapes are two of Stephen Hill’s HOS playlists. One tape has recorded on it Hill’s playlist entitled “Pleasure Cruise” which was aired in April 1983, and the other cassette has his “Electric Snowflakes” playlist recorded to it, which was in winter on 1984. Also a section of “The Traveler” playlist from 1987 is recorded on these. There is a lot of great tunes on here I haven’t heard in a very long time! There are even a few I had completely forgotten about, especially on the “Pleasure Cruise” playlist, where Stephen focused on very early electronic, space music from the late 70s and early 80s. The third tape has some unidentified “new age” music tunes recorded on it from around 1987. I believe those tunes may have been recorded off of a local radio program at that time that featured mainly new age music and soft jazz music, I can’t recall the name of the program. Also, some of them may be from a ‘New Age Special Focus’ program recorded off of 94Q Jazz Flavours. The Dave Grusin and Yellowjackets songs at the end are definitely recorded from 94Q’s Jazz Flavours. The unknown tunes are VERY intriguing, hopefully we will eventually be able to figure them out! Enjoy the ambiance!
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TIME STAMPS here!
0:02 Ashra – “Ocean Of Tenderness”
12:38 Steve Hillage – “Garden Of Paradise”
22:20 Steve Hillage – “Four Ever Rainbow”
36:14 Ojas – “Light Dreams”
42:57 Vangelis – “Ignacio”
46:34 Synchestra – “Electric Snowflake”
1:00:13 Aeoliah – “Devotion”
1:09:54 Tony Pagano – “Syrinx”
1:12:47 Eric Bikales – "Seascape"
1:18:05 Christian Poulet – “Eden”
1:20:59 Laraaji & Lyghte – “Equinox”
1:38:40 Tim Timmermans & Skipper Wise – “Winter Moon”
1:45:00 UNKNOWN (electric piano piece)
1:57:41 UNKNOWN (acoustic guitar & keys)
2:08:46 The Yellowjackes – “Nimbus”
2:13:33 Dave Grusin – “Mountain Dance” (Grp live)
2:19:12 Bob James – “Sun Runner”
A little of what Heaven sounds like…
Thank you very much.
Downloaded for posterity.
The original ASMR master, Stephen Hill.
Thanks for posting. I remember this program on Sunday nights on WTMD, Towson State University in Towson, Maryland in I think the late 1980s through early 1990s.
Thanks from Miami–Always listened to HOS in N.Y.n New Age music with John DiLiberto
I am so happy you put this on you tube. I love it
I used to record the programs off the radio. My finger ready to push record on my small. Tape recorder .
Safe journey Space fans. Wherever you are!
I had years & years of HOS recorded on reel-to-reel but had to get rid of them when the machine broke. Long before YouTube – sigh … thanks for these, nothing ever has been as great, especially from 70s & early 80s, imho.
A million thanx ! Heard original shows. Your posting verifies the quality of the spaced/timed experience.
GREETINGS FROM TRANSYLVANIA!!! THANX 4 THE UPLOAD!!!!!!! I was listening back then on the other side of the pound ! Its a jewel !!!!!!!
I listened to something in the early 1970's, when I would come home from partying (if you know what I mean). I would put on my headphones and drift into another universe. I thought it was Musical Starstreams, but they weren't around in 1974, so this must have been it..
Used to listen to this on NPR and to Thistle & Shamrock which was a Celtic music show. I loved that show! Sent off for their newsletter and got tons of junkmail… Irish Junkmail!! Catalogues for books, music, even instruments, travel brochures and such… very cool! Thanks for posting this! I love new age and jazz…
Awesome. My Dad and I used to listen to this when I was just a little dude. It definately rubbed off on me and I love ambient electronic now
i loved this show. We had mandatory attendance at inlaws each Sunday, which would run to 10 or 11 at night, even tho we had to get up at 6 am on Monday. HOUR+ drive, and we would listen to this, and relax, and be ready to get going again the next day. I really miss it.
You are obviously a Hearts Of Space fan, and I do thank you for this playlist. I can completely relate, having old cassette recordings from KDAQ Shreveport between '84 – '86. I'd like to first say, with respect, the first playlist, "Pleasure Cruise", has a problem with pitch – it's slow, affecting both Stephen Hill's voice and the playback of a long favorite space track of mine, "Ocean Of Tenderness" by Ashra. For comparison, you can find "Ocean Of Tenderness" on your favorite streaming service (like Amazon Music), here on YT ("Ashra – Ocean Of Tenderness" – Alex Pollock), or better yet, HOS Prog No 17 – "Pleasure Cruise" at HOS.com. I'm pretty sure you do know, every last HOS program that's ever been aired is available for streaming there … so many memories at your disposal, without the radio static, cassette tape issues, or even the announcer, if you want! "Reflections In Suspension – Steve Roach", "Elsewhere – Vangelis", "Mistral – Ashra", "Hymn – Bruce BecVar", and many more.
Awesome job with this!
This is beautiful thanks so much for posting
I used to listen to this on Sunday nights in the 1980’s. Man, I am so old. Thank you for sharing this.
Hope they don't delete this. Hard to find a lot of H.O.S. on YouTube..
Soo cool you did this Thank you so much!!!! ..loving it …I used to listen on public radio..they took it off. I used to record them too off the radio about 10 years back. My son would laugh at me and cassette tapes. Love that show. Love how the music takes me away. Take care.
I love when you post these full programs. A little light progressive electronic tunes in here too….
Thanks Kyle for cleaning these tapes up, once again 🙂 The Hearts of Space tapes are quite old and were recorded in a very archaic fashion with an open air microphone aimed at the speakers (it was all I had at that time haha) These were recorded I think around September of 1984 (the hearts of space ones) The program would air at midnight Fridays, as you said in your opening comments, on WABE public radio via satellite out of California by Stephen Hill, very interesting program. I had one tape that the machine tried to eat, I was able to salvage it by rewinding, but I don't notice it here. Correction, it was the Bob James song at the end where the tape got practically mangled by the tape recorder. 😉
Just loving this, naturally. So much that brings me way back. Not just to this show of course, but also Starstreams circa '90-'91. They played that Ashra all the time. Of course, Hillage. I found that Ojas 'Trance Tape' in AZ eons ago. That's a touch more obscure than the usual fare…Alrighty, back to the show… 🙂
Thanks for this, brings back memories of the happiest time of my life. KJCMuzique if you think this is inappropriate then please delete this post; but I've been trying for decades to find out the composer to the following recording I made back around 1983 on the East Coast version of Hearts of Space –a radio program called "Stars End". If you know please let me know. Thanks in advance!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=netV3Xm11Cc
How cool!! My thing all around as you well know. 🙂 Thanks a bunch for sharing this!
Nice music!!! If I`m not mistaken 1:12:47 sounds like a Eric Bikales piece from the MOODTAPES Series. I believe it`s called SEASCAPES