On 19 April 2018, Placid Angles was a guest on Magicwire w/ Gabriola. Placid Angles has been played over 60 times on NTS, first on 31 March 2015. Placid Angles's music has been featured on 55 episodes.

Placid Angles was Detroit maestro John Beltran's outlet for lush ambient/breakbeat techno, not too far removed from his early work under his own name, which returned largely unchanged following a 20-plus-year hiatus. Beltran debuted the Placid Angles project in 1997 with the album The Cry on Peacefrog. The music was characterized by lush pads, warm melodies, crisp breakbeats, and the occasional short, soulful vocal sample. It was well-received, but…