This is the most amazing set ive heard in a long time

Very different, but I am totally digging it

This very good, reminds me of a 5meo DMT trip 🐸

Vivian Koch (@kochvivian) has real range. For labels like Life And Death, a.r.t.less and AD 93 she has served up everything from IDM to moody breaks, ambient soundscapes to emotive techno. Her most recent album - last year's ominous but hopeful Beyond Contact - was fine proof of that from the Berlin-based artist who started DJing aged just 16. She has since mastered the art of making and playing club music thanks to her residency at Griessmuehle and her own Olympe party series.

She very much eases into this week with a superb ambient selection. It's broad in its remit, with the most beautiful and suspensory pieces bleeding into gently suggestive rhythms. The moods, too, range from mind-emptying bliss to passages of hopefulness and even romance. It's the sort of cathartic listen we all occasionally need to immerse ourselves in as a way of resetting.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 374 - Vivian Koch

Saphileaum live performed and recorded on the second day of Stihia Festival, in front of the dried up Aral Sea in Muynak, Uzbekistan

Image by Ruztamo

Saphileaum (live) @ Stihia Festival, Muynak 07.05.22

Up next in our mix series is Berlin based Dutch-Italian recording and performing artist Grand River (@grandriver). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com
 
MFM: Hi Aimée. In the musical landscape nowadays it often seems to be all about the final result (or product even) rather than the process and path before it. With your music it feels that it's more about the process of making rather than the final outcome. Where does your profound interest for experimenting with audio and composing come from?
 
GR: Nice to hear that you see it that way and to know that it may be perceived like this from the outside as well. The work itself and how we experience the process is what matters most. It’s not always easy to be mindful about how everything is created along the way. The end result or end product is important, but if you don’t enjoy the process of how you get there, I don’t think it makes much sense to even undertake the journey. And of course this applies to many aspects of life.
 
MFM: You've got a rich experience in doing technical work for and at radio stations and with other kinds of media. Did you have someone to teach you all the ins & outs of audio and technical production?
 
GR: Most of the technical work I learned directly through working as I did not go to any audio school to study sound design or audio engineering. When I started to work as an audio engineer for radio stations and other media outlets 13-14 years ago, there were not many audio schools like there are now. Back then, the people I worked with were mainly composers that had learned audio engineering on their own, just as I had. However, as a child, I was formally taught music theory and musical instruments. That, of course, came long before the technical work.
 
MFM: Your first official release dates are from 2017 but you had been active with experimenting, composing, and recording for a much longer time already. At what point did you find yourself confident and pleased enough to share your productions with the outside world?
 
GR: When I moved to Berlin in 2015 I took the first few years to research and study the sound I wanted to express and felt a connection to. Long before that, I was building and playing other genres. It takes time to find your sound and style, and the interesting part is that it continues to evolve over time. Even when you think you’ve found it, it still changes slightly.
 
MFM: Do you go to the studio religiously, regardless of whether you feel inspired or motivated? Do you have a certain routine when working in the studio?  
 
GR: I don’t go to the studio religiously, at least not to make music. 
I do work every day, but often I am just sitting in my studio listening to music, writing emails, or having meetings. Many people don’t know how much work is behind a project. From the outside, what you see is just the tip of the iceberg. I mostly compose in phases; I might compose a lot for two months and then the next month I will be focused on researching, or preparing a live show, recording a mix like I did for you, or creating a sound installation. I need time to absorb what I compose and let it rest, and then get back to it.
 
MFM: Are there any new projects that you're working on and can share with us? 
 
GR: I am working on several beautiful projects at the moment. This year I am working on different collaborations of which the releases will follow in the near future. I have a new album coming out either at the end of the year or beginning of 2023. I am currently working on an immersive installation and I will also be premiering a new AV show with the visual artist Marco Ciceri this summer.

MFM Mix 041: Grand River

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CXXXIX by Erika (@erikadotnet). Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Tracklist:
Red Stars CPR - The Killing Of A Sacred Place
Merrin Karras - Monument
François X - Particules Elementaires
Richard Fearless - Tamas
Cosimo Damiano - La Guaritrice
Forest Drive West - Particles in Motion
Varuna - Avicennia
Torn Relics - Rebirth
Ligovskoï - Dilip
Valentino Mora - Second Skin
Kato de Vidts - First Signs
David Shettler - Orthosomnia
Nørbak - Watershed
Unjin - Ties
Efficient Refineries - Dhyana
Space Afrika - u+00b1
Jo Johnson - there is no there there
Jonas Kopp - Deep Freeze
Max Loderbauer - Sub
Grand River - All Playing in Jannah
Slacker - deep in the forest, a sacred pool
Afrorack - Rev

Mysteries of the Deep CXXXIX - Erika

Old friends and hapless mavericks Ivan Smagghe and Nathan Gregory Wilkins present a fortnightly window into their ramshackle musical world. A show with absolutely no rules (as they'd only break them). We love the unmixable, old & new. We are oddballs and we love you.

https://www.nts.live/shows/channeling/episodes/channeling-25th-october-2022

Channeling w/ Ivan Smagghe & Nathan Gregory Wilkins 251022

To compile this mix, I dug through dozens of ambient/drone/electroacoustic records I picked up this year.

Many are tracks I played throughout the year, while others are more overlooked stuff I wanted to play.

Happy New Year! 

Prime Vertical - Saturn In The 12th House {Ilian Tape}
j - swirling in clouds of silver lace {Absorb}
Skee Mask - Farm {Ilian Tape}
Third Space - Granite Island {Absorb}
Other Joe - No Body Of Water Is Safe {Bedroom Suck Records}
Florian T M Zeisig - Slow Bench {enmossed}
Liai - Rebach {Quiet Time Tapes}
Caldera - Loslassen {Kimochi Sound}
Madalyn Merkey - Pallet Fork {Mana}
Unfinished Portraits - A3 {Blundar}			
I s - Then As Now {Urvakan Records}			
URA - Lettingo {Motion Ward}					
TIBSLC - B1 {Sferic}	
Lamin Fofana - Measure Of Memory/ I Stagger And Remember {Avian}	
Stone - Evil Day {3XL}					
S A D - Ini Ke Edi (Alt Mix) {12th Isle}			
JJ+JS - Syntropy (Feat. J) {Daisart}
Ben Vida + Lea Bertucci - A Flared Margin {Cibachrome Editions}	
Mehdi El-Aquil - Monorail {Terre Rouge}			
The False Berries - Evening Hour {Sloth Mate Productions}
Picnic - The When Of You {Daisart}					
Julianna & Matias Aquayo - Que Si El Mundo {Cómeme}			
Alexi Baris - Corner House {Soda Gong}					
ACT! - All The Static In The World Be A Softness In My Heart {Halocline Trance}		
Mister Water Wet - Bory	{West Mineral Ltd}				
URA - Untitled	{Motion Ward}						
Mads Emil Nielsen - Constellation {arbitrary}				
Omar Meftah & Thomas Xu - Bells & Thunder {Meeting Point}		
Yhdessa - All Rooms Interlude {Concentric Records}			
Walton - Maisie By The Sea {Lith Dolina}				
Mogwaa - Gravity {Eating Music}						
Phones In The Sun - First Look {Temple}					
Forest Management - Seven Years Ago {Mirae Arts}			
Félicia Atkinson - The World Is Full Of Abandoned Meanings {Shelter Press}					
Ulla - Sad Face	{3XL}							
Adrian Corker - B1 {Constructive}

ambient vinyl selections, 2022

Jo Johnson has been releasing music and organising events since the early 90s. She is a regular performer at Freerotation festival in the UK, and organises electronic music events with Bleep43 in London. Her debut solo album, Weaving, was released on Further Records in 2014 and has been described as a modern classic.  Her latest solo release, The Wave Ahead, came out earlier this year on Brooklyn-based label, Mysteries of the Deep. Jo also collaborates with pianist and composer, Hilary Robinson, and they have a live album, Session One, on 9128.live (a sub-label of A Strangely Isolated Place).

“It's been a pleasure to spend time listening to someone else’s music rather than my own! I've been writing and playing out much more this year, which has been amazing, but it's not left as much time for listening, so it's been refreshing and inspiring to delve into some of the great music that's been coming out recently. I've created a Buy Music list – please support the artists and labels included by paying for their work, if you can, and helping them to keep making great music." - Jo

Tracklist:

Luke Sanger - Ghosts of the Uranium Forest (Frequency Domain, 2023)
Jo Johnson – Untitled (unreleased, 2023)
Xenia Pestova Bennett - King of Cats (Pomeranian Snout/TakuRoku, 2023/2020)
Bana Haffar -  Save This Manual For The Future (Touch, 2023)
Ryan J Raffa - All At Once (Group Tightener, 2023)
Cate Brooks – Tapeworks I (Café Kaput, 2023)
Imaginary Softwoods – Chalked Outlines Of A Polybius Square (Field Records, 2023)
D1G - Drawing 1 (self-released on Bandcamp, 2022)
Bea Brennan – Everlasting (Old Technology, 2022)
Simon McCorry – Full Circle (Polar Seas, 2021)
Florian Fricke – Spirit of Peace I-III (Celestial Harmonies, 1983)
KMRU – MR4 (self-released on Bandcamp, 2022)
Field Lines Cartographer – Sunrise Through Wires (Castles in Space, 2023)
Jo Johnson – Orbit (Mysteries of the Deep, 2023)
Patricia Wolf – People Moving Freely (i u we records, 2021)

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Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/werkhouse-the-observatory-mix-jo-johnson

Also, Jo recently launched a Bandcamp subscription service. If you love her music as much as we do, please consider supporting her and subscribing. The first offerings to subscribers are two stunning improvisations recorded just recently.

Subscribe: https://jojohnson.bandcamp.com/subscribe

And catch Jo playing at IKLECTIK on 16th June, supporting Luigi Tozzi, Laura BCR, and Luke Carter.

IKLECTIK: https://iklectikartlab.com/luigi-tozzi-live-jo-johnson-live-laura-bcr-dj-luke-carter-dj/

The Observatory - Jo Johnson

Donato Dozzy - Guest Mix

Recording of an all nighter set for Rhythm Section at Corsica Studios 02.12.2017

Intergalactic Gary for Rhythm Section - Corsica Studios 02.12.2017

Warmth in the winter sun.
A recording from the Astral Industries x Kizen Records party at Ping Pong Hong Kong. Contributed to the Astral Industries 9128.live takeover, April 2020.

Hong Kong 221218

Leaves lose their effervescence, stroking the strings of the ground as they bring us into the colder months. Such is the sound that resonates out of Chris SSG, our next guest from Japan. A master of mesmerizing, emotive passages, he is known for his careful consideration, patient execution, and sublime selections. As co-founder of the now-defunct MNML SSGS blog and event series and a resident at the semi-regular Sound Garden chill out parties, he has spread his infectious love for boundless forms of music far and wide, reaching audiences across the globe. After hearing his acclaimed mixes for podcasts such as Electronic Exploration and Mysteries of the Deep, we are ecstatic to have him contribute to UNRUSH. So grab a blanket, some tea, and watch the eternal processes of decay and rebirth unfold before you with this very special session from Chris SSG.

Thanks a lot https://soundcloud.com/mnml-ssgs

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.ssgs
RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/chrismnmlssgs
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mnmlssgs

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria 
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist:

Biosphere - Berg
Ital & Halal - Where Exactly I Am
Shasta Cults - Incline
Sarah Davachi / Ariel Kalma - Adieu La Vie
Art Crime - Self
Niagara - Ano-B
William Selman - Polysemy
Imaginary Softwoods - Lie Down and Rest
Grand River & PRG/M - Rosenbach Acoustic Piano (70's)
Neel - Planatia
Pye Corner Audio - Phase B
A.R. Hill - PT2399
Exael - Actaeon
Pontiac Streator - Enter Sandman
Tadd Mullinix - Woman in the Dunes
Norm Chambers - Glass
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Kreintoj
Ragnar Grippe - Part 1
John Also Bennett & Field Works - Indiana Blindfold
Laurie Spiegel - Pentachrome
Christina Vantzou - Lava (Ka Baird remix)
Spirit & Form - Spirit & Form (Lieven Martens remix)
Koen Holtkamp - Flint (for Flynt)
Baba Stiltz - Hotel Exile
Lord Of The Isles feat. Ellen Renton - Inheritance 
The Detroit Escalator Co. - Fractual (in)

Donato Dozzy - Guest Mix

Lullabies for Insomniacs

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