Son Of Chi Remixes:
‘Growing Forests In The City’ - Clara Brea & Menhir
A Bandcamp exclusive digital release by Chi Factory Recordings 2026.  
Pre-order here: 
https://chifactory.bandcamp.com/album/seven-years-at-the-chi-factory
Release date: January 12th 2026

Preview by Minimal Collective:
https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-son-of-chi-clara-brea-menhir

Live loops, drones, electronics, vocals and field recordings by Clara Brea & Menhir. Remixes, edits and overdubs by Son Of Chi.  Produced by Son Of Chi at the Chi Factory Studios 2023-2025. All rights reserved. 

Edited cover photo of ‘Quinta da Regaleira’ Portugal by Rodrigo Pederzini (Pexels).

Hanyo van Oosterom aka Son Of Chi:

“I met Clara Brea just before a show in 2019 at the ‘‘Avalovara Listening Club’ in Madrid. There was an instant chemistry and we decided to exchange recordings for future collabs. Clara sent me the stems of her latest ‘Wetland Project’, an audiovisual project that was originally produced for the Eufonic Festival (Spain), using field recordings from the Ebro Delta nature reserve. I started working on a remix and just like our meeting the project developed naturally with extraordinary ease”.

“A confluence of two kindred musical spirits, a wayfaring epic that draws together a rich archive of ecological field recordings, live instrumentation and higher inspirations”. This is how Astral Industries introduced the release of our first album “The Wetland Remixes” in 2022”.

“Later that year Clara sent me the live stems of her impro jam with Menhir, a Spanish music and art collective formed by artist and singer Coco Moya and musician Ivan Cebrian, that have been working for years on mystical chants and deep listening electronic music, full of analogue textures and slow sound movements".

"The collab was part of the residency Clara did for Matadero Madrid in 2021. Improvisations at the intersections between sound art, phonography and electronic music, capturing the soundscape of Madrid with the intuitive use of field recordings”.

“This live setting along with the combination of different instruments, electronics, vocals and field recordings created this special energy that makes music interesting to me. You let the music ‘find you’, including possible, sometimes beautiful mistakes”. 

“I started jamming with their sounds at the Chi Factory Studios, inspired by the magic of the original recordings. I must have recorded hours of edits and live mixing. Finally stripping it down like a zen painting. Untill there were no more straight lines, only random dots. Like echoes from ‘the anthropocene’ as Clara describes her way of uncovering the silent, hidden magic within the sonic scapes of the city”. 

“The result is a deep, classic ambient album. Proud to be part of it”.

Find out more:
https://chifactory.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/sonofchi
http://clarabrea.net/
https://menhir.xyz/

Clara Brea & Menhir - Growing Forests In The City Part One

new on top & underground releases mixed in a reminiscing style, thought of the b2b mixes of ricardo and richie...

New 🎶OnTOP& UNDERGROUND🎶 releases🎛🎶 135bpm TechnoMix🎶🎚

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SOMETHING WEIRD
spontanious experimental,
alternative live impro, used
hardware only: progressive, with acoustic guitar loops,  dragging kick with rumble flaws, with blues and rock elements like distorted basses from a trash keyboard ending up in a noisy heavy beat with breathsounds and screaming sonic twitching. no perfection.

recording diary by delia liederschuh

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On the first day of the new year, we kick off 2026 with absolute sonic precision. Our 100th mix captures a live recording of Objekt (@keinobjekt) at the PURE G event in FINAL Taipei, a fitting document of an artist widely regarded as one of the most formidable of our generation. Objekt is TJ Hertz, a Berlin-based producer and DJ whose background is as multifaceted as his sound: born in Tokyo to British-American and Filipino parents, raised between Belgium and the UK, and settled in Berlin in 2009. He first turned heads with the self-released white-label 12"s Objekt #1 and #2 in 2011, before a string of defining releases on labels such as Hessle Audio and a remix for Radiohead. Tracks like “Cactus,” “Unglued,” “Agnes Demise,” and “Ganzfeld” didn’t merely shake dancefloors—they rewired them, introducing a generation of clubgoers to a sound that felt both violently disassembled and eerily controlled.

Listening to Objekt is like watching a vast structure built from nanomachines collapse and reassemble in real time. His music reveals an almost pathological obsession with spatial depth and sonic texture—precision so severe it borders on the cruel—yet within the fractured grids and skewed rhythms pulses a startling vitality. Cold digital signals are transmuted into something fiercely alive, futuristic without losing its physical impact. This approach earned early admiration from figures such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, led to a split EP with Drexciyan pioneers Dopplereffekt (with “Ganzfeld” crowned Resident Advisor’s #1 track of 2014), and produced crossover moments like the breakbeat house anthem “Theme From Q” on Objekt #4. Even his slowest record to date, Objekt #5 (2022), twists dancehall rhythms into something unmistakably his own—measured, menacing, and exacting.

That same hyper-detailed vision extends to his album work on Berlin’s PAN label. Flatland (2014) and the landmark Cocoon Crush (2018) treat the LP as a canvas for immersive, hyperreal sound worlds—synthetic simulations of splintering wood, dripping caverns, and insect wings that trigger an acoustic uncanny valley, at once familiar and alien. Pitchfork awarded Cocoon Crush an 8.0, praising it as containing “some of the most meticulously arranged compositions that dance music has ever produced,” and the project later evolved into a full-spectrum live A/V show with visual artist Ezra Miller, touring festivals such as Unsound, Atonal, and Primavera. Parallel to this, Objekt has built a fearsome reputation as a DJ: crowned Mixmag’s DJ of the Year in 2018, capable of guiding a room through half a dozen genres or plunging it into a psychedelic wormhole of self-discovery with surgical precision. His 2016 mix CD for Tresor, Kern, Vol. 3, was described by Resident Advisor as “a window into the very essence of DJing.” 

Underpinning it all is relentless quality control, a genre-agnostic ethos, and a deeply technical mind—honed not only in clubs and studios, but also through his ongoing work as an engineer at Native Instruments, developing audio and machine-learning algorithms. In Objekt’s world, rational calculation and visceral intensity are not opposites, but twin forces locked into a singular, unmistakable circuit. With the launch of his own label Kapsela, he continues to conjure dancefloor weapons that are both fiercely experimental and immaculately detailed, carving out a singular sonic circuitry where rational calculation and visceral intensity collide.

PURE Guest.100 Objekt

Just warming up this Matriarch. A few inputs from the Stylophone DS2 drone synth, just to add one bit of external modular gear into the mix. Digitakt for drums/percussion. It's not very Moogy if you ask me but I just wanted to dive in somewhere.

First Jam on Moog Matriarch

Circles On Acid live performance at Silbergold club, Frankfurt at  EMOM FFM 1st Anniversary party on 13.12.2025.

What is inside my 6U 104HP case:

Tiptop Audio uZeus
Doepfer A-138n Narrow (Mini) Mixer 
Doepfer A-140-2 - Dual Micro ADSR 
Doepfer A105-2 VCF
Noise Engineering Quantus Ampla
Erica Synths Pico Drum
Synthesis Technology - E352 Cloud Terrarium
Mutable instruments Rings
Mutable instruments Plaits
Mutable instruments Beads
Mutable instruments Stages
Mutable instruments Marbles
MI Kinks Clone
NOH Modular Cycles
Xaoc Devices Batumi
Shakmat Modular Battering Ram
Shakmat Modular Archer's Rig
WMD Fracture
1010Music Bitbox Micro
2xBefaco ATTE Attenuators
Intelijel Unity Mixer

Outside the case:

Endorphines Ground Control
Zoom Livetrak L-6
OTO BOUM

Circles On Acid Live @ Silbergold, Frankfurt 13.12.2025

This is the first Moog jam I have truly loved. I did a reset on the global settings menu (since I bought this Matriarch used, I think there were some changes made that made it hard to follow beginner tutorials). This made it easier to get sounds I could sequence a bit more clearly on the Ableton Move. I also started adding in samples from the Move itself, which helped make the Moog feel like it was finally integrating into my sonic universe...with the samples I was able to find a better for it. Rediscovering the Eric Synths LXR-02 has also been fun. Hope you enjoy!

What Would You Like Us To Call You?

prjct02 [128.13 Dm] (05/01/2026)

Listen/Order Link:
https://bioscontrast.bandcamp.com/track/prjct02-12813-dm
https://soundcloud.com/bioscontrast/bios-contrast-nilotpal-das-prjct02

Drums, Samples, Mixing & Mastering by Nilotpal Das

prjct02 [128.13 Dm]

Synthesizer V original song
music, mix, mastering: ponyhafnium
lyrics: LEM
singer: Mai (v1 because the lack of manual mode in v2 means couldn't turn her into a cute robot)

Verse 1A
Wander through matter and distress the mist
Time to caress and undo our tricks
Cold breeze of November’s a heavy stem
Subjects of the north and witnessing flags are so kind
Star-struck lily where the fishes pace
Out in the fens of the swarm
Dependents and shadows in my middle way
Is the map gray-white?
Why explain your digit around my floor?

Verse 1B
Conquer all over and compress the twist
Time to suppress and subdue our kicks
Some squeeze of endeavor’s a very gem
Objects of the earth and processing bags are so fine
Hard-up chili where the dishes race
Inside the ends of my yarn
Descendants and issues in my little day
Did the black turn white?
Why restrain your limits around my door?

Pre-Chorus 1
The apple melons of power it sheds
Nonprofessional flowers
While the sun shines unpaid
In my patch, spell right on your arrow mark
Riddles encased,
Blackberries, berries have begun

Chorus
Things are not small aims
Where dreams lead to results
Things are not small aims,
It's not so difficult
Exclaim me, call my life real
But it can't be hard to wail
Origin leads to source

Verse 2 = Verse 1A

Pre-Chorus 2

The orange lemons of shower it spreads
Unconventional towers
While the moon whines afraid
In my batch, dwell bright on your narrow spark
Fiddles erased,
Strawberries, cherries have undone

Chorus
Things are not small aims
Where dreams lead to results
Things are not small aims,
It's not so difficult
Exclaim me, call my life real
But it can't be hard to wail
Origin leads to source

Things

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