Seeking intensity through music? Tune into our first mix by Bethlehem Mulat, also known as Venetta, the Berlin-based DJ and producer who refuses to settle for lukewarm. "Sometimes, when you're exposed to music, it evokes some sort of intensity or plays around tension. You're literally forced to get out of your head." she says.

Mulat's sets, played at the likes of Panorama Bar, Boiler Room, and A Club Called Rhonda, are an exercise in helping listeners break out of rumination cycles and reconnect with the present moment—in other words, a type of therapy. This makes sense in context, given her advocacy work founding the Vancouver Black Therapy and Advocacy Foundation and running it remotely from her adopted home in Berlin.

Her mix for Aeyde, inaugurating our new curated music series, channels some of this emotional catharsis. "With the state of the world, we're all seeking some sort of solace." she says. "With this, I'm just trying to give people a break, something to listen to when you just want to shut everything else out and feel good." Take a listen.

Aeyde Radio — Mix 01: Venetta

Tune into Aeyde Radio's newest mix, curated by Berlin-based saxophonist and neoclassical artist Bendik Giske. 

His tenor saxophone isn't just an instrument; it's a six-kilo challenge that demands strength, endurance, complex breathwork, and mental stamina to master. It's precisely this form of labor that fuels the openness of the Norwegian musician's most recent self-titled album, an experimental neoclassical work, which he has notably described as the equivalent of "musical full-frontal nudity" because of its stripped-back approach. What results is a record that may be his most labored, yet honest statement yet—a call for close listening.

Off the back of his newest release, Giske is the next guest on Aeyde Radio, invited by the platform's guest editor and Resident Advisor’s Editor-in-Chief Whitney Wei. The critically acclaimed musician curates a mix for Aeyde Radio that enfolds his love of instrumental and ambient music with electronic undertones, inviting listeners into the recesses of his arcane sound world. Take a listen.

Aeyde Radio — Mix 02: Bendik Giske

Listen to Aeyde Radio's newest mix, curated by Berlin-based DJ, performer, expressionist, and visual artist, Nas Tea. Speaking to our guest editor and Resident Advisor’s Editor-in-Chief Whitney Wei, Nas Tea discusses the intention behind her music, and facilitating a space for the collective to dream, to rest, and to unfurl. In her words, “Creating sound for me was always to want to bring people to their deeper self and to let them feel.” Nas Tea curates a playlist for Aeyde Radio that goes deep, lulling the listener into a synesthetic state. Paying homage to her Middle Eastern roots and her classical, ambient, and instrumental influences, this mix is defined by its concert of plucked, reverberating melodies and hypnotic percussion.

Aeyde Radio — Mix 03: Nas Tea

Listen to the latest mix from Aeyde Radio, curated by Berlin-based DJ, producer, and record label co-founder, Why Be. With Mix 04, Why Be steps out of his comfort zone. Detouring from his signature propulsive electronics in favor of ambient listening, the Danish multi-hyphenate curates a playlist awash with new age and original soundtracks. Released one month after Lunar New Year, Mix 04 includes South Korean folk music—a nod to Why Be’s birthplace—and an innocuous classic from Henry Mancini, too. On a personal favorite from the playlist, ‘The Plateau Which The Flora of Zephyr Occupies’ from Susumu Yokota, Why Be says “I’m imagining the creator was trying to soundtrack one of those traditional Chinese shadow puppet acts.”

Aeyde Radio — Mix 04: Why Be

Listen to Mix 05 from Aeyde Radio, curated by London-based DJ and illustrator Anu. With this mix, Anu taps into the yearning of early adolescence and says, “I immediately knew that I wanted to make something that felt grounding and calming.” Rife with field recordings, classical Indian tracks, and an appearance by Grizzly Bear—a nod to her teenage self—her grounded selections evoke the sincere, confessional feel of quickly scribbled diary entries. On a personal favorite from the playlist, ‘Bala Main Bairagan Hoongi’ from Ravi Shankar, Anu says, “This one sounds like home. The drums! (+ Jai Paul samples this in Str8 Outta Mumbai).”

Aeyde Radio — Mix 05: Anu

Aeyde Radio Mix 06 is broadcasting now. Curated by series guest editor Whitney Wei, Mix 06 sees Berlin-based electronic musician, composer, and pianist David August take the helm. Speaking to Wei about the playlist in his accompanying interview on Aeyde Magazin, August says this playlist revels in the ease of quotidian, freeform listening, “...it is really about enjoying music that is spreading an atmosphere you feel comfortable in.”

Aeyde Radio — Mix 06: David August

Aeyde Radio Mix 07 is broadcasting now, curated by series guest editor Whitney Wei. This season’s contribution is by Noah Slee and Dhanesh Jayaselan—founders of Berlin-based BIPoC choir A Song For You. Founded in 2022, the choir filled a profound musical chasm in a city often bereft of the warmth of human voices, not to mention providing a platform to the BIPoC community for authentic expression. Aeyde Mix 07 attempts to capture what is both earnest and gentle. Mixed by Jayaselan with cosign from Slee, the curation exalts the key sonic inspirations—contemporary gospel, jazz, and R&B —that form the soulful, sumptuous palette of A Song For You, meanwhile generously diverting into more experimental frontiers.

Aeyde Radio — Mix 07: A Song For You

Aeyde Radio Mix 08 is broadcasting now, curated by series guest editor Whitney Wei. This season’s contribution comes from Billy Bultheel—a Belgian composer and performance artist bridging contemporary techniques with traditions of European Medieval and Renaissance polyphonic music. Subversive and unusual given its almost dramaturgical origins, Bultheel's signature sound should be thought of as structural or environmental in nature—as he puts it, "architecture that's laid on top of the architecture," with the intention of "generating a landscape of sound." Aeyde Mix 08 weaves soulful nostalgia into forward-facing soundscapes, building a listening experience that feels as tender as it does exploratory.

Aeyde Radio — Mix 08: Billy Bultheel

Aeyde Radio Mix 09 is broadcasting now, curated by series guest editor Whitney Wei. This season’s contribution comes from KMRU, the Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is founded on intent listening. Years of attuning to the sonic layers of global landscapes have shaped his ability to construct unexpected and immersive sound environments. These have found a home in institutions and showcases such as the Barbican, Atonal, CTM, and Dekmantel.

Whenever KMRU listens to a city, he often thinks of its key note, or the prevailing tone. In Berlin, it's mostly the transportation noises. He approached his entry into the Aeyde Radio repertoire much in the same way. The track "9°C" by Whatever the Weather, the pseudonym of fellow field recording artist and friend Loraine James, sets the "old IDM vibe." Its wealth of glitches and texture draws open the curtains on the mix before voyaging into an hour of softly drifting, expansive atmospherics.

Aeyde Radio — Mix 09: KMRU

At Aeyde's 10th birthday, the experimental artist Josef Laimon took the music helm, having composed the score for "The Crone," a bespoke 15-minute performance by choreographer Sharon Eyal. What resulted was equal parts taut and haunting. The dancers, with their muddied ballet shoes, twitched like possessed marionette dolls through the venue's main hall.

His follow-up contribution, Josef Laimon presents a mix for Aeyde Radio that delights in its own tinkering. He weaves his own original productions, like 'The Crone' and the track 'DFU,' which he created "as an imaginary score for a melancholic summer motion picture," alongside tracks by Speakers Corner Quartet and Sega Bodega. Overall, his selections show an affinity for weathered vocals and playful instrumentation, where off-kilter xylophones and toylike whirs all find a welcome place in his offering.

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