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Aeyde Radio

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

mix by @celega and @fatalfauxpas <3 

- cursed menu-

la mort verte (absinthe, lillet blanc, fresh citrus, champagne)
seared foie gras (pomegranate tar, scorched pickled beets)
wicker baskets (charred root vegetables, dungeness crabs
pork loin (tobacco smoke, tomato sugar rub, gala apple)
black and white pudding(black edamame, cannellini bean, crispy pig skin, green tomato coulis)
cheesecake (bourbon espresso syrup, vanilla bourbon crème)

7th mix: destiny's - xexexe & fatal faux pas

Nothing sounded the same after what happened on October 12. Every song he heard on that trip - from the Full Moon Party, the lounge bar, the hotel lobby - he couldn’t listen to them again without feeling a deep guilt, shame and confusion. He struggled to even remember what happened, at least in any linear way, but occasionally, when he would hear a song or a sound, he would feel it coming back, like storm-clouds finally bursting with rain. 

- @opalbeau

Kensuke Shiina - Ring of Fire (Never Been to Bali Mix) - 1997

Enigma - Turn Around - 2001

Chicane - No Ordinary Morning - 2000

Blank & Jones - Desire (Ambient Mix) - 2002

Elis Regina - Doente Morena - 1973

Blank & Jones - Desire - 2002

Nalin & Kane - Beachball (Extended Vocal) - 1997

Implant - All I Want - 2002

Paul Oakenfold - Summer Sun - 2002

Luiz Bonfá - Rain - 1972

* all tracks processed by opal beau

Tributary Projects

Spirit Theatre #26 - The Last Vacation (Opal Beau, September 2019)

@yage0k
The body is nothing but a machine. If the physical limitations of the body restrict mankind's evolution, it would be as if the fall of the species called "man" ... Had already been decided by a God that doesn't even exist. The information etched inside humans isn't only that which they themselves have acquired as individuals. This species called man is connected to his predecessors, and information has accumulated within him. If that information isn't shared, it's meaningless. Mere data. Mankind can evolve. Evolve by their own power. But to do that, they must first know what they truly are. What do you think you are?

Spirit Theatre #29 -  Eiri (Yage.0k, December 2019)

@embersee

theres a black mold spore infestation in my room and its making my head feel funny

Spirit Theatre #31 - Black Mold (cl9, March 2020)

I rented this gay porn movie from vimeo last night and there wasn’t much sex in it is was kinda more like a dream and watching a movie is like a dream most of the time like fkn astral projecting or smthn but all movies are kinda like a pornography… Yann Gonzalez said he’s interested in “imaginary cinema” and I felt that 

1. audio from the film Camera (2000)
2. Prologue by Alexandre Desplat
3. audio from the film The Hunger (1983) featuring Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus
4. audio from the film Maps to the Stars (2014)
5. Real Life / The Duet (Pageant runway edit) by HTRK 
6. audio from the film Possibly in Michigan (1983)
7. Blue Ballet 2 by Angus McGrath
8. Over the Rainbow by HTRK
9. audio from the film Beneath the Skin (1981)
10. Racks on Racks (ANNIHILATING RACKS EDIT) by Lil Pump
11. audio from the film Benny’s Video (1992)
12. Burn by Raffey Cassidy
13. Tonight Tonight (Strings Only Mix) by Smashing Pumpkins
14. Don’t Start No Shit by Tommy Wright III
15. Eton Boating Song by Phil Davies and Mark Ryder with Helen Moore
16. audio from the film The Childhood of a Leader (2015)
17. King Sound by My Disco
18. The Prayer (slowed) by Travis Scott
19. audio from the film Spring Breakers (2012) featuring Everytime by Britney Spears
20. (in)tangible by madalyn rt
21. audio from the film Vox Lux (2018) featuring Yearning by Scott Walker
22. A scene in “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2” where Freddy Krueger rips out from inside someone (sharing a body) by Angus McGrath
23. TV ad for Freddy Krueger hotline
24. TV spot for Neon Genesis Evangelion featuring Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig Van Beethoven
25. audio from the film Necktie (2013)
26. The Boogeyman (Version 2) by Tim Krog
27. audio from the film Nowhere (1997)
28. Point Zero by Corin 
29. audio from The Shining trailer with score by Wendy Carlos 
30. audio from The Duke of Burgundy trailer with score by Cat’s Eyes
31. Stay by Vin Diesel
32. audio from the film Videodrome (1983)
33. Everybody is a Star by Richie Rich
34. Love’s Refrain by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma 
35. audio from the film Cruising (1980) featuring String Quintet in C Major, No. 6, Op.30 by Luigi Boccherini