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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

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