"Making music that is filling to oneself has to require being lost a little bit, by definition. Otherwise you’re just repeating the hamster wheel of things you’ve developed over your life. But it doesn’t need to have despair. It’s always hard, I can’t say making music is easy, but I keep being called back into doing it. So I guess I’m drawn by that."

“I catch myself thinking I should make more ambient music. I make a lot of antagonistic ambient, but If I was more playlist-focused I would make chillout music that would probably get more listens, and make my survival as a musician more viable… But don’t want think about that! Just make sound. Make it crazy and exciting, lose yourself. Be confused about it.”

"It’s a struggle, of course. But you show up at the studio every day, and you put in time. Sometimes you think you’re a fraud or you have no talent or you’re losing your guitar skills or how you work on software… It’s a challenge all the time. But it’s also a great one and I’m super grateful for this career that I didn’t plan for."

1 hr extract from The Early Bird Show w Maria Somerville + SSIEGE aired on NTS Radio

https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-maria-somerville/episodes/early-bird-show-maria-somerville-9th-october-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ SSIEGE - 𝙉𝙏𝙎 Radio - Oct '23

@jakemuir

Brian Eno - Under Stars II
Biosphere - Hoodoo
Steve Roden - Of Space Enclosed
Darren Tate, Daisuke Suzuki & Kathleen Vance - Trees Kissing Trees, Part III Perko - Sisu ft. Cucina Povera
Vladislav Delay - Untitled
Harold Budd - Ice Floes In Eden
Markus Guentner - Pilot
Auvinen - Akkosaari
Perila - Memories of Grass
Climax Golden Twins - Lovely
Jean-Michel Rivet - Elle Somenole Jolie
Michel Redolfi - Vie Dans Les Profondeurs (JM Edit)
Biosphere - People are Friends
Ilyas Ahmed & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Dark From Daybreak
Pendant - VVQ-SSJ
Twerk - Kogepan
A Small, Good Thing - Flamenco 2
Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang - The Witness
DJ Sprinkles - Grand Central, Pt. II (72 Hrs. by Rail from Missouri)
Uusitalo - Social Children
Kelman Duran - Rara II
Peverelist - Burning Sea
Jimmi Moon - Lovelane
Vidna Obmana & Asmus Tietchens - Miniature One
Organum - Vacant Lights Pt. 1
窦唯 & FM3 - Untitled
Klara Lewis - Shine
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Walker
Harmograph / Matteo Scaioli - Puls
László Hortobágyi / György Kurtág jr. / Miklós Lengyelfi - Necroga
Phil Struck - Untitled
Biosphere - Heights Of The Depths
Bowery Electric - Looped
FAX - Quicksand
Ghislain Poirier - Désquilibre (encore)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Zure
Mike Schommer - Untitled 11
Andrew Chalk - A New Heaven
Ilyas Ahmed & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Ghosted
ALP - Centrum
Beequeen - The Whisper

Jake Muir 'Bathhouse Blues Vol. 3' ⓜⓘⓧ ⓪⑤①

Amorphous soundscapes.

Theory Therapy 59 is by two of the artists behind the elusive AIR Krew group, Piper Spray and Lena Tsibizova. In tandem with this recording, we've released pre-orders for their new album, Debtor of Presence. It’s out January on Theory Therapy. We can't wait to share more.

Pre-orders: https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/debtor-of-presence

Interview: www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/piper-spray-and-lena-tsibizova

Theory Therapy 59: Piper Spray & Lena Tsibizova

a deep escapade by Amsterdam-based @akahyoo

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Pensive melodies from Malmö.

"I needed to make something to reset, something for the new year." - Felisha Ledesma. 

Interview: www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/felisha-ledesma

Theory Therapy 60: Felisha Ledesma

Awe is something you feel when confronted with forces beyond your control: nature, the cosmos, chaos, human error, hallucinations. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/laurel-halo/episodes/laurel-halo-2nd-january-2024

Awe w/ Laurel Halo 020124

Best known for albums like Radio Amor, Ravedeath 1972, Harmony in Ultraviolet, and his most recent project, No Highs, @TimHecker has always been interested in going beyond the superficialities of ambient — preferring to craft music that challenges, confuses, enthralls, and excites. 

His creative process reflects this, often including bleeding channels, feedbacking pieces, pitch shifting, noise, and distortion. His live shows, meanwhile, can be flooded with darkness or cloaked in fog. 

In this conversation, Tim and I discuss his musical philosophy and love of creative and artistic dissonance, and the inherent challenges in making music that isn’t always easy. 


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Music:

"Monotony" - Tim Hecker (2023)
"In The Fog" - Tim Hecker (2011)
"Chimeras" - Tim Hecker (2006)


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Slowfoam (27/01/24)

@somewherepress
Somewhere Press is a Glasgow-based record label that embodies the emotive, narrative-led spaces in sound work, uplifting outsider voices and queering notions of experimental music and print. 

This mix explores the discrepant sounds of dream states.
Ethereal choral vocals are entangled with distorted and disturbed voices and a drifting psychedelic ambience is broken apart by rumbling atmospheres of industrial.
As layers break apart, raw and resonant drones float beneath the surface; an opiated, eternal delirium.

Photo credit: Marilena Vlachopoulou

Knekelhuis # 110 - Somewhere Press

Living Room n°67 ~ @av_moves

q. pls introduce yourself
a. Yooo! My name is John Jones. I’m a musician / artist currently based in Los Angeles.  I spent my younger years outside of Washington DC and my culturally formative ones getting weird in Baltimore Maryland. 

q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. I’ve been playing the guitar a lot more these days… I think that may be effecting my listening habits.

q. what’s the best way enjoy your mix?
a. Walking a dog

q. describe a favorite object in your living room...
a. I hate to be that guy, but probably my speakers

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. Yea! I’m finishing up a new AV Moves record.. Jesse and I have been slowly piecing together the next JJ+JS album.. Puli, the band I’m in with my friends Phil and Damon, have a record coming out soon. We’re also looking to record new material sometime in the next month or so. I’ve been playing in Suzanne Kraft’s live band too.. we have some fun opening gigs that we’ve been prepping for. Workwise, I'm at In Sheep’s Clothing HiFi managing events and helping out at the record store. busy busy busy

Living Room n°67 ~ av moves

New releases and current inspirations from your hosts Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/htrk/episodes/htrk-6th-march-2024

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AIR is an interview podcast series with a different theme each episode. 

Created in 2017, AIR aims to be something different in the wide world of music journalism. Tired of the usual promotional fluff, host Emma Robertson invites artists, DJs, and musicians to get deep on one topic that inspires them — everything from nature, to film, to spirituality — in the hope that it inspires you, too.

AIR 063 / Tim Hecker

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