the first in a series of monthly ambient mixes.

tracklist:
J Foerster / N Kramer - 7 Wasserspiel
DUP - SYS Pattern
Purelink - 4k Murmurs
zakè & Marine Eyes - Unfailing Love
Courtesy - You​’​re Not Alone [feat. Erika de Casier & August Rosenbaum]
Kris Keogh - Envolve
Tujiko Noriko - Fossil Words
Dorisburg & Sebastian Mullaert - Overgrown Rebirth
Laurel Halo - Belleville
Luiz Bonfá - Perdido de Amor [Lost in Love]
Yu Su - Pardon
Iiro Rantala - Waltz For Bill
Zoe Polanski, Nina Traub - Yam (Original)
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept - World Freehand Circle Drawing
Call Super - Years in the Hospital

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Coast 2 Coast [Gene on Earth & The Ghost] - Wildeburg 2024

A stunning recording from Liquidtime at Kwia by the inimitable Cousin @secondcousins
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𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 #16 ft Cousin: Babbling Brook @refugeworldwide (LIVE from Kwia)

Peverelist b2b Pinch at Draaimolen Festival 2025

Have I been to Amara? Like anyone who has, I’ve no way of knowing for sure. 

I am told she is wrapped in a blue-grey fog that extends like an aura for miles in all directions. As certain kinds of fog have a way of doing, it only makes itself known to you when you are already well within its grasp. At best, the traveller may remember entering and exiting the hazy periphery of this city, but whatever comes to pass within is impossible to recall, and one can only recognize signs in the traces it leaves behind in the mind and body. This may be as subtle as a change in the way you speak, as disquieting as an unaccountable bruise or scrape on the skin, or as drastic as a sudden change in the length of your hair. 

Recently, lovers have told me that my way in bed has somehow changed, that the color of my eyes has grown cooler and softer. Flavors that I once detested are now among my most cherished. Certain objects or images — a marble figurine, a drop of blood hanging from a small cut on my finger, a glass bowl shot through with broken sunlight — have stirred up in me the faintest and most curious ecstasy. It is as though, by some association conjured in these moments, I behold not a memory in itself but the effects it has on everything around it, the lines of sentiment that ripple across the waters of my mind from the invisible impression of an unknown stone.

A city will change you, slowly in time, in ways you may not notice as they set in. But what if the city that changes you is not so much a place as a strange and beautiful void, one that quietly haunts the heart, and from which no memory can escape?

Words: Devon Hansen
Image: Mike Midnight

Invisible Cities II:  ​🇦​​🇲​​🇦​​🇷​​🇦​

Garneau Live at Bass Coast 2025

Bass Coast is a thoughtfully curated boutique electronic music and art festival that takes place in BC, Canada.

Join us July 10-13, 2026. Tickets on sale now: www.basscoast.ca

Bass Coast takes place on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the nlaka’pamux and syilx people.

Garneau Live at Bass Coast 2025

500 episodes. 10 years. Millions of beats. ⁠Our celebration of the artists who define and defy the dance floor continues with a milestone set from Job Jobse. Amsterdam’s long-time favourite shares his most personal mix to date, unfolding the full spectrum of his sound: from warm-blooded, dreamy house to dubby electro and new-age techno.⁠ 

Featuring music by Priori, Donato Dozzy, Barker, CCL, D.Tiffany, Mr. Fingers, Maara, Avalon Emerson, Anunaku, Dorisburg, Pariah, James Holden, Bambounou, Peach, Call Super, Parris, Oceanic, Sasha, Opal Sunn, Sohrab, Marcel Dettmann, Ryan Elliott, Aril Brikha, Future State Of London, Melatonin Man, Doms & Deykers, Martinou and many more. 

Dekmantel Mix 500 - Job Jobse

A rare mix from the Dutch artist also known as A Made Up Sound, 2562 and ex_libris. 

What makes something sound like Dave Huismans? His music carries a signature you can't quite name, a tension which has defined every chapter of his career. And unlike most producers, he really does operate in phases. 

A man of many monikers, Huismans resurfaced this year after nearly a decade away with two new aliases, ex_libris and In Transit. His latest ventures, though sonically a world away from the work under his most recognised projects, share the same slipperiness, intricacy and disregard for tidy genre borders. 

"Naiveté and a lack of prejudice… a really wide-eyed type of open-mindedness," Huismans once told RBMA, recalling his youthful forays into dance music and that ethos is alive and well on RA.1015.

Huismans's second RA Mix is as equally thrilling as his first one 15 years ago, traversing a map of influences from Madlib and Gyrofield to Prince and Autechre.  There's no shortage of atmosphere (Losoul's "Sunbeams and the Rain" is one particular highlight), but the throughline is groove: soulful, vocal deep house into driving techy depths, walls of glitchy drums and frantic percussion into guitar funk. 

"I got carried away a bit," Huismans says of RA.1015 below. And that's no bad thing. It sounds like someone enjoying himself again, and perhaps, after letting a few old skins fall away, Huismans is ready to shift shape once more. And if it's anything like the last time, a lot of good music awaits. 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1034 
@2562amadeupsound

RA.1015 Dave Huismans

upsammy at Draaimolen Festival 2025

CCL b2b Yushh at Draaimolen Festival 2025

april 19, 2025. ~ 2-7am
@priori-ties @ppatrickholland

photo by hanna johannesen

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