Grand River signals the close of a particularly bitter Winter with an homage to rebirth, renewal and growth in her Fact mix.

https://www.factmag.com/2023/04/10/fact-mix-grand-river/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 903: Grand River (Apr '23)

Profondeurs - Verveine & Solma (Mai 2024)

"Close your eyes and let yourself be carried away by this captivating tale of intrigue. Field recordings interwoven with minimalist ambiances and silences. Textures that disturb and create meticulously crafted inflection points. A masterpiece of abstraction and balance, introspection and perception. An exercise in deep listening and auditory training. A sensory honeycomb."

Richard Chartier (@richard-chartier) is a Los Angeles based artist, considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier's sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits.

Photo credit: Robert Eckhardt

tracklist:

emma margetson - cimbaal
asmus tietchens - sub-h4
kazuo uehara - diffusion (excerpt)
john hudak + eva-maria houben - paloma wind 3
johannes malfatti - to the fires
steve roden - night ring (excerpt)
garth erasmus - roesdorp requiem
natasha barrett - displaced_replaced 2 wet and gusty
ian wellman - decaying house (excerpt)
walter maoli - formazione di stallattiti
cole peters - powerline road (excerpt)
siavash amini + eugene thacker - a shape forlorn (for zhu shuzhen) (excerpt)
melvin gibbs - light absorption
toshiya tsunoda - plastic float (excerpt)
cindytalk - let love burn
zoe efstathiou - omphee
ryoji ikeda - # 13
eliane radigue - biogenesis (excerpt)
christina kubisch - atocha
teresa rampazzi - laringe
zoviet france - cirice (excerpt)
france jobin - scène 3
simonel - algo en común
haruo okada + fabio perletta - genkai 11+10 (excerpt)

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------ about 200

After a few years, we are celebrating—reaching 200, who would have thought! It all started as a happy idea talking with friends from Hausofcolor. "Could we upload the djsets from the parties?" we wondered. And what if we talk to friends from Barcelona to express themselves through music?

Then, with the pandemic, the purpose evolved: to share completely heterogeneous music every week. I aimed to create different dynamics with various lights and concepts. Over time, the channel has been defined in a more specific direction, where the subjective taste has dynamically and tendentially shaped the content. The music featured now can be broadly understood in two main abstract (and very holistic, it must be said) themes. Every week is a surprise. On the other hand, the audience can get a sense of the direction things are heading. There are these two main blocks: one of deep listening, ambient, avant-garde and concrete, minimalism and/or experimental, drone, or more eclectic pieces dedicated to the collector/selector. And another more dedicated to deep beats, at different speeds and rhythms but generally quite horizontal in nature.

I remember dedicating the 100th episode to my fav festival, La Mostra, F-on did a beat djset associated with the sounds you would find in its first edition. For this 200th episode, where La Mostra has now celebrated its third edition, the maestro Richard Chartier has prepared this delight of deep listening without beats. A bit of a summary of the two contexts you can find, broadly speaking, on HOC radio.

A million thanks to all the artists who have shared a story with us every week, and thanks to all of you who follow this channel! Without all of you, nothing would be possible!

I also want to thank: hausofcolor, without whom this would not have started. Additionally, we thank the collectives, festivals, labels, clubs and friends who help or have helped me, like Toni, Jordi, Sara, Anne and, as always, Bualié for the designs. Thanks to all of you!

Joan Gila

HOCast #200 - Richard Chartier

Recorded live at KuH beginning of June '24 by Esgeem
@esgeem

Esgeem — KuH 2024

@marcoshuttle @eerierecords  https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/

Operating in the abstract regions of techno, Italian-born Berlin-based Marco Shuttle is known for his eclectic and experimental approach and his mesmerizing and narrative flow. What ties his creative work together is a focus on abstract yet organic textures, a sound which takes cues from jazz and musique concrète as much as it does from acid house and Detroit techno.

In this first hour of a longer session he shares his signature cosmic vision in a more relaxed listening setting, making it a very special, personal listen.

Photo credits: Marco Sartorelli 

Tracklist

Anna Homler - Celestial Ash
W. BASINSKI & R. CHARTIER - DIVERTISSEMENT (part 2)
Bernard Parmegiani - Conjugaison Du Timbre
Chi Factory - The Mantra Recordings (Part 1)
Ross Alexander - Shattering Metals
Iueke - Garbage Music
Yvette Janine Jackson - Freedom (Side B)
Paul Motian Trio - Cabala / Drum Music
Vangelis Papathanassiou ‎– La Fête Sauvage
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Space
Vladimir Tarasov - Atto
Mark Fell & Will Guthrie_ Infoldings - B1
William S. Burroughs ‎– Curse Go Back
THE CARETAKER - When The Dog Days Were Drawing To An End
Unknown artist - Unreleased

#050 - Marco Shuttle

Heaven’s Chair - I Asked The Universe And It Sent It To Me [self-released]
Emra Grid - Above the Master Computer [OPAL]
Giselle - but right now [unreleased]
Angel R - Dreams [enmossed]
Lamina - Bruja de humo [Twin System]
Florian T M Zeisig - Temple 3 [STROOM.tv]
Field Designer - Residents say [forthcoming on Amulet of Tears]
Mijka Pan Løvstjerne - En Ny Mytologi [Janushoved]
Pontiac Streator - Lamp Fest [Motion Ward]
Arad Acid - recca void [self-released]
NEXCYIA - Vanity Mirror [Pensaments Sònics]
Nikolajev - Gafs [Muscut]
Pavel Milyakov & Lucas Dupuy - flutes of doom [self-released]

Amulet of Tears @ Radio Vilnius #9 / December 29th, 2024

Midsummer

dies irae

Cinema #12

A reflective sketch in the Cinematic series—this piece drifts into atmospheric space, less groove and more mood. At just over two minutes, “#12” feels like a moment from an unseen film: spacious, subtle, and evocative.

Cinema #12

This is the album including all the tracks made for the "Synthetic Hopes" game ! 
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3578060/Synthetic_Hopes/
There are 14 tracks all made by a real musician (No AI used)

Buy on Bandcamp !

Hide Yourself

@loketsounds

~ Tracklist ~

Steve Hillage - Garden of Paradise (loket’s saxophonic version)
Omformer - Spheroid (loket’s saxophonic version)
Hiver & hammer - 5 million miles ft. Java (exael x loket’s saxophonic ambient edit)
loket - Dear Stranger
Shygirl + Arca - unconditional (loket’s saxophonic version)
Rasmus Juncker - Sauna (loket’s saxophonic version)
Pontiac Streator - Transier Unt (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - lila Gazelle
Lyra Pramuk - Tendril (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - Improv for Elim
Paul Horn - Ancient Kings (loket’s saxophonic version)
Delta Rain Dance - Kosmische Elemente (with loket)
Linnuissa - Janis Kertoi Minulle Salaisuuden (loket’s saxophonic version)
SUSS - Salt Flats (loket’s saxophonic version)
Suzanne Kraft & Johnny Nash - Beluga’s Song (Kelela x loket’s saxophonic ambient edit)
Laurel Halo - Marbles (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - Althüttendorf
John Beltran - soft summer (loket’s saxophonic version)
Akis - New Age Rising (Part VIII) (loket’s saxophonic version)
The Soft Pink Truth - Grace (loket’s saxophonic version)

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I am so excited to share the latest, and most unique, Deep Mind Music entry. This mix, by my good friend Tahl, has been in the works for a long time. A mixtape of 100% saxophonic versions & originals which is the first manifestation of Tahl’s new alias for saxophonic exploration - loket.

A member of Berlin's Power Play collective, Tahl debuted the combination of live saxophone played over ambient music at the intimate confines of Power Play’s foggy chill out room. Tahl first proposed the idea of this mix to me back in April, and throughout lockdown he has been chipping away at it, keeping me updated as it has slowly evolved from a loose initial concept into a fully formed immersive journey. 

Taking the listener through flurries of arpeggios, introspective poetry, delicate piano, vulnerable vocals, and lush, sunlit pads, the mix resonates on a tender, personal level. A story told through prescient programming between tracks and sonic palettes, it subtly ebbs and flows between different emotional states. Throughout the mix the free flowing saxophone jams flitting between the tracks take you far, far away, adding a soft trippy fluidity to the edges of the soundscape. By the end of the mix you are totally submerged in effervescent mind-melting deepness.

I’m so grateful to loket for putting together this truly special entry, and I hope you enjoy listening to it, and find as much solace, peace and catharsis in it as I have.

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Some words from loket about the mix: 

This project started in many ways in a dank room in what is now a demolished squat in Lichtenberg Berlin at a Power Play Rave in the middle of 2019. Empowered by an unreasonable Funktion One Soundsystem flush inside of our chill out room, I experimented with playing live modulated saxophone for the first time. 

I was shaking so intensely I could barely blow air through the horn. But when what I played was channeled through my computer and out into the audience, the power of the sound, and of the moment, was sickening. Since then I’ve spent many hours honing and sculpting and experimenting to try and bring that feeling “to tape”.

I can’t stress enough how much of this project has been an exercise in moving forward slowly while having mostly no idea what I’m doing. I’m sure i broke every “rule” imaginable in recording and processing the saxophone on this mix. Maybe that is somewhat reassuring to those of you who also feel burdened by the glossy perfection and successes seemingly surrounding us at all times.

It’s also an exercise in reconnection. In patience. I stopped playing saxophone entirely in 2010 because I felt inadequate in my jazz skill. I haven’t practiced “a lick” in 10 years. I barely remember basic scales. But by revisiting the saxophone many years later through a more imaginative and electronic production lens, I’ve been able to move closer to creating the voice I always wanted to make.  

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Amulet of Tears @ Radio Vilnius #9 / December 29th, 2024

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