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anything between noisy drone, strange & meditative Ambient and noisy disturbing grey Area Sounds

Experimental / Ambient / Deep 2020...II / early 2021

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ambient

a little dark experimental disturbing

The Revolving bridge was a portable bridge concept designed by Leonardo Da Vinci intended for military use. The main objective was to facilitate mobility helping armies to navigate unfamiliar terrain with less difficulty, and more easily escape from pursuing forces. A concept that seen from their current musical point of view has a lot to do with it.

“The idea starts from building a bridge between this current abnormality and the return to real life on a sea of ​​sound waves, creating a journey of peaks and valleys around electronics with a horizontal vocation, sound textures and contemporary chamber music”.

a_mal_gam_a took shape, back in 2016, when Diskoan (Juan Peralta) and Josephine's Soundscapes (José Salas) joined forces to create a research platform to explore electronic music beyond conventional parameters.

In this DJ-set they bring the dynamics of their sessions at "Avalovara, club de escucha", a pioneering monthly listening club in Madrid, where the most unusual music and visuals induce the attendees to a special state that encourages active listening and sensory experience mixed with (less conventional) ludic enjoyment.

In April 2021, a_mal_gam_a has curated the program for En Pausa, a festival  dedicated to horizontal music and deep listening.

The session was recorded in the @radio-relativa studios in Madrid.

You can find them at:
https://calmamadrid.es 
@a_mal_gam_a (@diskoan and @machines-desirantes)

.CHPTR026 'Revolving Bridges' | a_mal_gam_a

“For this podcast I would like to purpose some heterogeneity of electronic music I love, make me dance, smile and cry on it” - says Nicolas. 

Thorm is an electronic music french producer based in Paris starting back in 2014. Influenced by all the things life has to offer, his musical range can go from peaceful ambient and experimental sounds to Lo-Fi and dusky techno. Nicolas works a lot on the texture of the sound and on ambiences, drawing inspiration from movies soundtracks as well as modern and contemporary arts. 

“I hope this podcast composed in the 8 floor of my suburb Parisian flat give to you happiness and power” - Nicolas concludes.

You can find him at:
https://intervision2.bandcamp.com/album/human-digitize
@thormtechno

Support his music

.CHPTR027 'Together we can touch the sun' | thorm

The set is inspired around the central theme of the album Ipnopedion made by Timo van Luijk & Frederik Croene. An album superbly built from the hypnosis session that Pier Fortunato Zanfretta agreed to undergo in order to find meaning after he had been abducted by a UFO. A sonic invitation that extracts how it feels to be taken by extraterrestrial forces.

Compulsive buyer of electronic listening vinyls based in Madrid, Javier Camuñas says: “I like how these types of semi-nightmare dreamlike passages remain in the central parts of the sets, with moments of tension-relaxation, drone, dark-jazz…”

Words that are perfectly reflected in all his neatness and healing mixes, offering us what his precious shelves hide. 

You can find him at:
@javier-camunas
www.facebook.com/javier.camunas
www.instagram.com/kamunas

Tracklist:

Multicast dynamics - aquatic system - amphibi
Elodie - Le voile des anneés
Elodie – Le Manteau D’Étoiles - B5
The Caretaker ‎– Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 3 - B7
Mecánica Clásica ‎– Mar Interior - Orillas Opuestas
Marsfield ‎– The Innocents - A Inocencia
Felix K ‎– Skulpturen - A1
Seabuckthorn – Through A Vulnerable Occur - A4
Timo van Luijk & Frederik Croene ‎– Ipnopedion 1/2
Felicia Atkinson - hands in hand - D1
Timo van Luijk & Frederik Croene ‎– Ipnopedion 2/2
Jasmine Guffond & Erik K Skodvin* Featuring Merja Kokkonen ‎– The Burrow - A3
Kassel Jaeger - Meith - B
Secret pyramid - Embers - Ohms
Soundwalk collective - Running On Emptiness
KMRU - opaquer - B1
Tactil -
Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples ‎– Anthology of American Pop Music - B2
SaPa -In a landscape - C2
Driftmachine - Shunter - A2
Peter Power and friends - Peregrine sun - A2

.CHPTR028 'Flying saucers in Torriglia' | Camu

Human beings are social beings by nature. We live in community and interactions are an obligation for survival. They enrich and favor our personal development, being a critically important component for health and longevity. 

‘With You’ is an ode to human interactions, a theme of special relevance in the times we are living. The things we do together, the space between us, the silence, the words, the lack of words, the consequences. 

Oisatsana is the new project from experimental Spanish musician Tasio Rey. After having some experience in techno production under the name 'How to levitate', Oisatsana is a new identity that looks for a sound free of boundaries, approaching styles like glitch, drone, ambient, generative music and anything in between.

Tasio adds: “The following set is a mix of various styles and it is a good summary of the things that I am listening to the most lately and that inspire me to do music like Oisatsana”. 

Certainly, a very unique sound and extremely compact trip ‘with you’.

You can find him at:
@oisatsana
https://www.instagram.com/tatzio/

.CHPTR029 'With You' | Oisatsana

“This is one of poetry terms, that means a pause used for effect within a line of poetry”- Masaya says. In music, a caesura denotes a brief silent pause. But, how long is the silence? As such the silence is as short or long as the conductor deems necessary.

Lots of beautiful brief silent pauses among outstanding instrumental melodic pieces, subtle and classy percussions, the crack and hiss of inviting noisy sounds, delicate rough textures, gentle ambient drones, charming voices,…managing to create a situation of tension-relaxation very intriguing and fascinating. 

Masaya Kato is a Japanese composer and sound artist based in Yokohama. Influenced much by poetry, video or performing arts and based on perception and cutaneous senses in daily life. Typically his compositions are born out of Fender Rhodes or Piano sketches along with additional sounds of magnetic noises.

We definitely like the idea of a caesura  between music narratives, a space which listeners can fill in with their own speculative history.

You can find him at:
@ktmsy
https://www.instagram.com/masaya_kat0/

.CHPTR030 'Caesura' | Masaya Kato

Have you ever gone outside on a cloudy day and smelled that it was going to rain? Or, after a rainstorm, noticed that there was a certain smell in the air? Childhood memories come to mind when playing in the puddles of water was the best moment of the day. It was the time when the smell of earth meant the onset of a joyous season.

Petrichor is the term given to that unique scent following a rain shower – when the world seems to sigh with pleasure, and we, unconsciously perhaps, breathe in a little more deeply, savouring the smells in return.

Francesco Piunti is the man behind @deepbreakfastseries, a brilliant and touchfull mix series focused on ambient sounds. Our maximum true respect for the dedication, knowledge and excellent way of doing. Returning to the term petrichor, Francesco gives us a short poem from Leah Snyder that goes like this:

“I step outside, the sky above gray as slate
petrichor seeping up through the grass,
engulfing my state of mind as i inhale
and guiding me into a place of hushed abstraction”.

Definitely, petrichor is more than just a happy smell. It is a promise of abundance, a welcome chance of survival and shelter, and a hope that the merry childhood days will be back again.

You can find him at:
@francescopiunti
https://www.instagram.com/deepbreakfastseries/

Tracklist:

1. Suso Sáiz - Ya Son Dos Los Cielos
2. Commodity Place - Clouds Inside Me
3. Patricia Wolf - I'll Look For You In Others
4. Gray Acres - Spectral
5. Massimo Amato - The Wise Man
6. Shaded Explorer - When I Decided To Live
7. Zemög - The Birds That Never Returned
8. Robert Rich - The Raining Room
9. Markus Guentner - Crystal Castle
10. Joachim Spieth - Jiwa (Remix) [feat. zakè, 11. From Overseas, and Slow Dancing Society]
11. Sanjib - Inverted Floor
12. Submersion - Branches / Coagulant (III)

.CHPTR042 ‘Petrichor’ | Francesco Piunti

Everyone at some point in their existence experiences a critical moment in their busy life where big decisions can lead to big change, both at work and in life. A turning point that make your life never be the same again. A new you, a new us.

David is a die-hard record collector who has been playing them around the North of Spain and Europe for more than 15 years now. Since three years ago he's more focused on Escala de Grisos, his monthly radio show on a local station, where he plays and discuss about ambient, techno and anything in between as well as making some interviews.

David has recorded the following mix with that feeling of knowing that something huge is about to change in his life, just like what happened at .apart in a way. Hence the name translated into Catalan :)

A magnificent true personal musical journey where he captures with great sense and extreme delicacy a long list of antonyms such as fear-hope, uncertainty-desire…

To sum up overall, David shares the following poem:

"... The rocks crash, the puddles splash, the mirrow ripples, the calmness returns, so are the turning points of life that disrupt our world to only steer us onto a path more right than the one before, let the wind blow as it may, for it's only wish is to whisk you away to a destination where your heart will find a true home, a place where the doubts and confusion have no life supply, for when the turn is complete, a soul once lost, will be found, only to realize it was all part of the journey, and around the corner there is so much more to see ... " – KJC

You can find him at:
@humo
https://www.instagram.com/d.humo/
https://www.radio.celra.cat/programs/escaladegrisos

.CHPTR043 'Turning points' | D. Humo

As if it were a migratory journey, we move away voluntarily or forced, unfortunately some, from a cold and normally noisy city full of hectic lives and people with a thirst for power. A walk towards nature/forest where human voices cease to exist to transform into animal sounds causing a feeling of refuge and closeness. We leave behind a world of concrete and welcome the sounds of mother earth.

Milan native Matteo, a clearly devotee of nature, investigates sound with high enthusiansm and dedication. He wonderfully creates a mellow amalgam of layers using over-reverberated synths, field recordings, and self-created samples. Atoloi is constantly searching for another dephts in which the listener can get lost while getting submerged by heavy-grained noises and evocative instrumental compositions.

Matteo has left us the following text: “I tried to represent this slow march in a real and, at the same time, emotional forest, in which memories and the outer cosmos merge into a unique and cathartic experience.

A pleasant stroll through the forests of Ego. “A universe born from the perfect union between the external environment and the inmost emotional unconscious”.

You can find him at:
@atoloi
https://www.instagram.com/_atoloi/

.CHPTR044 ‘Due passi tra le foreste dell'Io’ | Atoloi

For Steve Lazar to assist in surgery recoup (pain relief) - much love Steve!!

2.5 delta iso sedative w 304hz carrier frequency for pain relief and sedation

Aboard a spaceship lined from top to bottom with neon lights and made of sound remnants, noises, samples, field recordings and modular synthesizers; we're heading somewhere where we're just pure spectators. During the trip piloted by Mocrobo, a rich auditory landscape full of magnificent sound waves of different shapes/sizes can be seen/heard through the ship's windows. Melodic and harmonic at times but loud and terrifying at others. Distant voices and modules weaving a varied network of shots that cover styles such as pop, ambient, noise or trip hop.

Victor is an experimental musical artist from Jaén (Spain) who is difficult to classify and comes from the most extreme confines of metal. His creations took a radical turn towards the electronic field attracted by the great variety of nuances and possibilities that exist in the synthesis of sound and experimentation with classical processed instruments.

Victor reminds us that ‘if for someone being locked up at home is a better idea than going out for fresh air, perhaps a Lyra 8 could become a great friend’.

You can find him at:
@mocrobo
https://www.instagram.com/m_o_c_r_o_b_o/

.CHPTR045 ‘Neon System’ | Mocrobo

"De las entrañas del ego q vomita la furia unicelular del individuo en llamas, la máquina análoga experimenta el hecho, escupiendo a través del Mosco Dantesco vidas q vociferan gritos indescifrables en su Cualquiera...Cualquiera"

Helecho comes from Rosario (Argentina) where through his electronic gadgets he takes experimentation to a very personal terrain. 

You can find him at:
https://www.instagram.com/helecho.exp/

.CHPTR046 'El sueño bifásico sobre la tierra' | Helecho Experimentar

Submerse

Haut Parleur S02E07 - GDSS invite Toé - 17/03/2024

En ce doux mois de mars, GDSS à l’honneur de recevoir Toé (@toe_music) . Co-fondatrice des collectifs français Ouroboros et EWO, Toe explore la musique en s’émancipant des genres. Combinant des grooves hypnotisants afin de créer des contes sonores, elle se concentre sur une recherche infinie d’atmosphères tribales et psychédéliques. 
Concernant son mix, voici ces mots : « Mon inspiration pour ce set est l'Eau, comme matière mais aussi comme énergie. Force élémentaire, le fluide aux formes infinies, la source de l'adaptabilité, des émotions et de la vie. C’est une invitation à plonger dans ce liquide musical et vous laisser porter par des vagues, explorant différents univers entre sonorités instrumentales, transambiantales et tribales. »

〰️English version〰️
In this balmy month of March, GDSS is honoured to welcome Toé. Co-Founder of Ouroboros and EWO French collectives, Toe explores music with no genre distinction combining hypnotic grooves, feeling music as an energy to experience. She focuses on an infinite search for psychedelic and tribal atmospheres creating sonic tales to enhance imagination.
Regarding her mix, here is her words: « My inspiration for this set is water, as mater but also as energy. Elemental force, the fluid of infinite shapes and forms, flowing source of adaptability, emotion and life. It’s an invitation for a dive into this sonic liquid and to be carried by the waves, exploring different universes encompassing instrumental, transambiantal and tribal sounds. »

〰️🤍〰️

Haut Parleur S02E07 - GDSS invite Toé - 17/03/2024

Mixed by Mas {Lpc} 
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Bio:
Mas is an audiovisual project recently formed by two members of the lpc collective label. They like to develop through their music and photographies a cold, minimalist and dark landscape.
Their work is inspired by artists from different horizons, such as : Delia Derbyshire for her contribution to concrete and electronic music during the 60’s, Le Corbusier for his minimalist vision of things and David Lynch for his particular and immersive aesthetic. The two parisian producers also give interest to the industrial music of Samuel Kerridge, for exemple. For this podcast, the duo tried to put all these influences together, for a slow travel to cold Autumn.

Tracklist :
1)  Barnett + Coloccia - Switch 
2)  Mas - Rep Ublica 
3)  Benge - 1969 - EMS VCS3
4)  Yves de Mey - Radio Archive
5)  Raime - Passed Over Trail 
6)  Demdike Stare - Suspicious Drone 
7)  Sawf - Sand#1 (Yves De Mey Remix)
8)  Samuel Kerridge - Remove Yourself 
9)  Mogano - Anunnaki (Kerridge Remix) 
10) He is She - Átröskun (Raven Version)
11)  Lundin Oil - They Need Tragedy    
12) Positive Centre - Hiding Knives         
13) Zeitgeber - Skin
14) Roberta Crippa - Reflection          
15) Delia Derbyshire - Falling
16) Pan Sonic - Radiokemia
17) Valanx - Daughters Of The Everfire (Yves De Mey Remix)    
18) Abdulla Rashim & Axel Hallqvist - Sorunda (Svreca Remix)      
19) Yves de Mey - Box Caisson   
20)Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour Part IV
21) Inner8 - Violence
22)Delia Derbyshire - Air 

Lyrics of the episode:
"Now look for different kinds of 'I's and try to observe them practically… Remember that all 'I's are specialized—that is, of different kinds." -Maurice Nicoll

Awareness XIV: Mas

Art Work by Romane Lzh © 

Tracklist : 

1/ Le Printemps – Les Vagues
2/ 51717 & Silent Servant – Regard 
3/ Naka Naka - ¿¿¿
4/ WSR – Inner Ocean
5/ Fjäder - Satori
6/ Lucy – Vibrations of a Circular Membrane
7/ Dino Sabatini – Totem
8/ Samuel Kerridge – Surrender to the void
9/ Jana Sleep – Open Ended
10/ Elle – Yemaga
11/ Keadz – Maa
12/ Hironori Takahashi – Jazert
13/ Zosima – A Lady of little faith
14/ Array Access – Variation 2
16/ Luigi Tozzi – Chemosynthesis (Claudio PRC Remix)
17/ Shaded Explorer – Submarine Public Transport
18/ Mohlao – Cladistic Mutation

les cygnes meurent aussi au printemps

@soramimi

01. Laurie Anderson - Walking & Falling
02. Answer Code Request - Mikro
03. David Morley - Presto
04. Exos - Live Guides
05. Soramimi - Blood Sugar
06. Iori - A Fall Of Moondust
07. SaPa - We Can Be Friends
08. Efdemin - Parallaxis (The Borderline State Remix)
09. Ike Yard - Loss (Regis Version)
10. Marcel Dettmann - Landscape (Answer Code Request Remix)
11. Svreca - Narratif
12. Albert Van Abbe - NCS_0010050611 (Version)
13. Iori - Voices Of The Sky
14. Henning Baer - System Test (NSDXTT)
15. Surgeon - Dialogue (Mick Harris Remake)
16. Drexciya - Drifting Into A Time Of No Future
17. Cory James - Caterpillar
18. Ctrls - Two Worlds

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MondayOff Podcast Series 018 | Soramimi

Mix for Thump FBI Click

Sublight

The glitch is a modern phenomenon. First officially printed in 1962, it can be defined as a break in the algorithms that increasingly dictate our lives. Our next guest, Kamikaze Space Programme, explores these so-called "errors" with an elegant diligence. His singular sound has offered him the opportunity to release on renowned platforms such as Luke Slater's Mote Evolver imprint and West Norwood Cassette Library. With a new LP slated for Osiris Music, he takes a welcome turn into more impalpable realms, focusing his sound increasingly on dubbed-out atmospheres. In anticipation of these new directions, we decided to catch up with this one of a kind producer for a preview of what is to come. Enjoy!

Thanks a lot https://soundcloud.com/kamikaze-space-programme

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KamikazeSpaceProgramme
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kamikazeSpacePR
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/2674123-Kamikaze-Space-Programme

Cover artwork by Joop Schroen

Unrush 028

028 - Unrushed by Kamikaze Space Programme

Quartz crystal singing bowl accompanied by other ambient music with a subtle frequency of 888Hz. 

The Universal Song “Triple Number” frequencies, 111Hz through 999Hz, are the ten most common and harmonious ratios. These are known to be cell rejuvenating frequencies.

Universal Frequency ✧ 888Hz ✧ Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl ✧ Ambient Meditation Music

Punctum x HROB w/ Ondřej Lasák

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CXXV by Guy Hobsbawm. 
Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

This set was originally presented during the Mysteries Takeover of 9128.live on Sunday April 19, 2020.

Tracklist:
1. Gunnar Haslam - Inscribed 
2. Émile Zener - 628 
3. Gunnar Haslam - Annua Under Grand 
4. Guy Hobsbawm - Vendémiaire
5. Guy Hobsbawm - Brumaire
6. Émile Zener - 604 
7. Gunnar Haslam - Textures of Unseeable Colors
8. Guy Hobsbawm - Aux Quais Face à l’Est 
9. Gunnar Haslam - Pervasive and All Consuming
@gunnar_haslam

Mysteries of the Deep CXXV - Guy Hobsbawm

London based Ario is a practitioner of deep and inquisitive music both as a DJ and curator of his label Astral Industries. 
Although his remit falls within the deeper shades of electronic music, his overall aesthetic draws on a broader spectrum that prizes the synthesis of both instrumental and electronic disciplines. 
Depending on context, he traverses the lines and forms between the ambient and techno worlds. What is common in each, however, is his alchemic handling of rich organicism mixed with darker, more austere sounds. 
Speaking with an emotive sensitivity, there is a certain self-awareness that permeates his crafted soundscapes, which are as much drone inspired as they are psychedelic and nature-driven.

INVEINS \ Podcast \ 072 \ Ario

Our next guest is always one to explore a variety of sounds, he delivers an ethereal set that weaves effortlessly between a wide range of textures, psychedelic rhythms, and techno kicks.
In his meantime, he continues to contribute to submit phenomenal mixes on several prominent underground podcasts. Please welcome @ersin-boncaoglu for the next hour

AF014 Ersin Boncaoglu

Polygonia, aka Lindsey Wang, based in Munich. Together with Dycide and MTRL she founded the Ambient and DeepTechno Label IO.

Polygonia [On Board Music Takeover]

s.soo (Russia) | ‘T E H M F T W L’

As if it was a science fiction movie, our brain gives wings to THE imagination. It is like entering a futuristic but abandoned machinery fabric in the middle of nature EARTH, far away from the suffocating concrete jungle. Suddenly, after going through all the corridors and observing all kind of weird machines and its sounds, a long distance powerful lfo sound from a noisy machine is getting closer and closer until it cools down smoothly. It HAS been a brilliant experimental dron intro with perfect melodic saturation. Once outdoors, breathing the flora and fauna MUSIC, I’m ready to explore the surroundings FOR a little while (excellent textures and good sound design). THOSE percussion grooves melting with imponent noisy bass dark sounds, give way to the night. Full moon and no light at all (wonderful gloomy soundscapes accompanied with interesting well processed field recordings footsteps). I can hear someone, WHO is talking to me? Hey, LISTEN! Definitely ‘The Earth Hath Music For Those Who Listen’.

⎇ Welcome @ssoosistal

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.CHPTR017 ‘T E H M F T W L’ | s.soo

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