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Circe Invidiosa - John William Waterhouse

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Art bei Ton & .apart were added in 2021 an can be found a the bottom of the List (ca #130 onward)
also : since 2022 : Human Lessons ( ca #290 onward)

Patterns of perception ; Precept ;  Modyfier ; Forsvarlig Arkiv ; Ohrwert; Art bei Ton; .apart

Animix Forty One presented by Austin, Texas based DJ/ Producer Gi Gi ( @keptmale ) with a beautiful trip. The artist focuses on deep and contemplative listening in this xtra long mix.  

In their own words, Gi Gi writes, "the idea for these mixes is to be a collection of longer-form tracks (7+ min) that demand (imo) to be heard front to back, producing a patient wander of a listen, and to serve as a greatest hits of sorts of songs that are especially personal/special to me-- as opposed to just an attempt to show off the deepest digs i've stumbled on (a thought pattern i think i and many other selectors can get caught up in at times..)."

Love the idea behind this mix, and it's the perfect extended listen for a sunny or rainy day wherever you are. 

Gigi released an LP on Quiet Tapes earlier this year, and has a few more LPs in the works, due out later this year --https://quiettimetapes.bandcamp.com/album/lumino-pleco

Thanks again for this one, Gi Gi!

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Animix Forty One: Gi Gi

This is a live recorded set, as played in a ceremony in the Healing Nest at the Northern Lights Burn, August 2021, at Agersø, Denmark.
Artwork: Photo by Anelia Mitova of the burning Effigy sculpture at the Northern Lights Burn.

If you like the individual tracks I have used, please support the artists. Link to their Soundcloud/Bandcamp/other sites are provided with the tracklist.

Full music track list below:

00:30 Jon Hopkins - Scene Suspended - https://jonhopkins.bandcamp.com/
03:28 Pure Dawn - Own rework of Garth Stevenson - Dawn - Spoken words by Shunyamurti - https://garthstevenson.bandcamp.com/
16:54 Silvia Nakkach with Christopher Eickmann - Shaman Journey - https://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Melodies-Songs-Healears-Hear/dp/B007DCHYDY
21:42 Jairamji-Charlie Roscoe - Night Prayer - https://charlieroscoe.bandcamp.com/
24:59 Nessi Gomes - Long Way Home - https://www.nessigomesmusic.com/
33:11 Maneesh de Moor - 136.1Hz Sun Salutation - https://maneeshdemoor.bandcamp.com/
55:48 Jackson Lewis - Learning - https://jacksonlewis.bandcamp.com/
1:03:08 Weaving the Vine - Gracias Ayahuasca - https://weavingthevine.bandcamp.com/
1:07:55 Armand Amar - The Storm - https://www.humansoundtrack.com/
1:11:20 Maok - Teraz to Prezivai - https://maok.net

Healing Nest Ceremony

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

‘For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

Music is an anchor in life, useable in any if not every scenario to shift or change your current mood. It's something that you have complete control of (unless you’re in someone else’s car), this control, I find is somewhat taken for granted every now and then and I think in this strange time of our lives it's very important to take control of what you can. Speaking of control, it's something our next guest has mastered, A Naarm favourite Bex. 

Hard work, dedication, and a belief in one's self are the holy trinity to the path of evolution, All of these factors Bex has mastered. Through years and years of commitment to her craft, Bex has steeled herself amongst her peers and their dance floors, forever increasing her orbit and her listeners inside of it. Encompassing the pure aesthetics of Dj’ing (an understanding of rhythm and how people react to it), she has cemented herself as a staple DJ all across Naarm as well pushing the same ethos with her own party series “Spincycle” (HOT TIP!!). She’s here to stay and it fills me with confidence for the future. 

The mix itself beautifully encompasses the very thing I’ve set out to explore, the other side. For someone who is consistently filling dance floors, you can tell Bex has done herself justice in reaching into her musical peripherals and wholeheartedly enjoyed doing it. Ecstatic trips into euphoria electronica, A consistent theme explored in its whole, done masterfully. Computer-generated soul at its finest, using BPM as a narrative tool, she takes us on a trip through her own mind, leaving no stone unturned. After countless play-throughs, I still find little details that excite me, her technical skills on full display for the world to see. A perfect summary of Bex herself. Enjoy it every way you can. 

Her words >>>> "when I was making the mix I was kind of thinking it was like a bit of a love story. It has lots of songs that have been prominent in my past relationships and lots of songs about love and with love in the title. It’s a bit of a story of the history of love (and heartbreak)"

Her sounds >>>> https://soundcloud.com/becarmstrongmusic

FHUO # 74 // Bex

interview: www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/florian-t-m-zeisig

Low end frequencies out of Berlin.

We’re extremely happy to welcome producer and musician Florian T M Zeisig into the fold for Theory Therapy 44. 

From the club-adjacent frequencies on Coatcheck to the vibroacoustic therapy of Music for Parents (an album I listen to on a weekly basis), Florian creates conceptual ambient music like few other artists. He’s released music on the likes of Anòmia, Constellation Tatsu, Métron and enmossed, and has a new album out soon with Forest Management called Clips of Perspective which we're very excited to hear more of. 

His Theory Therapy mix is a heady collage of shifting tempos and styles with lots of low end goodness peppered throughout. “I wanted to kinda focus on just having fun in the moment, staying close to the journey.”

@floriantmzeisig

Theory Therapy 44: Florian T M Zeisig

"The sun begins to set. That autumn light sketches itself behind an idyllic landscape. Mountains rocks where there is snow in winter. A unique balcony. Surrounded by lush black pine and damp green grass, that unmistakable smell of nature. And in the background the beat, that beat that the context has transformed into something organic. And you, there in paradise on Earth."

Influenced by ambient electronics and chromaticism, Guillam (@guillam) pursues depth through the exploration of sound and composition. Soothing soundscapes, unfolding rhythms and organic textures are elements present in his music and dj sets. He is one of the curators on board along with Refracted (@refracted-music) in Paral·lel festival (@parallelfestival).  This is a live recording DJset during the Midline night curated by ABSIS (@absismusic) in Laut (@laut_barcelona) on February 9th.

Recordings

HOCast #145 x Midline - Guillam @ Laut

A sunny July day. You're in an old pine forest by the river. You can hear the rustling of the branches, the crunch of pine cones under your feet, and the engine of a lone motorboat. Walking beside you is the person who unexpectedly agreed to spend three hours getting here on a stuffy commuter train. The subtle aroma of shashlik and a familiar song from the early 2000s drifts over from either the «professor’s» dachas or the abandoned recreation center nearby. Later on, there will be much more: a steep sandy cliff and a gravel-laden barge, chilled white wine and a small white plane in the sky, lots of awkward jokes and refreshing river water. Of course, you don’t know yet, but years later you will remember this day as one of the best in your life. And if it could be made into music, it would be a patrin’s mix for 5/8: radio

patrin

Patrin - 5/8 Radio #213

~ Deep Breakfast 276 by https://soundcloud.com/ocralab ~

Tracklist:
1. Saitoh Tomohiro - Take The Air Morning
2. Motionfield - Signals 2 
3. Mind over MIDI - Sensibel
4. Nosnar - Oval Moon
5. Futuregrapher - Moog Meditation 1
6. Pallette - Here And Now
7. Xu - False Ending 
8. Futuregrapher & Eric the Taylor - Effects Of Clouds pt2
9. Private Mountain - Coming Back Home
10. Myoptik - Borgon Plinth
11. Bålsam - Autumnal
12. Tone Language - 2 Months Blue
13. Ocralab - Longitude Ascending Node
14. Martin Jarl - Awoke

Ocralab
Bandcamp: https://ocralab.bandcamp.com/music
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rocco.biscione
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ocralab
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/it/artist/105067-Ocralab

Deep Breakfast Series
Instagram: www.instagram.com/deepbreakfastseries/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DeepBreakfastSeries/

Deep Breakfast 276 ~ Ocralab

As we enjoy the summer season, we are delighted to welcome Paragon, the talented curator of the 315th Deep Breakfast mix.

Paragon means a person is regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality. Always open to exploring different sounds, as of lately, Paragon has been discovering more relaxing or different realms of electronic music or IDM. Nowadays you can find in his selections mostly from ambient, broken beats of techno to different types of drum n bass. He has been the curator of the podcast series Parallel Perception, where you can also experience his vision and taste in electronic music.

"This set is part of my Sunday morning routine. Me and a cup of coffee and records that I put in for the quiet mornings. I picked some of my favorite records that I keep coming back on a regular basis. It's not super polished but it's honest something that helps me to wake up and have a good day. Hope it keeps you good company, wherever and whenever you listen to it."

Tracklist:
1. Chihei Hatakeyama - Lake swaying in the wind
2. Ulla Straus - House
3. Son of Chi & Arthur Flink - Part One
4. Multicast Dynamics - Working Spaces
5. o.utlier - Suspend
6. Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto - Naono
7. LF58 - Rituale
8. Ear to Ear - Live Recordings D
9. Juan Manuel - G 

Photo by Paul Volkmer

Paragon
https://soundcloud.com/paragon_ys
https://soundcloud.com/Parallel-perceptionseries

Deep Breakfast Series
Instagram: www.instagram.com/deepbreakfastseries/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DeepBreakfastSeries/
Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/deepbreakfastseries

Deep Breakfast 315 ~ Paragon

Italian duo https://soundcloud.com/naturalelectronicsystem have been a force within techno’s underground since 2004, gaining respect through their much revered podcasts for cult websites such as mnml ssgs and Smoke Machine, as well as their international dj sets, including at Labyrinth in Japan. 

After a mesmerizing set at the Patterns of Perception opening party at OHM in April, we are pleased to have natural/electronic.system. provide the seventh installment of our mix series - an hour of groovy, slowly unfolding dub techno.

We also had a chat with the duo about the mix, their push into production, and the music that makes them 'vibrate': http://goo.gl/LxTbOH

Patterns of Perception 07

Patterns of Perception 07 - natural/electronic.system.

Precept 001 | Maïore

Irshad Hussein is an Azerbaijani electronic musician and dj from Baku.  İnspired by atmospheric and deep sounding he moves in the direction of techno and ambient. He recently realized his EP Obastan on the spanish label Circular Limited, which promote artists like Svarog, OWL, Concept of thrill, Kanthor and more... Enjoy its contribution

Precept 002 | Irshad Hussein

Ephere is a 23 years old french producer from Lille (FR). His work represents well the kind of vibes we try to promotes. His track "Vain" has met a lot of success on soundcloud, he already has two EP released and a new one is coming soon... A man to follow!

@ephere

Precept 003 | Ephere

@hydrangeamusic ’s life as a producer and DJ began relatively recently, when in 2014 she began expressing the quietness, wonder and intensity of nature in techno. For this prodigious French talent, creating and selecting music is an act of entering a deeper dimension, both transcendent and grounded in the hypnotic beauty of the natural world.

As a producer, she has released her own productions – which are lucid, mesmerising, arresting – on @annulled_music, @two-two-records, and @silent-season.

As a DJ, she is equally inspired by the dancefloors she plays to across Europe as by the nature around her home. She describes this mix for Patterns of Perception as a musical trip for one of her walks in the forest, creating an inner journey while being connected with the surroundings.

Wherever you happen to listen to it, we are confident it will have a similar effect on you.

Links: 
@hydrangeamusic
https://www.facebook.com/musichydrangea/

Tracklist:
Lena Deen - Lateral
Ntogn - Draki 
Meta - Ambiente 2
Kanthor - Ballet Mécanique
Bichord - Analog Wind
Adam Michalak - Evening Later
Void & Materia - Sonar Call
Andaman - Vision III (Refracted Remix)
Mohlao - Patchbay
Kanthor - Kirtana
Chnl - Ion (Terra)
Perial - 2019
Teste + Edit Select - Ascend
Aquarium - Sandalwood
Mohlao - Rotar
Depthon - Polygraph (Ricardo Garduno Remix)
Sicarius Hahnio - Resto Domani
Vytis - Ocean

Patterns of Perception 26 - Hydrangea

one on one with nature

mastering - mmcm.ru

The Stages Of Night Ep

Marcibagoly - Dawning Drones

новую историю в этот раз нам повествует kydhi. каждый элемент этой истории уносит все дальше и дальше на расслабляющих волнах ритмической музыки. звучание, пропитанное минимализмом и лирикой, позволит достичь еще неизученных уголков сознания.

поток.

◦

a new story this time tells us kydhi. each element of this story carries further and further on the relaxing waves of rhythmic music. sound imbued with minimalism and lyrics will allow reaching still unexplored corners of consciousness.

flow.

02 ◦ kydhi

To sit in space, to be in peace and drift outside of time, is the gift of sonic experience. Like opening up a book of sounds, Shõen narrates a story that is just as much about wonder and expansion, as it is fragility and introspection. Captured by its feeling of freedom and subtle qualities, once the door to the boundless world of ambient opened up to him he began to look for ways in which sound can be used to uplift and revitalise the mind and body. 

Dimensions of emotion blossom open like the first flower of Spring - engulfed by the constant processes of death, rebirth, resistance, and yielding, it flows together like a verdant tonic for the soul. Bearing witness to the sequences of passages, they open and close like distant passing scenes. The sky turns blue and purple, the quiet moon folds into itself on the face of the lake, and unknown constellations above watch down with a knowing light.

Podcast Series 23 • Shōen 荘園

~ Deep Breakfast 085 by https://soundcloud.com/dimitardodovski ~

Tracklist:
01. Roméo Poirier - Thalassocratie
02. Andrew Pekler - Hy Brasil
03. Ross Alexander - Fresh Icecream
04. Scott Gailey - Grasstune
05. 0N4B - S2
06. Pontiac Streator - Lamp Fest
07. The Chi Factory - Travel In Peace (Part Two)
08. Joel Tammik - Kaja
09. Soundwalk Collective - Sarah
10. Carmen Villain - Impossible Color
11. Bee Mask - Scanops
12. Aleks - Frame Of Reference
13. Carlo Giustini - Il Vicino (Si Muove)
14. Space Afrika - Oh Baby
15. Niskogradba - Hospital Visit, October 2013
16. Mr. Cloudy - Memoria II
17. Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza - Rainforest Hill
18. Ayizan - Tribilasyon
19. Niskogradba - Сплинот, таа ужаснатост од предвидливоста на секојдневието. Сентименталност за ѕвездени моменти!

Have a good listening.

Photo credit: Dimitar Dodovski

Deep Breakfast 085 - Dimitar Dodovski

hello strangers !

Special podcast by @antiasmusic, including tracks from our 
ambient / electronic sublabel [ soundcloud.com/secretdomainlabel ]
+ [ https://secretdomainlabel.bandcamp.com/ ]

Big thanks to Antias - [ @antiasmusic ] + [ www.facebook.com/antiasdub ] 
+ [ www.antias.bandcamp.com/ ]

TL:
Amanita Phalloides & Heavenchord - Silence (Eλεος)
Amanita Phalloides & Heavenchord - Mercy (ΗΣΥΧΙΑ)
Amanita Phalloides & Heavenchord - Stillness Before Night
Amanita Phalloides & Heavenchord - Oсean Solaris
Amanita Phalloides & Heavenchord - Specular Reflections
Amanita Phalloides & Heavenchord - Become Like а Children
Amanita Phalloides & Heavenchord - Endless Summer Lullaby
Heavenchord & Infinity Dots - Light, Water and Silence 7
Heavenchord & Infinity Dots - Light, Water and Silence 6
Heavenchord & Infinity Dots - Light, Water and Silence 3
Heavenchord & Infinity Dots - Light, Water and Silence 5
Heavenchord & Infinity Dots - Light, Water and Silence 1
Heavenchord & Infinity Dots - Light, Water and Silence 4
Heavenchord & Infinity Dots - Light, Water and Silence 2

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Secret Domain

antias - hello strange special podcast #16

The idea for this recording was shaped by time and circumstances. There was a natural need to compensate for the lack of the dance floor spirit. This aspiration transformed into an opportunity to build the sought-for balance and harmonize the musical perception.

This story is filled with soft enveloping atmosphere: sounds of nature, noises, spontaneous musical sketches, conversations and hidden messages. Through such forms I try to find connection with nature, with the world that surrounds me and myself.

And now I have an impulse to share this with those who are open, searching and trying to observe.