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Into The Abyss #011 | Iwamaki

Iwamaki is a Japanese DJ , started her career in 2015. She does live acts playing both drone and experimental. She focuses on materials sounds, such as glass, metal,
and tones of instruments with weights, and natural sounds.

SC :https://soundcloud.com/makiko-iwaki

Into The Abyss #011 | Iwamaki

This month's live set is an absolute highlight of our series.
Created in Berlin in 2016, AB UNO is an Experimental Electronic project founded by Eugenio Petrarca and Roberto Di Ciaccio. 

AB UNO’s live performances range between deep modular synth explorations, ambient improvisation, audio-visual compositions and interactive installations. AB UNO’s sonic sculptures create a landscape of wastelands & imagined places by way of dense layers of ancestral rituals, obscure noises & psychedelic soundscapes. AB UNO creates borderless, physical sounds that develop and unfold as the audience is carried away in hypnotic atmospheres in a fluid progression of music and images.

The staff of Melantónia is thrilled to welcome the Italian duo.

SC: https://soundcloud.com/abunomusic
FB: https://www.facebook.com/abunomusic
BC: https://abuno.bandcamp.com/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd2OzGbW0PZn_UJmUfYA1ug


Artwork by Pablo Diserens.

Mastered by Mattia Onori.

Melantónia live set 015 - AB UNO

"Autumn sky and purple colors say goodbye to the sun. From the side of the chapel, sitting on the red porous rock, I am finishing my cup of tea. The mist plays with the small broken and low clouds around me. I am part of the whole in the atmospheric game."

"Longing, now, is the so-called mind which has long been lost to longing. Faintly vainly longing for the least of longing, the unlessenable least of longing: still longing for the unstillable and vain least of longing." - Worst Ward Ho - Samuel Beckett


dietriangle (@dietriangle) - dj, producer and visual artist- from Bassano del Grappa (Italy) always try to explore different musical styles (experimental, ambient, techno) also involved in other side projects - “the tourist” (https://thetourist2.bandcamp.com/) and “human frequency” together with Stereo  (@st_stereo)(https://humanfrequency.bandcamp.com/). He released his productions with Taro records and with ART21 records. Since 2019 he collaborates with the Berlin based music collective Amatori (http://amatori.net/) their next VA reference will be release aprox in November 2021.

www.dietriangle.altervista.org

HOCast #82 - dietriangle

At these times of the year, the only catalog that many people have had in their hands will have been the IKEA, Toys 'r' us or the Corte Inglés. However, Rafael in just over two hours shows us his own musical-catalog. Instead of browsing through numerous consumerism pages, here you browse/navigate through the sections of contemporary classical, ambient and electronica; all revolving around modular as an instrument or as a processor in production. Way more interesting, isn’t it?

Born in Spain and musically raised in London, the chef, dj, producer, remixer and promoter Rafael has been immersed in a musical journey for 20 years, and you can feel it. He tells us: “I carved it with a lot of love during last Sunday the 26th, an ad hoc podcast which I really enjoy doing them. I used a Soundcraft with analog effects as a return and a Rane rotary”.

A full-blown trip through the Hipparcos Catalogue, which contains highly accurate astrometry for more than 118,000 stars all over the sky. We did not know, now we do.

You can find him at:
@chicanolivemusic
https://www.instagram.com/foodandsoundrecords/

Tracklist:
 
1. Michael Gordon. Industry. Octatonic02. 2019
2. Walter Fähndrich. Viola II. ECM1412. 1991
3. Bruce Brubaker and Max Cooper. Glassforms, prelude4. Infine059lp. 2020
4. Bruce Brubaker and Max Cooper. GlassformsVersions, opening (Laurel Halo Version). 2020
5. Nonkeen. The Gamble. The invention Mother. R&S1601. 2016
6. Kid Koala. SpaceCadet OST. Birthday. NinjaTuneZen174. 2011
7. Vladimir Tarasov. Atto IV. SähköJazzpuu13. 2019
8. Igor Wakhevitch. Kshatrya (the eye of the bird). Transversalesdisques010. 2019
9. Alva Noto. XerroxVol4.Voyage. Noton049-2. 2020
10. Luke Slater, Anthony Child, Tom Moth. Dialogue#3. A-Tonlp13. 2021
11. Peel aka KMRU. Why are you here. Peel. EditionsMego289. 2020
12. Murcof. The Alias Sessions. Shadow Surfing. The Leaf label. 2021
13. Niño de Elche. La Vigilia del Sueño. Primer Ciclo. 2018
14. Klaus. Bt gulf. A1. TNM002. Unknown date
15. Caterina Barbieri. Patterns of Consciousness. This Causes Consciousness to Fracture. ImportantRecords449. 2015
16. Massimiliano Pagliara. Devoid of Dimension. Unseen. Live at Robert Johnson. PLAYRJC049. 2017
17. Mind Against. Gravity. Afterlife001. Unknown date
18. Konstantin Raudive and Gerhard Stempnik. The voices of the Dead. Sound pieces 1 - 7. SubRosaSRV66. 2002

.CHPTR040 ‘Music for travelling through the Hipparcos Catalogue’ | Elniñodelospeines

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

Poussiere Diamant March 2022

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

Material Object Mix Tapes

Mix 84

More than pleased to welcome producer/Dj & artist Minjoon, based in Korea. Minjoon displays a mix between deep, subterranean, pretty dark sound at times  traversed by more luminous strokes. This gives his audience the feeling of being pulled into a dark tale with sonic doors opening on rooms filled up with sun. This contrast transpires more in his sets whereas his techno prods have a more direct approach. It's this tension created by seemingly opposed ideas/concepts (familiar Versus Unfamiliar and in his own words, ambiguity of colors when it comes to visual work) that form his current signature, aside from a strong interest for primitive sounds. 

"To me, the word 'primitive techno' is based on the primitive senses of humans. Literally, rythms that can be found in folk cultures, such as traditional korean instruments, Mongolian traditional 'Humei' sound, or ancient Nordic chants. It englobes both the magical and dark sensibilities inherent to 'modern electronic techno' ". 

Minjoon also works as a designer/artist & podcast curator for Artscope. After releasing on Charybdis, KVLTÖ, Artscope (...) he keeps exploring and developing his vision. Thank you Minjoon for your dedicated work <3 We wish you all a nice trip :-)

▶ Official Bio
"Since 2017, Minjoon has been fascinated by the joining of his painting awareness and primitive techno. His theme is to find an ambiguous balance based on the extreme paradoxes of 'Unfamiliar familiar. Ambiguous colors are not a visual sense, but appeal to another sense of energy.
Minjoon is also currently working as a designer/artist at Artscope. After his first debut EP in 2021, he's been continuously developing his sound".

▶ Keep updated/follow Minjoon's socials:
SC: @minjoonofficial
FB: www.facebook.com/MinjoonOfficial/
IG: www.instagram.com/minjoon_mm/

Tracklist
1. Romi & Unjin - Return [UNDERRADAR]
2. Marco Shuttle - Winds Of Cydonia [Incienso]
3. Anade & ISTOQ - Yin [Aedi Records]
4. Polygonia - Nyx [Secuencias Temporales]
5. Adhémar - Around the pond (Laima Adelaide Remix) [Artscope]
6. Mike Parker - Internalized Action (Original Mix) [Float Records]
7. MTRL - Ancient Voices II [IO Records]
8. Eamo - Tatooine [Melifera Records]
9. Data Domain - Operational Amplifier [Secuencias Temporales]
10. Donato Dozzy - mqf outro (Original Mix) [Spazio Disponibile]
11. Claudio PRC - The Darkest Hour [Northern Electronics]
12. Korridor - Path 01 [Northern Electronics]
13. Martyn Päsch - Deep Distance (Morpha Remix) [Aarden Records]
14. Luigi Tozzi & BLNDR - Dawn [Hypnus Records]
15. Artos Eleven - Decayed Tree (Forest On Stasys Warmed Dub) [Melifera Records]
16. Steve Moore - Protostar (Original Mix) [Kompakt]

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Artwork: "An allegory of Power" by Georg Janny (1864-1935, Austria), slightly customized (Pls check podcast nr 41 description for more details on artworks if so desired) /  Thanks for your continuous support <3

PRIOR ACT #043  — Minjoon

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

Music inspired by the dystopian futures of Blade Runner, I Robot and all the wonderful Science Fiction of the Past and Future.

NEXUS: THE DOMES

Flying Home

Generative dark electronic ambient track. I was thinking about adding a solo part, but the combination of Sonicware Ambient0+Evoke was already dense enough, so I just let it be. #AmbientAugust

.CHPTR045 ‘Neon System’ | Mocrobo

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