Ambient Sleepers Podcast series / Refuge Worldwide

Ambient Sleepers 002: ANRI (for Refuge Worldwide)
( @anrythm )

We are thrilled to welcome the talented Japanese DJ ANRI for the 2nd episode of our new Ambient Sleepers radio show on Refuge Worldwide / @refugeworldwide!

Get on board for a beautiful journey, discovering different musical landscapes, from Ambient and Electronica to some more Techno tunes.

This bi-monthly podcast series is part of our collaboration with the Berlin-based radio Refuge Worldwide (a fundraising platform working with a young womxn’s centre, refugee, etc.. / offering visibility to minorities and fights against all kinds of discrimination). 

- Thu 15th Apr at 8pm (aired on Refuge Worldwide)

More info about ANRI:

ANRI ( Berlin / Japan ) 

A trip to Tokyo in 1999 gave Anri her first taste of electronic music and there was no looking back. In 2010 she moved to Melbourne, after visiting and discovering a flourishing techno scene. 2014 saw a move to Berlin.

With years of experience behind the decks on many stages from clubs to festivals, Anri has honed a unique techno sound that moves from experimental and challenging techno to melodic and deep and takes the dance floor on a journey into inner spaces held by her gentle feminine power.

SC: https://soundcloud.com/anrythm
FB: https://www.facebook.com/djanriofficial
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anri_official_/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/anri

Ambient Sleepers 002: ANRI (for Refuge Worldwide)

Ambient Sleepers 003: Lorenzo Raganzini (for Refuge Worldwide)
( @lorenzoraganzini )

For the 3rd episode of our new Ambient Sleepers radio show on Refuge Worldwide / @refugeworldwide, we are very excited to welcome a very special guest: Lorenzo Raganzini. 

This talented DJ and producer reveal another facet of his personality. Stepping away from high BPM Techno he created a special Dark Ambient set incorporating speeches from 7 of his favorite movies - would you recognize them?


This bi-monthly podcast series is part of our collaboration with the Berlin-based radio Refuge Worldwide (a fundraising platform working with a young womxn’s centre, refugee, etc.. / offering visibility to minorities and fights against all kinds of discrimination).

- Wed 16th June at 6pm (aired on Refuge Worldwide)

More info about Lorenzo Raganzini:

Lorenzo Raganzini is co-founder and resident artist at HEX.
Born in Italy and raised between his homeland and Spain, in 2014 he founded HEX in Barcelona together with P LI. Started as just a small event, in a few years it took over the city, evolving into a full Techno movement composed by music, photography, visuals, art, design and clothing; creating experiences that go from club nights to art exhibitions and experimental sound acts.

In 2019 he launched the official label of HEX, named HEX Recordings. With a first release (vinyl & digital), produced by himself along with P LI and including remixes from Regal, Zanias, Insolate, VII Circle, VSK, Alignment and more, the brand demonstrated the wide international support received by a big amount of respected artists from the industry. In this release was included “Raving in Paris” a track that, with its videoclip, immediately became the representation of the today’s raving
culture. The same year, the two founders of HEX released also “Metal Works” on the well known label from Berlin, Voxnox.

Lorenzo until now has performed at some of the best clubs and festivals worldwide, such as DGTL, KHIDI, Brunch-In, Razzmatazz, Alte Münze, Nitsa, MOOG and many more, having also debuted in March 2020 on Boiler Room (Hard Dance).

Today… Defender of the heaviest, ruthless sounds, Lorenzo Raganzini represents the raviest tones of the movement, delivering ultra-accelerated Techno sets especially influenced by EBM, New Wave and his Rock and Metal background.

SC: @lorenzoraganzini
FB: facebook.com/LorenzoRaganziniHEX
IG: instagram.com/lorenzoraganzini
RA: residentadvisor.net/dj/lorenzo-es
YT: youtube.com/channel/UCWzKPbfoQTL_9HEteiWs3-w


Tracks from: Lorenzo Raganzini, Paolo Ferrara, Zanias, Regis, Ossa di Mare, Unconscious, Sirio Gry J, Rommek, Unconscious, Uncto, Parrish Smith, Kangding Ray, Answer Code Request, Swarm Intelligence, Stanislav Tolkachev, Hüma Utku, Torn Relics, Gateway X, Umwelt, Hioll, Jokasti, Endlec, Blush Resosponse, Espectra Negra, Verset Zero

Ambient Sleepers 003: Lorenzo Raganzini (for Refuge Worldwide)

Ambient Sleepers 004: Silent-One (for Refuge Worldwide)
( @silent-one-music )

The 4th episode of the new Ambient Sleepers radio show on Refuge Worldwide / @refugeworldwide is hosting an Ambient set from Silent-One.

The label manager of Intimate Silence dedicated a very special mix for us - beautiful journey through the sound we love, from the bo of Ghost in the Shell to Avril 14th from Aphex Twin. Enjoy!

This bi-monthly podcast series is part of our collaboration with the Berlin-based radio Refuge Worldwide (a fundraising platform working with a young womxn’s centre, refugee, etc.. / offering visibility to minorities and fights against all kinds of discrimination).

- Tue 17th August at 1pm (aired on Refuge Worldwide)

More info about Silent-One:

He might be a relative newcomer but DJ and producer Silent-One has had a great first schooling entering the scene. Born in 1992, Benedikt Merkl is one of the founding members of the From Another Mind-collective. Setting up the party in 2014 in his hometown Stuttgart in Germany (and later expanding it to Munich), he got his training through “learning by doing”. In 2016 the party also evolved into a record. Organizing the From Another Mind-club nights was what eventually led him into DJing, debuting in 2015 and shortly thereafter landing residencies at MMA in Munich and Romy S in Stuttgart.

When Silent-One DJs he fearlessly goes from more controlled techno into relentless, EBM-tinged productions and all the way into wave-territory. Unafraid of changing the structure of his sets, he peppers rigid tracks with rhythm-focused material, letting playful basslines and drum patterns wash over. All of this set on a backdrop of emotional atmospheric sounds – digging out tracks that rest on an ambient tapestry comes natural for Silent-One. For him ambient goes deep and true. He sees “ambient as reality and techno as an illusion” – a shifted and unusual view of the two genres. Maybe this also ties into his perspective of the From Another Mind- events, where he as a DJ (and organizer) builds a space for the clubbers to escape their daily lives, getting a chance to get lost in music.

Mentioning the ambient influences in his DJ-sets brings you directly to the center of his own work as a producer. The often sacral-sounding productions are nothing short of a deeply personal exploration for Silent-One; with the help of visceral sounds he brings the listener to the mind’s dispirited places; not being scared of its less gleeful corners. Hinting this already in the track titles by selecting them as carefully as he composes them. His ambient works are very much an extension of himself and their existence is meaningful to the producer.

Silent-One set up his label Intimate Silence already in 2016, which makes him not just an “early bird”, but also a fixture on the currently revived ambient scene. Intimate Silence is his platform solely dedicated to ambient and experimental creations, while the From Another Mind-imprint fulfills his techno desires. Silent- One’s ambitions with the label also resulted as offspring in shape of a monthly radio show for France’s acclaimed Rinse FM. Since 2017 Silent-One invites his favourite DJ’s and producers by asking them to provide ambient mixes. He selects his guests irrespectively of their typical musical output, wanting to shed their first layer to see what their idea of beatless music

SC: https://soundcloud.com/silent-one-music
FB: https://www.facebook.com/silentonemusic
IG: https://www.instagram.com/silentone_music/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/silent-one

Ambient Sleepers 004: Silent-One (for Refuge Worldwide)

Ambient Sleepers 005: Kasia Gościńska (for Refuge Worldwide)
( @kasiagosc )

We are very happy to welcome the talented Polish DJ Kasia Gościńska for the 5th episode of Ambient Sleepers radio show on Refuge Worldwide / @refugeworldwide!

This musical journey will bring you to the different horizons, from atmospheric ambient, to dark and experimental sounds. Get on board for a great storytelling in the universe of Kasia Gościńska!

This bi-monthly podcast series is part of our collaboration with the Berlin-based radio Refuge Worldwide (a fundraising platform working with a young womxn’s centre, refugee, etc.. / offering visibility to minorities and fights against all kinds of discrimination).

- Tue 19th Oct at 2pm (aired on Refuge Worldwide)

More info about Kasia GościńskaI:

A resident artist of the Berlin SønDER and Rave for Good events and the founder of the szlag initiative, the main concept of which is building a bridge between the underground scenes of different cities and countries. 

She cultivated her passion for electronic music in the hometown of Warsaw. After the move to Spain, she converted from a raver to a DJ the moment she started missing the harder face of music in the area she lived. Berlin, the current home-base, motivated her to discover different genres and to go outside of the comfort zone. 
Drawn to heavier electronic music, in her club sets, Kasia Gościńska revolves around the sounds of broken & industrial techno, electro, EBM, weaving in some faster UK-influenced breaks, post punk and wavy flavors. Industrial downtempo, experimental and ambient music all have a special place in her selection as well.

SC: https://soundcloud.com/kasiagosc
FB: https://www.facebook.com/goscinskak/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/kasia.goscinska/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/kasiagoscinska

Ambient Sleepers 005: Kasia Gościńska (for Refuge Worldwide)

Ambient Sleepers 006:  Linn Elisabet (for Refuge Worldwide)
( @linnelisabet )

For the 6th episode of our radio podcast on Refuge Worldwide, we're thrilled to welcome the great Swedish DJ and producer Linn Elisabet.

Linn's music selection will bring you to discover a more lyrical and semi-religious aesthetic of Ambient sounds.  Between choir opera vocals and atmospheric, enjoy a transcendent journey to a spiritual world.

This bi-monthly podcast series is part of our collaboration with the Berlin-based radio Refuge Worldwide (a fundraising platform working with a young womxn’s centre, refugee, etc.. / offering visibility to minorities and fights against all kinds of discrimination).

- Tue 22nd March at 4pm (aired on Refuge Worldwide - @refugeworldwide)

More info about Linn Elisabet:

Led by ethereal vocals, broken beats and raw distortion, Linn Elisabet’s transgressive interpretation of techno imagines a future where double-binding societal norms have been dissolved. Driven by notions of freedom and self-shaped reality, their narratives strive to hold your hand while observing the storm of life from its eye, facing a world more vast than we dared to imagine. With a classically trained past in string orchestras and church choirs, it is given where their soundscape, as well as their fascination for existentialism, was born.

Having released with acclaimed labels like Planet Rhythm and A R T S, Linn launched their own imprint Acts Of Rebellion in 2020. The label expands on Elisabet’s mission: releasing alternative dance music challenging the border of genre conventions and traditional functionality, as well as the destructive policies that hold underground dance back from its original cause.

Complemented with its non-musical augmented reality storytelling, Acts of Rebellion can be considered a series of postal cards, demonstrating the challenges we all go through: on a macro-level as a society, and on a micro-level as individuals. Stories of unconditional self-respect and overcoming normative conditioning. Stories of reclaiming one's history and name, of shaping one's own reality. Stories of remembering love, and of Challenge bowing for its queen: fierce minds and hearts which are ready for anything.

SC: @linnelisabet
FB: https://www.facebook.com/linnelisabetx/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/linnelisabet.als/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/linnelisabet

Ambient Sleepers 006:  Linn Elisabet (for Refuge Worldwide)

Ambient Sleepers 007: Medulla Oblongata
( @medulla_oblongata )

Our 7th episode is stepping out from our regular format of podcasts aired on Refuge Worldwide, and is simply released only here on Soundcloud.

We're happy to welcome Medulla Oblongata, curating the French collective TRÊVE, promoting Ambient events and podcast.
Get on board for a dark, drone and atmospheric Ambient journey!

More info about Medulla Oblongata:

Medulla Oblongata is a discreet yet emerging Dj who blossoms in his musical biotope between ambient and a mental and hypnotic techno. His techno sets are an invitation to an immersive journey where dancers can forget themselves. We could see him working lately with the Château Perché Festival and their secret and uncompromising side projects and mixing at KALT Club (Strasbourg, Fr) where he can express himself without boundaries.

With other weirdos he also co-founded the collective TRÊVE gathering artists from different horizons around ambient and visual arts in order to propose dreamlike and contemplative events. His ambient sets become hybridized with tape samples, droning machine loops and synthesizers.

SC: @medulla_oblongata
IG: www.instagram.com/medulla0bl0ngata

Ambient Sleepers 007: Medulla Oblongata

Ambient Sleepers 008: Eric Cloutier
( @cloutier )

Four 8th podcast, We're thrilled to release the recording from Eric Cloutier's beautiful 1 hour Ambient set at our last event Ambient Sleepers #5(05.05.22.)!

We had the chance to invite this legendary Techno DJ and producer from NY/Detroit to perform a special Ambient set, offering us a dreamy journey between atmospheric ambient, field recording, drone and experimental sounds - Enjoy!


More info about Eric Cloutier:

Cloutier’s nature - one of zeal and infatuation towards the warm, dubby, hypnotic house and techno that has come to characterize his sound as well as his ability to bridge the gap between dance music’s past and its future.

Eric Cloutier’s standards are representative of the pre-social media craze and arguably the old adage of letting music speak for itself. Cloutier’s twenty-plus year commitment has been built upon his integrity as a DJ and authority as a selector. A self-described "record digging psychopath," one only has to refer to his mix of highly sought after cuts from Driftwood Records to see the lengths Cloutier will go to in order to procure the perfect selection. This is truly Cloutier’s nature - one of zeal and infatuation towards the warm, dubby, hypnotic house and techno that has come to characterize his sound as well as his masterful ability to bridge the gap between dance music’s past and its future.

An exception to the norm, Cloutier is not one to capitalize on his Detroit origins. Moving to New York in his 20’s, he became a regular face at The Bunker where he began to further define his innate style of body orientated music. Now situated in Berlin, where he often shows up behind the decks of niche alcoves as well as the world’s best clubs, Cloutier’s reputation as an unequivocal, dexterous force is increasingly becoming one of note. His talents as a producer have also been growing of late, with the establishment of his own imprint Palinoia, Greek for “the obsessive repetition of an act until it is perfected or mastered.” The label has become the new home and optimization for Cloutier’s evolving undertakings. Through Palinoia, Cloutier manages to further synthesize slick, dubby club music to slide into his DJ sets as well as feature lesser known talent he's discovered. He’s a DJ for whom quality - above all else - is the watchword.

SC: @cloutier
FB: https://www.facebook.com/eric.cloutier.dj
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ericcloutier/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/ericcloutier/

Ambient Sleepers 008: Eric Cloutier

Ambient Sleepers 001: X tin (for Refuge Worldwide)
( @x_ti_n )

We are very happy to start a new podcast series, focusing on Ambient music. For the first episode, we honored to welcome the Berlin-based DJ X tin. 

Enjoy this beautiful 1 hour trip, between dark and atmospheric vibes through drone and field recording sounds.

Those Ambient Sleepers podcasts will be aired bi-monthly on the radio Refuge Worldwide / @refugeworldwide (a fundraising platform working with a young womxn’s centre, refugee, etc.. / offering visibility to minorities and fights against all kinds of discrimination).

- Sat 13th Feb at 3pm (aired on Refuge Worldwide)

More info about X tin:

Austrian-born, she started off producing electronic music and being active part of Salzburgs underground techno szene, with two releases out on local labels. Berlin shaped her exploring worlds between dark dystopian techno, hypnotic and experimental ambient, which she blends in carefully curated mixes since 2015.

X tin, in her hometown by choice, played at many major venues and events, amongst others - THE BRVTALIST in Ohm and FLEISCH, further in Munich, Rote Sonne for Mess. Internationally, her music could be heard in Paris Champ Libre, fashion weeks Cicciolina Party, Organik festival afterparty in Korner-Taipei, PAG in Tel Aviv, EXILE and APHOTIC in New York and Volnost in Seoul. She holds residencies in Disciplina - Vladivostok/RU, Trashera - Berlin and Heizkeller - Salzburg.

In her own productions, field recording plays an essential role. Shapeshifting sound experiments, drifting from meditative dream like ethereal scenes to intense bone deep noise nightmares, presented in the form of live pieces for various performances by Butoh dancer VALENTIN TSZIN in Russia and various locations all over europe.

She uses sound to connect to the crowd through deep emotions and fills up the room with atmospheric intense trips in waveform. Distorting genres, blurring lines between styles and layering sceneries, while never lacking a specific taste and powerful character. An eclectic choice of rhythms are sending travellers through deep ambient, mesmerizing electronic up to dark hypnotic- and energetic industrial techno.

Her signature is described by a room full of intense feelings, sweat and a never lost lust for moving bodies.

SC: https://soundcloud.com/x_ti_n
FB: https://www.facebook.com/xtinberlin
IG: https://www.instagram.com/x__tin/

Ambient Sleepers 001: X tin (for Refuge Worldwide)

Art Bei Ton is an artistic project focusing on merging electronic music and visual arts, though the promotion of events, podcast series and a label.  

Organizing events in Berlin and Europe, our goal is to create some immersive experiences, offering Hypnotic Techno/Ambient DJ sets and live acts, together with VJing, art exhibition, interactive audio-visual installations, performances, panels and workshops.  

Curating international artists, we want to embrace more inclusivity in the scene through the promotion of diverse and gender-balanced line ups. It is important for us to highlight female artists, queer actors of our community and fight together against all kinds of discrimination.

Contact: art.bei.ton.label@gmail.com

Event manager: @apolline-gu-don

Residents:
- @andreacossumusic
- @alicja-aksamit
- @hypnotic-black-magic
- @inf001
- @emikaelena
- @mownofficial
- @samo-rane
- @luisfmr
- @naraisneus (A/V live) 
- @elekember (A/V live)
- Sasha Smirnova (VJ)
- ELCID VS (VJ)
- Aconite (VJ) 
- Hala Ghatasheh (VJ)