The ASIP Places Series is a selection of releases inspired by the artist’s very own strangely isolated place. No one place is the same, no musical inspiration is identical. Everybody’s place of escapism is different. The Places Series aims to unearth the personal moments, the detailed sounds and the inspirational story behind the music, transporting the listener to that very moment of conception.

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Seld - Soundwaves For Soundsystems

Dawn Chorus w/ Lucy Grey: 31st August '25

A welcome return to the series for our friend Faru with an inspired hybrid mix that captures the bittersweet essence of summer's farewell.

Faru is a Berlin-based musician, designer and explorer. He is crafting Drone and Ambient music from his nature recordings from around the world. His works have been described as a natural orchestra in a dream-like manner. Exploring movements of nature, noise and harmonics. Labels include Silent Season, Faint and Carpe Sonum (FAX)

About the mix he said:
"This hybrid mix drifts through layers of sound that feel like half-remembered dreams and moments suspended between past and present. It carries a sense of nostalgia, of looking back at places and times that still echo somewhere within. The sounds paint old memories into focus, though never quite as they were. Sometimes blurred, sometimes distorted, always shaped by the way we remember them as individuals. Textures and gentle warmth intertwine, like memories fading in and out of view. It’s music for reflection, for wandering through old feelings, and for revisiting those fragments of time that never completely leave us."

Tracklist:
1. Suzanne Menzel - Summer Rain
2. Billow Observatory - Wash Away The Dust
3. Yoyu - Forest Purple
4. Tau Sagittarii - Time Relates
5. Billow Observatory - Stareside
6. Faru - Unreleased
7. Lena Deen - Sleep Don't Come Easily
8. ASC - Find Yourself
9. Air - All I Need (Faru drone edit)
10. Singing Sorrows - Daring
11. Rod Modell - Snowstorm in Gwinn
12. Faru - Unreleased
13. Rod Modell - Snowstorm in Blaney Park
14. Donato Dozzy - Lucrezia
15. Benoît Pioulard - Sajo
16. Mount Shrine - Absent Sens, Part 2
17. ASC - Empty Words
18. Faru - Unreleased
19. Tim Hecker - Boderlands
20. Wil Bolton - Soar
21. Kanging Ray - Nacht und Tag
22. 36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel (Blue New World 2)
23. Benoît Pioulard - Esperanza Dive
24. Rod Modell - Snowstorm in Munising
25. Wil Bolton - Slow shapes
26. Faru - unreleased
27. 36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel (Final Approach 5)
28. Carl Sagan & Fifth Element (Faru Drone Edit)
29. Mount Shrine - Azur
30. Faru - Unreleased
31. Faru - Unreleased
32. Hania Rani feat. Patrick Watson - Dancing With Ghosts (Faru drone edit)
33. Variant - auratia [part one]
34. Faru - Unreleased
35. Detroit Escelator Company - Force
36. Roly Porter - Sequence

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Deep Breakfast 325 ~ Faru

Organic soundscapes, field recordings and melodic ambience from composer Sophia Zhuravkova. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/sophia-zhuravkova/episodes/sophia-zhuravkova-7th-september-2025

SOPHIA ZHURAVKOVA w/ Munetoshi Nakayama 070925

[DISSECTION] is a mix series where various artists show their personal spice and flavor. Aspetuck presents a wide variety of atmospheres and assembles them fluidly, putting focus on the shifting colors of the palette. The process of continuous rebuilding and deconstructing layers, filled with mystic tones and smooth percussion. A mix of tonality and drive straight from the urban jungle of NYC.

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GIFKIKKER is a Brussels based collective and label that fuses roughness and bite with depth- and clarity. Inspired by the sounds of the rustling leaves, flowing rivers and industrial soundscapes, our aim is to create genre-fluid music that blast the listeners into a wall of sound. Experimentation is key, where there are no boundaries.

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Our latest podcast was recorded by the Paris-based artist, DJ and passionate storyteller ~ Adhémar ~ elegantly cruising organic ambient-scapes and radiant lands of contemporary jazz  in his contribution to the series ✨

Adhémar is a multi-disciplinary artist, establishing his universe through music and visual works in constant state of interplay. His his universe is built little by little, patiently narated, with each and every element perpetually becoming and finding it’s place within the greater whole 💫

In this soul nourishing chapter of our Podcast Series, we are welcomed with a warm embrace of atmospheric textures, acoustic instrumentation and field recordings all tightly knit into a soft carpet of tranquillity patiently advancing into the various territories of jazz, spanning soulful, spiritual, avant-garde and ambient across it’s nearly two hour duration 🎷🐿️

Sounds by @adhemarmusic 
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ie-podcast-series-57-adhemar

TRACKLIST
Gigi Masin & Jonny Nash – Astro
Ned Milligan – The Path You Took To Existing
Suso Saiz – Paseando El Encierro
Monadh – Ria
Patricia Wolf – Lay To Rest
Felbm & Louis Reith – &
Pajaro Dune ft. Iffie – Unreleased
Aiôn Lazura – Mangrove (Adhémar's Intercontinental Dance Version)
Felbm – Decay
Matthew Halsall – Life
Florian TM Zeisig – Thank You Pharoah
Nico Georis – Thermals
Phil Smith – To The Train
Celer & Hakobune – Merges Of Hysterical Exhilaration
Anenon – Hand Poetry
Nala Sinephro – Continuum 2
Carlos Niño & Friends – Please, wake up.
Matthew Halsall – Triangles In the Sky
Ancient Infinity Orchestra – Niyama
Olec Mün & Michael Sarian – Manaas
Maisha – Inside the Acorn
Vega Trails – Red Moon Rising
Jasmin Myra – Awakening
Matthew Halsall – The Temple Within
Chip Wickham – Drifting Chip
Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music (feat. Venna) / Afro Cubanism (Live From Malibu)
Nubya Garcia – Together Is A Beautiful Place To Be (Nala Sinephro Remix)
Sam Wilkes – Descending

Podcast Series 57 | Adhémar

Le Motel and Stebu invite you to their alternative world

Maloca Records w/ Stebu & Le Motel @ Kiosk Radio 01.10.2025

Carrier & Emily Jeanne present unit::overlay with Berlin based production duo Kinzua.

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Carré at pe:rsona 2025

ENA performed on the first day of #Mostra25 at Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació.

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@ena-iai is a music producer from and based in Tokyo. He is a major player in the Japanese underground dance music scene for more than a decade. Taking influences from early drum & bass productions, rave sound and abstract hip hop, ENA is recognized for his tight production techniques and massive audio dynamics. Uncompromising, forward thinking and unique, his releases on 7even Recordings, Horo and Latency brought international attention and have led to collaborations with like-minded virtuosos such as Felix K and Rashad Becker which were both invited to perform on the main stage of Berlin Atonal festival (in 2016 and 2017 respectively).  As a DJ, he has been playing regularly in the main clubs in Tokyo such as Unit, Contact, WWW  and Club Asia as well as underground haunts like Forestlimit and Soup for many years. His expert music selection and technical excellence continues to impress the audience in and outside of Japan. Having toured Asia and Europe numerous times and appearing in wide range of prominent international festivals such as Berlin Atonal, rural, Fibre, Mapping and Sun and Bass in the past few years, he is establishing himself as a singular performer fitted to deliver a primetime rave set to a gritty basement fix to abstracted sonic experiments.

ENA - Live - @ Mostra 2025 🖤

When the surroundings are right, inspiration usually comes easily. And if your surroundings take in the green vibrancy of the jungle, rolling energy of the Pacific and power of the sun, you’re in a good place. Inspired by the life and beauty of the Mexican beaches, Mig Defoe definitely sees it that way.

“Playa La Llorona is a place close to El Faro de Bucerias, in Michoacan Mexico,” he explains, “it is my favourite place in the world.” 

Stimulated by the variety of sounds, his “Playa La Llorona“ EP draws on both the physical and emotional;  the perpetuating movement of the sea but also the sense of contentment it instils; the symbol of a hammock on the beach and the simple pleasure it provides.

“It’s all related to the sea,” Mig continues, “’Playa La Llorana begins with jungle sounds because the intention of the song is that the jungle is part of the orchestral sounds of the sea. The waves are the music, and because the place is absolutely desolate, the only music made is by the sea, the birds, and the insects. Palapa, is a place where you can rest in an Amaca, a kind of bed where the people rest and sleep on the beach, usually at a kind of bar, or restaurant. It’s very common in Mexico. Mares, means seas, and it’s a tribute to all the seas in the world. There’s energy but also sadness; Mares is a song for the oceans.”

Alive with tribal rhythms and ambient washes, ‘Playa La Llorona’ inhabits a place where the dense jungle breaks onto the panorama of the ocean, the moment of stumbling out of the foliage and across the sand. Yet it doesn’t sound like a triumphant escape from the clutches of the jungle, and nor should it, as Mig explains.

“La llorona is a name for a phantom in Mexico,” he begins. “It’s a typical Mexican tale and it means the woman who cries. At Playa La LLorona, the sand is full of silica (quartz) so that every step you do, it makes a sound like a cry. That’s why it’s called Playa la Llorona.”

The sound of satisfied lazing, ‘Palapa’s clean drumbeat claps with every break of the waves, the gentle keys and strings easing the sun to sleep whereas the downbeat beauty and pensive piano lines of ‘Volver’ tell a tale of a slight return.

“It’s been four years since I’ve been back to Mexico,” Mig reminisces, “but when I go back, these are the feelings I have returning to these beautiful places.”

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ASIP016 Mig Dfoe - Palapa

Some nights are made for sitting back and just letting the world spin on its axis; nights to watch the snow fall and gaze over misty neon hazes in the distance. Dark skies and white snow always seem to cast a sleepy contrast but it’s also one shared by an almost motionless state.

It’s times like these Benjamin Dauer treasures; the still hours where life is yet to accelerate towards its grinding daily regimen; the wait before the first creaks of cold bones and commuter trains amplify the city. 

“By day, I am a problem-solver,” Benjamin starts, “and each project comes with a slew of new requirements and problems. Things can move pretty quickly and before you know it, months have passed and the next one is coming down the pipeline.

“It means I cherish the early morning hours before I go in. It's during these times that I feel a deep sense of peace and quiet and so my mind can wander, free of project goalposts and timelines.”

Free of these pressures, his “Twenty Three and Twenty Six EP” is testament to operating in a haze of AM detachment. Four drifting scores of ambient invention, tape echo and swimming delay, they’re musical explorations that are beautifully, subtly metrical. Awash with hypnotic rhythms and an unpolished human touch, each track feels like it plays out to its untraced, natural end. 
  
“I love these happy accidents as I feel they are a natural part of the improvisation process” he explains. “I enjoy these opportunities to practice improvisation and I’ve discovered that these free-spirited explorations often end up feeling finely choreographed in the end. Perhaps this is some sort of primal response or urge to seek rhythm in my life?” he ponders.

Whatever the thought process, the still hours just got more beautiful.

More info and HQ EP download: http://asip.me/ASIP023

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ASIP023 Benjamin Dauer - Eight and Forty

Sometimes, an album comes along which blows everything else out of the water. Then, you learn it’s the artist’s very first release in this particular style. And then, that little tingly feeling you get from discovering a new favourite artist creeps up your back at you sit clasping your headphones with eyes wide open, in anticipation for the next track, for more, and more.

This sounds pretty dramatic, but this is exactly how I felt when I first heard Roger Martinez’s self-titled production as Horizontal Excursions. The electronic DJ/Producer from the Netherlands had well and truly grabbed my attention under his new moniker and his album, was easily one of the best releases of 2011.

Two years later, Roger has revisited his Horizontal Excursions ambient guise, taken a trip into nature’s beating heart and pulled off another absolutely beautiful piece of work that ambient enthusiasts like me, simply fall for again and again.

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The wilderness stirs something primal and unfathomable in us all. We become overwhelmed, awestruck, even emboldened, by these untamed frontiers, content to revel in the unspoiled beauty or compelled to explore what lies within. For some, it’s a cold, harsh reality; an unforgiving tundra of survival and subsistence. But, when afforded the indulgence, this isolation is the purest of them all.

“There aren’t many places left in Western Europe where you can still immerse yourself in pure wilderness” Roger begins, “in fact, the only environment where I have truly experienced this is in certain parts of Switzerland. My latest trip to Zermatt, located in the canton of Valais, has greatly shaped the music in this symphony and I was reminded that all of nature is something that should be respected and revered.”

A regular traveller through the country, Roger’s willingness to lose himself (in every sense of the word) in the abundance of natural beauty heralded Symphonica Helvetica – an untainted journey through the mysticism of the Alps, velveteen swoop of Swiss valleys, and the siren-song of nature.

“Away from the large cities of Zürich and Basel, you enter into a totally different kind of environment,” he states. “For me mountainous areas epitomize something indescribable, something sacred. I lose sense of identity and, sometimes literally, become lost in the landscape around me.

Inspired by the power of his surroundings, Symphonica Helvetica crystallizes those moments, and Roger captures, and softens, the endeavour of trekking through the terrain. A symphonic soundtrack that casts a heavy ambient blanket, there’s a sense of uphill resistance as the summit nears; the enormity of casting an infinite gaze for miles; the deep, contented inhale as you survey the forest canopy thousands of feet below and feel, for that moment, like it’s all you.

“In these places you really see nature at work: sculpting, flowing and grinding through the mountains,” Roger explains. “The fruits of my past trips through the mountains of Switzerland have amalgamated into the symphony that I present to you here. This is the musical translation of the visions and experiences I had standing on the edge of mountain cliffs, overlooking valleys, walking through snow-clad forests, enchanted by mountain tops in full view. These are the shamanic songs of Mother Nature still at reign in her grand domain: a living myth put into sound pressure waves.”

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ASIP024 Horizontal Excursions - Symphonica Helvetica

We’re so busy navigating concrete jungles and determinedly juggling schedules with mindless routine, it’s a welcome rarity for many of us to experience true postcard perfection. But walking in the shadows of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, Micah Templeton-Wolfe found that the snow-capped surroundings stirred something as he travelled through the south of the country.

“’Frozen Skies’ captures the feeling of the first time I travelled throughout the South Island of New Zealand in 2005,” he explains, “I was truly amazed by the raw beauty of the landscapes, from the stillness of the vast lakes to the majestic heights of the Southern Alps. Every time I’ve visited this place, there is an overwhelming feeling of solitude, of being totally immersed in the vast and striking textures of this beautiful place."

A track that hums into life from atmospheric beginnings, it feels like Karin Dreijer Andersson’s warped yelp is lurking, ready to wickedly cut through the drone. Instead, ‘Frozen Skies’ evolves into a track of yearning discovery, its moody, glacial pace mirroring the cold beauty of the landscape that inspired it.

Awash with fleeting builds and yearning strings, it feels like a mournful journey of a dying day; the sun sinking into the glacial lakes in the distance, a soundtrack to just staring ahead and seeing life, not death, in a ruggedly endless horizon.

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ASIP025 Stray Theories - Frozen Skies

Standing tall on Kompakt’s Pop Ambient compilation back in 2003, Leandro’s lush ambient sound set the precedent and style for what is now a remarkable ongoing series for the German label. It was tracks like Leandro Fresco’s, ‘Buenos Amigos‘ that really took my love for ambient music up a notch, and also opened my eyes to this new style of deep, heavily textured electronic ambient music. It’s an understatement to say how proud I am to have such a remarkable producer contribute to the Places Series.

Fast-forward ten years, and last week Leandro gave us a gentle reminder of his beautiful, warm ambient style, with this mix for Sgustok Magazine. And as if timing couldnt be any better, we’re now treated to Leandro’s latest masterpiece for The Places Series.

Patagonia’s always held a personal fascination. With a small, Welsh-speaking population over 7,000 miles away from Wales, it’s an odd displacement, but for the 5,000 that speak Patagonian Welsh, it’s undoubtedly home.

It’s a theme that poignantly plays out for Leandro Fresco – the lure of his parents’ house providing the happy, creative escape from the frenzy of Buenos Aires. “I wrote this song in a beautiful small city in Argentinian Patagonia where my parents live,” he explains. “This has been my favourite place to write for a long time, a place where I can escape from Buenos Aires.”

And it was this transition from the hustle of the Argentine capital to the serenity of Patagonia’s San Martin De Los Andes that helped provide the snowy inspiration for ‘Almas Sin Prisa’ (‘Souls without Haste’).

“I remember sitting in my room facing the window, watching the snowflakes fall and improvising on the keyboard,” Leandro reminisces. “Looking through the glass, I saw two people walking away in the storm, holding hands. These were the first minutes of the night when the sun was just beginning to hide and I kept on thinking about who these strangers were.”

This sense of the unanswered lends ‘Almas Sin Prisa’ a baleful, blissful feel. Beautifully layered, you can almost feel the weight of the snowfall cloud your line of vision, those first delicate snowflakes amassing to become tumbling white walls; the delicate movement and feather-light melodies conveying a distance as they gracefully drift away; the subtle drone lending a dreamy finale as the snowy silhouettes fade out to white.

“I’ll never know,” he smiles, “but while the music played, and I drank my cup of tea, I was happy to be in the warmth of my home and glad that I saw this simple show. Just two people in the storm. Just two souls without haste.”

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ASIP026 Leandro Fresco - Almas Sin Prisa

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ASIP016 Mig Dfoe - Palapa

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