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There’s beauty in the art of teasing. To build the groove of a night slowly and piece by piece is a commonplace ideal, but not many are willing to sacrifice the early moments of gratification for a potentially more rewarding experience. Enter Garçon: The Basel-based music afficcionado has steadily built his reputation as an expert in mood modulation. Combining hypnotic grooves from all corners of electronic music, he’s crafted a style firmly rooted in techno, with a singular affinity for the rhythmically dexterous landscapes that stretch beyond. An original resident of (now defunct) Basel institution Hinterhof, Garçon – in cooperation with ally Agonis – continues developing the Amenthia imprint’s unique sonic identity at Elysia, taking full advantage of the utilitarian space.

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Producer @azu-tiwaline works at drawing from her origins to find a new unique sound, taking inspiration from berberian & saharan trance music, as well as the relationship that develops between human beings and nature, through sound.

Catch Azu Tiwaline every 1st Sunday of the month, from 9 to 10pm [CET] on rinse.fr

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Elena Colombi helps to keep Mondays weird - expect a diverse range of up-and-at-'em records: from techno to post-punk, through EBM, industrial and -wave... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/elena-colombi/episodes/elena-colombi-5th-august-2024

Elena Colombi w/ Rrrkrta 050824

We are pleased to announce the launch of our record label and its first digital compilation ‘Lucid Haze’ comprising of dubby, organic and percussive sounds. Each track is a summer reminiscence, a deep-dive into emotive, rolling textures.

Many thanks to @caldera-caldera @bartoli_bartoli @atomic-moog @solmadj @ketto-profen @shjva for your contribution.

Format: Digital
Release Date: 04/09

Pre-order is now available via Bandcamp: https://osmura.bandcamp.com/album/lucid-haze

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Artwork @c_o_s_i

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"Gliding between dub and downtempo, this mix paints lush soundscapes. Every detail is carefully polished, each atmosphere flawlessly intertwined. The rhythm flows smoothly, creating a unified, enchanting story that’s hypnotic and deeply immersive."

Adhémar (@adhemarmusic) is a multi-disciplinary artist, establishing his universe through music and visual works. Constantly in search of the luminous quality of sounds, in a world made of shadows and light, his music is closely linked to his plastic work. This obsession with shadows leads him to think and create spaces, atmospheres that focus on the lightness and poetry of light. The idea of "narrative potential of music", allows us to confront the psychological and philosophical journey with a particular relationship on what is alive and what surrounds us (whether it is the material, immaterial world, the fact that everything is constantly becoming). With a particular rigour for transitions, whether in his own production or in his DJset, his universe is built little by little, with the passing of sound transformations and the light and poetic transportation of it all.

HOCast #204 - Adhémar

Carrier & Emily Jeanne invite London based DJ & Niche founder Ikävä Pii.

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Loradeniz is the multidisciplinary music and art project of Deniz Omeroglu, an Istanbul native now based in Amsterdam since 2017. Her mystical soundscapes feature processed vocals, deep-layered melodies, and compelling percussions. She blends her knowledge of instruments and music theory into her productions and DJ sets, creating versatile atmospheres with energetic drums, hypnotic rhythms, and rich melodies. Since 2020, she has held a residency at Radio TNP and has been running the B2B mixtape series “The Ottoman Export,” which continues its journey on RRFM since 2024. Alongside her independent releases since 2015, Deniz collaborated with Interstellar Funk on an LP in 2023, released a solo film score on Nous’klaer in 2024, and contributed to numerous VA releases in recent years.

Dystopian Drive invites Loradeniz @ Kiosk Radio 30.08.2024

this monthly mix series is curated by cynthia bernard (www.marineeyes.bandcamp.com) and has an archive of past mixes available for listening and downloading at cloudcollecting.substack.com. if you like this series and want to see more, please consider a donation at ko-fi.com/marineeyes. thanks for your support!

september ~ women of ambient 

1. marine eyes- of the west (Past Inside the Present)
2. Dania- An Individual (Geographic North) 1:50
3. Jo Johnson- It just is the love it feels (Castles in Space) 3:20
4. Suzanne Ciani + Emily Kokal- Una (dublab) 6:04
5. more eaze- Better (Past Inside the Present) 10:20
6. Qoa- SAUCO (Leaving Records) 13:17
7. Jessica Ackerley- All of the colours are singing (AKP Recordings)
8. Drum & Lace + Nailah Hunter (Fabrique Records) 15:28
9. Inquiri- They’re Gone Forever (Past Inside the Present) 18:23
10. Poemme- Tadpoles (Stereoscenic) 22:42
11. Lauren Helene Green- Slow Spring (Royal Oakie) 25:29
12. Yesol- A Frog’s Wish (Unvaeled) 28:10
13. Nana Mendoza- ve y escúchate (self-released)
14. Sachi Kobayashi- Shimmer (Stereoscenic) 35:17
15. Hadley Roe- When I Look Back… (self-released) 37:48
16. JFDR- Dreams like clouds on the slowest trail (White Sun Recording) 39:56
17. marine eyes- shedding (self-released) 41:20

this mix was performed live at Echo Park Rising on August 17th. the event was curated by AKP Recordings and was hosted at the flagship store of P.F Candle. much gratitude to all involved!

september~ women of ambient

UK based founder & curator of mix series kinetic, Dj wiggles explores the trippier soundscapes of techno & bass heavy sounds.

Dj wiggles @ Kiosk Radio 04.09.2024

"I fell in love with the piano again." The DJ and composer discusses the vulnerability of the creative process, returning to acoustic instruments and touring her latest album.

Laurel Halo has been circling around the club music world for a number of years, but she's only recently entered the echelons of jazz and contemporary classical. Originally from Michigan, she went to music school in Ann Arbor before moving to Berlin, and now Los Angeles, where she composed her album, Atlas—a release that's been met with widespread critical acclaim. She also played alongside Moritz von Oswald in his jazz outfit the Moritz von Oswald Trio, and released a number of eclectic, UK-tinged dance floor records on underground giants like Hyperdub and Livity Sound.

In this RA Exchange, Laurel Halo discusses the new direction of her music and what it's been like to tour it live with cellist Leila Bordreuil. She also talks about her creative inspiration (namely, the Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul and books by surrealist writers like Ursula K. Le Guin and Italo Calvino), the practice of aesthetic minimalism more generally and the methods she uses to create subtle variations in pieces that are slow to evolve. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.731 Laurel Halo

Artwork by Martyna Zoltaszek
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A regular on one of our favourite label collectives, http://soundcloud.com/origamisound, Asger Bruun Hansen’s Places Series contribution comes somewhat out of the blue. If you’ve followed all of The Places Series releases so far, you’ll know by now that the inspiration for these tracks can come from anywhere and knows no boundaries – be they physical or musical. And http://soundcloud.com/oddshapes sound is leading the charge amongst his peers in defining a very unique approach to electronic music. Desert Plant is dark, mysterious and packed full of energy – a new, unexpected sound from the most unlikely of places.

Sometimes inspiration peeks out of the ordinary, finding you at a point where you least expect it. It doesn’t always have to be the flash of the Eureka! moment, just the growing creep of realisation and a willingness to look beyond the standard wash of the everyday.

“Sometimes I take a particular street, leading away from the city, when I walk. It has these old wooden sheds all the way down along one side and I was immediately drawn to this mysterious feeling, as if somebody was trying to hide something on this empty street with all these poorly constructed sheds,” Asger explains.

It’s a feeling that underpins the eerie dissension and mystery of ‘Desert Plant’. Humming with a dark tension, Asger’s field recordings of a busy city contrast against the desolate, rail track-guided path on its outskirts.

“The street is close to the rail track and at some point it becomes a path, which lets you cross under a bridge,” he continues, “under that bridge, I recorded these great low-frequency sounds – a mix of the cars going over and the wind blowing beneath the bridge, with the sirens and city noises contributing to the soundscape.

“As I went along the road, literally, the ideas started building up inside my head. I remember feeling like slowly returning to reality when walking back that day.”

Those field recordings create an angry dissension, the agitated whip of the wind interrupting the mournful call of the vocals, gnashing over the dead space between stabbing, percussive beats.

A track wired by dark and low frequencies, it feels like you’ve stumbled across a place where horrible things happen and are hid, the ghosts of those actions lingering only until they’re discovered.

“It’s called Desert Plant because of the place feeling like it was completely deserted, yet it offered me so much in the form of atmosphere and inspiration. There’s life but you have to find it, and acknowledge it.”

(Place introduction by Reef Younis)

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ASIP020 Odd Shapes - Desert Plant

The somewhat eccentric notions carried in ʻTiny Nutʼ, through his trickling hi-hats and
descending basslines, creates a wonderful deep house exoticism, that you may find easy
to lose yourself in. Somewhere in the middle we find a jacking vocal cut bringing us from
under the trees for a brief moment in time. Earthy sounds make this track warm and
enticing, but donʼt assume itʼs not dance floor material, because it is!

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Ambient & electronica music blog, mix series, record label and radio station. Est. 2008.

Eine Sängerin aus Berlin, vom Improvisieren fasziniert. Jamsessions und Lagerfeuer - Musik ungefiltert aus dem Moment.

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