Audio by HARZ (Album Version)
Artwork by YOMA and HARZ

Bandcamp

15-3919

Hi y'all! The fifth Hyperborea session features our guest @markusguentner, a German electronic composer with over two decades of evolving ambient sound, known for releases on Kompakt, Affin, and A Strangely Isolated Place.

In this session, Markus drifts through expansive ambient textures, blending together luminous drones, melancholic melodies, and subtle rhythmic undercurrents. It unfolds as a deeply atmospheric journey, balancing intimacy with a sense of vast, timeless space.

The mix is accompanied by an interview where he shares insights into his creative process. Explore both now at https://futurenevercomes.net
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T R A C K L I S T

Orphic Signals - Sounds Of The Neutron [txt]
Loscil - Lake Fire [Kranky]
Abul Mogard - Like A Bird [Soft Echoes]
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Forever Ago Is Now [Black Knoll Editions]
Pepo Galán & Sita Ostheimer - Friends [Pepo Galán Productions]
Will Bolton - South Of The Lake [Quiet Details]
Hammock - Nevertheless [Self Release]
Benoît Pioulard - Maple Seed [Morr Music]
Ausklang - Zeitlos [Past Inside the Present]
Markus Guentner - Humanity's Shadow [Affin]
Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Etta Lorn [12K]
Aris Kindt - Seagraves [Kingdoms]

Hyperborea 005 - Markus Guentner

2 of 3 dj sets

https://m50.net/playlists/2025.05.24.html

@m50...
selections from:
Benjamin Brunn : Drop : Kimochi Sound
Chateau Flight : La Folie Studio : Versatile
Grischa Lichetenberger : Spielraum. Allgegenwart. Strahlung : Raster Noton
Hans Essel : Zeitfalten : Edition Telemark
Lord Of The Isles : Acceptance : Kimochi Sound
Matthew Mercer : Supernatant : Fiche Music
Matters : Scape compilation
Macie Stewart : When The Distance Is Blue : International Anthem
Matthew Mercer
Nebulo : BORDERS : Wabi-Sabi Tapes
Sequential Feedback : Harbinger
Savvas Metaxas : Adra
Savvas Metaxas : Magnetic Loops II : Line
Savvas Metaxas : Magnetic Loops III : Line
Shielding
The Conet Project : Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations : Irdial Discs
The Smashing Pumpkins : MACHINA: The Machines Of God : Virgin
Tom Thiel : [untitled] : Shitkatapult
ANMA : Batch 0012 : SM-LL
Milam Wisp : Butterfly Tokens : Shimmering Moods
Niki Matita : Babosa : Minimatika
Voafose : [untitled] : Rephlex
Vladislav Delay : Live Ars Electronica 2001 : Staubgold
Karl Marx Stadt
Civilistjaevel x Mayssa Jallad : Marjaa The Battle of the Hotels (Versions) : Ruptured
Tim Hecker : [untitled] : Mort Aux Vaches

selected live at @thorsten-schlenger Theater unterm Dach, Berlin

m50 @ Joint Venture 2.0 2025.05.24

We're back with another episode of The MUSAR Show, this time featuring Dutch 
producer Roel Funcken, one of the most distinctive voices in the IDM world, who delivers a deep journey into intricate sound design, razor-sharp textures and abstract rhythms, from weaving IDM, glitch, and leftfield electronica, into one immersive ride.
Press play and dive in! 

Roel has been releasing forward-thinking music for over two decades, both solo and as part of the influential projects Funckarma (with his brother Don) and Shadow Huntaz. Known for his meticulous production and boundary-pushing approach, his work has landed on labels such as Schematic, Djak-Up-Bitch, Arcola, Ad Noiseam, Shipwrec, Analogical Force, Touched, Science Cult, his own label Funcken Industry and many more...

As a DJ, Roel has performed worldwide, from Tokyo to the USA, London, Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Walking Life and across the Netherlands - supported and sharing stages with the likes of Tim Hecker, Plaid, Autechre, Richard Devine, and Lusine.


Roel Funcken - Musc [Science Cult]
Autechre - CCeC [Warp]
Exm - C Jupiter [Touched Music]
Idlefon - Where Voices Vanish [Tympanik Audio]
Roel Funcken & Exm - Kromon [Unreleased]
Plaid - Tomason [Warp]
Syl Kougaï  - Opale Verniss [Schematic]
Phoenecia - Dilioo [Schematic]
Roel Funcken & Exm - Dovin [Unreleased]
Funckarma - Loaded (Kettel Remix) [Sending Orbs]
Djrum - Galaxy In Silence [Houndstooth]
Plaid - The Launching Of Big Face [Warp]
Secede - Say I Said So [Merck]
Roel Funcken - Nebula Messir [MethLab Recordings]
Roel Funcken - Bworn [Unreleased]
Autechre - Clipper [Warp]
Quench - Kross [FUNCK Music]
Roel Funcken - Spoaf [Science Cult]
The Flashbulb - Petiole [Billegal Beats]
Skee Mask - Muk FM [ILIAN TAPE]
Eedl - Too Few Arguments [Unreleased]
Brothomstates - Te Noch RP [Warp]
CH415 - New Life [Who Is Paula]

The MUSAR Show #77 - Roel Funcken

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

Live from Neukölln: we’re excited to welcome our new resident with the debut show hexcode w. Dominique (with added support for grid instability).

hexcode w. Dominique [17.09.25]

Lantern in the Woods is the new album from musician and multi-instrumentalist Misha Sultan – a project that marks an important milestone for the artist. It is his first work conceived and realized as a coherent, unified statement, from the earliest ideas and sounds to the final mastering.

The story of the album began back in 2021 in Saint Petersburg, during studio jam sessions with Anton (Mårble), Vova Luchanskiy, and Nikita (Minereed). These live
improvisations eventually led to the formation of the collective Sri Primat and left a significant imprint on Misha Sultan’s solo sound. Some of the instrumental parts on the album were recorded during this period, preserving the spirit of spontaneity and open dialogue between the musicians.

Later, after moving to Thailand, Misha recorded the second half of the material. These tracks absorbed the atmosphere of southern nights, tranquility, and comfort – bringing a distinct “bedroom jazzy vibe”, a touch of sentimentality and gentle melancholy into the music.

The album offers a beautiful blend of jazz and various other influences. At its heart, it’s a search for balance between memories and the present moment, between nature and the city, between the light of the lantern and the darkness of the woods.

“It was especially important to me that my friends and close people were involved in this album. Their presence gave the music that warmth and personal feeling I value so much. My brother Zhenya (Dyad), Anton (Mårble), Vova Luchanskiy — they all contributed a part of themselves to these tracks, as did Nina Livanova, who recorded vocal parts for several songs,” says Misha.

Lantern in the Woods is a soft and sincere work, where all things intertwine naturally.

Pre-order Vinyl & Digital Album Here: https://digmoscow.bandcamp.com/album/lantern-in-the-woods

Misha Sultan - Lantern In The Woods (DIGRECLP06) - Preview

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

Tracklisting:

01. Hollan Holmes - Threshold
02. Alio Die - Cryptic Spell
03. The Black Dog - Villa Göth Calling
04. Autumn Of Communion - Through the Motion
05. Dadavistic Orchestra - Petrichore
06. Pallette - Al-Quds
07. Rookas - Loss
08. Natalia Beylis - Afloat In Fog And Feathers
09. Grouper - Alien Observer
10. Undveld - Summit
11. Darius Žičkus / Nazcaman - Airport PLQ
12. Loscil - Ultramarine
13. Jon Hopkins, Ishq - part i
14. Five Thousand Spirits - Limahians

Take a Trip with Garda

"I dream of journeys repeatedly:
Of flying like a bat deep into a narrowing tunnel
Of driving alone, without luggage, out a long peninsula,
The road lined with snow-laden second growth,
A fine dry snow ticking the windshield,
Alternate snow and sleet, no on-coming traffic,
And no lights behind, in the blurred side-mirror,
The road changing from glazed tarface to a rubble of stone,
Ending at last in a hopeless sand-rut,
Where the car stalls,
Churning in a snowdrift
Until the headlights darken."

Get taken into a dream by @arddhu

✢

MFIS LVX ✢ Arddhu

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

http://asip.me/PlacesSeries


ASIP023 Benjamin Dauer - Four and Fifty Eight

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ASIP023 Benjamin Dauer - Four and Fifty Eight

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