I love the way you use the rich moody piano chords with the sound electronic sounds - both in harmony and in tensions...very atmospheric...

schöne Musik für Traurigtage. Und Köln...ach ja. Bietet aber immerhin Platz für Veranstaltungen wie female pressure

A great atmosphere !!!  Regards friend :)

sad day. would be great as a soundtrack to a short film about cologne, the way you see it. very very good first release!

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.

View all of the releases on our interactive Google Map http://asip.me/PlacesSeries

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The Places Series

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2025.08.08.html

@dj1985me...
Pt.1: Belgrade rivers
Katharina Klement - Interviews
Danube river field recording
Kettel - Fish Creek
Jared Wilson - Seeing Is Forgetting
Anthony Naples - A.I.R.

Pt.2: Compute & Consume
Karsten Pflum - More Fun (Lyn Colllins Mix)
AFX - NEOTEKT 72

Pt.3: Lost Home
Katharina Klement - Karaburma (Black Ring)
Fluctuosa - 4mace
Pierre Bastien - Avid Diva
Belgrade Central Market field recording
Karsten Pflum - Letter From Zambia
Hmot - Qom ft. Adela Mede
Belgrade Accordion Player Blok 21 underpass
Bogdan W. Raczynski - Zagubiona Dusza W Tlumie

Pt.4: Enta Da Game
Street Basketball field recording
Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See (Human Action Network mix)
AFX -Quex-Rd
Qeta - Remoaner

Pt.5: I
Muslimgauze - God And I
Aphex Twin - I
Aphex Twin - I (Slowed)

Pt.6: Bells trip
Katharina Klement - Interviews
Bells of St.Marks Church Belgrade
Daniel Lauter, Donna Soszynski, Kim Atkinson - Dance With The Masks
Kettel - Cherie
Brian Baumbusch, Nata Swara & The JACK Quartet - Prism 1 (Tetra)
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2150060

Pt.7: Braindance trip
Karsten Pflum - My Lonely Art
Rolando Simmons - Smiley Moon
Karsten Pflum - Jazkroge II

Pt.8: Jazz trip
Underpass jazz field recording
Petar Ugrin - Emina

Pt.9: Guitar trip
Belgrade Guitar player Terazije underpass
Micksun - Pagliocca (Sad Clown)
Vlada Divljan - Rusija (live)
Squarepusher - Heliobat
Chereshenkaa - Utes

Pt.10: Daydreaming in The Lovcen train
BFC - Sleep
Skee Mask - Waldmeister
Pavel Milyakov - the eternal break
Ceephax - Dreamer
Skee Mask - Daytime Gamer

Pt.11: Nightmare in The Lovcen train
Voafose - Cassette
Dopplereffekt - Gesamtkunstwerk
Squarepusher - The Eye
Zandvoort & Uilenbal - Always A Nice Story Before Bedtime
Earth Leakage Trip - The Ice Cream Van From Hell
Digital Mystikz - CR7 Chamber
Aphex Twin - #4 (hankie)
Source Direct - Stonekiller
Paradox - Tighten Up Tighter

Pt.12: Morning at Skadar Lake
U.e. - Good Morning
Duško Gojkovic - Five O'Clock In The Morning
Sextant - Lakeshore Drive
Kettel & Secede - Missing Time

Pt.13: Adriatic Sea in Montenegro
Milibri - Mermaid's Magical Island
Martin Franklin & Richard Clare - Tides
AFX - em2500 M253X
Global Communication - Incidental Harmony
Purpurniy Dyadya - Fast Forward Motion Groove (ft. minereed)
Rockers Hi-Fi - Push Push
Conoley Ospovat - Movin' To The D
Ceephax Acid Crew - Housedream
Jonny3snareS - Phlop
CN - Stellar Awakening
Human Action Network - Cooper's Wine
User364304579 - Lipid Funk
Cyclone - Beautiful Minds
Fila Brazillia - Mermaids
KGB - Detroit 909
Jordan GCZ - Pleasantly Disappointed

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Wax n' Cats

DJ 1985 @ etc 2025.08.08

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

From forthcoming LP 'Reverse Acceleration of Dragons' https://12thisle.bandcamp.com/album/reverse-acceleration-of-dragons

Radx- Heavenly Shepherd of Silence (ISLE019)

Guestmix 16 - Picicletta
https://soundcloud.com/pajama_listens

Tracklist
1. The Kyoto Connection - Mindscape I (Lights)
2. Om Unit - Lonely Cities
3. Susuma Yokota & Ray Castle - Numinous Island (Side A)
4. Ike Zwanikken - Bianca
5. Habitat Ensemble - Le Magicien De La Forêt
6. Gigi - Abay
7. Shackleton & Waclaw Zimpel - Relics Of Our Past (feat. Saddhartha Belmammu)
8. Arp - Reading A Wave
9. Fila Brazillia - Subtle Body

q&a
q) where are you located and which places do you like to go there?
a) I am located in Zurich. Apart from music I am on the lake or visit bars, restaurants & art exhibitions. Zurich has a lot to offer here. Music related I slowed down with clubbing but I would recommend Kauz & Zentralwäscherei for regular clubbing, Umbo to find the unexpected & Studio Zurich & Kasheme for proper music with nice drinks. Apart from that I visit record stores & listen to music at smaller & private events.

q) do you remember what music inspired you when you made the mix?
a) Not really, I played the vinyl I had & what made sense to me. In general I try to pick music which is unpredictable & has some depth. Not sure if I made it this time but that’s at least what I try to do. In my opinion, the beauty of a good set in general is the following contradiction: a good set is subjective but at the same time, if it’s good, most people will just know.

q) which projects are you involved in?
a) Music-wise I run a place with a friend which we call Pajama. We started with having it for ourselves & friends to listen to & play music. Then we started hosting after parties with Format Records Zurich. Now we do what we always wanted, we organize listening sessions to warm up the night. The final dream is to have something as close to a Japanese Listening Bar as possible.

q) what else is important to you in life besides music?
a) Meaning in what I do, love, good relationships, listening to what people are saying, being kind.

q) last question. what do you like to eat or drink?
a) I like Japanese & Italian food the most, but I eat everything & love to explore. With drinking I try to keep things simple, a negroni, a layered white wine or a good beer and I am happy.

Guestmix_16_Picicletta

Bennett Andrea guides us on a shamanic safari in this month’s live set. Low-flying psychedelic layers weave through the mix, anchored by an ever-present percussive mantra. 

Besides his DJ-Alias „Formant“, he is frequently involved in technical matters at Zentalwäscherei.

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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

Wake & bake with NWAQ fm (also for evenings) [09.09.25]

bluebubble w Đ.K. - 15/09/2025

"I dreamed a wonderful dream of a flower.
On the hill-side green it grew:
But the tongue would fail, nor has brush the power
To paint that flower for you."

A fresh journey through space and time by @ghosttropics

✢

MFIS LXIV ✢ ghosttropics

As summer's warmth dissolves into the autumn breeze and the silence of shorter days descends, we're honored to welcome BLNDR to the series, sharing a mix that's a sonic companion for the season's transition.

BLNDR is a French electronic music producer based in Paris.
Deep beats, percussions, and atmospheric elements have always been central to his sound. He took his first steps into electronic music with the release of his debut EP on Hypnus Records in 2014. 

~ Check out his recent release on Hypnus Records entitled "Radiolaria": https://hypnus.bandcamp.com/album/radiolaria ~

About the mix he said:
"This recording captures the essence of open-air ambient performances set amidst nature's splendor, where music seamlessly blends with the sounds of the wild – vaporous melodies entwining with the songs of cicadas and the gentle rustle of leaves in the breeze."

Tracklist:
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Photo by Jacek Smoter

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Deep Breakfast Series
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Deep Breakfast 327 ~ BLNDR

Finding beauty doesn’t always come easy. It’s a search, and concept, guided by bias and perception; subjectivity and selectivity. For the optimists, it can be seen in anything. For the pessimists, it’s a long-term battle to find inspiration in anything but the superlative. That search seems to be an extensive one for Sonae when it comes to her current place in Cologne.

“Cologne has no beauty,” Sonae states. “It’s grey and full of cement and the asphalt ugliness doesn’t even stop at Cologne's biggest park. It’s a barely green area named Grüngürtel that sometimes feels like it’s been oppressed.”

 It’s a damning assessment but underpins the melancholic atmosphere of ‘Traurigtag’ and ‘Urban Cruising’. Twin tracks that carry a grey burden, the white noise hints at a discord and frustration, characterising Sonae’s struggle with the monotony of her surroundings. Frail piano lines and fallible melody struggle in their battle in the pool of acerbic static, the harmony painstakingly trying to emerge, only to slip back into the abyss.   It’s forced Sonae to look deeper into the city and her surroundings, cherish the intermittent oases, and appreciate how the bleakest outlooks can also inspire the smallest victories. 

“Cologne definitely has its colourful spots on its grey mapping,” she explains “In the Südstadt, early century buildings frame the streets, there’s the old trees of Friedenspark and Volksgarten's rose-garden, and last but not least, the Rheinufer allows you to leave everything behind while cruising along the riverside to the small beach of Rodenkirchen.”

 Perhaps the beauty is in the struggle.

More info and high-quality download: http://asip.me/ASIP017

ASIP017 Sonae - Traurigtag

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 - 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.”

http://asip.me/ASIP024

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.

http://asip.me/ASIP025

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.”

For HQ download please visit http://asip.me/ASIP026

ASIP026 Leandro Fresco - Almas Sin Prisa

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