This recording is from the first edition of L’Appuntamento, a series of open-air listening sessions initiated by Villa Lontana Records and Donato Dozzy in Rome. Each gathering pairs a vinyl set by Dozzy with a live electroacoustic performance by a new-generation artist.

In this first edition, held in the garden of Villa Lontana, Donato Dozzy opened the evening with a selection of minimal, folkloric, and acoustic-rooted records — setting the tone for Verde Prato’s live performance.

L’Appuntamento is an ongoing invitation to pause, tune in, and share time through listening. 
Next appointment is Thursday 26 June 2025 with Ange Halliwell.

L'Appuntamento with Donato Dozzy + Verde Prato - Listening session at Villa Lontana on 11 May 2024

Cio D’Or hardly requires an introduction, having long stood as both a pillar of our scene and a source of inspiration for so many. Over the course of her singular and decades-spanning career, the Cologne-based artist has cultivated a universe of sound entirely her own, immediately recognizable yet endlessly evolving much like the work of her contemporaries and collaborators Mike Parker and Donato Dozzy. To experience Cio’s music is to follow a throughline that traces the complex history of contemporary techno in a single gesture, compelled by the vast unknown and the primordial familiar in equal measure. Recalling the blurred realism of Richter’s photo-paintings or the timeless intricacy of Bach’s fugues, Cio’s self-contained sonic world delicately reframes our own precious lifecycle, a reflection revealed through its elegant and subtractive minimalism.

In collaboration with our friends at Mostra, I’m honored to share a selection from Cio D’Or’s set performed at this year’s edition of the Barcelona-based festival, a sublime triumph from a scholar of sound.

@cio-d-or
@mostrabcn

Artwork by Camille Ferdinandus.

Sure Thing Mix 146: Cio D'Or

Ilya Semashkevich is a Belarusian-Polish composer, sound engineer, and multidisciplinary artist born in 1997 in Brest. His practice merges electronic and acoustic composition, live performance, improvisation, and visual expression. With a background in jazz, sound production, and experimental music, he works across genres such as ambient, idm, trance, house, and contemporary classical. His approach treats sound as both structure and form, a tool for perception, memory, and artistic thinking. Influenced by lo-fi aesthetics, minimalism, and sonic spatiality, Semashkevich explores the concept of “Imaginative Mixing”, aural equivalents of visual composition.

Ilya had to say the following about this live-recording: "For me, this live performance became a release of accumulated thoughts about home life and the art of “dirty listening.”
Life runs, flows, flies, crawls, stands still.
And I sit, walk, float, watch.
In hot or frosty, gray or yellow days - coziness makes me stronger.
Listening to this recording on a proper sound system will, of course, be great, but even through your phone speakers, you won’t lose its essence."

DSS 118 | Ilya Semashkevich

It’s a great honor to welcome VIK, one of the ever-lasting personas of the scene, as the guest of the 41st edition of our podcast series.

His passion for deep, softly hallucinatory, and uplifting sounds, which over time has evolved into a full-time pursuit, provides the perfect essence for building the atmosphere of the set and makes his performances heartfelt and immersive.

For this mix, he was kind enough to share some of the treasured tracks and digs he’s collected over the years.

Dive into the beats and energy of the euphoric, open-minded dance parties of the early 90s.


https://m.soundcloud.com/vikink


tracklist

Age - Lichtspruch (Mille Plateaux 1994)

Pulse - Move (Harthouse 1994)

Elliptical Headz - Topical Theory (Junkanoo Recordings 1993)

Prism - O.V.N.I. (Air Trance Communication 1995)

Ultrahigh - Primitive Love (Pt I) (Force Inc. Music Works 1994)

L.S.G. - Blueprint (Version 2) (Superstition 1994)

Speedy J - Pepper (The Hot Mix) (Warp Records 1994)

Speedy J - G Spot (Orlando Voorn J Spot Mix) (Plus 8 Records 1995)

Rick 8 - Hypernotes Velocity (Interactive Test 1991)

Nuw Idol - Alpha Centauri (Nuw Communications 1993)

Off And Gone - Phish (Exist Dance 1994)

RAC - Bad Altitude (Warp Records 1994)

Juno Reactor - Contact (NovaMute 1993)

Eat Static - Prana (Planet Dog 1993)

Bandulu - Earth 6 (Infonet 1993)


graphic : Lukáš Jung

Released Spine 41 - Vik

This month, we’re thrilled to welcome Tbilisi-based producer, DJ, and co-founder of Spira Records, BLNDFLD. Known for his deep, hypnotic sound design, BLNDFLD delivers a mix brimming with depth, texture, and nostalgia, the perfect soundtrack to ease into the autumn season. Expect tribalistic rhythms, atmospheric grooves, and a journey through mysterious and immersive universes. A pure selection of beauty and emotion awaits, let yourself be carried away.

@blndfld

Tracklist :

Liu Yi-Wei - 边度 Bian Du
Formant Value - Altair
Sunjun Hargun - น้ำ Na
Valentino Mora - Spiral Falls
Zemog - Rape (ambient Interpretation)
Wanderwelle - Ancestral Guidance
Jefre Tropod - Legiac
Polygonia - Golden Tears
Re:Axis - Remembrance
Polygonia - Idylle Am Waldgewasser
Walton - Space Water
Kareem Lotty - Fr3sh
Waveform Transmission - V.3.7-3.9
Heavenchord - Slow Motion Clouds

Artwork by Sophie Vaillant

Conscious Listening Mix Series - 39 - BLNDFLD

The Analogue Cops is an Italian duo at the head of Restoration Records. Their sound is a testament to a rich musical root influenced by American and 90’s electronic music. Under different projects as Parassela, Rage Therapy, Third Side... they have collaborated with Blawan, Ryan Elliot, Steffi, Francesco Del Garda...  The vinyl purists offer us another bundle of goodness for Episode Б57 with stuff from Plastikman, Frankie Bones, Ibrahim Alfa, Moodymann, Conga Squad… Vinyl Only.

Picture by Frenki

Б podcast 57 / THE ANALOGUE COPS

For this show, I want to play some Deep Techno and Techno with psychedelic and tribal aesthetics. Featuring some tracks that resonate with me recently, as well as some previously unreleased ones.

www.operator-radio.com

Zemög - 24th October 2025

Pink Wing started out as a djs-at-home thing between Jakob (crevette), Tim (Preko) and myself combining everything in our collection for endless hours. No boundaries. 

Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/T8eKPzSyb9sqosf2SD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thom_gram_as/

Epìcycle invites Thomas Gram @ GIMIC - 26 October 2025

Âsan is back on home ground with a recording from this year’s annual upstate gathering hosted by the @itsdelayed crew. It’s his third appearance on the Cellar Door podcast and his second set from the place we’ve all come to know as The Barn. As a friend once said, “go to the barn and forget everything,” and that couldn’t ring truer.

Recorded live, this mix captures Âsan closing out Friday night after an incredible set from a dear friend and the man behind "Sundays For.." series @huedj. The energy carried deep into the night, blending warmth, tension, and release in equal measure — a journey that felt both spontaneous and familiar. It's an evolving snapshot of a moment shared under those familiar wooden beams with some of the most amazing people this place brings together.

Enjoy


Tracklist:

1.  Bruce - Meek	
2.  Kletis - Unreleased 
3.  Âsan - Unreleased 
4.  natural-electronic.system - Idra	
5.  Neel - Fumana
6.  Varuna - Remote Pulsar
7.  Unknown Artist - Spirit1	
8.  Adventice - Exsurgence (Main Mix)
9.  Parallel 9 - Quadrus
10. Regis - A Hollow Moment (Dub Version)
11. Sam Goku - x-plor07
12. Dave N.A. - Solo Move	
13. Samuli Kemppi - Half Bar Burst
14. Ottagone - Ottagone 010	
15. Fergus Sweetland - I Think He's Listening To Me
16. silas - Ubuntu
17. Jasper - Uncertain
18. Antigone - Third From The Sun
19. MYKI - Gamma Closure 
20. Jump Source - Scrap
21. Armand Van Helden - Phreeknik
22. LFO - LFO
23. Kalawila - Slagsmål utbröt på Mount Everest
24. Forest Witches - Delusional Clock	
25. D5 - Sides of Space	
25. Dorisburg, Mathew Jonson, Sebastian Mullaert, Steevio - (C)Live At Freerotation 2018
26. Maurizio - Domina (Carl Craig’s Mind Mix)
27. Robbie Doherty/Foley - Let The Bass	
28. Âsan - Unreleased
29. Sunpeople - Check Your Buddha (Sven Väth Remix)
30. Melatonin Man - My Head is a Tornado
31. Timid Boy - Lokah Ft Margot
32. Gary Martin - U Can Clap
33. Malin Genie & Frits Wentink - Exopaq
34. Tal Fussman - If I Can (Original Mix)

https://soundcloud.com/hassansiddiqui90
https://asan13.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/asan_cellar/

Picture by @ nulltestmusic

Âsan

Deniro – a producer pur sang. Synthesizers are his way to communicate with the world. Deniro has been gradually emerging from the Dutch techno scene as one of the most exciting artists in Europe.

His music, markedly emotional and with roots in Detroit-inspired soul music, reflects over 15 years of isolation exploring his vintage machinery to then appear in the catalogues of labels such as TOKEN Records, Dekmantel or Tape Records Amsterdam, to which he is heavily bounded.
But it is also in the booth that he has proved to be an excellent sound architect, with sets that go beyond genres and whose contagious groove irrevocably binds us to the dance floor.

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