Berlin based refuge worldwide resident ophélie brings us an hour of bass-heavy music for our 33rd mixtape, spanning from chuggy downtempo to fast n feel good footwork - with everything in between.  

@opheliek

𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 / 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬 / 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Ophélie / she/they / Berlin

𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐱
To be honest, I have found the world to be particularly dark this last year. When I thought about a concept and vibe for this mix, I struggled to go towards a happier direction, as it felt in contradiction with how I’ve felt recently. I have naturally leaned towards deeper, maybe more melancholic and dubby sounds for this one.
I am nonetheless amazed by all the great people around me fighting day after day for a better and more just future for everyone, it gives me hope and comfort, and that’s also reflected in this mix by lots of brighter, more hopeful moments.

It was actually a very soothing and cathartic experience recording this mix, thank you so much for inviting me <3

𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜?
I’m from a place where there weren't a lot of clubs, or wasn’t much happening musically, so a lot of my first experiences with live electronic music were with warehouses, raves, or traveling to Spain close-by to go to afters or parties.
As someone who can be very obsessive about the things I’m passionate about, I just had to know everything, and was making tons of lists about labels, artists, releases, spending hours looking for tracklists on Mixes-db (soon RIP 😢), looking for parties and clubs on RA, and also started collecting vinyls, that I was always too shy to play in front of people.

Going to London and especially Fabric and Plastic People, as well as Freerotation also had a huge impact on me, and opened me up to a whole new world of sound.

Even though this music thing was objectively what was taking the most space in my life, through which I met most of my friends and found most of my jobs, for the longest time I just couldn’t imagine djing in front of people (even my friends), or even try to get better at it. I was thinking about it a lot, but just always felt it wasn’t for me, that I wasn’t really good at it, and wouldn’t manage to get better. I really had to push myself (and still have to tbh) very hard to get out of this mindset.

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐰𝐝𝐞, 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫?
Aw thanks, really appreciate that <3 with radio sometimes it’s hard to know if people are actually listening, so I’m always so happy to hear someone say that they’ve been enjoying the show!
It will be 3 years of Therapy Dog next October. I started doing shows on Refuge before that, but started Therapy Dog in October 2021. I’m not sure there was too much of a concept to be honest, but I love dogs and mental health is something I have struggled with and find important, and I’m yet to find a quicker fix to being a bit down than petting a cute dog!

I like inviting friends and artists that I like on the show, and try to adapt to their style. If I’m doing it on my own, I’ll try to go with a specific theme. This show brought me so much joy over the last few years, always so nice to get to play some b2bs with friends or dig to find new music, as well as some regular time to practice and experiment outside the club. It also taught me to be a little more confident speaking on air, which I would never have been able to do before that.

𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐱 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬
Deep muddy puddle :)

full interview here: https://allmovingobjects.substack.com/p/kinetic-mix-033-ophelie-little-pockets

kinetic mix 033: ophélie "Little pockets of hope and resistance"

gallery

command d - pleasure gallery s4 e8

tracklist: 
bartosz kruczyński - whisper ii 
ian hawgood - guitar refrain for a midmorning blur
concave reflection - contact call 
zakè & city of dawn - lunar
asc & sam kdc - corridor of uncertainty
svlbrd - midnight echo 
zakè - home 
3-02 [stone in focus]
oliviaway - longing for the sky
xu - one with everything
alhu - dronepeace (ft. kindtree)
ezmeralda - canal muerto con flores 
biosphere - sherbrooke
inquiri - love 
purl - sus (summer of innocence edit)
j. albert - two heads in a frame looking at something beautiful
mark templeton - baptismal properties
hotspring -  don't hum without me
a song for you - sunlight shining

sounds of healing vol. 6

sounds of healing vol. 7

Pacing the Platform 25 w/ upsammy on NTS (31.10.24)

hüda - pleasure gallery s4 e10

Ahead of her kinetic debut this weekend, we asked untitled 909 / wav world / g force head honcho and one of our favourite people @basicchanel to join us for our 37th podcast.

After a pretty incredible break out year which has seen her support the likes of upsammy, lena wilikens + bruce to name a few, she's put together an incredible mix exploring her new favourite music movement, 'low end psychedlia'

you can catch her playing at our event in Paris this saturday alongside softi, Dj wiggles & B.Mcqueen - https://ra.co/events/2032390

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𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 / 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒔 / 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆
Chanel, she/her, london 

𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒙
This mix is something I’ve been thinking about for a while - the reemergence of low end psychedelia. I call it a reemergence as I feel like it could be linked to the trippy side of dubstep with the likes of Skull Disco and that sound coming back but on a much broader scale. I spoke about it in an interview recently as something I’ve become obsessed with, in particular this year, and I don’t really see any platforms covering it or trying to encapsulate this really exciting musical movement. Low end psychedelia can range from techno, trance, drum & bass, dubstep and more but the through line is this deep, trippy soundscape. The mix I’ve created highlights this push and pull between the slow/fast side of this sound where it ranges from 85 to 170 bpm, weaving through spacey, swampy and wonked-out techno, drum & bass and IDM. Something that’s worth mentioning is that a lot of the artists who are coming through in this scene are based in France, most notably Lyon and that’s what I want to write about and get to the bottom of, what’s the history there and what’s going on in France right now that’s influencing this movement. Some artists and labels to shout out include Christian Coiffure, Vardae, Comic Sans Records, SousTraitance, Beatrice M., Hewan Aman, Blue Night Jungle, Monochrome Records, sindh, kick21, minú jr and many more! 

𝒘𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒂 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘, 𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒊𝒙. 𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄? 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒃 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒔?
Ambient music was really my saviour during lockdown. I was going through my first heartbreak and living in a different country, which I moved to 6 months before the lockdown happened. There was no escaping your feelings during this time, you had to face them head on, as soon as they appeared, so I started building these playlists filled with ambient music as a way of giving myself some headspace during particularly tricky times. Or they would be what I would listen to on my ‘sanity walks’, something I still make sure I do everyday. I have such an emotional connection to this music and there was one really tough Christmas period where I decided to turn these playlists into the sounds of healing mix series - the first edition is literally the first ever playlist I made during this time and the Refuge Worldwide show was an extension of that, showing other strings of ambient music that might not necessarily fit within the ‘healing’ theme. Stating the obvious here but music is a really powerful tool for addressing emotions and this was my way of connecting with that. 

𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒙 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔
Low end psychedelia aha 

full interview via our substack: https://allmovingobjects.substack.com/p/kinetic-mix-037-basic-chanel-low

kinetic mix 037: basic chanel "low end psychedelia "

artist: @ok_leave
location: montreal, canada

about this mix: In the winter I take long walks at night. On those walks I like to listen to music, breathe in the cold air, draw smiley faces in the snow that’s collecting on cars, and let my mind wander. I think this mix is what I’d like to hear on one of those walks.

about this artist: I really love idm and always have. I think it’s because that genre’s values best match what I prioritise as a dj/human: emotion, introspection, and beauty. I like to think I try to build all my sets/mixes in the likeness of a good idm track - a puzzle that comes together piece by piece and builds you a world you never knew you needed to see. 

track list: i love to share tracks, but i prefer for people to write me if they want track ids. les connect thru da music ! 

<3