REC_8_ANDRIY_K_CUSOON_DJ

@djwiggles

A selection of mixes from our Saturday programme in the 24hr Relaxation Station at Floorless Festival.

These mixes were specifically made for sore legs and tired minds, helping punters to take a moment away from it all throughout the weekend. Big thanks to the Floorless crew for the opportunity, it was truly one of the most fulfilling experiences we've had at an event.

The magic of the tent wouldn't have been nearly as good without the amazing light installation by Metic, who leveled things up in a serious way with his Ripples II installation - something we'll never forget.

Big thanks to Edie Medley for the beautiful artwork, and to all the DJs who contributed.

BONSE1 x Floorless: Dj wiggles

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Malo Z @ GIMIC - 29 November 2024

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Olga B. @ GIMIC - 21 December 2024

08-12-2024 // Neska // Live recording from the Radio Hinter studio at Der Hintergarten, Amsterdam.

mastering: Victor Marbus

Neska // Listening Session .04 // 08-12-2024

“It's intended to be immersed in as if it was a film, in the first person. Set somewhere in the Middle East, from a busy market you're drawn by curiosity and some entrancing, ominous presence down alleys, stairways and tunnels, getting increasingly dark and distant from the outside world, eventually into some sort of glistening ancient cave. There you discover a beautiful and scary artefact, and in removing it you activate it and set off a ripple of undetermined supernatural consequences that create some cataclysmic event that changes the course of history and society and maybe the universe."

AM Podcast #84 - Ongo Gablogian

Bye bye BertBert Radio, hallo topo2 world! Same show, different name : )

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01 Unfinished Portraits - itspect222 (unreleased)
02 Ekoplekz - Fractured Smile (Planet Mu)
03 L’vovna: 07182018-02.03.05 (Archaic Vaults)
04 Voice Actor, Squu - Rattle (Stroom)
05 Poly Chain - Turbulent (Die Orakel)
06 Manuel Tur - Crop Rotation (Freerange)
07 Gavin Vanaelst - Falafel King (Edições CN)
08 Ellll - Ore (BRUK)
09 Andreas Hofer - Untitled (Second Thoughts Records)
10 Fera - Simulacrima (Maple Death Records)
11 Loek Frey - Formation (OQAD)
12 PROXYGEN - Particle Feedback (Optic Portal)
13 Sacre - Substitutes (Plor)
14 Sentient - Void Treader (Qeone)
15 Brendon Moeller - Wires (Third Ear)
16 Museum of No Art - Percussive Expressive (Cosima Pitz)
17 Rain Text - 3.3 (Sagome)
18 Kubus x Sluwe - 17.07 [kuub deeeppp] (unreleased)
19 Gregorio +1 - Mamey (También)
20 Martina Berther - Arrow (Kit)
21 Tachycardie - Sept Croix Dont Deux Pitchées (Bruit Direct Disques)

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Recorded live at the PAARD Foyer during Rewire Festival 2025.

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Cardboard Lamb | Rewire Festival - 5th April 2025

01. Mirage.

Le Violon la Basse et la Maritza

@loketsounds

~ Tracklist ~

Steve Hillage - Garden of Paradise (loket’s saxophonic version)
Omformer - Spheroid (loket’s saxophonic version)
Hiver & hammer - 5 million miles ft. Java (exael x loket’s saxophonic ambient edit)
loket - Dear Stranger
Shygirl + Arca - unconditional (loket’s saxophonic version)
Rasmus Juncker - Sauna (loket’s saxophonic version)
Pontiac Streator - Transier Unt (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - lila Gazelle
Lyra Pramuk - Tendril (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - Improv for Elim
Paul Horn - Ancient Kings (loket’s saxophonic version)
Delta Rain Dance - Kosmische Elemente (with loket)
Linnuissa - Janis Kertoi Minulle Salaisuuden (loket’s saxophonic version)
SUSS - Salt Flats (loket’s saxophonic version)
Suzanne Kraft & Johnny Nash - Beluga’s Song (Kelela x loket’s saxophonic ambient edit)
Laurel Halo - Marbles (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - Althüttendorf
John Beltran - soft summer (loket’s saxophonic version)
Akis - New Age Rising (Part VIII) (loket’s saxophonic version)
The Soft Pink Truth - Grace (loket’s saxophonic version)

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I am so excited to share the latest, and most unique, Deep Mind Music entry. This mix, by my good friend Tahl, has been in the works for a long time. A mixtape of 100% saxophonic versions & originals which is the first manifestation of Tahl’s new alias for saxophonic exploration - loket.

A member of Berlin's Power Play collective, Tahl debuted the combination of live saxophone played over ambient music at the intimate confines of Power Play’s foggy chill out room. Tahl first proposed the idea of this mix to me back in April, and throughout lockdown he has been chipping away at it, keeping me updated as it has slowly evolved from a loose initial concept into a fully formed immersive journey. 

Taking the listener through flurries of arpeggios, introspective poetry, delicate piano, vulnerable vocals, and lush, sunlit pads, the mix resonates on a tender, personal level. A story told through prescient programming between tracks and sonic palettes, it subtly ebbs and flows between different emotional states. Throughout the mix the free flowing saxophone jams flitting between the tracks take you far, far away, adding a soft trippy fluidity to the edges of the soundscape. By the end of the mix you are totally submerged in effervescent mind-melting deepness.

I’m so grateful to loket for putting together this truly special entry, and I hope you enjoy listening to it, and find as much solace, peace and catharsis in it as I have.

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Some words from loket about the mix: 

This project started in many ways in a dank room in what is now a demolished squat in Lichtenberg Berlin at a Power Play Rave in the middle of 2019. Empowered by an unreasonable Funktion One Soundsystem flush inside of our chill out room, I experimented with playing live modulated saxophone for the first time. 

I was shaking so intensely I could barely blow air through the horn. But when what I played was channeled through my computer and out into the audience, the power of the sound, and of the moment, was sickening. Since then I’ve spent many hours honing and sculpting and experimenting to try and bring that feeling “to tape”.

I can’t stress enough how much of this project has been an exercise in moving forward slowly while having mostly no idea what I’m doing. I’m sure i broke every “rule” imaginable in recording and processing the saxophone on this mix. Maybe that is somewhat reassuring to those of you who also feel burdened by the glossy perfection and successes seemingly surrounding us at all times.

It’s also an exercise in reconnection. In patience. I stopped playing saxophone entirely in 2010 because I felt inadequate in my jazz skill. I haven’t practiced “a lick” in 10 years. I barely remember basic scales. But by revisiting the saxophone many years later through a more imaginative and electronic production lens, I’ve been able to move closer to creating the voice I always wanted to make.  

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loket ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.15

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Geek-friendly and an expert in how-to-smile-while-playing-music. BertBert is many things. A music enthousiast first and foremost he’s an avid vinyl and mp3 collector, and tracklist fundamentalist. Secondly he’s a veteran DJ who played around the world juxtaposing music from every corner in the “experimental” electronic music spectrum. Having worked for eight years as head of festivals and label for Amsterdam crew Dekmantel he also knows a thing or two about the runnings, pleasures, and ugliness of the music industry.

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