Mixes

Beyond / Below 0, the original attempt. Recorded November 2017.
Image from "Stalker," 1979, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Kassel Jaeger - Rose Poussière - Editions Mego
Af Ursin - Surface Geo - La Scie Dorée
C - Diphtongues - V I️ S
Robert Turman - The Sky Turned Grey - Actual
Caterina Barbieri - TCCTF - Important Records
Σ - Schleifen B1 - Σ
Biosphere & Higher Intelligence Agency - White Lightening - Beyond
ASC - Surrounded By Silence - Silent Season
April Larson - Gliterring Flakes of a Shredded Cosmos (A Vision of Leto II) - Self-released
Entrancer - IV - Obsolete Future
Aleksi Perälä - UK74R1619110 - AP Musik
Terre Thaemlitz - Trucker - Instinct Ambient
Forest Management - Close - Lillerne Tapes
Andrea Parker & David Morley - Too Strange To Be Good - Touchin’ Bass
Jeff Mills - The Hunted - Axis

0. Hi-Vis

Beyond / Below 1, a starting/jumping-off point. Recorded February 2018.
Photo by Alex Bond

Biosphere - Rotation - Touch
Forest Management - Glimmering Screen - Polar Seas
Darren McClure - Nature Mirror - Glistening Examples
Idea Fire Company - Cycle 19 - Swill Radio
Black Hat - Portrait in Fluorescent Light - Hausu Mountain
William Basinski - A Shadow In Time - 2062
LF58 - Untitled 1 - Auxiliary
Atom Heart - Holon (Slo Motion) - AtomTM Audio Archive
Stars of the Lid - Fucked Up (3_57 AM) - Kranky
nothing natural - scorched - Bandcamp self-released
Joanna Brouk - Fire Breath - Numero
Steve Roach - Infinite Shore - Fathom
Chihei Hatakeyama - You’re still in it - Constellation Tatsu
The 7th Plain - Chords Are Dirty - A-TON
Masashi Hamauzu - Wandering Flame - Square Enix
Aphex Twin - aisatsana [102] - Warp
Ryuichi Sakamoto - ubi - Milan
Robert Haigh - Birds of Cadence - Unseen Worlds

1. Hi-Vis

Beyond / Below 2 by @forestmanagement, reflection of a state of mind. "Recorded in one take, on Lawrence and Kenmore." Received February 2018.
Photo by John Daniel

Support Forest Management on Bandcamp: https://forestmanagement.bandcamp.com/

Artist can provide song IDs on request.

2. Forest Management

Beyond / Below 3 by Katzenmusik (@baba_o_rly), host of @destination-unknown-radio. "Recorded at my kitchen table in NW Chicago at winter's end, 2018." Received March 2018.
Photo by Kat O'Rly

Tracklist:
James N Murray - Soft (Jacktone)
Broadcast - Echo’s Answer (Warp)
Delia Gonzalez - In Through The Light (DFA)
Charlemagne Palestine - Sliding Fifths (Barooni)
Francis Bebey - Sanza Nocturne (Born Bad)
Kuniyuki Takahashi - Day Dreams (Music From Memory)
Donnacha Costello - Just Sit (Ursa)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - fullmoon (Milan)
Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi - Call Myself (Black Truffle)
Emily A. Sprague - Your Pond (self-released/Bandcamp)
Lea Bertucci - At Dawn (NNA Tapes)
Cinchel - Movement Without Aging (Patient Sounds)
CV & JAB - Fingers of Thought (Shelter Press)
Félicia Atkinson - I’m Following You (Shelter Press)
Studio OST - Eventide (Beatless) (Lustwerk Music)
Pauline Oliveros & Andrew Deutsch - Summer Bugs (Deep Listening)
Clark - Elaine/Gabriel Theme (Warp)
Sandy Denny - It Suits Me Well (Island)

3. Katzenmusik

Beyond / Below 4 by Mukqs (1/2 of @hausu-mountain). "formulated for ultimate zone." Received March 2018.
Image from "Legend of Mana," 1999, PS1; supplied by the mixer

Support Mukqs on Bandcamp: https://mukqs.bandcamp.com/

Magome Togoshi - Fantasy (Clannad OST)
Lockbox - Tales of Destiny's Shore (Demonoid)
Foodman - Awa Buro (COULDWORK)
Pulse Emitter - Teal Forest Droplets (Through The Portal)
Cluster - Zum Wohl (Sowiesoso)
H Takahashi - Pipeline (Body Trip)
Euglossine - Phenomenological Manifold (Sharp Time)
Yasunori Mitsuda - Jellyfish Sea (Chrono Cross OST)
FIN - In Silver (Ice Pix)
Hitoshi Sakimoto - Remembrance (Vagrant Story OST)
Miki Higashino - Reminiscence (Ensemble) / Reminiscence (Suikoden II OST)
Ryoma Maeda - Days in September (Rhapsody of My Life)
Sami Kukka - Sisältäni Varjon Löysin (Menen Veteen)
Mdou Moctar - Tahoultine (Afelan)
Tujiko Noriko - Machi No Kakera (Shojo Toshi)
Infinite Body - Drive Dreams Away (Carve Out The Face of My God)
Anthony Coleman - Yechida (Bar Kokhba)
Bennie Maupin - Past is Past (The Jewel in the Lotus)
Ai Aso - Land (Lone)
Yuki Hayashi - Album (Ao Haru Ride OST)
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Takako Minekawa - Kaze No Tani No Nausicaa (Strange Songbook)
Milton Nascimento - A Ultima Sessao de Música (Milagre Dos Peixes)

4. Mukqs

Beyond / Below 5 by @aught0101. Received April 2018.
Photo source unidenitified

Support Aught on Bandcamp: https://aught.bandcamp.com/
Recent release by Topdown Dialectic on Peak Oil: https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

Song IDs available on request.

5. Aught

Beyond / Below 6 by Dylan Bryne (@ilanamusic). "Conceived, calculated, composed, and crafted in April 2018 for the purpose of soothing the cosmonauts who have complicated relationships with ground control." Received May 2018.
Image from archival USSR space program footage; supplied by the mixer

01. Model 500 - Starlight (Echospace Dub)
02. Aphex Twin - Parallel Stripes
03. Peter Grummich - Kimono
04. Enya - Deireadh An Tuath
05. Jeff Mills - Departure
06. David Bowie - Crystal
07. Dollis Hill - Desist (Reprise)
08. Silex - Hybrid
09. Seefeel - Spangle (Autechre Remix)
10. Jeff Mills - Human Product
11. Jocelyn Pook - Masked Ball (Extended Mix)
12. Jeff Mills - Eve
13. Brian Eno - The Secret Place
14. Jeff Mills - Dream Mechanics
15. Ned Rifle - "Amateur" Soundtrack: Cue #3a, 2, 3b
16. Popnoname - Nightliner
17. Kraftwerk - Geiger Counter
18. Conjuror - Black Velvet, Dead Flowers
19. Henryk Górecki (London Synfonietta: Conductor: David Zinman; Soprano: Dawn Upshaw) - Symphony No. 3: I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile
20. Dopplereffekt - Photo Injector
21. Plastikman - I No
22. GAS - Pop III
23. Burial - Endorphin
24. Crato - 30.6.1881
25. Plastikman - Dre
26. The Human League - The Dignity of Labour (Part 4)
27. Cio D'Or - Off
28. Kraftwerk - The Voice of Energy
29. Cio D'Or - Seide (Tranensalz)
30. Jens-Uwe Beyer - Mowen
31. Shapes & Forms - Fractal

6. Dylan Bryne

Beyond / Below 7 by Etelin (Alex Cobb of @studentsofdecay). Received May 2018.
Image from "Something Between Us," 2015, dir. Jodie Mack; supplied by the mixer

Support Alex Cobb on Bandcamp: https://alexcobb.bandcamp.com/
Recent Etelin album on Soda Gong: https://sodagong.bandcamp.com/releases

1. Blue Chemise - “Vivian” 
2. Af Ursin - “Bitter Suite” 
3. Aqueduct Ensemble - “C, Backlit” 
4. Dices + AEM Rhythm Cascade - “Green Diver” 
5. Wolter Wierbos - “Of Extreme” 
6. Susumu Yokota - “Spool”
7. Etelin - “160d Delicate”
8. Pavel Milyakov - “Warm Wind” 
9. Cucina Povera - “Elektra”
10. Etelin - “IS1”
11. H. Takahashi - “Quiet” 
12. Tony Hymas - “Lullaby”
13. Ryoji Ikeda - “Data.Matrix”
14. Jonathan Coleclough and Andrew Liles - “Torch Song 1”
15. Sten Hanson - “How Are You?”
16. Hiele - “Schip en Container”
17. Mitchell Akiyama - “Thaw”
18. Muslimgauze - “Turkish Falaka”
19. Rashad Becker - “Dances V”
20. Terre Thaemlitz - “Elevatorium”
21. Laurent Fairon - “Choer Des Myopes”

7. Etelin

Beyond / Below 8 by @soldchicago. "This mix is more than a love story; it's an embodiment of the power of your own mind, for better or worse." Received June 2018.
Image by sold; "I Thought I Was Stuck Inside Until You Told Me I've Just Been Staring at the Same Wall"

CW: The beginning of this mix is intense and may be distressing.

Phew - Cloudy Day
Phil Niblock - DeGliss
Valise - Zero Copula (A)
Klein - Slipping
Chou Wen-Chung - Cursive
JASSS - Theo Goes Away
Them Are Us Too - Grey Water
Sarah Davachi - For Organ
rronniep - Distant Fireworks 2
Sarah Hennies - Live Fleas
C. Lavender - Delusions of Reference
Carl Stone - Banteay Srey
Nadia Khan - She Slept Here

8. sold

Beyond / Below 9 by @jake-muir. "Sounds for the summer." Received June 2018.
Photo by Jake Muir

Support Jake's work on Bandcamp - his upcoming release on sferic can be purchased here: https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/ladys-mantle-5

Ueno - Variations of Weeds 1
Costin Miereanu - Jardins Oubliés
Hazard - Kissing Gate
Rafael Toral - Cyclorama Lift 3
Ø - Kesamaa / Summerland
Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Dawn of Boonmee (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) / Emanuele Errante - Egostasy 
Christian Fennesz & Jim O'Rourke - Wouldn’t Wanna Be Swept Away
K. Leimer - Permissions 09 Absent Beneath Stone
En - Mark of the Slav
R. Millis - Relief
Matt Rösner - Part 3
Philip Jeck - Wholesome
Janek Schaefer - Skyline Ascending
Stephan Mathieu - Blue, Densette
Sohrab - Aamookhtan Baraye Zistan
Black To Comm - Virtuosity Is A Means To An End
Michael Stearns - Morning
DJ Olive - Left On The Lawn
Wild Card - Sunset Soup Workshop

9. Jake Muir

Beyond / Below 10 by @mxsilkman. Received June 2018.
Photo by Aerin Ercolea

Support Mx. SIlkman's first release as Auton: https://jacktonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-lotta-continua

Jon Mueller & James Plotkin - Hypnogogia (Taiga, 2012)
Vanessa Amara - Untitled (Posh Isolation, 2016)
Severiane - Untitled 4144 (Intergalatic Research Institute For Sound, 2017)
LFZ - Infinite Regress (Stimulus Progression, 2015)
Shredded Nerve - Stone, Lead and Gasoline (Chondritic Sound, 2016)
Earthen Sea - The Present Mist (Kranky, 2017)
Stanislav Tolkachev - Absolute Limit (Intergalatic Research Institute For Sound, 2018)
Forest Management - Artificial Emotions (Relapse) (Martinson, 2015)
Craig Leon - Nommo (Bootleg version, 2011)
Autumn Pool - In a Field, Radiance Licking the Wound (Vienna Press, 2018)
Exos & Ohm - Frodari Ambience (XOZ, 2017)
Conrad Schnitzler & Borngraber & Struver - Con-Struct 5 (M=minimal, 2011)
Chaperone - Abbreviations Between Buildings (Great Circles, 2016)
Hive Mind - Exodus (Chondritic Sound, 2013)
Jenzeits - Return To Dark Matter (Anthems Of The Undesirable, 2018)
BNJMN - Oder (Delsin, 2015)
Statues Of Eden - Gravel (Never A Land Without People, 2018)
Barnett & Coloccia - Bird's Eye (Blackest Ever Black, 2013)
The Legendary Pink Dots - Hanging Gardens (In Phaze Recordings, 1982)

Let the State Disintegrate

10. Mx. Silkman

Beyond / Below 11 by @sug_online (aka Mike Sugarman), host of https://groove.cafe/. Received September 2018.
Photo by Mike Sugarman

From Sug: "I've been reading Karen Barad's Meeting the Universe Halfway while working on this mix, inspiring me to channel an entangled incarnation of the deep listening practice. I've always been particularly fond of Deep Listening Band recordings from the '90s when the improv aspects were more overt and the deep listening was an intra-band practice even more so than an introspective one (which I think is what the deep listening practice is all too often construed as). This mix highlights entangled musics, I think — music made by groups and solo music made while aware of particular contexts — and I hope you let yourself get tangled up in it too."

Groove Cafe recently released a Hurricane Maria benefit compilation featuring work by 40 Chicago artists. Support here: https://groovecafe.bandcamp.com/releases

Ornette Coleman & Pat Metheny - Video Games
Deep Listening Band - Not Very Deep Hockets
Hexbreaker Trio - Live at Buckland Gallery
Paul Motian Band - Boomerang
Aylu - IV
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Melting Wind
Forma - Ascent
Bergsonist - Deadly Police Shooting Sparks Anger in Crown Heights
Harold Budd & Hector Zazou - You and Me Against the Sky
Sug - Quanta
Jocy De Oliveira - Estória II
Grateful Dead & Guyto Monks - Space
Javanese Court Gamelan at Istana Mangkunegaran Sunkarta - Ayak-Ayakan Kaloran

Interspersed throughout: Michael David Murphy - Tuning ‘77

11. Sug

Beyond / Below 12 by @kylelandstra. Received September 2018.
Photo by Kyle Landstra

Support Kyle's music: https://kylelandstra.bandcamp.com/

Steve Roach - Cloud of Knowing
Andrew Lahiff - The Deep Blue Sky Begins to Darken
Thom Brennan - Raingardens
Phillip WIlkerson - Above the Clouds    
Oöphoi - La Porta Sull'Abisso Di Stelle
Max Corbacho - Islandless Expanse
Lucette Bordin - Ocean
Poemme - Clouds of Breath

12. Kyle Landstra

13. SoundInBetween

Beyond / Below 14 by Arturo Lopez of www.art-and-artifice.com. Received November 2018.
Photo by Art

From Art: "Hand over the controls to the Beyond/Below TARDIS as we set the time-space coordinates to travel through electronic and found sound pioneers along with modern ambient experiments. We're visiting Move D's mid-90s electronic Jazz ensemble, early 1980's Japanese ambient sounds, 1970's experimental German collabs between Cluster & Brian Eno, to David Sylvian ("Japan" frontman) and Holger Czukay (Can). Sam Kidel's modern classic reinterpretation of call center purgatory, and Danish ambient with spoken words by Chloe Wise on the return trip.  All aboard!"

The Human League - Toyota City [Virgin][1980]
Pauline Anna Strom - Virgin Ice [Trans-Millenia Consort] [1984]
Gail Laughton/Vangelis - Bicycle Riders / Harps of the Ancient Temples [1969/1981]
Mike Simonetti - Requiem [2MR] [2018]
Pauline Anna Strom - Rain on Ancient Quays [Trans-Millenia Consort] [1988]
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Soto Wa Ame [Sound Process] [1982]
Cluster & Eno - Wehrmut [Sky Records] [1976]
Conjoint - No Balls [Source Records] [2000]
Conjoint - Strange Ideas [Source Records] [2000]
Yasuaki Shimizu - Umi No Ue Kara [Better Days] [1982]
Sam Kidel - Disruptive Muzak [Death of Rave] [2016] 
Vangelis - Wait for me [1981]
Varg - Archive 1 "Spit Sugar Free Red Bull Into My Mouth" [Posh Isolation] [2018]
David Sylvian + Holger Czukay - Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts) [Venture] [1988]
Ash Ra Tempel - Look At Your Sun [1972]

14. Arturo Lopez

Beyond / Below 15 by @brandon-wilner. Received December 2018.
Photo by Brandon, from Fes while visiting the ruins of the Tombe dei Merenidi in September 2018

From Brandon: "A collection of centrifugal music. That is, music that does not work toward a single point of emotional expression but instead goes outward to encompass and complement a broad range of emotions. These have helped me through many different experiences and feelings. I hope this mix can be as versatile for you."

Martina Lussi - Enter II
Andreolina - An Island in the Moon
Accou - Être sorcière
Yoichiro Yoshikawa - Dryad At 4 A.M.
Inodore - House Resonance 5
Satsuki Shibano and Yoshio Ojima - Music for Element (excerpt)
Jennifer Veillerobe - B1
Michel Redolfi - Too Much Sky
Ikue Mori - Ephemeroptera
Georgia Kelly - Seapeace
Pacific 231 - Jewels of the Ocean
Jasmine Guffond - Boundless Informant 
Yoshihiro Hanno - Lab Sutte
Robert Ashley - That Morning Thing Pt. 2 (excerpt)

15. Unscented DJ

Beyond/Below 16 by Patrick Cosmos. Received December 2018.
Photo by Patrick

From Patrick: "As a fan of the Beyond/Below series, I spent (too much) time thinking about how I’d like to make my mix fit in. Initially this took the form of mostly frictionless drone with a few spikes of texture; eventually, I realized I wanted something that sounded less like how I thought my mix was supposed to sound and more like I wanted it to sound. As a result, I’ve tried to connect dots between a lot of guitar ambient, kosmische synth, noise, drone, and the like. Most of these are records that have been with me for a long time. I hope that you enjoy listening, and that your 2019 is better than your 2018."

Patrick is on Twitter [at]veryimportant
Support him on Bandcamp here: http://veryimportant.lawyer

Tracklist
Christ - Cordate
Boxhead Ensemble - Thursday Trio No. 3
Radio People - The Leap Home
Mark Ernestus Meets BBC - Version
Boxhead Ensemble - Why Not Patterns? (For Jeff Parker)
Soft Focus - Hypersomia
Lithops - Fi
Robert Turman - Flux (Side B)
Plaid - Do Matter
Mist - Twin Lanes
Nuno Canavarro - Wolfie
Loops of Your Heart - End
Emeralds - Disappearing Ink
Fabric - Controls
Aaron Dilloway - Psychic Driving Tapes 
Sam Prekop - The Silhouettes
Trouble Books - Tolans

16. Patrick Cosmos

Beyond / Below 17 by @insideout of @mysteriesofthedeep. Received January 2019.
Photo by Candace Price

"Listening to this mix is like sailing into a horizon at dawn. It draws you towards a steady line perpetually in view, creating an experience of both distance and nearness. You realize you will never reach the line but that’s ok — it was always there, hovering within you. This is not about arriving at any kind of external destination. It’s about presence. The sun draws its pastel curtain and day imperceptibly emerges. The water is glass; you don’t even notice that you’ve been out on it for a long time. When you let yourself float, transcendence becomes attainable. There are no high crests or crashing waves here — instead only a center point that invites you to focus deeply and let go."
-- Taylor Bratches

1. Donnacha Costello - One Year Later
2. Project STS-3 - Spiralgalaxie
3. Porn Sword Tobacco - A1
4. Deep Catalogue - Glass Airport
5. Unjin - Untitled Space
6. Ekin Fil - Nocturnal Arc
7. Isorinne - Evighetsarp
8. Harold Budd - Abandoned Cities
9. Sunroom - A Soft Breeze
10. Terre Thaemlitz - Aging Core, Aging Periphery
11. Aleksi Peralä - UK74R1512020

17. Grant Aaron

Beyond / Below 18 by فناء (@fanafellahin). Received February 2019.
Image from "Mock Up on Mu," 2008, dir. Craig Baldwin; supplied by the mixer

Support their album Ancestor Syndrome, out on Crisis Urbana: https://crisisurbana.bandcamp.com/album/ancestor-syndrome

"So singular your motives, yet impossible to define
How finely lined my destiny in the cobwebs of your crime
So insular your future, so alien your plan
Take all of this if you will and I'll take what I can"


Agalloch - They Escaped the Weight of Darkness
Erkin Koray - Korkulu Rüya
A Trio + Alan Bishop - Howling Sheep
Crass -What the Fuck
Ô Paon - Aéroport/Évolution
Inca Ore - Natural High
Andy Moor and Yannis Kyriakides - Everyone Should Think About Their Final Breath
Malayeen - Nadia
Ikeda Ryoji - data.matrix
Ay Shay - Jemsheed
Asmahan - Ahwa
JESSOP&CO. - DISLODGED PT IV
Tujiko Noriko - Tokyo

18. فناء (fana)

Beyond / Below 19 by @kamekameha. Received March 2019.
Photo "taken & shittily edited by moi

"My 3rd mix in my series of monthly mixes for this year. I have been wanting to do a chill mix fora minute, since its not something I'm particularly known for. This was a bit of a challenge because I tried to have no percussion/obvious rhythm. Hope u enjoy.

Love,
Peace, 
& Hair Grease
-Treezy B"

Crunch-Ø-Matic - Earthquake (Subsonic II)
Nash The Slash - Pilgrim's Lament
Steven Julien - Hunt
Terekke - Closer
Bill Converse - Shuck 
Kitaro - Micro Cosmos
Tomita - VII Neptune, The Mystic
Hiroshi Higashi - Heno Heno
Huerco S. - Hear Me Out
Bookworms - Xenophobe
D.Briggs - Let's Get Over
Omar-S - Psychotic Photosynthesis (No Drum Mix)

19. Turtle Bugg

Listening is a spiritual path. The more you listen, the more you learn.
--Pauline Oliveros

Operated from Chicago by @hi-vis-dj

Profile image by Frank Upson

Contact: tenthocean@gmail.com