Mirror is a series of compositions by Brian Fasano created for Isabel Legate's performance called " Twin ".

Twin explores the mirror as a potential portal to another world, drawing inspiration from ancient obsidian mirrors, once believed to open doorways to spiritual realms.

The performance features four tracks that blend slow, evocative ambient sounds with drum-focused rhythms. It showcases a continuous evolution, contrasting slow and fast, bright and dark elements.
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Hope you have as much fun with my set as I had when I played it at Nation of Gondwana Festival 2025 on the Birke floor :)

Jesse G at Nation of Gondwana 2025 - Birke Floor

The next mix in our series comes from Portuguese-born, Rotterdam-based DJ and producer Valody (@val0dy). Over the course of one hour, she delivers one warm dub techno gem after another, starting at 118 BPM and gradually building up to 131 – what a great idea, what a great mix! Thank you, Valody.

UNTAPE032 – Valody

It’s peak Saturday night. Lasers, smoke, hazy dreams and perfectly tuned F1’s, even the trees are buzzing. The forest knows. Knows that a Japanese techno sensei is secretly entering Varden at 02:30 in the cover of darkness.

DOLTZ is a surprise, and not listed in the program. He comes in with an ambient, almost psychedelic sound. Then slowly layering of all the little sounds that circle around the main beat, letting tension build, balancing experimental and driving techno. There are no sudden drops, but periods of pulling back before reintroducing energy to the dance floor.

DOLTZ took us with him into what felt like a wormhole. The beat held us steady, but everything around it was spinning, stretching, and folding in on itself. The reactions from the Monument family were as different as they were similar. Some were jumping, some were shaking, others were dancing pirouettes, moving slowly, or standing still. At times, it was like being inside a centrifuge or a washing machine. Not dizzy, but surrounded, as if the sound pressed against the body. His set was a physical experience: immersive, disorienting, yet weirdly grounding at the same time. 

Friends, step into the rocketship and journey through the wormhole once again. Return to Doltz at Varden. The techno gods were smiling from ear to ear that night.

Follow
https://soundcloud.com/doltzdeep
https://www.instagram.com/doltzdeep/

Monument Festival 2025 : DOLTZ (live)

Recording of ROD & Sterac's set at the UFO I stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

ROD & Sterac at UFO I - Dekmantel Festival 2025

Our latest podcast was recorded by the Paris-based artist, DJ and passionate storyteller ~ Adhémar ~ elegantly cruising organic ambient-scapes and radiant lands of contemporary jazz  in his contribution to the series ✨

Adhémar is a multi-disciplinary artist, establishing his universe through music and visual works in constant state of interplay. His his universe is built little by little, patiently narated, with each and every element perpetually becoming and finding it’s place within the greater whole 💫

In this soul nourishing chapter of our Podcast Series, we are welcomed with a warm embrace of atmospheric textures, acoustic instrumentation and field recordings all tightly knit into a soft carpet of tranquillity patiently advancing into the various territories of jazz, spanning soulful, spiritual, avant-garde and ambient across it’s nearly two hour duration 🎷🐿️

Sounds by @adhemarmusic 
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ie-podcast-series-57-adhemar

TRACKLIST
Gigi Masin & Jonny Nash – Astro
Ned Milligan – The Path You Took To Existing
Suso Saiz – Paseando El Encierro
Monadh – Ria
Patricia Wolf – Lay To Rest
Felbm & Louis Reith – &
Pajaro Dune ft. Iffie – Unreleased
Aiôn Lazura – Mangrove (Adhémar's Intercontinental Dance Version)
Felbm – Decay
Matthew Halsall – Life
Florian TM Zeisig – Thank You Pharoah
Nico Georis – Thermals
Phil Smith – To The Train
Celer & Hakobune – Merges Of Hysterical Exhilaration
Anenon – Hand Poetry
Nala Sinephro – Continuum 2
Carlos Niño & Friends – Please, wake up.
Matthew Halsall – Triangles In the Sky
Ancient Infinity Orchestra – Niyama
Olec Mün & Michael Sarian – Manaas
Maisha – Inside the Acorn
Vega Trails – Red Moon Rising
Jasmin Myra – Awakening
Matthew Halsall – The Temple Within
Chip Wickham – Drifting Chip
Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music (feat. Venna) / Afro Cubanism (Live From Malibu)
Nubya Garcia – Together Is A Beautiful Place To Be (Nala Sinephro Remix)
Sam Wilkes – Descending

Podcast Series 57 | Adhémar

Foam Tape 009

To close the month in our way we introduce you @tony_subsequence: Label boss sound designer, and event curator that shaped his sound between Berlin and Milan.

Known for his rhythmic, groovy, and enveloping vibes, he constantly pushing boundaries on his hypnotic and percussive beats.

We’re truly excited to welcome him to our podcast series with a 1h40 set of pure Techno.

His productions and the releases from his label @Binary Rhythm are constantly played by some of the most respected DJs in the scene, and it’s easy to see why.

Tune in and get lost in the groove.

TAPE 009: SUBSEQUENCE

251026 MIX

Into The Abyss #060 | CTAFAD

Electronic musician and guitarist, Sun Dawei is a very active composer in China. He started learning guitar at the age of fourteen, and later formed a punk band, which became the catalyst for him to open the door to music. Settled in Beijing in 1999, then began research and creation of electronic music, and at the same time began to dabble in Fashion Show, film, drama and commercial soundtrack work. After several transformations, in order to explore different music spaces. He announced a new musician project - CTAFAD.
In 2020, "Vertical Horizontal" was published on "Shanshui Music". In this album, you can hear "the original sound without too much modification, the sense of space like the atmosphere, and the ambitious ultrasonic experiment. In the end, an epic The core sound field has been carefully polished. The rhythm and bass line are proficient in interaction from the beginning, gradually unfolding and never extinguishing." In the subsequent release of "Vertical Horizontal Extended" and other EP albums, CTAFAD invited Claudio PRC, Blazej Malinowski, Atomic Moog, Polygonia, Laertes and IORI participated in the remix of the album.
A new music-making journey is driven by inner passion and exploration, collaboration and development. Slowly began to emerge in many foreign Techno labels. Such as: Sungate, Indefinite Pitch, Oslated, Secuencias Temporales和Melifera. At the same time, he also created a new music label "GSXS" - mind in thought, full vision.


Tracklist :

1. Sun Dawei - Harmony
2. Valentino Mora - Komet
3. Valentino Mora - Plasma
4. CTAFAD - Lacuna
5. Neen - Planificación
6. Translate - SD Decrement
7. Emily Jeanne - Adikema
8. Psyk - Vortex
9. Konduku - Hayal
10. Translate - Framed
11. Pulso - Static Flow Platter
12. CTAFAD - Silk
13. Neel - Riflesso
14. Doltz - Pressure Point
15. CTAFAD - Material
16. Oscar Mulero - Escape a mi lugar seguro
17. Neel - Visione
18. CTAFAD - Straight Line

CTAFAD
https://soundcloud.com/ctafad
https://ctafad.bandcamp.com/album/golden-meridian
https://www.instagram.com/ctafad.music

Into The Abyss #060 | CTAFAD

Xenia Reaper - Nept Polarisation - Delsin Records - dsr-e16

buy vinyl https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/9294/xenia-reaper/nept-polarisation
buy digital https://xenoplex.bandcamp.com/album/nept-polarisation

a1. Drift__
a2. ( ´ ∀ `)ノ～ ♡
a3. Nept Polarisation
a4. Decay.fold
a5. Pulsing
b1. Envmod369
b2. Green Pulse
b3. Fabrik_Rtn
b4. Static Kiss (Ft. Cybermission)

Delsin invites you to submerge into the prismatic electronica of Xenia Reaper @xeniareaper. Across nine tracks of exquisitely rendered sonics, the shadowy producer engages in the time-honoured craft of introspective sound manipulation, folding gaseous pads into dissected breaks and running heavyweight machine pulses through achingly beautiful synthesis.

Xenia's work makes a striking impression, and they've left a breadcrumb trail of self-released transmissions on their own Xenoplex platform alongside a more forthright appearance in 2024 on the always-essential INDEX:Records. The sound is sharply realised, modernist music that revels in the finegrain detail afforded by technology, but never at the expense of warmth and charm. It's nuanced electronica for deep listening, but it also hits on an instinctive, physical level.

For Nept Polarisation, an exacting selection process took place to comb through the prolific swathes of material coming out of the Xenoplex studio. It was primarily written in their Eurorack system and Max For Live between 2020 and 2025. You can hear the shifting, expressive flair of modular manipulation and the advanced acrobatics of Max sound design throughout, with needlepoint rhythmic interference puncturing through blissful cloud blooms of melodic ambience.

Bending and folding through non-linear structures according to their internal logic, Xenia Reaper offers up a three-dimensional sound world with more than enough presence to hint suggestively at the soundsystem.

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Xenia Reaper - Nept Polarisation (dsr-e16)

177th guest of KHIDI’s podcast series is Italian producer and DJ Hertz Collision. Renowned for his fast, tribal-infused rhythms and raw, energetic sonic identity, he has become a defining presence in the contemporary techno landscape. Constantly refining his craft, Hertz Collision continues to push his sound forward while remaining deeply rooted in the physical, groove-driven language of techno

@hertz-collision

KHIDI Podcast 177: Hertz Collision

bsfasano@gmail.com

DJ/ Producer/ Lecturer.

Italian, Amsterdam-based.

Modular Freak