Constructions returns for the 60th instalment with an hour-long live sound performance from Japan's Muzan Editions label boss, Endurance.

"In the past few years, I have been lucky enough to open for a lot of techno parties in Japan, and this has had a big impact on my sound as a performer. My live sets used to lean more towards the prettier, new-age side of ambient, but as that doesn't particularly suit dark clubs in Osaka and Tokyo, I have tried to push my sound towards the more minimal and intense regions of ambient.

This is a set from a show I played in Osaka with Peter van Hoesen in November. I remember being terribly nervous while setting up my modular, as PvH was standing right behind me doing a soundcheck (I'm a big fan)! Nevertheless, I think the set went well, setting the tone for the party and the music to come. When I looked up towards the end, the dance floor was nearly full, and people were swaying back and forth with their eyes shut. As someone doing ambient, there's no clearer sign that you're doing something right than that."

Endurance is the ambient project of Osaka-based Joshua Stefane. Using modular synthesizers, field recordings, and cassette tapes, Endurance’s sound has become increasingly minimal and tonally-focused over the years, employing a minimum of elements to create a maximum of expressiveness. In addition to releasing from labels such as Constellation Tatsu and Mystery Circles, Endurance also curates the Japan-based tape label Muzan Editions.

He is part of the organizing team for Moment, a techno festival in Nara. As a live performer, he has appeared at numerous high-profile events such as Star Festival, Moment, and Rural, with an increasing emphasis on bringing deep ambient soundscapes to techno music parties.

@joshua-stefane
Instagram: instagram.com/endurance010010/
Bandcamp: https://endurance010010.bandcamp.com/

Location: Japan

Endurance | Constructions Podcast 060

Oisatsana is an experimental artist who has published two awesome records in 2022, lovely soundscapes for losing yourself from real life. His productions are immersive travels that capture all our attention with many fine details and layers.

https://oisatsana.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/oisatsana
https://www.instagram.com/tatzio/

Trackslist
Oisatsana - adrift2 
Christian Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Kuni 
Chihei Hatakeyama - Spilth 
Taylor Deupree - Journal  (Rough) 
Yolabmi - Nowhere Jake 
Muir – Silent Sailing 
Tim Hecker - Counter 
Attack Oisatsana - Flakes 
Michal Jablonski - Last Delivery 
Mark Fell & Will Guthrie - Infoldings 2 
Aucuba Replica - Uru 
KMRU - on either side of you 
Etelin - Moon Marmalade 
Atte Elias Kantonen - September 
Harold Schellinx - Les Mondes de Degas (Degas’ Worlds) 
Perila - grounding 
AGF - smell of DATA (score) 
Fousek / Hansen / Tellier-Craig - 2:59 
TIBSLC - Beachlife 
Autechre - paralel Suns 
Albert van Abbe & Max Frimout - Bassdrum Hypothesis 1 
Vladislav Delay - Viisari

SAPOS006 - Oisatsana

Sanguine Ideas w/ Sanguine - 29.01.23

Utopian is a great selector who fascinates with his mid-tempo sessions, musical spirals of pleasure.

@utopian
www.facebook.com/utopian.dj/
www.twitch.tv/espacioingravido_live?sr=a
instagram.com/isidrobolivar_utopian

This toad was slow-coocked live for the Ramen Bar in Granada last December 2022

Tracklist:
Dimitris Petsetakis - Uniroots
Dimitris Petsetakis - Ancient soul
Aiôn Lazura - Rays of light
Brian Eno - Stars
X.Y.R. - Black sky chant
Outer Space - Vanishing act
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Pharmakustik - Phase A
KMRU - Well
Recent Arts - Oneness
Kato de Vidts ft. J.Noon - Pillars
Sciama - Source energy
Yves Tumor - Limerence
Forest Management - Atrium thinking
Sfefan Wesolowski - Love
Coil - Broccoli
Alcove - S-ray
Dasha Rush - Lumiere avant midi
O Yuki Conjugate - Sunchemical
Pan American - Noun
Alcove - Parasol
Autechre - Foil
Pharmakustik - Nuclear emulsion
Yugen Disciple - First sighting
BLNDR - SHMetro
Edit Select - Towards the E
ESHU - Creating Moods
Pan American - The dark nest
Spyra - Crossing the chan:nel
Alien Ambient Galaxy - Psychic and UFO revelations in last days
Dj Python - ADMSDP (feat. LA Warman)
Boards of Canada - Kid for today
Massive Attack - Black milk
Haramia Tapes - Harper
Reynold - Schlek
Meat beat Manifesto - Paradise found
L.B. Dub Corp - L.B´s dub
Massive Attack - Cool monsoon (weather storm)
Spyra  - Gentle Machines
u-Ziq - Original phiesope
Coil - Sara dale´s happy end
Global communication - 9:25
Coil - Careful what you wish for
RAMZi - Fly timoun
BOA - The aqueduct
RAMZi - OO
Inhmost - So far away
Lucid Dreams ft. Manuela Marchis - Black tar
Carla Del Forno - Give me back my man
Gentle People - Journey (Aphex twin care mix)

SAPOS007 - Utopian

For our 25th podcast we welcome Medulla Oblongata - co-founder of the collective TRÊVE.

Medulla is an emerging DJ who blossoms in his musical biotope between ambient and mental & hypnotic techno. His ambient sets are hybrid to combine tape samples, drone machine loops and synthesisers.

For this podcast Medulla was inspired by the film "Men" by Alex Garland.  

We hope you'll enjoy Medulla's auditory journey. 

For best listening experience, get comfy, close your eyes and let the music transport you. 

Take care and keep listening. 

Tracklist: 

Medulla Oblongata – Unreleased
Men movie cut
Jon Hopkins – Deep in the glowing heart Jonsi & Alex Somers – Daniell in the sea Amber Heard speech
Paul Jebanasan – Rites I
Nors – A syrian gaze
Brion Gysin – I am
Alif Tree – Chate el Pilon
Zemi 17 – The ring is satu
Beatrice – Sapre (Laima Adelaïde rmx) Carl Stone – Banteay Srey (Edit)
Jochem Paap – SPK
Kaya North – KN1


Artwork by Leslie Deboeur.

For more music by Medulla: https://soundcloud.com/medulla_oblongata

For more music by Initiate: https://initiaterecords.bandcamp.com/

Reflexions Podcast 25 - Medulla Oblongata

Monochrome Premiere :

Artist : @absismusic
Track : Inward
Label : @secuencias_temporales
LP : With Eyes Closed
Format : Digital
Release Date : 20.03.2023
Bandcamp : secuenciastemporales.bandcamp.com/music

Written and Produced by Salvador Coromina in Barcelona, Spain.
Mastering by Jorge Eafhm @ Secuencias Temporales Studio, México.

Label's words by @ilmx : "Like opening a door to the unknown or an invitation to a very familiar and intimate place. Crossing that door or inhabiting that place, we make ourselves comfortable, keep silence and listen to a record. This is With Eyes Closed by ABSIS, an invitation to recollection and silence with the sole objective of surrendering ourselves to the pleasure of music and electronic synthesis.

In this release, Absis displays a somewhat obsessive and compulsive mastery of machines. Pure and hard synthesis in search of the perfect sound or at least the sound that the artist is imagining. There are seven tracks that at the beginning call us to contemplation and introspection and that evolves into a collective call to share a dance floor; in short, it is a complete, circular and fantastic album, in the strictest and most literal sense of the word.

In With Eyes Closed each sound occupies its right and proper place, respecting each of its frequencies, its brilliance and intentions. In it, nothing exists just for the sake of it, on the contrary, each element has a function and a role to play within a fantasy: pure and hard synthesis of a remarkable cleanliness and lucidity.

Crossing that door or inhabiting that place it is inevitable to close our eyes, it is a natural and instinctive reflex, as if we wanted to turn off the other senses and surrender ourselves to the ear. Closing our eyes, the music enters through our skin and becomes part of us."

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄 : Absis - Inward [Secuencias Temporales]

www.openlab.fm | 106.4FM in Ibiza & Formentera 
Check the full tracklist on our website:
https://openlab.fm/news/observatory-056-with-f-on-hakk

This time the Sungate crew has invited  https://soundcloud.com/f-ondj (Alfonso Pomeda)
, one of the most influential cultural activists of the Spanish techno scene. DJ, producer, label and record shop owner, promoter… Sit back and enjoy his DnB set.

Sungate co-founder https://soundcloud.com/hakkmusic then carries on for the second hour of the show with a set that includes 4 tracks from the Sungate catalogue by Deano, Private Press
 Elias Landberg, Deniro , D&S

🎨 Art and animation by @abel.fdez

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Observatory 056 - Sungate [with F-ON & Hakk]

This week we welcome the one and only Marek Bartůněk (@marekbartunek): Czech-born Scot, label owner, visual artist, DJ, and producer.
Founder of Liminal Spaces and Cellar Door Records. Music lover, explored various genres before embracing electronic music's deep frequencies and melancholic vibes.

Follow him and his high quality label :
@cellar-door-hypnosis
https://www.instagram.com/cellardoor_ls/
https://www.instagram.com/liminalspaces_uk/
https://cellardoorhypnosis.bandcamp.com/


Tracklist
1. 1964 - Arthur C Clarke predicts the future - bbc archive 
2. Jan Jelinek - Max Ernst 
3. Vladislav Delay - E. L. E. 
4. Jan Jelinek - Yoko Ono
5. Perila and Ulla - Room to Room
6. Perila - Faling into space 
7. Adhemar- Appropriation of Energy 
8. Biosphere - the things I tell you
9. Space Afrika - umëmcreation
10. Albrecht la’Brooy - afternoon carafe 
11. Vague Imaginaires - Mais Qu’est -ce Que
12. Anna Homler, - almost beautiful 
13. Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Parades
14. Pendant - BBN-UWZ
15. Jako Jako - Neogenese
16. Bana Haffar - Conference of the birds 
17. Caldera - Plant Memory 
18. Jon Hopkins - Love Flows Over Us In Prismatic Waves 
19. Doltz - Hatemade 
20. Natsuki - Lights on the Lake 
21. Jon Hopkins - Tayos Caves, Ecuador

TREVE Series 69 - Marek Bartunek (Liminal Spaces and Cellar Door Rec)

"Breakbeat always transports me to a gritty warehouse on the outskirts of an industrial city. The air crackles with the energy of flickering lights, evoking a futuristic, science fiction-esque atmosphere. Within this surreal backdrop, I can almost envision robotic entities swaying to the rhythm, blurring the boundaries between artificial intelligence and human expression. It's a captivating fusion of the disorienting, almost hallucinatory, and the undeniably enthralling, leaving me immersed in an otherworldly, yet exhilarating sonic tapestry."

Eafhm (@eafhmlive) is a multidisciplinary project created recently by the evolution of different artistic and exploratory stages. This project has developed different facets, including a career as an interpreter and audio producer when experimenting with a wide variety of musical sequences. It seeks the integration of oscillating interpersonal ideas among the variety of solid conceptions. This project also defines the transformation of the artist that has developed under different aliases for many years. Each interpretation is made to create an atmosphere based on sound art, generative art and Techno in its different variations. Eafhm is the founder of the beautiful label Secuencias Temporales (@secuencias_temporales).

HOCast #167 - Eafhm

Back to Sleep

whirl

Ideas musicales para los que nadan contracorriente

SAPOS007 - Utopian

Doozer (BrokenLoop/Perpendicular)