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KapTep is the ambient\drone project from US-based producer Derek Carter. (Sullivan, Illinois). His compositions are a blend of synth layers, loops, effects, and field recordings with the intent of creating an ever-evolving soundscape. The concept behind the KapTep project was to try creating the style of emotional music that he wanted to listen to himself. Every track should evoke an emotion to which you can write your own story. Rain, static hiss, pops, and crackles are often the foundation layered under melancholy, dreamy compositions.

https://kaptep.bandcamp.com

01. Hallmark 87 - Distance (Quiet Storms) https://hallmark87.bandcamp.com/track/distance
02. KapTep - Cesar (Overcast) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/cesar
03. Sebby Kowal - Take This Moment (Take This Moment) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/take-this-moment
04. Soloi Sounds - Ridgeline (Currents) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/ridgeline
05. Dionisaf - May (Twelve Months) https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/track/may
06. God Body Disconnect - Dreaming of My Former Self (The Wanderer's Dream) https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/dreaming-of-my-former-self
07. Ghostloop - Current (Convergence) https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/track/current
08. Hanut Munsun - Ambient Tape I (Ambient I) https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/track/hanut-munson-ambient-tape-i
09. Keys for Eclipse - Downpour (Downpour) https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/track/downpour
10. Chelidon Frame & Suseti - Albion (Kuiper Belt) https://chelidonframe.bandcamp.com/track/albion
11. EugeneKha - Vampu (Gramel) https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/vampuu
12. Demetrio Cecchitelli - Blue Night (Parallel Syntagm) https://florinacassettes.bandcamp.com/track/blue-night
13. Toni Dimitrov - The Myth of the Machine (Tiny Drones for Lovers Edit) (The Myth of the Machine) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-myth-of-the-machine-tiny-drones-for-lovers-edit
14. Knox - See You Around (Anechosis) https://joshuaknox.bandcamp.com/track/see-you-around
15. Pagination - Alive When It Happens (Status) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/alive-when-it-happens
16. Blanket Swimming & Demetrio Cecchitelli - Light Passage (Sein) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/light-passage
17. KapTep - 8 Decades Later (Unreleased)
18. Adrian Lane - We Are Not Alone (No Further Than the Present) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/we-are-not-alone
19. Scanner (KapTep Edit) - 2.7 (Scanner 2) https://scanner.bandcamp.com/track/scanner-27

Photo by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Artwork and cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

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Chitra Podcast #13 Ambient Mix by KapTep

Ambient Cat is a new sub-label of Chitra Records, curated by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf) and Derek Carter (KapTep). The mix features tracks from the label's already released albums, as well as from upcoming releases.

https://www.chitrarecords.com/ambient-cat

01. Dionisaf - Tantric Cat (Healing Music) https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/track/tantric-cat
02. Le Code - Looking to the Sky (Early Morning) https://le-code.bandcamp.com/track/early-morning
03. Andrew Lozano - Purity (Purity) https://andrewlozano.bandcamp.com/track/purity
04. Blanket Swimming - Flight from Neptune (Seeing the Circles Above)
05. Michael D. Tidwell & Ghostloop - Omicron (Omicron)
06. Piscean Daydreams - Schumann Resonance (ReGenesis)
07. Sacred Seeds - Missing Space (Between Spaces)
08. Dionisaf & Suseti - Inner Youth (Solar Punk)
09. Christian Alsemgeest - Tides (Scene 1) (Scenes)
10. Zen Lemon - Esmee (Remedy for a Broken Mind)

Picture by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf) with AI
Artwork and cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Chitra Podcast #15 Ambient Cat Sneak Peek Mix

Joseph Valentino is a visual artist and musician living in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona. He has been active in electronic music from the time he started DJing at house parties and raves in 1994 and then producing his own music under the moniker of Neglect in 2005. Most of his sonic output is released on his own Bandcamp page Neglectsound but he had tracks on labels such as Boomarm Nation, Shimmering Moods, Adventurous Music, and Harmonic Ooze. 

"I had been thinking about a mix for several months but just couldn't get around to it. It's much easier to put it all together with a set of turntables, a mixer, and a CD deck but over the past few years, I have grown to prefer using Logic Pro to create mixes that don't require beat matching. It gives me the flexibility to add unreleased tracks of my own or make edits to songs or take things out at the last minute without having to re-record the whole session. I tend to get too tied up with working on my own music to refocus my attention on creating mixes so I tend to keep notes with a pad and pencil to get the ideas rolling. This one had some key tracks that I considered to set the tone for the story I wanted to create, it was just a matter of some sewing and patching to get the flow right. Thanks for listening and please use headphones". 

https://soundcloud.com/neglectsound

01. Sinéad O'Connor - Trouble Of The World (Trouble Of The World) https://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/trouble-of-the-world-2
02. Neglect - Pleasures Lose Meaning When They Happen All The Time (Pleasures Lose Meaning When They Happen All The Time) https://harmonicoozerecords.bandcamp.com/album/pleasures-lose-meaning-when-they-happen-all-the-time
03. Halftribe - Swimming Off That Sombre Shore (For the Summer, or Forever) https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-summer-or-forever
04. HiriHara - Torn (Khayin) https://hirihara.bandcamp.com/album/khayin
05. Jon Hassell - Manga Scene (Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)) https://jonhassell.bandcamp.com/album/listening-to-pictures-pentimento-volume-one
06. Roméo Poirier - Pénombre (Hotel Nota) https://youtu.be/NLTSTbsbeLA
07. Le Petit - Spunto 2 (Le Petit) https://youtu.be/JJu8DXfY96o
08. Jake Muir - Side B (Enmixed) https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/enmixed
09. Rookas - Sonos (Static Motion) https://staticmotion.bandcamp.com/album/static-motion
10. Neglect - Blood Of Time (Single) https://neglectsound.bandcamp.com/track/blood-of-time
11. Monolake - Null Pointer (Silence) https://youtu.be/-Xzgx0XtaYk
12. Ghost Warrior - Empty Roads (Single) https://ghostwarrior.bandcamp.com/track/empty-roads
13. Forest Management - I'm Just Going To Lay Down (The Elevated Quiet) https://forestmanagement.bandcamp.com/album/the-elevated-quiet
14. Pub - Summer (Nick Rapaccioli Remake) (Summer) https://youtu.be/J0UfCNS0Kgs
15. Datassette - Let's Move to Belgium (Zetex) https://misc-works.bandcamp.com/album/zetex
16. Unknown Artist - H 02
17. Brandon Moeller - Accident (Pathways) https://ctatsu.bandcamp.com/album/pathways
18. Milieu - Across the Surface of the Water (Across the Surface of the Water) https://milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/across-the-surface-of-the-water

Picture by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Chitra Podcast #16 Ambient Mix by Neglect

This Retrospective mix is ​​dedicated to the third anniversary of the Chitra Records label and consists of tracks from different releases, starting with the latest and ending with the very first track, released on the Noises of Nature compilation on December 17, 2021.

01. Deep Dive Sound - In the Stillness of Green (Where Shadows Sleep) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-shadows-sleep
02. Dionisaf - Cyclone (Scrapbook) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/scrapbook
03. Dvory & July in January - Diamond Glints (Warm Hands) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/warm-hands
04. Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - The Third Stage (Lieder Ohne Worte) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lieder-ohne-worte
05. Dionisaf - Symbols on the Stones (Memories of the Present) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/memories-of-the-present
06. KapTep - NPN-Reel (The Perfect Error) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-perfect-error
07. DRGBL5 - The Box (The Wasteland) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-wasteland
08. Adrian Lane - Water Wash Away the Waves (Water Wash Away the Waves) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/water-wash-away-the-waves
09. Demetrio Cecchitelli - Environment 2 (Towards the Unknown) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/towards-the-unknown
10. zYklen - 7:45 pm - Warp & Weft (Palace of Chords) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/palace-of-chords
11. Soloi Sounds - Warmth (Currents) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/currents
12. Pagination - Somehow Diminished (Status) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/status
13. Michele Andreotti - False Awakening Loops (Sonoris) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonoris
14. Blanket Swimming & Demetrio Cecchitelli - Light Passage (Sein) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sein
15. Sebby Kowal - Particles (Take This Moment) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/take-this-moment
16. Darren McClure - Mold (Mold) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/mold
17. BinJa - Vishnu Hare (Atmareka) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/atmareka
18. Macrogramma - Mawaru (Pacification) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/pacification
19. Toni Dimitrov - The Road to Revolution (Noises of Nature) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/noises-of-nature

Mixed by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Three Year Retrospective Mix

Chitra Podcast #17 Three Year Retrospective Mix

A curated selection of immersive lo-fi ambient from the American producer known for his gentle, noisy, textural soundscapes.

01. Yosuke Kakegawa - Anima (Casual Now) https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/casual-now
02. Blanket Swimming & Demetrio Cecchitelli - Wandering Streets (Sein) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sein
03. KapTep & Sebby Kowal - 404 Error Page Not Found (Switch) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/switch
04. First Snow of the Year - Hibernation (Hibernation) https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/hibernation
05. Blochemy - Kerca (Avey) https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/avey
06. Thme - Mirage (Anti Atlas) https://laaps.bandcamp.com/album/anti-atlas
07. Tides - From Dust (Where Her Flowers Still Bloom) https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/where-her-flowers-still-bloom
08. Dionisaf - Wabi (Shibui) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/shibui
09. Jogging House - Comcorder (Rendezvous) https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/album/rendezvous
10. Brannan Lane - Northern Lights (Part 1) (Northern Lights) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/northern-lights
11. E J R M & Unusual Cosmic Process - Is This a Mirage or Are We There (Incandescence) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/incandescence

Mixed by Derek Carter (KapTep)
Cover picture by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Chitra Podcast #18 Noise Ambient Mix by KapTep

A mix of raw and atonal Noise dedicated to the memory of Anatoly Ryk, who was tortured to death in 2023 in a pretrial detention center in Rostov-on-Don for his anti-war position, as well as to all Russians who were repressed by the cruel Putin's regime.

01. Рык-Синт - Родина-Смерть (Родина-Смерть) https://ryk-synth.bandcamp.com/album/-
02. RGBL5 - Morning Rain (The Wasteland) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-wasteland
03. Dvory & July in January - Shining Pond of Pure Emotions (Warm Hands) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/warm-hands
04. Papa Srapa & That Black - Донецкие ночи (Unofficial release)
05. Kerf - Mold (Mold) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/mold
06. Dionisaf - Behind the Screen (Clusters) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/clusters
07. Papa Srapa - Bio Logic 6 (Bio Logic) https://youtu.be/USTrg4dElWo
08. RGBL5 - Past Life (The Wasteland) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-wasteland
09. Рык-Синт - Карательная психиатрия (Родина-Смерть) https://ryk-synth.bandcamp.com/album/-

Mixed by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture by Dionis Afonichev with AI
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev

Chitra Podcast #19 Motherland-Death | Russian Noise Mix

My mix for local rave.
https://www.instagram.com/vovasage2

SAGE mix for ZAVOD

Recorded in Berlin 09.07.18

https://soundcloud.com/volruptus [https://soundcloud.com/bbbbbb-records, @https://soundcloud.com/triprecordings]

An alien who crash landed in Iceland and is slowly infiltrating your mind, Volruptus’ alien electro draws on the biogenic sequences of Underground Resistance, the manic rhythms of Miami Bass, and the delirium that can only be induced by travelling at warp for too long. 
Armed with an otherwordly live-set and releases on the infamous Bjarki's bbbbbb, Nina Kraviz’s трип, and digital label Sweaty Records, his mutant sound has been brainwashing unsuspecting victims since he first appeared in the sky in 2016. 
He delivered this exclusive mixtape full of unreleased tracks produced by him and his friends on the occasion of his first live-set in Italy at Rete Neurale / Hencote (Macao, Milan) on saturday July 21st 2018. [Event -> https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1132568]

• https://www.facebook.com/volruptus/
• https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/volruptus

TRACKLIST:
1. Polar Attraction - Slippin
2. Kuldaboli - Martröð
3. Volruptus - Tapetum Lucidum
4. Kosmodod - DUSHS
5. Kosmodod - Snappin
6. Kuldaboli - Vökuskóli
7. Volruptus - Neckjerk
8. ThizOne - Fried Chickens
9. Volruptus - Echinoderm
10. DJ Brause - Fizz
11. Volruptus - KAR+ STRONK
12. ThizOne - A Nihilism

E.S.T. 015 • Volruptus

Mariel Ito; Maceo Plex's electro alias took over our DJMagHQ ADE party in October; here's our North American cover star's electro-laced mix streamed live from Amsterdam...

Read the interview: https://bit.ly/2AOA9Vl

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Mariel Ito // DJ Mag HQ x ADE

#R13 on air!
Today we have amazing guest with an exlusive mix with unrelised tracks, luminary of the Ukrainian electro underground scene - Sergey Sider (@ssidermusic). Sider is Kyiv DJ, sound producer, one of the founders of the @deepflatkiev promo group. The formation is known for its unusual conceptual events such as Hidden - improvised raves in thrown and dilapidated locations and the Karpaty Mantra electronic music festival, which passed high in the mountains near the border with Romania.
Sider is a sound producer who has found a sonorous sound - the so-called Ukrainian electronics. Through its creativity, electronic music sends messages to the community, to the young people that is almost lost, but a powerful Ukrainian ethnoculture will pass through the year in an updated, modern form.
So, Stay Rave with #R13 and God bless UA Electro.

#047 | Sider (UA)

@polarattraction live set recorded 15/05/2019 at Tresor Berlin 

tresorberlin.com/event/tresor-new-faces-150/

Polar Attraction live at Tresor

Experimental ambient music label.

Surreal music for a deep listening experience.