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Cio D´Or © Polar Q Kynant Records 19  Release - Date: September 2022
https://kynantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cio-dor-polar-q
With deep thanks for the support of the scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW!
Minimix (audiocinema)incl. 5 pieces of music © :
Polar Q XVII - Amplitude Q XI - Gezeiten QX - Zentrifugal Q - Transparent Q III
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Videos: 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXbtEBDIyJxGisi69VPxd6--Tz3WUqh2
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Just a small excerpt of the approach:
The thematic leitmotif was to be the element "water", which was conceptually divided into the workingThe concept was divided into the thematic areas of "SENSE and Silence", "Infinity" and the mighty "Power of Water".For all created or composed parts, I attached great importance to my own sound development (e.g. through my own recordings mainly of water sounds, key - pitches - tone lengths - frequencies - LFO rates - resonance - attack - decay - filter settings), which were worked out with a great deal of commitment, partly discarded or changed again.and were partly discarded or reconstructed. The pieces reflect the claim of a "breathing, surreal minimalism". In some cases, different versions were created from one piece, with the final decision being made in favour of the thematically "most appropriate piece". Theapproach and realisation corresponds to a single theme, namely climate change in relation to the theme of water, and aims to represent thethe problem as well as to give hope. I chose the titles in connection with the respective musical topic by researchingvia scientific journals, Wikipedia as well as the Logia source QCover and videos:The rather surreal water album cover was made in late summer 2021 at a fountain in Cologne, with my camera Canon EOS M50 with the Canon Zoom55-250mm. I filmed the videos in slow motion in the dark with ice and water in a glass. The light source was a torch and a candle.candle and filmed with the Canon macro 28mm. I set great store by "surreality" in order to allow openness during the viewing and to pick up the mood of the music pieces. the mood of the music. The photos and videos were all kept in black and white and post-processed to better represent the surrealism.to be able to present the surrealism better.

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026 - Emika Elena

@marco_shuttle traverses deep into the labyrinthine heart of the rainforest in @astralindustries’ latest extended listening journey. Channelling the spirit of the Amazon, the two extended tracks of Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva unfold as an untamed ecosystem, with ghostly birdsongs echoing across brooding, minimalist instrumentation.

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-marco-shuttle---part-one 

Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva will be out on March 14th, 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-39-sonidos-y-modulaciones-de-la-selva 

A portion of proceeds will go to Amazon Watch, supporting rainforest protection and Indigenous rights in the Amazon Basin.

Premiere: Marco Shuttle - Part One [AI-39]

Omen Wapta boss @woodyninetytwo with a meditative mind massage. so great to have him back on his second aus tour, always an inspiration !

Sunset on FBi Radio : Woody92

This contribution is a very special one, as it marks a new chapter in The Observatory’s sound… 

We will always be a home for ambient and experimental sounds. But, moving forward, we will also be exploring our love for dance music, with a particular focus on the deep end.

To begin this new journey and warm things up, we are so happy to welcome back Timnah, who gifts us with a two-hour recording of her set at Omen Wapta, ADE’24. A mind-bending traversal through ambient, drone, and halftime experiments, exploring the liminal spaces between the listening room and the dance floor.
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Timnah lives, works and feeds the cats in the Northwestern extremities of Switzerland. Brought up in her parents’ jazz clubs and deeply influenced by her brother’s love for dub and soundsystem culture, she started DJing just after the massively feared Millenium Bug had threatened to offset our relation to time and space. Dedicated to drawing her own map of late 20th century sonic landscapes, she spent the early 2000s exploring 90s electronics including breakbeat, triphop, ambient techno, drum&bass, house and jungle. After a short but sweet excursion into producing in the early 2010s, Timnah dedicated herself fully to spinning the wheels and transversing genres, gravitating towards her current signature sound that spans immersive sound baths and intergalactic carpet rides in half-time. Timnah is a member of Amenthia Recordings and a recent addition to the A Walking Contradiction Collective.
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Artist Support:

https://soundcloud.com/timnah-sommerfeldt
https://ra.co/dj/timnahsommerfeldt
https://www.instagram.com/timnah_amenthia

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Timnah @ Omen Wapta, ADE, 2024

Release name:Koto Nami
Artist: Toki Fuko
Remixer: OWL
Label: Crescent London
Catalog: [CRSCNT26]
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Release Date: 06.06.25
Mastering: Matthias Friedel
Artwork: Crescent London

Tracklist:
1. Toki Fuko - She Berry
2. Toki Fuko - Jupiter Mood
3. Toki Fuko - Angels Drone
4. Toki Fuko - Jupiter Mood (OWL Remix)

Toki Fuko:
▫️ SC: https://soundcloud.com/tokifuko
▫️ IG: https://www.instagram.com/tokifuko
▫️ FB: https://www.facebook.com/toki.fuko

OWL:
▫️ SC: https://soundcloud.com/owlfromdeepspace
▫️ IG: https://www.facebook.com/owlfromdeepspace
▫️ FB: https://www.facebook.com/owlfromdeepspace

Crescent London:
▫️ linktr.ee/crescent.london

Bandcamp Pre-Order

(PREVIEWS) Toki Fuko - Koto Nami [CRSCNT26]

For the love of humanity! I hope you heal. The Children in Gaza <3 All children <3

 Syrian chant Takshefto.

John Martin - Bridge over chaos, illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost (1824-1826).

Fjäder, Bridge Over Chaos

Mantras, repetitive actions, as words, and sounds, all have a similar effect on one's body. To recenter and provide space for introspection. From the physical to mental the benefits ring true, all supported at the core by a steady framework of inhaling and exhaling.

Expanding on these concepts, the latest compilation by French imprint ‘Just Breathe’ continues their devotion to experimental and avant-garde music. As the label states, ‘In Echoes, each track is conceived as a distinct resonance of a common breath. That breath is the label's core - a free space where different sensibilities meet, unconstrained by genre, yet guided by a clear vision: one of atmospheric, emotional, and deeply immersive music.’

Module X33 from label head, Möhne Seide begins with a heavy rhythmic base, the aptly named track filled to the brim with modularized textures that lend movement and a sense of unpredictability. Progressing on, drone-like melodies start to emerge that give space, and elevate the track to a crescendo of ethereal, melancholic voices.

Seide’s ‘Module X33’, and in turn the rest of the ‘Echoes’ compilation is available now at Bandcamp.

@mohneofc
@just-breathe-886847681

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Write up by @huedj

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Echoes

PREMIERE: Möhne Seide - Module X33 [Just Breathe]

OW12 Loek Frey - Nayan

Some things simply need time to brew. Loek Frey returns to Omen Wapta with his third release on the label: Nayan. The Amsterdam-based artist shares a long-standing friendship with label head Woody92 – keeping each other in motion as artistic peers since the label’s inception. Over time, they’ve built a shared archive of material: sound sketches, tracks, and sonic touchpoints – an ever-evolving third space where their paths continue to meet as they move in parallel. Nayan emerges from this deep-rooted exchange: a distilled six-track release that fuses Frey’s cerebral intricacy with the label’s primordial uncanniness, reaffirming both as key voices in a yet-to-be-defined sonic realm.

Diving into the release, Frey’s signature remains intact – tactile, spatial, and rhythmically precise – but a subtle shift is at play. A paring down. A move toward something more reduced, maybe even more patient, yet no less absorbing. The A side leans inward: deep pressure, spectral traces, and an undercurrent of tension that never quite resolves. It’s music for staying with, not escaping from. Flip to the B side and the palette widens – kicks land heavier, patterns loosen, textures fill the full frequency field. Still deeply rooted in the Wapta world, but with an assertiveness that whispers rather than shouts. Somewhere between absence and force.

With Nayan, Loek Frey carries his Omen Wapta narrative into new territory – merging restless experimentation with dancefloor intention.

A1. Uvan
A2. Lesa
A3. Antagon

B1. Nayan
B2. Gyra
B3. Taira
Nanza (Digital bonus)

Release date: September 23, 2025
Pre-order Bandcamp: https://omenwapta.bandcamp.com/album/nayan-2
Pre-order Clone: https://clone.nl/item80588.html

Written and produced by Loek Frey
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering
Sleeve design by Woody 's-Gravemade
Words by Brent van den Elshout

Distributed by Clone Records Rotterdam
Vinyl 12" & digital format via Clone and Omen Wapta Bandcamp

© Omen Wapta
Delft, The Netherlands est. 2021

OW12 Loek Frey - Nayan [preview]

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• Soundarchitect • Composer • DJ

Cio D’Or is an artist, composer and DJ who seamlessly bridges the worlds of techno, art and composi,on. Her artistic drive and creative process begins with an idea that emerges from silence and aims to convey something inexpressible and indescribable. Her work testifies to the timeless possibilities of music and movement.
Cio D’Or’s sound is characterised by attention to detail, weaving together ethereal textures, subtle rhythmic complexity and an undeniable emotional depth, creating a balance between architectural precision and fluid, cinematic immersion. Each element is placed with intention and shaped by a keen awareness of structure and space.
Her releases on Semantica, Prologue and Kynant are timeless expressions of her minimalist and cinematic approach to electronic music.
Known for her dramaturgically structured DJ sets and cinematic productions, she has performed at Berghain, Dekmantel, Bassiani, De School and festivals worldwide.
Cio D’Or’s sound blends architectural precision with immersive atmospheres, informed by influences from Eno to Vainiø, from Bach to Stravinsky, and rooted in decades of sonic exploration. Her music continues to evolve. Her lifelong study of music does, too.

Artist Curriculum Vita 
Education
1977–82 first piano lessons, autodidactic learning of xylophone, congas, kalimba, guitar,
1982–85 Private school for contemporary dance, Martha Graham technique, Berlin  
1999–today Studies in music production, sound creation, composition, dramaturgy, video scoring, photography and visual media. Skills include vinyl mixing, electronic music techniques, MPC 2000 sampling, field recordings, synthesizers, keyboards and music software – developed both on journeys and in the studio.

 Career [Selection]
1976 Conga performer in a jazz band
1981–87 Choreographies modern Ballet, Graham technique in Hanover, Berlin
1983–85 Teacher in modern dance, choreography and gymnastics at VHS Berlin
1984-86 Modern Ballet for André Heller [Fire theatre “Sturz durch Träume“] by L.A. Ellis, as well as in the cinema film by John Frankenheimer„The Holcroft Covenant“
Dance theatre by B. Seidel
2015-today Visual artist for her music: shooting and editing music videos, photographing covers, developing visual concepts
Publications [2000-today]  Musical theatre, 2 films, 3 albums, 14 EPs, international podcasts, various national/international interviews. Labels, among others: Prologue and Semantica

Stage [1999-today]  Over 400 national/international dramaturgical hybrid DJ and ambient performances 

2005 Affiliated member GEMA
2010 Resident Advisor Top 100 DJ worldwide [64th ranking]
2013 Composition „Distanz“ for the Taschenopernfestival in Salzburg
2013 Lecturer Landesmusikrat NRW: “Rmx. Regendered Workshop”
2013 Dommune TV–Tokyo, Japan
2014 PULSA:RE with Brigitta Muntendorf; premiere: Deutschlandfunk
2015 Goethe Institut Sweden„Grammophon“
2015 Lecturer „Loop–A Summit for Music Makers/Ableton“
2015 Film score Ataraxya [1st prize Int.Dig.Animation Nagoya,Japan]   Man on Mars filmmusic
2015 Music for the Haute Couture CHANEL Show Fall-Winter 2015/16 & Karl Lagerfeld Interview   
2016 Dave-Festival, Dresden: Music/Dramaturgy for 2 modern-dancers with visuals in a cinema, assignment Dresden
2020 Extraordinary member of GEMA [composer]

2020–2024 Advanced studies in classical music theory and piano (including fugues). Conceptual and dramaturgical development of projects combining classical and contemporary music worlds, integrating new sound developments, followed by project planning supported by consecutive scholarships. Scholarships: 2× Ministry of Culture and Science NRW, 3× Musikfonds, GEMA
• 60-minute live act with instruments for EU festivals : dramaturgy & composition
• Piano compositions [52 minutes] for film and European stage productions
• Electronic–orchestral interplay [Polar Q, Kynant Records 019, vinyl & digital]
• Music trilogy [Clavier | Orchestral | Ambient, 3 CDs] for publication and stage
• Music portrait of a homeless person
2024 Music for the Haute Couture Show LOEWE Spring-Summer 2025 2025 On behalf of Francisco Tavoni for the exhibition The Source – Astral Projections at the Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne, she created a 40‑minute mix for the sound installation with her sounds and music, including binaural tracks at 4 Hz and 7.5 Hz.
2026 Guest Curator for Electronic Music at the Art Festival Hanover Herrenhausen, Germany

Press Comments [Selection]
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Minimal Collective (Text: Brent van den Elshout)
In a world driven by volume and spectacle, Cio D’Or stands apart, mastering the power of the barely perceptible. This editorial explores her philosophy of sonic minimalism—where silence, restraint, and nuance challenge conventional ideas of presence in music. Through her creative process, live performances, and the balance between macro and micro perspectives, we uncover how Cio D’Or transforms the ‘power of less’ into a profound, intentional form of presence.

Orb Mag (Text: Cédric Finkbeiner) 
Designer of an instantly recognizable sound, she produces warm and deep complex structures, constantly on a fence between light and dark cliffs, noises and silences, cinematic settings and authentic presence. Part of a family of intricated sounds brought by artists such as Aleksi Perälä, Alva Noto, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, she’s a high representative of the minimal movement. She honors painter and pioneer Frank Stella’s quote “The aim of art is to create space,” she does through deep refined electronic music compositions and stripped piano pieces, delicate yet substantial.
Intriguing and engaging, her musical minimalism invites the listeners to bridge gaps with their thoughts, making them active in the artistic process and, therefore, contributing to the immersive effect. The mental activity is yet effortless for them: minimalism allows a focus on the essentials, by eliminating the dispensable sonic excesses and by creating space. Such a process brings mental freedom to the listeners, by breaking through the wall that a too-dense track would normally build. On the contrary, Cio D’Or’s music is open, and inviting, with an exquisite balance between artistic depth and hopeful, melancholic intelligence.

Monument Podcast (Text: Joe Mayberry)
What’s better than a mix from electronic music royalty Cio D’Or? Two mixes. This week we present something very special, a tale told across two chapters. As a mainstay of techno for over two decades, Cio D'Or has consistently pushed boundaries, gracing the decks of revered institutions worldwide and crafting a legendary discography with releases on Prologue, Semantica, Hypnus, Time to Express and more.
Across both mixes you will hear Cio’s unparalleled ability for sculpting minimalism and sonic architecture, masterfully recontextualizing familiar and obscure tracks alike, breathing new life into them and unveiling hidden dimensions. She dissects, reassembles and creates intricate connections between disparate sounds, all flawlessly executed with an alchemist’s touch.
Prisma 33 starts at a slower tempo, delicately building into an eruption of psychedelic minimalism. Dada grows with kinetic energy, with Cio sculpting sounds and textures into a deep trip where time seems to bend and dissolve, finishing with an unexpected wildcard that only a master selector could make work.

These are my personal rules based on experience and love for music, promoters and audiences:
Set: 2 hours main time, 3 hours at the beginning of a night***
1 hour live (hopefully from Mid 2026)
Live recording:  
a) I love mixes that I perfect at home for an hour, because the idea, dramaturgy and a mix should, ideally, express something and be timeless.
b) there are far too many mixes online ( I prefer quality over quantity ).. 
Deeply thank you for your understanding! Love, Cio ~∆*

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