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Crafting a singular cinematic approach on mental electronic music, Elijah (@projekt-am) is a french artist based on the mediteranean coast. Through his mixes and productions, Elijah explores scheming rythms and abstract though detailed and largely textured landscapes. Releasing other peoples music since 2017 through his own label @lemme-records, he is also involved in his local community as 1/3 of @extend-play – a DJ trio operating in Marseille that used to run the Basement parties, a monthly and intimate gathering for deeper grooves enthusiasts.
 
In this episode Elijah shared his audio perception of the Transpolar Drift across a beautiful and contemplative selection of tracks.

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≋  Why did you choose this theme ? 

Elijah: I originally thought about another theme, more local, more solar. Then, while digging tracks for the podcast and trying to combine them, I thought it sounded more like a puzzle where the pieces touched each other. All of them werent embedded, but linked by something still.

≋  What pictures were brought to your imagination when preparing this episode ?

Elijah : Due to the cold and wobbly atmosphere of some tracks, I thought about unstable pieces of sea ice colliding and drifting, all of them connected by one thing : the ocean. The puzzle became a chunky sea ice drifting on the Arctic Ocean form East to West by a current called Transpolar Drift. This is the story of these broken pieces of ice shelf - more or less huge - travelling with this current and of the life that can happen above and below it.

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The Transpolar Drift is a major surface current in the Arctic Ocean, transporting sea ice and waters across the North Pole from the northern coast of Siberia towards Greenland. As the Beaufort Gyre (a roughly circular current flowing clockwise within the surface waters of the Beaufort Sea in the western or North American Arctic), the movement of the Transpolar Drift is the result of large-scale atmospheric circulation dominated by a high-pressure centre over the western Arctic Ocean. The pattern is not constant but varies in both strength and position about every decade or so, as the high-pressure centre weakens and moves closer to both Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. Together, the Beaufort Gyre and Transpolar Drift strongly influence the Arctic Ocean ice thickness distribution.

Sea ice is an important transport vehicle for gaseous, dissolved and particulate matter in the Arctic Ocean. Due to the recently observed acceleration in sea ice drift, more matter is advected by the Transpolar Drift from shallow shelf waters to the central Arctic Ocean and beyond. However, intensified melt in the marginal zones of the Arctic Ocean interrupts the transarctic conveyor belt and has led to a reduction of the survival rates of sea ice exported from the shallow Siberian shelves. As a consequence, less and less ice formed in shallow water areas has reached Fram Strait, and more ice and ice-rafted material is released in the northern Laptev Sea and central Arctic Ocean. A reduced long-range transport of sea ice alters transport and redistribution of climate relevant gases, and increases accumulation of sediments and contaminates in the central Arctic Ocean, with consequences for primary production, and the biodiversity of the Arctic Ocean.

Sources :
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41456-y/#Sec2
https://www.britannica.com/science/sea-ice#ref908448

Exocet 029 ))) Elijah ~ 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑡

Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants (Original Mix)432 Hz

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For our very first podcast, we are glad to invite our resident DJ @Amadeu_s. 
With a deep taste for hypnotism, his universe stands at a crossroad between techno, ambient, downtempo and dub, which he regularly shares in his selections. This tendency for introspection is crystallized in sets marked by authenticity and respect for the sound, in which he composes thrilling atmospheres punctuated with rousing rhythms.

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Perila – Sweat (with Inger Wold Lund)
Neel & Filippo Scorcucchi present LF58 - Untitled [A1]
Q3A – The Very End Of You 
Toki Fuko – Spring Ray (Reshape)
Babe Roots - Jah Nuh Dead feat Stephanie Write (Forest Drive West Remix)
Claudio PRC - The Water (Vox Version)
Donato Dozzy - Concert for Sails
BLNDR – Movement Strobe #1
Heavenchord – Cosmic Revelation
Skóll – II
Silentwave - Sanhaeng 산행
HRNR - Sonitis (Original Mix)

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Exocet 001 ))) Amadeus

Based in Lyon, @Vardaemusic cultivates a sound where psychedelia and organic textures are merged with a fine acoustic exigence. In the past years, he's released a handful of plates (most recently on @ParabolaRecords or @Impactechno-Records), revealing a strong appeal for deep, trance-inducing, almost ritualistic techno.
Besides his production activities, he's always keen to deliver strong DJ sets in clubs or festivals, building on his expanded music culture and passion for party.

In this podcast, he takes us on a fast-paced dive along the barrier reef, weaving in and out of coral outcrops, playing with spacy grooves and bouncing rhythms for our greater delight.

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Kenneth Graham - Mystique
Brendon Moeller - Sweetspot
David Hausdorf - Space walk (2015 version)
Andre Kronert - Ain’t no funny music
Dj October - Jaffa 
Steve O’sullivan - Beat around the bush (tool 2)
Jon Hester ft DVS1 - Shouts in the dark
Bleak - Scanners
Kenneth Graham - Fire, water, machine
Rolando - Where were you ?
G-Man - Fuchsia
Mattias Fridell - Artificial Personality layer
Rod Modell - Jade
Claudia Anderson - Organic
Robert Leiner - Full moon ritual 
DJ Vague - Hard workin trax 2
Basic Channel - Octagon 
Oud!n13 - Eagle nebula

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Photo credit @ Francesco Ungaro

Exocet 002 ))) Vardae

@StellahMaris was raised on the French Atlantic coast and currently lives in Paris. His love for natural soundscapes combined with his passion for odd rhythms, bass frequencies & meditative music leads him to play with a wide palette of music genres, riding between dub, ambient, tribal music, techno & hip-hop.

Founder & artistic director of Exocet Collective, he intended this mix as an exploration of the deepest seabeds, from half-tempo dub beats to 160+ dark dnb skankers.

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Vincent Raude - Halmstad (Binaural Version)
Model 500 - Starlight (Intrusion Dub)
Uon - Door
Andy Stott - Passed Me By
Felix K - Res Extensa
Vardae - Acanthe
Daat - Sub
DB1 - Zukr
Hieronymous - Silverspoon Rock
HOOVER1 - HOOVER1B
Myako - Les Fils de Jah
Perko - The Reason
Daat - Meat Grinder [Justice + Metro re-grind]
Suboreal - Acrymar
Dycide - Crust
Abstrakt Vision & Kronom - Crypt
Homemade Weapons - Svalsat
Mystic State - Sling Blade
LEVL - Nullpunkt # 4
Last Life - Ancient Lightning
Skee Mask - Soundboy Ext.
Vincent Raude - Halmstad (Binaural Version)

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Photo credit : Francesco Ungaro

Exocet 003 ))) Stellah Maris

Slow Dimension (@slowdimension22) is a project of the French artist Lou Berlinger. Under this alias, she offers hybrid live & DJ set made of ambient, dub techno and deep techno, on which she adds humming drones, resonating pads and filtered synths to deliver a deep and groovy atmosphere. Lou's music is accompanied by visual creations by Gilberto Jules (Nantes, France) and animations by VJ deLi (Buenos Aires, Argentina). 
Besides her own musical career, Lou is also one of the founders of l'Appel du 8 Mars, a movement which advocates for more representation of female artists in electronic music, organizing a festival in Paris and giving them some space of expression in DJ sets, lives and round-table discussions.

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Echo Delta - Wanderdub [+ SLD visitation]
Jozef Nemek- The Direction Of Time [+ SLD visitation]
Donato Dozzy - Aquatica
Benales - Turning Point
Exos - Pulp [+ SLD visitation]
Tim Kossman - Domplatz Dub
Tender H - Another Dimension
Giriu Dvasios - Nakti [+ SLD visitation]
grad_u - A3
Sendo - Absent
Forest Drive West - Parallel Space (Conforce remix) [+ SLD visitation]
Aura Minimum & Flying Cobra - Current I

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Exocet 004 ))) Slow Dimension

Last month, P-Gold selected and mixed some records from his vinyl collection exclusively for Exocet during one of our afternoon mix sessions. We recorded this moment to share it in our podcast channel, we hope that you will enjoy this trip in a dark & twisted pirate dream, through ambient, acid, bass and noisy electro.

Apart from spending quality time with his records and synthesizers, P-Gold is one of the heads behind the SÀĆHÔ festival, where tradition and avant-gardism merge to celebrate art & nature.

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Pan Sonic - Reuna-alue
Bee Mask - In The Karst Interior
HOLOVR - Data Mine
Pan Sonic - Murtoneste
Tolouse Low Trax  - Jeidem Fall
Hex - Foreign Tongue
Khixbrrr ‎– Fairies (Helixir rmx)
Nastika - Daeva
Sigha & Spherix - Separation
Smell the Flesh - Blood Relic
Monolake - Magenta
The Chaos A.D - Mind War Electro
Mr 76ix - Gasmask
Hoshi - The Mad Scientist
Earth 2 - Like Gold And Faceted
Grav - Madrake, The Headless Rider of The North

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Exocet 005 ))) P-Gold

≋ Exocet is a collective drawing its inspiration from the marine & coastline worlds. Its musical universe is centered around the dub family of music, notably dub techno and bass oriented sounds.  

≋ The collective aims to organize events around these thematics, gathering music & visual artists. 

≋ With the proceeds, the association aims at supporting ocean and littoral conservancy projects.

Exocet 029 ))) Elijah ~ 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑡

≋ Collectif Exocet ≋