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F-on @ Emotions festival in Cyprus on June 26th, 2022.
The first hour was missed due to technical issues.

 "... Emotions you really conquered my heart: artists, dancers, friends behind the project ... everything and all those people I met that weekend. Hope to see you all again
THANK YOU..."

F-on@ EMOTIONS 9. A. M.(2022)

For the second episode of our Herbarium Podcast series, we are pleased to welcome French producer and DJ @vardaemusic. 
The co-owner of @cosmicwaverecords presents a powerful mixture of breaks and straight beats interspersed with irresistible grooves from the faster realms of our genre direction. 
For this mix we have chosen the shrub 'Genista', which can be found all over Europe. In autumn, the plant forms elongated legumes that can contain up to 30 tiny seeds. These are widely dispersed by a centrifugal mechanism, the movement of which evokes in us strong associations with Vardae's mix. 

Artwork by @polygonia

Herbarium No 2 - Vardae - Genista

Esplendor Geometrico Prostitutes Morelli Executive Slacks Nagamatzu U-202 Hypnobeat Jtc In Aeternam Vale Caroline k

Black Seed Wild Rites EP forthcoming on Details Sound
www.details-sound.com


Black Seed Mix for Details Sound - February 2014

I was really lucky to be able to share a guest mix from French DJ and producer @sindh for October's Netil show :)

I've been a big fan of both of Louis' musical projects, Sindh and @9_beats, for a long time. So after finally meeting him in person this summer at Pan D'or, a small DIY festival he co-runs, nestled in a forest in Burgundy, I was so delighted he was able to contribute a mix to the show <3

A hypnotic hour of wiggy half-time dnb and glowing, droney ambient, this mix is pretty special as it's an excerpt from his set at this years' Ouroboros festival🐍

And as usual, for the first hour, I drifted though some tripped-out earthy textures🌿

Hope you enjoy!

Leave any ID requests you have in the comments x

Netil Radio - Faery w/ Sindh - 21.10.22

05 Widespreadwave

We are immensely proud to bring you this absolute hair-raiser, courtesy of London-based live act, producer, label owner, and Astral Industries resident DJ, outlier. 

An exhilarating ride of the highest calibre, mind and body melting into the ether as you spiral through a cosmical vortex... this is a beautiful journey that hits all the right spots and we know you’ll adore it too.

Big love and thanks, outlier <3

https://soundcloud.com/o-utlier
https://www.instagram.com/outlier_rory/
https://ra.co/dj/o.utlier

On the 5th Day Podcast #171 - outlier

In anticipation of the 2023 edition of the MOSTRA Festival, with whom we joined forces to present you music from some of the most exciting and talented producers and DJs worldwide, in the next couple of weeks, we'll feature several truly outstanding music tales. 

The first mix in our 'Delayed x Mostra' mix series comes from the incredible French producer and DJ based in Germany, Aa Sudd, who has in this past year released two of the most groundbreaking and avant-garde albums of the moment: one with Konduku as Konsudd and another released just a month or so ago on Midgar. 

Aa Sudd's mix is a true masterpiece exploring the dub's hypnotic and atmospheric realms. With intricate and captivating polyrhythms, this mix takes listeners on a psychedelic journey through sound. The various rhythms blend seamlessly, creating a truly otherworldly experience when you listen to it on your headphones.

Aa Sudd will play on the festival's opening day, Thursday, April 6, from 9-11 pm at the Hangar.


THE THREE AXES OF MOSTRA

Local
The pandemic highlighted the importance of local communities, local institutions and local support for one another. We at Mostra continue the commitment to our Local, not only by programming local artists on the line-up, but also through how we choose our suppliers and other collaborations in the city. And we go further: an exhibitors' Fira for the duration of the festival, generating our own media content during the year through MostRadio, the Mostra’m series of debates, seminars and conferences in parallel with the festival, and our ExtraMostra series of events in venues across Barcelona place Mostra’s roots firmly in their local environment.

Inclusive
Mostra is a festival that reflects on the realities that surround us in electronic music. We are committed to breaking the gender gap in a scene that is traditionally very masculinised. We try to reflect this in our programming, in our team, and in the values we promote: we want a friendly and safe space where there is no room for any kind of violence, and where respect for diversity is fundamental. We have developed our own protocol with a gender perspective, and we seek to raise awareness in a transversal way throughout the project.

Sustainable
Mostra is a festival that seeks to be a social and environmental benchmark through its actions. We follow the most up-to-date sustainable protocols and develop good practice in relation to both city and planet. We have created the role of Sustainability Director who leads and implements an action plan based on sustainable experiences; we limit the programming of artists from overseas to reduce our carbon footprint; and we are committed to contracting and collaborating with social integration and social and solidarity organisations from Barcelona.

ABOUT MOSTRA
We are a group of people with diverse backgrounds, but all closely linked to the electronic music and cultural scene in Barcelona and beyond, with involvement in projects such as Paral-lel Festival, Alpenglühen, Sónar+D, Fab Lab Barcelona, Comissió Nocturna, dublab

https://soundcloud.com/aasudd
https://www.instagram.com/aa_sudd/

https://www.mostra.barcelona
https://www.instagram.com/mostrabcn/



www.itsdelayed.com
www.instagram.com/_itsdelayed_
www.facebook.com/itsdelayed

more info about MOSTRA

Delayed with... Aa Sudd [Delayed x Mostra]

vp40 - Agonis (amenthia recordings / Basel, Swiss)
recorded at Springkell 2022 (Scotland)

테크노, 하우스, 앰비언트, 드럼 & 베이스의 요소를 혼합한 장르를 넘나드는 사운드로 유명한 스위스 출신의 프로듀서/ DJ Agonis. 저명한 클럽 엘리시아의 레지던트인 그는 일본 라비린스 페스티벌, 대만 오가닉 페스티벌 등 전 세계 무대에서 자신만의 독특한 사운드를 선보이고 있다.
10년이 넘는 커리어를 쌓아온 Agonis는 파트너 Garçon과 공동 설립한 자신의 레이블 Amenthia 레코딩과 Smoke Machine, Kynant, Traumgarten과 같은 국제적인 레이블에서 음악을 발표했으며, 2021년에는 비평가들의 호평을 받은 데뷔 앨범 'Neutropia'를 발표했다.

@agonis-amenthia
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4701056-Agonis
https://ra.co/dj/agonis
https://amenthia.net

Meet Agonis, the Swiss-based producer and DJ who emerged in 2015, known for his genre-defying sound that blends elements of techno, house, ambient, and drum & bass. As a resident at the respected club Elysia, he's had the opportunity to showcase his unique sound on some notable stages around the globe, from the Labyrinth Festival in Japan to Organik Festival in Taiwan and many more. 
With a career spanning over a decade, Agonis has released music on his own label Amenthia recordings, which he co-founded with Garçon as well as international labels such as Smoke Machine, Kynant and Traumgarten. In 2021 he released his debut album "Neutropia" which has been well-received by the critics.

vurt podcast 40 - Agonis

Monument are proud to present a mind blowing journey here from Patrick Russell recorded live from his closing set at the Mostra Festival April 2022.

Patrick returns to the Mostra stage on 6th April in Barcelona - https://ra.co/events/1612639

Photo by ©Paquito Pizarro

Follow -

https://soundcloud.com/ptrckrssll
https://www.instagram.com/ptrckrssll/
https://www.instagram.com/mostrabcn/ 
https://www.facebook.com/MostraBCN

MNMT Recordings : Patrick Russell x Mostra

@astralindustries founder Ario delivers a 60 minute trip of mercurial techno grooves. 

As well as being behind the legendary label Ario is also one half of the Mystic AM project along with Rod Modell (aka Deepchord). Catch him DJ'ing at various festivals all across Europe this summer.

Enjoy the trip 🔮

Follow:
SC https://soundcloud.com/astralindustries
FB: https://www.facebook.com/arioastral
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ariofarah/
Bandcamp: https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/

MNMT 373 : Ario

IO Podcast Series Episode 054 mixed by Einerlei(@einerleimusic)

With releases on labels such as Norite, Sungate and On Board Music, and with several more lined up on reputable techno labels, London-based Einerlei continues to hone his brain-bending, intricate sound. Fusing subtlety with a certain directness, he repeatedly - across a range of styles and influences - manages to capture and amplify unexpected atmospheric elements in his compositions. His DJ sets serve as a continuation of this philosophy, weaving a range of influences in a constant search for those unexpected twists and moments which unite a dancefloor.

In his mix for IO, Einerlei seeks to focus around an early dramatic transition, thereafter concentrating on finding a coherent balance between sincerity and playfulness with a mixture of quicker and slower blends being utilised to weave an eminently danceable tale.

Einerlei:
soundcloud.com/einerleimusic
https://www.instagram.com/einerlei__/

Artwork by @mtrl_audio

Podcast 054 - EINERLEI

As a monicker, SSSS is an exercise in difference and repetition, reducing swiss producer Samuel Savenberg’s name to a string of basic elements—all equal and different. Repetition as a mean of conceptual transport and physical transformation is integral to all forms of expression that aim for a wider understanding of reality within the realm perception, as it is to the reproductive process of knowledge itself. “Images contaminate us like viruses.” This is the conceptual environment in which Administration Of Fear, SSSS’ first proper release, was developed. Influenced by early industrial acts and the purifying experience of raving, along with authors such as Virilio and Baudrillard and recent events concerning digital privacy and surveillance. 

Pairing heavy noise electronics with a taste for transcendental horror, Samuel’s purpose is to explore the role of fear in social engineering, using techno as a mean to insurrectional accelerationism.


Mastered by Antonio Gallucci, comes in 100 numbered cassettes. Out September 21, 2014.


SSSS -  Hegemonie Negative (From HR006 "Administration Of Fear")

In May 2013 at a nondescript Seattle space called 1927 Events, two-thirds of Magic Mountain High—Germany's David Moufang (aka Move D) and the Netherlands' Jordan Czamanski of Juju & Jordash—teamed up for a live performance that made everyone in the room feel privileged to have witnessed it. It was the kind of set during which you say to yourself, “I hope to hell somebody's recording this.” Thankfully, somebody was doing just that, and the 99-minute Live In Seattle is the sterling result.

People throw around the word “deep” to describe electronic music with cavalier frequency, but in the case of Moufang and Czamanski (who also records as Jordan GCZ), that adjective barely encapsulates the kind of fathomless sound they create. Their work as Magic Mountain High—which includes Juju & Jordash's Gal Aner—combines the two artists' spring-loaded, psychedelic techno and libido-stoking house, exponentially multiplying their propulsive and disorienting qualities. Live In Seattle captures them working at the zenith of their improvisational powers for a rabid crowd—despite their European gear not functioning and having to use unfamiliar equipment, which is a testament to the pair's ability to create and adjust on the fly.

The show begins with anticipatory cymbal taps and a beautifully morose melodica motif that wouldn't sound out of place in an Ennio Morricone soundtrack. A few minutes in, faint pulses enter earshot and a minute later the clap-enhanced beats and synth bass burst into the forefront to form a strutting midtempo rhythm with a subliminal drone swirling beneath it. Masters of dynamics, Moufang and Czamanski incrementally intensify and ingeniously arrange the elements, especially that underlying keyboard drone, until you're in a state of panic and ecstasy.

Over the course of the set, the two producers flaunt their expertise for pacing. They avoid the obvious and subvert expectations throughout the performance, sporadically letting the beats drop out in order to luxuriate on a particularly alien organ oscillation (see especially the one near the beginning of the vinyl version of Live In Seattle's A-side), a sinister bass rumble, an ominously pulsating synth, an unsettling thumb piano motif, or a mind-warping 303 acid ripple, to name just a handful of examples.

Of course, Moufang and Czamanski also keep things danceable for stretches of time and about 78 minutes in, they even shift out of their foundation of oddity and into heavenly techno mode with a gloriously ascendant melody (which you can hear on the B-side of the vinyl version). For their well-deserved encore, Moufang and Czamanski reprise the intro's mournful melodica reverie and then infiltrate it with a series of percolating and disorienting bleeps and a celestial drone worthy of New Age legend Laraaji. This stellar ambient coda reflects Moufang and Czamanski's exceptional, eccentric musicality.

Techno is not known for its live albums, but regardless, Live In Seattle sets the standard for the format. With its abundant and sublime tunefulness, textural richness, and enchantingly enigmatic tangents, Live In Seattle takes you on a trip that's as long, strange, and stimulating as anything Miles Davis' electric bands of the '70s engineered. 

Live in Seattle

Moufang / Czamanski - Live in Seattle (Side B Excerpt)

Retina.it (Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono), is born in the first half of 90’s.
This duo,placed near the Vesuvio (Naples), explored all the capabilities of analogic synths since the beginnings, developing an its own idea of sound.
The undifferentiated manipulation of sounds extracted from modular and digital synths or objects/environment sound’s recording, leads this original duo to a continuos research of a sonic identity. Retina.it’s music has been released from labels such as Hefty records (Us) , Mousikelab (It), Flatmate/Storung ( Spain) and Glacial Movements (It). They have worked with different personalities of music business and visual arts, such as John Hughes, Marco Messina, Claudio Sinatti, Gabriella Cerritelli, Giorgio Li Calzi , Red Sector A. Moreover, the deep live-performing activity has led Retina.it to share important stages of International contest (such as Storung, Sonar…) with prestigious artists like Kraftwerk, Matmos, Telefon Tel aviv,T.A.G.C., Rechenzentrum , Oval, Noto, F. Bretschneider, Plaid , Apparat, Biosphere and many more.

Track list :
Vow of silence - Modvs  - Salva part1
Terminal - Plaster - Mainframe
They soar through flames - Ntogn - Bestiary
Consistency - Roberto Figus 
Axis - Iori
Theory of loneliness - SNTS - The rustling of leaves
Automa Pandora (retina.it version) - Donato Dozzy/Retina.it - Offivcine di Efesto
Pentagons - Rrose - Eating the other
Hearts and minds - Nitzer ebb - Belief
Irreformable - Adam x - Irreformable
Internal fall - Abdulla rashim - A shell of speed
Logos - Retina.it - De occulta philosophia vol 1
Shame - Nitzer ebb - Belief
Rionzemef - Pjusk/Sleep orchestra - Drowning in the sky

Container Podcast [76] Retina.it

Russell Haswell - Ant Colony Featuring Eurofighter Typhoon F2 Flyby
Bruce Gilbert - Oblivio Agitatum
Front 242 - This World Must Be Destroyed
Emptyset - Medium
Andy Stott - We Stay Together
Miles - Flawed
Mika Vainio - It's a Muthang
Emptyset - Monad
Powell - 09
Mark Fell & Peter Rehberg - Zikir
Jeff Mills - Rich
Byetone - Opal
Ancient Methods - Third Method
Heiroglyphic Being - 2 Bath in the Black Sun
Ancient Methods - Second Method
Sleeparchive - Ronan Point
Vainio, Vaisanen, Vega - Incredible Criminals
Emptyset - Function (Roly Porter remix)


Medium” arrives as the first non-studio based production by emptyset, recorded on location in the remote Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire UK. The collection of tracks explores the duo’s preoccupations with the elemental properties of sound and bare rhythmic structures and overlays it onto the textural possibilities
of space and material. The project marks their first act of adapting their analogue
based studio system into an architectural intervention, pushing extreme bass and
feedback into the irregular spaces of the unfinished building. The rural mansion, which remains an incomplete remnant of the gothic revival and a place studied by
both architectural researchers and psychic investigators, provides a rich source of
texture as the sparse palette of sine waves and noise is adorned with the intricate details of the space. Medium emerges as an act of translation remodeling the
house through sonic impulses into a state of audio, a fluid transformative gesture
and a process mirroring the sonar impulses of the bats residing within
Woodchester's rooftop sanctuary.


￼￼The project, supported by the Woodchester Mansion Trust, was provided technical support by the renowned Bristol based sound engineer Mat Sampson who managed the array of vintage microphones and preamps distributed within the building along with the central monophonic sound system.

“Medium” will be released March 19th, 2012 on Subtext Recordings based at Multiverse in Bristol. It follows on from emptyset's second LP Demiurge, Roly Porter's landmark Aftertime album and a live recording by Paul Jebanasam.

Emptyset Mix 2012

Introducing the next instalment in our MNMT Events series. A sublime four hour trip with the amazing Valentino Mora, recorded at Blå in Oslo, Norway. We hope you enjoy.

Read more: https://mnmt.no/blog/2019/10/29/mnmt-events-valentino-mora-bla-oslo/

MNMT Events: Valentino Mora

Developing podcast series and designing events.
Container runs through years of exploration.
Cooperating with labels and artists of global techno scene.
Rome, 2013.

Curated by 
@Pneich 
@OutpostLive
@ndrbl

Container Podcast [76] Retina.it

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