Favorite mixes 2021

Dance Under invites the Georgian born and multi-media artist Saphileaum, which delivers a cosmic and contemplative journey for the first hour. Founder of @dance-under, Alcachofa, follows for the second hour with a noisy and downtempo performance.

 

Saphileaum (@saphileaum)

1. Jonn Serrie - Goldstone

2. Adhémar - Invisible Birds

3. Skymn - Subterrane 2

4. Aleksi Perala - FI3AC2037200

5. Simone Bauer - Aurea

6. Zemög - Primal

7. Amandra - Kapsalon

8. Bas Dobbelaer & Vand - Reflect

9. Konduku - Seker 5

10. Aleksi Perala - FI3AC2139250

11. Saphileaum - Umu

12. Space Drum Meditation - Nite Tribs

13. Saphileaum - Esse

14. Toki Fuko - Convey Sende of a Being

15. D.K - Unreleased

16. Aleksi Perala - FI3AC2036010

17. Saphileaum - Medium

 

Alcachofa (@alcachofamusic)

1. s.soo - ct iE (current impulse) - Secuencias Temporales

2.  Mind over MIDI - Vër – Rites

3. Owl - Infinite Horizon - Silent Season

4. Loon + Persus Nine - Two Cathedrals - HOHA Records

5. Adhémar - In The Smoke (Morning Spatialization) - C12

6. Valentino Mora - Inhalation - Spazio Disponibile

7. Hod - Means to an End - Secuencias Temporales

8. Konduku - Orbu – Nousklaer

9. Forest On Stasys - Ofrenda - Harmony Rec.

10. Evigt Mörker - Lossa De Bundna

11. Cooper Saver - Walk On Water - Hivern Disc

12. Vivian Koch - When Will We Meet Again - Mojuba

Rinse France Podcast

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Dance Under avec Saphileaum - 10 Mars 2021

Interview:  http://truantsblog.com/2021/truancy-volume-275-aaron-j/ ‎

Access the download and tracklist on our Patreon: patreon.com/truants

Aaron J Soundcloud: @arn_j
Sure Thing Soundcloud: @sure_thing

http://truantsblog.com

Aaron J

Truancy Volume 275: Aaron J

Closing DJ set from the Mysteries of the Deep 12-hour livestream event on Saturday March 13, as part of the Common Multiverse Initiative hosted by https://a.currents.fm/common.

https://a.currents.fm/common/event/tYkzrTcMt9P6PJ9Ucq1x

Tracklist:
1. Skee Mask - Dolby
2. Sophia Loizou - Fluxes
3. Donato Dozzy - 12H.12
4. Panabrite - Hydrothermal
5. Laima Adelaide - Atmos
6. Garland - Fa.de
7. Quiet Places - Track 5
8. Sciama - Source Energy
9. Launaea - Vision I
10. Jo Johnson - Forward! The Day is Breaking!
11. The Vision Reels - Reflective Souls
12. Johanna Knutsson - Paltanen
13. Sciama - Lorelei/Plasticity
14. Varuna - Avicennia
15. Autechre - VLetrmx21
16. Skee Mask - Mbass123 Excerpt
17. Daar - Mellow Green Eyed Soul
18. Multicast Dynamics - Anima
19. Earthen Sea - Sun Shadows (Saphileaum's 7th Sky)
20. Vicky Zissou - Ett Hav Av Träd
21. Voices From The Lake - Quarto Freddo
22. Eliane Radigue - L'Île Re-Sonante

Grant Aaron | Common Multiverse Initiative (Mysteries Livestream)

"An important part of touring is the connections you make with different people when travelling around the world. And when going to America, a big part of that experience has been connected to the people around Interdimensional Transmissions and The Bunker NY. While we couldn’t be together in person, I was very glad to be part of Samhain XX streaming online. The set was recorded at my home in Tokyo, but I tried to play how I might have played if I was with everyone in Detroit. Soon enough we’ll be together again, in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this recording. Thanks to all involved and take care, @wata."

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s10e09: Wata Igarashi at Samhain XX

Read our interview with Jane Fitz here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-jane-fitz

To introduce @janefitz as a legend of the scene borders on understatement. The UK selector has earned an almost cult-like following born out of her annual sets at Freerotation festival, co-founding London’s Night Moves parties (with good friend Jade Seatle - @jade-green), a more recent residency at revered club the Pickle Factory, a monthly show on @rinsefm, and a pre-pandemic touring schedule that took in countless clubs and festivals the world over. She herself admits to being committed to the scene for life, driven by a deep appreciation of the music above all else – and a constant desire to surprise both herself and her audience equally.

For her Patterns of Perception 82, Jane has recreated some of the warmth she felt during her visit to Berlin for a b2b with Eric Cloutier (@cloutier) at our party in November 2019, an event which remains a vivid memory on both sides. The mix features many records collected over the past year of the pandemic and not yet played out, giving it a sense of urgency and an uplifting quality that, for her, recalls an outdoor festival set in better days. “A bit of me was kind of longing for playing on the side of a Japanese mountain again or for all those festivals you do in the summer,” she says. “I wanted to have people stomping on a forest floor.”

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/janefitz
https://www.facebook.com/JaneFItzhome
https://ra.co/dj/janefitz

https://www.facebook.com/MOVETHENIGHT
https://www.facebook.com/invisiblemenders/
https://invisiblemenders.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/cloutier/jane-fitz-eric-cloutier-b2b-at-ohm-25102019

Patterns of Perception 82 - Jane Fitz

This was recorded at Offline at Oppa-la Enoshima in February 2021.

RDC 030 - Haruka

Next up in the series is the great Carl H, from the UK. Carl is the man behind the label amazingly record label, Animals On Psychedelics, and resident of the great London-based trance warehouse parties, Sub:System. In other words, Carl is a truly central figure in the UK-underground scene. 

In this mix Carl is serving us a trip of tripped out-, tribal- and slimey old school trance on vinyl. A true bliss. 

@carl-haop

Ute Mix Series #41 | Carl H

"I approached this set differently than I normally would when opening the Outer Space room at No Way Back. Given this unique moment of mass hysteria, the intention when selecting music was to create an escape beyond reality. The streaming format provided a captive portal for the audience, similar in ways to the cavernous room within Tangent Gallery, except this acted more as a direct feed into the mind. The accompanying video by Candace Price lends heavily to the cinematic nature of the set, creating a strange and textural world, like being locked within a dream."
— Grant Aaron @insideout

video: https://youtu.be/tM8I9_7ouO8

Tracklist:
1. Penelope Trappes - Gnostic State
2. Mark Van Hoen - A World Full Of People
3. Wanderwelle - Death At The Helm
4. Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC1927040
5. CV & JAB - Pungent Lake
6. FFT - Grey Area
7. Lửa - Tôi ở lại
8. Matt Christensen - The Big Decay #3
9. First Tone - Recall
10. Bamboo Music - Part 2
11. Eleh - Living Space
12. Sunggun Jang - Figure 6
13. Coppice Halifax - Deep Earth [Arjen Schat / Al-kimia-00]
14. Wanderwelle - Irrational Demons
15. Jake Muir – Like A Wreath of Mist
16. Autumn Of Communion - Rasayana
17. COH - DOMA
18. Jo Johnson - Haunted by the Legend of Better Days
19. Multicast Dynamics - Part 4
20. Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC1927060 
21. Unjin - Hui Gui
22. James A. Reeves & Candy Chang – Light the Barricades

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IT.podcast.s10e02: Grant Aaron at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

"This No Way Back stream was the first time I’ve performed a set from my home studio. When I was first planning this set, before the pandemic really hit hard, I had kind of a different idea in mind. I was planning something more sample-driven, less melodic. And although I would’ve deeply preferred to be in Detroit for No Way Back in-person under normal circumstances, the fact that I ended up performing from my studio meant I had all of my synthesizers there to use, including the larger ones that I don’t normally have in my live rig like the Prophet-6. I decided to take advantage of that, and the resulting set took kind of a different turn. This set includes some of the music that’s coming out later this year on my album with Mysteries of the Deep. I hope you enjoy."
— Christina Chatfield @anitserk

video: https://youtu.be/jBYVmPUo7Bo

IT.podcast.s10e01: Christina Chatfield at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

compiled and mixed by JENUS
agemoworos mix IV info and full tracklist:
https://agemoworos.wordpress.com/the_fawn_and_the_yearling/

JENUS - THE FAWN AND THE YEARLING - agemoworos mix IV

Chris, what happens in the theatre's lobby?

"Many are distracted,
But a few are not,
These are the ones 
who hear the details, 
notice the nuances.
It is there, in the air.
For those who care."

Tracklist

Fader From Borneo - Cold Sore Adonis
Imaginary Softwoods - Almond Branch
Ulla Straus - Figgy
TALsounds - Opening
Fadi Tabbal - Cheap Triptych Photography
Hoodie - Justin
DJ Lostboi - LB 100
LOG - LOG 2
Motion Ward - Trizlang Gem ft. Ulla
KMRU - Degree of Change
Pétra - Tavel
Vanessa Amara - Leopards
Ali Wade - The Drowned World
Shasta Cults - Option 2
Monolake - Phaenon Ono
Perila - mag cent re
Teleplasmiste - An Unexpected Visit
Gunnar Haslam - Kampemnh
I:Cube - Mystérieuse Mangrove
Croatian Amor and Varg2TM - Bonbons
SØS Gunver Ryberg - The Presence Eurydike
Kangding Ray - Sun
Daughter Produkt - Anisotropy
Zandvoort & Uilenbal - Folk Triumfator
Faten Kanaan - The Archer
Sunhiilow - Waves of Sunlight
Mattheis - Prism1 (Tidal Fields Version)
Oqbqbo - Utsuwa
Imaginary Softwoods - North of Roswell
Nadia Khan - Port Ana
Malibu - Lost At Sea (Kelly Moran Remix)
Tongues Of Light - Unity

Chris SSG is best known as the co-founder of the now defunct MNML SSGS blog, recognized as a leading source of critical insight on electronic music. In recent years, he has moved from the online world into the Tokyo techno scene. He is the organizer of a series of MNML SSGS events, and is a resident at the semi-regular Sound Garden chill out parties. As a DJ, Chris SSG eschews standard dancefloor music, instead focusing on a range of sounds from ambient, experimental, kosmische through to more abstract forms of techno.

@mnml-ssgs

Chris SSG - Music for Theatre Lobbies 7

From electronic free jazz and IDM ballads over ambient & hypnotic techno, to influences from traditional music, French DJ @laurabcr has been steadily making her mark in contemporary electronic music, and has been a major contributor to the scene thanks to her label On Board Music and her monthly Rinse show.
Catch Laura BCR every 1st Monday of the month, from 00h to 02h [CET] on rinse.fr

Laura BCR invite Patrick Russell - 04 Janvier 2021

Imaginative downtempo and ambient to bring in the New Year.

Read more: https://ra.co/podcast/761

@forestmanagement

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.761 Forest Management

Mor Elian channels the downtempo stylings of her Alloy Sea alias

Sunday Mix: Mor Elian

Stream Informer Friday Jan 29 Live Stream

Read our interview with Sapphire Slows here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-sapphire-slows

As a producer, vocalist and DJ, Tokyo-based @sapphire-slows has a sound that is both indelible and difficult to neatly categorise. Taking cues from minimal, electronica, ambient and off-kilter pop, her own music feels greater than the sum of these parts, combining an unerring sense for space, detail and atmosphere with slow-motion melodies and heady, cosmic vocals to create something personal and truly unique.  

Since starting to produce music in her bedroom in 2011, Sapphire Slows has released an impressive body of work, with LPs, EPs, tracks and remixes coming out on the likes of @not-not-fun-1, @100percentsilk, Kaleidoscope, @nous-disques, @kalaharioystercult, ninih (@ye_yeh) and most recently @ad93rec.	

As a live performer and DJ, she has been similarly prolific, with numerous European tours under her belt, along with regular showings in China, Australia, the US and naturally, her home country of Japan. The diversity of artists with which she has shared the stage (from Lena Willikens, Objekt, Svreca and Ben UFO to Laurent Garnier and The xx) is revealing, and further proof of the chameleonic qualities of her music.

Recently recorded at OATH in Tokyo, Sapphire Slows’ Patterns of Perception 79 is a warm, carefully crafted and kaleidoscopic narrative that perfectly captures the many shades of her unique sound. Flitting between cinematic ambient soundscapes, emotive vocals and breezy after-hours energy, these 59 minutes sway comfortably across dappled layers of sunlight and shade, finding a solid underpinning in the swelling melodies and textural layers that are so tightly linked with her own visions. 

Credits:
Recorded at OATH Tokyo, Mastered by Hiranya Access

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/sapphire-slows
https://www.facebook.com/sapphireslows/
https://sapphireslows.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/sapphireslows/

Patterns of Perception 79 - Sapphire Slows

Chris SSG at RC3

Chris SSG (Tokyo, Japan)
Connection and creativity; together we will find our way through this difficult period.
Projects like this matter, as do the relationships they build and sustain.
Stay true, stay the course, we'll meet on the other side. 
And while waiting for that to happen, perhaps you can space out to this mix.

https://soundcloud.com/mnml-ssgs
https://www.facebook.com/chris.ssgs
https://www.instagram.com/mnmlssgs

RC3
The Chaos Computer Club is Germany's primary source for futuristic and alternative thinking since the 80s. Each year between Christmas and New Year's Eve, this association gathers hackers from all over the galaxy for a huge congress. Under the given conditions, the convention had to move to an online exile for the 2020 edition: The "Remote Chaos Experience" (RC3). Music and all kinds of arts are an integral part of these conventions - this set is one of the contributions to the four-day streaming marathon that soundtracked the RC3 (27 - 30th of December, 2020).

https://events.ccc.de
https://links.rc3.world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress

Oslated.
http://www.oslated.com
https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com

Chris SSG at RC3

Today we launch our Samhain XX weekly podcast series, with archives of all the sets performed during the streaming event. We begin the series with a set from BMG.

video: https://youtu.be/gxDV5W7C9hI
 
BMG on Samhain:
"It's the Celtic holiday that Halloween spawns from. It was the loop point, the new year. Ancient people dealt with grey areas in strange ways, the change between years caused this loose period existing between the end and beginning. This is where it gets interesting: they believed dimensions were colliding in a sort of interdimensional crosstalk, where the planes of the living and the dead were touching, so the dead could walk the earth. A way to convene with your ancestors, and a great reason to burn fires and scare your friends and neighbors. There's way more to it, most of it can't be written, it can only be felt, which is usually elusive but somehow easy at this time of year."
 
The original recurring party for Interdimensional Transmissions is Samhain, celebrating the ancient Celtic holiday that acknowledges the loop point of time, and the origin of IT. Had there not been Covid-19 the plan killer, we would have had the 20th anniversary of this party in Detroit, with Eris Drew headlining. As it stood, we celebrated Samhain XX with an over the top stream celebrating so many facets that we find fascinating, a place for total immersion into interesting music and cutting edge thoughts for a whole weekend at our favorite time of year. This was broadcast continuously for over 30 hours on October 31 — November 1, 2020. 
 
If the world is going to burn, this is what we want to hear, who we want to be surrounded by. Thank you so much to every artist for sharing your art and musical vision. And thank you to Jim Gibbons (AVS) for mastering all the audio, Andrew Charles Edman for the psychedelic visuals and all the art layers from Amber Gillen. And thank you to @thebunkerny for hosting the stream.

IT.podcast.s10e03: BMG at Samhain XX

CCL - sit on my interface (part 1/2)

Read our interview with Grant Aaron here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-grant-aaron

The first time Grant Aaron (@insideout) went to an event with a chill-out room, everything clicked into place. It was the beginning of a long love affair with ambient and experimental music, with its sparsity and often beat-less nature leaving plenty of room for the imagination to take over. Grant went on to take up DJing in chill-out spaces himself before founding the influential platform Mysteries of the Deep in New York a decade ago. Initially a podcast, Mysteries has evolved over time into an event series and record label, and has established itself as one of the most revered sources for ambient music, both online and offline.

2021 is shaping up to be as busy a year as any other for Mysteries: there are releases in the works from Christina Chatfield (@anitserk), Mosam Howieson (@mos-how) and Grant’s label partner Oliver Chapoy (@ohm_sweet_ohm), plus plans to bring back the podcast after a brief hiatus. In the midst of this busy schedule, Grant took the time to showcase his cinematic, storytelling-driven style for our own podcast, with a mix recorded in a dense New York winter and inspired by the dampening of sound that comes with heavy snowfall.

Of the concept of his Patterns of Perception 80, Grant says: “The last eight or nine months have been some of the most difficult that I’ve been through in several years. A lot of it has to do with my work situation, which has been incredibly challenging and pushed me to rethink many things in my life. Then you have the pandemic, which has been this overarching theme for so many, most just trying to get through each day. But then there are these rays of light. I always try to be optimistic and hopeful about stuff, even when that can be really tough, so while this mix is very solemn, there are rays of light coming through.”

Links:
@insideout
https://ra.co/dj/grantaaron

@mysteriesofthedeep
https://mysteriesofthedeep.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mystofthedeep/

@birdsofprey

Patterns of Perception 80 - Grant Aaron

Active on the parisian electronic music circuit from the late 2000s, Coxone started out as an writer and podcast curator for the highly influential music blog Get The Curse, and a founding member of offbeat event promoters MeliMelo.

In 2014 he created Spazio Tempo with Beckenbauer and ZBK, a collective which hosted parties at Batofar, Rex Club and À La Folie, and ran until 2019. Guests included Wata Igarashi, Patrick Russell, Marco Shuttle, Dasha Rush, Yuka, John Osborn, Neel and more. During that period, Spazio Tempo held a residency on Rinse France and played gigs at Concrete (Paris) and IBoat (Bordeaux). They were also resident DJs at the woodporn events, opening nights for DJ Nobu, Claudio PRC, Eric Cloutier and so on.

Since 2021 he has been based in Nantes and concentrating on DJing, self-hosting a regular show on Blast Radio and doing extended sets at Bar 303.

As a DJ, he specializes in both ambient music and danceable sounds, mixing many different influences and always adapting to the mood and setting of events and places.


Past gigs:
2022/06/17: Coxone at Bar303, Nantes
2022/03/20: Coxone at Bar303, Nantes

2020/01/17: Coxone at Zéro Zéro, Paris

2018/02/03: Dance Under w/ Ilum&Potomac, Coxone at ​Brasserie Gallia, Paris

2017/11/11: Concrete w/ Marcel Dettmann, Sa Pa, Birth Of Frequency Live, HBT, Spazio Tempo at Concrete, Paris
2017/05/13: Dance Under w/ Coxone, Square des Épinettes, France
2017/03/16: Shed w/ Haaj, Pasteur Charles, Spazio Tempo, Chouquette, Ōtium at ​Chalet 13, Paris
2017/01/19: Chapter w/ Spazio Tempo, Saari at I-Boat, Bordeaux

2016/12/30: Concrete w/ Luke Slater, Tobias. Live, Nuel, Spazio Tempo at ​Concrete, Paris
2016/08/19: Woodporn x Lumièreslanuit w/ Dooks, TC80, Ground Tactics, Coxone at Batofar, Paris
2016/03/25: Concrete w/ Karenn, Zenker Brothers, Anetha, Spazio Tempo at ​Concrete, Paris

2015/10/01: Woodporn w/ Claudio PRC, Spazio Tempo at ​Batofar, Paris
2015/07/02: Woodporn w/ John Osborn, Spazio Tempo at ​Batofar, Paris

2014/12/11: Woodporn w/ Eric Cloutier, Spazio Tempo / ​Batofar, Paris
2014/10/01: Woodporn w/ DJ Nobu, Spazio Tempo / ​Batofar, Paris
2014/08/06: Woodporn w/ Material Object, Spazio Tempo / ​Batofar, Paris