@vickisiolos opening set on the last day of #Mostra22 at Castell de Montjuïc. Her set was reproduced for the first time at our 9128.live takeover on 17 September 2022, through @astrangelyisolatedplace: 9128.live/takeover-mostra

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Vicki Siolos is an ambient, experimental DJ and interaction designer from New York City. Her career focuses around creating seamless experiences for broad audiences, using trusted methods and casting personal bias aside. Her mixes are intended as the complete opposite, heard each month on her radio show Bright Patterns: a freeform exploration of internal absolutes among endless options. Each recording is an attempt to capture life in the moment, inviting everything to the surface as it wants to be heard. She’s also contributed several mixes for Mysteries of the Deep, and her release Kintsugi on enmossed is dedicated to the Japanese art that echoes the resilience within each of us.

LINKS:
https://www.instagram.com/greekdiner/
https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/kintsugi
@vickisiolos

Vicki Siolos @ Mostra22 🖤

Constructions returns for the 60th instalment with an hour-long live sound performance from Japan's Muzan Editions label boss, Endurance.

"In the past few years, I have been lucky enough to open for a lot of techno parties in Japan, and this has had a big impact on my sound as a performer. My live sets used to lean more towards the prettier, new-age side of ambient, but as that doesn't particularly suit dark clubs in Osaka and Tokyo, I have tried to push my sound towards the more minimal and intense regions of ambient.

This is a set from a show I played in Osaka with Peter van Hoesen in November. I remember being terribly nervous while setting up my modular, as PvH was standing right behind me doing a soundcheck (I'm a big fan)! Nevertheless, I think the set went well, setting the tone for the party and the music to come. When I looked up towards the end, the dance floor was nearly full, and people were swaying back and forth with their eyes shut. As someone doing ambient, there's no clearer sign that you're doing something right than that."

Endurance is the ambient project of Osaka-based Joshua Stefane. Using modular synthesizers, field recordings, and cassette tapes, Endurance’s sound has become increasingly minimal and tonally-focused over the years, employing a minimum of elements to create a maximum of expressiveness. In addition to releasing from labels such as Constellation Tatsu and Mystery Circles, Endurance also curates the Japan-based tape label Muzan Editions.

He is part of the organizing team for Moment, a techno festival in Nara. As a live performer, he has appeared at numerous high-profile events such as Star Festival, Moment, and Rural, with an increasing emphasis on bringing deep ambient soundscapes to techno music parties.

@joshua-stefane
Instagram: instagram.com/endurance010010/
Bandcamp: https://endurance010010.bandcamp.com/

Location: Japan

Endurance | Constructions Podcast 060

Monochrome presents, 𝖍𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖑𝖑𝖑 : Stellah Maris, Öz / Exocet / Lost Area.

This winter, Monochrome is offering each month to one or several artists to discover their influences and inspirations through a forty-five minute to two hour recording. These three recordings will focus on percussive rhythms between Ambient, Deep Techno and Drum & Bass.

Artist biography :
With methodical contrasts, Stellah Maris animates magnetic tales. He plays rooted music through a surrealist prism, evoking sound rituals and lucid dreams.
As part of the Exocet collective, which he founded in 2018, Stellah Maris explores the depths and marine aesthetics in soundsystem culture and ambient music. He is also a member of the Nantes collective Öz as a resident DJ and sound technician, and takes part in the Lost Area project, a versatile platform offering visual works on a dub techno background.
Finally, he hosts Inconscient Collectif, a monthly broadcast on Radio DY10 dedicated to folk, traditional, spiritual and ritual music, as well as to the evolutions and experiments that have taken them across the ages and continents.

Stellah Maris :
@stellahmaris
https://www.instagram.com/stella_hmaris/

Tracklist :
01. Sofie Birch - Begin Sync End [Seil Records]
02. Sa Pa - Hallucingentic [Mana]
03. usof - definite [Rotten \ Fresh]
04. Chimère FM - Lac noir [Versatile Records]
05. Black Merlin - Layang-Layang [Island of the Gods]
06. Orson - Garzweiler [Version]
07. Modern Eleven - MMXXIX [Annulled]
08. Monochrome - Senses [Annulled]
09. Undveld - Untitled 4 [self-released]
10. Karlist - Pulses [Russian Torrent Versions]
11. KRSLD - Indominous [Glome Sound]
12. Eszaid - ENTER.SOURCES [Collapsing Market]
13. Amarou - Vol Plané [Perchépolis]
14. TIBIA - Polypola [Manband]
15. Otodojo - Mechanical Stridulation [The Bunker NY]
16. 9VSS - Rave For The Ants [self-released]
17. Black Merlin - Totek and Tim [Island of the Gods]
18. Jon Antonsson - B [self-released]

Monochrome presents, 𝖍𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖑𝖑𝖑 : Stellah Maris.

A summary of my selections at Blivande in Stockholm 2023-03-04. Re-recorded at home.

All night long together with @irimiass in the 'Zen Room' for @esperantooslo ‘s Under The Rug.

Hope you'll enjoy <3

Intergalactic selections @ Blivande

Atoloi is the project of Milan/Italy based Matteo Ghiringhelli and we are happy that he accepted invitation to our podcast series.

As a devotee of nature, Atoloi explores sound creating a mellow amalgam of layers using echoing synths, processed field recordings, and self-created samples; all mixed in a lysergic experience of heavy-grained noises and evocative instrumental compositions.
Not sticking only to canon club-oriented sonorities, instead, his productions and mixes search for other depths, in which the listener can get lost in a dense "no boundaries" journey for the body and the mind. 

Atoloi will be one of the performer at Transforma festival 2023, just in case if you would like to catch him around. 
@atoloi
IG: https://www.instagram.com/_atoloi/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Atoloi.Music
RELEASES:
https://surethingrec.bandcamp.com/album/inflorescenze
https://auradinamica.bandcamp.com/album/papier-darmenie

Atoloi - Blank Radio

The latest chapter of our Podcast Series is a masterfully crafted haze, bass & glitch-heavy sonic adventure from the capable hands of one of our very dear friends ~ a devoted music journalist and DJ ~ Freddie Hudson aka FFFHHH ✨

Freddie is, without doubt, one of the most serious heads we know. Always on a hunt for fresh underground labels and artists, hungry for oddball sounds hiding in the more obscure corners of Bandcamp and beyond. An affiliate of Prague’s famous Noise Kitchen and former contributor at Inverted Audio, Freddie has recently taken off on a solo adventure with their regular music newsletter Reach. If you are not subscribed already, we highly recommend diving in. Link: https://reachsound.substack.com/

In this chapter, Freddie leads us from the realm of buoyant underground streams and insect-talk towards patient, softly glistening dub-wise grooves growing into electro-acoustic experiments. From here, the mix oozes into the zone of floaty bass music and ultimately winds back down to dreamy, tingly ambient 💆🏼‍♀️

Sounds by @fh_1138 📿
Visions by @marcomaldarella 🔮

Podcast Series 35 | Freddie Hudson / FFFHHH

Woohoo :))

Happy to welcome Josephine' Soundscapes aka @machines-desirantes to our mix series! Jose Salas is an audiovisual creator and active cultural promoter in Madrid. As a DJ, or selector, he always works with a mixture of research from the past with a strong commitment to the present. He is currently part of the collectives a_mal_gam_a and CALMA, both working in the Spanish underground electronic scene. He also hosts a radio show called "Campos de Marte" on @radio-relativa, focused on experimentation in music.

This mix is a beautiful mixture of downtempo beats, acid synths and trippy melodies that builds up beautifully over 1h40. It's as he calls it, a "Machine Desirante" coming to life :)

TOMBOLOMIXX 107 - Josephine' Soundscapes

"Exploring the most enigmatic corners of electronic music. This musical journey immerses us in a realm of drone-infused loops, avant-garde experimentation, where shadows intertwine with sound textures. Not Only is more than just music; it's an exploration of the unknown, a voyage through dark corners where sonic creativity pushes certain boundaries."

- You can listen, in order of appearance: J.Manuel Lopez Lopez, Misato Mochizuki, Iancu Dumitrescu, Patrick Kosk, Gavin Bryars, Henry Wolff / Nancy Hennings, The Glass Orchestra, Thisquitearmy, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock (1), Mats Erlandsson, David Daniell, Live recording of steam locomotive D51, Chris Watson, Phill Niblock (2), Eliane Radigue, Coil, John Butcher, Javier Piñango, Eleh, Francisco Lopez, Transient Waves, Trevor Wishart, Mica Levi, Caterina Barbieri, Rapoon, Christian Banasik, Richard Skelton, Paul Horn.

Dani Blue (@daniblue00), eclectic DJ, non-musician and vinyl collector, has been intermittently doing radio since 1990, the lately on Dublab.es (Polichromo) and Teslafm (Resonancias). He has taken part in different musical projects within the underground rock scene and experimental and improvised music in Barcelona. He has performed in festivals such as Sonar, International Noise Conference, Observatori 2001, Experimenta Club, and in many other different national venues. On his musician phase he was part of groups such as The Fellatios, Bukkake, Orquestra del Caballo Ganador, D_Infection (with experimental Spanish pioneers Anton Ignorant and Ferran Fages) and M&D. He was part of Damo Suzuki’s (ex-Can) side-group ‘Damo Suzuki and The Nou Bodies’. He was also part at the beggining of the colective label Magia Roja where he shaped and managed the music content of the sessions at their venue. He joined dj Watusawa, owner of Zona Watusa and Selvamancer labels, under the ambient - collage project Molar Novate.

Radio shows:
https://teslafm.net/resonancias/
https://dublab.es/shows/polichromo

HOCast #161 - Dani Blue

This track is a 10-minute-version (Soundcloud limit) of the original on "Miðpunkts Útgáfurnar (the Centerpiece Versions)". Grab the full length album on Bandcamp, esp. for the 16 & 20 minute long-playing tracks.

Description:
Fogged up Tendernob rhapsodies in an unctuous Seocho-Gu dive. Pendulous, vaporous tapestries lurch through a Pacific rim hinterland. Elasticated ama-tremolos palpitate on repeat-one. Billowing indigo moods erupt into sumptuous, sidewinding derangements, then repose into gurgling, glacial meltwater.

May the journey continue to be the reward. Headphone listening recommended, you know, for the sonic details.

Credits & Ethics Statement → This work, based around a Mango Drive style dub chord + vocal leitmotif, is 100% hand-{written/played}, recorded and arranged by Ruoho Ruotsi using NI Reaktor, Ableton Live, a DR-40X and an unrivaled, guitar-pedalboard dubstation.

Mastered by Cem Oral @ Jammin Masters | Berlin
Words & album photograph by Ruoho Ruotsi

Purpurea Version

Open Your Mind

Open Your Mind (ASMR Meditation)

a three sided record telling the story of a man driven to madness as he navigates a temporal loop of cosmic proportions

B6. By stars benign.

27.06.25 - Placebo open air (Stockholm)
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05.10.24 - Under the Rug - Season 2 Afterhours (Oslo)
03.08.24 - Monument Festival (Veggli) with @irimiass
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05.08.23 - Monument Festival (Veggli) with @irimiass and @celadon
24.06.23 - 3 Years of Esperanto (Oslo)
04.03.23 - Under the Rug @ Blivande (Stockholm)