Ambient & Experimental - Spring / Summer  2023

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

Living Room n°50 ~ @djbirdbath

q. pls introduce yourself
a. My name is Ian Baxter and I produce music as DJ Birdbath and am currently based in the sunny top of New Zealand's south island.

q. is there a story behind the mix?
Not as such, I just tried to go with my first impulse for the song choice.

q. what's the best way to enjoy your mix?
I reckon it's best enjoyed in a comfy place with some headphones maybe on a bus or train.

q. describe a favorite object in your living room...
Definitely the pile of comfy pillows a friend made covers for from an old wall hanging. I've been making lots of music and this mix whilst nestled amongst them.

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
I'm always working on bits of music and samples and am very excited for my EP to come out on APPX: ( @appendixfiles ) on the 24th of March.

Living Room n°50 ~ DJ Birdbath

The Album tells us about the colonization of cloned humans of the future and about modernity's attempt to help nature and finds itself in the beginnings, when archaic man coexisted naturally with extraordinary creatures of the world, flora and fauna. Everything is hopeful if you breathe...... 

Last copies, handmade wallets, hand numbered, hand stamped:
https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-of-the-cloned-soul

Filalete is Tbilisi based Music Producer/Composer/DJ Irakli Bakuradze

Released March 3, 2023 

Written and produced by Irakli Bakuradze 

Slow Tone Collages 2023 
STC 027

Filalete - Meditations Of The Cloned Soul

Roger Smint is a fine selector, and his storytelling will catch you from the start. This tale is a journey through elevated states of consciousness

@jorjinn
https://www.instagram.com/rogersmintt/

SAPOS008 - Roger Smint

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

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basic instincts to release

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Angelo Opera Major

F-on@ Sables Mouvants & Alpenglûhen featuring Aa Sudd (sala Muv) [08/07/2023]

Warming up set

F-on @ Sables Mouvants & Alpenglühen Presenta a Aa Sudd

For the first edition of our Australian-flavoured summer takeover for Refuge Worldwide, we invite long-time Berliner (former Brisbane & Naarm/Melbourne),  Roman Ćinske, currently part of the curation team for Tresor Berlin. He also hosts Aerial Palettes, a cultural event series with a focus on contemporary ambient music and art

@bytheinch

Refuge Worldwide x Patterns of Perception (July 2023) - Roman Ćinske

Into The Abyss #041 | Fran Acosta

Fran Acosta, born in Malaga and resident in Granada since 2008, is when he became interested in electronic music. 

Lover and explorer of experimental, avant-garde and timeless sounds, in his sets you can find very diverse soundscapes, from IDM, broken beats, techno, d&b... always looking to surprise the listener in search of the most primitive reactions.

Currently, and since last year 2022, he starts the project Klub Collective together with his friends Isidro Bolivar (Utopian) and Antonio Moreno (Kaizen), thus initiating in the south of Spain, a new trend focused on electronic club music where they share booth with national and international artists.

He does not consider himself an artist but a music lover in continuous movement. 


@https://soundcloud.com/fran_acosta_fr
https://www.instagram.com/francisco_acosta_fernandez/
https://www.instagram.com/klub_collective/

Into The Abyss #041 | Fran Acosta

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

Tribute to Amenthia Recordings by @monochromeasso

Pour cette dix-septième  émission, Monochrome se penche sur le label Suisse @amenthia-recordings, qui compile un dizaine de sorties autour des esthétiques Ambient, Techno et D&B.
Bonne écoute !

BC : https://amenthia.bandcamp.com/

Mix & Selection by Porunñ.

01. Varuna - Entela's Daymare
02. Varuna - Second Orifice
03. Tafeit - Inverted Lights
04. Agonis - Soma
05. Varuna - Genesis
06. Varuna - Hostodelic
07. Konsudd - Heilen
08. Agonis - Algoflash
09. Konsudd - Lift Clique
10. Varuna - Sleep
11. Agonis - Pyrchid
12. Varuna - Path To Serucum
13. Agonis - Maschinenlogik (Marco Shuttle Remix)
14. Varuna - Radial Symmetry
15. Agonis - Spacejam (Valentino Mora Deep Blue Rephase)

Distance C

Tribute to Amenthia Recordings by Monochrome (02.10.23)

AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES INSPIRED BY THE DREAMLIKE WRITINGS OF HP LOVECRAFT.

NECRONOMICON DREAMS: SUBLIMATION

Іскри, розкидані по роках

reminds of sea

Noise Cathedral 852 Hz [Dark Nature Concept]

PORTAL #6 ESTRATO AURORA LIVE AT LANNA CLUB

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)

I like smooth & metamorphic Tech, Ambient & Leftfield electronic music, new varieties of Patterns & Sequences,.. the possibility of a much wider world that corresponds to the already wide possibilities of modern music.----FREE PALESTINE  &  EQUAL HUMAN RIGHTS WORLDWIDE !!!

Intergalactic selections @ Blivande

Dani

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