ambient + drone deep mind trip mix series 
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Deep Mind Music

@avsluta
@introspective_electronics

~ Tracklist ~

nthng - Disappeared But Not Forgotten
Max Würden - Capsules Of Energy
Simone Salvatici - Dont Look Back Orfeo
SineRider - Rarefaction
A Sacred Geometry - Apse
Ben Bertrand - Delayed Monologue
Blue Veil - The Sky's Fucking Blue
Geir Jenssen & Pete Namlook - In Heaven
EROT - Gneiss
Dasha Rush - Ocean Shy
Araceae - The Natural World
Bluetech - Oleander (Phutureprimitive Symbiotic Remix)
Leandro Fresco - Arana De Vidrio
Autechre - Yulquen

For the next instalment of the series I present a winding, evocative mix from Avsluta. I first came across Avsluta's sound through her mix for Rapture Network's 9128.live takeover (https://soundcloud.com/rapturenetwork/avsluta-9128live-15-may-2021) and after listening to more of her mixes for her own ambient-based platform @introspective_electronics, I hit her up for a Deep Mind Music entry. 

Avlsuta's sound is highly immersive: her mix for the series takes listeners through winding cerebral sounds, each track building upon the last, slowly unfolding into a vast expanse of sound. To me it feels like floating in the middle of a still lake at night, looking up at the twinkling stars and crescent moon, adrift and contemplative. We are then washed up onto the shore with trippy bubbling beats, before the mix gently peters out in a blanket of golden warmth. I hope you enjoy listening to this trip as much as I do.

For the photo Avsluta has chosen one which she says brings some beautiful memories from years back in Mexico. Here are some words she has to accompany the mix:

Scattered memories of journeys
To places I have never been
Or those I call home
For a few days or for years
The rush of taking off and landing
Writing history together
With strangers
And lovers
Whispering secrets
To rivers 
And trees
...and listening
Always listening
And dreaming

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Deep Mind Music 

Avsluta ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.16

@syberkid

~ Tracklist ~

Barefoot - Mývatn
Nueen - Hum
Nikolay Kozlov - infinite change (feat. Perila)
KMRU - Solace
Shapeshifter - Tranquil Vapor
Bary Center - Bound In The Beyond
Ana Roxanne - Venus
Danny Paul Grody - Sunrise, Looking East
Subsurfing - The Number Readers (Ambient Mix)
Agonis - M_Amb-19	 
Kangding Ray - Trade On Azul
Ffion - The Runner
anthéne - trillium
Ludvig Cimbrelius - I Would Sing To You
Biosphere - Out Of The Cradle
Ying Shui Di Jiang - 英水帝江
Forest Drive West - Sudan
Bary Center - For Another Time	 
Nadia Struiwigh - Organic
Yuge - Ethereal
anthéne - natural sorrow
Launaea - Entangled (Javier Marimon Off Tone)
xqst - sdly
Daniel[i] - Vox4Gaia
Nubiferous - Vdnmbm
Pete Namlook - Asbendos
Djivan Gasparyan - Little Flower Garden
Maurizio Abate - Towards The Outside
Andrea - Floating
Dream_E - DreamSeven
Ulla - Shelter
morgan - easter
Skee Mask - Absence
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2150070
Nigm - Untitled
mutate3k - Crossing+
Basses Terres - Sentiment Oceanique
Pontiac Streator - Trizlang Gem (feat. Ulla)
tarotplane - a fraught parallel
Analog~1 - Arpeggiator (Reduced)
Pete Namlook & New Composer - Una
Carola Baer - See the Lights Again

The latest edition to the series is a mix I recorded a few weeks ago sat in a cosy yurt at 10AM on a sparkling sunny morning in North Wales. Thanks so much to Eddy from Neighbourhood Cotch for having me play on his stage at On-Kilter, a small boutique festival set in a beautiful green estate. 

This was the first ambient set I played in person post-lockdown, and it was magical to hear this music on a big soundsystem again, and to feel it drifting out over the hills and through the ancient oak trees. To me, this music is always best experienced in nature, especially in the summer, so I'm glad to have had the chance to situate it there. Hope you enjoy this nearly 2.5hour long drifty journey ☀️🌳🍄

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Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.17

@dreamsoftwarecorp

~ Tracklist ~

Data Space Bass - The Flow Of Telepathy
The Infinity Project - Under The Overtones
Saafi Brothers - Multiverse
Le Marais - In Vitro
Future Sound Of London - Among Myselves
Another Fine Day - Esperanto
Double Geography - A Drop Of Water
Children Of Dub - Outer Space
Torch Song - Toward The Unknown Region
Unlimited Dream Company - The Potion Takes Effect (Mk Ultra Mix)
The Higher Intelligence Agency - Speed Learn (Reformed By The Irresistable Force)
MLO - Sleeper

In a time when we are all longing for some peaceful escapism, I am thrilled to share the latest Deep Mind Music mix from my friend Dream Software. A rumination on the passage of time and the evolution of earth, his mix is an instant a teleportation to the outer realms of our imagination. Soaked in sumptuous ambience, this uplifting mix calls to mind the utopic visions found in psychedelic daydreams. By the end of this one hour and 30 minute journey, I am left feeling much brighter and more hopeful than before 🍄⛅️🌍

Whenever we hang out, Dream Software and I end up having deep metaphysical chats about the nature of reality, consciousness,  our place in the universe, the magical potential and power of music, and all sorts of other fascinating topics. I feel a kindred connection with him in our relationship with music, our constant wonderment at the world we are living in, and our shared joy at pondering the big unsolvable questions about the inner workings of reality. Alongside being a deep and sensitive person and DJ, this year he has launched the Dream Software label, and he also crafts incredible visual worlds as AJAM, which I highly recommend checking out 💙

Some words from Dream Software about the mix:

With this mix I’ve intended to sonically illustrate the passage of time; starting with the dawn of the universe, a cold desolate expanse of meaningful nothingness (or meaningless somethingness), scattered with stars and various chemical elements waiting their turn to be of use to the big metaphysical neural network that is everything. Then, on to the point when Earth was in the perfect balance to accommodate nature, life and evolution, and moving onto the thriving, organic eco-system we call Earth. Ending with a blissful, utopian vision that not only our planet, but our very existence thoroughly deserves.

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https://instagram.com/dreamsoftwarecorp/
https://dreamsoftware.co.uk/
https://instagram.com/theajm/

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Dream Software ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.18

@sunjuhargun
@siamesetwinsrecords

~ Tracklist ~

Extans Mantra
น้ำ Na
อากาศ (Feat. Tulwai)
Ika & Tako
Shin (Subject to Space)
Silom
Dakini
Area Of Land
Vietnebula
Silver Haze
Lok
Circa Foreva
Starfruit

All tracks: https://sunjuhargunmusic.bandcamp.com

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The latest Deep Mind Music mix is a special one put together by Thailand's Sunju Hargun, as all tracks in the mix are his own productions from his Extans Mantra series. I've been a fan of Sunju's incredible Siamese Twins label since it began, and his prescient talent as a DJ, curator and producer makes him someone I'm very inspired by, and grateful to know.

This mix is a deeply healing and meditative journey, which takes the listener through immersive drones, twinkling acoustics and hazy, mystical pads, as Sunju envelops us in his sonic world. As the mix unfolds, a soft sunset slips into a warming indigo darkness, descending gently into the infinite depths of inner consciousness. There, we are washed by gentle waves of hypnagogic resonance, allowing us to enter a state of reflective peace, before fluttering arps and sunlit motes bring us to the outer world again. Sunju's emotional sensitivity in programming this mix shines through, and it feels particularly personal that he also made all of the deeply moving music in this mix.

https://sunjuhargunmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://siamesetwinsrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://instagram.com/sunjuhargun/

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Sunju Hargun ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.19

~ Tracklist ~

Biosphere - Laika 
J.D. Emmanuel - Focusing Within
Jordan Christoff - Different
Dalcassian - Emain
Albrecht La'Brooy - Darby Saddle
The Transcendence Orchestra - Use Of The All
Terekke - Swim V2
Suspended Memories - Saguaro
Earthseed - Peaceful Ambient Beat
Chris Herbert - Untitled Interlude I
Ocram Orchestra - Thunderstorm In Venlo
Roberto Agus - Tr.222
Paige Emery for Ignota x Various Artists - Instructions for Self-Hypnosis
perila - everyday hope
Echospace - Reflection II
Earthen Sea - Outcropping
Neel & Filippo Scorcucchi Present LF58 - Untitled
Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourrière - Altitude
LCD - Jupiter And Beyond Infinity
Scanner - Dimension
Production Unit Xero - Reiatsu
Volte-Face - No Flags Wave Me Home
Andrés Saenz de Sicilia - Side B
Sean Washburn - Tran-World India
Inhmost - East Sea 동해
Urban Dwellers - Loverman (Satoshi Tomiie Ambient Mix)
HLLW - Intro
Chris Zippel Aka Genuine - Time At Stantor
Coil - The Snow Man
Pavel Milyakov & Yana Pavlova - halo
Artefakt & Claudio PRC - Distant Light
Nueen - Once You Have It
Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourrière - Valse
Almanacs - Serenidad en el huerto (pt1)
Ibukun Sunday - Until We Speak Again
Danny Paul Grody - Mineral Springs
Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis - Näcken
Doof - Grantchester Meadows Remembered (Wabi Mix)
Channelers - Strange and Familiar
Other Joe - Interior Music 008
The Starseeds - Regina From the Future
Bedroom - Antartica
Pelican Daughters - The Bicycle Ride
Runes Order - Metamorphosi
Daniel Pemberton - 3:51 - Hello?

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Today I am happy to share the latest edition of Deep Mind Music. This one is a live recording of the set I played on the 8th of May at Sonic Garden, sat on a very comfy sofa in the tree-covered terrace of IKLECTIK in South London 🌱

Many thanks to @avsluta & Christian Duka (@dvka) of Amoenus for the invite, it was a joy to play an extended set to such an engaged audience of listeners. The Amoenus sound system at IKLECTIK also has to be the most beautiful system I’ve ever played ambient music through, everything sounded so crisp and warm.

This set features a lot of the ambient and experimental music I’ve been enjoying lately, with an extended expedition into the ~dronezone~ (🖤)

There are some special tracks in here I treasure very dearly, and I’m happy they found a home in this mix. Whilst selecting these tracks, I was reflecting on the energies of spring, that shifting feeling of shedding off the last of winter’s introspection, whilst reaching forward into summer’s vibrant energy. I hope the mix provides a dreamy and expansive landscape for drifting away 🦋🍃🌤

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Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.20

@deep-mind-music vol. 1

~ Tracklist ~

Klaus - Bela
Arca - Extent
Planetary Assault Systems - The Dream
Xingu Hill - Fragment
Locust - Still
Higher Intelligence Agency & Pete Namlook - Secret Location
Pete Namlook & Geir Jenssen - A Way To Focus The Mind
Biosphere - Hyperborea
Atom Heart - Pane
Alessandro Cortini - Variabile
Anthony Child - Eternal Note
Sequential - The Mission (Live From The Outer Zone)
Autechre - Bronchesevenmx24
Króm - Nebula
Cremation Lily - The Shelves Of Gravel
Anthony Child - Wyatt’s Inspection
Michael Stearns - As The Earth Kissed The Moon
Spacetime Continuum - Ping Pong
Saint Etienne - Like A Motorway (Skin Up, You’re Already Dead Mix By Autechre)

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Mixtape of a selection of tracks from my ambient playlists loosely stitched together in Ableton.

I made this more for me, these are all the tracks I listened to during a personally transformative experience in the Swedish countryside lying on a trampoline staring at the sky, but I'm putting it up here as well incase anyone else likes to daydream/meditate listening to this kinda stuff. I might do a few more of these when I get the chance, hence ‘vol. 1’.

Deep Mind Music Vol.1

@deep-mind-music vol. 2

~ Tracklist ~

MLO - In Search Of Lost Time - Part 1	
buttechno - 808 ambient pieces	
James Plotkin - Plunge
Montibus Communitas - The Pilgrim Under Stars
System 7 - Jupiter! (Feed Your Head Mix)
The 7th Plain  - Chords Are Dirty
LFO - Kombat Drinking 
Aphex Twin - Parallel Stripes
Sync24 - Walk On Spheres
Thomas Fehlmann / Terrence Dixon  - Landline
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Decompression
Laraaji - In Continuum	
Isolde & Isobelle - Sophia Looks Down.	
Dechirico - Running Inside the Machine Part III
Pauline Anna Strom - Spatial Spectre
Bary Center - Indifference
Acronym - And Then There Was Nothing
Commodity Place - Soils	
Bochum Welt - MVS
MLO - Ghost
Tetelepta - Land
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Terpene

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I've been planning to expand upon my first Deep Mind Music mix for a long time now, but it's difficult to whittle down hundreds of tracks that could work into one mix. I was asked to play an ambient set at a small festival my friends organise, and this provided the framework to shape my sprawling playlists into a cohesive set. 

I played at 2.30am sitting on the floor of a small geodesic dome lit up with oil and water projections. This is the live recording of the set.

Enjoy :)

Deep Mind Music Vol.2

@deep-mind-music vol. 3

~ Tracklist ~

Neel - The Morning After (Roland SH-01A)
Iasos - Aries
Room_Noise.Wav - Body & Soul
Zoviet*France - Pearroc
Wanderwelle - Her Name Is Vairumati
m. geddes gengras - 10.11.13
DJ Sotofett & Phillip Lauer Feat. JEKS - Space Dub
Manuel Göttsching - Echo Waves
Enumclaw - Ka-Ata-Killa
Tarotplane - Polaroid Sunset
Gas - Microscopic
DJ Spooky - Thoughts Like Rain
Unearth Noise - Immortality Spell
CRETA  - Babe In The Egg Of Blue
100 Things I Do - Harmonic Resonator - EMS VCS3 Clone + BOSS SE-70
William A. Hutson - The Salem Event
Psychonavigation - Telepathy I
Hologram - Solstice
Biosphere - Heat Leak
Further - Ugene
Farceb - Korg MS-20 Mini
International Peoples Gang	 - Glow
Vida Vojić - Unseen
Bochum Welt - Laurel Canyon
ju ca - Harbor
DJ Zenith - Ocean

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The first hour of this mix was recorded live at "The Psychedelic Full Circle Hypnose Room Of Ambient Self Actualization" in room 2 of the Objekt b2b Call Super night at E1 on the 17th of November from 2.30 - 3.30am. 

Sadly the E1 manager stopped my set and tried to shut down the ambient room 1 hour in, because he thought the ambient music was "too dangerous" because people were lying down on mattresses, and wanted dance music in that room instead. I managed to get them to allow me to carry on with the ambient music, but they took away all the sofas and mattresses and cleared most people out of the room with torches. Probably the first time in history an ambient set has been shut down for being "too dangerous"... 

Before they did this though, it was a serene and wonderful space which proved you could do something really different and creative in a mega club environment like that. Big ups to the lovely Make Me and Percolate crews for their creativity and hard work in creating this space. They brought in sofas, mattresses, cushions, live analogue visuals, a large golden lamp for the decks, and put the decks on a low table by a sofa (it sure is nice to DJ sitting down). 

It's such a shame that in the end E1's club management didn't understand what we were trying to do and decided to intervene. I wish more venues would take a chance on creating spaces like this. Spaces to listen to music which might not have kick drums, where you can relax and chat to your friends, before returning to dance in the other room. So many London clubs have *no* space to sit down and relax, and it makes nights out very exhausting and claustrophobic. 

Anyways, I re-recorded the last 30 minutes at home, then put it all together, to capture the serene and mystical energy I had been trying to share with people in that lovely space.

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Deep Mind Music Vol.3

@el_hardwick

~ Tracklist ~

Nadia Khan - In Gleam
System - Plus (ft. Nils Frahm)
Gas - Untitled 2
Heavenly Music Corporation - Nautilus
Steve Hillage - Garden Of Paradise
How to Disappear Completely - Seraphim III
Laraaji - A Cave In England
Terre Thaemlitz - Trucker
Terekke - wav1
Ross 154 - I Will Follow
Serena Butler - When I Die I’ll Go To Heaven Because I’ve Served My Time In Hell
Trux - Hobo
Lucaufer - Ciel
Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Amorph
Kareem Lotfy - Kwkab
Tim Hecker - Ghost Writing Pt. 1
System 7 - Faydeaudeau
1991 - No More Dreams II
K. Leimer - Assemble & Diffuse
Ellen Bullmann - Fluctuations 1
Alter Ego - Undersea Girl
Vida Vojic - …and the shadows were
Oh, Yoko - Seashore (Sprinkles’ Ambient Ballroom)

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I am very excited to present the first externally contributed Deep Mind Music mix by my friend @moonbowmusic

I made the first @Deep-Mind-Music mix - https://soundcloud.com/syberkid/deep-mind-music-vol-1 - just as a way to tie together and catalogue the ambient tracks that had meant a lot to me that summer. Since then, Deep Mind Music mixes have become a solace for me, a personal space to explore sound and emotion. 

In the last two years Moonbow and I have been sharing ambient music with each other, and both love and appreciate this form of music. I've been toying with the idea of expanding these mixes into a mix series for a while, and asked if Moonbow would like to make one for me. They have put together a beautiful journey reflecting on Seasonal Affective Disorder, just in time to counter the January blues. 

They say: "The mix is supposed to be a kind of anxiety relieving mix for S.A.D that starts out quite emotional and quiet in a very raw and real way, dives into a v insular dream world that is sometimes peacefully meditative and sometimes quite an intensely dark emotional excavation, and then it has healing and wholesome ending of clarity"

This photo is a photo Moonbow took of sunset in Los Angeles, when we were there together this summer.

I look forward to this new chapter for these mixes, and hope you enjoy it too 💙

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Moonbow ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.4

@syberkid

~ Tracklist ~

Tarotplane - Excursions 01
System 7 - Liquid Sky
Pauline Anna Strom - Freedom At the 45th Floor
Jonathan Fitoussi - Triangulum
M. Geddes Gengras - Mauna Kea
Legion of Green Men - Logarhythm One Point Two
X.Y.R. - Lost City	
Wanderwelle - An Offering Of Gratitude
Anthony Child - Super Sacred Sunday
David Kristian - Skylark One
Desroi - Birth	
Misantropen - Moll 6	
Enno Velthuys - 5
Feral - Heruka 4	
Bola - Cobalt (Scope) 
Loscil - Goat Mountain	
SHXCXCHCXSH - Ss
X/319 - Stimmung_02
Enamel - Quad
Linnuissa - Jänis Kertoi Minulle Salaisuuden
Costin Miereanu - Finis-Terre
Hank Jackson - oebbbbbbb
Norin - Sundets Pärla
Merrin Karras - Isolation
Speedy J - Symmetry
Ascion - Anhatolia
Make Noise 0-Coast Drone Patch
DSR Lines - Lineage
William A Hutson - Polyphonic Harmonitron
Commodity Place - Welcome To The New Day

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This set was recorded live at Corsica Studios on Friday the 8th of February 2019. I was playing for Make Me, from 23.00 - 00.30, sat on a swivel stool in the booth of room one. 

It was a new experience to play this kind of music on a club sound system as powerful as Corsica’s, and in the same booth I have previously only played ravey techno in. Thanks to Make Me for the opportunity once again to put a new spin on how we can use club spaces, and what types of music we can listen to in them together. Starting a night with an ambient set feels like a shared moment of calm for everyone who comes down early, a chance to chat with friends and wash away the feelings of the day gone by before the dance music begins later on.

As with all my Deep Mind Music mixes, this set is me pouring out my soul in musical form. I played some all time favourite tracks in this one too, including ‘Liquid Sky’ by System 7 at the beginning, a deep and longing track that speaks to the very core of my being. And the final track on this mix, ‘Welcome To The New Day’ by Commodity Place, is another very special track to me. I feel like the title really captures it’s energy, it’s saying be present, be joyous, for there is so much to be thankful for. It feels like cruising down a highway at sunset with the roof down.

Anyways, enjoy :) 

Sybil x

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Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.5

@hi-vis-dj

~ Tracklist ~

Kristuit Salu - Anata Wo Ai Site Imasu (Merck)
Oval - Cross Selling (Thrill Jockey)
Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba 5 (Drag City)
Raica - Entridam (Further Records)
Area - Everything Thrown Away (Kimochi)
Bellows - B2 (Latency)
Jorge Velez - Heart (Bandcamp self-released)
Clay Wilson - 1RXS (Bandcamp self-released)
4023 - A2 (Jacktone Records)
Ligovskoi - Labiate (Dement3d)
8i11 - Sanguine Cynic (Reserve Matinee)
Catherine Christer Hennix - Equal Temperament Fender Mix (Blank Forms Editions)
Dustin Wong + Takako Minekawa + Good Willsmith - Plastic Skin (Umor Rex)
Iury Lech - Ukraïna (CockTail d’Amore Music)
Ali Wade - Imbolc (Frequency Domain)
Mark Van Hoen - Vessel of Flight (Medical Records)
Sarah Davachi - Wood Green (Students of Decay)
Synth Sisters - Time is Flowing There (EM Records)
Vainqueur - Solanus (Extracted) (Chain Reaction)

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The next Deep Mind Music mix comes from Chicago’s Hi-Vis, who is behind the wonderful deep listening mix series @beyondbelow. I have found a lot of solace in Beyond / Below mixes, each one takes the listener on a carefully crafted journey, filled with poignant emotions and mind-expanding music. 

It was looking to Beyond / Below that in some ways inspired me to expand Deep Mind Music into a mix series. It feels meaningful to create and curate a space for people to put together deeply personal sonic narratives in a deep listening format for them to share with the world.

This mix from Hi-Vis feels like being carried on a soft billowing breeze high above gentle rolling hills. The mix subtly shifts through moods and textures, each song delicately linked to the next. It kind of feels like my brain unwinding and making sense of the tangle of thoughts we end up accumulating through daily life. Gently giving each thought space before setting it down. 

She says about this mix:

“I play sound to heal myself, to learn better how to heal myself, hoping that if I share what I learn, it might heal others too - particularly those who need it most. I want to comfort, but there is always strain and tension that can’t be avoided or ignored. My intention is to summon a psychic space that allows you to drift, to confront discomfort and dissonance openly and without fear, so you can experience even greater relief, or even euphoria. All these songs have had a profound effect on me this way, and I tried to play them similar to how they unfold and resonate in my head. 

Recorded on two turntables, two CDJs and a mixer at my apartment in Chicago. I bought my copy of the last record in the mix, Vainqueur’s Solanus, from my friend Justin Aulis Long. You can hear it’s well worn, but the crackles enhance its aura and I love it all the more.”

I really relate to creating ambient mixes as a space for people to experience emotions in, to observe and then transcend them, and I feel like Hi-Vis has created such a space with this mix for all those who listen to it.

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Hi-Vis ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.6

@tarot-plane

~ Tracklist ~

Bo Hansson - Tidiga Skisser Från Midgård 
Bjørn Torske - Kokning
Jüppala Kääpiö - Souffle
Tuluum Shimmering - The Sky Tree
The Alps - Trem Fanstasma
Wilson Tanner -Further Than Your Headlights
Besombes/Rizet - Evelyse
Douglas Leedy - Doria
Enumclaw - Golden Teacher
Smackos - The Fire That Will Always Burn In You
Brannten Schnüre - Da Unten Leuchten Wir
Cremation Lily - Washed Through Glass
Martina Lussi - Movement in Mono (Stereomix)
Michel Banabila - Where Old Meets New
H Takahashi & Loto Retina -Untitled
Sam McClellan - Water
MJ Lallo - Deep Dreams
Hydravion - J'ai Pas Le Temps
Lard Free - Tatkooz à roulette
Robert Rich - The Other Side Of Twilight
Didier Bocquet - Eloignement
Bastian Void - Respirit
Caterina Barbieri - SOTRS
Jürgen Müller - Jenseits Des Stromes [Beyond The Tide]
Koray Kantarcıoğlu - 263 Loop
Robert A.A. Lowe - Fantomoj de la Vitro Domo
XYR- Middle Of Nowhere
A La Ping Pong - Farbenspiel
XVARR - Harmonic Abyss
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Variations for Oud & Synthesizer

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It is such an honour to present the next Deep Mind Music mix, made by one of my favourite artists: tarotplane. 

I first came across tarotplane’s music through a YouTube recommendation, and was immediately captivated by it’s semi-lucid faraway haziness, at once feeling both timeless and nostalgic. I was keen to find more of this amazing music and learn about the artist behind it. I started chatting to tarotplane on Soundcloud, and he kindly sent me much more of his music, I can only recommend going away and listening to all of it to experience it firsthand. It covers the breadth and wonder of what ambient music can be, at once transcendent, beautiful, and mystical. 

I feel so grateful that tarotplane has made a mix for Deep Mind Music, as his music and philosophy about music really embodies what this is all about for me. His addition to the series is a stunning visual journey that seamlessly ties together music both new and old in a slowly evolving, texturally rich, emotional narrative, taking you far far away as it unfolds.

tarotplane says about this mix:

“I don't DJ very often. I really do enjoy it when people are nice enough to ask me. What I like about it is that you can really explore the odd and unexpected relationships between different pieces of music. Sometimes its the actual notes themselves and how they play off each other. Sometimes its texture, sometimes its emotion. I don't let tracks run that long as as general rule because I am always searching for these moments. I think of my style as "action ambient."

When I am putting things together, I am always looking for that 30 seconds where 2 different tracks join together to make something really new. It's always a guess whether it will work or not, but when it does it's a fantastic feeling. It's exciting to put these tracks into new contexts. "

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https://tarotplane.bandcamp.com/
https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/first-2
https://lullabiesforinsomniacslabel.bandcamp.com/album/tarotplane-358-oblique

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tarotplane ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.7

@syberkid 

~ Tracklist ~

tarotplane - Benares
Chris Watson - The Drinking Boy
William A Hutson - 2018-08-23 Polyphonic Harmonitron
Robert Rich - Touch-Release 
The Shamen - Out In The Styx
Ligovskoï	 - Behaïm
DJ Rubio - Western Medicine
Cmetric - VOID/Comm
Commodity Place - Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources 
Pariah - Pith 
The Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere - Corona
Rapoon - Lotus	
Move D & Namlook - Travelling the Silk Route IV	
Cabaret Voltaire - Other World
Wanderwelle - The Seed Of The Areoi
Ness - Chronoscope
Sync24 - Replicant
Monolake	 - Mass Transit Railway
Nuel - Untitled	
Mani Festo - Memories	
Earth - The Dry Lake
Ancestral Voices - Hieratic
Teleplasmiste - Astōdaan	
Intex Systems - Thin Air
Sven Väth - Drifting Like Whales In The Darkness
Kryptic Minds - Something To Nothing
Biosphere - En-trance		
Answer Code Request - Orarum
Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles

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The next Deep Mind Music mix is a recording of the set I played in Croatia as part of Austrian collective @femdex’s 8 hour showcase at Lighthouse Festival on the 2nd of June 2019. Thanks to femdex for the invite 💓

I was playing on the Sunday evening, in one of the last sets of the 5 day festival. The ambient floor was set up in a clearing of the forest next to the sea. I’d always prefer to listen to ambient and drone outside, so I’m super grateful to have had the opportunity to play this music in such an idyllic setting. Looking up to see birds drifting over trees, with leaves rustling in the wind was pretty magical.

I feel like this set operates on a deeper and more cerebral plane than my other DMM mixes, designed for tired festival goers to zone out on the cushions under the trees, drifting in and out of consciousness.

I took this photo watching the sunset over the sea after my set.

Also, the first track of this set by @tarot-plane is going to be part of a forthcoming project I’m currently working on, so keep an eye out for news about that in the near future 👁

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Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.8

@aosseattle

~ Tracklist ~

Recording at Teufelsberg
Unknown - Untitled
Donnacha Costello - Cocoa Sessions Unreleased
Cyspe - Transmission
Susumu Yokota - Live Echo
Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - Love Without Sound
Subtle Body - Fila Brazillia 
Mr. YT - Souvenir
Jonah Sharp & Fred P - Substance 
Moby - Not Sensitive
Suso Saiz - Un Hombre Oscuro

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For the next Deep Mind Music mix, Seattle-based DJ Aos takes the listener on a texturally rich and emotional 50-minute journey. Aos is a member of Seattle’s TUF and secondnature collectives, and also produces music as well. Whether listening to her mixes or tracks, you can hear her keen ear for balancing space, colour, energy and emotion.

It feels fitting to put her mix out at the start of September, as the leaves slowly turn and the winds blow colder. A time for reflection and decompression ahead of the coming winter months. Throughout the mix, soft pads swirl like falling leaves amongst spacious and delicately-balanced sound design; interspersed with acoustic instruments, snippets of field recordings and singing, there’s an organic and grounded energy to this mix.

Sit back and let Aos take you far far away as this story unwinds.

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Aos ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.9

@bossmanwines

~ Tracklist ~

Kapak - Les Ciels De Plomb
Bug Bus Piano - Fare Evade
JAB - A Little Breeze
India Jordan - Rest
Black Zone Magick Chant  - Where Will We Meet When Our Ashes Are Spread In The Wind
Not Glass - Ludicrum
Cloudface - Unhex
Gooooose - Lab White (Sote Persian Electro-Acoustic Rework) 
Blackwater - Woodstock
Hesitation - Monday, Noon
MJ Lallo - Birth Of A Star Child
Bug Bus Piano - Apauauaya45Season
JAB - Planner’s Beauty

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It is a great joy to present the next Deep Mind Music mix, a deeply healing and very special mix from a friend of mine, Bossman Wines. 

Listening to this mix feels like being suspended in a hologram of fractal light, as tones and colours wash over you. It’s an intimate, vulnerable and moving listen, inspiring my continued faith in ambient music as an incredible tool for cathartic emotional processing. I listened to it twice in a row on a flight last week when my body was feeling pretty fragile,  I certainly felt better after. The perfect soundtrack for zooming out of existence for a while.

Bossman Wines says he made the mix of “long exhale tracks, built of tones and textures which are gentle and vital, long rung chimes, flutes and glowing pads which move slowly and soothe.” This creates an enveloping and spacious energy which allows thoughts to trail off into ether, and the mind to relax. The mix does feel like a continuous gentle exhalation too, of feelings, of tensions, of problems, as each is released and let go by the end of the mix, one’s soul feels lighter. 

I’ll leave you to listen with a poem Bossman Wines wrote to accompany the mix:

Bigger notion and process;
true dream is experience, decoded through our flat filter.
Under the slow rush looking up,
gaze we into distant past.
Stitched together from zero to one –
the real that blinks with one fragment to next,
explained by sequence
but remembered backwards.
We are all our breaths at once,
zero to one, then back to nothing.
Step we out further, it looks calm from far away.

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Bossman Wines ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.10

@syberkid

~ Tracklist ~

Pure Gamma - Astral Plane
L.S.G. - Part 04
Ligovskoï - Esam
Heavenly Music Corporation - Riding Windhorse (Buddhafields)
Pete Namlook - Travelling Without Moving (Trip 02)
Orson - Garzweiler
Boreal Massif - Angel Of Dub
Rrose - Saliva
Acronym / Kali Malone - Tarmar
Raroh - Fender American Standard Stratocaster 
Jet Chamber - Calm Box
Neel - Life On Laputa Regio
Henning Baer - Blue Neon
Desroi - Lodwar
Air - Clearing Your Head
Oliver Lieb - Spooky Action At A Distance
Alan Backdrop - Shan
Pellarin - September (Ambient Mix)
Ancestral Voices - Yam

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This mix is the live recording of my set at Free Movements on the 28th of September 2019. I really enjoyed playing this set, sat in a cozy dark room, with my friend Hanzo’s psychedelic visuals swirling on a mesh backdrop behind me.  

This is the first time I've played a Deep Mind Music set out where it felt like everyone was totally dissolved in the music. There's times where it's more appropriate for ambient music to wash into the background of conversations, such as in a chill out space at a rave, but for what I'm aiming to do with this music, I feel it connects more deeply with total absorption into the sound.

I realised there’s three Pete Namlook tracks in this mix, which is a strong indication of how much his music means to me. Including an all time favourite, ‘Calm Box’ which he made with Atom Heart in 1996 as Jet Chamber. It sounds like gently pulsating orbs of light flickering in an infinite expanse of darkness. Pete is a truly incredible artist, whose otherworldly music has touched the lives of so many people. A spirit our world is lesser without, RIP. If you don’t know Pete Namlook’s music or amazing label FAX, I couldn’t recommend having a dig highly enough.

I have to say, I’ve been feeling kind of disconnected from the world this past month. Introspective and far away. Ambient music is something I retreat into when I’m feeling insular, and it means more to share this mix now than when I recorded it in September. I hope this mix gives you a space to breathe, to dissolve into a hologram of sound, and carry you through whatever you’re going through. 💙

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Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.11

@gyorgy-ono

~ Tracklist ~

pt.1
1. Unreleased - Clissold Intro
2. Untitled - avril
3. Throbbing Gristle - Exotica
4. Cabaret Voltaire - Other World
5. Social Interiors - A Decade Between Ideas
6. Jim Harbourg - Blue Water 1
7. Yoshihide Otomo - Blackbird 2
8. Wally Badarou - Dawn Of Europa
9. Turning Shrines - The Process
10. Valanx - Skinwalker
11. Voice Of Eye - Adrift In The Methane Sea Of Neptune
12. Eno, Moebius, Roedelius ‎- Base & Apex
13. Boris D Hegenbart & David Moss - Transfer_27
14. Throbbing Gristle - Walkabout
15. David Pritchard ‎- Thunderpeal
16. Chris & Cosey - Invisible Spectrum
17. Haruomi Hosono - Quiet Lodge Edit
18. Zoviet France - Bomber
19. Susan's Kaleidoscope - In W 4
20. Evolution - Sub Marine
21. AFX - Analogue Talk (Chorus 3)
22. Art Of Noise - How To Kill

pt.2
1. Thierry Zaboitzeff - Elle Sort
2. Olivier Capparos and Lionel Marchetti - Alba
3. Ennio Morricone - Grace (U-Turn Soundtrack)
4. Gaerra + Swalan - Killed By Hand
5. Front Line Assembly - Testimony
6. Alquimia - Alkaest
7. Jupiterhead - Space
8. Outersanctum - Lynkphreek
9. Giez ‎- Punctual Voices
10. Kosmischer Läufer - Die Kapsel
11. Giez - Transaarloese
12. The Cosmic Jokers - Kinder Des Alls II
13. Brendon Moeller ‎- Materialize
14. Chris and Cosey - CTI Credit Sequence
15. 7 From Life - Necklace Ov Tears VS d'incise - Les rideaux nations
16. AFX - Unreleased  
17. Richard H. Kirk - Lagoon West
18. Angelo Badalamenti - Laura Palmer's Theme 
19.  Clissold Outro

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After a few months break, now feels like the perfect time to release the next Deep Mind Music mix. The next entry comes from London-based DJ Gyorgy Ono, who has put together a winding, rich and pensive 2 hour journey, which takes us through strange landscapes, aural curiosities, blissful reveries and back again. 

In January Gyorgy shared Aphex Twin’s Stone In Focus on Facebook, and we started talking about the power of this track, and ambient music in general, to connect you with a feeling of deep nostalgia for a state of being long forgotten, that familiarity which creates a universal connection between listeners. I asked him to contribute a Deep Mind Music mix following this conversation, as this philosophy underpins much of my exploration with ambient and drone music, I’m fascinated with its ability to voice an expression of feelings which transcend our known experience of reality. 

I feel Gyorgy’s mix has captured the mood shifts we’re all feeling at the moment on a daily basis whilst isolating from the world in lockdown. Voicing the instability, the twinges of collective grief, and surreal calm we are all oscillating between in the ups and downs of home life. 

The mix is in two parts, the first half sets the scene, exploring different pockets of sound and feelings, sketching out spaces and landscapes. In the second half the sonics gloriously unspool and slowly smear, swirling in a thick haze around us as Gyorgy brings in spiralling piano arpeggios, zithers suspended in mid-air, and misty strums of guitar. 

This mix has such a cohesion in form and richness in detail that it summons a vision of a fully formed sonic world, somewhere distinctly other and yet strangely familiar. I know I’ll be getting lost in this mix for many months to come. In every sense of the phrase, a deep mind trip.

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Gyorgy Ono ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.12

~ Tracklist ~

New World Science - Coral Riff
JV Lightbody - Darkening of the Night
Voyage Futur - Eternal Dawn
Soda Lite - Mara Sento
Acidliner - Purple Flowers For The Funeral
Wild Adoration - Soul
JQ - Komorebi
JQ - U 
India Jordan - See Four 
Voyage Futur - Animalia 
JQ - Drifting Sands 
JV Lightbody - The Great Bowl (Sacred Vessel) 
Voyage Futur - Echo Shore
Nabihah Iqbal & Deadbody - Westway (Ambient Mix) 
Acidliner - Die-As-He-Pan
JQ - Ocean Symphony 

All tracks are releases by @newatlantismusic: http://newatlantismusic.bandcamp.com

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For the next Deep Mind Music mix I. JORDAN pays homage to New Atlantis, the Sunday daytime ambient party they have run out of Rye Wax in South London for the past few years, and which held its last ever event this March.

I. JORDAN and I actually first met when I worked at Rye Wax in the record shop and they were setting up for a New Atlantis. Before they became known for their incredible rave-ready productions, much of the South London community knew them for the non-dancefloor soundscapes of New Atlantis. It was the place to be on a Sunday afternoon, winding down from the weekend in the cozy Rye Wax basement. A spot which always feels like your pal's well-loved living room, a community cross paths where you’re always guaranteed to see a familiar face. 

Right now as we’re all stuck at home, listening to music in isolation, it’s a bitter-sweet memory to revisit as I’m writing this. I’d do anything right now to be back there comfortably snuggled on a sofa letting the sounds of this mix wash over me chatting to friends. Nevertheless, the beauty of music is that it transcends space, anyone listening to this mix from very different locations can experience the same emotions. A blissful calm, a wistful introspection, an enveloping warmth. That is something I’m very grateful for right now. 

New Atlantis is also a label, and all the tracks in this mix are releases from the label which you can find at: https://newatlantismusic.bandcamp.com/ 

I. JORDAN says about their mix ~

This is a collection of my favourite New Atlantis releases, which most of the time reminds me of being sat down drinking tea in the Rye Wax basement. The last ever New Atlantis Social also happened to be the last public event I went to before the lockdown. So this mix has a special place in my heart for all those reasons.

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I. JORDAN ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.13

@angeldlite

~ Tracklist ~

Dan White - Fearless Freak  
Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata
Cosmic Baby - Träume 
Pseudopolis - Walk With Me  
Moonbow - Le Rayon vert 
L.F.T - Jorogumo
Lapti -  Сирены (при уч. Иосош) 
Solar Quest - Acid Air Raid (Ambient Mix)  
Enya - Carribean Blue
Hiroshi Yoshimora - Hayama Sound Logo 2  
Yello - How How (In Silence Mix)  
Speedy J - Symmetry  
Young American Primative - Sunrise  
Ebi - Zen  
Perishing Thirst - Sacred Agency
Lava - Speak And Spell
Super Massive Black Hole - Tranquility 
In Sync - Dune
Boreal Massif - Spatial Patterns
Erika De Casier - The Flow
Bufo Bufo - Time Stitching
Sarah Bates - The Black Princes Ruby
Aphex Twin - Just Fall Asleep

The next Deep Mind Music mix comes from Angel D’lite, a much-loved DJ in London’s underground rave scene. She is known for her high energy colourful sets which fuse spiralling breakbeat, acid, trance, 90s classics and more. For her deep mind music mix, Angel D’lite explores the chill out room counterbalance to classic rave sounds. Taking listeners through twirling arps, ambient-trance, wistful downtempo and more, this lush and emotional mix brings together a web of influences new and old 🌸🔮🌟

Listening to this mix feels like being submerged in a fuscia-hued cosmic bubble bath. The first half lulls you in with gentle variations between shapes and colours, from Dopplereffekt to Enya. The second half of the mix dives into deep emotions, and trippy imaginal worlds, with lackadaisical beats and ponderous pads. Reminiscent of the best 90s ambient CD compilations I feel a soft nostalgia listening to this mix, striking a delicate balance between euphoric and introspective emotions. Perfect for listening to in the glorious spring sunshine 🌺💗🧚‍♀️

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Angel D'lite ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.14

@loketsounds

~ Tracklist ~

Steve Hillage - Garden of Paradise (loket’s saxophonic version)
Omformer - Spheroid (loket’s saxophonic version)
Hiver & hammer - 5 million miles ft. Java (exael x loket’s saxophonic ambient edit)
loket - Dear Stranger
Shygirl + Arca - unconditional (loket’s saxophonic version)
Rasmus Juncker - Sauna (loket’s saxophonic version)
Pontiac Streator - Transier Unt (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - lila Gazelle
Lyra Pramuk - Tendril (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - Improv for Elim
Paul Horn - Ancient Kings (loket’s saxophonic version)
Delta Rain Dance - Kosmische Elemente (with loket)
Linnuissa - Janis Kertoi Minulle Salaisuuden (loket’s saxophonic version)
SUSS - Salt Flats (loket’s saxophonic version)
Suzanne Kraft & Johnny Nash - Beluga’s Song (Kelela x loket’s saxophonic ambient edit)
Laurel Halo - Marbles (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - Althüttendorf
John Beltran - soft summer (loket’s saxophonic version)
Akis - New Age Rising (Part VIII) (loket’s saxophonic version)
The Soft Pink Truth - Grace (loket’s saxophonic version)

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I am so excited to share the latest, and most unique, Deep Mind Music entry. This mix, by my good friend Tahl, has been in the works for a long time. A mixtape of 100% saxophonic versions & originals which is the first manifestation of Tahl’s new alias for saxophonic exploration - loket.

A member of Berlin's Power Play collective, Tahl debuted the combination of live saxophone played over ambient music at the intimate confines of Power Play’s foggy chill out room. Tahl first proposed the idea of this mix to me back in April, and throughout lockdown he has been chipping away at it, keeping me updated as it has slowly evolved from a loose initial concept into a fully formed immersive journey. 

Taking the listener through flurries of arpeggios, introspective poetry, delicate piano, vulnerable vocals, and lush, sunlit pads, the mix resonates on a tender, personal level. A story told through prescient programming between tracks and sonic palettes, it subtly ebbs and flows between different emotional states. Throughout the mix the free flowing saxophone jams flitting between the tracks take you far, far away, adding a soft trippy fluidity to the edges of the soundscape. By the end of the mix you are totally submerged in effervescent mind-melting deepness.

I’m so grateful to loket for putting together this truly special entry, and I hope you enjoy listening to it, and find as much solace, peace and catharsis in it as I have.

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Some words from loket about the mix: 

This project started in many ways in a dank room in what is now a demolished squat in Lichtenberg Berlin at a Power Play Rave in the middle of 2019. Empowered by an unreasonable Funktion One Soundsystem flush inside of our chill out room, I experimented with playing live modulated saxophone for the first time. 

I was shaking so intensely I could barely blow air through the horn. But when what I played was channeled through my computer and out into the audience, the power of the sound, and of the moment, was sickening. Since then I’ve spent many hours honing and sculpting and experimenting to try and bring that feeling “to tape”.

I can’t stress enough how much of this project has been an exercise in moving forward slowly while having mostly no idea what I’m doing. I’m sure i broke every “rule” imaginable in recording and processing the saxophone on this mix. Maybe that is somewhat reassuring to those of you who also feel burdened by the glossy perfection and successes seemingly surrounding us at all times.

It’s also an exercise in reconnection. In patience. I stopped playing saxophone entirely in 2010 because I felt inadequate in my jazz skill. I haven’t practiced “a lick” in 10 years. I barely remember basic scales. But by revisiting the saxophone many years later through a more imaginative and electronic production lens, I’ve been able to move closer to creating the voice I always wanted to make.  

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loket ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.15

ambient + drone deep mind trip mix series ~
imaginal realms for psychonautic exploration ~
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