Deep / Hypnotic / Atmospheric Techno  2019 may - october

On March 1st we celebrated the debut of Refractor On Tour in London. For those who were there, it was a night to be remembered for a long time, not only for reaching almost full capacity, but for the exceptional musical quality and the atmosphere that enveloped us.

This nearly two-hour session blends deep techno textures with progressive trance flows, reflecting the beginning of what TSUNIMAN and ANNX offered in their very first b2b inside a club.

Their connection was effortless, their dialogue in sound setting the dancefloor at the perfect temperature, embraced by a devoted crowd who chose to be there from the very first moment.

Listen back and let yourself feel the resonance of that night,  link in bio.

@tsunimanmusic
@annx-anna-whomp

TSUNIMAN b2b ANNX @ Ormside Projects

Pilot Radio is a non-commercial, community-driven radio station broadcasting twice a week from the heart of Aachen - next to the infamous “Domkeller”.

Streaming every Wednesday + once every weekend on pilot.radio.fm

Separat b2b Daniel[i] @Pilot Radio - 06 August 2025

a cherished friend conveying a common interest in misty soundscapes

"I'm deeply honored to contribute to the nunsen·tape series. From the beginning, I've admired this project and the dedicated souls who work in devotion to sustain and evolve this sonic sanctuary.

Through this mix, I sought to honor what I see as the project's core philosophy: the commitment to mindful creation, and those carefully curated aesthetics that breathe through ambient, minimal, dub and dub techno realms."

recorded in Lyon, France
12.08.2025

@axymt
@monochromeasso
@ouroboros-festival

nunsen·tape 24 - Axymt

Monochrome presents, 𝖊́𝖙𝖊́ 𝓥 : basic chanel, Untitled 909.

This summer, 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 :
In the twilight hours where basslines bloom like roots beneath the soil, basic chanel weaves her worlds. Guided by low-end frequencies that shimmer like constellations underwater, she builds sets that feel less like parties and more like spells - otherworldly journeys through mist, shadow, and sudden bursts of colour. Her sound drifts between hypnotic techno, psychedelic dub, and dream-heavy bass, stitched together with the care of a storyteller threading myth and memory. 

A London-based DJ, writer, and founder of the acclaimed platform Untitled 909, Chanel’s curatorial voice is as distinctive as her mixes: textured, emotional, and gently radical. Whether on the radio or playing at international clubs and festivals, she conjures spaces where the overlooked and the infinite collide - where the floor itself hums like an ancient drum and every note flickers like candlelight against stone. Some of her key gigs so far include Open Ground, Corsica Studios, Sublimation Festival in Uzbekistan, Bait takeover at Le Sample Paris, The Pickle Factory, and Floorless Festival to name a few. She’s contributed mixes to renowned series’ such as Sure Thing, Pure Space, Origins Tapes, Theory Therapy alongside radio shows across Rinse FM, LYL Radio, Refuge World and Netil Radio - the latter two are the home of her radio residencies, Untitled 909 and spirialling, naturally. 

With roots in music journalism and PR, Chanel has long worked as a bridge between artists and audiences. As basic chanel, she carries this ethos into her sound - championing the subterranean, the psychedelic, and the subtle. 

basic chanel
Sounlcoud : https://soundcloud.com/basicchanel
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/basicchanel.mp3

Tracklist :
01. Sindh - Interstate
02. Forest On Stasys - Ofrenda (Alfred Czital Midnight Edit)
03. Anthony Linell - Just to Feel Anything
04. Terminal Sync - Korima
05. Adam Feingold - ten yr loop
06. Na Nich - Crust
07. Second Hand Satellites - Orbit 1.4
08. Kamoun - La Panthère (Sepehr's Pantheress Remix)
09. Save Your Atoll - The Dub SIde
10. A. Brehme - Tone-e
11. Space Biology - Midas (Sunju Hargun Remix)
12. Midnight Traffic - Ripple In The Sea
13. Andy Martin - Teoria Sintergica
14. Sub Basics - Falling
15. Đ.K. - Inertia
16. V.I.V.E.K - Meditation Rock
17. Erik Luebs - Irradiated Body
18. Soop - Cryptic Echoes 
19. Midimiliz - Baxandall
20. Shoal - Backflash
21. Sarah Wreath - Haven (Pianeti Sintetici Remix)
22. Biocym - Zephyr Veil


Monochrome presents, 𝖊́𝖙𝖊́ 𝓥 : basic chanel.

"This set was recorded at dawn on a Sunday morning, closing out a long day of incredibly inspiring music. I hadn’t gone to bed yet and was so locked into the sound that by the time I started playing, I was already deep in a trance. I took over from Formant Value & Simone Bauer’s live set, picking up the momentum where they left off, then gradually brought the BPM down, leaning into psychedelic textures and trance-laced rhythms.

Those two hours flew by - we were all locked in. It’s a rare kind of magic to do what you love in a place like Refractor, where most artists stay for the whole weekend to immerse themselves in the community and support each other. Music has this way of creating deep connections, and you could feel that throughout the festival. We were part of something unique.

And the crowd... what can I say. Even after a full day of dancing, they stayed with me through the entire set, joining me on the sonic journey I was crafting to carry us into the morning."

Swiss-born, London-based artist TSUNIMAN has gracefully imprinted the London scene with their spellbinding selections from the underground, spanning raw trance, spacey techno, tribal rhythms, and progressive delights. TSUNIMAN's sound alchemy merges dark, hypnotic elements with ethereal vibrations, creating otherworldly soundscapes that captivate the senses. A resident at Klub Verboten and a regular at FOLD's UNFOLD party, TSUNIMAN has graced the decks at renowned institutions from Berghain's Säule to Macadam.

Tune in now for a deeply cerebral trip of TSUNIMAN’s masterfully executed hypnotic alchemy - recorded live at Refractor 2025.

Follow:

TSUNIMAN
https://soundcloud.com/tsunimanmusic
https://www.instagram.com/tsun_iman/


Refractor
https://soundcloud.com/organic-signs
https://www.instagram.com/refractor.festival/


MNMT Recordings : TSUNIMAN — Refractor 2025

We are very happy to present you with the 56th chapter in our Podcast Series today, a powerful deep listening mix recorded live at Perpendicular 2025 by our dear friend ~ Horizontal. Setting the scene, imagine yourself laying down comfortably in a wooden cabin deep in the woods at night time, in profound communion with your fellow listeners and letting the sounds collective carry you inwards 🌚✨
 
I first met Paul two years ago playing at one of my favourite ambient rooms at a small gathering in Scotland, then again last year at Backsteinboot in Berlin where we both played as part of an all night sleepover ambient event Rausch. Both times, I was mesmerised by the composure and depth of Paul’s music and demeanour, two qualities that truly shine through in this sublime mix probing the realms of drone ambient, minimalism, avant-garde and electro-acoustic composition 💫

This hour and a half of slithering drones, liquefied glitches, deep nocturnal soundscapes and ritual sonics is occasionally punctuated by narration. It ebbs and flows between barely audible and fiercely present as it deliberately stretches the scope of listening with its passage. The further in you listen, the deeper in you go 🔮

Recorded live at @espacio-perpendicular 2025

Sounds by @paul-thomas
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ie-podcast-series-56-horizontal-perpendicular-25

TRACKLIST

Eleh - Reflection 1
Merkaba Macabre - Gaslight and the dark (Unreleased)
Eleh - Beneath the silver sun
Merkaba Macabre - Yenerenicm Nevets (Unreleased)
Eliane Radigue - Adnos 1
Thomas Köner - Cogitation (Decay)
Felicia Atkinson - Valis
Henry Krutzen - L’Alpiniste
Merkaba Macabre - Spectre at Splatthayes (Unreleased)
Ancestral Voices - Medicina
Maggi Payne - Fizz
Ana Roxanne - Untitled
Eliane Radigue - Perception
Samin Son - Oriya
Alain Kremski - Le Christ au mont des oliviers
Ancestral Voices - Night of visions
Unperson - Spiritual (Acapella)
Merkaba Macabre - Ancient Vessels (Unreleased)
Eli Kessler - Willing to be open 
Marco Shuttle - AfA
Christian Zanési - Stop! l’horizon
Thomas Köner - Nival
Thomas Köner - Substrate (Binaural)
Refracted - Departure
Carlos Casas - Interview with the oldest Aeta
Ancestral Voices - Divination

Podcast Series 56 | Horizontal @ Perpendicular 25

"Morning unfolds gently in the forest - steam rising from a cup of tea, birdsong carrying its own field recording. The set drifts from luminous ambient into unhurried downtempo and smoky, weightless dub, every transition seamless, every tone in its place. A soundtrack not imposed on the hour, but in harmony with it - unfolding in quiet perfection."

Luismi aka guisvi (@guisvi), a music lover for more than 3 decades, has a wide range of atmospheric music. Exquisite selector and great storyteller, he has always been rather elusive in city clubs, often seen at private parties and the most underground events. His sets of ambient and low-tempo electronica are true journeys with subtle and extended blends. Sequences that breathe, atmospheres, and textures to dance with closed eyes.

Recorded djset at Perpendicular 2025 (@espacio-perpendicular) - somewhere in the woods. When? Saturday 8:00 Where? In the main stage.

HOCast #257 - Güisvi - Perpendicular 2025

The recording of Sunju Hargun’s debut live ambient set at 428 stage at Wonderfruit Festival in 2024 

Thailand-based Sunju Hargun is a producer, DJ, and co-founder of Siamese Twins Records, known for his "forward-thinking with past feelings" sound — a storyteller who brings together psychedelic acid, minimal, trance, techno, and ambient into timeless passages across mind, body, and space.

Credits:

Vocals by Chucheewa & GiGI FM

Additional voices sampled from Sheila Chandra & Alan Watts & Björk

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sunjuhargun/

Sunju Hargun -Live Set- at 428 Wonderfruit 2024

Cio D’Or hardly requires an introduction, having long stood as both a pillar of our scene and a source of inspiration for so many. Over the course of her singular and decades-spanning career, the Cologne-based artist has cultivated a universe of sound entirely her own, immediately recognizable yet endlessly evolving much like the work of her contemporaries and collaborators Mike Parker and Donato Dozzy. To experience Cio’s music is to follow a throughline that traces the complex history of contemporary techno in a single gesture, compelled by the vast unknown and the primordial familiar in equal measure. Recalling the blurred realism of Richter’s photo-paintings or the timeless intricacy of Bach’s fugues, Cio’s self-contained sonic world delicately reframes our own precious lifecycle, a reflection revealed through its elegant and subtractive minimalism.

In collaboration with our friends at Mostra, I’m honored to share a selection from Cio D’Or’s set performed at this year’s edition of the Barcelona-based festival, a sublime triumph from a scholar of sound.

@cio-d-or
@mostrabcn

Artwork by Camille Ferdinandus.

Sure Thing Mix 146: Cio D'Or

«The Japanese artist OCCA embodies that spirit with his solid trajectory, and his set at Mostra 2025 was perhaps the best example of how an electronic journey can be as original as it is absorbing, as nuanced and layered as it is genre-defying. Tracks unfolded with a sensitivity that challenged the very logic of convention.»

«El artista japonés OCCA encarna este espíritu con su sólida trayectoria, y su set en la edición de Mostra de este 2025 es, posiblemente, el mejor ejemplo de cómo se conjuga un viaje electrónico tan original como absorbente, tan sugerente como lleno de matices y géneros electrónicos, con tracks y una sensibilidad musical que desafían la lógica de lo convencional.»

· OCCA Soundcloud: @oooccaaa
· Mostra Festival Soundcloud: @mostrabcn

· Leer más: https://vanitydust.ninja/occa-djset-mostra-festival
· Read more: https://www.vanitydust.ninja/occa-djset-mostra-2025-en/

Read & Play

OCCA @ Mostra Festival 2025 (Barcelona)

Mental Modern is a underground music label owned by Lyre Kepler
created to explore all the nuances of modern techno music, 
from deeper sounds to the darker and industrial ones.
focused on signing new artists with big artists 
from the Techno scene, to provide quality music.

TRACK LIST:
1 Mod21 - Weren't_Us_(Or_maybe_yes.. )
2 Laertes - Pelias (Original Mix)
3 Ness - Transference (Original Mix)
4 Luigi Tozzi - Selene (Original Mix)
5 Alan_Backdrop_Auar (Original Mix)
6 Luigi Tozzi - Mefite (Original Mix)
7 Ness - A Personal Voyage (Original Mix)
8 Luigi Tozzi - Attis (Original Mix)
9 Ritvik Neumann - Binah (Luigi Tozzi Remix)
10 Plants Army Revolver - Sibe (Original Mix)
11 Laertes_Argonaut (Original Mix)
12 Alan_Backdrop_Astr_a (Original Mix)
13 Laertes_Exfinos_Pontos_(Polar_Inertia_remix)
14 Plants Army Revolver - Enki (Original Mix)
15 Mod21 - 1950 (Original Mix)

INVEINS \ Podcast 052 \ Mental Modern \ label

DSS 032 is recorded by Ruben Borgers, aka Grava. This young producer/DJ has already proven himself to be a great selector with a broad vision on electronics. As a part of the Pinnacle collective, operating in Leuven, he already shared decks with artists like AnD, Gaja, VSK, MPIA3, Endlec, Paul Birken,...

Despite throwing one of Belgium's craziest industrial parties he chose deeper tracks to compose his contribution, made-to-measure for DSS.

DSS 032 I Grava

@Ness is a dj and producer born and raised in Sardinia, acknowledged for his style over a decade of music with a background in sound engineering and many years of research and fine-tuning. He gradually developed a distinct technique with a strong focus on atmosphere combined with hypnotic rhythms. Having performed in some of the most relevant clubs and festivals around the globe, he steadily releases music and collaborates with several renowned techno labels within the scene. With experience as label manager through the years with partnership on Mono Records and The Gods Planet, he later established his spin off project label Ness Reworks in 2018. Ness music and dj set are well accepted and defined as an exploration of wide range of deep hypnotic techno and ambient soundscapes.

DREPTCAST

DREPTCAST #050 - Ness

It’s time for the 33rd upload already. This podcast is recorded by another DJ/producer from Sweden, but that should be no surprise. Efraim Kent is not a producer that releases many records. We got introduced to his music through a couple of tracks he released with Dorisburg on Tikita. The Moroccan label might be one of the most refreshing upcoming labels if you ask us. Keep an eye out for more Efraim Kent. There’s more to come!

DSS 033 l Efraim Kent

Luigi Tozzi (Hypnus Records, Outis Music / Italy)

Luigi Tozzi는 지난 몇 년간 엠비언트부터 클럽의 댄스뮤직까지 어우르는 자신만의 확고한 테크노 스타일을 만들어내며 디제이로써 자신의 이름을 천천히 그리고 확실하게 만들어나갔다. 이탈리아 로마에서 태어난 Tozzi는 몇 세대를 거치며 만들어진 이탈리아 특유의 사운드로부터 큰 영향을 받았으며, 이는 Tozzi 특유의 소용돌이 치는듯한 깊고 감정적인 사운드로 발전되었다. 그의 작품들에는 이러한 자신만의 색채가 뚜렷하게 묻어나고 있다.
Tozzi는 현대 딥테크노 씬의 핵심적인 레이블 Hypnus Records(스웨덴)를 통해 여러 장의 EP 앨범과 그의 대표적 작품이라 할 수 있는 앨범 “Deep Blue: Volume 2”(2016)를 발표하였다. 또한, 이탈리아의 저명한 프로듀서인 Dino Sabatini가 이끄는 Outis Music을 통해서는 솔로 작품들뿐만 아니라 Dino Sabatini와의 협업 작품들도 발표하였다.
자신만의 사운드에 대한 확고한 의지와 함께 깊이 고민하며 발전시킨 Tozzi의 음악적 정체성은 현재의 아티스트 Luigi Tozzi가 있게끔 만들었으며, 유럽 최고의 클럽 중 하나로 손꼽히는 Khidi (Tbilisi)에서의 레지던트 디제이 활동을 포함하여 그를 전 세계 최고의 클럽들에서 공연하게끔 이끌었다. 이러한 활동들을 통해 Tozzi는 디제이와 프로듀서로서 독창적인 자신만의 사운드를 표현하고 있으며, 또한 예술가로서의 실험을 지속하며 끊임없이 진화해 나가고 있다.

Over the last few years Luigi Tozzi has been calmly making a name for himself as one of Europe’s go-to DJs for his distinct brand of techno that draws both from ambient music as well as from the club. Raised in Rome, the DJ and Producer takes influence from the timeless italian sound, which he’s further developed with an emotional, swirling, dubby atmosphere. There’s an unmistakable texture to his productions.
While prolific, Tozzi has kept his output within a close family of labels. Swedish label Hypnus are key here, having released a number of the producer’s EPs as well as his acclaimed debut album, Deep Blue: Volume 2, in 2016. Alongside Hypnus, Tozzi has worked closely with Outis Music, releasing both solo as well as collaborative work with the label’s founder, Dino Sabatini.
Tozzi’s unswerving commitment to his sound, alongside his pensive and considered development as an artist has brought him to where he is today, with a touring schedule that’s taken him to some of the finest clubbing establishments around the world. Within this, he maintains a residency at Khidi, Tbilisi, which in recent years has emerged as one of the best clubbing destinations in Europe. It’s through this platform that he brings his unique hybrid sound as both a DJ and producer, and can evolve and experiment as an artist.

vurt podcast 05 - Luigi Tozzi

La artista francesa Hortense Cmll alias Hydrangea es casi una recién llegada a la escena electrónica, pero desde 2014 no ha parado de crecer como productora y dj, publicando dos álbumes (Dawn Lights y Escape From reallity), además de revelarse como una gran amante del techno melódico e hipnótico.

The french artist Hortense Cmll Alias Hydrangea is almost a newcomer to the electronic scene, but since 2014 she has not stopped growing as a producer and dj, publishing two albums (Dawn lights and scape from reallity), in addition to revealing herself as a great lover of melodic and hypnotic Techno

Hydrangea #FanzineFest_18 Dj Set

Deep Space Series is a podcast platform that focuses on the deeper spectrum of electronic music. A carefully curated series where artists from all corners of the globe can express themselves without limitations in regards to music genres.

The only thing these artists have in common is the unconditional love for deep, psychedelic space music.

From slow ambient to (s)pacey techno and everything in between.


Curated by:
Hendrik & @ridoemiel

We carefully curate the program of our podcast series so we don't accept requests.

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 !!!

DSS 032 I Grava

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