Inertia #4

When It Appeared

"The context:
I am alone. I am found. I died alone. I never thought I’d be found. I am overwhelmed by memories of a dystopian existence on a collapsing planet where evil took over and subsumed good. All of the kindness evaporated and was swallowed by greed. Memories of my past life occlude my consciousness causing confusion between modes of time like a mirage. Is it the past, present, or future? I can no longer tell.

A journey through being:
Confronted by the pain of knowing but trying to exist and embrace being in the world. Did I give up too quickly? Did I fail to change reality? What did I sacrifice in order to function and live a worldly existence like everyone around me? Blinded by hedonism, the collapsing of the mind and soul into the throws of desire left me empty. I gave up. I lost myself. I returned to the comfort of despair. It’s throbbing. To live without hope is to live in despair. Was there a reprieve from it all? Distractions, pleasure, and attachments turned into a vicious cycle of yearning and loss. Accepting impermanence with a half-open heart. It never got better. It just got worse. Functioning with an ever-growing sense of doom. And now I’m here. Alone. All I have are my memories. But existing in confusion from when these memories took place. Introspection with escapism outside of time. The vicious interplay between existence and non-existence. I am left with nothing."

Opening for Rrose at Smartbar, Chicago in June utilizing 4 CDJs and a V10 mixer.

@shantievanti
IG: @shantiism
https://ra.co/dj/shanti
https://youtu.be/QqfMYAyS8bM?si=iwapv-7i2LFIPNlG

Shanti has made textured waves in Chicago’s techno scene with her curation of dark, sinister, and ethereal soundscapes. Music has always been a means of coping with the otherness and hybridity Shanti experienced throughout her life. She has been deeply moved by the transcendent ability of music to express concepts, states of consciousness, and conflicting emotions. Shanti’s sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition and illustrate an intentional trajectory through combining and cultivating surreal, atmospheric, and haunting sounds.

Enamored by the liminal dynamics of sound, she cohosts Otherworldly Ambiguity with Scum.ee –an experience that is centered around the phenomenon of existing in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories. She is also a member of techno collective Research & Development and hosts a monthly radio show, “Liminal Radio” on WIIT 88.9 FM featuring thoughtful artists at the core of Chicago’s underground music scene. Shanti has had the privilege of warming up and closing out dancefloors for incredibly inspirational artists such as Rrose, DJ Nobu, Ø [Phase], Aurora Halal, Mozhgan, Lady Starlight, Black Light Smoke, Esther Dune, Zenker Brothers, Noncompliant, Xtin, and more. She has had the immense pleasure of conjuring spirits at Chicago’s most beloved clubs such as Smartbar, Smoke & Mirrors, Podlasie Club, and several underground gatherings.

Experiencing music outside of the confines of a club or the underground is extremely important to Shanti as she had initially discovered her favorite artists through online podcasts and radio. The universalizability of podcasts and radio enable music to be experienced by more humans situated in different contexts. This is why she has contributed to many notable online mix series and radio channels. Her mixes have been featured on The Black Lodge Radio, SutroFM, Mutant Radio, PPRZ, Death Decay & Magic, Braid Records, Low Visibility, Dance All Day, and m50’s etc radio among other podcasts and shows. This past year, Shanti has expanded her surreal storytelling beyond Chicago by playing in Amsterdam, LA, Detroit and notable Midwest festivals such as Minnesota’s The Great Beyond and Madison’s Musique Électronique. This Halloween, she will be playing at Chicago’s notoriously dark music festival, Sanctum.

Distant Signals 084: Shanti

Artist: Hod [Antioquia, Colombia]
Format: Digital
Release Date: October 13th 2025
Cat: ST094

. Hod - Shattered Own Reflection
. Hod - Glory of the Void
. Hod - Etheric Weave
. Hod - Radiant Heart
. Hod - Surrender Ritual
. Hod - Rift of the Oracle

Reflection altered through time, change, evolution, until glorifying emptiness in the quest to not identify with anything external, creation of one's own etheric weave. Surrendering with a ritual through music as an oracle is proof of respect for the greatness of nature and the universe, a surreal interpretation to express the feeling of a radiant heart.

Hod
@951012
www.facebook.com/Hod.Col.releases
ra.co/dj/hod

Free Download:
secuenciastemporales.bandcamp.com/music

Written and Produced by Juan Andrés Rúa in Antioquia, Colombia.
Mastering Secuencias Temporales Studio, México.
Secuencias Temporales ℗ & © 2025 - All Rights Reserved

Free Download

Hod - Surrender Ritual (ST094)

Recorded by @caldera-caldera for The Memoir, 2025.
All tracks are written and produced by @caldera-caldera.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Curated by Hypnus Records.

00:00 Caldera - Unreleased
01:04 Aspetuck - Eros (Caldera Remix) [Aspetuck Self-Released]
05:51 Caldera - Unreleased
10:05 Caldera – Leafs [Bokhari Records]
15:49 Caldera - Endless Roots [Self-Released]
19:26 Caldera - Sink Again [murmurs]
23:38 Caldera - Unreleased
30:53 Caldera - Warren's Gift [Melifera Records]
34:21 Caldera - Body 2002 [Bokhari Records]
40:47 Caldera - Frog Valley [Space Lab]
44:55 Caldera - Solar Sunrise [Melifera Records]
49:30 Caldera - Amphibian Dance [Nummer Music]
54:31 Caldera - Unreleased
59:00 Caldera - Martino Fantasma [Nummer Music]
01:04:15 Caldera - Cave Whistle [Space Lab]
01:06:35 Solarythm - Opale (Caldera Remix) [Melifera Records]
01:14:00 Ilayruni - Telepathy Tapes (Caldera Remix) [Obtuse Swamp]
01:17:45 Caldera - Unreleased
01:21:50 Caldera - Bogfactor 50 [Space Lab]
01:25:52 Caldera - Unreleased
01:31:42 Caldera - Full Time Vacation [Branch Points]
01:37:15 Caldera - Unreleased
01:42:23 Caldera - Spiral Path Of Joy (Skii Mix) [Dans Records]
01:44:24 Caldera - Oceanic Volt [Forthcoming Aurora]
01:50:40 Caldera - Unreleased
01:55:00 Caldera - Unreleased

Love and light

Page 166: Caldera

Sound can be perceived as a texture, color or as a path waving trough your brain and body. An Intensity heavier or lighter, coming from the ground or running in a high frequency that resonates with a color palette. 
synæ is about this neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory leads to the experience of another. 

soundcloud : @dylantihon
instagram : www.instagram.com/dylan.tihon/

synæ by su:zy : pigmented purple @ GIMIC - 01 October 2025

Ghost Warrior - Everything is

Recording of Spekki Webu & Woody92's set at the UFO II stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Spekki Webu & Woody92 at UFO II - Dekmantel Festival 2025

Osmura w/ Clarence Rise 33

@pushebp 

This is an exclusive live set for HL 

IG:https://www.instagram.com/push.ebp

Human Lessons #116 - push ebp (Live set)

INVEINS x Mostra \ Podcast \ 116 \ gi \ live

Third artist to grace us in this Clone-curated month of October, The Hague’s one-and-only analogue wizard Legowelt surfaces with a mix sprawling from esoteric proto-techno to hallucinogenic electro, via trance-infused dreamscapes, eerie pop and mystique-imbued downtempo. As the true master of the synths he is, Legowelt has us traveling far and deep into a layered multiverse of dazzling hardware stutter and iridescent machine funk out a frizzling, VHS-supported headspace. Effusively vivid and durably haunting 8-bit-informed tapestries succeed through this glitchy maze of fractured tempi and vectorial stunts, cascading seamlessly as Legowelt pulls off yet another magnetic expression of retro-laced granularity and enhanced organic synthesis. Mythical. 

soundcloud.com/legowelt-official

When It Appeared

Delsin Records