Basel based producers and musicians Ostrov and Mirrorange mark the first release on their newly founded imprint Dream Channel.
Marking a debut album release for both artists as well, they dwell into vast and ambivalent soundscapes, questioning the use and structure of storytelling in the digital era.

The tracks alternate in reference to each other, the soundscapes vary between Ostrovs vast and slowly evolving planes and Mirroranges grainy spills, washed into harmonic progressions.

Together they tell a tale with no clear beginning or end, the chapters may as well be rearranged to tell the story differently and clearly it's only purpose is what the listeners make out of it.

In Reference To

two bodies form to shape a new one
a space framed by the curiosity of creation
steady fundaments, laid in the unknown
frictional movements
fragmental shifts in vibration 
steadily coating reality in ignition

special thanks to Andri Schatz aka LifeBod for designing and producing the Vast Array Transportation Device. 
we are so hyped about this beautiful work.

Vast Array Transportation Device is a 3D-printed necklace containing a 128GB USB-flashdrive.
It is made to contain, transport and maybe even share your digital secrets.. or for whatever use you find fitting. <3

thank you to all the artists for the love and warm energy put into this <3

for detailed credits and purchasing the Vast Array Transportation Device please visit our Bandcamp via dreamchannel.bandcamp.com/album/vast-array

Vast Array

WaveChannel is a monthly sunday podcast bringing you new Ambient sounds. 
We are more than happy to have the utterly talented Saiye showcasing her excursions into ambient. As a DJ and music lover overall, she is digging deep into various genres and moods to find the planes most suitable for her. 

For the first episode of WaveChannel she delves into overlaps of digital and analogue melancholy where harmonies and soft percussion, synthetic sounds and analogue snapshots come together to build an introspective and familiar narrative of urban life.

Wave Channel Ep. 01: Saiye

For the second podcast on Dreamchannel we are delighted to have one of our hometowns icons in the mix. Deeply embedded in the local music scene and stringing far beyond with regular international gigs, the founding member of the appraised Somatic Rituals label is known for a variety of clubsounds; from driving subwater grooves and introspective rhythmic excursions all the way to trap-infused hitters for the booty-oriented dancers. His diversity in skill and taste of music has provided the soundtrack for many funky nights and will do so for many nights to come.
Today the chef is cooking outside of his usual terrain, stirring together deep bass waves with sad pop lyrics and r'n'b soulcuddles, spiced up by sneaky hyperpop landscape flavours. In a truely colorfull blend of different stages of intensity and switching paces he is driving the train back and forths between Y2K aesthetics and the future beyond tomorrow.
Feels like jumping right into a wave on a hot summer day.
Welcome back to WaveChannel.

Wave Channel Ep. 02: Mukuna

We are back with a late happy new year to everyone, greeting the new cycle with another sonic journey; Basel based artist Mirrorange is collecting and researching ambient music in many different forms since years, but just recently started to share this desire and explorations with a broader public. As a producer he is heavily influenced by ambient textures, implementing them into various other genres in which he projects the information sucked up in daily life. 
In this episode the music becomes a vessel for overlapping fieldrecordings, audio-snippets from movies and distorted soundscapes. A journey set to drift into unclear waters as it questions humanity’s role in the development of the machine, opposing cyborg reflections about their ancestors with the sheer ambivalence and vastness of human emotion; a swirl of joy and woe depicting the human complexity, accelerated by the possibilities of their technological creations.

Wave Channel Ep. 03: Mirrorange

For the fourth instalment of Wave Channel we invited a selector, whose expansive vinyl collection specializes in the higher range of bpm and that made sound systems boom in some of Europe’s major dance floors. 
Hailing from the Paris underground scene, Mayashiba made a move to Berlin in 2010 where she found a second home as a DJ and later as a label and artist agent, consistently providing a unique blend of sound from techno to breakbeats, electro and booty shake beats for the chasers of refined nightlife.

For this episode of Wave Channel she slows the tempo down a bit, showcasing the calmer and more introspective side of her vast collection, drones and meditative synth lines collide with sporadic percussive elements and tribal grooves to form a nebula of sounds, creating the perfect moment of peace to dive into.

Wave Channel Ep. 04: Mayashiba

After experiencing the first glances of spring we jump back on the wave with a very special delivery by Ju Dallas. 
Known to a wider audience as a DJ, her vast collection contains gems from IDM and Breakbeat as well as countless crossover works that aren’t easily categorized.
Her ‘don’t-stick-to-genres’ approach aims at building an emotional conveyance for the rather unconventional dance-expirience, challenging with complex rhythms and fractional beat patterns.
Her activities in the young label Anaram-Records are further supporting this approach as she is providing a stage for others to develop their very own artistic identities. 
After a longer break from it, she now adds another artistic and very personal layer to her work: Her voice. 

In this mix, she is taking us through an assemblage of different worlds, transmitting a sensation of being in the middle of a fairy-tale. Her reflections about personal and interpersonal growth find a soft carrierbag in the music she selected, her voice appears like an astral force, sometimes soft like a sunray, sometimes distorted like a scream in the wind.

Lay back and enjoy what feels like a rollercoasterride without g-forces or laying in a bed as vast as an ocean; unfamiliar but yet imaginable.

Thank you very much for this special gift!

Vocals by Juana Dallas
Lyrics written by Juana Dallas 

Very special thanks to Alicia Yerebakan for the beautiful coverart. 
Check out her amazing work! @aliciayla 

Welcome to WaveChannel <3

Wave Channel Ep. 05: Ju Dallas

Hello everyone, it’s the second Sunday of the month and we are back with another episode of our podcast series. This time the Dreamchannel Co-Founder Ostrov is delivering an introspective fieldtrip through grainy subterranean landscapes and richly saturated planes. The Basel based musician and sound engineer has a deep understanding of classical and contemporary music which he implements in his own works to create exactly such textures. With the foundation of Dreamchannel and his studies in audio engineering he underlines his aim to create and share music and spaces in which music can happen. 
Experimenting in both soft- and hardware based production approaches, he produces slowly evolving vessels into another world; storytelling like a daydream at night. 
Make yourself comfortable for an immersive cinematic exploration.

Wave Channel Ep. 06: Ostrov

Hello Everyone, it’s May already, the last cold days are finally sweeping by and we can welcome the warm air, the green trees, the sun tickling our skin next to the river. 
For this episode of WaveChannel, we are super proud and happy to announce that Kuychan from Seoul is delivering the perfect soundtrack to transit into summer vibes. 
Dubby soundscapes alternate with spoken word in different languages, reflecting Kyuchan’s drive to travel the world and leave his home for more than just a little holiday. 
After studying Graphic Design in Basel and spending time in Berlin, Kyuchan moved back to Seoul to fuel the young and aspiring local nightculture with the knowledge and experience gathered abroad. As a resident of Ring, a nightclub in Seouls Itaewon Neighbourhood, he further the finest selections of his digs into the 90’s and early 2000’s dance music.

Wave Channel Ep. 07: Kyuchan

Mirrorange - Hyposthasis

Ostrov - Oblio

Mirrorange - Starbed

Ostrov - Nube

Mirrorange - vantage.0

Hi there, welcome back on the wave. 
Amahassala found his way behind the decks via his involvement in the local underground scene. 
As he was organising alternative raves for the community, he took the energies from the dancefloor and quickly adapted them into his diverse sets. 
Ambient offers him a space of reflection and introspection in which he finds retreat from the high paced everyday-dynamics. 
Resembling the emotional states of confrontation, reflection and release, the mix circles between dubbed out headspaces, sweeps of madness and blissfull pulsations. The excursion dips into unknown spaces and bouncing back on solid grounds to form a cicle between unsettlement and groundation. 

Enjoy the ride!

Wave Channel Ep. 08: Amahassala

The sun is burning and the nights are vibrant as we are taking another ride on the wave. 

For this sundays edition we awaited the cool breeze and shadows of the dusk to present to you a special weekender delivery by Ashwini. Driven by a strong passion, the zürich based DJ is digging deep into the crates and displays a diverse access to music and emotion. 
In a medidative selection of introspective, slow burning movements, she aims to tell a personal story as an invitation to open doors to the inside. We are thankfully receiving the warmth of these waters and are already looking forward for whats to come. 

Welcome back to Wavechannel

Wave Channel Ep. 09: Ashwini

Hello everyone 

The summer is getting older and we are more than ready to come back after a short and intense summer break. 

To celebrate this, Tété is joining in with a powerfull selection of immersive lushnes. In a careful arrangement he navigates us through an interesting fusion, where trance-like pop derivatives react with loosely layered elements of tonality. Unsettling at times there is a constantly palpable quality of warmth throughout the emotional array displayed. The Swiss-Ghanaian artist developed a deep sensitivity on how to capture and distill intensity in silk-like fabrics; sparkly, wide, massive and very fragile at the same time. 

Two bodys meet to form a new one. 
Does softness imply less intensity? 

Thanks for sharing this gift with us... 

Welcome back on the wave

Wave Channel Ep. 10: Tété

The days are getting shorter and the leaves are gradually turning yellow in anticipation of a new season. We are more than excited to finish our summer with a set by KA-RABA, an artist that is shaping our understanding of the dance-floor in her own unique style, that has brought her behind the decks of some of the most important dance music institutions around the continent. KA-RABA is also a key figure of the OKRA collective, a Basel based cultural collective whose mission is to bring together artists of the black diaspora around the world through different projects.

With her Wave Channel Mix KA-RABA is stepping into the waters of Ambient for the first time in her career, and delivers a set that effortlessly blends polished synth lines with orchestral phrases and smooth vocals with highly saturated sounds to create a truly cinematic soundtrack for summer’s end.  

Welcome back to the Wave.

Wave Channel Ep. 11: KA-RABA

We feel excited and blessed to welcome Thy Truong on the Wave. Their artistic language evolves around the personal upbringing in intercultural settings where individual and collective memories help individuals to cope with their very own set of challenges. 
In this episode of Wavechannel, Thy Truong takes us on atonal excursions through organic nostalgia. Thy's understanding of music as a container of coping shapes a tangible language of reconciliation. In doing so, she creates an intimate setting where the curation of the everyday blurs and opens a space for questions, memory, and visions of individual and collective reality. 

A silhouette hints at itself in the flicker of frequencies. A line runs through textures of memory and fantasy that spin the yarn of tomorrow in the present. A glance in all directions nourishes the focus on the path behind your feet. 
Enjoy this peaceful story. 
Enjoy your sunday. 
Enjoy yourself. 

Welcome back to Wave Channel.

Wave Channel Ep. 12: Thy Truong

When countries literally vote against the ending of a genocide that is documented live in unprecedented dimensions, it feels like it puts our reality on halt while it just continues at the same time. 

Reliable sources of information and conversations on eye-level are profoundly important in order to sanely navigate through this mess. In our first Interview here on Wave Channel, we had just this with none other than Stas Shärifulla from Siberia, known under his moniker HMOT. 

Stas’ vast knowledge and his way to communicate complex content in a inviting and accessible way is giving ground for endless exchange.  

His ongoing research examines the potential of sonic agency, e.g. how sound and music operate in contexts of political activism and resistance practices, addressing the variation in inequality across authoritarian regimes and unbalanced power dynamics under late capitalism. 

He visited Dream Channel for a deep talk and blessed us with an electrifying live Performance.

www.hmot.club




Further Reading:

Jacques Attali

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjcpsDX8o6DAxU0xAIHHYMVAqMQFnoECAoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmonoskop.org%2Fimages%2F6%2F67%2FAttali_Jacques_Noise_The_Political_Economy_of_Music.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0JiCKsbtWXSly7Mi3StNdE&opi=89978449


Zurkas Tepla

http://zurkastepla.com/

Wave Channel Ep. 13: HMOT (Live)

Hello dear listeners.

After another break before releasing our latest podcast, we are really happy to double up for christmas with a gift by none other than the amazing Jamira Estrada. 

The Swiss-Mexican DJ and traditionally trained composer has cultivated a trademark sound that reflects her passion for playful confrontation. Her curations create spaces and networks for a wide range of emotions and states in body and mind; she is crafting her skills into dancefloor extasy in clubs all around the world, just to lead your mind into meditative states of introspection the next time you catch her performing in spaces outside of the clubworld.
Her deep sense for creation, curation and drawing inspiration from many different fields is paralleled by her active participation in the local scenes in collectives like Czarnagorna, Mikro or Cuadro22, making her an important and influencial person in the swiss underground scene. 

Her gift comes perfectly on time for christmas and to us its a real pleasure to celebrate the last episode of WaveChannel in 2023 with such a soothing and intelligently balanced selection of music. 

This mix is like a meditation itself, all is tangible, yet drifting by, it invites a new stream as it lets go of the last one and suddenly we feel the earth very close. 

Thank you Jamira :) 

With this said, we wish you all the warmest shelter amongst those you love, be it friends, be it family. Feeling home and being able to rely on that feeling as a constant of your reality is the most blissfull thing on earth. We are eternally grateful to be able to do what we do and to provide space for others to do what they love. 

It is all the more painful to know and see every day, that this bliss is being systematically taken away from people, that there is so many humans that have no chance of coming home, of creating home, of maintaining home. We demand not to lay in a time of silence to think of those suffering, but to consider them in your every day by taking action, by being loud. 

Go to your local protests, write mails to your politicians demanding them to take the power they have and do some good, inform and educate yourself and others about the structures and narratives pulled by media and governments to support their machinery of wealth and war and please please please in all of this madness and the anger and the resentment and confusion this can create, do not forget our most holy and important source of energy; love. 

You are the energy you transport out in the world. 

Music is medicine, refuge, education, confrontation and first and foremost it is transportation.

Be aware of what you transport in your vessel. 

Much love

Dream Channel

Wave Channel Ep. 14: Jamira Estrada

A new year has begun and with it a new season of music unfolds. Wave Channel starts into it’s second season of podcasts with a bang: heterodox percussionist and artist Roberto Maqueda, presents a freshly recorded Live set for the Wave Channel series. Roberto’s decade long work in the fields of contemporary and experimental music shaped his artistry and technique with various instrumental set ups, ranging from classical percussion to the intricate webs of synthesizers and software programming, that he performed on stages throughout the world. His work is not limited only to the stage, as he is the director of the Montevideo based Festival EXIT as well as co-director and founding member of the Basel based FOG Festival offener Genres.
In his Live Set on Wave Channel Roberto transports us into alien landscapes filled with complex modulations of heavily processed recordings, analog bells to crisp digital phenomena driven by LFO variations and extended chords from obscure regions of sonic texture.

Wave Channel Ep. 15: Roberto Maqueda (Live)

two bodies form to shape a new one
a space framed by the curiosity of creation
steady fundaments, laid in the unknown
frictional movements
fragmental shifts in vibration 
steadily coating reality in ignition

special thanks to Andri Schatz aka LifeBod for designing and producing the Vast Array Transportation Device. 
we are so hyped about this beautiful work.

Vast Array Transportation Device is a 3D-printed necklace containing a 128GB USB-flashdrive.
It is made to contain, transport and maybe even share your digital secrets.. or for whatever use you find fitting. <3

thank you to all the artists for the love and warm energy put into this <3

for detailed credits and purchasing the vast Array Transportation Device please visit our Bandcamp via dreamchannel.bandcamp.com/album/vast-array

13. lichen - lightshark115

12. Thy Truong - flickereye

9. mirrorange - Barking

7. Charlotte Horn - Short Hair

6. Tatiana Timonina - Bird Culture

5. Maya Hottarek - Body Fluid

4. HMOT - Tabınıw 1937

3. Roberto Maqueda - Life F Cking Oscillating

2. Marie Delprat - Soft Depths

1. Boris Donskoff - Nausicaa

a soft touch follows footsteps placed lightly on a path lit in dim light. 

the snowy surface above the water is merely broken by weight.

the tangible dissolves before our hands with every lush stroke on reality through the eyes of a dream.

at core a light illuminates the uncertain, forging a sharp lense. we swim in the layers attracted by the light as we look at it through thin ice.

thank you so much lichen for this intensely beautiful space you are creating <3

Wave Channel ep. 16: lichen - it would be nice to freeze a river every now and then

The wave is coming back with yet another huge gift from a very talented artist. 

helleroids production approach is constantly and curiously evolving around a tangible signature woven into the soundscapes. Like a rumble announcing a storm this work is outstanding in its purity and immersion. 

helleroid is a ukranian native currently based in Berlin. Equipped with a multidisciplinary skillset and a huge curiosity, heli can interact in sonic, visual and physical worlds using the crossinfluence between those to plant steady seeds of thought and recreation. 

Get cozy and open your inner to enter helleroids realm, a showcase of unreleased music and freshly produced works for this occasion!

a left trace tumbles on the floor beneath your feet
where air is holding possibility in every breath

the storm felt so unsettling on the edge of the horizon
and so peacefull in the hands of the past

now the thought becomes a word
the word becomes a memory 

a left trace is shaping the eye

Wave Channel Ep. 17: helleroid - entering the inner

Wave Channel is back with a late April Episode featuring Myalo.
 
Diving into different topics ranging from sociology to neuroscience, conscious and unconscious behaviors, Myalo aims to explore the different aspects of what we call mind/soul through his musical experiments. Guided by everydays sound, media malfunctions and aleatoric composition, Myalo’s sound ranges from introspective ambient works constellated by fragmented textures to slow and bassy rhythmic tracks and high pitched digital glitches. 

To further explore the mind, Myalo started MNEMOSYNE, both a label and a memory driven mix series of “sound collages”, where artists can musically describe themselves with all kinds of sound data and influences.

For this episode on Wave Channel he maps out a comprehensive landscape of contemporary electronic music, layering a variety of sounds for a new sonic journey.

Welcome to the Wave.

Wave Channel Ep. 18: Myalo

Andriy K. sets things in motion through his involvement in various cultural outlets. Born in Kiyv and now living in Prague, the Bike Jesus resident is playing stages and platforms and actively creating such for other artists throughout Europe. He hosts a bi-monthly show on Radio Punctum and curates the Motsion collective, showcasing the Ukranian electronic music scene and collaborate with scenes and venues such as Kwia in Berlin or Murmur in Amsterdam.
Woven from from organic textures and immersive sound etudes, the nostalgy transmitted in this journey inadvertently invites us to seek nature, seek retreat in the warmth of spring as we wander towards summer.
Embedded in a stream of crawling elements emotional soundscapes are going hand in hand with a realm of mystic signs. The melancholic theme in transition becomes tangible, moving us back and forth between cold and warm, conscious and subconscious, awake and asleep.

Happy to share

Much love

Dream Channel

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