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Recorded live at The Deli for https://soundcloud.com/low-indigo's ambient etc 006 -- June 1, 2024

In this set, I showcased some of my favourite ambient and experimental music by Vietnamese producers, establishing and emerging, within Vietnam and from the diaspora. Thank you https://soundcloud.com/michaelred for having me.

Xo Xinh - A Tibet Dream
Bao Nguyen - bây giờ và ở đây | here and now
Maggie Tra - Friends That Hurt [SYS Sister Sounds]
Wytchings - Doraemon [SYS Sister Sounds]
Chaulichi - Yellow Gecko [SYS Sister Sounds]
Maggie Tra - Healing In Hanoi [SYS Sister Sounds]
Đỗ Tấn Sĩ - 1705 [Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective]
Dang Kim Hien - Nước Mắt Trong Tim
Tri Minh - Love I (ft. Trinh Minh Hien) [Flaming Pines]
Peter Knight & Dung Nguyen - Autumn Music
Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective- Ikkikki [Flaming Pines]
Xo Xinh - Conversation [Flaming Pines]
Duy Luong - Hanoi II
Maggie Tra - Lost Through Brussels [SYS Sister Sounds]
Runa Mont - Viability [SYS Sister Sounds]
Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective - Đme giựt mồng [Subtext Recordings]
Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective - Bugs life [Nhạc Gãy]
Maggie Tra - Intro [SYS Sister Sounds]
ngngay - Fog

Artwork by Laine Butler

ambient/etc 006 - Vietnamese ambient & experimental

My set for the renegade Garden Stage at Pachena Bay Music Festival 2024 is a downtempo mix that spans from deep ambient, astral jazz, to some experimental, downtempo breaks and beats. I love every track I played, each having its own beautiful sonic journey.

This was such a magical venue and location to perform with the most wonderful people. Thank you to the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, organizers, volunteers, and performers who made this festival possible. The microphone was accidentally left on and I love how faint sprinkles of laughter weave in and out of the set.

Tracklist:
Faten Kanaan – Ard Diar [Fire Records]
Gi Gi – Deudorix 
Gi Gi – Lumino Pleco
Keith Fullerton – Madonna, “Take a Bow” (1994)
Opheliaxz – psyllium
Huda Fadlelmawla with Reuben Lewis – When People Ask You
bijū – annihilation
XENIA REAPER – 23724 [INDEX:Records]
Juniper Foam – John [Care Of Editions]
Andrew Baker, Orieta Chrem, Selvagia - Pitagoriza (Parte 1) [La Rara Records]
Peter Knight & Dung Nguyen – Autumn Music [Parenthèses Records]
Arushi Jain - Portal To Silver Linings [LEAVING RECORDS]
Prieste5s - Beta Rhythm (Cerebral Ambient Edit) [Immaterial Earth Records]
n9oc – Q [Die Orakel]
Dana Kuehr – Biota [Die Orakel]
Paul St. Hilaire & René L​ö​we - A Faith (Vox Mix) [Kynant Records]
Ray Kandinski – Sunrise [Rec Room]
Memeshift – Balikpapan [CHINABOT]
gbd - a place of rest (stop sometimes)
o.utlier – Ava [SZE]
AD & Jealm - Left Side (Lucas Gonzalez & Hosca Remix) [sisternoise]
Laura BCR – Post Dynamic [Live At Robert Johnson]

Pachena Bay Music Festival 2024 - Garden Stage - ephemeral objects

My opening set for THC XLR at KW Studios. We transversed through ambient, experimental downtempo, and leftfield textures (with some sneaky half-time). Drifting through lush pads, glitch and dubby abstraction interspersed with fragmented broken rhythms. 

Otik - Been Here [Twin System]
Feloneezy - Unlimited Peace 01 [appendix.files]
NEXCYIA - fade
stereometrix - ambient line_____
Sseq - Scar Gel [appendix.files]
XENIA REAPER - Lust05 [INDEX:Records]
Kate Miller - Harpan
Watching Airplanes - Denial (Locked Groove) [Banlieue Records]
JEMAPUR - M.PLEX [Omen Wapta]
Aedon - Pob
Sseq - Shell [appendix.files]
mu tate - spore [Warm Winters Ltd.]
Ken Hadou - El Río [Discos Movimiento]
Hüda - Shagpile [Geotherapy]
Kate Miller - Ciecle [Companion]
usof - full belly (Conna Haraway's version) [Theory Therapy]
Shinetiac - purelink [West Mineral Ltd.]
I7HVN - Chalcanthite [Safar Collective]
Watching Airplanes - Drop By Drop [Banlieue Records]
Saffron Bloom - Ultimate Acceptance [Delicate Records]

Photo by Reylinn McGrath

ambient/experimental/downtempo - Live DJ set @ KW Studios - 2025.06.05

My Slowtempo opening Saturday set at Bass Coast Music Festival 2025. We went real deep, heady, meditative, dubby, percussive with IDM flavourings, interwoven with psychedelic euphoria. Thank you for everyone who was there and shared that beautiful moment with me ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ 

Tracklist:
Le Motel - Chàm Islands (feat. Hoàng Tuấn) [Balmat]
Sunju Hargun - The Golden Triangle [Siamese Twins Records]
goo - skullghostalien
Juan Moreno - Exp. Dub 1 (Ambient X) [Móatún 7]
Blazej Malinowski - Hideaway [The Gods Planet]
Al Wootton - Facing The Horses Tail [TRULE]
phil in a maze - Hell or High Water
Sunju Hargun - Pigeon Attack (Shjva ॐ dub) [Siamese Twins Records]
Sunju Hargun & GiGi FM - Lens of Time [Siamese Twins Records]
Blazej Malinowski - Dark Awakenings [The Gods Planet]
Emily Jeanne - Đồ Sơn At Night [quỳnh]
Nic Ford - Cyberd (Jonathan Kusuma Splinter Mix) [Siamese Twins Records]
Kolomensky - The Last Speech [Electric Shapes]
Iza Basia - Formant [Kinesis Recordings]
monosym - Raincell [Oomycota]
shjva - Resorain
Đ.K. - Sequences [WORSHIP]
Maara - Splash On Mi [naff]
Desh - Systole [Secuencias Temporales]
Overturn - Aerials [Indefinite Pitch]
Topdown Dialectic - A4 [peak oil]
shjva - Subatom
Laima Adelaide - l (Atomic Moog Re Interpretation) [Secuencias Temporales]
Desh - El Pasar del Condor [Secuencias Temporales]
noorj - y [Gravity Pleasure]
Igor Dyachenko - Melted Reality [appendix.files]

Lite mastering by https://soundcloud.com/michaelred

Live at Bass Coast 2025 - Slowtempo (Saturday opening set)

"Illuminotecnica is a slacker’s exploration of ecstatic techniques in sound, echoing the free-form drift of elemental flows across the motherboard. Celestial data streams. Mineral rhythms loop in cycles within cycles. A glitch pulses at the heart of the sun while the sky turns green.

What reveals itself through divergent, simultaneous patterns?
What do we hear when we let the aural flood loose?

Set it free—let it spiral inside out. From the cracked shell, new forms emerge: thought-forms, feel-forms, signal-forms shaped by frequencies we don’t yet know how to decode. Shapes that shimmer at the edge of language. Emotions without names. Visions that flicker in the periphery—half-seen, half-sensed—like memories from a future that hasn’t happened yet."

Music by Cortex of Light
Artwork by Francesco Tosini
Design by Nicolò Pellarin
Mastered at Tapewave Studio
Distributed by Boomkat

Wax: boomkat.com/products/illuminotecnica

Verde è Osiride

Chrysalis co parents Amylia and DJ papaya invite Yaka to collaborate in a playful and expensive b3b to open a very special renegade edition of everyone's favorite party series.

Chrysalis b3b

Living Room n°88 ~ @user-195275547

q. pls introduce yourself…
Hello, we are forest.exe (Sven and Silvan). We run a label that focuses on ambient, avant-garde and experimental music. It is called Jurassic Ambient Records. The name is inspired by the Jura forests in Switzerland, where we live and grew up. We create our own mixes and also release guest mixes as well as music from friends and anyone interested. We started about four years ago. Over time, we gradually moved away from technoid sounds and club culture, and began experimenting and mixing together within the genres of ambient, experimental and drone, where we felt more at home. For us, it is essential to connect music with the wellbeing in nature, which is also the origin of everything.

q. is there a story behind the mix?
This time we created the mix with Ableton in Sven’s home studio, nestled near the Jurassic forest — not, as we usually do, in a rehearsal room with a Pioneer setup. It was a warm and luminous day at the very beginning of summer. Surrounded by nature, we let the atmosphere guide us, working spontaneously and intuitively. Instead of CDJs, we wanted to explore a new approach, giving ourselves more time and space to shape the flow. This allowed us to engage more deeply with each track and to sculpt the transitions with greater precision.
The result is a mix that feels reduced and calming, almost dreamlike, yet still carries a quiet strength. It mirrors the uncertainties and concerns we feel about the world, and the question of how we might navigate through them. We dedicated an entire day to the process, with pauses, a few beers, and long conversations about the value of music and the character we wanted this mix to embody.

q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?
Step into the forest, put on your headphones, leave the world behind and sink into natural, calming sounds. You might wander along the paths and lose yourself in the embrace of nature, or sit quietly on a tree stump, listening to the mix while observing the subtle life unfolding around you. This is, in essence, what our name forest.exe is meant to evoke.

q. describe a favourite object in your living room...
Silvan: My favourite object in my living room is a handmade ceramic piece with an organic, natural design. I discovered it in Krakow last year during my visit to the Unsound Festival.
Sven: Hehe… epic indeed. My favorite object in my living room is a triptych of three Japanese woodblock prints. In the first, several farmers brandishing katanas burst forth with fierce cries. In the second, a lone farmer leaps dramatically over a waterfall, sword in hand. And in the third, a bear flees from the oncoming attackers. The imagery is raw and powerful, yet strangely inspiring. I don’t know the artist or when the pieces were created — but stumbling upon them in an antique shop felt like a stroke of fortune, as if they had been waiting there for me.

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
We are both working on new music, though it often takes a lot of time — which can be challenging, since we both work more or less full-time as social workers, and Sven also has children. Still, we meet regularly to create ambient mixes, discuss musical developments, and continue shaping our vision for the label. Through it, we keep releasing new mixes as well as music (EPs) from ourselves and from other artists.
What we love is that this project has been with us for quite some time, and we can move at our own pace — deciding how much energy to put in, or when to slow things down. That way, it never becomes stressful, because we are not chasing success, but rather sharing our musical principles and offering others a fresh listening experience. We are also searching for a spot in the forest where we can record outdoor mixes, letting nature inspire our music even more directly.

Living Room n°88 ~ forest.exe

A riff on Jon Hassell's _Fourth World_ series. Where Hassell focused on creating ritual music of potential societies that _didn't_ exist; Ian Kim Judd seeks to evoke the notion of potential utopian societies that _could_ exist. In these times of global instability and uncertainty, Fifth World seeks to posit an alternative, with scenes from an optimistic future.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/fifth-world/episodes/fifth-world-27th-august-2025

Fifth World w/ DJ Mylar 270825

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james K @ The Lot Radio 09-22-2025

Next up on our outsiders residency we have the pleasure of hosting Matryoshka. Last spotted on production duties for Yungwesbster’s ‘II’ as well as turns for the Nostalgians crew and Dj Loser’s Magdalena's Apathy.

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Outsiders: sferic w/ Matryoshka @ Kiosk Radio 24.09.2025

An hour a month from LA label Total Stasis, responsible for releases by Ramzi, Aquarian Foundation, Anom Vitruv, Elysia Crampton, Bobo Eyes & Plush Throw, CS + Kreme, Fmvee, Second Language, Regularfantasy, Private Lesson, Alexi Baris, Laila Sakini, and Sebastiano Carghini.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/total-stasis/episodes/total-stasis-30th-september-2025

Total Stasis 300925

LDSR 223 - ckswanecamp 3

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/were-here-all-the-time

@whatdotjp
@theory-therapy

Theory Therapy is pleased to present ‘we’re here all the time’ by jp (aka J.P Wright) – the New York producer behind one of last year’s shinetiac remixes on the OST label, and a member of Housecraft Recordings’ trip-bient group Ahem.

Compiling several years of well-worn material, the Brooklyn artist’s debut solo LP was the result of many hours of hardware jams and happy accidents, later meticulously edited down into these seven arrangements. Blending first-thought-best-thought spontaneity with extended DAW labouring, Wright delivers some of the most immediate music yet on Theory Therapy.

The album is reminiscent of ’90s and early-’00s IDM. Syncopated rhythms and atmosphere swirl into a mutable whole, as hardcore breakbeat, ambient trance and acidic electro bleed together into a liquid mélange. The sequencing drifts from gauzy, ethereal openings into tensile, club-ready pressure before swerving toward moments of stillness – like lingering in an emptied club hours after the crowd has gone.

There’s a distinct physicality to the music too. Kick patterns jitter like loose live wires, delays ripple through the fog-soaked air, yet the album’s finest moments lie in its more subtle textures and tonal shifts. This is proper braindance that keeps you suspended in its pulse, caught in non-linear time. Wright lets the music wander in unpredictable arcs, moments folding back on themselves, stretching in multiple directions at once – tracing and retracing a memory that refuses to settle. 

pi premiere: jp - perf (Theory Therapy)

fire_starter

My opening set for earth angel james K in Vancouver on October 16, 2025. It was an honour to open for james K, especially for a sold out show. I reflected a lot about jame K’s music and her NTS Trip Lick show (highly recommend listening to). This culminated in a journey that included dreamy downtempo future classics, dubbed out lush ambient textures, and ethereal dnb bangers, including a forthcoming release by Maude Vôs (https://soundcloud.com/maudevos) and Prieste5s (https://soundcloud.com/prieste5s) on Delusional Records (@delusional_records). Thank you Paradise Cultural Society for having me and to everyone who came (ㅅ´ ˘ `)

Tracklist
XENIA REAPER - as they fade [XENOPLEX]
JEMAPUR - WSIF.rg [Omen Wapta]
K Wata - Sling Of Life [anno]
Anja Lauvdal - A Swim [Smalltown Supersound]
Azu Tiwaline & Al Wootton - Last Scene [Livity Sound]
ONY - Strange Things [Eternal Dragonz]
Conna Haraway - Switchback [Theory Therapy]
ben bondy - trauma bonding [INDEX:Records]
ebilen - iwannatry (ft. virtual echo)
Mike Midnight - No Angels/ICU ft. 3NDLES5 [Southern Exposure]
Yago Ertan - Your Breeze
Hüda - A Sanguine Dream (ft. Ella Jones) [Geotherapy]
tondiue - Frog & Dog [secondnature]
YS - Down [Pace Yourself]
a.s.o. - Go On (Extended Mix) [Low Lying Records]
OK EG - Endless River [naff]
jpeg.love - make u cum [INDEX:Records]
Maude Vôs - Theta Fugue (Prieste5s Remix) [forthcoming on Delusional Records]
YS - Be Together [Pace Yourself]

Opening set for james K - Paradise Cultural Society - 2025-10-16

tapping into infinity

@accelerationradio resident and half of i+eo, an a/v project with @agimat_iha.
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Upcoming:
- 10.11. PPRZ x The Orchestrator present: Centrific (MN, USA) + Nancy Dru, DJ Hockey & ephemeral objects [Vancouver, BC]
- 10.16. james K, Hashman Deejay, ephemeral objects [Vancouver, BC]
- 10.31. DOLLY Halloween with Legowelt (Live) + RiDylan (Live), ephemeral objects (DJ/VJ), Scott W [Vancouver, BC]

Inquiries: ephemeralobjectsvj[at]gmail.com

Opening set for james K - Paradise Cultural Society - 2025-10-16

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