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citizen maze - pleasure gallery s3 e1

For the inaugural edition of the Nina Label Mix series, we invited @kia-sydney to kick it off with a mix of material from her labels @animalia-label and @cirruslabel. A purveyor of trippy, psychedelic sounds, the Naarm/Melbourne and Berlin-based selector recorded the mix live at Nina HQ while in NYC to play the Nowadays Nonstop party in May 2023.

Free download, tracklist, and interview with Kia can be found at https://hubs.ninaprotocol.com/nina-label-mix/posts/BdJT1Pk5m354ZenSt2nu1HY7fi7AuFXvYuD5yLwSq6sk

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Nina Label Mix 001: Animalia

@lou_drago

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Ryuichi Sakamoto - 20220304
Christina Vantzou - In A Forest, On Some Moss, Growing
Florian T M Zeisig - Apiary
Antenes - Take Me To The Birds (For A)
Christina Vantzou - Multiplying Into Fields Of Little Voices
Alva Noto + Ryuchi Sakamoto - Uoon I
Alexandra Spence - Communion
Shuttle 358 - Isonpgn
Al Fraser - Hesitant Exploration
Valentino Mora - III1IIIIIIIIII5IIIIIIIII*
Taylor Dupree - Temper
Endurance - Expanding Repetition
Wanderwelle - Jonah
Ligovskoï - Thessalonians
Shuttle 358 - Cloud
Jacob Newman - Vactrol Light
Caterina Barbieri and Lyra Pramuk - Knot of Spirit
Plants Army Revolver - Valle della Luna*
Kevin Verwijmeren - We Believe
Lou Drago - patience to see*
Organic Dial - Actiq
Amma Ateria - stillness : interference
Rrose - Hymn to Moisture
Valentino Mora - IIIIII1IIIIIII6IIIIIIIII*

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I am so grateful to share with you all today a very poignant and sacred entry in the Deep Mind Music series from Lou Drago. Lou has woven together a truly otherworldly psychedelic journey for the soul, a luminescent experience, a gently glowing hologram of emotion 💠

Lou Drago and I connected years ago when they asked me to make a mix for their TRANSIENCE series, which invites contributors to create a “temporary suspension of reality, where the listener can speculate on alternate futures free from all systems of oppression.” We found a synchronicity in the role ambient music has played in our lives, and how it opens portals to new imagined existences for us. Since then, I’ve had the joy of playing for Lou at infinity rug, the ambient-focussed event series they curate with Marum, where we have shared deep chats, silly giggles and shared philosophies (as well as ambient music ofc).

They have put a great deal of thought and care into this mix, which you can hear in the delicately programmed selections, the fluidity of the whole, and the full-being submersion into an emotional plane of existence. From the opening seconds of the mix, clarifying crystalline twinkles open the way, realigning our sense of being, and taking us into this subtle soundscape. This mix feels like a gently calming presence, like both a sigh, and a weight lifted from the shoulders.

As we sink into the mix, we evaporate into vaporous wisps of energy, as expansive washes of sound contrast with infinitesimal whirls and organic instrumentation. We are submerged into a panoramic dreamstate, morphing mystical landscapes expanding before us. Lou guides us through a misty forest teeming with life, droplets of water slipping off the end of intricate leaves around us.

In the final 30 minutes of the mix, I feel as if I am all the flickering stars in the night sky, as interplaying vibrational drones dissolve us into the depths. Lou then very gently lifts us from this state, the atoms of our being carefully reassembled, coming back to reality in a state of blissful harmony. I hope you find peace in this heart-opening trip 🤍🌌🤍

This release comes in the same week that I will be joining Lou as a guest of TRANSIENCE at WHOLE festival this weekend, where we will both be playing ambient sets in the early hours of Saturday. I am really looking forward to this occasion of continued sonic kinship between us, see you there if you are coming 💗

Photo taken by Lou on the way to Portugal, a country where they “always feel a strong grounding energy pulling me through the earth to home”

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@transience-archive
@infinity-rug
https://instagram.com/lou__drago/

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Deep Mind Music

Lou Drago ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.28

Sean McCann - Ten Impressions for Piano & Strings
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: Jan 16, 2015
US: Jan 20, 2015

Realized over a four year period, Sean McCann’s Ten Impressions for Piano & Springs is a document of transition and maturation. Slow moving cloud forms over corporeal landscapes, these impressions whisper of McCann’s imminent & decisive lean towards classical & avant-garde musics, culminating in 2013’s Music for Private Ensemble on his own imprint, Recital. Less a final statement on ambient music, more a meditation on change, discovery and process.

rootstrata.com/release/RS97

Sean McCann - Guardian

Recording of Azu Tiwaline's set at Lentekabinet 2024.

Azu Tiwaline at Lentekabinet 2024

After listening to many Freerotation recordings over the years, it feels a bit surreal to share this one. I had such a great time meeting the freero community. Very special to feel the positive vibe and patience to build something new.

Bas Dobbelaer - Freerotation 2024

Relit (album)

from the album 'sketches from new brighton' available 9/10

loscil 'container ships'

Recording of our weekly Dekmantel Radio show at @redlightradio.

First hour: Black Merlin
Second hour: Vivian Koch

Relit (album)

Eric R. Norlie