Dark Symphony is a dark yet elegantly unfolding cinematic composition that thrives on tension and emotional depth. Its sound design feels made for motion picture: slow-building dynamics, gradually layering textures, and subtle dramatic crescendos draw the listener into a vivid world of imagery.

The track evokes powerful visual emotions — it could easily underscore a post-apocalyptic landscape, a tragic hero’s journey, or a deep inner transformation. The mix provides a wide spatial dimension, allowing each element to breathe while maintaining a cohesive dramatic flow.

The composition reflects professional cinematic sensibility — reminiscent of Hans Zimmer or Jóhann Jóhannsson — yet with a distinctly modern, personal touch. Dark Symphony stands out as an atmospheric score that balances beauty and darkness in perfect harmony.

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Dark Symphony

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Recorded live on the main floor of the New Dance Fantasy festival 15.01.16

"The inaugural New Dance Fantasy Festival spans 3 days of non-stop music across 3 uniquely individual floors each carefully curated to incorporate the best in contemporary cutting edge electronics, rare international live showcases, festival heads, label owners and the kings and queens of rare vinyl acquisition into a twilight world of entertainment."

Vladimir Ivkovic is the resident Dj of the Salon Des Amateurs in Düsseldorf and regular Sameheads collaborator.

Vladimir Ivkovic @ New Dance Fantasy 05-08h - Main Hall

Kiara Scuro were live fro two hours, playing house, minimal synth, breaks. New music from Piezo, Kimshies, Dukwa, Emre Can Swim, Sinusoidal, Mameen 3 and Ruutu Poiss. Joined by Bugs Groove on the guest mix, who is the younger brother of their pal Alex T

Kiara Scuro w/ Bugs Groove - July 2020

For anyone who's caught a Tony Neptune set, either online or offline, you'll know the Leeds DJ, producer and Dimensions DJ Directory member doesn't do things in half measures. 

As both Tony and his other alias Yuri - a tip of the hat to Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space - he's no stranger to 6-hour long mixes, sometimes immortalised in his lengthy back-to-backs with fellow Leeds DJ Mark 'Turbo' Turner. 

Last month he shared his first productions with the world; a debut EP titled Reflections on a Daring Escape that moves through emotive electro and further serves as a vehicle for Neptune to tell a story for the senses, by combining his own visual paintings with the music. 

In typical fashion for his Shine A Light On mix he delivers a live recording from his three hour set at Gut Level, a party in Sheffield, just before lockdown commenced. A journey through everything from oddball wave to slow industrial, EBM, new wave and electro, the mix picks up the pace continuing to build until its climax...

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Tony Neptune: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

Wosto was born in 1980 in Geseke (a small town near in „Wostfalia“) and he got no wife, no childen and no car. In the beginning of the 90ths he was a famous ice skater under the moniker RED FLAME. After an accident in 1995 and an identity crisis he started to collect records and began to work as a DJ for a fairground ride. Wosto and his gang G TOWN BEATS were discovered by the club owner Travolta Michele and they started to do DJ sets in the club KLIMBIM in Geseke. 19,994 of the 20,000 inhabitants of Geseke weren`t interested in the music of the gang and so in 2004 the boys escaped to Hamburg. In 2013 Wosto and his best friend Kluentah founded FALLBEIL. So far they released 10 vinyl records on different labels all over the world. In 2017 Wosto and the two members of NOSTAGIE ÉTERNELLE started the trio SAUERSTOFFF. Wosto is also releasing solo records and is running his own vinyl label - TEERPAPPE.

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We often find there are two types of artists. One internalises their process, endlessly perfecting their work while finding the endpoint a massive hurdle, and in turn producing immaculate yet very little art. The other is continuously inspired, so full of ideas they can barely work fast enough to articulate them all. The art becomes by-product of their larger trajectory and not just a collection of endpoints. Lord Of The Isles a.k.a. Neil McDonald seems to be both. He’s always in an evolving state of process where work is constantly shed to make way for a new layer growing beneath, yet he holds his cards closely, cherry-picking when and with whom he releases that work into the world.
Neil is simply prolific. In 2016 he shared with us a vast catalog of unheard beauty, which over a long span of time was collaboratively shaped into his debut album 'In Waves'. In the span between the album release and now, Neil has performed on a number of ESP Institute label showcases from Los Angeles to Amsterdam to Berlin, and released a few efforts with our peers, but all throughout he’s been holed up working on his sophomore album [sigh]. Though patience has become a sort of meditation during this global upside-down, we couldn’t help but squeeze out an interim release to uphold the fantasy. So, four years after the release of 'In Waves', we’re proud to present a very long-winded follow-up single for the album’s monster track 'Skylark'. Accompanied by a previously unreleased album cut entitled 'OmniMulti', the single also touts two glorious remixes; a sunkissed version by fellow esteemed Scotsman Linkwood and an atmospheric dismantling by the Melbourne hopeful Tourist Kid. You see, good things come to those who wait.

[ESP039B] Skylark

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[ESP039B] LORD OF THE ISLES - B1 - Skylark (Linkwood Remix) - SNIPPET

Metal is a collaborative endeavor between Bristol and London artists Jamie Paton and Mike Bourne of Cage & Aviary and Teeth Of The Sea, respectively. A shared love for modular synthesis brought the two together in 2018 for a series of improvised live performances and the tracks featured on this EP were born from rehearsals for those sessions. What draws ESP to this music is its paradigmatic nature. The tracks are exercises in improvisation yet there is a level of control in which the performance slowly comes alive. Jam sessions allow for artistic gratification, a freedom of form often at the expense of the listener, but when artists set forth exacting parameters, there grows an opportunity for alternate forms of fulfillment on both sides of the experience. As is typical among stylistic prototypes, a reduction of tools frees the artist to narrow their focus and explore more singular modes of performance. Jamie and Mike chose texture as a concept, namely Metal, and following the aforementioned methods, minimized their instrumentation toward the aesthetic representation of that element. Operating in a void without the convenience and advantages of the infinite tools we’re now accustomed to, they exhausted a short list of granular details, honing their concept to a fine point. Throughout these three iterations on the theme, we hear timbres that depict metal literally, but moreover we gain a view into the duo’s visceral attachment to its materiality, abstractions of its surfaces, and an overall transgression from conventional constructs of beauty. The idea is simple, designed with discipline to romanticize both the crudeness and elegance in one of Earth’s most industrious and enigmatic elements. Metal.

[ESP088] Point Vacancies

[ESP088] METAL - B2 - Point Vacancies - SNIPPET

Precious audio document courtesy of Jovanka Beba Stepanovic.
Two interviews in one file. 
First one is from Novi Sad in 1993 (00:00 - 27:13), 
second one (27:14 - end) 
is a telephone interview with Mitar Subotic Suba / Rex Ilusivii from Sao Paulo, New Years Eve 1992/93.
https://subaofc.bandcamp.com/

Suba / Rex Ilusivii interviews 1993 and 1992/93

Nos deux hommes de foies sånti & da michelis allient leur sainteté dans le dernier épisode de Saint Jean de Lustre,  deux heures autour de la confort zoone du 80bpm, avec des sonorités psyché, dub ou encore expérimental.

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Saint Jean De Lustre - Sånti & Da Michelis (14.01.21)

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