‘Vision Quest’

a small space between two thoughts, opening, slowly. 

wyckoff and summerfield, cold streets, warm dances.

finding myself, in the jungle, in my mind, in you. 



Release Date: 7/7/21
Format: 12” / Digital
All Songs Produced by Robin Lohrey 
2017-2018 in Ridgewood, NYC 
Keyboards on ‘Life Goes On’ by Will DiMaggio

How do one really count the steps in a journey? There’s the movement itself, your balance, pacing and gait; there’s the world you pass through, and the vistas that stretch out before you; but from the moment you embark to the moment you settle in place, the trip is an experience in passing through. Looking back at the path taken, the horizon stretches out from your route on both sides, a million possibilities shifting around your chosen route.

Ronan’s journey has seen him move between Boston and New York, Washington State, Bogota, and most recently Mexico City. Rarely in one place for too long, his energy and enthusiasm for his craft carry that same roving sense of adventure, whether in his own expressive productions welding hyper-speed techno and classic hardcore into a dynamic whole, or through his Eternal Ocean imprint, which has notched a string of impressive releases from close friends and like-minded producers. Throughout, a sense of wide-eyed wonder and joy is the constant, an awe for its ability to transport and transcend, to become a calling in its own right, through sound and soul, a grounding force that becomes the guiding path through the world. 

It’s that sense of possibility that dominates the sensibility of Vision Quest, Ronan’s second outing on Eternal Ocean, a four track offering recorded in Ridgewood, Queens just before he headed west in 2018. The tracks echo this awareness of a road stretching out before him. These are tunes about the journey, best exemplified by the snaking routes and pathways they pull the listener through: half-time breakdowns, sudden vocal stabs, hard-left turns and sudden shifts of tempo. Where previous Ronan EPs found their strength in meticulous mixing and track-craft, these embrace technique and arrangement as means to an end, resulting in lyrical, ever-evolving tunes that show an artist embracing the time given to create worlds unto themselves.

Opening with a lush ascending arp, “Call of the Wild” sends it into full-time rave mode, a ragged break workout that feels like the perfect opening (or closing) a moment of wide-eyed reverie perfectly embodied in that first sub rush over the cliff, before the A2, “Ripples,” flips the script, turning the record towards the inner zone; a contemplative, thumping dub cut that’s equally at home as a 10pm staple or a peak-time curveball, calling to mind the richest dance-floor dub of early Moody Boys or a more organic contemporary to the work of Russian downtempo explorers like OL.

On the B-side, a similar pairing of banger and breather starts up with “Sea Cave,” another twisted break workout shot through with synth risers and one-shots shared by the best releases on Warriors Dance, before pulling the listener down a rabbit hole, layering dense pads and liquid leads that wash the dance out and hang it out to dry on the refrain. The record closes in full-meditation mode with “Life Goes on,” a last cut for the night, a slow-dance for everyone who made it to the last track, laced up by Will DiMaggio’s ever-expressive keyboard work.  

Shot through with moments of repose and longing, memory and hope, Vision Quest runs like an open question: how can one find a way to talk about a record that makes as much of the journey through it as Vision Quest does? Where do we find ourselves now? Where are we heading? Like the record itself, we can’t play it backwards, but we can play it again, even if there’s only one first listen.

- Daniel Creahan

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Ronan "Vision Quest EP"

Title: Alternate Looking Glass
Artist: Tristan Arp
Release: 7/30/21
Fomat: Digital
Cat# : EO/DM002
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Tristan Arp
Art by Tristan Arp and Robin Lohrey




Following up his recent EP, Oddkin, on Human Pitch, Mexico City based producer and visual artist Tristan Arp delivers a diverse and imaginative 4 tracker on Eternal Ocean. ‘Alternate Looking Glass’ the first track and namesake of the project opens up with a flurry of tuned percussion and celestial voices, playfully oscillating between the club focused rhythms and a sensibility akin to the works of Philip Glass and Midori Takeda. “Curved Space’ takes a similar approach but this time creating a mysterious and obscure world created through a masterful use of foley recordings and polyrhythmic structures that create a sense of the tempo being pushed and pulled at the same time. The album closes with 'Air Portrait’ and ‘Probability Horizon’, two ambient sound sculptures that speak to Tristan’s affinity for design and visual space with their intricate melodies and textures playing off one another as they glide across the soundfield, exploring a new space in this young artist’s highly developed palette.

Tristan Arp "Alternate Looking Glass"

Title: Tannins EP
Artist: Plebeian
Release Date: 09/17/21
Format: 12” / Digital

For his sophomore EP and first on wax, NYC based producer and audio engineer Andrew Nerviano aka Plebeian serves up a psychedelic sound system workout designed for deep and explorative club contexts. Opening up with the luminescent soundscapes of ‘Enzymes’ he transitions seamlessly into more rugged and stripped back territory on ‘Tannins’. Flipping over we find hypnotic sub-killer ‘Neutrinos’ before closing the excursion with ‘Quantum’ which slithers and jitters its way through a variety of hyperdimensional wormholes. Shimmering and crystalline yet durable and robust this is fully dosed gear for the session, please use responsibly. 

@plebeiann

Recorded and Produced by Andrew Nerviano
Mastering by Beau at TenEightSeven

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Plebeian “Tannins EP”

Title: Alternate Looking Glass
Artist: Tristan Arp
Release: 7/31/21
Fomat: Digital
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Tristan Arp
Art by Robin Lohrey and Erin Rioux



Following up his recent EP, Oddkin, on Human Pitch, Mexico City based producer and visual artist Tristan Arp delivers a diverse and imaginative 4 tracker on Eternal Ocean. ‘Alternate Looking Glass’ the first track and namesake of the project opens up with a flurry of tuned percussion and celestial voices, playfully oscillating between the club focused rhythms and a sensibility akin to the works of Philip Glass and Midori Takeda. “Curved Space’ takes a similar approach but this time creating a mysterious and obscure world created through a masterful use of foley recordings and polyrhythmic structures that create a sense of the tempo being pushed and pulled at the same time. The album closes with 'Air Portrait’ and ‘Probability Horizon’, two ambient sound sculptures that speak to Tristan’s affinity for design and visual space with their intricate melodies and textures playing off one another as they glide across the soundfield, exploring a new space in this young artist’s highly developed palette.

Tristan Arp - Alternate Looking Glass

Title: Reflections on Instrinsic Value
Artist: Ronan
Fomat: Digital
Release Date: 
Cat#: EO/DM004

Sliding silver strands
Glide with effervescent ease,
through the twilight hour,
it seemed like it was right,
rewarding and really
it was… the only way.

Recorded over a year and a half period while living in Mexico City through the pandemic, ‘Reflections on Intrinsic Value’, the first full album from Ronan, finds him continuing an endless exploration of music culture through an omnivorous approach to style, trope and timbre. Conceptual and literal influences from the UK hardcore continuum, psychedelic trance and traditional ceremonial music are all present here but the focus remains on the quality and texture of the sounds both rhythmic and melodic, rather than the stylistic referential. Sensation and memory play a large role in the narrative structure as individual pieces oscillate through a spectrum of moods, highlighting the wide range of emotional states felt during peak experiences. Although his largest body of work released yet, the direction still feels open ended, like a ball of yarn with all different colored threads, we’ll see what one Ronan pulls next.

Ronan "Reflections On Intrinsic Value"

@plebeiann returns to the Eternal Ocean, continuing his exploration of psycho-cerebral realms with a collection of six sonic spells titled “Graffiti World”

“Splashes of color accent immersive and introspective environments full of unexpected aural organisms and secret passageways. Playful rhythms bounce off of one another, discreetly stuttering and slithering between carefully considered spectral and pointillistic textures. An enveloping bass weight massages the listener, providing the foundation to an alien world full of unknown life. The landscape is shrouded in a mist of psychedelic fog, which clears in brief moments revealing shimmering and resplendent views that defy language. Coming down from the heights, we are taken back into the depths of this new terrain, grappling with how to describe what was experienced. Words do little justice here – my advice is to close your eyes, focus on your breath and allow it to happen. It won’t last forever: be as present as you can.”

Release date: 06/23/23

Pre-Order: https://plebeian.bandcamp.com/album/graffiti-world

Produced and Mixed by Andrew Nerviano
Mastered by Marco Pelligrino
Design by Robin Lohrey

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Plebeian "Graffiti World"

Delightful musical journey from Portland based producer and deejay.

@carl-420

Episode Eleven - Carly Barton

curator of the esteemed @cminuss series, @mmdoo provides a delicate and obscured blend of textures and sonic spaces reminding us all the importance of being present, breathing deep, and letting go.

Episode Twelve - mdo

Make sure you check your air tanks before diving into this tripped out journey through the rhythm and sound from resident selkie Ronan.

Episode Thirteen - Ronan

For the debut release of Eternal Ocean, Ronan weaves the story of a personal search for meaning, a pull at the loose thread in the woven blanket of reality. In empty urban landscapes and serene natural environments he began to find clues to some kind of inner doorway. In these moments of inquisitive solitude, there seemed to be a ‘way inside’, the beginnings of a path towards understanding, towards peace. In discovering the trance of communal dancing he realized that many answers could be found somewhere between the soundsystem and its operator. Maybe it was in the subwoofer, as the rumblings began to reshape the patterns of his feet, or the frequency of the top speakers as they sympathetically vibrated his inner ear. In these spaces there seemed to exist some connection to a universal feeling, a shared experience that went beyond the rave, beyond history, beyond bodies, there lied something there, something intangible but existent nonetheless. ‘Prolongez La Magie’ is about following those feelings of exploration and listening to the voice of your inner child, your deepest ally. It is about keeping those special memories in your heart, and extending that wonder and excitement of the imagined, the fantastic and the unexplainable into all facets of your life.

@ronan-music

Recorded and Produced by Robin Lohrey in Ridgewood, NY and Port Townsend, WA 
Mastered by Andrew Nerviano and Todd Mariana

Release Date: 1/19/19

Redeye: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/103486-eo-v001-ronan-prolongez-la-magic-ep

Juno: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/ronan-prolongez-la-magie/708036-01/

Prolongez La Magie

Ronan "Prolongez La Magie"

An esteemed selector and purveyor of high quality party solutions, DJ Deejay presents an hour of full immersion into trance hybridity.

@djdeeejay

Episode Fourteen - DJ Deejay

London based sonic researcher @DiversionProgram contributes a rough around the edges hour of global club riddims.

Episode Fifteen - Diversion Program

For his debut release and also that of his label, Eternal Ocean, Ronan delivers a exploratory 4 track EP of modern dance music. Touching on his influences as an classically trained instrumentalist and jazz improviser he uses the forms of club music to create sonic environments that envelop the listener with layers of narrative depth and idiosyncratic character. From the whipcrack bass pressure of ‘Internal Revelation’ and the sensual trance of ‘Surface Dive’ to the aqueous and narcotic take on UK techno found in ‘Cellular Matrix’ and ‘Tracheal Impulse’ he finds himself in a singular space, setting up a strong and unique foundation from where there’s no telling what he’ll come up with next.

Ronan
Title: Prolongez La Magie
Cat: EO/V001
Format: 12"
Distributed by Freshness Only
Release Date: 1/19/19

https://eternalocean.bandcamp.com/album/ronan-prolongez-la-magie
https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/103486-
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/ronan-prolongez-la-magic-ep/708036-01/
https://www.deejay.de/Ronan_Prolongez_La_Magic_EP_EO-V001_Vinyl__340676

Ronan - Surface Dive

Buckle up for a wild ride from Texan Wizkid @dfgtrax

Episode Sixteen - D.F.G.

Live Set of 100% Unreleased Original Material under @ronan-music 's birth name recorded on January 27th, 2017 at Trans Pecos in Brooklyn, NY

Episode Seventeen - Robin Lohrey

Extremely special episode from Montreal-based selecteur extrondinaire Lis Dalton. I've been waiting for someone to send in a jungle mix and praise the rave gods this one is the cherry we have all been waiting for... aquatic pads and scattered breaks all blended together with hot glue, consume responsibly!

@elisabethdalton

Lis D eternal ocean longer

Episode Eighteen - Lis Dalton

Main navigator of transmissions at Distant Worlds, Paul Rimbaud melds together a deep textural journey through the outer reaches of the dance galaxy.


@distantworldstransmission

Episode Nineteen - Paul Rimbaud

Eternal Ocean is proud to present its second musical offering in the format of a cassette mixtape and digital compilation of remixes, one-offs, flips and versions sourced from the broader Eternal Ocean family.  This 18-track release,  ‘A Little Seal vs. The World’ draws on the long history of bootlegs, remixes, acapella reworks and edits of Pop, RnB, and Hip-Hop tracks.  Centered around the melding of familiar voices and new rhythms, the compilation pays tribute to the enduring power of pop music to connect and inspire both on and off the dancefloor. 

Proceeds from this release will be donated to the Ocean Preservation Society, an organization that raises awareness of environmental issues threatening the ecosystems and biodiversity of our oceans, turning the global appeal of these original compositions towards a shared sense of both the contemporary and the future.

Tracklist: 
Cellist - Rih<3Future<3SOB (Ronan’s Rub)
J. Albert - Trust Who (Faded Freestyle) Ft. Jio
Freddie Gibbs - Automatic (D.F.G. Flip)
Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear (Vidya World’s Tunnel Edit) 
Boundary - Por Donde Voy, Siento El Fondo (Julio Iglesias Edit)
702 - Don’t Wanna Stay (Alien D’s Peak Time Indecision Mix)
Genuwine - Differences x Jock Club Remix (Ronan’s Blend)
Young Thug - Mind Right (Diversion Program’s Club Refix)
Migos - Bad and Boujee (Light Web’s Rain Mix)
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together (Bodyman’s Tearful Remix)
Jonny Oso - Jus Let Me Know (Baby J’s Sweet Steppa Mix)
Travis Scott - Sicko Mode (Ronan’s No Sleep Mix)
Young Thug - It’s A Slime ft. Lil Uzi Vert (DJ Myst’s Magic Wand Mix)
Bell Curve - I Think I Would Be A Bird (Destiny’s Child Amsterdam 2001 Mix)
Mystery - Caught Up In You (Past Life’s Memory Mix)  
Nelly - Dilemma ft. Kelly Rowland (Eduardo’s Cheap Love Mix)
Ariana Grande - One Last Time (Starfox94’s Lonely Mix)
A Little Seal - Shark Attack (DJ Myst’s Air and Sea Mix)

Title: A Little Seal vs. The World
Release Date: 4/20/19
Format: Mixed Cassette/Digital
Cat #: EO/CAS001
Mixed by Ronan in Bogota, Colombia 
Artwork by Alison Johnston
Distribution by Jungle Gym
Eternal Ocean 2019

A Little Seal vs. The World

Young Thug - Its A Slime ft. Lil Uzi Vert (DJ Myst's Magic Wand Mix)

Eternal Ocean is proud to present it’s second musical offering in the format of a cassette mixtape and digital compilation of remixes, one-offs, flips and versions sourced from the broader Eternal Ocean family.  This 18-track release,  ‘A Little Seal vs. The World’ draws on the long history of bootlegs, remixes, acapella reworks and edits of Pop, RnB, and Hip-Hop tracks.  Centered around the melding of familiar voices and new rhythms, the compilation pays tribute to the enduring power of pop music to connect and inspire both on and off the dancefloor. 

Proceeds from this release will be donated to the Ocean Preservation Society, an organization that raises awareness of environmental issues threatening the ecosystems and biodiversity of our oceans, turning the global appeal of these original compositions towards a shared sense of both the contemporary and the future.

J. Albert - Trust Who (Faded Freestyle) ft. Jio

A Little Seal vs. The World - Full Mix

Motor City resident and 'Trackmaster Supreme' Ali Berger takes the wheel this round for a foray into forest filled fun. Imagine This: You are in deep trance in the deep woods, somewhere distantly a creature of the wild watches you create shapes that communicate ancient messages of unity and transcendence, it smiles and laughs to itself before going about its daily routine. As the boundaries dissolve between you and the moss under your feet, you open your eyes to see the swarming mass around you and soon realize : THIS IS WHAT IT IS TRULY ALL ABOUT. 

Being = You 
Trust = You
Love = You
You = Me
Me = Us

lock in, tune up. 

@aliberger

Episode Twenty - Ali Berger

Spring is here and it seems that jungle fever is in full bloom... take a deeper breath of rolling rhythms from Austin based Deejay Llloyd as he takes you on a ride through an astute selektion of the sparser side and intelligent drum and bass.

@llllllllloyd

Episode Twenty One - Llloyd

Groovy Groovy's lead Rave Man steps up to the plate with a relaxed affair, taking us through a Sunday afternoon-tinged offering of deep rhythms and global sounds.

@andrewakanbi

Episode Twenty Two - Akanbi

Special session from Barcelona based collector and curator extraordinaire DBGO.   @davidgoeson Check out his other mixes on SC as well as his youtube channel which is an absolute goldmine of gorgeous music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWNsbse_AY5Z4-H86HcjcVA

Episode Twenty Three - DBGO

The elusive DJ Mantis concocted an extended mix of 100% pure trance, coming into the summer months in the only absolutely correct style: HOT!

@djxmantis

Episode Twenty Five - DJ Mantis

For its second vinyl release, Eternal Ocean is proud to present ‘Static Flow’: the debut EP of Timo Bürgler AKA Awo Ojiji.  Creating his own unique sonic world, Awo Ojiji has delivered a four track body of work that feels at once fresh and familiar. Opening the EP, ‘Lifeforms’ swings out of left field with an off kilter swagger sure to inspire more than a few unique dancefloor experiences. On the interior comes ‘Grainhive’, a groover that strikes a deep and rare balance of emotive texture and raw bassline energy. Flipping over, we find ‘Laura’s Lodge’, perhaps the most oblique tune of the bunch, where slick and expertly crafted percussion compliments the alien sound design that rides out the tune into its own dimension. Closing the record, ‘Swarm Align’ invites the dancer on a journey inwards, deftly maneuvering through a myriad of sonic waypoints until finally finding its way home, to be filed straight away under ‘Deep/Last Song’. Based in Graz, Austria, and having honed his skills alone and through close involvement with the disko404 family, Awo Ojiji steps up in offerance of a unique and personal statement. Taking influence from the current climate and deep history of electronic music and finding a space that is honest and genuine, this is music for the body, mind and soul.

@awo_ojiji


All Tracks Recorded and Produced by Awo Ojiji
Mixed by Zanshin
Mastered by Simon at the Exchange
Distribution by Rubadub

Release Date: 1/31/19

Awo Ojiji "Static Flow EP"

For its second vinyl release, Eternal Ocean is proud to present ‘Static Flow’: the debut EP of Timo Bürgler AKA Awo Ojiji.  Creating his own unique sonic world, Awo Ojiji has delivered a four track body of work that feels at once fresh and familiar.  Closing the record, ‘Swarm Align’ invites the dancer on a journey inwards, deftly maneuvering through a myriad of sonic waypoints until finally finding its way home, to be filed straight away under ‘Deep/Last Song’. Based in Graz, Austria, and having honed his skills alone and through close involvement with the disko404 family, Awo Ojiji steps up in offerance of a unique and personal statement. Taking influence from the current climate and deep history of electronic music and finding a space that is honest and genuine, this is music for the body, mind and soul.

Artist: Awo Ojiji
Title: Static Flow
Cat: EO/V002 
Format: 12”
Release Date: 1.31.20

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Awo Ojiji - Swarm Align

Hot of the heels of his debut release for us, Awo Ojiji has delivered an outstanding mix to reboot the series, enjoy with prudence.

Episode Twenty Seven - Awo Ojiji

Originally slated for release in 2018 as it’s debut release, multimedia platform Eternal Ocean is now proud to present:  ‘Plant Lyfe Vol. 1’, a collection of three collaborative projects that feature a rotating cast of artists that include Teleself, Ronan, Acemo and DJ Temporary. Recorded between 2016-2018 at Felt Presence Studios in Ridgewood, New York the results of these collaborations run the gamut of breakbeat house and alien techno to aquatic dub and downtempo explorations. Drawing from their experiences as DJ’s and dancers in the Brooklyn underground, these 12 tracks represent some of the sonic inspirations from late nights and early mornings spent in trance. Represented here is a moment of connection and communion in a place that emphasized separation and individualism and the raw quality of the recordings reflect the immediacy and playful character of those moments. This CD also acts as a companion piece to the ‘Felt Presence’ LP on Vanity Press Records featuring more recordings from this creatively fruitful period.

25% of all profits from this release will be donated to the Translatina Coalition in support of marginalized people during this global crisis.

Title: Plant Lyfe Volume One
Format: CDR/Digital
Cat#: EO/CDR001
Release Date: 5/1/20

Plant Lyfe Volume One

Produced over a 3 year period these pieces, out of countless unfinished projects, were the only lossless files that were able to be recovered from backups online after Ronan’s laptop was stolen while travelling in Costa Rica in 2019. This music represents some of the important puzzle pieces of Ronan’s musical journey, exploring the distant moons of rave music while staying true to his roots as a jazz improviser and classical instrumentalist.  

Artist: Ronan
Title: Return To The Sea
Release Date: 10/2/2020
Format: Digital
Cat #: EO/DM001
Recorded by Robin Lohrey 
Drums on Track 06 by Florian Mavridorakis
Artwork by Laura Juliana Gonzalez

Ronan "Return To The Sea"

water is life

inquiry: contact@eternalocean.org

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