the whole piece is stunning, i recommend you guys watch the vid, it's on youtube

Stuff I like

TRACKLIST :

*Paul Lansky - Not just more idle chatter
*Mike Dred and Peter Green - Kymera
*Pierre Boulez - Symphonie op 21 - I Ruhig schreitend
*Krzystof Penderecki - Utrenja (Kanon Paschy) [wendy carlos - the shinning]
*Subjex - Subslaughter
*György Ligeti - Mysteries of the Macabre for Soprano & Ensemble
*Vert - Pattern Matching
*Alarm Will Sound performs aphex twin - cockver 10 VERSUS Aphex Twin - Cockver 10
*György Ligeti - KammerKonzert 3
*Wendy Carlos - Timesteps [excerpt]
*Subjex - Convoluted Dimensions
*György Ligeti - Le Grand Macabre - Shapely and Attractive Figure
*Venetian Snares - Dance Like Your Selling Nails
*György Ligeti - Le Grand Macabre - scene2 : one, two, three, five

 + Here and there in the mix : Luc Ferrari's voice mangled in reaktor, samples and processed cuts from sus-mentioned pieces + some of my own sounds.
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This is a set i did some years ago for NEO2 gig @ Liege's opera (belgium)
It has also been broadcasted on Combat Records's radioshow / Riddim'n bruise.

MIX - Contemporary Music vs IDM

This is a live recording, captured at Ego club in Düsseldorf, June 5 1999.  The music has been created with a self written step sequencer, the PX-18, controlling  a basic sample player and effects engine, all done in MaxMSP, running on a Powerbook G3. The step sequencer had some unique features, e.g. the ability to switch patterns independently in each track, which later became an important part of a certain music software.

I found the recording on a backup disk today. It has not been edited or mastered. During the first 20 minutes of the set, and before the 'encore' the Monolake CD 'Gobi' is playing in the background. 
 

Monolake Live at Ego Düsseldorf June 5 1999

Solid Steel (13th February) DJ Food - Selected Aphex Works

Unless you've been living under a rock recently you'll have heard the news that Aphex Twin unexpectedly uploaded 155 of his old and unreleased tracks to Soundcloud and made them downloadable for free. Starting from his earliest demos through to known live tracks, later jungle experiments and beyond, this is the motherlode that his fans have always wanted. DJ Food, a long-time Aphex fan, has been through the entire collection with a fine-toothed comb and selected his favourites for the first half of the show this week. The hit rate was high but he's has managed to cram 31 tracks into 85 minutes to mark this unique occasion and peppered the mix with vintage interview clips of Richard James talking about his music.

Check out the Solid Steel website http://solidsteel.net/ for track lists and archive shows
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Go to Hour 2 https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-1322015-part-3-4-ross-from-friends

Tracklist:

th1
39 Fnkmg
Floating
19 Ssnb 
8 Utopia
19 [Slo]w early morning clissold sunrise
21 Hapshifter 1
12 Rough Beat Tune
Luke Vibert - Spiral Staircase [Future Music competition] [afx remix]
Thy're Here Aahha 
33 Jonny Hawkes Broken Guitar[not Finished] 
4 Red Calx [slo]
4 Red Calx
34.5 P.e.
5 heliosphan live
2 Afx 126b
15 Bradley Jam Pump 
GPO Beat
Mortal 08
PrncDMC
Fork Rave 
T13 Quadraverb
1 P-String
13 Short Mental fax
14 Make a Baby
14 Moodular Acid [pissflaps mix]
18 Mello Punchy
tigercubdelay
(HAB un23) (unfinished)
26 5 Demo
Th1 [slo]

Solid Steel Radio Show 13/2/2015 Part 1 + 2 - DJ Food

Dag Rosenqvist - Vowels (Part 2)

CD | DL

Jacob Pavek - Seasons

Elementen

The soundtrack to "Lighting The Sails" accompanying a visual spectacle projected onto the Sydney Opera House directed by Universal Everything for Vivid Sydney 2015. 

All sounds sourced from piano improvisations and analogue effects. 


Lighting The Sails

my liveset done on the 6th of august 2025, being the support act for Autechre at de Melkweg in Amsterdam 

tracklist 
01.Kton 
02.Bruxa 
03.Lithe (with exm)
04.Ital (with exm)
05.Drature
06.Chroq

photo by Tamara Boon

Roel Funcken live AE 06.08.25

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-309-wevie-stonder

Earlier in 2025, Wevie Stonder returned to Skam with their first album in 16 years, and such an occasion requires further celebration, no? Sure Beats Living delivers more of the collective’s signature cheekiness, and this mix for Bleep unravels all of the wildly eclectic sounds and styles that have powered over two decades of iconoclasm.

This is probably the only mix you’ll find that travels from drill and bass to Ecuadorian synth cumbia to 40s jazz. Constant stylistic U-turns are the name of the game, and as the group recontextualise tracks with comedic skits and spoken word pieces, you never know which little sonic nugget is going to be the jumping off point for a completely opposite yet cleverly connected world of sound. Wevie Stonder’s own strange crossing between avant experimentation and punkish irreverence sits between the jangling bass guitar of Gary Le Strange, whose reclusive hikikomori-induced paranoia is delivered in an ironic nasally britpop voice, and the wonky synth funk of Devonwho with lush crisp beats and thrumming jazzy keys.

Bucolic Moog wash and lounge piano tiptoe beneath a Radiophonic Workshop-esque segment testing out the possibilities of synthesisers; “Finally, an example of rhythmic electronic music,” says the posh presenter, introducing a full and proper rinsing with some classic Squarepusher chops. Amen breaks are chucked in the shredder and glued back together with thick jungle bass, then dissipate into Hiroshi Yoshimura’s birdsong bliss. With these disparate tracklist transitions, each track in itself brings together unlikely combinations: further melodrama from Gary Le Strange pairs southern crooning with jaunty harpsichord, bass punches and cascading pianos flow between J Dilla’s slow hip hop hits, and Polibio Mayorga merges accordion and cowbells with the theatrics of expressively vintage synth sounds, brass and electronics trading lines on ‘Muñequita Blanca’.

Bleep Mix #309 - Wevie Stonder

David Howell has been working at FatCat since the very start of the label back in 1997, signing the likes of Animal Collective, Vashti Bunyan, U.S. Girls, David Grubbs, etc, as well as founding and running 3 imprint labels - 130701 (post classical), Splinter Series (damaged pop), and the legendary, long-running Split Series (whose artists include everything from V/Vm and Gescom to AMM and Merzbow, Matmos, Fennesz and The Dead C to Konono No.1, Kemialliset Ystavat and Katie Gately).

01.	Olivier Alary - Khaltoum
02.	2.Laura Naukkarinen - Genesis
03.	Stars Of The Lid - Fac 21
04.	Set Fire To Flames - Cote D'Abrahams Roomtone
05.	Hauschka - Sitze
06.	Sylvain Chauveau - Granulation 4
07.	Ian William Craig - A Single Hope
08.	Rachel's - Even / Odd
09.	Hildur Gudnadottir - Erupting Light
10.	Michael Nyman - A Walk Through H
11.	Resina - Afterimage
12.	Max Richter - in Louisville at 7
13.	Steve Reich - Piano Phase
14.	Dmitry Evgrafov - Ptichka
15.	Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch  - Tulsi
16.	Colin Stetson - Tiger Tiger Crane
17.	Set Fire To Flames - Fukt Percussive
18.	Arthur Russsell - Wax The Van
19.	Rachel's - Where Have All My Files Gone?
20.	Olivier Alary - Autodrome
21.	Adrian Klumpes - weave In And Out
22.	Hauschka - Vakuum One
23.	Chris Abrahams - Scale upon The Land
24.	Tsegue Maryam Gebrue - The Homeless Wanderer
25.	Max Richter - Song 
26.	William Basinski - Melancholia III

This is a mix based around a bunch of tracks from the 130701 vaults, expanded with the inclusion of a number of other artists, old and new, whose approaches I've found inspiring. It's all people who one way or another are stretching things. I love music that's rooted in strong melodies or rhythms, but I love it even more when these are eaten away at, undermined and pulled apart.  Hopefully this is a mix that takes you on a journey and shows how broad 130701's scope might be.

Dave Howell - 130701 Mix - Electronic Explorations 433

Small selection of tracks from 10 track album of sparse, Beautiful, Piano-led ambient cues drenched in washed-out electronica

Written by Jon Boorman

Published by Primary Music, SONY music Publishing - PMY036

Available for license at Extreme music:

www.extrememusic.com/albums/12991

Album release date:
1 May 2017

Ambient Beauty

The Shape of Winter

Here We Come

for more info have a look here: 
http://www.roberthenke.com/concerts/layering_buddha.html

Robert Henke Layering Buddha Live 2007

Everything is made with sounds found on The Marina. Recorded with a handheld recorder and processed in Logic Audio. Just for fun!

The Lift & The Wind

Olivier Alary and Johannes Malfatti join forces on their collaborative album ‘u,i ’,  a brilliant exploration of mediated modern communication and a timely release that strikes a powerful resonance with our recently heightened experiences of connection and isolation under pandemic conditions. ‘u, i ’ was recorded over VOIP (voice over internet protocol), using the technology as both creative tool and conceptual frame.

Recorded in Berlin and Montreal and the strange virtual space in between, ‘u,i’ was pieced together between 2017-2019, though its genesis dates back fifteen years, to when Olivier and Johannes began dreaming of a network-based studio that could bridge the 6,000 km geographical distance between them. When early public forms of VOIP such as Skype appeared in the early ‘00s, the pair quickly took to the platform to talk and exchange ideas. Whilst it enabled the building of both a friendship and musical collaboration, they quickly noticed its limitations. Poking fun at its often distorted and unintelligible transmission quality, they began accumulating recordings of its strange sonic by-products. As the pair increasingly used VOIP through the years, the musical potential of these recordings and the concept behind ‘u,I’ began to emerge. Spending more time together online than in the same physical space, they noticed their personal experience was widely shared. With contemporary lives increasingly atomised, social interaction is becoming more and more mediated. Meanwhile, an explosion of personal video feeds has given us access to millions of intimate lives online, a raw and fragile glimpse on human existence. This new paradigm gave Olivier and Johannes the idea that it might be possible to build the narrative of a whole life via disconnected fragments posted online.

A reflection on human existence glimpsed through the prism of VOIP, 'u,i' encapsulates our vaporized social existence via a multitude of disconnected ghostly fragments and offers a bittersweet celebration of our interconnection – simultaneously close and detached. Ultimately, the album itself is a dichotomy – it mourns this gap whilst at the same time recognising it as the sole reason for its existence.

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Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti - Drifting

Simon Pyke's involvement in music stretches back 16 years to his first releases as Freeform on some of the most respected music labels including Warp records. After touring worldwide and releasing 9 solo albums Simon set up Freefarm, a music and sound design studio focussed on producing unique sounds for a range of super creative projects. Whether working on a major rebrand for MTV, soundtracking the launch of the Olympics logo or improvising music for a 20 metre long video wall in a gallery, his ethos remains the same; to bring a unique perspective collaborations and lift its impact well beyond the sum of its parts. Freefarm is based in a former stables by the sea in Brighton, England. 

On here there's a selection of my personal favourites from past albums, commercial projects and other bits and pieces. Many of the tracks are available for licensing Contact me simon@freefarm.co.uk for any enquiries.

Just a music lover of a number of genres, but particularly ambient, drone and experimental electronica...

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