Cooking up some green beans and snow peas with a fragrant Thai green curry sauce while dropping some tuna at magical Wide Open Space festival in Australias Red Centre

Soundfood live @ Wide Open Space 2021

We have been waiting with anticipation for this one for quite a while.With great pleasure Explorations 28 is delivered by the one and only FERKSTA.
FERKSTA (John Paul Moss) is a legend on the NZ music scene. His love for all things doof and his constant contributions to the music scene arte invaluable and a shining light for all to follow.
Finding electronica through the likes of non techno artists such as YELLO and JEAN MICHELLE JARRE an ear for melody and drama was obviously formed.Part of the early UK rave scene, House, techno and jungle were constants in his ears.However it was regular jaunts to Auckland Institution THE BOX that really sparked fireworks.
Throwing his first rave in NOV 1991 (Arguably Aotearoas first) it has been a life filled with making people come together, dance and enjoy what is good in life.
FERKSTA behind the decks is a bundle of energy and joy. His sound is genre defying. A walk between prog, psy and techno that sits very comfortably in big rooms and stages.
This mix is a stellar drive through his crate. This is not for the faint hearted.
When asked what is good in life his answer..
Everything. Even the bad is good when viewed as such… eventually. 
I love everything. 
I love you!
Thanks for this opportunity my friends. I truly appreciate it.
Shine on!

You too brother.!!
Enjoy

FERKSTA. LO-FI Presents EXPLORATIONS 28

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So that officially wraps up the first ten tunes of the month, and I guess this album of tracks. 
I'll have this available on bandcamp for all the mix lords out there in the coming weeks, but for now, you'll have to bare with me 😉 Anyway, the next round of tunes coming up will be a little more spacey, a little more cosmic, maybe a little less dark and edgy, who the fuck knows 😉. we shall see where the next ten days unfold,
Happy evening to you all 🙏❤️

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Please enjoy this chillout set played live for Jungle Space Party in Studio City.

Tracklist:
Tripswitch - Tachyon
Magic Sound Fabric - Cosmic Consciousness
Panna Cotta - Childhood
Abakus - Liberated from the Negative
Zen Baboon - Weeedz
Tom Misch - Wake Up This Day
Openzone Bar - Where No One Can Hear You
Tripswitch - Roll Your Own
FUTVRST - Sun Phase
Panna Cotta - Tasting Sugar
Psychemagik - Valley of Paradise
Yonderboi - Riders On the Storm
Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band - A Special Morning
dZihan & Kamien - 99
Abakus - The Beginning
Dousk - Anagram

Exolinguist - Jungle Space Party Chillout Set - Live in Studio City - April 16, 2022

Set Recorded At Circadian Rhythms 4th Birthday Sept 2022

Heloco @ Circadian Rhythms Sept'22

You can get this album from:

Bandcamp: https://pnfa.bandcamp.com/album/closer
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1i6eGTEgppczUYZKmqB4EQ
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pnfa/sets/closer-968933311
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/de/release/closer/5221479
Youtube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nMyvgfCXUATCA5HowmXjEuw2-nNtGt2VE
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/de/artist/pnfa/70241046
Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0FKMXWM9Z
Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/album/451341184
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/de/album/797071091
Audiomack: https://audiomack.com/pnfa-1/album/closer

About the album: 

With "Closer", PNFA — the long-running electronic music project of German producer and composer Wolfram Gruss — presents a deeply emotional, sonically rich dance album that manages to balance physical intensity with lyrical introspection. Rooted in the rhythmic DNA of techno, house, and UK garage, "Closer" reaches far beyond the dancefloor. It is a record about memory, longing, and the fragile beauty of connection.

Though every track is anchored in powerful grooves and basslines, there’s an unmistakable emotional core that permeates the album. Gruss masterfully weaves in cinematic melodies, textured atmospheres, and subtle harmonic shifts that suggest stories without words. These aren’t just tracks built for movement — they are meditations on lost love, on moments that once burned brightly and have since faded, on the kind of nostalgia that hits hardest when the night is at its peak.

From pulsating, club-ready cuts to more reflective, slow-building compositions, "Closer" flows like a carefully curated journey. Each track stands strong on its own, yet together they form a cohesive narrative that invites listeners to go inward, even as their bodies respond to the rhythm. It’s this tension — between momentum and stillness, between euphoria and melancholy — that defines the emotional terrain of the album.

Wolfram Gruss has long held a reputation for thought-provoking electronic music, and "Closer" continues this trajectory with remarkable depth and attention to detail. Every sound feels deliberate yet organic, each percussive element finely tuned, each melodic layer carefully placed. There’s an intimacy to the production that makes the album feel personal, even vulnerable, despite its club foundations.

"Closer" is not just an album to dance to — it’s one to feel deeply. It’s about closing the distance between past and present, between sound and story, between artist and listener. It asks you to move, but also to remember. It pulses with life, yet leaves space for silence. Above all, it is an invitation: to come closer, to feel more, and to lose yourself — not just in the music, but in everything it brings to the surface.

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