zikzak mix 9 - Ambient Techno 1991 - 1996

More details and full download can be found at zikzak.substack.com

Double Muffled Dolphin - "Floating Clock Frequency"
Daniel Pemberton –  "Antartica"
Atmolieb  "Koyaanisquatsi"
Mali Rain - "Koan" (Dark Mix)
Human Mesh Dance - "Dahlia"
Dream Dolphin  - "L.E.A. (Mirror Codinale Mix)"  Remixed By The Heavenly Music Corporation
Heavenly Music Corporation - " Energy Portal"
Young American Primitive - "Sunrise"
Afrotrance -  "Flying Dreams"
Biosphere - "Tranquilizer"
Synthetix - "The Tao Of Dub"
Amorphous Androgynous - "Mountain Goat"
Solitaire - "In Out"
Higher Intelligence Agency -"Speedlearn" (Reformed By The Irresistible Force)
Jam & Spoon - "N.A.S.A. Nocturnal Audio Sensory Awakening"
Solar Quest - "Save The Whale"
Aedena Cycle - "The Travellers' Dream"
Subsurfing - "The Number Readers (Ambient Mix)"
Yoshihiro Sawasaki - "Magic Dome"
David Morley - "Evolution"
Meditation Y.S. - "Frozen Road"
Global Communication – "8:07"
Akio/Okihide - Phoenix At Desert
Keiichi Suzuki - Satellite Serenade (The Orb Trans Asian Express Mix)
New London School Of Electronics - "Voices Of The Rain Forest (Live At The Erotica, Paris (Blackout Mix)
James Bernard - "Lost In It"
Pressure Of Speech - "Surveillance"
Sideral - "Mare Nostrum"
The Rapino Brothers -"Go Ahead London - Glouchester Ave Mix"
Offworld Communication Systems - "Net"
Pentatonik - "El Amor"
Optic Eye - "The Listening"
Palomatic - "Flutter"
Reload - "Le Soleil et la Mer"
Fugue - "Contrapoint"
Trans-4M - "Dencity" 
Yennek -  "Emperical Reality (Fake Piano Mix)"
Luke Slater - "Expectation No.1"
Beaumont Hannant – "T 60160293"
Phenomyna - "Earthfall"
Sandoz - "Chocolate Machine"
Rising Sun - "Ocean View"
Baby Ford - "Monolense"

zikzak mix 9 - Ambient Techno 1991 - 1996 (5 hours)

Music for spaceports explores ethereal sounds, with a low key drone-ish approach to ambient. After assembling nearly 300 tracks, I trimmed the playlist down to 70-80 tracks with a final cut of 40 tracks in almost 3 h 00. It's music you can sleep to, work at the same time or study, with a keen emphasis on calm and soothing atmospheres & soundscapes. Carefully curated over the course of several months, I hope this mix brings you peace  adrift in Space in a state of weightlessness & mindfulness. 

Tracklist:
1-Intro from a SF movie
2-L'odyssée interstellaire
3-Stellardrone - Ethereal
4-David Cordero & Rhucle-Beyond_the_horizon
5-Atmøsphäre & Bålsam - Forgotten forest
6-Atmøsphäre - Elevate
7-Yagya-Untitled ambient track
8-Stormloop - Space station
9-Toki Fuko - Spirit machine part II
10-HIA - Skydiver
11-Loscil - Fromme
12-Tetsu Inoue - Wabi
13-Taennya - hare footprints
14-Biosphere - Decryption (Sketch Remix 2)
15-Biosphere - MIR
16-Biosphere - Microgravity
17-Biosphere - Hyperborea
18-Farron - In Qsub
19-Dronny Darko - Doze for erico
19-Dots-Dots
20-Atom heart - One Atomsecond
21-Gel-sol - Raneboze
22-Sleep Research Facility - 79° S 83° W
23-Dots-Dense
24-Dots-Spinout segment
25-BBC audio workshop
26-Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Telepathy II 
27-James Bernard - Mars rain (extended edit)
28-Mount Shrine - Heartland 
29-Atmøsphäre & Victor Yibril - Gift Of The Caves
30-Purl & Sinius - Endless Wonder
31-The Aurora Principle - And the Waves Washed Over Me
32-Ishqamatics - A Curvation Of Airs
33-Gel-sol - Your day in the sun
34-Backside Of The Moon - 4AM Weightless Drift Ambient Mix 
35-Gigi Masin - The city lights 
36-Brian Eno-An Ending Ascent NASA 
37-Alva Noto - Xerrox néant 
38-Kazuya Nagaya - Mother Wading in the River
39-Monolake - Venice beach 
40-Biosphere - Bird watching

Samples from movies and documentaries : 

Contact (1997)
L'odyssée interstellaire (French documentary)
The Right Stuff (1983) - The U.S. space program's development
1964: ARTHUR C CLARKE predicts the FUTURE |  | BBC Archive

#Yagya
#TetsuInoue
#TokiFuko
#Biosphere
#Loscil
#BillLaswell
#ISHQ
#BrianEno
#AlvaNoto 
#ithinkthereforeiambient

Music for Spaceports 006 : adrift in Space

This month, we are delighted to welcome Vinsen, based in The Hague, to our series. Slowly and steadily, he’s been crafting a musical realm that drifts between heartwarming melodies, textured soundscapes, and subtle grooves. His mixes and DJ sets reflect a deep passion for storytelling, drawing inspiration from fantasy worlds, sci-fi books, and the everyday beauty of life in his city.

This particular mix was recorded mostly at the enchanting Above Below festival in the UK, surrounded by rolling hills, a gentle brook, blooming trees, and birdsong—a setting that felt straight out of a fairytale. Inspired by the magic of the landscape, Vinsen brought that dreamy atmosphere to The Coombe, the festival’s special ambient stage. The final version has been subtly adapted for a more intimate and conscious listening experience at home.

@vincent-campfens
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Conscious Listening Mix Series - 35 - Vinsen (Live at Above Below festival 2024, UK)

Second part of this tribute to Alexander Shirokov and Dmitry Bodunov, also known as Advanced Dreams:

0:00:00 Stateless (Deep side)
0:10:15 Motion9
0:16:40 Moon (version)
0:26:42 Be y
0:38:15 はい
0:49:40 Waiting Of Landing
1:05:15 Exercise 3
1:11:50  Absent Presence (Heavenchord Reshape)
1:17:00 Leaving islands of Memory
1:25:15 Dark Spectrum
1:32:27 Letters From The Past
1:46:04 In Moment Of….

In Concert: Advanced Dreams #2

Today's guest mix arrives as the perfect soundtrack to these scorching summer days that seem to stretch on endlessly, capturing the vibrant energy and laid-back vibe of the season. We welcome Vakula, a leading figure in the Ukrainian electronic music scene.

The journey began in 1998, behind the decks of a local radio station, where Vakula played drum & bass and trip-hop sets for a handful of night listeners. By 2004, he was already diving into the deep waters of dub techno, drawn not by fashion, but by a persistent inner frequency.
Soon after, Vakula moved to the capital — a city now at war — where he spent eleven formative years. The original plan was simple: earn enough money to reach a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. But life, borders, and timing had other ideas. Instead, he stayed and followed sound.
Over the years, Vakula became part of the underground scene, eventually becoming a resident at iconic clubs such as Propaganda and Zeppelin, while also playing in many of the legendary venues of that era. By 2008, music had turned into a passport, taking him across continents to places where electronic sound truly thrived.
Genre was never a boundary. Jazz, rock, hip-hop, ambient, house, techno, drum & bass — everything served the same purpose: to explore, to feel, to connect. In 2011, he returned to his small hometown and built an analog studio, carving out space to listen more deeply.
Over time, the surface of the global scene began to feel thinner, less sacred. In 2020, he stepped back from performance and immersed himself in a three-year exploration of shamanic practices — not for spectacle, but for personal insight. This inner work changed his relationship with sound, and opened up new levels of depth, stillness, and presence in his music.
By 2025, Vakula let go of the path of the spirits, realizing that some stories are not his to walk. Vakula returned, not to where he started, but to a clearer understanding of his role: to keep listening, to keep creating, and to stay honest in sound.
Through it all, Vakula remains one of the early pioneers and enduring voices in the Ukrainian electronic scene — not the mainstream one, but a world of his own: where forest replaces the city center, where meadows stand in for mindless entertainment, and where trees are steadier than fleeting friendships. His connection to Ukraine has never been about slogans. It’s a quiet, unwavering love — for the land, for the people who still feel, and for his hometown of Konotop, which lives in every frequency he shapes.

Tracklist:
1. Vakula - Thaw of the Silent Peak
2. Jonn Serrie - The Observation Deck
3. Ariel Kalma - Flute Meditation
4. Vakula - Stellar Echoes
5. Steve Roach - The Ancient’ Way
6. Vakula - True Self
7. Jonn Serrie - Along The Way
8. Vakula - Ananta Nada

Photo by Kyan Tijhuis

Vakula
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vakula_sound

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Deep Breakfast 319 ~ Vakula

Release Date: November 14, 2025
Support: https://lowcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/12-am-not-for-sleeping
Linkhub: https://music.imusician.pro/a/d_u20alv

Low Communication is the musical project of Bohdan Linchevskyi from Ukraine. Originally an ambient endeavor, it has evolved into a more elusive and genre-fluid expression. His work has been released by respected labels such as Byrd Out, Neotantra, and last year under our sublabel, EQ. 

In his latest release, “12 AM Not For Sleeping”, with EC Underground, the artist presents some of his most percussively intense work to date. Expect intricate drum breaks, spoken word fragments, raw textures, aggressive melodies, and, as always, a subtle ambient thread running beneath the surface. This release features a collection of six remixers from our roster: J-LOWER, Evry, Eden Grey, DJ Track, Aderacid, and LAMEBOT.

Credits: 
All tracks composed, produced and mixed by Bohdan Linchevsky ( Богдан Лінчевський ) aka @skyl1ned
Mastering by @frankriggio
Artwork by @moicflo
© Low Communication ℗ EC Underground 2025

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Low Communication - Bitrate Mushrooms

A little dance track I put together after a holiday in Ibizia, earlier this year.
An inspiration from my time in the scene there.
It's a bit out of character but had fun making it.

More Sugar

In 1992, Namlook created FAX as a means of releasing his own productions and collaborations. The label swiftly evolved into a huge stable for ambient-leaning artists of all shapes and stripes. The label was very much forged Namlook’s own image: catalogue numbers starting with PK signified a solo release, those with PS pointed towards other artists, and PW were reserved for collaborative exercises. Each of the releases were rarely printed in batches of more than 1000, building FAX’s cult cache considerably.

Namlook’s own work formed the bulk of FAX’s output, and runs to somewhere in the region of 130 albums. As you’d expect from a discography that capacious, it’s a highly varied collection. Alongside this 3 h 30 ambient mix, this mix shows an enormous body of work, a major achievement, and testament to a work ethic contemporaries could do well to learn from. If Aliens listened to music this is what they would be bumping in their spacecrafts.

Tracklist Fax Ambient mix tribute:  Fax +49-69/450464 

In memoriam - Peter Kuhlmann : 1960-2012

1.0	Pete Namlook’s slice interview part II
2.0	Pulsation – Pulsar (The Ambient Cookbook II-2002)
1992)
3.0	Hearts Of Space – Drawn (The Ambient Cookbook II-2002)
1993)
4.0	Higher Intelligence Agency* & Pete Namlook ‎–Secret Location (S.H.A.D.O – 1997)
5.0	Tetsu Inoue – Karmic light (Ambient otaku – 1994) 
6.0	Organic Cloud ‎– Ring of power (Organic Cloud – 1995)
7.0	Autumn Of Communion ‎– Autumn Of Communion (Autumn Of Communion ‎– Autumn Of Communion -2012)
8.0	Dreamfish ‎– Under water (Dreamfish – 1993)
9.0	The Fires Of Ork ‎– The Fires Of Ork – 1993
10.0	The Fires Of Ork ‎– When the night was black (The Fires Of Ork 2 – 2007)
11.0	Electro Harmonix ‎– Morphing cloud (Electro Harmonix – 1994)
12.0	The Fires Of Ork ‎– Gebrige (The Fires Of Ork – 1993)
13.0	Dreamfish ‎– School of fish (Dreamfish – 1993)
14.0	Silence ‎– While angels sleep (Silence V – 2001)
15.0	Organic Cloud ‎– Bionic Commune  (Organic Cloud – 1995)
16.0	Mick Chillage ‎– Approaching Antares (FAXology-2011)
17.0	Move D / Namlook ‎– Sea of holes (Let The Circle Not Be Broken – 2006)
18.0	I.F. ‎– I.F. aka Deep Space Network & Dr. Atmo – Kisy loa (I.F. ‎– I.F. – 1994_)
19.0	Pete Namlook & David Moufang - Move D • Namlook XVIII ~ Get Your Chillums Out (Move D / Namlook ‎– Move D • Namlook XVIII: Sexoid - 2008)
20.0	Sultan - Gel Gör Beni Ask N'Eyledi (Sultan – 1996) 
21.0	Shades Of Orion ‎– Orion transfer 1-2-3 (Shades Of Orion 2 – 1995) 
22.0	Air ‎– Wind  - ( Air -FAX & Rising High Records 0 1993) 60:00	
23.0	Richie Hawtin · Pete Namlook - A Million Miles To Earth ‎(From Within I-1994) / Sequential - The Mission To The Sun (The Ambient Cookbook II-2002)
24.0	Mick Chillage ‎– Gamma radiation (FAXology-2011)
25.0	Pete-namlook & Richie-hawtin-Future-surfacing-what-lies-ahead (From Within II – 1995)

FAX Ambient mix

1)	Reload : The enlightment (1993)
2)	Reload : Teq (1993) 
3)	Biosphere : The third planet (1994)
4)	Bola : Glink (1998) 
5)	FSOL : Papua new guinea [Long 12 mix] (1991)
6)	L.F.O. : LFO [Leed warehouse mix : Re-edit of the edit ] (1991)
7)	Terence Mc Kenna : Reclaim your mind
8 )	Autechre : Clipper (1998)
9)	Nav Katze : Wild horses [Global communication mix] (1994)
10)	 Sister Love : The hypnotist [1991 ambient mix] (1991)
11)	 Carl Craig : Sleep (1993)
12)	 BFC : Chicken noodle soup (1993) 
13)	 69 aka Carl Craig : Desire (1994) 
14)	 Air Liquide : If there’s no gravity (1994) 
15)	 Robert Leiner : To places you’ve never been (1994) 
16)	 System 7 : Altitude [Mayday mix] (1992) 
17)	 Morgan Geist : Highway hypnosis (1996) 
18)	 Slam : White shadows (1996) 
19)	 Orbital : Lush [1926 Trancendance mix ] (1993)
20)	 Speedy J : G spot (1995) 
21)	 Rhythmatic : Frequency (Depth Mix) 
22)   LTJ Bukem : Demon’s theme (1991)
23)	 Carl Craig : At les (1997) 
24)	 Leftfield : Song of life (1992)
25)	 Link : Amenity ( 2001) 
26)	 Max 404 : Infinite legs (1995) 
27)	 Underground resistance : Big stone lake (1991)
28)	 Detroit Escalator company : Force (1996) 
29)	 Sean Deason : Interlude (2000) … Speedy J : Lanzarote (1995) 
30)	 Tamaris plays Global communication (Mini-mix : 1994)

Ambient techno tribute 2 : 1991-2001

Music For Spaceports - 005

I continue to upload all the mixes i did during the years to my channels. There's quite a few of them.

This time a special mix i did for Soundscape Mix Series. Episode 109.

P.S. some fresh mixes are coming soon. So stay tuned for those.

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Music curator and a selector. Avid record collector (cd's and vinyls) and a mixologist since the late 1990's. Radio show host from 2000 to 2009. Resident DJ from 2002 to 2012. I spend a lot of time listening to new and older music, curation is my passion.

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Music I like : ambient, techno, dub-tech, deep house, Detroit Techno, IDM, downtempo, trip-hop and hip-hop, funk, electro, italo-disco, synth pop, new wave, krautrock, jazz, OST & dub. 

Infuences :  Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Biosphere, Can, Vangelis, Global communication, Autechre, FSOL, Photek, Aphex Twin, David Toop, Laurent Garnier, Plastikman, Underworld, Speedy J, Gescom, Beyond records, Waveform, Rising High, DJ Shadow, Monolake, Bandulu, UR, Basic Channel & Chain Reaction, Rhythm & Sound, Rockers Hi-Fi, Burial and lately : EEE edits, Kuniyuki, Dialog, Music From Memory (label) and Sound migration.

I am mostly interested in mingling with record collectors, art lovers & music connoisseurs alike. Real DJ's who play live and collectors of physical medias. Birds of a feather flock together!

Ambient techno tribute 2 : 1991-2001

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