@hems 

The next Deep Mind Music comes from one of my dearest friends, and greatest inspirations - hems

hems and I have a special connection, we both love to adventure through musical lands strange and beguiling, evocative and unusual, and have spent many hours together digging through obscure backcatalogs or making our own noises experimenting with hems’ many synthesisers in his studio in London 🧡

hems plays music like no one else I know, he has a magic touch and deep sensitivity for representing all shades of human existence. From the sublime to the transcendent, the unsettling to the hilarious, hems’ sets takes listeners to the beyond and then further still.

I first invited hems to make a mix many years ago, so I am very happy to finally welcome an entry from him. This recording is the first 2.5 hours of an all-night 8 hour set hems played at an intimate private gathering in Mexico City in March of this year.

In this recording hems coaxes us to drift inwards, to enter into an unusual landscape, to open up to all the elements of sound, contrasting pre-Hispanic music with vintage synthesizer tracks and much more.  

Listening to hems’ sets over the years has expanded my mind towards new possibilities, his selections and genius touch for programming evoking many deep epiphanies and insights. This mix is brimming with vitality and life, I hope you enjoy this kaleidoscopic voyage into the mystical 🌿 ~

Alongside DJing, hems produces very deep and intricate experimental electronic music I highly recommend checking out, often utilitising spatial audio systems or even playing gongs live, and he also runs the amazing Titrate records with @o-utlier, as well as his own mix series @hardcore-chillout with @EightFoldWay

https://titrate.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/titraterecords
https://instagram.com/thatshems/
https://hems.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/hardcore-chillout

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Downloads Enabled ~

hems ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.33

This recording is from the first edition of L’Appuntamento, a series of open-air listening sessions initiated by Villa Lontana Records and Donato Dozzy in Rome. Each gathering pairs a vinyl set by Dozzy with a live electroacoustic performance by a new-generation artist.

In this first edition, held in the garden of Villa Lontana, Donato Dozzy opened the evening with a selection of minimal, folkloric, and acoustic-rooted records — setting the tone for Verde Prato’s live performance.

L’Appuntamento is an ongoing invitation to pause, tune in, and share time through listening. 
Next appointment is Thursday 26 June 2025 with Ange Halliwell.

L'Appuntamento with Donato Dozzy + Verde Prato - Listening session at Villa Lontana on 11 May 2024

For this episode of our Komorebi Podcast Series, we welcome Swiss DJ, producer, and curator Ben Kaczor, an artist whose sonic language speaks directly to emotion. With a sound that fluidly bridges the introspective and the physical, Kaczor weaves together elements of techno, deep house, and dub techno into minimal yet immersive soundscapes. His sets evoke monochrome atmospheres, subtle melancholy, and deep inner resonance, crafted for spaces of both solitude and connection.

A recent addition to Dial Records and co-founder of St. Odes, his creative path is rooted in a multidimensional approach to sound and art. Whether curating, producing, or performing, Kaczor remains anchored in a clear vision: music to be felt, not deconstructed.

Tune in and dissolve into this timeless sonic journey.

Ben Kaczor #04 - Komorebi Podcast Series

the 6th chapter as the previous 5 chapters is education 
that a lot of alleged "House" DJs and Producers are 
obviously lacking showcasing modern, vintage and 
out of print/promo labels:

trax records, underground, house records, precision,
sunstar records, dezzarotic records, l.a. club resource, 
gherkin records, chicago connection, still music chicago,
dark entries and chiwax to productions from: 

ron hardy, felix de housecat’s 1st production, sweet d,
gene hunt, larry heard, farley jackmaster funk, virgo 4, 
x2, dmarc cantu, steve summers, boyd jarvis, juju, 
leron carson, g strings, ron morelli, terence woodard, 
delroy edwards, mutant beat dance and a new production of jakbeat to come from chicago 
with a new alias project dropping later this year 
in 2025 for a label we support.
(more news on that later)


⚠️ warning ⚠️ 
this selection covers the building blocks of the 
early dance music scene with selections of today 
and yesterday incorporating musical blueprint dubs,
a couple of vocals in between but overall: 
a raw style of basement underground tracks 
of Chicago and New York’s timeless heroes & icons 
we admire, honor and inspired by their education.

we hope this will give people the chance to 
listen to music many may have never heard 
on this side of sound that provides a provocative 
and thoughtful musical workout in your mind 
with vinyl turntables, a vintage mix console 
with an effects box and cd players.

this selection is personally dedicated 
to my beloved heart ♥️ vicki, jason, nestor, 
mark grusane, naughty wood, ron morelli,
kozmik, strangeland, alex from queens, uncle tom
and the dancers and dreamers for the continuation 
of the lessons and storytelling of chicago with 
sincerity 🎶✨

runtime: 3 hours 50 minutes 

****more chapters to come in due time****

{Traxx} Presents- The Definitive Articles of House Music Chapter 6

Expansive dub vibrations from the On-U Sound maestro.

Adrian Sherwood has spent nearly five decades reshaping how dub is heard and felt. From absorbing reggae and funk as a teenager at the Newlands Club in High Wycombe to cofounding On-U Sound in 1979, he’s been a restless force in British sound system culture. His debut production, Dub From Creation, signalled his instinct to twist the Jamaican form into bold, experimental directions.

That spirit defined On-U Sound, where reggae collided with post-punk, industrial and synth pop to forge a catalogue still unlike anything else. Sherwood became a crucial bridge, producing for legends like Prince Far I, Bim Sherman and Lee “Scratch” Perry, while also working with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Sinéad O’Connor.

His  RA Mix (yes, you read that right) arrives at a moment of renewal—RA.1001 is the first in a new era for the series. (After 1,000 editions of the RA Podcast, we're updating the name to better reflect what it's become.) 

Recorded at his Ramsgate studio, the 76-minute mix folds in cuts from <i>The Collapse Of Everything<i> alongside material from across the On-U Sound universe, plus collaborations with Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Coldcut and Spoon. It's Sherwood doing what he's always done: stretching dub into endless new shapes.

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1019

RA.1001 Adrian Sherwood

With the colours of autumn coming alive and the first morning mists rolling in, we're delighted to introduce the latest Deep Breakfast mix, carefully curated by the talented Vidění.

Vidění is a project in constant search for sounds that create mental, hypnotic, deep and ambient constructions. Inspired by unconventional rhythmic structures in which light, darkness, tension, organic elements and an infinity of emotions coexist.
Check out his recent release on Ambient Matter entitled "Ocean Resonance" https://ambientmatter.bandcamp.com/album/ocean-resonance

About the mix he said:
“Wrapped in a mist and a light sleep where contours blur and time slows, deep and ethereal sounds take shape, creating suspended harmonies that guide us on an inner journey where thought is silent and the soul listens.”

Tracklist :
1. Owl - Towards The Dawn’s Light
2. Inhmost - Sea Mist 
3. Elin Piel - x2000
4. ASC - Nautical Depths  
5. The Vision Reels & Barefoot - Internal Wave 4
6. ASC - Throughout The Years                           
7. Warmth - Saros
8. Inhmost - Wind Swept
9. LF58 - Utopia
10. David Cordero - Serena
11. Sanjib - Angel’s Entrance  
12. Sam KDC - Subsequent Evolution
13. Jarguna & Uzbazur - Enligtenment  
14. Benoît Pioulard & offthesky - Memorize
15. Markus Guentner, Joachim Spieth - Apastron
16. Barefoot - Sonder              
17. Sciama - Changing Reflection
18. Owl - Dark Night Skies

Photo by Daniil Silantev

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Deep Breakfast 329 ~ Vidění

A soft dive into memory oceans, where light bends gently and nothing demands your name.

Shimmer

Surprise Me

London duo Swayzak deliver this week's RA podcast.

RA.069 Swayzak

The revered German producer records his very first podcast.

RA.244 Isolee

We're taking you deep into a realm where the warmth and humanity of dub meets the cold, precise, mechanistic impulses of techno. A record like the seminal remix of "Starlight" by Model 500 (AKA Juan Atkins) is a perfect example of the power of spatiality: every element in the mix is given breathing space and, accordingly, takes on a sense of the organic. It's a work of architectural, structural, and musical genius. It's a fitting name and a perfect end to our brief insight into a world that drips with sonic richness. Pretty much every good dub techno record ever made has a similar framework like "Twelve Miles High" by Burger/Ink. Those records, and a hundred more like them, ride and roll on the kind of blissed out chord patterns that could repeat into infinity.  These are the roots of dub techno, the vast majority of tracks on this mix were made before 2000! 

1.0	A Conversation About Reality
2.0	Micronism-Contemplating-of-a-quiet-mind (1998) 
3.0	Basic channel - Quadrant Dub I Edit (1994) 
4.0	Substance-vainqueur-Reverberation (2003) 
5.0	Pub – Summer (2000)
6.0	Maurizio-m-45-side-a (1995)
7.0	Ultrabase - In Aeternam Vale (1993)
8.0	Burger-Ink-Twelve Miles High (1996)
9.0	Akufen - Architextures_A architextures 1 (2000)
10.0 Model-500-Starlight-moritz-mix-aka-maurizio-remix (1995) 
11.0	Maurizio-Domina-Maurizio-mix (1993) 
12.0 Fluxion - Vibrant Forms 2 (1999)
13.0 Visuals on LSD ? 
14.0 Theorem – Cinder (1998) 
15.0	Substance aka Vainqueur-libration (2007) 
16.0	Infiniti - Think Quick (Moritz Von Oswald '94 Remodel) – 1994 
17.0	Paul St. Hilaire & René Löwe - Faith (Vox Mix) – 2003 
18.0	Convextion-Ebulience (1997) 
19.0	Yagya Existence is weird / Old weak light
20.0	Basic Channel - Lyot Remix (1993)
21.0	Basic Channel ‎- Radiance II (1995)
22.0	Yagya-rigning-two (2009)

Dub techno classics

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. Basically from 60 to 70 hours a week listening for new music. 

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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!

Dub techno classics

Jeff Chill