@lukemele in the basement on May 31st, 2025.

luke mele Kismet May 2025

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

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www.pleasuregallery.net

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takeo.k - pleasure gallery s4 e12

| WD-40 | w/ Marley Swain | E9

Fear of Living is more than just a track  it’s a descent into the abyss of sound. Built on a relentless hypnotic pulse that drives forward like a heartbeat under duress, while layers of brooding synths, ghostly textures, and shadowed atmospheres create a sense of both beauty and dread.
The track unfolds like a dark narrative, rising from eerie stillness into waves of tension and release. Each drop feels like a collapse of crumbling stone, each build like the tightening grip of fear itself. The result is a cinematic journey immersive, ominous, and deeply human in its exploration of vulnerability.
It speaks to those who dance on the edge where rhythm becomes ritual and music becomes a mirror of inner shadows.
Fear of Living delivers a rare combination of power and introspection. It is both weapon and confession a soundtrack for nights that blur into memory, for ruins both external and internal, and for the beauty that emerges when we confront the darkness within.

FEAR OF LIVING

Peaked In '96 (Short Version)

A driving 130 BPM meditative trance journey built on hypnotic rhythm and pure tone. Stripped of excess, it focuses on the essence of trance: steady pulse, immersive flow, and entrancing clarity. Designed for deep dance-floor meditation and timeless movement. Tuned to 432mhz.

130bpm_meditation_432mhz

Max Self Helpline - Aaja Channel 1 - 17 09 25

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Mankiyan & karel @ Kiosk Radio 30.09.2025

Two hours of timeless and minimalist dance music from German label Perlon – since their first release over twenty years ago, the name "Perlon" has become synonymous with funky, stripped back, and offkilter house and techno that has long-since outlasted the minimal house scene of the early 2000s that the label was birthed in. 

Selected and mixed by[ ML of 150 Session.](https://www.nts.live/shows/150session) 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-perlon-2nd-october-2025

NTS Guide to: Perlon 021025

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