@lou_drago

~ Tracklist ~

Ryuichi Sakamoto - 20220304
Christina Vantzou - In A Forest, On Some Moss, Growing
Florian T M Zeisig - Apiary
Antenes - Take Me To The Birds (For A)
Christina Vantzou - Multiplying Into Fields Of Little Voices
Alva Noto + Ryuchi Sakamoto - Uoon I
Alexandra Spence - Communion
Shuttle 358 - Isonpgn
Al Fraser - Hesitant Exploration
Valentino Mora - III1IIIIIIIIII5IIIIIIIII*
Taylor Dupree - Temper
Endurance - Expanding Repetition
Wanderwelle - Jonah
Ligovskoï - Thessalonians
Shuttle 358 - Cloud
Jacob Newman - Vactrol Light
Caterina Barbieri and Lyra Pramuk - Knot of Spirit
Plants Army Revolver - Valle della Luna*
Kevin Verwijmeren - We Believe
Lou Drago - patience to see*
Organic Dial - Actiq
Amma Ateria - stillness : interference
Rrose - Hymn to Moisture
Valentino Mora - IIIIII1IIIIIII6IIIIIIIII*

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I am so grateful to share with you all today a very poignant and sacred entry in the Deep Mind Music series from Lou Drago. Lou has woven together a truly otherworldly psychedelic journey for the soul, a luminescent experience, a gently glowing hologram of emotion 💠

Lou Drago and I connected years ago when they asked me to make a mix for their TRANSIENCE series, which invites contributors to create a “temporary suspension of reality, where the listener can speculate on alternate futures free from all systems of oppression.” We found a synchronicity in the role ambient music has played in our lives, and how it opens portals to new imagined existences for us. Since then, I’ve had the joy of playing for Lou at infinity rug, the ambient-focussed event series they curate with Marum, where we have shared deep chats, silly giggles and shared philosophies (as well as ambient music ofc).

They have put a great deal of thought and care into this mix, which you can hear in the delicately programmed selections, the fluidity of the whole, and the full-being submersion into an emotional plane of existence. From the opening seconds of the mix, clarifying crystalline twinkles open the way, realigning our sense of being, and taking us into this subtle soundscape. This mix feels like a gently calming presence, like both a sigh, and a weight lifted from the shoulders.

As we sink into the mix, we evaporate into vaporous wisps of energy, as expansive washes of sound contrast with infinitesimal whirls and organic instrumentation. We are submerged into a panoramic dreamstate, morphing mystical landscapes expanding before us. Lou guides us through a misty forest teeming with life, droplets of water slipping off the end of intricate leaves around us.

In the final 30 minutes of the mix, I feel as if I am all the flickering stars in the night sky, as interplaying vibrational drones dissolve us into the depths. Lou then very gently lifts us from this state, the atoms of our being carefully reassembled, coming back to reality in a state of blissful harmony. I hope you find peace in this heart-opening trip 🤍🌌🤍

This release comes in the same week that I will be joining Lou as a guest of TRANSIENCE at WHOLE festival this weekend, where we will both be playing ambient sets in the early hours of Saturday. I am really looking forward to this occasion of continued sonic kinship between us, see you there if you are coming 💗

Photo taken by Lou on the way to Portugal, a country where they “always feel a strong grounding energy pulling me through the earth to home”

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@transience-archive
@infinity-rug
https://instagram.com/lou__drago/

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Deep Mind Music

Lou Drago ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.28

aural delights and mind-tickling immersion from @syberkid

₀₁₈ 𝘀𝘆𝗯𝗶𝗹

breakfast regular STDJ with a deeper side of his music collection.

"This set is an immersive exploration into the deeper sounds of my music collection. It is heavily inspired by my recent travels across several continents as well as the musical realm of the rdg tribe."

@stdjbreakfast

recorded in Berlin, Germany
24.09.2023

rdg tape 15 - STDJ

Purelink have emerged as underdogs of the Ambient and Downtempo scenes – the past couple of years has seen the group release a number of records which showcases a deep sense of understanding and ambition toward a genre which is often misunderstood and misheard.

Tommy Paslaski (aka Concave Reflection), Ben Paulson (aka Kindtree) and Akeem Asani (aka Millia) have been releasing music as Purelink – broadening the narrative around their sound as they weave intricate layers, samples and melodies together to create a new age world of their own making.

Their music is atmospheric and rooted in moments of personal reflection and self awareness. They rework material and samples to create something else entirely and the music itself is as much a soundscape or a backdrop to the world of the listener.

Recent releases have come on Peak Oil, UwU dust bath, Naff and Lillerne Tape Club.

Purelink: The Wednesday Alternative Mix

In celebration of its first 10 years in the swamp, G of D is transmitting a new installment of Paradisia, the digital compilation series released every few years.
True to the classic Paradisia ethos, this collection offers a diverse range of sonic experiences, spanning from veteran artists to musician at their debut.

With an unwavering commitment to broadening the horizons of perception and possibility, Paradisia Vol.10 encapsulates the label's eclectic spirit and affinity for the abstract. This journey unfolds through 22 tracks, crafted by long-standing and new collaborators of the label.

www.gangofducks.com

Paradisia Vol.10

Saphileaum - Antikvar

“A mixtape of unreleased music and a few collaborations with friends which I thought would be a perfect mix for a Monday listen.”

KMRU, also known as Joseph Kamaru, is a sound artist originally from Nairobi and currently based in Berlin. He explores sound to convey various interpretations in his work, drawing from his listening experiences in Nairobi and beyond and grounded in the discourse of field recording, noise, and sound art.

Working under the guidance of Jasmine Guffund at Berlin’s Universität der Künste (better known as UDK), KMRU looked at waveforms and embarked on a process where he would “write scores from the shapes, gradually turning the scores into raw synth sounds.”
 

Kamaru’s ambient-experimental music has taken him to the Barbican, Berlin Atonal, Présences
électronique, and seen releases on Editions Mego, Subtext, Seil Records.

His new LP ‘Dissolution Grip,’ released on his OFNOT imprint, marks a shift in his approach, blending field recordings with synthesized sounds, hinting at his evolving musical direction.

With all that in mind, we thought we’d ask Kamaru to put us together this week’s mixtape for a Monday… let’s get stuck in.

@kamarujoseph

INTERVIEW

KMRU - The Ransom Note 'Monday Is OK' Mixtape

"Woven with a characteristic sentimental string, you'll find yourself among the depths of 2000s drum and bass, the dreamy respite of downtempo and the intricate beauty of modern-day IDM.

This mix is dedicated to my longstanding love for ASC's 'Deep Space' mix series, a love that  now projects toward contemporary platforms like INVEINS ~ I'm so grateful to be here."

@pjenne

INVEINS \ Podcast \ 103 \ Pjenné

We are very happy to be able to bid farewell to this year of Introspective Electronics with a deeply personal podcast recorded by the sonic enchantress and a dear friend ~ Amanita 🕊️

Amanita is a DJ and event ptomoter based between Bologna and Berlin. She co-runs the forward-thinking collective and party series Sinestesie in Bologna and across Italy, bringing off-kilter programming to the somewhat homogenous scene of her home city. Alongside her music work, she often works as a stage designer with the Googy Cult project. For Anita, ambient represents the most spiritual part of her sound and soul. It’s where she finds a safe haven and where she always returns when she needs to heal and find inspiration both in music and in life 🔮

This journey, just shy of an hour, was recorded in Anita’s studio in Berlin on a four deck setup and includes some of her most close-to-the-heart records, some of which have been with her since day one. It is a deeply captivating and emotional piece of ambient storytelling, a fairytale of sorts, that hums and crackles and sparkles. That whispers in your ears ancient tales of forest fairies and magick rituals 🧚🏻‍♂️

Sounds by @amanita_p 📿
Visions by @marcomaldarella 🫧

Podcast Series 40 | Amanita

First sketches for a collab with Radboud Mens from 2018, that did not make it to the final album "Transition Recordings" (Astral Industries 2021). It was a bit "too funky" for Astral but still too nice not to share. I never did the overdubs i had in mind....

Discogs gives the final album a rating of 4.9 (out of 5). Great to see so many people love these final recordings, my first after the loss of my best friend and soulmate J. Derwort, bless you. I believe the outtro is a wonderful 4th world scape that i almost forgot, but still love a lot. Free download for now on Soundcloud for you earlybirds. 

We are working now on a brand new double album called "Son Of Chi & Radboud Mens - Return To The Kallikatsou" to be released in 2024 TBA. Looking forward!

Boomkat on Transition Recordings:
"Astral Industries’ fave Hanyo van Oosterom (The Chi Factory) re-enters the label’s orbit in duo with fellow dutch ether explorer Radboud Mens for a minimalist but lush ambient trip".

"Following the 2019 death of The Chi Factory’s J. Derwort, ‘The Transition Recordings’ see Hanyo continue to expand the group’s legacy, looping in explorative sound artist and producer Radboud Mens to assist in unfurling his vision of diaphanous pads threaded with silvery solo piano keys, murmuring ether voices and mesmerising touches of Hassellian 4th world wind".

"In combination they cultivate a sort night garden sound full of sensory inference and esoteric suggestion, where sounds synaesthetically take on both visual and olfactory symbolism but never fully reveal their whole shape, kept in a state of transient impermanence or ephemerality that totally seduces the horizontal and plays out on the back of one’s eyelids".

Juno on Transition Recordings:
"Newcomers to Astral Industries have happened upon the label at a great moment here. Hanyo van Oosterom is continuing the fantastic work he was involved in with J. Derwort under the Chi project name following the latter's death in 2019. Now producing under the moniker Son of Chi, it's an extension rather than a repetition of what has come before it".

"Tonal vocabulary expanded, it feels more immersive and grander than ever before, and yet retains the fundamentals that first enraptured us. Organic instrumentation and the sense of falling ever deeper into dreamlike states of consciousness are just two ways of describing what both Chi and the new offspring concept bring to the table. These are new sonic worlds opening up before our mind's eye, packed with mystery, lamentation, and hope for tomorrow'.

Saphileaum - Antikvar

Gang Of Ducks

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