Recorded live at Villa San Michele during 53100 festival 2024. Photo by Teo Giovanni Poggi

Garçon @ 53100 - 2024

This contribution is a very special one, as it marks a new chapter in The Observatory’s sound… 

We will always be a home for ambient and experimental sounds. But, moving forward, we will also be exploring our love for dance music, with a particular focus on the deep end.

To begin this new journey and warm things up, we are so happy to welcome back Timnah, who gifts us with a two-hour recording of her set at Omen Wapta, ADE’24. A mind-bending traversal through ambient, drone, and halftime experiments, exploring the liminal spaces between the listening room and the dance floor.
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Timnah lives, works and feeds the cats in the Northwestern extremities of Switzerland. Brought up in her parents’ jazz clubs and deeply influenced by her brother’s love for dub and soundsystem culture, she started DJing just after the massively feared Millenium Bug had threatened to offset our relation to time and space. Dedicated to drawing her own map of late 20th century sonic landscapes, she spent the early 2000s exploring 90s electronics including breakbeat, triphop, ambient techno, drum&bass, house and jungle. After a short but sweet excursion into producing in the early 2010s, Timnah dedicated herself fully to spinning the wheels and transversing genres, gravitating towards her current signature sound that spans immersive sound baths and intergalactic carpet rides in half-time. Timnah is a member of Amenthia Recordings and a recent addition to the A Walking Contradiction Collective.
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Artist Support:

https://soundcloud.com/timnah-sommerfeldt
https://ra.co/dj/timnahsommerfeldt
https://www.instagram.com/timnah_amenthia

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Timnah @ Omen Wapta, ADE, 2024

For this episode, we’re taking you to the textured, floating world of Nikos, producer, DJ, visual designer and dancefloor conductor with a love for groove and hypnotic storytelling. He has a playful approach and infectious energy, building bridges between sound, movement and visuals.

Nikos is always drawn to the combination of hypnotic elements and groove, often percussion driven and with a lot of texture. “I’m a fanatic dancer myself and also often dj or perform music for dance workshops or events around audience participation. These events give me the freedom to play music with a broader pallet and it is inspiring to see people responding to every sound you are bringing in. 

His sets often travel from ambient soundscapes to heavy rhythmics and back again, but for SKIN, he’s slowed things down:
“For this mix, I wanted to focus on a slower mix with tracks that have a floating feeling, subtle percussion and pulsating basslines.”

Outside the booth, Nikos curates Pelagic, a listening session concept for slower sounds, and Dohm, a party series which is more oriented around dance music, both based in and around Rotterdam.

Follow Nikos: 
https://www.instagram.com/nikostenhoedt/
https://soundcloud.com/nikos_nikos

Latest release (compilation of Hyperwaves)
https://hyperwaves.bandcamp.com/album/va-volume-2

Tracklist:

Saptura - Sindh
SAUCO - Qoa
Huone - Vladislav Delay
Caldera - Body 2002
Floating Motion - Atomic Moog
Valentino Mora - Homage to Function
Subparcel - Monosym
Sinister Maze - Polygonia
Laogan - Shoal
Eneric - Mick Gristle Hasvat Informant
Introduction - Charles LCC
Spiral I - Sub Accent
Transform Dub - Arkajo
Dolphin Skii - Caldera
Neon Portal (Claudio PRC Remix) - Forest On Stasys
Dry Marsh - Pianeti Sintetici
Valentino Mora - Komet
Semien Terara 1 - Abdulla Rashim
Warm Love (Sleep Before Mix) - Agent Orange

Artwork by Lotte de Wolde

SKIN #035 Nikos

Avsluta is a London-based sound artist, DJ, live performer and event curator navigating the liminal spaces between ambient and dance music. For the past 10 years, Lucie has been deepening her musical knowledge working behind the counter at Phonica Records, catering to London’s ambient, downtempo and deep dance music heads. She is the founder of Introspective Electronics, a platform featuring regular radio shows, guest podcast series and listening events, and together with producer and DJ Alicia, she runs cozy club night series Terra Obscura.

www.operator-radio.com

Avsluta - 19th May 2025

Messengers of sound from ancient rituals, Space Drum Meditation (@spacedrummeditation) harness primal tribal drums and rhythms to channel mysterious and uncharted electronic energy, opening gateways to unknown realms. Over the past five years, the Germany-based duo has cultivated a unique sonic signature, fusing traditional percussion and esoteric instruments with cutting-edge electronic elements to create music that is both untamed and deeply spiritual.

Their genre-defying approach seamlessly merges tribal, electronic, ambient, and abstract techno, crafting immersive experiences that feel like shamanic voyages through deep sonic landscapes. Whether performing live or delivering hypnotic DJ sets, Space Drum Meditation guides listeners on journeys of power, illusion, and transcendence.

Alongside their performances, the duo runs their own record label under the same name, championing boundary-pushing sounds and primarily releasing their own work — ensuring their sonic energy continues to resonate and expand across the globe.

Tracklist:
Esgeom – Eastern Warships
Space Drum Meditation – Temple Of Dusk
Marco Shuttle – Bella di Giorno
Đ.K. – Vela Pulsar
Atoloi – Lenti Sistemi
Absis – Black Dog
Vardae – Ondes Mécaniques
Reeko – Urmah 1
Susumu Yokota – Floating G
Sciama – Phasing Out
Last Life – Loculus
Indigenous Resistance – Revolution Dub Feat. Sankara Future
F&E – Amen Track (Atonal 2016 Version)
Bi Polar – Night Air
Taxa – Loco Guy from Delft
nlbs – Game
Sciahri & CONCEPTUAL – Ritmo Oscuro 2 (LDS Remix)
Woody McBride – Blackout
Ultraworld – Rain Drops
D.M.A. – Ethnic
Buttechno – Rostokino Acid
Konduku – Inci
Homemade Weapons – Svalsat (Donato Dozzy Remix)
Sebastian Russell – Paralyzed Movement
Lemna – Where Faith and Fear Intersect
Rapoon – We Danced Like Water

PURE Guest.090 Space Drum Meditation

This week. welcoming a dear friend and one of my all-time favourite DJs & producers, Swiss wizard @agonis-amenthia - part of the mystical Basel crew - @amenthia-recordings.

A "techno" sound so unique, modern & boundary pushing, it makes you question the genre entirely. Agonis has become known for his bass, techno, dub, idm-everything.. infused releases, always meticulous and full of surprises. On top of a an extremely reliable and exciting back-catalogue of music and always on-point curation of Amenthia alongside his label co-head Garcon, he is also an incredible DJ. Here for Animalia a special mix inspired by many special shared moments on the dancefloor <3  pure euphoria!

Thanks so much for this Dominic it's a pleasure to have you in the series :-) 

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Animix One Hundred & Seventy Nine: Agonis

this week on the 909 mix series forest on stasys brings a wormhole of locked-in grooves, percussive-driven rhythms & spacey soundscapes that exist around the sweet spot of 135pm ~ filled with that sweaty sensual late night energy. the buenos aires-based dj & producer shares, “i recently closed the night at the danza nativa showcase at under club and was quite inspired by the connection that was created with the crowd. so, you'll find minimalist techno at 135 bpm with energetic, deep, and abstract passages.”

that 90s-esque minimalist techno sound is something that forest on stasys has become renowned for within his own productions on labels such as space lab, hyphen records, crescent london, harmony records, lowless, accent records and worst records to name a few. alongside this, forest on stasys runs and curates the label aura sonora which recently released a record by dyl & tammo hesselink and he’s also part of the danza nativa crew which he has been co-running alongside alderaan and kyntral since 2018.

interview: https://untitled909.substack.com/p/untitled-909-podcast-332-forest-on

@forestonstasys

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@mariusbo

As we approach the end of summer, I am delighted to welcome Marius Bø to Deep Mind Music with an ethereal mix of celestial atmospheres to calm the soul ✧｡⋆.

Inspired by recent time spent in the mountains of Norway, the mix takes us high into the stratosphere, where whispers of cirrus clouds melt into the surrounding sky. Gentle blankets of emotive tones morph around us, as we are carried forth into the sacred chambers of the inner mind.

As the mix progresses, delicate arpeggiated spirals bloom across the imagination, and we are held in delicate suspension above the earth, floating, weightless, in quiet introspection. Thank you Marius for this beautiful mix, a space for deep reflection and blissful harmony within.

Years ago, Marius invited me to make an ambient and downtempo mix for @ute-rec’s mix series after listening to Deep Mind Music (https://soundcloud.com/ute-rec/ute-mix-series-49-sybil), so it is a great joy to present this transcendent mix from Marius himself on Deep Mind Music today 🤍💠🌙

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Marius Bø ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.34

compilation of soundcloud singles 2015 - 2016 [released/unreleased]
https://oddnatural.bandcamp.com/album/innocence

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@godofghosts
@lustful
@glimmerxp
@seiko

4xlowkey - POFMG (prod. deathacate + gore) [4E + 308 EXCLUSIVE]

biosphere - startoucher
elemnt - untitled 
Σ - untitled
shackleton - deadman (death dub remix by king midas sound)
burial - exit woundz
benny ill v dj dinesh - london
akkord - megalith
etch - octopus
adam f - metropolis
ed rush - lick 1
undercover agent - dub plate circles
mike parker - make it up
hokusai - divine

yōkai

29 11 mudd show - berlin

0512 mot - london
1312 de sering - amsterdam
14 12 kauz - zurich
2512 dachstock - bern

16 01 the lot radio - nyc
17 01 tba - nyc
30 01 beursschouwburg - brussels
31 01 gare - porto

14 03 // - lyon

08 05 transcendence festival - choja no mori

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