by @djbigleg, curated by @eeeeeeeugenia

The memory I have sonically meandered to is my oldest, occurring during a typecast excursion of my youth, a trip to the janky British seaside. Classic components: crap caravans, faux-extravagant arcades, flickering decrepit coloured bulb lights, and trash bassline music booming from rides, merging with the symphony of rattling bolts resonating from within. This was an illustrious time.

By the early 2000’s these places were already far removed from their former glory, an ongoing dereliction. The memory pivots around the top tier stratum of nostalgic connection, the “wrinklies” (aka nan and grandad aka rita & peter aka reet & pete) when we had a -mega- day out to a glow in the dark bowling alley. Imprinted in my cortex is the gutter rails, glistening and causing retina flare as bowling balls bounce off them, glinting from the UV paint. The coarse smoke curdled laughter of my nan, my grandad’s impeccable bowling technique… 

"Reminiscing is an avid pastime, and when with the family tales are told oft, a kind of shared familial history. One time when jovial with my mum I casually referred: 
“oH yEah liKe thAt TiMe wE weNt bOwliNg w/ naN n gRandad!”, to which she replied:
*“what r u talking bout, u weren’t even born”*."

Grounding cable slipped, static buzz;, with one loose thread being pulled, then twizzled round the cosmic pinky. A memory in stasis, firmly here but never there. A lost memory of a lost place. This mix aims to focus on that process, the loose cerebral realm of transfixed wooze, the upper spot, where reminisces develop frays, and your grounded truth becomes an abstraction. Did your cherished memories ever actually happen?


Tracklist: 

Tortoise - Goriri
Coil - Sara Dale's Sensual Massage 3
eXquisite CORpsE - One
David Hykes + The Harmonic Choir - Rainbow Voice (Blade Soundtrack)
DJ Krush + Toshinori Kondo - Ko-Ku
This Mortal Coil - Barramundi
Future Sound of London - Bird Wings
Markus Stockhausen + Jasper van 't Hof - Aqua Sansa
Hoodie - Event Horizon
YS - Be Together
XQST - SDLY
Michael Kamen - Waiting for Daddy (Brazil Soundtrack)
King Krule - The Cadet Leaps
Ozric Tentacles - The Eternal Wheel
Fishmans - Long Season (Part 3)
Dead Can Dance - Severance
Les Rallizes Dénudés - Enter the Mirror

ghunghru 048 // dj big leg / The Shape of Memory

by LA-based @dj_samwise 

curated by @eeeeeeeugenia

artwork: detail shot from 'After Ecstasy, The Laundry' by Fay Sciarra.

"Every wise voyager learns that we cannot hold on to the last port of call, no matter how beautiful. To do so would be like holding our breath, creating a prison from our past." 
– Jack Kornfield 
 
 
Tracklisting:
clouds - captain’s mix
sqala - dorisburg remix
aspetuck - friuli
qnete - exery
new members - mythos
sumorai - spinball
bolam - comfort zone
ebende - what i come from
silverlining - observa (feat. ntem)
maara - tranquil lust mommy
jad&the - infinite autonomy
escape artist - workout
anunaku - spirale
nail - happen dub
harry wills - waiting for rob (tim shlockermann remix)
jay gadian - infidelity

ghunghru 050 // Samwise / The Shape of Memory

Mix by @taylorbratches, series curated by @eeeeeeeugenia

Taylor’s Earth Energy Mountain Mix (Ode to Colorado)

A cairn stacked like a koan in the center of the creek, perfectly still. A vision of my crown chakra, spinning in lavender and white, offered in a flash of instant divinity as I’m coming down the mountainside at dawn. Coming down on molly. The silhouette of the mountain’s sharp ridges neon from morning sun and we descend. A vision shared, a coven of witches seen, when the veil lifted briefly in the middle of the night, under the sparkling river of many-colored stars. A party at 14,000 feet on a gold mine, meditating in the thin air after dancing in trance through the night. Channeling. Ghosts. Speaking in tongues. Letting the Spirit move through me. Rhythm. Moving my arms automatically. Mudras taught to me from no one but Truth, from Source, belonging to no one. Collapsed identity. The illusions lifted. The process of unmasking, of undoing my conditioning. Learning sorcery. Stored trauma shooting out my fingertips, body releasing cathartic every weekend. Endless pain. Endless growth. Endless freedom. This was my life in Denver as I raved through my twenties. And perhaps my most potent memory of all: the rock outcropping, hovering hundreds of feet above the bouldered canyon, our cozy spot. The party--my favorite one, the most sacred--only halfway over. We stopped in our togetherness for a respite, left the treehouse or the dancefloor below where Huckaby or Donato Dozzy or Atom™ or Tobias or Demdike Stare or Erika or Patrick Russell (didn’t realize how lucky I was until it was gone). Whoever was spinning, we climbed up the ridgeside to sit hand in hand, together and alone, to watch the sun rise. As the crackling rays exploded over the horizon, casting peace across the spine of the mountain range, I looked around to see eyes closed. Closed mine. If you spend enough time in the Rockies, they do something to you. The sun coming up was a phenomenon. And not just because we all dosed. The music never stopped, the thud wafting up from below. The frequency, the wavelength, connecting all of us. Techno was where the home was. Is. Seeing each other soul-to-soul, no ego. The way it was. What have we become? Sometimes I’m thick with longing. Colorado is lost, but not lost, its earthen roots forming my core. Planting me, grounding me, so that I may become whoever I was. Whoever I was going to become. Now. Here. This mix is a memory--an amalgamation of memories, an amalgamation of a place and the best parts of my twenties--a gift to myself, to my friends, to you.

Tracklist:

Oscar Jerome - Subdued (Hector Plimmer Remix)
Deepchord - Red Lantern (Parts 1&2)
Mind Controlled Rectifier - Peels
Donato Dozzy & Anna Caragnano - Parola (Rework)
Crossing Avenue - Laguna
Al Wootton - Power Must Change Hands 
OK EG - Prismatic Spring
The Lone Flanger - Entanglement Interference II
Donato Dozzy - Vaporware 01
Donato Dozzy - Valentina
Shed - Taken Effect
OK EG - Anther
Code Walk - Touch
ASC & Synkro - Sacred Moments

ghunghru 051 // taylor bratches / The Shape of Memory

Mix created by @mxblaire
Series curated by @eeeeeeeugenia

Word by @mxblaire about this sonic memory:

"This mix is a validation note to my former self who was in the middle of a grief-stricken period of not being able to sleep. I had only slept a couple hours over the course of 3 days because of a traumatic experience I was living through at the time. I desperately needed to put my strung out mind to rest. In that time, I battled with undulating waves of tension and relief. Cycles of gently soothing myself only to find out hours have passed with no solace and then moving to self-destructive frustration.  

The shape of my memory is not uniform. It is raw. It is soft & comforting. It is sharp & painful. This mix captures the agonizing pattern of tension & self-soothing through experimental and ambient leaning sounds. I hope you open yourself up to all types of feeling as you listen. 

With an abundance of love, 
Mx. Blaire <3"

Tracklist:

Yamaneko - Dissolving All Ghosts Unknown 
Crystal Quartez - Dispersal 
Terrence Dixon - Found in Space 
Ciarra Black - Give Up The Ghost 
SOMNOROASE PASARELE - Kolchab 
Russell Ellington Langston Butler - Modular Synths Make You Trans 
Shanti Celeste - Sun Notification 
Sand Circles - Nezha, For Upper Yanoun 
Julia Gjertsen & Nico Rosenberg 
Burial - ANTIDAWN

ghunghru 057 // Mx. Blaire / The Shape of Memory

@dj_leesh on this sonic memory:


Fragmentation and Union on the Search for Utopia


It is not Utopia that we strive for. It is not reaching a “destination”, as Utopia is no place. It is the search for Utopia. Upon the water, the boat floats. We are in charge of the sails, and we decide which direction we move toward. On this journey, no one said it would be easy. Choppy waters and going forward into the unknown darkness of night. Yet, the stars shine, as does the moon. And from above, there is light. And when hours pass and the sunlight breaks, it simply illuminates. Simultaneously this light casts shadows on the placid watery plane. We need both on this search ~ both night and day. Symbiosis leads to quantum leaps. On this search for no place, memories arise, and with them we move ahead in awareness. Memories fragmented and fractal, morphing and merging and changing with the tides. They gather along the way into a collection of dark and shiny pieces of us. Some we choose to keep. Some we choose to free. We honor them all, for without them we would not be here, right now. On the boat. On this search. Shaping new memories as we float. The Utopian heartbeat thumps to the rhythm of just one sound. Do you hear it? Love is calling.

ghunghru 058 // Leesh / The Shape of Memory

words by @delilahtov about her sonic memory: 

"somewhere over the rainbow, there is a place we can go to do magic. it’s a land of abundance where we tranifest our dreams—yet we bring our nightmares with us. in loopy quests for healing, power, and pussy, we tromp up and down a steep mountainside bearing amulets, wands, and shields. on moonlit nights, shadows reach out from our wakes, but vanish as soon as we turn around to look. 



this mix is inspired by a night on that land, taking refuge from a storm and wayward psychic energies with three queer children in a bathhouse. we fed logs to the stove in a wood-fired sauna as outside, muffled thunder seeped from clouds sparkling with electricity. i felt myself channeling Hera, adopting Zeus’s ephebes—young, effeminate cupbearers. one carried water, the other a staff, and the third was keeper of the Pan flute, an eternally hitting vape; the gift that keeps us living. 



staying lifted, surfing currents of our whims, we fanned the flames of a bonfire outside that persisted to spite the rain, until one of the children whispered “hold me,” or rather demanded “cuddle puddle.” we traipsed up to the cabin, where with beaver-like instincts, i heaped blankets and pillows on the wood floor to make a dam that held back time. the kids nuzzled in purring satisfaction. an oil lamp on the hearth illuminated offerings of tinctures, balms, and spiked Mountain Dew. i puffed the vape while i scratched the kids’ backs, admiring the sacredness of youth. 



for those few hours we were all nineteen, re-writing our stories with chosen family and striving to not re-inscribe the wounds inflicted by our blood. we needed to not give a fuck about anything except blowing on each other’s simmering coals. both dreams and nightmares can keep one from sleep; i know this from experience. so nothing could sate me like watching chests rise and fall in slow rhythms, as each of Hera’s children faded into gentle sleep.


dedicated to the lost and found bois."

ghunghru 059 // Delilah At Night / The Shape of Memory

mix by Seyer @ juicykutz based in London. 

Words by Seyer about his sonic memory: 

"It is difficult not knowing what happens next
Managing the spectrum of emotion causes my chest to tighten up
But there is something beautiful about experiencing life in real time
In the end, I am alive and breathing, ready to embrace the next moment."

Tracklist:

Skee Mask - Untitled 2014
Halftribe - Concept of Happiness
Background and Sangam - Carousel
Barker - Paradise Engineering
XYR - Silure Albinos Drifting
Luke Sanger - Wildlife
KMRU - MR4
Koreless - Joy Squad
Emeka Ogboh - Wole
Oceanic - Other Side of the Shell
Avalon Emerson - One More Fluorescent Rush
El Trick - Flossel
Sebastian Gandera - Et L'Obscurité Toute Entière Pour Me Rappeler Cela
DJ Central & Erika Casier - Drive (Ambient Mix)
Nobuo Uematsu - Home Away from Home
Utada Hikaru - Face My Fears (A.G. Cook Remix)

ghunghru 060 // Seyer / The Shape of Memory

words by @briannapaon about this sonic memory: 

"This compilation embodies a memory of a feeling, where I became the most intimate I’ve ever experienced with music, and felt it as a tangible entity for what I had not known would be the first time. Beauty, clarity, pain and solitude were indistinguishable, yet ephemeral and ever-fleeting. Sounds that were so familiar to me seemingly lifetimes ago return to my spirit full-circle in tandem with the new, lodging me both near and far, grounded and struck, somewhere elusive between deep space and deep sea.”

Tracklist:

Pooja B - Shouganai
Radiohead - Kid A
Steevio - Forgotten Futures
Vinayak^A - Set Her Free
Upercent - El Tornjant
Bird of Paradise - Alone Again (Steven Legget Dub)
Otto - Big Ever
Dean Grenier - Immortal
Lost Souls of Saturn - Divine Plane (Meditation des enfants)
Trentemǿller - Moan (Trentemǿller Dub)
RHR - Colapso
Giulia Tess - Cattiva
Boddika - Beats Me
Scuba - Why You Feel So Low
Alloy Sea - Petrichor Part Three
Wata Igarashi - Unfold

ghunghru 061 // Brianna Paon // The Shape of Memory

Words by Nick (@nickboydnyc ) about this sonic memory:


"Memory for me is a tricky thing — a soup of emotion made of endless parts both real and imagined. This mix is a rumination on a theme found in my memory — hot pavement in the August sun, nutcrackers and backyard partying, sweating out an edible on the subway headed north, a handful of balloons let loose on a rooftop, and an accidental overload of research chemicals. Red White Blue and Green. White t-shirt and shorts, stoned to the bone, setting sun stuff."



Tracklist:

The Jackofficers - Time Machines Pt. 2 [Rough Trade - RUS 100-1, 1990]
Jimmy “Bo” Horne - Is It In (Acappella) 
La Batterie - Let There Be Drums
Maurice Fulton Presents... Boof - We
Maceo & The Macks - Soul Power '74
Ben Liebrand - I Wish (The Wishfull 12'' Mix)
Todd Terje - Love The One You're With
Don Pablo's Animals - Ibiza III (California Edit)
Prince And The New Power Generation - Do Your Dance (Housebangers) 
Don Pablo's Animals - Paranoia
Native Red - Fade (Native Red Edit)
Yello - Pumping Velvet (Extended Dance Version)
Rebel MC, Double Trouble - Street Tuff (Scar Mix)
Steve Poindexter - Destiny
Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It (Tee's Freeze)
Full Swing - Freestyle Groove
Kitachi - Heavyweight (Knock Out Dub)
Don Pablo's Animals - Venus (Bonus Mix)
Fast Eddie - Doggy Style (Todd Terry Freeze Mix)
Michael Jackson / Kane West - Remember the Time (Kane West Remix)
The Flirts - New Toy (Another Version)

ghunghru 062 // Nick Boyd / The Shape of Memory

A poem by Kozha (@kozha666) on this sonic memory:



"FREEDOM MEMORY"

I tried to smell the poison of leaving but
Tipped my toes in the ocean of pathways
Outside of the place with a name
I could never remember

It poured all over me

Once my eyelid butterflies scared escaped
And left a map on my skin
Borders are scars left after burns
I’m positive nobody
Will love it if I do it like this

I was crying in curses
On my first flight to New York
On everyone and everything
That made me believe,
Jump out of chains
Only to grow
A fresh pair of feet

Will this dress ever fit me
as well as it fits all desires
in the circle of shape and hope
need to summon dexterous tailors
as many as              there are eyes
in my head

We most definitely have license
“freedom to behave as one wishes,
especially in a way that results in excessive or unacceptable behavior”
Together
When one isn’t a singular
Imposition of shame

No barred doors
For hopelessly genuine hearts




Tracklist:

Robert Görl -- Psychoring
Jay Denham -- Growth + Development
Danny Wabbit -- Eternity
Zvrra -- Illuminance I
Maara -- Miss Sweetie's Inferno
Kisikililake, Huffy fibryyx -- 2. Girls just wanna have fun (ℭ𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔦𝔰 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔰)
Niamiha -- Echo Generation
CucaRafa -- Reservado
DJ BAD POETRY -- DISCO TABBÉL 2
KMS -- Chandelier
Umek -- Darvaaren
Rene Wise -- Wolf
u.r.trax -- Br0ken
David Haze -- City of Dis
Terminus -- Spoken Violence
Newa -- My Sickness Bassiani
Scan 7 -- ReThinkable Frequencies
WTCHCRFT -- Buildings Have Feelings Too
PHANTAZN -- TRACK ASSAULT
Altinbas x Cirkle -- Shagohod
Strktur -- Pacific Drift
Devoye -- Belt
Sean Deason -- The Shit (Rennie Foster Alternative Mix)

ghunghru 063 // Kozha / The Shape of Memory

ghunghru starts off its first artist feature with ose.

ose is a sf based artists who considers her music a meeting of her childhood enriched with hindustani classical music with her present day immersion in cultures of glitch, ambient and melodic minimal.

"it saddens me to see the world of hindustani classical eroding away, as I find it's beauty extends, and is extended, when juxtaposed with contemporary sounds.”

in this podcast, she reacts to the beautiful juxtaposition of worldwide sounds in a MoTD @mysteriesofthedeep jam session recording by nihal ramachandrana @nihal-ramchandani and clay wilson @claywilson (https://soundcloud.com/claywilson/nihal-ramchandani-clay-wilson-july-16-motd). 

ose's first ep is releasing on march 15, 2018

-- tracklist --

a broken raag malkos by ose @arushi-jain 
NIMBUS - Actress AZD @actress 
Microon II - Alva Noto @alvanoto + Ryuichi Sakamoto @ryuichi-sakamoto-official 
Below Zero - Soojin Anjou, Askat Jetigen & Robert Lippok Gletschermusik @soojinanjouaskatjetigenrobertlippok
 Verhängnisvolle Nebel - Rødhåd Söhne Der Erde EP @rodhad
 I Found Truth In A Soft Night Of Confusion But I Lost It [GLGLP03] - Traumprinz  @vggy
 Float 82 - Richard Devine @richarddevine 
Pailletten - Cio D'Or @cio-d-or
 Horizontal Deflection Plate - Richard Devine @richarddevine
 She-Wolf Night Mourning [Stroboscopic Artefacts SALP004 - SACD007] - Lucy @lucy
 Ever Never - Four Tet Beautiful Rewind @four-tet 
Anna - ose (unreleased) @arushi-jain 
Eden (for T. Maloney) - Bernhard Günter @bernhard-guenter / Steve Roden @user-898918673 Japan 
wave of the week - frank bretschneider @frankbretschneiderofficial 
Module 5 - Alva Noto  @alvanoto Fennesz _ 'Szabo' @fennesz id
#05 - cyclo
 Signal - 'Spiral' - A1. Raster-Noton. Archiv 1 - 2004  @signaldrumandbass
 Olematon - Ø 
 The Machinery of Freedom - @frankbretschneiderofficial 
Limit [Recur 2013] - Emptyset @emptyset-1111111 
Zwielichtmelodie - Ø + Noto Wohltemperiert Glitch/Minimal/Experimental 
青天 - 林英哲 風の使者
 Super Feedbacker - Fennesz Hotel Paral.lel Electronic @fennesz
 Portrait 2 (Recorded in China, 08/2010) - Roland Etzin TransMongolian Field Recording  
Retired Low-Level Internal Server - Errorsmith Superlative Fatigue @errorsmith 
Gletscherdialog - Soojin Anjou, Askat Jetigen & Robert Lippok Gletschermusik @soojinanjouaskatjetigenrobertlippok
 ektaal  - Zakir Hussain @ustad-zakir-hussain & Ustad Alla Rakha @ustad-alla-rakha



@arushi-jain

ghunghru 001 // ose

Eugenia is an Italian, SF based artist. DJ, writer, scout for luminous moments. 

Instagram: ____eugenia @eeugenia



"Lately, I have been grappling with the feeling that growing up and living an “adult” life has locked us into repeated sequence of obligations and hedonism, manifesting itself into a cyclical pattern of sustain and release. In this perpetual need to seek pleasure in order counter a feeling of confinement, I had forgotten what real playfulness was. I left work early one day and called my longest time friend and asked if she wanted to catch the sunset at the beach. We found ourselves running towards the shore, laughing, breathless, wind in our faces, sand whirling around us from the heavy evening gusts. In this mix I hope to recover that sense of possibility, curiosity, and attraction to mystery that I had as little girl. I found myself thinking of the garden of my home, a place where I created new worlds out of the space, and never felt confined to a pattern or path, and recalled the bright smells of plants, our stream, the sun on the wildflowers. I wanted to capture this freshness, as well as the freedom not to need much other than what was already there, while still expressing the reflective, unstructured, and often opaque feelings that come with growing up.


Why I chose these tracks:

I chose these tracks because they evoked a combination of feelings and sounds I associate with an inquisitive, exploratory part of my youth, a phase I recognize to subconsciously come back to, yearn for, and create anew in music: Sounds of rustling, soft piano, water on leaves, ambient textures which break apart and reform to new wholeness that are unafraid of exposing streaks of melancholy. These sounds are a combination of track discoveries old and new,  through myself and individuals close to my heart who have given new meaning to my memories. The tracks have delicate, yet off-kilter elements: Through the the glitch elements and bells layered over soundscapes throughout, I attempt to form a patient groove which does not know anxiety or censorship. It does not yearn to explicate or create a perfect balance, but rather explore without judgement. The linear tracks I chose have melodies which arise subtly, slowly, and sound like they are coming from far away, containing the distinct promise of something. For listeners, I hoped to create a spacious cove where there is room to be vulnerable and also dream a little on your own. "

Tracklist:

Terekke - arrpfaded
Loscil - Mistral 
Earthen Sea - Delicately in the sunlight 
Kangding Ray - Stabil
Federico Durand - Tarde de Llluvia 
Monolake - Indigo 
Four Tet - You were there with me
Aphex Twin - #19
Terekke - Soft g 
Monolake - Aviation 
Prince of Denmark - Planet Uterus
Loscil - Resurgam

ghunghru 003 // eugenia

MOBIUS by @tape-ghost 

Read full feature on www.ghunghru.fm/7
Download album with bonus artwork on www.ghunghru.bandcamp.com

Download on bandcamp

Resonance

www.ghunghru.fm/metasilence

Fundamental Force(s) [Big Bang]

0:00 - Planck Epoch - A non-inflationary era of the universe in which temperatures and energies were so high that subatomic particles could not form. The 4 known Fundamental Forces were all unified as a singular force

0:01 - Grand Unification Epoch - The 4 known Fundamental Forces (Gravity, Electromagnetic, Strong And Weak Nuclear Forces) have begun to separate into the Electrostrong Interaction and Gravity through a phase transition. These phase transitions are due to a phenomenon of quantum fields called “symmetry breaking”, in which infinitesimally small fluctuations crossing a critical point determines the system’s fate. This is a bifurcation of a quantum state into two paths, bringing the system from a quantum symmetric but disorderly state, into one or more definite states.

0:07 - Electroweak Epoch - While Gravity and the Strong Nuclear Force have separated, the Weak Nuclear and Electromagnetic force are still unified as the Electroweak Force. During this period, the universe is also undergoing rapid expansion through the Inflationary Epoch.

0:10 - Inflationary Epoch - The universe very rapidly increased in scale.

0:14 - All Symmetries Break - The 4 Fundamental Forces are separate and distinct.

0:21 - Quark Epoch - The universe is primary in the state of a Quark-Gluon Plasma. Baryogenesis, the formation of baryonic matter (any matter that is made up of atoms) begins.

1:50 - Hadron Epoch - While hadron and anti-hadron pairs had kept matter and antimatter in thermal equilibrium, the decreasing temperature of the universe caused a halt in production of these pairs, resulting in hadron and anti-hadron particle annihilation events.

3:12 - Neutrino Decoupling - Through the weak interaction, neutrinos existed in thermal equilibrium with baryonic matter. When the rate of those weak interactions became slower than the expansion of the universe, neutrinos began to decouple, to form the Cosmic Neutrino Background, the universe’s neutrino background radiation. 

3:39 - Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - Pressure differentials in the early plasma of the universe caused oscillations similar to sound waves that produced fluctuations in density of visible baryonic matter.

FUNDAMENTAL FORCES

ghunghru 021 // r beny

Words by Eugenia about this sonic memory: 

In this episode, I reflect a moment I had last summer, late August. I was sitting with a new friend, up on a raised wooden platform late at night, the second day of Waking Life. We had talked at length, having just begun to understand the ebbs and flows of each other’s minds. I told them that lately I had been holding onto moments of unresolved conflict, of goodbyes that felt rushed, or pains of others I was unable to heal. I was carrying the weight of these small, broken up moments which had accumulated over time.

A thick, dreamlike fog rolled in front of us, as we sat, holding each other tightly, It suddenly parted, revealing the outlines of graceful figures moving towards us in the distance. This vision coincided with a moment of precise clarity: I noticed my idealistic need for harmony in every moment; at the influx of this realization, I began to accept and lean into the dissonance that repeats itself, in spite of this desire. I tried to forgive myself for the lack of closure of past connections, the loose ends.

I realize I felt this because I deeply cared about each moment, and this is natural, human, and essential to who I am. The anxiety and subtle shards of pain I had been clutching in my chest for so long burst out of me, leaving me transparent, spacious, and light. I was filled with gratitude to have had the possibility to be heard, and seen, in this realization, by a person who I felt intrinsically understood me.

In this first transmission, I wished to guide listeners through a moment I experienced in which a long-existing emotional weight left me, feeling swept away by the space around me. Through this, the previously hazy details of my inner self came into my field of vision.

tracklist // Deepchord - Rooftop // Lawrence - Floating // Sonmi451 - Rienza // Conforce - Desolate Ground // Function - Ember (Field) // Kettel - Electrician and the Adventurer // Sa Pa - Epiphanic // Loscil - Black Tusk // Autechre - Brochusevenmx // Taylor Deupree - Thaw // Sigha - Light Swells (In a Distant Space) // Aleksi Perala - GBBVT1337122 // SND - 9 // Ciò D’Or - Ur // Sollman / Gurtler - Watte (efdemin version)

ghunghru 023 // eugenia / The Shape of Memory

Ragas, Reinterpreted 
by label head @modularprincess

When I first started writing this album, I started with the intention of taking my hindustani classical roots and giving it a new home, a new skin, a new soul. I’ve been deeply entranced by this idea of taking ragas and transforming them into something others can understand. In many ways, a lot of my work is aiming to make this artform more accessible, more understood, more appreciated. 

My music is all inspired by the ragas I grew up singing. Sometimes it’s intentional, where I’ll start with a raga and compose within its compositional rules. Some other times, I’ll just let my voice take me to an alternative place, where my muscle memory would kick in resulting in stuff that just comes pouring out in all these different scales. 

Intuitively my compositional styles navigated towards what they had always been for my whole life, only this time with different instruments. How can I make my synth a sitar? 

This is an album about being vulnerable with what you hear, about being open to coalescing different worlds into each other in a way that might not be done before. I have a diversity of sounds here - works that are more slow, strange, experimental, emotional and durational, to works that are more fast, expected, melodic, lush, and physical. 

All these songs, are ragas reinterpreted. 

I Feel Incomplete is inspired by Raag Bhairav 
Drown Out The Noise With Your Silence is inspired by Raag Bheempalasi 
Just Like A Dragonfly is inspired by Raag Aasavari 
Is It Love is inspired by Raag Bihag 

In addition to the hindustani classical, there is some experimentation with western classical concepts like harmonization, which does not exist in hindustani music at all. 

I didn’t always follow the rules of the ragas, I’m sure those who know this art can hear that, and maybe purists won't approve. But, I do not call this pure hindustani classical. Instead, this is a strange twisted 21st century interpretation of an ancient artistic practice - personally rejuvenated under the influence of many musical movements that are thriving worldwide that didn’t necessarily originate in India. My instrumentation includes my modular synths (the only instrument besides my voice that I've truly feel one with), my voice, my digitakt, and a lot of samples of the world that have been created and curated with care. 

credits
Lyrics by Arushi Jain 
Composed & Produced by Arushi Jain 
Album Art by Aishwarya Vardhana 
Mixed by Arushi Jain & Its Own Infinite Flower at Room G in San Francisco 
Mastered by Mark Pistel at Room 5 in San Francisco

I Feel Incomplete Without Sound

by @modularprincess
all femmes, only 
art by Aishwarya Vardhana

Tracklist 
Arisen My Sense (Kelly Lee Owens Mix ) - Bjork 

Grafts - Kara-Lis Coverdale 

Heaven Could Be Lately - Jayda G

Ebudae - Enya

Look Into Your Own Mind - Julianna Barwick

The Fowl - Isabel Bayrakdarian

Why Does Your Father Look So Nervous? - Karen Gwyer 

Sumiregusa (Wild Violet) - Enya 

The Frontier - Avalon Emerson

Pure Drone 19 - Sheila Chandra

A 477 -  Kara-Lis Coverdale 

Bhairavi - Anoushka Shankar

Tiergarten - Sarah Davachi 

Clearing - Kara Lewis 

New Ways to Love - Holy Herndon

Luci - Anna Caragnano & Dozzy Donato 

Just Like A Dragonfly - OSE (releasing September 5 on www.ghunghru.bandcamp.com)

ghunghru 029 // ose

by @berrmax, curated by @eeeeeeeugenia

The anchor of this mix is a recollection of a moment from sometime in September 2017. I'd left my job and begun traveling abroad for several weeks. Almost a full month into my trip, I was visiting some friends in Australia, in Far North Queensland. We spent four or so days walking around a cute little resort town tucked between the beach and sprawling mountains covered in deep jungle. 

One morning during my stay I crept out of the house early and walked by myself along the beach and out to the end of a long pier extending eastward over the Pacific. As I stood and looked out at some islands balanced delicately on the horizon, and then back towards the dark green slopes jutting upwards behind the facade of the town, I was overcome with the idea that this was just about as far as I could possibly be from where I grew up in Michigan. I have long fixated on the feeling of being "far from home;" even now as I approach five years living in LA I still often find myself pausing to soak in the fact that I'm really *all the way over here* as if I need to bottle up the sensation to make sure I don't forget it. 

But here it was in full force, that feeling totally distilled and concentrated in a way that could never again be matched, leaving me rapt in silence as sunburnt Ozzies milled around me. It felt triumphant but not final, as though I had completed a journey outwards and could now work out my path back, rediscovering what I'd skipped or discarded along the way. 

This selection of tracks is meant to start from that specific moment and then unfurl itself towards the more general "far from home" idea, the little tingle that you get when you've left your usual corner of reality and are facing unknowns with eager eyes; full of euphoria yet grounded, reminded of all that it took to get to this point.

Tracklist:
Julianna Barwick & Rafael Anton Irisarri - A1
Anton Zap - Miniature
5ive - Almost Heaven
Dan White - Digital Detox
Benoit B - Vague à l'Âme
Aleksi Perälä - NLL561606934
Shaded Explorer - Underwood
Bigeneric - Oro Verde
Ambien Baby - Cosa
Melly - Shrubbery
C.K. - Hybrid Textures
Udmo - Float

The image is from a hike in Mossman Gorge near the area where the aforementioned memory took place!

ghunghru 034 // max ellington / The Shape of Memory

by @avsluta, curated by @eeeeeeeugenia

"We stood together facing the horizon. In front of us, a giant. A massif that is something of a hill and a
something of a mountain and the Moon has just gently spilled the first of its glow over its spine. We
walked together and inside, a feeling of gratitude and love was expanding. We shared this journey.
Alone. Together. As I lay down to face the sparkling sky, I feel your presence with me when you left
my side and ventured to explore. This human presence transformed into something cosmic. I float in
my inner space, gathering music from the air into my innermostness. The world folds itself on my body,
on my mind, on my soul - and everything is one. From the abyss within come bubbling out energies I
seem to know, existing on a different plane of consciousness. These are artefacts of ancient female
wisdom which I hold within and finally can reach. I feel fertile, pregnant with my own reality. The
reality that is constantly in flux, always emerging. Pulsating in transformation, giving birth to
someone other and yet so familiar, I come into being."

TRACKLIST:
Kazuya Nagaya - Wolfman's Dream
Neel - Life on Laputa Regio
Ancestral Voices - Forn Sidr
Biosphere - Poa Alpina
Geir Jenssen & Pete Namlook - A Way To Focus The Mind
Max Würden - Wirkungsgrad
Acronym & Korridor - Sscending
Vril - Eos
Lena Deen - Dorsal
Bobby Cazanova - Fallin'
Akis - Christmas (Bartosz Kruczynski Remix)

ghunghru 035 // avsluta / The Shape of Memory

by @eroooos, curated by @eeeeeeeugenia

as we become temporally removed from moments in life, our memories of these events fade. details morph and evaporate, the once-vivid colors, sounds, and experiences increasingly washed out and out of reach. is that conversation or that dance truly remembered? or is it an unconscious invention of the mind intended to maintain a ‘complete’ memory?
this human capacity to misremember and to subconsciously reinvent memories has long enthralled me, and this mix is an exploration of such phenomena. rooted in three environments i inhabited two summers past – the parks in and around berlin, my flat in moabit, and late-night u-bahn rides to and from dancefloors – this assortment of tracks aims to encapsulate both my concrete recollections and my hazy half-notions of the events that transpired therein. imbued (i hope) with an awareness of the mystery of misremembrance, it is an ode to the people and places that made that summer so formative and liberating.

Tracklist:
kaiji - よしの
tetsu inoue - invitable colour
low flung - dust on water
rosy parlane - versa
michel redolfi - too much sky
kara-lis coverdale & lxv - grigori in jakarta
porn sword tobacco - untitled
andrew pekler - description of rain
topdown dialectic - a4
ben bondy - saline drip
dettinger - untitled
hidden valley logging company - 2,000ft
downstairs j - 4 seater
pontiac streator - tuscany
aleksi perälä - uk74r1409137
terre thaemlitz - trucker
de leon - 02
dj python - sbloq
fischerle & persuasion - haiop
juneunit - enwm
2lanes - midwest splendor

ghunghru 040 // eros / The Shape of Memory

by @soldchicago, curated by @modularprincess

I spent a lot of hours planning, scrapping and replanning, scrapping and replanning, I ran through a few different idea, etc. In general, it’s hard af for me to make mixes anymore. I think too much about it and wind up hating everything I think of and just never finish. Was worried I’d do the same thing. I even changed this three nights in a row as I’d try to record, feel something was off, switch stuff around. But shit is harder lately because I’ve been going through a lot, but I tried to channel those feelings into a response per your prompt.

So this mix is a response to hunger, a weird hunger I’ve been feeling lately that no matter what I eat, I still feel. Like I just have no clue what I’m hungry for. I’ll fill up but still crave something and just...wish I knew what it was so I could get rid of it. Officially I’m calling the mix “Hunger; or how I’m struggling in every way to care about anything in the face of heartbreak but nothing I eat satiates an unknown desire.” It’s meant to feel sad but not hopeless (actually hopeful), lonely, pensive, and reflective.


tracklist 
Ben Vince - Left Alone 
Marina Rosenfeld - A Track (With Beats) 
Ueda Takayasu - Coming of Age 
bookworms - floating on air-hanging by a thread 
Ahnnu - Cyclops 
8990 - Fy Gieri 
KMRU - Klang 
Midori Hirano - Vanished Garden 
Deejay Earl Beatz - {Excerpt from} YELL0W TAPE 
gayphextwin - carveyourname 
Bug Bus Piano - Bee Encased In Amber 
Jabu & Daniela Dyson - {Excerpt from} Side A 
Harae Nagoshi - pajr

ghunghru 042 // sold

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a space where no structure is okay. 
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a space for you to play none of the things that are expected.
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a space for comfort in discomfort. 
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