a place in between

HOCast

trippy groovy techhouse, Ambient, Electro, Techno & Leftfield vol. 8

Mixed for Ildiko Gyory

Axis Operandi [Biotechnology | Poland]

Leader of music platform and series of events - Biotechnology which is focused on promotion of psychedelic, cosmic, organic and hypnotic sounds in techno and broadly defined electronic music. 
Co-founder of the Densiflora platform, which promotes cross-genre electronica with dreamy, groovy sounds. His selection is best described by the projects he is behind. Within techno music he is looking for the bridge between a deep, trancey, minimalist sound and broken or tribal beats. In his DJ and promoter activity he tries to convince his listeners that sets grown out of techno do not have to be mainly strong or mainly dark in their expression, that there is space for a whole range of emotions in the 4/4 area. 
He performed at events signed by such brands as Up to date festival, Instytut, Revive or LAS festival. He shared the stage with such artists as eg. Edit Select, Steffi, Valentino Mora, Shlomo, AWB, Setaoc Mass, Svarog, VSK, Freddy K or Justine Perry.

Tracklist:
Javier Bahr – Teauhupoo
Erik Luebs – Gelatin Bath
Save your Atoll – Mainstream
Daniel[i] – I3
PRG/M – Riluttanza
Geert – Interlude
A:Tonal – Perfect Imbalance
Saphileaum - Flowing Ray (Valentino Mora Rephase)
Distant Echoes – Reminiscenze
SAMSQN – 80 Hours (CVRDWELL remix)
Etapp Kyle – Continuum
Pfirter & Oliver Rosemann - Beta 02
Vladw – Beria
Tonske - Anatman (Magna Pia Remix)
Setaoc Mass – Passive
Crossing Avenue – Controluce
Blenk – Variation
Marv. – Marv#1
Sandra Mosh – 040
Kaspiann – Heat Seeker
Ki Ya Tori - jō
Laurent Garnier – Psychedelic Shack (Inland edit)
Rodmin - Love

Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/axis_operandi
Instagram:
https://instagram.com/daniel_axis_b
Facebook:
https://facebook.com/axisoperandi

Fur:ther Sessions:
https://soundcloud.com/furthersessions
https://furthersessions.bandcamp.com
https://instagram.com/further_sessions
https://formaviva.com/furthersessions
https://facebook.com/furthersessions
YouTube: https://bit.ly/3irNAR4

Fur:ther Sessions | 067 | Axis Operandi

Eric Cloutier - Strange Signals Pt.2

Eric Cloutier - Strange Signals Pt.1

Recorded by @elisa-batti for The Memoir, 2022.
All tracks were written, produced, mixed, and performed live by @elisa-batti.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Curated by @Hypnus Records.

00:00 - Deleuze [Unreleased]
13:15 - Silent Sun [Unreleased] 
22:07 - Scopic [Unreleased]
27:37 - A Mountain In A Mountain (voice: Jenny Thiele) [Unreleased]
32:48 - Blue Motion [Unreleased]
40:44 - AI-Red [Unreleased]
46:48 - Transystem [Unreleased]

Love and light

Page 89: Elisa Batti (Live)

Our podcast series continues, and this month’s story is told by Nils Edte.

Based in southern Germany, Nils is a DJ/ Producer driven by his passion for music. Influenced by classical genres, he combines natural sounds and textures with rhythms and grooves from electronic and acoustic music to create his own style. 

‘’ The inspiration for this podcast was the forthcoming winter in beautiful autumn where the colors are almost gone. To break out and have a journey of atmospheric sounds in a calm scenery. ‘’

We hope you'll enjoy the ride by @edte-1.

Tracklist:

١. cv313 - stained glass (Variant Etherscope) [Modern Cathedral]
٢. Toki Fuko - Ajna [Affin]
٣. Hod - Choan [Cellar Door]
٤. Tiferet - Epinoia [Agos]
٥. Baal - Flowers and the snow [Canaanite Records]
٦. Artos Eleven - Decayed Tree (Forest on Stasys Warmed Dub) [Melifera Records]
٧. Dorisburg & Efraim Kent - Tecken I [Tikita]
٨. Zemög - Path [Different Exhibition]
٩. Feral - LWA [Hypnus]
١٠. Dorisburg - Stone Circle [Kontrolleri]
١١. Forest on Stasys - Sacred Stones [Danza Nativa]
١٢. Eafhm - Distant Mar (Artos Eleven Residual Dream) [Unheard]
١٣. Artos Eleven - Decayed Dream [Melifera Records]
١٤. Kontinum - Ventriloquist Paradox [Agos]
١٥. Klara - The desert of dreams (Kontinum Remix) [Circular Limited]
١٦. Baal - Hibernal Solstice [Canaanite Records]
١٧. Night Sea - Manila [Silent Season]
١٨. Azidax - Skelde [Deflection Music]
١٩. Nils Edte - Aarde [upcoming @ Indefinite Pitch]

Wishing you a wonderful weekend,
Canaanite Records

fragment29: Nils Edte

Savage Session welcomes Sun Dawei AKA @CTAFAD

Artist Support: https://linktr.ee/ctafad

Bio:
(Chinese literal translation)
Electronic musician, guitarist, Sun Dawei is a very active Chinese musician.
He started learning to play guitar at the age of fourteen and then set up a punk band, which became the catalyst for him to open the music gate.Settled in Beijing in 1999, then began the research and creation, electronic music and punk band legend in China "underground baby" as the band music arranger and guitarist, at the same time began to dabble in Fashion Show, movies, drama and jingles.For the first time in 2003 in China's famous record company in the name Of Sulumi "modern sky" albums "Air Inhibition Of Water", this is his first formal experimental electronic music show, the original technique to build a new music, present a different way to express the heart.

In the same period, he also created the personal music label "Shanshui Records", and published dozens of electronic music Records in 10 years.Together with many domestic and foreign electronic musicians, the independence and music parallelism, promote the Chinese electronic music revolution.

In the next few years, I began to explore the Chiptune style.Using Game Boy and
Nanoloop music software, it is known as "China's 8bit first person" and its music is
deeply popular.In 2008, he was invited to the "Blip Festival", the world's largest
electronic music Festival in New York.In the meantime, the music of this period is more mature and shows the spirit of Chiptune music. After that, people from all circles are attracted to it.The publication of "The Heaven" has made his personal music career leap.He has made a series of Remix works, including the Brain Failure, New Pants, The Gar, EeL, Jeans Team, Snoop Lion, Kid606 and Zaliva-d. In all Remix works, he has his own unique style.

In 2013, Shanshui Records was reorganized, based on Ambient music and the minimalist Techno style. Integrated with rock attitude, world view and modern consciousness, the melody is transformed into a melody, abstracting consciousness and hiding the pursuit. He then moved to Japan and released his new album "Unconsciousness" by VICE CHINA in 2015.Bring new sound concepts and melodies -- more and more steady rhythm and dark line of melody line, always around the rock core stealthily, music melody avoids joy and sorrow. Unbiased, moving in time. Around the album tour held in several cities in China, he put his signature style to the new dimension of performance and deep inside the body sound in the dark with the light, guide you to return to the real world.

After several metamorphoses, to explore different Spaces, he announced his new project - CTAFAD. In music, you can hear "there's not a lot of modified original timbre, like atmospheric pressure, ambitious ultrasound experiments. Finally, an epic core sound field is carefully polished.The rhythm and the bass line from the beginning is proficient in the interaction, gradually unfolded and never went out.

Savage Sessions | 52 | CTAFAD [China]

Recorded set by Frederik B2B Dubtommy at our Profundo X Retur ADE party, 21-10-2022.

Profundo X Retur ADE: Frederik B2B Dubtommy (Stately Records)

www.openlab.fm | 106.4FM in Ibiza & Formentera
Check the full tracklist on our website:
https://openlab.fm/news/observatory-044-sungate-with-cyrk-bill-converse

Observatory is back, and this time https://soundcloud.com/sungate-records will be bringing two special guests to the show:
Berlin-based producers, Samy Goossens and Pascal Hetzel a.k.a https://soundcloud.com/cyrkmusic will be kicking things off with an hour of electro and lush broken beats for the first half of the show, while DJ, Producer and underground hero https://soundcloud.com/billconverse will be in charge of the second hour
with an eclectic guest mix including some of his own tunes and unreleased material.

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Observatory 044 - Sungate [with CYRK & Bill Converse]

Espacio ingravido#6

2/12/2022

w/ Doctrina Natura (@doctrinanatura)

espacio igravido#6 w Doctrina Natura

espacio ingrávido#6 w/ Doctrina Natura

"Tribal and wild dances on the meadows hidden among redwoods. The ancestor worship has begun. The guru, the clan healer, has prepared the mixture for the entire circle of people who gaze at the light in the center. The campfire will make them sweat, the drums will make them dance and the mixture will make them float. There is no turning back from such hypnosis."

Forest On Stasys (@forestonstasys), owner and electronic explorer in Danza Nativa (@danza-nativa). The creativity of Forest On Stasys is Influenced by tribal minimalist techno in the nineties and the deepest and most abstract techno currently. In his tracks the most seductive elements are the use of resonant basses perfectly combined with long and reverberated pads, extensive sonorous landscapes that are modified by continuous movement of LFO, solid grooves and strident percussions. But not everything that comes out of his head is created with an intention to be used on the dance floor. He has a great admiration for drone and ambient tracks, without a rhythmic pattern that predominates, where the main factor is to captivate the listener with melodies that can be marked by a strong melancholy or with notes that give a certain feeling of satisfaction depending on his current mood.

HOCast #132 - Forest On Stasys

"The mix unfolds like a quiet procession, each layer moving with patient gravity, weaving textures that blur the line between pulse and atmosphere. Inspired by the spirit of Kyoto’s Gion Festival, it evokes a sense of timeless calm — a sonic journey where deep currents carry the listener inward, even as echoes of the ancient linger in the distance."

Yuddy Ash (@yuddyash) is a producer and DJ based in Kyoto, Japan. His music delivers a percussive, ritualistic twist on techno, weaving mysterious rhythms with subtle tension to stir profound emotions. Fueled by a deep bond with sound, his sets unfold as immersive journeys, where resonant frequencies sync with the body's pulse.

HOCast #260 - Yuddy Ash

"Morning unfolds gently in the forest - steam rising from a cup of tea, birdsong carrying its own field recording. The set drifts from luminous ambient into unhurried downtempo and smoky, weightless dub, every transition seamless, every tone in its place. A soundtrack not imposed on the hour, but in harmony with it - unfolding in quiet perfection."

Luismi aka guisvi (@guisvi), a music lover for more than 3 decades, has a wide range of atmospheric music. Exquisite selector and great storyteller, he has always been rather elusive in city clubs, often seen at private parties and the most underground events. His sets of ambient and low-tempo electronica are true journeys with subtle and extended blends. Sequences that breathe, atmospheres, and textures to dance with closed eyes.

Recorded djset at Perpendicular 2025 (@espacio-perpendicular) - somewhere in the woods. When? Saturday 8:00 Where? In the main stage.

HOCast #257 - Güisvi - Perpendicular 2025

Through meditation and distant oriental promises, I reach for a fragile peace, letting the noise of urban life dissolve into silence.
In that hush, a forest stirs: sap and shadow, the echo of drums older than language.
But the vision fractures.
Shamans emerge clad in chrome, their chants braided with circuitry. Mechanical rites ignite beneath a sky of fractured satellites and pollution, a cyberpunk liturgy where smoke is replaced by static, and comfort arrives in the strange glow of the synthetic.
What began as an escape becomes a mirror: nature and machine entwined, an apocalyptic communion where solace and dissonance share the same breath.

Josep Berruezo "Berru" (@dj-berru) is a Barcelona-born DJ and curator who helped shape the city’s underground techno scene with his Estratechno collective in the early 2010s. Performing as Dj Berru, he blends Detroit-inspired techno with ambient, dub, and hypnotic textures, crafting dark, machine-driven sets that invite a deeply psychedelic dance-floor experience, while his second alias, The Option B, offers a more colourful and nostalgic selection. Berru now curates Club Aura, uniting LAUT (@laut_barcelona) and Casa Montjuïc for extended-journey sets, sonic experimentation, and immersive video art.

HOCast #258 - Dj Berru

"Old walls breathe with the sound of running streams.
Here, resistance turns to melody and memory to light.
Through the hush of ancient laundries, water carries forgotten voices."

Author’s note: In this set—beyond the water theme, where we play with certain field recordings that evoke it, like the dripping of irrigation systems, the Mediterranean Sea (since we are in Catalonia, with a poem by Ovidi Montllor at the beginning and another by Salvador Espriu near the end), rain, or even the washhouse itself—we also wanted to play with sunlight. Our set began in the sun and ended at night, and the musical progression was designed to follow that change.

Binomi (@binomi) is the project of Jordi Aparicio (@slim-jordi) and Joan Gila (@joan-gila), born from a friendship forged through music and a constant exchange of records, recommendations, and sonic curiosities. DJs and record collectors from Tarragona, they run the radio program of the Mostra festival together with their friend Javi, and have appeared on stations such as Dublab Barcelona with a show dedicated to exploring the history of musical movements across different regions.

DIGIT is a decentralized micro-festival of electronic music and digital art taking place on 12–13 September 2025 across Montbrió del Camp, Pratdip, and Reus (Tarragona). Organized by the cultural association El Rampell (@elrampell) - based in Pratdip, about 150 km from Barcelona - the festival brings contemporary culture to rural settings and the wider Tarragona region.

As part of the program, Binomi will perform at Els Rentadors during the deep-listening journey, sharing the stage with Bastien, .apart, Perila, and ABSIS.

More info: https://digit.cat/

HOCast #259 - Binomi - Digit 2025

Thought as an hypnosis session inspired by the neurophysiology behind the mysteries of sleep stages and its transitions phenomena, the aim is to introduce the listener to an altered state of consciousness where sound frequencies are melted into brainwaves. Repetitive bass lines synchronize rhythmic slow activity, as during sleep-onset, able to induce a hypnagogic state. Higher tones overlap, mirroring the gamma band that evoke inner memories from deeper areas. As melodies and whisperings modulate your thoughts, REM-like architecture sculptures the imagery and the self vanishes. 

<<< You are now entering the “dysvreality”. Chords resonate echoes from a distant time: chaos imposed as order. A frenetic lullaby that has already alienated many, turns dreams into nightmares, forcing the subject to escape. Enchanting atmospheres are invaded by electroacoustic patterns seeking for awareness. Sound robot machines return a sense of control, followed by a dreamy space odyssey. Suddenly, a familiar street sound breaks the wake-sleep frontiers. You’ve listened to that before, in another life… Your life. Lucid dreams emerge by identifying this clue. Metal elements dive into an oneiric soundscape where fear and hope collide. Wandering voices interrupt lucidity, translating you to a confusional arousal. 

As you try to open your eyes, you notice with panic that you cannot move, cuddled by sub-bass and strings. Expecting to feel safe while paralyzed, horns and whistles warn you about destiny. In that moment, you realize that distant reality is, in fact, the present and time is running out. >>>

This set was recorded at “Vanishing Point”, a magical open-sky sleepover that took place in Madrid's surroundings in September 2025. So glad to be part of it, endless love to all people involved. Final cut is added as an epilogue, which I hope completes the story with a special bonus for this HOCast. 

Thanks to Vanishng Point members Azul, Truglut, Alberto y Josephine!

Thanks hipersincronía hipnagógica (@hypnagogika).

Here the tracklist, as sharing music is the most powerful sign of connection! —> 

PART I: 

Mar D. Orfila - [I] le corps vecú (SOMA)
Richard Chartier - Recurrence.Expansion (Portraits GRM SPGRM 008)
MUTA - MUTA (MUTA)
Luisa Lemgruber - 111 (Meandro, seminal records SR#90)
Fallen - Of Life and Obstacles (Fragments, Móatún 7 UMFT042)
Donato Dozzy - Onde (The Sacred Rage, Morphine Records DLEF001)
Memoria - Snowblind (Ethersphere, Slaughter Productions SPCD17)
The Murmurous Playground - Decóller (Somber Fuss Experiments, nostalgie de la boue ndlb#152)
Diseño Corbusier - Arde En Sus Ojos La Luz (Stadia, Auxilio De Cientos Aux.C.04 / Dark Entries DE-135)
Luisa Lemgruber - 222 (Meandro, seminal records SR#90)
The Murmurous Playground - Pins (Somber Fuss Experiments, nostalgie de la boue ndlb#152)

PART II: 

Pierre Bastien - Quiet Motors (The Mecanoconcentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien, Discrepant CREP48) 
Felicity Mangan - Magnetic Moss (String Figures, Elevator Bath eeaoa074)
klauss - Estacionarias-Improvisación, Disco Naranja (Metales Perfectos, UltraPop Ultra 006)
Sote - Neo Fatal Technology (Majestic Noise Made In Beautiful Rotten Iran, Sub Rosa SRV535)
Jacek Doroszenko - MACBA Skaters (Soundreaming, Audiobulb Records AB070)
JARL - Part 4-Mind Isolation (Mind Rotation, Zoharum ZOHAR 265-2)
Mark Hjorthoy - The Sheep’s Electric Dream (Ubikuitous - Music inspired by Phillip K. Dick’s dystopias, Unexplained Sounds Group USG106)
Miriam - Sex In The Sargassi (Sing A Beast, Dissipatio)
Alain Neffle aka Cortex - Cortex R (An Introduction Into The Insane Worlds Of Alain Neffle, Stroom STRLP-002)

BONUS:

A. Martin Pyne - Summoning /edit/ (Spirits Of Absent Dancer, Discus Discus 98CD)
B. HHK - DYSV001

HOCast #261 x Vanishing Point - hipersincronía hipnagógica

Next up Saphileaum local producer, member of Khidi records and podcast series. Also he runs label Expeditions Above. Tune in to listen cosmic ambient & atmospheric techno! MutantRadio.net

Saphileaum [03.07.2020]

Beyond / Below B2 by @carl-420. Received May 2020.
Artwork by Carly Barton

"Fan Club is an intimate community-focused celebration recurring quarterly on the solstices and equinoxes of each season. To usher in the new Spring (2019), we gathered in a modest structure in the forest near Silver Falls (Oregon). The fusion of energy provided by the fresh snow and impending Spring resulted in a night of mystical improvisation, becoming more hypnotic as the dark transformed into morning. This mix is a section of a near 4-hour recording using cdjs and turntables— diving into a fungi fueled trance that collages questionable tempos into new ‘scapes."

TRACK / ARTIST / ALBUM / LABEL [YEAR]
Psidium Guajava / Ibu Selva / Esquizogonia / Tropical Twista Records [2018]
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Staying For Winter / Cleared / Cleared / Immune [2011]
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Burn Up In Half / We™ / Decentertainment / Home Entertainment [2000]
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Untitled / Thomas Brinkmann / Studio 1 - Variationen (CD Version) / Profan [1997]
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Sergio Leone’s Wet Dream / David Moufang / Solitaire / Fax +49-69/450464 [1995]
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People of the Wind Pt. 2 / Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo, & Lopatin / FRKWYS 7 / Rvng Intl. [2011]
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Calene / Process / Shape-Space / Fat Cat Records [2000]
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Lovebeat / Yoshinori Sunahara / Lovebeat / Ki/oon [2001]
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Dona J Haraway / NSDOS / Female Guest List E.P. / ClekClekBoom Recordings [2015]
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Trial Dub / Dean DeCosta / Theorie E.P / Lo-Fi Stereo [2000]
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Data Haiku / Datacide / Datacide II / Fax +49-69/450464 [1994]
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Follow Me Home / Chessie / Meet / Drop Beat Records [1999]
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Streamline / Jet Chamber / Jet Chamber / Fax +49-69/450464 [1995]
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Resonant Orbit / Seabat / Scattered Disc / Goltimers Tapes [2013]
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Over 6633 / Ametsub / All Is Silence / Nothings66 [2012]
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Urania / Frank Bretschneider / Komet / Shitkatapult [2011]
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Baud / Biosphere / Stator / Touch [2015]
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Semiramis / Monoceros / Imaginary EP / Imaginary Nonexistent Records [2006]
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Elevation II (Original) / Vainqueur / Elevations / Chain Reaction [1997]
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Epa D’autore / Arg / iXem / iXem [2003]
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Etra / Manta / Etra / Where To Now? [2015]
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Abaddon’s Cave / Carly Barton / Unreleased [2019]
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Char / Carly Barton / Interludes / Self-Released [2019]
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Plant Charmer / David Edren / Music for Mimosa Pudica & Codariocalyx / Self-Released [2015]
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Mold / Carly Barton / Interludes / Self-Released [2015]
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Toyo Vinyl / DJ Nobu / Toyo Vinyl / INDUSTRIAL JP [2018]
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Shimmer / Heiko Laux / Fernweh / Kanzleramt [2014]
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Mushroom Maze / Carly Barton / Vidya World 12 / Self-Released [2018]
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5 (Spectre) / Moritz Von Oswald Trio / Sounding Lines / Honest Jon’s Records [2015]
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Many Blades of Grass Ago / Fenton / Pup / Plop [2005]

B2. Carly Barton

First up is Saphileaum local producer with forthcoming release on ‘giraffe tapes’, also runs label ‘Expeditions Above’. Come by or stay tuned.

Saphileaum [giraffe tapes Label Launch] [16.08.2020]

Beyond / Below B3 by @pascaaal. Received October 2020.
Photo by Peter Wiley

"I wonder what it feels like to be translucent. How does it feel to have light pass through you, your fingers, your memories, your emotions? Can a relationship conduct light? Do these relationships spiral out from each other, illuminating each other in chain-like succession? Light is a particle and a wave. I have no answers."

Pub - Lunch
Pharmakustik - Pulsatile lavage
Paul D. Miller - Colophon
Madalyn Merkey - Let Other's Mouth
Sänkt - Inflammerad
Audio Werner - Wir
Andreas Tilliander - Ljud 8
Manta - Endent
Kaap & queniv - Sunflo
Roman Flügel - FM Rythms
Tribe Of Colin - Cradle To The Sunset
Moped Endo - Kwiristhock-A

B3. Pascäal

Saphileaum, a local producer, who also runs label ‘Expeditions Above’.

Saphileaum [20.11.2020]

sound as a map of elsewhere

curated by @joan-gila
label @red-edge-label
media for @mostrabcn

· News

RE_02: https://rededge.bandcamp.com/album/temps-boro

· Events

TBA

Past

2025/05/30, Laut, HOC radio x Delayed w/Moon Patrol, Hue, Binomi
2024/11/09, Laut, HOC_04 w/Sciama, o.utlier
2024/06/20, Solstici by HOC, w/Breixo Martínez & Ivy Barkakati 
2024/03/28-31, Mostra Festival 24 
2023/04/6-9, Mostra Festival 23 
2023/01/14, Laut, HOC_03 w/Eric Cloutier, Nico 
2022/04/11-17, Mostra Festival 22
2020/05/16, Streaming, Σ_HOC w/Warks, Binomi
2019/12/6, Laut, HOC_02 w/C.P.I., Golden Bug, Binomi
2019/07/11, Abaixadors10, HOC presenta "Tremendo line up" w/AntiDroneSquad, D&G, Binomi b2b Melens 
2019/05/17, Laut, HOC_01 w/Marc Piñol, Binomi

HOCast #132 - Forest On Stasys

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