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#UnTape 03 w/ Umo

"Under the rain at Ouroboros, the circle turns: droplets on leaves, bass in the soil, rhythm warming the air. What begins in stillness grows into movement, slow and shared. The forest listens, the dancers answer, and the afternoon unfolds in its own quiet loop of renewal."

caroune  (@caroune-dem) is a London-based DJ and the co-founder of Osmura (@osmura) record label, event and mix series. Her versatile sound blends downtempo, dubstep, percussive techno and drum&bass creating immersive, sensorial journeys filled with wonder and uplifting energy. For the past two years, Caroune has played at underground venues in London, Paris and Brussels as well as European Festivals. She will be hosting her next Osmura night at Ormside Projects in London this month where she will be playing alongside international artists. This year, her label launched its first vinyl release with UK-based talent, Sub Basics, and a new VA will be announced soon.

Note: This set has been recorded live in September 2025 at Ouroboros festival in France. I played on Sunday afternoon (my favourite slot!), it was raining so I tried to lift the mood with some dubstep, warm percussion, and deep bass notes. The crowd really connected with the sound and slowly started dancing under the rain...

Deep in the Cantal forest, Ouroboros (@ouroboros-festival) invites you to join the circle. A festival rooted in the woods, where the lines between nature and sound blur gently. It’s an invitation to return, to listen, and to flow with the energy that surrounds us.

HOCast #266 - caroune - Ouroboros 2025

"A slow descent into shadow: drones coil like incense smoke, subtle fragments flicker at the edge of perception, and a quiet ritual begins to take shape. The mix moves with the gravity of a half-remembered dream. An abstract journey carved from stillness, depth, and a darkness that never overwhelms, only draws you in."

Yoshitaka Shirakura (@user-309855222) is a Tokyo-based DJ and event organizer specializing in Techno, Ambient, and Avant-garde music. Since 2015, he has been actively booking avant-garde live performances at dance parties, bridging genres and expanding musical perspectives. In 2019, he began performing solo drone live sets using a bass guitar. Since 2022, he has also been performing live hardware sets.

HOCast #267 - Yoshitaka Shirakura

"A spark becomes momentum: rhythms splinter and recombine, bell-like echoes circling through coils of bass and kinetic percussion. What unfolds is a hybrid voyage shaped in real time - instinct over structure, curiosity over certainty - a shared current of energy where experimentation finds its own pulse."


On one side, Parautas (@parautas64848754) is the electronic music production and performance project of Santiago de Compostela–born artist Charli Gómez. Centred on sound creation through a range of electronic devices, Parautas focuses most of his work on the live format. On the other, Marini (@mmmarini) is a regular fixture in the crowd at Espacio Perpendicular, only stepping behind the decks in the summer of 2023, inspired by the venue’s distinctive musical direction.

Author's note: The idea for the hybrid set was a last-minute suggestion for a New Year’s Eve private party - an intimate gathering of friends with no greater ambition than ringing in 2025 in the best company possible. It was a gift to kick off the year with a session there, taking that shared impulse to play and experiment into a hybrid format, without rehearsals and using new gear such as Torso Electronics’ S4. What you hear is the result: a live jam blending sampled bell chimes, old patterns and newly discovered labels like Third Foundation, creating a fresh and communal space for both of us and our closest friends.

HOCast #269 - Parautas & Marini (Hybrid) @ Espacio Perpendicular

“ NIL. Evening unfolds in smoke and soft light. Looped guitars, drifting drones, and delicate field recordings carve a vast, meditative space — a live improvisation where intuition shapes every texture. Shadows and melody coil together, dissolving boundaries between memory, sound, and presence, carrying the listener into a quiet, introspective journey.”

Florian aka MORDIO (@mordiomusic) is a Berlin-based music producer and teacher. With years of experience in the field, he is known for his rich sound design in both groovy primal instinct techno and soft meditative texture-based ambient. Alongside his music, he shares his knowledge with the world through online tutorials and courses.

Author's note: It's evening. Guitar, TORSO S4 sampler, SOMA Cosmos pedal. Incense. Candle. Everything on my desk in front of me. I breathe. I connect. I press record. The guitar melody loops, slightly offset, until it becomes a texture placed into a space so vast it transforms into a drone. Here the journey begins. I let go of consciousness and become the medium. No control just intuition. Textures recorded throughout the year, moments from my life, atmospheres. Blended with effects and soundscapes that ease me into meditation. After an hour, I come back. It is what it is. Fully improvised. Left as is. I hope it brings you down in these stressful times.

NIL is the product of this jam turned into an album. It will be available on their Bandcamp.

Support his music: https://mordio.bandcamp.com/
Support his channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MordioMusic
Web: https://mordiomusic.com/

HOCast #268 - MORDIO - LIVE

Cat Gabal [at] Laut BCN (DubLab Showcase)

Die-Six [at] Datura

Cat Gabal [at] PaloAlto Fest

"Starting with downtempo and gradually raising the beat towards a darker electro. Cat Gabal gives us a mix of an exellent selection of works from 2020, some new releases from 2021 and some of her favs."

Classically trained dj and producer Cat Gabal (@catgabal) is the force behind the international audiovisual platform and label Openthenext (@openthenext) as well as host of the eponymous show on dublab BCN. Wonky electronics, spacey synths and everything in between.

https://www.openthenext.org/
https://openthenext.bandcamp.com/
https://dublab.es/shows/openthenext

HOCast #47 - Cat Gabal

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

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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 
2023/01/14, Laut, HOC_03 w/Eric Cloutier, Nico 
2019/12/6, Laut, HOC_02 w/C.P.I., Golden Bug, Binomi
2019/05/17, Laut, HOC_01 w/Marc Piñol, Binomi

HOCast #47 - Cat Gabal

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