Mini mix serie HOC radio X Mostra Barcelona (www.mostra.barcelona)

HOC radio X Mostra

F-on (@f-ondj) presents MOSTRA Barcelona Festival full line-up.

This is an exclusive vinyl-only session with music from some of the artists from Mostra Barcelona Festival (@mostrabcn). The mix showcases the different styles you'll find at the festival, with a flowing coherence to the sound. It starts with ambient and electronica and continues into a hypnotic, gliding deeper techno sound. The two ABSIS tracks serve as a bridge between styles. The session concludes with broken rhythms of sinuous bass and Lynchian atmospheres. In this special mix, you'll find some of our favourite tracks from the last few years - classics already in the Mostra festival record bag.

Mostra is a brand new small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music, taking place 11-17 April in open air venues in Barcelona. Mostra is local, inclusive and sustainable: it proposes an alternative experience, providing visibility to artists not often seen in the main venues, and offering a counterpoint to the city's macro-festivals and commercial events. Mostra offers a new way of listening to and enjoying the most forward-thinking electronic music. It's a festival to make a scene. Enjoy and join #MostraBCN this Easter in Barcelona: www.mostra.barcelona

Tracklist:

LF58 - live at Brancaleone (Side E)
Ulla - Inside Means Inside Me (Side A)
LOG - LOG 8
Perila - You Disappear You Find Yourself Again
Nueen - Path
ABSIS - Sara
Vand - Altarf-unn
Vand - Oort
Claudio PRC - Mana
Claudio PRC - Typha
Modern Heads - Beginning (Claudio PRC remix)
Hironori Takahashi – Parza (Claudio PRC remix)
Reggy Van Oers – Mavie
Reggy Van Oers - Tunnel Dweller
Massa - Exploration
Aleja Sanchez - Sanctuary
Reggy Van Oers - Encircling Persistence
ABSIS - Search and find
Aleja Sanchez - Epona
Laertes - Argonaut (Neel remix)
Estrato Aurora - Cranofacial Architecture
Clay Wilson - E4 (Patrick Russell remix)
Estrato Aurora - Icnita

Artwork: www.bualie.studio

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HOCast #100 x Mostra - Mostra Barcelona

This is an exclusive session of Ylia as part of Mostra Barcelona Festival (@mostrabcn) for HOC radio. 
"Like a Moebius work, this seemingly unconnected adventure is a brilliant laboratory of evidence. An asteroid of overlapping worlds, a space for abstract textures created by the eighth passenger, another space for earthly rhythms and songs of minimalist tribes. And so, constant superimpositions and overlaps of conceptual environments that, when you finish and look back, you will discover that there is no disconnection but rather the opposite."

Founder of Animah records (@animahrecords), Ylia (@ylia) is a musician, producer and Dj. She came of age DJing breakbeat raves in Andalucia while studying classical piano at the conservatory, and then moved to Barcelona to study modern composition and arrangements at Taller de Musics in Barcelona, becoming an intrinsic piece of the city musical ecosystem. She released her debut solo album 'Dulce Rendición' at Paralaxe Editions (@paralaxe-editions) while working on collaborative projects with Phran (@phran) as People You May Know (@peopleyoumayknowpumk); and with Darío del Moral under the name Bola del Desierto. She is also a member of experimental flamenco singer Niño de Elche's band, performing keyboards and electronics.

Artwork: www.bualie.studio

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HOCast #101 x Mostra - Ylia

This is an exclusive session of Vand as part of Mostra Barcelona Festival (@mostrabcn) for HOC. 
"I am on top of the castle; strategic position, checkpoint and contemplative space. The pink light comes out from behind Tibidabo and tells me that the night is approaching from the Mediterranean. Breeze with the scent of spring. The city at my feet is like a game of Micro Machines. And I, as if I were a giant, dance hypnotized the deep and essential beats of a soundscape that I never want to end."

Vand’s (@vandmusic) sets are explorations into story-telling hypnotica with a crossover from ambient to dancefloor material. With releases on Nyame Records (@nyamerecords), a double EP collaboration with Bas Dobbelaer on Something Happening Somewhere (@sohaso) and his solo appearance on Madrid based F-on’s Alpenglühen (@f-ondj), he is now mostly affiliated to the ISOTOOP collective (@isotoop), helping with the organisation of events and transmitting their unique global sonic identity.

Artwork: www.bualie.studio

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HOCast #102 x Mostra - Vand

"From the top of the castle, the first tribal sounds can be heard. It's the transition period between day and night. As the light is being changed, whilst listening to that live that's pulling you like a magnet as you cross the castle moat."

HOC radio X Mostra - !nertia LIVE

!nertia (@nertia-1) is a one-man live experiment where acoustic and digital worlds are united. With the help of a big collection of ethnic instruments like Colombian gaita, millo flute, minor percussions, Tibetan bowls, Altered singing voices with effects, etc. He fuels his live looping station with an ethereal and mystical sound, to create a world on its own. All of this in combination with electronic rhythms that accompany the situation with true purity and spirit. Everything is being made on the spot and is always a different experience depending on the time, place and atmosphere. By listening and experiencing, he creates a dream where your mind drifts to a fantasy place and returns all ecstatic sensations.

The live set of !inertia opened the second day of performances curated at Castell de Montjuïc for Mostra 22 (@mostrabcn). The first edition of the Catalan festival gathered a total of 1,000 people along two different locations and four days of musical acts. Among the 26 artists in the line-up that provided high quality avant-garde and experimental electronic sounds, !nertia's proposal for the opening act ran into the castle's sunset to make then way to a magnificent full moon night.

Photo by Studio XXIX

HOCast #115 - !nertia - LIVE - Mostra 2022

"First day at the castle. I watch from the back and I see a wave of heads in tune, up and down, up and down. They are completely hypnotised by a fierce magic that is amplified by the two needles. First closing of Mostra Festival successfully concluded. I go down the mountain happy with a longing for more. See you tomorrow."

HOC radio X Mostra - Massa Djset

Massa (@massa), Catalan DJ and producer, is one of the main names in the local Deep Techno scene, his sound is presented as elegant, deep and mental, high level Deep Techno. In 2016 he created the label Hidden Traffic (@hiddentraffic), based in Barcelona through which he publishes in physical format prior to digital and releases fine works by artists such as Deepbass, Ness, Blazej Malinowski, Reggy Van Oers and Massa himself. He performed in classic clubs of the city such as Moog or Laut and released his work on important labels on the international scene such as Affin Records, Oslated and Informa Records among others. A fine mixer, an upright artist and a lover of what he does. * Written by subradio.

Closing set for the first day of performances curated at Castell de Montjuïc for Mostra 22 (@mostrabcn) in Barcelona. The first edition of the Catalan festival gathered a total of 1,000 people along two different locations and four days of musical acts. Among the 26 artists in the line-up that provided high quality avant-garde and experimental electronic sounds.

HOCast #125 - Massa - Mostra 2022

- We carry eden

"I close my eyes inside a dark hangar. I wake up naked in the heart of a Greek island garden. I can hear a bee sucking nectar from the most spectacular flower I have ever seen. I get up and walk. I crash into a ramification of 4 rivers that connect in a sound spiral that hypnotizes. I sit the hours that become seconds. Meditation. The river feeds the trees on the bank. The smell of fruit salad is intoxicating. We carry eden. I open my eyes and continue into the hangar. It's over."

Hanyo van Oosterom (@sonofchi) aka Son of Chi started the ambient collective CHI in 1983. Jacobus Derwort, a musician friend with Hanyo was the first musician to join CHI. Together, they went to the magic rock “The Kallikatsou” on the island of Patmos, Greece. Here, Hanyo had stayed for months in a cave for some deep soul-searching. He heard CHI in the silence of the night like a message from out of space. Being together at the Kallikatsou they shaped the foundation of CHI, making handmade flutes from local bamboo and conducting field recordings of water, crickets, owls, goats, wind, etc. After several years of collaborations with musicians like Willem Cramer and Michel Banabila, they decided to start together the beautiful The Chi Factory with which released (with the help of Ario Farahani and his label Astral Industries - @astralindustries) some of the most beautiful records in the history of ambient music. Following the passing of group member J. Derwort in 2019, Hanyo van Oosterom’s legacy work brings about the next evolution of the Chi project: Son of Chi. The sound of Hanyo Oosterom unfurls lushly overgrown 4th world drones, voices, and field recordings, naturally drifting between time-slowing beats, FM radio interference, and languid instrumentation combining the western retro-futuristic point of view, the New Age, and the ancestral eastern tradition. 

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Mostra (@mostrabcn) is an independent small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music that was born as an alternative to the macro-festivals and mass, commercial events that are held in the city of Barcelona. Mostra 2023 will take place from 6 to 9 April in Barcelona, featuring a total of 30 artists across two distinctive venues of the city.

HOCast #135 x Mostra - Son Of Chi

"After several weeks in the boat, at a slow, oscillating pace, the melancholy disappears like the unalterable horizon that we have been observing for days. Suddenly a peak in the distance, little by little the profile of the castle is drawn.  There where I was heading. Sailing and floating on the salty wave. I am already in Barcelona, I can already listen to Mostra."

Avsluta (@avsluta) is a London-based DJ, live performer and curator. While her output is diverse in both her live performances and DJ sets alike, it most often taps into the realms of downtempo, UK-bass and off-kilter deep techno, navigating the in-betweens of ambient and dance music. Lucie runs Introspective Electronics (@introspective_electronics), a platform exploring the vast diversity of ambient, downtempo and electronica. Together with the London-based DJ and producer Alicia, she co-curates Terra Obscura (@terra-obscura-london), a quarterly event series focusing on chill-out-tinged UK bass. In collaboration with Christian Duka and IKLECTIK, she co-organises SONIC GARDEN, a series of experimental ambient and downtempo events at IKLECTIK's Old Paradise Yard. Over the past few years, Lucie has shared line-ups with the likes of Donato Dozzy, DJ Nobu, Primal Code and more, and played live and DJ sets in the UK and around Europe. Her recent releases include solo EP on Secuencias Temporales and compilation contributions for Huinali Recordings and Knekelhuis.

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Mostra (@mostrabcn) is an independent small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music that was born as an alternative to the macro-festivals and mass, commercial events that are held in the city of Barcelona. Mostra 2023 will take place from 6 to 9 April in Barcelona, featuring a total of 30 artists across two distinctive venues of the city.

HOCast #138 x Mostra - Avsluta

"How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." - Bertolucci’s adaptation of Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky. - fullmoon - Sakamoto.

Son of Chi (@sonofchi) performing a live dedicated to Ryuichi Sakamoto who has died last week at 71. Background/base sketches for Mostra Festival 2023 (@mostrabcn), where he performed an improvisation with Arthur Flink.

Official site for composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto (bio, archives, discoraphy...): www.sitesakamoto.com

Rest in peace.

Photographed for Lindsay Issue No. 2

HOCast #144 - Son of Chi "Sakamoto Tribute" - Sketches for Mostra - LIVE

"Music that transcends mere preciousness; the soundtrack of a rollercoaster, and a creation that goes beyond floating. Music allows for the forging of sensations, weaving journeys of intrigue, beauty, and instability. A "cadavre exquis" of pure abstraction and concept, leading the ear to unusual places. This journey is a magnificent example of these beautiful musical purposes."

hems (@hems) crafts sonic experiences that blend experimental elements from electronica and musique concrète, evoking a sense of mystery as familiar forms transform into the unknown. Over the past few years, Hems has been a featured DJ at numerous events spanning Europe, Asia, and Latin America. His DJ sets have graced prestigious stages, including multiple appearances at Astral Industries, Kizen Records and Vurt events. As a live artist, Hems showcased his talents in a noteworthy project called "The Listening Body", this innovative show brought live drones to life using gongs, singing bowls, synthesizers, and an impressive array of 20 speakers. Additionally, Hems has ventured as a solo artist, employing the immersive 20-speaker system by AMOENUS to create mesmerizing ambisonic performances. Last but not least in 2023 together with Pagan Red, Hems started a new label "Titrate" (@titraterecords) focused on drone and experimental music.

Recorded in the ambient room at Springkell, Scotland, in 2022.

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Mostra (@mostrabcn) is an independent small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music that was born as an alternative to the macro-festivals and mass, commercial events that are held in the city of Barcelona. Mostra 2024 will take place from 28 to 31 March in Barcelona, featuring a total of 32 artists across two distinctive venues of the city.

HOCast #172 x Mostra - hems @ Springkell 2022

"At the castle, ancient walls embrace a mesmerizing sonic tapestry, where beats and frequencies intertwine to create a rhythmic symphony. This dance of sound harmonizes beneath the city lights, offering a unique and immersive experience in this atmospheric enclave."

Bas Dobbelaer (@bas-dobbelaer). Floating between energies with odd time signatures and atmospheric sounds, leaning towards the deeper shades of techno. With appearances at AD 93, Appian Sounds, On Board Music, Lowless and his collaborations with Vand for Something Happening Somewhere he is building on his own sonic palette. Operating from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

- HOC radio X Mostra

Mostra (@mostrabcn) is an independent small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music that was born as an alternative to the macro-festivals and mass, commercial events that are held in the city of Barcelona. Mostra 2024 will take place from 28 to 31 March in Barcelona, featuring a total of 32 artists across two distinctive venues of the city.

HOCast #174 x Mostra - Bas Dobbelaer

"The drops fall steadily as if from a stalactite. The storm and the humidity refuse to leave. A small group of us gather inside the cave, listening to the maestro. Drops sliding over the groove, slippery needles and the resilient crowd, intoxicated by his music. Completely hypnotized by a wizard. He doesn't care; each mix is perfect, each moment impressive. This will go down in the books. Thank you, my friend! & Thanks Mostra!"

HOC radio X Mostra - Fran Campos vinyl set

After belonging to the Move and Skyzoo Spanish collectives in the mid-90s, Fran Campos (@fran-campos) became part in the 2000's of the team of residents of Le Club and in the organization of the Observatori festival . In 2010 begins Black Label, a monthly party at Miniclub, where, for 5 years, he unveiled his Housier side. Then he was busy with his residency at Jerusalem Club, Caravaca (Proper Club), and with the organization and residency of the Taiga parties in Madrid, betting on contemporary Techno with a deep character. Currently, he continues to be interested in the most avant-garde musical currents that Techno hosts, from Ambient to Deep Techno, through Electro, Halftime, and even D&B. Always selecting the best music at the periphery of the industry.

This vinyl set took place at midday on Sunday, in the Foso of the Castell de Montjuïc, with the epic feeling of dancing under that intense spring rain. The third edition of Mostra 24 (@mostrabcn) brought together more than 1,000 people across two different locations and featured four days of musical acts. The lineup included 32 artists who delivered high-quality avant-garde and experimental electronic sounds.

Credit photo: Juan Muted

HOCast #196 - Fran Campos - Mostra 2024

"A space where the pulse of the city merges with sounds dancing between serenity and eruption, like a fractured dream in suspended time. Here, waves of bass envelop you, while rhythms twist free from the bounds of time and space, leaving you adrift in a sonic universe that refuses to be entirely predictable."

Warm, emotive, and explorative - a set of characteristics that make up the enchanting vision of Zara (@zaraolsen), one of the most exciting talents hailing from the Australian scene. Whether it’s IDM, drum and bass, or techno, the Kinesis label-head fuses it all with an enigmatic sense of delicacy. Her distinctive sound on the crossroads of the calm and the energetic resulted in releases on labels such as Animalia, Salt Mines, and Pure Space. Her sets have been turning heads within the international electronic music scene, playing at places like De School, Tresor, and Donato Dozzy’s Spazio Disponsible label showcase. Harmonizing the ethereal and the ominous - Zara takes a gentle yet firm grip on minds and souls on and off the dancefloor.

Mostra (@mostrabcn) is an independent, small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music which emerged by the end of 2021 as a counterpoint to the macro-festivals and the overcrowded, commercial and impersonal offerings of other large events held in Barcelona. Mostra will be celebrating its fourth edition from 17 to 20 April in 2025.

HOCast #223 x Mostra - Zara

"A journey through rhythmic and sonic experimentation - pulsating frequencies, evolving atmospheres, and shifting patterns. An intricate and unconventional exploration, where complexity meets bold innovation. A complex, intriguing, and electrifying experience."

gi (@gistrung) is a musician from Gadi (Sydney). Her sound blurs the outer limits of drone, idm and techno, interested in how generative sound design and asynchronous repetition can coalesce to create emotional music. Following self-released sketches in 2022, and contributions to compilations by Comic Sans Records (FR), Pure Space (AUS), Twin System (UK), Companion (AUS) she released her debut EP on Altered States Tapes in October 2023 and follow-up liveset EP on Beyond the Bridge (Seoul) in March 2024. In 2024 gi presented her debut album on Absorb (AUS) and launched the World of Knots label, while continuing to refine her unique style of warehouse oriented experimentalism, across live and DJ sets.

Mostra (@mostrabcn) is an independent, small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music which emerged by the end of 2021 as a counterpoint to the macro-festivals and the overcrowded, commercial and impersonal offerings of other large events held in Barcelona. Mostra will be celebrating its fourth edition from 17 to 20 April in 2025.

HOCast #231 x Mostra - gi

"Slow, smoking cadence. A spiral of textures, layers, and loops that form an intricate, singular magnetic field - perpetually intriguing. An introspective and one-of-a-kind work of art."

ENA (@ena-iai) is a music producer from and based in Tokyo. He is a major player in the Japanese underground dance music scene for more than a decade. Taking influences from early drum & bass productions, rave sound and abstract hip hop, ENA is recognized for his tight production techniques and massive audio dynamics. Uncompromising, forward thinking and unique, his releases on 7even Recordings, Horo and Latency brought international attention and have led to collaborations with like-minded virtuosos such as Felix K and Rashad Becker which were both invited to perform on the main stage of Berlin Atonal festival (in 2016 and 2017 respectively.) As a DJ, he has been playing regularly in the main clubs in Tokyo such as Unit, Contact, WWW and Club Asia as well as underground haunts like Forestlimit and Soup for many years. His expert music selection and technical excellence continues to impress the audience in and outside of Japan. Having toured Asia and Europe numerous times and appearing in wide range of prominent international festivals such as Berlin Atonal, rural, Fibre, Mapping and Sun and Bass in the past few years, he is establishing himself as a singular performer fitted to deliver a primetime rave set to a gritty basement fix to abstracted sonic experiments.

Mostra (@mostrabcn) is an independent, small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music which emerged by the end of 2021 as a counterpoint to the macro-festivals and the overcrowded, commercial and impersonal offerings of other large events held in Barcelona. Mostra will be celebrating its fourth edition from 17 to 20 April in 2025.

HOCast #234 x Mostra - ENA

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