This took me on a journey. The bananas pulled me in. <3 Thank you for the music.

Aaron J ( @arn_j ) is a Boston based DJ and label head, running the @sure_thing imprint. The talented DJ has become known through Sure Thing's exciting bill of events, mixes & releases, with an unwaveringly genuine commitment to music and the bright community that surrounds it in the US and abroad. 

As a DJ, Aaron has become known for his taste for deep & dark, yet somehow always whimsical and warm music, having pulled together beautiful musical narratives for a range of notable mix series - this mix is no exception. I'm so happy to have him as part of the series - and can't wait to meet someday in the (hopefully) not too distant future on a dance floor :-)

You can check out Sure Thing here -- https://surethingrec.bandcamp.com

Thanks again Aaron! 

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Animix Forty Six: Aaron J

"I often build mixes up from light, floaty frequencies, slowly layering in sounds, but for this mix, I wanted to be right in the intensity of the situation from the start.

This story follows an abandoned spaceship, adrift in the depths of the cosmos. Something strange and perplexing has happened here. Unnerving and claustrophobic from the get-go, this initial constriction of pressure is gradually unwound as the mix twists and turns through a variety of ominous soundscapes…"

INVEINS \ Podcast \ 094 \ Sybil

@agonis-amenthia is initiating season 3 with an apparitional, breathing and hybridizing swell of sound quakes ✥🌫✴︎

Aired 06.10.22 on @lyl_radio
www.lyl.live

Hyperterranean #013 with Agonis

Remember Chinese Whispers, Stille Post or Rikkinäinen Puhelin? That children’s game, known all over the world, that illustrates the difficulties of transmitting information, but which also reveals the creativity of discontinuous conversation? It feels like the Patterns of Perception and @awalkingcontradiction collectives have been in such a conversation for the past years across a multitude of label nights, private hangouts, and shared festival experiences.

Based in Basel, Switzerland but unhinged from national contexts, A Walking Contradiction is a label for music and research. Curated by @varuna4053, @lemont-eana and Dead Electronic Space Limited (@ltd_dead), the collective share a penchant for beats - broken and straight - yet can't help but churn out music for the quiet hours. A deeply reflective group, you’ll find snippets of their conversations on social, political, economic, and environmental issues hidden in sounds or in plain sight on the sleeves of their records.

Compiled entirely from new and unreleased material, their Patterns of Perception 102 is but the latest product of interlocutions and whispers between Basel, Berlin, Helsinki and the world in general, paying tribute to the significance of community where the legitimacy of commons is increasingly impugned. 
Levitating within a field of sophisticated textures and percussion, this set burns slowly, but with a luminescent intensity. Angular experimental ambience builds into winding, complex rhythms. Inspired minds elevate delicate melancholia into a true sense of hope.

Links:
@awalkingcontradiction 
https://awalkingcontradiction.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/awc_awalkingcontradiction

https://soundcloud.com/varuna4053
https://www.instagram.com/varuna_awc
https://soundcloud.com/giomar
https://soundcloud.com/monteforte-1
https://soundcloud.com/ltd_dead
https://soundcloud.com/mario-7
https://soundcloud.com/lemont-eana

Patterns of Perception 102 - A Walking Contradiction

Beautiful offering for #116 from the depths of France, Javier Salazar (@salazarconnect). I originally discovered their music via a beautiful set at the @monument-podcast festival afterparty on a beautiful farm in Norway. I was completely entranced by their percussive, groovy style. 

Founders of @rdgtribe, they recently put out a beautiful release on the output - somehow both soothing and driving. This mix is a beautiful continuation of that style. Relaxing, hypnotic and bouncy all at once.

Thank you so much for putting this together <3

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Animix One Hundred & Sixteen: Javier Salazar

We have been eager to share this new chapter of our Podcast Series with you for a little while. It comes courtesy of the Basel-based Timnah Sommerfeldt, the empress of all things occult and hypnotic in the realm of electronica 🔮

Part of the well-respected amenthia recordings crew, co-host of Home Radio she runs together with Garçon and a resident at Elysia ~ arguably one of the most loved clubs in Europe ~ Timnah is a well seasoned DJ with strong sensibility in navigating the the deeper, headier waters of techno and atmospheric bass 💫

Timnah’s introspective contribution is a perfectly balanced blend of deep, aqueous drones and murky downtempo carving out and holding space for the patiently emerging stormy rhythms taking the reins for most part in the second half of the mix. Time to brace yourselves for a one way journey into the maelstrom. Safe travels, friends 🌝🌚

Sounds by @timnah-sommerfeldt 
Visions by @marcomaldarella 

TRACKLIST: 

Mike Parker - Voice Three
Ishq - Night Sky Dreaming
Neel - Storm In Stickney
Alan Backdrop - Kair
Sciama - Pigment
Toki Fuko - Narration 2
Varuna - Untitled
Birds of Prey - Black Vulture (Patrick Russell Remix)
Recent Arts - Pull The Emergency Break
Alan Backdrop - Sepora
2350 Broadway - Hands Of Light Part IV
Sciama - Observe
Varuna - Untitled
Konduku - Helles
Strië - Man And The Cosmos Around
Claudia Sin - Panic

Podcast Series 29 | Timnah

@garcon DJ set at positive education festival 2022, in Saint-Étienne, France 

5am closing set after @woodyninetytwo b2b @spekkiwebu <3

ani/live Two: Garçon @ Positive Education Festival

The first Patterns of Perception mix of 2023 comes from a luminous presence and dear friend of our collective - label head, mix series curator, promoter and esteemed selector Aaron J (@arn_j).

Over the years, a combination of passion, openness and tireless energy has seen Aaron become a trusted voice for experimental, boundary-pushing electronic music across both the US and the wider scene. 

Founded over eight years ago, Aaron’s much-loved platform @sure_thing is the embodiment of his forward-thinking curation and clarity of vision. Now based in Brooklyn, Sure Thing started as a series of parties in San Francisco before growing outward, later blossoming into a renowned mix series and record label. 

As a DJ, Aaron’s level of empathy and attention-to-detail are unmistakeable, allowing him to deeply connect with the dance floor no matter the context - layering, building and driving emotions ever onwards.

Aaron J's Patterns of Perception 106 is both radiant and personal - an idyllic snapshot of the perfect dance floor, glowing with wide-eyed energy. Pensive darkness simmers into hedonistic psychedelia. Intensity turns reflective. Endless rhythms vibrate and flare into nurturing light. 

Links:
@arn_j
https://www.instagram.com/arn_j/
@sure_thing
https://surethingrec.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/surethingevents

Patterns of Perception 106 - Aaron J

@garcon

~ Tracklist ~

Sarah Davachi - Cadence I
Aleksi Perälä – UK74R1619190
Grouper – Adorned
hoodie – justin
Space Afrika – Yuly
Inhmost – Healing Hand
Ishq – And Awake
Inhmost – Outside Space
Agonis – Sunlight Filtering Through Skyscrapers 
Holovr – Nascent Dawn
Jo Johnson – Vigil
Lamin Fofana – Unfinished Elegy
Imaginary Softwoods – Destination Stone
Locust – Moist Moss
Malibu – So Far Out Of Love
High Skies – The Shape Of Things To Come
Robert Rich & Ian Bondy – Lagrange Point
Pauline Anna Strom – Eighteen Beautiful Memories 
Donnacha Castello – Slowly, Through Fog

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For the first Deep Mind Music of 2023, I am delighted to welcome garçon, one of the brains behind the impeccable amenthia label, a dynamic and highly-inspiring DJ, whose sets I always find special. After many years of mutual online mix-appreciation, we finally got to hang out in person last year, and it’s been so lovely to connect with a fellow deep-feeling DJ.

I love the way garçon weaves together sounds, rhythms and harmonies into compelling patchworks which transport the listener into whole new worlds. He has a very subtle way of putting together tracks, delicately contrasting soundscapes to bring out new shapes and motifs, lightly morphing the visual landscape around us.

garçon's mix for Deep Mind Music is a space for nocturnal daydreaming, a gentle dive into the ocean of the mind, going ever inwards in a swirling haze of thoughts. A poignant expression of emotion that perfectly captures the wistful energy of January 🕯️

The first half of the mix slowly coalesces out of gossamer veils of sound, each new layer melting into the next. In the second half, we gradually descend into deeper pools of emotion, detaching from reality and getting lost in the waves. By the end, we’re adrift in an intimate cerebral realm, a space for pensive imagining and unbounded feeling. The closing track by Donnacha Castello is one of those pieces of music which is at once an expression of the deepest sorrow, and the purest joy. Thank you garçon for this very moving entry 🕊️🤍☁️

@amenthia-recordings
https://instagram.com/garcon_amenthia/

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Deep Mind Music

garçon ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.25

an hour and half of deeply moving, wildly tender mix by @syberkid :')

o: how have you been sleeping lately?
s: unpredictably. sometimes i sleep and wake up with the hazy memory of a glorious adventure, other days I wake with the horror of a nightmare clinging to my subconscious, and sometimes I can’t sleep at all...

o: are you a daydreamer or night swimmer?
s: always both ~ swimming in the daydreams, dreaming in the night swims.

o: where do you go to dream?
s: music is my portal to the dreamland. drone for the deepest cerebral dissolution into the realm of the imagination, something more energetic or colourful if I want to fly through the sky.

o: what was the last thing you heard that moved you?
s: the rustling leaves of trees in the wind, and birds calling to each other on a walk this morning.

o: have you ever cried on the dance floor?
s: yes, though not often, I’m more of “cry on the inside” dancer. 
though, the first time i remember actually crying on the dance floor was the first time i heard claro intelecto’s ‘peace of mind’ in 2013 i think… it was in my head for weeks afterwards https://youtu.be/m0-iideGM_k

o: where did you record this mix? 
s: in my living room, with my favourite cedar incense burning (i burn this every time I record a mix, a little ritual which always brings me to the right zone).

o: what drew you to the sounds?
s: you my bb <3 
this mix is my interpretation of all our beautiful sobcore listening sessions in your room after nights out, our shared love of soft emotional music, and how that translates into my sound. it’s sobcore x deep mind music, a journey for deep feelings, philosophical chats, cosy cuddles and imaginal drifting ~

o: what are you looking forward to the most this year?
s: i am most excited for the summer months to finally arrive, so I can once again frolic with friends in nature, listening to music outside 🤸🌲🌞

*･ﾟ★✧

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Mark Lando At Home - November '20

next show.
28.10.22 - w/ ultra low velocity

past.

abdulla rashim (northern electronics)
a made up sound (delsin)
AM khamsaa (light of other days)
agonis (amenthia recordings)
akay (basel)
alma negra (basel)
avia (zurich)
bleach (bern)
bauaïn (amenthia recordings)
bambounou (50weapons)
ben ufo (hessle audio)
blackbox (basel)
baaz (office recordings)
benjamin brunn (smallville)
benedikt frey (LARJ)
ben kaczor (basel)
bonnie (basel)
candy pollard (who the fuck)
chemistry village (basel)
christopher rau (smallville)
dario rohrbach (basel)
cepheì (basel)
dj dustin (giegling)
dj masda (cabaret recordings)
dorisburg (aniara recordings)
dubois (basel)
eli verveine (tardis records)
el tigre sound (twoets)
ed luis (basel)
edward (giegling)
ethyl (secretsundaze)
fabian bruhn (aniara)
forest drive west (livity sound)
gerd janson (running back)
gravina (sion)
herman (kosmos)
hack fu superdub (basel)
honoree (basel)
izabel (lullabies for insomniacs)
ieva (basel)
jolly (kashev tapes)
JP enfant (LET | amsterdam)
jamie shar (basel)
j banana (basel)
kastil (soul notes)
koyoti (kosmos)
kettenkarussell (giegling)
kombé (basel)
konstantin (giegling)
lcp (re:st)
localhost (luxembourg)
leafar legov (giegling)
marco shuttle (eerie records)
mark lando (basel)
mad marshal (basel)
mafou (basel)
molly (rex club)
manamana (kann records)
marc d' arrigo (zurich)
molekühl (zurich)
mark rhein (wake up!)
morard (basel)
mike parker (geophone)
miss jay (groningen)
mukuna (basel)
noria lilt (strecke)
neel (spazio disponibile)
new.com (comfortnoise)
neevo (basel)
oracy (mojuba records)
oskar offermann (white)
oscar schubaq (tardis records)
patrick russell
phrex (dubtopia)
philipp weibel (basel)
princess p (bern)
rndm (laid)
romañie (basel)
rozzo (mountain people)
rehbellen (basel)
sybil (deepmind)
skor rokswell (leipzig)
simon lemont (a walking contradiction)
tesdorpf (swim)
the citizen's band (LARJ)
trauminic (basel)
tunay can (basel)
tesdorpf (basel)
ulf eriksson (kontra musik)
varuna (a walking contradiction)
vector trancer (mirror zone)
yone-ko (cdv)
zøla (basel) 
//suibheallan. (a walking contradiction)

wall.

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№2 - dream - 2014
№3 - skor72 - 2015
№4 - yan paul - 2016
№5 - audio - 2019

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