7. Al Amanecer feat Grupos Puma Blanca y Palmeras

El Búho - Floating Islands

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"Tipi01" by Karl Bodmer (1809-1893) - Watercolor on paper by Karl Bodmer from his travel to the U.S. 1832-1834.. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tipi…ile:Tipi01.jpg

Marian Benjamin - Tipsy's Night

Music For The Deck of The Titanic

Sea Bed / Cosmic Dance (Otodojo Rework) [feat. Marieme]

Trance Sitar

Funky Town

ETERNAL THRESHOLDS BOOKLET (EN) https://eklektikaberlin.com/files/1371805/eternal-thresholds-booklet.pdf
HORIZON IX BOOKLET (EN) https://eklektikaberlin.com/files/1369223/horizon-ix-the-story.pdf
HORIZON IX BOOKLET (DE): https://eklektikaberlin.com/files/1369835/horizon-ix-the-story-de.pdf
The Architect roams the lower levels only to find familiar corridors leading somewhere else entirely. Doorways open to impossible landscapes, buildings breathe, and time inside the city no longer matches the clocks. Reality is melting into dream logic — and no one seems to notice but him.

The Architect has been wandering for days, though time has lost its grip here. In this place, streets rearrange themselves when you look away. He passes a corner bakery and, seconds later, finds it replaced by an open shore where waves hiss against cobblestones. No one seems alarmed. People walk as if nothing changes — their smiles faint, their eyes slow to blink — as if they’ve already made peace with living inside a dream.

The city feels alive, but not in the way machines live. It breathes, shifting with the rhythm of an unseen sleeper. Doorways lead to places that could not exist: a stairwell descending into clouds, an elevator that opens to a forest in autumn, a library whose shelves are lined with the names of people who haven’t been born yet.

The Architect begins marking his path with chalk on the walls, but each mark fades within moments, erased by the city itself. It’s as if the place resists permanence, as though it doesn’t want to be mapped — or remembered.

One night, under rain that tastes faintly of the sea, the Architect hears a voice from a window above: “It’s not the city that’s dreaming… it’s you.” The shutters close.

He stands in the empty street, unsure whether to move forward or to wake up — if waking up is still possible.

“Cities Made of Sleep” depicts a dreamlike, unstable world where urban landscapes shift, dissolve, and rewrite themselves, blurring the line between memory, illusion, and reality. Streets vanish, towers turn to grass, oceans appear and fade, and even names and maps cannot hold their place, suggesting a city that is alive, fluid, and indifferent to human attempts at permanence. The inhabitants, numbed to the constant transformations, accept the unreality as normal, while the narrator resists, trying to hold onto meaning in a place where nothing endures. 

The final twist — “it’s not the city that’s dreaming, it’s you” — reframes the disorientation as a projection of the self, making the city both a metaphor for the subconscious and a mirror of fragile human perception.


HORIZON 7:  CITIES MADE OF SLEEP

NikkiLeak #13 comes from a combination of a few travels & influences. The "Calindia" mix was recorded in 3 very important musical places. Bass & keys in Cali, Colombia @ Quantic's studio, alto sax in San Juan Puerto Rico in Casa Candela & vocals by Indian classical & pop singer Falu in my studio in Brooklyn, NYC! 

The past few days, Puerto Rico has been in my mind so much... I'm not sure why it's so strong, but I've been visiting in my dreams both asleep & awake. Maybe I'm due for another trip to El Yunque?  This morning in the studio, I found a CD I haven't seen/ heard in years. It was by my friend Ausubo (Christian) & it spoke of cosmic energies in & around us. I dedicate this one to him in his new form!  Please download & tap into Puerto Rico, Colombia, India, everywhere...



Didibina (Calindia Mix) by Nickodemus & Quantic feat Georgie Cruz !

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