Ambient / Ambienttechno 2018 / 2017 and older

This contribution is a very special one, as it marks a new chapter in The Observatory’s sound… 

We will always be a home for ambient and experimental sounds. But, moving forward, we will also be exploring our love for dance music, with a particular focus on the deep end.

To begin this new journey and warm things up, we are so happy to welcome back Timnah, who gifts us with a two-hour recording of her set at Omen Wapta, ADE’24. A mind-bending traversal through ambient, drone, and halftime experiments, exploring the liminal spaces between the listening room and the dance floor.
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Timnah lives, works and feeds the cats in the Northwestern extremities of Switzerland. Brought up in her parents’ jazz clubs and deeply influenced by her brother’s love for dub and soundsystem culture, she started DJing just after the massively feared Millenium Bug had threatened to offset our relation to time and space. Dedicated to drawing her own map of late 20th century sonic landscapes, she spent the early 2000s exploring 90s electronics including breakbeat, triphop, ambient techno, drum&bass, house and jungle. After a short but sweet excursion into producing in the early 2010s, Timnah dedicated herself fully to spinning the wheels and transversing genres, gravitating towards her current signature sound that spans immersive sound baths and intergalactic carpet rides in half-time. Timnah is a member of Amenthia Recordings and a recent addition to the A Walking Contradiction Collective.
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Artist Support:

https://soundcloud.com/timnah-sommerfeldt
https://ra.co/dj/timnahsommerfeldt
https://www.instagram.com/timnah_amenthia

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Timnah @ Omen Wapta, ADE, 2024

Today, we’re thrilled to welcome Mohemann to the series - a gifted artist and curator who has been a vital force in nurturing Beijing’s underground electronic music scene for over a decade.

Last year, we had the pleasure of witnessing Mohemann deliver a stunning techno set at Astral Industries' 10th anniversary celebration in Osaka. Now, he steps away from the dance floor to guide us on a beautiful, introspective journey - an immersive, horizontal trip through sound.
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https://soundcloud.com/mohemann
https://www.instagram.com/dj_mohemann/
https://soundcloud.com/tunnel-eerawai
https://www.instagram.com/tunnel_cn/

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://claytonciolac.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Mohemann

What’s better than a mix from electronic music royalty Cio D’Or? Two mixes. This week we present something very special, a tale told across two chapters. As a mainstay of techno for over two decades, Cio D'Or has consistently pushed boundaries, gracing the decks of revered institutions worldwide and crafting a legendary discography with releases on Prologue, Semantica, Hypnus, Time to Express and more. 

Across both mixes you will hear Cio’s unparalleled ability for sculpting minimalism and sonic architecture, masterfully recontextualizing familiar and obscure tracks alike, breathing new life into them and unveiling hidden dimensions. She dissects, reassembles and creates intricate connections between disparate sounds, all flawlessly executed with an alchemist’s touch.

Prisma 33 starts at a slower tempo, delicately building into an eruption of psychedelic minimalism. Dada grows with kinetic energy, with Cio sculpting sounds and textures into a deep trip where time seems to bend and dissolve, finishing with an unexpected wildcard that only a master selector could make work. 

Follow:

https://soundcloud.com/cio-d-or
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100044685305904
https://www.ciodor.de/


MNMT 478 : Cio D’Or (prisma 33)

MNMT 478 : Cio D’Or (dada)

Following the reissue of his debut album Dispatches, Field Records is proud to return to the seminal work of Mike Parker with an overview of his releases on Prologue — a truly original strain of steely, hypnotic techno that has touched upon many different waves within the wider scene. 

Having pioneered a hard-edged, reductionist style via his Geophone label since the mid-90s, around 2010 Mike Parker found himself at the vanguard of an emergent sound alongside artists like Donato Dozzy and Cio D'or exploring the possibilities of immersive, profoundly transcendental club music. The Prologue label came to define this cult zeitgeist, where reduction and repetition took on a truly psychedelic quality and the subtle details made all the difference. It ran from 2008 to 2015, laying the foundations for the deep techno sound that remains a vital, evolving subculture in the present moment. 

From Parker's first appearance on Prologue with the Subterranean Liquid EP in 2011 through to the Lustrations LP in 2013, he delivered some of the most incisive music of his accomplished career — teased-out rhythms carrying exquisitely engineered textures veering from the subliminal to the visceral, locked into endless, cyclical oblivion and maintaining a stern, machinist veneer.  This collection on Field Records combs through Parker's Prologue output and makes a considered selection, gathering key pieces from the first two EPs alongside six of the album tracks on a triple vinyl pressing, alongside a further eight cuts on the expanded digital edition.

Not just a straight-forward reissue, consider Epilogue a thoughtful reframing of a key point in Mike Parker's stellar career. In every exacting pulse, every inch of tacit spatial design, it's the work of an expert sculpting a sound which remains influential in the here and now.

Forward (Donato Dozzy Remix)

Bandcamp

Mike Parker - Forward (Donato Dozzy Remix)

One of the most special things about curating this series is the opportunity to connect with like-minded, beautiful souls from around the world. Among them is none other than the lovely DOC, whom we warmly welcome to the series <3

If you've ever had the pleasure of meeting DOC, or even briefly chatted with him online, you’ll know just how deeply passionate and supportive he is about the music he loves. He carries a special, contagious energy that inspires those around him and resonates throughout his artistry as a gifted selector, producer, and curator of the incredible Selene Series / The Continuum podcast.

Today, we are deeply honoured and grateful to share a very special improvised live recording, generously gifted to us by DOC and his machines.

With music, we are always searching for a familiar feeling or experience - a kind of warm, comforting nostalgia - and we find it here, within this beautifully woven, abstract tapestry of sound.

Thanks David <3

https://soundcloud.com/doc_sounds
https://www.instagram.com/doc_sounds/
https://soundcloud.com/seleneseries
https://www.instagram.com/seleneseries/

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://claytonciolac.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - DOC (Live)

For the 62nd interpretation of Far Blue, we have the talented duo Javier Salazar who have put together something special. It's one of the more experimental perceptions of the concept, weaving together downtempo, ambient and abstract sounds. Besides running the inspiring Klape Nunsen label, they are amazing selectors when it comes to the deeper and dubby sounds. This mix showcases how subtly they create an atmosphere that makes you float.

"Settled in the studio, we started playing records we felt like sharing. Each of us behind a turntable, doodling without anything specific in mind, occasionally at the same time letting sounds overlap. One of us pressed the record button, and we simply let it unfold, free of knowing where it would lead. We rarely felt so immersed in a recording, selecting each track in the moment. Depth, imperfections and unexpected blends."

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@javrsalazar

Instagram.com/farblue_
farblue.bandcamp.com/

A Far Blue concept by Javier Salazar - 'río'

We are delighted to bring you a gem from this year’s Mostra Festival: a two-hour live recording from Lynne, captured in Barcelona 2025. In this set, she moves with ease through ambient textures, deep basslines, rolling percussion, drones, and surprising rhythms. Her love for drum & bass and dubstep quietly ties it all together.

Lynne’s story began in Tokyo, where a first night raving to drum & bass changed everything. It sparked a move to London, where she soaked in jungle, dubstep, and the UK’s raw underground energy before returning home to shape her own sound within Tokyo’s experimental scene.

Now moving between Tokyo and London, Lynne explores the in-between spaces of techno, experimental, and drum & bass. Her mixes feel like small journeys: thoughtful, a little mischievous, and always true to the rhythms that first lit the spark.

Please enjoy this moment with Lynne’s musical selections - let it unfold slowly, take its time, and maybe surprise you along the way...

Thanks a lot to @lynne-tokyo

LYNNE on the web:
Bandcamp: lynnetokyo.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lynne_tokyo/
RA: ra.co/dj/lynne

UNRUSH on the web:
Bandcamp: www.unrush.bandcamp.com/
Hardwax: www.hardwax.com/label/unrush/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_unrush

MOSTRA on the web:
Homepage: www.mostra.barcelona/en
RA: ra.co/promoters/104662
Instagram: www.instagram.com/mostrabcn/

Photo by Laura Dominguez
Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria

Lynne @ Mostra 17.04.2025

Recording of Loek Frey & Timnah's set at the UFO II stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Loek Frey & Timnah at UFO II - Dekmantel Festival 2025

ENA performed on the first day of #Mostra25 at Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació.

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@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.

ENA - Live - @ Mostra 2025 🖤

Here is my recently ambient set played at 'Gallery Unofficial Preview', contained few unreleased tracks, inspired by Audio-Visual artist unn based in berlin.

[Track list]
01. I can't hold out this windless anymore  - Hyein
       unn solo exhibition remix ver. [unreleased]
02. No title - Hyein [unreleased]
03. No title - Hyein [unreleased]
04. Sankt - Vit Fana [Northern Electronics]
05. No title - Hyein [unreleased]
06. QUATRE REFLETS - Nebulo [PHINERY]
07. Ballerina - Biospere 
08. No title - Hyein [unreleased]
09. Primeval -Organit 
10. Ritual -Sortlegeme
11. Free From The Bondage You Are In -Biospere 

 cover pic, from the exhibition. 
@ Gallery Unofficial Preview. Seoul.

Hyein_2017 "The One, In Between" Opening Night (Unn Solo Exhibition)

IAS #75 comes courtesy of Robert Heel. Berlin based audiovisual artist and electronic musician. His productions are deeply rooted in drone, ambient and dub sounds having released music on renowned labels such as, Etoka Records and Archives.

https://www.facebook.com/robertxheel/
https://soundcloud.com/robertheel

Robert Heel

Intrinsic Audio Sessions [IAS] # 75 - Robert Heel

Focus on the Breath - 7pm Purple
Mark Ward - Submerge
Sven Laux - White Leaf
Pëme - Hidden Passage
Günther Lause - Thin Exit
Marconi Union - Sleeper (Biosphere Remix)
The Sushi Club - Neo Tokyo
Aural Float - Zwei G
Feral - Radha
Shipping - MiMB
S_EncE - White Elephants

Deference

Hector@_Ambient" 2017-10-03

Hector@021117 [IDM_TECHNO_AMBIENT]

Hyein's project is based on the unconscious fear of mother nature that ancient people may have had and the exploration of primordial emotions that all mankind shares. She constantly captures minor irritations and traces of mother nature in objects around her. She seeks to express her feelings and dissolve her fears by transferring these subtle movements through music.

For her, the concept of mother nature is not merely leisure or entertainment but rather a subject (or object, or ruined) of fear that ancient people experienced. This fear and curiosity serve as inspiration for all of her projects.

In this project, expressing and resolving the uncanny(Unheimlich) emotions that arise from capturing subtle stimuli and traces from the surrounding objects or nature through sound is an essential element. The inspiration drawn from the chaotic ambience expands into different senses through deep and experimental sound textures, subtle bass movements, and similar elements.

This project is an experimental exploration of music that aims to bring awareness and imprint emotions related to forgotten memories in our everyday lives, evoking into different senses.

I like smooth & metamorphic Tech, Ambient & Leftfield electronic music, new varieties of Patterns & Sequences,.. the possibility of a much wider world that corresponds to the already wide possibilities of modern music.----FREE PALESTINE  &  EQUAL HUMAN RIGHTS WORLDWIDE !!!

Michael B. (michiben), who reposted music here on a daily basis, 
died in the early hours of June 17th 2025 at 52 years of age.

Geheiligt werde seine schöne Seele und sein humorvoller Geist.
im Namen Jesu Christi   Amen

thank you for continuous listening

Hyein_2017 "The One, In Between" Opening Night (Unn Solo Exhibition)

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