Hey, that line was so poetic. I make cover art that feels like it could live in that same world.

Gentle beings, we are entering the world of the ambient, atmospheric, downtempo, and sublime. Transcend at your leisure. [cover Alexandra Spence | photo Lucy Parakhina]

Third State

The first offering of the 'vocal ambient' album series by Ambient Echoes - a collaboration between labels Ambientologist and Echoes Blue.

Download here: https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope

Seven collaborations touching on Volume 1's emotional spectrum theme - anxiety / hope - and a testament to music's capacity for complex emotive expression.

Ambient Echoes, Vol. 1 - Anxiety / Hope

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Ambient Echoes, Vol. 1 - Anxiety / Hope (Album Mini-Mix)

This year was truly a high point for me, words can't describe the feeling so all I can do is send all my love and gratitude to each and every one of you. This was my favorite sunrise set ever, hands down. Huge thanks and love to DJ Dane for making this morning happen each and every year, Natey B, The Dusty Rhino Crew, The Lonely Submarine and Pineapple Motel crew, DisCow, Axolotl, Tarna, Tulpa, Jenny & Max, Camp KISS & Seth B, Chelle & Jeff, Simon & Alice, Ed & Carol, The Disco Space Shuttle crew, Seth M & Tobias ❤️

Tracklist: 

<<< Begin Driving >>>

Tycho - Aerojet (Demo)
Tycho - Cypress
HVL - Whirlpool

<<< Arrive >>>

Marsh - Free (VIP Mix)
Nimino - Alas
DJ Seinfeld - These Things Will Come To Be
Next To Blue - Gauze
Catching Flies - Satisfied (Edit)
Daphni - Cloudy (Kelbin Remix)
Jasper Tygner - Need You
Duskus - Let Go
Atura - Think About You
Salute - Jennifer
Robby East - Trouble
Silk - Quiver
Salute & Sammy Virji - Peach
Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People (Adam Sellouk Remix)
Duskus - My Heart
Tinlicker & Helsloot - Because You Move Me

<<< SUNRISE >>>

Aldous Harding - The Barrel
Nimino - Opening Credits
Tycho - Small Sanctuary (Demo)
 Tycho - Time To Run
Roosevelt - Moving On
Tycho - Weather (Nitemoves Remix)
Tycho - Untitled Demo

Sanctuary - Burning Man Sunrise 2023

~ Deep Breakfast 224 by https://soundcloud.com/james-bernard ~

Tracklist:
01. Kenneth James Gibson - Far From Home (Brian McBride's Diminished Stories Mix)		
02. James Bernard and anthéne - Soft Octaves (upcoming PITP) [00:08:00]		
03. Elin Piel - Ingrid Linnea - Sequent [00:13:54]		
04. Jogging House - be - Return [00:17:40]		
05. ASC - Original Soundtrack - Fifth Act	[00:20:40]		
06. Mary Yalex - Fantasy Zone - Endless Possibilities [00:24:54]		
07. James Bernard - Lost Time Archives - Lost Time Archive 7 [00:30:52]		
08. marine eyes - Half Dreaming [00:34:00]		
09. Líom - Scarr - Lá Nua [00:38:56]		
10. Malibu - Palaces of Pity - So Far Out Of Love [00:41:02]	
11. 36 - Cold Ecstasy - Show Me The Way [00:44:18]		
12. zakè, Marc Ertel, James Bernard, From Overseas - Live At The Gothic Chapel - Signaling [00:48:50]	
13. IKSRE & anthéne - Seasons Shifting - Lungs [00:55:50]		
14. Innesti - The World We Knew - Memories Of Previous Lives [00:59:54]		
15. Tyresta - Small Hours - I Dreamt That We Were Laughing [01:04:46]	
16. Black Brunswicker - Wanderers In The North - We're In The North Now [01:09:52]		
17. awakened souls - Unlikely Places - Moonbeams [01:13:42]		
18. r beny - Echo's verse - Loma [01:18:28]		
19. Less Bells - Feral Ghosts Of The Golden West [01:22:08]		
20. James Bernard - Unreleased Ambient Acid [01:27:36]

Photography by @marineeyes

Deep Breakfast 224 ~ James Bernard

Coming February 2nd 2024, "Abundance" is the new album by Phoebe Dubar composed of eight tracks, each offering positive, elevating, shimmering, and textural sonic experiences. The songs incorporate layered vocals, viola, analog and software synths, binaural beats, and unique sound healing instruments. IKSRE (I Keep Seeing Rainbows Everywhere), creates ambient music that teeters on the edge of danceability, inviting listeners to immerse themselves in a world of musical abundance.

The creative process began in the previous year when the artist started working on "Dawn in a Foreign City." The album's vision solidified during the transition into NYE 2022/23 when the artist's husband introduced them to Chicane's iconic 2000 album "Behind the Sun," sparking the realization that they wanted to craft an album filled with breezy, sunny sounds. This profound moment was an embodiment of the new moon intention set six months prior, with the full moon materializing the artist's creative aspirations.

With a positive and empowering message at its core, "Abundance" seeks to remind us that the path to a more fulfilling life begins by acknowledging the richness within ourselves.

IKSRE - dawn in a foreign city

Part of the Winter Batch 2024 coming 02/02/24

Wenge, pronounced /wen-gee/, is a legume tree native to the forests of Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Cameroon, and the southern regions of Tanzania and Mozambique. Some of its indigenous names are dikela, mibotu, bokonge, and awong. It is a hard and heavy dark-colored wood used for musical instruments, like guitars, flutes, drums and balaphones, which we play on the recordings. The name struck us as an apt metaphor for resiliency, stability, durability, and the sonic resonance we bring you on this release.

Wenge is a collaborative recording inspired by music score created for the Raphael Sbarge-directed PBS series 10 Days in Watts.

Randal Fisher // Flutes, Clarinets, Saxophones, Ocarina, Wind
Dexter Story // Balafons, Guitars,  Koboro, Hand Claps, Congas, Sticks, Piano, Synthesizers, Programming, Surdo, Breath, Drum Set, Ngoni, Vibraphone, Cajon, Miscellaneous Percussion, Earth

Produced and Mixed by Dexter Story
Recorded by Dexter Story and Randal Fisher
Additional Production, Mixing and Percussion by Carlos Niño

Mastered by Andy Kravitz
Front Cover Art by Or Yogev
Back Cover Art by Matthew Mallinger

Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - In Hands, Heart And Breath

~ Deep Breakfast 266 by https://soundcloud.com/zakedrone of https://soundcloud.com/pastinside ~

This mix features tracks that will be released by Past Inside the Present and Zakè Drone Recordings, 2024-2025.

Tracklist:
1. From Overseas & zakè - A Whisper 
2. Color of Time - All That Remains 
3. Marc Ertel & Wayne Robert Thomas - Coronation Ring 
4. Benoît Pioulard and Viul - Kinderness (excerpt) 
5. bvdub - 13 
6. Tyresta & zakè - The Worlds We Leave Behind 
7. Angela Winter & zakè - Gale 

zakè
Bandcamp: https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zake_drone/
X: https://x.com/ZAKE_DRONE

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Deep Breakfast 266 ~ zakè

~ Deep Breakfast 298 by Ali Wade of https://soundcloud.com/frequency-domain ~

Tracklist:
1. Jana Winderen - The Art of Listening: Under Water (Touch)
2. Francesco Messina/Raul Lovisoni - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo (Cramps Records)
3. Shasta Cults - Sine Waves With Subtle Phase (Frequency Domain)
4. The Chi Factory - The Bamboo Recordings Part One (Astral Industries)
5. Imaginary Softwoods - North of Roswell (Field Records)
6. Ernest Hood - Saturday Morning Doze (Thistlefield)
7. Autechre - 32a_reflected (Warp)
8. Polypores - Flora (Castles in Space)
9. Norman W. Long - Electro-Acoustic Dubcology III (Reserve Matinee)
10. Andrew Pekler - Humidity Index / Khao Sok (chopped and screwed) (Faitiche)
11. William Selman - Kept in Banks and Vessels (Old Technology)
12. Sanger and Sanger - Bubble Nebula (Quiet Details)
13. Datassette - Crystal Drool (Misc.Works)
14. Tod Dockstader - Piece #3 (Folkways Records)
15. Ernest Hood - After School (Thistlefield)
16. Tetsu Inoue - Health Loop (Instinct Ambient)
17. Andrew Pekler - Shima No Yume (Discrepant)
18. Chris Watson - Soffi di Vento (Fondazione Edmund Mach)
19. Pauline Anna Strom - Mushroom Trip (Trans-Millenia Consort Recordings)
20. Papiro - Romeo on the Beach (Marionette)
21. Polypores - Channel Between (Castles in Space)
22. Mac-Talla Nan Creag - Flight (Firecracker)
23. Loula Yorke - Matter Tells Spacetime How To Curve (Quiet Details)
24. Jo Johnson - Marked By Chaos (Frequency Domain)
25. Ali Wade - Imago (Frequency Domain)
26. Alva Noto - Haliod Xerrox Copy 4 (Raster-Noton)
27. Jana Winderen - The Art of Listening: Under Water (Touch)
28. Wil Bolton - Fir (Quiet Details)
29. Laurie Spiegel - From a Harmonic Algorithm (Scarlet Records)

Photo by Filipp Romanovski

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Frequency Domain
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Deep Breakfast 298 ~ Ali Wade

It’s a sunny spring Sunday morning—a perfect time to take a trip with IKSRE and ease into the day.

IKSRE describes the mix: “From Willebrant to Kendrick, LTJ Bukem to Robert Glasper—it may seem like a stretch, but this mix kind of encapsulates what I listen to on any given day. It feels like me! :)”

Take a Trip with IKSRE

It's always a joy to share a new Deep Breakfast mix by our good friend Simon Huxtable aka Inhmost. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the journey through his immersive and calming soundscapes.

"From light sleep’s haze,
deep sounds unfold.
A morning pulse
of gentle light
by Inhmost." (Gavin Titley)


Simon has been composing and producing immersive, atmospheric music since 1997, crafting profound and emotionally resonant tracks across a variety of electronic genres, such as drum & bass and ethereal house/progressive. However, Inhmost is his dedicated project focused on creating meditative ambient soundscapes. Drawing from his extensive experience in building atmospheres within his drum & bass and progressive works, his ambient compositions elevate the genre to new heights, offering a deeply calming and introspective listening experience.

Tracklist:
1. Inhmost - //
2. Illuvia - Mauna Loa
3. ASC - Chained to Fate
4. The Vision Reels & Inhmost - Flight in Fluidity
5. Barefoot - Externilism
6. Marine Eyes - Quiet Circle
7. Owl - Among the Shadows
8. Zaké ft IKSRE - Tranquilitas
9. Zaké ft ASC - Ante
10. Barefoot - Unseen Objects
11. Purl - Aperture
12. ZYklen - Pytheas and the Frozen Ocean
13. 36 & Zaké - Blue New World 3
14. Almost An Island - An Ode to Nothing
15. Hidden Sequence - Bistro Anima
16. Vast Sound Enclosure Project - Scarcity
17. Inhmost - //

Photo by Michael Worden

Inhmost
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https://www.instagram.com/s.huxtablemusic/

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Deep Breakfast 321 ~ Inhmost

Through adversity, we find strength. This year was not without its challenges but it was without a doubt the most wonderful opportunity for growth I have ever had the good fortune to experience. Life is a gift and the human connections we make every day are all that will matter in the end. 

This set for me is a celebration of life and newfound inspiration, I sincerely hope you find joy in listening to it. Thank you to all of the incredible artists who continue to inspire me every day. As Matthew Caws said "the weight is a gift". 

I hope this finds you all happy, healthy and loved.

Eternal gratitude and love to DJ Dane, my brother Dane, Ed, Carol, Jenny, Seth & the DSS crew, Seth and Camp Bisous for hosting us and of course the Axolotl crew for hosting this morning on their beautiful art car. And of course my deepest gratitude to each and every one of you who joined us for this wonderful morning and made it a magical moment in time I will never forget. 

1. Tycho - A4
2. Boards of Canada - a is to b as b is to c
3. Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
4. Tourist - Pieces
5. Mietze Conte - 2000
6. Zapatilla - Thumb Piano x Cherie Lee - Love Me Or Leave Me (Oliver s Remix) [Tycho Edit]
7. Caribou - Mars
8. Tim Green - The Night is Blue
9. Todd Terje - Ragysh
10. Plaid - CLOCK
11. Cornucopia - Remember Me x Tycho - Phantom [Tycho Edit]
12. Catching Flies - Friday Lake
13. NOTSOBAD, MA_RK - Let It Go [Tycho Edit]
14. Duskus - I Can See [Tycho Edit]
15. Dave Winnel - Ksamil
16. mietze conte, 1tbsp - No Nein
17. Avaion - Drown [Tycho Edit]
18. Barry Can't Swim - All My Friends (ATRIP Remix) x Warner Case - feel it yah x Jaques Greene - No Excuse (Fort Romeau Remix) [Tycho Edit]
19. Swimming Paul - Mutt (Extended)
20. Mat Zo - Wounded [Tycho Edit]
21. ATRIP, DJ Seinfeld - the one x Rob Clouth - Vitamina
22. 1-800 GIRLS - there 4 u x Dave Winnel - Ksamil x Mat Zo - Synapse Dynamics
23. Last Sun - Care 4 U
24. Barry Can't Swim - Sonder
25. Lawrence Hart - Dayreamers [Tycho Extended Edit]
26. Duskus - Holding U x 1tbsp - Interludio (feat. Mietze Conte)
27. Caribou - Come Find Me
28. Tourist - Run [Tycho Extended Edit]
29. Crash Reel - Journeyman (Peace Attack Rerub)
30. Aleksandir - Yamaha
31. The Paradise a.k.a Alan Braxe & Romuald - In Love With You
32. Disciples - Tame Impala
33. Tycho - Infinite Version 2 (part 1)

Tycho - Joie De Vivre - Burning Man Sunrise 2025

Stay, Nomad

Stutter

I Used To See Her On The Way Home from School and She Lit Up The Sky with her Beauty

Cellular Songs

Breathstream

Written, recorded and produced off grid in a solar-powered caravan the remote, Aussie outback “expansion a (south)" is the latest solo offering from Naarm/Melbourne-based vocalist, multi instrumentalist, sound healer and producer IKSRE (aka Phoebe Dubar). Gorgeous, evocative and intimate, an expansion of the body, mind and soul, this album traverses ambient, cinematic, experimental, dream pop and psychedelia and is quite unlike anything she has ever released before. Equal parts intimate travel journal and expansive, ambient journey; an aural adventure to some of the wildest places on earth.

From April to August 2025, IKSRE (Phoebe Dubar) and her husband and their eight-year old daughter packed up and hit the road to explore the road less travelled - westward from their home in Naarm/Melbourne to incredibly isolated, Western Australian coastline, and through the Northern Territory and Central Australian outback. They travelled 20,000km over a four-month period to some of the most untouched, pristine places left on earth. True wilderness.

Armed with a small selection of instruments - electric guitar (her first foray into the instrument), OP-1 field synth, SM58 microphone, two small singing bowls and a selection of guitar pedals - every song was written off grid in the confines of the family’s solar powered caravan after an awe inspiring moment. From swimming with whale sharks at Nyinggulu/Ningaloo, to listening to swimming in ancient gorges in Karijini National Park and crossing the vast, endless expanse of the Nullarbor plain, each track hints at these iconic places, captured in the moment in sound and accompanying photographs and video. A multi dimensional postcard from the wilderness.

Arguably her most intimate album, definitely her most raw - background noise left in and no post production after she returned home; vocals are far from perfect in places, and include clicks and background sounds from inside (and outside) the small space they called home for months. It also includes field recordings collected in some of these places.

karijini (iron. spinifex): red, iron rich dirt; shimmering clumps of golden spinifex; vertigo-inducing gorges and freshwater swimming holes. A week spent in this glorious place - the highlight of 120 days on the road. Recorded in an afternoon in the caravan, this is a pure love song to this special place. Trademark, heart-centred vocals coo “Karijini” while guitars, bass and synths swirl around. 

written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Phoebe Dubar (IKSRE)
mastered by James Bernard, Ambient Mountain House
photography by Phoebe Dubar

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Cyprien Gaillard - Retinal Rivalry
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 157
Release Date: 17 October 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/RetinalRivalry

Retinal Rivalry is the soundtrack to Cyprien Gaillard’s new stereoscopic film, Retinal Rivalry (2024). It is an entrancing journey through Germany’s urban landscape and its layers of historical and social significance. Building on his previous exploration of the sculptural qualities of three-dimensional moving images, the work extends beyond the confines of the screen. By harnessing cutting-edge technology to its full potential, Gaillard offers an expanded, sharpened and deeply affecting novel view of the world around us.

Retinal Rivalry is named after the visual perception phenomenon that occurs when the brain receives two conflicting images at the same time. Instead of blending into one 3D image, the neural system alternates between prioritising one image while suppressing the other, causing confusion and discomfort for the viewer.

Gaillard’s film engages with these complexities of visual processing and the limitations of technology, collating visual information through exceptional, often tongue-in-cheek, shots that intertwine the inside and outside, the contained and dispersed, and the natural and built.

His camera adopts unusual viewpoints, shifting from smooth aerial perspectives to a rodent’s low gaze to the dizzying darting in and out on the bulbous nose of a sculpture, or a long shot of a train moving through a landscape, drawing us into a layered experience that teeters between a bad trip and unexpected beauty providing solace.

The film’s score draws from diverse sonic elements, bolstering its exploration of dissonance and synchrony. Indonesian instrumental music is reworked and combined with field recordings of heavy machinery rumbling and strangely melodic retching. The soundtrack also incorporates the opening lines to Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), along with its accompanying overture by German band Popol Vuh. 

The soundscape of Retinal Rivalry contrasts its images—what we see is often at odds with what we hear. Only one section lets sound and image converge: a fractured leg pumps the pedal of an interactive organ to play a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach that repeatedly falters.

The film Retinal Rivalry will be on view at Haus der Kunst in Munich from October 17, 2025, to March 8, 2026.

Cyprien Gaillard - Retinal Rivalry (PAN 157)

IKSRE (I Keep Seeing Rainbows Everywhere) is the solo project of Naarm/Melbourne-based, classically trained multi instrumentalist, vocalist, producer and sound healer (dip. Sound Healing Academy, Cornwall), Phoebe Dubar. She combines field recordings from across the Australian landscape with lush strings, swirling synths and vocals; analogue synths, binaural beats and sound healing instruments to create a unique, ambient, neo-classical pop sound. 

She has released five critically acclaimed albums (BBC Radio 6, KEXP, RTE, triple j, double j, RRR, PBS-FM); with Constellation Tatsu, Hush Hush Records and Lo Recordings; and collabs w marine eyes (Past Inside the Present), Party Store (Stereoscenic) and anthène (Polar Seas). 
 
“Her sound palette lies at the delicate intersection of the natural world in fissure with atmospheric electronics and instruments. Much like Philip Glass or Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dubar’s way with a subtle shift into an irregular rhythm, a harmonic modulation or change in articulation, tricks the listener into a trance. IKSRE is seriously slept on - it's time to wake up.” (The Wire Magazine) 

"Somewhere between sound healing and environmental music, Nurture is a techno-naturalistic exploration of the relationships between people, places and times." (Dazed Magazine)

"positive, elevating, shimmering, and textural sonic experiences" (Headphone Commute)

"a vibrant mixture that draws on both neoclassical and pop motifs to provide Dubar with a potent conduit for emotional expression.” (Stationary Travels)

Management/bookings: iksre@iksre.com

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