Initiate Reflexions podcasts playlist. 

These podcast aim to give you an immersive listening experience. 

For best practice, chill out by breathing in and out deeply, close your eyes and let the music do the rest ;)

Curated by @hesh-initiate

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Reflexions

For our 8th podcast we are very happy to welcome Jason Singh - an artist who's music we've played a lot during our events at LaVallée. 

Jason is a sound artist and composer who works across a wide range of art forms and music genres.
His creative output includes large scale ambisonic sound installations, sound design for museums and collaborative experiments with sound in diverse fields.

For more info check out his website
--> http://jasonsinghthing.com/

We hope you'll enjoy this special podcast as much as we do.

For best listening experience, lie down, get comfy, close your eyes and let the music do the rest :) 

Take care and keep listening.

Artwork by Nicolas Withof

Reflexions Podcast 08 - Jason Singh

For Reflexions 9th podcast we’re very happy to present Phanom!

Laura is a beautiful soul and friend who has been part of the Initiate adventure since the start. 

From her photography and graphic design skills, to her help and support during our events, she has been a constant presence and together, it’s been a joy to share our common passion for sound and music. 

Having been a crucial member of our team organising our Reflexions events at LaVallée, it felt natural to give Phanom a slot on our podcast.

She’s helped shape the event and create its vibe so it was a real pleasure for us to listen to her expression of it through this mix. 

We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do. 

As usual, for best listening experience, sit back, relax, close your eyes and let the music take you away.

Thank you for listening.


Tracklist ::

Unjin - Ties
Polygonia - Melting Lake
Hideki Umezawa & Andrew Pekler - Anami Remote Extension
Raymonde - Le nouveau livre de la jungle
2559 - Summer 2562
Beatriz Ferreyra - Médisances
frank bretschneider + ralph steinbrüchel - spirale
Pink Floyd - Quicksilver
Cornil - Reflexions
Fjäder - Bifrost
Abul Mogard - Above All Dreams
Åke Parmerud - La vie Mécanique

Artwork by Nicolas Withof

Reflexions Podcast 09 - Phanom

For our 10th episode we're very happy to welcome Adam Stanović. 

Adam is an award-winning composer and performer specialising in contemporary electronic music. His work explores relations between recorded sound, pitch and noise.

For more info check out his website --> https://adamstanovic.com/

For best listening experience, sit back and relax. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and let the music do the rest. 
We hope you enjoy. 

Artwork by Nicolas Withof

Reflexions Podcast 10 - Adam Stanović

For our 11th podcast we're glad to invite Cornil.
Cornil is a Brussels based producer attracted both by modular synthesizers and field recording. He's behind Ambient Lay Down events promoting reflective and meditative music.
He’s inspired by soundscapes, mantras, transe ritual, concrete music and industrial sound. From ambient to techno, he’s sculpting sounds and shapes rythms to create unique and powerful trip.
Here some of his words about this podcast:
"Reflexion m’a amené à l’introspection. 
Ce podcast est un collage de field recording, de recherches, d’improvisations et de performances réalisées dans différents états, différents contextes, seul ou à plusieurs. C’est une synthèse de rencontres, d’influences et de sensibilités qui se sont croisées au cours des cinq dernières années. 
Il marque une recherche sonore qui questionne le rapport au temps et à l’espace, met en valeur l’importance de la collaboration dans l’entrelacement des particules humaines. 
Avec la participation de Björn Jauss, Océane Eliard, Grégoire Houcke, Charles Dujardin, Aurélie Baijot, Juanita Onzaga, Joan Bocquet, Rachid Moro, lunar convoy, Justine François, Maïté Jeannolin, Charlotte Marchal, Steevie Qngo"

Artwork by Leslie Deboeur

Reflexions Podcast 11 - Cornil

From Germany, Luis is an artist with great sensitivity for ambient sounds. With music released on respected labels such as Archives, Whitelabrecs and Inner Space he is an artist to listen for. 

For this Reflexions journey, Luis has graced us with a unique sound that you won't have yet heard on our podcasts but that is definitely part of the Initiate dna. 

For best listening experience, sit back, close your eyes and let the music take you away :) 

Check out Lui's work --> https://soundcloud.com/woolookologie
                                          https://woolookologie.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
Olan Mill - Land Cycle Part 1
Alex Weiser - My Joy | מײַן גליק
Orla Wren - Shipwreck Seems Sweet To Me In This Sea
Danny Clay - glow - i.)
Luis Miehlich - Music for Clouds
Jürg Frey - Ferne Farben (for field recordings and ensemble)
offthesky - Snow Filled Summer
Luis Miehlich - Komori (pt.1)
Tomoyoshi Date + Stijn Hüwels - ekki

Artwork by Leslie Deboeur

Reflexions Podcast 12 - Luis Miehlich

For our 13th podcast we present to you Erd. 

Erd is a new musical endeavour by Shakmat Modular and we're very pleased to say you'll be hearing his new body of work in a few months through our record label.

In this recording, Erd explores an earthly sound, flooded in ethereal harmonics that come together to create an enticing and reflective auditory experience for the listener. 

As always, for best listening experience, make yourself comfortable, close your eyes and let the music transport you. 

Tracklist:

- Hesh & Oliver Si - Fantasie 
- Ana Roxanne - Study in vastness 
- Vladislav Delay - Lipite 
- Mark Pritchard - Where do they go the butterflies 
- Aymeric de Tapol - Lumiere d'hotel 
- M. Geddes Gengras - Threshold 
- The syncopated elevator legacy - the syamese level ( linear enlightenment mix)
- Speedy J - Canola
- Pole - Modul
- Skee Mask - Ozone 
- Autechre - Yulquen
- Bishop Dust - Leading Forms 
- Palsembleu - Lethar

Artwork by Leslie Deboeur

Reflexions Podcast 13 - Erd

We're pleased to present Robert Takahasi Crouch, an LA based artist who's music explores "the intersection of post-phenomenological listening practices, conceptual sound art, and contemporary electronic music". 

Crouch's music was often played during our Reflexions events at LaVallée in Brussels so we're thrilled to release this podcast for which he played 100% of his unreleased material. A very special listening experience then as you won't be able to hear this music anywhere else.  

As usual, for best listening experience, get comfy, relax, close your eyes and let the music transport you :)

Tracklist: 
[All by Robert Takahasi Crouch]
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Reflexions podcast 14 - Robert Takahashi Crouch

John Plaza is an up and coming dj and producer from Chile. 

With releases on Dosis records and Ancestral Process he's a deep techno advocate. 

Tracklist 

John Plaza - Forestlake
Pandemonium -Atqve
Joaquim Spieth -Iliac
Aphex Twin - Aisatsana
NBM - Distress Signal
Blndr - Mont Blanc
Alderaan - The Idea Of Having A Soul
Anders Hellberg - Cybotania
Biocym - Lure
Cavüm - Oran
Joaquim Spieth - Apas
Joaquim Spieth - Candela
Marco Bailey, David Schwarz - Enter  Galaxy
Pandemonium - Bnenom
Claudio PRC, Luigi Tozzi - Lyra III
BLNDR - Last Korean Sunset
GNZ11 - 299​.​792​,​459km

Reflexions Podcast 15 - John Plaza

For our 16th installment we're pleased to present Biloba Green - a project by Michele Andreotti and Toni Dimitrov.

Their name "derives from the scientific denomination of the Ginkgo leaf, an ancient and beneficial tree, inextricably linked to the ancestral significance of natural symbols."

Together they search for "new sonic combinations capable of restoring an evocation of the union of electronic sound and nature, expressed in the continuous flow of acoustic sources and electronic transformations."

For best listening experience, get comfy, close your eyes and let the music do the rest :) 

Take care and keep listening. 

Artwork by Leslie Deboeur 

Tracklist: 

1. Dionisaf - Walk on the Roof - Lost Rarities (Elan Vital Recordings)
2. Motorpig - Pale Visitor - Teaching A Fish To Fly (Elan Vital Recordings)
3. Biloba Green - #228B22 - Biloba Green (Elan Vital Recordings)
4. Toni Dimitrov - The Road to Revolution - VA: Noises of Nature (Chitra Records) 
5. Whalthisney - Edgeland - Hearthisutra (Elan Vital Recordings)
6. Sebby Kowal - Bright Spaces - Bright Spaces (Elan Vital Recordings)
7. Toni Dimitrov - Anti-Tech Revolution (Tantra Edit) - VA: tʌntrǝ XX (Neotantra) 
8. Michele Andreotti - La Torre - Stanotte (Rohs! Records)
9. ymns57 - Tape Chimes - Torschlusspanik (Elan Vital Recordings)
10. Biloba Green - #00FF00 - Biloba Green (Elan Vital Recordings)
11. Michele Andreotti - So The Darkness Should Be The Light - Homeward (Elan Vital Recordings)

Reflexions Podcast 16 - Biloba Green

For its 17th edition Initiate Reflexions continues to explore affiliates of the label Elan Vital. 

We're happy to showcase @Dionisaf, a Russian-American composer 
who's work explores the principles of oriental musical traditions with modern technologies. Dionisaf makes a case for listening attentively and his music aims to re-contextualise the act of hearing. 

Dive into his podcast and if you want to hear more, check out his work here --> https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/

As usual, for best listening experience, get comfy, take a deep breath, close your eyes, and let the music do the rest :) 

Enjoy! 

Artwork by Leslie Deboeur 

Tracklist: 

1. Dionisaf - Ice Kingdom - Skazka (Tiny Drones For Lovers 2021) 
2. Dionisaf - Blurry Bells - Frozen Time (Forgotten Dreams 2021) 
3. Dionisaf - Overcast - From the Silence (Chitra Records 2022) 
4. Dionisaf - Ocean - Lost Rarities (Élan Vital 2021) 
5. Dionisaf - Glitches in Reality - Frozen Time (Forgotten Dreams 2021) 
6. Dionisaf - 幽玄 Yugen - tʌntrə XVII (Neotantra 2021) 
7. Dionisaf - Long Way to the Ganga - From the Silence (Chitra Records 2022) 
8. Dionisaf - Tundra - Lost Rarities (Élan Vital 2021) 
9. Dionisaf - Museum of Voices - From the Silence (Chitra Records 2022)

Reflexions Podcast 17 - Dionisaf

For our 18th Reflexions podcast we are taken on a wonderful auditory journey by Demetrio Cecchitelli. 

Demetrio is a composer and multi-instrumentalist sound researcher from Italy. In this podcast he explores a delicate sonic world and assembled a  variety of pieces which come together to create an enticing story. 

As usual for best listening experience; get comfy, take a deep breath, close your eyes and let music transport you. 

Check out his work --> https://demetrio-cecchitelli.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/cecchitellidemetrio
https://www.instagram.com/demetriocecchitelli/?hl=en

Tracklist:

1. Blanket Swimming - 05 Untitled (Attenuation Circuit)
2. DR - Minor (Singing Birds)
3. Taylor Deupree - August (vintage National resonator guitar) (12k) 
4. ASERET - Consciousness Of Undefined (Edit) (Midira Records) 
5. Yann Novak - Shortwaves to Longwaves (Dragon’s Eye Recordings) 
6. Nebel Lang - Nobody Else (Self-released)

Atrwork by Leslie Deboeur

Reflexions Podcast 18 - Demetrio Cecchitelli

We welcome Ivano Pecorini for our 19th Reflexions Podcast. 

Ivano is a sound artists and composer based in London. With a beautiful release on Elan Vital (link below) I was keen to get him to contribute to the podcasts. 

Here he delivers 1h of brooding and thoughtful sonic excursions which will entice our inner voice. 

As usual, for best listening experience, get comfy, close your eyes, and let the music do the rest :) 

Tracklist:

• Ivano Pecorini - Another rainy day in Dalston 
• Franck Vigroux & Mika Vainio - Man
• Biloba Green - #228B22
• Loris S. Sarid - O like a tomato
• Michele Andreotti - Apparire
• 9VoltDisaster & Buja - Narcosis
• Bitchin Bajas - Chokayo
• Tomaga - Idioma
• Heroin in Tahiti - VI
• Ivano Pecorini - Musard Rd.
• Demetrio Cecchitelli - Nuance 03 • Helios - Seeming
• Olivia Wyatt - Yainang (Mermaid) • Sunbeamer - Sunrise
• Ivano Pecorini - Arto

Check out his work here --> https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/i-have-never-realized-it-was-you

Artwork by Leslie Deboeur

Reflexions Podcast 19 - Ivano Pecorini

For our 20th podcast we welcome a talented dj & producer - Prylivy. 
From New York, Prylivy has a distinct and solid ambient, deep and hypnotic techno sound. 
In this podcast he takes us on a calm and serene journey ideal for your moments of relaxation and reverie. 

For best listening experience, get comfortable, close your eyes and let the music do the rest :)


Tracklist: 

Folest - Geastrum
Sonmi451 - Bay Hatch
Gallery Six - A Wonderfully Ordinary Life
Amanita Phalloides, Heavenchord - Endless Summer Lullaby
Giuseppe Falivene - Innermost pt 2
ASC & Inhmost - Existential Theory
Zann - Julunggul
Respira - Whisper Of Fall
Petit Astronaute - Synchronicity
Warmth - Cirrus
Antendex - Breathe
Forest On Stasys - Dos Auras
Dino Sabatini - Homeward
Purl - Melora

Artwork by Leslie Deboeur.

Reflexions Podcast 20  - Prylivy

Reflexions is the other side of the coin of our Initiate parties.
A reflection of our universe.

Initiate Reflexions podcasts explore ambient music of various forms and declinations, its focus being on providing an immersive auditory experience for listeners. 

From drone to electro-acoustic music to ambient techno and other forms of minimalism. We love soundscapes. 

The podcasts are curated by Hesh. 

For more music by Hesh: https://soundcloud.com/hesh-initiate

For more music by Initiate: https://initiaterecords.bandcamp.com/

Artwork by Nicolas Withof

Reflexions Podcast 01 - Hesh + 2559

For our second Reflexions podcast we showcase a dj set by Polarized who provided a mesmerising live set during our event in October at LaVallée. 

Feel free to comment and share. 

Artwork by Nicolas Withof

Reflexions Podcast 02 - Polarized

For our third instalment we invited Sonhan - a third of "Metropolis" [the best Sunday raves in Brussels] and an artist we're keeping an eye on!

Artwork by Nicolas Withof

Reflexions Podcast 03 - Sonhan

"An invitation to Relax"

For our fourth podcast we welcome Adhémar. A very talented French artist whose work you'll have heard on Oslated and Aarden records.

Please read his note :) 

"This recording is an invitation to relax  and relieve any tensions. 
You can follow the instructions below. 
Stay in Shavasana for as long as you want - let go !
Lie flat on the back with the arms about 15 cm away from the body, palms facing upward.
A thin pillow or folded cloth may be placed behind the head to prevent discomfort. A rolled up blanket can be placed under the knees, heels still touching the ground, to relieve low back tension. 
Let the fingers curl up slightly.
Move the feet slightly apart to a comfortable position and close the eyes.
The head and spine should be in a straight line.
Make sure the head does not fall to one side or the other.
Relax the whole body and stop all physical movement. 
Become aware of the natural breath and allow it to become rhythmic and relaxed".

Enjoy the ride!

Artwork by Nicolas Withof

Reflexions podcast 04 - Adhémar

Our fifth podcast welcome's Rafael Munoz - an expert electronic musician and dj, and an integral part of our Brussels electronic music eco system. 

Sit back and relax with this beautiful esoteric trip :)

Artwork by Nicolas Withof

Reflexions Podcast 05 - Rafael Munoz

For our 6th edition we are proud to present to you a very special podcast of exclusive compositions by Brice Deloose aka Pattrn. 

Pattrn's sonic journey is composed by 85% of exclusive acousmatic compositions specially recorded for this Podcast.

The music is based around the theme of time; the way we perceive and manipulate it - flashbacks and day-dreaming states running multiple times in parallel and breaking the time continuum.

For best listening experience, lie down comfortably, take 3 deep breaths, relax and allow yourself to be taken away by the music. 

We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did.

Artwork by Nicolas Withof

Reflexions Podcasts 06 - Pattrn

Our 7th installment comes courtesy of Thomas Hayes - a fine selector and producer. 

For this podcast Thomas wanted to pay tribute to one of his favorite artist - Tetsu Inoue - a Japanese minimalist music composer. 

A few words by Thomas on his motivations for this tribute: 

"In 2020 Tetsu’s music meant a great deal to me. It guided me through difficult times by helping me work through certain anxieties; quickly, I found myself buying all of his music, which I feel has healing powers. I hope that through this podcast, Tetsu’s music may help others as it helped me. 
	This tribute contains solo productions under Tetsu’s real name as well as collaborations with Pete Namlook and Uwe Schmidt, amongst others.  The last track is made by partner in crime Killian Vandenbemd, who for some years now, has beginning become a promising artist. His sound matches great with Tetsu’s."


As always, sit back, close your eyes and let the music transport you :)

Tracklist:
1.	2350 Broadway – Art Of Dream 1/2/3 
2.	Tetsu Inoue – Elevator Drops
3.	2350 Broadway – Take The Sky
4.	Tetsu Inoue - @
5.	Tetsu Inoue – Background Story
6.	Shades Of Orion – Orion Transfer 7/8/9
7.	Ambiant Otaku – Magnetic Field
8.	Masters Of Psychadelic Ambiance – Psychic Magic Show/Weirdom/Technicolor/Random Radio/Ethnic Overtone
9.	Tetsu Inoue – Static Soul
10.	Tetsu Inoue – Automatic Motion
11.	Organic Cloud – Ring Of Power
12.	Zenith – Plexus Solaris
13.	Killian – Naure (unreleased)

Artwork by Nicolas Withof

Reflexions Podcast 07 - Thomas Hayes (Tetsu Inoue tribute)

Initiate concept is born from a passion for boundary pushing electronic music. We want to move away from trends of instant gratification to explore club music and its intersections with other forms of musical expression.
 
The sound we wish to share with you makes us dance, pause, reflect and meditate. It takes us away and transports us.
 
What drives us is the exploration of fine tuned sounds that come together to create holistic pieces of music, inducing various states of consciousness.
 
Initiate provides a wholesome space for self-reflection, for bonding with others and for musical discoveries that will challenge your ears and dance moves alike!
 
For info contact: initiate.concept@gmail.com