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Terra - Part 3- Before Dawn

Berlin-based DJ Vera presents a new ambient project entitled ‘Terra’. Consisting of three individual chapters, Terra is a musical audio play that tells the story of a night in the rainforest. Paying homage to dear planet Earth, mother nature’s unmistakeable beauty and endless peculiarities come rising to the fore. 

A sprawling journey into the great unknown, each mix takes the listener progressively through a myriad of wild and liminal spaces. Spanning all corners of ambient, avant garde, and experimental electronics, to ethno, Jazz, and beyond, Terra lavishes everything from moments of quiet introspection, spacey drones, chugging beats, hypnotic rhythms and select climactic peaks. 

Carefully woven together as a multi-dimensional tapestry of sound, scenes transition gradually between environments, moods, and states. As the night progresses, forms shift endlessly under moonlit sky, and subtle shades of every kind make their stroke before the sun breaks free once again. 

An intoxicating trip through dense jungle paths, untouched rivers and deep mountain valleys, we dive headfirst into Vera’s kaleidoscopic world of unusual creatures and bewitching natural phenomena. Uncovering the weird, forgotten, and mysterious, Terra invites the listener to co-create the rainforest as an imagined space and to discover the storyteller within. 

Terra started as an earnest musical exploration, but through collaboration and further development Vera hopes to unlock its greater potential as a communal arts platform and ongoing multidisciplinary project. With this audio play as the starting point, who knows what the next chapters will bring...

Part 1 premiered on Experiment Intrinsic (14 July): 
https://soundcloud.com/experimentintrinsic/intrinsic-36-vera
Part 2 on EOS Radio (16 July): 
https://eosradio.de/archive/vera/jul-2021
Part 3 on Input Selector (19 July):
https://soundcloud.com/input-selector/is-special-043-vera

Follow each part to catch the unfolding story as it's released.

@veragoesdeep

IS Special 043 - Vera [Melliflow, Perlon]

RADIO.D59B / DRIBBLING #2 w/ Stojche And Oracy

RADIO.D59B / VIKTOR RANKOVIC

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IS Special 044 - Varsity Star

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IS Special 045 - Deri Dako

Night Garden - Aaja Channel 1 - 06 02 22

Everyone at some point in their existence experiences a critical moment in their busy life where big decisions can lead to big change, both at work and in life. A turning point that make your life never be the same again. A new you, a new us.

David is a die-hard record collector who has been playing them around the North of Spain and Europe for more than 15 years now. Since three years ago he's more focused on Escala de Grisos, his monthly radio show on a local station, where he plays and discuss about ambient, techno and anything in between as well as making some interviews.

David has recorded the following mix with that feeling of knowing that something huge is about to change in his life, just like what happened at .apart in a way. Hence the name translated into Catalan :)

A magnificent true personal musical journey where he captures with great sense and extreme delicacy a long list of antonyms such as fear-hope, uncertainty-desire…

To sum up overall, David shares the following poem:

"... The rocks crash, the puddles splash, the mirrow ripples, the calmness returns, so are the turning points of life that disrupt our world to only steer us onto a path more right than the one before, let the wind blow as it may, for it's only wish is to whisk you away to a destination where your heart will find a true home, a place where the doubts and confusion have no life supply, for when the turn is complete, a soul once lost, will be found, only to realize it was all part of the journey, and around the corner there is so much more to see ... " – KJC

You can find him at:
@humo
https://www.instagram.com/d.humo/
https://www.radio.celra.cat/programs/escaladegrisos

.CHPTR043 'Turning points' | D. Humo

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IS Special 046 - Dan Curtin [Metamorphic Recordings]

@johannaknutsson

Aired on the Patience/Impatience show following the release of Dingsbums Homage on the full moon of March 18, 2022.

TRACKLIST
Flurecense - Spacetime Continuume
Suketo - Adam Oko
Reachiung Higher - Zeitgeist & Tucceri
Sunshine's Theme (Sunshine's Remix)- Dubtribe Sound System
Climb Together - Dbridge
Yoake - Luke Sanger
Maths - Om Unit
Last Move - Inter Gritty
Space Walk - Shrlok
Encounters at the End of the World - Nthng
Billiton Beruh With Cleo&Wouter - Kettel
Tantalize - Love Letters
Gigantopithecus - Artis
Winter Months - DMX Crew
Carillon (Haron Remix)- Tala Drum Corps
How Far Back with Absolute Certainty Can We Go? - Hieroglyphic Being And The Configurative Or Modular Me Trio

Q+A
Please introduce yourself
- My name is Johanna, I produce and play electronic music, both DJ and live performer. Moved to Sweden last year after 13 years in Berlin, and recently started up a creative space here in an old car garage, where I have my hair salon, host music events, exhibitions, flea markets and workshops etc
 
Can you describe your relationship to music throughout your life?
- It's always been there but changing a lot during the years. It has however always been spiritual to me in a non-religious way, music has always been a great way of communicating my inner thoughts and emotions that can't be described with words.

How did Berlin influence the way you make and listen to music?
- It wasn't so much about Berlin itself, it was more about moving away from everyone I knew and everything that I did in Sweden, and moving to a new (and at the time cheaper) place, where I could afford and take the time to be working with music and be alone. I only DJ'd locally in Berlin for the first couple of years before I started touring, so I wasn't really influenced by the "berlin technoscene" too much. I was mostly amazed about the way people partied for days at a time, but for me partying too much meant having no energy left to be creative in the studio. 13 years went by very fast I'll tell you that. One thing that I do miss in Berlin are the very many record stores to buy vinyl, but Malmö has some really good ones too actually (Bolero and Rundgång for example), and to go out partying daytime. And being out for too long.

How does it feel to be back in Malmo now, both in terms of music and life in general?
- Oh my god, i'm so happy to be here. The crew I've found here have already thrown a few open-airs, a couple of club nights where we've done everything from decor to DJ. It's so inspiring! Berlin is filled to the brim with so many people doing the same thing, which can also mean that it's very easy to get ungrateful/jealous of your DJ-friends which is kind of terrible actually. 

How did you approach your Patience release, and how did that differ from your usual approach to making music?
- As I wrote to Luca who did the artwork, I was making the music at a time when everything around me was moving and changing in directions that I didn't choose myself. It was mid-pandemic, I'd lost all of my income,  and had decided to leave the city that I had lived in for 13 years (and loved at that time), not knowing if I'd be able to continue making music or not. Going to the studio to work on this was one of my few comforting things I could do, and sitting with it gave me a nice pause from that intense Weltschmerz I was feeling at the time.

Do you have a personal favorite longform piece of music?
- So many, I mean isn't that what DJ-mixes are for as well? A really well thought through DJ mix is something I appreciate so so much. And I want to mention everything from John Carroll Kirby, especially the Patience release. So good!

Johanna Knutsson Mix for The Lot Radio - March 22, 2022

Jacob Long has been crafting Earthen Sea material since the early 2000s. He gradually graduated from limited-edition cassettes to releases on Ital's Lover's Rock and Nicolas Jaar's Other People imprints, before linking up with the evergreen label Kranky in 2017. His third album for Kranky, Ghost Poems, comes out next week. We celebrate with an hour of music built as spring emerges around him in Brooklyn, full of contrasts between light and decay.

@earthzone
@kranky

Ekin Fil - Here Before [Σ]
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Vague, Yet [Faitiche]
Vladislav Delay - Lumi [Huume]
Andrew Pekler - Borororo [Faitiche]
Grouper - Moon is Sharp [Kranky]
Basic Channel - Mutism [Basic Channel]
De Leon - 07 [Aught]
Eli Keszler - Bell Underpinnings [Shelter Press]
Loscil - Bleeding Ink [Kranky]
Chris Herbert - Vactrol [Room40]
Erosion - 3 [Chain Reaction]

Ep 291 pt.1 w/ Earthen Sea

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2022.07.22.html

@aspetuck...
H. Takahashi - Photosynthese
Anasisana - I Feel Your Warmth On My Skin
Soda Lite - Lifeways
Cyme - Biyangdo ë¹„ì–‘ë„
Edward - Slider
AxelÂ Boman - Ostende
Saphileaum - Shapeshifter
Aspetuck - Bivalve
Carsten Jost - La Collectionneuse 2
Levon Vincent - CYCLOPS TRX 2
Fatima - Hassan (Razormaid Remix)
Ben Kaczor - The Fool
Mike Grant - My Soul, My Spirit (Mr. G's Freedom Train Mix)
Martina Topley Bird, Mark Langham & Warpaint - Crystalised (Director's Cut Unmarked Dub)
Martinou - Thunder Road
Aspetuck - The Great Divide
Dewemer - Erk
Jacques Bon & Drux - Radiance
Sanguine - Constant Doubt
Deep South - Lemon Puff
Jacques Bon & Drux - Elevate
Kaap - Transfix
Sanguine - Hell For Bees
Aspetuck - As The Fog Rolls In

@achimmaerz (2h 4m)...
no setlists

@m50 (3h 23m)...
Passarani : Revelation : The Wildlife Of The Quieter : Aus
Metropolis : A Machine Of Desire : 10 Years Of SEQ : Sequencias
rand : Hoola : Peripherie
Nepal : Rebuild : 10 Years Of SEQ : Sequencias
R.ss : i80x12h Tear Stream
Cigarettes After Sex : K. : [untitled] : Partisan

streamed live at
@datafruits, ICN
@internetpublicradio, GDL
Sphere-Radio, LEJ
Wax n' Cats, CHI
Blast Radio, NYC

Aspetuck + Achim Maerz + m50 @ etc 2022.07.22

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IS Special 047 - Rico Friebe [Time In The Special Practice Of Relativity]

Level 0 ・ Cloud 9

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https://soundcloud.com/stereoscenic/zarr-cloudform

Cloud 9

This track came about over a period of time, adding little riffs of piano and finally, Simon creating an electronic 'ground'. It's a bit of a collage. I wondered if it was going to work at all. Now, I like it.

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