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Marmo

Ambient/Downtempo Mixes

Jake Muir is a sound artist and field recordist currently based in Berlin, Germany. Raised in Los Angeles, Muir cut his teeth in Seattle’s experimental and club music scenes. Enjoy!

ITPS066 JAKE MUIR

We are very proud and excited to share this special episode of our Podcast Series recorded live by Christian Duka at the lovely SONIC GARDEN gathering that happened at one of London’s most inspiring experimental music venues IKLECTIK last month 🌿

Christian is the founder of immersive art and 3D sound non-profit organisation Amoenus, a sound artist and a long-standing friend of Introspective Electronics. He previously delivered collaborative mixes for our Podcast Series as part of MARMO and Vādin and we are over the moon to finally have him release a solo journey.

In this chapter, Christian merges his signature flavour of psychedelic ambient with atmospheric dub, downtempo and heady leftfield experiments. This journey feels like a night wild with dreams. It’s droney interstellar initiation inconspicuously metamorphosing into sensual dub intertwined with deeply hypnotic wormhole loops and warm, tribal-infused rhythm sections stretching across wide spatial expanses. There is nothing left to do but listen with all your might for those moments of magic that are packed tightly across this sonic canvas ✨🔮✨

@dvka
https://amoenus.co.uk/

TRACKLIST:

Tetsu Inoue - Slow And Low
LF58 - Metamorfosi
Tetsu Inoue - Morphing Cloud
Hems - Shifting Gears
Hems - Post Radiance
Echium - Glacial Rust
Robert Fleck - Soft Focus (Gasometric Run remix)
Rhythm & Sound - Mango Drive
Felicia Atkinson - Adaptation Assez Facile
Olorun - Unexpected Pearls
Muslimgauze - Thimble Cups of Urdu
Muslimgauze - Harem Of Dogs
Ike Yard - Loss (Regis Version)
Sindh - Sidam
Valentino Mora - Spiral Falls
Outer Space - Dimensions Perception
Donato Dozzy - Vaporware 4
Prince Of Denmark - Sublimation
Biosphere - Just A Kiss

Podcast Series 16 | Christian Duka

Christian Duka serves us a chill soundtrack of visceral soothing moments for Soothers #05.

"My loved one always says (borrowing from Rick & Morty): “you can’t learn anything until you learn how to chill” - and she’s damn right. Chilling is something I am pretty bad at though. You know, living in London and being slightly enslaved by my passions… but still, there is one place I am able to chill: the space in-between spectral voices, dub-infused grooves and weird & wonderful textures of the likes featured in this cocktail of, personally, very emotional tracks. As I listen, the oomphs and throbs flying out of subwoofers transport me right where stress lives - inside my own body. There, whispering words of comfort to my stiff muscles, I finally take a moment to take care of myself. 

I hope this mix will serve as a soundtrack for many other visceral soothing moments like this - a warm bath, incense and candles are highly recommended :)” 
Chrisitan Duka

Website: 
https://www.originssound.com/os-soothers/christian-duka-mix

Follow Christian Duka:
https://soundcloud.com/dvka
https://www.instagram.com/christian_duka/
https://christianduka.com/


Tracklist: 
Pontiac Streator - mystical eyelids (feat Mathilde Chambon)
nthng - Son
Human Mesh Dance - In Pools
Tagliabue - Persuasione
Babe Roots - World Struggle (Ambient Dub)
Space Afrika - oread
OK EG - Precipitation
Pontiac Streator - platinum rose in hand (feat Desiree Monique & MWW) 
Cousin - TUB1
Black Merlin - Wave
Sunju Hargun - Shin (Subject To Space)
nthng - 50 Flower
Pontiac Streator - right here
Otik - Neuron Blossom

Website

Origins Soothers 005 - Christian Duka

In anticipation of the upcoming third edition of SONIC GARDEN ~ an all-day ambient, downtempo and experimental electronic music event taking place in the lush Old Paradise Yard of London’s IKLECTIK ~ we are thrilled to share a live recording of the enigmatic opening b2b set from the last edition 🐝

Courtesy of Avsluta and Christian Duka ~ the two minds behind SONIC GARDEN ~ it is a perfect mood-setter for the upcoming adventure with Primal Code (Hypnus & Kalahari Oyster Cult) and Luca (E2-E8) happening on Sunday, 26th June 💫

More info and tickets: https://amoenus.co.uk/sonicgarden 🌿

This nearly three hours journey is a slowly blossoming mystical affair of gently oozing ambient textures with scattered spoken word leading into dub-infused downtempo and various flavours of progressive electronica. Best listened to in its full length, this a perfect accompaniment to your psychedelic adventures 🍄

Sounds by @avsluta & @dvka
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Podcast Series 24 | Avsluta b2b Christian Duka (Live at SONIC GARDEN)

We welcome the duo MARMO to take us on our next voyage. Christian Duka and Marco Maldarella hold a musical relationship that spans boarders, allowing them to draw influence from a range of sources. 

Christian is no stranger to the Above Below family but under the MARMO alias, he sheds new light on his vast skill set. Alongside Marco, they experiment with improvisation and introspective emotional narratives. With past influences including Rock/Metal, the pair are not shy of pushing new boundaries. 

Recorded at Sinestesie(Italy) this mix weaves through downtempo and deep techno to start, progressing effortlessly into components driven by trance and breaks. It's a set that really captures the true essence of their unique style.

MARMO | Above Below

@dvka

Christian Duka is an electronic musician, sound artist & designer, immersive audio specialist and higher education lecturer. His musical outputs span the experimental and left-field electronic dance music both in his solo work and ongoing collaborative projects Vādin (with Avsluta) and MARMO (with Marco Maldarella). 

Christian's passion for immersive sound was sparked by a month-long residency at MONOM 4D Sound in Berlin and blossomed into his multi-disciplinary project UR: Human Presence — an artistic experience involving 3D sound, contemporary dance and performance art. Amazed by the creative potential of spatial audio, in 2019 he founded AMOENUS, an immersive art organisation that supports the development of immersive audio in the arts via R&Ds, events and workshops, most recently on their own custom made 16.4 sound system currently installed at The Bath House in London.

Soundcloud : 
@soundofvadin (Vādin) 
@marmo-927292184 (MARMO) 

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/christian_duka/
https://www.instagram.com/sound.of.vadin/ (Vādin) 
https://www.instagram.com/marmo.live/ (MARMO)  

Website: 
https://christianduka.com/

RA: 
https://ra.co/dj/christianduka 

Tracklist: 
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4FwkPEM_f5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Human Lessons #082 - Christian Duka

Kosmic Skaut graces us with a truly stunning mix recorded with tender loving care for the 52nd chapter of our Podcast Series. The Prague via Brno based artist has been a kindred musical soul and a friend for a long time and we’re so happy to finally welcome him to our cozy lil family circle 🤍

Mikuláš aka Kosmic Skaut goes slow and steady behind the decks, interlocking psychedelic, acid-tinged and hypnotic sounds in his DJ sets spanning multitudes of ambient and dance music genres. For Mikuláš, music is all about collectivity and togetherness ~ a takeout from his early years as a boy scout. He materialises this spirit in projects including organising festival Michalský Výpad in Olomouc, co-running the notorious ÉTER collective in Brno and regurlarly putting on his Kosmic Care events at Ankali’s Planeta Za which he always ~ as an aspiring chef and baker ~ supplies with tasty homemade snacks. Once you try his pizzenka (the cute way to say pizza in Czech) and this delicious mix, there’s no coming back 🍕

In this chapter of our Podcast Series, we plunge head first into the deep end of ambient psychedelia as we take off on this phenomenal voyage through Kosmic Skaut’s wild and wonderful imagination. As we move through the mix, so it moves with us, allowing for softness to emerge in waves of amorphous drones melting into one another, layered with textures, field recordings and electro-acoustic instrumentation in the build up to the rhythmical crescendo that sees it conlcude 🌬️

Sounds by @lost_and_explore 🔮
Visions by @marcomaldarella ✨

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ie-podcast-series-52-kosmic-skaut

TRACKLIST

Boards of Canada - The Color Of The Fire
JIJU - Cave (JIJU Remix)
John Atkinson & Peter Wolfgang - Addictum
Barefoot - Becoming Someone Else (Inhmost Altered Remix)
Michel Banabila - The Three Stages Of Endurance
C. LAVENDER - Be As You Will Be
Emiddio Vasquez — Alembic Tears
C. LAVENDER - MASSES OF GATHERED CLOUDS
Yuki Conjugate - Distant Object O
Emeralds - Diagram of the Universe
Zadig - Shores of Sorrow
Caldera - Feaves
HVL - Teapot Limhi
Premis - Flounder
Ike Zwanikken - Crossed Candle
Na Nich - Log

Podcast Series 52 | Kosmic Skaut

We are so happy to kick our Podcast Series back into gear with a long anticipated recording from the UK-based duo Plantera called 'Cosmozoa' ~ based on theories of intergalactic spores transferring life to other planets 🌱

I met Lewis and Mason last year at the intimate Sonic Rites gathering, nestled in the wilds of the beautiful Welsh countryside. Smitten by their soothing afternoon set, I knew I needed to approach them and ask if they’d be keen to record a mix for the series ~ and they said yes 💍

So here it is, a magical musical offering born out of synergy between two close friends sharing deep understanding of and passion for music that touches the soul and soothes the mind. And what better time to dial
in this hour and a half journey than after the long weekend of Bank holiday frolics. Sit back, close your eyes and let it take you on a comic ride through soft edged ambient and downtempo psychedelia 💫

The guys also shared a little message for us too to accompany the mix: “Join us on this journey of cosmozoa; ejected into the ether from unknown coordinates, floating aimlessly through primordial dust until being grasped into the orbit of Plantera - gliding through the atmospheric haze before breaking out into blissful serenity, absorbing the sights and sounds of this unfamiliar world while sailing on it's winds" 

Sounds by @planterasound
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ie-podcast-series-53-cosmozoa-by-plantera

TRACKLIST

Alva Noto - Xerrox Monophaser 2
Marco Shuttle - Polysolation
Spacetime Continuum - Fluresence
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Metrosat 4
Hang Massive - Moon's Reflection on Countless Ponds
Autumn of Communion - Flow of Telepathy
Doof - Grantchester Meadows Remembered
Anders Ilar - Benthic Habitat
Saphileaum - Floating Garden Exploration
Declan - Species
Loop Guru - Part 3: 3AM Outside Here
Inhmost - Reconcile
Hibernation - Sympath
Higher Intelligence Agency - Orange
Ishq - Nepalese Sun

Podcast Series 53 | 'Cosmozoa' by Plantera

We could not imagine a more fitting Podcast Series contribution to soundtrack the peak of our of summer than this lush dubby mix recorded by the New York via Chicago DJ & productress Eden Aurelius 🦋

Back in April last year, the inaugural record on the Glaswegian label co:clear lands in the crates at Phonica Records and it steals the show. It was the debut release by Eden Aurelius titled ‘Plateau’ with it’s soft-edged downtempo take on dub techno dancing through clouds of ambient textures and perfectly embodying that netherworld in between ambient and dance music that is the beating heart of Introspective Electronics. Over a year later, we are so grateful and proud to have Eden feature on our Podcast Series with this stunning hour-long recording 💕

Nothing else to do now but to plunge into the dubwise depths of this magick mix where tender energy ebbs and flows in the spaces between not-quite-ambient and not-quite dance. It’s in the liminal space of the soft cracks in between. Aren’t you curious to hear? ✨

Sounds by @edenaurelius
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ie-podcast-series-54-eden-aurelius

TRACKLIST

Rhauder & Paul St Hilaire - No News (Assemblage Mix)
Purl - Hollow 
Attila Jahanvash - Morning Glory 
Rod Modell - Body Sonic
Illuvia - Khalani
The Urban District - 100.2
Purl - Saraide
DT-90 - Kone 
Alex Humann - Recovery Passage 
Rhythm & Sound - Aerial 
Electric Birds - Stem 
DJ Paradise - Ssumo
Fonica - 1899-12-31
Off The Sky - Cumulae Movement

Podcast Series 54 | Eden Aurelius

Feeling incredibly proud to share this new chapter in our Podcast Series, a profound and powerful mix from the dearest Lou Drago, an artist and human we deeply admire 🤍

Lou is the host of one of our favourite ambient shows @transience-archive which airs monthly on Berlin’s Cashmere Radio to provide listener with a much needed relief from anxiety and together with marum they host sonic-seances under the name @infinity-rug 🫧

Lou believes in the transformative potential of sound and the importance of deep listening. Whether that is listening to each other, our needs or to the sounds around us. In their sets they often explore the sonic landscapes of the in-between, where the listeners perspective dictates the experience, yet holds them in a warm embrace to invite a deep dialogue with the listening body-mind.

✨ In Lou's words ✨

like many of us, my heart has been red with grief-rage witnessing the ever-escalating genocide in Gaza. this mix starts with an invocation for the liberation of the Palestinian people, a struggle that omits none of us if we wish to be truly free. 

the slowly evolving sound journey takes us through several realms and phases of introspection, ghosts of the past lingering in melodies they never heard. sonic energies condensing and expanding, offering spaciousness for contemplation and being with whatever arises.

meandering through earthly realms, through the riparian zone, swamps, and forests we meet with mournful spirits in her gut, casting our attention on the multiplicities of loss we are facing. yet in the shade there are angels, who remind us that we have been doing this for many, many lifetimes. ‘keep on’ they seem to whisper. 

eventually we arrive to the sunset inside, where the Grand River’s winds meet the horizon, guiding our gaze upward toward the night sky where the mysteries of the celestial bodies radiate, Lyra’s visions casting an empowerment spell for all those who listen. 

may we each grow ever surer of our paths, finding creative and yet unimaginable ways to continue our collective struggle for the liberation of all sentient entities, until we are all free.

love, 

lou drago


Sounds by @lou_drago 
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ie-podcast-series-55-lou-drago

TRACKLIST
Al Fraser - Omaroro
JakoJako feat. Rima Baransi - Btnadini
Kettalynne & EGM - عنوان ضائع (I’nwan Dai’e)
Celer - On or Near the Surface 
Pauline Anna Strom - Ancestral Shrines
Pablo Diserens - riparian zone
Unjin - Gut
Al Fraser - Chrysalis
Int/r - Shade
Jana Irmet - Time Piece 1
Purelink - Stadium Drive
marrow - inter
Davis Galvin - Sipes’ Vista
Autechre - Yulquen 
Daniela Huerta - memoria 
Ariel Kalma - Sunset Inside 
Grand River - Tuning the Wind 
Charlemagne Palestine - Schlingen-Blangen
Alvin Curran - Canti Illuminati (edit)
Lyra Pramuk - Ending

Podcast Series 55 | Lou Drago

We are very happy to present you with the 56th chapter in our Podcast Series today, a powerful deep listening mix recorded live at Perpendicular 2025 by our dear friend ~ Horizontal. Setting the scene, imagine yourself laying down comfortably in a wooden cabin deep in the woods at night time, in profound communion with your fellow listeners and letting the sounds collective carry you inwards 🌚✨
 
I first met Paul two years ago playing at one of my favourite ambient rooms at a small gathering in Scotland, then again last year at Backsteinboot in Berlin where we both played as part of an all night sleepover ambient event Rausch. Both times, I was mesmerised by the composure and depth of Paul’s music and demeanour, two qualities that truly shine through in this sublime mix probing the realms of drone ambient, minimalism, avant-garde and electro-acoustic composition 💫

This hour and a half of slithering drones, liquefied glitches, deep nocturnal soundscapes and ritual sonics is occasionally punctuated by narration. It ebbs and flows between barely audible and fiercely present as it deliberately stretches the scope of listening with its passage. The further in you listen, the deeper in you go 🔮

Recorded live at @espacio-perpendicular 2025

Sounds by @paul-thomas
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ie-podcast-series-56-horizontal-perpendicular-25

TRACKLIST

Eleh - Reflection 1
Merkaba Macabre - Gaslight and the dark (Unreleased)
Eleh - Beneath the silver sun
Merkaba Macabre - Yenerenicm Nevets (Unreleased)
Eliane Radigue - Adnos 1
Thomas Köner - Cogitation (Decay)
Felicia Atkinson - Valis
Henry Krutzen - L’Alpiniste
Merkaba Macabre - Spectre at Splatthayes (Unreleased)
Ancestral Voices - Medicina
Maggi Payne - Fizz
Ana Roxanne - Untitled
Eliane Radigue - Perception
Samin Son - Oriya
Alain Kremski - Le Christ au mont des oliviers
Ancestral Voices - Night of visions
Unperson - Spiritual (Acapella)
Merkaba Macabre - Ancient Vessels (Unreleased)
Eli Kessler - Willing to be open 
Marco Shuttle - AfA
Christian Zanési - Stop! l’horizon
Thomas Köner - Nival
Thomas Köner - Substrate (Binaural)
Refracted - Departure
Carlos Casas - Interview with the oldest Aeta
Ancestral Voices - Divination

Podcast Series 56 | Horizontal @ Perpendicular 25

Welcome to the 35th Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics.
This monthly released podcast brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer. This months session is created by Zhe Pechorin

Bio:

Biography:
Zhe Pechorin is a project by Angelina Micic from Belgrade, Serbia. 
Inspired by philosophy of existentialism, in her music she is trying to give her interpretation of relation between limitless power of creativity and desperate weakness of human being in front of atemporal nature by using hypnotic rhythms mixed with dark and melancholic atmosphere. 
From this year she is a part of Tenebrous Music label, and her tracks will be featured in upcoming v/a releases this summer. Besides that, she is preparing 2 single releases until the end of 2017 for newborn Berlin based labels: Enslavement and Holy Geometry.

Tracklist:
01. Neel – Post Landing
02. Nils Frahm – A Stolen Car
03. Meta – Ambiente 1
04. Black Merlin – Wave
05. Marco Shuttle – Flauto Synthetico
06. Rrose – Hole
07. Shifted – This Passage 
08. offworldcolonies – Det vi såg in mönstren och tecknen
09. Ntogn – Bloodline
10. Polar Inertia – Can We See Well Enough To Move On? (Part Two)
11. Cio D'Or – now is ever
12. Periskop – Immerse (Component IX)
13. Abul Mogard – State-coloured Storm
14. Barnett+Coloccia – Tracker
15. Milena Kriegs – Svadisthana 
16. SHXCXCHCXSH – SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs

Photography and Design by Stravarija

https://www.facebook.com/stravarija/?fref=mentions&pnref=story

Links:
www.facebook.com/zhepechorin/
soundcloud.com/zhe-pechorin

Ambient Sessions # 35 - Zhe Pechorin

The Brvtalist is proud to present a new mix from Ancestral Voices. Immerse yourself in this  2-hour transcendental trip that will make you plunge into the watery layers of your subconscious and explore the sounds of Oake, Pact Infernal, Lemna and more.  The ideal soundtrack to your deepest introspections. For more visit: www.thebrvtalist.com/newbrvtalism122/ 

@ancestralvoices

Tracklist:
Ancestral Voices - Mycelia 
Ancestral Voices - Eluvial Horizon
Lakker - Song For Rathlin
Oake - Apath 
Ancestral Voices - Eumycota 
Pact Infernal - Symbology
Ourea - Adamantine Sickle 
Ancestral Voices - Syloh
Von Grall - 
Rrose - Swallows
Ourea - Deception at Mekone
Pact Infernal - Circle VIII (Pris Remix) 
Saturne - Momentum
Saturne - Density Matrix 
Von Grall - 
Pact Infernal - Capax Infiniti
Von Grall - 
Pact Infernal - Cor au Mors
Oake - Anhedon 
Pact Infernal - Circle V [Nastika Remix]
Pact Infernal - Rites Of Passage 
Ancestral Voices - 
Unknown Path - Path 0.1 
Lemna - Metamorphosis 
Grey Area #5.2
Saturne - Polarise 
Sam KDC - Feardom
Lemna - Dice
Sam KDC - Graven Image 
Ancestral Voices -
Sam KDC - Canon Law 
Lemna - DLPFC
Restive Plaggona - Alone To Faith And Death (Ancestral Voices Remix)
ASC - Last Known Coordinates 
Unknown Path - Path 0.2 
Sam KDC - Oracle 
ASC - Point Of Origin
Lemna - Blot 
Ourea - Dysnomia 
Sam KDC - Pareidolia 
ASC - Collider 
Grey Area #5.3
Oake - Alog
Ancestral Voices - Izula 
Ancestral Voices - Meruah

New Brvtalism No. 122 - Ancestral Voices

Switch Podcast 13 - Marmo

Welcome to the 67th Unmasked Discussion.
Guest: MARMO.

MARMO is a long-distance musical relationship between Christian Duka and Marco Maldarella. Christian is a London based sound artist/designer and interdisciplinary art director. Marco Maldarella works extensively on the combination of sound and image to maximise the emotional impact in the spectators. 

The duo relies on improvisation to create journeys of mixed feelings - sonic transcript of communications on the emotional narratives behind each respective lives, discussing joys, pains, ecstasy, chaos and love.

MARMO - Web Links:
https://soundcloud.com/marmo-927292184
https://www.facebook.com/marmo.techno/
https://marmolive.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR1BWNn4IH6ZBNItU8p_x_ZEpH3ZUVrwAPd1uPifrAMu8zjUFtEfxUqBh8E

Unmasked - Web Links:
www.facebook.com/unmasked.events/
www.instagram.com/unmasked.london.official/
www.residentadvisor.net/profile/unmasked
www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDYlRi_9_TXs_8OoJ1h3Xg

UNMASKED DISCUSSION 67 | MARMO

Elisa Batti LiveSet @ RLR

We are over the moon to welcome the enigmatic MARMO to our still little yet ever-expanding Introspective Electronics family. MARMO is a deeply emotive improvisatory collaboration between London-based sound artist and curator Christian Duka and Bologna-based visual artist and producer Marco Maldarella who is also the wizard behind Introspective Electronic's sumptuous visual identity ✨🔮✨

This chapter was improvised and recorded exclusively for Introspective Electronics and features only unreleased original material. We are so grateful that Christian and Marco have shared this incredible new work with us. It is a cruise through lush ambiances, rich textures, hypnotic rhythms and melancholic harmonies inhabiting someplace between waking life and dreams. An acute sense of tactile intimacy and deep introspection emerges as the air particles vibrate with an abundant spectrum of emotions. Swells and plateaux of sounds move like breath entwined in the fragile existence of life itself.

Podcast Series 05 | MARMO

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 376: Jake Muir's Bathhouse Blues

Platform navigating the liminal spaces between ambient and dance music and featuring regular radio shows, guest podcast series and co-curated events ✨🌝🌚✨

Contact: info@introspective-electronics.com

Curation by @avsluta 🌱
Visual Identity by @marcomaldarella 🍃