Our latest sonic journey is a heartfelt gift from our dear friend, fellow dreamer and poet with words and sounds, @eeeeeeeugenia. We met at a very special gathering in rural Germany some years back and then kept bumping into each other on sandy dancefloors around Europe. You know what they say, bonds made on the dancefloor run deep and last an eternity, and this one is definitely the case ♥️

Eugenia’s musical sensibility is a harmonious union between her Italian heritage and her former Californian home. It is full of wild colours and complex scents, rich in deeply felt emotions and vivid memories. Her Introspective mix is a finely crafted hour of dusty pianos, undulating drones, warm and tingly downtempo and abstract grooves all peacefully co-existing in a slow-motion dance. In her own words, this mix somehow feels like a goodbye to the time she spent back in Bologna over these past spring and summer months ✨💌✨

TRACKLIST:

Tomasz Bednarcyzk - Saturday evening
SCNTST - 300 AD Pt. II
Space Africa - Umwem/creation 
Sonmi451 - Module 2020_4
M. Ostermeier - Lakefront
Soela - Lily
Purl - Havets Slang 
Biosphere - Birds Fly By Flapping Their Wings
B12 - Infinite Lites (Primitive Remix)
Pub - This Can’t Be happening
Healion - Vetiver 
Muse - Nishe 
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Watery Grave
Tinenet - Spring Shadow
Grouper - Come Softly
2030 - First Chamber
Leafar Legov - Mx Home

Podcast Series 15 | Eugenia

"0-12 Antarctica, air, flightless birds sliding and mating. 12-18 fluctuations in the atmosphere of a Tibetan village, carriages and bells. 18-29 submerged in the Atlantic Ocean, listening to the sound of currents and whales. 29-36 walk through the middle of Changbai forest, rivers and a calm feeling. 36-69 wormhole, 5th dimension, space travel, loss of sense of time. 69-75 coming home after a journey through morphing territories"

Morphing Territories' (@morphingterritories) music explores the delicate balance between power and emotion. Its timeless approach to techno is based on the hypnotic, unpredictable atmospheres of modular synthesis and field recording. Inspired by the nature of his native Switzerland, as well as the music of pioneers like Mike Parker, Morphing Territories is on a boundless quest to perfect the beat. Through tireless improvisation and introverted self-discovery, his finely-sculpted sound constructs push the boundaries of both complexity and simplicity. As an extension of his musical vision, Morphing Territories’ self-titled label presents a full range of psychedelic dancefloor experiences. His own releases there, as well as for labels like KCZ (@benkaczor) and Oslated (@oslated), channel spontaneity and even chaos into purist, deeply-affecting techno trips. The vibe he creates in the studio is developed further by his journeying DJ or live sets, as well as by his mix series Sense (@esnes). Altogether, the distinct avenues create a complete sound world, where the relentless beat of a drum, the trails of driving rhythms and the warmth of soaring pads combine into a potent formula.

https://morphingterritories.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.instagram.com/morphing.territories
https://www.facebook.com/morphing.territories

HOCast #75 - Morphing Territories

For our fifteenth instalment we're joined by Milan native @Atoloi, who first caught our ear with his stellar full-length on @Aura Dinamica (linked below). 

https://auradinamica.bandcamp.com/album/papier-darmenie

Coalescence 015: Atoloi

TRACKLIST: 

Suso Sáiz x Menhir - Alike
The Black Dog - Pho-kuss (featuring Oliver Ho)
Dialect - Rays of Light
Guy Contact - Feel The Feeling
The Black Dog - Norman Foster Knew
Zemög - Sailing Timbiquí River
Suso Sáiz x Menhir - Transit 1
Cherrystones - The Canal
Leif - Every Weather
Mikkel Rev - Dissolve To Evolve
Morpha - Memories
Zemög - Hiking In Chicaque
Marco Shuttle - Winds Of Cydonia
Saphileaum - Arif
Scanner - NightJam Remix (Si-cut.db)
Deadbeat x Om Unit - Leaf
Haramia Tapes - Shadows Blooming
Huerco S. - Plonk VI
Martinou - Absorption (Citywide)
Birds ov Paradise - Amanda
The Black Dog - Re-Pho-kuss (featuring Oliver Ho)
Priori - Winged
Dialect - Opal

Introspective Electronics w/ Avsluta x Netil Radio | January 22

Full stream of Citizen Maze's "Glass Island," taken from Mirror Tapes Worldwide vol. 1 compilation, out January 25.

Buy: https://mirrortapes.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-tapes-worldwide-vol-1

@mirrortapes
@citizenmaze

Mirror Tapes Worldwide vol. 1

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Premiere: Citizen Maze - Glass Island

Night Garden - Aaja Channel 1 - 06 02 22

We can barely contain ourselves as we finally reveal this truly very special chapter of our Podcast Series to you today, conjured up by none other than our very dear friend and the mastermind visionary behind our visual identity, Marco Maldarella 🌸

Marco is a multimedia artist and sound-maker living and working in Bologna. When we were just starting to develop Introspective Electronics, it made sense to reach out to him and see if we could together materialise the vision we had for this new platform. Little did we know that Marco’s contribution would be so symbiotic with the music and become such a fundamental part of who we are now. And we are so grateful it turned out this way 💛 

Apart from his work with visual media, Marco is a DJ and one half of the experimental electronic duo MARMO with Christian Duka. We were lucky to be able to release a powerful podcast by the pair last year which has since been remodeled into an LP soon out via the London-based Utter. Look out for this one!

This mesmerising one hour journey seems to take its roots in the haze of days long past, a fragile trembling presence slowly emerging from the soils to meet the sun and mankind. Then ~ in patient harmony its stems and branches grow through time and finally take shape as indigenous music with diverse brushstrokes of modernity weaved in. A seamless flow of emotions rushing from and through and into is the anchor of this mystery-soaked pilgrimage ✨ 🌚🌝✨

Sounds & Visions by @marcomaldarella 🌸

TRACKLIST:

Marco Maldarella - Cherry Blossoms (unreleased) 
Norfik - Failure to Thrive
Area 3 - Bubble
MARMO - Haver
Razen - Reversal Dub 
M Takara & Carla Borregas - Bocca Chiusa
Alien Mutation vs. Indigo - Gateway of The Sun 
O Yuki Conjugate - Insect Talk (Toulouse Low Trax Remix)
Marco Maldarella - Fermo Restando (unreleased)
Arkaean - Callow tongue
Ben Bondy - fuck life (elgin breath)
Marcelulose - Intuição 
Andy Stott - Away Not Gone (feat. Alison Skidmore)

Podcast Series 22 | Marco Maldarella

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

Urban Tapestry Hip Hop Instrumental Beat

jungle of cables

feb 13

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

Contact: info@introspective-electronics.com

Curation by @avsluta 🌱
Visual Identity by @marcomaldarella 🍃