Podcast Series

Ambient

Tracks 1-12 : M.Wolzyn //  Strange Ambient -Rest

STRANGE & EXPERIMENTAL Ambient, Techno & Leftfield Electronica (UNeasy Listening) //maxim wolzyn

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This month’s Podcast chapter comes from our darling friend Maybe Laura who we met playing the ambient room at one of London’s still truly underground parties some years back. Since then, a string of fortuitous circumstances kept bringing us together and allowed for our friendship to blossom. Laura is a Lithuanian-born London-based DJ and sound healer deeply intertwined in the local music scene both as an artist and curator and well-loved for her genuinely warm energy behind the decks and on the dancefloor ♥️

Laura recorded just over an hour of sensual and deeply reflective soundscapes for us, gently oscillating between fourth-world and devotional ambient, experimental electronica and shadow-tinted downtempo. This journey’s pious tone is a thread holding it together as it unravels and exhibits its many faces. Listening in, we bear witness to our past lives unfolding before our mind’s eye, stories dated to ancient times and others holding hands with now, one track at a time ✨🎴✨

Podcast Series 14 | Maybe Laura

Alexandr L - Mr Electric swimmer bathes in selections of static maneuvers on magnetic grooves for Yaga. Brains behind Electric Shapes / Dance in Chaos, Alexandr kindly proposes a nurture fluid ritual with explorations that circles back from the origins of underground dance music to broken futuristic rhythm.
Alex is playing on Sunday noon at Pinegrove stage.

@aleksandrl
@electric_shapes

Tracklist:

01. Cucina Povera - Rushmoren Sipulihöyryt (Saniaiset)
02. Laurence Guy - Ultimatums are for Egomaniacs
03. SHE Spells Doom - Feliciano
04. Ovend - Place Des Vosges
05. tau contrib - Lenomn
06. Kanding Ray - Late Coral Glow
07. Ruin - The Dive (D.Tiff Dip)
08. Larry Quest - Alpine Black Swallow Tail
09. Hello Meteor - Ocean Teaching Building
10. Ovend - Rush 06
11. Kalocain - WCKD
12. Robotalco - Dream Of Dreams
13. Principia Audiomatica - Transmitter
14. Raft Of Trash - Mystical Digestion
15. Inhmost - Trees
16. Hällilaul - Lullaby
17. Sofie Birch & Johan Carøe - Bike Sacrifice
18. Map.ache - Slow Break Fast (feat. Frida Bagö)
19. Frits Wentink & Erik Madigan Heck - An Infant's Dream

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Aleksandr L Mix for Yaga Gathering 2022

    Ozy - "Drama Club"
    Oscar Schubaq - "Triade"
    Global Communication - "4:14"
    Lowtec - "Untitled"
    Benjamin Brunn - "Echoes Of BCN"
    Photek ‎- "Kanei"
    Donato Dozzy - "Vaporware 01" (slow version)
    Joris Voorn - "Listen"
    Arctic Hospital ‎– "Rotating Water"
    Boards of Canada - ""Reach for the Dead"
    Two Lone Swordsmen - "As Worldly Pleasures Wave Goodbye..."
    Dettinger - "Untitled" 
    Theorem - "Shift"
     µ-Ziq - "Hug" 

Eli Verveine Ambient Mix For Mixmag.Info

Recorded live at the Labyrinth Festival, Sept 2013.
The set was a tribute to Pete Namlook who passed away the previous year.
Thanks to all @ Mindgames
http://mindgames.jp
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lnR7Ow3qfo&t=7s

Live @ Labyrinth - Pete Namlook Tribute

The ICE LP was created by Maxim Wolzyn over a period of three years, mostly whilst touring throughout Germany by train as part of the Günther Lause duo. Spread over eight tracks, the LP poetically captures the complex networks of railways and tunnel systems that carry with them the thoughts and feelings of millions of people, aspiring to attain an overall impression of the collective consciousness of a society on the move. 

Inspired sonically by the soundscapes of urban spaces, rail stations and the pulsing motions of modern mass transportation, various field recordings are mixed with reverberating synthesizer patterns and percussive composition, creating a mixture of straight forward techno and dystopian ambiences. 

While being reminiscent of Berlin's dub techno tradition it also transcends the typical club context, moving into the realm of the intimate and personal.

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Unterwegs

Drohnen Über Karlsruhe

Intercity Express

An ambient set (all originals) recorded at CoSM. 
Featuring tracks spanning the last 15 years.


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Tipper - CoSM Ambient Set

Lucid Dreaming / Bunker Afterglow Mix I (2014/2015)



Ambient / Psybient / Psychill / Slow Trance  / Soundscapes / Relaxation (Deep Ambient Mix / Set)

A long time coming, this new chapter in our Podcast Series comes from our dear friend and one of our favourite live artists, dan nicholls. We’d have a hard time counting exactly how many times we’ve seen them concoct their colourful sonic potions, effortlessly merging multi-layered depth with soft playfulness, oscillating between meditative horizontal sounds, spoken word and field recordings and high energy bass infected half & double time dance workouts. To witness an artist in pursuit of their genuine expression succeed in building a world of their own while being versatile and open is a beautiful thing to behold and we feel so lucky to be able to share this little peek into Dan’s workshop, in the form a live set recording from Brussels’ Brasserie Atlas ✨

dan nicholls is a producer and multi-instrumentalist exploring sounds at the crossroads of ambient, electronica, jazz and free improvisation. Over the years, Dan has moved on from a career in jazz, via electronic music, to a heartfelt embrace of rave culture and the feminist and queer theories which are all strongly present in the current iteration of their solo projects and collaborations. With a powerful grasp on world building with, through and beyond sound, they co-curate the London-based Free Movements - a multi-sensory event series hosting genre fluid experimental music performances crossing both acoustic and electronic realms 🔮

In the true spirit of their highly collaborative workflow ~ always in the process of making with and through people and other-than-human critters, culture & politics ~ this improvised recording features voices of tyroneisaacstewart, Lauren Kinsella, Juju Love, Moor Mother, Gillie Nicholls, Janet Blake and Palestinian activist whose words contribute in different ways to amplifying of marginalised ideas. And it seems that for every word, there is a sound to match, a little something that carries its weight, gives it a warm embrace and lets it slip in our ears with tenderness and gravity to be remembered through feeling. There’s only one way to know and that’s to press play and listen 🐚

Improvised live set @ Brasserie Atlas, Brussels

Sounds by @dannichollsldn 🌸
Visions by @marcomaldarella 💫

Vocals (in order of appearance): tyroneisaacstewart, Lauren Kinsella, Juju Love, Moor Mother, Gillie Nicholls, Janet Blake, Palestinian activist (chooses to remain anonymous) 

Recorded by Loto Retina

Thanks to Mika Oki, Loto Retina and the rest of the beaut crew at B-Atlas

Podcast Series 51 | dan nicholls [live] @ Brasserie Atlas

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

Journey into the ambient side of the Desert Dwellers, Liquid Bloom, Variant Field, Rara Avis, Bluetech and Shamans Dream with “Vajra Mind,” a collection of 21 meditative soundscapes compiled into a 2 hour soundtrack by AMANI. The calming quality of this music will add a soothing space to your life and creativity. “Vajra Mind” features some never before released tracks and alternate versions of classic tunes, and collects the various ambient tracks featured in the Desert Trax catalog from 2001 to 2015 into one cohesive offering. This music is medicine.

If you would like to download this mixed version of the album, you will be emailed a download code for it when you buy the full album from the DD Bandcamp store   (https://desertdwellersmusic.bandcamp.com/album/vajra-mind)

Envisioned, compiled and mixed by Amani Friend 
Artwork by Olivia Curry (www.dreamnectar.com)

01. In the Beginning 
produced by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe

02. Subtle Breath
produced by Amani Friend

03. Give Thanks - vajra mix 
produced by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe
flute by Jesse Hendricks

04. Stellar Dendrites
produced by Amani Friend & Rara Avis

05. Remember Light 
produced by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe
Vocals by Navjit Kandola

06. Warm Desert Sands - vajra mix
produced by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe
flute by Jesse Hendricks - violin by HANNAH


07. Bluetech & Shamans Dream - Letting Go
produced by Evan Bluetech & Craig Kohland

08. Desert Dwellers - Forming Existence
produced by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe

09. Desert Dwellers - Peaceful Air (space mix)
produced by Amani Friend & Rara Avis

10. Desert Dwellers - Misty Mountains (space mix)
produced by Amani Friend & Rara Avis

11. Desert Dwellers - Lotus Heart
produced by Amani Friend & Rara Avis. Vocals by Sarah West

12. Liquid Bloom - Jaguar Dreaming (vajra mix)
produced by Amani Friend. Flute by Dominique Breaux

13. Liquid Bloom & Shamans Dream - Whispers of Our Ancestors (vajra mix)
produced by Amani Friend, Rara Avis, and Craig Kohland. Vocals by Sarah West

14. Liquid Bloom & Rara Avis - Emerging Heart (vajra mix)
produced by Amani Friend & Rara Avis. Vocals by Sarah West

15. Desert Dwellers - Stratosphere (space mix)
produced by Amani Friend, Michael Stearns, & Jonathan Grossman

16. Desert Dwellers - You Can See Forever (ether mix)
produced by Amani Friend, Rara Avis, and Trevor Moontribe. Vocals by Sarah West

17. Desert Dwellers - Peaceful Pathways (space mix)
produced by Amani Friend 

18. Desert Dwellers - Lotus Garden
produced by Amani Friend 

19. Desert Dwellers - Cave Dwellings
produced by Amani Friend 

20. Desert Dwellers - You Can See Forever (Aes Dana Remix)
produced by Aes Dana, Amani Friend, Rara Avis, & Trevor Moontribe. Vocals by Sarah West

21. Variant Field - Fields of Variance (space mix)
produced by Amani Friend and Alex DeYoung

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Vajra Mind - Ambient mix by AMANI

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

B1 Maxim Wolzyn & Bartellow - Raccoon Society

Öona Dahl All Day I Dream Ambient Journey Mix.
A message from the Dolphins, Whales and Celestial Beings.
--
artist @OonaDahl 
www.facebook.com/OonaDahlMusic

label(homepage)
www.alldayidream.com

All Day I Dream Podcast 006: Öona Dahl - Celestial Ambient Mix

I have a nice reverb plug-in

https://soundcloud.com/horn-drone
https://soundcloud.com/yagathering

Horn Drone mix for Yaga Gathering 2019

Our next artist is DJ living in Vilnius, Lithuania. He first became fully immersed into a rave culture with progressive house, minimal, electro, techno eras  forming his musical taste.  Lately he has settled on downtempo electronic and techno music styles. His style typically blends darks ambient, dubby and psychedelic sounds. He finds techno music is more like a spiritual experience, a modern ritual. He displays a subtle array of ambient and atmospheric techno in this submission, please give a warm welcome to @phases-sounds

AF024 Phases

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 🍃