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

MARMO, a collaborative project between Christian Duka and Marco Maldarella, was born out of friendship and shared passion for music-making. Starting off respectively as the electric guitarist and singer in a metal band nearly a decade ago, the pair have worked their way through various flavours of electronic music inhabiting someplace between ambient and dance music.

Founder at @introspective_electronics
Explorer at @terra-obscura-london
Ambientist at @phonicarecords
Alchemist at @soundofvadin

Booking: info@introspective-electronics.com

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I like smooth & metamorphic Tech, Ambient & Leftfield electronic music, new varieties of Patterns & Sequences,.. the possibility of a much wider world that corresponds to the already wide possibilities of modern music.----FREE PALESTINE  &  EQUAL HUMAN RIGHTS WORLDWIDE !!!

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 🍃

Christian Duka is a multifaceted music and sound artist who works primarily with spatial audio. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists across various disciplines, from free improvisation to contemporary digital dance to experimental and dance electronic music. Christian Duka is also a versatile DJ moving fluidly between experimental ambient realms and the physical energy of dance music — often blurring the line between the two in experimental ways: left-field bass, smokey dubbed-out jazzy jungle & dnb, psychedelic techno & trance for genre-fluid, bass-heavy, atmospheric, introspective and euphoric journeys.

Notable collaborative projects include the interdisciplinary work "UR: Human Presence" with Jose Macabra, Pell Ensemble, and Elyssavet Sfyri, the spatial drone-bath performance "The Listening Body" with Hems, Merkaba Macabre, and Pascal Savy, a series of live performances in collaboration with free improvisers such as John Butcher, Ute Kanngiesser, Lucie Stepankova, David Toop, Sharon Gal, and Aimee Theriot (4DSOUND), exploring the fusion of free improvisation and live electronics in three-dimensional audio, and the electronic music projects MARMO & Vādin with Marco Maldarella and Avsluta, respectively, with releases on various international record labels (Utter, Offen, Area127, Secuencias Temporales).

Beyond his own artistic projects, he taught electronic music, audio production and sound design at SAE London and Greenwich University and founded Amoenus, a non-profit organization that promotes and supports spatial sound in immersive arts through residency programs, workshops, and public events.