Podcast Series

Ambient & experimental - Summer / Fall 2022

Floating In Space

Ambient/Downtempo Mixes

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

Welcome dear people, today we share with you the 70th episode of the Stellar Series by Rene Lorenzo.

Rene Lorenzo is a Dj and an electronic music producer.
His music focuses on deep, hypnotic sounds, intriguing melodies, and random textured rhythms.
Deep Techno, Ambient or Downtempo are the sounds that most define his productions.
His musical background has led him to develop his own sound and to publish music on different labels in the electronic scene and on his Celluar Memory label.
In this two-hour set of contemplative music, he shows us a small sample of his vinyl collection from some of the artists and labels that have most influenced him.

Follow him : @rene-lorenzo-dj

Picture credit : Fuente Dé

Tracklist :
1 Land of Light - Between Two Grains of Water
2 Son of Chi & Radboud Mens - The Transition Recordings Side B
3 Turn On The Sunlight-Sailing
4 Hoavi - Transition State
5 Markus Guentner - Cortical Column
6 Biosphere - Angel's Flight
7 Cauto - Capaç
8 Gigi Masin - Nefertiti
9 Multicast Dynamics & Sid Hille - Metamorphosis Part 1
10 CPI - Sol
11 Dr. Atmo & Mick Chillage - Backwaters

Stellar Series Episode 70 - Rene Lorenzo (Two Worlds)

@dannichollsldn

All music by Dan Nicholls 

Text #1 by Ursula K. Le Guin, from the podcast 'Between The Covers' by David Naimon
Text #2 from 'The Godess In Art', interview with Starhawk by Starr Goode
Vocals/spoken words: Lauren Kinsella, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Alabaster Deplume, Liv, Louise and Sirenne 
Keyboards and piano: Dan Nicholls 

Website: 
http://www.dan-nicholls.com/ 
instagram: 
https://www.instagram.com/dan___nicholls/ 


Cover Image by Louise Boer

Human Lessons #061 - Dan Nicholls

~ Deep Breakfast 162 by https://soundcloud.com/atoloi ~

Rumori confusi, incerto chiarore.
Inizia un nuovo giorno.
È una stanza in penombra
e due corpi distesi.
Nella fronte mi perdo
in un pianoro vuoto.
Già le ore affilano rasoi.
Ma al mio fianco tu respiri;
intimamente mia eppur remota
fluisci e non ti muovi.
Inaccessibile se ti penso,
con gli occhi ti tocco,
ti guardo con le mani.
I sogni ci separano
ed il sangue ci unisce:
siamo un fiume di palpiti.
Sotto le tue palpebre matura
il seme del sole.
Il mondo
non è ancora reale,
il tempo è dubbio:
solo il calore
della tua pelle è vero.
Nel tuo respiro ascolto
la marea dell’essere,
la sillaba scordata del Principio.
(Octavio Paz)

Tracklist:
01. Six Organs of Admittance - Rain on Fire
02. Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage - ≒ AO (blue light is green)
03. Sea Urchin - Natal Uranus, Bimbo Ozono Sotto il Sole a Picco
04. Shakali - Harhama
05. Salamanda - Violet
06. Domenique Dumont - Falling Asleep Under Pine Trees
07. Ab Uno - Remorae (b side)
08. Giulio Aldinucci - Terra
09. Agonis - Sunlight Filtering Through Skyscrapers
10. Jonathan Fitoussi - Oceans
11. JAB - Save Room 5
12. Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter - Daylight Savings
13. Félicia Atkinson - Sequoia
14. Tristan Arp - Probability Horizon
15. Radio Hito - Sole

Deep Breakfast 162 - Atoloi

Kӣr is the solo production epithet of Bane Jovančević, resident live artist and program manager of Belgrade’s club, Drugstore. 

Releases : 
Imrali - Creme Organization 
Mramorje - Yerevan Tapes 
Balčak - Disk records

"Kӣr live is embracing drone, repetition, rippling soundscapes and obscure sonic horizons, sailing confidently where many others dare not venture. Shaman music, drum led hypnosis. Kӣr gifts us with a deep tribal mix, at turns dark and disorientating, others beautiful and light. " Digital Tsunami

Link SC : https://soundcloud.com/k6r

Producer @azu-tiwaline works at drawing from her origins to find a new unique sound, taking inspiration from berberian & saharan trance music, as well as the relationship that develops between human beings and nature, through sound.

Catch Azu Tiwaline every 1st Sunday of the month, from 18h to 19h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

Azu Tiwaline invite Kӣr - 05 Juin 2022

This is the 93th Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. The monthly released sessions brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer.This month DJ Tripadvisor is back with another set for Deep Electronics. This time for the Ambient Sessions. Smooth ambient at it's finest with a touch of downbeat music at the end! So enjoy!

About:

His vinyl-only set is recorded in one take-without pre selection and or post production (except some limiting). It's more how it all depends on the daily feel and setting.
They are all like a Film or Theater story, with Build ups and downs.

Sorry no tracklist.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/user-918274141
https://soundcloud.com/mint4000

Photo provided by DJ Tripadvisor
Designh by Jeroen
Logo by Subchord

Follow Deep Electronics / Ambient Sessions:

≥ Facebook DE. : www.facebook.com/DeepElectronicsPodcast/
≥ Facebook AS: www.facebook.com/ambientsessions/
≥ Instagram: www.instagram.com/deep_electronics/
≥ Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/jeroensmulders5/
≥ Soundcloud: @deep_electronic

Ambient Sessions # 93 - Dj Tripadvisor

TRACKLIST:

Mikkel Rev - Revelation In A Chillout Room
Hidden Horse - Transcendência Corpórea no Limite da Cidade
CELL - Auxin
Millia - Mana V
Pablo's Eye - Double Language
nthng - With You
Vardae - Ouverture
ABSIS - Static Trip
Artos Eleven - Sand River
Dashiell - Scratching The Surface
Luis & Lis Dalton - timmy chalamet
Mikkel Rev - Anestesi
Mikkel Rev - So Surreal
Dashiell - Under the Ice
Christian Coiffure - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Yushh Remix)
Sansibar - Aurora Eclipse
ABSIS - In The Way (Bas Dobbelaer & Vand Remix)
Orphic - Half Ten
Uanamani - Punaturi
Luis - or anyone said it
Illuvia - Titicaca (Descent) (Sea of Vapor)

Introspective Electronics w/ Avsluta x Netil Radio | June 22

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)

Astral Industries founder teams up with the one and only Rod Modell from Deepchord to make their debut album using a lot of eastern samples from beautiful Iran, it can't get any better than that. Enjoy.
@astralindustries
@deepchord

Premiere: Mystic AM - 03 The Dervish (AI30)

@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

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

Jonn Serrie - StarMoods

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

The Late Checkout - Episode 2

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

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 🍃