Podcast Series

Dreamscape

... a Collection of my favourite Ambienz Sets, mostly chillable, with not so many Experimental or Drone Mixes ( as in the Title : "Cafe"-playable..

Ambient chilled deep Cafe vol. vi

Great Sets #18

Deep Techno #11

favorite mixes <3

The latest Portal's episode is an introduction to the atmospheric world of Dum & Bass, mixed by DJ Sin and Curated by Spyros Papatzitzes / God Is No Longer A DJ. For more information on the feature including in-depth track notes see: http://asip.me/portals9

01. Photek – T-Raenon (Op-Art, OP1, 1996)
02. Ulrich Schnauss & ASC – 77 (Auxiliary Music, AUX007, 2012)
03. Akasha ‎– Brown Sugar (PFM’s Cosmic Journey Mix) (Wall Of Sound, WALLT028X, 1997)
04. Bungle – Astral Travel (Soul:r, SOULR060, 2013)
05. Jonny L – Underwater Communication (XL Recordings, XLT74PR2, 1996)
06. Voyager – Apollo (Good Looking Records, GLR027, 1998)
07. Blu Mar Ten – Believe Me (Blu Mar Ten Music, BMT002, 2009)
08. Bop x Synkro – Blurred Memories (Punk’s Not Dead LP, MEDIC41LP, Med School, 2014)
09. Omni Trio – Who Are You? (Aquasky Mix) (Haunted Science LP, Moving Shadow, ASHADOWLP6, 1996)
10. Forme – New Element (Headz 2A, Mo’Wax, 1996)
11. Justice – Aquisse (Pseudo Jazz EP, Basement Records, BRSS54, 1996)
12. Om Unit – Adventures in Eden (Torchlight Vol. 2, Cosmic Bridge, CBR014, 2016)
13. Future Engineers – Exhale (Exhale EP, Transference Recordings, TRF003, 2013)
14. KMC – Space Echo (Partisan Recordings, PART015, 1998)
15. Aural Imbalance – Icefields Of Proxima (Legacy LP, Cadence Recordings, CADLP001, 2012)
16. Seeka – Momento (Modern Urban Jazz 01, Creative Wax, CWLP001, 1997)
17. Intense – The Genesis Project (Earl Grey Remix) (Rugged Vinyl, RUGGED17, 1996)
18. Wax Doctor – Offshore Drift (R&S, RS96103, 1996)
19. Alaska – Jasheri (v2) (Arctic Music, AM009, 2017)
20. Klute – Angel Makers (Read Between The Lines LP, Commercial Suicide, SUICIDELP018, 2017)
21. Boymerang – Soul Beat Runna (Regal, REG14, 1997)
22. Naibu – Opium Lady (Horizons Music, HZN030, 2008)
23. Shogun – Together (Nautilus EP, Renegade Recordings, RR008, 1996)
24. Seba – Dangerous Days (Warm Communications, WARM015, 2009)
25. Eschaton – Callisto (Drum & Space Vol. 2 LP, Omni Music, OMNI016, 2013)
26. dBridge & Instra:mental – Translucent (Sepia Tones EP, Darkestral, DARKESTRAL 004/005, 2009)

ASIP - Portals Episode 9: Atmospheric DnB Vistas

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Portals Episode 9: Atmospheric Drum & Bass Vistas (Mixed by DJ Sin)

A space to fall into again and again. A start that feels like an ending and an end that feels like a beginning. A wistful recollection of our motions, an invitation to share ourselves as we have before. A dawn letter written in a shade between sky and stars, echoing gently and begging to be whispered aloud.

From Sweden's @martinou3000 (Sewer Sender, UntilMyHeartStops, AD 93, Appian, Cong Burn), a perfect cadence. Thank you!

Artwork by Taylor Trostle.

Sure Thing Mix 105: Martinou

Here is the 341th Chapter of the Deep Electronics serie. Released every two weeks the serie brings you a diversity into the abyss of deep electronic music. This time Erik Strauss makes is debut on the channel with a mixture of Trip-hop, Jazz and ambient.

Bio:
DJ/composer from Venice, Italy. Grown with family's funk vinyls, he became a passionate listener of minimal and underground electronic 
music, trying to discover something different. Listening to jazz, trip-hop and ambient, help him to compose new atmospheres for his independent releases. A bunch of trip-hop/jazz/ambient tracks that could easily fill your room during the night. Play it and you will  get some less famous tracks from well-known artists, mixed with new releases from independent ones.

Tracklist:
01.Ana Roxanne - Immortality
02.Ballet Dance - Roni Size
03.Alfa Mist - Run Outs
04.Goldfrapp - Deer Stop
05.Tricky - Grass Roots
06.Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors - Zone Unknown
07.Bonobo - Reach for the Dead
08.Apparat - Goodbye
09.Kid Loco - Venus Alice In Dub
10.Broadcast - Chord Simple
11.David Holmes - Slashers Revenge
12.Hugo Kant - It's An Unknown Jungle
13.JJ Verne - Lonely
14.Erik Strauss - Kiss the Sky
15.Greg Foat - Lament For Lamont
16.Haiku Salut - Wide Awake

Links:
Official Website: https://www.erikstrauss.it
Bandcamp: https://erikstrauss.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud: @erikstrauss
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/55JCiLqZFTURy3cTkTglG8
Mixcloud:https://www.mixcloud.com/Erik_Strauss/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/erikstrauss/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strauss.erik

Artwork created by Jeroen

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Deep Electronics # 341 - Erik Strauss

Stardust For Breakfast  -  improvised set after a late night - far from perfect but i found some interesting combinations.

Stojche /Isolation Dub [Kontakt]
TW /Stardust For Breakfast [Flux White]
Bluetrain / 2 Footed Terrorist [Lempuyang]
Murmur /Tangle [Meanwhile]
Octal Industries /Another Day (GRIT Breathe Dub) [Vertex]
Ohm & El Choop /Ballistic [Ranges]
Grau /Foundation [Freund Der Familie]
Autre & Zinner /Nebula [Metrolux]
TM Shuffle & Monoder /Isolation [Kontakt]
Havantepe /Passing By [Berg Audio]
Thor & Matt Thibideau /Transparent Thoughts [Thule]
Benales /Vault [Ohm Series]
Deepchord /Solar Cross [Deepchord]
Monolake  /Xor [Imbalance Computer Music]
Silent Servant & Kalon /Violencia [Sandwell District]
DD 2 /Infinite [The Final Experiment]
Parallel 9 /Quantico [Prime]
Martinou /Submerged [Nous'Klaer Audio]
Dominik Eulberg /Mimikry [Herzblot]

VR December 2021

Stardust For Breakfast

Dreamscape: A journey into 90's chil rooms and rave culture (1990-2000)

Blog post: https://funkyjeff77.wordpress.com/2022/01/05/dreamscape-a-journey-into-90s-chill-rooms-and-rave-culture-1990-2000/

The break on the Underworld mix epitomizes 90s electronic music: 909 kicking, synths stuttering, keys arpeggiating, guitars playing, and vocals blending seamlessly into the sound. Sure it's only a few seconds, but that sort of summarizes that short period where electronic dance music was a really fresh genre that hadn't really developed set boundaries and where everyone was open to its possibilities. Nearly 30 years later, you can still hear the optimism in the music...

INTRO-test-transmission (1994) 
The Orb - Plateau (1995)
Biosphere - The seal and the hydrophone (1994)
Meat beat manifesto - Set your receivers (1996)
Speedy J - Lanzarote (1995)
Air Liquide - Liquid air (1992)
The Shamen - Scientas- The Irresistible Force Remix (1993)
A positive Life - The calling (ambient mix-1993)
Beaumont Hannant - Woven Textures (1994)
Young Girl Talking About Color While Tripping on LSD
Speedy J - The Oil Zone (1995)
Andy Falconer - Voyager (1993)
Kirk Degiorgio aka As One - Orchilla (1994)
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Universal Solution Mix)
The KLF - What Time Is Love (Rich Lane Cotton Dub)
Mental Cube - Q (Rich Lane Cotton Dub)
Jega - Oak Hanger (1996)
LFO - LFO (Rich Lane Cotton Dub)
Underground Resistance The Theory (1991)
THE ORB - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain (Larkebird Mix)
Drum Club - Sound System (Underworld Mix-(1993))
Moby - Go (Woodtick Mix) [Instinct Records 1991]
Jam & Spoon - Stella ( Jona.B Remix)-original 1992
The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea (Balthazar & JackRock Bootleg) -original 1991
Amorphous Androgynous - Liquid Insects (1993)
BFC aka Carl Craig - Galaxy (1990)
Future Sound Of London- Lifeforms (Rigger's Wanderer Remix)
808 State 'Pacific State' (greg wilson electric chair edit)
FSOL - Papua New Guinea (Egoless remix)
Papua State mashup (Jeff Chill)
Om - Here Comes The Sun (1993)
UR - Kamikaze (1992)
3 phase feat. Dr Motte - Der klang der familie (F.U.S.E. mix-1992)
System 7 - Alpha Wave (Plastikman Acid House Mix)-1995
Vapourspace _ Gravitational Arch Of 10 (1993)
Ege Bam Yasi – Acid Nation - The Birth Of An Acid Nation (1994)
Kenny Larkin - Loop 2 (1996)
Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bopp (1998)
Ege Bam Yasi - Group Of Seven Nations (G7 Mix)-1994
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash (Graffiti On Mars Remix) A [1999]
Choice - Acid Eiffel (1993)
Speedy J _ Ginger (1993)
Leftfield & Lydon - Open Up (Dervish Overdrive)-1993
Mantrax - Scarlet Circus (White R&S-1992)
The Age Of Love (Charlotte de Witte & Enrico Sangiuliano Remix)
Ebi aka Susumu Yokota - Hi (1994)
Orbital vs. Opus III - Halcyon + It's A Fine Day (1991)
ITN ITV News Report on Leeds Rave Summer (1990)
Gus Gus - Anthem (2000)
Future Sound Of London- Room 208 (Rigger's Schmidt Hall Remix)
Aural Sedative- Amba (1997)
Global communication - Ob-selon-mi-nos Grandfather edit Jeff Chill
A conversation with Ricki Lee Jones (Sampled on Little fluffy clouds)
How many languages do you speak? C3PO

Avenue Red listener, obsessive music collector and DJ, the man known as Faestos, has stepped over the line and delivered a special set of musical notes and moody hues for our collective discerning aural considerations. Originating from "Tintin" town, Brussels - capital city of Belgium - Faestos (real name Stephan Hartog) has created an awe-inspiring universe of sound lasting just over 2 hours from big bang to the big crunch. Free your mind, let your imagination float on the waves of this magical soundtrack of deep, dubbed-out techno and ambient sounds. See you later in the foggy haze over on the dancefloor.

"I am glad you opened this gift from me to you! With this mix, I want to take you on a journey through ever-changing environments - from nature to space to urban and back. I mixed a selection of dub techno and deep house tunes which range from deeply meditative and atmospheric to dancefloor-friendly and quite energetic, each representing a different environment. I will leave it up to you to decide which reflects which." Stephan Den Hartog, March 2022

https://soundcloud.com/faestos

Avenue Red Podcast #195 - Faestos

Downtempo set with @twodotz for the Noise.Fest Aftershow, at Zoro, Leipzig 

TRACKLIST:
Stagnant - Tzafu 
SPCTRL - LaTech
Hiraeth (Damon Jee Remix) - Sid Le Rock
Heat Flash The Hacker Remix - BlackLight Smoke 
Limbus (Tim Taste Remix) - Munkler, Osiris4
Can't See Carbon Remix - Breger
Explorer (mexCalito Remix) - Bendsten
She Said - Twisted Circuit
Club to Club - Carbon
Mmyylo - Ciborgia
Tranquilizer ( Christian Cracker Remix) - Olivier Huntemann
Secret of Cuvr - Feri + Atakan Girisgen
Sin - Rem Siman
Talk 2 Me - Billy Kenny
Call Me Daddy - Mila Dietrich

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Steiner b2b Two Dots @ Zoro - Dark Downtempo

https://www.nts.live/shows/adam-oko/episodes/adam-oko-5th-june-2022

Adam Oko w/ Dazion 050622

RØDHÅD RECORDED AT 909 FESTIVAL 2022
Saturday 28 May 2022 ▪ Amsterdamse Bos

THE STORY BEHIND 909 FESTIVAL
Ever since day one 909 Festival has gone above and beyond to put together a well-balanced musical program. Playing a major part since the early beginnings have been three simple basics; celebrating the pioneers, inviting fresh quality artists and supporting the locals.

COOK UP YOUR 909 RHYTHM
The festival pays homage to the iconic Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer that came to define house and techno music as we know it today. We created an online version of the TR-909 drum machine, making it available for everyone with an internet connection on both mobile and desktop.

Try it for free yourself at www.909.nl/drumcomputer

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www.instagram.com/909_festival
www.youtube.com/909festivalamsterdam

RØDHÅD ▪ recorded at 909 Festival 2022

Welcome to Episode 171 on Poisonoise Music with this set coming in from Australian based artist Ian Morrison aka Morian.
Ian's work was unknown to me prior to him sending me over his mix, but a further look into his page and profile has uncovered some 
really nice deep and hypnotic music (his link is below so make sure you check this out)
This set sees Morian in fine form again, featuring a lovely balanced blend of ambient and deep hypnotic passages.

Tracklist : 
Alphaxone & ProtoU / Future Underground / Cryo Chamber
Christian Scalas / Non si puo tornare indietro / Wilddrone Music
Infinity / Awake (NFEREE Rework) / Pyramid Blood
Vortic / Mystery Snail (Farazrdeck Space Transmission Remix) / Secuencias Temporalaes
Worg / Sulphur et Mecurius / Circular Limited
Launaea / Amida (Blomkraft Edit) / Oslated
Valentino Mora / Resist Fixity / Dement3d
Octo Aeterna / Abstra / Danza Nativa
Ver / Artic / Sephora Recordings
Feral / Vishnu / Hypnus	
Faestos	/ Interstellar Drift / Insectorama
Martin Goodwin / Cargo Spacecraft / Stellar Transitions 									
Mechanist / Leylines / 	Silent Season
Artefakt & Claudio PRC / Distant Light / Delsin Records

Bio :
"My musical foundations are rooted in AC/DC, Sabbath and Metallica and give rise to a love of 4/4 rhythm and the riff. From here they veered into where worlds collide – Pink Floyd met the Orb in a student dive and a love of electronica was born, encompassing pioneers such as Orbital, Leftfield et al through to UK D&B, taking in Kruder & Dorfmeister and the dub scene along the way.
The love affair however ended in the early nineties, I wasn’t feeling anything from electronica any more, but I knew the music I could hear in my mind must be out there - somewhere. My musical imaginations seemed to put all of the above aspects in place and was only discovered pre pandemic in the form of deep techno. This discovery so rekindled my love and excitement that I took the plunge into DJing - I wanted to take the music internally heard and create mixes to ease back to and soothe the soul. Voila. I hope you all get the same level of enjoyment from this mix, as I had creating it." - Morian.

Link :
https://soundcloud.com/user-401093353

Poisonoise Music - Guest Mix - EPISODE 171 - MORIAN

Ever extending boundaries. Working through pain and passion, the insecurities and moments of solitude.Those moments of success on the other side as you glance around. Yes, this is where you want to be.

Tracklist:

Sơn FM - Schiller
Thomas Ragsdale & Richard Arnold - Salvay
Chris Child & Micah Frank - SomSum
Daniel Thorne - Under Waves, Ascending
Liminka - Forgive
J. Albert - three
Awe Kid - Planar
DJ Trystero - 引き金
Tribu Oro - First Bass Blooming
Brainwaltzera - ITSAME [group hugg]

mixed and compiled by Hue | @huedj
May 2022

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Sundays are for... [May/22]

Glaswegian label Invisible, Inc. has a double bill for this month's Outsiders show - First hour is Eva Geist, also known as ½ of Il Quadro di Troisi, followed by Rew playing a special mix in honour of today’s solstice 🔆

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Outsiders: Invisible, Inc. w/ Eva Geist & Rew @ Kiosk Radio 21.06.2022

Saphileaum is back at Mutant Radio with relaxing tribal grooves

Saphileaum [17.06.2022]

Recorded by @doctrinanatura for ÆNIGMA
https://www.facebook.com/doctrinanatura

Artwork by Bohdan Diev

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ÆIV - Doctrina Natura

Friends of Hannes is a German DJ and producer duo based in Munich and Berlin. Their music is inspired by different elements of techno, house and downtempo, resulting in an impulsive vibe with driving baselines, natural percussion and psychedelic rhythms. Friends of Hannes released their first EP "Cosmic Waves" in 2020, which was followed by different productions released on labels such as Kosa Records, Emerald & Doreen Records, Sujet Muisque and Magician on Duty. Peter & Max met during their studies in Munich and share the same love for electronic music. Now at their mid-twenties, they started their journey exploring progressive new melodies, fantasies of floating thumping basses, notes dancing through the nights. DeepSpace.

https://www.facebook.com/friendsofhannes/about/?ref=page_internal
https://soundcloud.com/friendsofhannes
https://www.instagram.com/friendsofhannes/

Mischpauke #79 - Friends of Hannes

Our podcast series continues, this month’s story is told by Adhémar. 

Having grown up in the French countryside, Clément is a multi-disciplinary artist, establishing his universe through music and visual works.
With a particular rigor for transitions, whether in his own production or in his DJ set, his universe is built little by little, with the passing of sound transformations and the light and poetic transportation of it all. Today’s experience is a voyage into Adhémar’s world, a world where music talks. 

‘’ Music is very important, it is the art form that spreads the most: everyone listens to music. So inevitably the music feeds on difficult moments it helps people to escape or to cope with reality ’’

We hope you'll enjoy the ride by @adhemarmusic.

Tracklist:

١. Kletis - Maffei [Secuencias Temporales]
٢. AXOON - Oktant der Sphäre [Indefinite Pitch]
٣. Noah Lyas - To Disappear (Adhémar interpretation) [Unreleased]
٤. Emika Elena - Stella [Melifera Records]
٥. Deepbass & Ness - Les Planes [Dynamic Reflection]
٦. Laima Adelaide - Circe [Melifera Records]
٧. Nils Edte - Adamanti (Adhémar interpretation) [Unreleased]
٨. ABSIS - In The Way (Bas Dobbelaer & Vand Remix) [Oslated]
٩. Octo Åeterna - Opath [Danza Nativa]
١٠. Rambadu - Aves [012]
١١. Vanta - Equilibrium [Deflection Music]
١٢. SAAM. - Artefact [Lett Records]
١٣. Forest On Stasys - Alumen [012]
١٤. Nils Edte - Cumaru (Laura BCR Remix) [Secuencias Temporales] 

Wishing you a wonderful weekend,
Canaanite Records

fragment25: Adhémar

CELLAR DOOR // PODCAST #75

For this week, Cellar Door invite the French Artist, Clarence Rise. 

Beautifully floating deep techno mix that takes the listeners’ attention from the beginning and directing  them through skilfullly narrated story. Tribalism and hypnotism cary the weight while a light psychedelia tickles both body and mind.

TRACKLIST: 
Soon in a post on our IG

ARTIST’S BIO: 
We have already read that his music was dark and cold. She is also beautiful and subtle. Over the years, the french producer Clarence Rise has developed a strong musical identity, always gaining in intensity and singularity, where sharp techno meets icy atmospheres of coldwave.
Author of multiple EP on various labels (Bella Ursa Records, Chez KitoKat Records, DNC Limited, or his own label: Freestate Records), this DJ and Live musician make his shows into real trips, as dynamic as introspective. And his inspiration follows the same path: the self-introspection and the return to nature. The forest is its incubator of ideas, far from the noise of civilization.

ARTIST’S SOCIALS: 
FB: https://www.facebook.com/ClarenceRise
IG: https://instagram.com/clarencerise?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
SC: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/24xA7JBxD1hrgWtV6

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Artwork: Marek BARTUNEK

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#76-CLARENCE RISE

In the next hour you will creep through the muddy environment together with the master of the swamp - Rambadu.

Harmony Rec. podcast | Rambadu

We are so honoured to share with you this wildly imaginative and deeply progressive mix by the one and only Miro sundayMusiq. What can we say, this one was a long time coming. The story has it that Introspective Electronics in part owe its inception to this very man. He was kind enough to give our ambient CEO Avsluta the now established monthly Thursday afternoon slot on Netil Radio which he diligently runs for the past five years 🍃

Miro is, first and foremost, a truly dedicated music head and an avid record collector. His passion for music and for building a fair, healthy and conscious community around it is obvious to anyone who have ever met him and it is something that we have always admired 💛

In his signature pacifist style, Miro delivers an hour of mysterious ambient, sensual downtempo and progressive chuggers the way only he can in a trip that effortlessly moves from smoked out, tribal atmospheric plateaus into the sub 100bpm waves of rhythmic hypnotism 🐍

Sounds by @sundaymusiq 
Visions by @marcomaldarella

TRACKLIST: 

Jeph Vanger - Requiem for Clouds 
Tagliabue - Persuasione 
Sabla - Safe Journey 
Polygonia - Dreaming Trees 
Idee Du Femelle - Come Back to Bali 
Human Space Machine - Mind Expander 
Khun Fluff - Dāw 
Maara - Dungeon Babez 
Overlords Of The UFO - Imagine! - Deeply Hypnotic Mix 
a.b.u.303  - Habibi 
Krokakai - Afterburn 
Machart - Noma - A Strange Wedding Remix

Podcast Series 26 | Miro sundayMusiq

Donato Dozzy at The Labyrinth 2014.

Venue: Naeba Greenland, Gunma, Japan.

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To celebrate 20 years of building Labyrinths, we have decided to release one set from each of the last ten years. I've chosen ten timeless moments that both document the history of the event and provide a historical snapshot of underground electronic music over the past ten years.

We have chosen a broad range--from closing techno sets, to morning ambient sets, to experimental sets to close the night. Each set represents a different side of the event. Taken together, they present a portrait of a decade of music.

The Labyrinthの20周年を記念して、過去10年間を振り返り、それぞれの年からひとつのミックスをピックアップすることにしました。イベントの歴史を記録すると同時に、過去10年間のアンダーグラウンドエレクトロニックミュージックの歴史的なスナップショットを提供します。今聞いても色褪せない、タイムレスな極上のミックスをお楽しみください。

テクノのクロージングセットから、朝のアンビエントセット、そして夜を締めくくるエクスペリメンタルセットまで幅広いセレクトですが、どのセットもThe Labyrinthの欠かせない側面を表しており、ここ10年におけるエレクトロニック ミュージックの全容とも言えるでしょう。

The Labyrinth 2014 - Donato Dozzy (closing set)

An encounter with a wayward dragonfly formed the memory upon which London’s Amphybian (fka Harry) stitches this exploration of flight and form. Reliving the scene in its microscopic splendor, we find ourselves wandering along the living, breathing riverbed, set free amidst the realm of the naiad. Our ears attuned, we hear a divine flutter, discern the whisper of a living dream.

@amphybian

Artwork by Taylor Trostle.

Sure Thing Mix 117: Amphybian

DJ Nobu Closing set at Paral·lel Festival 2022 in Port del Comte, Spain.

Paral·lel Festival 2022

DJ Nobu @ Paral·lel 2022

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

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 day after

Monochrome presents, Hiver : Porunñ(Dj Set), Monochrome.

SC : https://soundcloud.com/porunn

This winter, Monochrome is offering each week to one or several artists to discover their influences and inspirations through a forty-five minute to two hour recording. These thirteen recordings will focus on Ambient, IDM and Dub-Techno.

Tracklist :

01. Brother Blue - Summoning UFO’s
02. Viktor Udvari - Two Souls Trapped Into Their Body
03. Bandshell - Dust March
04. Azar Swan - Shock
05. Feral - Sonar
06. Svarog - The Way To
07. Heilung - Galgaldr
08. Ntogn - Draki
09. Vatican Shadow - Enter Paradise
10. Doctrina Natura - Rite Of Passage
11. Dadub - Refraction
12. Weird Weather - Paint
13. Eversines - AG4TJ
14. Korridor - Dyson Sphere
15. Docetism - Almindingen I

Monochrome presents, 𝖍𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖗 : Porunñ.

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 🍃