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A recent unplanned show in Bejing was a rare chance for me to share what I call my 'love songs' - beautiful, emotive records, most of which have been with me for a long time. I've only DJ'd this way a few times, and this is the first time I've got the recording. While many of the tracks have beats, I tried playing them in an ambient way, gentle and simple. Music from: Function, NWAQ, Larry Heard, Plastikman, old Kompakt and Dial-related, a few recent selections + more. Thanks to Lyu Zhiqiang (@mohemann) for making it happen. I sincerely appreciate the people who follow and listen to my sets, I am happy to share this with you.

Love songs in Beijing

Our latest Podcast Series chapter comes courtesy of the Melbourne-based musician and label head ~ other joe 🤍

We discovered Joe’s work through the “.jpeg Bushfire Relief” charity compilation released on his inimitable .jpeg Artefacts label back in 2020 and never looked back. The release, as well as the general label curation, exudes uninhibited talent and diversity and this is true for Joe’s own productions too. His blend of jazzy acoustic passages with hazy, oozing electronics, spoken word and field recordings make for incredibly immersive and emotional listening experiences 🫧

Joe’s introspective mix is taking us on a voyage through all his various influences by bringing together electro-acoustic downtempo experiments, jazzed-up electronica and tingly, softly bubbling glitch ambient. All with a sprinkle of gentle euphoria, tender melancholy and just pure bliss ✨

Sounds by @josephbuchan 🔮
Visions by @marcomaldarella 🪅

Podcast Series 37 | other joe

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

Live recording of Crust's DJ Set at the Good Morning Tapes x High Note party on 24/01/25 in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. @crustext

Crust - Good Morning Tapes x High Note DJ SET

BRAIN WAVES #3 – Philipp Otterbach Recorded 12.03.2025)

For this edition of BRAIN WAVES, we welcomed Berlin-based artist Philipp Otterbach to Resør Listening Room. A key figure in Salon des Amateurs, with releases on Offen Music, Music From Memory, RIO and more, he delivered a deep and immersive journey.


@philipp-otterbach
@resorelectronics

BRAIN WAVES 003.2 Philipp Otterbach

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

Wake & bake with NWAQ fm(also for evenings) [09.04.25]

Welcome to episode #109 - Oisatsana

Oisatsana is the artistic name of sound designer and producer Tasio Rey.
Avid music collector and listener, Tasio defines himself as a “sound explorer”. Also running his new record label Non-transparent, Tasio spends most of his time sparking his musical curiosity through many sound experiments, blending ambient, electroacoustic music, field
recordings, and whatever comes in between.

Enjoy!

Tracklist
1. @attekantonen - hey,
2. Olli Aarni - Kimalle
3. @chiheihatakeyama - Grace
4. @yolabmi
5. Sadnoise - blown glass
6. @kiiberborea - ECOLOGY141_KII.02.03
7. @napsounds - treading
8. Nikita Bugaev - Untitled
9. dan/i derks - into / out
10. @arovane-1 - Feather Wings
11. @c - int.3
12. @richard-chartier - Archival1992
13. 0 / R - varied_06:48
14. Oisatsana - Assimilation
15. @madsemilnielsen - 1
16. @giuseppeielasi - 04
17. Katharina Schmidt - february. all-night donut shop
18. Arg - Classer l’enfance / La vie qui dort
19. @frankbretschneiderofficial - Night Broadcast
20. @taylordeupree - Canoe
21. PARSA - hehehe
22. @hakobuneofficial - Egret Flight
23. @jefre-cantu-ledesma - Blood Variations II
24. @hideki-umezawa - Structures of Liquidity
25. Thom Kubli - Virilio-Cubes Soundtrack
26. @philmaguire - terms, Un
27. @gssultan - Crepuscule M.
28. uon - Bus
29. Curd Duca - Pop
30. Porcje Roso owe - Serpentinus Fascia
31. Sadnoise - fuzzy socks
32. Automatisme - Ultra-Scape 3
33. @pjusk & @chiheihatakeyama - Tussmørke
34. @hesitation - Mantra
35. Oisatsana - Stations

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/oisatsana
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tatzio/

Non-transparent
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/non-transparent
Bandcamp: https://non-transparent.bandcamp.com/music?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAafHi7I-5Td3TAhUfnze5UAm2HHZcoxQbLOnlxLsm8Q3u8R6AJrTz7MSVSnvmA_aem_uCvzYV_-vcT3ecWlhV1upg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/non_transparentlabel/

E.M.C. atmospheres #109 - Oisatsana

Valentina Magaletti: 10th May '25

Guest mix for sferic's Kiosk Radio show. Mostly recent releases and used CD grabs. 

Kiosk Radio: Outsiders - sferic guest mix 5/28

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

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