Love the tones, textures and atmosphere captured in the mix, creative and highly enjoyable!

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ambient set@Knock Space_20201020

We start the year with a new scene. 

For the first fragment of the year, I want to share with you an immersive journey by Formant Value.

Living in London with Italian origins, Lorenzo’s music offers a wide range of sounds. Today’s profound experience is an invitation into an authentic and richly textured world.

‘’ Even if nature plays an important role in my creativity, also a different environment can be inspiring. London inspires me but in a different way, pushing me out of my comfort zone, experimenting with new genres and sounds. When I do music, I have the need to tell something, but it’s an unconscious process.  Other times it’s just from a rational process, coming from working and experimenting with new things. ‘’

We hope you'll enjoy the ride by @formant-value.

Tracklist:

١. Unreleased
٢. XYR - Middle of Nowhere
٣. Xll feat Sabina Kaufman - Senza Gamba Danza
٤. Unreleased
٥. Illuvia - Aura
٦. Cliff Martinez - Wrong Floor
٧. Warmth - The Infinite
٨. Martin Nonstatic - Vertical View
٩. Valotihkuu - Dusk 

Wishing you a wonderful week,
Canaanite Records

fragment21A: Formant Value

A man who needs little introduction in pure record loving circles, Norio Sato is the force behind Rare Groove record store in Osaka. Norio's dedication to music of almost all genres is deep and methodically insightful, his mixes have been inspiring references to us at Sound Metaphors for a while now, so to be able to share this one is a proper delicacy for us. 

In his words: "This time, I made a mix of my friend's tracks from Japan (Boogie, house and Nu disco ... etc) and a little bit of 90's and 2000's Japanese obscure breakbeats tracks.
I hope you like it."

On top of that, his generosity has gone as far as offering us a detailed track list and short description for each track with links to find the record...proper record store owner academic approach to sharing music - big thanks to Norio for this one <3 <3 <3

1.Longing Time inst. - MASASHI (2021)*He is a student of the popular music department of Osaka University of Arts. He liked City Pop and used to go to my store. Not released on his original track.This is vo.ver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kTrCS0k6M

2.Transistor Lover (XL Middleton Remix) - Milk Talk (2022) American guy and Japanese female vo.duo in Japan https://www.discogs.com/ja/master/2661764-Milk-Talk-Transistor-Lover

3.2 Dimentional Pagoda (Indopepsychics Remix) - Water Melon (1999) Japanese dub! also known as Water Melon Group. https://www.discogs.com/ja/release/179450-Water-Melon-Ruta-De-Evacuacion

4.海 Weed / Umi, Weed - 7FO (2022) Osaka-based producer.https://www.discogs.com/ja/release/23258726-7Fo-%E8%98%AD-%E8%8C%AB%E5%A4%A9-Ran-Bouten

5.Kakerahanabi - Takuwan (2002) Unknown Japanese producer. pick uped Japanese break beats compilation.https://raregroove.jp/products/v-a-breath-of-chain-e-p

6.Sky Island - Coastlines (2022) Japanese house producer duo https://www.discogs.com/ja/release/23173277-Coastlines-Coastlines-2

7.Cosmic Sea - 感応式 (KANNOUSHIKI) (2022) private press Psychedelic disco dub in Numazu city,Shizuoka https://raregroove.jp/products/kannoushiki-cosmic-sea

8.Knave - Shu Suzuki(2019) Japanese boogie producer in Nara. his unreleased track https://soundcloud.com/shu-suzuki-137033991

9.Hologrammatic Waveforms - Anton Vegel(2022) house producer in Nagoya city https://www.discogs.com/ja/release/21649702-Various-Various-III

10.waterskipps (Eden Burns Remix) - Mayurashka (2022) house producer in Tokyo https://www.discogs.com/ja/release/22017598-Mayurashka-waterskipps

11.SPECIAL DANCE FLOOR MIX -Feat. WATER a.k.a. マリヲ - Hankyovain (2022) house producer in Osaka private press https://raregroove.jp/products/hankyovain

Listen carefully!

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 10 : Norio Sato

Conscious Listening' is a podcast series by Pregnant Void record label that explores soundscapes born from the connection between deep ethereal music and the most advanced electronic musical experiments. 

This month's Podcast chapter comes from Roman Ćinske, cultural event creator based in Berlin and creative director of Aerial Palettes. The title of the mix is called 'Dawn Reveries' and the concept circles around finding the beauty in the repetition of morning rituals. It's an immersive depth and understated allure performance of patterns that occur so often they become automated enough to hold the listener rapt in a state of daydreamed reality.

@bytheinch

Tracklist:
Glåsbird - Trēla
Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Denn_Repp
The Abyss Within Us - Life in a Circle Part I
Biosphere - Laika
Simon Scott - Holme Fen Posts III
Hollie Kenniff - Salient 
Sofie Birch + Antonina Nowacka - The Morning Room I
Ross Gentry - A Shallow Decade
Jordan de la Sierra - Music for Gymnastics
DJ Gigola - Outro

Conscious Listening Mix Series - 11 - Roman Ćinske

For this month’s chapter of our Podcast Series, we are incredibly proud to welcome Fhionbarra. Barry is a London-based DJ who has been turning heads with his commendably curated and finely executed sets across the city’s experimental ambient & dance music undergrowth and beyond ✨

A real tour-de-force of concept-driven DJing, this is a live recording of Fhionbarra’s mesmerising set from a recent Hardcore Chillout event where the loose concept of the evening was based on ‘Apparent Motion’ – that is, the perceptual illusion in cinema where still frames of film, viewed in quick succession, give the appearance of motion 🎞️

The mix is an interpretation of this concept with the first section taking a scene-setting, atmospheric tone alongside some narrative elements. This is followed by a middle section where time appears stretched or distorted – a reference to the space in between frames where our senses play tricks on us. The final section (or ‘third act’) returns to more overtly narrative territory, finishing with a cinematic flourish 📽️

Sounds by @fhionnbarra 💫
Recorded live at @hardcore-chillout 🌚
Visions by @marcomaldarella 🪲


TRACKLIST:
Jan Jelinek - John Cage, I’ve been told to ask you the following question: Where are you going?
Martyna Basta - Podszepnik I
Zaumne - Voyageur
Romeo Poirier - Muscle de Sable (Jan Jelinek Remix)
Andrew Pekler - Roses (on piano)
Feloneezy - Celia
Romeo Poirier - Negative Feedback
Slowfoam - Amalthea
Traumesser - Sharp Bladed Objects
Ben Bondy - Glans Intercum
Motion Ward - Letting Go
Igor Dyachenko - timeStretch
Nick Malkin - Moving Platform
datasette - Umbrella Partita (Live at Cafe OTO)
Traumesser - Swans
Zaumne - Praire (feat. Patrick Shiroishi)
Ex Ponto - In A Quarry…Far, Far Away
Temple Rat - The Garden of Earthly Delights
Rahel Kraft - No Category
Daniel Bjarnason - The Tree
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch - Persephone
Justin Wright - Harmonic Loops (Playground Swings)

Podcast Series 42 | Fhionbarra @ Hardcore Chillout • Apparent Motion

For the second installment in our Standards & Practices @stanprac Mix Series, we welcome label cofounder Ken Meier @ken-meier with an hour of contemporary techno and electro.

Tracklist:
STAVE Grain (Gegen, 2021)
INSTRA:MENTAL Hanger (Exit, 2024)
MINIMAL MAN Coyote Flux (Hand Shake) (Kudos, 1995)
NEILA Kevin Klein (Stanislav Tolkachev Remix) (New Rhythmic, 2019)
QUELZA Ellipsis (Mord, 2023)
ATOM TM Spannung (Raster, 2023)
GEZA DIA006 (Avian, 2021)
OLGA+JOZEF Untitled (Olga+Jozef, 2000)
QUELZA Levis (Illegal Alien, 2022)
BRENECKI Stentorian Echoes (Earwiggle, 2019)
DIETRICH SCHOENEMANN & CASEY HOGAN Untitled (Stamp Series, 2004)
BRENECKI Motivate Me (Natural Sciences, 2018)
GOM 9852.gs (Hard Mix) (Vmax, 1999)
CARI LEKEBUSCH Live and Direct (Take 2) (Hybrid, 1995)
CH-SIGNAL LABORATORIES Scale 2 (Sandwell District, 2007)
PORTER BROOK Final Call (Trule, 2023)
LEWIS FAUTZI Basic Solutions (Faut Section, 2023)
QUELZA He Didn't Say a Word (Mord, 2023)
NORBAK Gare (Hayes, 2023)
KLINT Melodrama (Planet Rhythm, 2024)
DRIVEN BY ATTRACTION Again & Again (Klaxon, 2023)
JONAS KOPP LIM8H (Tremsix, 2023)
METAPATTERN Elephant Safari (Malor, 2023)
SURGEON Stringent (Dynamic Tension, 2000)
DEREK PLASLAIKO In the Clouds (The Bunker New York, 2023)
TEMUDO Da Papps (Mix 2) (Hayes, 2024)
DJ MILTON Beat it Up (Dance Mania, 1995)
XOX CREW 606 Outburst (Logistic, 2005)
ALTER EGO Cryonics (Alter Ego Elektrafixion Mix) (Harthouse, 1996)

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Standards & Practices Mix Series — Ken Meier

Tonal Fiction guests Matthew Patterson Curry and Michael Brunner deliver some abstract beats in 120 minutes or less.

https://www.instagram.com/4our4
https://www.instagram.com/matthewpattersoncurry

@four4 @safetyscissors

Tonal Fiction with Matthew Patterson Curry and Michael Brunner @ The Lot Radio 11-07-2024

Hosted by @brad_alloc_604 on www.radioraheem.it/shows/biocybernetics/.

Biocybernetics .:. 20 w/ brad alloc

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

heyy guys i havent been posting lately bc ive had no time to make smth crazy/impressive due to work/school/life. So i wont have any time to make a yk a tryhard edit or just sm like that so due to these circumstances ive decided that im going to be posting a lot more simpler audios and audios that are mostly for me bc ngl i dont listen to a single audio i post and yk its time i start making sm stuff that i like. ty guys for listening to my stuff in the past i really appreciate all the love you guys have given me but my life has changed now and its about time i rearrange my priorities ill try my best to post constantly simple edits but again ty guys. also another thing i learned and want to say is that revenge is a mirror that reflects nothing but your own pain. At first, it feels sharp—focused. You believe it will restore something that was taken, return balance, make the hurt make sense. But the more you feed it, the more it drains you. It doesn’t heal the wound—it keeps it open. You begin to live in response, not intention, shaped by what was done to you rather than who you are. And when it’s over, when the moment passes, you realize nothing changed. They’re untouched. Only you remain in the aftermath, still carrying what you thought you were giving away. Revenge doesn’t free you—it traps you in the very thing you wanted to escape. i had to learn this the hard way dont make the same mistake as me

'You Have No Enemies." Thorfinn x On Possession ( READ DESCRIPTION )

cherry blossom

A mix by Carsten Jost (https://soundcloud.com/david_lieske, https://soundcloud.com/dial-rec) recorded on the occasion of the exhibition "A Field Without Boundaries" at Shimmer Rotterdam and the launch of Harm van den den Dorpel's new archive and portfolio website.

For more info see 
http://shimmershimmer.org/chapter-2-a-field-without-boundaries-by-harm-van-den-dorpel
https://harm.work/news/brand-new-website

Matthew Herbert - Day Seven
Maxx Bass - Untitled
Fred P - Substance 3
Fred P - Substance 4
Dorisburg - Tecken II
Dorisburg - Om Oceanen 
Jamida - Reminiscence 
Sylve- Artemis in Forest
Human Space Machine - Danz7
Roger Gerressen - Holding Thoughts Dub
Fred P - Dark Room
Berend & Jeroen - Zawichords
Motion Process - Here to Grow 
45 ACP - Graveyard Shift

Casten Jost: A Field Without Boundaries

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 🍃

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