Podcast Series

We are very proud to add another enchanting sonic chapter to our Podcast Series today. Recorded with tender loving care by our dear friend Leoht 🪶

Leoht is a DJ and promoter based in Pilsen, Czech Republic where he runs his his Eclectica parties and is resident at the forward-thinking local venue ᴍōōᴠᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ. His encyclopaedic knowledge of music, patient approach to curation of his mixes and impeccable sound-weaving powers have earned him respect in many diverse corners the local scene 🌝🌚

This mix is a gently flowing current of emotion with powerful thread of the spiritual and the ethnic within the realm of electronic music. Commencing with ambient sounds hinting at the elements of Earth and Water, it patiently evolves into low slung vortexes of airy, then fiery trancey electronica and deep techno before winding back down towards soothing downtempo to conclude ✨

Sounds by @dj-leoht 🥷🏼
Visions by @marcomaldarella 🐉

Podcast Series 36 | Leoht

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

For our latest Podcast chapter, we are proud to welcome one of Czech Republic’s music scene’s most idiosyncratic personas ~ the producer, DJ and promoter ~ Dominik Knap aka Kletis 🌝

Hailing from the north-most part of the country, an area where breathtaking, dramatic nature and the remnants of industrial activity co-exist in harmony, Dominik’s music channels the deep and the melancholic and crosses boundaries between techno, ambient, drone and halftime drum & bass, coloured with influences from early dubstep and sometimes UK garage. He runs his own imprint DOLEC where he releases his own music alongside a select roster of Czech and international artists. His productions have also notably landed on the French label Accents Records and Secuencias Temporales out of Mexico. Apart from making and playing music, Kletis is a zealous event promoter, co-running a local event series Multiversum and the well-respected annual Shotgun Festival ⛰️🐾

Dominik recorded a mesmerising hybrid set for our Podcast Series, just shy of an hour, for you to dive deep into. A heady meddle of original productions, transfigured samples and found music gems, it oscillates between stillness and movement. In this journey, the drone-drenched soundscapes are the common denominator and the soil in which the percussive and tonal ideas germinate and where they grow from into their final forms. A perfect remedy for those long Autumn evenings lit by candle lights 🕯️✨

Sounds by @kletis 🥷🏼
Visions by @marcomaldarella 📿

Podcast Series 38 | Kletis

Our latest Podcast chapter comes in the form of a mesmerising all-vinyl set by the Spanish duo Binomi, interweaving experimental, psychedelic and avant-garde ambient music from across the decades with personal field recordings. Recorded live at the Hangar in Barcelona as part of the 2023 edition of Mostra, it is a dreamy two-hour sound adventure sprinkled thorough with the dusty film of gentle record crackles and pensive undertone. 

"How to translate a friendship of more than 10 years into a mix? After a long coexistence, the pandemic represents a hiatus in our musical relationship. Mostra23 is the perfect excuse and the best stage to resume it. A new sound has emerged in us, complicity, laughter, and goosebumps confirm it. The set configured with 3 turntables and accompanied by field recordings made in Australia and Tasmania form a soundtrack of shared sensations across the distance. Through genres, we define our experiences; new age, drone, experimental or avant-garde music, minimalism, and psychedelia can be its labels. Who knows, we just hope it transports you to places as distant or as close as those it evokes for us. It has been a real pleasure."

Binomi are Jordi Aparicio and Joan Gila, both from Tarragona, Spain. Avid collectors of records, their search for sound brought them together in Barcelona more than a decade ago.

Mix recorded in Hangar during Mostra Festival 2023.

Sounds by @binomi 📿
Visions by @marcomaldarella 🔮
Recorded at @mostrabcn 🌸

ALBUMS & FIELD RECORDINGS:  

Jordi Aparicio - Field Recording frog & water in Australia
Andres Löo - Seto Dub
Les Halles - Invisible cities
Huerco S - For those of who have never
Roland Young - Spontaneous bounce
Telectu - Digital Buiça
Esa Kotilainen - Ajatuslapsi
Iury Lech - Música para el fin de los cantos
Hiroshi Yoshimura - A.I.R (Air in resort)
Finis Africae - Un dia en el parque (2a expedición)
Craig Leon - Visiting
Stockhausen & Jasper Van't Hof - Aqua Sansa
Dog photos - Laughing hands
Akira Ito - Bosatu & Mugen 普薩匕無限
Valley of the sun - Field Guide To Inner Harmony
David Wescott - A musical evocation of the Old Testament
Vangelis Katsoulis - The sleeping beauty
Pauline Oliveros - Deep listening
David Behrman - On the other ocean
Edward Vesala - Afrikan Tähdet
Jordi Aparicio - Field recording cooburra in Australia
David Hopkins - Gaia (An ecological meditation)
Yoshio Olima - Une collection des chansons II: Music for spiral
Zaumne - Élévation
De Cos - Tides / Grass Lore
Game of the clouds - Joker's Nr.10
Vidna Obmana - The transcending quest
Jordi Aparicio - Field Recording Voices in Australia
Byron Westbrook - Distortion Hue
Diamond Harbour - Beyond sound
Crème de Hassan - Technique & Rite
Jordi Aparicio - Field recording birds & rain in Australia
Har hou - Wabi Sabi
Orquesta de las nubes - Manual del usuario
Matthew Sage - Wants a diamond pivot bright
Deux filles - Silence & wisdom 
John Elder - Antartica
Jordi Aparicio - Field recording Tasmania Sea

Podcast Series 39 | Introspective Electronics x Mostra23 • Binomi (Vinyl Set)

We are very happy to be able to bid farewell to this year of Introspective Electronics with a deeply personal podcast recorded by the sonic enchantress and a dear friend ~ Amanita 🕊️

Amanita is a DJ and event ptomoter based between Bologna and Berlin. She co-runs the forward-thinking collective and party series Sinestesie in Bologna and across Italy, bringing off-kilter programming to the somewhat homogenous scene of her home city. Alongside her music work, she often works as a stage designer with the Googy Cult project. For Anita, ambient represents the most spiritual part of her sound and soul. It’s where she finds a safe haven and where she always returns when she needs to heal and find inspiration both in music and in life 🔮

This journey, just shy of an hour, was recorded in Anita’s studio in Berlin on a four deck setup and includes some of her most close-to-the-heart records, some of which have been with her since day one. It is a deeply captivating and emotional piece of ambient storytelling, a fairytale of sorts, that hums and crackles and sparkles. That whispers in your ears ancient tales of forest fairies and magick rituals 🧚🏻‍♂️

Sounds by @amanita_p 📿
Visions by @marcomaldarella 🫧

Podcast Series 40 | Amanita

The first podcast of the year features our dear friend, London-based DJ, and sound artist, Faery. Many of you are likely familiar with her work and may have experienced her enchanting performances at renowned venues like Amsterdam’s De School, Positive Education Festival, or London’s Village Underground. She has crafted an immersive, hour-long winter mix for us, which we are incredibly proud to present 🕯️

Faery’s hypnotic selections blend the psychedelic depths of deep techno, tripped-out psy-influenced sounds, dark vortex-like D’n’B, and experimental ambient. Her sound navigates through intricate sound design and rich, moody textures, both within the club realm and in listening scenarios. One of the notable examples of this is her ambient sound art project Bio-17 released last year, where original biorhythmic samples are woven into experimental ambient to create speculative sonic worlds 🌚✨

Faery’s profound introspective journey takes us through the shadowy realms of crepuscular ambient and downtempo. From the outset, we are lured and caught in its rich honey-like currents, spiralling like dervishes as we dive deep and deeper into the mystical sonic gyre. No words can do the sensation justice, so you’ll just have to try for yourselves. Happy swirling 💫

Sounds by @freyacaldwell
Visions by @marcomaldarella

TRACKLIST:
Beckenbauer - Incantation
Monolake - Prime Declick
David Toop - Ceremony Viewed Through the Slit
The Washing Planck - CAMMINO A
Torimimasataka - Fogl
David Toop & Lawrence English - Reading Bones
Vādin - Calliope
Nam-Khar - Against the Light
Vongoiva - The Fabric of Space and Time: Isa
Adam Winchester _ Antenna
The Khronos Deathcult - The Pandemonic Aeon
Siavash Amini - Lustrous Residue
Marco Shuttle - Endless Vanishing Points
Condensed Utopia - Species
Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci - Amorphic Foothills

Podcast Series 41 | Faery

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

We’re very proud to share this new chapter of our Podcast Series with you today ~ an intricate, immersive and deeply sensitive hour of experimental ambient and electronica recorded by Slowfoam 🪸

Madelyn Byrd aka Slowfoam is a Berlin-based artist working at the intersections of hydrofeminism and neuroaesthetics, an exploration into uncanny interactions between ecology and technology. They are a vital presence within the landscape of modern queer experimentation, utilizing complex digital processing techniques to dream up spellbinding microscopic worlds made up of synthetic sounds and field recordings 🪼

In a tone of their releases, Slowfoam delivers an hour of poised, seductive story-telling embedded in electro-acoustic experimentation and glistening textural ambient, building up into low-slung rhythmical momentum before wrapping up with a heart-warming conclusion 🩵

Sounds by @slowfoam
Visions by @marcomaldarella

TRACKLIST:
Infant - Part and Parcel
Leena Joshi - I Remember
Mondlane - Solstice
Nakayama Munetoshi - reflect
Lucy Railton - Suzy In Spectrum
Rory Salter - Scored Guard
Carme López - IV: CACHELOS. A César de Farbán
Ka Baird - Gate VII
games - 9.0
Bauer + Katharina Schmidt - Pillars
Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet - Ornière
Eden Aurelius - Want 2
qwqwqwqw - The Simulant
Ka Baird - Gate II
helen island - dressed to shine
tibslc - rainy
innerinnerlife - ILYSM

Podcast Series 43 | Slowfoam

For the 44th instalment of our Podcast Series, we are bringing you a spectacular hybrid mix by the Italian DJ and producer Notte Infinita 🌚

Notte Infinita is Giovanni Bonelli, a multi-faceted artist with strong affinity to bass as he explores the physicality of sound through his productions and sets nodding to sound system culture. He  has put out releases on the UK-based labels INDEX:Records and Oscilla Sound, both well known for their fiercely independent approach to genre-hopping hybrid club and experimental curation 🫧

Giovanni recorded a masterfully crafted hybrid mix teeming with his very own ambient-leaning productions paired with carefully chosen music from other likeminded artists. Guitar recordings softly gliding through patches of drones, gentle glitches and guided meditations, all with a common thread of tranquility. This is a mix meant for horizontal listening and journeying with eyes closed, inviting to deep reflection and meditation 🪷

Sounds by @notteinfinita 
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Podcast Series 44 | Notte Infinita

We are incredibly proud to present this new journey in our Podcast Series recorded by one of our favourite artists, the Barcelona-based DJ and producer Savlador Coromina aka ABSIS 💫

ABSIS needs little introduction for anyone closely following the Spanish deep electronic music scene. Salva is a multi-faceted artists with a consistently impeccable output crisscrossing through genres including drone ambient, hypnotic techno, progressive downbeat and intricate atmospheric half-time. For his most recent release, he returned to the local Hivern Discs and has previously put out music via Oslated, Affin, Secuecias Temporales, Crescent London and the HOC Radio affiliated red edge (a label we recommend checking out if you’re not yet familiar) ✨

Nearly two and a half hours long, this recording showcases Salva’s deep sensibility to commanding energy within a mix, holding it back and releasing as he plays with tension and truly tests the frontiers between ambient and dance music. It is a testament to how reframing genres and introducing them in different contexts can completely alter the way in which we perceive them and how a well researched and carefully executed mix can transcend any preconceived ideas about these. This approach is harmoniously aligned with our vision and we couldn’t be more excited for you to embark on this incredible sonic adventure. Buckle up for the ride! 🌀

Sounds by @absismusic
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Podcast Series 45 | ABSIS

This new chapter of our Podcast Series is a live recording of a DJ set from this year’s Bodily Community retreat in Cornwall’s beautiful Kudhva, courtesy of one of the most captivating postmodernists of club and ambient sound ~ Bruce 💫

Bruce is Larry McCarthy, a musician and DJ who has been transcending the frontiers of underground electronic music in its many shapes and forms for well over a decade. One of the major figures of the new generation of UK bass music, Larry is affiliated with the labels at the vanguard of the genre including Hessle Audio, Timedance and Livity Sound yet the expanse of his sonic world stretches out way beyond the scope of these outlets alone. Bruce’s invested interest in boundless artistic experimentation and candid self-expression lead to the release his pop ambient magnum opus “Not Ready For Love” in 2023 and is impeccably presented in this powerful and deeply emotive mix 🔮

This beautiful recording captures the essence of an engaged deep listening experience within the context of conscious retreat meets passionate interest in experimental electro-acoustic music. Challenging and sublime, it is a portal to mindful contemplation of the sound & silence continuum, riding through swells of field recordings, vocal music, raw electro-acoustic experiments and both dark and luminous ambient. It is a journey that unties inhibition and holds space for the vulnerability that comes with that release. Listen without judgement, gently and with curiosity 🤍

Recorded live at @bodilycommunity retreat in July 2024

Sounds by @iambruce 
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Podcast Series 46 | Introspective Electronics x Bodily • Bruce

As we gently slide into Autumn and the days get shorter and evenings cosier, we are excited to share with you the next chapter of our Podcast Series by the Amsterdam-based artists Paduan 🧙🏼‍♂️

Paduan is Patric Kimman, DJ and curator with firmly rooted attraction to the deeper side of electronic music. He is most at home playing musically meandering sets filled with drone textures and subtle melodies, with hints of concrète elements and natural sounds, a sonic direction that persists both in his monthly radio show on London’s Balamii as well as the event series Into the Universes he co-curates back home in Amsterdam 🐚

Patric’s contribution to the Introspective Electronics Podcast Series is a live recording from this year’s Perpendicular festival, an annual gathering of fellow deep music lovers in the beautiful nature of central Spain. This journey takes us on a pensive stargazing adventure across vast ambient planes cloaked with blanket of dark blue sky full of twinkling stars above ✨

Recorded live at @espacio-perpendicular 2024

Sounds by @padduan
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Podcast Series 47 | Paduan @ Perpendicular 24

For the 48th instalment of our podcast series, Introspective Electronics founder Lucie Stepankova aka Avsluta steps in with a live recording of her DJ set at last month’s Ambient Tide, a Brussels-based listening event series run by our dear friend and fellow ambientist Kato De Vidts. We couldn’t imagine a better setting for this set to take place ~ the floor fully covered in rugs and cushions, low hanging lanterns emanating soft warm light, the scent of palo santo drifting through the air and focused audience listening with patience and curiosity 💆🏻‍♀️

Avsluta is a London-based producer, DJ, live performer and event curator navigating the liminal spaces between ambient and dance music. For the past 8 years, Lucie has been deepening her musical knowledge working behind the counter at Phonica Records, catering to London’s ambient and downtempo heads on most Saturdays and making a few good friends along the way. She runs Introspective Electronics as is actually the person writing this text, which does feel a little awkward but it has to be done. Together with her friend Alicia, she runs Terra Obscura, aiming to make clubbing cozy and on ocassion, curates solo or collaborative ambient events as part of Introspective Electronics ✨

Just shy of two hours, this mix weaves a thread of hopeful softness made for moments of deep relaxation and focus. Voices and gentle rhythms ebb and flow atop lush drones, giving way to arpeggiated passages, spoken word and field recordings. Recommended listening at dusk, in a candle-lit space, floating on a pile of cushions and wrapped in fluffy blankets with a mandatory cup of steaming tea 🍵

Recorded live at Ambient Tide in October 2024
https://www.instagram.com/ambient.tide/

Sounds by @avsluta
Visions by @marcomaldarella 

Buy Music Club: buymusic.club/list/introspective-electronics-pocast-series-48-avsluta-ambient-tide


TRACKLIST

air liquide - things happen
Mind Over MIDI - Moon Shadows
A. Brehme - K. Ran And Spoke Foresights From The Forest (Digital Exclusive)
santebela - If time bends (ft Angelina Nonaj)
Kincaid - Scree Slope
CHANTSSSS - lose my
Piezo - p°P°
Box5ive - Sour Kiss
Jacob Dwyer & Sam Purcell - Hetty Brain
human mesh dance - in pools
Ruin - The Dive (D.Tiff Dip)
Mick Chillage - Hyper Sleep
mu tate - spore
Firnis DC - Photo Manipulation
Relaxer - In Softening Air
Mücha - Spectral Interference
Box 5ive - Duty Free
Luke Sanger - Morning Person
Veryan - Part Wild Horses Mane
Zaumne - Tête
CHANTSSSS - (swan)
Farron - WH Respiration
Tecno Shoppe - Ryu & Syusaku
Innerworld - Vibrations
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - Love Without Sound
Box5ive - Rough Sleeper
nthng - Some Clouds Are Destined To Break
nthng - With You
Warmth - Roads

Podcast Series 48 | Avsluta @ Ambient Tide

Camu is next up on our Podcast series with a bewitching recording from last years Springkell gathering. The setting is a dim lit, softly furnished room of a Scottish rural estate with a fireplace gently crackling and whispering into the space. Everyone is quiet, sitting or laying still and diving into the sounds emanating from all four corners of the room, fully immersed in the ritual of communal listening 🐚

Camu is a Spanish born and based artist pulling at the deeper strings of ambient, drone and sound art informed electro-acoustic music. He is the co-founder of Madrid-based event space Especio Perpendicular that he co-runs with local group of fellow deep music enthusiats. Highly recommended for anyone in or visiting Madrid and looking for a night out of the ordinary 🌚✨

Charging headstrong into the cavernous spaces filled with drones, overheard field recordings, sounds hanging in earshot by the faintest thread, this journey is at the same time fragile and powerful. The dynamics flow with intent from barely audible to overwhelming, from fluid to abrasive, no stone left unturned in this microscopic survey of sound and emotion 🕯️

Recorded live at Springkell 2023

Sounds by @javier-camunas
Visions by @marcomaldarella


TRACKLIST

Steve Roden - Garden (''Man Trembles Facing The Universe'')
Vittorio Guindani - Jisei 11
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Shell Of A City
Annea Lockwood - Immersion
AI-36 - Unreleased
Kevin Richard Martin - Hari
Sciama - TL_11
Moritz Von Oswald - Volta (Version)
Sciama - Zero Distance
Clara Brea - A segmented body
Javier Marimon- SEC 2
Krohn/Mjolsness - Rack 2
Felisha Ledesma - Part 4
Menhir x Clara Brea - Perpetual Haste
Biosphere - Rotation
Charlemagne Palestine x Mika Vainio x Eric Thielemans - Untitled 6
steve roden - undulant spores
Barn Owl - The Last Parade

Podcast Series 49 | Camu @ Springkell 23

Marking the 50th installment of our Podcast Series is a contribution from our good friend, the London via Manchester DJ and producer Alex Parkin aka Einerlei 🧙🏼‍♂️

With his original music featured on labels including Norite, On Board Music, Control Freak or Sungate, he is a shapeshifting artist equally comfortable dishing out intricate techno bangers (as we’re sure he’d put it himself) as he is weaving emotive ambient-scapes into long form compositions to soothe the soul. Elements of contemporary UK sound and IDM are strongly present in Alex’ productions ~ with their clubbier iterations leaning towards the deeper realms of techno and his ambient sound permeating a sense of deep feels shrouded in mystery 🧘🏽✨

Einerlei delivers over an hour of soothing ambient and downtempo alive with air of mysticism and deep set intrinsic rhythm. Effortlessly floating effervescent clouds of drones are home to voices and utterances oozing seemingly from within their soft intangible depths, patiently holding space for rhythmical energy to grow and release…until the celestial calm reigns again towards the very end of this sonic journey ☁️

Sounds by @einerleimusic
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Buy Music Club: buymusic.club/list/introspective-electronics-pocast-series-50-einerlei

TRACKLIST

Joachim Spieth - Sparsha (alva noto remodel)
Andy Stott – Leaving
Biosphere – Ancient Campfire
anthéne - Fallen Mountains
Alan Backdrop – Kair
Ago Gazo - Tsi Kodi
Siilt – Open
Einerlei - ??? [Unreleased]
KMRU – Opener
Owl - Cosmic Fields
Einerlei – Honing 10.994
Viv Corringham - June (Havens Beach, NY)
Refracted – Initiation [Forthcoming]
Zemög  – Refracted Tool 
HVL – Collective Genius
Civilistjävel! – IX (ft. Laila Sakini)
Grievance – Intro III (Formant Value Remix)
Expropriation – Kropotkes
Zemög  – Jireta
Boris Divider – GenOp4
Downstairs J – Soft Tissue 
Murcof – All These Worlds Part. II 
Einerlei and CØRE - ??? [Unreleased]
Einerlei - ??? [Unreleased]

Podcast Series 50 | Einerlei

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

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 🌱
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