Radio Alhara mix. 21.05.2025

This mix explores the intersection of traditional music from the Iberian Peninsula with experimental sounds, putting together field recordings from the 1950s documenting traditional songs with vinyl, tapes and digital files from my archive featuring both explorations of this heritage and more abstract, noise and industrial tracks.

Playlist:
1. Polonio, Altaba, Cervera, Tres - Los finales de la falaise (1980)
2. Salve de San Antonio - Monteagudo, (Alan Lomax Archive,1952)
3. It - 1º (1976)
4. Demonstration of Chiflo and Salterio - Alfonso Villacampa, Yebra de Basa (Alan Lomax Archive, 1952)
5. Avant-Dernieres Pensees - Autistes (1986)
6. Eliezer S. Abinoun - Dizme un sí (Sephardic Sarajevo Song, 1968)
7. Avant-Dernieres Pensees - KdF (1986)
8. Antonio Murga - Cámara de Tortura Contemporánea (2023)
9. Txema Gonzalez - El miedo (2015)
10. Lula Romero - MTRAK (2019)
11. Toque de gaita serrana - Arrabel, David, Rosa, (El Caserón, 2011)
12. Field Recording of “Levante” Wind in Tarifa, Cádiz, by dobroide (2009)
13. Saeta - Field Recording (Alan Lomax Archive)
14. Pataores de Bormujo - Field Recording (Alan Lomax Archive)
15. Txema Gonzales - Agalma II (2023)
16. Altaba, Cervera, Perucho, Nico, Sole - La Mata (1979)
17. Field Recording El Pozo del Tío Raimundo - Sono Mayrit (2023)
18- Field Recording La Caleta - Cádiz by soundandmelodies (2025)
19. Niña de Linares - No Me des más penas (192?)
20. Carme López - IV- CACHELOS. A César de Farbán (2024)
21. Aguejtas - Si to el mundo se arrima (1991)
22. Xeerox - B1 (1979 - 1981)
23. C-307 - K-04 (1986)

sono mayrit - aguaespejo: Salterio Noise, Radio Alhara, 21.05.25

"As the afternoon light melts through the trees, sound takes its time — unhurried, organic, quietly shifting. Downtempo rhythms pulse beneath layers of texture, carrying the warmth of the forest and the promise of slow, delicate transformation."

Darris Hopper (@darris-hopper) is synonymous with highly emotional electronic music, direct to the place where the deepest dreams and mental relaxations are undergone. Music glide free over an experimental dialogue, oblivious to modes and fashions, giving rise to an adventure that flees from the darkness and the day to day to immerse us in that long-awaited ideal moment in which to meditate, open the windows inwards, enlightening the interior self and enjoy. State-of-the-art technology, live manipulation, and from the privacy of the studio, at the service of sensations and playful evasion as a first human need in clearly elusive times for lyrical expression.

Recorded djset at Perpendicular 2025 (@espacio-perpendicular) - somewhere in the woods. When? Friday 19:00 Where? In the main stage.

Artwork: Javier Marimon - Off Tangent

HOCast 251 - Darris Hopper - Perpendicular 2025

#39
- Summer Shade -
by Rhucle @rhucle

I put together this selection focusing on works by artists I’ve been listening to a lot recently, artists I’ve been collaborating with on new tracks, and my own releases from this year.

最近よく聞いているアーティストの作品と、コラボレーションでトラックを作っているアーティストの作品、私が今年リリースした作品を中心にセレクトしました。

- tracklists -
1.	So Far / David Cordero & Rhucle
2.	morning mist / Go Outside X Memories of the Forgotten
3.	only nature provides / Kilometre Club
4.	Saturday Morning feat. marine eyes / Rhucle
5.	inter / Hatsü, consule & Be Still the Earth
6.	Longing / Rhucle & Hatsü
7.	we are now / Ian Hawgood
8.	Airship feat. Arbee / Rhucle
9.	skyline / Peter Bark
10.	reverie / Norvik
11.	Thoughts Middle In Rain / City Of Dawn & Rhucle
12.	鶯音を入る / Hirotaka Shirotsubaki & Gallery Six
13.	10-21 (In Memory of A Friendship) with LUCHS / Alaskan Tapes
14.	Incertidumbre / David Cordero
15.	Glitter Symbol (Remix) / Rhucle
16.	Memories / Async Ross
17.	No Wind / Rhucle
18.	Ennita's Lullaby / Å Asher-Yates
19.	Riverbed / Anthéne

- Selector -
Rhucle @rhucle

Rhucle is a Japanese artist based in Tokyo who began his activities in 2013. Since then, he has released over 80 works, including solo and collaborative albums, on labels from around the world.

He also runs his own private label, Night Coast, through which he consistently releases his own material.

From 2017 to 2019, he organized a live event series called Threshold, focusing on ambient artists. Through this platform, he invited and performed alongside numerous artists from both Japan and abroad.

Rhucle's music is primarily composed using synthesizers, piano, field recordings he captures himself, and samples from a variety of sources. However, he is not limited by conventional instruments—anything that produces sound can become a part of his music.

In addition to music, he also creates photographs, paintings, and collages, continuously exploring new forms of expression and artistic creation.

Rhucle（ルク）は、東京を拠点に活動している日本のアーティスト。2013年より活動を開始。これまでに世界各国のレーベルから多くの作品をリリースしており、現在までにソロアルバム・コラボレーションアルバム含め80作品以上リリースしている。 
また、プライベートレーベル「Night Coast」を運営、自身の作品をコンスタントにリリースしている。
2017年から2019年にはアンビエントアーティストを主体としたライブイベント「Threshold」を主催、国内外多数のアーティストを招待し、共演を果たす。
彼の音楽は主に、シンセサイザー、ピアノ、自身で録音したフィールドレコーディング素材、様々な素材からのサンプリングによって構成されている。しかし、音が生成されるものなら、あらゆるものを使用し音楽を制作している。 
また音楽以外にも、写真、絵画、コラージュ作品などを制作しており、常に新しい作品を創造し続けている。 

Official HP:http://rhucle.com
bandcamp:https://rhucle.bandcamp.com

- Artwork -
www.instagram.com/loid0001/

#39 -Summer Shade- by Rhucle

This release comes out of time spent in Ejulve, my father's hometown in Teruel. The sounds come from places that carry deep local and personal meaning: the slow, resonant silence of Fuente Serrano—a spring where countless jugs of water have been filled over generations, still flowing thanks to the hands that keep it alive—La Balsa La Canaleta, a stone water basin once essential for livestock during the dry months and also where we used to play as kids, now echoing with the sounds of frogs and memories—and the cellar of the family house, filled with old farming tools and a wine barrel we always end up dipping into.

Each recording became a point of departure. Instruments were added later, always in response to the natural tones and textures already present. The result isn’t just a set of tracks, but a collection of sonic documents—attempts to hold onto spaces, objects, and atmospheres that risk fading from both the land and memory.

deep talk entre ranas

"A lucid dream is a dream in which a person becomes aware that he or she is dreaming, and it then becomes quite different from an ordinary dream. For one thing, it can be strikingly realistic - to the point of producing a convincing replica of the normal physical world - and for another, it has its own psychological characteristics and range of emotional reactions, which must be considered independently of those experienced in normal dreaming."

Spanish sonic alchemist Camu joins us on the series with a deep session recorded at Lucid Dreams at Espacio Perpendicular, a Madrid-based event space he co-founded with like-minded individuals who share a beautiful ear for the more obscure shades of electronic music.

Tracklist:

Richard Chartier – archival
Richard Chartier – Fields for Recording 1-8
MMMD – Skóra
Fabio Perletta – Ichinen Pt.2
Thomas Köner – Novaya Zemlya 2
Nurse with Wound – A Missing Sense
CoH + Cosey Fanni Tutti – Inside
placa – lugar común
Timo van Luijk & Frederik Croene – Taetonia
Perila – Sweat (with Inger Wold Lund)
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement – Sorcery Killings
Ragnar Kestis – og gleðin snýr aftur (Original Mix)
Fennesz – Happy Audio
Fjäder – Hjärtans Fröjd
Aidan Baker – Blood Like A Chorus of Insects
Mads Emil Nielsen – Installation - 2
Paleman – For Trees (4)
Bass Communion – Drugged IV
ARROWOUNDS – Burial Trances
Gregg Kowalsky – X-XI
Jo Johnson – Haunted by the Legend of Better Days
Laurent Pernice – Antigone au tombeau
Else Marie Pade & Jacob Kirkegaard – Altocumulus, Cumulonimbus, Nimbostratus
Steve Roden / In Be Tween Noise – And Go The Great Man
Concepción Huerta – Emerges From the Deep
Pinkcourtesyphone – Lure / Beyond Exactly

https://soundcloud.com/javier-camunas
https://soundcloud.com/espacio-perpendicular
https://www.instagram.com/kamunas/
https://www.instagram.com/espacio.perpendicular/

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://claytonciolac.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Camu @ Lucid Dreams, 2025

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Building Bridges - forlate - 31 Jul 2025

As August begins, summer's golden days are still here, full of promise and hope. As we move into the peaceful months ahead, we're excited to welcome the talented Spanish artist Pablo Bolivar to our 320th episode in the series.

“A modern master of house and techno, Seven Villas founder Pablo Bolivar is know equally well as an album artist and prolific remixer, but perhaps foremost as a world class DJ. With artistic breadth and worldwide appeal, it is clear that Pablo was born to create music, always with an attitude, and always with quality as a standard.”
Boasting more than a decade of experience releasing music, Pablo Bolívar is a name familiar to most in the underground circuit of Dance music. Born in Santander, Spain, in 1981, he took his first steps into the music business by studying Sound Engineering at Barcelona’s Crash institute, then working as an engineer for a number of years following his graduation in 2000.
After a while, Pablo began working at one of Spain’s most recognised Electronic imprints, Decoder Muzique. Following this, in 2006 he released his debut LP via Barcelona label Regular, entitled ‘Anjanas’. The 11-track album showcased his melodic, hypnotic and intriguing style of Techno that has over the years become synonymous with his name, panning between ambient sections and tougher, more club-driven moments with a real maturity and understanding of music that only comes from studying the art at its core.
In 2009, Pablo released his critically acclaimed and personal favourite LP, ‘Recall’, also via Regular. The album saw him once again nod to past influences such as Heiko Laux and his Kanzleramt label as well as other German imprints such as Chain Reaction, but also was deeply inspired by the passing of his father.
Since then, the Spaniard has gone from strength to strength, with further releases on Curle Recordings, as well as on Desolat, Culprit, Einmusika, Moodmusic, Endless as well as via his own labels, Seven Villas and Avantroots, also remixing the likes of Gui Boratto, Mario Basanov, When Saints Go Machine, Gorge, Parov Stelar or Juana Molina to name a few.
Outside of music production, the gifted Spaniard has built up a reputation for his meticulously crafted DJ performances, combining his own mesmerising Techno cuts with records unearthed from his regular excursions crate digging as well as from other artists such as Floating Points, Soulphiction, I:Cube and Vakula – modern names that he is a big personal fan of.

"In this mix I wanted to showcase the latest sound of my labels Seven Villas Voyage and Avantroots, selecting my favorite tracks from the latest albums, and creating a smooth and beatless ambient trip"

Tracklist:
1. Mind Groove - Healing Waterfall
2. Momente Rekorder - Bodensee
3. Natur - There Will Be No Tears ( Heavenchord reshape )
4. Mind Groove - Unseen
5. Dovim - Amber Light
6. Sebastiano Effe - This Face No Longer Belongs to Me
7. Drift Loes - The Duel
8. Braulio Lam - Tiffen
9. Sebastiano Effe - Like Rain In An Old Movie
10. Ercos Blanka - Amaltea ( ambient mix )
11. Carlos Ferreira - Old Wounds
12. Awaken - The Abyss (Ambient Version)

Photo by Clark Gu

https://soundcloud.com/pablo-bolivar
Website: https://www.pablobolivar.es/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pablobolivarofficial/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pablo_bolivar/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PabloBolivar
Seven Villas: https://soundcloud.com/seven-villas-records
Avantroots: https://soundcloud.com/avantrootsrecords
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pablobolivar
Bandcamp: https://pablobolivar.bandcamp.com/music

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Deep Breakfast 320 ~ Pablo Bolivar

Slowfoam performed on the second day of #Mostra25 at Fabra i Coats.

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Madelyn Byrd (they/them, b. 1992) is an educator, musician, DJ, and worldbuilding practitioner based in Berlin. Their creative and educational work implements decolonial, hydrofeminist and queer ecology to investigate possibilia and the “sympoietics” of co-becoming to promote synergistic social transformation beyond human-centred perspectives. Byrd fosters a deeply collaborative, interdisciplinary spirit to deconstruct and reconstruct the perceptual realm, weaving field recording, intricate sound design, spoken word, and somatics. Madelyn holds a Masters in Neuroaesthetics from Goldsmiths, where they researched the impact of collaborative imagination on measures of connection and hope in social praxis art. They teach critical theory + music production courses on sonic worldbuilding with Soundial. They are a current resident in Zurich University of the Art’s School of Commons (SoC), 2025 with collaborator Lou Croff Blake to develop their project, Chimera.

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@slowfoam is Byrd’s all-encompassing, genre-defying music moniker. They create speculative post-human dialogues and para-worlds, sculpting a/biotic textures from electroacoustics, field recording, feedback, granulated synthesis, drones, and spoken word. Their playful sonic tapestries are spatially triggered and adapted to deep-listening environments, clubs, and everything in between. They have performed and toured extensively, including recent performances at Subbacultcha (NL), Cafe Oto (London), The Lab (San Francisco), Morse (Tokyo), and Morphine Raum (Berlin). Their discography has been published on Somewhere Press, Mappa, and Jungle Gym Records. Slowfoam is a former resident at Internet Public Radio, where they curated their monthly show, Our Tomorrow. Their work has yielded features on Bandcamp, Electronic Sound Mag, DJ Mag, First Impressions, Pitchfork, Boomkat, The Wire Magazine, and Futurism Restated.


Slowfoam @ Mostra 2025 🖤

""...Techno was a mistake just like Detroit. It's the sound of Kraftwerk and George Clinton and the parliament funkadelics stuck in an elevator forced to make music together..."

12/07/2025
HUMMØ 03 @ Espacio Perpendicular

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Programa especial centrado en el universo de Jan Jelinek, productor alemán que lleva años experimentando con el sonido, siempre en los márgenes, siempre buscando texturas nuevas.

Lo interesante de Jelinek es que trabaja con varios pseudónimos, cada uno con su propia identidad. Como Farben, explora un microhouse lleno de clicks, loops y detalles microscópicos. Con Gramm, se acerca a una electrónica más dub, más cálida, casi flotante. Y bajo su propio nombre, se suelta del ritmo y construye paisajes sonoros entre el ambient, el collage y el minimalismo.

En esta selección vamos a pasear por sus diferentes facetas, escuchando cómo un mismo artista puede hablar varios idiomas musicales sin perder su esencia.

Bruits Sonores: Especial Jan Jelinek - 15/07/2025

Marking the arrival of his debut EP on Samurai Music, Sciama delivers a deep dive into his shadowy, immersive sound world — weaving layered rhythms, hypnotic textures, and weighty low-end pressure. A precise reflection of the sonic aesthetic explored through his Samurai release.

Sciama - Between Veils [SMDE52]
https://sciama.bandcamp.com/album/between-veils

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