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An intimate ambient soundtrack to the ups and downs of 2022, recorded by experimental producer and sound artist Nexcyia.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2023/01/23/nexcyia-fact-mix/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 892: Nexcyia (Jan '23)

set for procare 20231110


k2dj - Pangeois
Purelink - We Should Keep Going
Dettinger - Oasis 6
DJ Olive  - Ahsan's Wish (feat. Christian Fennesz)
Gi Gi - Pyxis Glint
Concave Reflection - Journey To Urras
Pan American - Esso
Stevia aka Susumu Yokota - Wheat Field
J. Albert Meets Will August Park - Residuals
wish - I threw in all my coins
crimeboys - trippin
shackleton -the dying regime
VOICE ACTOR - What It's Worth
CS + Kreme - Bassline
Tear-Free - what's good (Oklou Cover)
Amp - Melatonin Red
Lifted - Best (ft. Panda Bear)

now I know the reason (mix)

wonderful contribution by friend @drublei for hush ~ enjoy!

hush ~ 24 - Guest Mix by drublei

Organic soundscapes, field recordings and melodic ambience from composer Sophia Zhuravkova. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/sophia-zhuravkova/episodes/sophia-zhuravkova-23rd-february-2025

SOPHIA ZHURAVKOVA w/ Rhucle 230225

Perila [live] @ Lost Music Festival 2024

A ethereal experience, curated by Glasgow based DJ and sound artist Conna Haraway (@connaharaway), a figure tracing the liminal edges of the ambient and electronic avant-garde.

Artwork x Isidora Amenábar

FR102 Conna Haraway (Glasgow, SCT)

Beyond / Below 54 by @ghosttropics. Received July 2025.
Photo by Andrew Charles Edman

"Thank you so much to Lexciya for inviting and trusting me as someone who is neither a musician or DJ, but merely a giant music nerd, to put together my first ever mix for what is very likely my single favourite series! I feel incredibly honoured and humbled to be here, and to be honest can still hardly believe it!

"I’d never done anything like this before and it was a learning process to say the least, and while I know I’ve got a long way to go and a lot more to learn, I’m happy to say I’m quite pleased with what I was able to figure out as I went, and hope others will enjoy listening to this as much as I do. To be honest I never saw myself doing this, but now I feel like this has opened me up to a whole new world of creative expression that I haven’t tapped in to in many years, and I can’t wait to keep exploring this a bit more. Thanks again for the opportunity and to anyone that gives this a listen. "

track - artist:
dappled - goo
Afternoon Moon - Ruin Garden
Rock Collection - Hayden Moon
Blues for Uncle Gibb - Broken Social Scene
Reaching You - Theodore & Natalia
petals (with Emile Frankel) - J
Amelia - Burning Star Core
Untitled - Thela
Occ urs - Yosuke Tokunaga
Half Sleep - Erik M
Cain - Ike Zwanikken
The Rabbit Hole - Strategy
Foot of the Bed - Corey Gordon and Nathan Young
Year Ending - Movietone
Mexican Bells (for Jorge Reyes) - Suso Saiz
Airport City - Zaumne
Thresholds - Francis Harris
Nodding Wasp - TKB
Rainboots Dub - Poison Damage
fuckin milwaukee’s been hesher forever - the fun years
Balance (Trembling) - Windy & Carl

54. ghosttropics

build or modified this one and only bass uke to safe money and only got little room for maybe even a shortscale bass... a very good match with my other concert uke

build a bass 🫠 part 3

Title:
Dusk

1: "Dusk Movement 1", 06:24 (00:00) (OctaTrig, Soma Lyra 8, Soma COSMOS)
2: "Dusk Movement 2", 07:30 (06:24) (OctaTrig, Soma Enner, Soma COSMOS)
3: "Dusk Movement 3", 05:15 (13:54) (OctaTrig, Soma Pipe, Human Voice, Soma COSMOS)
4: "Dusk Movement 4", 07:38 (19:09) (OctaTrig, OpenTheremin, Soma Lyra 8, Soma COSMOS)
5: "Dusk Movement 5", 04:54 (26:47) (OctaTrig, OpenTheremin, Soma Lyra 8, Soma COSMOS)

Dates:
01-Dec-2025 (inception), 03-Dec-2025 (finalised), 04-Dec-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Synthesiser programming and concepts by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/dusk-2

Description:
Dodecahedrons, frequency modulation (FM) networks, free tuning of hardware synthesisers and the sounds of a forest at dusk all come together in this suit, Dusk.

The title is inspired from that magic time when daylight begins to give way to darkness -- dusk. The insects begin to sing,
the forest becomes alive with other sounds. Dusk is an imagined journey into the forest at dusk.

1: Dusk Movement 1
The sun has set, the wind has calmed down, insects and creatures of the forest come out to sing. A normally quiet time except for the chorus from the forest that is slowly building up. A time to reflect on life. In German, we call it the Dämmerstuendchen, a time to sit in semi darkness as light from the sun fads, complemented by sip of a good Australian red wine with a friend. The nocturnal creatures begin to wake and say hello to each other, the bats, owls and possums. 

2: Dusk Movement 2
A distant rhythm of drums are heard, the Cicadas. The birds from tree tops have their brief say. The crickets decide to join in again. Possums scurry from tree to tree. A sugar glider sweeps past.

3: Dusk Movement 3
A breeze picks up, the din of the insects give way to singing trees.

4: Dusk Movement 4
The wind stirs some more, swirling into the caves, awaking the bats, emerge from the cave, flying into the forest.

5: Dusk Movement 5
The wind dies down. The crickets emerge again, the owls fly past. The trees cover the forest in a comforting blanket. Nocturnal marsupials looking for morsels. All settle back to their nests before the sun rises again.

This project has been on the building books and sketch books for a while now. It all started with someone posting an article on the "Mathematical Tiling and Tessellation" FaceBook group about five side shapes (Pentagon) in nature. I was then curious about networking several of these Pentagons for a tuning system, turns out you can connect twelve of these to form a closed surface called a dodecahedron. A very common musical scale in Western music uses twelve notes equally dividing the octave. I started a music project using a scale based upon twelve notes printed on a paper dodecahedron, the notes you would see as you rotated the dodecahedron, that project is still ongoing. This led on to thoughts about how such a shape could lead to a physical instrument -- more trials, more ruminations during my exercise walks. Now, fast forward to Nov/Dec 2025, the pentagon was reduced to a triangle and the closed surface of the dodecahedron was reduced to an open surface triangulation with one pocket.

Eight triangles, eight vertices. My Push2 midi controller, has eight main rotary encoders and eight columns of note pads. An FM synthesiser at it's core has three inputs, a carrier frequency, modulation amplitude and frequency of modulation. Can you see the pattern? The triangles form the topology of the FM synthesis sound generation, the surface the human machine interface. The Push2 as the prototype.

For the full story, see my facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/norman.freund.545/
or my BandCamp site.

Find your self a quiet time to listen to Dusk with a set of good headphones or stereo speakers. Lots of timbre evolutions, small detailed changes and an evolving spatial movement of sound voices.

Dusk Movement 2

vocal sample:  dō kangaete mo watashi wa warukunai! - kitta izumi
spoken sample: shadow rise boss fight from Persona 4

𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘦 .ᐟ.ᐟ

Taken from LIQUID - Toxic Drop EP [TRIP008]

Out on december 10th, 2019
12' vinyl + digital
Pre-order : https://tripalium.bandcamp.com/album/trip008-toxic-drop

Liquid, the legendary artist from the XL Recordings 90s era, renowned for pioneering rave anthems like Sweet Harmony and Liquid Is Liquid, is back with a debut release on Tripalium Corp. As part of our Rave Series, this Toxic Drop EP delivers three stone cold slammers, backed with a slick Minimum Syndicat remix of the lead track. Drawing influence from early 90s Belgium sounds, with a modern twist and production, this new release is a relentless flow of heavy four-to-the-floor beats, layered with driving and intricate breaks, alongside some absolutely bone-shuddering synth action.

TRACKLIST :
A1. Liquid - Toxic Drop
A2. Liquid - Sick On Synthetics
B1. Liquid - Icebreakin'
B2. Liquid - Toxic Drop (Minimum Syndicat Remix)

Mastering by Martyn Hare
Artwork by Lucie Ménétrier
2019 Tripalium Corp [TRIP008]

Pre-order

Liquid - Icebreakin' [Tripalium Rave Series 008]

Have you ever heard about vaporwave? 
Here is a new project I've made, using some #vaporwave & #LoFi samples with a lot of #Techno influence. 
I bet this will make you nostalgic and throw you back in the 90s.
What do you think of it?

Our Parents Used To Dance On This [ABR046]

@salladegg

SALLAD EGG is the alias of Sally Evans. Don't ask her where the name came from she can't really remember. Ms EGG is based in London where she hosts regular club nights under the name ŒUF. She is a long term vocalist and collaborator with the musician Zeta Zeta and a member of the Valley Sound Records family. Two tracks from the VSR discography bookend this mix. Have a nice one.

Knekelhuis # 62 - SALLAD EGG

Here is a fresh release with a nice #psytrance influence and some #mental voices! 
Let your brain melt with this 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 [𝐀𝐁𝐑𝟎𝟒𝟗]

Concept [ABR049]

@laila-sakini

Our next mix is by Laila Sakini. Her story is one of a reflection of her own imaginative and dosed work. And it set our day in motion perfectly. 
Expect a selection of unreleased songs from Melbourne friends, and music that touches the ambient, art pop and Illbient / Triphop territories.
While we are still in the midst of this global pandemic, that is not reflected in Laila Sakini's vibrant release output this year. Thank goodness some labels and artists are still able to keep pushing records that let us sunbathe in beauty in these cold times, and make our lives a little more beautiful in these days. 
Laila released this year a beautiful album on Total Stasis just before Covid kicked in, did an EP on Boomkat and Self Released 2 EPs.
As London-based, Australian DJ and musician, her work is characterized by serenity, friction and openness.

Knekelhuis # 70 - Laila Sakini

www.knekelhuis.nl
For licensing and other inquiries: mark@knekelhuis.nl

Knekelhuis # 70 - Laila Sakini

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