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Remember Chinese Whispers, Stille Post or Rikkinäinen Puhelin? That children’s game, known all over the world, that illustrates the difficulties of transmitting information, but which also reveals the creativity of discontinuous conversation? It feels like the Patterns of Perception and @awalkingcontradiction collectives have been in such a conversation for the past years across a multitude of label nights, private hangouts, and shared festival experiences.

Based in Basel, Switzerland but unhinged from national contexts, A Walking Contradiction is a label for music and research. Curated by @varuna4053, @lemont-eana and Dead Electronic Space Limited (@ltd_dead), the collective share a penchant for beats - broken and straight - yet can't help but churn out music for the quiet hours. A deeply reflective group, you’ll find snippets of their conversations on social, political, economic, and environmental issues hidden in sounds or in plain sight on the sleeves of their records.

Compiled entirely from new and unreleased material, their Patterns of Perception 102 is but the latest product of interlocutions and whispers between Basel, Berlin, Helsinki and the world in general, paying tribute to the significance of community where the legitimacy of commons is increasingly impugned. 
Levitating within a field of sophisticated textures and percussion, this set burns slowly, but with a luminescent intensity. Angular experimental ambience builds into winding, complex rhythms. Inspired minds elevate delicate melancholia into a true sense of hope.

Links:
@awalkingcontradiction 
https://awalkingcontradiction.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/awc_awalkingcontradiction

https://soundcloud.com/varuna4053
https://www.instagram.com/varuna_awc
https://soundcloud.com/giomar
https://soundcloud.com/monteforte-1
https://soundcloud.com/ltd_dead
https://soundcloud.com/mario-7
https://soundcloud.com/lemont-eana

Patterns of Perception 102 - A Walking Contradiction

GiGi FM - Live at Coppi Berlin

A breath holds time, calibrates space,
The quiet hum of an ancient place.
Petals bloom with power and grace.
The self we hide, the depths we know,
Through shadows deep, the seeds will grow.
A falling leaf, the wind’s soft lift,
Letting go, we rise anew,
Then strength will shine through.
GiGi FM 
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This set was recorded live at the beautiful community space Coppi in Berlin, where I was invited by my dear friends from the Brandwerk collectif. 
🐚 I took the opportunity to craft a sonic journey filled with some of my favorite vinyls, musicians, and labels ~ music I turn to when I’m at home, spending days reconnecting and realigning my spiritual forces. 

🌀🪷 It’s a trip to my safe space (which is the garden of my mind ~ where I prune the leaves that need care, check in on my inner trees, flowers and roots ~ aka my mental wellbeing)
I meditate, dance alone in my living room, laugh, sometimes cry, write, read, cook, question the world and myself ~ everything.

🧿 This mix begins as an invitation for us to start our inner visit together, exploring our personal safe spaces. May it guide you to some depth within and, hopefully, help you find the strength to face your battles and the freedom to be your true self.
♾️ 
Music from @astralindustries, Evigt, @tokifuko, and @box_5ive.
@phi-psonics @rebecca_vasmant @ancestralvoices, @nzenze @djbigleg,  @alex-cortiz 

I hope you enjoy this journey as much as I loved creating it. 

~ With love & gratitude ~
GiGi 💌

GiGi FM ~ Live At Coppi Berlin

Exoot - Krans

Exoot - Quixoot

Exoot - Ambrosia

For this mix I wanted to explore the nomadic outskirts of techno music, with a special visit to the beat freaks.

Soundcloud ➟ @sstromsound
Facebook ➟ www.facebook.com/sstromsound
Instagram ➟ www.instagram.com/hsxchcxcxhs

Upperberry | SSTROM

Today we share a recording by close friend of the label, CP1; recorded live, somewhere in Milan, 20/12/2023.

@cipppo showcases ritualistic tension and masterful sound design with an hour of improvised sketches, uneasy drones and bodily utterances. The rising Italian producer, @stagno-records co-founder and one half of duo Hagva, takes us into his inner workings where paranoia and ecstasy mirror each other.

This ritual unfolds under hushed moonlight, lips kept tight. You'll find the way.

CP1 - hybrid reconstruction

Where the hell are we?

Now it’s time to share a recording by @eszaid-377145560, an artist from un Avignon who has been very inspiring of late. 

Persistently structured, yet hardly legible. This is a story where time is told in the warp of  shadows and the length of reflections.

‘Quelques données particulières de la mémoire.'

Eszaid - Quelques données particulières de la mémoire

A lovely drone from a Landscape.fm ferrous on a guitar tuned to open D into a modular synth.

Ferrous Heart

An extract from 'Nouvelle rive gauche', one side of the cassette of unreleased recordings included in 'Châsse ∴', the triple boxed set of CD re-releases, released by VOD-Records in June 2025 (full track length 29:47)

Mastered for cassette by Sam Grant at Blank Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne

Coasting

Koova

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