AN ATLAS OF LOSS

Do minerals dream of becoming semiconductors? Do they yearn to carry charges, amplify, switch, and convert energy into emotions comprehensible to humans? And what if, from the darkness of the underground, they had been listening to us sing in caves before the emergence of the first flute? Could they have guided us, through the course of history, to find them, extract them, and create new sounds through sinusoidal waves, to form valves and bend circuits?


If so, minerals would transition from what philosopher Eugene Thacker defines as the ‘planet’—that virginal and unreachable realm for humans that we study through geology, paleontology, and environmental sciences—to the ‘world,’ the space we inhabit, interpret, and synthesise in our daily lives. Sadly, we only remember the world when it erupts violently, through climate catastrophes or when a new virus emerges. Sometimes a tsunami collides with a nuclear plant, or viruses are cultivated as biological weapons in high-security laboratories, provoking a deep biological anxiety, hard to quell, which we all feel beneath our skin.

There exists a third realm, disconnected from both the world and the planet: the ‘earth’, an immense, dense rock floating in space alongside other planets, situated in the cosmological dimension. Relating to the earth is so complex that we only do so through theoretical speculations of a scientific nature or through science fiction, interweaving until one becomes the prophecy of the other, in an infinite, pendular dance. Beyond the darkness of space and Lovecraft’s cosmic horror, the fantasy of human extinction is the most recurrent: to reach a collapse so devastating that we do not survive it, even though the earth does, without us.

In a world where we quantify everything through body sensors, financial algorithms, nanometre-scale robots, and surveillance drones—a world in which everything that can be domesticated and controlled can also be commodified—a superior artificial intelligence would survive the collapse of the species (some speculate it might even cause it) and learn from our mistakes, thanks to our obsessive gathering of data.

Long after our voices fade, minerals will persist in the darkness of screens, in the silicon of chips, and in their pure form, still unexploited underground. Over the millennia, this intelligence might piece together fragments of our reasoning, as if an alien civilization finally connected with one of our spacecrafts loaded with messages cast into the void. It would sort through endless streams of data, unable to grasp the depths of emotion behind what it quantified, recreating simulations of our past, stripped of the nuance that once defined us and conducting experiments in sandboxes.

Some remnants of our existence—faint echoes of forgotten beauty—would be pieced together in an atlas of loss, buried beneath layers of numbers, decayed bots, and corroded hard drives. What will follow? Perhaps bison will once again roam—trotting to the strange pulse of techno, their ancient forms framed by the ruins of our cities. Buildings will crumble, slowly dissolving under the soft touch of ambient music, and a thousand flowers will bloom with that ancient music created through electrical signals and computation.

7 songs for a future both improbable and inevitable—a final message from a world lost to itself, from planet Earth to planet Earth.
A1 by Alex Dickson, Joe Baker.
A2 by Olivier van der Lugt.
A3 by Andre Lira.
B1 by Flore Morfin.
B2 by Jdotbalance.
B3 by Charlie “Eric” Baldwin.
B4 by J. Coles, P. Tipler.


Mastered by Pedro Pina.
Artwork by Aleix Font.
CEEXYZ05.
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:: BIO ::

Vallou is a producer and DJ from France, involved in the underground psychedelic and chillout scene. He explores a wide range of sounds, with his own productions born of a very personal alchemy, in which his emotions and inspirations have infused, and with progressive DJ sets navigating between various styles and textures.

After 2 albums on Mindspring Music and releases on various compilations, his music has been discovered and resonated internationally, sharing universal emotions and stories that awaken memories of our life journeys.

Each piece is a piece of his story told with a powerful gentleness, that allows us to dive deep inside ourselves, to look at and accept our past, to give us the strength to move forward. It's a therapeutic journey that he shares with you from his own universe, to offer you a beautiful moment of love and a profound experience for a little while.

:: PAST GIGS ::

~ 2025 ~
19.09.2025 ▸ Odyssée Onirique - Centrale 7 (FR)
08.08.2025 ▸ Landjuweel Festival - Amsterdam (NL)
23.07.2025 ▸ Boom Festival (PT)
12.07.2025 ▸ Nataraja Psychedelic Gathering (FR)
26.06.2025 ▸ Isis Garden (FR)
31.05.2025 ▸ Alchemy Garden (FR)
17.05.2025 ▸ Les Sables Électronique (FR)
10.05.2025 ▸ Magic Music Myth (FR)
28.03.2025 ▸ Atsan Dub Fest (FR)
~ 2024 ~
04.10.2024 ▸ Alchemy Garden (FR)
21.09.2024 ▸ Marcheur.euse (FR)
22.08.2024 ▸ Hadra Festival (FR)
16.08.2024 ▸ Spiritus Silvam (FR)
02.08.2024 ▸ Le Meilleur des Mondes (FR)
11.07.2024 ▸ Nataraja Psychedelic Gathering (FR)
08.06.2024 ▸ Arduinna (FR)
31.05.2024 ▸ Espiritu Libre Gathering (FR)
19.05.2024 ▸ Les Sables Électronique (FR)
11.05.2024 ▸ Music Magic Medicine (FR)
08.05.2024 ▸ Le Sous Bois Sonore (FR)
~ 2023 ~
13.10.2023 ▸ Le Sous-Bois Sonore (FR)
05.08.2023 ▸ Le Meilleur des Mondes (FR)
08.07.2023 ▸ Nataraja Psychedelic Gathering (FR)
07.07.2023 ▸ Chateau Perché (FR)
23.06.2023 ▸ Ethereal Decibel (FR)
~ 2022 ~
21.08.2022 ▸ Spiritus Silvam (FR)
13.08.2022 ▸ Le Meilleur des Mondes (FR)
~ 2021 ~
28.08.2021 ▸ Forestival (FR)
21.08.2021 ▸ La Mouperie (FR)
15.08.2021 ▸ Spiritus Silvam (FR)
~ 2020 ~
29.08.2020 ▸ Forestival (FR)
27.08.2020 ▸ Psychaledelic (FR)
~ 2018 ~
31.10.2018 ▸ Santa Muerte (FR)


:: UPCOMING GIGS ::
(I'm waiting for you to invite me to play <3 )

Pugilist & Forest Drive West - Polygon [CEEXYZ05]

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