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a blustery expression of 85BPM wintery weirdness, darkening evenings and rainy bus journeys 🌬️🌫️🌙


On the 4th of November, I stopped by the @noodsradio studio in Bristol to spin a few tunes before playing at Strange Brew that night -- this is the recording of that show, thanks Noods for the invite.

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Release date: 01/09/23

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

180g vinyl//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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A year on since the collaborative Mystic AM project in 2022, Rod Modell returns solo to Astral Industries with AI-35. The album - entitled ‘Ghost Lights’ - comes as a gatefold 2x vinyl LP, showcasing the latest epoch of Modell’s signature soundscapes. Spread across four parts, ‘Ghost Lights’ draws out a wide, cinematic sound - with long arching contours, rippling textures and cavernous sound design.

Woven with layer upon layer of hidden fragments and supernal transmissions, each chapter takes the listener successively deeper into the twilight zone. Harking to dramatic off-world topographies and interstellar spaces, the work glistens with opulent sound treatment and monumental grandeur. Dense pulsations move with oceanic force, marked by washes of celestial light and subterranean drones. Exercising another side to Rod Modell's typically atmospheric productions, this album comes with an ambitious framework and a more assertive sound. Featuring some of Modell’s most epic storytelling to date, ‘Ghost Lights’ delivers a powerful immersive experience.

Ghost Lights

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Side D

Two superimposed recordings of an advertising display in Caen (France), slowly panned, detuned and EQ'd.

Recorded on July 14th, 2023 with a Mole-Rat device, a Tascam DR100MK3 and processed using Reaper.

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As Bright Patterns completes its fourth trip around the sun, we welcome Imaginary Softwoods as the special guest for November. It’s been a dream of mine to have John Elliott on the show. He’s been a part of so many incredible projects: Mist, Outer Space, Organic Dial, Emeralds—not to mention all of the eternally awesome records that were released via his expert curation on Spectrum Spools. It’s a treasure trove. All that said, the vast output of John’s solo project, Imaginary Softwoods, sits firmly atop this immense pile of sonic wonder. So many of these cuts have been played on Bright Patterns over the last four years. It is a vibe I carry with me, one that’s deeply embedded in my relationship to music. The last time I heard a mix from John was 2017 and I still talk about how good it is. With all of the gratitude to everyone who listens, I hope you’ll enjoy this mix of what he’s been listening to lately. Designed as a bit of a balm for a world in pain, it covers contemporary selections with a few new age classics, reflecting the daily eclecticism of his auditory diet. It also ushers in a new era for Bright Patterns, where it will run from 9am to 10am ET with the same Thursday cadence as it has been, each month, since the beginning.

http://www.instagram.com/imaginarysoftwoods

Bright Patterns with Imaginary Softwoods @ The Lot Radio 11-09-2023

Release date: 26/01/24

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

2 x 180g gatefold vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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AI-36 comes from Ear to Ear - the debut collaboration between label regular Samuel van Dijk (Multicast Dynamics) and Ukrainian artist Yevgen Chebotarenko. Taken from a series of live recording sessions, the album explores in four parts a markedly darker realm of soundscape music. A cornucopia of abstract morphing scenes and heady synesthesia, the album brims with rich sonic detail and evocative gestures. Deftly blending organic sound textures with an experimental austerity, ‘Live Recordings’ displays potent and accomplished storytelling.

The album opens to a grey overcast vista, a natural landscape that slowly melts into a descending chasmic dysphoria. The mood transitions to a drone-based piece on the B-side, characterised by a more psychologically suspenseful framework and exotic blend of sound design. The atmosphere lightens, yet equally pensive as side C takes on a more elemental form, invoking water and its array of microbial and metabolic ecosystems. Brief cathartic moments in the final section pave the way for deeper wayfaring on the D-side. Stray signals and unknowable artefacts skitter across a vast subaqueous domain, a fathomless womb of potentialities that ebbs into eternity.

Live Recordings A

Mark Templeton is a Canadian media artist and the founder of Graphical, an audiovisual label dedicated to publishing his own musical and image based experiments. Mark’s audio compositions are constructed from reel-to-reel tape loops and sampled cassettes that are contrasted with contemporary sound techniques. He is currently on tour in Europe and will perform a hybrid set of live and prepared music featuring pieces from his recent album, Two Verses, combined with selections from other artists on Jan Jelinek's Faitiche label.


Mark Templeton (live) @ Kiosk Radio 30.03.2025

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Burning Pyre - May 2025

Carne Tremula - From the long-winter Torino, two maestri of the Dark-Ambient lymbs teamed up for the very first time. 
Matteo Viani (Black Seed) and Andrea Marini (SabaSaba) gather their gears and influences to craft a narrative and figurative landscape through sounds and signals. 
These 8 tracks, as sounds experimentations, have been spontaneously recorded live, then enhanced by Tioma Tchoulanov (Nze Nze) mastering, create a navigation in some shallow waters, a Path of Paladin from the darkness to the light of brighter days. 

This comes as a tape, dubbed on recycled batches, wrapped in a very exclusive collage by Andrea Marini. 

Lim edition of 70.

https://soundcloud.com/blackseedacts
https://soundcloud.com/sabasaba_music
https://soundcloud.com/teenagemenopause

PREMIERE⚡️Carne Tremula - Memoria [TeenageMenopause Records]

Lithuanian DJ and curator Aleksandr L — founder of Electric Shapes and host on Radio Vilnius — crafts a mix that drifts through vaporous layers and blurred contours. Glowing textures dissolve into silence, loops echo like fading memories, and tones linger at the threshold of presence. A suspended flow shaped by contrast and nuance — where the stillness speaks, and each fragment carries the weight of what's just beyond reach.

Amulet of Tears 060: Aleksandr L

Music: @aleksandrl

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 060: Aleksandr L

I Invite you to listen to this preview of my live set at Plex Athens on June 19th, presenting the "We Carry Eden" album. 

It starts with a loop from my Sakamoto Tribute live set at Mostra Barcelona (2023). You will hear samples from “Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep” (Mary Elizabeth Frye), read by Tom O'Bedlam. I added  vocal samples by Dunya Yunis. You might know her from the “My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts” album by Brian Eno and David Byrne. The fieldrecordings are from the Kallikatsou (Patmos) by Ioannis Nikolaou.

As always when i prepare a live set i make loops and collect samples. This time i sampled from some artists i connected to on instagram. The basic scape for the 2nd movement (3.00 min) comes from Eirini Zacharaki from Athens who sent me her 1st ever electronic noise experiment. I also added a rhythm loop from a track by an artist called Zebra (Alexis Georgopoulos). 

The direction and theme for this live set came (as usual) unexpected when i saw a post on instagram where Richard Gere reads the poem “Think Of Others” by the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (scroll down for the complete text). These dark days we live in you wonder what you could actually do. The answer comes with this poem (taken from a live poetry reading of Darwish:

“As you think of others far away, think of yourself and say: If only I were a candle in the dark”.

At 5.30 min Omar Ka joins this preview. He does the Fulani storytelling (and chanting) on the We Carry Eden album. He also introduces the next piece (6.30 min). The music comes from a bonus track of the “Seven Years At The Chi Factory” CD i recently released. The vocal is by the American poet Robert Lax, who lived the 2nd part of his life on Patmos, Greece. He also opens the We Carry Eden album saying:

“You have to have the habit of working on the project all the time and then the good moments come along  by themselves, as happy surprises and as graces, but eh, so you put yourself in a eh, in a place where grace can flow to you”.

At 08.20 min we move into a preview of a new album i’m working on with Radboud Mens (to be released by Music From Memory in 2026 TBA). First Mahmoud Darwish returns with: “Say: If only I were a candle in the dark”.

Then ( at 9.20 min) you hear the voice of Richard Gere (who also used to live on Patmos) reciting an English translation of “Think Of Others”. 

Finally (at 10.40 min) we return to the Kallikatsou. The music comes from my album “The Kallikatsou Recordings”. The vocals are taken from a Youtube video by a young Palestinian girl Rahaf Nasser, using her passion for music to comfort the traumatized children on the streets of Gaza. 

It's all about being a "Candle In The Dark". The preview closes (again) with field recordings from The Kallikatsou, Patmos by Ioannis Nikolaou who run the Underflow Record Store in Athens the last years. Recently he sadly passed away, so this mix is also a tribute to him. The spoken word in the outro is by his good friend Spyro Papanastassiou.

All we can do is keep spreading love, peace, hope and comfort. To respect, protect and preserve truth and stand strong in unity. One love!

"Think of Others" by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Mohammed Shaheen

As you prepare your breakfast, think of others
Do not forget the pigeon's food
As you conduct your wars, think of others
Do not forget those who seek peace
As you pay your water bill, think of others
Those who are nursed by clouds
As you return home, to your home, think of others
Do not forget the people of the camps
As you sleep and count the stars, think of others
Those who have nowhere to sleep
As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others
those who have lost the right to speak
As you think of others far away, think of yourself and say: 
If only I were a candle in the dark

Join us in Athens:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1813791775862552/
Listen to 'We Carry Eden'
https://chifactory.bandcamp.com/album/we-carry-eden-feat-omar-ka

A Candle In The Dark (preview of a live set)

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2025.06.20.html

@krystof-sc...
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@m50... (53m)
T.Raumschmiere : Anker : [untitled] : Albumlabel
Boards of Canada : B08 : Random 35 Tracks Tape
Simonel : Memories Of A Piano : Cartographies of Silence : Line
Bochum Welt : Fegda : Phial : Axodya
Neil Tolliday : Grumble : Of Sweat
Loess : Koepcke : Battens : n5MD
Boards of Canada : B15 : Random 35 Tracks Tape
Shuttle358 : System : Optimal : 12k
Tu M' : Monochrome #21 : Monochromes Vol. 2 : Line
Neil Tolliday : Belly : Of Sweat
Peter and Kerry : The Weight That Pulls : You, Me, & The Moon : Sonar Kollektiv
Boards of Canada : B06 : Random 35 Tracks Tape
Blank Gloss : Soft Rush : January : Night Young
Yu Su : Dusty : Yellow River Blue : Music From Memory
Bochum Welt : Opah : Phial : Axodya
Boards of Canada : Smallest Weird Number (Reversed) : Random 35 Tracks Tape
Shuttle358 : Gone : Optimal : 12k
Boards of Canada : I Will Get It Tattooed : Random 35 Tracks Tape
yuk. : Purple : a n a k : Leaving
Benoit Piolard : Noyaux : Noyaux : Morr Music
Peter and Kerry : You, Me, & The Moon : You, Me, & The Moon : Sonar Kollektiv
Neil Tolliday : Eman : Of Sweat
Simonel : Frozen Lake : Cartographies of Silence : Line
Boards of Canada : B04 : Random 35 Tracks Tape
Tu M' Monochrome #22 : Monochromes Vol 2 : Line
Neil Tolliday : Jass : Of Sweat
Boards of Canada : It's Too Orangey : Random 35 Tracks Tape
Bochum Welt : Ariel : Phial : Axodya
T.Raumschmiere : Grotznogg : [untitled] : Albumlabel

@lexstein... (1h 58m)
Tandrea_andrea - selecta
Radart - Prelude
noorj - flameflowers
gbd - the sound of now
Kelpe - When It Turns
Torn Hawk - Chess Kids
Third Space - Whole Mantle Convection
Nondi_ - Sun Juke
Voice Actor, Squu - dYn
AWITW - perfectdays
Firnis DC - Photo Manipulation
Windu - Allegorya
cusoon dj - vhid
Inkasso & ML - Rhythm Is A Medium Of Change
lostwhere - Western
Andriy K. - aldravanda
andrea_andrea - Open Source
Minicomponente - Huala Taiel (ft. Margo Sol)
a200xeaf - ×˜ÎŸñ‰¼
Ruth Mascelli - Sunrise
Calvin - dolmen Â
Conna Haraway - Raising Agent
hvl - Sample & Fold
mutantbeatniks - Mobius
windowseeker - strip club caress
Morkebla - Nether Spirit
nico - passage (krikor remix)
wetdogg - dat angel shit
lovetrip - Bleed Dry
genus aix - yours in haste
Voice Actor, Squu - Rattle
Glyn Maier - Crass
Pub - Waves Across
weeyvngy - Peripheral Thought
Silv-O - O.K.
Pamela_and her sons - pink horizon
lychen - the fountain
Robek - A Stone Below Ripples
Turn On The Sunlight - Miles and Miles of Ocean (feat. Laraaji)

streamed live at
@datafruits, ICN
@sphere_radio, LEJ
Wax n' Cats, CHI

Krystof + m50 + Alex Steiner @ etc 2025.06.20

Percussionist. Improviser. Performer. Occasionally composer and field recordist. Co-founder of the ensemble]h[iatus. Was the co-founder and curator of Le Bruit de la Musique festival. Artistic adviser of Association Ryoanji Épicentre. Currently president of Sonatura.

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