Jo Johnson has been releasing music and organising events since the early 90s. She is a regular performer at Freerotation festival in the UK, and organises electronic music events with Bleep43 in London. Her debut solo album, Weaving, was released on Further Records in 2014 and has been described as a modern classic.  Her latest solo release, The Wave Ahead, came out earlier this year on Brooklyn-based label, Mysteries of the Deep. Jo also collaborates with pianist and composer, Hilary Robinson, and they have a live album, Session One, on 9128.live (a sub-label of A Strangely Isolated Place).

“It's been a pleasure to spend time listening to someone else’s music rather than my own! I've been writing and playing out much more this year, which has been amazing, but it's not left as much time for listening, so it's been refreshing and inspiring to delve into some of the great music that's been coming out recently. I've created a Buy Music list – please support the artists and labels included by paying for their work, if you can, and helping them to keep making great music." - Jo

Tracklist:

Luke Sanger - Ghosts of the Uranium Forest (Frequency Domain, 2023)
Jo Johnson – Untitled (unreleased, 2023)
Xenia Pestova Bennett - King of Cats (Pomeranian Snout/TakuRoku, 2023/2020)
Bana Haffar -  Save This Manual For The Future (Touch, 2023)
Ryan J Raffa - All At Once (Group Tightener, 2023)
Cate Brooks – Tapeworks I (Café Kaput, 2023)
Imaginary Softwoods – Chalked Outlines Of A Polybius Square (Field Records, 2023)
D1G - Drawing 1 (self-released on Bandcamp, 2022)
Bea Brennan – Everlasting (Old Technology, 2022)
Simon McCorry – Full Circle (Polar Seas, 2021)
Florian Fricke – Spirit of Peace I-III (Celestial Harmonies, 1983)
KMRU – MR4 (self-released on Bandcamp, 2022)
Field Lines Cartographer – Sunrise Through Wires (Castles in Space, 2023)
Jo Johnson – Orbit (Mysteries of the Deep, 2023)
Patricia Wolf – People Moving Freely (i u we records, 2021)

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Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/werkhouse-the-observatory-mix-jo-johnson

Also, Jo recently launched a Bandcamp subscription service. If you love her music as much as we do, please consider supporting her and subscribing. The first offerings to subscribers are two stunning improvisations recorded just recently.

Subscribe: https://jojohnson.bandcamp.com/subscribe

And catch Jo playing at IKLECTIK on 16th June, supporting Luigi Tozzi, Laura BCR, and Luke Carter.

IKLECTIK: https://iklectikartlab.com/luigi-tozzi-live-jo-johnson-live-laura-bcr-dj-luke-carter-dj/

The Observatory - Jo Johnson

Brother Joseph's Sonic Treasure - Radio Buena Vida 07.07.23

Music For Programming - Episode 70: THINGS DISAPPEAR

https://musicforprogramming.net

Phoenix G - Soundbath@TheLoft
Bedouin Ascent - Joyriding III
Global Communication - Enlightenment From The Augur
The Grid - Without Your Clarity I Would Still Be Bound By Gravity (Boundless Mix)
Laraaji - Moon Shadows
Interior - Ascending
Aphex Twin - bank lullaby
AshTreJinkins - no team effort
Sam Gendel - ZeroZero
Panoram - Ray Rain
Harold Budd and Cocteau Twins - Memory Gongs
John Livengood - Véhicule
KMRU - strain
Sébastien Robert - Imaginary Geography
Gigi Masin & Allesandro Monti - O.A.L.
Terre Thaemlitz - Aging Core, Aging Periphery
AFX - s8v1 [brooklyn]
Oneohtrix Point Never - Behind The Bank
Fred Wackenhut - Lunar Reprise

musicForProgramming(); Episode 70: THINGS DISAPPEAR

Soundcloud metrics say you like me doing deep house. So here is some introverted deep house for people who like to climb inside themselves. 

I've got a new MacBook, a fresh Ableton Live 12 and actually some semblance of a sorted library, so enjoy some sounds from now and back through my collection. 

The Valley & The Mountain - Assembly Required [Detroit Record Company]
Lerosa - Be My Woman [Photic Fields]
Nick Holder - Feelin' Sad [DNH Records]
Palms Trax - Forever (Galcher Lustwerk Remix) [Lobster Theremin]
F.T.F. - Untitled03 [Tape Archive]
Nocow - Тебе Нужно Вернуться [Gost Zvuk]
LWS - Chug Sequence [Redstone Press]
DJ Slyngshot - Untitled A1 [Workshop]
Kreggo - Tochi [Nous’Klaer]
Olin - People Fix (Huerco S Remix 1) [Giegling]
Omar S - Psychotic Photosynthesis [FXHE Records]
Philipp Priebe - On The Way Out (Rising Sun Remix 1) [Stolar]
Fred P - It Is What It Is [Strength Music Recordings]
Antenna - Before I Fall Asleep [Beats In Space]
Solune - Thela In The New World (Equinox Mix) [Bass Cadet Records]
Fudge Fingas - Light In My Life [Dekmantel]
Adam Pits - Push Around [Coastal Haze]

it has been raining of late

The first part of The Northern Powerhouse. Part two is here: https://soundcloud.com/fourfourfun/the-northern-powerhouse-power.

Nathan Micay - 11.11.90 (Beat Mix) [LuckyMe]
Maara - Splash On Mi [NAFF]
Lone - Hidden By Horizons (snippet) [Greco-Roman]
Chestnut People - I [Exo Recordings International]
MYKI - Heraqura [Tofistock]
Remotif - Telepathic Heights [Coymix]
Peyote Dreams - State Of Mind (Slack Mix - Roza Terenzi Slow Buck) [Love On The Rocks]
Bliss Inc. - Subaquatic [Magicwire]
Maruwa - Ultraworld [GODDEZZ]
Adam Pits - Element X (Priori Remix) [Haŵs]
Sansibar - Elastic [Sin Sistema]
Furious Frank Feat. Ivy Barkakati – Ahora Sí (D. Tiffany Remix) [Butter Sessions]
Guy Contact - The Waters Of Compassion [Guy Contact]
Volodymyr Gnatenko – Subra [Kalahari Oyster Cult]
Maara - Tranquil Lust Mommy [NAFF]
DJ Normal 4 - Return Of The Hooligans [Needs]
Lone - Temples [R&S]

The Northern Powerhouse - North Mix

I was going through a bunch of AIFFs and I found a mysterious one called RANDOM THROWN TOGETHER TRACKS. Turns out it was from a near completed mix that I didn't ever complete. I ended up reworking about 40% of the start to get a better flow, and here it is.

Goldenbaby - Can I Ride (Extended Cut)
DJ Garth & ETI - 20 Minutes Of Disco Glory (The Light Of The Moon Dub)
Herbert - See You On Monday
Keisuke - Ride It Out
Boris Acket - Znton 03
Farren Laen - Winter Jam
Yak - Zip
7th Movement - Odyssey (Love Star Discomix)
Secretsundaze - Gigantic Impossibly Large (OG's Version)
Sevensol & Bender - Malekula
Black Light - Smoke Street Emotion
SE62 - Night People
Luke Solomon - Light You Up (Louie Vega Organ Mix)
Eliphino - Studio Time
Fred P & SMBD - Angel Dust

forget

Sounds by @avsluta 💫
Visions by @marcomaldarella ❄️

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/avsluta-introspective-electronics-w-avsluta-x-netil-radio-dec-24

TRACKLIST:

María Vélez Gallo - Bria
Suso Sáiz - Memory Crusher
Fan Club Orchestra - Very Long Stay
BZDB - Water
foundation - hypnotism I
Formen - Radius
Lo Five - The Intimacy You So Desire
Memory Noise - L'ora
øjeRum - Bærende På Alle Sine Digte Vandrer Månen Gennem Tågen
Carla Boregas - Vagalhão
BZDB - Your absence, like rain, opens the light; infinite
Aisha Vaughan - No Past, No Present, No Future
Carlos Ferreira - Percurso (Warmth Remix)
Courtesy - Ways of Raving feat. Aaron Altaras and Geoffrey Mak
Shuttle358 - system
John Beltran - Nothing Stays the Same
Donato Dozzy - Valentina
foundation - hypnotism IV

Introspective Electronics w/ Avsluta x Netil Radio | Dec 24

SUPERDANK

IDEAS PERSON

got many requests for this one from a few years back, italy, pic with my love from scilly recently...need sun...relentlessly raining in uk...mixed down on the zahl, think theres better mixes, will upload if i find em,

Zahl am1  live track 1c f760m1 unfinshd

This is a remix of Paper Unicorn from Ochre's album Isolette which actually turned into more of a cover version.  I've been a huge admirer of Chris' work right from his early demos - REM Sleep Research will always be somewhere in my all time top 10 electronica tracks.  

He's continued to release some of the most beautiful and intricate music in the field.  You can find the original of this track, and all his fantastic music at his bandcamp: http://bandcamp.ochremusic.com/

This cover version has been made available to download with the artist's permission.  Thanks to Chris, it's a wonderful piece and I had a lot of fun putting this together.

Unreleased

Paper Unicorn (Digitonal Transcription)

Ochre - Paper Unicorn (Digitonal Transcription)

Available as deluxe hardback book CD:
https://lofive-cis.bandcamp.com
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Lo Five is the ambient electronic project of Wirral-based producer Neil Grant, who has in recent years been steadily crafting a range of melodic and rhythmic sounds that refuse to sit comfortably in the more established pigeon holes of the electronic music spectrum. Various detours into house, horror and hauntology combined with a fascination of the convergence of science and spirituality, memory, relationships and the subconscious mind have all lead to the fruition of his ideas on the forthcoming album, 'Geography of the Abyss’.

Lo Five’s second full length studio album ‘Geography of the Abyss’ is thematically a continuation of Neil Grant’s explorations into advanced states of consciousness and shifts in perception - viewed through the lens of family, memory and time - and augmented by self-inquiry practices such as vipassana meditation and Zen Buddhism.

Structurally it can be experienced as a single piece of music that forms an audio-visual narrative, following a first person perspective journey through uncharted tempestuous/serene inner landscapes - from a point of delusion to ultimate resolution:
awakening, anatta, non-self... whichever term you prefer.

Geography of the Abyss

Geography of the Abyss [preview - part I]

"…memoradelic flashbacks…glinting chord-chimes and gauzy keyboards teleport me to the middle 80s. Another fine addition to the Patterned Air discography, and an unusual listen."
Simon Reynolds, The WIRE

"It’s a kind of rave-reverie made real; the cumulative sum of past experiences, both physical and audiological, condensed into an opaque, hauntingly meditative trip down an imagined lane where the second summer of love’s golden vibes reside, aged but untarnished. Vintage synths and drum machines and a recurring meditation bell summon early Orbital. Remarkable."
Carl Griffin, Electronic Sound Mag

Contact: lofivehq@gmail.com