Anti-Gravity, Suspension, Out-of-body, the zone, soundbath sometimes in an actual bath

Soundbath, out-of-body, dreaming and vibing from within your vessel

Purelink have been described more than once as an "ambient boy band." (They themselves say "jam band.") It's not meant dismissively—the American trio purposefully mean to function as a band, even if their main instruments are laptops. Ambient might not quite cut it as a descriptor, though. The group's music crosses eras and scenes, touching on the late '90s clicks & cuts boom as well as the billowy ambient techno put out by labels like 3XL, West Mineral Ltd. and NAFF. 

Their most recent LP, Signs, released on enigmatic imprint Peak Oil (and one of our favourite albums of 2023), is especially impressive, made of stuttering rhythms and glassy textures. In other words, it's ambient-not-ambient. While members Concave Reflection, kindtree and Millia have all made excellent music on their own, something special happens when they come together.

Purelink's RA Podcast is another stellar contribution to our post-New Year's tradition, where we highlight a more laid-back sound to soothe weary minds and frazzled brain cells after the heavy holiday celebrations. This is 90-plus minutes of intricately textured downtempo, dub techno and even UK garage, all cut through with a floaty, almost drowsy quality, with plenty of exclusives and unreleased cuts from the likes of Nick León, James K, Downstairs J and more. It highlights Purelink's position as a bridger of worlds, sounds and tempos.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/917

RA podcast

RA.917 Purelink

from Matthewdavid's Mindflight - "Ashram" is the first release in a series of modern New Age music from Leaving Records. Purchase ltd. edition cassette and digital here: http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/matthewdavid-mindflight/ashram


Matthewdavid's Mindflight - Dancing Ganesh (feat Nora Keyes)

https://the-hum.com

K. Leimer - Field Characteristics
Joseph Celli - Organic Oboe
John Hassell - Blue Nile 
Ami Shavit - Alpha 6
J D Emmanuel - Focussing With 
Jocy De Oliveira - Wave Song Para Piano E Fita  
Luciano Cilio - Della Conoscenza 
Riccardo Sinigaglia - Riflessi
The Glass Orchestra - Untitled 1
Iasos - Cloud Prayer 

Petals of Vishuddha - A The Hum Mix for Sounds of the Dawn

Adrian Rew Sustain Release 2016 ambient tent mix

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXIV. Awaiting New Leaves by Plant43.

Tracklist:
1. Plant43 - Frond of Stars (Semantica)
2. Maggie Payne - Hikari (Root Strata)
3. Mammifer - Caelestis Partus (SIGE Records)
4. Disasterpeace - Puzzle (Not on Label)
5. Triptikon - Crucifixus (Century Media)
6. SQÜRL - Please Feel Free to Piss in the Garden (ATP)
7. Plinth - Drift (Clay Pipe)
8. M Ostermeier - Flying South (Voxxov Records)
9. Don McGreevy - Anooyances Ala Satie (Not on Label)
10. Michael Price - Budapest (Erased Tapes)
11. Alva Noto - Xerrox Helm Transphaser (Raster-Noton)
12. Oren Ambarchi - Fever, a Warm Poison (Touch)
13. Shane Carruth - I Used to Wonder at the Halo of Light Around My Shadow and Would Fancy Myself One of the Elect (erbp)
14. Jo Johnson - Words Came After Music (Further)
15. Cygnus - Cosmos II (Biosoft Records)
16. Main - Hz VI: Neper, Part III (Beggars Banquet)
17. Fear Factory - Ascension (Liquid 8 Records)
18. Plant43 - The Lightening Veil (CPU)
19. Claire M Singer - Eileen - Featuring Paul Anderson (Touch)
20. Yrsel - Instinctual Drive Renunciation (Aurora Borealis)
21. Oren Ambarchi - Inamorata (Touch)
22. James Blackshaw - Sunshrine
23. Biosphere - The Things I Tell You (Arigo Sound)
24. Yko - Minako - Bee Mask Remix (Akō)
25. Main - Hz: Haloform, Part III (Beggars Banquet)
26. Biosphere - Hyperboria (Arigo Sound)
27. Earth - Mirage (Southern Lord)
28. Kuedo - As We Lie Promising (Planet Mu)
29. Earth - The Dry Lake (Southern Lord)
30. Alva Noto - Xerrox Radieuse (Raster-Noton) 
31. Fhloston Paradigm - The Hour (Planet Mu)
32. Outer Space - 11:38 (Spectrum Spools)
33. John Brooks - Pocket Fire (More Than Human)
34. Alva Noto - Monophaser 2 (Raster-Noton)

https://soundcloud.com/plant43

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast Chapter LXIV

Mysteries of the Deep LXIV - PLANT43 | AWAITING NEW LEAVES

Lavender Daydream

Single from Water Memory, out December 21st 2017.

preorder: mlesprg.bandcamp.com

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Water Memory began as an imagination of the feelings that are floating through the natural world around us. It morphed and cycled and gained memories of my own which are now contained like those in all bodies.

Water Memory 1

Name: Dov Fischer
Alias: Sis Girl (@sisgirlpgh)
Pronouns: They/Them 
Location: Chicago and Pittsburgh

Influences: Grace Jones

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Resident and promoter for MESH

Favorite Quote: "I am not here to entertain straight people" - Sarah Schulman 

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Just keep doing you because no matter how many people hate on you and put you down being who you are is the only thing that matters.

Tracklist - https://www.facebook.com/DaisychainPodcast/posts/395951984162412

Daisychain

Daisychain 006 - Sis Girl

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L.I.E.S. Takeover - Terekke - Saturday 24th February 2018

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/leif

∙ MAX ROACH - JANUARY V
∙ WACLAW ZIMPEL - BREATHING ETUDE
∙ ROBERT A A LOWE - TAJDAJ ONDOJ
∙ COS/MES - FROM OTHER SPACE
∙ SALM - PSALM 103:1-2
∙ EKOLALI - DOGGERLAND
∙ COLOURS OF INFINITY - ORANGE SKY
∙ HOWIE B - AWAY AGAIN
∙ INDOOR PLANTS 🌿 - SOLOVUSHKA
∙ EX-TERRESTRIAL - SPATIAL DUB
∙ MIDNIGHT FUNK ASSOCIATION - CODE
∙ GAMAYUN - C MUSIC 🎶
∙ JESSE - DESERT MIX
∙ LEIF - ???? ¿?? 
∙ OMAR SOSA & SECKOU KEITA - PEACE KEEPING
∙ TORTOISE - FOUR DAY INTERVAL

Blowing Up The Workshop

85 ◆ Leif

Live jam from Hypnotic Spa—March 15th 2018 alongside Mr Curtains.
An exquisite monthly chill-out, ambient, downtempo, etc. night at Mood Ring run by Maxime and Sean. 
Free dl.

Hypnotic Spa Live

diane - wild sister

@deep-mind-music vol. 2

~ Tracklist ~

MLO - In Search Of Lost Time - Part 1	
buttechno - 808 ambient pieces	
James Plotkin - Plunge
Montibus Communitas - The Pilgrim Under Stars
System 7 - Jupiter! (Feed Your Head Mix)
The 7th Plain  - Chords Are Dirty
LFO - Kombat Drinking 
Aphex Twin - Parallel Stripes
Sync24 - Walk On Spheres
Thomas Fehlmann / Terrence Dixon  - Landline
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Decompression
Laraaji - In Continuum	
Isolde & Isobelle - Sophia Looks Down.	
Dechirico - Running Inside the Machine Part III
Pauline Anna Strom - Spatial Spectre
Bary Center - Indifference
Acronym - And Then There Was Nothing
Commodity Place - Soils	
Bochum Welt - MVS
MLO - Ghost
Tetelepta - Land
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Terpene

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I've been planning to expand upon my first Deep Mind Music mix for a long time now, but it's difficult to whittle down hundreds of tracks that could work into one mix. I was asked to play an ambient set at a small festival my friends organise, and this provided the framework to shape my sprawling playlists into a cohesive set. 

I played at 2.30am sitting on the floor of a small geodesic dome lit up with oil and water projections. This is the live recording of the set.

Enjoy :)

Deep Mind Music Vol.2

This is Surroundings.

For our new series with Shure we follow three artists as they create new music from the sounds of their cities. Featuring Flava D in London, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith in Los Angeles and Honey Dijon in Berlin.

We travel to Los Angeles to meet experimental synth composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. We followed Kaitlyn on a trail through Millard Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains. Capturing the sounds of footsteps, birdsongs, rustling branches and much more, Kaitlyn then returned to her home studio and ran the recordings through synthesisers creating new shapes and tones. The end result is a blissful ambient track built entirely from sounds recorded on the hike with nothing else added.. Watch the full process here: crackm.ag/2w2TDCT

Kaitlyn recorded her surroundings using a Shure MV88 iOS mic which you can find out more about here: crackm.ag/2uznSk4

SURROUNDINGS002: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Sunset Ridge

Recording of my Live set @Love.letters Hypnotic Spa event inside of Mood Ring BK,NY

OT Ambient Live Hybrid Set @ Hypnotic Spa

The debut album by RUSSELL E.L. BUTLER (@russellelbutler) entitled "The Home I'd Build For Myself And All My Friends" releases on Left Hand Path November 15, 2018.

PREORDER / BUY: https://lefthandpathwax.bandcamp.com/album/the-home-id-build-for-myself-and-all-my-friends

In ten tracks across 60 minutes and two LPs, and featuring original artwork by Muzae Sesay, Butler presents a vision of an imagined future: "techno" in the truest sense, in its original sense. Wrought of hope and the spirit of resistance, The Home I'd Build For Myself And All My Friends recalls techno's emancipatory, Afro-futurist roots. Written in the aftermath of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland in December 2016, the album is infused with an immediacy, a viscerality, unmatched by its contemporaries. 

Tempo and tenor vary throughout, making the record an engaging, dynamic listen. "Builder" is a slow burn, a roller for breaking hearts on the dancefloor. "No New Neighbors" is tense, upbeat, and sparse, built around a taut bassline. "These Seeds" runs slow, ideal for twisted afterparties. "Cure Water" is three minutes of unbridled passion, a beatless cosmic otherworld. The album finishes on a high note with its eponymously titled track: uptempo, intensely percussive, and almost overwhelmingly beautiful. 

To Chelsea, Johnny, Joey, Cash, Griffin, Barrett, Micah, Jonathan, Feral, Kiyomi, Draven, Hanna, Peter, Vanessa, Edmond, Billy, Jennifer, Michele, Nicholas, Jenny, Amanda, Denalda, Alex G., Nick, Jsun, Michela, Wolfgang, Sara, Ben, Travis, Ara, Em, Chase, Donna, David, and Alex V.: This is for you. We remember you. We honor you. We love you.

PRE-ORDER

Russell E.L. Butler / Cure Water (LHP-006)

This winter we bring in Farplane, the fusion of Chicago-based DJs sold and Hi-Vis, playing across the spectrum of psychedelic electronic sounds to induct ecstatic trance states. They conduct the deep listening portion of Eris Drew's Motherbeat raves, and co-run their own rave Neon Falls. sold also co-runs the party Relate and works at Gramaphone Records. Hi-Vis operates the mix series Beyond / Below and Jacktone Records' sublabel Dreamtone.

We are honored to celebrate the recent union of these two souls through their collaborative mix, where we are guided through the slow steady coming of a hazy dawn. The arc of ethereal wistful melodies interwoven with pulsating morse code-esque percussion conjure up cinematic moments filled with sentiments of longing, mystery and infinite love.

FOR Q & A: https://coneshapetop.com/cst-radio-1/2020/2/6/hi-vis-and-sold

CST RADIO NO. 12 | FARPLANE (SOLD & HI-VIS)

Juanita's mix 009 with Bookworms @bookworms

Q. How would you describe yourself? (Producer, DJ, artist, etc...)
A. All of that

Q. How long have you been involved in the NY music scene?
A. For 8 or 9 years

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A.  I tried to not use beats. It's like a no beats mix because all the clubs are closed. It's not fully ambient, but everything is a lil softer.

Juanita's Mix 009: Bookworms

An hour of music, laughter and spirituality.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=733

@laraaji

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.733 Laraaji

Music for Plants (along with a video) was first shown at Public Access TV's Ambient Café (July 9th, 2020).

LAWRENCE - MUSIC FOR PLANTS (I+II)

DJ / Intermedia Artist / Sweet Abyss
 
Weaving together abstracted grooves across genre, BPM and era, Malzof’s sonic journeys intersect with realms of ambient, experimental, house, techno, and beyond. Their sets enchant the dance floor with blissed-out beats, freakyfun vocals, and environmentally enhancing percussive soundscapes, ultimately showcasing their passion for storytelling, sampling, community collaboration, & dancing.
