Ambient selections 2020

Made this mix while traveling through Japan. Its meant for meditative zones. 

tracklist :::

glow/sing - "Under Over"
H Takahashi - "Bathtub"
Panabrite - "Disentigrating Landscape" (excerpt)
Mirage - "Prism Night"
Healing Properties - "Plausible Worlds"
Casino Gardens - "Deep World"
Inner Travels - "Untitled" (excerpt)
Michiru Aoyama - "日本の空気 / Air of Japan - [音は光る / The Sound Is Shining]"
Electric Sound Bath - "Faeries Mist"
Visible Cloaks - "California Images 1-5" (excerpt)
Hakobune - "CurtainsFar Seen"
Opaline - "Momodani"

Sky Gardens (Japan Mix)

Selections by Heavy Breathing: follow @paradiseisafrequency for more 🌀

"No beginning - no end, crystal lights, solid moments, subtly changing form."

*This mix can be used for meditation, massage and other activities for which a serene, fluid aural background is appropriate*

The Entrance To Creation:  Sacred Gems

@nts_live
Tracklist
East - Lélegzet 
Barry Cleveland - Abrasax
Renato Anselmi - Mercato Fenicio
Ron Boots - Breath The Living Air 
Francis Moneyman - Getting Ready 
Jean-Luc Ponty - Dreamy Eyes 
Suzanne Ciani & Vangelis - Malibuzios 
Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Draußen Vorbei 
Unknown - Untitled 
Jon Anderson - QoQuaq En Transic / Naon / Transic To 
Blair French - Trans Earth Injection 
Camel - Changing Places 
Jorge Reyes - A La Izquierda Del Colibri 
Warren Defever & Johnny Evans - Infinity Mirror 
Renato Anselmi - Foro Romano 
Michel Magne Éléments - Voyage En Eau Profonde 
Osamu - Yesterday & Karma 
Rhucle - Cicada 
Paul Winter Consort - The Promise Of A Fisherman (Iemanja)
Gianni Sposito - Zach 
Wally Shorts - Clouds 
Jorge Reyes - Sazilakab 
Tornado Wallace - Healing Feeling 
Amakudari - Caves 
David Darling - Bells & Gongs

NTS Show 37

Sounds of the Dawn Guest Host Northern Ashram NTS Radio December 9th 2017

New transmission from Tokyo based producer Ultrafog for our 19th edition. Recent favs from orbiting artists, some of his own music and other congruous wavs all to be heard within. Delighted to welcome him to the series and soon to the label!

https://soundcloud.com/ultrafog

Motion Cast Vol. 19: Ultrafog

Elephants grumble and roar at night at a salt lick in the forests of Malaysia. Listen with headphones to hear the ultra low-frequency rumbles.

Ulu Muda

Elephants at a Salt Lick

Elephants at a Salt Lick - Ulu Muda, Malaysia

Aboutface Live presents – The king of a hundred streams (2018)

​Performed Live at 'and not or', Bristol 25.03.2018
Broadcast on NTS radio 6th April 2018
Full concept: https://www.aboutfacemusik.co.uk/king-of-a-hundred-streams

Field recordings and images from the Roseland Peninsula, Cornwall. Akari Yasuda dropping inks in water and reciting passages from the Tao Te Ching.

​‘Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better;
It has no equal.
The weak can overcome the strong;

The supple can overcome the stiff. Under heaven everyone knows this, Yet no one puts it into practice.’

- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. (6bc, chapter 66)


A two-part performance, augmented oil painting and mixed media collage that explores the relationship between technology and nature, using the conceptual transposition of Boolean logic gates used in circuitry, onto the rugged natural landscape of the Roseland Peninsula, Cornwall, with an aim to propose two scenarios of the future: how increased automation and technological advances may lead to conservational utopia, or the decline of the ecological environment and subsequent synthesis of nature.

Aboutface Live Pres. The King Of A Hundred Streams- 'And' (Live from and not or)NTS

alo - Encuentro Con c-

Hello dear friends. Today, let's welcome Saphileaum for the 21th episode of the Stellar Series.

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia. The project was influenced by the pulsating local techno scene and strongly inspired by foreign artists like Anthony Linell / Abdulla Rashim, Acronym & Luigi Tozzi. He found his own style in deep and atmospheric techno, intepreting this in a more consciousness-expanding way while combining a variety of ambient and hypnotic soundscapes. Constantly pushing new releases on labels like NORITE, Controlled Violence and Lett Records, Saphileaum has also played alongside techno veterans like In Aeternam Vale and Stanislav Tolkachev in the past.

Here, Saphileaum provides a list of ambient, tribal and rhythmic  hypnotic soundscapes. Dive deep into the realms of esoteric and theosophical forest with the man who "sees people as they are and not as they pretend to be". 

Photo taken by Andro Gogibedashvili in Racha, Georgia.

Follow him : @saphileaum

Stellar Series Episode 21 - Saphileaum (Journey To The Temple Of Dedication)

@nts_live
Tracklist
The Sounds Of Nature - Night Birds	
Don Campbell	- Crystal Rainbows	
Steven Ridley - Soft Soundings	
Andy Portman - Vision Of Forever	
David Collett - Balance	
Deuter - Land Of Enchantment	
Growing Concern - Endless Landscapes
Chuck Jonkey - Drums Of Light	
David & Steve Gordon - Still Waters, Clear Sky	
Sat-Kartar Kaur - Healing Sounds Of The Ancients XII Narayan

NTS Show 48

Sounds of the Dawn NTS Radio October 13th 2018

NTS Show 53

Sounds of the Dawn NTS Radio March 2nd 2019

Playing with live instruments, samplers, drum computers, CDJ’s and more, this was one of the most special TSS episodes up to date. The Freerotation Festival regular and NTS Radio resident @aboutfacemusik brought pure bliss to the RLR studio.

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSB2yTyUC8Y

Aboutface (live) _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #37 pt. 2

Mysteries of the Deep, Chapter C. Space in the Sun by Sébastien Robert.
Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Akio Suzuki constructed the Hinatabokko no kukan (Space in the Sun) in 1988. This space consists of two huge parallel walls, in between which the artist can sit all day and purify his hearing by listening to the reflected sounds of nature. This space leads the artist to discover a new method of listening. Suzuki himself comments, "Sound, which had been conceptually imprisoned in various spaces, is freed to circle the world."

Tracklist:
1. Af Ursin - De Tweede Persoon  
2. Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974 (I)
3. Adham Shaikh and Tim Floyd ‎- Estuary
4. Coil - The Mothership & The Fatherland 
5. Waveform Transmission - V 2.0-2.1
6. Zoviet France - Ascend A Fall
7. Tomaga - The Whitest Light 
8. Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda - Do Ko Ka Ra 
9. Ligovskoï - Thessalonians 
10. Andrea Belfi - Syncline 
11. Ultrafog - Trace
12. Matthias Puech - Un incontro notturno
13. Basses Terres - Unreleased
14. Pariah - Pith
15. Tim Hecker - In Mother Earth Phase 
16. Terre Thaemlitz - Subjective Loss, Day 83
17. Matthias Puech - Sculpté au fond de la fontaine, un visage d’enfant
18. Material Object - Earlier Reflections (E. Honda Remix)
19. Basses Terres - Unreleased
20. Exael - Bundle

https://soundcloud.com/sebastienrobert

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter C

Mysteries of the Deep C - Sébastien Robert | Space in the Sun

DJ sets from our Ambient / Experimental music event in Bristol.

Leif , Joe and myself all sharing the turntables in between live sets from @aboutfacemusik (live set broadcast on NTS -https://soundcloud.com/aboutfacemusik/aboutface-live-pres-the-king-of-a-hundred-streams-and-nts-radio )

@leifsounds
@untilmyheartstops

And Not Or #1

And Not Or March 2018 - Leif, Joe Ellis & Dan Thorman

Opening DJ set from Organik Festival 2019. Over the duration I revisit themes expressed across various mixes released throughout the last year. It was such an honor to play this incredible festival, and I hope to return in the future.

Featuring selected tracks by The CHI Factory, Biosphere, Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourrière, Aleksi Perälä, Drexciya, Donato Dozzy, Archivist, Ekin Fil, CV & JAB, Mind over MIDI, Ancestral Voices, ASC, Sam KDC, Alva Noto, Unjin, Cyme, Pariah, O Yuki Conjugate, KWC 92, Mark Van Hoen, Toki Fuko, Sylvia Monnier, Skee Mask, and many others.

@smokemachinetaipei

Organik 2019

Grant Aaron | Organik Festival 2019

Myself, Leif and Joe Ellis playing records at our ambient party, And Not Or, at The Island in Bristol last year.

No tracklisting but i'm sure we can help you out if you're clucking.

And Not Or #2 - Leif, Joe Ellis & Dan Thorman

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CIX. Drones for Peace by Ario (@astralindustries). Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

This mix features selected tracks by Popol Vuh, Arecibo, Cedric Stevens, Bernard Parmegiani, Andrew Liles, Matthias Puech, H.Takahishi, The Lotus Eaters, Blazej Malinowski, Oisel, If Thousands, Daughter of the Industrial Revolution, and Waveform Transmission.

http://facebook.com/arioastral

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CIX

Mysteries of The Deep CIX - Ario | Drones For Peace

@syberkid

~ Tracklist ~

Pure Gamma - Astral Plane
L.S.G. - Part 04
Ligovskoï - Esam
Heavenly Music Corporation - Riding Windhorse (Buddhafields)
Pete Namlook - Travelling Without Moving (Trip 02)
Orson - Garzweiler
Boreal Massif - Angel Of Dub
Rrose - Saliva
Acronym / Kali Malone - Tarmar
Raroh - Fender American Standard Stratocaster 
Jet Chamber - Calm Box
Neel - Life On Laputa Regio
Henning Baer - Blue Neon
Desroi - Lodwar
Air - Clearing Your Head
Oliver Lieb - Spooky Action At A Distance
Alan Backdrop - Shan
Pellarin - September (Ambient Mix)
Ancestral Voices - Yam

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This mix is the live recording of my set at Free Movements on the 28th of September 2019. I really enjoyed playing this set, sat in a cozy dark room, with my friend Hanzo’s psychedelic visuals swirling on a mesh backdrop behind me.  

This is the first time I've played a Deep Mind Music set out where it felt like everyone was totally dissolved in the music. There's times where it's more appropriate for ambient music to wash into the background of conversations, such as in a chill out space at a rave, but for what I'm aiming to do with this music, I feel it connects more deeply with total absorption into the sound.

I realised there’s three Pete Namlook tracks in this mix, which is a strong indication of how much his music means to me. Including an all time favourite, ‘Calm Box’ which he made with Atom Heart in 1996 as Jet Chamber. It sounds like gently pulsating orbs of light flickering in an infinite expanse of darkness. Pete is a truly incredible artist, whose otherworldly music has touched the lives of so many people. A spirit our world is lesser without, RIP. If you don’t know Pete Namlook’s music or amazing label FAX, I couldn’t recommend having a dig highly enough.

I have to say, I’ve been feeling kind of disconnected from the world this past month. Introspective and far away. Ambient music is something I retreat into when I’m feeling insular, and it means more to share this mix now than when I recorded it in September. I hope this mix gives you a space to breathe, to dissolve into a hologram of sound, and carry you through whatever you’re going through. 💙

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Deep Mind Music

Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.11

@janefitz and I really do enjoy doing our B2B sessions. There's a scant amount of planning that goes in to these other than maybe an overarching idea of what we want to start and end with, and maybe a couple Discogs links for reference points mixed in. But that is literally it. We trust each other, and we're confident we can do it, and do it damn well. As always, she's on the audiences' right, I'm on the left, and we go one-for-one the entire time. No escape!!

This recording from October of 2019 at OHM in Berlin is her and I opening the party from zero and doing six hours of tension building hypnotics. Many thanks to the @patternsofperception crew for allowing us to do this, and for letting us use the Rane 2016 even though you've never touched one before.

Enjoy!!

Jane Fitz & Eric Cloutier - B2B At OHM 25.10.2019

Delicate textures and wistful atmospheres.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=710

@nadia-khan-10

Ambient selections 2020

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