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MNMT 2022 - Artists Previews

Salute

Somewhere lost deep in the Drôme region of the South of France is a hidden valley which for the past five years, has come to life full of music, art and friendship under the warm sun of Provence. 

For a whole weekend, electronic music accompanies the fields of crickets, and dancers accompany the movements of nature in perfect harmony.

For more information on our festival: https://meliferarecords.com/la-vallee-electrique-festival/

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La Vallée Électrique · 2019 Recordings 🌳

Ambient 🖤

"Ripples of light caught in time,
filtered through layers of digital emotion.
Looking at life through a new lens -
@Inhmost takes us on a journey,
back to a place of Zen." ~ Gav McGrory

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MFIS XXIII ✢ Inhmost

~ Deep Breakfast 135 by Moon Patrol ~

Compiled and mixed by Irina Kotik and Gilles Wasserman  in Brooklyn, October 2021

Tracklist:
01. Inhmost - Woodland View  
02. Kaspiann feat. Multicast Dynamics - Two   
03. KMRU & Echium - Then, Now  
04. Brin, Dntel, More Eaze - Lauren III  
05. Nadia Struiwigh - Nana
06. Descrai - Just A Second  
07. Kodomo - A Brief Light Through The Window  
08. The Vision Reels - Eyes Open  
09. Midori Hirano - Missing Night  
10. Richard Fearless - Vision  
11. Kazuya Nagaya - Heathen
12. Shuttle358 - Frame
13. Lovetrip - Water Simulation  
14. Leif - Seven Hour Flight to Nowhere 
15. Christina Chatfield - Sutro  
16. Descrai - What Is Now Past

@irina-kotik 
www.instagram.com/kotikplus/

@gilleswasserman
www.instagram.com/gilleswasserman/

Photo: Alexa Kayman

Deep Breakfast 135 - Moon Patrol

And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them. -Walt Whitman

Lulling ambiance by @sweet-anomaly

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MFIS XXIX

MFIS XXIX ✢ Sweet Anomaly

Deuter - Sound of Invisible Waters

from my CD "Prayer to Love"
www.parijatmusic.com

Journey To The Center - Prayer to Love

Tvameva By Sudha And Maneesh De Moor

بیش تر از هزار دفعه گوش می دم و بیش تر از هزار دفعه بغض می کنم...

Sacred Earth - Breathing Space  (Grounded)

George Deuter Temple Of Silence

TIKITA007
Artwork: Kais Dhifi
Mastering: Mike at Manmade mastering

Tecken

B. Tecken III

@forest-drive-west is from London, and he’s found a home on adventurous, bass-inclined labels like Livity Sound and Hidden Hawaii over the last few years. His music — a half-dozen mutant techno releases so far — speaks for itself. Here he presents an hour long mix ahead of his appearance at The Bunker at Market Hotel on Saturday April 13. More info: http://thebunkerny.com/events/2019-04-13-the-bunker-with-forest-drive-west-christina-chatfield-antenes

The Bunker Podcast 191

The Bunker Podcast 191: Forest Drive West

Campfire Stories 62 (Quiescence) by @Araceae

~ About The Story ~

Receptive to the pulse of quiet vibration
Quiet, my closest companion sensation
I go down into my silent garden location
Calm and darksitting in isolation

Silence softly speaks to me
Solaces, grasps, I personally with glee
Within the light of the stars truly
Over and above the limits of the earth's whee'

Stillness in the air
Whispers in the wind prayer
Absorb the silence around everywhere
Grasping existence with all its great power

To feel that tune in surround sound
Quiescence is a wellspring of rare perfection found
Knowing the silence and it messages profound
There is a quell, where hath been no hum rebound

Morning sun, nite-time blurring
Serenity of the spirit, of peace purring
First light of the day when nothing stirring
I listen to the twist blow through the trees occuring

Still is the soul ditto mind thrills
The here and now fulfills
My breath develops and my heart stills
It is now, I woke up to hush that silence fills

~ Chapters ~

01 - The Black Dog - Terminal EMA [Soma]
02 -  Araceae - Gleaming Embers [Faint]
03 - The Microphones - My Warm Blood [K]
04  - Autechre - Nine [Warp]
05 - Brock Van Wey - Too Little Too Late [Echospace Detroit]
06 - Hiroshi Yoshimura - Dream [Sound Process]
07 - Jóhann Jóhannsson - Krókódíll [Touch]
08 - Araceae - 9 February 2018 [Faint]
09 - Deepchord - Shot Point [Soma]
10 - Dntel - Pillowcase [Plug Research]
11 - GAS - Narkopop 5 [Kompakt]
12 - Rosetta - Lift (Part 2) [Translation Loss]
13 - Windy & Carl - My Love [Kranky]
14 - Tangerine Dream - Sequence C [Virgin]
15 - The Sight Below - Further Away [Ghostly] 
16 - múm - Stir [Fatcat] 
17 - Seefeel - Through You [Too Pure]
18 - Monolake - Ping [Imbalance Computer Music]
19 - The Microphones - (Something) [K]
20 - GAS - Oktember [Kompakt]
21 - Biosphere - Kobresia [Origo Sound]
22 - SVLBRD - Vessel [Faint]
23 - Araceae - The Natural World [Faint]
24 - Yagya - Rigning Þrjú [Sending Orbs]
25 - Deepchord Presents Echospace - Celestialis [Modern Love]
26 - Hallucinator - Black Angel [Chain Reaction]
27 - Araceae - Above The Primeval Forest [Faint] 
28 - Voices From The Lake - S.T. (VFTL Rework) [Prologue]
29 - The Black Dog - Business Car Park 9 [Soma]
30 - Araceae - Unreleased

This mix also contains hours of field recordings from Araceae throughout 

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Victoria Capece

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 62 (Quiescence) by Araceae

A breathtaking ambient display as Samuel opens the final day of MNMT Festival in the forest of Oslo, Norway.

Read more: https://mnmt.no/blog/2019/07/01/mnmt-festival-samuel/

Festival site: http://festival.mnmt.no

@samuelr94

join us in 2023 ❦

Monument Festival 2019: Samuel

Campfire Stories 67 (We All Float Down Here) by @Cloutier

~ About The Story ~

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. ― Haruki Murakami

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Vlad Bagacian

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 67 (We All Float Down Here) by Eric Cloutier

Unstoppable deep grooves from Prague's rising talent @dash-cz, recorded live at @la-vallee-electrique.

Read more about the festival: https://mnmt.no/magazine/2020/01/20/welcome-to-la-vallee-electrique/

MNMT Recordings: Dash — La Vallée Électrique 2019

Recorded by Slow Dancing Society [@soundofelegance] for The Memoir, 2019.
All tracks written and produced by Slow Dancing Society [@soundofelegance].
Curated by @Hypnus Records.

01. Slow Dancing Society - A Year of Yesterdays [@hidden_shoal]
02. Slow Dancing Society - Spokane Falls [Slow Dancing Society]
03. Slow Dancing Society - Skagit [Slow Dancing Society]
04. Slow Dancing Society - West of 4th (Slow Dancing Society’s “Giving Up the Ghost” Mix) [Hidden Shoal]
05. Slow Dancing Society - The Songs in Your Eyes [@hidden_shoal]
06. Slow Dancing Society - Felt’s Field [Slow Dancing Society]
07. Slow Dancing Society - Chartreuse [Slow Dancing Society]
08. Slow Dancing Society - There’s Nothing In Motion and I’m Satisfied [Slow Dancing Society]
09. Slow Dancing Society - Comstock [Slow Dancing Society]
10. Slow Dancing Society - The Ridpath [Slow Dancing Society]
11. Slow Dancing Society - The Color of Despair [@hidden_shoal]
12. Slow Dancing Society - The Last Spring (An Ocean of Violets) [@hidden_shoal]
13. Slow Dancing Society - Cogency [@hidden_shoal]
14. Slow Dancing Society - The Rising Dark [@hidden_shoal]
15. Slow Dancing Society - Coming Back [@hidden_shoal]
16. Slow Dancing Society - Manito [Slow Dancing Society]
17. Slow Dancing Society - Wander [Slow Dancing Society]
18. Slow Dancing Society - An Invitation (The Drive Home) [Slow Dancing Society]
19. Slow Dancing Society - Rhythm of Love [@hidden_shoal]
20. Slow Dancing Society - Did You Get That? [@hidden_shoal]
21. Slow Dancing Society - What The Day Brings [@hidden_shoal]
22. Slow Dancing Society - At The End of The Bar [@hidden_shoal]
23. Slow Dancing Society - Stone [@hidden_shoal]

Love and light

Buy his music

Page 35: Slow Dancing Society

One very last exquisite, stellar deep techno selection by space pilots @9_beats and @axymt, as a goodbye to our dear and beautiful Vallée.

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9beats b2b Axymt @ La Vallée Électrique 2019

Exquisite selection from the amazing Pool aka @innershapes, recorded last summer at La Forêt stage. 

For the last 45 minutes, she kindly offered @vbcvibrance to join the set for an improvised back-to-back session.

Pool @ La Vallée Électrique 2019

We are thrilled to present to you the recording of Aaron J’s set on the second night of Izvir ~ Formaviva 2019 . Enjoy.

Read more: https://mnmt.no/blog/2019/09/23/mnmt-recordings-aaron-j-izvir-formaviva-2019/

@arn_j

MNMT Recordings: Aaron J – Izvir ~ Formaviva 2019

50 kg of wax, 5 liters of red wine and a big bunch of smiles for an epic morning closing set.

Raken b2b VBC [Vibrance] @ La Vallée Électrique 2019

Absolute bliss of a set, played by our friend-from-the-other-side-of-the-planet @arddhu at the opening of the Forest stage.

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Arddhu live @ La Vallée Électrique 2019

Born in Ploiesti, Romania, on the cusp of the Romanian Revolution, @andusimion’s artistic vision, which encompasses both music and photography, is shaped by the grey blocks of his childhood neighbourhood, industrialisation, and the remnants of a communist era that was receding just as he was arriving in the world. Influenced by the Romanian minimal movement, he has crafted his own distinctive talent for crafting deep, acid-infused journeys.

With releases on Atipic, Insound Recordings, Particular, Palinoia, Stela Music and Polen, Simion is also one third of @Lisiere-Collectif, which he founded with Bogdan Ardeleanu and Dan Gheorghe.

His Patterns of Perception 64 emerges from the aftermath of the sudden loss of his father some weeks ago. The intensity and energy of this set is marked by turmoil and introspection, with higher BPMs and more aggressive mixes reflective of the grief he has been facing. Simion has had this selection of music on repeat since his father’s passing, using its energy to carry him forwards and out into the sunlight again.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/andusimion
https://www.facebook.com/UndoSimion/
https://www.instagram.com/andusimion/
http://andusimion.com/
https://soundcloud.com/Lisiere-Collectif

Photo in artwork from andusimion.com

Patterns of Perception 64 - Andu Simion

It is undeniable that we are living in uncertain times. For those of us failing to fit the patriarchal neoliberalist mould, we have lost hope in the future. We can see capitalism is not working but we cannot yet envisage an alternative. In a world where security is no longer feasible, the only constant we can rely on is change. Regardless of one’s point of reference, we can understand that every aspect of life, physical and mental is in flux and perhaps this transience is the only thing we can depend on.

This month we have invited @saphileaum to ruminate on these ideas and create an hour of relief from these anxieties. A temporary suspension of reality, where the listener can speculate on alternate modes of existence that reject hetero-patriarchal systems of oppression.

Saphileaum is one of the names of Georgian multi-media artist,
Andro Gogibedashvili. The moniker Saphileaum was born in 2015, highly inspired by esoteric, mystic, new age, cosmic and visionary art and teachings, which hold a huge role and are still a source of constant inspiration. Saphileaum’s sound is often described as cosmic,
spherical, light, visionary, innovative, tribal and hypnotic. 

Alongside producing music, Andro also runs the Theosophy label which is focused on spreading the essence of Theosophycal teachings and meditative ambient music in Tbilisi. He also runs his own small imprint based in Tbilisi, which he feels to be more than just a record label, it is a multi-media platform called Expeditions Above, focused on inspecting the inner and outer unexplored dimensions and realms. 

To explore more of Saphileaum's work, please visit: soundcloud.com/saphileaum

The full tracklist and original radio show (with talking) is available here:
cashmereradio.com/episode/transience-31-with-lou-drago-and-saphileaum/

Photography thanks to Janusz Lorent

transience #31 with Saphileaum

🌿 La Vallée Électrique festival
2026 special 10th anniversary edition

At the crossroads of spring and summer, beneath the warm sun of Provence, you are invited to La Vallée Électrique festival. A place where humans and nature blend into an electric symbiosis.

follow the bees ⫸ https://shotgun.live/fr/festivals/la-vallee-electrique-2026

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Melifera Records is a hive of artists and craftsmen.

• deep & dub techno label
• event organisers
• sound-system/scenography services

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Polën is a new label linked to Melifera. This laboratory of soul and spirit brings together musicians working in the fields of ambient and downtempo. @polen-sounds

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contact@meliferarecords.com
https://meliferarecords.com

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🐝 Melifera bees
@artos_eleven, @heliopora, @paul-revee, @hidolas, @gaspard_polar, @inteemate, @natural_limit, @umanyazar, @solarythm_deeptech_side, @nawl_music, @linchius, @shanidvh, @pseudo500, @solmadj, @quentin-bcs, @bobbiwatson, @neuron_no3