Une après-midi ensoleillée ☼

Let's welcome back our dearest @cafe-de-la-jungle to the thirteenth episode of our Herbarium mix series. We are still swaying in hot memory of our recent QEONE x On Board Music night at OHM Berlin and feel that this mix mirrors some bits of his groovy side which he presented back then.

Cafe de la Jungle chose the Monstera Deliciosa for his musical journey here.
What he says about the connection between this plant and his mix: 
The monstera plant's ability to thrive in the rich variety of the jungle, from shadowy undergrowth to sunlit clearings, mirrors my versatile view of electronic music inside the mixtape. Just as the monstera effortlessly adjusts to its surroundings, my mix weaves a sonic journey that spans an array of electronic music genres, from the slow dubby beginning thru more high-energy rhythms towards the melodic end. 
The plant’s adaptability and resilience find reflection in the the mixtape's capacity to traverse musical terrains, providing listeners with a multifaceted journey through the electronic music jungle.

artwork by @polygonia

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Herbarium No 13 - Cafe de la Jungle - Monstera Deliciosa

We are very happy to be able to bid farewell to this year of Introspective Electronics with a deeply personal podcast recorded by the sonic enchantress and a dear friend ~ Amanita 🕊️

Amanita is a DJ and event ptomoter based between Bologna and Berlin. She co-runs the forward-thinking collective and party series Sinestesie in Bologna and across Italy, bringing off-kilter programming to the somewhat homogenous scene of her home city. Alongside her music work, she often works as a stage designer with the Googy Cult project. For Anita, ambient represents the most spiritual part of her sound and soul. It’s where she finds a safe haven and where she always returns when she needs to heal and find inspiration both in music and in life 🔮

This journey, just shy of an hour, was recorded in Anita’s studio in Berlin on a four deck setup and includes some of her most close-to-the-heart records, some of which have been with her since day one. It is a deeply captivating and emotional piece of ambient storytelling, a fairytale of sorts, that hums and crackles and sparkles. That whispers in your ears ancient tales of forest fairies and magick rituals 🧚🏻‍♂️

Sounds by @amanita_p 📿
Visions by @marcomaldarella 🫧

Podcast Series 40 | Amanita

Warm, emotive, and explorative - a set of characteristics that make up the enchanting vision of Zara, one of the most exciting talents hailing from the Australian scene. Whether it’s IDM, drum and bass, or techno, the Kinesis label-head fuses it all with an enigmatic sense of delicacy. Harmonizing the ethereal and the ominous - Zara takes a gentle yet firm grip on minds and souls on and off the dancefloor.

Zara @ Kiosk Radio 05.06.2024

Le duo germano-chilien de chamans  Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer qui réinvente "African Man" avec une science du beat minimaliste, le Londonien Fort Romeau qui injecte un élégant rythme discoïde dans "Go Back"… Entre deep house revival et soul de science fiction, voilà un coup de maître, une véritable extension du domaine du groove du grand maître Tony Allen.

African Man (Villalobos - Loderbauer ZuHouse Remix)

Jan Swam
soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/janswam
instagram : https://www.instagram.com/jan.swam/#

Emilia Grima
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instagram : https://www.instagram.com/_electawu_/

Convoluted Mental Mirror by Jan Swam & Emilia Grima @ GIMIC - 13 November 2024

artist: @beatricemasters & @troisquartstaxisystem
recorded on the 22th of february 2025 (Polar Vortex)
length: 03h00min25s

[Polar Vortex] Beatrice M. & Trois-Quarts Taxi System (full recording) @ essaim, Paris / 22feb2025

This contribution is a very special one, as it marks a new chapter in The Observatory’s sound… 

We will always be a home for ambient and experimental sounds. But, moving forward, we will also be exploring our love for dance music, with a particular focus on the deep end.

To begin this new journey and warm things up, we are so happy to welcome back Timnah, who gifts us with a two-hour recording of her set at Omen Wapta, ADE’24. A mind-bending traversal through ambient, drone, and halftime experiments, exploring the liminal spaces between the listening room and the dance floor.
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Timnah lives, works and feeds the cats in the Northwestern extremities of Switzerland. Brought up in her parents’ jazz clubs and deeply influenced by her brother’s love for dub and soundsystem culture, she started DJing just after the massively feared Millenium Bug had threatened to offset our relation to time and space. Dedicated to drawing her own map of late 20th century sonic landscapes, she spent the early 2000s exploring 90s electronics including breakbeat, triphop, ambient techno, drum&bass, house and jungle. After a short but sweet excursion into producing in the early 2010s, Timnah dedicated herself fully to spinning the wheels and transversing genres, gravitating towards her current signature sound that spans immersive sound baths and intergalactic carpet rides in half-time. Timnah is a member of Amenthia Recordings and a recent addition to the A Walking Contradiction Collective.
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Artist Support:

https://soundcloud.com/timnah-sommerfeldt
https://ra.co/dj/timnahsommerfeldt
https://www.instagram.com/timnah_amenthia

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Timnah @ Omen Wapta, ADE, 2024

RIDOO COLMENA #01

Bass-less structures designed to interact with new surroundings, different rooms and life itself; colouring edges or fading backgrounds.
Saigon 2018

releases May 16, 2025
in vinyl and digital format

composed, produced and mixed by @javiermarimon
remix by @vandmusic

stamp pattern by Javier Marimon

mastered by Vincent Villuis
at Ultimae Studios

klape nunsen 2025

bandcamp

Javier Marimon - Infinite Vault [KLP06] snippets

Auren Klyne, Nomiind & Taruun-You-(Mellon Place Records)

Wane [Minimal Groove Concept]

Luca Lozano is back on Super Rhythm Trax with another EP, this time a vibrant 4 tracker channeling and bringing up to date, influences from the under-celebrated year of 1990, a period where house and techno began splintering off and for a while, the sky was the limit, before the beast of Hardcore swept everyone up and fed them to Jungle. Here, bleeps, breaks and bass collide in an explosion of colour sounding super fresh for 2016.

Inner Peace EP

No Team In Lozano

Susumu Yokota - B1. Saboten

René Et Gaston - Vallée De Larmes

René Et Gaston - Conte De Fées

Founded by https://soundcloud.com/severja in 2014, Midgar Records aims to bring innovative features into modern techno, and to deliver a new and meaningful sound loaded with positive energy. Leaving the trends behind, Midgar has a wide range of interests spanning from Techno to Ambient, IDM and Drum 'n' Bass. A sound that tells stories as people dance.

Midgar Label Nights

23.08.25 - Midgar x Acid Reflux . Berlin
14.08.25 - Midgar x Wigwam . Berlin
05.07.25 - Midgar x useless seconds . Berlin
15.03.25 Midgar & Friends . Berlin
18.01.25 Midgar x Mostra . Berlin
08.01.25 Midgar x Nali . Changsha
07.12.24 Midgar at Mothership . Sydney
06.12.24 Midgar at Miscellania . Melbourne
29.11.24 Midgar x Wigwam . Shanghai
23.11.24 Midgar x yisekai 易世界 . Hong Kong
02.11.24 Midgar x Amenthia at Fitzroy . Berlin
25.10.24 Midgar x Useless Seconds . Paris
06.07.24 Midgar x Patterns of Perception . Berlin
15.06.24 Midgar x High Above . Trekanten . Oslo
08.06.24 Midgar x Mantis . Amsterdam
23.03.24 Midgar x Domus . Bari
16.03.24 - Midgar x Amenthia at Fitzroy . Berlin
14.10.23 - Midgar x Nigma . San Sebastian
09.09.23 - Midgar x Under The Rug . Berlin
01.07.23 - Midgar x Monument . Berlin
08.04.23 - Polygonia, Leena, Lara Palmer . Oslo
12.11.22 - Severja, Wata Igarashi at Acquario . Milano
08.10.22 - Severja, Konduku at Gare . Porto
24.07.22 Midgar x Harmony Rec . Berlin
05.03.22 - Severja, Forest Drive West . Porto
02.10.21 - Midgar x Harmony Rec . Pereira
01.10.21 - Midgar x Harmony Rec . Medellin
09.11.19 - Forest Drive West, Nuel, Retina.it at . Berlin
31.05.19 - Nuel, Jacopo at Utop14 . Madrid
15.02.19 - Von Grall, Jacopo at Moog . Barcelona
18.01.19 - Nuel, Jacopo at Moog . Barcelona
14.12.18 - Ruhig, Jacopo at Moog . Barcelona
08.12.18 - Wata Igarashi, r2π, Ground Tactics . Berlin
17.11.18 - r2π, Ground Tactics at Fuse . Brussels
27.01.18 - Nuel, Ruhig, r2π at Gare . Porto
02.12.17 - Wata Igarashi at Acquario . Milano
20.10.17 - Shaded Explorer . Krakow
15.04.17 - Wata Igarashi at G . Okinawa
12.04.17 - Wata Igarashi at Dommune . Tokyo
08.04.17 - Wata Igarashi at Vurt . Seoul

Susumu Yokota - B1. Saboten

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