MIMINOIMI podcast

#34
- Meanderings -
by Mystery Circles @Mystery-Circles

“Meanderings” is a mix that drifts through percussive experimentation, fractured rhythms, bold digital textures, soothing ambient + liminal, psychedelic vibes - the name being a nod to my own endlessly wandering listening habits (and the A. Song track, of course). 

It opens with a short field recording captured during a visit to my hometown on the New Jersey Shore - a cold winter November morning in the ocean air, a place I’ve always valued as one of the best to clear my head. This short audio file was simply labeled “bebey,” reminding me that I’d probably been thinking of Francis Bebey’s music during that walk. You can hear me lightly tapping and dragging on the boardwalk railing as I moved, likely inspired by the thought of his brilliant sanza (kalimba / thumb piano) work. Much of Bebey’s music has a hypnotic quality that I deeply resonate with, and "Sanza Nocturne" in particular has a special place as one of my favorite musical statements of all time. It felt right to let that energy guide the opening of this mix.

A quick note: 

The track "Beginner Race" is from the 1984 Atari arcade game Marble Madness. Playing this game in the arcade as a kid was an enormous inspiration. When I think about why I'm so attracted to esoteric music, the inspiration I got from early video games has to be up there. This game in particular - the soundtrack has always "haunted" me (in the best way possible). The only version I have found from the actual arcade game is on YouTube, which is complete with the noise (from what I guess are the chip limitations). Please note: I touched the track up slightly with some EQ and a gentle reverb that builds throughout. 

Marble Madness was the FIRST arcade game with TRUE stereo sound (previous games used monaural or simulated stereo). It ran on Atari System 1 hardware with (mainly) the Yamaha YM2151 chip. That’s part of why its soundtrack has those warm, eccentric digital FM tones that still sound exciting today. 

- Track List -

Field Recording (Jersey Shore Boardwalk)
Francis Bebey - Sanza Nocturne (Ozileka, 1985)
Nicolas Gaunin - Atrea (Moon Glyph, 2021)
A. Song - Meander (Mystery Circles, 2025)
Yasuaki Shimizu - (Coeur Records, 1996)
Botany - Spherical Container (Self Released, 2024)
Mark Tester - Oblivion Rhythms Revisited (Moon Glyph, 2021)
arc rae - Taiko (Mystery Circles, 2025)
kent watari - SHAKKEI (Mystery Circles, 2025)
Brad Fuller & Hal Canon - Beginner Race (From the 1984 arcade game Marble Madness by Atari Games)
Lullatone - Sun Routine (Mystery Circles, 2025)
Tatsuro Murakami - Stunning Fragility (Mystery Circles, 2025)
Hiroshi Ebina - A Sewing Kit She Left (Mystery Circles, 2025)
Field Recording - Solaria Piano A (Captured in Tokyo, 2023) 
Iu Takahashi - Lotus (Regional Attraction, 2021)
Go Outside - Mink (Self Released, 2025)
Cool Maritime - Spring (Leaving Records, 2016)
Almanacs - Coyote Blanco (Mystery Circles, 2022)
The Vernon Spring - SK-1 (Lima Limo Records, 2021)
Yumi Iwaki - Lamp Until You Sleep (Muzan Editions, 2024)
Ryan J Raffa - And Back Around Again (Aural Canyon, 2021)
Dorian Concept - J Buyers (Acoustic Version) (Brainfeeder, 2020)
Nicolas Maldonado & Susan Pineda - Tea House Garden (Self Released, 2024)
H. Takahashi - Emerald (Dauw, 2022)
Unwound - Pardon My French (Kill Rock Stars, 1995)

- Selector -
Mystery Circles
@mystery-circles

adventures in SOUND
synth music / lo-fi / ambient / beats / sound design / textures / etc / etc / etc /\/\/\/\/\/

est. 2017

- Artwork -
www.instagram.com/loid0001/

#34 - Meanderings - by Mystery Circles

#35
- A Quiet Life -
by Carlos Ferreira

"A Quiet Life" is a contemplative sound journey curated for MIMINOIMI, exploring the subtle intersection of electronic textures and organic sonorities. Created from the perspective of active listening, this mix invites the listener into a space of quiet introspection and emotional resonance.
Blending elements of ambient, cinematic soundscapes, trip hop, and drone, "A Quiet Life" unfolds like a slow-motion dream — where field recordings and synthetic layers breathe together, and where each track is chosen for its capacity to hold silence, tension, and warmth.
A sonic meditation for those seeking refuge in detail, texture, and gentle intensity.

- Tracklist -
01. Ryuichi Sakamoto - andata (from "async")
02. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Flight From The City (from "Orphée")
03. Eiko Ishibashi - Evil Does Not Exist (from "Evil Does Not Exist")
04. Carlos Ferreira - Where We Belong (from "flux")
05. Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval (from "TNT")
06. Qoa - Wala (from "Nuyun")
07. Clammbon - tourist on the 未来'n (from "Imagination")
08. Zero 7 - Destiny [feat. Sia, Sophie Barker] (from "Simple Things")
09. Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy (from "The Campfire Headphase")
10. Ayami Suzuki & Carlos Ferreira - Umbilical (from "Umbilical")
11. Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - A Quiet Life (from "Still Smiling")
12. Carlos Ferreira - Surmenage (from "Híbrido")

- Selector -
Carlos Ferreira

Bio:
Carlos Ferreira is a Brazilian experimental guitarist and composer whose work investigates the act of listening as a poetic and political gesture. Through immersive soundscapes built from processed guitar, field recordings, and subtle electronic textures, Ferreira explores the interplay between sound, space, time, and memory.
He is an artist affiliated with labels such as Past Inside the Present (USA), Modern Obscure Music (Spain), and AKP Recordings (USA), and has released music on a wide range of international imprints, including AvantRoots Records, ARCHIVES (Spain), 梅レコード / Umé Records, Beatless Tapes (Japan), Atlantic Rhythms, Aural Canyon, Mystery Circles, Histamine Tapes (USA), and Giraffe Tapes (Georgia), among others.
Carlos has created exclusive live sets for renowned radio platforms like Dublab in Osaka and Los Angeles, and is a regular contributor to Fantaspoa—the International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre—where he presents live re-scorings of silent cinema classics. His remix work includes reinterpretations for artists such as Hinako Omori, Patricia Wolf, and Jonny Radtke.
Driven by an ever-evolving curiosity about perception and sonic narrative, Ferreira’s practice bridges ambient, minimalism, electroacoustic experimentation, and contemporary composition.

- Artwork -
www.instagram.com/loid0001/

#35 - A Quiet Life - by Carlos Ferreira

#36
- Bendita é a onda / 神聖な波 -
by Carla Boregas @carlaboregas

Here's a selection of songs by artists who have inspired me recently. Not much rational thinking, just music that nurtures heart and soul. :)

- Tracklist -
01 - Halim El-Dabh - Leila Visitations Two 
02 - Egil Kalman - Translinear Principle
03 - Natural Information Society - Clock no Clock
04 - Coil - Something
05 - Anelena Toku & Carla Boregas (feat. Juliana R.) - Estilhaço
06 - Lucy Railton - Phase II
07 - Eli Wewentxu - Aire 
08 - Cadu Tenório & Juçara Marçal - Canto II
09 - William Parker & Hamid Drake - Heavenly Walk 10 - Djalma Corrêa - Suíte Contagotas (excerpt) 11 - Carla Boregas - Grafia do Invisível
12 - Abdullah Miniawy - Danza del Ventre رقصة البطن 13 - Maurice Louca - Barĩy (Fera) برٌي 

- Selector -
Carla Boregas @carlaboregas

Carla Boregas is a Brazilian musician and sound artist. By merging the organic and the synthesized, Boregas work spans  composition, improvisation, performance, sound installation and radio art, and aims to transport the listener to different subjective perspectives of time and space, to invoke memories and to reflect about the nature-human relationship.

Among her array of solo and collaborative projects, Boregas co-founded the genre-bending punk band RAKTA; released her solo album “Pena ao Mar” on the Swedish imprint iDEAL Recordings;  is often active in duo with Brazilian percussionist M.Takara; curates Berlin festival and platform Radical Sounds Latin America; and have just released a new album with transdisciplinary artist Anelena Toku called "Fronte Violeta" on Nicolás Jaar' label Other People.

- Artwork -
www.instagram.com/loid0001/

#36 - Bendita é a onda / 神聖な波 - by Carla Boregas

#37
- Samsara -
by koeosaeme @ryu-yoshizawa-1

This mix is composed as a circular journey around the theme of returning. It moves gently through breath, fragmented memories, ritual murmurs, forgotten scenes, and voices that dissolve into air. The word Samsara is interpreted here as a cycle of memory—one that repeats with subtle dislocations. Within this cycle, sound attempts to remember itself, imperfectly—tracing the contours of that elusive phenomenon.

このmixは、「還る」というテーマを軸に円環をなぞるように構成されています。息づかい、断片化した記憶、儀式的なつぶやき、忘れ去られたシーン、空気に溶けていく声へと音は静かに移ろいます。“Samsara”という言葉を、ここでは微かなズレを伴いながら繰り返される記憶の輪廻として捉えました。そのなかで音が音自身を不完全に記憶する現象を辿っていきます。

- Track list -
Sound Ideas - Small Crowd Applauding in Classical Concert Hall
Meara O’Reilly - Hockets for Two Voices:I. -
Andrew Bernstein - A Shadow, Blooming
Paul Lanky, Hannah MacKay - Word Color
Luc Ferrari - 8’16
Chuck Pereda & Natalia Szendro with Pulse Emitter - Meditación
Michael Ranta - Seven Pieces For Three Percussionists Ⅱ (1977)
Joseph Shabason, Ben Gunning - Commanda
CV & JAB - Hot Tub
Nuno Canavarro - Bruma
Orquesta De Las Nubes - Cama Diarmónica
Pyrolator - Pisang
David Slusser - Dragon
Shoeg - Breach
Yuji Takahashi - Mimi no Ho
Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus - Yo
Asmus Tietchens - Teilmenge 38
Ryu Yoshizawa - <to>(∞)
Jan Jelinek - Poren
Mukqs - Dot Life
Pavel Zhagun - 1C
Bartosz Kruczyński - Whisper Ⅱ
Tomasz Bednarczyk - Shimokita
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - South Park
DJ Paradise version - drops in the water
David Cunningham, Yasuaki Shimizu - Lines
---__--___ - To suppress the voice feat. Koeosaeme

- Selector -
Koeosaeme @ryu-yoshizawa-1

Koeosaeme is a Tokyo-based sound artist and composer. His work explores memory, sonic texture, and dislocations in musical structure, navigating the space between intimacy and abstraction. Drawing on influences from 1950s–60s electroacoustic traditions and installation-based approaches, he incorporates elements of contemporary pop nostalgia and experimentalism, releasing works on both domestic and international labels. He is currently developing sound and spatial compositions for galleries and video works.

Koeosaemeは東京を拠点に活動するサウンドアーティスト／作曲家。サウンドテクスチャー、楽曲構造や記憶のズレに関心を持ち、親密さと抽象性のあいだを行き来するような作品を制作している。50〜60年代のエレクトロアコースティックやインスタレーション的アプローチを基盤に、現代のポップノスタルジアや実験性を取り入れ国内外のレーベルから作品をリリースしている。現在はギャラリーや映像向けのサウンド／空間音響作品の制作にも取り組んでいる。

- Artwork -
www.instagram.com/loid0001/

#37 - Samsara - by koeosaeme

#38
- Slippery foot -
by Ayane Sato @ayane-sato

Jonas Mekasの音バージョンのようなことを
日々しております

何か思う前に、ポンポンと録音ボタンをおしてます

6月のスタジオでの様子をもとに、
新たにレコーディングした音が半分くらい

フィールドレコーディング、
カレンダーソング（毎月の曲とカレンダーを作ってみています）、
Bandcampでオープンにしているものが少しだけいます

ゆったりどうぞ

I spend my days doing something akin to a sonic version of what Jonas Mekas did.

I press the record button without even thinking.

In this track, about half of the sounds are newly recorded at the studio in June

The rest consists of field recordings,
calendar songs (I'm making a song and calendar for each month),
and sounds made public on Bandcamp

Please take your time and listen

- Selector -
Ayane Sato @ayane-sato

木管楽器奏者 / 作、編曲 

様々なバンドサポート、レコーディング、楽曲提供やアレンジをする 
現在は、演奏活動、レッスン、制作活動をしている 

楽器制作や絵を楽しんでいる

電子楽器やフィールドレコーディング、物音を取り入れた制作や、
音の提供、ソロの活動もしている

Woodwind player / Composer, arranger

Supports various bands, records, writes and arranges songs

Currently performs, gives lessons and creates music

Enjoys making instruments and drawing

Incorporates electronic instruments, field recordings, and sounds into his productions,
provides sounds, and performs solo.

- Artwork -
www.instagram.com/loid0001/

#38 - Slippery foot - by Ayane Sato

-Adventurous music
-Connecting and exchange
-Diverse collaborative projects

MIMINOIMI (from JPN), the organizer of the festival Ambient / Week, is now launching a podcast.
With a focus on introducing adventurous music, building creative networks domestically and internationally, and fostering collaboration across diverse fields, MIMINOIMI aims to bring these goals to life even further. Along with producing live shows and talk events, MIMINOIMI is launching the ”MIMINOIMI podcast”.

In the post-pandemic era and the age of streaming, the diversity of online music platforms has reached new heights. In this context, the "MIMINOIMI podcast" serves as an experimental space that complements live events, supporting new forms of music distribution, connection, and development.

The podcast will feature a range of content, including ambient mixes by DJs, intimate music selections from musicians’ bedrooms, and various discussions and interviews related to sound and music. These will be shared from multiple angles on SoundCloud.