Konifer mixes for/with friends

This time on the playground we welcome Konifer, Seattle/LA based Dj inspired by landscapes and movement. He began experimenting with electronic music to connect with humid narratives and interpret the world around him. This includes collecting field recordings from exploratory outings, most importantly in the Brazilian Amazon. In 2019, Konifer and longtime collaborator Kinjo launched Rhizome record label, platform for releasing both vinyl and digital music.

Juanitos Playground [03] Feat. Konifer

November 7, 2022

Not The Only Universe is a monthly radio show on C 89.5FM public radio hosted by Rhizome co-founders Kinjo & Konifer. Every first Monday night of the month we debut a new show, exploring the kaleidoscopic soundwaves of emerging international minimal as well as what's bubbling up in our local scene.

This episode is mixed by @konifer b2b @kinjo, recorded live at Kremwerk Oct 7, 2022 during the Makes Me Human one year anniversary party.

1. Summit Dub - Mithra AM (Bryz remix) [Rhizome]
https://www.discogs.com/release/20647639-Summit-Dub-Mithra-AM

2. Glueped - Ixi [Cinetic Art]
​​https://www.discogs.com/release/15201052-Glueped-Peren

3. Dorothy’s Dream - 2.1 [Apă]
https://www.discogs.com/release/15487896-Dorothys-Dream-ap%C4%83002

4. Gustavo Fridman - Dios Habla Hoy [forthcoming on Rhizome]

5. Iar - Oscular [Pleasure Zone]
https://dbh-music.bandcamp.com/album/plz003

6. Parallax Deep - Descending [10YEARS]
https://www.decks.de/track/parallax_deep-10years11/ccf-is

7. Nikdo - Resonans [MixCult Digital]
https://mixcult.bandcamp.com/album/anna-ep

8. Ohm & Kvadrant - Yding (Bluetrain Special Edition Dub) [Kontakt Records]
https://kontakt-records.bandcamp.com/album/ohm-kvadrant-elevated-part-i-steve-osullivan-rmx

9. Farid Odilbekov, Wyro - Tibet [Engineer Records]
https://www.discogs.com/release/15414824-Various-EEE005

10. TIJIN - Maybe [Constant Black]
https://constantblack.bandcamp.com/album/pascal-benjamin-michael-james-benjamin-joseph-tijn-and-nick-beringer-cb-015

11. Arthus - Kaguya [Rhizome Forms]
https://rhizomerec.bandcamp.com/album/blisa

12. Dragosh - Brinit [Brouqade]
https://brouqade.bandcamp.com/album/bqd035-dragosh-brinit-rhadoo-cesar-rmx

13. Soyro - Sajver [self-released]
https://soyro.bandcamp.com/album/silent-dreams-lp

14. Duc In Altum - Modular Magick [Rhizome Forms]
https://rhizomerec.bandcamp.com/album/as-above-so-below

15. Aline Brooklyn & Obee - We [Aline Brooklyn Records]
https://www.deejay.de/Aline_Brooklyn_|_Obee_We_ALNOS03_Vinyl__988429

Ep 31 - "Not The Only Universe" on C89.5FM, by Rhizome

Restless Planet is excited to collaborate with MakesMeHuman for this edition of the Restless Planet Review. This time around we are shining a light on an underground music collective that hosts epic events in the Seattle scene.

Makes Me Human debuted in 2017 and has consistently brought us extraordinary artists from around the world. Alongside partner record label Rhizome Records, they have been trailblazing in the Seattle underground setting the highest standards in releases, sets and parties. From their releases to their popular party series, there is no doubt that Kinjo and Konifer of MMH and Rhizome bring an exceptional minimal electronic music selection.

Join Bunny Ross as he brings you a live unreleased set from Konifer for this installment, alongside some of the gems we’ve been digging over the last two months.


Restless Planet Review: Making Us Human w/ Bunny Ross and Makes Me Human

recorded May 4, 2024 in Los Angeles by @konifer
cover photo by @ellem_blanca

Los Angeles ~ May 2024 ~ Astral HOME Intentions

"Across the expanse of time existed a place so rich in amphibious lifeforms that it continued to challenge and mystify its invaders well into the surrounding planetary transformation. An order of diviners had predicted this place would shapeshift, changing its identity and turning on those who continued to shelter in its dense core. However, that never happened. Even as the invaders seeked to halt, divert, and capture the place's energy arteries and flows, its integrity held, buoyed by the impossible fecundity of unruly life itself. The place's offspring penetrated the minds and paralyzed the bodies of the invaders themselves who realized that their brutal fetishes and charms would inevitably decompose. As that suffocating superstructure fell, its limbs were swallowed, becoming one with the very place it had sought to dismember and destroy."

@konifer
IG: @benja.konifer

Cartographer/artist based in Los Angeles, USA; co-founder of Rhizome Records. Resident for Makes Me Human (Seattle). Lover of all things humid & wavy.

Distant Signals 064: Konifer

art/ecology/activism concept by Konifer + ELLEM

upcoming by Mirror&Web artists:

2025.07.26 Konifer @ LINEA Collective/LOS ANGELES

past Mirror&Web curated events:

2022.08.29 & 09.02 Astral Intentions @ Black Rock Desert/NEVADA
2018.06.01 Mirror&Web x Tremulant pres. Mira @ Timbre Room/SEATTLE
2018.03.23 CCL, Goetic Mirror, Paris, ELLEM @ Timbre Room/SEATTLE
2016.06.26 In2Deep, Naimur, Konifer, ELLEM @ All Due Respect/SEATTLE

Okinawa tidepools and topanga canyons
Reflections on new relations

Together we weave themes of social justice, deep ecology, and mysticism through art and music. The concept encourages participants to see themselves in the Other and feel the Oneness of all things. Mirror & Web is balance between the masculine & feminine, inner & outer worlds, and form & formless. All this is best grounded in kinetic community, dancing with humans and more-than-humans alike.

A state of the mind and way-of-being inspired by days & nights camping on the Olympic Coast, exploring the Ryukyu Islands, and grooving in the Black Rock Desert

wild, present, organic, ecological. We are committed to celebrating life, Nature, and self-expression.