Coming across the Aotearoa / New Zealand based duo of Brooklyn Mellar and Ike Zwanikken's Hysterical Love Project has been one of the nicest music related surprises of 2021 for me. Their album, "Endless Bliss Weekener", hits a sweet spot somewhere between the 4AD / Projekt universe and early 2000's / late 90's downtempo. I'm so excited to have them contribute a mix to the series... (which features an unreleased demo of theirs :))


D.A. Dettmar - Pacific Rain Forest
Marco Beltrami - NC-17
Hysterical Love Project - Backseat Of Forever
deepState - Fortune
Not Waving & Romance - While My Heart Is Still Beating
Wladimir M - Planet E
Bowery Electric - Passages
POiSON GiRLFRiEND - Hardly Ever Smile (Without You)
bar italia - angels
Love Spirals Downwards - City Moon
Hugh B & Cousin - Shaft Of Light
Ange Halliwell - Wheat Flag (ft. Malibu)
deepState - Redux
bar italia - how did you get into the building did someone open the door for you 2
Hooverphonic - Inhaler
Meitei - Okue
Hysterical Love Project - 2BC1 (demo)
Chris & Cosey - Eternal
Purelink - Maintain The Bliss
Current 93 - Patripassian


https://soundcloud.com/hystericalloveproject
https://hystericalloveproject.bandcamp.com/album/endless-bliss-weekender

Motion Cast Vol. 76: Hysterical Love Project

𝐌𝐞𝐳𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞 live recording dec 15 2023

𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝐾 @baba_sib open to 1:15:20 
𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙 @moviereal 1:15:20 to 2:31:30
𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑛𝑒𝑑𝑑𝑜𝑛 @jesssned 2:31:30 to end

MEZZANINE : I (𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝐾, 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙, 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑛𝑒𝑑𝑑𝑜𝑛)

Spanning gloomy ambiences, we’re thrilled to close out the year with a mix by millia (@milliamusic), dj and producer originally from Chicago, and 1/3 of Purelink.

‘I have recently been reading up on Krautrock music and scene, and I think this mix reflects that - tracks include old and new finds of German music, stuff that reminds me of it, as well as the usual dub / ambient / etc.’

Artwork by Isidora Amenábar.

FR098 millia (Brooklyn, NY)

Guest mix for Quietudes on Dublab, aired 27th February 2025

All music from the label, past and future

Angelina Nonaj & santebela - if time bends
Slowfoam - Grief Ritual
Chantal Michelle - Amaryllis
NEY - In der warmen Wasserflut
doris dana - ennio’s sonata
Angel R - Untitled II
Man Rei - The Valley
Dania - I Know That (forthcoming) 
Chantal Michelle - Breathing Water ft. Eliana Glass
Mondlane - Solstice
Songs For The Crossing - Live at 90mil (excerpt)
Spool - Four (forthcoming) 
Alliyah Enyo - when my mind is quiet i drift 2 u *water2wine*
Anit Levan - Noise dimensions

Somewhere Press Label Mix ~ Quietudes, Dublab 270225

Softly-spun ambient from New York and Public Records affiliate 320

Q+A + tracklist: www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/75-320

@3_20

Theory Therapy 75: 320

Theory Therapy is a label, mix series and radio show run by Low End Theorists, broadcasting from Sydney. Expect sun-drenched ambient and downtempo-adjacent sounds, inspired by late ’90s/early ’00s labels like Instinct Ambient and Elektrolux, plus unreleased music from artists like Ike Zwanikken, Slowfoam and Ben Bondy. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/theory-therapy-5th-may-2025

Theory Therapy 050525

Rory Bowens heads The Slip on Sunday mornings monthly - squeezing an hour of hazy dub off-shoots, pupil-dilating shoegaze and uncanny dream music.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/theslip/episodes/theslip-4th-may-2025

The Slip 040525

Music to get lost in from London’s Untitled 909 founder

"Music either helps with balancing my emotions or heightening them – soundtracking times of purge (that would now often be through recording a mix) or times of going inwards and figuring out or processing my feelings"

Q+A: https://www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/basic-chanel

@basicchanel

Theory Therapy 78: basic chanel

Surreal reflections from Lyon’s Jonnnah

"Sharing these mixes allows me to step out of introspection and connect with people who are far away, sharing a moment together through sound."

Full Q+A: https://www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/jonnnah

@jonnnah

Theory Therapy 80: Jonnnah

22. Error 404 Eden Not Found (Generative Jam)

This is the 500th consecutive day where a never-heard-before Interbay track has been posted to SoundCloud.  

Often, when I hit a big round number like that, I try to challenge myself to write something at the top of my skill set.  The 100th Interbay music video posted to Facebook had me crafting a track that was inspired by The Beatles' Abbey Road Medley (but ended up sounding nothing like The Beatles and very much like Interbay.)  The 160th SoundCloud Exclusive song, which, when combined with the 140 tracks originally posted to Facebook meant it was the 300th Interbay song had me inspired by Billy Joel's "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" (though, it sounded more like Interbay.)   The 340th SoundCloud Exclusive song, the 500th Interbay song ever let loose from Phantom Laboratories West, was an homage to an early Prefab Sprout song (say it with me, "that sounded more like Interbay.")    

So, I was thinking that I should do the same for today's Interbay track, the 500th SoundCloud Exclusive (in 500 days.)  I was inspired by a YouTube video where David Bennett explained "Negative Harmony" and I wanted to incorporate that in some way--so, I thought I'd be writing a piano tune (as David is, mostly, a Pianist/Composer/YouTuber.)  

However, I opened an Electric Piano instead, figuring I would swap it out for a proper piano once I got the chord progression sussed out.  Except, when I HAD figured out the chord progression, I looked through of the preset sounds and found something that, to me, sounded very interesting--not like an electric piano at all...  

...and then everything went all Interbay on me.  And, honestly, maybe that's more representative of this journey that you've been taking with me.  I'm not really much of a piano player, so why would I commemorate this big round number with a piano composition?  It would be far more "like Interbay" to do some crazy synth pop influenced song that doesn't really sound like synth pop or the 80s or synthwave from recently.    

It just sounds like Interbay.  As it always does.  

For words, I wanted to come up with something profound, but, like the music, I went with my gut instead--and as a few of the songs lately have been written with words a bit more personal, I continued that trend by writing lyrics that described my feelings as having produced and shared my own music for each of the past 500 days.  

And, in case you're curious...I DID write/produce/post 500 songs and I MIGHT write/produce/post 500 more.  (Hopefully that doesn't result on me falling down on anyone's floor.  Da da-la daaaaahhhh!)  

Pardon me, I happened to haver just there.  

No music samples on this track.  Just me, making me-style music. 

It might not be what I'd intended to produce for today...but, I can't imagine anything more appropriate to celebrating so much Interbay with even more Interbay.    

Thank you to you.  If you've ever listened to an Interbay song or given a like, repost, share, comment, playlist or a follow--you've helped me do something that for decades I'd thought impossible--to get back to making music and sharing it with people.  This is becoming my legacy, I suppose...and I'd certainly like to not be forgotten the minute I stop breathing.  

If you feel like helping me do that--follow this page.  And check out some of the Interbay back catalog (you have a LOT to choose from...like 499 other tracks as of today!)  Listen to yesterday's track, "Goodbye My Love," which I think has been unduly ignored by some of you...probably because I didn't tag it as electronic until this morning, when honestly, it IS an r&b/soul/60s pastiche.  I think most people would like it, if they listened to it.  So, I'm asking you to listen to it.

...and this, of course.  Would be ironic if nobody bothered to listen to the 500th SoundCloud Exclusive Interbay track.  Ironic, but not in a good or pleasant way...so, help me avoid that, if you'd be so kind.  

And we'll see you back here tomorrow.

MEZZANINE : I (𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝐾, 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙, 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑛𝑒𝑑𝑑𝑜𝑛)

MISCELLANIA