lucidity

For more info and an in-depth interview with ASC, see http://asip.me/isolatedmix45



isolatedmix 45 - ASC

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter XX. Slow Drowning by Vanessa Irena.

A soundtrack to drowning on dry land.

1. Olivier Messiaen - O Sacrum Convivium! (excerpt) 
2. Richard Pinhas - Iceland (Part 2) 
3. Andy Stott - Sleepless
4. ERAAS - Circling
5. Mika Vainio - Frieght
6. COIL - Rosa Decidua
7. The Haxan Cloak - Dieu
8. Black To Comm - Thrones
9. Dalglish - 6.8.2002
10. Die Klopferbande - Massen
11. Brighter Death Now - Grave
12. Sun O))) & Ulver - Eternal Return
13. Vatican Shadow - Muscle Hijacker Tribal Affiliation
14. Attrition - The Visitor
15. Cloaks - Desolate Turves 1st
16. Sleep Chamber - A Distant Cry
17. Aphex Twin - Domino

https://twitter.com/knifesex
https://soundcloud.com/the-harrow

Mysteries Of The Deep XX - VANESSA IRENA | SLOW DROWNING

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter XXV. Sonic Levitation by Chris SSG.

Music for bruised heads and tired souls.

Tracklist:
1. Tod Dockstader - “Floating Up”
2. Maggi Payne - “Shimmer”
3. Laurie Spiegel - “Appalachian Grove I”
4. Jo Johnson - “Words Came After Music”
5. Justin Walter - “Western Tears”
6. Brett Naucke - “Rilea”
7. Ken Camden - “Eta Carinae”
8. Pulse Emitter - “Shamanic Pictographs”
9. Imaginary Softwoods - “Eye Color”
10. Steve Hauschildt - “Backwards Glance”
11. Gunnar Haslam - “Meter By Me, Sybil”
12. Dopplereffekt - “Z-Boson”
13. Cliff Martinez - “Rubber Head”
14. Outer Space - “The Planck Era”
15. Forma - “Forma 358”
16. Tod Dockstader - “Float Down”

https://soundcloud.com/mnml-ssgs

Mysteries Of The Deep XXV - CHRIS SSG | SONIC LEVITATION

http://asip.me/isolatedmix50

So here we are. Half-a-century of isolatedmixes. Each, a window into the world behind ASIP; an insight into the inspirations and passion behind the site and label over the past six years, and beyond.

I always set out to keep the series exclusively for artists who’ve had a profound impact on ASIP and I’m glad I’t’s stayed that way. We’ve been lucky enough to host heroes of the genre, legends, new-comers, friends and innovators over the years, and each one is special in its own right.

Ulrich Schnauss provided the very first isolatedmix (fittingly so) but as soon as I realized the series, I started making lists of artists I dreamt would contribute, and bvdub was up top. Brock’s music is unique, and as close to perfection in my world, striking a balance of euphoria, emotion and musical progression in every production.

Many of you would have heard Brock’s music if you follow this site in any shape or form, but I’m pretty sure there’s lots of who you haven’t heard a mix from Brock – they’re as rare as they come.

Brock turned me down a few times before agreeing to do this mix. Mainly because a mix to him, isn’t about sitting down for hours, maybe days and carefully crafting an hour-long journey (like it is for most of us). For Brock, he needs to be in the right state of mind; the right period in his life. Mixes zap him of energy, and if the inspiration isn’t there he wont force it.

Let’s just say the stars aligned on this one. Some true inspiration that led to the mix; an emotional moment that unfurled; and a unique and original approach, led to Brock pouring his energy into a personal journey in the most unforgettable and special way possible.

Thanks to Brock for this rare opportunity and insight into his world and to everyone who has contributed, listened, commented and downloaded the series so far. Here’s to the next 50.

isolatedmix 50 - bvdub: Sleep Tight, Ono

Track notes and download: http://asip.me/isolatedmix56

Tracklist:

01. Jerry Goldsmith - Outland Main Titles
02. Claudio Gizzi - Old Age For Dracula
03. Queen - In The Space Capsule (Love Theme)
04. Steve Moore - 248 Years
05. Philip D'Aram - La Valse Grinçante
06. Gary Numan - Down In The Park (Night Sequels Tweak)
07. Night Sequels - All Cats Are Grey (Previously Unreleased)
08. Night Sequels - Mainstreet Meltdown (Previously Unreleased)
09. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Psychic Love Damage (Night Sequels Remix Mk. II) (Previously Unreleased)
10. Brian Grainger - Swamp Bike (Re-synthesized by Night Sequels) (Previously Unreleased)
11. The Beach Boys - Feel Flows (Night Sequels Treatment)
12. Night Sequels -  Star Car Bizarre (Previously Unreleased)
13. Valentyn Silvestrov - Der Bote
14. Tones On Tail - Rain
15. Schubert - Trio in E-flat (Drenched)

isolatedmix 56 - Night Sequels:  Listen To The Ni - Fi

Welcome to the 27th chapter of the Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. This monthly released podcast brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer. 

This month set is mixed by Ryan Griffin, owner of A Strangely Isolated Place.

An introduction:

I rarely approach mixes with a concept in mind and often find them developing organically in the process. I did however, want this mix to be a deep journey, which was hard, as I've been listening to lots of melodic synthesizer music recently, so I had to get in the right mind-set for it. I started to picture space, and was partly inspired by this video for an Alva Noto track which is a spectacular combination of imagery and sound. The mix ended up being an accompanying soundtrack to some kind of failed rocket launch - starting with optimism, becoming more intense, experiencing glitches and more dramatic moments along the way, and finally falling back down to earth and more recognizable, familiar ground. It's a little cliché for an ambient mix- but I find it extremely relaxing to picture a journey along the way and felt this one came together quite nicely if listened to as a whole.

Title: ASIP - Familiar Ground

Tracklist:
01. Moby - Long Ambient 3 (Excerpt) (Self released)
02. Steve Hauschildt - A False Seeming (Kranky)
03. Abul Mogard - The Purpose Of Peace (VCO Records)
04. The Black Dog - Phil 3 to 5 (Dust Science Recordings)
05. Phaeleh - Absence of Light (Undertow)
06. Casino Versus Japan - Miano: A Pink Night For The Snowmen (Attacknine)
07. Ben Guiver - Ex Machina (Silent Recordings)
08. Alva Noto & Blix Bargeld - Bernsteinzimmer (Kompakt)
09. Alva Noto - The Revenant Theme (Alva Noto Remode)
10. Tangent - Perceived Horizon (n5MD)
12. Carbon Based Lifeforms - RCA (Leftfield Records)
13. Phaeleh - Visions (Undertow)
14. Merrin Karras - Isolation (A Strangely Isolated Place)
15. Lav - Freedom & Joy (Amone Recordings)

Links:

http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/

https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/

Fractal Design by Jeroen Smulders

Circuit Jellyfish design by NLz

ASIP - Deep Electronics Ambient Sessions

Ambient Sessions # 27 - Ryan Griffin ( A Strangely Isolated Place)

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXIV. Awaiting New Leaves by Plant43.

Tracklist:
1. Plant43 - Frond of Stars (Semantica)
2. Maggie Payne - Hikari (Root Strata)
3. Mammifer - Caelestis Partus (SIGE Records)
4. Disasterpeace - Puzzle (Not on Label)
5. Triptikon - Crucifixus (Century Media)
6. SQÜRL - Please Feel Free to Piss in the Garden (ATP)
7. Plinth - Drift (Clay Pipe)
8. M Ostermeier - Flying South (Voxxov Records)
9. Don McGreevy - Anooyances Ala Satie (Not on Label)
10. Michael Price - Budapest (Erased Tapes)
11. Alva Noto - Xerrox Helm Transphaser (Raster-Noton)
12. Oren Ambarchi - Fever, a Warm Poison (Touch)
13. Shane Carruth - I Used to Wonder at the Halo of Light Around My Shadow and Would Fancy Myself One of the Elect (erbp)
14. Jo Johnson - Words Came After Music (Further)
15. Cygnus - Cosmos II (Biosoft Records)
16. Main - Hz VI: Neper, Part III (Beggars Banquet)
17. Fear Factory - Ascension (Liquid 8 Records)
18. Plant43 - The Lightening Veil (CPU)
19. Claire M Singer - Eileen - Featuring Paul Anderson (Touch)
20. Yrsel - Instinctual Drive Renunciation (Aurora Borealis)
21. Oren Ambarchi - Inamorata (Touch)
22. James Blackshaw - Sunshrine
23. Biosphere - The Things I Tell You (Arigo Sound)
24. Yko - Minako - Bee Mask Remix (Akō)
25. Main - Hz: Haloform, Part III (Beggars Banquet)
26. Biosphere - Hyperboria (Arigo Sound)
27. Earth - Mirage (Southern Lord)
28. Kuedo - As We Lie Promising (Planet Mu)
29. Earth - The Dry Lake (Southern Lord)
30. Alva Noto - Xerrox Radieuse (Raster-Noton) 
31. Fhloston Paradigm - The Hour (Planet Mu)
32. Outer Space - 11:38 (Spectrum Spools)
33. John Brooks - Pocket Fire (More Than Human)
34. Alva Noto - Monophaser 2 (Raster-Noton)

https://soundcloud.com/plant43

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast Chapter LXIV

Mysteries of the Deep LXIV - PLANT43 | AWAITING NEW LEAVES

Marionette amassed interest straight from the off. The record label, which was founded in 2013, hasn't conformed to traditional aesthetics or functionality of sound. Each release has been eclectic, forward thinking and conceptual in both style and formation. To date the label has released music by Deer, Laurine Frost, Maxim Wolzyn and most recently by Kilchhofer. The latter of which is the next to contribute to our slightly more abstract Wednesday mix series. 

There is little back story or information surrounding the man. His website features a minimalist assortment of drawings, sounds and obscurities. His contribution to our mix series sees him arrange a series of mystical soundscapes, stuttering percussion and disorientated earthly audio from beyond expectations.

Read & Download

Kilchhofer: The Wednesday Alternative Mix

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXVII. Windows at Midnight by A Strangely Isolated Place. Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Tracklist:
1. Ourson - Night Roads [Self]
2. Arovane - Electroacoustic Session 7 [Self]
3. Harkan - Unnamed [Self]
4. 1 Mile North - Broken Corners [Wortcunner]
5. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Abandoned (too soon) [Self]
6. Secret Pyramid - VII [Proposition]
7. High Plains - A White Truck [Kranky]
8. Malibu - Held [PAN]
9. Richard A Ingram - Valehouse 2.2.01 [Medium Format]
10. Arovane & Hior Chronik - Dornenreich [A Strangely Isolated Place]
11. Broken_Canyon - (MISSING) (Sea Of Clouds)
12. 36 - Black Horizon [Self]
13. Steve Moore - Depths Of The Earth [Moon Glyph]
14. Abul Mogard - Unarmored Love [VCO]
15. Paul Wolinski - MidiFlood [Self]
16. Carl Stone - Kuk II Kwan (1981) [Unseen Worlds]
17. bvdub - 01 [Self]
18. Ourson - Night Roads + Carl Stone - Kuk II Kwan

https://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXVII

Mysteries of the Deep LXVII - A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE | WINDOWS AT MIDNIGHT

Since 2014, UK-based label, https://soundcloud.com/astralindustries have been responsible for some of the most enlightening and entertaining releases of recent years. Their output has helped otherwise forgotten or out of print music see the light of day, provided new takes on previous classics, whilst also pushing forward new music by some of the most well-respected artists within the ambient genre. 

Debuting with a release by dub-techno legend DeepChord in 2014, Astral Industries went on to release Wolfgang Voigt's live project, Rückverzauberung Live In London in 2015.  In 2016 they followed with a 1985 recording from disbanded dutch collective Chi - a timeless and undoubtedly classic record, whilst in the same year pitching Wolfgang and Deepchord together for the very first time, with reinterpretations of Peter Michael Hamel's classic, Colors of Time. By then, and combined with the continually brilliant artwork of Theo Ellsworth, we knew that Astral Industries was a label with staying-power, and a growing catalog of releases worth collecting - be it just for the framed artwork, or moreover, the complete music package. 

In 2017, we've seen an LP by Heavenly Music Corporation, aka Kim Cascone (likely encouraged by the recent re-release of his own label Silent Records), a third LP by The Chi Factory, and then just last month a beautiful album by Waveform Transmission (Rod Modell of DeepChord and Chris Troy), with a sublime follow-up album, a massive 20 years after their first. 

The man behind the Astral Industries machine, Ario is a proven expert at plucking obscure gems from the past, or ensuring that good music gets the platform and artistic presentation it deserves. In just a few years, Ario has curated a highly respected and anticipated label roster that demands attention, and has yet to disappoint. The music is always gentle, deep and often extremely vivid, be it deeply hypnotic ambient, or gentle murmurs of dub-techno. 

With curatorial talents like this, we're overjoyed to host an exclusive 2hr+ mix of Ario digging into his record collection, and interlocking a few select exclusive Astral Industries bits in-between. It's one hell-of-a hypnotic journey and just like the Astral Industries releases, deserved of your full undivided, escapist attention.

ASIP - isolatedmix 73 Astral Industries

isolatedmix 73 - Ario/Astral Industries

Welcome to the 39th Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics.
It's the first sunday of the month and the last Ambient Sessions of 2017. I wanna thank all producers and dj's for there contribution in for this year releases.    

This monthly released podcast brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer. This months session is created by Jeremy Meadow.

Bio
Jeremy Meadow is a San Francisco-based DJ who has been experimenting with performances of ambient and dub techno for several years. Inspired by the futurism of techno and the sounds of early IDM and ambient albums as a child, he has been taking the opportunity to showcase less overtly danceable styles of electronic music at events in San Francisco and at smaller festivals around the US.

Soundcloud:
@jeremy-meadow

Tracklist:

01. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Arecibo
02. As If - View 3
03. Docetism - Rain
04. Vangelis - Blade Runner Theme
05. Monolake - Mass Transit Railway
06. Acronym - Aftermath
07. Victor Yibril - Impossible Cities
08. Vangelis - Blade Runner Blues
09. Ohrwert - Supervoid (2016 Revision)
10. Prism - Crystal Mist
11. Konrad Black - Chelyabinsk Afterglow
12. Reflect - Passage (Ambient Mix)
13. Luigi Tozzi - Yavin 4 (Ambient Mix)
14. Jack Wall and Sam Hull - Uncharted Worlds Extended
15. As If - View 1
16. Ben Klock - Init One
17. Född Död - VI
18. Vangelis - Tears in Rain

Links:

https://soundcloud.com/jeremy-meadow

Photography and Design by Jeroen

Ambient Sessions # 39 - Jeremy Meadow (Dreams Of Future)

Birds for the Mind is at last back on track and it's first offering after the hiatus is brought to by Mauritius Hermes aka Neugeborene Nachtmusik - a Dutch, Berlin based musician and selector. He's also part of the duo Milligram Retreat and now and then plays more acid and danceable sets under the moniker Saint Mauritius. 

The sound of his main project Neugeborene Nachtmusik is mostly inspired by the post-apocalyptic, ritualistic and utopian scenes or deeply personal experiences. His music has a cinematic approach; imaginary scenes that contain: utopia, daydreams, occultism, honor and hope, battlefields just after the battle. Some other significant sources of inspiration for Hermes's music is minimalism, ambient music and performance art. Not long ago, together with Jeroen Holthuis (Onont Kombar) Mauritius  started a label called 'Ordo Viatorum'.

These two beautiful and slow-burning hours Mauritius recorded for Birds for the Mind dwelve in the depths of a dark imagination - patiently diving deep down and  drippingly crawling back up. A true lonely and night listen, the mix was named by the author himself "Paradise Ascent". This is some newborn night music for you - this is Neugeborene Nachtmusik's ascent to paradise. 

Linx: @neugeborene-nachtmusik
https://www.discogs.com/artist/3047489-Neugeborene-Nachtmusik

Tracklist:

Tongues of Light - Channelled Messages at the end of History - ‘Awakening’
Death in June - Heilige Leben
Mira Calix - Two Seasons
Diamantener - Oberhof Müde
Celephais - They seemed to gallop back through time
Niedowierzanie - Paranoia
BEX - Christofol
Starving Weirdo’s - Meditator 
Ilya Monosov & Charles Curtis - (B1) from  Collected Works LP
Mathieu Serruys - Extremely Bright Views, pt. 1 & pt. 2
Europ Europ - A Growing Seed
Anna Von Hausswulff - Ceremony
Psykopharmaka - Nacht und Nebel
Templeyard Studios - MSG-VI
The Feedback - The Group
Karl Bösmann - Eskalation
Aderlating - Black Emperor At The Temple’s Gate
Puce Mary - Gestures
Weyes Blood - Dream Song
Wakinyan - Uzume
Voices from the Distant Steppe

Birdcast 007: Neugeborene Nachtmusik

Anatolian Weapons - Lullabies For Insomniacs

The marine forms abound in the sea depths, in marshes which are flooded at high tide, in shallow inlets and the muddy bottoms underlying the sandy surface of the seashore. The fresh water forms are plentiful on the mossy stones of mountain streamlets, pools bordering rivulets, dripping rocks.

@Vectortrancer guides us through the first edition of the People and Places Lucid Dream Tapes. More to come from him later in 2000019.

Lucid Dream Tape i) Vector Trancer

@https://soundcloud.com/scanner A true narrative from electronic music vet Robin Rimbaud, told through the many styles of synthesizer-focused music. From vets such as Klaus Schulze and RDJ, to modern day innovators in Loscil, James Holden, OPN and Cortini, this is The Night You Dreamt. More info and download: http://asip.me/isolatedmix86

isolatedmix 86 - Scanner: The Night You Dreamt

Once upon a time, there was a place of great goodness, called the White Lodge. Gentle fawns gamboled there amidst happy, laughing spirits. The sounds of innocence and joy filled the air. And when it rained, it rained sweet nectar that infused one's heart with a desire to live life in truth and beauty. Generally speaking, a ghastly place, reeking of virtue's sour smell. Engorged with the whispered prayers of kneeling mothers, mewling newborns, and fools, young and old, compelled to do good without reason ...

But, I am happy to point out that our story does not end in this wretched place of saccharine excess. For there's another place, its opposite: A place of almost unimaginable power, chock full of dark forces and vicious secrets. No prayers dare enter this frightful maw. The spirits there care not for good deeds or priestly invocations. And if harnessed, these spirits in this hidden land of unmuffled screams and broken hearts would offer up a power so vast that its bearer might reorder the Earth itself to his liking.

Full interview, tracklist and more info at home: https://soundcloud.com/digitaltsunami/digital-tsunami-166-the-black-lodge

https://soundcloud.com/theblacklodgela

Digital Tsunami 166

Digital Tsunami 166 - The Black Lodge

unfortunately the recorder went off batteries after half an hour... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Benedikt Frey @ Camp Cosmic 2019

Recording of Andrew Weatherall's set at Dekmantel Festival 2019.

Dekmantel Festival 2019

Andrew Weatherall at Dekmantel Festival 2019

1. Selffish - Static Cloud [Thinner]
2. Zelenoplie - The Southern [Type]
3. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - M'Bondo [Type]
4. Nicolas Jaar - Don't Break My Love [Clown & Sunset]
5. Pole - Wurzel [Pole]
6. Pye Corner Audio - Recrypt [Type]
7. ISAN - Eastside (Sight Below Remix) [Kesh]
8. The Lines - The Landing [Fresh]
9. Lemongrass - Summer Scent [Lemongrassmusic]
10. wAgAwAgA - Ambient1sunday [Unreleased]
11. Red Wine Riots - Departure [Sirona]
12. Samoyed - Spit [Astro:Dynamics]
13. Dublicator - Ancient Vibrations [Entorpy]
14. Gel-Sol - As Far As Eye Can See [Psychonavigation]
15. John Tejada - Radio Channel [Kompakt]

Re-think

Benedikt Frey pronikl do našich životů skrze eklektické sety šířící se celým spektrem současné elektronické scény. Jeho selekce jsou ovlivněné sympatiemi ke zlomeným beatům a zároveň žitím pod střechami Berlína. Stejně tak jsou různorodé jeho vlastní skladby a remixy, jež vychází u nejvýznamnějších labelů. Naše láska dosáhla absolutna na DT campu v srdci litevských lesů, kde Benedikt svou hudbou udržoval každého v trvalé extázi. Nadšení, jež přišlo s jeho příchodem na brněnský mejdan Ausfahrt, jen těžko popsat. Bylo nám ctí jej při té příležitosti uvítat v éterickém Studiu 410 a strávit společný čas nahráváním podcastu v pořadí osmnáctým.

https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt

ÉTER Podcast #18 Benedikt Frey

"I dream of colour music. 
And the intricacies of the machines that make it possible"

lucidity

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