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A 4-hour drift through layered atmospheres and leftfield experimentation, this extended opening set by Pianeti Sintetici marked the beginning of DE RIO’s 6th anniversary celebration, a 14-hour open-air gathering held in a hidden location among the hills of Florence. Known for his deeply textured sonic explorations and immersive works, Pianeti Sintetici invited early listeners into a slow-burning journey. Moving from fragile drones and spatial electronics to abstract rhythms and weightless transitions, the set established a space of introspection, friction, and quiet intensity.
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Pianeti Sintetici, Florence [07.06.2025] - DE RIO Archive

"A gentle dérive through shimmering textures and quiet layers, where sound feels both rooted and untethered. This set breathes with the traces of shared moments — music exchanged between friends, and nights when the forest became shelter. The track once meant to anchor it never arrived — yet the thread remains, woven from intuition, memory, and the subtle glow of all that lingers."

Once known as Blanket, now drifting as azul (@azulblan). No face, no past — just frequencies.

HOCast #247 - azul

In a world hooked on instant likes and endless scrolls, where festival lineups are often built for clicks more than for ears, there’s still a place that pushes all that noise into the background. It sits somewhere off the grid, far from signal bars and push notifications, a pocket of the world where music still feels sacred.

You drive for hours into the Spanish mainland, trading highways for dusty roads and the smell of pine. And then you arrive at this gathering that’s not quite a festival. “Celebration” fits better. A celebration of music, connection, good energy and the rare joy of forgetting who’s “headlining” and just letting the sound carry you wherever it wants.

It’s friends, and friends of friends. People whose names you might see on record sleeves or festival flyers, but here they’re just part of the crowd. No green rooms, no special wristbands. No one’s counting bar sales or stressing over ticket numbers. It’s purely about the music, the real reason most of us fell in love with this scene in the first place.

From Friday afternoon to a very late Sunday, the music rolls non-stop. Daytime means dancing upright under blue skies. By night, things stretch into horizontal territory in a magical cabaña, where ambient and experimental sets ripple through the dark. Every DJ seems to arrive knowing precisely what belongs in their timeslot, crafting an arc so seamless you start questioning whether sleep is even worth it. Monday comes for you looking like your parachute didn’t open, but the grin on your face says otherwise. And the moment you leave, you’re already asking yourself how you’re supposed to wait a whole year to do it again.

This hidden corner of paradise is called Perpendicular Festival, or Perpen, for short, a brainchild of the crew behind Espacio Perpendicular in Madrid. 

This year was Delayed’s first time joining the adventure, and we came back determined to share pieces of what made it unforgettable. Over the next months, we’ll be rolling out sets that capture different moods and times of the weekend, hoping to transmit even a fraction of the magic in those woods.

We’re starting with a burst of energy: Madrid’s best-kept secret, Rachael, who took over on Sunday night. By then, the dancefloor was running on adrenaline alone, and as darkness settled in, she shifted things into high gear. After Sciama’s mind-bending trip, Rachael stepped up and commanded the space, unleashing a set where syncopated beats, UK breaks, and halftime, all collided in perfect chaos. The pine trees caught every echo. The crowd surged with new life. It was one of those sets that reminds you why underground music scenes will always survive and why you stay awake just a few hours longer even when your legs are begging for mercy.

We’re proud to open this year's Delayed x Perpendicular series with her set. Tune in, and get a taste of why it instantly felt like home.

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Write up by: @gilleswasserman

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Delayed x Perpendicular: Rachael

"The maestro takes his seat, glasses on, guiding the light across the hidden corners of his frequency library. Perfectly woven layers drift and evolve — minimal, restrained, dark in tone, brilliant in execution. In the cabin, every mind floats, someone slips in a field recording, blurring the edges between inside and out. The light gently rises, and as everything fades, the birds come knocking at the door."


Madrid-based DJ and producer Alfonso Pomeda, aka F-on (@f-ondj), is renowned for his experimental sound, blending dub, ambient, and experimental music. Founder of the Alpenglühen project and co-owner of Antimatter, he and his team run the club and festival Espacio Perpendicular, curate Barcelona's Mostra Festival and Les Chaos Ambiants, and perform at top global venues like Paral·lel, Vurt, Laut or Gare. His vinyl DJ sets take listeners on a rhythmic, dreamlike journey.

https://alpengluhen.bandcamp.com/

Recorded djset at Perpendicular 2025 (@espacio-perpendicular) - somewhere in the woods. When? Friday 6:00am Where? In the ambient cottage.

Artwork: Javier Marimon - Off Tangent

HOCast #248 - F-on - Perpendicular 2025

For the first time collaborating on a mix, Camu and Joan Gila crafted this set for Temple 08 "world of echo", a series of deep listening events curated by Josephine and Camu himself at Espacio Perpendicular. 

The mix drifts through a landscape of minimalism, ambient waves, shamanic echoes, and deep, textural drones - an immersive journey through layers of sound.

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Joan Gila & Camu | #86

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Wabi Sabi Audio Imprint travels to the other part of the world to present it sound at Super Dommune, Tokyo, Japan.

This showcase presents a magnific 3 hours of detailed sounds that makes the listener ears

Menou is the first act presenting her Live Act which creates a Drone and Beautiful ambient soundscape. Menou's act is just out of this world, very detailed and very pleasant to the listeners ear.

Elias Garcia comes on the second act with a Sci-Fi DJ set that brings you to the most further places of space. Energetic, hypnotic and immersive

Jorge Fons is the last act where he presents all the music that has been released in Wabi Sabi and that is going to be released in the future. Wabi Sabi at it's core: Immersion, sound design, details and music that tells a story.

Wabi Sabi Audio Imprint

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Instagram: www.instagram.com/wabisabi__a...

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Wabi Sabi Audio Imprint / SUPER DOMMUNE (TOKYO, JAPAN) w/ Menou - 26.06.2025

Bastien performed on the first day of #Mostra25 at Fabra i Coats.

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Emerging as a new entity within the electronic landscape, Bastien steps forward from the shadows of past identities and older sounds. His latest evolution dives deep into vast, textured realms of drone and ambient, weaving together horizontal soundscapes with touches of lo-fi, experimental tones, and avant-garde sensibilities. With subtle hints of dub, profound bass drones, and layered textures, Bastien’s music holds an immersive quality that transports listeners to an otherworldly space.

His work finds a home on the Red Edge label, with his album Temps Boro marking a sonic journey that feels as meditative as it is intense. Festival-goers can expect an experience both introspective and expansive—a sound that doesn’t merely fill the space but transforms it, inviting each listener to lose themselves in the echoing depths and resonance of Bastien’s unique soundscape.

Bastien -Live- @ Mostra 2025 🖤

Obscure Echoes: Parautas (Live) [Perpendicular 2025]

Descend into the immovable silence of Liturgia Atra, the eighth ritual cycle of the Arkanæa saga. Here, in the cold echo of stone and void, the divine watches without whispering—no warmth, no seduction, only the gravity of ancient liturgy.

Deep, distant Gregorian fragments drift through bowed-stone drones and pipe-organ undercurrents. Metallic scrapes and bone percussion punctuate rusted bells and gongs, while reversed vocal loops and breathless Coptic murmurs swirl like wind in a crypt. Cold analog synths and subterranean thunder recordings ground you in monolithic austerity.

This is a fossilized hymn—an archaic, post-sacramental relic where every tone uncovers what should have stayed buried.

✦ Gregorian Dark Ambient & Cold Ritual Drone
✦ Pipe Organ, Bowed Stone & Bone Percussion
✦ Rusted Bells, Gongs & Subterranean Wind
✦ Reversed Latin & Coptic Vocal Textures
✦ Tape Decay Chants & Monastic Field Recordings
✦ Enigmatic, Minimal & Monumental Atmosphere

Presented by Arkanæa: witness the sacred shadow.

Lapidis

August 2025 Currently on residency in Italy ! 
These are 3 short sketches using field recordings captured around Montegiovi, Tuscany. With these little works I am experimenting freely with what can be produced from each days sounds -  manipulating them and stiching them back together with the aim of producing a long format work at the end of the residency. 
I am truly thankful for this opportunity that has been provided for me by the Salamanca Arts Centre in Tasmania and Cultivate Projects/La Baldi residency in Italy and The USA. 
And of course the wonderful people of Montegiovi ! 

Tuscany Experiments 1 - 3

4th Edition: 17-20 April 2025 Barcelona.

Mostra is an independent small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music that aims at nourishing the scene in Barcelona 🖤 

Here you will find sets from our curated artists recorded at the festival, plus special podcasts periodically published all through the year from artists alike. By the end of each month, we will also be offering a monthly curated list of sets that includes our top recommendations published on that particular month and our most beloved tunes related to Mostra artistic programming line. 

Apart from that, this platform is also the home for MostRadio: a radio podcast format to give visibility to projects in the city and discuss contemporary issues in the scene, from clubs and culture to artists and production. This media content container will also serve as a platform for disseminating new record releases.

Mostra is local 🚩, inclusive 🙋🏻 and sustainable 🍃

#mostraBCN #mostra25

Bastien -Live- @ Mostra 2025 🖤

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