Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food, aka one part of Openmind, takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.

Strictly Kev likes the company of plants whilst working on music so that's handy for us isn't it?! We're assuming he's talking about a beautiful Calathea sitting in the corner for inspiration, tho his dream plant setup - a conservatory packed with Romanesco broccoli, trippy Caladiums, and Persian Shields - is something we'd be well on board with too.

Enough of the plant talk for a second and back to the music, ambient music to be clear. For those that weren't squatting in South London back in the early 90s, Openmind were the four-piece behind the mighty Telepathic Fish - the legendary ambient afterparty that transformed chill-out rooms from dub-playing afterthoughts into proper destinations.

Kev, along with Chantal Passamonte (Mira Calix, RIP), David Vallade, and Mario Aguera, started in a shared house above a shop with no neighbours to complain/bash the door down. What began as art school parties quickly grew into Sunday afternoon sessions in squatted venues - a former dole office in Brixton and even the derelict Roundhouse on New Year's Day. They hosted everyone from Aphex Twin to Mixmaster Morris among wall-to-wall mattresses, UV installations, and  Coldcut's Matt Black with his boundary pushing video projections.

The idea was simple: recreate that post-clubbing comedown vibe but on a massive scale, as an "aural and visual blanket" for club-rattled minds. They even published a fanzine called Mindfood and worked at the scene's hub, Ambient Soho record shop, helping shape what Simon Reynolds called a "wombeldelic sound-and-light bath" in contrast to the current trend of hardcore and it's relentless assault.

Thirty years on, that spirit's having a comeback. Events like London's A Loose Ting are bringing back the bedding and the hushed reverence, while Berlin's Overflow is going full sensory overload with vibrating mattresses, fountains, and harpists. New York's Planetarium gatherings have people mostly horizontal, inspired by psychedelic therapy sessions. There's even and ambient sauna in South London you might have come across via the wonder of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By's recent takeover.  Our very own Watching Trees dabbled in said chill out space this year, pairing the abstract and the ambient with projected dappled sunlight visuals from the mighty Jamie House. Turns out people still need those little havens away from the madness, especially in this day and age!

Also handily 30 years on the Openmind crew have just compiled the first-ever Telepathic Fish retrospective for Fundamental Frequencies - a double vinyl love letter to those hazy early-90s mornings when the music finally slowed down.

For this Seeds Mix, Kev has leaned into his love of minimalism and systems music - repetition built from layers of loops offset against each other to form subtle polyrhythms. There's a deliberate avoidance of drum machines here in favour of organic percussion, and around the eight-minute mark, a section from Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia that captures the feeling of being deep in the forest, phone abandoned, discovering that paradise was just a forage away.

Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/seeds-mix-005-openminds-leave-your-phone-at-home-discover-paradise-after-a-forage-in-the-forest/

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Seeds Mix 005: Openmind's Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest

Italian sound artist Canva6 takes over this week's Sunday Mix with just over an hour of atmospheric electronic, indie pop and ambient experimentalism.

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Apiento, a.k.a Paul Byrne runs the invaluable Test Pressing blog and releases music on World Building, World Unknown and more. His show has that esoteric techno thing and whatever suits the mood…
 
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Test Pressing w/ Apiento 181025

After six weeks on the road, Telephones returns with a heartfelt journey for the third chapter of Somewhere Mix.
Inspired by Somewhere Deep In My Heart, he delivers a deep and eclectic mix filled with warmth, classic house, and love.
A timeless voyage through emotions — dreamy, sincere, and alive.
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2 hours of non-stop playing whatever was in the way at the HQ. Anything and everything got a spin. Ride with us for the next 2. 

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DC Promo Tracks #1767: "Fog Frog Green" by Aroma Von Troisdorf is part of the release "Blaumilch" on R.i.O. Label @riolabel  

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Alessio Natalizia is Not Waving. Take the plunge with his monthly hour of fucked-up left techno, leftfield electronics, brain-twisting oddball pop and post-punk, dub offshoots and other diversions. 

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Not Waving 281025

We're thrilled to welcome Joseph Valentino aka Neglect as our special guest this last weekend of October. Get ready for a sonic journey that swings from energetic highs to moody lows, a mix that takes you on a ride through different vibes.

Neglect is a southern california born, southern arizona based visual artist and musician whose ambient compositions focus on the sparse terrain of living in the desert and how sound translates an environment of wide spaces and harsh extremes. He has been recording and releasing music since 2005 and started mixing records in 1995. His work has appeared on the labels Boomarm Nation, Harmonic Ooze, Adventurous Music, and Shimmering Moods, aside from his own
digital imprint, Neglectsound.

About the mix he said:
"I think of a mix like creating a photo album, a collection of moments in time. Where i was when i heard this song, what year it was, the sense of a season
when i recorded the music, what was happening at that time in my life? Everything begins with one track and then the map starts to take shape. For this episode in particular, it was the sense of spirit in the Millsart track ' Yantra.' I can remember where i was living and the mood of the time when i bought this record in a shop, a feeling of that i can only describe as ancient hope, a timeless desire for discovery. I hope as you listen to this, you will hear a sound, a rhythmic loop, or a chord change that makes something inside you connect with that ancient hope, the curiosity for change."

Tracklist:
1. JMV - Hind / Red Crescent (Neglectsound)
2. Millsart - Yantra / Mecca Ep (Axis)
3. Abide Serene - Invincible Purity / 0357 (abideserene bandcamp)
4. Graintable - Cascade Mountain Ash / Blue Flax (music to watch seeds grow by)
5. Sun Electric - Aaah! / Aaah! Ep (R&S records)
6. Evigt Morker - Aspect Clauser Zeilinger (Northern Electronics)
7. Stewart Walker - Lakewalking / Stables (Force Inc.)
8. Spectral Habitat - Forest / Atlas (spectralhabitat bandcamp)
9. Jonathan Sielaff - Lost Boy Beach / Coral City (jonathansielaff bandcamp)
10. Su Tissue - 2nd Movement / Salon De Musique (Adversity Ltd)
11. Pharaoh Sanders - Harvest Time / Pharaoh (India Navigation)
12. David Tagg - La'nell / Paean Alem Tuh'raas (davidtagg bandcamp)
13. Neglect - East Fork Canyon (unreleased)

Photo by Joseph Valentino

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Timothy J. Fairplay is back with this months edition of Dungeon Module including new music by Sam de la Rosa, The Chloroform Bingo Band, Gesloten Cirkel, Oyster, Shook & Legowelt, Yuri Suzuki, Triple Five Sol, Dungeon Acid, and lots more, including as always some new music by Timothy himself.

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