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Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CXXXII by sold (@soldchicago). Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Tracklist:
01. Chris & Cosey - Intro-Spektiv
02. Muslimgauze - Return Of Black September
03. Norman W. Long - Reeds
04. LXV - Inversion Method
05. Topdown Dialectic - B3
06. Gael Segalen - Symétrique à la lune
07. Otherworld - I Will Wander With You and Ascend to My Solitude II
08. Bug bus piano - Fare Evade
09. 8990 - Zebra
10. Nervous Operator - A Compelling Natural Force
11. CV & JAB - The maître d' is dead
12. Tujiko Noriko - Rooftop
13. Jake Muir - silent sailing
14. AyGeeTee - Hurting Pilots
15. Ueda Takayasu - Every Clouds Call Your Name
16. Madalyn Merkey - Inertia
17. Yoshio Ojima - Glass Chattering
18. Klein - hope dealers

Mysteries of the Deep CXXXII - sold

Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga (2009) Full Album

KARA-LIS COVERDALE (CA) https://soundcloud.com/klissay
PLAY 1 :: DADA SALON 
Friday, May 29 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Montréal-based musician and composer Kara-Lis Coverdale gives concerts made for full body immersion, multi layered through multi timbral synths, her computer a virtual organ engine. Couched in symphonic, post sacred tonalities and harmonies, the music on Coverdale’s releases Aftertouches (on Sacred Phrases) and A 480 (on Constellation Tatsu) uses virtual sounds from vocal and instrumental sources to confront traditional genres and consolidate them in the artist’s own precise ways. Currently an organist and music director at St. John’s church in Montréal, Coverdale contributed piano and keyboards on friend and mentor Tim Hecker’s Virgins album in 2013 and most recently has collaborated with LXV (musician David Sutton) on their 2015 album, released by Umor Rex. Her live set for MUTEK 2015 draws on that album and recent compositions of pipe organ, sensorial electronics and glittering drones while leaving room for inspired improvisation.

Mastered by LANDR (www.landr.com)

You can also watch THE WIRE SESSIONS with KARA-LIS COVERDALE here: https://vimeo.com/132852323 - Q&A streamed on May 30, 2015 at Phi Centre.

MUTEKLIVE086 - Kara-Lis Coverdale @ MUTEK 2015

Taken from "Æons"

Protostar was a melodic psychedelic trance and ambient project consisting of Bjørn Marius Borg (Bariuz/Xenturion Prime) and Hasse Mattsson (Tianzi/Xenturion Prime), from 2005 - 2013

We released 3 EPs available on protostar.bandcamp.com/

Æons

Protostar - Aeon I

Protostar - Aeon II

Protostar - Aeon III

Dasha Rush(RU) @dasha-rush
Friday June 3, 2016 - Métropolis 
Presented by @redbullmusicacademy

WHO: Russian-born, Berlin-based Dasha Rush
STYLES: A techno of sophisticated, minimalist melodies nestled in thick atmospheres and driving rhythm; downtempo dreamscapes and ambient/noise too
LATEST: Illusive Reality EP (2015), Sleepstep - Sonar Poems for My Sleepless Friends (2015)
LABELS: Raster-Noton, Full Panda, Hunger to Create, Sonic Groove
MORE: Also performing this year during A/VISIONS with Stanislav Glasov
MUTEKs: Montréal: 2015; Mexico: 2015

A child of Perestroika, the electronic music apprenticeship of Dasha Rush began at Moscow raves when she was a teenager. She started DJing at 14, dabbled in piano, and left for France when she was 16. An ambitious experimentalist, and fiercely independent, she continued to teach herself machine music, worked in fashion and sought out multidisciplinary collisions with theatre, dance and installation.

Full bio: www.mutek.org/en/archives/artists/9049-dasha-rush

MUTEKLIVE144 - Dasha Rush

Heilung LIFA - Full Show

Anthony Linell @AnthonyLinell
Friday August 24, 2018 MTELUS (Main Room)
Mastered by Anthony Linell

Who: Stockholm-based producer Anthony Linell, also known as Lundin Oil and one half of Ulwhednar with Jonas Rönnberg (aka Varg)
Style: Percussive deep techno on the fringes, shadowy experimental electronics, twisted acid and textured noise and drone
Labels: @NorthernElectronics, @Semantica-Records, Abdulla Rashim Records, Prologue
Latest: Alienation from Self (2018), A Sens Of Order (2018), Layers Of Reality (2017), Emerald Fluorescent (2017), Consolidate (2017) 
More: Initially disinterested in using his real name—he invented Abdulla Rashim, a moniker informed by his profound interests in the Arab world, in particular Levantine culture and politics—and his Arabic studies at university.

Abdulla Rashim's contemplative techno surges through every last manipulated hardware layer to unveil a fervid and unpredictably beating heart, a core that at once reflects Sweden's pastoral melancholic beauty and the incessant, vibrating rhythms of urban ritual.

Full bio: bit.ly/mutek2018-anthonylinell

Presented as part of North-West Passage, a project by Insomnia, Intonal and MUTEK, with the support of the Nordic Council and the Quebec government.

MUTEKLIVE167 - Anthony Linell

Aleksi Perälä(FI/UK) @aleksiperala
Friday August 24, 2018 - MTELUS
Mastered by @pheek

Who: England-based Finnish artist Aleksi Perälä, formerly known as Ovuca and Astrobotnia
Style: Esoteric galactic techno, transportive cascading harmonic structures, invented melodic spiritualisms
Labels: Rephlex, AP Musik, Clone Basement Series, Trip
Latest: Simulation (2017), Paradox EP (2017), la compilation Colundi Sequence Volume 2 (2017)
More: Perälä and Grant Wilson-Claridge from Rephlex developed an alternate tuning system called Colundi–Perälä has based his music on it since 2014.

More than 20 years ago, Rephlex records signed Perälä after he bombarded them with IDM-styled demo tapes under the moniker Ovuca. His palette evolved and expanded into a lush tapestry as Astrobotnia, leading to more minimalist releases under his own name while he studied music technology and experimented away from his classical piano training. With Rephlex co-founder Grant Wilson-Claridge they set off on experiments that tied music theory, philosophy, science and mysticism together, and invented a microtonal tuning system named Colundi.

Full bio: bit.ly/mutek2018-aleksiperala

MUTEKLIVE181 - Aleksi Perälä

Out now: T. Gowdy - Pachira Aquatica
Format: CD, Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pachira-aquatica

Released March 26, 2019 

Music by T. Gowdy 
Mastering by Jose Leonardo Pupo D. 
Artwork by Emma Roufs 
Shimmering Moods Records 2019

T. Gowdy - Basic Icons

SIREN's Moonbow celebrates all things piano with a drone-leaning contribution to the Concept in Practice series. After all, it is Piano Day.

"Started 4 years ago by German composer Nils Frahm, Piano Day falls on the 88th day of each year (this year it's March 29th) and many events and releases come together to celebrate the magic of this (conventionally) 88-key instrument. For a while I’ve been wanting to make a mix of ambient and drone music that is centered around sustained piano notes, and today felt like the perfect time to release it. Recently, meditation has been my lifeline whilst being essentially house bound for two months due to health reasons, and I owe so much to ambient music for being such an incredible tool for healing — so I hope this mix can also help others too.

Sonically, this mix is as much about the moments of silence as it is about the music itself, with each new track emerging from a mist left by the one before. I wanted to make a mix that honours the piano’s ability to beautifully bridge the gap between acoustic and electronic music." – Moonbow

@moonbowmusic
@sirenldn

Concept In Practice: Moonbow's 'Piano Drone' Mix

Out now: PJS - In Between
Format: Cassette, CD, Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-between

Patrick Dique - Harmony, Rainbows, Vision 
Jordan Christoff - Intuition, Magic, Chaos
Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg

Released March 26, 2019
Shimmering Moods Records 2019

PJS - Floatbirddrop

https://yerevantapes.bandcamp.com/album/evitceles-constant-yearning

Dream I Had / Virgin Fields

Desolation

Marcel Dettmann (DE) - @marceldettmann
Saturday November 24, 2018 - NOCTURNE 2 (Fábrica)
WHO: German DJ and Techno producer, Berghain resident and staff from the record store Hard Wax
STYLE: Hard Techno, Dub Techno y EBM Techno
LATEST: Test-File EP
LABELS: Ostgut Ton, Marcel Dettmann Records, 50Weapons

Dettmann is one of the definitive figures of contemporary German Techno. One of the most iconic performers to grapple with the current standing of Techno music, one needs to review all of the experiences that have placed Dettmann in this position as the spokesperson for the German dance scene. From his first experiences as a record seller in the former East Germany of the late 1990s, to being the go-to representative of Berlin's legendary Hard Wax record shop, he was also resident DJ at the famed club, Berghain. Dettmann has been there at every key moment in the history of German Techno.
Crude, hard, and with no sense of the taboo, Dettmann's mystique is still always shrouded. A living force of the vertical, direct, brutal aesthetic that's proved transcendent around the world, he's been chosen to remix Moderat, Junior Boys, Fever Ray, Ellen Allien, Clark and even the emblematic Laibach in the era after industrial music. His mixes for labels like Fabric, Music Man, and Berghain, are proof of the versatility that always arrives and crushes, upward, with an authentic aesthetic that's timeless and guided by a practical intuition flowing ever forward.

MUTEKLIVE176 - Marcel Dettmann

Bioluminik (MX) - @bioluminik
Saturday November 23, 2018 - NOCTURNE 2 (Fábrica)
WHO: Producers Liz Gómez & Ivonne Valdez (Mexico City)
STYLE: Dark ambient, deep atmospheres, live A/V
LATEST RELEASE: Currently working on their debut EP for next year.

In 2015, producers Liz Gómez and Ivonne Valdez began a creative online exchange which resulted in their first sound works; glitches and hybrid textures to form soundscapes inspired by paintings and drawings. After some invitations from festivals, and a few successful encounters between coding and electronic music, they created Bioluminik, the alias under which they’ve focused on the creation of their own experimental narratives. With remixes of artists like Nima Ikki and deep conceptual pieces in audiovisual formats, Gómez and Valdez have taken a transdisciplinary approach to the aesthetic universe of Bioluminik, inspired mainly by the nature and aesthetics of error, and influenced by space music, drone, and dark ambient.

Mastered by Eviltapes

MUTEKLIVE177 - Bioluminik

Robert Lippok (DE) - @robert-lippok
Saturday November 23, 2018 - NOCTURNE 2 (Fábrica)
WHO: German producer Robert Lippok, founder of To Rococo Rot.
 STYLE: Minimal Pop, Abstract Kraut, Experimental Glitch 
LATEST RELEASE: Kubus (2019), Applied Autonomy (Raster-Norton, 2018) LABELS: Raster-Norton

Robert Lippok's sonic explorations and musical work channel and transform the rawness of his roots in the Industrial and Post-Punk scenes of East Germany and the newly unified Berlin, where he co-founded iconic bands Ornament, Verbrechen and To Rococo Rot. Converting all the baggage and energy into solo work resulted in broad body of work which draws that strength back to its most architectural and abstract forms. In Applied Autonomy (Raster Media, 2018), his first new release in seven year, Lippok takes a high modular technique toward a true "static frenzy", a vanishing point at which the work acquires the energy which transforms works with all the new layers and tones, and which progresses works ultimately toward their true autonomy. Under this principle, Lippok added collaborations with Luca Gutierrez on the art and visual aspects, and with Klara Lewis on the track "Samtal", a dual exploration of nearly fifteen minutes that extracts the sound of "applied autonomy" and juxtaposes the creative energies of both Lewis and Lippok.

Mastered by Eviltapes

MUTEKLIVE178 - Robert Lippok

Cirrina Lab & Isaac Soto pres. Bilingüe (MX) - @isaacsoto 
Saturday November 24, 2019 - NOCTURNE 2 (Fábrica)
WHO: Producer Isaac Soto and visual artist Cirrina Lab STYLE: Live A/V LATEST RELEASE: Bilingüe, Audio Visual Performance

In Bilingüe, the creative languages of producer Isaac Soto and biologist and visual artist Inés Gutiérrez come together from Gutiérrez’s Cirrina Lab. Both artists take naturalistic sampling as a pivotal part of their creative process: Cirrina Lab extracts images of microscopic living beings live, and transforms them into hypnotic, forceful animated pieces. Soto collects field recordings to fuse them into downtempo tracks replete with texture. And from this shared dynamic, Cirrina Lab & Isaac Soto have generated an audiovisual range that swings between harmony and abstraction: a micro-macro cosmos of image and sound that reveals itself in the immersive experience. Among recent releases from both artists, highlights include the Cirrina Lab video clip for "All hands" from AMNL PRNT, and Soto’s EP,  El mítico manzano newtoniano (The Mythical Newtonian Apple Tree), with which he launched VAA, his recording label.

Mastered by Eviltapes

MUTEKLIVE179 - Cirrina Lab & Isaac Soto

Prurient (US) - @prurientofficial
Friday 23, 2018 - NOCTURNE 1 (Fábrica)
WHO: Producer Dominick Fernow aka Vatican Shadow, founder of Hospital Productions
STYLE: Doom, Electronics, Dark Ambient
LATEST: Rainbow Mirror (Hospital Production, 2017)

Hospital Productions has been one of the most relevant gears within the world of experimental noise in recent years. Home to Kevin Drumm, Silent Servant, Ron Morelli, Merzbow, Dedekind Cut and dozens of others, it's where Dominick Fernow, the label head, developed his most notable project, Prurient. 20 years in, Prurient has found refuge within every variant of darkness, from industrial noise, to visceral vocal attacks, and even an exploration of dark meditative places. Fernow summarizes his style as “Doom Electronics” which start with the powerful and destructive dynamic of the dark side of the avant-garde and always avoiding touching bottom in their vertiginous falls. It leaves space for a contemplation of both texture and often suffocating frequencies.

Mastered by Eviltapes

MUTEKLIVE180 - Prurient

If you look hard enough, you can find infinite detail in any minuscule sound. Our next guest, Roma Zuckerman, is an expert at extracting these details and pulling them apart to reveal their true complexity. Originally hailing from the subzero climate of Siberia, he is no stranger to the frozen ethos of Russian electronic music. With releases on renowned labels such as Nina Kraviz's трип, he has gained a following for his refreshingly off-kilter productions and mixes. As this particularly difficult year comes to a close and we take a moment to pause and reflect, he guides us through our inner conflicts to bring a sense of peace and gratefulness. From all of us at UNRUSH, we'd like to thank you for the continued support and wish you a good start in the New Year.

Thanks a lot https://soundcloud.com/roma-zuckerman

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/romazuckerman
Bandcamp: https://romazuckerman.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roma_zuckerman/
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/4714132-Roma-Zuckerman

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria
Words by Nathan Levenson

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052 - Unrushed by Roma Zuckerman

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MUTEKLIVE177 - Bioluminik

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