Zen polymath Sebastien Mullaert’s project Circle of Live marshals a raft of diverse global talents for ‘free-flowing collaborative jam sessions in clubs around the world’. This time round it brought together the Swedish musician himself, plus Spazio Disponibile gaffer Neel and the moody soundscapes of German techno-pundit VRIL as part of their ongoing collaboration. What’s clear for anyone following these three trajectories: the trio couldn’t be more perfectly aligned, their occult compositions are bound by a set of influences that border on the metaphysical. The music itself: meditative, deep, ruminant and transformative. Textured layer upon layer, these preternatural melodies and jerking beats are sublime astral audio from another dimension: Bassiani Podcast 170 is a freeform and mind-expanding journey through uncharted waters recorded live at the club back in December.

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Bassiani invites Circle Of Live (Sebastian Mullaert / Neel / Vril)/ Podcast #170

night with you/ночь с тобой

Green Bliss

At Organik Festival 2023 Day 3

.VRIL personal Note:
Playing at Organik Festival in Taiwan is one of the most special experiences that an artist could have in my opinion. I had the honor to be part of two of the earlier Festival editions in 2014 and 2019 and it somehow changed my life. Almost everyone I met back then I am still in contact with. A positive experience.
So.. coming back and being able to play again at the this years 2023 edition made me very happy :) Met so many old and new friends. Also Josh and Gregory from Organik made everything feel trusted. It’s exactly what we somehow should looking for and what we need in our scene in general. A peaceful place. Either as a festival visitor or as an artist to play or visit Organik, it feels just right! It is the place to be :)
Thank you Organik for having me again the third time this year. 
In 2023 I played an audio collage at the main stage on sunday morning. The set was build with a lot of own material, spontaneously and eclectically mixed together in a kind of audio collage, that also was topped with a Nord Lead Synth played live by myself. 
After receiveing the original recording from Organik 2023 I did some small edits to it afterwards and then mastered it.
Happy to release this one together with Organik/Smoke Machine!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ctsme2ssyxlwzlu9gqgpf/Vril-Setup-at-Organik-2023.jpg?rlkey=i9j07btb8p9f31i74gmhtcsw3&dl=0

VRIL - Ambient Collage LIVE at Organik Festival 2023

«Autumn kiss for Night Lovers» — that was the name of the file that we received from our friend and musician, whose work we are constantly inspired by. 
X.Y.R. is a very talented musicain and producer from Sestroretsk. We highly recommend taking a closer look at his beautiful works. 

And in the meantime we are excited to present you a new guest mix by X.Y.R. as a continuation of his romantic story. 
The first mix on “Kiss for Night Lovers” series was recorded in 2022 at our collaboration event with TESTFM radio and Shilo Magazine. Was amazing, video available on YouTube. 

Our suggestion: try to listen it in sequence since from first mix. 

For request TRACK ID text to the @x-y-r .
Artwork by @sasha.foam & @cybersuicideprod

Night Lovers +17 w/ X.Y.R.

Out Of Place Artefacts (Rødhåd & Vril) x Voices From The Lake (Donato Dozzy & Neel) x Speedy J Live

STOOR Live in Paradiso - ADE 2023 Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q578mnNlS-U

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@neel
@rodhad
@vril_01
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STOOR Live in Paradiso - ADE 2023 Sunday

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Trip

A two hour journey through the utterly singular sound of Broadcast. Fronted by the late Trish Keenan, the Birmingham band melded the novel soundscaping of library music and early electronic experiments with their own sensitive take on indie rock and pop. Keenan's untimely passing in 2011 effectively ended the project - but a limited amount of previously unheard material has surfaced in the following years. 

This mix features classics and obscurities from across Broadcast's discography, including exclusive tracks featured in upcoming compilation "[Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006](https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/album/distant-call-collected-demos-2000-2006)". 
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-broadcast-27th-september-2024

In Focus: Broadcast 270924

Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before. 'Numb' opens the album with Alison's voice; layered and looped but essentially left bare and exposed, tumbling into a dense shuffle, sort of somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more f*cked. 'Lost and Found' follows and deploys a growling rave bassline and a disturbed vocal, the beat assembling itself around a squashed Linndrum like a submerged Prince/Cameo production, haunted and impenetrable, but full of funk. 'Sleepless' started life as an African drum edit that sooner or later succumbed to Stott's intense rhythmic shifts. It's a sound that's been imitated countless times since the release of 'Passed Me By', here re-tooled and re-built for its next evolutionary phase. 'Hatch The Plan' ends the first half of the album with some heavily treated location recordings and a low end grind that probably doesnt quite prepare you for the vocal arrangements that follow - it's just a beautifuly inverted pop song. The second half opens with 'Expecting', the most recognisably 'Stott' moment on the album: a wrecked, deliriously knocked-out 4/4 shuffle deployed at halfspeed; those heavy kickdrums sucking in everything around them. 'Luxury Problems' is next and offers up the album's most quietly euphoric and open 5 minutes; conventional arrangements and drumloops disrupted by sharp disco bursts that mess with what you know: it's straight and beautiful and unbalanced and damaged, somehow all at once. "Up the box" switches up the narrative and goes somewhere else entirely, an extended intro that seems to build continuously for 3 minutes before breaking off into a slowed-down Amen edit, creating a kind of narcotic Jungle variant that fragments everything and ends just at the point you think it's going to go off, before "Leaving" finishes the album with an almost unbareably beautiful arrangement of voice and synth and a final key-change that takes you from joyful to forlorn in an instant.

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