Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CXXIV by Agonis (@agonis-amenthia). Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

This set was originally presented during the Mysteries Takeover of 9128.live on Saturday April 18, 2020.

Tracklist:
1. first tone - radix
2. raymonde - mer aux etoiles
3. sa pa - MANA008 C2
4. lussuria - frozen charlotte
5. retreat - form#7
6. first tone - reiterations
7. kara-lis coverdale - grafts
8. dj lostboi - d major xo life
9. agonis - untitled
10. john roberts - can thought exist without the body
11. dean hurley - exotic matter
12. yhdessa - vermona e-piano (1978)
13. andreolina - market of the lost illusions
14. o yuki conjugate - forgotten summer
15. jacob newman - particle surface
16. mehdi halib - E IX
17. neel - the morning after (roland sh-01a)
18. caterina barbieri - clessidra
19. boards of canada - amo bishop roden

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CXXXIV

Mysteries of the Deep CXXIV - Agonis

All reposts are mixes that I have actually listened to myself.

one's secondary personality. one's intimate trusted friend.
:\ɔːltər ˈiːɡəʊ_εναλλακτικός εαυτός

_saranda athens tirana paris aix.

influence : 
_stoicism
_brutalism.
_rationalism.
_minimalism.
_pragmatism.
_psychology.
_neuroplasticity
_quantics.

inspiration : 
_nordic folk.
_greek cinematic.  
_islandic electronic.  
_triphop.
_ambient.

genres : 
_techno.
_xprmntl.
_dub. 
_mnml.
_dwntmp. 
_nordic.

_curator/engineer.
_producer/humanmemorycollector.

_mönnum syndir.

Mysteries of the Deep is a New York-based record label, podcast, and event series — focused on ambient & experimental music in various forms. Mysteries — as fans lovingly call it — is concerned with exploration of unknown realms, and its focus, in addition to showcasing a dynamic spectrum of electronic music from foremost artists in the field, is to thoughtfully engage its audience. 

Conceptualized in 2011, Mysteries began as a podcast series that, now in its eleventh year, has hosted an array of mixes and original works. The project has since evolved, expanding into a curated global event series and record label.

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A fierce ole artist grandma called Joan Jonas (no relation to Joe Jonas) famed for having transmuted consciousness-evolving performance art into bourgeois video entertainment so good that she subsequently found herself accused of killing the radio star*…

(“Jip! It was her, we found the culprit!”)

…Tried to atone for her sins by leading us all back into a love of listening via a surprise introduction to an obscure anthropology professor who doesn’t take himself seriously enough for anyone (beyond academia) to have ever been able to find his work had it not been for her help. 

What a disservice to the grand collective, and nevermind everyone else, to my own enjoyment of life, this would have been: deep, deep, deep down into the depths of the ocean he went - travelling inside a submarine called Elven studying intently the difference between hearing and listening as he went. 

Redefining the notion of a mediascape, reimagining the concept of sound as received by human placed in the belly of a cyborg. 

Stefan Helmreich having, thus, reorganised noise into melody with utmost humility: Joan Jonas, by mere association, consider yourself atoned. 

Meanwhile, a guy called David Troop had written a book called ‘Ocean of Sound’ to help him survive the double-blow grief of losing his father and wife to death in the same week. 

The result was me picking the book up, on the other side of the world, on quite a random day and consequently falling - like Alice in Wonderland - into a world of infinite magic on all the other days since: gamelan dance, Debussy cured of white supremacy, Sun Ra’s hymn to the setting sun, a history of ambient music - starting from the 1990’s - something called ‘amniotic fluids’ (a genre unto its own) and a renewed obsession with an overly romanticised pre-Edison Japan: a place with an affinity for and love of Shadows. 

Enter: an escape from your current life into the next without first having to traverse purgatory. Life and death devoid of suffering. Some would call it Enlightenment. Others would call it Love. 

Here, I was also to discover the first ever Japanese satellite station constructed as a peaceful rebellion against those that claimed Time to be linear. “No” they said, pioneering twenty-four-hours of continuous radio transmission programmed to synchronise with tidal patterns, sunrise, sunset and changing phases of the moon - “Dream Tides…” 

Everything you hear me play on this little account is somewhat inspired by the awakening I’ve enjoyed thanks to all these wonderful little accidents and serendipities. 

Let the music play on. 🤍🎶

"𝑷𝒐ə𝒕|𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒊𝒐|𝑷𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒏|𝑴𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒐 '𝑻𝒉𝒆𝑩𝒐𝒚!'

                     (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞
                    
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