@saphileaum opening up our festival with the loveliest vibes we could think of.

Discover more and grab your 2024 tickets at https://festival.mnmt.no/

Monument Festival 2023 : Saphileaum

For this episode of transience we are honoured to have sound artist and practioner, @sarahwreath 's live gong and electronic set, which uses a 110hz frequency to help with emotional processing and relaxation. About her contribution for transience she says the following;

"This is a version of my current ambient live set containing the pure tone of the 110hz frequency. This frequency – widely known as the fundamental pitch of the human voice used by ancient practitioners for mantra chanting – has been shown to help with emotional processing and relaxation, and has a profound effect on the right hemisphere of the brain. The right brain is known to be the seat of artistic expression, spirituality, emotion, imaginative thinking and breakthrough innovation. Research has shown that accessing and stimulating the right brain leads to better problem-solving skills and less conflict in people.

This live set was originally created to be performed together with a Chao Gong. The pulses and acoustic waves played promote a state of relaxation and a healthy nervous system."

To hear more from Sarah Wreath you can visit https://soundcloud.com/sarahwreath

Photography from Micki Rosi Richter <3

transience #53 with Sarah Wreath

"The site remains open. A heavy warmth hangs in the air, humming faintly through the layers. Beneath the familiar grain of stratum TD-6, something shifts - subtle, almost liquid. A trace of heat runs across the timeline, unsettling its order. The sediment stirs; a soft crimson flicker rises, then fades. Perhaps Triana, or something far more ancient. The "Estrato Aurora" evolves, unbroken. The rhythm deepens, folding in on itself. The digger no longer seeks - he listens."

Jaime Romero aka Estrato Aurora (@lovebas) is also the half of Pajaro Dune project (with David Ortolá). He has been an integral part of Valencia's underground music scene. Jaime as a Dj and producer has more than 2 decades in the studio working with analogic machines and a whole kind of stuff. He defines himself as an Atmospheric music worker. His line on the last years has leaded to publish on known labels such as: Alpenglühen, Bliq Rec, Appian Sounds, On Board, Dial Rec. Discos Pandémicos, HC Records or Danza Nativa.

This set was recorded during Pepa's birthday! We’re taking the opportunity here at HOC Radio to wish her a happy birthday. From here, these airs that appear throughout the set, Sevillian and Flamenco, also as a dedication to the entire region.

HOCast #238 - Estrato Aurora

This compilation sneaks into the soundscapes of the ambient room at Perpen and its population and marauders. The line up is packed with friends and family that are part of the event, who shared their vision of that cabin on the forest. A continous play has been edited for a cassette as a one-piece composition, with no aim to make a dj set but to have a more seamless experience throughout the different tracks. Welcome to the Ambient Room; it might be a daylight outside already.

Thanks to eveyone collaborating and supporting so far, the artists on this compilation, the crew at the forest, and everyone involved. Larga vida al Perpen.

https://grabacionesperpendiculares.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-room-gpva03

Javier Marimon - VLB52- H1 
Javi - New at Shinagawa
Iván Cebrián - The act of listening
Romi - Lactifolia
Oisatsana - Lichen growing on trees
stbl - The collage paradox
Katatonic Silentio - Untuned Love
ameeva - bajo la sombra del Sol
d_o_ppelgaenger - to the Sea
Menou - Drone Works
Anto Molina - Endo Exile
Refracted - Amanece Que No Es Poco
Daniel[i] - Dreamstate
Absis - Somnis

credits

Grabaciones Perpendiculares 2025
Curation and photo - noi
Mix for casette - ABSIS
Design - OFF T. Studio

Ambient Room [GPVA03]

[GPVA03] Ambient Room Side A

@hems 

The next Deep Mind Music comes from one of my dearest friends, and greatest inspirations - hems

hems and I have a special connection, we both love to adventure through musical lands strange and beguiling, evocative and unusual, and have spent many hours together digging through obscure backcatalogs or making our own noises experimenting with hems’ many synthesisers in his studio in London 🧡

hems plays music like no one else I know, he has a magic touch and deep sensitivity for representing all shades of human existence. From the sublime to the transcendent, the unsettling to the hilarious, hems’ sets takes listeners to the beyond and then further still.

I first invited hems to make a mix many years ago, so I am very happy to finally welcome an entry from him. This recording is the first 2.5 hours of an all-night 8 hour set hems played at an intimate private gathering in Mexico City in March of this year.

In this recording hems coaxes us to drift inwards, to enter into an unusual landscape, to open up to all the elements of sound, contrasting pre-Hispanic music with vintage synthesizer tracks and much more.  

Listening to hems’ sets over the years has expanded my mind towards new possibilities, his selections and genius touch for programming evoking many deep epiphanies and insights. This mix is brimming with vitality and life, I hope you enjoy this kaleidoscopic voyage into the mystical 🌿 ~

Alongside DJing, hems produces very deep and intricate experimental electronic music I highly recommend checking out, often utilitising spatial audio systems or even playing gongs live, and he also runs the amazing Titrate records with @o-utlier, as well as his own mix series @hardcore-chillout with @EightFoldWay

https://titrate.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/titraterecords
https://instagram.com/thatshems/
https://hems.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/hardcore-chillout

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Downloads Enabled ~

hems ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.33

This recording is from the first edition of L’Appuntamento, a series of open-air listening sessions initiated by Villa Lontana Records and Donato Dozzy in Rome. Each gathering pairs a vinyl set by Dozzy with a live electroacoustic performance by a new-generation artist.

In this first edition, held in the garden of Villa Lontana, Donato Dozzy opened the evening with a selection of minimal, folkloric, and acoustic-rooted records — setting the tone for Verde Prato’s live performance.

L’Appuntamento is an ongoing invitation to pause, tune in, and share time through listening. 
Next appointment is Thursday 26 June 2025 with Ange Halliwell.

L'Appuntamento with Donato Dozzy + Verde Prato - Listening session at Villa Lontana on 11 May 2024

For this episode of our Komorebi Podcast Series, we welcome Swiss DJ, producer, and curator Ben Kaczor, an artist whose sonic language speaks directly to emotion. With a sound that fluidly bridges the introspective and the physical, Kaczor weaves together elements of techno, deep house, and dub techno into minimal yet immersive soundscapes. His sets evoke monochrome atmospheres, subtle melancholy, and deep inner resonance, crafted for spaces of both solitude and connection.

A recent addition to Dial Records and co-founder of St. Odes, his creative path is rooted in a multidimensional approach to sound and art. Whether curating, producing, or performing, Kaczor remains anchored in a clear vision: music to be felt, not deconstructed.

Tune in and dissolve into this timeless sonic journey.

Ben Kaczor #04 - Komorebi Podcast Series

Cio D’Or hardly requires an introduction, having long stood as both a pillar of our scene and a source of inspiration for so many. Over the course of her singular and decades-spanning career, the Cologne-based artist has cultivated a universe of sound entirely her own, immediately recognizable yet endlessly evolving much like the work of her contemporaries and collaborators Mike Parker and Donato Dozzy. To experience Cio’s music is to follow a throughline that traces the complex history of contemporary techno in a single gesture, compelled by the vast unknown and the primordial familiar in equal measure. Recalling the blurred realism of Richter’s photo-paintings or the timeless intricacy of Bach’s fugues, Cio’s self-contained sonic world delicately reframes our own precious lifecycle, a reflection revealed through its elegant and subtractive minimalism.

In collaboration with our friends at Mostra, I’m honored to share a selection from Cio D’Or’s set performed at this year’s edition of the Barcelona-based festival, a sublime triumph from a scholar of sound.

@cio-d-or
@mostrabcn

Artwork by Camille Ferdinandus.

Sure Thing Mix 146: Cio D'Or

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter II.
Phase II of II by Grant Aaron. All vinyl ambient set.

Mysteries of the Deep II - GRANT AARON | PHASE2

babylon market mix vol.1

London based Ario is a practitioner of deep and inquisitive music both as a DJ and curator of his label Astral Industries. 
Although his remit falls within the deeper shades of electronic music, his overall aesthetic draws on a broader spectrum that prizes the synthesis of both instrumental and electronic disciplines. 
Depending on context, he traverses the lines and forms between the ambient and techno worlds. What is common in each, however, is his alchemic handling of rich organicism mixed with darker, more austere sounds. 
Speaking with an emotive sensitivity, there is a certain self-awareness that permeates his crafted soundscapes, which are as much drone inspired as they are psychedelic and nature-driven.

INVEINS \ Podcast \ 072 \ Ario

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.