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Mysteries’ latest from Melbourne-based producer Mosam Howieson falls somewhere between realms — percussive, deep techno and airy ambient — eventually landing in a liminal, stunning, undefinable space. From the wispy, tentacled opener “Explorations” to the IDM-leaning stunner “Cerebro,” Howison’s Aphelion is an intentional experiment in world building, and the world he’s built is a landscape brimming with a potent confluence of retro-futurist sounds, genres, and textures.

Aphelion refers to the point at which a planet is furthest from the sun. Despite the inherent darkness in this concept and its release coming in the wake of a turbulent year, Howieson assures us that he’s far from cynical: in fact, he says the album is “about coming back to the light.” Whether it's the acidic arpeggiation, airy pads, or intricately woven percussion that gets us there, Aphelion is emotionally transportive. In certain tracks, 80’s-influenced synth melody provides the teeth — the LP is not overly percussive, nor is it strictly ambient. Tracks like the IDM-tinged “Cerebro” showcase Howieson’s take on ethereal, breakbeat-influenced techno: airtight percussion and well-placed acid make this a standout. Howieson’s more rhythmic cuts are balanced by beat-less ones; “Low Orbit,” for example, is a dense cloud of a track, sweeping like ominous fog over a valley. But it isn’t long before we’re back above the clouds again with “Dream Sequence” and the title track, whose taut synth melodies and minimal, reverb-soaked percussion give power and depth to the overarching vision of the LP. In listening, there’s a sense of the ground moving beneath one’s feet — and despite Howieson’s skilled, masterful production, the listening experience of Aphelion is undoubtedly about surrender, not control. The soundscape it produces is both fresh and classic, or in another word, elegant. 

Official Video - https://youtu.be/J0Gf3ybLrhA

To my parents and friends who support me in countless ways, and to Rich for being my overseeing musical mentor.

Written, Produced, and Mixed by Mosam Howieson
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY
Design by Gabriel Benzur
Video Direction by Candace Price
Words by Taylor Bratches

Worldwide Distribution: wordandsound → what people play

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Aphelion

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MOTDLP012 - Mosam Howieson - Dream Sequence

Further information: bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-198-wooky

Bleep welcomes @Wooky to the mix series, for just short of an hours worth of hand-selected gems from the founder of Barcelona’s trailblazing Lapsus records. It’s a fitting insight into the wealth of styles the label and Wooky himself have become aligned with over the last two decades, with mind-bendingly high-quality control throughout. Setting out with ambient braindance and dub techno stylings, Wooky takes us through broken & percussive UK gear and tripped-out contemporary club trax, moving between tempos and melding genres along the way. Some of the freshest Lapsus releases are in here too from Wordcolour, Delay Grounds and plenty more.

Bleep Mix #198 - Wooky

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2021.09.03.html

@shine-grooves...
no setlist

@m50... (93m)
My Flower : Scratch : Opal Flavours : Esker Tapes
Ancient Radio Ensemble : II : A.R.E. : Neglectsound
Aidan Baker : Seeing Past What Things Seem : Seeing Past What Things Seem : Karlrecords
Minder : Jez : Telepathy : Sneaker Social Club
Joy O (featuring Edna) : 'rraine : Still Slipping Vol. 1 : XL
Mimsy : Strange Love : Ormeology : Karaoke Kalk
Brothomstates : - : Claro : WARP
Midori Hirano : Glass : Invisible Island : Sonic Pieces
K-rAd : 082_Laughin : Remember Steps : K-rAd
Mimsy : My Love : Ormeology : Karaoke Kalk
Paleman : Pan Vactrol : [untitled] : PLMN
Joy O : Runnersz : Still Slipping Vol. 1 : XL
Marumari : L'Usine Remix : The Remixes : Carpark
Dave Aju : X17 Viibe : X17 : Elbow Grease
K-rAd : 146_MangoWalnutRice : Remember Steps : K-rAd 

@dreamlogicc... (3h)
Ant Orange - All In
Dreamlogicc - What Even (Live)
Rayman vs. Tyrell - Foreplay
ASC - Photosphere
Indiana Drones - Berlin Sessions (Drmlgcc's Neukolln Lift)
Kiat - Slugstep ft. Digital
Dreamlogicc - Whistle Tips
Crypticz - Ocean Blue ft. Amy Kisnorbo
King Felix - Spring
Solo ft. JT - Pressure
KM - Distance (Drmlgcc Keeps A Fair Distance)
Nuage - Be Myself
Metro - Vector Files
Head Phones President - Abiso (Drmlgcc's Longenberry Blitz)
Traxman - Footworkin On Air

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@datafruits, ICN
@internetpublicradio, GDL
Sphere-Radio, LEJ
Wax n' Cats, CHI

Shine Grooves + m50 + DJ Lgcc @ etc 2021.09.03

IDA Folder - Steve Duncan 03.11.21

Patricia Wolf is an artist based in Portland, Oregon, who describes herself as a musician / sound designer / field recordist / DJ. It’s in the latter capacity that she features here, having put together the first Bandcloud Guest Mix of 2022. We’ve been in conversation a lot over the past year and a half or so, all basically stemming from my playing her track ‘Sauvie Island Wilderness Area’ from the Room40 compilation Particle Count on my radio show. Ducks aplenty.

This mix is a wonderful selection of ~ambient~ pieces from the recent past, ranging from Fennesz and Olivia Block to KMRU and Hiro Kone, Astrid Sonne and Penelope Trappes to William Basinski. It ranges from raucous and overpowering to subtly gentle, with melancholic piano leading into a whirlwind of samples as the mix reaches its conclusion.

Patricia’s got an album called I'll Look For You In Others coming out on Past Inside The Present soon – you can already preorder on Juno but Bandcamp links will be up shortly. I think tomorrow actually. 

https://soundcloud.com/patriciawolf_music

Fennesz - We Trigger The Sun (Touch, 2019)
KMRU - rimpa dusk (KMRU, 2021)
Olivia Block - Through Houses (Room40, 2021)
Hiro Kone - Mundus Patet (Dais, 2021)
Astrid Sonne - Stuck In Pause (Escho, 2021)
Christina Giannone - Glazed Vision (Past Inside The Present, 2021)
Chad Munson - Suspension (Muzan Editions, 2021)
Penelope Trappes - Fur & Feather (Mother’s Blood Version) (Houndstooth, 2021)
Adam Miller - Erosion (Inner Magic, 2022)
Saloli - A Good Rainy Day (Mary Sutton, 2021)
Derek Hunter Wilson - Baby, I mean (Instrumental) (Derek Hunter Wilson, 2021)
William Basinski - All These Too, I, I Love (Temporary Residence Ltd , 2020)

Bandcloud Mix January 2022 - Patricia Wolf

Here's the first hour of my set played on the Sunday evening at 6pm at Springkell in Scotland. A beautiful small party curated and organised by Ario from https://soundcloud.com/astralindustries and soundcloud.com/o-utlier It was a magical few days with so much great music and friendly faces at every turn. 

I was feeling a little fragile when i stepped up to play after 2 days of indulgence but enjoyed warming things up. Already looking forward to next year! Thanks to Moy Santana for the recording and to all the Springkell crew : )

A glimpse of Springkell

The new episode of our podcast series comes from @lowgravitysound: Technology and imperfection, raw and processed, so many concepts that lie at the core of Futurepast identity.

Low Gravity trained his mixing and production skills in the London underground scene, before he brought his sound to Rome where he co-founded @radiocircolo and Collettivo Sonico. As an enthusiast of electroacoustics and experimental music, he deploys his knowledge to sculpt the sound, and fuse elements from ambient textures, experimental and hypnotic rhythms.

The mix itself features tracks from essential pioneers Éliane Radigue and Suzanne Ciani, Brian Eno, revered sound designers and composers like Tetsu Inoue, Alva Noto, Pete Namlook or Robert Rich, and new coming talents like LF58, Grand River, and of course Low Gravity himself, with an unreleased track.

- words by Florent Couloir
- artwork by Z_koncept

Futurepast Mix 11 - Low Gravity

Brief perspective at dusk

Memory Circuit

Track produced by ENDLXSS LXVE

Vocals by A.I.

Lyrics by ENDLXSS LXVE
___________________________

These times are heavy
Nothing can stop me
Hold on and grab me
So you better should trust me
Because these times are heavy

THESE TIMES ARE HEAVY (SYNTHWAVE VERSION 2)

A voice in the ether. A calm, clement drone. A gentle, pulsing throb. Like the ghost of a forgotten future as imagined by the distant past, Certain Creatures' sophomore LP Nasadiya Sukta is a study in timelessness — crystalline, heartfelt ambient music designed to push light through shadow. 

CERTAIN CREATURES is the alias of Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Chapoy, and Nasadiya Sukta was crafted especially for Mysteries of the Deep. Divided into six tracks, Nasadiya coheres into a single extraterrestrial mass, its beautiful understated elegance encouraging repeat listens. Simultaneously harking back to ambient classics from the '90s while cementing Chapoy as a visionary artist with his own unique voice, Nasadiya Sukta is one for the space travellers indeed.

Releases January 5, 2018
Worldwide Distribution: wordandsound → what people play

Written, Produced, and Mixed by Oliver Chapoy 
at Ohm Sweet Ohm, Brooklyn, New York. 
2017 Ohm Sweet Ohm (ASCAP) 

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios, New York 
Photography by Candace Price 
Design by Gabriel Benzur

Nasadiya Sukta

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MOTDLP001 - Certain Creatures | Nasadiya Sukta

What if music had no beginning, no end? Can music exist "for itself" or "of itself," without structure constraining it, defining it? Can music be non-linear, non-narrative, simply experiential, existential? The second full-length album on Mysteries of the Deep, Musica Enterrada from Portland's William Selman, neither answers these questions nor supposes them. But in listening, one can't help but wonder: What if I disappeared into this record forever?

In another time and place, William Selman was known as Warmdesk, an alias through which he issued a series of sharply precise minimal techno records. In recent past, Selman shifted gears, shedding the dynamics of tension and release that characterized his previous alias' output. Under his own name, Selman began releasing process-oriented, freeform experimental music on cassette-focused outlets like Digitalis and Hausu Mountain. Now comes Musica Enterrada, a diaphanous, weightless musical vision not unlike the theoretical square root of GRM and Popol Vuh's early electronic forays. 

Split into six tracks across two sides of vinyl, Musica Enterrada bubbles, churns, drifts, and dozes. Dulcet tones pile up gently like waves on shore. Patterns repeat and reconfigure, as if heard from different angles. Rhythms appear, shift the frame, then disappear, into the ether whence they came. Play Musica Enterrada on repeat. And if you disappear into it, fret not — you have drifted into solace.

A1. Lithic Reduction
A2. Thick Description
A3. Polysemy
B1. The World Without Us
B2. Inferno Of The Same
B3. The Island Before The Internet 

Recorded August 2016 - March 2017 in Portland, Oregon.

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios, New York 
Photography by Candace Price 
Design by Gabriel Benzur
Words by Chris Zaldua

Worldwide Distribution: wordandsound → what people play

Musica Enterrada

MOTDLP002 - William Selman | Musica Enterrada

Through the looking glass comes Interpretations Vol. 1, the first in a series of remix EPs from Mysteries of the Deep. This first installment follows the release of Certain Creatures' Nasadiya Sukta — a deep-listening ambient album par excellence — and features four remixes from the record by Patrick Russell, Birds of Prey, tdel, and Gunnar Haslam, plus an additional original bonus track from the Nasadiya sessions.

Certain Creatures - Cross Star Woman (Patrick Russell Dub Version)
Certain Creatures - We Live Inside A Dream (Birds of Prey Version)
Certain Creatures - Nyau Dust (tdel Rework)
Certain Creatures - Golden Circle (Gunnar Haslam Version)
Certain Creatures - Seven (Album Bonus)

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios, NY 
Photography by Candace Price 
Design by Gabriel Benzur

Worldwide Distribution: wordandsound → what people play

Interpretations Vol I - Nasadiya Sukta

MOTDEP001 - Certain Creatures - Interpretations Vol I | Nasadiya Sukta

Deeper still goes Interpretations Vol. II, Mysteries of the Deep's next collection of edits, reworks, and revisions, all culled from our second full-length LP, William Selman's "Musica Enterrada." Both the gentle bloom of Matthew Patterson Curry’s twist on the title track and Borne's shimmering percussion-forward version of 'The Island Before The Internet' hew pleasingly close to the source material. Elsewhere, rrao and Clay Wilson transform 'Thick Description' into a stygian journey, with a susurrant reiki session, and Strategy recombines 'Musica Enterrada' into a classic subaquatic house tune. A bonus original work from Selman, 'Sun Tunnels Tree Tunnels,' completes the release.

William Selman - Musica Enterrada (Matthew Patterson Curry Remix)
William Selman - The Island Before The Internet (Borne's Snail Mail Shimmer)
William Selman - Thick Description (rrao & Clay Wilson Remix)
William Selman - Musica Enterrada (Strategy's Recombinant Mix)
William Selman - Sun Tunnels Tree Tunnels (Album Bonus)

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios, New York 
Photography by Candace Price 
Design by Gabriel Benzur 
Words by Chris Zaldua 

Worldwide Distribution: wordandsound → what people play

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-patterson-curry
https://soundcloud.com/borne
https://soundcloud.com/turiyarrao
https://soundcloud.com/claywilson
https://soundcloud.com/wselman

Interpretations Vol II - Musica Enterrada

MOTDEP002 - William Selman - Interpretations Vol II | Musica Enterrada

"I think of myself as a naturalist no matter the palette," says Lori Scacco, the New York multi-instrumentalist, composer, and electronic musician whose new album, 'Desire Loop,' is Mysteries of the Deep's third full-length LP.

Natural indeed: Scacco's music effuses warmth, enveloping listeners like a gentle embrace. Her first album, 'Circles,' was released in the early aughts on Eastern Developments, an imprint co-founded by Guillermo Scott Herren, aka Prefuse 73. She spent much of the interim period composing music for performance, film, and classical ballet, influences audible throughout 'Desire Loop.'

Flush with incandescent scree, bubbly synthesizer, and easygoing dulcet tones, the album's simplicity belies its emotional impact. At times — "Cosmographia" and "Other Flowers," for instance — Scacco's songwriting approaches a therapeutic purity that feels nearly virtuous, immaculate. This is by design: she wrote this album as counterpoint to today's destructive political landscape . "I had to create an empathic means of access for myself, and in turn, for the listener, using the core of all that I value as my way into the music,” she explains.

"I wanted to provide a vehicle for the listener to impart their own emotional experience without imposing my own meaning. I found myself returning to that space over and over again.” After listening to 'Desire Loop,' we expect that you will, too.

Lori Scacco - Desire Loop

A1. Coloring Book
A2. Strange Cities
A3. Cosmographia
A4. Interactivity in Plastic Space
B1. Back to Electric
B2. Tiger Song
B3. Red Then Blue
B4. Other Flowers

All songs written, performed, and produced by Lori Scacco. New York City 2018 (BMI)

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios, New York 
Photography by Candace Price 
Design by Gabriel Benzur
Words by Chris Zaldua

Worldwide Distribution: wordandsound → what people play

Desire Loop

MOTDLP003 - Lori Scacco | Desire Loop

Before Vala is let to bloom in full later this year, we share this ambient mix from one of our recording sessions. Recorded together by Steve Duncan, Kaspiann, Multicast Dynamics and Homi.

Recorded on 12th of December 2020.

@steve-duncan
@multicastdynamics
@kiuas
@soundsofkaspiann

For those who seek warmth.

Breakfast With Vala

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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