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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.

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

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Paduan was live with Cobahn for the September instalment of his residency. They ran through 120 minutes of organic, drone infused soundscapes and textures.

Paduan w/ Cobahn - September 2021

"Landscapes with a lot of texture and depth, of infinite transition. A pill of ether to be able to appreciate and be aware of all the energy that surrounds us. Black night. You contemplate from below the immensity above. The light of the stars allows us to glimpse the mist of your breath. You are alive.

- As long as the stars will shine bright through the night skies, the light will be our salvation."

Ephere is a French musician and sound designer. He is the founder of the Stellar Transitions (@stellartransitions) project, a label and podcast channel dedicated to the exploration contemplative music. Active on both ambient and techno scenes, his works are deeply inspired by the power of nature and spirituality, taking his influences from the sounds that the living feels.

HOCast #93 - Ephere

33번째 꿈kkum 에피소드는 서울을 기반으로 활동중인 전자음악가 이녹스(@einox)의 한시간 라이브 세트와 함께합니다.
"꿈 속에서 만들어진 무의식의 파편들은 사라지는 대신 의식의 반대편에서 계속 기다리고 있다. 마침내 어떤 신호가 전달되어지면, 기다리고 있던 무의식의 파편들은 의식의 세계로 진입하고 이때 우리는 어떤 새로운 존재로 비로소 거듭나게 된다"
이녹스와 함께한 33번째 꿈 이야기는 한정판 카세트 테이프와 디지털 포멧으로 정식 발매되었습니다.

The 33rd 꿈kkum episode features an hour live performance by Seoul-based electronic musician Einox.
"The fragments of the unconscious created in the dream continue to wait on the other side of the consciousness instead of disappearing. Finally, when a certain signal is transmitted, the fragments of the unconscious that were waiting enter the world of consciousness, and at this moment, we are reborn as a new existence. "
The 33rd kkum story with Einox was officially released in limited edition cassette tape and digital format.

buy link: https://vurtseoul.bandcamp.com/album/kkum-33-einox-live-3

꿈 kkum 33

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Everyone at some point in their existence experiences a critical moment in their busy life where big decisions can lead to big change, both at work and in life. A turning point that make your life never be the same again. A new you, a new us.

David is a die-hard record collector who has been playing them around the North of Spain and Europe for more than 15 years now. Since three years ago he's more focused on Escala de Grisos, his monthly radio show on a local station, where he plays and discuss about ambient, techno and anything in between as well as making some interviews.

David has recorded the following mix with that feeling of knowing that something huge is about to change in his life, just like what happened at .apart in a way. Hence the name translated into Catalan :)

A magnificent true personal musical journey where he captures with great sense and extreme delicacy a long list of antonyms such as fear-hope, uncertainty-desire…

To sum up overall, David shares the following poem:

"... The rocks crash, the puddles splash, the mirrow ripples, the calmness returns, so are the turning points of life that disrupt our world to only steer us onto a path more right than the one before, let the wind blow as it may, for it's only wish is to whisk you away to a destination where your heart will find a true home, a place where the doubts and confusion have no life supply, for when the turn is complete, a soul once lost, will be found, only to realize it was all part of the journey, and around the corner there is so much more to see ... " – KJC

You can find him at:
@humo
https://www.instagram.com/d.humo/
https://www.radio.celra.cat/programs/escaladegrisos

.CHPTR043 'Turning points' | D. Humo

STBL (https://stbl.bandcamp.com/) is the most accessible alias of noi, an artist close to sound art and experimentation even in his beginnings as producer. Thanks to this project, Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo gives shape to his personal vision of music in the last decades, hinting at clear influences: from ambient music to electro or acoustic IDM.

Trackslist
Biosphere - Sea Cat
John Chantler - We're Always At The End (Part 1)
Marco Simioni & Mattia Saviolo - Stone of Foreseeing Events
Andrew Pekler - Hy Brasil
Karamika - Ton 2.7
Tapan - In My Heart Feat. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Abul Mogard Rework)
STBL - Memories of Another Time
Son of Chi & Radboud Mens - The Transition Recordings
Siavash Amini - Moonless Garden
Pendant - OXI-GKK
Topdown Dialectic - Vol.3 A1
Ulla - Hope Sonata
The Caretaker - Internal bewildered World
TIBSLC - Soft Afternoon Pressure
STBL - unreleased
Space Afrika - u+00b1
NeozaÏre - Departed, Gone And Lost

SAPOS005 - STBL

"Pure darkness, then a ray of light. The clock hand is heard in the background, a new life begins. A journey of intrigue, a roller coaster of emotions. Oscillating, heartfelt. The story begins, unfolds. It survives. It hides from predators. It is free. Every stage, every moment will be engraved inside the cave. Pure darkness, the hand of the clock is no longer heard. Teardrop. Ether. What a journey!"

 - Author's note:

Recorded live on 04/19/22 during Calma in Zapadores.

After two years of inactivity in Zapadores, Josephine Soundscapes proposed a trip in her musical and affective memory, the set was complemented by a live visual show performed together with her partner in a_mal_gam_a, Diskoan (@diskoan), in which predatory nature was the protagonist. -

Josephine’ Soundscapes (@machines-desirantes) is Jose Salas, an audiovisual creator, art director and active promoter of Madrid alternative culture. As a Dj, he always works with a mixture of investigation of the past and a strong commitment to the present. He's part of a_mal_gam_a (@a_mal_gam_a) and CALMA (@calmamadrid) collectives, both working in Spain electronic underground scene. He also hosts a bimonthly radio program on Radio Relativa (@radio-relativa) called "Campos de Marte" (http://camposdemarte.net/), focused on experimentation in music.

HOCast #106 - Josephine' Soundscapes

it's with broken sonorities that atoloi unveils this 7th podcast. an ambient opening followed by pulsating rhythms and tribal drum and bass to wrap up.

"as a devotee of nature, I explore sounds creating a mellow amalgam of layers using over-reverberated synths, field recordings, and self-created samples. not choosing the club-oriented way as a first calling, instead, my productions search for other depths, in which the listener can get lost while getting submerged by heavy-grained noises and evocative instrumental compositions."

@atoloi

recorded in milan, Italy
08.04.22

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Blue Trap turns emotion into sound — moody, atmospheric trap and ambient melodies born from struggle, reflection, and rebirth. 

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indigo train

Dreamcore tracks to study by, to chill by, to snooze by, to energize (a few of the tracks anyways), or just kind of be with

Light Dreams

This is my first professionally mastered song, ive finally got the grips to mastering in ableton a little bit and now can sort of make my tracks sound alot fuller, ive currently been in love with the lofi house sound and ive had this track sat here for a while just hadnt mastered it and I wanted to give it the proper treatment as I thought it did sound good, this is going into an album of id say much better mastered and produced songs compared to my previous tracks! enjoy my peoples!

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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
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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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

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Desire Loop

MOTDLP003 - Lori Scacco | Desire Loop

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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