Lowlife Attitude w/ 400JASA (22.05.2021)

We created the soundtrack for Tide magazine’s first issue. 

We worked together on the occasion of this new publication, by following the same guidance as the editorial team: to explore the notions of fulfillment and emptiness, through sonic textures instead of words and images. 

The result is less of a straightforward mix, and more of a varied musical atmosphere, which invites our readers to experience every page in an innovative way.


T R A C K L I S T

X.Y.R. / Dolphin Smile
Lea Bertucci / Refrain (A Whisper, an Alarm)
project dirigent / The Serpent's Concealed (naviarhaiku387)
Phil Struck / Sommertage
Vanessa Amara / Cembalo & Carillon
Yves Tumor / Slow (Subcutis Version)
Mica Levi / Rose
Wayne Horvitz / Danced All Night
Kimberly Clark / First of May
De Grandi / Energy Blitz (Low Mix)
Aya Metwalli / Matkhafsh Menni
Sevdaliza / Habibi
Smerz / Versace Strings
Rino De Filippi / Preghiera Nel Tempio

AM Mix for Tide Magazine #1

Uwaga Baby C

merlot

el amado es mi la muerte

Release Date : 21 May 2019
Format :	Digital & Vinyl
Support & Buy : https://otiumrec.bandcamp.com/album/acts-of-intimacy
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Label on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/otiumrec/
Label on Soundcloud :	https://soundcloud.com/otiumrec
	
Artist on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jeunegkanthor
Artist on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/kanthor
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Description / Infos

We are glad to present you ‘Acts of Intimacy’, a 6 track compilation maxi (vinyl + digital), booklet, and large format prints release. Featuring Paulie Jan, Refracted, Asfa, Joseph, Kanthor and Vâyu, the creative process of each artist on the vinyl was guided by our multidisciplinary approach for this compilation. 

The booklet is made of Benoît Lefeuvre micro experiments photos shots taken trough a microscope lens, and Léa Moret-Bailly’s poem. We gave the artists a carte blanche around these artistic elements, to let them compose a musical creation in their very intimate way. 

‘Acts of Intimacy’ comes in a limited press of 200 numbered vinyls, 100 booklets, and 10 unique framed photo prints on fine art paper.

Support & Buy

Kanthor - En Immanence [Otium]

Mysteries of the Deep is delighted to present its second album by Portland, Oregon-based musician and multimedia artist William Selman (@wselman), entitled “Naming Before Names.” In a world that demands categorization of everything around us through taxonomies, genres, and strict schemas, Selman’s album aims to explore the spaces between categories. His goal is not to offer concrete explanatory gestures, but rather, to create a deliberate space for suspension and ambiguity. These eight compositions conjure a world in which humans are asked to stand on the periphery, observing their surroundings from a vantage of curious wonder, rather than clear definition.

Selman draws from distinct sonic realms, however, citing David Berhman, Maggi Payne, and Alvin Curran as influences. He says, “I like the way these artists use simple forms to ground dense compositions with an approach to composition that is improvisational and collage-like.” In line with this sentiment, the album’s quality is uncannily natural. Many of Selman’s field recordings, collected over a twenty-year period, find a home here, adorning a landscape that’s as visual as it is sonic; we hear hydrophone recordings of tide pools and summer lagoons, grasshopper wings in a lava field, broken humidifiers and sandstorms alongside moments of intentional instrumentation. Light vibraphone gives way to slow hand drum movements. Textured synths add viscosity without extracting us from the ecological world. It feels inaccurate to say the album’s occasional rhythms are constructed; rather, patterns seem to arise organically out of the aether. In Selman’s universe, there’s a sense that everything exists in primordial unity, untouched by the human imprint that insists on fragmenting the world into recognizable parts. 

Written, produced, and recorded by William Selman in Portland, Oregon Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
Bass guitar on "A New Old Firmament" by Steve Wade
Special thanks to Paul Dickow and Marcus Fischer for percussion and the time-share vibraphone
Additional mixing by Oliver Chapoy at Ohm Sweet Ohm, NY
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY
Photography by Candace Price
Words by Taylor Bratches

Naming Before Names

Buy Release

MOTDLP006 - William Selman - Bubble House In Shallow Depth

Exzenter #1 w/ Ina Valeska (02.08.2020)

0920_13_sunday

Lamellen - De Stuiter [Dekmantel]
Post.23 - Whispers [Stlla Ton]
Ex Geo - 7.1 [SM-LL]
Roman Craft - Crack [Self Released]
Hiele - Music These Days Pt. 2 [Self Released]
Big Hands - In Delphi (Wednesday Blues) [Mega Metal]
Avalon Emerson - Wastelands And Oases [!K7 Records]
Bill Converse - Porcupine [Obsolete Future]
Harmonious Thelonious - Hohlenmenschenmuziek [Bureau B]
Nummer - Hassen Dub [Nummer Music]
Surgeon - Europa Code [Illian Tape]
Sun Genam - 00 babas [Who's Susan]
Pigmalião - Ocrânimo [I Lost My Poncho In Istanbul]
C.Z. - Skalka [Eine Welt]
Sudeten Creche - Dance [Illuminated Records]
SW. - ELEctreC [Avenue 66]
Sage Caswell - Magic Hands [Lives Through Magic]
Tristan Arp - Pipeline [Human Pitch]
Suzanne Kraft - Dus [Self Released]
Angel 1  - Angel Activate B1 (Edit) [Beer On The Rug]
Jing - A Special You [Acid Camp Records]
Sabaturin - Kempouezer [Holuzam]
BPMF - Button [Only One Music]
Ben Bondy - Lith [Experiences Ltd.]
Dead Fader - Lithe [Kimochi Sound]
Innere Tueren - Love Means To Capitulate [Kann Records]

Alex Steiner - Floccinaucinihilipilification Mix

Endurance @joshua-stefane mix for Free City Radio

00:00 Hirotaka Shirotsubaki @infection
Summer Ends 
[Perfect Days for Suicide, S/R]

07:05 Hideo Nakasako @sako0219
R0011740 
[S/R]

14:20 Miki Yui @miki-yui
Dancing (swamp) 
[Aperio!, Hallow Ground]

17:30 Endurance 
FS02 
[unreleased track]

Free City Radio broadcasts every Wednesday at 11h on @radiockut in Montreal and is hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff. Photo by Joshua Stefane.

Endurance - Free City Radio mix

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.