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Retrograde Youth is a colombian producer and Dj whose releases and vivid mixes made him reach some of the best stages in Europe. Waiting for a new chance to reach european soil, he unveils here a wider spectrum, delivering a blend of darker experimental tracks, slowly turning into an awaken dancefloor.

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Retrograde Youth [A Manie Dansantes Session] [05.03.2021]

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure.

DARK AMBIENT - NUMB

DUB TECH BLANK CHEQUE.m4a

Producer: Ryan Timmons 
Music: Ryan Timmons 
Synthesizer: Ryan Timmons 
Mix: Ryan Timmons 
Master: Ryan Timmons 
Artwork: Dakota Kingrea

Another Breath is the debut instrumental album from AbstraktBirth, recorded between 2022 and 2024. Blending textured drum machine loops, immersive ambient layers, and ethereal vocal elements, it captures my journey through depression, psychosis, and healing. Cinematic yet deeply personal, the album reflects on rebirth and the longing for innocence, creating an intimate soundscape where emotion and atmosphere merge.

Strange Window

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

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

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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

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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

XYZ - from the forthcoming album by @birdsofprey. Vocals by Camille Altay.

If emptiness is heaviness is Godliness, Birds of Prey's third full-length LP is an immaculate conception from on high. The record luxuriates in the spaces between. What's left out says as much as what made it in. Deep, droning, and dub wise, “Vanishing Point” cascades in elegance. Its reference points call towards the sample manipulation of American tape music and the downward gaze of amniotic British bass music. It charts its own path nonetheless, building its own space for drifting off to. 

Unlike many peers operating in similar realms, Birds of Prey are a proper band, a foursome: Grant Aaron, Clay Wilson, Eric Holmes, and Camille Altay. Each are artists in their own right with a distinct practice. In Birds of Prey, their collaborations in studio take on a greater shape, whittled and edited into cosmic formlessness. 

Although borne of improvisation, you may never know that in the listening. "Vanishing Point" is a tight, coherent work, the sound of a cadre of talented musicians locked in flow. Rippling tones become glacial melodies. Cavernous drums emerge barely from the ether. Rhythms interlock, interpolate. Patterns repeat and dissolve whence they came. There is untold potency in simplicity, and Birds of Prey make it known.

Releases June 14, 2019 

All songs written and produced by Birds of Prey 

Mixed by Oliver Chapoy at Ohm Sweet Ohm, NY 
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios, NY 
Photography by Candace Price 
Design by Gabriel Benzur 
Words by Chris Zaldua 

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Vanishing Point

MOTDLP004 - Birds of Prey - XYZ

Felt like playing some really deep records today. Probably not my best mixing but whatever. 

Earthen Sea - You Don't Never Know [Kimochi]
OBW - Primitive People [Lime Street Music]
Loidis - A Parace [anno]
N.T.F.L - Vacio [Calypso Records]
DJ Trystero - [The Trilogy Tapes]
Doctor Mixx - The Spirit In Me [Zig-Zag]
Generation Next - Bundy [7 Days Ent.]
Money House Club - Simulator Data [UZ MI Records]
Aheloy - Anvil [Transatlantyk]
Kassem Mosse - B1 [Workshop]
Masks - Emotional Response [Spring Theory]
Laurence Guy - This Isn't My Best Light [Shall Not Fade]
Yansima - Tweede Cans [R & S Records]
Perseus Traxx - Euterpe (The Muse Of Flutes & Lyrical Poetry)  [Flight Recorder]
Circulation - Emotions Unknown [Balance]

Alex Steiner - Rainy & Gray Day In May Vinyl Mix

Primal Forms

Mix I did for Hallo: Radio in August 2020, while it was 30 degrees outside

Mix from the Heat

Strange, weird, obscure. Dance and non-dance. Weird Science is an event series inviting local and guest DJs to play records outside of their regular club norms.

Today's show features off-center morning tunes, spanning the genres of synthwave, downtempo, electro and experimental.

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DEMENT3D avec HBT - 08 Octobre 2020

La Rennaise Vanadís du collectif ÖND, invite pour son émission mensuelle, Antoine, cocréateur du Positive Education Festival à Saint-Étienne et également du label Worst Records.

[DJ SET] Digressions Auditives #4 Vanadís invite Antoine

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.

MOTDLP004 - Birds of Prey - XYZ

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