Vinyl + tapes on Bandcamp: https://tatsuromurakami.bandcamp.com/album/mita-koyama-cho

Streaming Links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/tatsuromurakami_mitakoyamacho

'Mita Koyama-cho' offers a fresh perspective on today’s ambient music scene, blending acoustic and electronic elements into a rich, evocative soundscape. Murakami, a multi-instrumentalist, weaves together acoustic and jazz guitar, saxophone, fretless bass, and an array of keyboards—including vintage synthesizers, Mellotron, and acoustic piano. The result is a fusion of jazz, new age, folk, Brazilian music, and even 1970s progressive rock.

With an intuitive sense of melody and arrangement, Murakami layers warm cassette textures, vintage amp tones, and intricate string and saxophone orchestrations. 'Mita Koyama-cho' is a deeply personal tribute to the musician’s family and the Tokyo neighborhood they once called home—demolished in 2024 due to corporate redevelopment.

Sax on track 1 by Hikaru Yamada
Mastering by Chihei Hatakeyama
Design by Yudai Osawa
Obi text by Masaaki Hara
Photography by Anais-karenin
Insert photography by Tanaka Ueno

Tatsuro Murakami - Mita Koyama-cho

Bandcamp: https://fredthomasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/critical-violets-dream-erosion-pt-vii

Streaming Links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/fredthomas_criticalvioletsdreamerosionptvii

Fred Thomas - Critical Violets, Dream Erosion Pt. VII

Bandcamp: https://mohani.bandcamp.com/album/seoul-static
Streaming Links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/mohani_seoulstatic

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Mohani - Seoul Static

Bandcamp: https://kentwatari.bandcamp.com/album/kokei-no-awai
Streaming Links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/kentwatari_kokeinoawai

kent watari - KOKEI NO AWAI

Buy vinyl: 
https://mysterycircles.bandcamp.com/album/compilation-vol-2

Hélène Vogelsinger - Plane Of Existence

Vinyl on Bandcamp: https://elinpiel.bandcamp.com/album/ingrid-linnea

Elin Piel - Sequent

https://florigenix.bandcamp.com/album/wild-light

Florigenix - Jungle Rusted Plasma Temple

Florigenix - Warm Glowing Mindscape

Florigenix - Passage of the Bird Queen

https://florigenix.bandcamp.com/album/nine-doors-to-worlds-without-names

This is a strange, colourful journey into places I like to think of as beyond definitions; formless worlds outside ordinary categories. By not naming the tracks I'm letting the music speak for itself rather than locking it into conceptual definitions, although the album name points to the intentions. With an overall harmonious center, this album still moves into some quite peculiar sonic spaces, and I feel there is perhaps more emotional variety than my previous ambient album Anemoi.

Entirely made using modular and hardware synthesizers recorded into a four track tape recorder, with only some editing and mastering in the DAW, this is the first time I've made an album using tape. I utilize tape speed control, natural tape overdrive and playing parts in reverse to help create all the textures and environments you hear...

Nine Doors to Worlds Without Names

Florigenix - World One

Bandcamp: https://almanacs.bandcamp.com/track/my-island-2

Streaming Links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/almanacs_myisland

Honduran synthesist and producer Wilmer Murillo aka Almanacs returns to Mystery Circles with his new single “My Island”, an extended piece that he describes as “an introspective journey into the subconscious, seeking to explore everything from chaos and confusion to inner peace and gratitude.” A lot has happened with our friend in the past year or so - most notably his move to Santiago, Chile. The adjustment that comes with such an impactful life change inspired a wide range of emotions, and with this piece the goal was to explore and reflect on all of them - the good, the bad, and the in-between. To “slow the mind and spirit down to the pace of my synthesizer sounds.” 

A steady rhythmic pulse sets the stage, injecting the first half of “My Island” with his trademark ability to encapsulate his environment and heritage in sonic form. Wonderfully meandering lead synths steadily begin to layer in, solidifying the feeling that this music represents his unknown journey. As the pulse slowly dials down, the track seamlessly transforms into a beautiful soundscape - clear, dreamlike and epic drones define something new for the artist - Wilmer has always made ambient music, but to me, this sounds like a new-found clarity, a representation of the inner peace and grati

Almanacs - "My Island"

Tapes on Bandcamp: https://kenjiueda.bandcamp.com/album/pasadena-garden

Streaming links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/kennyueda_pasadenagarden

Originally released by Kenny on March 8th, 2024 via his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrTUWCFKqpA

Re-released on cassette, Bandcamp and all streaming platforms by Mystery Circles on July 22nd, 2024

Tracks Recorded during 2020-2023 mainly utilizing the following instruments:

Roland Juno6, Casio Sk1, Yamaha VSS-30, Yamaha SY35, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass.

Kenny Ueda - Garden

Kenny Ueda - Miro

Kenny Ueda - Office

Kenny Ueda - The Bridge

Kenny Ueda - Mexican Restaurant

Kenny Ueda - Supermarket Parking Lot

Kenny Ueda - Pensive Marimba

Kenny Ueda - Minor Casio

Kenny Ueda - Balloon

Kenny Ueda - Pomona Summer

Cassettes on Bandcamp: https://tomleclerc.bandcamp.com/album/parc-naturel-pour-synth-tiseurs

Streaming Links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/tomleclerc_parcnaturelpoursynthtiseurs

'Parc Naturel pour Synthétiseurs' was composed and recorded using self-sustained energy with my modular synthesizers in Auvergne, France, as part of a residency called "Le Récit du Silence" (The Tale of Silence), centered around autonomous in situ performances. During this time of creation, I used batteries and solar panels to power the entire small studio that I had installed to be able to play in open nature.

This project is the most ambitious endeavor I have undertaken so far. It aims to take the audience on an auditory journey through diverse microcosms, resembling a real natural park. For this project, I used my modular synthesizer that I was able to take everywhere.

Composing with nature is not such an easy thing, as you have to learn to let go. In times of capitalist anxiety, the mere search for calm becomes difficult. And when we finally find it, we already think about finding it again.

In these places, the natural and ephemeral orchestra is alive. It can invite us to compose with it.

I seek to bear witness to these moments to offer the world these new imaginations. And there are these moments, at the bend of a mountain contour where the music comes to life and offers us a "natural park of sounds". - TL

Recorded in Auvergne, France
Written, performed and produced by Tom Leclerc
Pictures by Joséphine Leroux
Visuals and art by Nathankylosaure

Tom Leclerc - Buzzard

CD edition on Bandcamp: https://mysterycircles.bandcamp.com/album/inverted-land

Known for their experimental take on vaporwave and adjacent genres, I'nverted Land' finds Voyage Futur taking us on a minimal + percussive ambient journey, leaning heavy on post new age and fourth world vibes.

Voyage Futur - Bell Meditation

Voyage Futur - Ever Changing Environment

Support on Bandcamp: https://stegonaute.bandcamp.com/album/reworks

Stegonaute - Brume

Stegonaute - Lofimily (Half Speed Edit)

From the oblivion, the self wishing for that person...

Stunning Fragility

Transitioning

1-11-5 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Of all the things you left behind, I chose only to keep impermanence

Fred Thomas -  5AM Alarm

Fred Thomas - Critical Violets

Fred Thomas - Let the Dogs Run

Fred Thomas - They Were Leaning Against the Clocktower, It Was Early, Maybe in March or April

Fred Thomas - Wavelength

Fred Thomas - Message Unclear

Fred Thomas - Laszlo

Fred Thomas - Waveform

Fred Thomas - Misanthropic

Fred Thomas - Discontinued

Bandcamp: https://mohani.bandcamp.com/album/seoul-static
Streaming Links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/mohani_seoulstatic

Mohani is the solo project of Seoul-based musician Donghoon Han. Using instruments like the Ciat-Lonbarde, Monome Norns, and OP-1, he creates immersive ambient works focused on capturing fleeting moments of beauty in sound.

This album reflects a journey that began with intimate house concerts in a fading neighborhood of old Seoul—13 shows hosted in his own living room from 2023 to 2024, under the name 'Bitter and Sound'. Those gatherings became the seed for a small but growing ambient community in South Korea.

Now based at Kunst Kabinett—a new listening space Mohani co-founded in the heart of Seoul—his practice continues to evolve. Every month, the venue hosts ambient musicians from Korea and abroad, alongside collaborations with artists working in film, visual art, and performance.

'Seoul Static' draws on the textures, moods, and quiet moments shaped in those rooms. It’s both a document and an invitation: to listen more closely, to slow down, and to find stillness in sound.

Seoul Static

Mohani - Bacchus

Mohani - Metro Meditation

Mohani - Palace Fantasy

Mohani - Dystopia Psy

Mohani - Mind the Gap

Mohani - Subway Line 6

kent watari - windows

kent watari - a touch

kent watari - SHAKKEI

kent watari - perspective of February

kent watari - the forest of gelatin and steel

Bandcamp: https://wavefiler.bandcamp.com/track/inlets
Streaming links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/wavefiler_inlets

“Inlets” is a near ten-minute composition built as a single arc, yet structured into three main sections—each acting as an access point into the piece’s evolving landscape. These “inlets” offer different ways of entering the flow, as textures shift and moods deepen. The sections fold into one another, resisting fixed divisions and forming a continuous, tidal movement.

The piece ends by subtly returning to its beginning, creating a loop-like structure that suggests endless return rather than finality. Time in Inlets feels circular, ambient, and spacious—less a path and more a terrain.

Adrian Johnson’s artwork visually echoes this form. Bold, overlapping shapes in vibrant color create a composition that feels both structured and fluid. No single focal point dominates; instead, the eye moves rhythmically between curved and angular forms, tracing a dynamic geometry that reflects the piece’s musical logic. Like the composition itself, the artwork invites entry from multiple directions—each perspective reshaping the whole.

At its core, “Inlets” is about permeability—how beginnings blur into middles, and endings gently open back toward the start. Time becomes less linear and more tidal, as if one could enter or exit the piece from any point and still arrive somewhere meaningful.

Synths recorded to tape using TEAC-3440 and Tascam 414 mkII machines

Music by Steve Zydek
Artwork by Adrian Johnson
Mastered by James Bernard at Ambient Mountain House

Wavefiler - Inlets

Vinyl / Bandcamp download available here: https://mysterycircles.bandcamp.com/album/compilation-vol-1

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