nebuleuse series

Act II

High Lights, October//                 Timnah • Qeone • Post bar • Kiosk Radio • Pauza • Midgar Records • Les Chaos Ambiants • Perpendicular 2024 • GIMIC • Prima Materia • Hyperterranean • Aa Sudd • Monochrome•Lost In Ether•Academeia• Mineteuf• Intelligent UFO•Egregore Collective•Khey Mysterio• 

10.24🌐SETS CONTEMPORARY TECHNO. DEEP FREQUENCIES

@vardaemusic & @toe_music

Vardae and Toe are electronic music artists known for their collaborative work, blending techno with experimental sounds. Their release, "Rao", dropped in 2024 under Monochrome Records, features atmospheric textures and dynamic rhythms that push the boundaries of genre. Their music often draws from techno, dub, and drum & bass, creating immersive soundscapes that stand out in the underground scene.

https://monochromerecords.bandcamp.com/album/prim-rwald-ii

Special thanks to Vardae and Toe for their generous collaboration with Perpendicular project, performing Friday at 11 PM.

Perpendicular is a self managed and private festival held somewhere in the woods of central Spain.

Artwork: Javier Marimon (@javiermarimon)

Vardae & Toé @ Perpendicular 2024

"In and out, long, drifting hums throughout. Makes me think about Mt. Painter"

 Kavil is an artist, DJ and founder of Melbourne-based record label, Absorb. With an ear for fickle textures and unwonted forms, Kavil compiles moving soundscapes designed to stretch the boundaries of electro-acoustic music.

As a curator, Kavil is known for his work on his label's 30-hour experimental festival, ABSORBED and  bimestrial program on LYL Radio. He is also responsible for the collation of the revered Bleus mix series and the co-curator of Make It Up Club, an institution that has presented weekly avant-garde and improvised sound performances in Naarm since 1998.

SC : https://soundcloud.com/absorb-label

#34 - Kavil - See-sawing

Descend into the obscure.

In this set Philip Kylberg explores new boundaries of introspective sonics carried by pumping rhythmics, experimenting with new unreleased material and binaural beats.
The environment that is crafted is meant to expand the mind into a journey through darker facets of inner self.
"There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it."

TRACKLIST :
Philip Kylberg - Unreleased 
Formant Value - Ectoplasm
D.towards -hydra unt
L’uzure - Memoire
Philip Kylberg - Unreleased 
??? - Unreleased
Marco Maldarella - Unreleased
??? - Unreleased
Alessandro Baroncini - Unreleased
Dj Hauge - Unreleased
Bluhol - Tor
Loek Frey - Savan
Solma - Subwreck12
Medlock - Unreleased 
Nebuchadnezzar - Machiavelli’s mirage
Philip Kylberg - Unreleased 
¬[d] - Axon
Philip Kylberg - Unreleased
As’teka Nahuatl, SHMИ, MetronΩhm - Shaman Brothers on Speed
Raär - Minimal Interaction
A'jitam Da'a - Ka ž u Radi
Sentient - Just beyond
Rxex - Z.4.A.1
Cio d’or - After And Before

Italian-Swedish DJ and producer, Philip expresses his vision through his obscure, hypnotic and energetic selections, that span from experimental ambient and drone to fast-paced avant-garde techno/trance and IDM/leftfield electronics, characterised by textural patterns and atonal complex beats.

SC: @philip-kylberg
IG: https://www.instagram.com/philip.kylberg/

#35 - Philip Kylberg - Bottomless Pit

It is with great pleasure to feature talented emerging artist Aerae for our 24th Herbarium episode. She convinces us with the great energy that her productions and mixes radiate. Trippy, tribal characteristics combined with experimental soundscapes is what we grasp from her output.

Aerae chose the plant Calea zacatechichi as inspiration for her mix.
It is a shrub found throughout Central America, especially in the highlands of Mexico. Indigenous people prepare a ritual infusion with its leaves, which resemble nettle leaves. After drinking it, one lies down and experiences the ensuing dreams which are believed to provide insights into healing current ailments.

Some words about her thoughts behind the mix : 
I have therefore imagined an entire journey of what this plant provides when consumed. From the very first seconds to the last. Passing through different states, different sensations, and encounters. Datura Stramonium is a psychoactive deliriant traditionally used in folk medicine and occult ritual. The drug induces a state of total confusion and disassociation, with users reporting not knowing where they are for days at a time. Join me on this long strange trip.

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About Aerae

Under her former alias, she had the privilege of performing at various renowned festivals and clubs in France, such as I LOVE TECHNO (Montpellier, FR), Les Plages Electroniques (Cannes, FR), REF (Nice, FR), Kwartz Club (Nice, FR), Le Spot (Rouen, FR), and ADE (Amsterdam, NL). She has shared the stage with artists like Marcel Dettmann, Justine Perry, Ben Klock, François X, to name a few.
Her debut LP 'Percussive Reverie' released on Annulled Music, marks a turn in her production skills, which gained international support by artists like Claudio PRC, Spekki Webu, Evigt Mörker, Eric Cloutier, Laura BCR, Refracted and many more. It was selected as ‘Best Album of the year" on the popular German magazine GROOVE alongside prestigious artist like Donato Dozzy.

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Follow Aerae
soundcloud.com/aeraemusic
instagram.com/_aerae__
www.facebook.com/aeraemusic

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Artwork by @polygonia

Herbarium No 24 - Aerae - Calea Zacatechichi

Laura MRLS LIVE at Solstice 2024

Recording of Nathalia's set at les Chaos Ambiants 2024

Naturally active person, in 2014, Nathalia founded Experiment Intrinsic – a hidden art dimension organically blended with the visual and musical imagination. A pivotal change, in which she pursued a path of deeper self inquiry and progression of sound, shifted her from the dance-floor oriented music and into ambient soundscapes. Her influences drew increasingly from experimental electronic, as well as traditional and spiritual genres. The following years were dedicated as developing the project into a dynamic and constantly evolving audio-visual platform.

[Les Chaos Ambiants]

The Pauza association presents Les Chaos Ambiants, a festival dedicated to the encounter between electronic music, the visual arts and the rich heritage of Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

This event is designed on a small scale to make it as comfortable as possible to listen, meet and move around, with a single stage to promote emerging and established artists, a natural setting conducive to the discovery of musical works and artistic installations, and an eco-responsible approach to limit its environmental impact.

The project has several objectives : to promote the European and international artistic scene, to stimulate and strengthen the cultural and creative network across the département and the region ; to help promote and showcase the natural and cultural heritage of Burgundy-Franche-Comté ; to support local produce and the local economy.

Nathalia [Les Chaos Ambiants]

Welcome to the final edition of the Midgar Records takeover. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the Berlin-based label took over our mix series for the entirety of September, showcasing work from some of the label's closest affiliates including Aa Sudd, Tammo Hesselink and Keplrr. To round things off, we have label founder Severja contributing a mix that highlights his breadth of influences that are also channeled through Midgar Records output. The mix spans across drum & bass, wonked-out techno, trippy percussive rhythms and trance-like soundscapes. The session also ties in nicely with our 200th mix!

Founded in 2014, Severja launched Midgar Records as a label that leaves the trends behind and instead focuses on bringing together a melting pot of artists who are pushing music forward through their modern take on techno that showcases the soundscapes mentioned above. In the label's bio on Soundcloud it says, 'a sound that tells stories as people dance'.  Launching on a very strong foot with the first release by Wata Igarashi, Midgar Records has since gone on to house records from the likes of Ruff Cherry, Von Grall, Forest Drive West, Retina.it, natural/electronic.system., Priori, Agonis, Tammo Hesselink, Polygonia, OK EG and many more. In addition to the releases, Severja has taken the label and its artists around the world with showcases in Krakow, Tokyo, Seoul, Berlin, Barcelona, Medellin, Oslo, and Milan to name a few.

To accompany the final mix in the takeover, we spoke to Severja about how it feels reaching the 10th anniversary of the label, how Midgar has evolved over the years, experiences bringing the label to club spaces, the story behind signing Wata Igarashi for the first record and the inspirations behind the label's curation and art direction.

Read here: https://www.untitled909.com/the-lowdown-midgar-records/

tracklist 
1 unreleased - midgar
2 Monstah - Smogo
3 Biome - Industrial 
4 Circuit 900 - Altitude (Decompression)
5 Mucho Sueño - Mounty Track
6 Kombé - Batian
7 Torso - Nyonga
8 Danimoto - Amor Fati
9 Amarou - Skyfall
10 JC Laurent - Symbiosis
11 Atrice - Being Harvested 
12 SGURVIN - NTNL (Julie Silset & Rudi Valdernes Remix) 
13 explanaria - turbinaria 
14 Tano - Filled With Light 
15 Jesus Jones - Zeroes and Ones (Aphex Twin Reconstruction #2) 

@severja
@midgar_records

Untitled 909 Podcast 200: Severja (Midgar Records Takeover)

"This mix is inspired by life on a microscopic scale. I drew from two different topics I have been reading about over the past year or two, the first being moss & lichen, and the second being quantum physics. Robin Wall Kimerer’s writing on moss introduces the reader to a tiny world teeming with life beyond our vision, and Carlo Rovelli’s writing on quantum physics attempts to help us understand the minute & strange fabric from which reality is theoretically woven. 

The word subtle can be read as describing something delicately complex & understated, as well as something arranged in an ingenious & elaborate way. Thus, the plane of subtle form paints an image of the intricate realm of the minutiae. Moving through rainforests of moss and gorges of bark, the mix traverses this infinitesimal yet vast expanse. Becoming gradually more abstract towards its centre, things break down completely at a moment of quantum instability, a leap between one state and the next. We emerge into a new place in an instant and continue forth into the strange & unpredictable beauty of our natural world." 

Bio: Born in London & having lived in Bristol, James Laing aka Night Garden draws from the sounds of those two cities, alongside musical knowledge gained during his classical compositional training. With releases on Melifera, Bahn, Indefinite Pitch & Breatice M's hybrid Dubstep label, Bait, Night Garden aims to create richly psychedelic & hypnotic pieces which combine modern sound design with classical theoretical concepts. 

Night Garden is a musical project embodying an imagined space between our conscious reality & the land of dreams. It is a liminal point in space & time; a home to drifting forms & sounds unknown. Suspended in a twilight haze, its nebulous inhabitants float into distant obscurities, shedding ephemeral traces from their transient skin.

SC : @soundsfromthenightgarden
IG : https://www.instagram.com/soundsfromthenightgarden

#36 - Night Garden - Plane of subtle form

37th episode of our series by TT_ with Monochrome form

@thomastesink
IG :https://www.instagram.com/thomastesink/

#37 - TT_  - Monochrome form

Comic Sans Records label-head and Lyl radio resident, sleek fata explores through his Cremation of Care show a wide spectrum of experimental music focused on tracks with an high sound design profile going from psychedelic electronics to jazz with a touch of punk and trip hop between. When it comes to make people dance at peak time, his selections varies between deep dubstep, psychedelic tribe and sci-fi dnb. Often dubby, always trippy!

SC : @https://soundcloud.com/sleek-fata
IG : https://www.instagram.com/sleekfata/

#38 - Sleek Fata - Mercurial Vapor

Vector Field is Antoine, a sound technician, producer, and DJ. He has
been active in the electronic music scene since the late 90s starting
collecting records and mixing on vinyls in small raves of the
countryside. Drawing from various experiences, he transmits positive
energy through its own music, infusing it with his special touch, a mix
between layered rhythms and evolving soundscapes with that kind of
kinetic energy. From old alias Stigr to Vector Field he has released
many Lp’s and Ep’s with a different approach each time. 

SC : @the_soulcatcher
IG : https://www.instagram.com/vector_field_music

#39 - Vector Field - Forward Strategies

Junya Yamamura began his career as a DJ and organizer while studying abroad in New York. After returning to Japan, he has continued to curate unique parties that transform various spaces—ranging from nightclubs to art venues—primarily in Tokyo. In 2021, he launched his event series “lift” alongside Ryosuke Tushiya of Pflaume Sound.

Mix Description:

This mix was recorded during an open set at my party, “lift.” Designed to set the tone before a live performance, it focuses on creating a deep and introspective atmosphere. Through gradual transitions, the mix evolves to shift the energy of the space, maintaining a serious and immersive vibe.

SC : @junyayamamura
IG : https://www.instagram.com/junya_yamamura_/

#40 - Junya Yamamura - Open Set from “lift"

I-RO is an Amsterdam-based DJ, and founder of The Echo Series. Born in Istanbul, her musical journey began with drumming and exploring a wide range of music genres. Her sound is defined by a hypnotizing flow of powerful elements, created by blending sound patterns from various sub-genres of electronic music. With her storytelling abilities and a strong connection to the dance floor, I-RO's DJ sets offer a sensory experience.

SC : @i-roo
IG : https://www.instagram.com/i_ro____/

#41 - I-RO - Blue Learning

Genre-fluid mental mix/events series exploring consciousness through sounds.

By @andy_pi and @orsu_trippy

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