For the tenth installment of New Palm’s seasonal mix series, we’re honored to invite @diskonnected - one of our favorite selectors, our recent guest in LA, resident at Hong Kong’s famed 宀 club, and the mastermind behind Taiwan’s Smoke Machine @smokemachinetaipei series. 

We have long been fans of Diskonnected since locking in to his extended sets on the shores of Hualien at Smoke Machine’s flagship Organik festival a decade ago. Hearing his sound both hone in and expand out over the years since has been a continual source of inspiration for us and a big influence on the kinds of sounds we gravitate towards. 

We’re pleased to present Diskonnected’s mix of left-field ambient, experimental, and downtempo, recorded live at a chill-out night at Taipei’s Pawnshop @pawnshoptaipei in 2021. Thank you for sharing this with us 🙏

We trust it will hold up to repeat listens, and hope the moods within will be a fitting soundtrack for the changing season 🤲 Enjoy ~  

New Palm 10 - Fall: Diskonnected

New Palm 10: Diskonnected

@boursin

Today I am so happy to welcome my friend fka boursin to Deep Mind Music, with a quietly reflective entry for the end of January. 

It was around this time of year back in 2022, that I first remember having a deep chat with fka boursin about our mutual interest in the power of ambient. We were both equally enthused to encounter another AmbientAddict and quickly rattled off artists, labels and tracks for each other to check. I have found in fka boursin a similarly discerning soul, not just in music, but life in general, and his intricate mix for Deep Mind Music reflects his thoughtful character.

A patient mix that rewards patient listening, fka boursin has crafted a narrative that skilfully dances between washes of sepia-toned warm drones, and–as he puts it below–“material sounds”, such as whirling whizzes of machines or twittering birds, which give us a sense of place. The perfect soundtrack to a meditative drift of the mind between thoughts and reality. I have greatly enjoyed listening to it on cold misty walks over the past week, and hope you do too ☁️🪶🤍

Some words from fka boursin about the mix:

When considering the themes for this mix, I drew from the different approaches that Sybil and I use in our work. Sybil says that themes for her come from “more of a feeling/colour/texture than something     explainable” which is in contrast with my desire for explicit material reference points. Though these approaches might be seen as existing on a somewhat linear abstract vs material scale, there is a large overlap in the sonic characters that they each employ. Here, I have deliberately mixed with tracks that perhaps encourage one to get “lost” (abstract) before pulling the listener back into the room using what I consider to be “material” sounds. Paradoxically though, those sounds are often perceived as feeling/colour/texture anyway, leading Sybil and I to the same musical end points. To me, this firstly emphasises the limitations of audio and secondly may partly explain why Sybil and I get on so well.

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Featuring music by David Toop, Daisuke Tadokoro, blks, Hideki Umezawa, pent, Terre Thaemlitz, Celer, 23 Degrees, fka boursin and more

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Deep Mind Music

fka boursin ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.29

for your listening pleasure, 4 hours and one minute of adult contemporary psychedelic chicness from the opening of a particularly wild nonstop that offered “a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary techno” featuring DJ MARIA., DVS1, Matas, MORENXXX, Physical Therapy, and Roza Terenzi (and us).

recorded live @ nowadays (ridgewood, ny) 
march 2, 2024  10pm–2am

mastered by maxime robillard 
artwork by luz angélica fernández

Tracklist: 
1. Alice Coltrane - The Sun 
2. ASC & Inhmost - Wave Clouds
3. Matthewdavid - Norns
4. Polygonia - Who 
5. Adhémar - Stretching Vibrations 
6. Alfred Czital - Transit
7. Forest on Stasys - Aniara
8. Lindamann - Outskirt
9. Adhémar - Gaseous Vapor 
10. Eduardo de la Calle - Blade Runner 
11. Daniel[i] - L.Bosco A  
12. Fabio Florido - Galactica (Luigi Tozzi Remix)
13. Dorisburg & Efraim Kent - Tecken I
14. Shoal - Between Thoughts 
15. Vanoni - Snake Dance 
16. Ryogo Yamamori - Drumming 1 
17. Hod - Metanoia 
18. Biocym - Juegos 
19. Emmanuel - Influencer 
20. Münch - Rotola 
21. CAIV (Camille Altay & Israel Vines) - Ötzi 2.0
22. Pat Carroll - Pylons 
23. Javfstrackt - Workout - 09
24. Tripeo x Speedy J - SHS pt 15 selection 05
25. Primal Code - Alhambra 
26. Eduardo de la Calle - B1
27. Psyk - Bite Back 
28. Polygonia - Migune 
29. Fergus Sweetland - Illorian 
30. Tauceti - Cherry Tree 
31. Mesh Convergence - Spiral Syncopation 
32. Sub Accent - Terra Incognita 
33. Polygonia - Mind Alteration 
34. Doctrina Natura - Mist and Mirror 
35. Tauceti - Argan Oil 
36. Cauê - Animismo Natural 
37. Essē - Terra
38. Calumet - Giggling Hedgehogs
39. Irshad Hussein - Obastan 3
40. Claudio PRC - Monotex
41. Raroh - Agravic Experience 
42. Zdrojieros - Maguaré
43. Adjust (BE) - Jata 
44. Münch - Item A 
45. Ryogo Yamamori - Sadekusa 
46. Orbe - Isolationism 
47. Antigone - Perchance to dream 
48. Münch - Cascades (Feral Tool Rework)
49. Fook Yue - Regen 
50. Fergus Sweetland - Do You Like Sound? 
51. Alan Backdrop - Dr_c_ (Feral Acid Jungle Remix)
52. Sam Goku - Paradise Drum V2
53. D. J. 37 - Nature Wins 
54. The Alchemical Theory - Eternal Return (Scøpe Remix)
55. Berkel - Kintsugi (Alexskyspirit Rework)
56. Abstract Division - Solar Return (Polygonia Remix)
57. Fabrizio Lapiana - O.B.E. I
58. Pattrn - Growl 
59. Voiski - Through the Night, Softly 
60. Nonsensical & Efdemin - Solina (Efdemin Remix)
61. Steve Roach - Arrival

Pure Immanence Live at Nowadays Nonstop

adobeprincess @ Nowadays Nonstop (07.27.24)

Australian producer Cousin warms up for his performance at Horst Festival's Moon Ra stage.

Cousin @ Kiosk Radio 29.04.2025

ZSA ZSA Mix No. 08 marks our first step beyond borders, and we’re so happy to welcome our friend Luce Clandestina, a DJ and sonic explorer from Turin.

A member of the independent label Details Sound and co-curator of the Italian festival CULTO, @luceclandestina has long fascinated us with how she approaches her sets — the textures, the layering, the structure. The way everything unfolds and connects feels both intuitive and intentional.

Her mix drifts through shadowy rhythms, tribal warmth and trance-infused textures, moving between light and dark. Take it as an invitation to open your ears and ease your mind. Just what we need right now.

Mix No. 08 - Luce Clandestina

Nosedrip at Garage, Horst Arts & Music 2025

A fittingly lush mix filled with dusty, wobbly perfection from the lovely Helsinki based @suskidj this week.

I met Suski when she warmed up for me the first time I played at Post Bar in Helsinki a few years ago - a place i've returned to a few times and truely adore! Suski is a resident at the much-loved Helsinki club. I was initially drawn to her dj'ing as the set she played as a warm-up in Post Bar was a pitch-perfect and contextually divine fit for the space & time. 

This mix is a poignant follow up - diving through through the rich textures of immersive techno, and an entire journey through the world of electronica & idm with broken beats, ambience and charmingly off-kilter percussive rhythms.

Thanks for the amazing mix Suski <3

Downloads enabled

Animix One Hundred & Seventy Six: Suski

@matas0 8 - 10AM Earth Dog March 01 2025 

ED050: Matas @ Earth Dog March 01 2025

The recording is from a night at Ohm back in March put on by Kontinuum and New World Dysorder. I remember feeling so comfortable with the space and the crowd who were up for good sound system pushing fun going freely through everything from d&b and elektro to freetek and jungle. Also shoutout to Ohm for always providing a solid vinyl setup!
---- @abnama

subglow/Live 5: Abnama @ Ohm

The haiku target for this:

The coming of autumn
determined
by a red dragonfly

Naviar haiku challenge 614, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

The background drone and interment sighs are pure Voltage Modular while the melodic elements use two instances of Dreamsynth both controlled with MIDI data also generated by Voltage Modular. One of the Dreamsynth patches is entirely my own having been built from a blank template and thew other is a modified preset. Other than mastering there are no extra effects.

Everything was recorded in a single "Live" take.

Autumn Dragonfly - (Naviarhaiku - 614)

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