Ex Ponto - In A Quarry… - OFFEN 021

Artist: Ex Ponto
Title: In A Quarry...

Track list:
1. In A Quarry...Far, Far Away (15:34)
2. Golden Hours (07:28)
3. Shed 14 (03:38)

Australian musician, composer and producer Ex Ponto aka Ivan Mašić has self-released dozens of albums with improvisation collective, Council of Elders, and experimental no-wave band, Wunderlust.

On his Offen Music debut Ex Ponto is constructing an alternative civilization of grace, post-sarcasm and intuitive response. 

„In A Quarry...Far, Far Away“ is a 15 minutes long wandering with Joseph and August Norster around The Quarry, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, January 27, 2020. 
Life affirming „Golden Hours“ is an alternative to the general wait for extinction and completition of a suicide program out there. An ode to the moments when sunlight turns magical.
„Shed 14“ is a personal reminiscence of the legendary club in Melbourne. 

„Ex Ponto respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations as the sovereign owners of the country where I live and work. I recognise that sovereignty has not been ceded and pay my respects to all Elders, past, present and emerging.“

https://exponto.com.au/portfolio-item/the-sublime/
https://www.theprojects-quarry.com/

Credits:

Field recording on In A Quarry…Far, Far Away taken from a conversation between Joseph and August Norster (father and son) 
The Quarry, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, January 27, 2020.

written and produced by Ivan Mašić
mastered by Enrico Mercaldi 
cover photo by Joseph Norster
graphic design by Percy

Offen Music 2022

In A Quarry...

2. Ex Ponto - Golden Hours - OFFEN 021

"A DJ Mix by Vladimir Ivkovic for Offen Music"

EGMM recorded in one take in the night of March 12 2023.
Happy short rotation around "Pauk", back then a new track by 33.10.3402.
Music by Big Daddy (Offen Music), As One, MOY, Millia, The Black Dog, Kovyazin D, Jonny3snareS, Zodiac Childs & G303, Maroki, and 33.10.3402 as heard passing out on a toilet of a house party.

A DJ Mix by Vladimir Ivkovic for Offen Music

Kinzua  are Lucas Brell and Marvin Uhde (known as Qnete to some), who recently released their  fantastic debut album "None of the Above" 
https://offen.bandcamp.com/album/none-of-the-above
or ask your favourite record dealer.

Here the power duo delivers a DJ Mix for Offen Music and shares the track list:

1 Experimental Audio Research – As the Night Starts Closing In (Space Age Recordings 1996)
2 Syn – Yugoslavia (Fax 1993)
3 Abe – Pursoance (Doumen 2016)
4 H. Takahashi – Deep (Lal Lal Lal & Ikuisuus 2018)
5 Smagghe & Cross – Warren (Offen 2017)
6 Coil – Remote Viewer 3 (Treshold House 2002)
7 Unknown
8 Jaco – L’Inframón (Màgia Roja 2021)
9 Gerry Franke – Sequencia (Tax Free 2021)
10 Tomaga – Perpective with No End (Hands In The Dark 2016)
11 North – Shared Silence (Mira 2003)
12 Phantom Seance Ballet – Studio Chamber Seance (Utter 2021)
13 Supersoul – Sleepwalker (DJ Vadim Remix) (Metatronix 2000)
14 Anima Sound – It Loves Want To Have Done It (Ohr 1971)
15 Lifted – Rosa 31 (PAN 2019)
16 Clear Path Ensemble – Future Fatigue (Cosmic Compositions 2020)
17 Niagara – Sangandongo (United Artists 1970)
18 Froid Dub – Iguana Style (Delodia 2021)
19 The Sabres of Paradise – Duke of Earsfield (Warp 1995)
20 Kevin Mills – Reverse Dub (Mango 1987)
21 The Missing Brazilians – Gentle Killers (On-U Sound 1984)
22 Black Eyes – Cough, Cough (Dischord 2004)
23 Delta-Sleep-Inducing-Peptide – Resistance (Bigbandalone 2020)
24 Arbeid Adelt! – Help (Me Ik Stik) (Instrumental) (PIAS 1987)
25 Das Wettbüro – Ungerade 19/36 (Candomblé 2022)
26 Siglo XX – Individuality (Straatlawaai Prod. 1980)
27 Chen Yi – Rug (90% Wasser 2018)
28 Path – Pleasant (Tribal Mix) (Sound Information 1994)
29 Zru Vogue – Penetration Octavia (MEA 2011)
30 Roter Stern Belgrad – Wegwerfliebling (Klar! 1981)

Artwork by Percy.

None of the Above LP

A DJ Mix by Kinzua for Offen Music

And again a DJ Mix for Offen Music by 82J6

06/2023

01. Intro
02. Philipp Otterbach ― Okt 01, 21 [Offen Music Promo]
03. V/Z ― Candles (Version) [AD 93]
04. Kuniyuki ― Newwave Project #2 [Mulemusiq]
05. Levon Vincent ― Soundtrack Of My Thoughts [We Play House Recordings]
06. Arno ― Lalo [La Peña] 
07. Tiga ― Love Don​’​t Dance Here Anymore (C2 Remix 1) [Turbo]
08. 82J6 ― Exercise Life (Part 1+2) [82J6]
09. Omar S & Desire ― 54321 (Vocal Mix) [FXHE Music]
10. Boo Williams ― Zone [Chiwax]
11. Unknown ― Abstrakt Emotions (TT Edit) [Terrence : Terry]
12. Falty DL ― Paradox Garage Part 1 (With Your Love) [Ostgut Ton]
13. Suda ― Interrupted [Soft Verse]
14. Donato Dozzy & Sabla ― Flusso III [Gang Of Ducks]

Total:  66:56

© 2023 Offen Music – For promotional use only

https://82j6.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/82j6
https://instagram.com/82j6music

And again a DJ mix for Offen Music

And again a DJ mix for Offen Music by 82J6

Acid Drones is a new recording and live project by Thomas Lea Clarke, a musician, journalist and ex resident DJ of the Art School Club in Glasgow, now based in Berlin. 
This is Acid Drones debut album.

releases September 14, 2023 

Music by Acid Drones. 
Recorded and mixed by Thomas Lea Clarke in Turkey, France and Luxembourg between 2020 and 2023. 
Mastered by Enrico Mercaldi 
Artwork by Percy.

BUY FROM THE SOURCE

Acid Drones - Acid Drone 8 (snippet) - OFFEN D002

Acid Drones - Acid Drone 6 (snippet) - OFFEN D002

Acid Drones - Acid Drone 5 (snippet) - OFFEN D002

Acid Drones - Acid Drone 4 (snippet) - OFFEN D002

Acid Drones - Acid Drone 2 (snippet) - OFFEN D002

Acid Drones - Acid Drone 1 (snippet) - OFFEN D002

82J6 - Geschlossen - OFFEN D003


1. Geschlossen (Maison Mix)
2. Geschlossen (Dub)

82J6 is back on Offen although he was never away. 
Deep hypnosis for advanced dance floors.

https://offen.bandcamp.com

Geschlossen (Single)

The well

82J6 - Geschlossen (Dub) - OFFEN D003 snippet

82J6 - Geschlossen (Maison Mix) - OFFEN D003 snippet

Geniuses at work.
Master percussionist and composer Valentina Magaletti and master music producer and multi-instrumentalist Susumu Zongamin Makai shielding the rain with giant sonic umbrella made of radio waves.
Impromptu recordings, proto postpunk from the mist of East London basements for a trip to Maryland that is yet to happen.

A01 Tobu
A02 Stickers
A03 Jazz For Women
A04 An IKEA Moment
B01 Its Cold In Baltimore
B02 Esatto
B03 You Started It
B04 Scan To Switch
B05 Grace Maze
B06 Tobu Reprise

OFFEN TAPE 002


It's Cold In Baltimore

V/Z - It's Cold In Baltimore - OFFEN TAPE 002 (snippets)

This is the second collaboration on Offen by the French post-industrial experimental artist Thierry Mérigout of Geins't Naït, composer and multi-instrumentalist Laurent Petitgand, and the UK composer and sound designer Robin Rimbaud AKA Scanner, whose prolific catalogue includes scores for dance works by the London Royal Ballet and Merce Cunningham, and who has performed and installed his music in venues ranging from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to the Pompidou Centre in Paris and a hospital morgue in Garches.
Vitio is a repository of memory: Coastal plateaus and city streets evoked and cracked open by glowering basslines and jumbled rhythms made for ragged walking. Thierry and Laurent have been collaborating together since 1987, the year after Thierry co-founded Geins’t Naït while at the Architecture School of Nancy. Their work together is dense and textural, influenced by Situationists and Surrealists; the raw loops of Geins’t Naït meeting the musicality of Petitgand, a soundtrack composer for film, dance and theatre who has worked closely with director Wim Wenders. Thierry and Laurent first collaborated with Scanner on OFFEN015, a set of otherworldly collaged slow-mo soundscapes. Here, on tracks like Vitio and Austral, threads of sampled dialogue interweave with melodic fragments or repeating piano lines, like the sun breaking through above a tangle of golden wrack and rockweed. On Acid and 63, divine industrial shoegaze sweeps across the windscreen like water washed from trees. Elsewhere, on SIO, submerged clicks surface amid foghorn-like electrostatic charges, an introspective aeromancy. On J’Appartiens, stabs of samples dart back and forth over the ominous time keeping of a sparse beat and pulsing bass. On Sunday and NNSS, we, the invisible listeners, rise to the surface, where there is rain. Both the sounds of NNSS and the rainfall were installed in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, as captured in a lovely video made by Thierry’s daughter. Beneath the rain, in a building designed by SANAA architects, paving stones can be seen. Beneath the stones - we can only guess - a cloud. 

Emma Gilkison

Releases January 6, 2025 
written and produced by Laurent Petitgand, Robin Rimbaud alias Scanner and Geins't Naït 
piano on "Austral" by Mélaine Dalibert 
mastered by James Savage at Milk Mastering 
photo by Alix Mérigout 
design by Percy 

OFFEN CD001 

Offen Music 2024

01 Vitio (snippet)

02 Sunday (snippet)

03 Sio (snippet)

04 NNSS (snippet)

05 Acid (snippet)

06 63 (snippet)

07 Austral (snippet)

08 J'Appartiens (snippet)

82J6 is [bla bla bla …]

Offen Music 2025

FROM THE SOURCE

OFFEN D004 - 02 - 82J6 - Aero (Beatless Tool) Snippet

OFFEN D004 - 01 - 82J6 - Aero (Maison Mix) Snippet

82J6, integral part of Offen Music, recently making 2004 better than it ever was on Cadenza. Before it gets too complicated:

A relatively freeform pseudo art object for young people – DJ mix for Offen Music by 82J6

04/2025

01. Intro
02. Alepher – Untitled 1 (SvdJ, MS, DN) [Stroom]
03. Gombeen & Doygen – Prada [Wah Wah Wino]
04. Louie Fresco – Pride [FA<IE Records]
05. 82J6 ― Aero (Maison Mix) [Offen Music]
06. Viktor Udvari – Odaát [Viktor Udvari]
07. DJ W!ld – Le Mur (Baby Ford's Dogtown Remix) [Spit And Die]
08. Gathaspar ― Op. 21 [Curtea Veche]
09. Avila Santo ― Groove (82J6 Extended Edit) [CD-R]
10. PBR Streetgang ― Invocation (PBR DJ Tool) [PBR Streetgang]
11. Gojnea76 ― Move With The Radio [Gojnea76]
12. Arapu ― Roller [Playedby]
13. Reboot ― Get The Clock [Occult Vision Records]
14. Genius Of Time (feat. Matinda) ― Kinetic [Aniara Recordings]
15. Artist Unknown – Unknown 3 [BIG]
16. Life – Better [Factory Benelux]

Total:  83:50

© 2025 Offen Music – For promotional use only

soundcloud.com/82j6
instagram.com/82j6music

82J6 - A relatively freeform pseudo art object for young people – DJ mix for Offen

Moy - The Caustic Wymondham EP - OFFEN 030

The Chairman of Acid Norwich debuts on Offen with The Caustic Wymondham EP.
Four much beloved tunes to impress your friends. 

AI for the Zoomers:

MOY, the groundbreaking [artist/band/group], has set a new milestone in the [music/entertainment] industry with their latest record-breaking achievement. [His/Her/Their] newest [album/single/track], titled [Album/Single Name], has officially become the [fastest-selling/highest-streamed/most-awarded/etc.] [album/single] in [genre/category], cementing MOY’s status as a global phenomenon.

A1 Phaseacid
A2 Outburst 
B1 Strange Geometry
B2 Platonic Solid

Limited Super Sound 12" Single

Photography by Jonny Moy
Mastered by Toby at Viceworks Mastering
Lacquer cut by Andreas at Schnittstelle
Pressed by Optimal
Artwork by Percy
All tracks written and produced by Jonny Moy

Offen Music 2025

Buy at the source

MOY - The Caustic Wymondham EP - PREVIEW

B3 from Toresch - Essen für alle - Offen Music 002

B3 Toresch - Comida para todos (Snippet) - Offen Music 002

A1 from Ihor Tsymbrovskyi - Come Angel - Offen Music 003

Come, Angel

Ihor Tsymbrovsky  - Come, Angel / Прийди, Янголе - SNIPPET

B1 from Ihor Tsymbrovskyi  - Come Angel - Offen Music 00

Ihor Tsymbrovsky  - Roses For The Poet / Троянди поету - SNIPPET

An hour of music from the archives of late Serbian producer/musician/maverick, Mitar Subotić (Suba) AKA Rex Ilusivii. A 2hr version of the show was broadcast on 13/09/2016  on NTS to co-inside with the release of Offen Music's KONCERT SNP 1983 LP.  Produced, arranged and mixed (then edited!) by Mark Cremins.
www.offenmusic.com

OFFEN MUSIC: A REX ILUSIVII SPECIAL - 1hr Podcast

Passarani - W.O.W. - OFFEN 010
A1 Coldrain
A2 Cydonia Rocks
B1 Drumy Dream
B2 Get Down
C1 Innowave
C2 Minerals
D1 Talk To Me
D2 Strings Fair

Offen is proud to announce the long awaited new solo release by one of Italy’s most visionary producers, Marco Passarani. WOW encompasses eight tracks that vary in texture, with nods to proto-house, dystopic electronica, classic Detroit techno and Library records alike. Opening with the panoramic spacescape of “Coldrain,” buoyed by a supple bassline, the future-nostalgic “Cydonia Rocks,” with its washes of sound, gives way to “Drumy Dream,” a robotic techno lovesong. “Get Down” follows, its insistent rhythm and TB-303 refrain punctuated with jagged vocoder stabs. The anthemic and agile “Innowave” stretches out, making way for “Minerals,” its bubbling rhythm drenched in a dreamy and disconnected optimism. “Talk to Me” and “Strings Fair” bring the record to its emotional apex, with murky, energetic basslines building a scaffolding for sparkling cascades of melody. The record is the Roman producer’s first solo LP in 14 years. Lately, he says he felt he an impetus to enter into the more intimate side of his creativity, which was central to his early work. Examining his approach to composition and experimentation, Passarani, whose studio boasts an enviable array of analog synths, streamlined his working process, creating a flexible system that enabled him to utilize brief moments in between shows as well as in alternative spaces: A reduced setup that he could take everywhere, and which could also work as the core layout for his live performances. And that, he says, is how he started writing down sketches, one after the other. WOW wasn’t exactly planned. He says, “I was trying to bring order to my creativity, going through the pieces of the puzzle that I’ve been lost in. Before, I could concentrate on some areas of the puzzle, while now I can see the final picture when I look at all those pieces. And this is what happened, especially when I listen to the songs now than can tell my story but also show future paths. WOW is like my zen garden of ideas: Probably not definitive, and it will never be, ‘cause time will bring changes. But my new garden is finally ready to accept those and change with them.”

Written and performed by Marco Passarani
All tracks published by Aim Low Music
Madtering by Enrico Marcaldi at Timetools Mastering
Design and photography by Percy
Cat. No. OFFEN010 – All rights reserved
℗ & © 2018 Offen Music

W.O.W.

D1 Passarani - Talk To Me - OFFEN 010

Karamika - a studio creation from George Thompson (Black Merlin) and Gordon Pohl AKA Dussuldorfs engineer supreme(Musiccargo / Kunstkopf / The Isolators…). This their second long player is a record full of mind games. Sounds leak from fractal-like holes, and are sedately trodden back into the cosmic fabric of the album. The noise of post cruise carpet.

Release: 25.04.2019
Distributed by Rush Hour Distribution

B1.TON 2.3

A2.TON 2.2

Artist: Smagghe & Cross 
Title: 1819
Label: Offen Music 
Release date: 27.01.2020 
Format: 12“ LP

This second Lp on Offen is an ajar window overlooking the phantasmagoric world of Smagghe & Cross, a remembrance of days that never were. The music is sparse, the past is forever : ghosts of industries are conjured through the English countryside, fading memories play static with an idea of romance, the sun breaks through the iron clouds. A record free of uncouth nostalgia but laced with ethereal melancholia.

1819

A3 Drain - OFFEN 012

Black Merlin - Manipulate - OFFEN MUSIC 013
A1 - Manipulate
B1 - Textured Land 

Spoken word on Manipulate by Alexandra Grübler 
All tracks written and arranged by George Thompson

The two inimitable long tracks from George Thompson AKA Black Merlin have reached Offen on 13.11.2019, and Offen said: let there be 013!
Featuring words by Alexandra Grübler on „Textured Land“.

12" OUT NOW! Distributed by Rush Hour Distribution. Ask you favorite record dealer.

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