Shed Light Cast Shadows Pt. 1 [2025]

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Step into a moonlit river of sound. Session XIX — Lanterns Over the Water drifts through the heart of Japan’s shrine and lantern traditions, weaving non‐lexical shrine chorus hums, shakuhachi sighs, koto glissandi, and taiko heartbeat pulses into a deep, meditative lounge journey.
Inspired by Kyoto’s Gion nights, coastal lantern festivals, and the still elegance of Shinto shrine waters, this session captures a ritual calm where fireflies, incense smoke, and floating lights move as one.

▸ REGION: Japan — Shinto shrine ambience, lantern festivals, Gion street nights
▸ VOCALS: nonverbal shrine chants, breath vowels (“aaa–ooo–eee”), whispered blessings (“mizu,” “tsuki,” “kokoro”)
▸ INSTRUMENTS: shakuhachi, koto, taiko, suzu bells, temple woodblock, night cicadas, water ripple field recordings
▸ MOOD: moonlit stillness • ritual elegance • drifting light on water

🎧 For meditative evenings, incense-lit moments, or midnight walks by water.

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Tsuki

om:nia is a record label for artists we believe in to release a wide variety of music, everything from Psychedelic Jazz to Drum & Bass, threading a flow and feeling which will connect all the sonics together.

Our first release is by one of our favourite artists and genius musician, STL. We spoke to Stephan in great length about our concept and idea for the label, after some time he sent us these specific tracks. Manoeuvring along dubby and dusty grooves, with dreamy melancholic ambient textures and the epic 17 minute “Untitled Dubscape”. This record is as much to dance too in a club as it is to listen too at home. 

Mystical, Ambient, Dub, House, Adventures..

STL - Om Transmission 

A1. Still Searching

A2. Things Deep

B1. Untitled Dubscape

Cat No: om:nia 01

Release date: September 2018  

Vinyl Only

STL - Untitled Dubscape - (om:nia 01)

Æ Recordings LTD is a brand-new offshot from its legendary Thule Records motherhub – under the strict control of veteran Thule members: Ohm & Octal Industries. The offshot will ensure quality techno for the mind and soul from Thule members and friends – wherever they might be.  

Oculus is one of the titans of the Icelandic techno scene and has been one of its key foundations for over a decade. His live shows have captivated the audience with his exemplarary mixture of deep, innovative and hypnotic techno. His productions skills are unquestionable and we‘re excited to bring you four techno anthems ready to conquer the late night dancefloors.    

Nostalgia is a nod to the older days. Subtle blend of hypnotic mysticism and Detroit-style techno – a instant afterhours anthem! Rydgad is a handy tool for the DJs who love to throw a little swag to their crowd. Its minimal, but still offers a lot of little tricks to make the room work. Morph gets dark and twisted - with Oculus‘s hypnotic voice reassuring the listener in his native tongue that the he is the all-seeing eye of the Icelandic techno scene. The EP ends with the minimalistic mind-twister of „Flod“ – completing the first odyssey of Æ Recordings LTD.

A2 Oculus - Rydgad

Heavenchord - Dub Patterns 60

Here's the 64th episode of our podcast series with Satoshi Matsui from Japan.  Vinyl only mix Included TC80, Takashi Himeoka, Model 500 and many others.

https://soundcloud.com/satoshimatsui

Podcast 064 • Hosted by Satoshi Matsui (JP) 🇯🇵

Full tracklist of our new upcoming compilation - Fluere.

C1 Jin Choi - High Quality Schal _Baby Ford Remix (Sushitech)

Man-L - Street Rebels (Original Mix)

Clock Poets - Folky Tolky  SNP

https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/muaco

In 2021 CLIKNO celebrates its 5th anniversary and presents with its 10th release a very special acoustic techno EP from Dr.Nojoke entitled “Muaco.
Muaco stands for Music against Corona and deals with the clubless time we are all experiencing.

When Dr.Nojoke picked up his Höfner acoustic guitar during the lockdown in spring he was looking for new inspirations. The recordings led to three brilliant poly-rhythmical tracks for a special trip far off the beaten path. 
Dr.Nojoke suggests his EP as much as a way for home-clubbing as well as a listening experience. We don´t even know, if it is techno or what, but as mostly all parts were created with acoustic guitar you may file it under acoustic techno or guitar techno.

We think it is just great groovy music - pulsating, hypnotic, danceable, kraut-ish, freaky - that should be played everywhere.

CLIKNO kills fascists!