"Fascinated by all things ‘sound’ and ‘listening’, Nithin Shams stumbled across his passion for curating listening experiences. His artistic practice revolves around facilitating listening spaces that allow listeners to enter an open, empathetic and attentive state of mind. In his free time curates mixtapes and tries to make a living producing podcasts. Nithin is also a violinist, and is trying to build a practice around live improvisation with the violin, field recordings and electronics.

Nithin grew up in a multicultural environment in Sharjah, like many migrants from his home state Kerala (India). On moving back to India, he was faced with the conundrum of 'identity' - feeling like he always belong-ed 'else'-where and 'every'where. Listening paradoxically helps him ground his being in the space he finds himself in, while also allowing him to fly around in the dreamscapes of various musical traditions from across the world. This mixtape reflects his state of mind as he was transitioning from one home to the other. He dreams of being able to sustainably live his life curating listening spaces for people.

Nithin is currently engaged in an artistic-research project where he is recording the call of the Azan as it reverberates through the cities, towns and villages of India. These recordings will be used to create an archive, and also to compose a multi-channel sound installation. This project comes at a crucial moment where majoritarian political movements in his country are working hard to rewrite 'history', erase 'culture', and change what it means to be Muslim(s) in India. "

Tracklist :

Truth From The Deepest Source - HÜMA UTKU
Exploding Briefcases of Cairo - Radio Palestine: Sounds Of The Eastern Mediterranean - Sublime Frequencies
Beo (Myhna Bird) - Song Birds of Indonesia - Sublime Frequencies
Red Moon Rising - Vega Trails
Masculinity - Samora Pinderhughes ft. Immanuel Wilkins
Outlook Remains Untouched - ||||||||||||||||||||
Nishaan - Ahmer ft Junaid
Raga Bhairav - Awatadhkourou - Ghalia Benali ft. Romina Lischka & Vincent Noiret
Where Are You? - Nebel Lang + Poem by Michael Iona
Mose Bole Na - Hedrun
Byculla - KMRU
Tears of a Fakir / op1 - Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
Up - Bendik Giske
Bosom - Flux Vortex
Passport - Figub Brazlevic
In Search Of Balance - Reginald Omas Mamode IV
Mother Sister Daughter - Reginald Omas Mamode IV
Love Your Grace - Vega Trails
La Ilha Illa Allah - Maalem Mahmoud Gania
Ascension - Maya Beiser
Na Chum Tan Paan - Dhananjay Kaul
Hazratbal Dargah Singer - Field Recording by Nithin Shams


You can find Nithin at @nithinshams

OP 𓅛 mix 30 - A Call To Prayer by Nithin Shams

thank you

@captain-of-none
@Ibrahim Owais 
@chiara-salome
@jeanette-tr-sbien
@andiotto
@recordat
jule gocht :)

Playlist:
-Michel Banabila – Synchronicity
-Jan Jelinek - Joseph Beuys, it was you who said- Democracy is so big one can only sing about it. You recently made your debut as a singer. Which democracy are you singing about
-Duval Timothy – Whatsapp
-ARP & Anthony Moore - Wild Grass II (for Robert Wyatt)
-Meitei - Curio 
-Chairman Maf - Daffodil Soup
-Chairman Maf - ESCAPE FROM BREXIT ISLAND
-Etienne Jaumet - Orage Dans La Creuse
-Raa – Dromsekvens
-Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit -  Fearer 
-Howie Lee - The Door Of Aspiration
-Parish Council - Imagination's Gap
-Michel Banabila - Map Symbols
-Bill Murray interview
-Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – Mezame
-Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 1
-Duval Timothy - First Rain 
-Loris S. Sarid - Orizzontale Verticale
-Tai Chi lesson
-Vincent Gallo - I Wrote This Song For The Girl Paris Hilton
-Tamar Osborn & Idris Rahman - Improv 5
-David Darling & The Wulu Bunun - Lugu Lugu Kan-Ibi
-Matthew Herbert - The Nine Seeds Of Navdanya
-JEANNE LEE (Sample „Sundance“)
-Dans Dans - The Sicilian Clan
-James Clarke - Sculpture 
-Ernest Hood - Saturday Morning Doze
-Yuichiro Fujimoto - Wooden Minimal Music 
-Raymond Scott – Portofino
-Tarwater – Animetrain
-Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Just Wrong
-Clara Rockmore - Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentimentale, 1977
-Milton Babbitt - 15 Philomel (Edit), 1964(Samples)
-JB_Dunckel / Jonathan Fitoussi – Mirages
-Sam Gendel - IN THE DUNES
-Raymond Scott – Limbo: The Organized Mind
-David Behrman - On The Other Ocean (excerpt)
-J Foerster - N Kramer - Air Flows
-Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm - Finest Escape
-Jon Hassell - Blues Nile
-Pilooski - Completely sun feat. Jarvis Cocker
-METÁ METÁ – obatalá
-Keope – Notturno
-Etienne Jaumet - The Dirty Part Of The Dust
-Cyril Cyril - La Ville
-F L A N G E R – Nightbeat
-Michel Banabila & Mete Erker - Read My Lips (Route Planner Mix)
-Tarwater - N'Existe Pas
-Anthony Joseph - Calling England Home

garbicz 2022 ambient floor

Love to the artists:

Maxime Denuc * Jem Finer * Sofie Birch & Johan Caroee * Susumu Yokota * Wevie Stonder * DJ Food * Turn On The Sunlight * Hotspring * Kirk Barley * World Standard * Wechsel Garland * Flaer * Bex Burch * Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett * The Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble * Seigen Ono * Toshifumi Hinata * Masahide Sakuma * Memotone * Fohn * Merope * Shahzad Ismaily * Laraaji * Baldruin * Museum Of No Art * Naomie Klaus * Romeo Poirier * Eli Keszler * Esqueixada Sniff * Inoyama Land * Roland Bocquet * Contours * Simmy Singh * Abel Selaocoe * Rebekah Reid * Uakti * Prins Emanuel * Finis Africae * Bartosz Kruczyński * Giuseppe Leonardi *** You are awesome *** MILLE GRAZIE

If you like the music, support the artists and buy their music on bandcamp and in your favourite local record shop!

Fog Puma - Of Water and The Spirit - Ambient Mix December 2024

OP 𓅛 mix 3 - Nikita Quasim

Many voices guide our paths,
weaving into our stories,
lighting the way forward,
traveling through time and space.

Tinge our dreams
ancestral world,
echoes whisper to us, 
secrets of the endless being.   

Intro Voice & Poem: AMAPOLA (Adriana de Montserrat)  

Sounds by… 
Shabaka, Gigi Masin & Jonny Nash, M. Sage, Nicolas Jaar, Alice Coltrane, Rita Payés, Dorothy Ashby, Kham Meslien, Sheherazaad, Wax Machine, Yoshiaki Ochi, Jan Garbarek, Pablo Bolivar, Jan Garbarek Group, Santana, Manufactured Recordings, Jon Hassell, Ali Sethi, RamShemqmnaAdamianad, SpnK, Azamiah, Chavela Vargas, Reverend Baron, Deux Filles, Laura Misch…

Ancient Echoes

Originating from Sweden, Gidge are a duo who seek inspiration from a somewhat uncompromising environment. Cold, harsh winters leave little room for musical warmth and creativity, yet somehow the pair manage to maintain a depth and meaning to their sound which transcends far beyond their surroundings. 

The pair first met back in school at the age of 16. Rooted in the small city of Umeå Jonatan Nilsson and Ludvig Stolterman quickly became friends through a shared love of the abstract and electronic music. This would later materialise into them producing music together as the duo Gidge. This month saw the release of their second mini album on Atomnation, a record label not known for compromise or a sub standard release policy which has previously hosted music by the likes of Weval, Olaf Stuut and Sau Poler. 

We caught up with the pair on the back of the release of their latest work 'LNLNN' as they deliver a Monday mix for Ransom Note

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Gidge: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

Compiler : https://soundcloud.com/jan-schulte
Titel : Tropical Drums Of Deutschland
Cat# : zzzcd0106
Formats : Digital + 12" + CD
Vinyl Release Date : End of March  
CD Release Date: End of April 
Digital release  Date : 7th of July

Vinyl pre-order : http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/jan-schulte-aka-wolf-muller-tropical-drums-of-deutschland-lp-music-for-dreams/142700

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Jan Schulte - Tropical Drums Of Deutschland (Mini Mix) - 0106

The Wolf + Lamb prodigy whips up a diverse hour-long mix for this week's RA podcast.

RA211 100614 Nicolas-Jaar-residentadvisor.net

Radio 333

Nicolás Jaar - We weren't made for these times

OP 𓅛 mix 23 - Nicolas Jaar Presents the Network - Part 1 (Sept 7, 2016)

1. 
[they say:]

savior come down savior come down savior come down savior come down savior come down 

2. 
[they hum…]

3.

En las cenizas 
Vamos a armar 
No saber nada 
Es mejor

Ya no cabe nada 
Pero estamos juntos 
Sin noticias 
Del otro mundo 

Y cada día
Nuestro mundo
Se achica 
O se derrumba 

Y lo único que 
Me han dicho sobre el tema
Es que es el sentido común de una flecha

Y lo único que 
Me han dicho 
Es que es el sentido común de una flecha 

Y porque no responde
El sentido común 
No puedo utilizar su lenguaje 

Su lenguaje 

(TRANSLATION)= =

In the ashes,
we will form
knowing nothing now is better

there’s no space for anything
but we are together
without news of another world

and everyday,
our world, 
shrinks
or crumbles.

and the only thing they have said about any of this: 
is that it’s ‘the common sense of an arrow’. 

the only thing they have said about any of this: 
is that it’s ‘the common sense of an arrow’. 

but why doesn’t common sense respond?
I can no longer use its language. 

4. [instrumental]

5. [instrumental]

6. mud

come in, 
don’t leave.

grown man:
can’t see.

figures out 
he can’t be
sunken with the crown

old man
i can’t see
you’re in the way
i can’t see me,

we must confess:

illusions number time

…

a drunk man’s on the lead
skies and all bleed
and no one can hear
the cry from the ground

it’s something to dig

there’s something in the mud
there’s something in the mud
there’s something in the mud

7. [instrumental]

8. sunder

Vapor’s forming,

And now I see right behind my eyes.

If the old you could tell me 
if the old you could tell me:

a win is a win 
but a loss is the death of a twin and we borrow

And we borrow.

Forming vapors,

behind my eyes,

And now I see right behind my eyes.


In the words of a prophet 
Sunder,
In the shape of the first and last
Sunder,
In the springs of the church of sin
Sunder,
In the blood of the hands that last,
Sunder,


Does a lock seek erosion?
Does a loss seek revenge of sin?

Right behind my eye,


We borrowed from the page of saint maurice
Named the mountain an egyptian saint
Drank the water from the church of springs
Does a loss seek revenge of sin?

Right behind my eye,

Is there blood in the court? 
Is there blood in the ceiling?
do we need to be still? 
Do we need your dominion?

Is there blood in the court? 
Is there blood in the ceiling?
do we need to be still? 
do we need to be still? 

Is there blood in the court? 
Is there blood in the ceiling?
do we need to be still? 
Do we need your dominion? 

9. hello, chain

won't you change, nature?
along me?
carry on your chain,
hell of chain.

we will now wait,
patience is our virtue,
NOW JUST WAIT.

10. [instrumental]

11. [instrumental]

12. 

[I hum]

13. 

carried by a force until a certain peak
there, all you could see,
is swayed by the wind
like the locks in your hair
coloring your eyes
that look nowhere

like a faith made of silk

look around not ahead

a peak is just the way towards 
a descent

look around not ahead

(you have nowhere to look)

look around not ahead

a peak is just the way towards 
a descent

the forces on the hill
manifested by what you perceive as wind

look around not ahead.

Nicolás Jaar - Cenizas

Other People is a record label started in New York City in 2013 by Nicolás Jaar. In its 10 years of existence, it has featured the sonic work of over 70 music releases, highlights include Terepa (2015), a "telepathic" collaboration helmed by Kohei Matsunaga (aka NHK’Koyxen) featuring Rashad Becker, Charlotte Collin, Lucrecia Dalt, Laurel Halo, Julia Holter, Grégoire Simon and Kohei himself, Caves (2021), a compilation of silences featuring Laraaji, Aho Ssan, Ana Quiroga and more, Weavings (2022), a collaborative live piece with Juliana Huxtable, Ellen Fullman, Wukir Suryadi and Rully Shabara of Senyawa, Angel Bat Dawid and others. The label has also put out the 1990 spoken word piece "Conspiracy of Women" (2015) by Lydia Lunch, as well as Tomaga & Pierre Bastien's collaborative album entitled Bandiera di Carta (2019) and Lucrecia Dalt's Esotro / Veta release (2014) with remixes by William Basinski and John Wall. It has also featured the likes of Magdalena Dàugosz, Barbara Zawadzka, Bernadetta Matuszczak, Krzysztof Knittel, Bogusław Shaeffer, Saint Abdullah, Eomac, Dienne, Charbel Haber, Okokon, Against All Logic, FKA Twigs, Darkside, Nicolás Jaar and others.  It has featured the visual work of Maziyar Pahlevan, Africanus Okokon, Zofia Kulik, Jena Myung, Charbel Haber, Abeera Kamran and Somnath Bhatt among others. The label’s current contract states that an artist on the label owns all their rights and decides the full percentage of the revenue they wish to make from their releases on the label, after recoupment. Any of the label’s profit gets given out to artists in forms of grants, workshop and educational initiatives. The label has collaborated in this form with more than three dozen exceptional organizations and individuals in the past three years. Although the label works not-for-profit, it is not a registered non-profit.

OP 𓅛 mix 23 - Nicolas Jaar Presents the Network - Part 1 (Sept 7, 2016)

OTHER PEOPLE