Episode 31: Vardae

For the second episode of our Herbarium Podcast series, we are pleased to welcome French producer and DJ @vardaemusic. 
The co-owner of @cosmicwaverecords presents a powerful mixture of breaks and straight beats interspersed with irresistible grooves from the faster realms of our genre direction. 
For this mix we have chosen the shrub 'Genista', which can be found all over Europe. In autumn, the plant forms elongated legumes that can contain up to 30 tiny seeds. These are widely dispersed by a centrifugal mechanism, the movement of which evokes in us strong associations with Vardae's mix. 

Artwork by @polygonia

Herbarium No 2 - Vardae - Genista

Summer in Europe is slowly coming to an end and autumn is beginning to show itself in its full glory. Soon all the trees will drop their colorful leaves and thus prepare for the next winter. To musically illustrate this phase of the year we have invited @f-ondj. The artist has described the turn of the seasons in the most delicate way we can imagine. We are more than happy to welcome him on board to our Seasonal Shift series. The Alpenglühen labelhead recently proved at Parallel Festival that he is incredibly talented at narrating sonic journeys, which he did on this occasion perfectly as well.

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F-on on Soundcloud - @f-ondj
F-on on Instagram - www.instagram.com/apomeda/
F-on on Resident Advisor - https://ra.co/dj/f-on

Support his label - https://alpengluhen.bandcamp.com/
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www.facebook.com/Hadalresonance
www.instagram.com/hadalresonance/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCLcxxn-vhZDM_hCVOcuFx0Q

Artwork by @polygonia
www.polygonia-creations.com/

Seasonal Shift 006 -  F-on

We are delighted to have this talented Spanish producer on our platform: @javiermarimon. Well known for multiple releases on @oslated, @secuencias_temporales, or more recently on @huinalidub, he has also launched his first label @offtvisuals and released several EPs with JFR project (with @romi808 and @f-ondj).
The music from Javier Marimon is a blend of ambient, minimalistic textures and  dub patterns, with a strong attachment to focus on each detail, creating ethereal textures and complete immersion. We had the chance to hear his 3h-long live performance during La Vallée Electrique 2022 organised by @melifera_records and we felt completely suspended to this intense moment.
For this episode, he prepared a live jam full of new materials and inspiration from where he lives now, in Thaïland. His contribution is named “low tide estuary” as it was recorded just where the river and the sea cohabit near to his house. 

"This recording is a live jam over the projects and ideas that i went through this last Tiger year and the deep exploration of a new synthesizer at home. 
It's an abstract summary with the sounds i made but compiled and performed on other side of the world, with the necessary perspective and inputs I missed so much. 
Now, heavily into the lunar new year and with the intense angle that distance and limited setup gives you I'm happy to have wrapped up everything with this collection of new tracks influenced and inspired by the low tides in the estuary of Ribadeo, the end of the river that feeds our home and runs down there, entering on the sea, but rearranged and morphed because of the big city roaring around us again.
Hope the Water Rabbit and your own thrive bring the best for you all"

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An estuary is the zone where freshwater mixes with marine water, forming at the mouth of a river when it flows into the sea. Subject to the influence of the river on the one hand and the tide on the other, estuaries have very variable morphological and hydrological characteristics depending on the dominance of one or the other of these natural forcings.

Estuaries are the only ecosystem where the altimetric change in the twice-daily water line varies in time and space, along with salinity and turbidity. Marine species, freshwater species, and species endemic to estuaries are found here. When pollution and overfishing do not overexploit it, the biomass produced is exceptionally high, especially in temperate zones (in Europe in particular). 
Estuaries are also considered as environmentally naturally stressed areas. Indeed, they have a high degree of variability in their physico-chemical composition. Still, their biota is naturally conceived to deal with that stress : this ability to absorb stress without secondary effect is named and categorized as Environmental Homeostasis.

Exocet 024 ))) Javier Marimon ~ 𝐿𝑜𝑤 𝑇𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝐸𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 (𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑗𝑎𝑚)

"Goose bumps. Head-on collision between machine and nature. Flying in a dystopian science fiction paradise where there are still trees and clean wind, where machines are friends. Frequencies floating in the air executed to perfection. Welcome to the mountain, welcome to a parallel reality."

Recorded live at Paral·lel Festival 2022 (@parallelfestival).

More than twenty years producing together from Valencia, joining musical universes and plural, professional experiences, elaborating a meditated sound from techno roots and the darkest dub with multiple references to electronic, electroacoustic, idm, ambient or contemporary music. Their taste for analogue machinery, for synthesis and algorithmic composition, and their love for the algorithmic composition, and their love for all kinds of synthesizers and programming environments, crystallizes in hard-hitting works for Alpenglühen,The Monkey Bar or Eleve Music. Pajaro Dune (@pajaro-dune) is the product that combines the creative minds of producer Jaime Romero aka Estrato Aurora (@lovebas) and the composer and pianist David Ortolà (@davidortola).

MUSIC, NATURE & INTIMACY

Paral·lel Festival  is characterized by a curated musical selection that is largely based on uniqueness and promoting differentiated musical paradigms. Trying to move away from massification, we created an intimate event with a limited capacity.

https://www.parallelfestival.com/

HOCast #129 - Pajaro Dune - LIVE - Paral·lel 2022

Embrace the formative experience of Space Drum Meditation's 3-hour long podcast, progressing into an organized chaos of symmetrical rhythm in MNMT 351.

Read More :

https://mnmt.no/magazine/2022/11/25/monument-351-spacedrum/

MNMT 351 : Space Drum Meditation

"Tribal and wild dances on the meadows hidden among redwoods. The ancestor worship has begun. The guru, the clan healer, has prepared the mixture for the entire circle of people who gaze at the light in the center. The campfire will make them sweat, the drums will make them dance and the mixture will make them float. There is no turning back from such hypnosis."

Forest On Stasys (@forestonstasys), owner and electronic explorer in Danza Nativa (@danza-nativa). The creativity of Forest On Stasys is Influenced by tribal minimalist techno in the nineties and the deepest and most abstract techno currently. In his tracks the most seductive elements are the use of resonant basses perfectly combined with long and reverberated pads, extensive sonorous landscapes that are modified by continuous movement of LFO, solid grooves and strident percussions. But not everything that comes out of his head is created with an intention to be used on the dance floor. He has a great admiration for drone and ambient tracks, without a rhythmic pattern that predominates, where the main factor is to captivate the listener with melodies that can be marked by a strong melancholy or with notes that give a certain feeling of satisfaction depending on his current mood.

HOCast #132 - Forest On Stasys

C12 is conceived as a place where freedom, diversity, creativity and alternative cultures are able to thrive in disciplines such as music, dj-culture, art, fashion and so many more.


C12 w/ Polygonia @ Kiosk Radio 03.02.2023

@avsluta

This is Live recording of the last hour from the 3-hour opening set at Ankali x Stimul w/ Alfred Czital, Donato Dozzy, fleika & Phuong Dan in March 2022.

Lucie Stepankova aka Avsluta dedicates her creative practice to free improvisation, live performance, curation and DJing. In her live performances, Lucie co-creates with objects and natural materials, field recordings, electronics and digital processing to embody speculative narratives via sound-making. The general aim is to encourage audiences to engage in listening as an active-creative practice and reconnect with and manifest emotions. Similar sentiments often flow through her diverse DJ sets oscillating between ambient and dance music.
Lucie runs Introspective Electronics, a platform exploring the vast diversity of ambient, downtempo and electronica and featuring regular radio shows and guest podcast series. Together with the London-based DJ and producer Alicia, she co-curates Terra Obscura, a quarterly event series inspired by the new generation of chill-out-tinged UK bass. In collaboration with Christian Duka and IKLECTIK, she co-organises SONIC GARDEN, a series of experimental ambient and downtempo events at IKLECTIK's Old Paradise Yard.


Soundcloud: (Introspective Electronics)
https://soundcloud.com/introspective_electronics
Website: 
https://introspective-electronics.com/ 
RA:
https://ra.co/dj/avsluta 
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/avsluta_/ 
Bandcamp:
https://avsluta.bandcamp.com/

Human Lessons #069 - Avsluta

@kletis (Czech Republic)

For our latest podcast of the series, Kletis wades us through the final mist of winter with a beautifully executed hypnotic introduction, before bringing rhythm, warmth and movement to prepare us for the season to come. Like mimosa flowers which bloom in late winter throughout the south of France, his set assures us that psring is very much on its way.

Tracklist : 
I. Nueen - Vig Ase [Balmat]
II. Perfume Advert - Test Pattern Generator [Opal Tapes]
III. Floating Machine - Aurora [Secuencias Temporales]
IV. Halos - III [Annulled Music]
V. Lindamann - Gulf [Huinali Recording]
VI. Daniel Stefanik - Echoes [Ornaments]
VII. Tammo Hesselink - Used To Treat [Nous'klaer Audio]
VIII. Jonny From Space - No Swim Advisory [Omnidisc]
IX. Svarog - Pilgrimage [Hadal Resonance]
X. Lindamann - Outskirt [Huinali Recordings]
XI. Vector Field - Axoum [Self-Released]
XII. Kletis - Guardian [Samet]
XIII. Ariet - Path Towards [KVLTÖ Records]
XIV. Alfred Czital  - No Future [Harmony Rec.]
XV. Polygonia, Dycide, FTP Doctor  - Ground Work [IO]
XVI. Crossing Avenue - Alaska [KONSTRUKT]
XVII. Biri  - Resonate [Harmony Rec.]
XVIII. Anunaku  - Spirale [AD 93]

Melifera Podcast 26 | Kletis

Monument are proud to present a mind blowing journey here from Patrick Russell recorded live from his closing set at the Mostra Festival April 2022.

Patrick returns to the Mostra stage on 6th April in Barcelona - https://ra.co/events/1612639

Photo by ©Paquito Pizarro

Follow -

https://soundcloud.com/ptrckrssll
https://www.instagram.com/ptrckrssll/
https://www.instagram.com/mostrabcn/ 
https://www.facebook.com/MostraBCN

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