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Kill Acid On Space, Unclear and Øyvind – The Alchemical Theory project was born in 2018. The favourite sounds of the three artists, ranging from modular electronic sounds to much more atmospheric soundscapes, is the essential influence here. This project also comes from the love of mysticism, alchemy and nature. Hear something that affects the listeners' mind, reproducing a real mental journey in Black Wave podcast no. 39.

Polished by the sun and dried in extreme heat, a barren rock arises from the blue seas. Or so it may appear to the untrained eye. Flora adapts even in these conditions, so does the fauna. Patches of greenery seen here and there, lizards and mice, rabbits and birds flicker their tails in your peripheral vision. Hope persists. 
Although, an archipelago keeps its gem beneath – submerge in turquoise to the aquamarine watercolour palette. Grasp all but the little piece of the fluorescent wilderness of the underwater world. Transfer the body and your spirit to the seaweed forest gently soothed by the currents and the waves.
Experience this place where medieval forts meet megalithic temples, learn The Alchemical Theory.

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Black Wave 039 - The Alchemical Theory

alfonso peacefully weaving dubby, minimal and hazy rhythms.

"this mix contains several of my current favorite minimal and techno records and also several classic gems of the genre.

for personal reasons, it was recorded at night, with the volume low on the speakers, which complicated the process a bit. it's not my most technically perfect session, but, on the other hand, the situation forced me to make a kind of blend and speech without stridency and this has built a very interesting sleepy atmosphere.

it's the music I could play nowadays at an after hour club and the way I would play it."

@f-ondj
alpenglühen

recorded in madrid, spain
16.01.2024

nunsen·tape 18 - f-on

"The lights went off and we decided to start."
We are deeply excited to share Donato and Marco’s grand finale for the last edition of Terraforma at Villa Arconati. With great humbleness, these two masters and dear friends have carefully broadened and lulled, record after record, an intimate space of trust, exchange and deep-time connection. 
 
Also, we’d like to add a fond memory that was shared with us a few days after:

“Dozzy and Shuttle’s finale unfolded like twilight. A prolonged dusk caressed by an eerie drizzle. Shadows and whispers echoing with the surroundings. Synapses slowly reaching the ground, merging and becoming one with the underground rhizomatic networks. A memorable rendez-Nous within a fractal space. It felt like being at the core center of the matrix, enveloped by a warmth reminiscent of a maternal womb. I found myself in a weightless suspension, envisioning the past, the present and the future, all together in a blink of an eye.”

We are fueled by gratitude for all this beauty.

Terraforma Grand Finale w/ Donato Dozzy b2b Marco Shuttle

Mozhgan, who first came to Japan in 2017 for a club event by rural and rose to fame the following year with a closing set performed with her ally Solar, has delivered a mix for us. The set is based on the dark, acid techno that she is best known for, with classic tracks carefully woven in here and there. Please take a listen to this mysterious journey of sound by a DJ who represents the underground scene of San Francisco, USA.

2017年にruralのクラブイベントで初来日し、翌年には彼女の盟友であるSolarと共に披露したクロージングセットで名声を獲得したMozhganが、私たちのためにMixを届けてくれました。彼女が最も得意とするダークでアシッドなテクノを基調として、随所にはクラシックなトラックまでが丁寧に織り交ぜられた貫禄の感じさせるセットです。米国サンフランシスコの地下シーンを代表するDJが神秘的な音の旅へと誘います。

rural Podcast 013 Mozhgan

There was impressive scenery on the second floor on the last day of the festival. The time for Sunju Hargun, who was to take the stage with two different sets, dancing and listening, to heal the bodies of the dancers who had been dancing so long in the rain. Deep dub echoes, Layered drones, and healing sounds echoed through the room, melting listeners' consciousness and guiding them into a deep meditative state.

フェスティバル最終日、セカンドフロアの朝の光景は印象的なものでした。ダンスとリスニング、二種のセットで登壇することになったSunju Hargunが、雨で踊り続けたダンサーたちの身体を癒した時間です。とろけるようなダブエコー、ドローン、ヒーリングサウンドが室内に響き渡り、リスナーの意識を融解させる深い瞑想をガイドしました。

Sunju Hargun-Alternative Set at rural 2024

@syberkid creates a journey through the flames, leaving us with the burning embers of an eclectic mix of drone and ambient harmony. This was recorded live at the ‘Burning of The Clavie’ at MKII in London, on January 11th 2025.

This artwork is a collaboration between Sybil, Adam, and Mark, creating cymatics of sonic experimentation, and with each installment of the series, we will explore turning a fraction of sound into light. 🎨

episode IV ~ w/ Sybil

"Pause, serenity, preciousness. Healing. Sometimes, it’s simply about stopping. Taking a deep breath. Letting something subtle wrap around you and gently reach within. Travelling to places of harmonic beauty, where time stretches softly, where the mind can unravel. Returning. Resting. And perhaps, beginning again - with a clearer gaze, a quiet reset."

Dérive (@derive_ambient) is the co-founder of Muzan Editions (@muzaneditions), a tape label from Osaka, Japan, focusing on ambient and experimental sound.

HOCast #244 - Dérive

Some DJs treat genre boundaries like walls; others see them as doors. Craig Gonzalez belongs firmly to the latter camp. A staple of Detroit’s underground and a resident DJ at Paxahau’s Third Thursday monthly, he has long been drawn to what happens when techno’s linear propulsion collides with the restless syncopation of drum & bass. That liminal space, the “grey area” between the two, has become one of the most fertile playgrounds in electronic music over the past decade, and Gonzalez shows why. In this mix, recorded as the opening set on the Movement main stage, he handles tempo as a fluid variable, shifting gears without friction and letting polyrhythms function as the connective tissue. It’s the kind of approach that resists the obvious peak and instead builds a topology of groove, a groove that bends but doesn’t break, carrying dancers across time signatures almost without them noticing. 

And while opening a stage that would later host Deepchord, Sama’ Abdulhadi, Octave One, and Jeff Mills could be seen as a daunting warm-up role, Gonzalez treats it less as preparation and more as architecture. Across ninety minutes, he layers patterns with patience, calibrating intensity so that tension rises and releases without tipping into spectacle. The set moves like a conversation that shifts from whispers to declarations, never overstated but always persuasive. It’s a reminder that flow is not just sequencing but narrative logic, and that true mastery lies not in domination of a dancefloor but in shaping the conditions for everything that comes after.

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Read what Mareena had to say on Mixmag Asia:
https://mixmag.asia/feature/mixmag-asia-radio-rural-festival-2025-jane-fitz-mareena-innerworld-zundoko-disco

Mixmag Asia Radio 165: Mareena at LIMINAL DREAMS

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Artist Series 02 marks the next step in Alt Dub’s steady expansion, uniting Forward Memory, Thomas + James, Gradient and Beppu as they each reinterpret the label’s warm, spacious dub aesthetic through their own lens. Together they push Alt Dub’s sound deeper into hypnotic, analogue-rich territory, with Forward Memory’s “Scholz’s Star” setting the tone through its driving, deliberate pulse and finely sculpted atmosphere.

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Forward Memory - Scholz's Star [Alt Dub]

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We're happy to present the recording of Sebastian Mullaert and Ulf Ericksson's live/dj set at the Labyrinth 2015. Seb and Ulf played the first night, entitled "Full Circle". It was a set where everything came together beautifully and organically, crowd and artists and music, and we all felt it was something worth sharing.

Here is the full 3.5 hour recording, together with a few words from Seb and Ulf: 

"For me, everything comes and goes in circles. And like everything else these circles are unpredictable; spiralling and reformulating like a kaleidoscope. Manifestations of patterns in this very moment; Consciousness.

I played the first edition of Labyrinth, had a few returns during the years and now returned for the 15th edition. Russ and Yasuyo, together with their Mindgames crew, have always performed their festival with a focused and radical mind; one intention, one passion - to create a psychedelic experience of dance surrounded by the Japanese nature. While the festival has grown in many ways since my first episode at Labyrinth, this radical focus on the mind-altering experience and the true love for dance have remained the same, with no sign of resignation.

This year I shared the stage together with Ulf Eriksson; a friend who has become a very special creative collaborator. To be a part of Labyrinth and to play this specific gig is the most magical experiential puzzle of moments I've shared with Ulf. This is an experience that will continue to remind us why we are doing this – why we are part of this ever shifting circle, spiralling into inspiration upon aspiration - something that never stops. I'm forever thankful to Russ and Yasuyo both for giving us the opportunity to play, sharing this recording and also creating a series of experiences and stimulations, resulting in each of us that listens as individuals becoming a part of something bigger and more all-encompassing – a circle that connects us beyond the realms of materialism, into the unpredictable.

Russ, Yasuyo and the Labyrinth are a true source of inspiration and a reminder to all of us in love with dance and electronic music that there is no end to the power of experience. 

Let us continue to remind each other, again and again, circle by circle, moment by moment into eternity."

- Sebastian Mullaert

"To play the Labyrinth festival has always been a bit of a dream of mine. Why, I do not know exactly. Maybe it's because it takes place far away, in Japan. Maybe it's because of all the stories you have heard from the festival. Maybe it's because of the unique tribal mystic that surrounds it, in combination with the nature of the location. Maybe it's because of the small group of artists, who all become like family for a few days. I do not know. But what I do know is that this dream has always been there and I am sure I share I it with a lot of musicians and DJs around the world. Anyway, 2015 I was lucky enough to be offered a slot, due in large part to my collaboration with Sebastian Mullaert, who already played there many times, both as Son Kite and as Minilogue.

So there we were behind the Labyrinth tipi, me and Sebastian, ready to go. Or, rather, not ready at all. We had prepared each to our selves but never found the time to meet up and rehearse together. I remember that Sebastian looked at me just before the set, and said something like: "I will not be sad or disappointed if things do not go well". I guess he was trying to calm me down since he knew I was kind of nervous. Anyway, off we went and thankfully, for some unknown reason, it was one of those gigs where everything just felt right.

So here is the recording. I still have not listened to it, and I do not think I will. I think I prefer to stay with the live memory of how it sounded. But I do hope that you will listen to the set, and that it will give you pleasure and meaning, just as my memory of it."

- Ulf Eriksson

Sebastian Mullaert & Ulf Eriksson - Live @ Labyrinth 2015

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Latest R-Imprint Podcast comes from Nuel who recently had some amazing releases on Northern Electronics, Midgar and Sublunar Records. This recording is part of his  DJ-Set from the Patterns of Perception night at Ohm in Berlin.

Also don't forget to show Nuel some love on his recently relaunched soundcloud channel, to make sure you don't miss any of his new EP's or Podcasts: https://soundcloud.com/nuel_official

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R-Imprint Podcast 060 | Nuel

Wild at heart and commando-trained to x-out lame ass 4x4 competition, the sound of MARRØN - whose name is a direct nod to the staunch will and fortitude of eponymous escaped slaves - is dedicated to cutting a path of destruction in gridlocked nightly paradigms. Mapping the confines of deep, hard-to-the-bone techno through damp and dim-lit corridors of sound, the Eerste Communie co-founder serves up two hours of proper clinical hammering and nonstop rhythmic assault, paced to get your heart rolling over from one end of your chest to the other like a pinball caught in a magnetic storm.

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Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 392 | MARRØN

natural/electronic.system. @ Paral·lel 2020 Online Edition

Paral·lel Festival has curated a musical selection based largely on uniqueness, promoting differentiated and disruptive musical paradigms. DJs from the international scene will explore experimental, ambient, and techno musical aesthetics over the course of 3 days on a single stage. Each performance will organically link the previous and subsequent performance, forming a narrative that weaves through a balanced day-and-night program.

An inspiring environment, precise musical selection, and the comfort of our attendees are the three utmost central axes for our organization team. We aim to offer a novel and fulfilling experience for music lovers with our distinct and purposeful program.

natural/electronic.system. @ Paral·lel 2020 Online Edition

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