Remember Chinese Whispers, Stille Post or Rikkinäinen Puhelin? That children’s game, known all over the world, that illustrates the difficulties of transmitting information, but which also reveals the creativity of discontinuous conversation? It feels like the Patterns of Perception and @awalkingcontradiction collectives have been in such a conversation for the past years across a multitude of label nights, private hangouts, and shared festival experiences.

Based in Basel, Switzerland but unhinged from national contexts, A Walking Contradiction is a label for music and research. Curated by @varuna4053, @lemont-eana and Dead Electronic Space Limited (@ltd_dead), the collective share a penchant for beats - broken and straight - yet can't help but churn out music for the quiet hours. A deeply reflective group, you’ll find snippets of their conversations on social, political, economic, and environmental issues hidden in sounds or in plain sight on the sleeves of their records.

Compiled entirely from new and unreleased material, their Patterns of Perception 102 is but the latest product of interlocutions and whispers between Basel, Berlin, Helsinki and the world in general, paying tribute to the significance of community where the legitimacy of commons is increasingly impugned. 
Levitating within a field of sophisticated textures and percussion, this set burns slowly, but with a luminescent intensity. Angular experimental ambience builds into winding, complex rhythms. Inspired minds elevate delicate melancholia into a true sense of hope.

Links:
@awalkingcontradiction 
https://awalkingcontradiction.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/awc_awalkingcontradiction

https://soundcloud.com/varuna4053
https://www.instagram.com/varuna_awc
https://soundcloud.com/giomar
https://soundcloud.com/monteforte-1
https://soundcloud.com/ltd_dead
https://soundcloud.com/mario-7
https://soundcloud.com/lemont-eana

Patterns of Perception 102 - A Walking Contradiction

Really happy to welcome our next guest... Adam O'Hara, aka The Vision Reels, whose 2020 ambient-drone debut, "Eyes Open" (Kizen Records), captured our heart <3. 

Over the years, Adam has crafted a very beautiful sonic language, with releases on re:st and Huinali Recordings, and a more recent collaboration with UK's Barefoot as CVOIA. Together, they also run Captured Visions, a label exploring the liminal spaces between ambient and dance music (highly recommended !)

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https://thevisionreels.bandcamp.com/
https://capturedvisions.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/thereelvison
https://soundcloud.com/captured-visions
https://www.instagram.com/thevisionreels/
https://www.instagram.com/capturedvisionslabel/

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - The Vision Reels

Glisten ☉ Ouroboros Festival 2024

The Circle Stage awakened on Saturday morning as Glisten opened the Circle Stage, weaving a tapestry of sound that felt both otherworldly and deeply intimate. A fusion of lush, ambient melodies and intricate, trippy drum rhythms—felt like an invocation of a day dream-state. It was as if we had been transported by a blue lotus flower to a space where time slowed, and the air shimmered with a surreal beautiful vibration. Chimeric, organic forms seemed to sprout from the music itself, growing, twisting, and blooming in rhythm, expanding not just our imagination but our hearts, through the creation of a unspoken connexion between space and people.

Thank you Sofia for opening to us this way. 

ɠƖıʂɬɛŋ
Souncloud : @iamglisten
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/iamglisten/

Glisten ☉ Ouroboros Festival 2024

recorded 09.11.2024

tracklist
konsudd - schwebende
djrum - dam felix k remix
zara - flowgic
subminimal - data loader
dyl - anishinaabe clima remix
dyl - rumanisch
luk - scp-049
sciama - charon
kop 32 - cured
mono, overlook -  ritual
yogg - sometimes
pessimist - the woods
subminimal - konl
felix k - titan
overlook - who is this who is coming
paleman - mandible
xenodemus - spinning plates
tamen, pugilist - anda
mystic state - a chemical love story
dycide - crust
dyl - three ways
sunchase - hello

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"Flickers of interference, a signal drifting through the void. Distant hums tremble within the static—a transmission suspended in the vast unknown. Then gravity takes hold, and the path becomes clear: a steady motion, guided by the cold glow of the moon. Shifting shadows, uncertain reflections, a descent into depth without losing direction. Echoes pulse with a deep rhythm, and textures unfold like whispers in the dark. The sound is hypnotic, atmospheric. It leads."

Moon Patrol is the musical project of Irina Kotik (@irina-kotik) and Gilles Wasserman (@gilleswasserman), co-founders of the Brooklyn-based platform Delayed (@itsdelayed). Their work has appeared on labels like Oslated, On Board Music, SoHaSo, Huinali, and others. Moon Patrol drifts between frequencies—half dream, half pulse. Shaped by shifting moods and shared silence, their sound moves from warm electronica and lush ambient to shadowy techno and back again.

HOCast #236 - Moon Patrol

Utrecht's Vand delivers an elegant mix comprised entirely of unreleased work from the artist and ISOTOOP curator (including several yet-unearthed collaborations with close contemporaries & label favorites) alongside selections from his recently released Trialism EP. Vand's mix envelops as it unfolds, an eidetic, dawn-hued journey of carefully kinetic sound, showcasing a true craftsman in top form and offering a captivating glimpse at the future to come. Thanks Viktor!

@vandmusic

Artwork by Angelina Nikolayeva.

Sure Thing Mix 138: Vand

A recording of Sapphire Slows playing a dj/live hybrid set at The Labyrinth 2024 on Sunday morning, October 13.

The Labyrinth 2024 - Sapphire Slows (dj/live hybrid)

~ Deep Breakfast 306 by https://soundcloud.com/gabborofficial b2b https://soundcloud.com/keutmusic ~

~ Live recording from Gabbor b2b KEUT at Kwia, 31.01.2025 ~

Tracklist:
1. Solma - Under The Black Lodge
2. Solma - Subglacial (m3s)
3. Love Over Entropy - NLC
4. .Vril - Their Sign Of Weakness
5. Karamika - Ton 2.2
6. Formant Value - Nucleo
7. Bass Dobbelear - Cadences Of The Past
8. Silver Ash - Blackwood
9. RM Estali - C+R
10. Shjva - Usu (Volodymyr Gnatenko Remix)
11. Djrum - A Tune For Us
12. Command D - Heavy Clouds
13. Buttechno - 606 Juno
14. Ula & Ultrafog - Kind Zo
15. AI Wootton - Bracero Rising
16. Massimo Vivona - Around The Ocean
17. Tagliabue - Naga Spell (Ambiant Dub)
18. Kurt Stenzel - Nebula
19. Vivian Koch - Blondy Electrogoeri
20. Nthng - Subnautica
21. Vardae - Captivate
22. Gi - Laces
23. Hadouk Trio - Barca Solaris

Photo by Annie Spratt

Gabbor
https://linktr.ee/gabboruniverse

KEUT
https://soundcloud.com/KlusteRecords
https://www.instagram.com/keut.kc/
https://www.instagram.com/kluster_collectif/

Deep Breakfast Series
Instagram: www.instagram.com/deepbreakfastseries/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DeepBreakfastSeries/
Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/deepbreakfastseries

Deep Breakfast 306 ~ Gabbor b2b KEUT @ Kwia

Silly Woman (Rough Mix)

DRONE THREE FITCH

Beautifully lush and dreamy electronica by Amsterdam-based Will Oirson.

Read more: https://mnmt.no/magazine/2020/06/18/mnmt-264-lush-dreamy-electronica-by-will-oirson/

https://soundcloud.com/willoirson

MNMT 264: Will Oirson

Visionary electronic music.

http://patternsofperception.com