fackin elll this is bigness - ID on this would spesh - almost sounds Clarity escccc

As a producer, @loekfrey is amongst the most exciting voices to have emerged from the influential Dutch scene in recent times. Balancing intricate experimental with abstract elements of IDM and techno, Loek’s sound is both compelling and forward-thinking.

His recent LP release on @woodyninetytwo’s @omenwapta is the perfect embodiment of this sound, slipping gracefully between hallucinatory sound design and irresistibly propellant rhythms. With other releases slated for release this year, Loek finds himself in an ascendant moment.

Consisting of unreleased solo and collaborative works, Loek Frey’s Patterns of Perception 108 feels like a glimpse into the future. Winding combinations of reflective and vibrant energies counter and build, illuminating an engrossing yet unpredictable flow. Clusters of intuitively sequenced beats writhe beneath constellations of alien-like glitches. Unsettling textures diffused by shimmering crystalline sophistication.

Links:
@loekfrey
https://www.instagram.com/loekfrey
https://omenwapta.bandcamp.com/album/loek-frey-decipher

Patterns of Perception 108 - Loek Frey

Known for her hypnotic dives to the psychedelic reaches of deep techno, London-based @freyacaldwell signature style emphasises meticulous sound design and the incorporation of lush and evocative textures. 

Having graced the stages of renowned venues and festivals throughout Europe, she has appeared at prestigious locations such as Amsterdam's De School, the Positive Education Festival, and London's own Village Underground.

Faery's Patterns of Perception 118 circles around echoes, resonances and hauntings, shifting between shadowy low-ends and moments of ecstatic crescendo. Encapsulating the tension and drama held in dnb's darker edges, the mix also weaves in touches of eerie contemporary classical-esque ambient.

Patterns of Perception 118 - Faery

@vardaemusic & @toe_music

Vardae and Toe are electronic music artists known for their collaborative work, blending techno with experimental sounds. Their release, "Rao", dropped in 2024 under Monochrome Records, features atmospheric textures and dynamic rhythms that push the boundaries of genre. Their music often draws from techno, dub, and drum & bass, creating immersive soundscapes that stand out in the underground scene.

https://monochromerecords.bandcamp.com/album/prim-rwald-ii

Special thanks to Vardae and Toe for their generous collaboration with Perpendicular project, performing Friday at 11 PM.

Perpendicular is a self managed and private festival held somewhere in the woods of central Spain.

Artwork: Javier Marimon (@javiermarimon)

Vardae & Toé @ Perpendicular 2024

we would like to thank the landskron.3 team from the bottom of our hearts for the opportunity to perform as a duo at this wonderful festival for the first time. & we would also like to thank niculin barandun for his incredibly beautiful visualized work during the live set <3

Mario & Timnah (Hybrid) at Landskron3

SKIN Podcast Series #025 Cobahn

For this week's podcast, we want to welcome Cobahn a warm and charismatic face in nightlife. Cobahn recorded this mix inspired by Göbekli Tepe, a forgotten holy site that evokes a sense of mystery and timelessness. Its design hints at profound cosmological beliefs, marking one of humanity’s earliest connections with something beyond the visible world.

The rhythms undulate like distant echoes from a forgotten age, and the atmosphere brims with a weight that feels both sacred and raw. Layers of texture drift like mist, shifting between the tangible and the surreal, as though into a primordial world where ritual and mystery still dwell in the ancient stones and soil. Built around 85 BPM, the mix flows with half-time beats and liquid drum & bass, capturing the pulse of an ancient realm. 

Enjoy this listening session.

Follow Cobahn
SC: @cobahn
IG: https://www.instagram.com/cobahn/

Tracklist:
1. Feral & Spekki Webu-Exitlude (Floating Version)
2. Vand - Mundane
3. Trijet-Live and Mechanical
4. Svarog - Fields of Desolation (Eafhm Reinterpretation)
5. Tammo Hesselink-Now Attempt
6. Ghost Warrior-Hidden Dimension
7. Eszaid-Brumes 02
8. Vanertia - Ringleader
9. 5RVZ - 2 Out
10. hyht99-Kai Trip
11. Floid-Skudd
12. AA Sudd - Sidereal Drift
13. Innerworld-Extraterrestrial Beings
14. RXEX - Ombugi's Mind Split
15. Abo Abo-Close to Ymir
16. Philip Kylberg - Plaque
17. Property & si'nedd - Somni
18. Blòt Heathen-Evocations

Art work by @remma0

SKIN #025 Cobahn

We're so delighted to have gifted Ophélie with us for our 25th Herbarium episode. Their mix features a wide palette of fastinating breakbeat, bass music and grey area gems with driving character yet smooth organic aesthetics. It's a wonderful fusion of different moods which melt together as one.

Ophélie chose the moss Atrichum undulatum as inspiration for their mix.
It is quite a lowkey plant but that is actually vital for a lot of ecosystems. Unlike most plants, mosses don't have roots and can grow on trees, rocks, and lots of different kinds of soils. It's a plant that's very adaptable and can survive in a lot of environments and extreme conditions. By soaking up water, they play an important role in the development of ecosystems and allow other plants around them to grow and thrive, and are also a valuable shelter for all kinds of insects and microorganisms. I find their color, form and texture super fascinating and I love their fluffy and soft side. I'm a big forest and water person, which is what the moss represents to me. This mix is definitely forest inspired, it's very inspired by the color green and the mysterious and eerie feeling that one can have when going into a forest on its own. There's also some more liquid elements that add a bit of softness to the mix.

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About Ophélie

ophélie is a France-born, Berlin-based DJ with a strong taste for bass-heavy music in all its forms. They are interested in the fluid, liquid, melancholic, and often emotional aspect of music, achieved through combining multiple layers of sounds, and creating weird (poly)rhythms.
As a producer, they enjoy experimenting with FX, textures, granular and generative sounds, and all different kinds of percussions. They released tracks on compilations by Early Reflex and traverse and have released their debut EP on hundert Records in February 2024.
ophélie’ monthly Refuge Worldwide residency, Therapy Dog, and event series at Kwia, allow her to experiment and explore the different genres she’s into, while often sharing the decks with friends and artists she admires. As part of Open Music Lab, a non-profit collective offering free music and production courses for people from Berlin’s diverse communities to connect and create together, she's interested in ways to support emerging artists outside the mainstream, in the hope to build a more equitable music scene.

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Follow Ophélie
https://soundcloud.com/opheliek
https://www.instagram.com/ophelieeeee__/
https://ra.co/dj/ophelie

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Artwork by @polygonia

Herbarium No 25 - Ophélie - Atrichum undulatum

It is a pleasure to have gifted Switzerland based artist @timnah-sommerfeldt with us for the 26th episode of our Herbarium mix series! 🌱
She composed a trippy journey through ambient, dnb and grey area - a really deep and introspective ride. She created a very coherent story around her choice of plant, the European beech. 

Here's a little backstory by TImnah about her choice:
"I chose the native, beautiful European beech (Fagus sylvatica) because it serves as an important point of reference for me during my mushroom walks in the forest. Among all the trees there, it is especially the beech that always guides me.
A large mushroom community lives in symbiosis with this impressive tree. It's fascinating to observe how this natural cycle begins anew each year—from summer into winter.

~ The coexistence of the beech with fungi begins when the delicate root of a beech seedling comes into contact with the soil and the mycorrhizal fungi living within it. It only ends long after the tree's death, when the dead beech wood is completely decomposed. ~

My mix was recorded after a snowy, cold November day in the forest and is joyfully dedicated to the European beech, which gifted me a delicious dinner 🍄‍🟫🦪🌳🤍"

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About Timnah
Timnah lives, works and feeds the cats in the Northwestern extremities of Switzerland. Brought up in her parents’ jazz clubs and deeply influenced by her brother’s love for dub and soundsystem culture, she started DJing just after the massively feared Millenium Bug had threatened to offset our relation to time and space. Dedicated to drawing her own map of late 20th century sonic landscapes, she spent the early 2000s exploring 90s electronics including breakbeat, triphop, ambient techno, drum&bass, house and jungle. After a short but sweet excursion into producing in the early 2010s, Timnah dedicated herself fully to spinning the wheels and transversing genres, gravitating towards her current signature sound that spans immersive sound baths and intergalactic carpet rides in half-time. Timnah is a member of Amenthia Recordings and a recent addition to the A Walking Contradiction Collective.

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Follow Timnah and her collective

@timnah-sommerfeldt
https://www.instagram.com/timnah_amenthia/
https://de.ra.co/dj/timnahsommerfeldt

Amenthia Recordings
https://amenthia-recordings.net

A Walking Contradiction
https://awalkingcontradiction.org

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Artwork by @polygonia

Herbarium No 26 - Timnah - Fagus Sylvatica

"A space where the pulse of the city merges with sounds dancing between serenity and eruption, like a fractured dream in suspended time. Here, waves of bass envelop you, while rhythms twist free from the bounds of time and space, leaving you adrift in a sonic universe that refuses to be entirely predictable."

Warm, emotive, and explorative - a set of characteristics that make up the enchanting vision of Zara (@zaraolsen), one of the most exciting talents hailing from the Australian scene. Whether it’s IDM, drum and bass, or techno, the Kinesis label-head fuses it all with an enigmatic sense of delicacy. Her distinctive sound on the crossroads of the calm and the energetic resulted in releases on labels such as Animalia, Salt Mines, and Pure Space. Her sets have been turning heads within the international electronic music scene, playing at places like De School, Tresor, and Donato Dozzy’s Spazio Disponsible label showcase. Harmonizing the ethereal and the ominous - Zara takes a gentle yet firm grip on minds and souls on and off the dancefloor.

Mostra (@mostrabcn) is an independent, small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music which emerged by the end of 2021 as a counterpoint to the macro-festivals and the overcrowded, commercial and impersonal offerings of other large events held in Barcelona. Mostra will be celebrating its fourth edition from 17 to 20 April in 2025.

HOCast #223 x Mostra - Zara

https://post-hoc.bandcamp.com/album/es-vedra-memory-engram-ph007?from=search&search_item_id=2271379507&search_item_type=a&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=4170173850&search_page_no=0&search_rank=3&logged_in_menubar=true

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"KollAppsSeume"

Visionary electronic music.

http://patternsofperception.com

Patterns of Perception 118 - Faery

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