Ambient Sounds.. Part 2

Mix Series

sesions 2

Milleechillee

PODCASTS

intro

Vivian Koch has released dope records on AD 93, Omnidisc and a.r.t.less. She also used to be a resident at Griessmühle in Berlin before it closed. Enjoy!

ITPS072 VIVIAN KOCH

Vivian Koch (@kochvivian) has real range. For labels like Life And Death, a.r.t.less and AD 93 she has served up everything from IDM to moody breaks, ambient soundscapes to emotive techno. Her most recent album - last year's ominous but hopeful Beyond Contact - was fine proof of that from the Berlin-based artist who started DJing aged just 16. She has since mastered the art of making and playing club music thanks to her residency at Griessmuehle and her own Olympe party series.

She very much eases into this week with a superb ambient selection. It's broad in its remit, with the most beautiful and suspensory pieces bleeding into gently suggestive rhythms. The moods, too, range from mind-emptying bliss to passages of hopefulness and even romance. It's the sort of cathartic listen we all occasionally need to immerse ourselves in as a way of resetting.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 374 - Vivian Koch

Vivian Koch (aka Ful Niviak) is the cofounder of Berlin-based HeyNow and one of a raft of new generation musicians to have come of age in a time of such deep self-reflection. Beat-focused sets and more ambient productions are the two sides to Koch’s coin, the latter serving as a means of spiritual healing intended as a gift for the scene she was part of for so long (she started DJing at the age of 16 to be precise). This time, her dialectic sound yields fruit in the form of Bassiani Podcast 145, an atmosphere-heavy and evocative dreamscape, cathartic breakbeat from start to finish.

@kochvivian

Bassiani invites Vivian Koch / Podcast #145

a stunning escapade absorbing deep electronics and opiated ambient

by @kochvivian

₀₀₉ 𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗸𝗼𝗰𝗵

Producer, DJ, promoter, and @soundsofvala label head, @soundsofkaspiann's work straddles a range of paces and moods, always with an eye toward the innovative. With a lower-tempo release due early next year on an undisclosed label, Kaspiann's more recent sonic explorations wade into swampy techno with psychedelic inflections.

In Patterns of Perception 117, Kaspiann pulls you into the flow through these murky sounds that dips and stomps along, with a selection of unreleased tracks from both his and his friends' studios, along with a handful of carefully unearthed gems.

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/kaspiann__
https://valaseries.bandcamp.com/album/vala-2
https://ra.co/dj/kaspiann
https://www.facebook.com/kaspiannhki/

Patterns of Perception 117 - Kaspiann

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

Hailing from Amsterdam and with De School as his homebase, @nawazworldwide’s sound is always evolving, sliding deftly from wormhole techno to fast rhythms and glitchy electronics.

His selections on this Patterns of Perception 119 melt together while also reinforcing each other, each transition subtler than the last, sometimes even employing his own tailor-made tools and tracks for the purpose.

Beginning from a visual image, this mix blends diverse rhythms and atmospheres, offering a story line from which the listener can create their own narrative, their own image, free of imposition.

Patterns of Perception 119 - Nawaz

Marking the culmination of 2023, our final mix features the debut release from one of our own, @zilkamarie. As the driving force behind comms within our collective, Zilka's music inspiration is drawn from the diverse array of artists she collaborates with.

Recorded live at Jacopo (@severja) and Fred’s (@fred-czital) Hitze party back in July, the set follows on from a daytime open air while also opening the after party. Progressing from wet, spacious ambient sounds to dubby, irresistible beats, Patterns of Perception 120 captures and plays with quintessential afterhours vibes.

Patterns of Perception 120 - Zilka

Hailing from Germany and now based in Portugal, @vril_01 has in recent years been quietly producing and performing some truly extraordinary electronic music. Going from strength to strength, he takes dancefloors on vivid, compelling journeys across Europe and beyond.

Patterns of Perception 121 takes us back to a very special live ambient set .VRIL performed at @nachtdigital MINT 2019, an immersive hour of lucid textures and swelling intensity.

Big thanks to @sentientechno for making this happen with us.

Patterns of Perception 121 - .VRIL

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Pattrn - Ethereal Rhythm [PITCH38]

Produced by Brice Deloose aka Pattrn

Mastered by Brice Deloose at Incidence Studio
(www.incidence.studio)
Layout by Mark Wagner

𝑷𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒏
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/pattrn_dj
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/pattrn_music/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/pattrnmusic
Bandcamp : https://initiaterecords.bandcamp.com/

𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑷𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/indefinite-pitch
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/indefinite.pitch/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IndefinitePitch.Records/
Bandcamp : https://indefinitepitch.bandcamp.com/
Website : https://www.indefinitepitch.com/

Paradoxical Tranquility

Ethereal Rhythm

Support & Buy

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Pattrn - Ethereal Rhythm [PITCH38]

Exclusively dedicated to the dearest Sauvage Concept Store

While working and choosing the material, I was constantly thinking of how all this would sound in the store itself and also tried to imagine how would the atmosphere and the essence of the actual store sound

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SAPHILEAUM - SAUVAGE CONCEPT STORE MIX

check out our playlist for more songs like these:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TxgOPqo4CXatUsvJAyQTl

interstellar (with seeyouthere)

A synapse-popping electro-acoustic soundwalk around Western Europe's cathedrals, chapels and churches, 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔 skews recognizable sacred soundscapes, proposing a contemporary mythology that muddles the past, present and future. Following on from his critically-acclaimed 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 full-length, American sound artist Jake Muir familiarizes himself with German and British sonic architecture by studying some of the medieval shadows that still hang over Europe's streets, even as they continue to evolve. Manipulating environmental recordings captured in Germany and England, Muir presents an impressionistic juxtaposition of parallel cultures: the UK's distinctive "change ringing" technique, where a team of bell-ringers play long varied sequences on a set of tuned bells; and Germany's more sober style, with monotonous peals that add rhythm to daily life.

When Muir moved from Los Angeles to Berlin back in 2019, it wasn't just the German capital's damp weather and long, dark winters that came as a surprise. He was immediately struck by the city's anomalous acoustics, and one particular element stood out: the resonant church bells that echo around Berlin throughout the day to mark time, and for 10 minutes on Sundays as a call for mass. Gathering his field recording equipment, Muir acquainted himself with his new home by following the sonorous clangs, wandering from kiez to kiez to capture each church's distinct auditory flavor. And the more material he collected, the more engrossed he became in the history of bell ringing, prompting a deep dive that would shuttle him across Germany and into Italy, Belgium and the UK.

On 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔, Muir trains his focus on Berlin, where his journey began, and on England, where he encountered the most elaborate bell ringing practice. 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 is a hypnotic lattice of sounds recorded all over the German capital: at Parochialkirche, a reformed church in Mitte; at evangelical church St. Matthäus, at Sophienkirche, another Mitte landmark; and at St. Mathias, a Roman Catholic church just in front of the Potsdam Gate. By fusing the liturgical chimes with snippets of local ambiance - traffic, chattering tourists and birdsong, for example -  Muir takes a blurry snapshot of the city, queering its idiosyncratic color spectrum with his various digital processes. Using reverb to replicate the acoustic properties of both the streets and the church interiors, he subtly disturbs the timeline, stretching out brief peals into long, mesmerizing drones and turning garbled voices into ghostly babble.

The environment alters considerably on 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴; Muir uses the same technique and applies it to recordings made at the 1000-year-old St. Oswald church in Oswestry, St. Bartholomew's, Edgbaston and Holy Trinity in Stratford-Upon-Avon, home to Shakespeare’s final resting place. Here, Muir methodically untangles the change-ringing process, linking back to 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 with a single bell tone before moving inside the church itself and documenting the ringers' shouted instructions, blending the calls with the bells' mathematical cyclic patterns. Muir memorializes what in 2025 is a dying art-form - a community skill that's disappearing worryingly quickly as young Brits lose interest in the church and its rituals. Unsettling distortions bite into the undulating sequences and underneath the noise, Muir highlights the music's latent euphoria, drawing out its most celestial tonalities.

File under: devotional music.

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recorded by Jake Muir
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
photography by Jake Muir
design template by Joe Bastardo

Campana Sonans

Erzklang [Preview Clip] (ENM-14)

Here it is! This weeks episode of Pacific Spirit. This time around we were graced by one of Melbourne's top DJs, https://soundcloud.com/noise-in-my-head.

A relatively mellow affair with a grip of unreleased and forthcoming releases from some of our favorite labels and some stone cold classics was the result. DJ D.DEE is up for the first hour and NIMH handled the second.

S/O to everybody who danced with us at 333 Clarke after the radio show. That was a treat!

If you enjoyed this please don't hesitate to tune in every Friday on NFR from 4-6pm PST: nofunradio.com/

Pacific Spirit 006 | DJ D.DEE & Noise In My Head

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Episode 76 of Circoloco Radio with Magit Cacoon!

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Circoloco Radio 076 - Magit Cacoon

www.smkmachine.com

Smoke Machine Podcast 132 Mama Snake

INTERVIEW: http://www.ayli-sf.com/2019/05/07/ayli-podcast-83-sleepygirl-b2b-tape-ghost/
@sleeeepygirl
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/eugenia
@tape-ghost
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/tapeghost
EVENT: https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1238811
1 Unfound - Appleblim [Air Texture]
2 Monday Melody - Drain Pipe [Driftwood]
3 Brenda’s 20 Dollar Dilemma - DJ Sprinkles
4 Interlace Jitter - Sven Weisemann
5 Denzil Adventure 2 - Baba Stiltz & Samo DJ
6 Metro Park - Soultek 
7 Longwinded Edit - Quantec
8 A Song Name of One Word - Arnaldo
9 Silent Runner - Robi Uppin
10 Cassandra - Donato Dozzy
11 Soulful - Christopher Rau
12 JB’s - Mr. G 
13 Deeper - Herbert
14 Mir - Mrsch
15 Philokalia - S.A.M. 
16 Grace - Derek Carr
17 Revelations in Dust - Deadbeat
18 Mr002 2 - Kirik 
19 Replace - Andy Stott

As You Like It Podcast

AYLI Podcast #83 - Sleepygirl B2B Tape Ghost

Recording of my mix that went out on Rinse FM as part of the DBA takeover on Rinse FM, Monday 6th May.

Kerrie Mix for Don't Be Afraid Rinse FM Takeover

Tebe is a young and emerging
artist from Zürich. With his 22 years he already possesses a vast and obscure record collection which he accumulated by digging through basements of old collectors, flea markets and internet platforms. Inspired by the trademark sounds and sets of Les Points which combine genres like ambient, noise, ebm, techno, new beat, trance, electro, bass music, wave and acid house 
- he takes on a similar yet unique style which indeed has a nostalgic but contemporary feel to it - as if the linearity of time would be erased without any fixed points in future. He is at helm of a wild and fearless new generation of artists from Zürich and we're happy to share this podcast with you.

LES POINTS PODCAST #02 ||| TEBE

Sama Recordings is a Vienna based label founded by the hyperactive dj/producer/event and radio host Benedikt Guschlbauer, aka Ambient Animal. As his artist names naturally implies, this label get provides some highly mental content, focusing on psychedelic and forward thinking music. This new release from Amsterdam producer Cantillate is a desertic ambient jam, blending fantomatic krautrock mood and binary electronic rhythms. Close your eyes and lost in this hypnotic dub groove, out on limited edition cassettes on June 7th.

https://soundcloud.com/cantillatemusic
https://soundcloud.com/sama-recordings

machinesforemotions

PREMIERE | Cantillate feat Stijn Van Wees - Machines For Emotions [sama recordings] 2019

21th May, 2019
Red Light Radio X The Edge, Seoul Live Recording

Red Light Radio in Seoul X The Edge, Jesse You

ACTION SHADOW!

A mix from a special Rooftop party in Melbourne from 2018!
Thanks to Butter Session and Inner Varnika crew for
the love and support!

🍔🍔🍔😄👀🤙🏼😃⚡️⚡️👍🏼👀👀🇦🇺🍔🤙🏼

DJ FETT BURGER: Melbourne Mix

Élise Kravets @ Red Light Radio 06-28-2019

01 Trankilu

Mixed Signals is back with Beffskee for two hours of mellow breakbeats, atmospheric rollers and hazy jungle. With drops from Felix Leifur, DJ Sports and balamii family Al Wootton.

Mixed Signals w/ Beffskee - May 2020

Keep a distance of at least one (1) TB303 when performing interaction.

01. The Brain - Light Years [Hypnotic - 1996]
02. The Infinity Project - Blue Aura [Blue Room Released - 1995]
03. Red Sun - Matrix [Harmony Records - 1991]
04. Sun Electric - Castor And Pollux [Apollo - 1995]
05. Wagon Christ - Glass World [Rising High Records - 1994]
06. The Optic Crux - The Forgotten [Djax-Up-Beats - 1994]
07. Richard H. Kirk - November X Ray Mexico [Warp Records - 1994]
08. Inference Engine - Antibiotics [Shroom Recordings - 1995]
09. Heavenly Music Corporation - Anechoic [Silent - 1996]
10. Swimwear Catalogue - Tremens [April Records - 1995]
11. Spooky - Orange Coloured Liquid [Guerilla - 1993]
12. Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia [NovaMute - 1995]
13. Visions Of Shiva - Perfect Morning [MFS - 1992]
14. The Future Sound Of London - You're Creeping Me Out [Virgin - 1994]
15. Squarepusher - Rebus [Warp Records - 1997]

Hjärngymnastik 082: Flebotomisk Social Distansering

For this month's instalment of Mixed Signals, Beffskee fused two hours of downtempo electronica and atmospheric breaks, later on moving to jungle and drum and bass. Inside are tracks by Etch, Anna Wall, Dead Man’s Chest and more.

Mixed Signals w/ Beffskee - July 2020

Number 349 and we got none other than @move-d for our series. I think i do not need many words to describe him and his style. With releases on "Workshop", "Smallville Rec.", "Underground Quality" and so on he presents a lot of great music. Great music for every day and night. Enjoy this wonderful episode and dance wherever you are!

Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/move-d

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/MoveD.official

Photo by:
https://www.instagram.com/derklient

Dj Sets

Move D

Move D - Deep Afterhour Nr. 349

Read our interview with Vivian here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-vivian-koch

The beautiful German word Tausendsassa (which translates to “jack of all trades” in English) feels like a perfectly apt term to describe the deep and wide-reaching artistic talent of Vivian Koch (@kochvivian).
Based in Berlin, her growing presence has been felt across the city - and the wider scene - since the inception of her interdisciplinary arts collective Olympe Fatale in 2017. Encompassing DJs, musicians, visual artists and designers, the collective found a fitting home base at the lauded and much loved Berlin institution @Griessmuehle, where they hosted memorable performances from the likes of Cosmin @TRG, @minor-science, @donwilliamsofficial, @upsammy and @mohlao/VC-118a. 

As a highly skilled producer in her own right, Vivian’s distinctive voice is both rich and emotive. Finding a foundation in electro-driven percussion and rhythms, her music dives still deeper, diverging from standard club fare and embracing textured, melancholic synths and non-linear narrative storytelling. With releases on Don Williams’ A.R.T.less Records, and @dannydaze’s @omnidisc, Vivian has cemented her place as a breakout producer with a compelling story to tell.

With Patterns of Perception 71, Vivian has taken a step back to piece together a textured, delicate ambient soundscape comprising of favourites, both new and old. Driven by a feeling that the world has remained as noisy and loud a place as ever - despite the recent chance to regroup and reflect - Vivian wanted to create a musical refuge of hope, calm and peace to inspire escape and rejuvenation.

Composed of a palette of natural, experimental textures, delicate instrumentation and subtle, uplifting melodies, this mix is a beautiful, indelibly optimistic journey that absolutely delivers on its goal: to soothe the heart and mind through challenging times.

Links:
@kochvivian
https://www.instagram.com/vivian_koch_i/
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/viviankoch
https://www.facebook.com/olympefatale/
https://www.instagram.com/olympefatale/

Patterns of Perception 71 - Vivian Koch

Visionary electronic music.

http://patternsofperception.com