@lou_drago
@transience-archive

This year at Horst we introduced Collective Care, a harm reduction and community care programme to make the festival a supportive and welcoming place for all. Perhaps you saw the team in pink vests during the weekend, or even sought them out yourself in a difficult moment.

Collective Care also included a dedicated restorative space, for which we commissioned a series of mixes from DJs with a keen understanding of nurturing sound: Russell E.L. Butler, Alex Rita, and Lou Drago.

Collective Care: Lou Drago for Horst Arts & Music Festival 2022

The debut Vargmal show recording on Berlin's Refuge Worldwide radio by label founder Gent.

@gentvargmal
www.refugeworldwide.com

Refuge Worldwide

Vargmal Records w/ Gent at Refuge Worldwide (13.03.2023)

"Paused and luminous melodies. From the terrace, I see the winter sun gliding low, making the sea water shimmer. The scent of foam reminds me that summer is still a few months away. I don't want to rush; the downtempo sets the pace, and I like that."

Patric Kimman dives into the deeper side of ambient and experimental music in his monthly radio show on South London’s Balamii radio station (@balamii), under his alias Paduan (@padduan). He is also one of the organisers behind the Into the Universes audiovisual event series that focuses on ambient music and moving visual art in Amsterdam. This mix went a bit more into downtempo territory than his normal sonic excursions on Balamii.

HOCast #178 - Paduan

A captivating musical journey provided by Italian collective Details Sound. Black Seed, Matteo Viani’s tribal-tinged project from Turin, Italy, curates the first hour, followed by Loma Doom, known for her mesmerizing electronic experimentalism hailing from the Netherlands, in the second hour. Don’t miss out!

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Outsiders: Details Sound w/ Black Seed & Loma Doom @ Kiosk Radio 30.03.2024

deep summer journey @ espacio perpendicular

Doozer - Aqui no hay playa @ Espacio Perpendicular

Immerse yourself in the textured beats and deep sonic layers crafted by @eav and @petervanhoesen in this recording. https://secretthirteen.org/stm-109-sendai/

Secret Thirteen Mix 109

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STM 109 - Sendai

Skadi’s Winter Hunt

ETHEREAL AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES INSPIRED BY GAME OF THRONES AND THE  LORD OF THE RINGS AND MANY OTHERS. RELAX, ENJOY AND DRIFT AWAY.

ETHEREAL: FAREWELL AND SORROW

OP-7 Idref E

My second Freerotation yurt set. It was at a weird, uneasy time, just after the EU referendum result. The recording was played on Rinse FM by Ben UFO on the Hessle Audio show on 9/11/17 (thank you).

Jo Johnson - Live at Freerotation 2016

Melbourne duo @HTRK (Nigel Yang & Jonnine Standish) have a well-storied history reaching back nearly two decades. From a back-catalogue comprising of significant releases on imprints like @Ghostly International, Mistletone and Boomkat Editions, collaborations with luminaries such as Mika Vainio, Rowland S. Howard & @benfrost, and appearances at numerous key events around the globe (including the legendary @berlinatonal festival, Krakow's @unsound and Vivid at the Sydney Opera House), their impact on a vast array of listeners and scenes is indelible and difficult to overstate.

As a two-piece band, their melancholic, sensual music lies roughly at the intersection of post-punk, no-wave, shoegaze and art-rock, with influences from IDM, industrial, noise, dub-techno, pop and beyond. Indeed, it is this eclectic palette, combined with deep knowledge and curiosity that has recently seen them contribute a captivating ambient score for Jeffrey Peixoto's documentary "Over the Rainbow" and regularly deliver genre-defying mixes on platforms like @secretthirteen and NTS.

A starting theme and departure point for HTRK's Patterns of Perception 74 is the ocean. This intricately assembled collection of music finds a natural ebb and flow amongst rich, organic synths and delicate abstract melodies. Building from a slow and introspective beginning, the duo intuitively and carefully guide the narrative to also incorporate gentle energy and a sense of strangeness. 
Viewed holistically, this mix is invigorating and luxuriously diverse, with a true chameleonic quality that allows the listener to take something different from every listen. 

Tracklist:
1. Madalyn Merkey - Besançon (Self-released via Bandcamp, 2020)
2. Kate Carr - Perhaps it was a dream about Water Lilies (Tiny Portraits, 2015)
3. Jasmine Guffond - Yellow Bell (Sonic Pieces, 2015)
4. Vox Populi! - Trois Gouttes De Sang (Vox Man Records, 1985)
5. Joe McPhee and John Snyder - Windows in Dreams (CjRecord Productions, 1974)
6. People Skills - Zoom Meeting (Amplify 2020, 2020)
7. Terry Riley and Don Cherry - Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector (bootleg, 1975)

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/htrk
https://www.facebook.com/htrkrtio
https://www.instagram.com/psychic9to5club/
https://htrk.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/06sdJwlggq0PKOe4LPZWCg
https://twitter.com/htrk_
https://yourcomicbookfantasy.com/

Patterns of Perception 74 - HTRK

Visionary electronic music.

http://patternsofperception.com