Great Sets #14

2021

January 2022

20 Twenty Too

Mix Series

Art bei Ton & .apart were added in 2021 an can be found a the bottom of the List (ca #130 onward)
also : since 2022 : Human Lessons ( ca #290 onward)

Patterns of perception ; Precept ;  Modyfier ; Forsvarlig Arkiv ; Ohrwert; Art bei Ton; .apart

Read our interview with Millú here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-mill%C3%BA

Melbourne-based DJ and radio host @milluu has firmly established herself as a vital contributor to the city’s buoyant music scene in recent years. As a true drawcard for the local and global online scenes, and the host of two beloved radio shows, her sunny, groove-laden sound has seen her quickly gain recognition as a deeply skilled selector with an ear (and record bag) perfectly suited to any mood or dancefloor.

Both of her shows - Full Circle on independent station RRR and Dischord on Skylab - are renowned for their perfectly-curated oddities, and give Millú a platform to share her love for both musical diversity and the local scene, with guests and co-hosts joining her to explore genres as far-flung as kraut, downtempo and balearic, through to breaks, acid and IDM.

Taking these same foundational loves into the world with her as a DJ, Millú has graced the stage at numerous key Australian events, including Inner Varnika, Golden Plains, Pitch and Strawberry Fields, delivering stirring, memorable sets either solo, or alongside regular collaborator and partner-in-crime, @pjenne.
Recently, the pair have started work on their latest project, a record label called Companion (@companionmelb), which will delve into downtempo and atmospheric iterations of the electronic underground, bringing the language of ethereal 90s electronica, psychedelic IDM and ambient trance and techno to the present day.  

With Patterns of Perception 81, we find Millú's distinctively warm, dreamy, soulful and adventurous sound in full flight. In this vision, natural soundscapes melt into lush, patient melodies, which in turn rise effortlessly into urgent, liquid rhythms. A seeming disregard for categorisation is betrayed by her careful, well-considered selections and programming, and although countless sounds, feelings and moods pass in the course of this mix, Millú’s uplifting, life-affirming spirit is compellingly present throughout.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/milluu
https://www.facebook.com/milludj
https://www.instagram.com/mil_llu/
https://ra.co/dj/millu

@companionmelb
https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/full-circle
https://skylab-radio.com/artist-shows/milly-davison

Patterns of Perception 81 - Millú

Read our interview with Jane Fitz here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-jane-fitz

To introduce @janefitz as a legend of the scene borders on understatement. The UK selector has earned an almost cult-like following born out of her annual sets at Freerotation festival, co-founding London’s Night Moves parties (with good friend Jade Seatle - @jade-green), a more recent residency at revered club the Pickle Factory, a monthly show on @rinsefm, and a pre-pandemic touring schedule that took in countless clubs and festivals the world over. She herself admits to being committed to the scene for life, driven by a deep appreciation of the music above all else – and a constant desire to surprise both herself and her audience equally.

For her Patterns of Perception 82, Jane has recreated some of the warmth she felt during her visit to Berlin for a b2b with Eric Cloutier (@cloutier) at our party in November 2019, an event which remains a vivid memory on both sides. The mix features many records collected over the past year of the pandemic and not yet played out, giving it a sense of urgency and an uplifting quality that, for her, recalls an outdoor festival set in better days. “A bit of me was kind of longing for playing on the side of a Japanese mountain again or for all those festivals you do in the summer,” she says. “I wanted to have people stomping on a forest floor.”

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/janefitz
https://www.facebook.com/JaneFItzhome
https://ra.co/dj/janefitz

https://www.facebook.com/MOVETHENIGHT
https://www.facebook.com/invisiblemenders/
https://invisiblemenders.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/cloutier/jane-fitz-eric-cloutier-b2b-at-ohm-25102019

Patterns of Perception 82 - Jane Fitz

Our next guest is from the Netherlands. Going into the winter season over there, the days are getting darker and colder. He has made a mix to accompany you with a bit of groove, warmth and hope for better times. Please join us on this carefully crafted journey from @vincent-campfens

AF043 Vinsen

IO Podcast Series Episode 036 mixed by Ariet.
https://soundcloud.com/michalgutkowski

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Ariet – musical project from Michał Gutkowski. Dj, producer and promoter from Poznań, Poland. Schron resident dj and Psylocybina founder. 

Ariet's music is inspired by altered states of consciousness and the music used for shamanic ceremonies. Ariet travels through distant lands, visiting various tribes and their curanderos, bringing healing and transformational vibrations into underground dance music. Her sets are full of tribal rhythms, deep baselines and a mystical atmosphere, played with an intention to take the listener to an inner journey.

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Ariet
https://www.facebook.com/arietmusic

Michał Gutkowski
https://soundcloud.com/michalgutkowski
https://www.instagram.com/michalgutkowski/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClgd44SdyxlUXeVETdkWhCQ
https://www.mixcloud.com/michalgutkowski/

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Artwork by MTRL.

www.facebook.com/iorecords10/
io-records.bandcamp.com/music
www.instagram.com/IO.records/

Podcast 036 - ARIET

Holy cow, 50 episodes already, to celebrate that fact, we have our very own Disfunctional Disco serve his usual magic, nothing more to say than enjoy....

Sofacast 50 | Disfunctional Disco

live at @sustain-release-nyc 2021, main stage saturday night 1-2:30am
thanx to everyone involved, big energy!! <3

dj fart in the club @ sustain-release year 7 (2021)

Recording from nitsa night on december 17th 2021

John Talabot dj set @Nitsa (17Dec21)

A wrecking full closing set of the iconic Italian acid techno duo, better known as 999999999 (@999999999music),  played at Intercell x SNTS Invites | ADE 2021 at the H7 Warehouse as part of the Intercell October Series.

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Date | 16/10/2021
Location | H7 Warehouse, Amsterdam

I N T E R C E L L
Website - https://intercell.events
Tik Tok - www.tiktok.com/@intercell_events
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVnaDYpxWktgATAIHr1rOHQ
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/IntercellAmsterdam/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/intercell_events/?hl=en
Resident Advisor - https://www.residentadvisor.net/promoter.aspx?id=56298
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/hieq5x39judz58fuz3257fhqi?si=wMzTQpSCRByosipgsI1WaQ

999999999 at Intercell x SNTS Invites | ADE 2021

Bogman recorded live at Platforma Wolff's opening night on 06.08.2021

Bogman at Platforma Wolff • 06.08.2021

Name: Jennifer Loveless (@jenniferloveless) 
Alias: JLO 
Pronouns: She/Her
Location: Naarm (Melbourne), Australia 

Influences: 
Everything, all the time, constantly.  
 
Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: 
Weatherall  
 
Favorite Quote: 
We are the things we take the time to be. 
 
Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community:
There is longevity in this, take your time and don’t forget to LIVE along the way. Be intentional about the sound that really represents you and be open to that changing, growing and coming back around, as it should. And remember, no one will ever do it like you do.

With this mix Jennifer Loveless asks to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁Blak Pearl 
Blak Pearl is a community-led creative studio in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia providing a culturally safe environment for local Aboriginal peoples who cannot access mainstream spaces. It is a place to gather and connect, develop and expand on artistic skills, and showcase the artistic outcomes of a talented and underrepresented community. (www.blakpearlstudio.com)
❁ Nari Nari Tribal Council
 An organisation that adapts and flows like the river for better management of natural resources and inclusion of Aboriginal people and culture in land management. (www.patreon.com/narinaritribalcouncil)

Daisychain

Daisychain 206 - Jennifer Loveless

SPFDJ’s fleet movement behind the decks could have you wondering whether she’s the DJ or a dancer in the crowd. Her impressive bouts of energy and hell-bent focus matched by an instantly recognisable Techno: the seductive thud of a kick drum endlessly inciting clubbers to move. For Bassiani Podcast 109, the Intrepid Skin founder invokes both forest rave and brutalist panorama with a full-throttle hour of snaking and implacable beats. It’s Lina Jonsson’s rave, we’re just dancing in it.

@spfdj

Bassiani invites SPFDJ / Podcast #109

Our final mix release for 2021 comes care of Patterns of Perception resident @andreasmaan.

Hailing from Melbourne and based in Berlin, Andreas' makeup as a DJ has evolved in parallel with our own. Known for his deep and driving closing sets, his repertoire in recent years has branched further afield into noise, ambient and left-of-centre electronica, all of which feature in this wide-ranging set.

As though drifting in and out of a sometimes placid, sometimes fitful sleep, Patterns of Perception 91 snakes delicately through jagged layers of disorientation and delirium to create an edgy, densely textured, yet rhythmically restrained soundscape interspersed, elusively, with echoes of beauty.

Links:
@andreasmaan
https://www.facebook.com/andreasmaan.music
https://www.instagram.com/andreasmaaan/
https://ra.co/dj/andreasmaan-de

Patterns of Perception 91 - Andreas Maan

Read our interview with @jimijules and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/JulPod

Groove Podcast 322

Tracklist

Groove Podcast 322 - Jimi Jules

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

Italian duo https://soundcloud.com/naturalelectronicsystem have been a force within techno’s underground since 2004, gaining respect through their much revered podcasts for cult websites such as mnml ssgs and Smoke Machine, as well as their international dj sets, including at Labyrinth in Japan. 

After a mesmerizing set at the Patterns of Perception opening party at OHM in April, we are pleased to have natural/electronic.system. provide the seventh installment of our mix series - an hour of groovy, slowly unfolding dub techno.

We also had a chat with the duo about the mix, their push into production, and the music that makes them 'vibrate': http://goo.gl/LxTbOH

Patterns of Perception 07

Patterns of Perception 07 - natural/electronic.system.

Precept 001 | Maïore

Irshad Hussein is an Azerbaijani electronic musician and dj from Baku.  İnspired by atmospheric and deep sounding he moves in the direction of techno and ambient. He recently realized his EP Obastan on the spanish label Circular Limited, which promote artists like Svarog, OWL, Concept of thrill, Kanthor and more... Enjoy its contribution

Precept 002 | Irshad Hussein

Ephere is a 23 years old french producer from Lille (FR). His work represents well the kind of vibes we try to promotes. His track "Vain" has met a lot of success on soundcloud, he already has two EP released and a new one is coming soon... A man to follow!

@ephere

Precept 003 | Ephere

@hydrangeamusic ’s life as a producer and DJ began relatively recently, when in 2014 she began expressing the quietness, wonder and intensity of nature in techno. For this prodigious French talent, creating and selecting music is an act of entering a deeper dimension, both transcendent and grounded in the hypnotic beauty of the natural world.

As a producer, she has released her own productions – which are lucid, mesmerising, arresting – on @annulled_music, @two-two-records, and @silent-season.

As a DJ, she is equally inspired by the dancefloors she plays to across Europe as by the nature around her home. She describes this mix for Patterns of Perception as a musical trip for one of her walks in the forest, creating an inner journey while being connected with the surroundings.

Wherever you happen to listen to it, we are confident it will have a similar effect on you.

Links: 
@hydrangeamusic
https://www.facebook.com/musichydrangea/

Tracklist:
Lena Deen - Lateral
Ntogn - Draki 
Meta - Ambiente 2
Kanthor - Ballet Mécanique
Bichord - Analog Wind
Adam Michalak - Evening Later
Void & Materia - Sonar Call
Andaman - Vision III (Refracted Remix)
Mohlao - Patchbay
Kanthor - Kirtana
Chnl - Ion (Terra)
Perial - 2019
Teste + Edit Select - Ascend
Aquarium - Sandalwood
Mohlao - Rotar
Depthon - Polygraph (Ricardo Garduno Remix)
Sicarius Hahnio - Resto Domani
Vytis - Ocean

Patterns of Perception 26 - Hydrangea

With roots in Leipzig and her current home, Berlin, @lux-io’s profile has been steadily growing over recent years. Following a 2019 that saw her tour through Japan, China and Taiwan, play her first gig in Berghain, and perform at the final Nachtdigital, her past year has been – for obvious reasons – a little more introspective than anticipated.

Her mix for Patterns of Perception fittingly explores the torn and disconnected states recent events have thrown us into, magnifying and intertwining with the still, introverted atmospheres of deep winter.

Tiptoeing on reminiscences of club nights past, this mix sketches subtle lines between different places, spaces, moods, and times, while also bringing together a number of tracks that have been accompanying Lux on her travels for years, never before quite meeting the opportunity to find their place in a mix.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/lux-io
https://www.facebook.com/lux.leipzig/
https://www.instagram.com/lux__i/
https://ra.co/dj/lux-de

Patterns of Perception 78 - Lux

Read our interview with Sapphire Slows here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-sapphire-slows

As a producer, vocalist and DJ, Tokyo-based @sapphire-slows has a sound that is both indelible and difficult to neatly categorise. Taking cues from minimal, electronica, ambient and off-kilter pop, her own music feels greater than the sum of these parts, combining an unerring sense for space, detail and atmosphere with slow-motion melodies and heady, cosmic vocals to create something personal and truly unique.  

Since starting to produce music in her bedroom in 2011, Sapphire Slows has released an impressive body of work, with LPs, EPs, tracks and remixes coming out on the likes of @not-not-fun-1, @100percentsilk, Kaleidoscope, @nous-disques, @kalaharioystercult, ninih (@ye_yeh) and most recently @ad93rec.	

As a live performer and DJ, she has been similarly prolific, with numerous European tours under her belt, along with regular showings in China, Australia, the US and naturally, her home country of Japan. The diversity of artists with which she has shared the stage (from Lena Willikens, Objekt, Svreca and Ben UFO to Laurent Garnier and The xx) is revealing, and further proof of the chameleonic qualities of her music.

Recently recorded at OATH in Tokyo, Sapphire Slows’ Patterns of Perception 79 is a warm, carefully crafted and kaleidoscopic narrative that perfectly captures the many shades of her unique sound. Flitting between cinematic ambient soundscapes, emotive vocals and breezy after-hours energy, these 59 minutes sway comfortably across dappled layers of sunlight and shade, finding a solid underpinning in the swelling melodies and textural layers that are so tightly linked with her own visions. 

Credits:
Recorded at OATH Tokyo, Mastered by Hiranya Access

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/sapphire-slows
https://www.facebook.com/sapphireslows/
https://sapphireslows.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/sapphireslows/

Patterns of Perception 79 - Sapphire Slows

Read our interview with Grant Aaron here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-grant-aaron

The first time Grant Aaron (@insideout) went to an event with a chill-out room, everything clicked into place. It was the beginning of a long love affair with ambient and experimental music, with its sparsity and often beat-less nature leaving plenty of room for the imagination to take over. Grant went on to take up DJing in chill-out spaces himself before founding the influential platform Mysteries of the Deep in New York a decade ago. Initially a podcast, Mysteries has evolved over time into an event series and record label, and has established itself as one of the most revered sources for ambient music, both online and offline.

2021 is shaping up to be as busy a year as any other for Mysteries: there are releases in the works from Christina Chatfield (@anitserk), Mosam Howieson (@mos-how) and Grant’s label partner Oliver Chapoy (@ohm_sweet_ohm), plus plans to bring back the podcast after a brief hiatus. In the midst of this busy schedule, Grant took the time to showcase his cinematic, storytelling-driven style for our own podcast, with a mix recorded in a dense New York winter and inspired by the dampening of sound that comes with heavy snowfall.

Of the concept of his Patterns of Perception 80, Grant says: “The last eight or nine months have been some of the most difficult that I’ve been through in several years. A lot of it has to do with my work situation, which has been incredibly challenging and pushed me to rethink many things in my life. Then you have the pandemic, which has been this overarching theme for so many, most just trying to get through each day. But then there are these rays of light. I always try to be optimistic and hopeful about stuff, even when that can be really tough, so while this mix is very solemn, there are rays of light coming through.”

Links:
@insideout
https://ra.co/dj/grantaaron

@mysteriesofthedeep
https://mysteriesofthedeep.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mystofthedeep/

@birdsofprey