Coming across the Aotearoa / New Zealand based duo of Brooklyn Mellar and Ike Zwanikken's Hysterical Love Project has been one of the nicest music related surprises of 2021 for me. Their album, "Endless Bliss Weekener", hits a sweet spot somewhere between the 4AD / Projekt universe and early 2000's / late 90's downtempo. I'm so excited to have them contribute a mix to the series... (which features an unreleased demo of theirs :))


D.A. Dettmar - Pacific Rain Forest
Marco Beltrami - NC-17
Hysterical Love Project - Backseat Of Forever
deepState - Fortune
Not Waving & Romance - While My Heart Is Still Beating
Wladimir M - Planet E
Bowery Electric - Passages
POiSON GiRLFRiEND - Hardly Ever Smile (Without You)
bar italia - angels
Love Spirals Downwards - City Moon
Hugh B & Cousin - Shaft Of Light
Ange Halliwell - Wheat Flag (ft. Malibu)
deepState - Redux
bar italia - how did you get into the building did someone open the door for you 2
Hooverphonic - Inhaler
Meitei - Okue
Hysterical Love Project - 2BC1 (demo)
Chris & Cosey - Eternal
Purelink - Maintain The Bliss
Current 93 - Patripassian


https://soundcloud.com/hystericalloveproject
https://hystericalloveproject.bandcamp.com/album/endless-bliss-weekender

Motion Cast Vol. 76: Hysterical Love Project

Living Room n°67 ~ @av_moves

q. pls introduce yourself
a. Yooo! My name is John Jones. I’m a musician / artist currently based in Los Angeles.  I spent my younger years outside of Washington DC and my culturally formative ones getting weird in Baltimore Maryland. 

q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. I’ve been playing the guitar a lot more these days… I think that may be effecting my listening habits.

q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?
a. Walking a dog

q. describe a favorite object in your living room...
a. I hate to be that guy, but probably my speakers

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. Yea! I’m finishing up a new AV Moves record.. Jesse and I have been slowly piecing together the next JJ+JS album.. Puli, the band I’m in with my friends Phil and Damon, have a record coming out soon. We’re also looking to record new material sometime in the next month or so. I’ve been playing in Suzanne Kraft’s live band too.. we have some fun opening gigs that we’ve been prepping for. Workwise, I'm at In Sheep’s Clothing HiFi managing events and helping out at the record store. busy busy busy

Living Room n°67 ~ av moves

1. andrew pekler - feedback tt
2. unnamned burundian musician - chant avec citahare / toru takemitsu - water music
3. mike cooper - electricity
4. joel chadabe - yum yum
5. ryuichi sakamoto - ulu watu 
6. andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong / cool symmetries
7. michael prime - the mouth of hermes / barbera benary - sleeping braid
8. chappel mood music vol. 15 - électronique / zazou, bikaye, cy 1 - m’pasi ya
9. andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong / madalyn merkey - archipelago
10. barbara kolb - solitaire / waisoni msusa (malawi)- kung'anda kwa anyamata
11. dennis smalley - the pulses of time
12. peuls musicians of niger - pakapak / mike cooper - tahiti green island
13. gordon monahan - large piano magnified / andrew pekler - untitled 
14. andrew pekler - mirror structures
15. mbuti singers (malawi) - iyo-o-o / david keane - in memorium hugh le caine
16. jon hassell - empire iv
17. unnamed burundian musician - take me back to mabayi / pierre henry - danse / additional sounds
18. andrew pekler - theme from tt
19. nuno canavarro - bruma / unnamed burundian singers - akazéhé / andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong

mix originally made for the skyapnea radio show on nts radio http://www.skyapnea.com/pagez/about/

photo by tina born 
http://www.tinaborn.com/


Fourth World Problems

We are excited to announce that our first release of 2025 will be ‘Ways to the Deep Meadow’ , an album from Ocean Moon, the alias of producer Jon Tye.

In addition to running the long-standing label Lo Recordings, Tye has recorded under various names and been involved in numerous projects over the past three decades. Keen fans of the label may also notice that this isn't Tye's first collaboration with MFM; his work during the 1990's as part of UK ambient group MLO captured our attention years ago, leading to the release of their retrospective album ‘Oumuamua’ in 2021.

Releasing archival work alongside new material from an artist has been a fundamental aspect of Music From Memory’s identity since we began the label, and is something that continues to bring us immense joy. With Jon continuing to produce work under a wide range of names to this day, the short step to releasing this new work was organic and natural. Working under the name Ocean Moon Jon carries echoes of his work with MLO into the modern day, weaving an ambient electronic music that radiates gentle positivity.

The title ‘Ways To The Deep Meadow’ is inspired by the poem ‘Universal Solar Calendar’ written by poet, mystic, shaman, and visionary Angus Maclise. Maclise began as the percussionist in an early iteration of La Monte Young's Theatre Of Eternal Music and later played with the Velvet Underground before moving to Nepal, where he wrote and published an impressive collection of poetry and music.

Side one of the album was created at a time when Tye had been exploring ideas around artificial intelligence, delving into books such as ‘The Physics Of Immortality’ by Frank J. Tippler, ‘Novacene’ by James Lovelock, and ’12 Bytes’ by Jeanette Winterson, seeking an alternative to the prevalent, negative views of AI. He was also inspired by the Buddhist perspective of AI as an integral part of consciousness evolution, as evidenced by the creation of a Buddhist robot that preaches in the Kodaiji Temple in Kyoto.

Side two consists of two long-form pieces, one composed for Janine Rook’s ‘Made In Dreams’ exhibition and the other for Vix Hill Ryder’s ‘Wild Edges’ film. For ‘Made In Dreams’, text from the exhibition catalogue was processed via the Holly Herndon Holly + app to create an environment that is simultaneously otherworldly and warm.

As with much of Jon’s work, this music seeks to nurture an optimistic outlook in the listener, something he achieves here with subtlety and a truly delicate touch. The immersive ambient music of ‘Ways To The Deep Meadow’ reaches out to the listener like gentle trails of light, offering it’s spells,invocations and enchantments to all who choose to listen.

‘Ways To The Deep Meadow’ will be released on 31st January 2025 on LP as well as digitally. Sleeve art and design by Michael Willis.

B2. Ocean Moon - An Ending Full Of Light

Jake Muir is a Berlin based sound artist, DJ and field recordist. He approaches his practice as a listener first, carefully curating, layering and processing sounds that help him deconstruct and contextualize his lived experiences and influences. Using investigative software methodologies, DJ techniques and engineering dexterity, Muir makes deeply personal sonic art that fluidly traverses genre membranes, encouraging reflection and sometimes prompting psychedelic states.
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This mix is essentially a studio distillation of the two DJ sets I played during bathing hours at Washington Baths in Portland, Maine last year, for @poolemusicltd. Beyond the aquatic aesthetics tying back to saunas and my time spent living in California and Seattle, it is also inspired by an essay I discovered while trying to find cover art for Bathhouse Blues. “Spiritual dimensions of self-transformation in Sydney’s gay bathhouses”, by Jason Prior and Carole Cusack, explores how gay bathhouses were viewed as places of worship by the patrons and what transpired there as being “rituals”. Given this backdrop, there are various references in the mix, both literal and figurative, to said dimensions associated with rituals and spirituality.

IG: @muirjake
SC: @jakemuir

03 Jake Muir

Life as Collage w/ yusk: 23rd March '25

Ramzilla back in the studio for an hour... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/ramzilla-13th-may-2025

RAMZILLA 130525

Soul-soothing mix to ease fatigue and anxiety: music for slow walks and quiet moments

Acid Mental Sentimental #15 De Kat Memwa Guest Mix

Living Room n°87 - @wieloroman @ushenkosasha

q. please introduce yourselves:

a. My name is Sasha Ushenko, and I'm an artist from Kyiv. Together with my close friend and collaborator WiELOROMAN aka Roma Pivnenko, we’ve built a deep connection through our shared taste in music and vision.

We co-create a project called Practices of Conscious Listening @pup.listening.club — a series of events where we invite people and artists into the world of deep listening, meditative states, and alternative soundscapes. Our goal is to explore how sound can be used as a tool for presence, awareness, and inner exploration.


q. is there a story behind the mix?

a. There’s definitely a story behind this mix. It was born naturally from a live B2B session we played at the Stricka Festival in Kyiv, in the summer of 2024. The setting was beautiful — a lush garden surrounded by greenery, and the vibe was incredibly present, almost timeless.

The mix captured that moment of deep connection - with the music, the space, and the people around us. For a long time, it just sat quietly, waiting to be heard again. 

When we play together, it feels intense and super-spiritual because we hold this depth together with our double intention.


q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?

a. I think the best way to enjoy this mix is to simply gather your friends, put the music on, boil some water, pour some tea — and just be. Whether it’s shared conversations in nature or quiet moments of presence together, this mix was made to hold space for that kind of connection. It’s not about listening with intensity — it’s about letting the sound gently accompany a real, grounded moment in life.


q. describe a favourite object in your living room (individually)...

a. Sasha - I really love my table in the living room. There’s just so much happening around it — it feels like a digital workspace, but also a creative sanctuary. I draw there, drink tea, read, write… everything kind of flows through that table. It’s simple, but it holds a lot of energy. It’s just… the table, you know?

Roma - probably my favorite object is a whole wall consisting of memories, important trinkets, bookshelves with favorite material, a place for a vinyl collection and a sound system. This corner has become for me a kind of mirror that can remind you of the important things on the path of this character, through which all life breathes


q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music, together or individually)?

a. Musically, I want to finish a special release for Gasoline Records — it’s a vinyl postcard project that brings together five musicians, five photographers, and two organizations: our label and the Kyiv Biennial. It’s a cross-disciplinary collaboration that merges sound and visual art in a very tactile, analog format.

Alongside that, WiELOROMAN and I are continuing our journey with Practices of Conscious Listening. We’re motivated to keep creating offline events, and we’re also planning to launch a podcast series to deepen the conversation around attentive listening and sound as a meditative practice.

On a more personal level, I’m diving deeper into healing sound — exploring voice, vibration, and the yoga of sound as tools for body-mind connection and inner transformation.

Roma, in turn, works extensively in the field of online education, creating courses for his clients and helping teachers develop transformational programs to support the growth of their students. He is also a "guide". It seems that this is his lifetask, to combine people, ideas, and tracks with each other, so that something divinely beautiful comes out of it.

Living Room n°87 ~ WiELOROMAN & Sasha Ushenko

Lab Rat

Mix by @fefeatkinson curated by @am-agency

A field guide To Getting Lost’ Playlist

1. Félicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu Ledesma / ME / Comme Un Seul Narcisse
2. Alice Coltrane / Jai Rama Chandra / Turiy Sings
3. Delia Derbyshire & Barry Berman / The Dreams  
5. Colour (extract) / Inventions for Radio - Dreams
4. Michèle Mercure / The Intruder / Eye Chant
5. Ectoplasm Girls / Women at Loss / New Feeling Come
6. Joanna Brouk / Diving Deeper, Remembering Love / Hearing Music
7. Sarah Davachi / Wood Green / Barons Court
8. Stine Janvin Motland / Nuisance Body Liquids / In Labour
9. Félicia Atkinson / Valis / Hand in Hand
10. Christina Vantzou / Shadow Sun / N°3
11. Michele Mercure / Proteus and the Marlin / Eye Chant
12. Carla dal Forno / The Garden / The Garden
13. Tara Jane O’Neil / This Morning Glory / Where Shine New Lights
14. Kara-Lis Coverdale / Grafts (extract) / Grafts
15. Body Sculptures / Before She Allows The World to Judge her Face… / The base of All Beauty is the Body
16. La Nuit / Road Snakes / Desert Television
17. Grouper / I’m Clean Now / Paradise Valley

Fourth World Problems

Andrew Pekler