

mandarín - Take A Trip

This mix is a 3-hour journey I created as a kind of emotional and symbolic voyage — something that moves through darkness into light, into fire, and finally into a slow and tender resolution. 
It’s divided into four acts, each rooted in a different archetype, mood, and sound world. The genres shift along the way — from dark ambient and drone, through deep dubstep, experimental 170 DnB and (dub) techno, with touches of industrial and spoken word — but the emotional progression and sudden change of the genre and pace is deliberate and carefully woven.

ACT I - This act is the fall — a confrontation with fear, grief, the subconscious, and the underworld. It's dense and shadowy, drawing from darker ambient, experimental textures, and raw elements.
It’s about our dark shadow, sitting with discomfort, loss, and the unknown — allowing yourself to be undone.

ACT II - The second act is a glimmer — the first light after darkness. A quiet sense of hope, fragility, and openness appears. Sounds become airier, lighter, more spacious. This act is the breath after grief — not joy yet, but the possibility of it.

ACT III - This is the moment of arrival — fierce love, clarity, aliveness. The music becomes warmer, more energetic, rhythmic. Dub techno pulses emerge, fierce halftime grooves, emotionally expressive melodies. This act is about empowerment, connection, and the fire of selfhood.

ACT IV - The final act is a soft landing — the high fades into reflection and wisdom. It’s melancholic, spacious, and wise. The energy slows but doesn't vanish; it lingers like embers. Spoken word weaves through some of this, offering final thoughts, memory, and insight.
It’s the echo of the journey — not an end, but a return.

The mix is meant to be a whole journey — emotional, symbolic, and immersive — and I’d love for it to be felt that way rather than deconstructed by breaking apart the tracklist.



Take A Trip with mandarín

With the summer festival season drifting into memory, it feels like the right moment to linger on one of the most thoughtfully shaped events in recent years. The Mostra Festival unfolded over the Easter weekend across two Barcelona locations, and what set it apart wasn’t just the programming, but the curation - a balance of trust, patience, and precision. The first two days leaned toward the ambient and the experimental, tipping into rhythm as the nights wore on. Yet the real magic of that opening stretch lay in the beatless hours. Friday in particular offered a moment that still reverberates among Mostra regulars and beyond: Robert Henke’s performance of Dust. If there is any place in the world designed for such a work, Mostra provided the perfect frame. For one afternoon, Henke held the crowd in complete attention and reverence, something essential for any artist, but especially for one whose work is as delicate, shifting, and expansive as Dust.

For many of us, Robert Henke, Monolake to longtime listeners, has been a constant presence in the background of our musical lives. His records shaped taste, his performances redefined how electronic music could be experienced live, and his role as co-creator of Ableton changed the very tools we use to make and share sound. Few artists can claim such a dual legacy: architect of both the music and the machinery. Whether in moments of joy or frustration, whether in the studio or on the dancefloor, it’s impossible to imagine modern electronic music without his fingerprints on it. Henke embodies the link between technological innovation and artistic expression, and his influence runs deeper than most of us can trace.

Dust is perhaps the clearest expression of that link. Powered by a custom granular synthesis engine, it reduces sound to particles, field recordings, analog tones, machine hiss, bells, and waves, then disperses them into clouds that evolve in real time. The result is less like a composition and more like a living organism: fragile, unpredictable, always becoming something new. At Mostra, this unfolding took shape in late afternoon, after Patrick Russell’s set had sharpened the air with its own restraint. Henke stepped in with a 360-degree surround system that transformed the floor of Fabra i Coats into a resonant body. The sound was cosmic and liquid, grainy and immense, stretching outward until it seemed to erase the horizon. Every surface in the space shimmered with detail, as if the air itself had been tuned. What made it remarkable was how fragile it all felt. Nothing was forced; every movement seemed to arise on its own, like dust caught in late-afternoon sunlight. Yet the immersion was total. People surrendered, leaning into the space as if trying to hold onto something that could never be held. For that hour, Mostra wasn’t a festival anymore. It was a room of people floating together in a world made entirely of sound, knowing it would never happen in quite the same way again.

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Delayed x Mostra: Robert Henke presents Dust

Parisian based DJ & producer Bambi is returning to The Lot radio for an hour of dub tech psychedelia.  

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Bambi @ The Lot Radio 09-13-2025

We’re live from Berlin studio: David Fogarty is here for the next hour!

David Fogarty [17.09.25]

Sundays are for…

All of us. As each year passes, I appreciate more and more the mental haven that has developed. A space to relax, a platform to create. Focusing on moods and sounds that we listen to recover and unwind. Deeply personal, and a sonic window into the soul, the variety of guest mixes, and emotions covers the spectrum. I am so humbled to be able to release each and every entry.

This September marks 6 years of Sundays. The musical journey continues, and evolves, so too does the visual. Simple, and abstract. Bridging the digital and analog realms, the art continues to change and match energy. A sine wave in all its glory, nothing less, nothing more. A comfort in its identity, a comfort in its simplicity.

Enjoy the mix, this is my yearly ‘moment’ if you will, to let the hair down, and indulge.

Much love and admiration,

mixed and compiled with love by hue | @huedj
september 2025

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Sundays are for... [Sep/25]

Parc de Forets, 06h00. Playing towards sunrise.
Thanks Lefto for the invitation <3

No Radio, No Lefto w/ Ridoe @ Kiosk Radio 28.09.2025

Haruka x Craig Gonzalez opened the Dance Room at I.T. presents The Bunker, May 26, 2025, Day 3 of Return to the Source, at Tangent, Detroit.

Craig Gonzalez – @craig-gonzalez:

It's one thing to hop on the decks with someone during peak time at a party in a packed room like the first time Haruka and I played together in NYC but it's another to open a party during the last leg of RTTS weekend. So we started talking about the set a couple of months beforehand, but nothing really prepares you until you're in the middle of RTTS weekend itself. We were texting and chatting about the setup and direction throughout the weekend and eventually landed on keeping things a little funky and fun.  Playing with someone with a similar approach to DJing and also range really made the set feel so effortless for me and I feel that cohesion and the fun we had translated quite well to those that were in attendance.


Haruka – @haruka_ptc:

2023, Good Room (Brooklyn)
We were both booked to play a Bunker party that night and with an hour left before our room was about to shut down, I asked Craig to jump on for an unplanned B2B.  Craig had already set the room up with a deep, super-diverse selection and then vibe in our room was so good, I will never forgot it. So when IT asked us to do it again we got hyped.

RTTS, Detroit
Our slot opened the last day of the three-day marathon, and other parties were running in the daytime too, so it felt like one long 72-hour session. Craig also played Movement. It was my first time in Detroit, so I wandered around, popped into a bunch of events, but spent every night back at Tangent Gallery with Craig—talking, listening to other artists, and getting a real feel for the room. That helped us lock in the vibe and refine the ideas we’d been tossing around for months.

The set
Two words kept coming up: funky and fun (maybe sexy too). I played only a few recent tracks but most were older finds with some electro slipped in naturally. In hindsight the whole thing was a back-and-forth between electro and deep, psychedelic techno, with extra flavours layered on top.




IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s14e06: Haruka x Craig Gonzalez

Tribal rhythms, heavy basslines and mystical atmospheres that activate your inner self. 
Co-founder of Ouroboros festival and audiovisual EWO collective, Verveine explores music without boundaries, blending ethereal ambient soundscapes with tribal percussions and dub-heavy basslines.

Verveine @ Kiosk Radio 05.10.2025

HQ 134: DJ MARIA -04 October 2025

Continuum: a coherent whole characterised as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees.

The setting is Mostra festival, a special gathering in Barcelona that needs no presentation for the lovers of experimental sounds, ambient explorations and avant-garde dancefloor beats. A dark room inside the Fabra i Coats industry complex -now turned a cultural space- is slowly filling up with devote festival-goers. Mostra attracts a crowd of curious listeners and seasoned music enthusiasts, and feels like a bit of a pilgrimage for fans of those deeper and more adventurous sounds. On Thursday during the early hours, there is a sense of reunion, a loving community that finally gets together again to see familiar faces, and a very welcoming bunch greeting the first time comers. 

And Maribel Tafur was soundtracking this magical moment. She stepped up to play the first notes of the festival and start colouring the blank sonic canvas of this Mostra weekend. The Peruvian composer, based in Barcelona, borrows from nature -particularly from the Andes and her family archive- using found sounds and other field recordings, and weaves them with selections of warm pads and ambiences. 

The result couldn’t be more fitting: Maribel welcomed us to Mostra with a soundtrack that channeled the feeling of that warm hug and that invitation to come in and sit down, because we are home. The sounds of water creeks, rustling leaves of fire crackling mixed with comforting soundbeds made for a perfect first stroke for this year’s Mostra painting. 

And we couldn’t be more honoured to share the recording with you today. All the friends that follow this channel know how special Mostra is for us. 

Thank you Maribel and Mostra. 

Artwork by Tony Fibla. 

The Continuum: Maribel Tafur - Mostra 2025

Van Anh is a charismatic, Amsterdam based DJ. 
Her signature style goes from ambient to deep and mesmerizing techno. 
The quality of mixing skills in combination with her record choice is probably one of the main reasons she receives a lot of support in the electronic music scene. 

Her residences at high profiled promoters such as The Hague based The Crave, the Rotterdam based Transportbedrijf (continuation of Perron) confirm this. Also in the rest of Europe Van Anh's gigs draw on. 
She shared the stage with lots of heavyweights like Jeff Mills, Surgeon and Lucy.  

Van Anh also hosts her own events in Rotterdam called Isotoop. 
It’s a concept that showcases the sound that she stands for. 
An equal focus on experimental/ ambient and uplifting atmospheric techno altogether with visual arts to bring an unique experience. 
At Isotoop she invited: Kangding Ray, Voiski, Shxcxchcxsh, Abdulla Rashim, Sigha,Svreca, Korridor amongst many others.

Bookings: Joris@district25.nl

https://www.facebook.com/Official.Van.Anh/?fref=ts

https://soundcloud.com/vananh

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Phonons Podcast 038 - Van Anh

Phonons is a non-profit organization supporting electronic musicians and selectors. It is based in Marseille - France and has strong connections in Europe , Asia and in the USA. It was founded in 2011 at the initiative of Nahim Bendjilali, Philippe Gray-Lopez and Vincent Telandro.

Phonons supports sound artists by providing expression spaces: we organize parties and showcases :: we promote the artists' work through our podcast and events. We mainly focus on electronic music.