Welcome to another edition of our codecast x series.

For this one we are really proud to introduce CTAFAD, an established name in the deep techno and ambient scene from China and currently based in Japan, who has been in the game for a long time.

He is also the label head behind the great @shanshui.

In this ride, drifting atmospheres guide our minds through an endless ocean of emotions. Analog & organic percussions combined guide our body through an almost cathartic process. 
Shifting pads & hypnotic elements guide our compositional particles towards inner light.

We hope you enjoy this relentless session, by https://soundcloud.com/ctafad.

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CODECAST X - CTAFAD - Drifting Particles

• Crescent Textures #98 • Nils Edte

Nils Edte is an artist based in Stuttgart. Driven by his passion for music, he has evolved in the hypnotic ambient techno scene. His deep, organic and atmospherical sound identity was inspired by the classic genres and nature ambience and textures. As a huge supporter of the local culture scene, he also engages in different kinds of artistic creations and especially the connections between the different Arts.
Together with Laima Adelaide and Tama he is part of the Stuttgart based label Predawn Records.

▫️ https://soundcloud.com/edte-1
▫️ www.facebook.com/edte.nils
▫️ www.instagram.com/nils_edte/
▫️ www.linktr.ee/crescent.london

Tracklist:
Laima Adelaide - Undercurrent [Predawn] 
Vâyu -Driven By Remorse [Huinali] 
Simone Bauer - Aurea [Accent Records]
Saphileaum - Forest Deity (Daniel[i] Revisit) [The Traveller]
Alume - A´unkwata [Norite]
Alume - Twu'a Ta [Norite]
Daniel[i] & Launaea - Shamisen [Norite]
Valentino Mora - Hydrosphere [IDO]
Zemög - Danza Transcendental (Feral Reconstruction) [Guayana]
Luigi Tozzi - Flash Mechanisch [nonseries] 
Alpi - Vortice [Danza Nativa] 
Qeel - Lmaall [Oslated]
Forest on Stasys - Latria [From a lost place]
Dycide -  Phy [DRLD Records]
Forest on Stasys - Neon Portal [Danza Nativa]
Kyntral - Tribal Gathering (Josef Gaard Rework) [Danza Nativa]
Bas Dobbelaer & Vand - Reflect [SoHaso]
Simone Bauer – Nereide [Sure Thing]

• Crescent Textures #98 • Nils Edte

Savage Session welcomes Sun Dawei AKA @CTAFAD

Artist Support: https://linktr.ee/ctafad

Bio:
(Chinese literal translation)
Electronic musician, guitarist, Sun Dawei is a very active Chinese musician.
He started learning to play guitar at the age of fourteen and then set up a punk band, which became the catalyst for him to open the music gate.Settled in Beijing in 1999, then began the research and creation, electronic music and punk band legend in China "underground baby" as the band music arranger and guitarist, at the same time began to dabble in Fashion Show, movies, drama and jingles.For the first time in 2003 in China's famous record company in the name Of Sulumi "modern sky" albums "Air Inhibition Of Water", this is his first formal experimental electronic music show, the original technique to build a new music, present a different way to express the heart.

In the same period, he also created the personal music label "Shanshui Records", and published dozens of electronic music Records in 10 years.Together with many domestic and foreign electronic musicians, the independence and music parallelism, promote the Chinese electronic music revolution.

In the next few years, I began to explore the Chiptune style.Using Game Boy and
Nanoloop music software, it is known as "China's 8bit first person" and its music is
deeply popular.In 2008, he was invited to the "Blip Festival", the world's largest
electronic music Festival in New York.In the meantime, the music of this period is more mature and shows the spirit of Chiptune music. After that, people from all circles are attracted to it.The publication of "The Heaven" has made his personal music career leap.He has made a series of Remix works, including the Brain Failure, New Pants, The Gar, EeL, Jeans Team, Snoop Lion, Kid606 and Zaliva-d. In all Remix works, he has his own unique style.

In 2013, Shanshui Records was reorganized, based on Ambient music and the minimalist Techno style. Integrated with rock attitude, world view and modern consciousness, the melody is transformed into a melody, abstracting consciousness and hiding the pursuit. He then moved to Japan and released his new album "Unconsciousness" by VICE CHINA in 2015.Bring new sound concepts and melodies -- more and more steady rhythm and dark line of melody line, always around the rock core stealthily, music melody avoids joy and sorrow. Unbiased, moving in time. Around the album tour held in several cities in China, he put his signature style to the new dimension of performance and deep inside the body sound in the dark with the light, guide you to return to the real world.

After several metamorphoses, to explore different Spaces, he announced his new project - CTAFAD. In music, you can hear "there's not a lot of modified original timbre, like atmospheric pressure, ambitious ultrasound experiments. Finally, an epic core sound field is carefully polished.The rhythm and the bass line from the beginning is proficient in the interaction, gradually unfolded and never went out.

Savage Sessions | 52 | CTAFAD [China]

Platform Minimal presents @Tsott.

The Abyss stares back at you.
What needs to happen before a new world unfolds is a question that lurks within many of us. What will it look like, and will we be here to witness it?
One thing is sure; we need it.
For aeons, humanity has been plagued with greed and hate - systems have become entrenched with these values at their very core, thus bringing humanity to its knees. 
There is still hope, but it is up to us as collectives and individuals to emerge from this bondage. Through arts, we can make an ever-lasting impact and avoid the Abyss looking back at us.

Artist's statement/
Tsott is a deep techno project from Tbilisi, Georgia, that can be defined as conceptual storytelling with music that is open to listeners' interpretation—exploring a combination of sounds that can be deep, darker grooves alongside warm and delightful sounds and striving to create a balance between those harmonics. It drives into the deep horizon of emotions and tries to lift inner feelings. His music has been released on labels like Liminal spaces, Kvlto records, and Indefinite pitch.

Socials/
instagram.com/tsott_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Soundcloud.com/tsott
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083003238627

Artwork/ @_Inzajeano

Tsott

Into The Abyss #032 | Sepian

Santiago Ochoa es un artista que pertenece a la segunda generación de DJs y productores de Medellín, conocido actualmente como Sepian, quien durante su evolución como selector se ha caracterizado por un sonido marcado y definido que se inspira en paisajes sonoros ambientales y ritmos hipnóticos, obteniendo siempre una búsqueda pura y profunda de la música sin dejar de lado melodías y ritmos enfocados al club. Enfrentarse a un set de Sepian, es abrirse a un estado de conciencia que responde a la experiencia inmediata de abrirse ante una apreciación de vigilia y de atención orientada al mundo en relación con la realidad de la vida cotidiana y sus procesos ordinarios, haciendo énfasis siempre en sonidos profundos que permitan alcanzar su búsqueda y versatilidad sonora.
Desde 2018, Sepian ha continuado su camino como DJ y productor, buscando cada vez más seguir trabajando en un sonido más maduro y honesto donde los ritmos y texturas del deep techno, los paisajes sonoros ambientales, beats hipnóticos y vanguardistas, le permitieron reflejar sus habilidades e ideas en sellos colombianos como Granulart Spectrum, Rouge y From a Lost Place, que muestran un enfoque claro permitiéndole a la vez participar en el Freedom Festival 2020 y 2022, compartiendo recorriendo la principales ciudades de Colombia.

Tracklist :
1. Carbon Based Lifeforms - 6EQUJ5 
2. Klara - Devotion to light (circular limited)
3. Klara - The desert of dreams (circular limited)
4. Biome - mystery (130 edit) (Biome) 
5. Martinou - Suede (from a lost place) 
6  Skymn - Okuyi (Interpreted by Korridor) (Hypnus) 
7. Ivano Tetelepta & Jocelyn Abell - Bury The Chains (ESHU Records)
8. Toffes Värld - Skogstroll (Navigare Audio)
9. Arkajo - Paradigm (from a lost place)
10. Sepian - Unreleased 
11. a n j e - Circling (kvlto records)
12. Ariet - Life Breath (kvlto records)
13. Feral - Void (non series)
14. Ploy - Number 24 (ploy uk)
15. Aril Brikha - Sensual Disguise (aril brikha)

https://soundcloud.com/sepian

Into The Abyss #032 | Sepian

Platform Minimal presents Vector Field. (@the_soulcatcher)

There is no beginning, and there is no end; we exist only in frequencies. We were merging from one strand to another almost seamlessly without notice. Yet there is so much we're aware of. There is so much we think we're in control of, and then there is the vast nothingness like a ship caught in the middle of a violent storm; we are but a speckle seen in time.
It's what we do that matters and how we do it. So do good on this fragile journey and do your best to navigate the in-between frequencies of time.

Bio/
sound technician/composer/record collector. An activist in the electronic music landscape since the late 90s.

Socials/
https://linktr.ee/vectorfieldmusic

Artwork/ @_inzajeano

Vector Field

CELLAR DOOR // PODCAST #93
https://soundcloud.com/gianlucameloni-laertes

For this week, Cellar Door invites https://soundcloud.com/gianlucameloni-laertes who brings heaps of uncompromising metallic  tribal sounds and heavy beats. Acid and hardgroove influenced journey that, as the artist himself suggests, mirrors the crazy times we have recently found ourselves in. 


ARTISTS BIO: 
Gianluca Meloni, born in Rome , made his musical path trough different styles; has been studying Piano at “Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Roma” and played in various underground bands; his big passion about music starts back when he after being listening to Tangerine Dreams first album decides to buy his first synth: a Korg MS-10.
He was a pioneer in the 90′s and was able to insert electronic seeds into an underground scene mainly ruled by Gianluca Meloni A.K.A. LAERTES
progressive rock; his most important contribution in that period was to the album “Strani Sogni” of the band SIG V, CNI Music -Italy.
His debut single “Perchè Non Parli” was a huge successs in Italy and was much more than often played in italians radio’s shows;

Not that later he mets up with Dino Sabatini, still “just” a guitarist, after a studio session and a very solid friendship, based on their common passion for music, starts to grow between them; that amazing duo soon became the “Modern Heads” project, leading both of them to play in some of the most prestigious clubs around the globe as Panorama Bar in Berlin, Brancaleone in Rome and Macumba, Madrid, AIR Tokyo, FUSE in Bruxelles, just to list few.
Some years later Gianluca together with Carlo Alfano became the founder of the project “notfromearth“, expanding his artistic view into a very well crafted new Audio & Video concept, revealing soon his high level of professionally and experience; his first e.p. on Prologue label, “Origin e.p.”, is indeed a big proof of that !.
In 2016 Start new Solo project LAERTES his new solo project, Laertes, inspired by the research of electronic music through the modular synthesis and passion for live improvisation, in which reason in his live set will always find vintage analog instruments, and modern technology.
Label :
OUTIS-MUSIC - CONCRETE RECORDS - MENTAL MODERN - ATTIC - END OF PERCEPTION -LYKOS RECORDS-

TRACKLIST 
COMING SOON

ARTISTS SOCIALS: 
FB: https://www.facebook.com/g.m.laertes
SC: https://soundcloud.com/gianlucameloni-laertes
IG: https://www.instagram.com/gianlucameloni_laertes/

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ARTWORK: 
MAREK BARTUNEK & A.I
www.instagram.com/bartunek_/
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#93-LAERTES

Deep x Heights 30 - Infinity (@inf001)

Bio:
Saša Delimar aka Infinity  is a Croatian born, Berlin based music producer and DJ with over 13 years of experience in dj-ing, carving his name steadily as a music producer since 2017, first through releases in a domain of the deep techno and more recently taking the turn into the sphere of experimental techno holding on to the nuances of deep drone textures arranged with accentuated percussions. To date, he has been released on labels like IO, Illegal Alien records, Lowless, Lett record and Oslated. Saša’s chief preoccupation in music production is finding the balance between a track for home listening and playing in the club, equally embracing the experimentation of texture and composition and the rhythmical intensity of the club track. In the short time since he lives in Berlin, Saša has already performed in renowned Berlin clubs like Suicide Circus, Griessmühle, Fiese Remise and recently //: about blank, taking up residency at Art Bei Ton.

ENJOY!
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Tracklist:
Modvs - pl1 (Antonio Vazquez remix)
Claudio PRC - Ter (Svreca Remix)
Laima Adelaide - 53B
R2p - Recursive (Svreca Remix)
Ryogo Yamamori - Plumeria
Reign. - Abstinence From Sensual
Akob - Anthropocene - Phase of Denial (Dycide Remix)
DJ Nobu - Wwww
Neel - Ginga
Nastia Reigel - Melting Sand
Psyk - Panic Attack
Atom TM - Selbst
Perc & Aja Ireland - Spit
dc11 - Always Wrong
Blawan - Blika
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Follow Infinity:
SC: @inf001
IG: @sasa_delimar_infinity/
FB: @infinitysasadelimar
Bandcamp: https://infinityhr.bandcamp.com/releases
Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/dj/infinity-hr
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THANKS FOR LISTENING AND FOR ALL SUPPORT AND LOVE! / Anna DxH ❤️