Ambient

Bristol-based musician Surgeons Girl's airy sound is based on analog synths, vocals and piano sounds. For her dreamy sets, the musician draws inspiration from acts like Suzanne Ciani, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and club avant-gardist Laurel Halo. The results are progressive-driving, yet spherical-harmonic tracks.

This contribution was first aired on Friday, March 5th through Austrian national radio station FM4 in the program series "La Boum Deluxe"

Tracklist:
Surgeons Girl - The Rush Divide
Surgeons Girl - Improvisation No. 1
Surgeons Girl - Clouded Temper Small Steps 
Surgeons Girl - Dark moss Night Terror
Surgeons Girl - Sympathetic cycle 
Surgeons Girl - Intimate Advance 
Surgeons Girl - Vauxhall Tycoon
Surgeons Girl - Reflections in Acid 
Surgeons Girl - Last Wave 
Surgeons Girl - Elk Cloner

Lockdown Grooves is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. In Cooperation with FM4.

Lockdown Grooves: Surgeons Girl live

Boiler Room x St John's Sessions w/ Roly Porter, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Dupree.

Broadcasted on 20th February 2014.

Tracklist and video at http://boilerroom.tv

Roly Porter live in the Boiler Room x St John's Sessions

Concept:  Create a narrow gauge train engine sound as it is coming to and passing through a crossing using a Bastl Kastle 1.5 Mini Modular Synthesizer. The work is almost an experimental techno piece but I'll settle with calling it 'electronic'. After a bit of research on what these trains sound like the one sound that is quite accurate is the bell sound. The other running engine sounds are close enough too. 

Mastered on September 7, 2025 using Bandlab Mastering:  Mastering Preset is Universal, Intensity is 50%, Input Gain is -3.8 dB. Effects changed prior to mastering. 

Instrument:  Baslt Kastle 1.5 Mini Modular Synthesizer. 

Signal Path:  Kastle 1.5 Audio-out to Rucci 4-chnl Passive Mixer out to USB Audio Adapter mic/line-in to Chromebook to Bandlab. 

Kastle 1.5 Patches
Waveshape to Stepping

Bandlab Effects: 
* 120bpm, 4.4 Timing
* Guitar Input
* Feedback Killer is 2.2
* EQ3-M (3-band EQ with Mid Sweep) (Low is +2.8 dB, Mid is +6.5 dB, High is +1.6 dB, Mid Sweep is 1776 Hz)
* Gain Automation (fade in at start and fade out at the ending)
* Dimension B Chorus (Preset is 01)
* Multi-Filter (Frequency is 974 Hz, Resonance is 5.8, Gain is +2.7 dB, Filter is Peaking)
* Univerb (Mix is 29%, Type is Innovation Hall)
* Vintage Limiter (Gain is +1.38, Attack is 4.39, Release is 5.74, Knee is =7.49, Enhance is =0.98, Volume is -0.85)

File Format: WAV, 16-bit 44.1kHz

Photo "A Train is Traveling on a Railroad Track" by M. Winkelteir. Pexels License. 

"Narrow Gauge Railroad Crossing" is copyright by jtechno electronic music. Email for permission to use.

Narrow Gauge Train Crossing

requiem of a

Elena Colombi, born in Italy and based in London, is a respected DJ and radio host at NTS Radio. Where she's diving into the weird, the lost, the fresh and the more advanturous sounds.

IFM # 27 - Elena Colombi - Knekelhuis - Intergalactic FM

Campfire Stories 28 (Transitions) by @GrandRiver

~ About The Story ~

When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes,
And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind
Like agèd warriors westward, tragic, thinned
Of half their tribe, and over the flattened rushes,
Stripped of its secret, open, stark and bleak,
Blackens afar the half-forgotten creek--
Then leans on me the weight of the year, and crushes
My heart. I know that Beauty must ail and die,
And will be born again--but ah, to see
Beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky!

~ Chapters ~

01. Don't Dolby - Cosmokoz - [Gefriem]
02. Locust - More Like Prayer Than Science - [Editions Mego]
03. TV Victor - 100609 -  [Non Standard Productions]
04. Donato Dozzy & Nuel - Aqua 5 - [Spectrum Spools]
05. Ancestral Voices - Eiyani - [Horo]
06. Serena Butler - When I'll Die I'll Go To Heaven Because I Served My Time In Hell [Konstrukt]
07. 33.10.3402 - O Tom Potom S.T. - [L.I.E.S.]
08. Arca - Extent - [Mute]
09. Leo Anibaldi - Evocation (Ooze Drown Mix) - [Cannibald Records]
10. Fjäder - Vintergatan - [Shaded Explorations]
11. Porter Ricks - Polytoxic 2 - [Force Inc. Music Works]
12. Backwords - Tanzania - [OOH-sounds]
13. Brain Machine - Light Space - [Emotional Response]
14. Earten Sea - Our Bloods - [Silent Season]
15. Farceb - Korg MS-20 Mini - [One Instrument]
16. Klara Lewis - Twist - [Editions Mego]
17. Aleksi Perala - UK74R1510119 - [AP Musik]
18. Futuro Antico - Track 1 - [Black Sweat Records]
19. Yotam Avni - Marva - [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
20. Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Waltz (A Lonely Crowd) - [Faitiche]
21. Neel - Travelling On Kepler Dorsum - [Spectrum Spools]
22. Melanie Velarde - Parcel - [Rvng Intl.]
23. Deru - Black Beach (Tape Version) - [Frieds Of Friends]
24. Yair Elazar Glotman - Lamant (Coda) - [Subtext] 

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

- - -

www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 28 (Transitions) by Grand River

@syberkid 

~ Tracklist ~

tarotplane - Benares
Chris Watson - The Drinking Boy
William A Hutson - 2018-08-23 Polyphonic Harmonitron
Robert Rich - Touch-Release 
The Shamen - Out In The Styx
Ligovskoï	 - Behaïm
DJ Rubio - Western Medicine
Cmetric - VOID/Comm
Commodity Place - Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources 
Pariah - Pith 
The Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere - Corona
Rapoon - Lotus	
Move D & Namlook - Travelling the Silk Route IV	
Cabaret Voltaire - Other World
Wanderwelle - The Seed Of The Areoi
Ness - Chronoscope
Sync24 - Replicant
Monolake	 - Mass Transit Railway
Nuel - Untitled	
Mani Festo - Memories	
Earth - The Dry Lake
Ancestral Voices - Hieratic
Teleplasmiste - Astōdaan	
Intex Systems - Thin Air
Sven Väth - Drifting Like Whales In The Darkness
Kryptic Minds - Something To Nothing
Biosphere - En-trance		
Answer Code Request - Orarum
Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles

~~

The next Deep Mind Music mix is a recording of the set I played in Croatia as part of Austrian collective @femdex’s 8 hour showcase at Lighthouse Festival on the 2nd of June 2019. Thanks to femdex for the invite 💓

I was playing on the Sunday evening, in one of the last sets of the 5 day festival. The ambient floor was set up in a clearing of the forest next to the sea. I’d always prefer to listen to ambient and drone outside, so I’m super grateful to have had the opportunity to play this music in such an idyllic setting. Looking up to see birds drifting over trees, with leaves rustling in the wind was pretty magical.

I feel like this set operates on a deeper and more cerebral plane than my other DMM mixes, designed for tired festival goers to zone out on the cushions under the trees, drifting in and out of consciousness.

I took this photo watching the sunset over the sea after my set.

Also, the first track of this set by @tarot-plane is going to be part of a forthcoming project I’m currently working on, so keep an eye out for news about that in the near future 👁

~~

~ Downloads enabled ~

Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.8

Forest Drive West - They Live Ep

Forest Drive West is gifting Midgar with 4 dub cuts infused with warm, earthy tones and cosmic delightfulness.

Mastered by Mike Grinser at D&M Berlin
Release Date : 26 June

Artist : https://soundcloud.com/forest-drive-west
https://www.facebook.com/ForestDriveWest/

Preorder

MDG017 Forest Drive West - They Live Ep [snippets]

Vyvyan is an elusive character, a DJ and producer who prefers to operate under the radar. At the end of last year he showcased his tastes and influences in a mix or Bicep's Feel My Bicep mix series which gave listeners a glimpse into both his record bag and his own productions. Having delivered remixes for Psychemagik and Eclectic, last week saw the release of his new EP Coat Bra Pants on Me Me Me which includes remixes from Not An Animal's Chris Stoker and Robert Johnson resident Gerd Janson.

We invited him to deliver this week's Monday Is OK mix which flows through experimental, beatless rhythms; the music that soundtracks his home listening sessions...

Vyvyan: The 'Monday Is Ok' Mix

@zuurb

Style: Ambient, Piano
Lenght: 01:03:53
Quality: 320 kBit/s

Tracklist:
Tambour - Orion (Mythologies)
Jameson Nathan Jones, Elskavon - Still as Troubled Waters
Helios - Dreams
Anna B May - If I Had Wings
Levi Patel - Her angled beauty
Jacob David - Dvale
Jim Perkins - Enfolding
För Alltid - Vindstilla
Rhian Sheehan - Elegy For The Past (We Are All Astronauts Remix)
Slow Meadow - Stellarum Fixarum
Daigo Hanada - Suiu
Essáy - Colours of Liz
Snorri Hallgrímsson - Imperial
Tambour - Ursa Minor (Caroline's Theme)

Alle der diesjährigen Kalendermixe finden sich hier: https://www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de/blogg/category/adventskalender/adventskalender-2019/

Das KFMW Adventskalender 2019

2019 #08: Zuurb - Helike

Our Blitzcast series continuous with Vincent Neumann, who shows up with a beautiful Ambient mix. The Leipzig based Distillery resident unveils two hours of intimate soundscapes, contemplative-uplifting vibrations, hazy drone-spheres, gentle rhythm accents and a consistently timeless mood. This smoothly mixed selection allows to take a deep breath, to drift away and to gain creativity. Thank you Vincent, this is essential!

Die neunte Ausgabe unserer Blitzcast-Serie kommt von Vincent Neumann, der diese in Form einer wunderbaren Ambient-Mélange präsentiert. Im Rahmen der zwei Stunden lässt der Leipziger Distillery-Resident intime Soundscapes, nachdenklich-beflügelnde Vibrations, verschwommen-definierte Drone-Sphären und behutsame Rhythmus-Akzente zu einem durchweg zeitlosen Stimmungspool verschmelzen. Eine smooth gemischte Selektion, die zum Durchatmen und abdriften anregt, sowie die Synapsen in Schwingung versetzt. Danke für diesen nachhaltig-essentiellen Ausflug, lieber Vincent!

Blitzcast 009 — Vincent Neumann

Welcome to the 14th instalment of the Gated Podcast mix series - description & tracklist below.

In these frankly bizarre times we know how much good entertainment is valuable to you and so we have here a superb mix from Norwegian maestro, Liðvarð. https://soundcloud.com/vlarz

Liðvarð has produced and DJed under several aliases including his VLR moniker, under which he created some outstanding mixes for the CPU and Icasea labels. 

It's our honour to be putting out his tracks on GTD007 alongside Artificial Horizons boss Krokakai on a new split EP, which can be ordered from our Bandcamp, Bleep and beyond, released on April 10th.

We're proud to have him here for the podcast, bringing a whole host of his own unreleased tracks and exclusives to whip them up into a delicious anti-viral mix.

To keep the germs at bay, we have yet more exclusives of up-and-coming or existing music on Gated. 

Dig in!

Liðvarð Mix Tracklist

1. Duelling REs
2. Liðvarð District (Full length)
3. Jensen Interceptor - Model2029 (VLR Remix)
4. Bonus track
5. Untitled
6. RZ Break
7. Druminatrix
8. The North Wave (early take)
9. Space Bass
10. Bazalt - Koetago (Liðversion)
11. Voodoo Drums
12. Dubby Six
13. NPN
14. Urð, Verðandi & Skuld (alt)

Gated's Anti-bacterial Corner

15. Liðvarð - Kosmosis
16. Akim Drml - Procratination Assume
17. Sound Synthesis - MH System
18. Sol Seppy - Part Of
19. (Gated forthcoming)
20. (Gated forthcoming)

Bandcamp Linkage

Sol Seppy - I.A.A.Y.A Part One https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/i-a-a-y-a-part-one

Joel Brittain - States of Mind https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/states-of-mind

The Jaffa Kid - Soft Celebration https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/soft-celebration

user77099097 - Up At Lenrock https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/up-at-lenrock

Akim Drml - Analog Resolution https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/analog-resolution

Sound Synthesis - Xjenza Eletronika https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/xjenza-eletronika-ep

Simial - Personal Music 0.75 https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/personal-music-075

Gated Podcast 14 // Liðvarð // April 2020

An exclusive mix for Mysteries of the Deep's weekend-long broadcast on 9128.live across April 17–19, 2020.

Calum Gunn - Monocosm
Jen Kutler - Caroline Partamian
Conjoint - Earprint Nr2
Yves De Mey - Ostia
Black Merlin - Layang-Layang
Mike Weis - Number 7
Nik Pascal - Methedrine
Emily Berregaard - Dreamless Sleep (LXV)
Pessimist & Karim Maas - B1
Raime - Passed Over Trail
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Spirit Companion Sick-Bed
Demdike Stare - Of Decay & Shadows
Wolfgang Voigt - Diesel
51717 - Twisted Pair
Nuel - The Rest is Noise
Carter Tutti - Feral Vapours
Mint - Logopedie

Most of these tracks are available on Bandcamp, and you can purchase them at https://buymusic.club/list/vicki-siolos-mysteries-9128-takeover

Photo taken outside of 50 Beck Road in Hackney, near the Death Factory, where Throbbing Gristle bolted a psychic cross to their front door and made history.

Mysteries of the Deep 9128.live Takeover | Stay Inside

As if by magic it's Monday. Again. How did we get here you ask? We don't have the answers but American composer and multi-instrumentalist Rafael Anton Irisarri has the perfect soundtrack to curb those inevitable beginning-of-the-week feels. 

Known for his immersive ambient productions, Irisarri has released several albums over the years with labels like Immune, A Strangely Isolated Place, Geographic North, Umor Rex and Room40, the latter two being imprints that he's returned to time and time again. Taking the form of continual compositions, his long players demonstrate his finesse at working with different techniques and textures, adding both classical and contemporary influences into the mix.

By day he works as a mastering engineer at his own Black Knoll Studio in New York, where he has prepared releases for the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Grouper and David August, as well as working regularly with labels like Ghostly International and RVNG Intl. 

Following the release of his new album Peripeteia on Dais Records in May, he blessed us with some recent soothing favourites, most of which he mastered at Black Knoll himself.

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Rafael Anton Irisarri: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

https://soundcloud.com/mort-moi

https://www.retreatradio.net/mort-moi

MORT-MOI #15 (01/12/20)

https://soundcloud.com/schwach2 & https://soundcloud.com/marijanaanajiram

https://www.retreatradio.net/deflections

Deflections #11 w/ Frank D`Arpino & Marijana Croon (26/02/21)

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Roly Porter live in the Boiler Room x St John's Sessions

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