Since 2016, One Instrument has been consistently releasing annual compilations featuring compositions created by various artists. "Year 2023" marks the 8th installment in this series. This yearly celebration provides an opportunity to reflect on the label's concept and its origins.

In 2016, Aimée Portioli, known as Grand River, initiated One Instrument as a record label dedicated to showcasing sound experiments from diverse artists. The unique twist was that each artist was challenged and constrained to produce their compositions using just a single instrument of their choice.

Aimée Portioli explains that One Instrument began as a personal experiment. She had been working with a Korg MS-20 (the 1978 version) borrowed from a friend for an extended period. During this time, she realized that she frequently switched between various instruments while composing. It was then that she made the decision to commit to a single instrument for an entire composition, selecting the MS-20 for this purpose. This deliberate limitation proved to be incredibly beneficial, as it forced musicians to place constraints on their composition process. Simultaneously, it led to a deeper exploration of the chosen instruments, revealing that they deserved more time and patience for study and experimentation.

In addition to the annual compilations, One Instrument has released a total of 16 physical and digital albums. Among these releases are works by notable artists such as Donato Dozzy, Felicity Mangan, Rezo Glonti, Daniele Di Gregorio, Bandhagens Musikförening, Darwin Grosse, Neel, and many others.
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Mastered by Luca Sammartin
Original artwork by Contronatura
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ONEINST-Y23

Demetrio Cecchitelli - Ibanez GIO

[C20H25N3O]::150µg

This live has be recorded at @macadamnantes for the release of the new VA from Face Æ collectiv. This is a special extended set I made for the occasion.

Drawbridge Extended Live @ Macadam - 10.07.2025

Around Spring 2024, after some years of playing trance, I came to realize that many of my favourite artists have a habit of releasing ambient productions from time to time. So I started collecting such works and putting them together in mixes. The idea was to gather all the emotional facets and colourful soundscapes of trance, but without the usual percussion. A somewhat experimental side quest at first, this soon accounted for at least half of my gigs and mixes. The more ambient sets I played, the more I understood and appreciated how ambient floors allow for different connections to music and to people. In August 2025, I got the chance to play an extended three-hour ambient set at Schwing & Stampf Festival in Switzerland, surrounded by beautiful mountainous nature. The set I played was the result of more than a year of searching for ambient works by trance producers. Almost all the tracks selected originated from the trance world in one way or another. Since I liked the idea of having a single summary of this ambient trance quest, in addition to separate shorter mixes along the way, I decided to reproduce the set as played on 29 August 2025. Here it is.

Artwork by my brother: Jan Reimann / Studio Fuser (https://studio-fuser.ch)
Photo source: ETH Zürich Photo Archive, Albert Krebs, Cichorium intybus

TRACKLIST:
AWHM – Kaveneys Rd
Repulsive Force – Until When
Alpha Tracks – August/01
Omformer – Live At Munch Museum
DINA – Cadre Part II
Mikkel Rev – Leave (Outro)
nthng – Some Clouds Are Destined To Break
Alpha Tracks – L'Amore Innocente
Courtesy – Night Journeys IIII
Courtesy – Night Journeys I
Europa – Plain Fields
Omformer – Eclipse (Memoir Version)
Tristan – Lost Voyage
HLLW – Metamorphosis
Launaea – Del Mar
Nthr1 – The Long Goodbye (Unspoken)
szoliver – Eredet
Courtesy – AW23
Nthr1 – Belonging To The Night (Unspoken)
Alan Backdrop – Dying Certainty
Alpha Tracks – May/2025
nthng – Encounters At The End Of The World
Eyerate – Fusing My Kneecaps To My Forehead
Mikkel Rev – Evolution Blue
Owl – Lavender Sky
Schacke – The End Of Ecstacy
nthng – Unfinished
Europa – V
Above & Beyond – Tri-State
Patrick Tomala – Sun Energy
Mikkel Rev – Dissolve To Evolve
nthng – Shine
Omformer – Spheroid
HLLW – Norwegian Hood
Alpha Tracks – La Donna Del Lago
Rune Bagge – C27
DINA – I Dream Of You
Mikkel Rev – Nothing So Hidden
Komet99 – Voyager ('Lost On A Beach' Mix)

Three Hours of Ambient from the Trance World

A stunning recording from Liquidtime at Kwia by the inimitable Cousin @secondcousins
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𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 #16 ft Cousin: Babbling Brook @refugeworldwide (LIVE from Kwia)

Paquita Gordon at Le Soleil Rouge, Horst Arts & Music 2025

Identified Patient & Mia Koden at The Nest - Dekmantel Festival 2025

DJ MARIA. at Dekmantel Selectors 2025

Immersive

After a little hiatus Tunnel Vision Records flyerman is back on @lyl_radio for opening his eleventh season on the web.

Land with us on a new Planète Noire odyssey with a new kind of sounds generated from our nevrotic minds.

Some souvenirs from earth, some souvenirs from space.. Don't be afraid to step in a new black hole with us : Take your brainticket for 2 hours of transcendental orgasm.

Welcoming on the first hour Berlin and Lisbon-based DJ and producer @hypnotic-black-magic .

Head behind the well-established label and event series @art-bei-ton , shaping since 2018 her vision of the scene through hypnotic sounds, psychedelic visuals and gender-balanced line ups.

Inspired by nostalgic and avant-garde electronic sounds since her early teenage years, HBM has developed her music taste around hypnotic techno, atmospheric ambient, psychedelic sounds and IDM/tribe. Collecting tracks with a preference for loopy patterns, dreamy pads, groovy rhythms, and trancey basslines, HBM’s goal is to drive the audience through a cathartic journey - dancing through obscure thoughts, meditative states, and sensual expressions.

@stakhan is taking care of the second part with a special darkness mix inspired from early summer 90's raves in Italy.

Enjoy a journey fueled with hypnotic techno, atmospheric ambient, trippy sounds and IDM/tribe

Go further your mind enjoy the ride.

See you on the other side. 🌚💫🌚

Recorded in December 2025 at LYL Radio studio in Lyon, France.

LYL Radio - Planète Noire - Hypnotic Black Magic & Stakhan (04.12.25)

Chthulucene / R A S H (13.12.25)

Run of AreaAudio for ISF
 https://soundcloud.com/isfinfestazionisoniche

Resident Of Fade Radio 
https://www.fade.radio/residents/r-a-s-h

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Resident  of 
https://www.fangoradio.com/shows/350
 
Biography
Empirical as a hard sip spilling from a discharged battery. There is always a nihilistic fetish in these youngsters dealing with technology. Stefano Martino, aka R A S H, is never hiding this darkest side in his composition. His machinery becomes a ritual object within which his human state becomes an algorithmic begging of change making its appearance at warm 50 hertz complacency.

His sound exploration is elaborated through decadent, post-industrial soundscapes inscribing the full failure of a consumer society which noise becomes an evidence whilst its awareness is modelled, reworked within a dystopian hexavalent chromium taste, blended into the future. Uncannily grainy, definitely remote. Until he stumbles upon a retrofuture device. Namely, a mono synth.Owner of  AreaAudio for Infestazioni Soniche Festival / R A S H lab

https://www.fade.radio/residents/r-a-s-h

Immersive

R A S H

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