Ambient Meditations S2 Vol 48 - Rena Jones  
Getting back into gear after Labor Day is no easy task, especially when it still feels like summer (well, it technically is). To help you downshift into the fall work grind or back to school grind or whatever grind you are attempting to tackle, we have tapped Emancipator collaborator Rena Jones. Her new single "A New Dawn Awaits" is out today, and you can check it out below, and her full-length album will be coming up on November 5th. The album is called Allegories and is just in time for long computer screen halls, holiday shopping clicks, cold weather, and of course, that post-Thanksgiving have for all the Americans out there. So wind down into your weekend with this lovely mix from Rena Jones - it pairs well with Pumpkin Beer, don't knock it until you try it!

Ambient Meditations 48 Tracklist - Rena Jones 
1.  Helene Vogelsinger - Contemplation - "Astral Projection" 
2. Emancipator, Rena Jones, Flowerpulse - Xylem- "Thus" 
3. Oona Dahl - Re:Luminate EP - "Wait Lifted" David Last Remix 
4. Jako Jako - Aequilibration - "Resilienz" 
5. Matt Robertson - Enveleau - "Kalimba" 
6. John Hopkins - Singularity - "Singularity" 
7. Catarina Barberi- Fantas Resynthesized for 808 And 202 (feat. Carlo Maria) 
8. Emancipator, Rena Jones, Flowerpulse - Xylem - "The Sleeping Princess Stairs" 
9. Rena Jones - Allegories - "A New Dawn Awaits"

Ambient Meditations S2 Vol 48 - Rena Jones

A different take on A Forest, yet hopefully retains some of the feel and atmosphere of the original

A Forest in 6-8

WKDU's 20th annual Electronic Music Marathon welcomed over 90 DJs to our home base(ment) and broadcasted 84 hours of funk, soul, house, techno, DnB, grime, jungle, gabber, and more non-stop on the Philly airwaves! Local DJs, producers, and listeners like you raised over $13k for WKDU to help improve our FM signal. This money will help fund our efforts to keep Philadelphia dancing to WKDU on the FM dial for many years to come! To learn more, visit emm.wkdu.org.
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my liveset done on the 6th of august 2025, being the support act for Autechre at de Melkweg in Amsterdam 

tracklist 
01.Kton 
02.Bruxa 
03.Lithe (with exm)
04.Ital (with exm)
05.Drature
06.Chroq

photo by Tamara Boon

Roel Funcken live AE 06.08.25

1	.	Wil Bolton	.	Ghost Signals	.	Rusted in the Salt Air
2	.	Wil Bolton & Francis Gri	.	Crumbling into Mist	.	Drawing Shadows
3	.	Blochemy	.	gran	.	Avey
4	.	Material Object	.	Science Acid	.	MONO
5	.	Human Is Alive & Warmth	.	Through the Haze	.	Through The Haze
6	.	Human Is Alive & Warmth	.	Nordlys	.	Through The Haze
7	.	Human Is Alive & Warmth	.	Dawning	.	Through The Haze
8	.	Human Is Alive & Warmth	.	Dawning	.	Through The Haze
9	.	Seaworthy and Matt Roesner	.	Hidden Paths, Animal Tracks	.	Deep Valley
10	.	øjeRum	.	Poppeltræet Med Syv Grene	.	Langt Fra Jorden
11	.	Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee	.	Case Study 2	.	Re: Case Studies
12	.	Pepo Galán	.	Ancestral Images	.	Kontrapunkt
13	.	Abul Mogard	.	While Hunting Nightmares and Dreaming for Peace	.	Kontrapunkt
14	.	David_Cordero_x_Warmth	.	Ivalo	.	Night Scenes
15	.	Solo Andata	.	A Meditation	.	Slip Casting
16	.	Loscil	.	Umbel	.	Umbel
17	.	Black Swan	.	Back To Dust	.	From the End of Time
18	.	Joep Beving & Maarten Vos	.	A night in Reno	.	vision of contentment
19	.	offthesky	.	Over Edge To Utter Still	.	Opening Opening
20	.	MPU101	.	365d-fam	.	MPU102
21	.	MPU101	.	Wald-run.exe	.	MPU102
22	.	øjeRum	.	Træet Løftede Sine Hænder For At Byde Stilheden Velkommen	.	Langt Fra Jorden
23	.	Thme	.	Anti Atlas	.	Anti Atlas
24	.	En	.	Elysia	.	Already Gone
25	.	Wil Bolton	.	Reactor Dome Haze	.	Rusted in the Salt Air
26	.	Ard Bit & Radboud Mens	.	Spirit level I	.	Marking A Boundary With The Turning Point
27	.	Loscil	.	Silos	.	Lake Fire
28	.	David Cordero	.	Bright Dawn	.	Abstract Lights
29	.	Olga Anna Markowska	.	Borderland	.	ISKRA
30	.	Olga Anna Markowska	.	Fever dream	.	ISKRA
31	.	Federico Durand	.	1 Había Una Vez	.	Té De Flores Silvestres
32	.	Loscil	.	Shadow Maple	.	Umbel
33	.	Blochemy	.	kerca	.	Avey
34	.	Greg Haines	.	So It Goes	.	Where We Were
35	.	Christopher Bissonnette	.	Shuttering Slides	.	Pitch, Paper & Foil
36	.	MPU101	.	J800latinGrass	.	MPU101
37	.	Loscil	.	Doux	.	Lake Fire
38	.	Solo Andata	.	Broken Symmetry II	.	Slip Casting
39	.	Yann Novak	.	Zones of Privacy	.	Continuity
40	.	Tim Hecker	.	Sunset Key Melt	.	Shards
41	.	ARIGTO	.	Shapes	.	Lukuss
42	.	Abul Mogard	.	Like a bird	.	Quiet Pieces
43	.	Thme	.	Imago	.	Anti Atlas
44	.	Blochemy	.	oldtei	.	Avey
45	.	Rafael Anton Irisarri	.	THE OUTER CIRCLE (BONUS)	.	A Fragile Geography
46	.	r beny	.	empty grids	.	cascade symmetry
47	.	Ard Bit & Radboud Mens	.	Tangent Plane	.	Marking A Boundary With The Turning Point
48	.	offthesky	.	Pulse The Rise And Fall	.	Opening Opening
49	.	Deaf Center	.	Rev	.	Reverie
50	.	Markus Guentner	.	System Seizure	.	Black Dahlia
51	.	Tim Hecker	.	In The Air II	.	Ravedeath, 1972
52	.	Jake Muir	.	Tonic	.	ITLP10 - Mana
53	.	Illuha	.	The Relationship Of Gravity To The Persistence Of Sound	.	Akari
54	.	Abul Mogard	.	The Roof Falls	.	Above All Dreams
55	.	Maps and Diagrams	.	Where light falls	.	Clearwater
56	.	Grand River	.	Tuning the Wind	.	Tuning the Wind
57	.	Kettel	.	Tomorrow?	.	Volleyed Iron
58	.	r beny	.	brume	.	saudade
59	.	Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer	.	Fermata	.	Proem
60	.	Purl	.	Observatory	.	Himmelsandar
61	.	Maps and Diagrams	.	Still blue	.	Clearwater
62	.	Tim Hecker	.	Morning (Piano Version)	.	Shards
63	.	Deaf Center	.	Lobby	.	Pale Ravine (Bonus Edition)
64	.	SONMI451	.	The Circadian Clock	.	DIGISEEDS
65	.	r beny	.	One Illusion Backward (Like Moth to Flame Rework)	.	One Illusion Backward (Like Moth to Flame Rework)
66	.	Ard Bit & Radboud Mens	.	Displacement	.	Marking A Boundary With The Turning Point
67	.	Chihei Hatakeyama + Federico Durand	.	Maria	.	Magical Imaginary Child
68	.	Olga Anna Markowska	.	Train ride home	.	ISKRA
69	.	Loscil	.	Lake Fire	.	Lake Fire

Ambient set september 2025

Driftwood is the 3rd full-length album by seasoned studio musician, producer, and performer Rena Jones.

Picked as the 6th most essential album for 2006 on Echoes Radio.

Driftwood sonically paints the life cycle of the tree from Star to Seed...

Gorgeous and so completely alive, Driftwood is a triumph in electronic and classical instrument fusion.
Charity VanDeberg - ReGen Magazine.com

Undercurrent

Written & Produced by Elica Le Bon
Mixed and Mastered by Mr Parker

Buy on iTunes

Waiting

Emancipator, Rena Jones, & Flowerpulse return with 'Thus', the second single from their upcoming release 'Xylem'.
'Xylem' is the collaboration between Emancipator, Rena Jones, and Flowerpulse. Richly textured and bursting at the seams with natural beauty,  this album draws from each artist’s unique style with dense, kaleidoscopic layers of live strings, synthesizers, guitars, and field recordings.

Buy / Stream

Emancipator, Rena Jones, & Flowerpulse - Thus

Iceland is the first single off the new collaborative EP album from renowned downtempo artists Emancipator, Rena Jones, and Flowerpulse. With lush strings and signature head nodding beats, the trio weave a mesmerizing tapestry of shimmering instrumentation and natural resonance.

Crystalline glaciers
Gently float through space and time
Before receding

Emancipator, Rena Jones, & Flowerpulse - Iceland

“Rena Jones is a polymath. She plays violin, cello and synthesizers and immerses her music in the imagery of nature and philosophy.” ~ John Diliberto Echoes Radio PRX 

Rena’s extensive background in music and sound engineering covers a colorful spectrum. As a freelancer, she composed music for the award-winning video game Dance Dance Revolution and contracted composition work from Adobe software. In addition to composition, she designed sound patches for Twisted Tools and Keith McMillen Instruments and she also worked in engineering test services for Avid, supporting the development of Pro-Tools audio software. 

Best known for her unique ambient-electronic chamber music, Rena has released original compositions on groundbreaking labels such as LOCI Records, Disco Geko, Iboga, Spun Records, Aleph Zero, 1320 Records, Addictech, Ultimae and Schematic Records, while also running her own label Cartesian Binary Recordings.
In her vast audio catalog, three of Rena’s solo studio albums were chosen amongst the top 30 albums of the year on Echoes Radio PRX in 2006, 2009 and 2021, as well as her recent collaborative release with Emancipator and Flowerpulse for 2021. 

With nearly three decades of experience as a seasoned studio musician, Rena's highly sought-after string playing has landed her on albums with Emancipator, STS9, edIT (Glitch Mob), Funckarma, Beats Antique, Sophie Barker (Zero 7) and Grammy nominated artist J. Viewz. 

As an audio engineer, Rena has mixed studio mixes for Beats Antique, co-produced, engineered and mixed Lynx’s album “On the Horizon”, engineered in Sylvia Massy’s legendary RadioStar studio, Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco, and Brighton U.K.’s Metway Studios. Similarly, she’s collaborated on projects as an engineer in her home State in Oregon at Wildwood Studios, Cloud City Sound and her own private studio. 

Multiple tours around North America and Europe have lead Rena to perform at some of the worlds most established cutting edge electronic music festivals; Glade Festival (UK), The Secret Garden Festival (UK), Decibel Festival, Burning Man Shambhala Music Festival (Canada), Symbiosis, Lightning in a Bottle as well as tour support for Plaid and opener for Ladytron, Wax Tailor and Trentemoller. 

Passionate about musician’s rights and the state of the industry, she also serves as a voting member at the Recording Academy in the Producer and Engineers wing and is currently serving as a District Advocate at the Recording Academy.