Ambient and Contemporary

2022.   Techno〜Grage〜

@loekfrey

Bookings: brendan@rhythmicculture.com

Loek Frey

Donato Dozzyは日本にいる多くの友人たちへの想いを馳せ、またLabyrinthで私たちの前でプレイすることを思い描きつつこのミックスを作りました。彼の奏でる音楽にまた身を委ねる日が待ち遠しいですね。

Donato Dozzy - For Labyrinth

Neon Cleptu 11
Abstract lines, yawning spaces. For this episode I like to welcome @loekfrey

The talented Dutch producer has an unique approach in the way he's making his music. He has an ear for layering textural vibrations and unpredictable sounds that he develops into his own imaginary universe. Loek Frey emerges fluid atmospherics combined with broken rhythms in this one hour mix. I recommend keeping a close eye on him, this story will not end here.

Im very pleased that he participated and will be the one to guide us through is musical fascinations. 

Broadcasted 16.07.2021 on LYL
www.lyl.live

Neon Cleptu 11 → Loek Frey

Live recording of my set on Skylab Radio on the 15/10/21 - mostly forthcoming Animalia tunes that will be out over the summer/ in 2022! As always please don't hesitate to hit me up for IDs :-) 

Ps. there's a few glitches in the recording due to recording issues - sorry! <3 

x Kia

Skylab Radio 15/10/21: Animalia Showcase (Kia)

Front Left Life returned with special guest Ploy for two hours of bass heavy cuts - percussive, grime and other UK Club sounds all inside.

Front Left Life w/ Ploy - November 2021

Live recording @ the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live on Youtube, Facebook and futureintelradio.com every Thursday and Friday.

Loek Frey ╚═ Future Intel X Rhythmic Culture ═╗ 25 11 2021

Live Rec  DEATHMIX 29.DEC.2021 Socore Factory Osaka

Livesets 29.DEC.2021 Osaka

Rosa 015 - Loek Frey

Azu Tiwaline is a new name, for a bright new spirit that belongs to a music producer led by her need to seek a different sound, drawn from her origins, rooted in the Sahara and El Djerid region, in the south of Tunisia. She has released on Livity Sound and IOT Records. Enjoy!

ITPS075 AZU TIWALINE

~ Tracklist ~

New World Science - Coral Riff
JV Lightbody - Darkening of the Night
Voyage Futur - Eternal Dawn
Soda Lite - Mara Sento
Acidliner - Purple Flowers For The Funeral
Wild Adoration - Soul
JQ - Komorebi
JQ - U 
India Jordan - See Four 
Voyage Futur - Animalia 
JQ - Drifting Sands 
JV Lightbody - The Great Bowl (Sacred Vessel) 
Voyage Futur - Echo Shore
Nabihah Iqbal & Deadbody - Westway (Ambient Mix) 
Acidliner - Die-As-He-Pan
JQ - Ocean Symphony 

All tracks are releases by @newatlantismusic: http://newatlantismusic.bandcamp.com

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For the next Deep Mind Music mix I. JORDAN pays homage to New Atlantis, the Sunday daytime ambient party they have run out of Rye Wax in South London for the past few years, and which held its last ever event this March.

I. JORDAN and I actually first met when I worked at Rye Wax in the record shop and they were setting up for a New Atlantis. Before they became known for their incredible rave-ready productions, much of the South London community knew them for the non-dancefloor soundscapes of New Atlantis. It was the place to be on a Sunday afternoon, winding down from the weekend in the cozy Rye Wax basement. A spot which always feels like your pal's well-loved living room, a community cross paths where you’re always guaranteed to see a familiar face. 

Right now as we’re all stuck at home, listening to music in isolation, it’s a bitter-sweet memory to revisit as I’m writing this. I’d do anything right now to be back there comfortably snuggled on a sofa letting the sounds of this mix wash over me chatting to friends. Nevertheless, the beauty of music is that it transcends space, anyone listening to this mix from very different locations can experience the same emotions. A blissful calm, a wistful introspection, an enveloping warmth. That is something I’m very grateful for right now. 

New Atlantis is also a label, and all the tracks in this mix are releases from the label which you can find at: https://newatlantismusic.bandcamp.com/ 

I. JORDAN says about their mix ~

This is a collection of my favourite New Atlantis releases, which most of the time reminds me of being sat down drinking tea in the Rye Wax basement. The last ever New Atlantis Social also happened to be the last public event I went to before the lockdown. So this mix has a special place in my heart for all those reasons.

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Deep Mind Music

I. JORDAN ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.13

Recorded live at Motif Wein Bar in Berlin. Since the volume of the bar has to largely left low to not disturb the neighbors with the wafer-thin floorboards living upstairs, now you can actually hear what I was playing a little better, and with improved low end.

Eric Cloutier - Live at Motif Wine Bar : 02.09.2020

@loketsounds

~ Tracklist ~

Steve Hillage - Garden of Paradise (loket’s saxophonic version)
Omformer - Spheroid (loket’s saxophonic version)
Hiver & hammer - 5 million miles ft. Java (exael x loket’s saxophonic ambient edit)
loket - Dear Stranger
Shygirl + Arca - unconditional (loket’s saxophonic version)
Rasmus Juncker - Sauna (loket’s saxophonic version)
Pontiac Streator - Transier Unt (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - lila Gazelle
Lyra Pramuk - Tendril (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - Improv for Elim
Paul Horn - Ancient Kings (loket’s saxophonic version)
Delta Rain Dance - Kosmische Elemente (with loket)
Linnuissa - Janis Kertoi Minulle Salaisuuden (loket’s saxophonic version)
SUSS - Salt Flats (loket’s saxophonic version)
Suzanne Kraft & Johnny Nash - Beluga’s Song (Kelela x loket’s saxophonic ambient edit)
Laurel Halo - Marbles (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - Althüttendorf
John Beltran - soft summer (loket’s saxophonic version)
Akis - New Age Rising (Part VIII) (loket’s saxophonic version)
The Soft Pink Truth - Grace (loket’s saxophonic version)

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I am so excited to share the latest, and most unique, Deep Mind Music entry. This mix, by my good friend Tahl, has been in the works for a long time. A mixtape of 100% saxophonic versions & originals which is the first manifestation of Tahl’s new alias for saxophonic exploration - loket.

A member of Berlin's Power Play collective, Tahl debuted the combination of live saxophone played over ambient music at the intimate confines of Power Play’s foggy chill out room. Tahl first proposed the idea of this mix to me back in April, and throughout lockdown he has been chipping away at it, keeping me updated as it has slowly evolved from a loose initial concept into a fully formed immersive journey. 

Taking the listener through flurries of arpeggios, introspective poetry, delicate piano, vulnerable vocals, and lush, sunlit pads, the mix resonates on a tender, personal level. A story told through prescient programming between tracks and sonic palettes, it subtly ebbs and flows between different emotional states. Throughout the mix the free flowing saxophone jams flitting between the tracks take you far, far away, adding a soft trippy fluidity to the edges of the soundscape. By the end of the mix you are totally submerged in effervescent mind-melting deepness.

I’m so grateful to loket for putting together this truly special entry, and I hope you enjoy listening to it, and find as much solace, peace and catharsis in it as I have.

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Some words from loket about the mix: 

This project started in many ways in a dank room in what is now a demolished squat in Lichtenberg Berlin at a Power Play Rave in the middle of 2019. Empowered by an unreasonable Funktion One Soundsystem flush inside of our chill out room, I experimented with playing live modulated saxophone for the first time. 

I was shaking so intensely I could barely blow air through the horn. But when what I played was channeled through my computer and out into the audience, the power of the sound, and of the moment, was sickening. Since then I’ve spent many hours honing and sculpting and experimenting to try and bring that feeling “to tape”.

I can’t stress enough how much of this project has been an exercise in moving forward slowly while having mostly no idea what I’m doing. I’m sure i broke every “rule” imaginable in recording and processing the saxophone on this mix. Maybe that is somewhat reassuring to those of you who also feel burdened by the glossy perfection and successes seemingly surrounding us at all times.

It’s also an exercise in reconnection. In patience. I stopped playing saxophone entirely in 2010 because I felt inadequate in my jazz skill. I haven’t practiced “a lick” in 10 years. I barely remember basic scales. But by revisiting the saxophone many years later through a more imaginative and electronic production lens, I’ve been able to move closer to creating the voice I always wanted to make.  

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loket ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.15

Welcome to the 316th Chapter of the Deep Electronics serie. A weekly released serie that brings you a diversity into the abyss of deep electronic music. This week Spacecraft returns with a mix of deep space  ambient.

About Spacecraft:
Spacecraft is the solo music project of Mumbai based producer Rishi Bhatia.
 
Inspired by the heavens since early years, Rishi tries to express how he feels through his music. Spacecraft is a music project deriving inspiration from the likes of Stellardrone, Carbon Based Lifeforms, etc. Usually producing ambient & space music, Rishi tries to be receptive when it comes to inspirations for his music. 


Tracklist:

1. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Arecibo
2. Hilyard - Mercy Within
3. Jupi/ter - Ari
4. Stellardrone - Nightscape
5. Applefish - The Ocean Held Me Close In Its Arms
6. Spacecraft - Zodiacal Light
7. Perry Frank - Decades
8. Crows Labyrinth - Our Last Dream (Single Version)
9. All India Radio - Magic
10. Matt Tondut - Distant Stars
11. Lauge & Baba Gnohm - The Moment In Between

Photo provided by Spacecraft
Design by Jeroen

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/spacecraftmusic_india
https://www.facebook.com/spacecraftmusic.india/
https://spacecraft.bandcamp.com/