Proxima Selections - Hanoi Community Radio

The circuitry of curiosity, the playfulness of the patch, the sublime in the subfrequency. Coalescing together in an emotive dance, these eloquent elements comprise the foundation of JakoJako's approach to music. Whether you find her deeply engrossed in her modular system, performing live at Berghain as a part of the Leisure System crew, or working behind the counter at the legendary Berlin synth shop SchneidersLaden, her profound knowledge and passion for translating her external and internal worlds into sonic anomalies permeate throughout everything she does. 

Versatility and virtuosity are the common threads woven into her productions, such as her recent album with Unrush founder Mareena Altas Der Gedanken on Muzan Editions. The same can be said for her mix here, which features everything from traditional southern Laotian music to øjeRum and Steve Roach. As a close friend and collaborator of Unrush, her contribution is long overdue. We couldn't conceive of a better artist to bring us into the warmer months with a glimmer of hope and a glimpse into the infinite...

Thanks a lot to https://soundcloud.com/jakojako_live

Album on Muzan Editions: https://bit.ly/2OXzyKr
Leisure System: https://bit.ly/3qMSWY6
Instagram: https://bit.ly/3bKsYjp

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist:

1. The Way to The Ocean - Secret and Melancholy
2. Nang Pit -Katu Song
3. Barker & JakoJako - unreleased
4.Cousin Silas - Part 7
5. Steve Roach - Robert Logan - Dark beyond the Blue
7. Novelle - Pre-fabled
8. Dan Deacon - Adrianes Lament
9.Steve Hillage - Gardens Paradise
10. Jonathan Fitoussi - Oceans
10.Richard Norris - Water
11. Mareena & JakoJako - Sinnessprung
12.øjeRum -Hidden Flowers Below Your Lonely Gaze
13.Nørdvest - Rooftops & chaotic Streets
14. Cousin Silas - Part 1
15. Al Pagoda - Steel Outro
16. walden - Windhauch
17. Erratics & Unconformities - Hangingstones
18. Daniel[i] - Statig Feeling (Meditation)
19. Kangding Ray -Trade on Azul

Unrush 055

Unrush Bandcamp

055 - Unrushed by JakoJako

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

TRACKLIST:

Maria Moles - River Bend
Ben Bondy - Kanga
Warmth - Wounds
Biosphere - Night Shift
Inhmost - East Sea 동해
Muslimgauze - ???
Polygonia - Gesang der Eichen
Sabla - Ground Loop
Scanner - Memory Remix
The Detroit Escalator Company - ∆
Alpak' - Idéa
Forest Drive West - Anchor
Deadbeat & Om Unit - Leaf
Muslimgauze - Jerico Loop-Bin Duplicator
Polygonia - König des Waldes
Absis - Sara
Sabla - Forestpath
Vørticė - Garden Snail (Adhémar Cold Moon Interpretation)
Warmth - Home
The Jaffa Kid - Astia

Introspective Electronics w/ Avsluta x Netil Radio | March 22

Warm up mode, ambient into beats. Recorded live in February 2022.

Warm up 2022

Up next in our mix series is Berlin based Dutch-Italian recording and performing artist Grand River (@grandriver). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com
 
MFM: Hi Aimée. In the musical landscape nowadays it often seems to be all about the final result (or product even) rather than the process and path before it. With your music it feels that it's more about the process of making rather than the final outcome. Where does your profound interest for experimenting with audio and composing come from?
 
GR: Nice to hear that you see it that way and to know that it may be perceived like this from the outside as well. The work itself and how we experience the process is what matters most. It’s not always easy to be mindful about how everything is created along the way. The end result or end product is important, but if you don’t enjoy the process of how you get there, I don’t think it makes much sense to even undertake the journey. And of course this applies to many aspects of life.
 
MFM: You've got a rich experience in doing technical work for and at radio stations and with other kinds of media. Did you have someone to teach you all the ins & outs of audio and technical production?
 
GR: Most of the technical work I learned directly through working as I did not go to any audio school to study sound design or audio engineering. When I started to work as an audio engineer for radio stations and other media outlets 13-14 years ago, there were not many audio schools like there are now. Back then, the people I worked with were mainly composers that had learned audio engineering on their own, just as I had. However, as a child, I was formally taught music theory and musical instruments. That, of course, came long before the technical work.
 
MFM: Your first official release dates are from 2017 but you had been active with experimenting, composing, and recording for a much longer time already. At what point did you find yourself confident and pleased enough to share your productions with the outside world?
 
GR: When I moved to Berlin in 2015 I took the first few years to research and study the sound I wanted to express and felt a connection to. Long before that, I was building and playing other genres. It takes time to find your sound and style, and the interesting part is that it continues to evolve over time. Even when you think you’ve found it, it still changes slightly.
 
MFM: Do you go to the studio religiously, regardless of whether you feel inspired or motivated? Do you have a certain routine when working in the studio?  
 
GR: I don’t go to the studio religiously, at least not to make music. 
I do work every day, but often I am just sitting in my studio listening to music, writing emails, or having meetings. Many people don’t know how much work is behind a project. From the outside, what you see is just the tip of the iceberg. I mostly compose in phases; I might compose a lot for two months and then the next month I will be focused on researching, or preparing a live show, recording a mix like I did for you, or creating a sound installation. I need time to absorb what I compose and let it rest, and then get back to it.
 
MFM: Are there any new projects that you're working on and can share with us? 
 
GR: I am working on several beautiful projects at the moment. This year I am working on different collaborations of which the releases will follow in the near future. I have a new album coming out either at the end of the year or beginning of 2023. I am currently working on an immersive installation and I will also be premiering a new AV show with the visual artist Marco Ciceri this summer.

MFM Mix 041: Grand River

Ambient Sleepers 008: Eric Cloutier
( @cloutier )

Four 8th podcast, We're thrilled to release the recording from Eric Cloutier's beautiful 1 hour Ambient set at our last event Ambient Sleepers #5(05.05.22.)!

We had the chance to invite this legendary Techno DJ and producer from NY/Detroit to perform a special Ambient set, offering us a dreamy journey between atmospheric ambient, field recording, drone and experimental sounds - Enjoy!


More info about Eric Cloutier:

Cloutier’s nature - one of zeal and infatuation towards the warm, dubby, hypnotic house and techno that has come to characterize his sound as well as his ability to bridge the gap between dance music’s past and its future.

Eric Cloutier’s standards are representative of the pre-social media craze and arguably the old adage of letting music speak for itself. Cloutier’s twenty-plus year commitment has been built upon his integrity as a DJ and authority as a selector. A self-described "record digging psychopath," one only has to refer to his mix of highly sought after cuts from Driftwood Records to see the lengths Cloutier will go to in order to procure the perfect selection. This is truly Cloutier’s nature - one of zeal and infatuation towards the warm, dubby, hypnotic house and techno that has come to characterize his sound as well as his masterful ability to bridge the gap between dance music’s past and its future.

An exception to the norm, Cloutier is not one to capitalize on his Detroit origins. Moving to New York in his 20’s, he became a regular face at The Bunker where he began to further define his innate style of body orientated music. Now situated in Berlin, where he often shows up behind the decks of niche alcoves as well as the world’s best clubs, Cloutier’s reputation as an unequivocal, dexterous force is increasingly becoming one of note. His talents as a producer have also been growing of late, with the establishment of his own imprint Palinoia, Greek for “the obsessive repetition of an act until it is perfected or mastered.” The label has become the new home and optimization for Cloutier’s evolving undertakings. Through Palinoia, Cloutier manages to further synthesize slick, dubby club music to slide into his DJ sets as well as feature lesser known talent he's discovered. He’s a DJ for whom quality - above all else - is the watchword.

SC: @cloutier
FB: https://www.facebook.com/eric.cloutier.dj
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ericcloutier/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/ericcloutier/

Ambient Sleepers 008: Eric Cloutier

"Memories of a summer day. Of a grey day walking through Prospect Park with an iced coffee with me, deciding on a route. It's hot and humid, about to rain. The morning will consist of taking shelter, shuffling through every possible record shop I can find towards the destination. After almost four hours, with wet hair and fingers dirty from digging, I see the Brooklyn Bridge from a bench with a rainbow in the background. It has stopped raining. I smile, welcome holiday."

Irina Kotik (@irina-kotik) has been actively pushing the deep sound through her music platform, Delayed (@itsdelayed). Delayed aims to connect the New York underground scene with talent worldwide and present what is exciting in underground electronic music. Apart from the enormous support she is offering to the scene, she has joined musical muscles with her partner Gilles Wasserman in a duo known as Moon Patrol, creating breathtaking arrangements and being released on such labels as Huinali Recordings and On Board Music.

https://www.instagram.com/kotikplus
https://www.itsdelayed.com

HOCast #118 - Irina Kotik

~ Deep Breakfast 172 by https://soundcloud.com/unjin ~

Photo: Unjin

Deep Breakfast 172 - Unjin

~ Deep Breakfast 177 by https://soundcloud.com/inhmost ~

The feelings we put in boxes
keep forever changing shape.
Outside a field of dreams
as we orbit outer space    
and feelings below our ocean
that wash up on the shore,
are something on the back burner
that brings us back for more.  

Gav McGrory

Tracklist:
01. Inhmost & Owl - Alternate Spring Sundown (Forthcoming on Stasis Recordings)
02. Inhmost - So Still
03. Barefoot - Heron 
04. Marine Eyes - Free
05. The Vision Reels & Inhmost - Flight in Fluidity
06. ASC - Sensory Disintegration
07. Taennya - ID
08. Avsluta - Naktam (Forthcoming)
09. Offland - Talisman
10. James Bernard - (We Are) Never Alone
11. Daniel[i] - LfN 03
12. Sacred Seeds - Sequential Dreams
13. Nitechord - Lume 6
14. Loomer - Zeze Wakamatsu (Inhmost Delicate Remix)
15. ??? - ??? (Awakened Souls Remix)
16. Zake & Ossa - Drifting

Deep Breakfast 177 - Inhmost

Dark times call for dark music. There is something about the cold catharsis of winter that inspires our next guest, Eònan. Making a name for himself in the caverns of Berlin over the last half-decade, he has carved out his niche through a series of timbre-filled techno trips for his Lucidmind imprint. However, it was his ambient mix for the same label which showcased a more sanguine side to his taste and thereby caught our ear. Here he has once again amassed a monolith of musicality, illuminating a path forward through the longest nights.

Thanks a lot to https://soundcloud.com/eonan

Instagram: https://instagram.com/eonan.wav?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Lucid Mind Records: https://soundcloud.com/lcdmndrecords
RA: https://ra.co/dj/eonan
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/artist/eonan/663941

Unrush Bandcamp: www.unrush.bandcamp.com/
Unrush Hardwax: www.hardwax.com/label/unrush/
Unrush Instagram: www.instagram.com/_unrush_/?hl=de
Unrush Facebook: www.facebook.com/unrushme/

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist:

1. Giuseppe Falivene - Artificial Atraction
2. Ben Bondy - Wish
3. Varg2tm - The Burn Of All Ages (ft. Soho Rezanejad)
4. Misantropen - Moll 5
5. Yttrandet - Sundr
6. zakè & ossa - mission control
7. Sabled Sun - Dreams without a future
8. Curved Light - Greater, Less, Equal
9. Magna Pia - Vsyo
10. Tyresta - Fragile
11. Luis Sterling - A.D. Millenium View
12. poemme - forest hymn
13. Warmth - Growth (Retrospective)
14. Rashida Prime - Enter Dream
15. D-Leria - Reborn
16. 36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds for Long Distance Space Travel (Phase 3)
17. Arovane - stat
18. Boris Salchow - Deteriorating
19. Architectural - Vida Sin Luz
20. Allpa Putuma - Fotosintesis
21. Curved Light - Shadowplay
22. 36 - Apollo
23. Suss - Train
24. Luis Sterling - The Pilar of Serene
25. Space Afrika - where is
26. zakè & ossa - calculating trajectory
27. Geins’t Nait & L.Petitgand - Naga
28. Caya - Measure In Sand
29. Bascha - Bilalayl
30. HIrako Lizuka - Vapor
31. Anthony Linell - Being Water
32. Echodive TM - Stop it
33. Des Vies - The Garden of Eden
34. Huerco S. - Plonk X
35. Moss Covered Technology - Under A Tree
36. Vril & Rødhad - ENNOCH
37. Stefano Guzzetti - Aurora
38. Hadone - And Then You Were None
39. Ocean Sound Outro

072 - Unrushed by Eònan

Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU (@kamarujoseph), is a sound artist and experimental ambient musician, raised in Nairobi, Kenya, and currently based in Berlin. Recent years have seen KMRU find a place amongst the most stirring voices within the experimental music space, courtesy of his distinctive usage and combination of field recordings, noise, ambient textures and expansive hypnotic drones. 
A luminous presence within the scene, KMRU has garnered critical acclaim not only for releases on the likes of @warp-records, @editionsmego and @subtext-recordings, but also for his live performances, which have seen him take the stage at high-profile events across Europe and the globe.

KMRU’s Patterns of Perception 105 is a poised and evocative passage which floats gracefully between delicate instrumentation, melodic phrasing and abstract ambient textures. Sparked by recent inspirations and experiences, this indelible set embraces peace, stillness and vibrance in equal measure, coming together as a carefully divined tapestry - meditative and shimmering.

Links:
@kamarujoseph
https://kmru.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_kamaru_/
https://kmru.info/
https://ra.co/dj/kmru
https://twitter.com/joseph_kamaru

Patterns of Perception 105 - KMRU

Ambient.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=605

@mnml-ssgs

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.605 Chris SSG

Chris SSG needs little introduction. As co-founder of the hugely influential (former) MNML SSGS blog and now organiser of MNML SSGS events, he has for years been at the cutting edge of electronic music in his hometown of Tokyo and abroad. Eschewing conventional dancefloor sensibilities, his music moves effortlessly between ambient, experimental, komische and abstract techno.

His Patterns of Perception 39 is a journey through a range of his current musical foci, and was recorded live at @dredrecordsberlin 's Space Cakes event on 12 August 2018, drawing from an emotional palate inspired by the summer in which it was recorded.

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/mnmlssgs/
https://twitter.com/mnmlssgs
https://www.facebook.com/chris.ssgs/
https://soundcloud.com/mnml-ssgs

Patterns of Perception 39 - Chris SSG

Paraffin is back with another special episode of its Podcast series, this time with our most fav ambient artists, Ario from Astral Industries (UK), a well known ambient label which is famous for its quality vinyls with the greatest artists in this game on their catalog. Ario also played at Paraffin Tehran’s 1 year anniversary in Iran, a festival with Iranian acts from all around the world. This mix is the actual recording of Ario’s performance at Experiment Intrinsic London on September 15/2018, Intrinsic is an event organisation which is taking place a at special locations around the world focusing on ambient music, also including a very special visual art treatment at their events.
Hope you enjoy the journey

https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/ario
https://www.facebook.com/arioastral

Paraffin Podcasts - 006 - Ario

Warmth in the winter sun.
A recording from the Astral Industries x Kizen Records party at Ping Pong Hong Kong. Contributed to the Astral Industries 9128.live takeover, April 2020.

Hong Kong 221218

This is a mix by Barker, Berlin-based music producer, that was featured on our last podcast: Sam Barker and David Pearce on Art, Paradise Engineering, and Existential Hope (With Guest Mix). We hope that you'll find inspiration and well-being in this soundscape. 

You can find the page for this podcast here: https://futureoflife.org/2020/06/24/sam-barker-and-david-pearce-on-art-paradise-engineering-and-existential-hope-featuring-a-guest-mix/

Tracklist: 

Delta Rain Dance - 1
John Beltran - A Different Dream
Rrose - Horizon
Alexandroid - lvpt3
Datassette - Drizzle Fort
Conrad Sprenger - Opening
JakoJako -  Wavetable#1
Barker & David Goldberg - #3
Barker & Baumecker - Organik (Intro)
Anthony Linell - Fractal Vision
Ametsub - Skydroppin’
Ladyfish\Mewark - Comfortable
JakoJako & Barker - [unreleased]

Where to follow Sam Barker :

Soundcloud: @voltek
Twitter: twitter.com/samvoltek
Instagram: www.instagram.com/samvoltek/
Website: www.voltek-labs.net/
Bandcamp: sambarker.bandcamp.com/

Where to follow Sam's label, Ostgut Ton:

Soundcloud: @ostgutton-official
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Ostgut.Ton.OFFICIAL/
Twitter: twitter.com/ostgutton
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ostgut_ton/
Bandcamp: ostgut.bandcamp.com/

This podcast is possible because of the support of listeners like you. If you found this conversation to be meaningful or valuable, consider supporting it directly by donating at futureoflife.org/donate. Contributions like yours make these conversations possible.

Barker - Hedonic Recalibration (Mix)

Italian-Dutch composer Aimée Portioli (@grandriver) is part of a new breed of artist who is meticulous in the way she sculpts and designs her sounds. Along with the likes of Donato Dozzy and Neel - who run the Spazio Disponibile label she debuted on in 2017, and returned to in 2018 with first album Pineapple - she imbues her deep rhythms with ambient beauty, classical minimalism and a real sense of symphony. She is a poly-instrumentalist who mixes tradition and formality with contemporary experimentalism, and also runs her own label One Instrument, releases on Ghostly and Longform Editions, and is an occasional A/V performer who is at home at the world's most avant garde clubs and festivals.

This week, Grand River takes us on an ambient journey as meandering and meditative as her alias suggests. It's a study in absorbing sparsity, where beautiful drones are layered up next to rippling chords. Found sounds drift in and out of ear shot and delicate keys turn into vast walls of ominous sound. The whole mix is like a melting glacier, in constant but subtle motion that leaves you in an utterly different place from where you started.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 294 - Grand River

Leaves lose their effervescence, stroking the strings of the ground as they bring us into the colder months. Such is the sound that resonates out of Chris SSG, our next guest from Japan. A master of mesmerizing, emotive passages, he is known for his careful consideration, patient execution, and sublime selections. As co-founder of the now-defunct MNML SSGS blog and event series and a resident at the semi-regular Sound Garden chill out parties, he has spread his infectious love for boundless forms of music far and wide, reaching audiences across the globe. After hearing his acclaimed mixes for podcasts such as Electronic Exploration and Mysteries of the Deep, we are ecstatic to have him contribute to UNRUSH. So grab a blanket, some tea, and watch the eternal processes of decay and rebirth unfold before you with this very special session from Chris SSG.

Thanks a lot https://soundcloud.com/mnml-ssgs

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.ssgs
RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/chrismnmlssgs
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mnmlssgs

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria 
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist:

Biosphere - Berg
Ital & Halal - Where Exactly I Am
Shasta Cults - Incline
Sarah Davachi / Ariel Kalma - Adieu La Vie
Art Crime - Self
Niagara - Ano-B
William Selman - Polysemy
Imaginary Softwoods - Lie Down and Rest
Grand River & PRG/M - Rosenbach Acoustic Piano (70's)
Neel - Planatia
Pye Corner Audio - Phase B
A.R. Hill - PT2399
Exael - Actaeon
Pontiac Streator - Enter Sandman
Tadd Mullinix - Woman in the Dunes
Norm Chambers - Glass
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Kreintoj
Ragnar Grippe - Part 1
John Also Bennett & Field Works - Indiana Blindfold
Laurie Spiegel - Pentachrome
Christina Vantzou - Lava (Ka Baird remix)
Spirit & Form - Spirit & Form (Lieven Martens remix)
Koen Holtkamp - Flint (for Flynt)
Baba Stiltz - Hotel Exile
Lord Of The Isles feat. Ellen Renton - Inheritance 
The Detroit Escalator Co. - Fractual (in)

Unrush 049

049 - Unrushed by Chris SSG

Writer @ Minimal Collective, Beatportal, The Guardian, Resident Advisor. 
Ambient podcast host on Hanoi Community Radio. 
https://twitter.com/rwlancas
https://www.instagram.com/rosslancas/

Proxima Selections - Hanoi Community Radio

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