thx for the invite
aired june 19 on foundation.fm

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inspired by the science fiction appeal of his show ‘elysium solidity’ on sphere radio, sensi.ble dips into a selection of deep wave, hazy ambient, and IDM-infused bass.

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baby bong - baby bong
dean blunt & inga copeland - progression
nabihah iqbal - alone together [ninja tune]
rezo glonti - regata kon 98 [muscut]
DJ gigola - affirmation practice [live from earth]
roy mills - my safe word is dolphin [local knowledge]
yussh - self couscous [wisdom teeth]
maara - rough n ready [step ball chain]
text chunk & sven k - drum runna [infinite drift]
nueen - III [3XL]
caveman LSD - bottle service angels [isla]
objekt - 35 [PAN]
yushh - skiddadle [pressure dome]
exael - gaytek radio edit
androne - contact [worst]
lawrence lee - mycelium [radiant]
pavel milyakov - last dolphin [ad93]

foundation.fm - mix hour worldwide + sphere radio w/ sensi.ble

Live recording from the czech countryside. Thank you @zmarfestival for having me 🎠

at ZMAR Festival 2023

A selection of Valentina Magaletti's solo and collaborative work in anticipation of the wider release of La Tempesta Colorata (A Colourful Storm, 2023).

Tracklist:
Valentina Magaletti - Untitled (Forthcoming)
Valentina Magaletti & Laila Sakini - Hold
Valentina Magaletti - Per Strada
Valentina Magaletti & Laila Sakini - Roll Tight, High Up
Valentina Magaletti - The Unity Of The Mind
Valentina Magaletti - La Tempesta Colorata (Excerpt)
Valentina Magaletti - Rotta, Part One (Excerpt)
Valentina Magaletti - La Tempesta Colorata (Excerpt)
Avvitagalli - Mashagana
Avvitagalli - Orange Before Sleep
Tomaga - Squeek & Chatter
Tomaga & Pierre Bastian - Paper Ritual
Holy Tongue - Susuro
CZN - Curfew Shrink Circuit
Vanishing Twin - Big Moonlight Ookii Gekkou

Originally broadcast on NTS Radio, October 9, 2023.

Valentina Magaletti: Wire Brushes and Wooden Reeds

https://connaharaway.bandcamp.com/album/shifted

Three sanguine slices of dub techno from Glasgow-based wunder Conna Haraway. And featuring XENIA REAPER providing vibes and synths on the lush long elevation "Redirect" that sits on the record’s A side.

Shifted follows on from Spatial Fix; Conna’s first solo 12” in March ’25 that released on Theory Therapy. Where that EP was a dense and rich web of texture and atmosphere across the two long sides, this one focuses in on forms of propulsion and a patient, silvery endlessness.

A side track "Redirect" was cut from a longer Sunday night session with XENIA REAPER. Two laptops Ableton linked, chilling in the flat in Glasgow. The amazing synth line is all XENIA, everything else is Conna; looping the synth & bass for about an hour and bringing other elements in and out. The final tune is gorgeous, floating in the blissful ether before the sub and pulse kicks through. Eleven and a half minutes of enveloping pressure, refreshment and delight.

"Detach" and "Duration" both turn to a rediscovered love for 4x4 techno and an experiment in a more classic and subtle sound from the perspective of a producer who might be expected to take bigger emotive and experimental swings that follow the patterns of contemporary ambient and bass. The result is beautiful and delicate vectors of music, satisfyingly easy to slide into a set. Swung techno filled with detail and poise. Tunes that can scale and transform and sit in a sort of home listening club track zone. After hours nrg.
credits
releases September 12, 2025

Mastered by Miles.

Art by The Designers Republic.

Conna Haraway - Redirect ft. XENIA REAPER (Short 3)

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

Soft Noise Event at the Sphere Radio Container.

Soft Noise is a group of friends organizing listening events in Leipzig.

Soft Noise Insta: www.instagram.com/soft__noise/
Fetisch Bistro Bandcamp: https://fetischbistro.bandcamp.com/
Fetisch Bistro SC: https://soundcloud.com/f3tisch


Live@SphereContainer - Soft Noise w/ Fetisch Bistro - 26.07.2025

Soft Noise Event at the Sphere Radio Container.

Soft Noise is a group of friends organizing listening events in Leipzig.
novi has been their guest for this event. She's played some great records for us to enjoy!

Soft Noise Insta: www.instagram.com/soft__noise/
novi Insta: https://www.instagram.com/norak_________/
novi SC: https://soundcloud.com/nora_djdjdj


Live@SphereContainer - Soft Noise w/ novi - 26.07.2025

Sultry low-end grooves from a rising house enchantress.

"What kind of music do I actually want to play?" Every artist asks themselves this at some point in their career. What is a sound? And why do we personally identify with it? For Lea Lang, AKA dj sweet6teen, this question is the guiding force behind her RA Mix.

Born in Aachen, a German spa city close to the border with Belgium, Lang found her musical feet in the vibrant student hub of Cologne. It was while studying social work at the Technische Hochschule that she fell into the nightlife scene. 

Finding her sound wasn't an instant process. Lang cut her teeth on breaks-heavy house and prog (think Angel D'Lite), traces of which you can hear peppered across RA.1004. But as she explains in this week's Q&A, the pandemic years were, musically, a turning point. 

"High BPMs and short-lived trends became very dominant and I realised I couldn't stand the pace anymore," she writes. "That's when my sound naturally shifted into something more minimalist and timeless."

Nowadays, you'll find Lang in Berlin during the week, and on weekends… well, take your pick. A busy touring schedule means she's on the road almost constantly —this summer she's debuted at Horst Arts & Music, Butik, Dimensions and Panorama Bar (to name just a few). 

And her RA Mix? It oozes charm from the jump. Buoyant with gyrating low-end, it's hard to think her sound was ever anything else: vocals twirl around analogue basslines, material à la Eddie Richards and Terry Francis's historic Wiggle parties, as well as the kind of bongo action that wouldn't feel out of place in an Apollonia session. Call it waft, wiggle, smooch house—whatever it is, we like it.

@djsweet6teen 
Find the tracklist and interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1022

RA.1004 dj sweet6teen

This episode we tune into the world of DJ Python. A world where ambient, club music and another kind of reggaeton blend into a unique mix. 
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Mapping is a show about discovering the musical world centered around a track Linda (@bb_fm) or Pascal (paschko) pick for each episode. Together they dive into the samples, the labels, artists and collaborators.
Depending on the chosen song, the show can either be a detailed exploration of its immediate surroundings, or it serves as a starting point for a journey, navigating from one node to the next, delving deep into connected artists and genres. Either way, a mapping of the title track is given.
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THF Radio is a community radio broadcasting from the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. Follow us: @thfradio

Mapping: DJ Python - Lampara w/ bb:fm & Pascal // 10.09.25

We have another stunning stanitzel show for you. This time with TALI ( @talibikini ). For those of you who remember her from our little festival, when she gently woke you from your slumber dreams with her soft sounds. She’s back for a full hour on @sphere_radio 🌙✨.

Stanitzel mit Schlag - 48 - TALI

Blackest Ever Black's Carla dal Forno bolts together cloudy avant-pop and rhythmic electronics on this exceptional selection.

For more information and tracklist head here: http://www.factmag.com/2018/11/06/carla-dal-forno-fact-mix/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 679 - Carla dal Forno (Nov '18)

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@sphere_radio, soft noise, @elysium-solidity & host of the occasional breakfast show

upcoming~
30.08.25 p l a n t i e s @ secret location
¿hmu?

‹past
01.08.25 friday rotation @ sphere container
25.05.25 soft noise @ aquarium
22.03.25 ‹post hibernation› @ kulturlounge
07.02.25 tendersesh x @thfradio

08.12.24 @glyk-musik @ kunstraum ortloff
18.10.24 wavemotion @ neue welle
23.08.24 soft noise @ sphere container
11.08.24 callshop x sphere @ neue welle garten
22.06.24 second chances @ sphere container
24.02.24 sphere radio @ anti bar

10.11.23 ostpaket / sphere @ spxlxnkx
28.01.23 sphere x pracht 'secret resolutions'

as well as—--
glysery, pr@cht, sphere container, sphere breakfast show, main ingredient & @elysium-solidity at @sphere_radio, sounds like at @thfradio, foundation.fm, gartendisko, links neben der tanke, raum der zeit

‹‹way past
musikbunker, hotel europa, apollo, under construction, raststätte, kegelbahn (all aachen)