Urals is a cathartic journey across the most isolated territories of the artist's emotional landscape; a glacial interpretation of human feeling reflecting a deep sense of disintegration and subsequent need for repair. An experience as oneiric as it is existentially regenerative, unfolding between power ambient movements and upward distortions.

released May 7, 2021

Mixing: Matteo Trevisan & Francesco Tabanelli
Mastering: Kuthi Jinani
Photo & Artwork: Giuliana Capobianco
Cover Design: Gaia Mai

Urals

"The mix is immersed in a metaphysical tension of listening in line with my current research on concrete sounds and voice expressed in all its shades of intensity and the minimal elements of the phonatory apparatus in an electroacoustic approach. The main suggestion that guided me were the words of Janine Pommy Vega:
all air is a snake 
all water is a snake 
all within concentric circle, snake, snake, snake." 
Kratu, March 2024

Tracklist:
1. Islaja - Oh Divine 
2. Salvatore Sciarrino - Cantiere del poema: I. Carovane 
3. Damsel Elysium - Shoreline 
4. John Adams, Gustavo Dudamel - Adams: The Gospel According To The Other Mary 
5. Eliane Radigue - L'​Î​le Re-sonante 
6. Martyna Basta - Beneath 
7. Scott Gibbons - Upon a Wandering Moon
8. Mica Levi - The Zone Of Interest
9. Demetrio Stratos - Mirologhi

MIXTAPE N.10

Kratu x Neanche Per Sogno

ISS010

Dub Schneider

Guess It's Wrecked

Guess It's Wrecked (feat. Olan Monk)

guest hour by @chantssss

nts.live/shows/luke-mele

MALIBU - NANA (LIKE A STAR MADE FOR ME) (JULIANNA BARWICK REMIX) 
NUAGES - SOMEDAY 
JENNIFER NÍ MHÓRDHA - THÁINIG AN GHRIAN 
TAUPE SET XL - ABYSS 
ØJERUM - UNTITLED VI/MATKA 
ZAUMNE - AIRPORT CITY 
EMRE GIRGINKAYA - REJECTION CHAIN 
BOX 5IVE - FIRST NAME 
JUNG DJ - DILIAN 
MU TATE - WAS IT HOLY 
MABISYO - 神の目は私の母の目のようだ 
WIST - THISTLE 
J - MORE ROOM TO BREATHE IN 
CELER - GEMS I (EXCERPT) 
LEO - UNRELEASED 
URIKA’S BEDROOM - BBSM 
JENNIFER NÍ MHÓRDHA - DAWN 
DREAMCYCLES - FINAL GOODBYE 
FELISHA LEDESMA - SILVER WASHED (FEAT. ANGELO HARMSWORTH) 
IKE ZWANIKKEN - IT’S ALL BEEN SAID 
MARIA SOMERVILLE - PROJECTIONS

NTS Radio Nov. 20 ('24) w/ Chantssss

It was my first Draaimolen and no one knew it which was great. 
It was also my first encounter with Addit Audio and their sound system installed for the first time in its full glory. I can't recall being brought to tears during one soundcheck.
So there were no news, no algorithms, no expectations to be disappointed. The pit was not announced. It felt like a curious manifestation of something paranormal.
Wonderful sound system, records and sweetest weather.  
Those who found us in the small pit in the middle of the forest most likely didn't know what was going on. 
For the most part of the first 5 hours I figured out that it would be great to play for and with the sound guy, playing right and wrong records and figuring out which one sound good. Research and development mission for Addit Audio.
After 5 hours ISAbella joined for a brief back to back session. Everything can happen in the realm of paranormal. Luckily she stayed and we played together for the next 3 hours until the last song, the one for the deceased. Probably as close as it gets to transcendence. 

Thank you all. You know who you are. 

Vladimir Ivkovic

Vladimir Ivkovic at Draaimolen Festival 2024

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“Recently, I’ve been really inspired by bass music in the 80-85 (or 160-70) BPM range that shifts between slow and fast registers, opening up space for a deep interior journey and for a driving, percussive dancefloor experience alike. Much music in this space that I’m drawn to has a visceral, haptic, and earthy quality -- body music for mental landscapes. 

The mix is conceived as a journey into a densely foliated forest of ever-shifting dimensions, drawing you deeper and deeper into its cavernous shadows and spectral pockets of light. Dewdrops shiver on pillowy moss ,flanked by the hungry mouths of carnivorous plants; burly vines dangle low and heavy under velvet leaves. Mysterious and heretofore unknown flora abound, beguiling you with their sensuous textures, suffusing the humid air with smells both luxuriant and noxious. Finally you emerge into a softly-hued meadow, your journey into the darkness having brought you closer to a sense of calm.”

@papayaofficial
IG: @papaya.official

DJ Papaya's approach to mixing draws upon downtempo, ambient, leftfield electronics, and bass music to craft surreal and emotionally complex narratives, rich in texture and rooted in the sensibilities of dub. They are a co-founder of the ambient/experimental series Spindrift, with Pontiac Streator and Opheliaxz, as well as the bass music party Chrysalis, with Amylia.

Tracklist:
Carrier - Slow Punctures
Blue - Slow Wave
Officium - Heartlapse ft Yolek
Gi & Trois Quarts Taxi System - Swarm
Chewlie x Fiesta Soundsystem - Savory
Proc Fiskal - A Fragrance
Anta Doma - Temples
Ancestral Voices - Mist of Avalon
Furtive - I Always Try to be This Gentle
Commix - Japanese Electronics (Instra:Mental Moog Remix)
Es.Tereo - Ancestral Path
K Wata - In A Mug on a Rug (Ronan’s Ecophilia Mix)
Trois Quarts Taxi System - Clef
Itoa - Diceman
Mike Parker - Spaceship Galliot
georg-i - Nightlife under the Arclight
Kobayashi Maru - Aesthetics of a Wormhole
traverse - Turpitude
Forest on Stasys - Sideral
Khey Mysterio & Stacktrace - Low Heat
felt. - Life Formed
Jonnnah - U Made Me
Ghjuliu - Sheila

Distant Signals 082: DJ Papaya

hyla arborea

selection of recent favorites, mixed live at C2C Festival at Castello di Rivoli
photo @llum_collettivo

SSIEGE - C2C Festival @ Castello di Rivoli - Oct '25

BEATRICE DILLON - Drum programming, electronics, synthesizer, bass guitar, field recordings

RUPERT CLERVAUX - Vibraphone, drums, percussion, field recordings, additional drum programming


A Different River Once - Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux

Turning dysfunctions into contemplative impulses

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