Un café très allongé pour Lady K, qui remue dans sa tasse trouvailles trip-hop, ambient jazz et cuts dubby.

@jknoplioch 

Enregistré au @loveonotherplanets Festival 2023

LOOP007 — Lady K

This contribution is a very special one, as it marks a new chapter in The Observatory’s sound… 

We will always be a home for ambient and experimental sounds. But, moving forward, we will also be exploring our love for dance music, with a particular focus on the deep end.

To begin this new journey and warm things up, we are so happy to welcome back Timnah, who gifts us with a two-hour recording of her set at Omen Wapta, ADE’24. A mind-bending traversal through ambient, drone, and halftime experiments, exploring the liminal spaces between the listening room and the dance floor.
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Timnah lives, works and feeds the cats in the Northwestern extremities of Switzerland. Brought up in her parents’ jazz clubs and deeply influenced by her brother’s love for dub and soundsystem culture, she started DJing just after the massively feared Millenium Bug had threatened to offset our relation to time and space. Dedicated to drawing her own map of late 20th century sonic landscapes, she spent the early 2000s exploring 90s electronics including breakbeat, triphop, ambient techno, drum&bass, house and jungle. After a short but sweet excursion into producing in the early 2010s, Timnah dedicated herself fully to spinning the wheels and transversing genres, gravitating towards her current signature sound that spans immersive sound baths and intergalactic carpet rides in half-time. Timnah is a member of Amenthia Recordings and a recent addition to the A Walking Contradiction Collective.
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Artist Support:

https://soundcloud.com/timnah-sommerfeldt
https://ra.co/dj/timnahsommerfeldt
https://www.instagram.com/timnah_amenthia

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Timnah @ Omen Wapta, ADE, 2024

@yonvonkim

IG: 
https://www.instagram.com/yonvonkim/

Human Lessons #105 - Yon

Second release on Marco Shuttle’s MSP solo label. This time it’s a 2 tracker reminiscent of his earlier works (“Sing like a bird“ or even “The Vox Attitude”), so a more 4/4 slower approach than his latest releases. The tracks were inspired by deep/tribal 90's progressive house that he heard playing in clubs in the North of Italy (where the producer is from) in those days.
These are very versatile tracks that would easily fit in both techno and (deep psychedelic) house territory.

Pre-order available from the featured Bandcamp link both for digital and 12" Vinyl on PVC sleeve + Insert (digital download included)

Pre-order

MSP02

Founded by Kreshik, Huveshta Rituals is a London-based record label focused on altered state frequencies and zephyr melodies.

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Outsiders: Huveshta Rituals w/ Kreshik @ Kiosk Radio 11.05.2025

Ra-ngom (ระงม) describes a swelling, resonant hum, a collective vibration of sound that entrances the senses. Following the path of Vinyan and Kāthā, Ragom marks the third curated cassette transmission from Siamese Twins Records.

A continuation of deep excursions across Asian terrains rooted in exploratory listening, psychic levitation, and serpentine flow. Ragom sources energy from the rhythmic ecology of Eastern nocturnal cycles, where cicadas rise in chorus and currents shimmer through thin air while rippling through consciousness. Creating an imaginary sonic reality through layered field recordings, raw electronics, and ceremonial textures, converting natural phenomena into granular soundscapes.

A meditative body of work, Ragom captures the quiet intensity of natural repetition: the kind that stirs slowly, building in waves until it becomes inescapable.

Mastered by Neel at Enisslab.
Artwork by Kissemet

@gonno @kissnuka @mayurashka @hiokgwa @sunjuhargun @tommy-hanson @surabhisaraf @tadi

Ragom

Ragom V.A. (snippets) - ST๐๑๒

For this month's mix, we welcome Maïore, a French and Berlin-based artist, vinyl selector, and curator of @preceptco. Maïore's sound is rooted in the deep, minimal, and dubby realms of electronic music, today he takes us on a journey through gentle melodies and subtle grooves, drifting between ambient and downtempo. This mix perfectly sets the mood for a slow summer day. Big thanks to Maïore for sharing his universe with us!

Tracklist: 

Yuka - Poem 24
Pontiac Streator - Lamp Fest
Susumu Yokota - Saku
Saunas - Infinitudes
Susumu Yokota - Deep Sea Diva
Priori - Sleepyhead
Huerta - Blanket Dub
Roger23 - Gathering Dust
Terrain - Singularity
Noah Lyas - Under The Sun (Adhémar Interpretation)
Prime Vertical - Sunset for Kon
Andaman - Vision II (Astronomy Domine Remix)
Alfred Czital - Transit 
Dream Dolphin - The Genesis: Yoga (New Age Ambience)
Duun - Losing Track w/ Discosexo

@maiore

Artwork by Sophie Vaillant

Conscious Listening Mix Series - 37 - Maïore

https://soundcloud.com/trancesettersofwestphalia live recording @ YAGA'25 Off the Map Duskwood Stage

Trancesetters of Westphalia @ YAGA'25 Off the Map

Undying Love

The Birth of Infinity

Back in early 2019, I released a single called Distant Visions. After hearing it, a fan commented:
“Almost sounds like something from a second interstellar suite.”

They were referring to my 2006 album The Maestoso Interstellar Suite—a project I re-released with extended material in 2016 for its 10-year anniversary. That comment stuck with me. Did it feel like a sequel? Could it be?

I toyed with the idea. But having just expanded the suite into a double-disc format in 2016, I wasn’t sure a sequel was the right move—especially given how the original was structured as a continuous, uninterrupted journey. I had also briefly considered a vinyl edition, but the flow of the piece and the 22-minute-per-side vinyl limit made it a poor fit for that format. The experience would have been compromised.

Around that time, I released a “radio edit” version of the suite called Singularities to provide an accessible entry point. But if I returned to the suite with new material, I feared I’d be stuck doing the same thing again: a full continuous version and a separate edited version. Frankly, I didn’t want to go through that process again—and since then, I’ve moved away from long single-track formats entirely.

Even then, I was already thinking about vinyl-friendly runtimes, aiming to keep my future projects under 44 minutes so they could fit comfortably on a single LP. I’ve also significantly upgraded my gear and virtual instrument libraries since that time, giving me access to orchestral and hybrid textures I could only dream of back then. Now I have the tools—but what should I do with them?

I thought: Maybe I don’t need a sequel at all. Maybe it’s not about making The Maestoso Interstellar Suite Part II, or Return to Maestoso, or anything like that. Maybe I just need to reimagine the entire idea as something ongoing—something open.

Looking back, I always felt I had to make compromises when producing the 10-year edition. Some sounds weren’t what I was hearing in my head. Hardware limitations forced me to bounce tracks just to finish mixing. I wanted that big, lush, hybrid orchestral sound—and I couldn’t quite get there.

Now I can.

And I’ve got older projects—like La Famille Du Solénoïde (The Family of Sol)—waiting for a modern update. Thematically, they fit perfectly.

So I’ve made a decision:
I’m not making a sequel to The Maestoso Interstellar Suite.

Instead, I’m creating something bigger.

Introducing Infinity

Infinity is an evolving series. A collection of volumes. A universe of sound that has no end—only pauses between stars. It’s not a sequel. It’s not a remix. It’s a living archive of exploration—part ambient, part orchestral, part space music, and completely me.

And to start, I’ll revisit the music that inspired it all.

I’ll go back and refine The Maestoso Interstellar Suite one final time—polish the edges, rework the structure to be vinyl-compatible, and finally bring it closer to what I always heard in my head.

But I won’t just re-release it.

I’ll rebrand it.

The Journey Begins

The Infinity series begins with:

Infinity Volume I – The Maestoso Interstellar Suite

Infinity Volume II – Singularities

Each will stand on its own—but together, they form the beginning of something open-ended. Something I can return to any time inspiration calls.

Infinity has no final tracklist. No end. Only volumes.

And when I’m ready, I’ll add another.

Maybe it’s a crazy idea. But that’s okay—I’m doing this for me.
And I hope you’ll enjoy the journey too.

🎧 Listen on your favorite platform:
🔗 owtt.lnk.to/infinity1BC  

Intermission II

Terra Silvis Operire 

Step by step I crept upon a greener ground
looked around for urban sights or city lights fight the urge to search for words of hurt familiar words I heard in broken towns that had I found I wondered how the place I left behind had kept a space inside my mind

despite the time, despite that I’m not in the city anymore the door I thought was shut for sure inside my head was cracked instead I nearly turned my back but then a man was standing next me I heard a word as sure as death said with soft sincerity

you’re inside the Forest now so go and feel the forest floor these parts are for the hearts that mourn and grieve, the green for those In need the trees and everything was made specifically to be a place of peace a place pause and a place of calm as you go along you way”

fin-ally my feet were free to run and roam home that now I know a woods he shown where grass was grown and where the wind is only blown a gentle breeze between the trees 
A softer green and subtle glow 
A momentary peace I get to know when I’m in forest


You can feel the air 
Begging for you to stop dead in your tears
It whispers, but you sing 
You can feel the air 
Tearing at the skin of your ears 
Addicted to the sting 

It whispers but you sing 
As you run in forest

Cover all the lands in forest
Cover all I am in forest

In Forest

Chang and Eng, born in 1811 in Siam (nowadays Thailand), were the first documented conjoined twin brothers. Their fame propelled the expression “Siamese Twins” to become synonymous for conjoined twins. It is also a record label based in Bangkok run by Sunju, Johan, Taychin and Yoshi. A home for authentic, tribally rooted sounds introducing Asian artists and creating symbiotic dialogues with producers around the globe.

Two heads, one path, one pace.