Mixes

@vardaemusic & @toe_music

Vardae and Toe are electronic music artists known for their collaborative work, blending techno with experimental sounds. Their release, "Rao", dropped in 2024 under Monochrome Records, features atmospheric textures and dynamic rhythms that push the boundaries of genre. Their music often draws from techno, dub, and drum & bass, creating immersive soundscapes that stand out in the underground scene.

https://monochromerecords.bandcamp.com/album/prim-rwald-ii

Special thanks to Vardae and Toe for their generous collaboration with Perpendicular project, performing Friday at 11 PM.

Perpendicular is a self managed and private festival held somewhere in the woods of central Spain.

Artwork: Javier Marimon (@javiermarimon)

Vardae & Toé @ Perpendicular 2024

Mixed and compiled by https://soundcloud.com/fun_s

GLYKMIX55 / Funes - To get me closer to what is here

024 - TT_

We are very happy to welcome Leipzig based artist Funes to our podcast series. For our next event he will be in charge of the chill out stage Trakt III

@fun_s

Next Event: 27.07.24 @ IFZ

funes // aequalmix #17

Enter the world of SBS through his latest mix for SKIN, where low frequencies, irregular intensities, and rhythmic patterns are fused with glitchy atmospheres. His music style is defined by these unique elements, creating an unpredictable experience.

SBS draws inspiration from conversations with others about music, blending styles, and observing performances of artists who approach music in new ways. 

“I often envision imagined scenarios I want to convey with sounds. Or at least, try to convey. Sometimes it can be accurate or it can lead to new situations. For this set , I tried to convey sounds that resonate with a high voltage substation which operates at max capacity, moments before total system failure. I'm making it intense.”

His sets are curated with tracks that feature novel sounds, low frequencies that resonate with both mind and body, and rhythmic patterns that surprise. SBS enjoys playing tracks in unexpected ways, such as drastically altering the bpm to create a different feel, or combining music that wouldn’t typically go together. The result? An experience that makes listeners think, "What am I listening to right now?"—a blend of energy and combinations that resonate with the subconscious mind, turning introspective or absent-minded.

Follow SBS
SC: @sbs_simon
IG: https://www.instagram.com/sbs_simon/

Art work by @remma0

SKIN #023 SBS

Recording of my opening set for the Crevasse IX Party w/ Kontinum, Medha, Satoru @ Unter Null, Leipzig - 07.12.2024

Crevasse IX @ Unter Null 07.12.2024

Recording of my opening set for the KassaClub Party w/ Mareena & Hannes @ Kassablanca Jena 25.10.2024

KassaClub w/ Mareena & Hannes - Opening Set @ Kassablanca Jena 25.10.2024

We first came across Funes through his engaging sets, continuously unfolding layers that pull you deeper in. When we got in touch, he shared his perspective on music beyond the club, how he uses it as a personal outlet to channel emotions and craft something beautiful. For Funes, music isn't just something you listen to; it's a space to reflect, lose yourself, and create a meaningful connection with the world around you, something we deeply resonate with. This podcast is a continuation of his exploration of sound and self.

Through this mix, Funes invites you to experience deep, melancholic pads, cinematic textures, hypnotic rhythms, and the heartbeat of techno, dub, noise, and experimental elements. He also integrates music without a beat, reflecting his love for breaks and bass. His vision extends beyond the dance floor: "With my music, I want to create a special sphere that goes on a deeper level where you have to engage seriously with what you are listening to," he shares. “Music for me also has a significant relevance at alternative spaces, i.e., at home, where it is possible to take you on a kind of dreamy journey and open your mind in another way."

The release of Agonia in 2021 marked a defining moment in Funes's path. Self-released on Bandcamp, the album was deeply personal, created as a way to process the loss of his father who passed away three years earlier. “Life is very complex, and with music, you can give it a kind of sonic picture,” he explains. This powerful emotional outlet has become central to his artistic identity, allowing him to transform life’s contrasts—the dark and the bright—into inspiration.

By combining the track selection for this mix, Funes hopes to create spaces to forget, gain spirituality, and find meaning. 

We invite you to listen with the same openness that has fueled his creative evolution.

Tracklist:
Sa Pa - Deepwater Reprise
Loek Frey - Evane
Marco Shuttle - Ritmo Elegante
Formant Value - Funzione II
Crossing Avenue - Santica
Solma - Dry
Absis - The Wire
Vardae - San Caravan
Pianeti Sintetici - Gloomy Tundra
Minùr - October
Sciama - Charon
Sindh - Massane
Reeko - Urmah 5
Priori, Al Wootton - Seclusion
R-010 - Exhaust Pipes (Absis Remix)
Stenny - In a Distant Light

Follow Funes: 
https://soundcloud.com/fun_s
https://funes171.bandcamp.com/ 

Artwork by Nathalie Valenta

SKIN #029 Funes

Neon Cleptu 33
Motional peace. For this episode I’d like to welcome Haumea. 
@haumea-8

Haumea's contribution marks a vibrant light-helixes of vortexical sound involving sorrow-joy cascades into motional peace & silent selfhood surrounded. Threads are coming together. 
The Amsterdam based Chile born sets the tone for this years series. The mix contains on work of the artist himself. Keep a close eye on him. This is not the last you hear from him...

I’m very pleased that he participated and will be the one to guide us through his musical fascinations.

Broadcasted 23.01.2025
www.lyl.live

Neon Cleptu 33 → Haumea

For our 31st podcast, we want to welcome Night Garden. Born in London & having lived in Bristol, James Laing aka Night Garden draws from the sounds of those two cities, alongside musical knowledge gained during his classical compositional training. With releases on Melifera, Bahn, Indefinite Pitch, and Bait, his music combines modern sound design with classical theoretical ideas. 

Night Garden is a musical project embodying an imagined space between our conscious reality & the land of dreams. It is a liminal point in space & time; a home to drifting forms & sounds unknown. Suspended in a twilight haze, its nebulous inhabitants float into distant obscurities, shedding ephemeral traces from their transient skin.

Night Garden draws inspiration from extensive reading on nature and philosophy, endlessly amazed about the diversity of life. A particular interest lies in the diversity in body technology of different species & how their body composition impacts their felt experience “Fish, for example, sense the world in a completely different way than we do, which I find amazing,” he explains. Trying to understand a whole different way of sensing the world is something he finds inspiring. His musical projects are often inspired by thought processes that stem from sources like these.

 For this mix, Night Garden sets the scene in a damp, dense, dimly lit environment. “"The introduction focusses on electronics which are abstract and machine generated, yet reminiscent of sounds from the natural world. This juxtaposition is something that I often look for in music”.

Enjoy this fluid piece of art <3

Follow Night Garden: 
SC: @soundsfromthenightgarden
LT: https://linktr.ee/nightgarden
IG: https://www.instagram.com/soundsfromthenightgarden/ 

Tracklist:
•	Altjira - Atvelope
•	Eric Holm - Bivalve
•	Yuri Urano - Hole
•	Lemna - Ripple
•	Kick21 - Bright Interface 
•	Homelander - Lux Taal
•	Absis - The Wire
•	Sindh - Jangil
•	Ruff Cherry - Ixchel
•	D3Z - Primitvo
•	Kahn - Way Mi Defend (Kami O Bootleg)
•	Mohamad Kafarsoussa - Mount a Rebellion
•	Aikanã - The Relic
•	S.soo - Jug (Øbsidiaän Remix)
•	Ikiryō - Horā
•	Karim Maas - CCED
•	Yogg - Exercise In Tragedy 
•	Sindh - Galathea

SKIN #031 Night Garden

Intrigued by dreaming—hence the name Altjira—his music mirrors his own dreamtime, creating a surreal, dream-infused journey of the mind. This mix reflects his creative process with a balance of minimalism and layered depth, where each layer reveals itself gradually

Though his style is diverse, atmospheric electronica and ambient is always at the core with a some kind of psychedelic edge to it. His main sources of inspiration in music are abstract electronica producers from the 90's like Chris Carter and Khan & Walker, which you will also hear in this mix.

Altjira recently released his debut album, “Flux Serpent” which he has been working on for the last couple of years with the support of Spekki Webu & Sun Genam. 

He believes in letting the music speak for itself, so sit back and allow the textures of this mix to unfold naturally.

Follow Altjira:
SC: https://soundcloud.com/altjiramara 
IG: https://www.instagram.com/altjiramara/ 
BC: https://mirrorzone.bandcamp.com/album/flux-serpent

SKIN #032 Altjira

It's an honor to welcome Amsterdam's Loek Frey to our series, whose meticulous attention to detail and eminent experimentalism command the mind's attention like no other. The OQAD label head and Omen Wapta collaborator invites us to peer delicately beyond the edge, unveiling a hyperintense, subsonic blur through which a primordial palette begins to emerge. I've been looking forward to sharing this episode for quite some time, and to revel in this blend of artistry and precision was truly worth the wait. Thanks Loek!

@loekfrey

Artwork by Sofia Lambrou.

Sure Thing Mix 137: Loek Frey

Shelter presents “Aveen” — the third installation in our genre-agnostic compilation series.

To follow up 2023’s “Feyrûse” and 2024’s “Mizgîn”, we have curated an emotionally charged collection of 17 tracks that press against the debilitating realities of life in the mid-2020s. The title stems from a Persian word meaning “pure” or “transparent” — signaling a search for unfiltered and sincere artistic expression in the midst of a social climate filled with smoke and mirrors.

“Aveen” features Shelter’s most international line-up to date, with music from 18 artists spread across 13 countries and 5 continents displaying their signature sounds shaped by their local scenes and cultures. 

Flowing through mutated shades of ambient, hypnagogic pop, trance, leftfield techno, neo-perreo, and GQOM — the compilation connects the myriad influences and mind-states of electronic musicians from nearly every corner of the world and tethers them together into a cathartic 17-track excursion.


Klahrk – Lets Keep This Moving

Stars of the grand

Petchup Kacket

Petchup Kacket <(0_0)>

Encouraging the embracement of auditory landscapes, fostering an environment where unfamiliar sounds intermingle with one's auditory journey

Amsterdam based

contact: funes171@t-online.de

20 06 25 Room 909 @  Halle

06 02 25 Tifrit Festival @ Morocco
07 12 24 Crevasse IX @ Unter Null, Leipzig
25 10 24 w/ Mareena & Hannes @ KassaClub, Jena
27 07 24 aequalis @ Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig
17 12 23 2PM Club @ ostend, Leipzig
10 09 23 Giegling @ Pittlerwerke, Leipzig

SKIN #029 Funes

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