Campfire

“Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me...”

Stunning selection by @joachim-spieth of @affin

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Campfire Stories 66 (Alchemical) by Grant Aaron (Mysteries of the Deep)

~ About The Story ~

Alchemical

An organism glows
in this dark, dark room.
The light finds the cracks
in the walls

and stretches its languid arms
to enclose us, to hold us
against its vital pulse.
Tethered to a vibration

both familiar and unknown,
we are sent towards
a portal before
we are spit back into day—

kept close
until the night is done.
The heartbeat of the creature
then dissipates like cloud,

is alchemically transformed,
shifts shapes
like the shadow of fire
then finds its way

into our chests.
We carry our secrets
within them like lead,
lead that wants to be turned

into gold. It’s only a matter
of time before our chests
are unlocked.
When we open

each other up,
what’s underneath
spills out, and it is then
that we remember the pulse

never left – it only
hid itself beneath
our wrists, our lungs.
By the end we’ve lost the map

and know there’s no way back:
the person we were before
succumbs to the person
we’ve become.

- Taylor Bratches

~ Chapters ~

This set was recorded live at Return to the Source: No Way Back @ Tangent Gallery Detroit, Outer Space Room -- Sunday May 26, 2019.

Featuring selected tracks by Lingua Lustra, Thomas Ragsdale, Lua, Nathaniel Young, Organic Dial, Ekin Fil, Mind Over Midi, ASC, Sam KDC, Aleksi Perälä, Sylvia Monnier, Waveform Transmission, Black Zone Magick Chant, Toki Fuko, Vallmo, Mika Vainio, and O Yuki Conjugate.

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Patrick Hendry

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Campfire Stories 66 (Alchemical) by Grant Aaron (Mysteries of the Deep)

Campfire Stories 70 (The Solace of Water) by Chryslsm

~ About The Story ~

With those lonely bare branches,
Goodbye kisses of the dropping leaves,
And lonely leaves gathered into heaps,
Street scenes with yellowish tint,
Like it was washed with calmness.
Somehow this season gives solace.

~ Chapters ~

Chrysalism - Winter Rainfall (Field Recording, Location: Newlands)
Submersion – Circular I
Purl – Willow (Graft II)
Hotel Neon – The Eye’s Mind 
Araceae – Elemental Peninsula
Chrysalism - Spring River Stream (Field Recording, Location: Newlands Forest)
Purl – Terra Lumina (SVLBRD Remix)
Araceae – The Great Mystery
Submersion – Circular II (N. tibicen)
Warmth – Home 
Chrysalism - Waves in a Tidal Pool (Field Recording, Location: Hermanus)
Gallery Six - Harukaze
Porya Hatami - White Forest (Purl Remix)
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Summer Forest
The Green Kingdom - Aetherium Dub
Chrysalism - Harbour Life (Field Recording, Location: Kalk Bay Harbour)
Warmth - Isolation (SineRider Remix)
Olexa - Ancient Forest
Purl - Under Mjuka Vatten (Version)
SVLBRD - Bellsund 
Warmth - Isolation
Frank Sebastian - The Empty Quarter
Steve Pacheco - Monte Sol y Monte Luna
Gallery Six - Balloonfish
Powlos - 2140
Warmth - Anchorage (Leandro Fresco Remix)
Chrysalism - Sea and Segulls (Field Recording, Location: Cape Point)

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Kyle Peyton

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 70 (The Solace of Water) by Chryslsm

Campfire Stories 71 (Autumn Harvest) by Dixie (Acquario)

~ About The Story ~

Smoke hangs like haze over harvested fields, 
The gold stubble, the brown of turned earth 
And you walk under the red light of fall 
The scent of fallen apples, the dust of threshed grain
The sharp, gentle chill of fall 
Here as we move into the shadows of autumn 
The night that brings the morning of spring
Come to us, Lord of Harvest 
Teach us to be thankful for the gifts you bring us

~ Chapters ~

LF58 - Untitled (A1)
Voices From The Lake - Iyo
Feral - Moghul (Live at Acquario)
Nihar - Phantom
Deproducers - ISS (International Space Station)
natural/electronic.system. - Terrae Nullius
Rai Scott - Paradise of Crane (Valentino Mora Deep Blue Rephase)
Dorisburg - Risome
Viels - Blue Pt.1
BLNDR - Movement Strobe
Matthew Burton, Kate Rathod - Warehouse Fool
Tobias., Margaret - Test The West
Crossing Avenue - Santica
Hydrangea - Lucid Dreams
Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer - Reblazhenstva
Plastikman - Plasmatik
Heiko Laux - Presence (Brooklyn Beat Mix by In_Dicator)
Mike Parker - Internalized Action
Margaret Dygas - Day After
Atom™ - Cosmic Rehearsal
Wata Igarashi - Mood of the Machines, Pt. II
Primal Code - Mutara Speech
Peter Van Hoesen - Closing The Distance / Toy Universe
Porter Ricks - Bay Rouge
Isolated - Hate on Hate (Devianza Rework)
Toma Kami - Negative Extasy
The Aztec Mystic aka DJ Rolando ‎– Jaguar
Minilogue - Six Arms And One Leg

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~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Kimson Doan

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 71 (Autumn Harvest) by Dixie (Acquario)

Campfire Stories 72 (Through Time) by @jacopo_s 

~ About The Story ~

The river winds in from distant lands
With merciless power it turns stone to sand
Through its mysterious life, the very earth it commands
And Yet the fearful river still runs through our hands.
In torrents of furry where the deepest currents flow
The rivers wild waters surge with woe. For
Onward, forever, its destined to go
A permanent home it won't ever know.
The river runs from each of us
As a refugee of fear,
It knows in a blink it will be somewhere else
Its waves are really its tears.
It runs from the audacity  
Of the selfish human mind
As Its massive life capacity,
Of flora and fauna combined,
Are threatened by our antics and helpless to our crime
So the river runs on their behalf, from everyone, in time-
even within its whitecap foam
Water's yearning for a home
So roam does the water- endlessly,
till its long gone out of sight
The essential droplets of the river-
Nomads day and night. - Heavy Hearted

~ Chapters ~

Ground Tactics - Time Crystal
Material Objekt - Sagittarian
James Lewin - Drone 05
RSE - Beyond The Yellow Spotted Bamboo
RSE - Watery Grave
Iury Lech - Postmeridiano
Trisomie21 - Your Drem (edit)
Ultrafog - OIO
Dj Nobu - Zzzz
Isorinne - Gazing at the Ghosts of the Night Sky
Purl - Red Islands
Mika Vainio - Ilta
Intelligent Chaos - Untitled #1
Black Rain - Black Mother Kali Gandaki
Navicon Torture Technologies - Genuflection
RSE - Bidgetown
Mark Van Hoen - Past Glories
Bowery Electric - Postscript
Seefeel - Rupt
Bowery Electric - Beat
Autocreation - Dark Smile
Mark Van Hoen - Tales
Significant Other - Triptan
Yves Tumor - Limerence
Ana Roxanne - In A Small Valley
Susumu Yokota - Waters Edge

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: David Tovar

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 72 (Through Time) by Jacopo

Campfire Stories 80 (Hiding) by @paulakoski

~ About The Story ~

And when I look back on it
I had a wonderful time
Hiding from the light
Often tucked away
Nervously picking flowers

~ Chapters ~

Eyvind Blix - Unreleased
Cio D'Or - Tomorrow Was Yesterday (rring)
Ataxy - Aurora
Hydrangea - Ambient I
Below Sky - Clarendon
Corell - Derrida Dreams
Dasha Rush - Outer Space
Peter van Hoesen - BCHLBNG-6
Claudio PRC - Distacco
Camilla Pisani - The Kinetic Melody of Babel
Ruff Cherry - Keeper
Rrose - Hymn to Moisture
Eyvind Blix - Unreleased
Härdstedt - Rocenta
Javier Marimon - Illusions
SHXCXCHCXSH - MDDDSSLLKRR
Eggbox - Le Songe Du Grimpoteuthics
ASC - Ocean Shadow
Unknown
Kangding Ray - N/N Peaks
Droneghost - Thirty Three (Elle 48h No Sleep Remix)
Ligovskoi - Labiate (Abdulla Rashim Remix)
Ataxy - Holes In the Clouds
Cloistral - Ոչ մի սպասում
Vactrol Park - Adria
Isorinne - Flashbacks
Corell - Blank Pouring
Oisel - Espansione
Winter In June - Dearly Beloved
Jan Jelinek - Lady Gaga, you once said in an interview that you write music for the fashion industry. Is fashion as important to you as music?
Monolake - Cubicle
Ligovskoi - Behaim
Camilla Pisani - Where Where You When The Stars Went Out

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Unknown

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 80 (Hiding) by Paula Koski

Campfire Stories 81 (Night Walk) by @solace-mixes

~ About The Story ~

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

~ Chapters ~

Doctrina Natura - "The Sacred Circle" // Aarden Records
!nertia - "Forest Of Hope" // ANAØH
Hydrangea - "5 O'Clock" // Annulled
Sonitus Eco - "Past Forms" // Shaded Explorations
Winter in June & Vâyu - "Dance of The Kachinas" // Kizen Records
Epsilon - "Cyclon" // IO
Dust Yard - "Crepuscular" // Lowless
Holotropic - "Moonchild" // NYAME
Holotropic - "Hieroglyph" // NYAME
Primal Code - "Annie's Diaries" // Hypnus Records
Owl - "Meridian Lands" // Kornarion
Natasha Giordano - "Make Yourself Particles" // Anekoic Records
Dino Sabatini - "Apparition" // Outis Music
Saphileaum - "Treated By Herbs And Fire" // Oslated
BLNDR - "Untitled 1" // Hypnus Records
The Alchemical Theory - "Eclissi" // Annulled
SVLBRD - "Flint" // Faint
Saphileaum - "Golden Tunic" // Silent Season
natural/electronic.system. - "Terrae Nullius" // Tikita
Droneghost - "Thirty Three" (Elle 48h No Sleep Remix) // Hypnosis Galaxy Explorers
Organit - "Totem II" // Organit
Olorun - "Kodo" // IDO Records
Saphileaum - "Forest Deity" // Silent Season
Valentino Mora - "Raising" // DEMENT3D
Nahualism - "Strange Jungle" (Doctrina Natura Remix) // Secuencias Temporales
MTRL - "Esa" // Lowless
Mown - "Intrication" // Norite Records

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Amrit Leone

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 81 (Night Walk) by Solace

Welcome to the 264th Chapter of the Deep Electronics Podcast. A weekly released serie that brings you a diversity into the abyss of deep electronic music. This weeks is a brand new and fresh set is created by K4MMERER. This almost 3h set contains only tracks created by him.  A diversity of genres and sounds making this a good representation of his discography.

About K4MMERER: 

Hooked on electronic music since heard an early EP by Depeche Mode in London in the eighties. Played piano/keyboard for many years but started producing about 10 years ago. A long-held fascination with science fiction and especially the question of how human kind (or a product thereof) eventually will leave the Earth is inspiration for this ambient 3-album-series named “On why dark goes orange”. These albums blend electronic instruments and contemporary influences to produce a “merge” of synthetic and authentic sounds. Very much like how the future will be, most likely ;-)
THE ALBUMS:
On Why Dark Goes Orange, Chapter I
On Why Dark Goes Orange, Chapter II - Circuits or Vessels
On Why Dark Goes Orange, Chapter III - Post-Human

THE SONGS:
1. Edger
2. Expander
3. Computer
4. Dreamer
5. Traveler
6. Bridger
7. Bender
8. Ender
9. Darker
10. In front
11. Theme for red cities
12. Just
13. Mining meaning
14. Intelligerese
15. Change matters
16. K4 Algorithm - Part I
17. K4 Algorithm - Part II
18. Who are You
19. Prologue - Question More
20. Centersubjective
21. Masshaber
22. Nodistance
23. Fortuitousness
24. Visitor
25. Beyond
26. Ingenuity
27. Externalised
28. Down
29. Epilogue - What if
30. Bitpipe

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/turbogeneration
https://www.jamendo.com/artist/341642/k4mmerer

Artwork created by Jeroen

Deep Electronics # 264 - K4MMERER

Campfire Stories 85 (Cloudwalker) by @w_a_r_m_t_h

~ About The Story ~
 
This is what it is
to be still.

Steamclouds exhale
from raggedback ridges—
sheer scarp of ice
shouldering through cloud.
And every crown of leaves lit
by candles plucked from the sun.

My grandma is here
in these cedars
elbowing into the yard
to remind me—
Night is coming.
Tend the fire, the animals.
Call a friend.

Wind voices here
don’t so much howl
as growl, so low—
you think it’s your ears,
doing a bad seashell.
But you know, as you fall
down the tumble of forest
to the lake—all
is listening.
- Sean Arthur Joyce

~ Chapters ~

Part 1
Robert Farrugia - Little Chimes
Moss Covered Technology - Gen #4
Pepo Galán - Bleeding Eyes (Shuta Yasukochi Remix)
Shinji Wakasa - Cold Forest Wolves
36 - Soul Boundary
r beny -  Sérac
Ant'lrd & Benoît Pioulard - Elan
The Green Kingdom - Untitled (The Green Kingdom Ambimix)
Benoît Pioulard - Grane
Eduardo Briganty - Espejismo

Part 2
Warmth - Extent (Powlos Remix)
Ian Hawgood - Of Fragile Waters' Path
Purl - Renovatio
Robert Farrugia - Tlellix
Glåsbird - Hvítar Fjöll
Suso Saiz - Inmersion 241
David Cordero & Miguel Otero - Simancón
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Mountain Stream
Warmth - Dögun
Gray Acres - Touchstones

Part 3
ASC - Idyll Of Sorrow
Tobias Hellkvist - Deadfall, Sothering, Taghairm
Warmth - The Mourning
Araceae - Gleaming Embers
ASC - Surrounded By Silence
Steve Pacheco - Emanate
Pepo Galán - February (With Rafael Anton Irisarri)
Hotel Neon - Chasms
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Elevado Como Barrilete
SVLBRD - The Void
José Soberanes - Sobre Tus Aguas
Warmth - Soil

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Patrick Hendry

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 85 (Cloudwalker) by Warmth

Monument presents Alpengluhen#55 
F-on & Jamie mcCue (@silent-season) 
January 10th, 2021.

Streaming event (and video) at https://youtu.be/Ob12-N7nJb8
thanks @monument-podcast for making it possible

Campfire

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