In anticipation of the 2023 edition of the MOSTRA Festival, with whom we joined forces to present you music from some of the most exciting and talented producers and DJs worldwide, in the next couple of weeks, we'll feature several truly outstanding music tales.

After an incredible mix from Aa Sudd, which we featured last week, the bar stays high with another mind-bending mix from Auxiliary affiliate Michael Watters aka Sciama. For Sciama, music is all about creating a world in which the listener can explore the many facets of human emotion, a journey inward that uncovers both the light and dark within us. 
And this mix is no different. The deep, trippy techno beats create a hypnotic atmosphere that transports the listener to the underground world, so deep that no sunlight ever penetrates. The exceptional programming and seamless transitions between tracks demonstrate Sciama's mastery of DJing. Every element of the mix has been flawlessly executed, making it a true pleasure to listen to. With this mix, Sciama has given us a taste of what's to come at the Mostra Festival, and it's sure to be an unforgettable experience.

Sciama is on opening duties on the closing day of the festival, Sunday, April 9, from 12pm - 2pm 

THE THREE AXES OF MOSTRA

Local
The pandemic highlighted the importance of local communities, local institutions and local support for one another. We at Mostra continue the commitment to our Local, not only by programming local artists on the line-up, but also through how we choose our suppliers and other collaborations in the city. And we go further: an exhibitors' Fira for the duration of the festival, generating our own media content during the year through MostRadio, the Mostra’m series of debates, seminars and conferences in parallel with the festival, and our ExtraMostra series of events in venues across Barcelona place Mostra’s roots firmly in their local environment.

Inclusive
Mostra is a festival that reflects on the realities that surround us in electronic music. We are committed to breaking the gender gap in a scene that is traditionally very masculinised. We try to reflect this in our programming, in our team, and in the values we promote: we want a friendly and safe space where there is no room for any kind of violence, and where respect for diversity is fundamental. We have developed our own protocol with a gender perspective, and we seek to raise awareness in a transversal way throughout the project.

Sustainable
Mostra is a festival that seeks to be a social and environmental benchmark through its actions. We follow the most up-to-date sustainable protocols and develop good practice in relation to both city and planet. We have created the role of Sustainability Director who leads and implements an action plan based on sustainable experiences; we limit the programming of artists from overseas to reduce our carbon footprint; and we are committed to contracting and collaborating with social integration and social and solidarity organisations from Barcelona.

ABOUT MOSTRA
We are a group of people with diverse backgrounds, but all closely linked to the electronic music and cultural scene in Barcelona and beyond, with involvement in projects such as Paral-lel Festival, Alpenglühen, Sónar+D, Fab Lab Barcelona, Comissió Nocturna, dublab


https://soundcloud.com/sciamamusic
https://www.instagram.com/sciamamusic/

www.mostra.barcelona
www.instagram.com/mostrabcn/

www.itsdelayed.com
www.instagram.com/_itsdelayed_
www.facebook.com/itsdelayed

more info about MOSTRA

Delayed x Mostra: Sciama

Bi-Monthly Topographical Conspiracies & Sonic Accountabilities recorded for Skylab Radio

skylab-radio.com

https://soundcloud.com/guia_gui

Artwork: Eofy

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Tlacactoc - Organic
Collective Composite - 1 
48 - Rouge et Bleu 
Periskop - Immerse (Component IV)
Steve Roach, Byron Metcalf - Shedding The Skin
Inner & Andiela - Les Temporlus Efimerus
Arséne Martinet - Deep Under
L’hermite Des Sombres - Clausla
Dscrd - Graphene
Clearlight - Sacred Juice
Harald Uunk - Meaning of a Sawtooth
Steve Roach, Robert Logan - Omnigen
Polygonia - Nyx (Clearlight Remix)
C.Ysme - Distance 
Mangruv - Kala (Unreleased)
Daniel[i] & Purl - Intimidate
Floid - Simr 
Moanda - Jungle Run 
Darkduction - From Bent Wood (Individuo Atemporal Remix)
First Order Approximation - Formal Attraction
Akkadien - Géomancy
Konduku - Rupsje
Two Monkeys - Slup
L’Uzure - L’Armoire à Disparaître

Faultlines E43 - GUI

@keinblume

Date: Thursday 10th April 2025
RSO, Berlin

𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿:

22:00 - sanguinica
00:00 - Scano
01:30 - Blume
03:15 - Marco Maldarella
05:00 - vSto

𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗛𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘅
Events: ra.co/promoters/128835
Instagram: www.instagram.com/heelix.berlin

Blume  ✧ HEELIX at RSO.Berlin [10.04.25]

@decadanceamsterdam's co-founder, aka hyoo takes us on a sonic odyssey where genres melt and morph. This podcast, both introspective and liberating, opens with psychedelic textures, half-time rhythms, and a mystical palette tinged with organic hues. Gradually, the journey deepens, drawn into the shadows of mental techno. Like a ritual burning out in the shadows, the mix ascends into cathartic drum & bass, summoning the first light of a rising sun…

★ links ★
@akahyoo

minuteuf 21 ★ aka hyoo

After a short break we are back with NFR043 and a great discovery all the way from Cuba. Album length electronic music expedition that will take from glorious ambient atmospheres to darker, groove based pieces. Release contains 8 original tracks and ambient rework by Motion Symmetry. We welcome a promising new name to our label - datasæt.

Bio:

datasæt is the musical project of Guillermo Ismael García Borges, a Cuban sound artist. His approach to music is guided by curiosity more than convention. Rather than relying on rhythm to drive movement, he's drawn to how sound interacts with thought, memory, and silence. His tracks often explore irregular patterns and textures, creating space for deep listening and sensory exploration—an invitation to wander through shifting sonic landscapes.

Guillermo has released music in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, and Spain. He is a resident at Quantum, a series of events based in Havana, Cuba, where he regularly plays extended, introspective sets that lean toward the experimental. His performances are less about control and more about surrender—offering a slow unfolding of emotion, tone, and presence.

Outside of music, he is a medical doctor with a strong interest in neuroscience, architecture, and computer programming—fields that subtly shape his creative process. These disciplines, each rooted in systems and structures, find resonance in his music, which often feels like a dialogue between precision and intuition, calculation and chance.

Mastering: Motion Symmetry
Canvas art: Storm Bee

NFR043

Recorded during the early hours of Sunday morning at Garage Noord at the Omen Wapta Weekender, this live set from Formant Value captures the essence of a weekend that transcended the club experience—where sound, space, and shared energy merged into something truly transformative.

Opening in slow motion, the set unfolds with a deep, psychedelic ambient current—echoes, pulses, and dub textures forming a wide sonic horizon. What follows is a steady, organic rise into tribal techno rhythms and hi-tech structures, maintaining a sense of spaciousness even at its most kinetic.

It’s a set that mirrors the architecture of the night itself: meditative, then elevating, then dissolving again. There are no sharp corners—just flow. Time felt suspended. Movement turned internal. And in the foggy warmth of the dancefloor, listeners were gently guided through a collective dreamspace.

Formant Value is known for his unique & sophisticated sound, that defies easy categorisation whilst nodding in the direction of downtempo, dub and IDM, with elements of D’n’B, trance and techno. His music has been released by a number of labels including Lowless Records, Well Street Records, Rgd tribe and Annulled Music. Adept at sustaining the fine tension between dancefloor energy and audiophile precision of intent home listening, Formant Value brings a uniquely fresh take on contemporary club music.

Follow:
https://soundcloud.com/formant-value
https://www.instagram.com/formantvalue/
https://linktr.ee/formantvalue


MNMT Recordings: Formant Value (live) — Omen Wapta Weekender, Garage Noord 2025

Woody92 pulled the crowd into a wormhole during his closing set at POLY 🌀

Relive the full set with video on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@TheCraveFestival

Location: Zuiderpark, The Hague
Stage: POLY
Genre: Leftfield electronics, hypnotic techno, and radiant minimalism
Date: 07.06.2025

Woody92 at The Crave Festival | Full  Closing Set at POLY

Siooqh Tales ༶ Liquid Bomb
@jude-scott-172151198

In this second tale, we enter a realm where sound behaves like a living organism - constantly shifting, regenerating, expanding.
Guided by intricate percussive rhythms, swampy low-end psychedelia, and delicate organic textures, this mix unfolds like a mysterious, ever-evolving entity.

Inspired by the Hydra: a tiny aquatic being capable of eternal regeneration; the narrative embraces transformation as its core. Each track flows into the next with seamless instinct, forming a wormhole-like soundscape that pulses with vitality and fluid mystery.

Rooted in the deep and shadowy realms of psychedelic dance music, this tale channels the vision of an Eora (Sydney)-based artist, co-founder of @cataphonic-895767264, whose sound flows between fast-paced tribal techno, trance, IDM, and raw organic atmospheres.
Balancing intensity with delicate rhythm, his mixes carve out spaces that are both disorienting and deeply immersive.

Siooqh Tales ༶ Liquid Bomb

X^x + Augmented Research - Scoped + Grainn
YOU ARE LISTENING TO THE LIVE RECORDING OF AUGMENTED RESEARCH FOUNDER SCOPED
CAPTURED AT OUR AUDIO VISUAL CONCERT IN STUTTGART CURATED IN
COLLABORATION OF X^x + @augmented_research .
THE VISUAL COUNTERPART WAS CREATED BY GRAINN,
WHOM WE ARE EXCITED TO WELCOM BACK FOR A VISAL CONTRIBUTION.
X^x + AUGMENTED RESEARCH HOPE'S YOU ENJOY THIS LITTLE REVIEW

SCOPED.
"Scoped creates an immersive listening experience that explores the evolution of our sonic environment from ancient times to a fictional future. Through organic soundscapes and experimental structures, he makes audible how our acoustic perception continuously shifts and adapts to new surroundings."

GRAINN.
"In seiner Performance erforscht grainn die Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Maschine. Audio- und kamerareaktive Signale, Live-Coding und -Patching sowie verschiedene Algorithmen generieren in Echtzeit Daten, die er in Max/Jitter skaliert und in visuelle Ebenen übersetzt. Die so entstehenden Bilder ergänzen, erweitern und untermalen das Live-Set von Scoped"



SOCIALS.

SCOPED.
SOUNDCLOUD.
https://soundcloud.com/scoped_ar
INSTAGRAM.
https://www.instagram.com/scoped_ar?hl=de

GRAINN.
SOUNDCLOUD.
https://soundcloud.com/grainn-music
INSTAGRAM.
https://www.instagram.com/adrianreich.ardt/?hl=de

AUGMENTED RESEARCH.
SOUNDCLOUD.
https://soundcloud.com/augmented_research
INSTAGRAM.
https://www.instagram.com/augmented.research/?hl=de

X^x + Augmented Research - Scoped + Grainn - 130425

OW12 Loek Frey - Nayan

Some things simply need time to brew. Loek Frey returns to Omen Wapta with his third release on the label: Nayan. The Amsterdam-based artist shares a long-standing friendship with label head Woody92 – keeping each other in motion as artistic peers since the label’s inception. Over time, they’ve built a shared archive of material: sound sketches, tracks, and sonic touchpoints – an ever-evolving third space where their paths continue to meet as they move in parallel. Nayan emerges from this deep-rooted exchange: a distilled six-track release that fuses Frey’s cerebral intricacy with the label’s primordial uncanniness, reaffirming both as key voices in a yet-to-be-defined sonic realm.

Diving into the release, Frey’s signature remains intact – tactile, spatial, and rhythmically precise – but a subtle shift is at play. A paring down. A move toward something more reduced, maybe even more patient, yet no less absorbing. The A side leans inward: deep pressure, spectral traces, and an undercurrent of tension that never quite resolves. It’s music for staying with, not escaping from. Flip to the B side and the palette widens – kicks land heavier, patterns loosen, textures fill the full frequency field. Still deeply rooted in the Wapta world, but with an assertiveness that whispers rather than shouts. Somewhere between absence and force.

With Nayan, Loek Frey carries his Omen Wapta narrative into new territory – merging restless experimentation with dancefloor intention.

A1. Uvan
A2. Lesa
A3. Antagon

B1. Nayan
B2. Gyra
B3. Taira
Nanza (Digital bonus)

Release date: September 23, 2025
Pre-order Bandcamp: https://omenwapta.bandcamp.com/album/nayan-2
Pre-order Clone: https://clone.nl/item80588.html

Written and produced by Loek Frey
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering
Sleeve design by Woody 's-Gravemade
Words by Brent van den Elshout

Distributed by Clone Records Rotterdam
Vinyl 12" & digital format via Clone and Omen Wapta Bandcamp

© Omen Wapta
Delft, The Netherlands est. 2021

OW12 Loek Frey - Nayan [preview]

rec-2025-10-242_7N9Vmkez.mp3

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