Identity formation

As the night begins and the world falls quiet,
Our minds start to wander,
Drifting off into the realm of dreams.
Like a stream flowing through the wilderness,
Dreams meander and twist,
Taking us on an unexpected journey.  

(by @faruambient)

For the first installment of our ‚Identity formation‘ podcast series, we have the honor to present you a carefully curated 3-h-long mix by @faruambient, one of our favorite artists. Faru is a multifaceted artist based in Berlin, known for his captivating Drone and Ambient music. His compositions are inspired by his love of nature and crafted using his field recordings of the world. Faru's music has been described as a dreamy, natural orchestra, with its focus on subtle movements, shaped noise, and harmonics of nature.

To learn more about Faru, we invite you to check out his Bandcamp (faru.bandcamp.com), website (faru.online), SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/faruambient), as well as his other projects @faruphoto and @farusart (Instagram). The cover picture, taken at the magical Fanal forest in the north-west part of Madeira, was also provided by him. 

We thank Faru for contributing to our newly established platform, the trustful and enriching communication and wish him the best for his further journey as an artist. If everything goes as planned, you can expect more from him on studio bb soon. 

As always, if you like the podcast, please don’t forget to give it a Like, Comment and/or Repost, to support both our community and the artist. If you have questions regarding the mix, you’re always welcome to contact us. You can find the Tracklist enclosed.

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Tracklist

Faru - Fieldrecording 
Celer - Central Park
Thomas Köner - Sera (Faru live edit)
Our Lady Of The Flowers - And So To Bed	
Faru - Moment To Moment
Dialog - Side C
Hilyard - Mantle Of Memories
Man Of No Ego - Galactic Girl (Labs cloud Ambient Remix)
Rod Modell - Cool Watery Depth
Viul - Sewn
Goldfrapp - Hairy Trees
KMRU - Mood
Man Of No Ego - Web Of Life (Labs cloud ambient remix)
Nils Frahm - Lemon Day
Joachim Spieth - Solstice
Biosphere - Too Fragile to Walk on
Faru - Transcendent Entity
Be Still the Earth & Stilhed - Disclosure
Mount Shrine - Gray-Tinged Suburbs
Taennya - Hare Footprints
Be Still the Earth & Silhed - Emergence
Rod Modell & Marit Wolters - Cocoon
Taennya - Natural Serenity 
Hilyard - Spirals
Science of sleeping x spacecraft - Thebe
Science of sleeping x spacecraft - Callisto
Yves Tumor - Limerence

Identity formation listening session - 1 - The Flow of Dreams [by Faru]

The voice of the prophet was heard 
across the desert, thunderous 
The falconer called for his hawk 
in vain, no answer received 
Sea and blood overwhelm me 
shrouding my every thought 
Empty eyes, blurry, dead 
Rise ancient curse, rise! 
The world is now ready.

(by Kostas Lagos)

For the second installment of our ‚Identity formation‘ podcast series, we are proud to introduce Off Land (@offland-1). Formed in 2004 by Tim Dwyer, Off Land is influenced by music such as Javanese gamelan, ambient techno, and meditative drone. Tim's music is sparse yet texturally intricate, lying in some sort of electro-acoustic limbo between Namlook's more dusty ambient collaborations, emotive landscapes, and pulsating rhythmic structures.

For virtual performance booking inquiries, you can contact Tim at fullsourcemusic@gmail.com. We invite you to check out this amazing artist via his web presence https://linktr.ee/OffLand.

We thank Off Land for contributing to our newly established platform, the wonderful mix and wish him the best for his further journey as an artist. If everything goes as planned, you can expect more from him on studio bb soon.

As always, if you like the podcast, please don’t forget to give it a Like, Comment and/or Repost, to support both our community and the artist. If you have questions regarding the mix, you’re always welcome to contact us. You can find the Tracklist enclosed.

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Tracklist

0:00:00 01 Jogging House - OK (2022)
0:06:19 02 Dentist - Spray (2011)
0:11:08 03 Specta Ciera & The Circular Ruins - Blue Sky Water (2014)
0:12:35 04 gras - fuge für zwei oszillatoren in g-moll (2006)
0:15:10 05 Off Land - Unidentified (2022)
0:17:29 06 Meta Mora - Hollow Maps (2016)
0:24:28 07 John Beltran - Thank Goodness I Found You (2020)
0:29:53 08 Sonmi451 - Valavond (2012)
0:34:46 09 Aythar - Waft (2017)
0:43:05 10 renniac - was wir haben (2006)
0:49:11 11 Deru - 1979 (2014)
0:53:50 12 Synthi-A - Surrounding the Garden is a Fog (2018)
0:58:21 13 IJO - Ovel (2009)
0:59:57 14 Segue - House of Cards (2012)
1:06:58 15 Urenga - Coral Reef (2011)
1:12:56 16 Marcus Nero - peak (2020)
1:16:13 17 øjeRum - Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers (2022)
1:22:54 18 Tone Color - In Bruges (2013)
1:24:36 19 James Bernard - Growth (Off Land Recycle) (2022)
1:28:40 20 marow - patina [we wrote so many stories] (2010)
1:32:46 21 Mel - Un  (2009)
1:35:44 22 Kane Ikin - In The Shadow Of The Vanishing Night (2012)
1:40:11 23 øjeRum - Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky (2022)
1:49:43 24 Graffiti Mechanism - Letting Go (2011)
1:54:56 25 Off Land - Egressives (cat's dream mix) (2014)

Identity formation listening session - 2 - Ancient Cycles [by Off Land]

Why do I like so much spheres? 
Maybe ‘cause they turn and turn and turn 
On their axes 
Here everything must change 
But they don't 
They turn and turn and turn 
On their axes

(by Mariarosalia Arico)

For the third installment of our ‚Identity formation‘ podcast series, we are thrilled to announce Kraut Sounds (@kraut-sounds). Kraut Sounds lives in the South of Germany. Originally started in spring 2012 as a dub techno project, evolving since then into an experimental electronic outfit with deep ambient roots and a certain kraut electronic vein.

Kraut Sounds released numerous EPs, albums and live sessions for several dub techno, ambient and drone netlabels: Büro für Erdrotation, Terra Rossa, Spiel:feld Records, Diametral, Dimbideep Music, Drone Works International (all Germany), Whitelabrecs (UK), Stellar Transition (France), Adept Label (Spain) and Dub Techno Blog (UK).
Podcasts of Kraut Sounds can be heard at Deep Electronics, Echogarden, Hello Strange, Spiel:feld, Moshitaka and Technopoetry.

Kraut Sounds has a side project named Polaroid Notes for piano, contemporary classical and ambient sounds. Up to now Polaroid Notes has done several digital and limited edition CD releases on British labels Whitelabrecs, Tessellate Recordings and Audio Gourmet as well on German Büro für Erdrotation, Drone Works International, Weber & Alcantu and Gallery Mol.

If you want to learn more about the artist, please check out his links: 
@kraut-sounds
krautsounds.bandcamp.com/
facebook.com/krautsounds/
@polaroid-notes
polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/polaroidnotes

We thank Kraut Sounds for contributing to our newly established platform, the wonderful mix and wish him the best for his further journey as an artist. If everything goes as planned, you can expect more from him on studio bb soon.

As always, if you like the podcast, please don’t forget to give it a Like, Comment and/or Repost, to support both our community and the artist. If you have questions regarding the mix, you’re always welcome to contact us. You can find the Tracklist enclosed.

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Tracklist

01. Erik Mowinckel – Til Skogen [Dewtone Recordings]
02. Kraut Sounds – Spheres [Büro für Erdrotation]
03. Loscil – Trap [Kranky]
04. Blochemy – Eilo [Whitelabrecs]
05. Andrew Tasselmyer – Missing Pieces Of Self [Laaps]
06. Kraut Sounds – Lichens [Büro für Erdrotation]
07. Apostrophe – Monotonuos In Emin [Selfrelease]
08. James Murray – Holloways [Ultimae]
09. Lofield – One Last Candle [Selfrelease]
10. Velo Di Nebbia – Luminoso [Drone Works International]
11. Harry Towell & Andrew Heath – Oolithia [Whitelabrecs]
12. Adriaan Swerts – One [Piano and Coffee Records] 
13. Nils Frahm – The Dog With 1000 Faces [Leiter]
14. Kraut Sounds – Media Luna [Deep Electronics]
15. Andarctica – At Rest [Rusted Tone Recordings]
16. Polaroid Notes – All Is White [Büro für Erdrotation]
17. Polaroid Notes – Walk Away In Silence [Büro für Erdrotation]
18. Andrew Tasselmyer – Loop of What Once Was Beautiful [Somewhere Cold Records]
19. Pruski – Moment VII [Whitelabrecs]
20. Ian Hawgood – A Song For The Humble Bee [Handstitched]
21. The Green Kingdom – Arfive [Lotanto Series]
22. Havenaire – A Temporary Relief [Past Inside The Present]
23. Loscil – Kursk [Kranky]
24. SVLBRD – Tundra [Faint]
25. Apostrophe – A Lullaby [Selfrelease]
26. N + Licht-ung – Halb, zwei / ein Wagen voller Sterne [Licht-ung]
27. Tomoyoshi Date – Netsu (33rpm) [Laaps]

Identity formation listening session - 3 - Living in Spheres [by Kraut Sounds]

Who has seen the wind? 
Neither I nor you. 
But when the leaves hang trembling, 
The wind is passing through. 
Who has seen the wind? 
Neither you nor I. 
But when the trees bow down their heads, 
The wind is passing by.

(by Christina Georgina Rossetti)

For the fourth installment of our ‚Identity formation‘ podcast series, we are happy to present Mind over MIDI (@mind-over-midi-1). Hailing from Kristiansund on the northwest coast of Norway, Helge Tømmervåg has been crafting electronic sounds since the early '80s. His earliest work recorded under the now-familiar Mind over MIDI moniker arrived in the early '90s. He's released scores of highly regarded and stylistically uncompromising sounds over the years, appearing on labels including Silent Seasons, Diametric, Hibernate, Whitelabrecs, ROHS! Lontano Series, Shimmering Moods Records, Slow Tones Collages and via his own Berserk Fabrik.

His music can be described as sounds for daydreamers and nighthinkers. Inspired by the icy winds, snowy vistas and frozen landscapes in Norway.

If you can picture the very furthest, coldest, darkest part of Norway, that's where Mind over MIDI resides. If you want to get an idea of what it's like there, and can do without the frostbite, then this is the perfect solution.

If you want to learn more about the artist, please check out his links:

https://linktr.ee/mindovermidi

Also, we invite you to check out his new album 'Escapism' (CD ltd 50 • DL • stream), released on March 31.

We thank Mind over MIDI for contributing to our recently established platform, the wonderful mix and wish him the best for his further journey as an artist. If everything goes as planned, you can expect more from him on studio bb soon.

As always, if you like the podcast, please don’t forget to give it a Like, Comment and/or Repost, to support both our community and the artist. If you have questions regarding the mix, you’re always welcome to contact us. You can find the Tracklist enclosed.

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Tracklist

Brian Eno - In the Uncanny Valley
William Basinski & Janek Scaefer - ... on reflection (five)
Deaf Center - Undone
Seabuckthorn - Rest House 
Ecovillage - Memories of Spring
Romance & Dean Hurley - Amnesia
Twin Color - Going Home
Romance - I've Been Blown by the Wind
Arovane - Fern
Loscil & Lawrence English - Aqua
Triola - Kupferblüte
Celer - Woodoo Crowds untitled loop 4
Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Barn_Aband
COH meets Abul Mogard - Find and Hold
Félicia Atkinson - The House That Agnes Built
Biosphere - Tranoy Lighthouse
Part Timer - Myr
Taylor Deupree - Twirl
Alva Noto - Xerrox Canaux
Biosphere - Kobresia (alternative version)
Mind over MIDI - Last Embrace v2 / outro

Identity formation listening session - 4 - Icy Winds [by Mind over MIDI]

I Found you and I lost you, 
All on a gleaming day. 
The day was filled with sunshine, 
And the land was full of May. 

A golden bird was singing 
Its melody divine, 
I found you and I loved you, 
And all the world was mine. 

I found you and I lost you, 
All on a golden day, 
But when I dream of you, dear, 
It is always brimming May.

(by Paul Laurence Dunbar)

@trommellive, the name that hides behind Sergio Garcia, settled in Madrid few years ago. His beginnings were more focused-on techno during his youngest stage, thereafter he began feeding his musical knowledge through experimental sounds, field recordings, audiovisual design and visual art, without leaving his origins.

With a voracious search for textures and a part of organic electronic music, in December 2015 his first debut album "Siete Emociones" (seven emotions) was published, his name being one of the renowned by the record label that published him: NXT RECORDINGS.

Some media describe his music as a warm sentimentalism that fusions more cerebral and abstract sounds, becoming one of the new promises in avant-garde electronic music. In 2016, he was nominated for best live by vicious magazine awards. On July 22 of 2018 he publishes a new single by the label SUNGATE RECORDS, with an EP of 4 tracks in vinyl format that is having a positive impact with the most important media nationally and internationally.

Apart from clubs, gigs and festivals where he has taken his music into different corners of Spain, he has also participated creating his own music for different cultural events like museums.

If you want to learn more about the artist we invite you to check out following links:
www.instagram.com/nodo.records/
www.instagram.com/atomsforbeats/
linktr.ee/trommel_nodo

We thank Trømmel for contributing to our recently established platform, the wonderful mix and wish him the best for his further journey as an artist. If everything goes as planned, you can expect more from him on studio bb soon.

As always, if you like the podcast, please don’t forget to give it a Like, Comment and/or Repost, to support both our community and the artist. If you have questions regarding the mix, you’re always welcome to contact us.

Identity formation listening session - 5 - A Golden Day [by Trømmel *live]

All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

(by William Carlos Williams)

Dear listeners, welcome to another episode of the Identity formation listening sessions. While we usually only publish podcasts on the first Sunday of the month, we have decided to release some podcasts from our collection to give you the opportunity to enjoy this quite time with some new soothing music. Our ninth installment is curated by none other than Jeroen Smulders, also known by his artistic moniker "Monosphere", and the the visionary mind behind @deep_electronic.

Monosphere aka Jeroen Smulders from the Netherlands is the founder of Deep Electronics, a deep music podcast and netlabel that explores the deep diversity in music. He was introduced to electronic music in the 80s with the music of Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis. In the 90's he explored the many genres such as techno, ambient and goa/psychedelic trance as well as artists from the past such as Klaus Schultz and Kraftwerk. In later years, his interest in more experimental and deeper electronic music led him to dubtechno and dub-related subgenres.

In 2013 he started his channel to collect this music and other genres in tracks and guest mixes from all over the world, combined with his own photography.

He has also released many sets on prestigious channels such as Poisonoise, Dub Explorations from Quandrant Soundscape, Spclnch, Dub Techno TV, Feed the Raver and many more. In 2023 he'll be celebrating 10 years of podcasting and more than 35 years of listening to electronic music.

As we embark on this auditory exploration, let the waves of sound wash over you, carrying you to realms where emotion and melody intertwine. If you like the podcast, please don’t forget to give it a Like, Comment and/or Repost, to support both our community and the artist. If you have questions regarding the mix, you’re always welcome to contact us. Enjoy the journey!

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Tracklist

01. Submersion - Alignment
02. Submersion - Compound
03.Heavenchord - When you Chaos
04. Mr. Cloudy - DS5
05. Mono Peninsula - Core
06. CV313 - Glasscity Session V
07. UON - J
08. Octaedre - N2
09. Schulz Audio - Sepia Memories
10. Orde107 - Distant Storm
11. Monolake - Cubicle

Identity formation listening session - 9 - Napapiiri [by Monosphere]

Calming your thoughts, bringing you back into present. 

Born in Copenhagen, 2022.