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Drifting through time & space, showcasing Animalia tunes and beyond.

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Kia @ The Lot Radio 05-25-2023

Episode 33 on Naarm’s Skylab.

Tracklist: www.lowendtheorists.com/radio-shows/skylab-e33

Skylab - Theory Therapy E33

aleksi perälä live at cochilo

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Aleksi Perälä live at Cochilo - Waking Life '24

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack)

Lumière

Here is Astrid Sonne with an hour of fresh selections from ambient, to hiphop, gloomy triphop to atmospheric jungle.

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Astrid Sonne @ Drift Radio 22-05-25

Today's guest mix arrives as the perfect soundtrack to these scorching summer days that seem to stretch on endlessly, capturing the vibrant energy and laid-back vibe of the season. We welcome Vakula, a leading figure in the Ukrainian electronic music scene.

The journey began in 1998, behind the decks of a local radio station, where Vakula played drum & bass and trip-hop sets for a handful of night listeners. By 2004, he was already diving into the deep waters of dub techno, drawn not by fashion, but by a persistent inner frequency.
Soon after, Vakula moved to the capital — a city now at war — where he spent eleven formative years. The original plan was simple: earn enough money to reach a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. But life, borders, and timing had other ideas. Instead, he stayed and followed sound.
Over the years, Vakula became part of the underground scene, eventually becoming a resident at iconic clubs such as Propaganda and Zeppelin, while also playing in many of the legendary venues of that era. By 2008, music had turned into a passport, taking him across continents to places where electronic sound truly thrived.
Genre was never a boundary. Jazz, rock, hip-hop, ambient, house, techno, drum & bass — everything served the same purpose: to explore, to feel, to connect. In 2011, he returned to his small hometown and built an analog studio, carving out space to listen more deeply.
Over time, the surface of the global scene began to feel thinner, less sacred. In 2020, he stepped back from performance and immersed himself in a three-year exploration of shamanic practices — not for spectacle, but for personal insight. This inner work changed his relationship with sound, and opened up new levels of depth, stillness, and presence in his music.
By 2025, Vakula let go of the path of the spirits, realizing that some stories are not his to walk. Vakula returned, not to where he started, but to a clearer understanding of his role: to keep listening, to keep creating, and to stay honest in sound.
Through it all, Vakula remains one of the early pioneers and enduring voices in the Ukrainian electronic scene — not the mainstream one, but a world of his own: where forest replaces the city center, where meadows stand in for mindless entertainment, and where trees are steadier than fleeting friendships. His connection to Ukraine has never been about slogans. It’s a quiet, unwavering love — for the land, for the people who still feel, and for his hometown of Konotop, which lives in every frequency he shapes.

Tracklist:
1. Vakula - Thaw of the Silent Peak
2. Jonn Serrie - The Observation Deck
3. Ariel Kalma - Flute Meditation
4. Vakula - Stellar Echoes
5. Steve Roach - The Ancient’ Way
6. Vakula - True Self
7. Jonn Serrie - Along The Way
8. Vakula - Ananta Nada

Photo by Kyan Tijhuis

Vakula
Soundcloud: @vakula
Bandcamp: https://vakula.bandcamp.com/music
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vakula_sound

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Deep Breakfast 319 ~ Vakula

Sasha Ushenko brings to air especial selection of vocals, ambients & experimental music merging into one subtle textures filled with deep voices.

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Sasha Ushenko @ 20ft Radio - 11/07/2025

Part four of RA.999: the sound of shared history, courtesy of two legends of minimal house in full flow.

A lot can happen in 20 years. Especially in dance music, where movements rise, collide and dissolve at dizzying speed. It takes conviction, dynamism and a formidable record collection to stay the course.

That’s why Margaret Dygas and Sonja Moonear have remained such enduring underground favourites. Step into one of their sets, solo or side by side, and an assured calm takes over the floor. You're in the sleekest, safest hands imaginable.

Recorded live at fabric's 25th birthday, their RA.999 captures that feeling perfectly. High-tempo, irresistibly groovy and full of quiet authority, it marks a return to the series for both: Moonear with RA.520, and Dygas with the fourth-ever RA Podcast all the way back in 2006.

They also gave rare interviews, reflecting on a deep musical connection that began in 2007, the legacy of minimal and lessons from a life spent in DJ booths the world over. 

"I felt excited and lucky to be invited so early in what I now see as a much longer journey," wrote Dygas. "Music holds memories in its frequencies, and the right track can transport you instantly to a past version of yourself. That’s powerful. That’s the kind of power I respect." Amen.

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@margaret

Read the full interview at ra.co/podcast/1008

RA.999 Sonja Moonear & Margaret Dygas

Living Room n°87 - @wieloroman @ushenkosasha

q. please introduce yourselves:

a. My name is Sasha Ushenko, and I'm an artist from Kyiv. Together with my close friend and collaborator WiELOROMAN aka Roma Pivnenko, we’ve built a deep connection through our shared taste in music and vision.

We co-create a project called Practices of Conscious Listening @pup.listening.club — a series of events where we invite people and artists into the world of deep listening, meditative states, and alternative soundscapes. Our goal is to explore how sound can be used as a tool for presence, awareness, and inner exploration.


q. is there a story behind the mix?

a. There’s definitely a story behind this mix. It was born naturally from a live B2B session we played at the Stricka Festival in Kyiv, in the summer of 2024. The setting was beautiful — a lush garden surrounded by greenery, and the vibe was incredibly present, almost timeless.

The mix captured that moment of deep connection - with the music, the space, and the people around us. For a long time, it just sat quietly, waiting to be heard again. 

When we play together, it feels intense and super-spiritual because we hold this depth together with our double intention.


q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?

a. I think the best way to enjoy this mix is to simply gather your friends, put the music on, boil some water, pour some tea — and just be. Whether it’s shared conversations in nature or quiet moments of presence together, this mix was made to hold space for that kind of connection. It’s not about listening with intensity — it’s about letting the sound gently accompany a real, grounded moment in life.


q. describe a favourite object in your living room (individually)...

a. Sasha - I really love my table in the living room. There’s just so much happening around it — it feels like a digital workspace, but also a creative sanctuary. I draw there, drink tea, read, write… everything kind of flows through that table. It’s simple, but it holds a lot of energy. It’s just… the table, you know?

Roma - probably my favorite object is a whole wall consisting of memories, important trinkets, bookshelves with favorite material, a place for a vinyl collection and a sound system. This corner has become for me a kind of mirror that can remind you of the important things on the path of this character, through which all life breathes


q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music, together or individually)?

a. Musically, I want to finish a special release for Gasoline Records — it’s a vinyl postcard project that brings together five musicians, five photographers, and two organizations: our label and the Kyiv Biennial. It’s a cross-disciplinary collaboration that merges sound and visual art in a very tactile, analog format.

Alongside that, WiELOROMAN and I are continuing our journey with Practices of Conscious Listening. We’re motivated to keep creating offline events, and we’re also planning to launch a podcast series to deepen the conversation around attentive listening and sound as a meditative practice.

On a more personal level, I’m diving deeper into healing sound — exploring voice, vibration, and the yoga of sound as tools for body-mind connection and inner transformation.

Roma, in turn, works extensively in the field of online education, creating courses for his clients and helping teachers develop transformational programs to support the growth of their students. He is also a "guide". It seems that this is his lifetask, to combine people, ideas, and tracks with each other, so that something divinely beautiful comes out of it.

Living Room n°87 - WiELOROMAN & Sasha Ushenko

Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before. 'Numb' opens the album with Alison's voice; layered and looped but essentially left bare and exposed, tumbling into a dense shuffle, sort of somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more f*cked. 'Lost and Found' follows and deploys a growling rave bassline and a disturbed vocal, the beat assembling itself around a squashed Linndrum like a submerged Prince/Cameo production, haunted and impenetrable, but full of funk. 'Sleepless' started life as an African drum edit that sooner or later succumbed to Stott's intense rhythmic shifts. It's a sound that's been imitated countless times since the release of 'Passed Me By', here re-tooled and re-built for its next evolutionary phase. 'Hatch The Plan' ends the first half of the album with some heavily treated location recordings and a low end grind that probably doesnt quite prepare you for the vocal arrangements that follow - it's just a beautifuly inverted pop song. The second half opens with 'Expecting', the most recognisably 'Stott' moment on the album: a wrecked, deliriously knocked-out 4/4 shuffle deployed at halfspeed; those heavy kickdrums sucking in everything around them. 'Luxury Problems' is next and offers up the album's most quietly euphoric and open 5 minutes; conventional arrangements and drumloops disrupted by sharp disco bursts that mess with what you know: it's straight and beautiful and unbalanced and damaged, somehow all at once. "Up the box" switches up the narrative and goes somewhere else entirely, an extended intro that seems to build continuously for 3 minutes before breaking off into a slowed-down Amen edit, creating a kind of narcotic Jungle variant that fragments everything and ends just at the point you think it's going to go off, before "Leaving" finishes the album with an almost unbareably beautiful arrangement of voice and synth and a final key-change that takes you from joyful to forlorn in an instant.

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