@garcon

~ Tracklist ~

Sarah Davachi - Cadence I
Aleksi Perälä – UK74R1619190
Grouper – Adorned
hoodie – justin
Space Afrika – Yuly
Inhmost – Healing Hand
Ishq – And Awake
Inhmost – Outside Space
Agonis – Sunlight Filtering Through Skyscrapers 
Holovr – Nascent Dawn
Jo Johnson – Vigil
Lamin Fofana – Unfinished Elegy
Imaginary Softwoods – Destination Stone
Locust – Moist Moss
Malibu – So Far Out Of Love
High Skies – The Shape Of Things To Come
Robert Rich & Ian Bondy – Lagrange Point
Pauline Anna Strom – Eighteen Beautiful Memories 
Donnacha Castello – Slowly, Through Fog

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For the first Deep Mind Music of 2023, I am delighted to welcome garçon, one of the brains behind the impeccable amenthia label, a dynamic and highly-inspiring DJ, whose sets I always find special. After many years of mutual online mix-appreciation, we finally got to hang out in person last year, and it’s been so lovely to connect with a fellow deep-feeling DJ.

I love the way garçon weaves together sounds, rhythms and harmonies into compelling patchworks which transport the listener into whole new worlds. He has a very subtle way of putting together tracks, delicately contrasting soundscapes to bring out new shapes and motifs, lightly morphing the visual landscape around us.

garçon's mix for Deep Mind Music is a space for nocturnal daydreaming, a gentle dive into the ocean of the mind, going ever inwards in a swirling haze of thoughts. A poignant expression of emotion that perfectly captures the wistful energy of January 🕯️

The first half of the mix slowly coalesces out of gossamer veils of sound, each new layer melting into the next. In the second half, we gradually descend into deeper pools of emotion, detaching from reality and getting lost in the waves. By the end, we’re adrift in an intimate cerebral realm, a space for pensive imagining and unbounded feeling. The closing track by Donnacha Castello is one of those pieces of music which is at once an expression of the deepest sorrow, and the purest joy. Thank you garçon for this very moving entry 🕊️🤍☁️

@amenthia-recordings
https://instagram.com/garcon_amenthia/

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garçon ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.25

@ibukun-sunday

~ Tracklist ~

distance 
no turning back 
black iv vi 
dust

All tracks by Ibukun Sunday

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Today I am delighted to welcome Ibukun Sunday to Deep Mind Music, with a celestial mix made up 100% of his own productions💫 

Ibukun is a violinist and experimental ambient musician, whose productions have a subtlety and emotional depth that has struck me since the first time I came across them. You’ll likely have heard me play some of Ibukun’s music in my ambient sets, and I am really excited to share this beautiful journey with you all 🧡

From the beginning of Ibukun’s mix, we are dissolved in a daydream, drifting in a blanket of cloud. Warm chords breeze across us as we sink deeper, gently morphing into flurries of sound. As the mix unfurls, a delicate interplay of harmonies and field recordings drop us into half remembered memories. Washes of sound interspersed with snippets of reality come in and out of our awareness, as we’re carried upwards to an emotional peak. 

At the halfway point, we dissipate into a state of meditative peace, afloat on a bed of gentle drones. As the mix concludes, plucky acoustics glitch into sparse electronics and glistening tones, the edges of reality flickering into new dimensions around us as we awaken 🍃✨

https://ibukunsunday.bandcamp.com/
https://instagram.com/ibk_violist/

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Ibukun Sunday ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.26

@syberkid

~ Tracklist ~

Voyager - Arrival (Edit)
Mistachesta - Silver Black Imperial
Concave Reflection - Odo's Theme
holotropic - dageraad
Carbon Based Lifeforms - 6equj5
Lauge/Perry Frank - Sequoia
Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - And All the Spirals of the World
Ariel Kalma - Blackout Vision
Craft - Mastering The Balance Of Chaos (Ambient Mix)
HVL - screen ver2
Clinker + Blake Carrington - Dust Flights, Mirror Softly and Moan
Mandelbrot - The Miracle Of Breathing
The Infinity Project - Blue Aura
S.E.T.I. - Time Weave Nebulation
Exquisite Corpse - One
ovuca - Cow Is A Mammal
Michel Banabila - Humans and Nonhumans (DTM Remix)
Enkidada - Possibility II
Paez - Deepmind
AtomTM - Wavetable 02/23
Ground tactics - Sitting on the Sea Bed (Dantian Activation)
Shoal - MO-III
Aythar - Universe (Short Version) 
Dilate - Oblivium
Inhmost - Morning Break
Scanner - The Tableau
Locust - Corporal Genesis
Steve Roach & Jeffrey Fayman - Seekers
Artefakt - Half Speed Tape
tarotplane - Transitions Of Possibility
Doctrina Natura - Dream I (A Quiet Place)
KMRU - Haal
Labyrinth - Path I

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Very happy to share this recording of a special set I played at a gathering with friends in Scotland last November. It was recorded late on the Sunday evening, in what is definitely the cosiest ambient space I’ve ever had the joy to play in: a room surrounded by squashy sofas and cushions, one wall covered in incredible mind melting visuals from Vincent Rang, and a fireplace crackling away in the background.

I poured a lot of myself into this set, it’s really one for getting lost in, a space for dissolution into the beyond, being swept away into the realm of the imagination. I hope you find something in this journey ~~

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*a note ~ I re-recorded a very small 5min section of this set, as the original tracks were a little too dark for DMM ;)

Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.27

@lou_drago

~ Tracklist ~

Ryuichi Sakamoto - 20220304
Christina Vantzou - In A Forest, On Some Moss, Growing
Florian T M Zeisig - Apiary
Antenes - Take Me To The Birds (For A)
Christina Vantzou - Multiplying Into Fields Of Little Voices
Alva Noto + Ryuchi Sakamoto - Uoon I
Alexandra Spence - Communion
Shuttle 358 - Isonpgn
Al Fraser - Hesitant Exploration
Valentino Mora - III1IIIIIIIIII5IIIIIIIII*
Taylor Dupree - Temper
Endurance - Expanding Repetition
Wanderwelle - Jonah
Ligovskoï - Thessalonians
Shuttle 358 - Cloud
Jacob Newman - Vactrol Light
Caterina Barbieri and Lyra Pramuk - Knot of Spirit
Plants Army Revolver - Valle della Luna*
Kevin Verwijmeren - We Believe
Lou Drago - patience to see*
Organic Dial - Actiq
Amma Ateria - stillness : interference
Rrose - Hymn to Moisture
Valentino Mora - IIIIII1IIIIIII6IIIIIIIII*

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I am so grateful to share with you all today a very poignant and sacred entry in the Deep Mind Music series from Lou Drago. Lou has woven together a truly otherworldly psychedelic journey for the soul, a luminescent experience, a gently glowing hologram of emotion 💠

Lou Drago and I connected years ago when they asked me to make a mix for their TRANSIENCE series, which invites contributors to create a “temporary suspension of reality, where the listener can speculate on alternate futures free from all systems of oppression.” We found a synchronicity in the role ambient music has played in our lives, and how it opens portals to new imagined existences for us. Since then, I’ve had the joy of playing for Lou at infinity rug, the ambient-focussed event series they curate with Marum, where we have shared deep chats, silly giggles and shared philosophies (as well as ambient music ofc).

They have put a great deal of thought and care into this mix, which you can hear in the delicately programmed selections, the fluidity of the whole, and the full-being submersion into an emotional plane of existence. From the opening seconds of the mix, clarifying crystalline twinkles open the way, realigning our sense of being, and taking us into this subtle soundscape. This mix feels like a gently calming presence, like both a sigh, and a weight lifted from the shoulders.

As we sink into the mix, we evaporate into vaporous wisps of energy, as expansive washes of sound contrast with infinitesimal whirls and organic instrumentation. We are submerged into a panoramic dreamstate, morphing mystical landscapes expanding before us. Lou guides us through a misty forest teeming with life, droplets of water slipping off the end of intricate leaves around us.

In the final 30 minutes of the mix, I feel as if I am all the flickering stars in the night sky, as interplaying vibrational drones dissolve us into the depths. Lou then very gently lifts us from this state, the atoms of our being carefully reassembled, coming back to reality in a state of blissful harmony. I hope you find peace in this heart-opening trip 🤍🌌🤍

This release comes in the same week that I will be joining Lou as a guest of TRANSIENCE at WHOLE festival this weekend, where we will both be playing ambient sets in the early hours of Saturday. I am really looking forward to this occasion of continued sonic kinship between us, see you there if you are coming 💗

Photo taken by Lou on the way to Portugal, a country where they “always feel a strong grounding energy pulling me through the earth to home”

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@transience-archive
@infinity-rug
https://instagram.com/lou__drago/

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Lou Drago ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.28

@boursin

Today I am so happy to welcome my friend fka boursin to Deep Mind Music, with a quietly reflective entry for the end of January. 

It was around this time of year back in 2022, that I first remember having a deep chat with fka boursin about our mutual interest in the power of ambient. We were both equally enthused to encounter another AmbientAddict and quickly rattled off artists, labels and tracks for each other to check. I have found in fka boursin a similarly discerning soul, not just in music, but life in general, and his intricate mix for Deep Mind Music reflects his thoughtful character.

A patient mix that rewards patient listening, fka boursin has crafted a narrative that skilfully dances between washes of sepia-toned warm drones, and–as he puts it below–“material sounds”, such as whirling whizzes of machines or twittering birds, which give us a sense of place. The perfect soundtrack to a meditative drift of the mind between thoughts and reality. I have greatly enjoyed listening to it on cold misty walks over the past week, and hope you do too ☁️🪶🤍

Some words from fka boursin about the mix:

When considering the themes for this mix, I drew from the different approaches that Sybil and I use in our work. Sybil says that themes for her come from “more of a feeling/colour/texture than something     explainable” which is in contrast with my desire for explicit material reference points. Though these approaches might be seen as existing on a somewhat linear abstract vs material scale, there is a large overlap in the sonic characters that they each employ. Here, I have deliberately mixed with tracks that perhaps encourage one to get “lost” (abstract) before pulling the listener back into the room using what I consider to be “material” sounds. Paradoxically though, those sounds are often perceived as feeling/colour/texture anyway, leading Sybil and I to the same musical end points. To me, this firstly emphasises the limitations of audio and secondly may partly explain why Sybil and I get on so well.

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Featuring music by David Toop, Daisuke Tadokoro, blks, Hideki Umezawa, pent, Terre Thaemlitz, Celer, 23 Degrees, fka boursin and more

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fka boursin ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.29

@syberkid

~ Tracklist ~

John T. Gast - Track 8
Løksa - Green Adaptor 7
Yoyu - All Dharmas
Windy & Carl - Balance (trembling)
Hiram - Sonn
Serge Bulot - Cassiopée
Namlook - The Gate To The Milky Way
tarotplane - the misunderstood abandoned aquarium of the afterlife
UNKEN REFLEX - 12.03.1988
David Sylvian - Answered Prayers
Deuter - Night Rain
luko - Heal
Oslac - 08
Concave Reflection - Gas Reel
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2391110
ALHU - earthseed1 (ft. kindtree)
LOG - Log 1
Mosam Howieson - Explorations
Autumn Of Communion - Solar Image (Mick Chillage Remix)
adham shaikh - journey to the sun
X.Y.R. - Black Sky Chant
Ishq - Valley Rain (Summer Mix)
Gallery Six - Leaf Fall
Dilate - Oblivium
Evigt Mörker - Intetheten
Namlook - Satellitenstadt
queniv - Hervonden
Gigi Masin - Ship Beetel
Aythar - Moonchild [Seagull version]
Spacetime Continuum - Floatilla
Ludwig A.F. - Glass
Oophoi - Harvest Moon
Deuter - Spirales
Nadia Khan - Port Ana
Biosphere - Birds Fly by Flapping Their Wings
Dream_E - DreamFour
Craig Padilla - Beyond Beta

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As we enter the midsummer-solstice season, I wanted to share this recording from a glorious sunny morning last year, now archived on Deep Mind Music ☀️

This is the set I played 8-10AM on Sunday at @comebyefestival in Wales for @umbilicalchords, in their cosy fuchsia~draped ambient dome.

Playing ambient in the early hours of a festival is always really special for me, as everyone’s minds are open and unwound, the gentle caress of nature is all around, and it feels the best backdrop for swirling into imaginal worlds 🌿

Hope you enjoy this wistful meander through tall breezy grasses, golden sunshine, and drifting clouds ~ a mix for daydreaming, nature-wandering, tea-drinking, sunbathing 🧡🌞🌾

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Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.30

@adampits

~ Tracklist ~

Claudio PRC - Unda Part 1
LF58 - Metamorfosi
JQ - Everyday Is Like A Second Chance
Erik Wöllo - The Near Future
Valentino Mora - Mass Frequenz
Christina Chatfield - Nameless Islet
Martin Goodwin - Eclosion Pt.5
Aspetuck - Zoom Deck
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - First Flight
RQ - Union Of Spheres
Andy Nicholson - A Strangely Beautiful Interior
Barefoot - Becoming Somone Else (Inhmost Altered Remix)
Jarguna & Uzbazur - Enlightenment
Vida Voice - Show Me Beauty
The Fully Automatic Model - The Fold Of Origami
Launaea - Vision I
Rod Modell - Side D
Kuniyuki - Into Small Hands

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I’m really happy to share the next Deep Mind Music today, from my friend Adam Pits. A calming and serene entry, listening to this mix feels like floating on your back in a cool lake on a hot day. A quenching refreshment for a frazzled mind 🩵

The mix wanders gently through slowly morphing landscapes. The soft twitter of birdsong brings us to a dusk dappled forest, warm drones coaxing us further inwards in a lackadaisical swirl. Toward the end of the mix we are uplifted by luminescent arpeggios which draw rainbow trails through the sky above 🍃☀️🌿

I sense in Adam’s selections and musical approach a shared sensitivity to the innate emotive undertones of music, as well as sounds which have an inherent depth and vitality to them. I hope you enjoy listening to this meditative mix as much as I have 🪶

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Adam Pits ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.31

@syberkid

~ Tracklist ~

Jon Keliehor - The Beginning of Time
Martina Testen - Exploring the Mesnjak Forest (Slovenia)
Purelink - Wade Into A Wide And Complex Circle
Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus - Item 11
Klaus - Gus
Chad Munson - Capillaries
Tdel - Make Noise 0-Coast
UNKEN REFLEX - 03.11.1987
Rezo Glonti - Pastiche (Teenage Engineering OP-1)
Inhmost - Nightsky
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2271040
Doctrina Natura - Dream VII
cv313 - As The Light Closes In
Michel Banabila - New Energy Forms
Atom™ - Texturen IV [Part I]
Donato Dozzy - Let It Go
Lee Anthony Norris - Perpetual(Autumn Of Communion)
Spherical Aberration - Valley Of Dreams
Hüda - Unreleased
Akasha Project - Rhoden Gold Picknick 2
Ground Tactics - 444Hz High Self (L0v1n Pr3s3nc3)
Malibu - The Things That Fade
Eterna - Garland Of Shame

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As we enter cosy-season, I’m really happy to share the next Deep Mind Music mix with you all. This is a re-recording of the set I played for @transience-archive at WHOLE festival last year. A 6AM set in glistening morning light for tired beings and expansive minds 💠

This one is straight from the heart, I hope you find something in this journey ~ a soft evaporation into vaporous clouds, a space for quiet reflection, a shimmering fractal of emotion 🤍🦋🤍✧｡⋆.

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Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.32

ambient + drone deep mind trip mix series ~
imaginal realms for psychonautic exploration ~
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