about this mix 

I can best describe this mix as my personal current mood. For the first time I'm trying to mix field recordings I've collected over the last few years with selected productions and new discoveries.


track list

Bochum city street ambience serves as a backdrop for the entire mix. Contains sounds of passing vehicles, footsteps, people's voices and the sound of fireworks. Recorded on December 12, 2024.

- Die Frankfurter Domorgel (field rec.)(Orgelbaufirma Klais Bonn)
- one-day stand by BLUE (Pavel Milyakov & Yana Pavlova), 2021 (@buttechno)
- GYMNOPÉDIE No. 1 by Boston Symphony Orchestra; Erik Satie; Serge Koussevitzky, 1930 (@boston-symphony-orchestra)
- Too Many Humans by NO TREND, 1983 (@no-trend-official)
- Wandern Vorbereitung - Sauerland (field rec.)
- Gasometer - Chris Watson - "Klang der Tiefe" (field rec.)
- Біль by Вічний Ґандж (Volodymyr Chyhrynets), 2022 (@vichnyj_gandzh)
- Popping Candy, Anastasia (field rec.)
- Gasometer - Chris Watson - "Klang der Tiefe" (field rec.)
- Good Morning by U.e., 2025(@ue-sc)
- BeNe GeSSeRiT - Femmes Aux Yeux d'Argile by Alain Neffe, 2016 (@alainneffe)
- Gasometer - Chris Watson - "Klang der Tiefe" (field rec.)
- Ljuset by Marta Forsberg, 2024 (@marta-lennartsdotter)

cover image - Alexander Zheleznyak 
alexanderzheleznyak.de

Roman Zheleznyak - Mixed Feelings #4

Funeral Ecstasy pt.2 – The Simulation (Original Soundtrack) is the latest sonic chapter by Stefan ZMK as part of HipSick. This 13-track release is the score to the immersive performative installation that explores the theme of immortality; the hope, the fear, and the reality of the future where death may no longer exists.
Moving through layers of tension, distortion, and artificial calm, the music reflects a world where perception is manipulated and meaning constantly shifts. 
Featuring original score material, instrumental versions and bonus material like a deep-dive podcast, The Simulation pulls you into a soundscape that is unsettling, hypnotic, and strangely intimate.
This is not just a listening experience, it’s an invitation to drift between the programmed and the personal. Welcome to The Simulation.

Now available on Bandcamp, streaming platforms, and digital shops.

Composition & Sound Design: Stefan ZMK
Vocals: Nadîja Roza Broekhart & Max the Purr Master
Concept & Artistic Lead: Nadîja Roza Broekhart & Sylvia Weening
Photography: Rachel Schraven
Comms: Aniek de Rooij
Mastering: Stefan ZMK
Funeral Ecstasy pt.2 – The Simulation is a production by HipSick

Cat. Nr. HipSick002

Sea of Time

Mantra  of the Mother

In this June entry, I’m moving with meaning. I’m learning to take up space with purpose, to chase the things that light me up, and to lean into the messiness of caring deeply. This month is all about patience, clarity, and showing up with intention—whether that means standing firm on what I believe, redefining failure as a foundation, or remembering that my regular life is someone else’s dream.

This is a space for memory-keeping, storytelling, and building a community through audio frequency. Feel free to join the conversation in the comments, share your takeaways, or simply vibe out. Thanks for listening.

Features:
Amita Tao - Issa (Adults)
Grandma Martha
Uncle Chris
Saba - (Atlanta Concert)

Credits & Extras:
 📲 Connect with me: @mrgrier.pdf @j.s.grier
 🗣️ Drop a comment — this is a community.

Let’s archive something real. Pocket the little moments — they’re the seeds that grow into giant memories.

Set:
It’s Love - De’leon rmx
Swallow My Pride - Budgie
It Is What It Is - THundercat
Sicily Box - Venna
Portrait Of Tracey - Yussef Dayes


Ep. III - Move with Meaning - June 2025

A powerful thunderstorm unfolding beneath the alpine peaks. Captured  inside a small abandoned mountain hut.
Several extremely close lightning strikes shake the wooden structure, creating an intense and immersive soundscape.
For best experience, listen with headphones.

Microphones: Sennheiser MKH40
recorder: Zoom F3

All rights reserved © [Vida Sounds Gregor Vida]. Unauthorized use, reproduction, or distribution of this recording is prohibited.

Alpine Thunderstorm - Intense Mountain Lightning Strikes

Picture created by the help of Stable Diffusion

Elidiada

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// Ambient, atmospheric music is a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. A form of slow instrumental music, it uses repetitive, but gentle, soothing sound patterns that can be described as “sonic wallpaper” to complement or alter one’s space and to generate a sense of calmness. Intended to relax, the genre is said to evoke an “atmospheric”, “visual”, or “unobtrusive” quality. Ambient music focuses on creating a mood or atmosphere through synthesisers and timbral qualities, often lacking the presence of any net composition, beats or structured melody.
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// A soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment. The idea of soundscape refers to both the natural, acoustic environment consisting of natural sounds, including animal vocalisations, the sounds of weather and other natural elements; and environmental sounds created by humans, such as musical composition, sounds of mechanical origins resulting from use of industrial technology. Crucially, the term soundscape also includes the listener’s perception of sounds heard as an environment: “how that environment is understood by those living within it” and their relationships.
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Circular Flow

NURTUREX

This soundwalk was developed for the solidarity collective Fighting Seeds as a gesture of offering a grounding ritual leading into a collective act of planting seedlings on the Feld. Here, planting becomes not only an ecological act, but a political and spiritual one: a practice of remembrance and care. The composed sound journey invites listeners into an embodied ritual of walking, witnessing and remembering across Berlin’s Tempelhofer Feld, a site layered with histories of resistance, wild ecologies and personal stories. 
As participants move through six curated stations, they are guided by a composed soundscape of field recordings, ancestral music, poetry and 
spoken word. Drawing on Palestinian concept of sumūd (صمود) = rooted presence, the walk explores how land-based practices - such as planting and remembrance - become acts of resistance in the face of displacement, settler colonialism and ecological erasure. These layered soundings offer not only a narrative of what has been lost, but of what persists: a relational ontology rooted in Indigenous and diasporic lifeways that center land as a living, communicative being.

contributors:

concept: Janine Kaselitz & Seif Elmasry
sound design: Seif ElMasry
narrators: Janine, Seif, Diego
contributors: Fulvia, Aaron, Diego, Toomas
photography: ellielet
featuring: Birds of Brandenburg, Kin of Tempelhofer Feld, Lynn Adib, Mahmoud Darwish, Riyad Alsunbati

Sumud Sound walk - 06/07/2025 - THF Berlin

This piece is based on the labyrinth located on the outskirts of Västerås (Sweden). This place is frozen in time from the Viking era and emanates a mystical feeling, as well as the loneliness and uncertainty that are characteristic of liminal spaces, transition spots allocated for change.


Labyrinten Vid Tibble

Dutch Rotterdam-based hardcore techno DJ, mastering-engineer, producer and promoter active since 1998.

Exploiting all electronic boundaries, Stefan ZMK travels the world to find beauty in darkness. 
Expect sets without compromise, that will send shivers through any rave die-hard. Stefan ZMK is a true guru in sound and a man of 100% dedication to alternative electronic music. A swift ninja, who always delivers a highly skilled trip to the Core of the Underground.

A notorious DJ, collector and producer since 1998, he has played a major role in the Dutch Free Party scene with his crew: ZMK Soundsystem. Their unique blend of tekno, hardtek, hardcore and breaks instantly spread across Europe, through their vinyl label and various sublabels. From 2010 Stefan ZMK started to release his tracks on various European labels like Obs.Cur, Peur Bleue, Mackitek, Hangar, Hit ’n Run, etc. With tracks like Summoned, Predator and Surrender, he has made a firm mark on the rising Acidtekno and Acidcore scene. Those sought-after records are a fresh combination of acidic, mental and industrial sounds, with the fierce impact of techno and hardcore. 
His unique sound and insane cross-genre mixing skills has taken him all over Europe, even playing major events like Dominator, Q-base, Totemystik, Retro Acid, DefQon1, Lost Theory, Bangface Weekender, PRSPCT XL, Winter Conspiracy, X-live, Foorcore, Elements Mountain Festival, Nowhere Spain etc. 
And since the first C19 lockdown, Stefan teamed up with Li-Z to host the bimonthly cross genre radioshow MXSRS on PRSPCT Radio. 

Over the years, he has gained the reputation for smoothly switching between contrasting styles, using obscure elements, custom edits and the freshest beats available. And with over 23 years of experience, he is considered to be, one of the most booked Dutch DJs from the free-party movement.

Discography
- ZMK 001 12″ 2000 with ZMK Soundsystem
- ZMK 002 12″ 2001 with ZMK Soundsystem
- Symbiote 001 2×12″ 2010 with Dissolvement, Phantomlab and Win
- Obs.Cur 008 12″ 2011 with Sifres
- Peur Bleue 011 12″ 2012 solo release
- Zombie Kru 3008 12″ 2012 with ZMK Soundsystem
- Mackitek HS 003 12″ 2012 with Mr. Gasmask, Sifres and Keja
- Mackitek HS 005 12″ 2012 with Sevenum Six, Kan10 and Keja
- Hit 'n Run Music 001 12" 2013 with Li-Z, Cursed Legion and Jacob Inhuman
- Zombie Kru 3009 12″ 2013 with ZMK Soundsystem
- Hangar 003 12" 2015 with Frixion Fanatic, The Relic & Hidden Rooms and Raoul Radical
- Mackitek HS 009 12" 2016 with Sevenum Six and Keja & Kan10
- ZMK 3011 12" 2016 with HEISA
- "Simmering" on Artists in Action Vol.5 2016
- Obs.Cur 10 years 12" 2019 with Collision, Enko, Sifres and About:Kaos
- KTK Records Don't Hide It Remix 2019 with Witz
- Endless Night 001 12" 2021 Kick It Slow Remix with Peska
- PRSPCT 278 12" 2022 with HEISA
- Hangar ltd.666 12" 2023 No More Yin Remix with SpeedyQ's, HEISA and IND

The focus lies in developing and supporting
independent artistic positions, who distinguish
themselves through their unique and
authentic language and who are capable of
creating a different mental space.

Our goal is to foster broad education and critical
discourse in order to enhance creativity
and innovation in the realms of art, design,
sound, architecture and the sciences within
the contemporary thinking. This specific ability
benefits from independence and space
for innovation.

For any inquiries please contact us via email
contact@mentalspace.eu

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by Alexander Zheleznyak
http://alexanderzheleznyak.de

curated soundwalks, sonic rituals and field-based compositions exploring land, memory and resistance. Rooted in decolonial practices and Interspecies listening. A field experiment by Janine Kaselitz & Seif Elmasry

Welcome to Soundbytes by J. - An Audio Scrapbook.

Let’s archive something real. Pocket the little moments — they’re the seeds that grow into giant memories.

IG: @j.s.grier | @mrgrier.pdf

Soundrecordist from small town under alps in Slovenia
Current project is recording sounds and design soundtories for agency I feel Slovenia
Project Sounds Like Slovenia - journey trough sound stories
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6RwhXSI9qlAlKxUT0hUEar

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vida_sounds_bygregorvida/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJShm7wdmdq70_2_iq3yWQ

J.-E. Berendt: "Nada Brahma: the world is sound".  
Claus Bury: "The engineer pursues a goal and considers what means he can use to achieve it. 
The artist is not initially subject to any specific purpose. Only he is allowed to do totally crazy things."
Kenny Werner: "If you make music out of the world of thought, you miss the whole wonder of music."

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