Give Thanks (outro)

I can't finish a song to save my life pt.1

And She Ride

Tear Me To Pieces

Hard To Say (intro)

The first. A mix featuring some piano focused pieces, polyrhythmic percussion and floaty, ambient techno.

Out Of Focus 001 - deep-sky objects

The second. Varying in styles and never boring, the second instalment of the Out Of Focus series welcomes soundlogic, who has presented an absorbing mix to captivate the listener. A truly creative piece of curation.

Out Of Focus 002 - soundlogic

The eighth. For this instalment we welcome Yuddy Ash, a Kyoto based DJ and producer. The mix offers the listener a vortical experience, carrying you through a whirlpool of atmospheres and spaces. Exhibiting a variety of motifs which resonant with that more intrinsic, mellifluous side of our musical urges.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yuddyash/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/yuddyash

We are open to submissions.

Out Of Focus 008 - Yuddy Ash

The ninth. This edition sees a very special recording from a very special place. This mix was recorded live from the Coombe stage at Above Below's 2024 edition. 

In the early evening of the festival's final day, kleine took to the decks. "It was one of the most enjoyable moments of the festival for me. My mind had finally quietened down after a crazy weekend, and I was able to settle into the cosy and intimate atmosphere of the Coombe". Delivering everything this stage promised to be, kleine's set blended into the surroundings effortlessly, a feat this festival achieves across the entire site. 

Allow yourself this moment to quieten your mind.

https://soundcloud.com/kleine_e

We are open to submissions.

Out Of Focus 009 - kleine

The tenth. Laenk, curator of Resonance, invites us into a garden of delayed soundscapes, consistently slashed with a broad, ever expanding pallet of novel sonic oscillations. Hypnotic, cyclic, dreamlike drones accompany as we're effortlessly propelled forward by carefully crafted currents of bass, the omniscient kick grounding us to the groove.

Soundcloud: @laenk
Insta: instagram.com/laenk_
Resonance Podcast: @resonance-cologne

We are open to submissions.

Out Of Focus 010 - Laenk

The eleventh. This week we're very excited to welcome Hong Kong native Xiaolin to the podcast. A DJ, producer, and classically trained multi-instrumentalist, Xiaolin has crafted a genre-bending, 2 hour listening journey through a myriad of textures, both deep and dark, showcasing a distinctive selection of tracks from friends and producers based in Asia. The viscous atmospheres, built and crafted bar by bar from the first moments of the mix, are so visceral that one feels they could almost reach out and touch them. The lights dim as we sink to greater and greater depths.

The second half of the mix opens up and capitalises on these elements, newly found sonic spaces filled with an ever changing flow of percussive patterns, a surprise around every corner. The lights flicker. Something has changed. We've been gently guided into new aural territory, perhaps without even realising it. 

Closing out the mix, we're propelled skyward from the depths, towards the light, into a shimmering, dreamlike soundscape. Only at the very last moment do our feet lightly make contact with the earth again as Xiaolin masterfully brings this voyage to a close.

Sit down, get comfortable, and float away.

SoundCloud: @xiaolinmusic
Insta: instagram.com/oliviaxiaolin
RA: ra.co/dj/xiaolin

Out Of Focus 011 - Xiaolin

The seventeenth. An entry from Out Of Focus co-curator @picnic-it.

A mix both diverse and wandering, we depart with bouncy, organic infused electronica, lighter textures slowly intensifying as the palette develops. The middle of mix finds its stride in some deeper, darker, resonant tracks. Rolling and revolving, the senses blur as the cycle grips our auditory senses. Finally, the listener is pulled back out of the hypnotic haze, stronger sounds of storytelling return to the forefront to reassert the groove, with haunting vocals and strings bidding the listener a final farewell. 

Out Of Focus 017 - Picnic

The eighteenth. This weeks entry coming from the talented @nemsb, who's crafted a genre-warping one and half hour journey through their vision of sonic space.

This twisting, morphing mix leads the us gently into an array of diverse soundscapes; each track presenting a unique motif, a new surprise around each corner rounded. Vocals pieces are dispersed elegantly throughout, never overpowering, instead deepening the palette of the mix, outlining the established vision with dashes of strong defining color.

After riding the line somewhere between dub and deep techno, with moments of detroit infused energy throughout the mix, the final tracks deliver some darker textures as we feel like the lights darken and we become fully immersed, lost in the finished canvas.

SC: https://soundcloud.com/nemsb
IG: https://www.instagram.com/nemsbmusic/

Out Of Focus 018 - Nems-B

A sound collective with the deeper, introspective shades of dance music at its core.

Welcoming artists who share a passion for hypnotic, mesmeric, reflective styles of music.

If you'd like to submit a mix to the podcast series, please send your submission to outofocusoof@gmail.com

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