Name: Cerulean by Takumi Motokawa
Duration: 4 min 51 s
Description: What did come before the storm? Is any forethought useful in that situation?

What did come before the storm? Is any forethought useful in that situation?

Cerulean

Bringing the highest quality progressive house music for this mix is Andy Clayton! Andy talks about his residencies across Europe and working closely with Tim French - who won Podcast Mix Of The Year 2022!

https://www.littlesouth.com/andy-clayton-progressive-mix

Episode 14/23 | Andy Clayton | Podcast Mixes

Unafraid of Mother's stories:
we are delighted to share this 06:45:48-hour long sonical voyage, traversing cracks, smudges, and stitches, beautifully threading its way through the audial experience. An unconventional lingering awaits you, and we recommend immersing yourself to break new grounds in the realm of space and time.
Thank you for all the artists compositions feautured in this journey.

----Musical Mix Composition by Samin Son --------------------------------

Light Bringer Orphx & Jk Flesh 
Along the Synthetic River Gooooose (Samuel Kerridge Remix) 
Plasma Sunrise Gooooose (Nahash Remix) 
Lab White Gooooose (Sote Persian Electro-Acoustic Rework) 
Greatsword of DJ Apocalypse NACASAT 
Pogenhajmer NACASAT 
SZURAŃSKO NACASAT
SZURAŃSKO NACASAT 
WaveMechanic BOTI (SMDRTNver) 
THRCAT017 SAMIN SON 
Omnivorous SUNDS 
Simulacra ORPHX (SMdistortionreverbechover) 
Simulacrum ORPHX 
THRCAT017 SAMIN SON 
They Said Nothing And Looked Away HYPNOSKULL 
Centralized Information Control SUNDS (Slave to Society Remix) 
Exascale TZUSING 
風雲再起 (lit. clouds and storm clouds rise again) TZUSING 
Khi-Tang TZUSING 
Demon The Bug - (feat.Irah) 
Nightmare Song ECKO BAZZ 
Americana KONTAIN (Swarm Intelligence Remix) 
VA03 track03 - Nihil Fist -  _ (Blastbeat Primitism 1996-97) 
The Wraiths And Strays Of Paris - Coil - _  
Hamburger Lady - Cosey Fanni Tutti & Throbbing Gristle - (SMS Rmx) _  
Dombec - Death Cascade - (feat.Samin Son) 
Svalsat - Homemadeweapons - (Donato Dozzy Remix) 
Vexed - The Bug - _  (feat. Moor Mother) 
Propagates of Desire - Samuel Kerridge - (feat Aaron Turner) 
timingskaming square - Huren 
Impulsive RMX - Pardonax  
fourth kind stomper (live) - Death Qualia 
Their Voices Were Non-Computable - BioNihil 
Now, You Are Free! - TITI KUKU 
Baby Nuke Shifting Universe - BNSU 
Never Stop Urinating  - BNSU  
Satorius - KAREEM 
Nothing Is Free - JK FLESH 
Days Of Dissent - UMWELT 
Physical Violence - Dangelo 
Composition Of Pain - Alessandro Nero 
-oui-si-ja-dance - generator 
-frequency-is-the-massage - generator 93N3R470R GENERATOR
Dj Tool #623 - 5E7H 
Manti - 5E7H 
mirror mirror: orchestra and choir - 鷺巣詩郎-Shiro SAGISU Music from_SHIN EVANGELION_ Faceshopping(smseditlowerpitchby39point6pro) - SOPHIE  
Faceshopping - SOPHIE  Faceshopping VIP + LV Mix - SOPHIE  (gntver) 
Y I DO - ZEBRA KATZ (SMS treatment)
Ponyboy(smsrmx1lowerpitchby39.6pro) - SOPHIE  
Ponyboy - SOPHIE  
Bassline Junkie - DIZZEE RASCAL
CalvinKlein - Hausverboti (SMDRTNver) Hammer - The Bug feat. Flowdan hammerisnotachoicebutthecircumstantialactionwithoutexpectationandintentitisanaturalmanifestation - generator dancewithahammer - generator 
Conquered - JK Flesh 
hammerbalad - generator & THRCAT002 - SAMIN SON 
Night of Matter - Zero Kama 
What Will Burn - Orphx 
b1 - corb 1206 
Exponential Fall - SUNDS
Deluxe - Diagram 
Cows, Cows, Cows! - Pauline Oliveros 
Not Okay - SOPHIE 
Cerberus - EDMX 
Universal Time - Traversable Wormhole (dasha rush remix) 
The Wormhole Nexus (monolith remix) - Traversable Wormhole 
MAX hate defeats love - Eyes Gone 
Dire Situation - ADMX (Adam X) 
No War - Max Durante 
Bewitched - Skrei (feat. Samin Son) 
Streams - Vū 
厄神殺し the god of pestilence - 瘧鬼 Malaria(intermittent fever) 
切創 Cutting - 瘧鬼 Malaria(intermittent fever) 
遺るは瞑色Lingering is the color of meditation - 瘧鬼Malaria(intermittent fever) 
The Man Whose Head Expanded - The Fall 
Lament Ceremony - Wanton Witch 
Three Mantras of Bon - Phurpa 
4 - Hong Chulki & Will Guthrie 
It’s No Good - Depeche Mode (Andrea Parker mix) 
Free Your Mind - Piece 
The End - Scorn
Aufenthalt - Dynamo 
Vidd - Octagon Man 
Smoke & Mirrors - RJD2 
Area 5 - Sem
Dreamland Ops - Filmmaker 
Shamanistic Ceremonies - Kim Suk Chul Ensemble
Sdom - Kashpitzky 
Kerjakaki Jawa - G.M.O. 
17.12 - 29.12.21, 17.07 - TONICO (msadtn)
Finally, We're On The Same Page - Turbohaler 
---- space given, groove supplied, high dynamics approaching -----

-A - BAG - FULL - OF - LAIS- ( - LAI - BAG - )

lotuslumix k owl setu

Typhon

Great mix by NAT (Lausanne), a long-running Ecoutes au vert's collaborator. DJ & Record Collector since the 90s, he often featured at our events with his exquisite music tastes. :) 

This time @natahanael delivers a whirlwind 7" & LP Turkish Folk Psych Jazz-Funk mix! 

Beautiful music for the soul, the body and the holy spirit! 

Also there > www.mixcloud.com/EAV_2/nat-lausanne-70s-turkish-psych-funk

NAT (Château Chépère) also recorded a wonderful 1st mix in the "Music for Indoors" series launched by Ecoutes au vert in 2020. Make sure to listen to this beauty as well... > www.soundcloud.com/ecoutesauvert/music-for-indoors-nat

Music lover with far-reaching tastes and a huge record collection, NAT has a long history of navigating through Lausanne and the French part of Switzerland's underground music scene.
 
More mixes from him > www.mixcloud.com/ecoutesauvert / www.mixcloud.com/nathanel-hv 

Enjoy this mix? Like > Comment > Repost > Follow > Share on Socials 💜 Thanks! 

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NAT (Lausanne) - 70s Turkish Psych Funk ⚡️

Take a break from doing. 

Enjoy being.
Enjoy the date with Self.

Sensuality, fluidity, vulnerability, liquidity, softness, hotness, coziness, exploration, nurturing the longest and most precious relationship you have.

Cleyra - Cross My Mind
Xingu Hill - Identities Are Fluid
Entire - Outward (Demon Time)
Azu Tiwaline - Nissa
E-Saggila - N3n
Barker - Gradients of Bliss
Biosphere - Birds Fly by Flapping Their Wings
Bjarki - Scale of self worth (Bjarki pandemix)
Jennifer Walton - Neo Renaissance Girl
upsammy - Patterning
Varuna - Culex Sitiens
Undulae & Morasso - Love in Potential
IFS MA - Heddchara (Loopdrive Remix)
Salamanda - Catching Tails (Yushh Soft Spin Remix)
Piezo - V

Date with Self

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

BANDCAMP

Black Sites - BLOKK

Seishin

"women... what can u say? ... who made them? ... god must be a fucking genius!" (vocals by mr. Al Pacino)
(inspired by Sandra M. and one of my top-favourite movies, "Scent of a woman")

Childminded feat. Al Pacino - "Passport to heaven"

Composer/Percussionist/Pianist/Producer based in Kyoto

Architect of Sound & Noise

Digital//anything in between//Analogue

Takumi Motokawa is a musician who calls Kyoto, Berlin, and Aotearoa home, weaving together percussion, keyboard, composition, and production to create a unique sound. His music is a deeply introspective and immersive world where complexity and simplicity coexist, informed by collaborations with artists like Shackleton. With a passion for creative exploration, Takumi's sound is a captivating journey that invites listeners to explore the boundaries of consciousness and the subconscious.

京都、ベルリン、ニュージーランドを行き来しながら活動する音楽家、元川匠は、パーカッション、キーボード、作曲、プロデュースを融合させた独自の音楽世界を構築している。彼の音楽は、複雑さと簡潔さが共存する、深く内省的な音世界であり、シャクルトンを始めとする様々なアーティストとの共演を通じて、さらに深化している。

Gig Bookings & Licensing
Email: tak (at) takumimotokawa.com

Upcoming performances


Past performances

2025
Live Set
16 Sep
Many Tentacles
Berlin, Germany

Toad Live
13 Sep 18:00 (date changed to the 13th!)
Ikii
Berlin, Germany

Toad Live
Full Moon Sound Experience
6 Sep 19:00
Künstraun Breitenbachplatz 1
Berlin, Germany

Live Set
24 Aug
Musica Japonica
Osaka, Japan

Toad Live
11 July
Cafe Ausgang
Kyoto, Japan

Toad Live
25 Apr
Berlin Netzzz! vol. 01 in Fukuoka
Art Space Tetra
Fukuoka, Japan

Toad Live
+ MKD Constellations (Music) w/ Francesco Mancori (Visual)
11 Apr
Minzoku Gakki Koizumi
Kyoto, Japan

Toad Live
11 Mar
Many Tentacles
Berlin

2024

w/ Stories In Colour
23 Nov
Galiläa-Kirche
Berlin


w/ Shackleton: The Purge of Tomorrow
4 Nov
Auditorium San Fedele
Milan, Italy

Solo
7 July
Mingle (Morikawa Tobacco Store)
Kyoto, Japan

Washboard Live
21 Mar
darkroom
Christchurch, NZ

2023

TOAD Live
10 June
Orphic Gallery
Whanganui, NZ

TOAD Live
9 March
backroom @ Whammy Bar
Auckland, NZ

TOAD Live
REG:
3 March
club daphnia
Osaka, Japan

TOAD Live
Still Vol.1: w/ little side effect / multiple / Yutaka Sakamoto + yuyu
19 February
IAF Shop
Fukuoka, Japan

TOAD Live
w/ Big Flip the Massive
19 January
Dark Room
Christchurch, New Zealand

Solo Live Set
14 January
13 Garrett St
Wellington

TOAD Live
12 January
Common Room
Hastings, New Zealand

TOAD Live
w/Robert Scott
6 January
Dog With Two Tails
Dunedin, New Zealand

2022

TOAD Live
w/ Flo Wilson
15 December
Audio Foundation
Auckland, New Zealand

Noise Live Set
Madame Claude
5 December
Berlin, Germany

TOAD Live
30 November
Loophole
Berlin, Germany

TOAD Live
w/ nana.ios
3 November 20:30
Pony Bar
Hamburg, Germany 

TOAD Solo Live Set
w/ Aotūroa
3 September 20:00
Pyramid Club
Wellington, New Zealand

TOAD Solo Live Set
8 July 2022 19:30
Kiryuusha (https://www.kiryusha.com/)
Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, Japan

25 June 13:30
Solo Live Set
Beppu, Japan

Adrian Bang x Marcello Busato x Takumi Motokawa
30 March 20:00
loophole, Berlin

Solo w/ Dokia
18 March
Gelegenheiten, Berlin

Solo
Pandora Experimenta: Ayane Kondo x Catfish x Takumi Motokawa
11 March 19:00
Pandora Gallery, Berlin

Solo w/ Waterflower
4 March 20:30
Gelegenheiten, Berlin



2021

Solo - Perspectives
24 Oct 15:00 
Unifying Gate Festival
Spreefeld, Berlin

Jaguar no me
19 Nov
Loophole, Berin

Jaguar no me
18 Nov
Munich

Jaguar no me
30 Oct
Valentin Stüberl, Berlin

Solo - Perspectives
24 Oct 15:00 
Unifying Gate Festival
Spreefeld, Berlin

MIIN (w/ Samin Son)
14 Oct
Loophole, Berlin

MIIN (w/Samin Son)
16 Sep // 20:30
Pandora, Berlin

21 Aug // 20:30
Donau 115, Berlin
w/ Matilda Abraham

21 July // 20:30
Donau 115, Berlin

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Cerulean

Takumi Motokawa

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