Taiwanese-born audio technologist Mei-Fang Liau moonlights as Floating Spectrum, a moniker that encompasses the immersive, cinematic soundscapes she conjures up. 

Her debut album, A Point Between, arrived last autumn on Temporary Residence, an exploration of organic and synthetic textures created through using everyday household objects, synthesizers and software synthesizers built by Liau herself. Built on the foundations of two compositions she wrote for a dance performance, she examined themes around life: how it emerges, flourishes and eventually decays and the emotions associated with these different phases. 

Her work is meditative, thought provoking and intricate, something that is stimulated by her technological ambition and her ability to create depth and texture in simplicity. 

Here she eases us into the new decade with a mix of beautiful, ambient soundscapes. Just what the doctor ordered...

Floating Spectrum: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

berlin based queer fundraiser party collective. https://soundcloud.com/swufm residency show & record label curated by https://soundcloud.com/asa-808; TOYS events & releases: https://toysberlin.de bookings: booking@toysberlin.de 

take off your shoes. make yourself at home. dance with us and let us praise our new lords and saviors of forward-thinking electronic music, who saved our souls from conservative tech-house cardinals and testosterone overdosed unitary techno shittery. in the last years excited hipsters have been throwing words such as "techno", "breaks" and "trance" around like confetti. TOYS simply places all our saints (such as Avalon Emerson, Benjamin Damage, Credit 00, Cryptofauna, Cyan85, Dark Sky, Dauwd, Elkka, Epikur, Glenn Astro, Lea Occhi, Medlar, Moomin, Poly Chain, Redshape, Sam Goku, Session Victim, Slim Soledad, Stimming, Tom Trago, Trikk, Will Saul & Youandewan) in a number of diverse and torrid settings and allows you to (un-)dress, play, free yourselves and dance for everybody's cantilevered satisfaction (and other good causes) while truly impelling tracks unfold. a divine service in a dimly lit queer feminist, sex-positive, post-modern church of pulsating indulgence.

Past A-Z: 
Ada, Anna Kost, Avalon Emerson, Bobbie*, Breach, Chambray, Christian Löffler, Credit 00, Cryptofauna, Cyan85, Dark Sky, Dauwd, Ejeca, Elkka, Eluize, Ena Lind, Epikur, Frits Wentink, Glenn Astro, Glimpse/Dense & Pika, Huxley, Jacob Korn, Katiusha, Kidnap, Lando, Lawrence, Lea Occhi, Locked Groove, Lxury, Makeness, Marquis Hawkes, Medlar, Mike Dehnert, Moomin, Olaf Stuut, Poly Chain, Qzen, Redshape, Sam Goku, Seb Wildblood, Session Victim, Slim Soledad, Stimming, Sophia Saze, The Golden Filter, The Maghreban, Throwing Snow, Tom Demac, Tom Trago, Trikk, TRP, Will Saul, Youandewan, xxxy, Zola & many more.

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Yard One is the collaborative guise of UK duo Jordan Bruce and Larry Jones, respectively based out of Den Haag, Netherlands and Manchester, UK. The alias Tryst sees the pair, plus Enhua Bruce produce material leaning towards downtempo, ambient and trip hop. 

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