Ambient

Gentle textural soundscapes trace the quiet shift in season, evoking warmth, stillness, and the beauty of impermanence. A sonic reflection on the passage of time, memory, and the subtle charm of change.

Christoph Vogel (Ghostloop) about his album: “It’s a collection of nine ambient pieces — soundscapes shaped by personal moments and quiet shifts I experienced over the past year, many of them spent in nature.

I worked with field recordings I captured during that time, letting them carry traces of place and memory. While writing, I also began building my Eurorack modular system, slowly integrating its sounds into the tracks as they took shape.

'Almost Autumn' reflects a quiet cycle of the year — the slow transitions, inner stillness, and changing atmosphere that come with time passing”.

Christoph Vogel, known as Ghostloop (Germany), weaves immersive soundscapes shaped by the serene rhythms of nature. Drawing from the ambient textures of field recordings and grounding them with deep, fluid basslines, his compositions echo the quiet moods of Northern Germany and the Baltic Sea coast. Rooted in a deep sense of place, Ghostloop’s music invites listeners to pause, drift, and sink into gentle, emotive layers of sound.

Produced and mixed by Christoph Vogel (Ghostloop)
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture and design by Dionis Afonichev

Almost Autumn

Green Island

From the frozen ruins of forgotten realms to the endless skies of alien worlds, OrchraX invites you into a saga where fantasy and science fiction collide. Inspired by the grandeur of Skyrim and the vastness of Halo, this album blends orchestral power with ambient mysticism, creating a soundtrack for a roleplay game that exists only in imagination.

Opening with “The First Legend”, a spoken-word prologue delivered with the weight of ancient prophecy, the journey unfolds across cinematic soundscapes: battles fought beneath shattered moons, ruins echoing with the voices of the past, and destinies written among the stars.

This is more than music — it is a tale told in sound, crafted for dreamers, gamers, and seekers of other worlds. Step beyond the stars, and let the legend begin.

Blood and Starlight

downtown

@syberkid 

~ Tracklist ~

tarotplane - Benares
Chris Watson - The Drinking Boy
William A Hutson - 2018-08-23 Polyphonic Harmonitron
Robert Rich - Touch-Release 
The Shamen - Out In The Styx
Ligovskoï	 - Behaïm
DJ Rubio - Western Medicine
Cmetric - VOID/Comm
Commodity Place - Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources 
Pariah - Pith 
The Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere - Corona
Rapoon - Lotus	
Move D & Namlook - Travelling the Silk Route IV	
Cabaret Voltaire - Other World
Wanderwelle - The Seed Of The Areoi
Ness - Chronoscope
Sync24 - Replicant
Monolake	 - Mass Transit Railway
Nuel - Untitled	
Mani Festo - Memories	
Earth - The Dry Lake
Ancestral Voices - Hieratic
Teleplasmiste - Astōdaan	
Intex Systems - Thin Air
Sven Väth - Drifting Like Whales In The Darkness
Kryptic Minds - Something To Nothing
Biosphere - En-trance		
Answer Code Request - Orarum
Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles

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The next Deep Mind Music mix is a recording of the set I played in Croatia as part of Austrian collective @femdex’s 8 hour showcase at Lighthouse Festival on the 2nd of June 2019. Thanks to femdex for the invite 💓

I was playing on the Sunday evening, in one of the last sets of the 5 day festival. The ambient floor was set up in a clearing of the forest next to the sea. I’d always prefer to listen to ambient and drone outside, so I’m super grateful to have had the opportunity to play this music in such an idyllic setting. Looking up to see birds drifting over trees, with leaves rustling in the wind was pretty magical.

I feel like this set operates on a deeper and more cerebral plane than my other DMM mixes, designed for tired festival goers to zone out on the cushions under the trees, drifting in and out of consciousness.

I took this photo watching the sunset over the sea after my set.

Also, the first track of this set by @tarot-plane is going to be part of a forthcoming project I’m currently working on, so keep an eye out for news about that in the near future 👁

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Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.8

Vyvyan is an elusive character, a DJ and producer who prefers to operate under the radar. At the end of last year he showcased his tastes and influences in a mix or Bicep's Feel My Bicep mix series which gave listeners a glimpse into both his record bag and his own productions. Having delivered remixes for Psychemagik and Eclectic, last week saw the release of his new EP Coat Bra Pants on Me Me Me which includes remixes from Not An Animal's Chris Stoker and Robert Johnson resident Gerd Janson.

We invited him to deliver this week's Monday Is OK mix which flows through experimental, beatless rhythms; the music that soundtracks his home listening sessions...

Vyvyan: The 'Monday Is Ok' Mix

@zuurb

Style: Ambient, Piano
Lenght: 01:03:53
Quality: 320 kBit/s

Tracklist:
Tambour - Orion (Mythologies)
Jameson Nathan Jones, Elskavon - Still as Troubled Waters
Helios - Dreams
Anna B May - If I Had Wings
Levi Patel - Her angled beauty
Jacob David - Dvale
Jim Perkins - Enfolding
För Alltid - Vindstilla
Rhian Sheehan - Elegy For The Past (We Are All Astronauts Remix)
Slow Meadow - Stellarum Fixarum
Daigo Hanada - Suiu
Essáy - Colours of Liz
Snorri Hallgrímsson - Imperial
Tambour - Ursa Minor (Caroline's Theme)

Alle der diesjährigen Kalendermixe finden sich hier: https://www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de/blogg/category/adventskalender/adventskalender-2019/

Das KFMW Adventskalender 2019

2019 #08: Zuurb - Helike

Our Blitzcast series continuous with Vincent Neumann, who shows up with a beautiful Ambient mix. The Leipzig based Distillery resident unveils two hours of intimate soundscapes, contemplative-uplifting vibrations, hazy drone-spheres, gentle rhythm accents and a consistently timeless mood. This smoothly mixed selection allows to take a deep breath, to drift away and to gain creativity. Thank you Vincent, this is essential!

Die neunte Ausgabe unserer Blitzcast-Serie kommt von Vincent Neumann, der diese in Form einer wunderbaren Ambient-Mélange präsentiert. Im Rahmen der zwei Stunden lässt der Leipziger Distillery-Resident intime Soundscapes, nachdenklich-beflügelnde Vibrations, verschwommen-definierte Drone-Sphären und behutsame Rhythmus-Akzente zu einem durchweg zeitlosen Stimmungspool verschmelzen. Eine smooth gemischte Selektion, die zum Durchatmen und abdriften anregt, sowie die Synapsen in Schwingung versetzt. Danke für diesen nachhaltig-essentiellen Ausflug, lieber Vincent!

Blitzcast 009 — Vincent Neumann

18-04-2020

Recording of Spekki's set during the MIRROR ZONE Virus stream in collaboration with @hetmagazijn

@spekkiwebu

SPEKKI WEBU @ MIRROR ZONE VIRUS STREAM

live recording of Pasiphae @ the Future Intel headquarters.

TASCAM DR-05

Pasiphae ╚═ Future Intel ═╗ 05.06.20

As if by magic it's Monday. Again. How did we get here you ask? We don't have the answers but American composer and multi-instrumentalist Rafael Anton Irisarri has the perfect soundtrack to curb those inevitable beginning-of-the-week feels. 

Known for his immersive ambient productions, Irisarri has released several albums over the years with labels like Immune, A Strangely Isolated Place, Geographic North, Umor Rex and Room40, the latter two being imprints that he's returned to time and time again. Taking the form of continual compositions, his long players demonstrate his finesse at working with different techniques and textures, adding both classical and contemporary influences into the mix.

By day he works as a mastering engineer at his own Black Knoll Studio in New York, where he has prepared releases for the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Grouper and David August, as well as working regularly with labels like Ghostly International and RVNG Intl. 

Following the release of his new album Peripeteia on Dais Records in May, he blessed us with some recent soothing favourites, most of which he mastered at Black Knoll himself.

Read + Download

Rafael Anton Irisarri: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

Imponderabilia w/ Marijana 14.07.20

https://soundcloud.com/dj-balduin

Nach einer kleinen Sommerpause spannt Dj Balduin ein Netz aus atmosphärischen Sounds, sich aneinander schmiegenden Melodien und trippigen Eskapaden.
Schon im Kindesalter erfuhr er ein breites Spektrum an Musikdiversität. So prägten ihn die Techno Tapes seines Babysitters ebenso wie die Klassiksammlung seines Vaters.
Als DJ verknüpft Balduin die als Kind erfahrenen Eindrücke geschickt zu lebendigen Landschaften, in welchen der hörende Gast, paralysiert, in funkelnde atmosphärische Nebelwolken starrt, oder sanft zur nächsten Weggabelung geschoben wird. Seine Veröffentlichungen auf Kompakt, QC Records und dem hauseigenen Label GLYK bestätigen die Vorliebe aus allen Genretöpfen zu schöpfen.
Dj Balduin liefert mit diesem Beitrag den adäquaten Soundtrack für langerträumte Abenteuer!


Danke!

# 019 - Dj Balduin (GLYK)

Andreas Tilliander is a Swedish electronica, drone and techno producer who significantly contributed to the evolution of the 'clicks & cuts' genre with his first albums Cliphop and Ljud. He has recorded music under many names and worked with some of Europe's influential electronic music labels

Andreas Tilliander [Borft Records Laguna Shuffle Show]

Tunnel Vision Records boss is back on Lyl Radio for his sixth season on the web,  fueling it by dark prophecies , whispers from the canopee, trippy mental dub , and smooth fractal trance gems.

Recorded in October 2020 at @lyl_radio  studio in Lyon, France.

Bienvenue sur la Planète Noire.

[ Artwork - Martin Besson ]



www.lyl.live

LYL Radio - Planète Noire - Stakhan (22.10.20)

After a little lockdown-break we are finally returning with our monthly Headcast series. 

Issue 27 comes from Hamburg hero KLUENTAH. Head of ZEMENT records and responsible for releases on labels like Public System Recordings, Mechatronica, FUTURE ME RECORDS and many more. In his productions as well as his mixtapes, you can always recognise his love for heavily distorted drums, a kind of one-take-roughness and last but not least, a passion for the bounciness of Hip-Hop, which we highly admire. Attributes which also come to life in his duo FALLBEIL which he is forming together with Wosto. If you ever had the possibility to see those guys playing one of their hardware-only improvised livesets across Europe, you know what we are talking about. 

The mix he delivers for us reflects an open-minded mixtape-approach: a crossover between some synthetic disco vibes, bouncing breakbeats, some electro-bretterz and overdriven 808 romance. Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/kluentah
https://soundcloud.com/zementrecordings

Headcast 027 | KLUENTAH

Ransom Note is an online music, arts and culture magazine. We provide a home for readers and writers with boundless enthusiasm, esoteric knowledge, fierce opinions and impeccable taste.

With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history.

Alongside this we offer musings on film, books, life, and art, generating some context and controversy as an antidote to the reheated PR that clogs up the internet. Our office is fuelled by Tunnock’s Bars, cat memes, hangovers and a ridiculous, never ending love for our culture.

We're always interested in getting new writers on board – feel free to get in touch if you’ve got a story to tell.

With love until the grave.

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