Awareness Series

Mixed by Eomac {Bedouin Records}
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Artist info: 
SC: https://goo.gl/UZFVZQ
FB: https://goo.gl/FiWjin
Web: http://www.eomac.net

Tracklist: 

1) Step Time Orchestra - Robo-Friend (original acoustic version by Vilunki 3030 & Tumppi)
2) PITA - Fvo
3) Lakker - Open Clouds
4) Varg - Corinthia Skin Pt.1 : Artist Dinner & Sparkling Wine
5) Extreme Precautions - Untitled
6) Puce Mary - The Actor
7) Lakker - Night Tears
8) Russell Haswell - Chaos Clapping
9) Mika Vainio - Scale
10) Autechre - oneum
11) Eomac - Prayer Pt.1
12) Huerco S - Lifeblood
13) Leyland Kirby - Live for the future, long for the past
14) Valerio Tricoli - Clonic Earth
15) Ryo Murakami - Divisive
16) Russell Haswell - Incalculable Harm
17) Illum Sphere - An Old Escape (Kill Them Kill)
18) Sand Circles - Endless Nights

Lyrics of the episode:
“We see the world not as It is, but as we are” attributed both to the Talmud and to Anais Nin

What manifestations of others seem to bother you most intensely? Have you found your observations of others helpful in your own self-observation?.

Awareness XVIII: Eomac

Mixed by Donor 
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Artist info:
Soundcloud: https://goo.gl/19gLwq
Facebook: https://goo.gl/eCaAau
RA: http://goo.gl/4eIjPm
Discogs: https://goo.gl/t8WgwR

Tracklist:

01. Anthony Rother - Elixir Of Life Part III
02. Kangding Ray - Automne Fold 
03. Alessandro Cortini - Scappa
04. Cabaret Voltaire - Decay
05. John Carpenter - Christine (Regeneration)
06. Roly Porter - Cloud
07. Raime - Stammer
08. Blovk - No Friends
09. Mika Vainio - Otava
10. Shit & Cheap - Shadowlands
11. Front 242 - Conditionnel Humain (Prothese)
12. Aphex Twin - Parallel Stripes
13. Ben Frost - No Sorrowing
14. HTRK - Body Lotion
15. Tropic Of Cancer - Stop Suffering 

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” Leonardo da Vinci

What emotional understandings help you to unlock the moment, to “Be”?

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Awareness XIX: Donor

Mixed by Inner8
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Artist info:
Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/2cMTDef
Facebook: http://bit.ly/2cWnoLW
Holotone: http://bit.ly/2cC6VN1

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"Hold fast by the present. Every situation – nay, every moment – is of infinite worth, for it is the representative of a whole eternity." –Goethe

Awareness XX: Inner8 [live at Freqs Of Nature 2016]

Mixed by Death Kneel {Total Black / Summer Isle}
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Artist info:
Summer Isle: http://bit.ly/2fp3Y2w
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2fregBz
Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/2eLRQrn

Tracklist:

01. Neutral - Gaze [Omlott]
02. Christian Mirande - Big Oak Road [Glistening Examples]
03. Sean McCann & Matthew Sullivan - Untitled [Ekhein]
04. Korea Undok Group - Textile [Korea Undok Group]
05. Moss Harvest - Diminished To Light [Summer Isle]
06. E-Saggila - Trading In Skins [Opal Tapes]
07. Zen Zsigo & Niels Geybels - Untitled [Strange Rules]
08. Tourist Gaze - Pool Side Service [Total Black]
09. Death Kneel - Champagne Everlast [Summer Isle]
10. Valerio Tricoli - Di Vaga Crepa, Di Gelido Futuro [Second Sleep]
11. Isorinne - Procelain Embroidery [Northern Electronics]
12. Goddaughter - Routine & Sympathy [Clandestine Compositions]
13. LXV - Clear [Anòmia]
14. Altar Of Flies - Rörelsen Mellan Rummen [Järtecknet]
15. Skin Crime - Dying One Inch At A Time [Mother Savage Noise Productions]
16. Compile - Drone's On Fire / Ten Wolves End [Private Archive]
17. Oscillating Innards - Nadir Emergence [Troniks / Iatrogenesis]

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Lyrics of episode:
"The evolution of man depends on his understanding of what can be achieved and the efforts required to attain that. If a man does not have an ambition, or if he does not search hard enough and makes the appropriate efforts, he will never be able to develop." -P. D. Ouspensky

Awareness XXI: Death Kneel

Mixed by Ben Buitendijk {Oblique Music I Eshu Records} - NL
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Artist info:
Soundcloud: https://goo.gl/N4PXzE
Facebook: https://goo.gl/5ah6U1
Oblique Music: https://goo.gl/seizgo

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Lyrics of episode:
"An intellect totally cleaned of impurities is like a star-filled sky that illumines the soul with clear thoughts." -Nikitas Stithatos

Awareness XXII: Ben Buitendijk

Mixed by Duran {IMPT} - Mexico City
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Artist links:
Soundcloud: goo.gl/dpFTao
Facebook: goo.gl/aJcP9e
Tumblr: goo.gl/Rqg24F
Bandcamp: /goo.gl/mfvb09

Lyrics of episode:
"Man can not stop expressing his negative emotions simply because he is weak. Self-observation and self-study must, from the beginning, be accompanied by the struggle against the expression of negative emotions." -G. I. Gurdjieff

Awareness XXIII: Durant

Mixed by Basic House {@opal-tapes} - UK
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Artist links:
Basic House: goo.gl/qC1X2e
Opal Tapes: goo.gl/JhvVl0
'I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me' album: goo.gl/7cbyMP

Lyrics of episode:
"Hold fast by the present. Every situation – nay, every moment – is of infinite worth, for it is the representative of a whole eternity." – Goethe

Awareness XXX: Basic House

Mixed by Gosheven {@opal-tapes} - HU
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Soundcloud: goo.gl/tLjJcd
Facebook: goo.gl/pvzYrF
'Leaper' album: goo.gl/KTLX21
12z: goo.gl/5xqvin

Tracklist:

Musique de Burundi - Akazehe
Carl Stone - Shing Kee
Laszlo Hortobagyi - Sufi-Manna
Holly Herndon - Unequal
Meredith Monk - Do You Be
Oneohtrix Point Never - Stone Of Spiritual Understanding
Cromagnon - Crow Of The Black Tree
Matt Carlson - Sitting Down to Boolean Tea
12z - Speechless Yet Echoing
Gosheven - Memory Failure
John Bece - Disquiet Movement I
Arvo Part - My Hearts In The Highlands

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Lyrics of episode:
"I should have become really something
Like a male predator
Full of lucrative lust and firm beliefs
Based on persistency and commitment.
But I have become just the opposite
Strengthening my weakness
Laughing and weeping day by day
To avoid interpreting the so-called facts.
For now I withdraw myself to my mother's womb
To suck my thumb with great care
Settling in the ever-beating
Unfathomable innocence".
 
-Bálint Szabó (aka Gosheven)

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Awareness XXIV: Gosheven

Mixed by LAIR {@eotrax, @noeverything} - IR
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Artist links:
Soundcloud: goo.gl/YEYQaE
Facebook: goo.gl/eLP4wc
'LAIR EP': goo.gl/Jiy6Yv

Tracklist:

1) Kaija Saariaho, Performed by Wolpe Trio, Japanese Gardens, No. 1. 2)Tenju-an Garden of Nanzen-ji Temple
3)[Speaking] John Cage
4)Tool, Schism
5)Rage Against The Machine, Wake Up
6)Alanis Morrisette - Uninvited
7)Pearl Jam - Black
8)Common and Lauryn Hill - Retrospect For Life
9)Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
10)Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
11)Laurie Anderson - O Superman
12)Mos Def/Yasiin Bey - New World Water
13)Julia Wolfe - Performed by Bang on a Can Allstars, Reeling 
14)Bjork - Hyper-Ballad
15)Erykah Badu - On & On
16)Aphex Twin - To Cure A Weakling Child
17)The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
18)Morton Feldman - Performed by Joan LaBarbara, Snow Falls 
19)Michael Gordon - Performed by Bang on a Can Allstars, Industry 
20)[Speaking] Pauline Oliveros

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Lyrics of episode:
"What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower nature cannot lead me to consciousness. It is blind. But when I wake up and I feel that I belong to a higher world, this is only part of conscious effort. I become truly conscious only when I open to all my possibilities, higher and lower. There is value only in conscious effort." - Jeanne de Salzmann

Awareness XXV: LAIR

Mixed by Primal Code {Hypnus Records} - Italy
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Primal Code is the collaboration of two producers from Milano, Gabriele and Davide. Their sound search is characterized by natural soundscape recordings, hypnotic grooves and nostalgic atmospheres. Their first official release inaugurated a new Hypnus Records Series, titled Serum out on 4th November (hypnus.bandcamp.com/album/eteru). In this podcast you will find some of the tracks that have influenced their creative process and sound identity, ranging from movies soundtrack, to records of deep-techno scene they love.

Lyrics of episode:
"Solitude in the crowd. In all your outward activity remain inwardly free. Learn not to identify yourself with anything whatsoever." - Gujduvani

Tracklist

Awareness XXVI: Primal Code

Mixed by Resonant Coil {Subsidence rec.} - Italy
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Tracklist:
Autechre & The Hafter Trio - h3ae
Pansonic - -25
Austere - Tabescence
Bill Laswell & Tetsu Inoue - Monochrome Existence part6
O Yuki Conjugate - Earth Loop
Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana - The Secret Arrival
Dino Sabatini - Apparition
Biosphere - Gravity Assist 
Andrea Belfi - Vano
Asmus Tietchens & Richard Chartier - Fabrication 2.2
Frank Bretschneider - Paperthin
Retina.it - Shifted Reality
Heidseck - Route
Bernard Parmegiani - En Phase_Hors Phase From Dedans Dehors
Rrose - Undergrowth
r²π-  Ad Vitam (reworked)
Renonant Coil - (Unreleased)
Gianluca Becuzzi & Retina.it - Souls At Zero Density
Z’Ev - Untitled
Archon Satani - Untitled
Esplendor Geometrico - Min Dahul
Retina.it - Descending into Crevasse
Resonant Coil - Fire Bubble

Lyrics of episode:
"Continual work and concentration are my mind's food; when I begin to rest and slow down, I shall soon stop living. While I am growing old for everything else, for this alone I grow younger every day" -Petrarch

Awareness XXVII: Resonant Coil

Mixed by @stavesoundsystem {Standards & Practices} - Chicago
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Based in Chicago, Stave is the solo project of Jonathan Krohn. He also collaborates with Karl Meier under the name Talker.

Lyrics of episode:
"The wandering mind is always rushing about in empty effort among the deceptive delights of the world." - Bernard of Clairvaux:

Awareness XXVIII: Stave

Mixed by @11xxx27 {Infidel Bodies} - Italy
Artwork: Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

11xxx27 is a real ego development. Taking inspiration from the concrete and the abstract, the impalpable, what we know of the existence but we have no idea. His dj set is strongly characterized by a kind of evolutionary process of sound. Starting from abstraction of ambients and drones ending with the concreteness of kicks and hard beats.

Tracklist: 

LKSMN // Like Someone - Beauty Full Ass 
11xxx27 - Illusion of salvation
Mystics - Unsolved Enigma 
Years of Denial - Here In The Gut
51717 - The Glove
Konstruktivists - Dark Times
Oil Thief - A Dawning Protectorate 
GREBENSTEIN & Joscha Brauer - Grauer03 (Grebenstein Rework)
Le Moderniste - Il Tempo Della Corda 
Giant Swan - Palm
Grebenstein & Joscha Brauer - Grauer04 (Grebenstein Radio Edit)
Kollaps - Heartworm
11xxx27 - Hard commission (OPERANT remix)
Vofa - PI05.1
Transform Colláge - A Silent Place 
Le Moderniste - Dead Impulse For Dead Brain
Years Of Denial - Purgatory 
Ben Frost - Ionia

Lyrics of episode:
"If you come up against an aggressive adversary, leave him in accordance with his lowly state." - Egyptian Texts, Wisdom of Ptah-Hotep.

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Awareness XXIX: 11xxx27

Mixed by @babe-roots {Echocord, Linear Movement} - Italy
Artwork: Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Turin based artist, Babe Roots’ catalogue has seen a steady growth since he started out in 2016 with releases on French label Linear Movement, Portland dub label ZamZam Sounds and Rohs! Records. 

Babe Roots is the thirty-ninth guest of our series. He made a Dub / Reggae mix conformed by music from the Jamaican record label and recording studio ’Studio One’.

Artists links:

Facebook: bit.ly/2AnQTTl
Youtube: bit.ly/2PRgfyj
Discogs: bit.ly/2AnQTTl
Bookings: baberoots1895@gmail.com

Lyrics of episode:
 "Happiness in unhappiness – such is perfection" - Attar.

Awareness XXXI: Babe Roots

Mixed by @felix-bergeret {Intervision, RAW, Khemia} - Italy
Artwork: Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Enjoy the forty episode of our Awareness series. A delicate session  made by Dj Varsovie, that gathers some of the most beautiful tracks of Jazz & Soul.

Active on the Paris Techno scene since 2014 within the Container collective, DJ Varsovie gradually detaches himself from codes to reach an aesthetic closer to his memories and the tragic first loves of adolescence.

Inspired by Nino Ferrer and Michel Fugain, but also Benassi Bros and Cabaret Voltaire, DJ Varsovie is dreaming of crooning on the stage of a beach bar.

Artists links:

Facebook: bit.ly/2H7W1Ae
Bookings: felixbergeret@gmail.com

"Do not walk aimlessly, do not wander without a destination." - Toltec Wisdom

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Awareness XXXII: DJ Varsovie [Jazz à Tokyo Vinyl Set]

Mixed by @jayoverdose {Rotterhague Records} - NL
Artwork: Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

For those who know, DJ Overdose is one of the pillars of the Dutch electro scene. He is a low key yet vital artist who hails from The Hague but is based in Rotterdam, and his unique take on electro oozes the atmospheres of these famous musical cities.

Enjoy the forty one episode of our Awareness series. It is a recording of his presentation on the Dutch radio, Operator. A versatile mix that includes some of his favorite tracks from his exclusive record collection.

Artists links:

Dj Overdose bandcamp: bit.ly/2NcPOUF
Rotterhague bandcamp: bit.ly/2C9UMer
Facebook: bit.ly/2PKD8Gn
Bookings: bit.ly/2CakaAV
 
"The desires of this world are like sea water. The more you drink of them, the more you thirst." - Ibn Arabi

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Awareness XXXIII: DJ Overdose

Mixed by @mikeschommer {Deepchord Records Co-Founder} - USA
Artwork: Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

In the late 1990’s, Mike Schommer co-founded the dub-techno record label Deepchord (along with Rod Modell) in Detroit Michigan. The label was considered by many to be the second wave of the Basic Channel sound and achieved virtual cult status among electronic music enthusiasts. After four years, and achieving far more success than initially anticipated, Deepchord Records wound down operations (five years later, Modell would revive the “Deepchord” moniker as an artist name). For Mike, the rigors of running a new business and raising a family took precedence over the demands of pressing records. Deepchord Records had a fantastic run over the course of issuing 11 sought after dub techno releases, but this wasn’t the end for Mike. With encouragement from Rod and his wife Tarah, Mike enthusiastically returned to producing music in 2017 with a fresh perspective (a positive side-effect of NOT being submerged in the process/culture for 15 years). No longer does he feel the need to adapt his sound to fit a particular scene/style. No constraints or target audience, only heartfelt, unencumbered music that comes directly from the soul.

Recently Grayscale label announces the return of Mike Schommer, after a decade of inactivity, along with Deepchord who made a remix to one of the tracks of his new EP, called 'Come Home'.

Artists links:

Instagram: bit.ly/2ujQ65l
Website: bit.ly/30UkBLr
Facebook: bit.ly/37mucNi
Bandcamp: bit.ly/38rCuUj

"The worst state for man is when he loses awareness and control over himself." - Michel de Montaigne

Awareness XXXIV: Mike Schommer

Mixed by @simonegattodj {@out_electronic_recording Founder} - Italy
Artwork: Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Southern italian artist Simone Gatto ( owner of Out-Electronic Recordings / Out-ER ) versatile dj and composer, is an eclectic electronic music activist, specialized in music therapy, who finds into music a dynamic source of emotions, reminds and energy.

Simone’s first contact with music was early in 2004 and since then, he’s been known for globe-trotting around the world to perform quality house and techno shows and managing his own label Out Electronic Recordings with his partner Andrea Santoro.

His Pregnant Void label kicks off 2020 with his third full length album, Harmonic Resonance System 432 Hz. The record marks the first time the acclaimed Italian artist leans totally on his music therapist activities and focusses on self harmonization and wellness through electroacoustic music. This unique record will be available on CD and all digital formats through our channels, but also through the Italian National Association of Art Therapy's website.

Artists links:

Instagram: bit.ly/37DrDWl
Facebook: bit.ly/39PKY8s
Discogs: bit.ly/2V5c2fD
'Harmonic Resonance System 432': bit.ly/2vKszLA

"Those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy." - Marcus Aurelius

Awareness XXXV: Simone Gatto

Mixed by @roll-the-dice {The Leaf Label} - Sweden
Artwork: Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Peder Mannerfelt and Malcolm Pardon’s Roll The Dice project embodies the potential of electronic music as a medium for cinematic expression. This was already apparent on their self-titled debut back in 2010, but they’ve expanded on the visual scope of their music with each subsequent release. Fusing classical compositional heft with widescreen sound design and the motorik throb of kosmische music, Mannerfelt and Pardon’s collaborative albums land as cohesive start-to-finish pieces that carve out their narratives in canny blends of organic and electronic source material.

Beyond Roll The Dice, Mannerfelt and Pardon have solo careers that explore even broader realms of electronic and soundtrack music. Mannerfelt has achieved much in the realm of experimental techno, as well as producing for high profile acts including Fever Ray. Pardon’s skills and experience lie in television and film composition – it’s not hard to see why their fusion of disciplines creates such distinct, accomplished music. As their compact but impactful discography to date suggests, the future potential for the project is as open as what has come before.

Artists links:

'Assimilarity' Collection: bit.ly/2Uhtqvw
Discogs: bit.ly/3b5fDPH
Instagram: http://bit.ly/2TWuYMA
Facebook: bit.ly/39X74Go

Tracklist:

1. Seefeel - Climactic Phase No.3
2. Giant Swan - I As Proof
3. Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk
4. Ralph Stanley  - Gloryland
5. Mika Vainio - Syvyydessä Kimallus
6. Gang of Four - Paralyzed (Tortoise Remix)
7. Aston ”Family Man” Barrett - Soul Constitution
8. United States of America- Cloud Song
9. Quirke - Maybe Again, Crawl Through
10. Emptyset - Bloom
11. Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
12. Henry Mancini - Lujon
13. Colin Stetson - Spindrift
14. Clan Of Xymox - Stranger
15. Low - Always Trying to Work It Out
16. Depeche Mode - Any Second Now
17. Dan Penn - Skin
18 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

"A cultivate attention. You will see that then it gives different results. Think with attention. Do not let yourself think mechanically. Mechanical thinking transforms itself into imagination." - P.D. Ouspensky

Awareness XXXVI: Roll The Dice (Peder Mannerfelt & Malcolm Pardon)

Mixed by @toh-imago {@infine-music} - France
Artwork: Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Who is Toh Imago - the artist behind ‘Nord Noir’? We already knew him at InFiné, but let’s preserve a pure listening experience because now he is, and will be: Toh Imago.

Inspired by Sorj Chalandon’s novel “Le jour d’avant” which describes the dark reality of miners in the North of France’s, Toh Imago dove into the deserted coal mines that surround him to create ‘Nord Noir.’ A hypnotic album that draws a landscape inhabited by ghosts, where harmonic fumes swallow the rhythm of the machines. If you hop into the cart through the tunnels with Toh Imago, it might be a shaky ride.

However, as Daniel Avery or Blawan, our new man demonstrates that techno, in the beautiful and modern sense of the term, often rises from the smoke and ash of the industrial world’s decay.

Artists links:

Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2GJJH9V
Instagram: https://bit.ly/3kc3pZP
Facebook: https://bit.ly/38w3aq6

Tracklist:

01. Intro
02. Arandel - Bodyline (Feat Ben Shemie)
03. Oneohtrix Point Never - Raycats
04. JPEGMAFIA - Beta Male Strategies
05. Aphrodite's Child - Loud, Loud, Loud
06. Oneohtrix Point Never - Americans
07. Pierre Barouh - Ce n'est que de l'eau
08. Eric Serra - Synchronised Instant
09. Damso - Deux toiles de mer
10. Francis Bebey - Sanza Tristesse
11. Yann Tiersen - Heol
12. Four Tet - You Could Ruin My Day
13. Prins Thomas - Foreplay
14. Sourdure - L'entendu
15. Wareika Hill Sounds - Mass Migration (dub)
16. Sabrina Bellaouel - The Build Up
17. Nathan Micay - if The World's still here on monday
18. Cyril Cyril - Sous la mer c'est calme
19. Deerhoof - Music for strings, percussion & celesta, SX. 106

"One cannot taste the intimacy of remembrance without having suffered the desolation of forgetfulness". - Al-Qushayri

Awareness XXXVII: Toh Imago

Founded in 2011, The Forgotten has become a leading international brand that strives to stimulate the modern electronic music sector.

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