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In 2018 I had the pleasure of visiting friends on the Isle of Man. The vacation on this island left a deep impression. I am still fascinated by the atmosphere that is inherent in this island and its natural surroundings. On the island there is a background atmosphere that cannot be put into words and that can be felt all the time, something very unique and rustic, mystical, and definitely Celtic. It penetrates through everything and is everywhere, it shows itself in nature, culture and buildings, the environment, and the weather and light. It's like a little world of its own.

According to legend, the Isle of Man (Isle of Man or Mannin) is protected by the Celtic god Manannan, and in times of danger he puts a wall of fog around the island to hide it from attackers, ships or unwanted visitors. The mist takes the form of a thick gray sheet of gray-violet colors that slowly envelops the land until Manannan is sure to raise his cloak again after the unwanted visitors have gone.

I am still very fascinated by it today, and the very own atmosphere of the island still has a firm grip on me, even if the visit was already 3 years ago. I long to go back there. It's like a Celtic spell, a sorcery or voice in my mind that says like I belong there.

That made me yesterday to take up a spontaneous improvisation. In the end, it is always those sudden and quickly inserted recordings that deliver the most beautiful results because they arise quickly and without thinking and free from constraints and too many thoughts. The field recording with the waves of the sea also comes from me, recorded at the southernmost point of the island, the Calf of Man (Calf Sound or The Sound).

For me, this recording hit the nail on the head, especially with the Celtic-looking synthesizer sound and the reverb effect, together with the sound of the sea, which gives a bit of the feeling of distance and looking into the past, as if through a time window . The full piece takes about 7 minutes, and will be released later.

The Cloaked Island (Manannan's Cloak)

Here is the 346th chapter of the Deep Electronics serie. Released every two weeks the serie brings you a diversity into the abyss of deep electronic music.  This week Aura Minimum makes his debute on the channel.  His mixtape represents the deepnes of deep electronic music. Again a submersion into the depts of sound.

About Aura Minimum:

 "The sound matter of unreality. Fragments and memories..."

Tracklist:
01 Submersion - Discipline
02 Ekhozone - Intergalactic (Part I & Part II)
03 Mr. Cloudy - Magnetic Tide 2 (Toki Fuko Reshape)
04 Submersion - Infrareal
05 Nemo - Verwunschene Wälder
[Ambience] Walking in Forest + Night Song [Jule, 2021]
06 Aura Minimum - Hypnotic Journey
07 Mr. Cloudy - Desove Somnolence Dub
08 Syene - Clouds [Unrleased Material]
[Ambience] Northern Rain in Forest [August, 2021]

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/auraminimum

Artwork created and designed by Jeroen

Deep Electronics # 346 - Aura Minimum

Restless

Welcome to the 10th chapter of the Deep Electronics Podcast mixed by Michihiro Sotomura!

 A Deep Ambient set especially mixed for the Deep Electronics Podcast by Michihiro Sotomura! Recorded 10th of April 2013 @ Space Orbit - Tokyo 

This DEEP AMBIENT set brings you in a peacefull state of mind on a late evening or at a peacefull and relaxing day. Bringing your thoughts somewhere else further than our busy lives in the real world. So sit down, put your headphone on an take a trip tru your own imagination!! 

Photo by: Jeroen Smulders

Links: 

https://soundcloud.com/michihirosotomura

http://michihiro-sotomura.tumblr.com/

https://x.mixcloud.com/michihiro-sotomura8/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Space-orbit/182695945086217

Tracklist:

01. Tom Green - Scanner 
02.Connected Ohm - Time To Time By Time 
03. Ishvara - Under A Hexagon Sky 
04. Koss - Odyssey 
05. Sven Schienhanmer - Back Into Here And Now 
06. ASC - I Need Rewiring 
07. Mikrokristal - Pingvinai Vakar 
08. Koss - Beauty 
09. Ishq - As starlight shining bright 
10. Purl - Oceanima 
11. Purl & Deflektion - Return Of The Sun 
12. Bvdub - Without A Chance To Say 
13. Markus Guentner - Chrom


Deep Electronics Podcast # 10 - Michihiro Sotomura (  Special DJ set @ Space Orbit Tokyo )

Having successfully upgraded/modified the SFG-01 sound module in a 1984 Yamaha CX5M to SFG-05 specification I have been enjoying designing my first few sound patches and testing them as dual layers as I have to say I've rather fallen for this thing - its producing considerably warmer and more complex results than I was expecting for a sine-only 4 OP FM synth.  Push it hot through a transformer coupled DI box and it sounds lovely!

I have to say the difference between the non-velocity sensitive SFG-01 and the upgraded velocity sensitive SFG-05 is like night and day - FM is so very much more potent and emotive a form of synthesis with expressive control.

The CX5M is basically an MSX1 computer with a built in 4-OP sine-only FM sound module based on the YM2151 which is almost identical to the YM2164 4-OP FM sound chip found in the FB-01.

With a bit of experimentation and spending some time discovering these synth's sweet spots its really quite surprising what you can conjure up from both the CX5M and the FB-01 once you move beyond the rather cheesy original factory patches.   Its no real wonder there has been a rekindled interest in both synths in recent years.

Upgrading to SFG-05 spec allows the CX5M's sound module to be played via MIDI with velocity sensitivity as opposed to relying on a proprietary non-velocity keyboard that the SFG-01 required.

This is simply the CX5M recorded directly into reverb - any perceived chorus effects are the result of careful use of the LFOs in both the patch and dual layer programming.

Sound Design & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2022.

1984 Yamaha CX5M Mk II: New Layered Patches.. (UPDATED)

www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/47-wzrdryav

Music for abstraction.

The final mix in the series this year is a 2+ hour ambient recording by one of my favourite producers, Kelly Nairn aka wzrdryAV. 

It was recorded back during the Canadian Summer and consists entirely of tracks by the Vancouver-based artist, “some released, some not…some remixes and things I did for comps”. It might be the most atmospheric recording we’ve received yet.

There’s a lot I could say (and have said) about Kelly’s music in the past but it feels right to let the music speak for itself this time round. There’s no interview to accompany this mix either. We hope it finds you well. Happy holidays.

@wzrdry
https://wzrdryrecordings.bandcamp.com/music

Theory Therapy 47: wzrdryAV

Happy New Year!! Have a amazing 2023!!

This is the 100th Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. These monthly released sessions brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer.

After 99 Ambient Sessions I finally reached session 100 and the first mixtape released in 2023!! 

I did a long and deep digging into the DE and AS archives and came across a set I recieved back in 2014. It was ment to be released as the second Ambient Sessions but with some reason it never been posted. As for now it will be the 100th instead. To give it a proper release!

There is no tracklist available just pure deep ambient music! So enjoy!

here below you will find older sets Michihiro did for the channel:

https://soundcloud.com/deep_electronic/deep-electronics-podcast-10

https://soundcloud.com/deep_electronic/ambient-sessions-28-michihiro-sotomura

Artwork created by Jeroen

Photo taken by Jeroen and used for the 10th chapter of the Deep Electronics serie.

Logo by Subchord.

Ambient Sessions # 100 - Michihiro Sotomura

Starlight

End of the journey.

Aura Minimum project and Strange Key label are closed. I need time to repair my mind and body.

This mix includes elements from the unreleased album Magical Segments, an atmospheric remix by the great musician Marcel Frehse (The Nautilus Project) and my unfinished ambient works from the last year.

Tracklist 📜

Segment VII
Segment V [TNP Remix]
Segment VI
Ambient Myst
Segment VIII [Version]
Segment VIII
Simulation II
Simulation III [Vocoded]
Ambient Myst

Secret Path IV

Happy new year!!! This is the very first Ambient Sessions podcast of 2017!

Welcome to the 28th chapter. This first session in 2017 is mixed by Michiro Sotomura from Japan. 

Bio:

Michihiro’s from Morioka city in Iwate and now living Uenohara city in Yamanashi. Active as a DJ since 1996 in Morioka. As the organizer of 'aquart', his themes center around transformation of heart and body led by sound. His mixing style known as simple yet smooth, using subtle Ambient / Electronica / Downtempo / Techno sound sources, pulsating each note.In 2009, Michihiro graduated from the YogaJaya International Teacher Training at the YJA300 level, And he had taught Hatha Yoga at YogaJaya for six years from 2009 to 2015. And also he have teaching experience more than 1000 hours and he is now a Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 200E-RYT and YACEP with the Yoga Alliance,and now he organizes "un." that aims the life to connect and harmonize the nature and the human.


Tracklist:

01. Eternell - Alcyone (Meditation)
02. echospace plays michael mantra - sea shell city (morning)
03. Alva Noto - Xerrox Spark
04. Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Vortex
05. Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Matrix
06. Arovane - III_I
07. Claudio PRC - Part III
08. Neel - Life on Laputa Regio
09. Alva Noto - Verrox Solphaer
10. echospace plays michael mantra - sea shell city (afternoon)
11. Donacha Costello - Ensō

Links:

https://beta.mixcloud.com/michihiro-sotomura8/

https://un-life.jimdo.com

Ambient Sessions # 28 - Michihiro Sotomura

Official SoundCloud page of The Nautilus Project, electronic music producer from Lusatia (Germany) since 2008 and co-owner of the Forest Roots label since 2012 to this day ~

The Cloaked Island (Manannan's Cloak)

The Nautilus Project

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