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Premiere | tape_hiss - Sky Garden (ECR011)

Join Metropolitan Soul Museum for the grand opening of the Kulture Galerie release series in 2022.

Kulture Galerie is London-based duo Metropolitan Soul Museum's mix series, live every 2 months on Radio. The show's concept is to give an opportunity to the artists invited to select non-club / home listening music where a variety of influences and cultures and different dichotomies of the same form of expression. The various artists releases that will follow each year, will include 6 original tracks from the 6 artists involved in the shows.

'Kulture Galerie Year 1', out on a limited number of CDs distributed by Lobster Distribution and mastered by Nerang and Gestalt's Nørus, includes 6 non genre specific tracks from the first 6 guests: MSM's partner in crime Herzel (Hivern Discs, Uncanny Valley), Echocentric Records's boss Timo Deeprhythms, prolific US producer Aspetuck, Lyssna Records' main man Adam Stromstedt, Regelbau's affiliate K-Dallas under his Exo Ghost moniker and finally an original track from Metropolitan Soul Museum.

You are all invited to grab a copy of 'Kulture Galerie Year 1', out in 2022.

VA - Year 1 [CLIPS]

We're kicking off 2022 with this stunning mix from Alex Cicchini aka Don Chich. Originally from Boorloo/Perth, Alex now resides in Naarm/Melbourne - and how lucky we are to have Alex in our neck of the woods! 

Alex is a lover of 90s/00s electronic music, inspired by the sounds of Global Underground, Northern Exposure, Renaissance, Balance and other mix CDs. This vinyl mix is deep, dark and immersive - Sasha & Digweed eat your heart out!! Thank you Alex for this gorg mix <3

Rotations Round 21: Don Chich

Trident Recordings - TRECS006 - Elektro Statik (Part One)

Elektro Statik (Part One) e.p.

Telomere 016 • Audio Reflex (aka @andersonmusik) • Reflex II

Artist: Audio Reflex
EP: Reflex II
Cat #: Telomere 016
Label: Telomere Plastic
Genres: Balearic, Breakbeat, Deep, Tech House, Trance

• Tracks •
A1 • Paddling Out
A2 • Lullaby
B1 • This Activity
B2 • Fungusamongus

Info: 
Audio Reflex returns with the ‘Reflex II’ EP!
Starting off the A side we have Padding out, a hypnotic, arpeggiated groover with a deep and long bass line carrying the tune from start to finish. We then have a smooth entrance into A2, a timeless Lullaby that will captivate the air frequencies until the end of time. A trance arpeggiated sequence flying throughout the track which finally connects with a massive bass guitar bass line that brings the funk and groove in a way that will bring all the hairs on your body to a code red, goosebump state. Its a mystery how this will work on the dance floors, but something to look forward to.
The B side then starts off with another deep and trance groover leading right into the hypnotic Fungusamongus. This track will bring you on a spiritual journey leading you to look deep inside yourself and connect some of the dots you never knew existed..
Limited copies as always so be quick!

One Per Customer

• Limited copies available below •

•Discogs• 
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•Pre Order•
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Telomere 016 • Audio Reflex • Reflex II

Floating between the little fluffy white orbs he dance atop a radiant blue backdrop which ran out of sight. He was flying – at peace with his own mind and thoughts, lost in cloud and as free as a bird.

Down below the worries of this world were far away – they could not dampen his wild spirits as he soared and drifted above oceans and great plains on a planet which seemed less and less like home with every passing moment. For he would never return – not to that place where they’d clipped his wings and stopped him from soaring like the wild and wonderful bird that he was.

Guava taps Alex Blake in for a guest feature on a track called ‘In Clouds’ from his forthcoming EP for the newly launched Tread Records. This is the first record forthcoming on the label and it send a nod to bass music heritage and UK dance music culture which has come before it.

PREMIERE: Guava - In Cloud Ft. Alex Blake [Tread]

We are very happy to welcome DJ Life to the family for CKNOWEP34. 4 up-beat club tracks packed with spiraling synths, winding 303 patterns and relentlessly rhythmic basslines. Eyes shut and ascend 🧘‍♀️ This is the Retina EP by DJ Life.

Written & Produced by DJ Life
Mastered by Reel Mastering
Distributed by Clone Distribution
Artwork by Kyle Morrison

Buy @ Bandcamp

CKNOWEP34 | DJ Life - Retina EP

Hailing from Melbourne Australia, Don Chich  has a natural affinity to the mystical, psychedelic and spiritual sounds of the 90s. He is a true digger and craftsman of ambient, downtempo, chillout, trance, progressive and goa soundscapes.

Don Chich treats us to a driving, powerful and dark progressive and goa journey exploring the depths of the psyche. With a heavy dose of brooding 303s, soaring pads, tasteful stabs and subsonic baselines; this mix transports you to those early mornings on the dark dance floors and warehouses.

Your mind is the only necessity in order to fly.

Hypnosystems 001: Don Chich

Fuaim Mix 017 | Don Chich

Leading Voyage 002 to Plantera is Naarm/Melbourne-based psy-digger, Alex Cicchini aka Don Chich. A phenomenal collector & selector whom we gravitated towards after discovering his 'Mystical Experiences' series. Dive deep into the realms of his extensive record collection. 

Buckle up, Let Go. This one elevates into higher states of consciousness. 

"The Pilgrimage begins in the depths of the cold sea as you float through sprawling coral reefs. You break to the surface; light fills your world as waves cascade and encapsulate you. You journey onwards to the land ahead; vegetation grows ever closer with each step. The scenery changes - water turns to murky mud and mangroves spill across the land as you trudge through the unforgiving swamp. Things turn dark as the trees above close and crows begin sing; there is no turning back you must go on. 

The swamp begins to fade and trees become dense. Wild fauna consumes the earth and flora runs rampant as tribes of animals emerge; you are just a visitor in the Rainforest. Something bites you and your senses begins to change; sound becomes colour and colour becomes sound - Ineffable and mystical experiences of the mind, body and soul.

You awake from your trance; where have you been, what have you seen and how far have you travelled? The forest is no more as the sun beats down, the trees have turned to orange sand and snaking dunes cover the barren land. The desert winds whisper your name; are you delirious or is it God? Is it salvation or is it a mirage? The only sure answer is to continue onward.

Mountains appear in the distance and you sense freedom from the hostile land; a restored faith gives you energy to push forward. You begin your ascent to higher ground in hopes to see civilization and trek the rocky and shrubbery façade. This is the hardest feat yet, your strength wains on this climb towards the peak, but something wonderful, something unexplainable carries you on. You peak the summit; ahead of you is life and civilization, behind you are the landscapes traversed on this journey. It is now time to find rest, peace and reflection before you begin the next chapter of your Pilgrimage" - Don Chich

002 | 'Pilgrimage' by Don Chich

Don Chich is a DJ, Musician and Economist originating from Boorloo (Perth) who now resides in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Don isa digger who co-runs the collectives Faith Invention and Sub Sekt, also hosts a radio show on Area 3000. His musical roots are as a touring guitarist and writer for hardcore and death metal bands in Boorloo’s underground punk scene.

This mix departs from his signature deep and psychedelic sounds, instead Don showcases the sounds of Café Del Naarm. These mix is a collection of songs and records he has enjoyed playing out during the Australian summer, exploring the pleasant old + new sonics of Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, R’n’B, UK Street Soul, Ambient, Downtempo, Balearic, Deep House, Deep Trance and Intelligent Jungle. 

Music best enjoyed on a sunny day with friends!

For more music:
www.discoesencia.com

Don Chich Info:

@donchich

Esencia 060 - Don Chich

Welcome to the latest version of Dream Software's: Virtual Utopia. The tenth update has been programmed by none other than Don Chich (@donchich), a core member of the corporation - that is, and always will be, close to the heart of the label. The southern hemispheres connoisseur of fine trance (and beyond) never fails to impress with his depth of knowledge, ability to synthesisiacally create detailed imagery in the minds of listeners, and his understanding of pace and progression throughout a set that keeps your desires and expectations in a harmonic symbiosis. Alex is a true creative in sonic storytelling, and this one is a timeless novel.

You plug in and feel the familiar sensation of shifting sensory alignment, preparing you for the program you're about to experience. As the landscape renders realtime and your retinas refocus you eventually make sense of what's in front of you. You accept the safety conditions and enter the program.  A dust-covered voyage through lands of future-past, heavy duty steel panels fitted together to the latest interstellar corporations safety 'standards' line the floor as pathways, half covered by orange sand. The panelwork extends to the external walls of buildings, doors, warehouses, and even vehicles - it must be something to do with the pressure or gravity on this planet? Extreme weather? It's hard to be sure. Either way you board a vehicle that feels as if it's waiting for you; the 30cm thick steel door slides closed behind you with a satisfying pneumatic locking system. An increasing drone of engines reaching power vibrate underneath you, the engines stabilise, and the vehicle slowly heads towards the sky, a heavy orange fog, ascending into a distant unknown.

Endless shimmering displays of various gas clouds, exhibiting far more than the visible light spectrum, populate your peripheral vision as you approach a distant quadrant of the net of reality. Constellations you've only seen and heard of through the Ethernet drift by as you allow the gravitational pull of the local solar systems to steer you through this section of deep space. A metallic asteroid being guided through the expanse of existence. Velocity increases as the sizes and number of planets do; light begins to bend in ways you throught unimaginable, layers of reality slowly tear away like burning holes through paper, and as the pace increases, what's revealed below seems impercievable to anything that exists on a dimension lower than it. It felt like a realm of vibrational egalitarianism emitting a pure omnibenevolence and omniscience that made you feel calm and at peace, an entity that felt familiar yet incomprehensible at the same time.

A computerised female voice explains it's time to turn around and head back to the initial coordinate of the program, and due to the rapid expansion of this part of space we must travel at warp speed to counter-act it. As the GForce increases the outside becomes a true spectacle; photons bending and stretching past you as the mechanics of physics become a series of unanswered questions, the phenomenology of 'now' proves the metaphysicality of existence is just as real as the physical. The vibrational information stored beyond of the quarks of existence is now visible to the naked eye and shares secret formulas of nature's code, only perceivable when you realise there is nothing to percieve.

Powering through the dark expanse at such speeds unveils the fracticality of existence. The mathematics of nature is all based on fractal equations and common series' of organic 'numerical' systems which are processed without the desire to categorise or understand. All of this information is embedded within the nucleus of every atom at a vibrational level. Does this mean music is somewhat a language of nature? Is the never ending, fractally peripheral progression of this program an understanding into natures way of doing? Or is this all something we are all too physical to understand?

Virtual Utopia 10: Don Chich

A live DJ recording from Don Chich B2B GNMR at For The Cause Festival outside of Melbourne in Poowong, Victoria Australia on 29 March 2025. For The Cause is a loving curated, grass roots and intimate festival from a group and community of wonderful and kind people doing it all for the right reasons. 

The guys played a now-legendary closing set the festival on Saturday night/Sunday morning from 2:30am till 7am and we're lucky enough to have it to share with the world. 

It's an immersive, barnstorming 4 and a half hours of the highest grade records, two selectors going b2b for the first time and by the sounds of this, definitely not the last. 

There are gems a plenty in this mix as you'd expect from Don - head chef of the always-reliable Don's Delicatessen channel on YouTube - and GNMR, an Italian selector who held a residency at the legendary Goa Club in Rome.  

soundcloud.com/gnmr
soundcloud.com/donchich
youtube.com/@dons.delicatessen
instagram.com/forthecause___
instagram.com/don.chich
instagram.com/gnmr_____

space•cast 027 - Don Chich & GNMR Live at For The Cause Festival

Brisbane's Respect Guy(aka Matt Treffene)delivers our debut mix for our Rotations Round series, entitled "Cosmic Del Mar".

"A love letter to the soundtrack of the after hours; Cafe Del Mar".

Read our interview here: https://thespacebetweenus.com.au/2019/11/08/rotations-round-mix-01-respect-guy/

Rotations Round 01: Respect Guy

An hour or so of high octane Italo bangers and trancey numbers was recorded by Jack after returning from a vinyl dig with Norwegian enigma Telephones during his recent tour of Australia.

Rotations Round 02: Huge Jackman

For this mix, Black Mannequin (@blackmannequin aka Iti Memon) has delivered a sonic mood board for his pre and post-EP sentiment. It’s a diverse selection of tracks, and is characterised by Iti’s always flawless mixing, and seamless tempo changes.

"I’ve woven together a lot of styles that inspire me; old, new and unreleased. There’s yet-to-be-heard Pocketmoth material, raw cuts from tracks I’ve been working on, and some field recordings layered with ambient textures I plucked from unfinished sessions on my hard drive.”

Rotations Round 03: Black Mannequin

Our fourth Rotations Round is one for the mind, body and spirit. MaXwellness is the moniker of Jak Beevor, who is behind the Local Transmission beach parties. 

Weaving natural soundscapes with dubby, world-influenced grooves, this hour gives snapshot of Jak's eclectic tastes. 

Breathe in. Breathe out. Let this mix be your alternative therapy.

ID requests to @maxwellness

Rotations Round 04: MaXwellness

One of Briz' finest, Nathan Sellin aka DJ Relax, treats us to the fifth iteration of our Rotations Round series. 

Immerse your isolated selves in this hour of effortlessly hypnotic ambience, downtempo acid and trance.

Rotations Round 05: Nathan Sellin

Record label working on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people, curated by Hannah D @hld 

Cover art by Gabriella Brown, Soft Edges / @gbrevlon

Rotations Round 21: Don Chich

the space between us