Chapter III

Drone

Mixes

Our first inter-dimensional carpet ride of the year comes courtesy of Mysteries of the Deep head honcho, Grant Aaron <3

Tracklist:

Ana Roxanne - A Study in Vastness
https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/album/because-of-a-flower-2

Sophia Zhuravkova - Interior Music 004
https://interiormusic.bandcamp.com/album/interior-music-2

Taylor Deupree - November
https://taylordeupree.bandcamp.com/album/northern-re-issue

korrē - Potions
https://perimeterjunk.bandcamp.com/album/oizys

Skee Mask - Terminal Z
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp19-resort

COH - NAKED MOONLIGHT RESURRECTS FORGOTTEN POETS
https://coh-official.bandcamp.com/album/music-vo

Loscil & Lawrence English - Indigo 
https://lawrenceenglish.bandcamp.com/album/chroma

Celer - Remaining Stretches
https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/engaged-touches-expanded-and-remastered

Quiet Places - Side A
https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/volume-2

Mor Air & Luke Elliott - Cathode
https://frostilabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-beautiful-late

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Time Forest
https://hiroshi-yoshimura.bandcamp.com/album/surround

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Artist Support:

https://www.mysteriesofthedeep.net
https://mysteriesofthedeep.bandcamp.com
https://birdsofpreymusic.bandcamp.com/music
https://soundcloud.com/insideout
https://soundcloud.com/mysteriesofthedeep
https://www.instagram.com/mystofthedeep/

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Grant Aaron

It's with great pleasure that we welcome Spanish maestro ABSIS to The Observatory, who gifts us with a special live ambient set, performed and recorded earlier this month at Human Club's third anniversary celebrations in Barcelona.

Thank you, Salva. Stunning <3
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Artist Support:

https://soundcloud.com/absismusic
https://rededge.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-alpengl-hen
https://hiverndiscs.bandcamp.com/album/found-ritual
https://affin.bandcamp.com/album/silent-voices
https://www.instagram.com/absis_music/

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - ABSIS (Live Ambient Set @ Human Club, 2025)

It's an honour to welcome the lovely Joan Gila to The Observatory <3

A passionate music lover and record collector for over half his life, Joan is the curator of HOC Radio and a really beautiful label known as red edge (highly recommended if you're not familiar! stunning releases by ABSIS and Bastien <3). Alongside Javi .apart and his friend Jordi, with whom he runs the Binomi project, he co-hosts MostRadio.

https://soundcloud.com/joan-gila
https://soundcloud.com/hoc-radio
https://soundcloud.com/red-edge-label
https://soundcloud.com/binomi
https://soundcloud.com/mostrabcn
https://rededge.bandcamp.com/music

Some words by Joan about the mix:

"I always like to conceptualize my mixes. It helps me set boundaries and avoid falling into the endless musical rabbit hole - which, frankly, can be overwhelming. This particular mix took me time to find its definitive form. After my latest vinyl purchases over the past few months, as well as an exploration of CDs (a whole fascinating world in itself), I was finally able to define its premise.

The mix unfolds across four movements. Three of them are based on a deconstruction of a long-form minimalist drone composition, layering elements of field recordings, electroacoustics & musique concrète, or additional drones. Each movement explores textures, dialectics, and microtonalism respectively. In between, the remaining movement serves as a purely experimental interlude.

This time, I can’t provide a tracklist - I couldn’t even say exactly what I used or in what proportion. The selection flows together in a way that’s hard to pinpoint, with a mix of works and pieces that come together naturally. That said, I can share that it features a strong presence of musique concrète and electroacoustic works from the '70s and '80s, including artists like Jep Nuix, Olly Wilson, Hans Roosenschon, and Anne Ben Hammou, along with revered names in drone and minimalism like Éliane Radigue, Bernhard Günter, Sarah Davachi, or Toshiya Tsunoda. There are also more recent sonic experiments and compositions – names like Richard Chartier, Steve Roden, Pablo Diserens, Jana Winderen, ENA, or Lotus Eater - some of which we’ll have the chance to experience at Mostra. And of course, there are also tracks from friends - this time, Oisatsana, ABSIS, and Menhir."

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Joan Gila

This contribution is a very special one, as it marks a new chapter in The Observatory’s sound… 

We will always be a home for ambient and experimental sounds. But, moving forward, we will also be exploring our love for dance music, with a particular focus on the deep end.

To begin this new journey and warm things up, we are so happy to welcome back Timnah, who gifts us with a two-hour recording of her set at Omen Wapta, ADE’24. A mind-bending traversal through ambient, drone, and halftime experiments, exploring the liminal spaces between the listening room and the dance floor.
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Timnah lives, works and feeds the cats in the Northwestern extremities of Switzerland. Brought up in her parents’ jazz clubs and deeply influenced by her brother’s love for dub and soundsystem culture, she started DJing just after the massively feared Millenium Bug had threatened to offset our relation to time and space. Dedicated to drawing her own map of late 20th century sonic landscapes, she spent the early 2000s exploring 90s electronics including breakbeat, triphop, ambient techno, drum&bass, house and jungle. After a short but sweet excursion into producing in the early 2010s, Timnah dedicated herself fully to spinning the wheels and transversing genres, gravitating towards her current signature sound that spans immersive sound baths and intergalactic carpet rides in half-time. Timnah is a member of Amenthia Recordings and a recent addition to the A Walking Contradiction Collective.
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Artist Support:

https://soundcloud.com/timnah-sommerfeldt
https://ra.co/dj/timnahsommerfeldt
https://www.instagram.com/timnah_amenthia

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Timnah @ Omen Wapta, ADE, 2024

For our next offering, we warmly welcome o.utlier to The Observatory, who takes us on a journey through some of the finest horizontal selections and low-lying rhythms, mixed and recorded last month at Om Being's Deep Listening Lounge in Hackney Downs, London. 
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Artist Support:

https://soundcloud.com/o-utlier
https://outlier.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/outlier_rory/
https://soundcloud.com/titraterecords
https://titrate.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/titraterecords/
https://soundcloud.com/pagan_red
https://www.instagram.com/pagan_red/

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac, inspired by megalithic art found inside Newgrange, a passage tomb built during the Neolithic period in the Boyne Valley, Ireland, around 3200 BC.
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

https://ombeing.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/om_being_/

The Observatory - o.utlier @ Om Being - Deep Listening Lounge, 2025

This mix has been brewing in my head for a while now.. An inkling of it first started to pop up back in October while we were at our biannual Delayed gathering in the mountains of upstate New York. I played a set with a dear friend on the Sunday morning there - cozy & hopeful music from various corners of our collections that don't get played very often but are set aside for special moments. My favorite kind of music.. It was one of the most memorable sets I've played & brought up a ton of emotions & memories from past experiences hearing some of those songs. Memories from my wedding, memories of my brother, memories from times living in Los Angeles when Sundays were all about lounging around all day in the sunshine after nights of dancing into the early hours of the morning. We laughed, cried, danced, ate lunch, all over the course of the morning into the early afternoon. It laid the foundation for how I wanted to approach this mix for Zach.

Sundays for me have always been a day of healing - mentally, physically, emotionally. It's a day to seek inner peace & a day to be reminded of everything you have to be grateful for in spite of anything else. I recorded this mix on a rainy Saturday earlier this month, channeling all of those memories & feelings, with my dog by my feet while my wife & daughter wandered about the house, making beaded bracelets & doing various arts & crafts.

From me to you, a warm hug & the promise of spring.

Words by @aspetuck

Track list:

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - The Milky Sea
Felbm - cycli infini (excerpt)
Neu! - ISI
Goesun - Peel Apart (What Was Once Sensible)
Paul Kalkbrenner - D-Zug
Dubtractor - M. U. R. M. 
Static - Headphones (Starring Ronald Lippok)
Dubtractor - W30
Blue Lake - Oceans
Roedelius - Veilchenwurzeln
Dubtractor - I Don't Care 
Frø - Beundrer Dig
Barefoot - Sleeper
Charles Webster - Put Your Hurt Aside
Horizon Fire - Piney Hills Blaze
Slow Mass - J.L. (Southfacing Remix)
Tensen Park - Water - Not A Sound
Andy Cato - Whose Groove
Repulsive Force - CSF Dub 6 Skit
System & Nils Frahm - Plus
Will Samson - Still Trains
People Press Play - These Days

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Contact us:
info@delayed.nyc

Sundays are for... Aspetuck

Hailing from sleepy Vermont and now based in the beautiful Hudson Valley, our next guest is a talented synthesist, live performer, and DJ. Together with his Delayed family, he’s also the co-founder of the lovely Never Late record label.

Warmly welcoming Griff Fulton, aka Aspetuck <3

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“To me, this mix is an homage to my experience at Mostra, distilled into a very short amount of time. I wanted to break it up into a few different moments - ambient, downtempo, and drum & bass. The first two are styles I’ve been dabbling in a lot more recently, but drum & bass is very much new territory for me.

Jay and I first got in touch back in September. When we started discussing a mix, the platform was fully ambient, drone, and experimental, and I had some ideas slowly coming together about what my contribution to the series could be. At one point, though, Jay mentioned we could push my mix back to the end of May - one month after Mostra, a festival in Barcelona we were both really excited to attend. I jumped at the chance because I wanted to see how the festival would influence my mix. It was undeniable that it would focus me in a way I wasn’t quite aware of yet.

Around the same time, Jay decided to open up the platform to some deeper dance floor sounds, which gave me the opportunity to create a mix that builds in energy and unravels over time. I wanted to leave some room at the beginning of the mix for the more experimental sides of ambient that The Observatory is most known for. I included a couple of my own live modular jams from the past couple of months, sprinkled amongst some favourites from artists like Andreas Tilliander, Jan Jelinek, and Shifted.

From there, I bring in some slower tempo, hypnotic, “eyes-closed groove” tracks, as I label them in my Rekordbox. Right around halfway, a Loek Frey track with a nice long intro ushers in a drum & bass / halftime section in the 80/160 BPM range, followed by a brief conclusion.

Recorded in one take earlier this month after a very inspiring trip to Barcelona - thank you, Mostra, for the endless inspiration <3”

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https://soundcloud.com/aspetuck
https://aspetuck.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/aspetuckmusic/
https://aspetuck.substack.com/
https://ra.co/dj/aspetuck

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://claytonciolac.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/

The Observatory - Aspetuck

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com.

Aspetuck & Âsan @ Kiosk Radio 18.06.2025

♥‿♥
Recorded at @noname_community • June 2025

thank you @aspetuck

e25.orbit07 • aspetuck

https://www.instagram.com/aspetuckmusic 
https://www.soundcloud.com/aspetuck

https://www.instagram.com/bas.dobbelaer
https://soundcloud.com/bas-dobbelaer

Aspetuck & Bas Dobbelaer @ The Lot Radio 10-08-2025

London-born, LA-based Ryan Griffin began @astrangelyisolatedplace a decade ago as a manifestation of his love for collecting and sharing music. The project soon grew into a vinyl label and a community of artists sharing a reverence for a diverse and esoteric range of genres, from ambient to electronica, modern classical to techno. Artists releasing on the label currently include Merrin Karras aka @chymera, Arovane (@arovane-1), Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri (@irisarri), @purl, and @markusguentner.

This atmospheric selection incorporates into A Strangely Isolated Place's signature sound additional elements of the trance and house music genres on which Ryan cut his DJing teeth. An organic approach to selection and mixing ensures a richly layered collage that manages to take some startling turns while remaining effortlessly cohesive throughout.

Links:
@astrangelyisolatedplace
https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/astrangelyisolatedplace
http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/

Patterns of Perception 22 - A Strangely Isolated Place

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Mumdance b2b ENA - Live from Tokyo - 26th September 2017

Mad Trip

[dpr_xs_podcast_45_rustee]
our 45th podcast comes from the russian DJ 'Rustee'. In 2013 he launched the 'Vykhod Sily/Выход Силы' podcast series (English: The Way The Force Is Coming Through) and hailing deep and dark music from the ural, russia. At the moment he is starting an eponymous digitial label focusing on 85/170 bpm electronica music. On november 1st you can get the first release - VS001 - with two tunes by the talented guys Bereneces and Drealmaul. His mix is a deep autonomic experience - so lean back and listen to his great podcast. Big up Rustee!

http://vykhodsily.net/
https://soundcloud.com/vykhod_sily

You can support his project via crowd-sourcing: 
https://patreon.com/vykhodsily_podcast

Track-ID:
Mindmapper - Suppressor (Overlook Remix)
Dyl - MMS
Cuelock - 4th System 	
Paranoid Society - Tentacle Poofs
Madikma - Error	
dBridge - Zerone
Theme - Passage 8	
ASC - 01B	
Dissident - 3D Printed Human 
Heart Drive - When Droids Cry
Sam KDC - Archeon
Ena - Fugacious
Mikarma - Sonder
Theme - Passage 7
Hysee - Circular Dispute
RQ - 起死回生
Sam KDC - Between Dreams
Mark Kloud - Encom	
Subminimal - Data Terminal
ASC - Visceral
Eissi - Fallingrain 
Consequence - Flashes
dBridge/Kabuki - Lose Yourself
Naibu - Again
Cuelock - Overlap
Andy Skopes - Heroin Wash (feat. Coerce)

dpr_xs_podcast_45_rustee (vykhod sily)

Tracklist:
https://dissonanzerecordings.com/podcast29

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/lussuria.official
https://www.discogs.com/it/artist/1541485-Lussuria-2

Biography:
Lussuria is an ambient industrial project formed in the Spring of 2007 by Jim Mroz.  Heavily inspired by early dark ambient and industrial music, Lussuria’s atmosphere is created through a combination of sound collage, sampled loops, and deconstructed musical sections.   The result has been described as chilling, even troubling.  Like listening to a feeling just out of reach. 
Through several acclaimed releases and performances stateside and abroad, the project has been referred to as one of the leading voices of modern Ambient Industrial.

Dissonanze Podcast

Dissonanze 29 | Lussuria

ambient ~ experimental ~ beats

Curated by @jaykeegan

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
https://claytonciolac.com
https://www.instagram.com/cccccclaytonciolac/