Impossible not to love and admire this mix, such work and imagination, pure musical artistry!🤍

oh wow. this is hitting on something super deep. i will be returning to this

Chapter III

Live DJ set recorded at Springkell 2022 in Scotland
44번째 꿈 에피소드는 지난 2022년 11월에 영국 스코틀랜드에서 열린 앰비언트 페스티벌 Springkell에서 녹음된 Eight Fold Way의 120분 세트와 함께합니다. Eight Fold Way는 사운드 아티스트 Mark H. Geary의 별칭으로, 그는 사운드 작업을 통해 인식을 바꾸고 삶을 개선하기 위한 가능성을 탐구하고 있슴니다. Eight Fold Way가 들려주는 깊은 꿈 속으로 여러분을 초대합니다.

@eightfoldway
www.eightfoldway.org/

The 44th 꿈 kkum episode is a 120-minute DJ set from Eight Fold Way, recorded last November 2022 at the ambient festival Springkell in Scotland, UK. Eight Fold Way is the alias of sound artist Mark H. Geary, whose work explores the potential of listening to alter perception and improve wellbeing. We invite you into Eight Fold Way's deep dream.

꿈 Kkum 44 - Eight Fold Way (Live DJ at Springkell 2022)

@sciamamusic recorded live @ Springkell 2022

Hardcore Chillout 012 SCIAMA

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
~~
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.
~~
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. 
~~
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

Saphileaum is the alias of Georgian producer, multi-disciplinary artist and KHIDI club resident Andro Gogibedashvili. Emerging from a profoundly creative family-actors, singers, writers, and poets, Andro’s creative path has been profoundly shaped by his heritage and the traditions that surround it.
Saphileaum makes music for coming together, for meditation, and for mystical, philosophical musings. A sound crafted as unique and consistent as his, only possible through a lifelong passion and commitment to artistic expression. Often drawing on disparate genres, his unique sound is brought together by the beauty of rhythm—live drumming including the Georgian Dhol often featuring alongside starry melodies, woven into half-time grooves, meditative ambient and atmospheric techno. 
Inspired by mysticism, earth and the secrets of the universe, Saphileaum’s journey reached celestial heights in 2022, when a snippet of his piece Cosmic Lake Transparency was transmitted into deep space to the exoplanet K2-18B, just 124 light-years away from Earth. via the Goonhilly Earth Station, making him the second Georgian artist to have their music sent to the stars. (Sidenote: incredible timing finding out this fun fact with signs of life on K2-18B being reported this week!).
His discography spans labels of the highest order: Mule Musiq, Good Morning Tapes, Silent Season, Oslated and more with each release reflecting his creative approach to each label, which he described as ‘like stepping into a new country’. Fresh terrain of culture, sound, and inspiration. Being releasing records, Saphileaum shapeshifts across other mediums, soundtracking Georgian films, collaborating on high-profile art and fashion exhibitions and writing poetry. From club nights to quiet nights, and now from Earth to K2-18B, Saphileaum’s approach to music and art invites us to listen deeply.

Saphileaum - PN 318

"An experimental drift through blurred textures and shifting forms, where sound feels less composed than uncovered. At times, a flicker of dub emerges - brief, like a thought half-remembered - before dissolving back into abstraction. The journey unfolds intuitively, resisting structure, favouring sensation. It’s not about where it goes, but what surfaces along the way."

Kizen records (@kizenrecords) founder Romi (@romi808) has been across the techno scene for decades, developing a vision for music that spans genres and moods. Bringing it all together coherently with a focus on deep, hypnotic sounds, he expresses this vision through Kizen's consistently high-quality output.

INSIJAM – meaning harmony in Arabic – places the essence of chance and encounter at its core. Blending Musique Concrète with traditional Arabic sounds, the performance moves fluidly between experimental, avant-garde, and improvised jazz. 

Curated by Rami Abi Rafi (@ramiabirafi), INSIJAM is a monthly show broadcast on Cashmere Radio, based in Wedding, Berlin. For this edition, Rami invites Romi as a guest artist.

INSIJAM reflects my personal vision of the beauty that emerges from the meeting of diverse musical worlds.

Cashmere Radio is a community experimental radio station based in Wedding, Berlin. Broadcasting underground music, talk shows and live performative arts.

https://cashmereradio.com/shows/insijam/

HOCast #242 - Romi @ INSIJAM Cashmere Radio Berlin

Mark H. Geary, also known as Eight Fold Way, is a London-based artist whose work delves deep into the multidimensionality of sound.

Over the years, Mark’s impressive catalog of mixes and recordings have been a profound source of inspiration, opening our ears to an expansive universe of sonic textures and possibilities.

Together with hems, Mark co-runs one of our favourite music platforms: Hardcore Chillout. If you're unfamiliar with it, we highly recommend diving in!

This one's a real psychedelic slow burner - absolutely beautiful.
~~
https://soundcloud.com/eightfoldway
www.instagram.com/eightfoldway/

https://soundcloud.com/hardcore-chillout
www.instagram.com/hardcorechillout/

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

The Observatory - Eight Fold Way

In the final episode of the season, we're pushing further into the ambience with what might be the calmest episode of the whole series so far. Melted beneath the hot summer sun, the music here retreats to a slower pace, occasionally revealing glimpses of rhythm and structure.

Pavel Milyakov & Lucas Dupuy - path
Feloneezy - Unlimited Peace 05
MPU101 - racheINV60
Iury Lech - Barreras
Zaumne - Nymphes
Bartosz Kruczynski - Whisper V
Poly Chain - Enhanced Comfort
Ursula Sereghy - Time Pills
Serwed - Pamir
Nikolaienko - Sorry for (tape) delay
Hinode Tapes & Hiroki Chiba - Hinode Tapes #12
Miłosz Kędra - thinning rattle
Merope and Indre Jurgeleviciute and Bert Cools - O Underhill
Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko - Zelenaia Dubrovonka

Radio Relativa: Building Bridges, July 2025

Programa especial centrado en el universo de Jan Jelinek, productor alemán que lleva años experimentando con el sonido, siempre en los márgenes, siempre buscando texturas nuevas.

Lo interesante de Jelinek es que trabaja con varios pseudónimos, cada uno con su propia identidad. Como Farben, explora un microhouse lleno de clicks, loops y detalles microscópicos. Con Gramm, se acerca a una electrónica más dub, más cálida, casi flotante. Y bajo su propio nombre, se suelta del ritmo y construye paisajes sonoros entre el ambient, el collage y el minimalismo.

En esta selección vamos a pasear por sus diferentes facetas, escuchando cómo un mismo artista puede hablar varios idiomas musicales sin perder su esencia.

Bruits Sonores: Especial Jan Jelinek - 15/07/2025

please see title. A few field recordings i made on a walk near zell am see, along with a few stringy synth sounds

walking through a forest in the alps and sitting by a mountain stream

Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of attending the fourth edition of Mostra, one of the most beautiful, safe, and welcoming gatherings we've ever experienced. It was an intimate, four-day festival in the city of Barcelona dedicated to exploring experimental electronic music and the avant-garde — expertly curated and surrounded by a beautiful community of like-minded souls who treated us like family.

On the second day of the festival at Fabra i Coats — inside one of the most respectful and attentive listening rooms, with an audience whose silence drew you even deeper into the sound — Detroit legend and Mostra resident Patrick Russell took his place in the booth, seated this year, and delivered a deeply moving and powerful sonic trip — one we’re honored to share with you today.

A big thank you to Patrick and Mostra for giving us the opportunity to share one of our favourite performances of the festival.
~~
https://soundcloud.com/ptrckrssll
https://www.instagram.com/ptrckrssll/

https://www.mostra.barcelona/en
https://soundcloud.com/mostrabcn
https://www.instagram.com/mostrabcn/

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

Mostra x The Observatory - Patrick Russell

A church pipe organ sample recorded on my phone on summer vacations. Chop, repitch, stretch, loop, and I can drone for hours. And somehow out of the wall of sound there emerges a pulse. And the sonic space feels incomplete without some glitch and noise. And I let it find its rhythm and breathe.

drone 20250906

Holland Daze

ambient ~ experimental ~ beats

Curated by @jaykeegan

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

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