Chapter III

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Fractal Void - Elemental Collection
@fractalvoi_d

Fractal Void is an avant-garde duo based in Düsseldorf, Germany. Their experimental music blends electronic and contemporary genres located somewhere in the field of musical tension between ambient, drone, halfstep and floor-affine IDM. During their live sets, Fractal Void create vertical reflections by processing sounds through software and interaction with real instruments in every unique musical performance like the Chinese contemporary calligraphic practice Dishu.

Their debut album Elemental Collection unveils a dense and lavishly layered transformation of artificial organic signals, sculpting an auditory world filled with emotive landscapes, overgrown polyrhythms and futuristic elements. Embedded within each track are field recordings serving as the heartbeat of the album. Through innovative and expansive deconstruction, Fractal Void create an energetic and sometimes contemplative experience.

The persons behind Fractal Void:
Back in 2008, their musical journey began with winning a Spectrasonics competition using field recordings of a locker door, that was implemented as a bass synth. Their collaboration was continued as producers of the eight-piece electronic jazz project „Mothers of Guru“.

Marcus Scheltinga is a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Besides studying jazz trombone at the Conservatorium Hilversum and the Folkwanghochschule, he works as a musical director, lecturer and coach in 39 countries around the world. From ZDF sound design to live and studio performances with international greats, his own productions have included such as Grammy winner Larry Carlton and Peter Erskine. Mid-east and Indian inspired, Marcus is a true story teller as a musician and composer.

BORGBORG is a producer and DJ. She moves freely in different styles of electronic music with a focus on avant-garde driving techno, dark hypnotic vibes seamlessly blended with deconstructed beats, noise and timeless elements of IDM. She is a member of About Repetition, a group of artists dedicated to the research of repetition through artistic means, collaborating with a wide range of other collectives across Europe and co-founder of the techno event series „SCHLEIFEN“.

Infos/Credits

Vinyl:
Side A:
1. Eutectic Point
2. Growth Rings

Side B: 
3. Heat
4. Rain

Digital only:
5. Heart and Lung


Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound 2024
IRIS017
All tracks written and produced by Fractal Void 
Mix: Hugo Dirac
Master: Hugo Dirac
Cut: Manmade Mastering

Artwork: Impersonal Figure
Vinylfotos: Frederick Kiefer
Artist Pics: Benjamin Schlemmer

Fractal Void - Elemental Collection

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

56번째 꿈 kkum 에피소드는 스페인에서 활동하고 있는 열정적인 음악 애호가이자 음반 수집가인 조안 길라의 2시간 9분 앰비언트-실험음악 디제이 세트와 함께 합니다. 이 세트는 지난 5월 18일 바르셀로나의 리스닝 룸 Casa Montjuïc에서 녹음되었습니다.
조안 길라의 깊고 실험적인 꿈 이야기와 함께 아름다운 6월의 첫 주를 시작합니다. 

Joan Gila
스페인의 잘 알려진 Mostra 페스티벌에서 운영하는 MostRadio의 공동 진행자, HOC 라디오와 레이블 red edge의 큐레이터로 알려져있다. 실험음악과 앰비언트를 다루는 디제이이자 음반 수집가이며, Jordi와 함께 앰비언트 듀오 Binomi로 활동하고 있다.

@joan-gila
@hoc-radio
@red-edge-label
@mostrabcn

The 56th episode of 꿈 kkum features a 2 hour 9 minute ambient/experimental DJ set by Joan Gila. The set was recorded on May 18th at the listening room Casa Montjuïc in Barcelona during the first edition of the Club Aura event.
We celebrate the first week of the beautiful month of June with Joan Gila’s beautiful narratives. Enjoy the deep dream.

A passionate music lover and record collector for over half his life, Joan Gila is the curator of HOC Radio and the label known as red edge with releases by ABSIS and Bastien. Alongside Javi and his friend Jordi, with whom he runs the Binomi project, he co-hosts MostRadio from Mostra Festival.

꿈 kkum 56 - Joan Gila

@marcomaldarella
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Through chaos, cathartic soundscapes, and monolithic grooves, we are excited to introduce Marco Maldarella — @marcomaldarella — for this new episode. Producer and selector based in Bologna, Marco co-founded @sinestesie_s event and mix series. His project is rooted in a multidimensional approach, known for his collaboration with Christian Duka as MARMO, and his solo album Clinamen, released on @omenwapta.

At the crossroads of deep psychedelic techno and tribal sounds, Marco Maldarella dives into the depths of modern electronic music with a fast-paced and intense sonic signature.

For this mix, Marco delivers a raw tribe fast trance experience, where psychedelic elements collide with a dark groove reminiscent of ancient times. Drones, noise, and otherworldly voices define his unique style. The result is an intimate, introspective, and mental journey, featuring many of unreleased tracks.

Marco shares his vision with us : « 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘰𝘮𝘴 𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨—𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴; 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘨𝘮𝘢. 𝘈𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘯, 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦; 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯, 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘺𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘴—𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵, 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤. 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢-𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 ».

Tentacular 27 ~ Marco Maldarella

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Deepartment - Claudio PRC - 02 Jun 2025

~ Deep Breakfast 312 by https://soundcloud.com/eonan ~

Spring is almost turning into summer, bringing warmer days and vibrant energy. To celebrate this transition, we are excited to introduce the new Deep Breakfast mix curated by Eònan, all the way from Berlin.

Tracklist:
1. Strië - Unseen Weight
2. Hidden Rivers - Golden Age Of Dereliction
3. Celestial Trails - Spell Machine Manufacturing
4. Holden Federico - Frost (Original Mix)
5. Field Lines Cartographer -  Rhomboid Storm Clouds
6. Louis Sterling - The Mirror
7. Curved Light - III (Topaz)
8. Nest - Kyoto
9. Hidden Rivers - Luminous Net
10. Louis Sterling - No Condemnations (Ft. Ryan Sterling)
11. Strië - Perpetual Journey
12. Hidden Rivers - Sleeper Train
13. Gallery Six - A Plesant Afternoon (Original Mix)
14. Louis Sterling - The Black Gate To Utopia
15. Boris Salchow - Deteriorating
16. Phases Of Gravity - Path-Finder (Original Mix)
17. Jade Tyres - Hellshines

Photo by Liana S

Eònan
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Lucid Mind Records: @lcdmndrecords
RA: ra.co/dj/eonan
Beatport: www.beatport.com/artist/eonan/663941

Deep Breakfast Series
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Deep Breakfast 312 ~ Eònan

Today, we’re thrilled to welcome Mohemann to the series - a gifted artist and curator who has been a vital force in nurturing Beijing’s underground electronic music scene for over a decade.

Last year, we had the pleasure of witnessing Mohemann deliver a stunning techno set at Astral Industries' 10th anniversary celebration in Osaka. Now, he steps away from the dance floor to guide us on a beautiful, introspective journey - an immersive, horizontal trip through sound.
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https://soundcloud.com/mohemann
https://www.instagram.com/dj_mohemann/
https://soundcloud.com/tunnel-eerawai
https://www.instagram.com/tunnel_cn/

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

The Observatory - Mohemann

ambient ~ experimental ~ beats

Curated by @jaykeegan

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