ambient chill vibes

You can now purchase the mix on Ultimae Bandcamp (digital and CD) : https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/


Starting 2022 with a great artist, Aes Dana, one of the most aknowledged artist of the ambient scene and co-owner of @ultimae records

Vincent Villuis aka AES DANA is composer, sound designer, DJ and founder of @ultimae records label. An electronic activist for over 25 years, also a founding member of the Asura band.

Bass player and singer in several coldwave and industrial bands as a teenager, Vincent then moved on to composing with machines and specialised in audio sampling and layering of acoustic sounds digitally transmuted. Its music ensures a coherent fusion between Deep Ambient, Downtempo and IDM with a touch of Electronica Neo-Classical, Indus & Liquid Drum'n'Bass.

As AES Dana he has produced 7 albums, a collection of audio samples and about 50 tracks for various compilations, while collaborating with the Swedish artist Magnus Birgersson (aka Solar Fields) under the moniker H.U.V.A. NETWORK on 3 albums and with the Greek artist MIKTEK on 3 EP releases gathered later in the concept album « Far & Off ». They also worked together on the “Fragments 01 & 02” sample libraries. His solo-designed music library «Aethers» (co-published with Loopmasters) which was voted « best Cinematic Ambient sound bank » in 2015.

He composed scores and licensed existing works for short and feature films, documentaries and BBC tv programs such as « Atrophy Bank » by Sam Asaert, « The Passport » by Amund Lie, « Mandorla » by Roberto Miller or « Breath of Life » by Susan Kucera which opened new perspectives on composition and sound design and collaborations with various advertising agencies.

He is also the curator of the Fahrenheit Project compilations. As head of the Ultimae Studios, he earned a solid reputation for his Audio Mastering works & Sound Design.
He also is working on several projects in parallel: remixes, scorings & special projects.
His second collaborative album with Miktek is in progress and will be released in 2022.
A collaborative album with the Danish artist Lauge is also in progress.

Albums
Season 5
MemoryShell
Aftermath
Leylines
Perimeters
Pollen
Far & Off
Inks
(a) period.

https://linktr.ee/aesdana

Photo by Cyril : https://www.facebook.com/uninstantSVP

Interstice

TREVE Series 35 - AES Dana (Ultimae) - "Interstice" Live Set

In this episode of Patch Notes, Rush records a 30-minute performance in her studio that covers the full range of her musical style, moving from bleepy, minimalistic techno through warmer dancefloor sounds before finishing on an emotive ambient note.

FACT_Patch Notes_Dasha Rush _Live session

// MO:DEM 2023 \\ RECORDINGS // THE SEED \\

Sold-out edition of Mo:Dem Festival 2023 held from 7 to 13 August. We are delighted to share the sounds recorded at The Seed stage.

w/ @tmdi

Everybody talks about the weather... we don't. 

With love, passion and commitment.
Your Mo:Dem Crew

http://modemfestival.com

#modem2023 #momentodemento #modemfestival #theseed

Seed

IDMT @ The Seed | MoDem Festival 2023

Descroix - The Gardens - Boom Festival 2023

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

Chapter #33 w/Amanita originally streamed on Radio Raheem 04.03.2025

 TRACKLIST 

The Golden Triangle - Sung Hargun
Elixir - Avsluta
YUN / 暈 - Li Yilei
Asian Psilocybe Foundation - Neo Tokyo
Elevation 1 (ft. Abel Selaococe & Ada Francis) - Contours
Peregrine Sun - Peter Power & Bronze Savage
Harhama - Shakali
Rooted In The Soil Of Your Heritage (ft. Meta_) -  Temple Rat
Sunken Forest - log(m) & Laraaji
Autre Monde - Early Fern
Transmutation -  Deep Nalström
Chemins Des Planètes - Jonquera
Ākāsagata (Saphileaum’s Mystic Touch) - Avsluta
Babel - Marina Herlop Nekkuja


The Psychonauts #33 w/Amanita-  Radio Raheem 04.03.2025

Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food, aka one part of Openmind, takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.

Strictly Kev likes the company of plants whilst working on music so that's handy for us isn't it?! We're assuming he's talking about a beautiful Calathea sitting in the corner for inspiration, tho his dream plant setup - a conservatory packed with Romanesco broccoli, trippy Caladiums, and Persian Shields - is something we'd be well on board with too.

Enough of the plant talk for a second and back to the music, ambient music to be clear. For those that weren't squatting in South London back in the early 90s, Openmind were the four-piece behind the mighty Telepathic Fish - the legendary ambient afterparty that transformed chill-out rooms from dub-playing afterthoughts into proper destinations.

Kev, along with Chantal Passamonte (Mira Calix, RIP), David Vallade, and Mario Aguera, started in a shared house above a shop with no neighbours to complain/bash the door down. What began as art school parties quickly grew into Sunday afternoon sessions in squatted venues - a former dole office in Brixton and even the derelict Roundhouse on New Year's Day. They hosted everyone from Aphex Twin to Mixmaster Morris among wall-to-wall mattresses, UV installations, and  Coldcut's Matt Black with his boundary pushing video projections.

The idea was simple: recreate that post-clubbing comedown vibe but on a massive scale, as an "aural and visual blanket" for club-rattled minds. They even published a fanzine called Mindfood and worked at the scene's hub, Ambient Soho record shop, helping shape what Simon Reynolds called a "wombeldelic sound-and-light bath" in contrast to the current trend of hardcore and it's relentless assault.

Thirty years on, that spirit's having a comeback. Events like London's A Loose Ting are bringing back the bedding and the hushed reverence, while Berlin's Overflow is going full sensory overload with vibrating mattresses, fountains, and harpists. New York's Planetarium gatherings have people mostly horizontal, inspired by psychedelic therapy sessions. There's even and ambient sauna in South London you might have come across via the wonder of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By's recent takeover.  Our very own Watching Trees dabbled in said chill out space this year, pairing the abstract and the ambient with projected dappled sunlight visuals from the mighty Jamie House. Turns out people still need those little havens away from the madness, especially in this day and age!

Also handily 30 years on the Openmind crew have just compiled the first-ever Telepathic Fish retrospective for Fundamental Frequencies - a double vinyl love letter to those hazy early-90s mornings when the music finally slowed down.

For this Seeds Mix, Kev has leaned into his love of minimalism and systems music - repetition built from layers of loops offset against each other to form subtle polyrhythms. There's a deliberate avoidance of drum machines here in favour of organic percussion, and around the eight-minute mark, a section from Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia that captures the feeling of being deep in the forest, phone abandoned, discovering that paradise was just a forage away.

Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/seeds-mix-005-openminds-leave-your-phone-at-home-discover-paradise-after-a-forage-in-the-forest/

@strictly

INTERVIEW

Seeds Mix 005: Openmind's Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest

Recorded live at The Seed during Mo:Dem Festival 2025 — a space devoted to emerging frequencies and the future of psychedelic sound.

Immerse yourself in the sounds of Mo:Dem Festival 
with @philipp-otterbach

• • •
🎪 The next edition of Mo:Dem Festival is scheduled for 03 - 09 August 2026.

🎟️ Tickets are available: 
Online from the official Mo:Dem Shop: https://shop.modemfestival.com/tickets
Or directly via Mo:Dem Ambassadors: https://modemfestival.com/ambassadors

✨ With love, passion and commitment.
🚀 Mo:Dem Crew

PHILIPP OTTERBACH @ The Seed | MoDem Festival 2025

VC-118A Live set recorded on Saturday, 20th of September 2025 at BOSC - A short story by Paral·lel in Gualba, Spain.

VC-118A Live @ BOSC 2025

Perimeters

Snöflinga

With great anticipation, Monument welcomes acclaimed artist Dasha Rush, who exports her immersive liveset - experienced at About Blank in the event series Ambientgarden.

Read More : 

https://mnmt.no/magazine/2021/02/18/mnmt-recordings-dasha-rush-live-ambientgarden-about-blank/

Follow :

https://soundcloud.com/dasha-rush
https://www.facebook.com/dasha.rush.music
https://www.instagram.com/dasha_rush_official/
https://fullpandarecords.bandcamp.com/

MNMT Recordings : Dasha Rush (live) - Ambientgarden :// about blank

check my other profile for my teenage psytrance project:  OxyGn

ambient chill vibes

Thomas De Jaeger