Episode 35 is an ambient music special with one of the genre’s contemporary luminaries and a personal favourite of mine, John Elliott, also known as Imaginary Softwoods.

Although he’d be loathe to describe his work as ambient, John’s music as Imaginary Softwoods is celebrated for its deep, lush tones, beautiful synthwork, pensive melodies, and thoughtful samples. Perhaps best known for his band Emeralds, which disbanded in 2012, John has been making music as Imaginary Softwoods since 2008, releasing several incredible works on tape and on vinyl over the years, while simultaneously managing the @EditionsMego offshoot label @SpectrumSpools. In this conversation, John and I discuss the ins and outs of making, playing, and releasing ambient music, and what the genre has to offer in 2021.

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Music:
"Another First/Sea Machine" - Imaginary Softwoods (2020)
"Overlook" - Tetsu Inoue (2007)
"The Imminent Collapse Department" - Imaginary Softwoods (2020)
"Court of Failure" - Imaginary Softwoods (2008)
"Entrance Through Selenite Pillars" - Imaginary Softwoods (2016)
"Vaporware 04" - Donato Dozzy Plays Bee Mask (2013)
"Sapphire Point" - Imaginary Softwoods (2019)

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Clad invite Nico (All originals mix) - 30 Juin 2021

This weeks Nachtipod comes from our dear friend Ruben Leter. @ruben-leter He has been a Nachti ultra for many years and a good friend so it seemed natural to invite him to Nachtiville and ask him to record this mix for us. He takes us on a beautiful journey through "droney noise, water sounds and pretty strings“. We`d love to hang out on the ambient floor right now whilst this is playing in the back.

Ambient at NACHTIVILLE

Ruben Leter // Nachtipod // Ambient at NACHTIVILLE

An exceptional club mix from Brooklyn based Lychee. 

@lycheefrut

I first discovered Lychee a while ago via their mixes on two of my favourite series: @sure_thing and @daisychain_podcast. I am always inspired by their ability to put together a stunning set with breadth and depth, always leaving me eager to dig in a new direction. 

Alongside curating the mix and interview series @spontaneousaffinity Lychee has been busy playing a steady schedule of gigs, and their Maybe mix is a wonderful encapsulation of hard and fast dance floor energy ranging from moody broken techno to euphoric drum and bass. Thank you so much for contributing Alyce, absolute fire as always.

007. Maybe with Lychee

São Paulo-based DJ. producer and curator Amanda Mussi drops in to provide a hypnotising down-tempo, psychedelic mix for our next podcast. As she prepares the next chapter of releases on her Macro Hits label, she takes a momentary sidestep into the world of cerebral, after-hours electronica.

A rising figurehead in her scene, Mussi layers a stunning mix of “ambient electronics, combined with drone, stoner’s doom and IDM - a mix of styles that I enjoy off-dancefloor, featuring many emerging latin-american artists.”

@ohmussi

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Amanda Mussi - Arch Selections X.8

https://soundcloud.com/lilyackerman

Raised in a quiet farming town in Illinois, Lily’s first outings with electronic music began after relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, co-founding the Diacritic Collective - a group of music devotees passionate about vinyl culture - and later landing a residency at the long-running As You Like It parties. Fast forward ten years later and Lily resides in Berlin where she has unleashed her dexterous selection of techno, electro and leftfield electronics at institutions like Tresor, Pornceptual and Bewegungsfreiheit. Her production career spans over a decade, including releases on Perfect Location Records, Vinyl Dreams Records, As You Like It Recordings and compilations by HÖR Music, Bewegungsfreiheit and Perimeter Junk. Channeling her US roots and fusing years of experience with newfound inspirations in Berlin, Lily looks toward the next decade with hope, passion and an innate sense for the eternal groove of the dance-floor.

Deep South Podcast - 091 -Lily Ackerman

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Broadcast on @internetpublicradio

This month Annexia presents a mix by Berlin via Detroit legend Eric Cloutier. We challenged him to make the most peculiar and unhinged mix he could, so expect scuttling ASMR synthesis, ethereal ambient, omniscient narration and the awful trumpet.

Annexia w/ Eric Cloutier - 15.04.22

01. Exense - Infinitive

B.JNR OFFICIAL - HEART OF DREAMS

HDWAV 5.1 - SW33TT 3V1L DRR11LLL 0FF1C14L R3M1X FT Extra Terra RENESIS - Overdrive

Jasen Loveland's No Way Back Mix for THUMP

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