do not disturb, the robots are meditating

Song to the Earth

Your blue skin
Soft like the wind Blows in
Into your fields
Into your fields of time

Your brown eyes
Dark like the night Seed life
Into your fields
Into your fields of time

I didn`t know
You where so old
Older then my own soul 
Older then my own Gods

Spinning around 
Around the sun 
Seducing his flames 
To light up my brain

This brain full of rage
Against my own fate 
Of caring for you

Earth Flames

Adelaide's Jon Santos AKA Strict Face delivers a sumptuous mix of space age bass, future grime and interplanetary production that will keep you up all night, no problem. "The mix is, more or less, a collection of tracks I've been feeling lately. I've played or listened to these at ungodly hours of the night, so they all have some sort of association with 'navigating through the night' to me," says 'Face. "I guess it's music to soundtrack the escape from mass throngs of people emerging from all corners while en route to the club. Music to suspend and sweat to. Music to greet daybreak to."

Omit - Pathos (Seclusion)
Infinite Body - Drive Dreams Away
Lovesliescrushing - Valerian
Lee Gamble - M25 Echo
~~~~~~~~~~
Ike Yard - Kino
Terrence Dixon - Another Space
Steve Poindexter - Maniac
Vandal - Unravelled
Acre - Power Lines
Lighter - Skanker
Imami - Contrapposto
Jay R. Neutron - African Runway
Jawside + Grovestreet - Untitled
Gage - Endgame
Mauser - Regenerate
Dub Street Posse - Jungle Coffee
DJ Vader - Untitled
Random Trio - Lost City
Slimzee vs. Geeneus - Logoff
Drippin' - Air Jordans
Ur III - Ungstrup (edit)
Ruff Sqwad - Night Ryder
Nammy Wams - Prep
TryTryDieDown - Pulse Target
Rabit - Sun God
Chic - Savoir Faire (edit)

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Strict Face: Music To... Navigate Through The Night To

In a relatively short space of time, London-based imprint Lobster Theremin has become one of the most talked about record labels in the city. Helmed by Jimmy Asquith, the label has caught people's attention with a slew of releases that skirt the outer edge of house, techno and electro, often from little known artists.

The label boss has put together an hour long mix of pure Lobster fire consisting of tracks that are yet to drop and some of the best that have come out so far. Get ready for 100% Lobster Theremin.

http://www.mixmag.net/music/new-frequencies/imprint-lobstertheremin

More exclusive music

Imprint: 100% Lobster Theremin label mix by Asquith

Osaka based AOKI takamasa is known for his work as a producer, live performer, DJ and photographer, and notable debut album SILICOM in 2001. Here he presents a three hour excursion through modern classical, ambient and minimal electronics, recorded at Sound Bar Normal in Nagoya, Japan.

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/aoki-takamasa-26th-february-2024

AOKI takamasa 260224

Jon Hester - November Mix

Asquith 30 min set of new vinyl.
Imre Kiss 30 min live set.
Snow Bone 1 hour live set.

Merry Christmas!!

Lobster Theremin x NTS w/ Imre Kiss live, Snow Bone live & Asquith

kings of dispare.wav

For the eight installments of our podcast series, we are happy to present Sybil. Recorded last autumn in Japan, when the leaves were gradually changing colors and a mood of melancholy set in, this mix represents, to us, a sonic manifestation of the enduring beauty of Japan's seasonal change. 

It is a mix in which Sybil, ever gently, reverbs between deep layers of dub, beautifully warped sounds, and the occasional elegant beat, took those present across a musical palette as diverse as the colors of the Japanese autumn. Nearly a year later, with the onset of another autumn cycle, we think it is now the time to release this mix. Please sit back, find a good pair of speakers, and enjoy.

Sybil - NLDMIX 008

For the 48th instalment of our podcast series, Introspective Electronics founder Lucie Stepankova aka Avsluta steps in with a live recording of her DJ set at last month’s Ambient Tide, a Brussels-based listening event series run by our dear friend and fellow ambientist Kato De Vidts. We couldn’t imagine a better setting for this set to take place ~ the floor fully covered in rugs and cushions, low hanging lanterns emanating soft warm light, the scent of palo santo drifting through the air and focused audience listening with patience and curiosity 💆🏻‍♀️

Avsluta is a London-based producer, DJ, live performer and event curator navigating the liminal spaces between ambient and dance music. For the past 8 years, Lucie has been deepening her musical knowledge working behind the counter at Phonica Records, catering to London’s ambient and downtempo heads on most Saturdays and making a few good friends along the way. She runs Introspective Electronics as is actually the person writing this text, which does feel a little awkward but it has to be done. Together with her friend Alicia, she runs Terra Obscura, aiming to make clubbing cozy and on ocassion, curates solo or collaborative ambient events as part of Introspective Electronics ✨

Just shy of two hours, this mix weaves a thread of hopeful softness made for moments of deep relaxation and focus. Voices and gentle rhythms ebb and flow atop lush drones, giving way to arpeggiated passages, spoken word and field recordings. Recommended listening at dusk, in a candle-lit space, floating on a pile of cushions and wrapped in fluffy blankets with a mandatory cup of steaming tea 🍵

Recorded live at Ambient Tide in October 2024
https://www.instagram.com/ambient.tide/

Sounds by @avsluta
Visions by @marcomaldarella 

Buy Music Club: buymusic.club/list/introspective-electronics-pocast-series-48-avsluta-ambient-tide


TRACKLIST

air liquide - things happen
Mind Over MIDI - Moon Shadows
A. Brehme - K. Ran And Spoke Foresights From The Forest (Digital Exclusive)
santebela - If time bends (ft Angelina Nonaj)
Kincaid - Scree Slope
CHANTSSSS - lose my
Piezo - p°P°
Box5ive - Sour Kiss
Jacob Dwyer & Sam Purcell - Hetty Brain
human mesh dance - in pools
Ruin - The Dive (D.Tiff Dip)
Mick Chillage - Hyper Sleep
mu tate - spore
Firnis DC - Photo Manipulation
Relaxer - In Softening Air
Mücha - Spectral Interference
Box 5ive - Duty Free
Luke Sanger - Morning Person
Veryan - Part Wild Horses Mane
Zaumne - Tête
CHANTSSSS - (swan)
Farron - WH Respiration
Tecno Shoppe - Ryu & Syusaku
Innerworld - Vibrations
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - Love Without Sound
Box5ive - Rough Sleeper
nthng - Some Clouds Are Destined To Break
nthng - With You
Warmth - Roads

Podcast Series 48 | Avsluta @ Ambient Tide

Live from our Neukölln studio: a special 3-hour @infinity-rug takeover with @marumwelt and @lou_drago.

marum and Lou Drago (infinity rug takeover) [22.04.25]

As part of the Lōemis Midwinter Festival in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington i hosted a new listening occasion (for papatūānuku) and hosted a somatic listening workshop as part of a month long residency. Ahead of these events i sat down with the lovely Amy at Access Radio to talk about my work, these events and share some music. 

Lou Drago on Access Radio Aotearoa

Feeling incredibly proud to share this new chapter in our Podcast Series, a profound and powerful mix from the dearest Lou Drago, an artist and human we deeply admire 🤍

Lou is the host of one of our favourite ambient shows @transience-archive which airs monthly on Berlin’s Cashmere Radio to provide listener with a much needed relief from anxiety and together with marum they host sonic-seances under the name @infinity-rug 🫧

Lou believes in the transformative potential of sound and the importance of deep listening. Whether that is listening to each other, our needs or to the sounds around us. In their sets they often explore the sonic landscapes of the in-between, where the listeners perspective dictates the experience, yet holds them in a warm embrace to invite a deep dialogue with the listening body-mind.

✨ In Lou's words ✨

like many of us, my heart has been red with grief-rage witnessing the ever-escalating genocide in Gaza. this mix starts with an invocation for the liberation of the Palestinian people, a struggle that omits none of us if we wish to be truly free. 

the slowly evolving sound journey takes us through several realms and phases of introspection, ghosts of the past lingering in melodies they never heard. sonic energies condensing and expanding, offering spaciousness for contemplation and being with whatever arises.

meandering through earthly realms, through the riparian zone, swamps, and forests we meet with mournful spirits in her gut, casting our attention on the multiplicities of loss we are facing. yet in the shade there are angels, who remind us that we have been doing this for many, many lifetimes. ‘keep on’ they seem to whisper. 

eventually we arrive to the sunset inside, where the Grand River’s winds meet the horizon, guiding our gaze upward toward the night sky where the mysteries of the celestial bodies radiate, Lyra’s visions casting an empowerment spell for all those who listen. 

may we each grow ever surer of our paths, finding creative and yet unimaginable ways to continue our collective struggle for the liberation of all sentient entities, until we are all free.

love, 

lou drago


Sounds by @lou_drago 
Visions by @marcomaldarella

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ie-podcast-series-55-lou-drago

TRACKLIST
Al Fraser - Omaroro
JakoJako feat. Rima Baransi - Btnadini
Kettalynne & EGM - عنوان ضائع (I’nwan Dai’e)
Celer - On or Near the Surface 
Pauline Anna Strom - Ancestral Shrines
Pablo Diserens - riparian zone
Unjin - Gut
Al Fraser - Chrysalis
Int/r - Shade
Jana Irmet - Time Piece 1
Purelink - Stadium Drive
marrow - inter
Davis Galvin - Sipes’ Vista
Autechre - Yulquen 
Daniela Huerta - memoria 
Ariel Kalma - Sunset Inside 
Grand River - Tuning the Wind 
Charlemagne Palestine - Schlingen-Blangen
Alvin Curran - Canti Illuminati (edit)
Lyra Pramuk - Ending

Podcast Series 55 | Lou Drago

IDO returns with the second chapter of Transcendental Movements – a series dedicated to active meditation and deep listening. Active meditation is a practice of fully inhabiting the movement of sound. Instead of seeking absolute silence, it invites you to dive into textures, to be carried by frequencies, to follow oscillations like a breath. Every vibration becomes an anchor point, every resonance a gateway inward. In a world saturated with noise and anxiety, this approach offers a space to refocus the body and calm the mind. Here, listening is not passive: it’s an awakened trance where tensions shift and dissolve, leaving only a pure sense of presence.

For this second volume, Valentino Mora has gathered a new ensemble of artists exploring the frontier between intimate perception and sonic landscape. The compositions – slow and organic – unfold like micro-universes, at times ethereal, at times dense, designed to guide the listener on a sensory journey that transforms anxiety into movement, and movement into inner peace. Transcendental Movements Vol. 2 is an invitation to listen differently: not to escape, but to return to yourself.

Lou Drago - Patience To See (Preview)

https://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/2015/12/podcast-417-heathered-pearls/

Body Complex LP

XLR8R Podcast #417: Heathered Pearls

It is undeniable that we are living in uncertain times. We have little stability whether it be financial, political or environmental. As a generation we have lost hope in the future. We can see capitalism is not working but we cannot yet envisage an alternative. Anxiety is a tool of neoliberalism that prevents us from being able to raise consciousness of the structural injustices that affect us. 
In a world where nothing is secure, the only constant we can rely on is change. Every aspect of life, physical and mental is in flux, the law of impermanence proves that nothing in this world is eternal. It is only through accepting this change that we can find security. 
Each month we invite an artist to ruminate on these ideas and create a mix to offer relief from these anxieties. A temporary suspension of reality, where the listener can imagine alternate modes of existence that reject capitalist, patriarchal systems of oppression. 
This month we have invited Ichinen @ichinenofficial of Last Drop Records to reflect on this.

Photography courtesy Ángela de la Serna

For all shows visit https://cashmereradio.com/shows/TRANSIENCE/

transience #01 with Lou Drago

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/the-faggots-and-their-friends-part-2-19th-may-2020

Up The Beanstalk Ep 2 190520

This is the archive of our regular show on Cashmere Radio, Berlin. 

It is undeniable that we are living in uncertain times. For those of us failing - or refusing - to fit the patriarchal, racist, neoliberal mould we have lost hope in the future. We can see capitalism is not working but we cannot yet envisage an alternative. We discover that the stability we were instructed to obtain whether it be financial, political or ecological, is fleeting, if at all. The resulting anxiety is an instrument of neoliberalism that prevents many of us from being able to raise consciousness of the structural injustices that alienate us.

In a world where security is no longer feasible, the only constant we can rely on is change. Barad teaches us that the world is a dynamic process of intra-activity and materialisation, an ongoing ebb and flow of agency. The Buddhist Law of Impermanence proves that nothing in this world is eternal. Regardless of ones point of reference we can understand that every aspect of life, physical and mental is in flux and perhaps this transience is the only thing we can depend on.

Each month host @lou_drago invites an artist to ruminate on these ideas and create an hour of relief from these anxieties. A temporary suspension of reality, where the listener can speculate on alternate futures free from all systems of oppression.

Photographs 1-30: courtesy Ángela de la Serna
(except 25: courtesy of Sybil @syberkid)
Photographs 31 onward: courtesy Janusz Lorent (except from 37 with is a digital colourfield work by @ligovskoi) 
42 until now’s photographs are from Micki Rosi Richter (except 43 which is another digital colourfield work by @Ligovskoi.)

Cover art by Micki Rosi Richter

Contact: lou.drago @ pm.me

past listening occasions: 

kwia, berlin ~ 19 january 2025
with :
olle holmberg
marum
yuri shimaoka 
lou drago

kwia, berlin ~ 9 may 2024
with: 
ligovskoï
dan nicholls
yuri shimaoka
lou drago

transience #01 with Lou Drago

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