Niksen is a Dutch/Flemish expression for the art of doing nothing. A deliberate act of setting aside structured tasks and embracing stillness. To be stripped of excess and distraction. Mind wandering isn't aimless—it's a mental playground where ideas grow and imagination thrives. Doing nothing isn't lazy; it's an essential pause, a breath in the rhythm of life. It’s where inspiration whispers and the chaos of the world recedes.

Niksen

Back to slow and steady

Impendium

Echos of Future Regret

Like Water

Quicksand

"However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”  ― Stanley Kubrick

Track list and start times:
00:00  S Hollis Mickey – Cocoon (February 16)
09:30  Thomas Köner – Meta Incognita
15:52  Loop(c)y – On The Threshold Of The Invisible
19:35  Pedro Oliveira and Morgan Sully – Hind's Lament
27:50  Banabila & Machinefabriek – Bad Wiring
34:28  Chaperone – morose vandal the white-out memorial
39:28  Sebedeus – On entering the age of final farewells
43:54  Western Kill Company – Salt the Earth
46:38  Simon Bridgestock – Terrariums
49:32  Black Vines – Glass Memory
56:04  The Asynchronous Drone Orchestra[s] – 19th July 2025 (excerpt)
1:01:10  Grey Frequency – Midwinter (MMXX)
1:09:02  Ingrid N & the Ambient Hermit – Soul Echoes from a Forgotten Era (excerpt)
1:18:40  Max Andrzejewski – Mythos II: Aüe
1:24:35  Robert Carl – Updraft
1:33:52  Seasons (pre-din) – Untitled 8
1:42:00  Stan Magendanz – eybolutin
1:45:00  Six Microphones – part 4 (excerpt)
1:49:26  William Fowler Collins – Slow Motion Prayer Circle
1:54:48  Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Where You End And I Begin
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Image: Lexica.art

Eclectic current – The truth of a thing is in the feel of it

mid-deep listening groove electronic ambient dub

fresh aire day

‘in principio creavit Deus cælum, et terram’
Travel Stories.
2025 semi-live performance.

I started producing Trans-Lunar Injection (https://soundcloud.com/petrus-major/trans-lunar-injection-travel) before learning of Jim Lovell's passing. The initial reference was simple: I was inspired by Kraftwerk's TransEurope Express (thanks to @fhauna for spotting this reference) and I wanted to travel through space :) hence the chosen theme and title. I finished the track after Lovell's passing.

The Apollo VIII epic had a huge impact on me, even though I was young at the time, as had those of Apollo XI and the others, of course. So my little dedication was sincerely necessary.

Then I wanted another version, more streamlined, and above all focused on the Apollo VIII mission with this extraordinary message sent from lunar orbit, including the reading of the first verses of the Book of Genesis by each crew member, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, during a television broadcast: a magnificent event within the event! (I might come back to this later).

Sorry for this long introduction...

Tools :
Pam’s, Marbles.
- DFAM > Data Bender > FX Aid (#27 reverb hall medium).
- Drum2 (noise crush) > DSP (leslie speaker).
- Polygogo > Monsoon (clouds mode).
- Plaits (vowel and speech synthesis) > Sisters.
- Basimilus.
Ochd, Diode Chaos, Rnd Step.
Tetrapad, 3x MIA, Mutes.
StMix, Black Stereo Mixer, Listen IO.
Apollo 8 Genesis reading: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_8_genesis_reading.ogg
Transcript (and more information): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading
Recorded, mixed and mastered with Logic Pro.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

TLI Genesis RMX [travel stories]

Reflections on Shadows

Joshex Lugeale

Circinus

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

*****

Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

Eclectic current – The truth of a thing is in the feel of it

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