Hey folks, welcome to the 59th episode of the Stellar Series. 

Today, let's welcome Francesco Piunti, curator of the stunning @deepbreakfastseries podcast channel. The man is offering us a soothing, psychedelic ambient trip that lead us through a sea of tranquility.
He took the photo at the Gran Sasso d'Italia, a massif in the Apennine mountains of Italy.

Tracklist : 

Bålsam - Flora
Futuregrapher - TX-NES
Moss Covered Technology - Pressure Change
Daar - Sea Wind
Patricia Wolf - La Belle et la Bête
One Million Eyes - Aguirre
Glós - Serenade
Purl - Merope (Slow Dancing Society Remix)
Purl - Merope (SVLBRD Remix)
Owl - Hidden Forest
Mnemonic45 - Slow Change
36 & Awakened Souls - Take Me By The Hand
Jonny Nash & Teguh Permana - Api

Follow him : @francescopiunti

Stellar Series Episode 59 - Francesco Piunti (Awaiting The Light)

~ Deep Breakfast 251 by https://soundcloud.com/sarahwreath ~

Tracklist: 
01. Alan Backdrop - Nohim (Save The Planet Earth)
02. Ancestral Voices - Eumycota
03. Voices From The Lake - Intro - Live At MAXXI
04. Channeled Message from the Pleiadian Priestesses - Energy Update
05. William Selman - Farther Off Among the Foaming Black Rocks
06. Winter Drones - Rumble
07. Cousin Silas & James Hoehl - Nocturnal Lullabies - Part 3
08. Ruptured World - The Phobetor Signals
09. Ancestral Voices - Sunset To Sunset 
10. Atmøsphäre & Sacred Seeds - Mirror Lake 
11. Owl - Moonshine Haze 
12. Cousin Silas & James Hoehl - Nocturnal Lullabies Part 7
13. Polar Inertia - Interlude (Sound Stroke)
14. Teleplasmiste - Mind At Large 
15. Seefeel - Ashdecon 
16. Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance - Lotus 
17. Desroi - Voi
18. Lambda Sond - Chip Strategically
19. Alina Kalancea - Leaves For Lost
20. Teleplasmiste - Come! Vehicles Of Light

Sarah Wreath on the web
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Deep Breakfast 251 ~ Sarah Wreath

@syberkid

~ Tracklist ~

Jon Keliehor - The Beginning of Time
Martina Testen - Exploring the Mesnjak Forest (Slovenia)
Purelink - Wade Into A Wide And Complex Circle
Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus - Item 11
Klaus - Gus
Chad Munson - Capillaries
Tdel - Make Noise 0-Coast
UNKEN REFLEX - 03.11.1987
Rezo Glonti - Pastiche (Teenage Engineering OP-1)
Inhmost - Nightsky
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2271040
Doctrina Natura - Dream VII
cv313 - As The Light Closes In
Michel Banabila - New Energy Forms
Atom™ - Texturen IV [Part I]
Donato Dozzy - Let It Go
Lee Anthony Norris - Perpetual(Autumn Of Communion)
Spherical Aberration - Valley Of Dreams
Hüda - Unreleased
Akasha Project - Rhoden Gold Picknick 2
Ground Tactics - 444Hz High Self (L0v1n Pr3s3nc3)
Malibu - The Things That Fade
Eterna - Garland Of Shame

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As we enter cosy-season, I’m really happy to share the next Deep Mind Music mix with you all. This is a re-recording of the set I played for @transience-archive at WHOLE festival last year. A 6AM set in glistening morning light for tired beings and expansive minds 💠

This one is straight from the heart, I hope you find something in this journey ~ a soft evaporation into vaporous clouds, a space for quiet reflection, a shimmering fractal of emotion 🤍🦋🤍✧｡⋆.

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Downloads Enabled ~

Deep Mind Music

Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.32

We are delighted to begin the year with a mix from ASIP (Ryan Griffin), the founder of A Strangely Isolated Place - a label and mix series that has become a cornerstone for contemporary ambient music. Inviting him felt long overdue, and we couldn’t be happier to share this contribution from someone whose work continually inspires us. For this mix, Ryan delved into musical memories, crafting a journey filled with nostalgia and influences. As he beautifully puts it:

"Thank you, Mareen, for the invite to your series. This mix is full of nostalgia, some Balearic undertones, and classic approaches to ambient electronic music, without an agenda. It starts to speak to some major influences on me over the years. Growing up on 90's electronic music, influential summers in Europe, and the formative years of early 00's IDM and electronica. If Unrush is self-described as 'a serene space within the mind that is free from the encumbering stresses of daily life,' then this is music that always helps me get there."

Ryan’s contribution is a heartfelt journey through time, marked by the sounds that have shaped him and continue to inspire, perfectly embodying the unrushed ethos. Let yourself drift and enjoy... ❤️

ASIP on the web:
Website: https://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace
Bandcamp: https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-strangely-isolated-place/id409698179

UNRUSH on the web:
Bandcamp: www.unrush.bandcamp.com/
Hardwax: www.hardwax.com/label/unrush/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_unrush_/?hl=de
Facebook: www.facebook.com/unrushme/

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria

Tracklist:
Ishq - And Awake (2011, Interchill Records)
Aspetuck - Hit Me With Your Pet Shark (Forthcoming, A Strangely Isolated Place)
Wilson Tanner - Further Than Your Headlights (2016, Growing Bin Records)
TSR - gtchi3 (2012, Record Union)
MPU101 - Sunset Memories (2024, Ilian Tape)
Dream Dolphin - L.E.A (Mirror Coordinate Mix) (2023, Music From Memory)
C-thru - Awake In A Dream (2023, Pacific Rhythm)
Norman Feller - Melting From The Inside (2003, Electrolux)
Gallo - That Moment (2023, Hell Yeah)
Spooky - Let Go (1993, Guerilla)
Neutron 900 - Empire (1994, Rising High)
Alvar - Our Peach Sky (Unreleased)
Mikkel Rev - Unknown (Unreleased)
Ebi - Kaze (1996, Space Teddy)
Jochem Paap - Dx-Snth (1999, Fax)

093 - Unrushed by ASIP

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)

Hailing from sleepy Vermont and now based in the beautiful Hudson Valley, our next guest is a talented synthesist, live performer, and DJ. Together with his Delayed family, he’s also the co-founder of the lovely Never Late record label.

Warmly welcoming Griff Fulton, aka Aspetuck <3

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“To me, this mix is an homage to my experience at Mostra, distilled into a very short amount of time. I wanted to break it up into a few different moments - ambient, downtempo, and drum & bass. The first two are styles I’ve been dabbling in a lot more recently, but drum & bass is very much new territory for me.

Jay and I first got in touch back in September. When we started discussing a mix, the platform was fully ambient, drone, and experimental, and I had some ideas slowly coming together about what my contribution to the series could be. At one point, though, Jay mentioned we could push my mix back to the end of May - one month after Mostra, a festival in Barcelona we were both really excited to attend. I jumped at the chance because I wanted to see how the festival would influence my mix. It was undeniable that it would focus me in a way I wasn’t quite aware of yet.

Around the same time, Jay decided to open up the platform to some deeper dance floor sounds, which gave me the opportunity to create a mix that builds in energy and unravels over time. I wanted to leave some room at the beginning of the mix for the more experimental sides of ambient that The Observatory is most known for. I included a couple of my own live modular jams from the past couple of months, sprinkled amongst some favourites from artists like Andreas Tilliander, Jan Jelinek, and Shifted.

From there, I bring in some slower tempo, hypnotic, “eyes-closed groove” tracks, as I label them in my Rekordbox. Right around halfway, a Loek Frey track with a nice long intro ushers in a drum & bass / halftime section in the 80/160 BPM range, followed by a brief conclusion.

Recorded in one take earlier this month after a very inspiring trip to Barcelona - thank you, Mostra, for the endless inspiration <3”

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https://soundcloud.com/aspetuck
https://aspetuck.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/aspetuckmusic/
https://aspetuck.substack.com/
https://ra.co/dj/aspetuck

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

The Observatory - Aspetuck

Episode 50: Owl

A welcome return to the series for our friend Faru with an inspired hybrid mix that captures the bittersweet essence of summer's farewell.

Faru is a Berlin-based musician, designer and explorer. He is crafting Drone and Ambient music from his nature recordings from around the world. His works have been described as a natural orchestra in a dream-like manner. Exploring movements of nature, noise and harmonics. Labels include Silent Season, Faint and Carpe Sonum (FAX)

About the mix he said:
"This hybrid mix drifts through layers of sound that feel like half-remembered dreams and moments suspended between past and present. It carries a sense of nostalgia, of looking back at places and times that still echo somewhere within. The sounds paint old memories into focus, though never quite as they were. Sometimes blurred, sometimes distorted, always shaped by the way we remember them as individuals. Textures and gentle warmth intertwine, like memories fading in and out of view. It’s music for reflection, for wandering through old feelings, and for revisiting those fragments of time that never completely leave us."

Tracklist:
1. Suzanne Menzel - Summer Rain
2. Billow Observatory - Wash Away The Dust
3. Yoyu - Forest Purple
4. Tau Sagittarii - Time Relates
5. Billow Observatory - Stareside
6. Faru - Unreleased
7. Lena Deen - Sleep Don't Come Easily
8. ASC - Find Yourself
9. Air - All I Need (Faru drone edit)
10. Singing Sorrows - Daring
11. Rod Modell - Snowstorm in Gwinn
12. Faru - Unreleased
13. Rod Modell - Snowstorm in Blaney Park
14. Donato Dozzy - Lucrezia
15. Benoît Pioulard - Sajo
16. Mount Shrine - Absent Sens, Part 2
17. ASC - Empty Words
18. Faru - Unreleased
19. Tim Hecker - Boderlands
20. Wil Bolton - Soar
21. Kanging Ray - Nacht und Tag
22. 36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel (Blue New World 2)
23. Benoît Pioulard - Esperanza Dive
24. Rod Modell - Snowstorm in Munising
25. Wil Bolton - Slow shapes
26. Faru - unreleased
27. 36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel (Final Approach 5)
28. Carl Sagan & Fifth Element (Faru Drone Edit)
29. Mount Shrine - Azur
30. Faru - Unreleased
31. Faru - Unreleased
32. Hania Rani feat. Patrick Watson - Dancing With Ghosts (Faru drone edit)
33. Variant - auratia [part one]
34. Faru - Unreleased
35. Detroit Escelator Company - Force
36. Roly Porter - Sequence

Picture shot by himself

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Deep Breakfast 325 ~ Faru

Lucid Horizon

Since 2014, UK-based label, https://soundcloud.com/astralindustries have been responsible for some of the most enlightening and entertaining releases of recent years. Their output has helped otherwise forgotten or out of print music see the light of day, provided new takes on previous classics, whilst also pushing forward new music by some of the most well-respected artists within the ambient genre. 

Debuting with a release by dub-techno legend DeepChord in 2014, Astral Industries went on to release Wolfgang Voigt's live project, Rückverzauberung Live In London in 2015.  In 2016 they followed with a 1985 recording from disbanded dutch collective Chi - a timeless and undoubtedly classic record, whilst in the same year pitching Wolfgang and Deepchord together for the very first time, with reinterpretations of Peter Michael Hamel's classic, Colors of Time. By then, and combined with the continually brilliant artwork of Theo Ellsworth, we knew that Astral Industries was a label with staying-power, and a growing catalog of releases worth collecting - be it just for the framed artwork, or moreover, the complete music package. 

In 2017, we've seen an LP by Heavenly Music Corporation, aka Kim Cascone (likely encouraged by the recent re-release of his own label Silent Records), a third LP by The Chi Factory, and then just last month a beautiful album by Waveform Transmission (Rod Modell of DeepChord and Chris Troy), with a sublime follow-up album, a massive 20 years after their first. 

The man behind the Astral Industries machine, Ario is a proven expert at plucking obscure gems from the past, or ensuring that good music gets the platform and artistic presentation it deserves. In just a few years, Ario has curated a highly respected and anticipated label roster that demands attention, and has yet to disappoint. The music is always gentle, deep and often extremely vivid, be it deeply hypnotic ambient, or gentle murmurs of dub-techno. 

With curatorial talents like this, we're overjoyed to host an exclusive 2hr+ mix of Ario digging into his record collection, and interlocking a few select exclusive Astral Industries bits in-between. It's one hell-of-a hypnotic journey and just like the Astral Industries releases, deserved of your full undivided, escapist attention.

ASIP - isolatedmix 73 Astral Industries

isolatedmix 73 - Ario/Astral Industries

@syberkid

~ Tracklist ~

Pure Gamma - Astral Plane
L.S.G. - Part 04
Ligovskoï - Esam
Heavenly Music Corporation - Riding Windhorse (Buddhafields)
Pete Namlook - Travelling Without Moving (Trip 02)
Orson - Garzweiler
Boreal Massif - Angel Of Dub
Rrose - Saliva
Acronym / Kali Malone - Tarmar
Raroh - Fender American Standard Stratocaster 
Jet Chamber - Calm Box
Neel - Life On Laputa Regio
Henning Baer - Blue Neon
Desroi - Lodwar
Air - Clearing Your Head
Oliver Lieb - Spooky Action At A Distance
Alan Backdrop - Shan
Pellarin - September (Ambient Mix)
Ancestral Voices - Yam

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This mix is the live recording of my set at Free Movements on the 28th of September 2019. I really enjoyed playing this set, sat in a cozy dark room, with my friend Hanzo’s psychedelic visuals swirling on a mesh backdrop behind me.  

This is the first time I've played a Deep Mind Music set out where it felt like everyone was totally dissolved in the music. There's times where it's more appropriate for ambient music to wash into the background of conversations, such as in a chill out space at a rave, but for what I'm aiming to do with this music, I feel it connects more deeply with total absorption into the sound.

I realised there’s three Pete Namlook tracks in this mix, which is a strong indication of how much his music means to me. Including an all time favourite, ‘Calm Box’ which he made with Atom Heart in 1996 as Jet Chamber. It sounds like gently pulsating orbs of light flickering in an infinite expanse of darkness. Pete is a truly incredible artist, whose otherworldly music has touched the lives of so many people. A spirit our world is lesser without, RIP. If you don’t know Pete Namlook’s music or amazing label FAX, I couldn’t recommend having a dig highly enough.

I have to say, I’ve been feeling kind of disconnected from the world this past month. Introspective and far away. Ambient music is something I retreat into when I’m feeling insular, and it means more to share this mix now than when I recorded it in September. I hope this mix gives you a space to breathe, to dissolve into a hologram of sound, and carry you through whatever you’re going through. 💙

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~ Downloads Enabled ~

Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.11

U N R U S H is an experiment in sound, a crystalline vision of eternal pause. Through our record label, podcasts, and event series we focus on presenting a diverse array of alluring ambient music. With each guest contribution we search for a serene space within the mind that is free from the encumbering stresses of daily life. Our events will act as a platform for distinguished artists and take place in stunning cultural surroundings both in the city and in nature, taking a step away from the pounding hedonism of the club to showcase the other side of electronic music.

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