After listening to many Freerotation recordings over the years, it feels a bit surreal to share this one. I had such a great time meeting the freero community. Very special to feel the positive vibe and patience to build something new.

Bas Dobbelaer - Freerotation 2024

For those drawn to ambient terrains, the name Francesco Piunti will likely already be familiar. Our first encounter with his mixes came some years ago - emerging through the well known Campfire Stories on Silent Season, then later well crafted excursions thru the likes of Oslated, Delayed, Deep Electronics, and Moon Garden Records not to forget his tireless work in hosting the Deep Breakfast Series (https://soundcloud.com/deepbreakfastseries)

In response to MB’s recent 314 mix https://soundcloud.com/deepbreakfastseries/314-m-baumann, Francesco has returned serve with a contemplative two-hour drift - tracing ambient space, dub techno, with a delicate dusting of float house.  A thoughtful transmission from a selector deeply connected to his craft.

Dig further here:
https://soundcloud.com/francescopiunti
https://soundcloud.com/francescopiunti/sets/mixes
https://soundcloud.com/deepbreakfastseries

Instagram: www.instagram.com/deepbreakfastseries/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DeepBreakfastSeries/
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Primary [colours] Mix Series #56 - Francesco Piunti

81번째 벌트 팟캐스트는 스위스 출신의 DJ이자 주목받는 프로듀서 Ben Kaczor의 67분 디제이 세트와 함께 합니다. 

벤 카조르는 테크노, 딥 하우스, 덥 테크노 로부터 받은 영향을 미니멀하고 직설적이며 솔직한 미학으로 혼합하여 넓은 감정적 스펙트럼을 가진 독특한 사운드로 표현한다. 그의 음악은 음울하고 단조로운 분위기, 멜랑콜리한 분위기가 균형을 이루며 다양한 환경에서 깊은 내면의 연결을 만들어낸다. 스위스 출신의 DJ이자 프로듀서, 큐레이터인 그는 2023년 Dial Records에 합류하였고, 이후 딥 하우스, 덥 테크노, 그리고 다원 예술을 전문으로 하는 레이블 St. Odes를 공동 설립했다. 카조르는 자신이 진행하는 모든 프로젝트에 걸쳐 '해체된 것이 아니라 느껴지는 것을 창조하는 것’이라는 핵심 가치를 일관되게 적용하고 있다.

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https://soundcloud.com/benkaczor

The 81st vurt Podcast features a 67-minute DJ set from DJ and producer Ben Kaczor based in Switzerland.

Ben Kaczor's singular sound bridges a wide emotional spectrum, blending influences of techno, deep house and dub techno into a minimal, straightforward and vulnerable aesthetic. His music balances dubby, monochrome atmospheres and melancholia, producing deep self-connection in different environments. The swiss DJ, producer and curator joined Dial Records in 2023 and co-founded St. Odes, a label dedicated to deep house, dub techno and multidisciplinary art. Across all his projects, Kaczor consistently returns to his core pursuit: creating something that's meant to be felt, not deconstructed.

vurt podcast 81 - Ben Kaczor



mandarín - Take A Trip

This mix is a 3-hour journey I created as a kind of emotional and symbolic voyage — something that moves through darkness into light, into fire, and finally into a slow and tender resolution. 
It’s divided into four acts, each rooted in a different archetype, mood, and sound world. The genres shift along the way — from dark ambient and drone, through deep dubstep, experimental 170 DnB and (dub) techno, with touches of industrial and spoken word — but the emotional progression and sudden change of the genre and pace is deliberate and carefully woven.

ACT I - This act is the fall — a confrontation with fear, grief, the subconscious, and the underworld. It's dense and shadowy, drawing from darker ambient, experimental textures, and raw elements.
It’s about our dark shadow, sitting with discomfort, loss, and the unknown — allowing yourself to be undone.

ACT II - The second act is a glimmer — the first light after darkness. A quiet sense of hope, fragility, and openness appears. Sounds become airier, lighter, more spacious. This act is the breath after grief — not joy yet, but the possibility of it.

ACT III - This is the moment of arrival — fierce love, clarity, aliveness. The music becomes warmer, more energetic, rhythmic. Dub techno pulses emerge, fierce halftime grooves, emotionally expressive melodies. This act is about empowerment, connection, and the fire of selfhood.

ACT IV - The final act is a soft landing — the high fades into reflection and wisdom. It’s melancholic, spacious, and wise. The energy slows but doesn't vanish; it lingers like embers. Spoken word weaves through some of this, offering final thoughts, memory, and insight.
It’s the echo of the journey — not an end, but a return.

The mix is meant to be a whole journey — emotional, symbolic, and immersive — and I’d love for it to be felt that way rather than deconstructed by breaking apart the tracklist.



Take A Trip with mandarín

After an extended pause for much needed rest and slow reflection, the Patterns of Perception crew is excited to return to our mix series with fresh energy and a stellar new mix from Jasmin, aka softi (@jazz_brown). 

Soulful, breezy and groove-laden, softi's Patterns of Perception 122 shimmers with her kaleidoscopic, minimal sound. Weightless sparks float and flicker in dim light. Time dilates; seasons drift. 

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A few thoughts from Jasmin:

Hey Jasmin, how’s it going? What's been happening for you lately?
I’m well, I’m currently living between Lisbon and London this summer which has been a dream! Great food, beach sessions and writing music. It’s been a wild 3 months and I’m just getting myself ready for the seasons changing!

What can you tell us about your mix?
For this mix I wanted to mould my love of groovy minimal and psychedelic tones for the moody season ahead, which is usually my signature sound! I have been producing a lot of this recently and some of my unreleased bits are exclusively inside 💜

⁠Is there a track or tracks that are extra special for you?
I’d probably say my own productions are the special to me as it reminds me of how much I have developed as a producer and artist. I love connecting with the tracks and being able to create my own atmospheric world for listeners to get lost in. But one track that I always come back to is "bluep" by Underground City Loop (a producer from Aus). I have been playing this track for years and it has every sonic element you'd want from a track - low end sub groove with dark melodic synths.

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Links:
@jazz_brown
instagram.com/__softiii/

@cozi-716789961
instagram.com/cozi______/

Patterns of Perception 122 - softi

The recording of Sunju Hargun’s debut live ambient set at 428 stage at Wonderfruit Festival in 2024 

Thailand-based Sunju Hargun is a producer, DJ, and co-founder of Siamese Twins Records, known for his "forward-thinking with past feelings" sound — a storyteller who brings together psychedelic acid, minimal, trance, techno, and ambient into timeless passages across mind, body, and space.

Credits:

Vocals by Chucheewa & GiGI FM

Additional voices sampled from Sheila Chandra & Alan Watts & Björk

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sunjuhargun/

Sunju Hargun -Live Set- at 428 Wonderfruit 2024

Once a year back to the core with a like-minded group. Enjoy the recording from a special gathering last June, somewhere in the woods of Spain. Big hug from Bas de Noche. 

@espacio-perpendicular 2025 -  Saturday 23:00 - 01:00

Bas Dobbelaer - Perpendicular 2025

Cio D’Or hardly requires an introduction, having long stood as both a pillar of our scene and a source of inspiration for so many. Over the course of her singular and decades-spanning career, the Cologne-based artist has cultivated a universe of sound entirely her own, immediately recognizable yet endlessly evolving much like the work of her contemporaries and collaborators Mike Parker and Donato Dozzy. To experience Cio’s music is to follow a throughline that traces the complex history of contemporary techno in a single gesture, compelled by the vast unknown and the primordial familiar in equal measure. Recalling the blurred realism of Richter’s photo-paintings or the timeless intricacy of Bach’s fugues, Cio’s self-contained sonic world delicately reframes our own precious lifecycle, a reflection revealed through its elegant and subtractive minimalism.

In collaboration with our friends at Mostra, I’m honored to share a selection from Cio D’Or’s set performed at this year’s edition of the Barcelona-based festival, a sublime triumph from a scholar of sound.

@cio-d-or
@mostrabcn

Artwork by Camille Ferdinandus.

Sure Thing Mix 146: Cio D'Or

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Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure. Relax, chillout and enjoy.

DARK AMBIENT - INFERNAL APPARATUS

A record label and mix series based in Brighton UK focused on Ambient, Downtempo and Electronica.

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