“Is it better to mediate in the complete absence of sound or the complete submersion of it?” @felinefine / @meltmelbourne

Cover: Marc Chagall

CX - feline fine

@dj_lentil

For the extended Q&A and OG pi pi pi track game please visit our website ~~~~> pipipi.life <~~~~~~~~

Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 1 fact about yourself?

My name is Taya (she/her), I live in Berlin. I am Belarus born and raised, and World shaped and formed

How did you get your DJ name?

I was messing around with a friend, and we were laughing at how absurd this name would sound on a line up.

Said in a serious deep male voice

Yogic

Teleself

DJ LENTIL

After some backs and forths I came to terms with being the ridiculousness I want to see in the world

Fav bpm and why?

140 is the bpm I am truly comfortable in. If I go higher I am ramping it up. Slower than 140bpm is basically downtempo

What is your favorite party/collective where you reside and why?

Climax - these women are making their own space and crafting their own vibe in the current techno paradigm. Their mission and ethics are on point, while their music tastes reside outside of time.
3 X L - the existence of ambient influencers has been confirmed
D.U.M.P. - most importantly, a party. Bring what you’ve got and you are welcome here for who you are, but not for who you think you are ;)
Astral VIP - bend your mind with the music and bend your music with the mind.

What do you think future generations will think about the 2022 sound?

“What a strange loop”

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

Post capitalism. Humans gathered all the gun supply on Earth, loaded it on a big spaceship and sent it off into the cosmos. The rich are abolished. Reparations have been paid. Therapy has been mandatory for yt men for a few decades now. There is no such thing anymore as a “bedroom producer”, we record our music directly from our brains. Rave Etiquette and Rave History are the subjects studied in middle-school. There is no talk at the raves in the front of the dance floor - we have telepathy for that. DJing as a craft remains the same because it has always been ahead of its time.

DJ Lentil - 202˚

Low Flung ( @lowflung ) is the long-standing project of Sydney based visual artist Danny Wild. Danny has been present in the East coast underground scene for quite some time now, having cemented his place with an incredibly diverse musical outputs, from ambient and dub to tech house.

"Equally influenced by dub’s sense of space and the rolling expanse of the Australian landscape, Danny fuses field recordings and organic instruments with synthesized soundscapes and buoyant digi basslines to create music that offers an uncanny evocation of place and a keen spatial awareness." - Hani Hanbali

Here we are treated to a live, tech house tinged set from Danny's recent visit to Polyrhythm festival in the ACT. 

Thank you so much for this one Danny!

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Animix Eighty One: Low Flung (Live @ Polyrhythm)

Vortex on Skylab E2

#98 calls for a special appearance by my dear friend, and very talented dj/ creator @voxsupreme. Lounes and I met on the beach at waking life festival in 2019 and have been friends ever since, now having done two ambient b2bs, at ADE in Amsterdam in 2019, and then coming full circle, we met at waking life 2022 for our second b2b. 

I consider him a master of all things ambient and electronica.. constanty impressed by the music he shares and plays. Clearly though, his dj'ing doesn't stop at ambient, with a crazy diversity of styles .. from dubstep and dnb to electro, breaks, techno and everything in between. 

Lounes is the man behind the ethereal dreamworld that is @traumgarten - a special collective focused on downtempo/experimental music and events. I'm always so impressed by the love, thought and creativity that goes into his events, alongside his partner Marinka who often contributes too.

Lots of love Lounes and so happy to finally have you as part of the series! <3

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Animix Ninety Eight: Vox supreme

Aired 28 July 2022, live on FBi Radio 94.5fm, Sydney
https://soundcloud.com/translatesoundsystem
[https://soundcloud.com/whysufar + https://soundcloud.com/djorbitsydney + https://soundcloud.com/andygarveyandygarvey B3B]

tracklist

Pure Space :: Translate

#24 smoked to have a carefully crafted hour and some from local
DJ Mistry. Representing Sydney and the Prion Sound crew - Mistry show his focus on the bass bins, flexed with complex rhythmic layering and emotional hazes that linger in and out seamlessly throughout. Night-drive listening highly recommended

Moonshoe Selects 00024 - DJ Mistry

"A collection of borrowed momentos" @fibreoptixxx

Art by Marie Laurencin

CXLVII - fibre optixxx

The Gravity Experience is a Mini Album and consists of two parts which, although different, belong together and are mixed as a single track. The first part is named "Zero Gravity" and the second part is called "Gravitational Fields".

The Gravity Experience represents my musical interpretation floating in the beauty of deep space, surrounded by far away planets, stars and galaxies and suddenly experiencing garvitational fields out of nowhere.

The Gravity Experience

The Gravity Experience -  Zero Gravity & Gravitational Fields

5  Fukushima 2025

Versions for songs from my album Fkxt77 and a Good Start

Father's Lessons (Ambient Version)

@mgmldrm & @nenaghnenagh
vortexmelbourne@gmail.com
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✻ art by Selena Repanis