Vortex Mix ✻ J

For American artist @nick-klein, music is a gateway deep into our collective and individual psyches. He explores loudness as a form and "the sociology and ideology that presents in self-identifying music subcultures." He does this with his own @psychicliberation label, we all as with music on the likes of L.I.E.s and Viewlaxx. Next up for this prolific producer is a forthcoming double album - roughly his 15th overall - on IDEAL that will continue to explore the fringes of electronic sound with a bank of trusted modulated synths. 

Of this week's mix, Nick says, "Happy Valentine's Day! The hour of material here is a collage of releases that have come out in the previous three years on my label Psychic Liberation, or the collaborative installment of releases between Enmossed and Psychic Liberation known as ENXPL. Here you have layers of material that map the cloud of my music listening consciousness. The interior includes artists who have participated on PL since the 2013 inception. Artists like Berlin's Wilted Woman, ENXPL artists Bridget Ferrill or Rene Nunez's Horoscope project, the PL Seoul based crew of Yeong Die, Jiyoung Wi, and Joyul, prolific Iranian brother band powerhouse of Saint Abdullah, and founder of the Enmossed label Glyn Maier are found braided through each other sonically.

"While a lot of the work here isn't directly oriented towards the club setting, it could be congruous as an epilogue to an evening's more psychedelic potential. It is interesting to see how broadly sonic aesthetics in electronic music have shifted in the absence of major clubs operating at capacity, if at all. I am pleased to share pieces of what has been in my head as an obsessive listening journey and the process of documentation throughout that time. Thanks to Dekmantel.”

Dekmantel Podcast

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 372 - Nick Klein

f054 - Secret Colors

Broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (25.11.2023)

Artist: @somewherepress

Somewhere Press @ Radio TNP 25.11.2023

Nutsa S [26.07.2024]

chantssss - lose my
eustress - sb3
the humble bee & offthesky - senses
karmelloz - cdj 4000
god69 - subtrue.1
aEtegoo - mending
mos fet - clerical
joseph theodor - sea rail 
nic - #macintosh
pleq - metamorphosis pt.1
african-american sound recordings - spurn
echium - considered instances
sportdj - shell of light
usof - plonplonk
xenia reaper - px5136
xtclvr - crippled flow
nexcyia & mu tate - sans titre
y?sk - .u

NOODS #11 Life As Collage w/ yusk

Digge Shim aka https://soundcloud.com/dipshim

https://www.retreatradio.net/ordo-missae

Ordo Missae #10 w/ Digge Shim (21/08/24)

Jessaka  manages the label SousTraitance, party makers and label between Lyon and Belgium, he will send us some psychedelic vibes to start the week. He'll be navigating between esoteric Dub, post-punk and mental halftime DnB.

SousTraitance w/ Jessaka @ Kiosk Radio 02.09.2024

@ssaliva
www.instagram.com/_ssaliva

blurer is a peripheral study exploring ways to perceive our surroundings beyond any focal point. The poetic text where the winds are coming from, invites contributing artists and musicians to collectively explore a world that has become unfamiliar yet again. Inspired by the moment Alice tumbles into Wonderland, it asks what it means to unlearn, relearn, and navigate within a world anew. Like Alice, this conceptual mixtape delves into places, things, and feelings that have been overlooked, ignored or seen as a backdrop. The text, tracks, and sounds of this compilation take us on an explorative journey—not to arrive somewhere, but to sense that what lies within the blur has always already been in the here:now.
(Lisa Walder, 2025)

Most music is used as a form of abstract translation. To unblur the personal, we abstract it and transform and transport it through familiar sounds. Through abstraction, the motives are essentialized to their core. In this, minimalism becomes a prioritisation. A blur can be more flexible. The reduction of elements could be optimistic or protective.
What this release does is observe the peripheral, to look for emotionality or personality within it, but also to create atmospheres that appear peripheral, yet are again included in the general blur.
When hearing the sounds of blurer, the focus of the compositions fluctuates and directs the listener’s perception to certain points within, not only to hear what seems essential but also to draw closer attention to the peripheral. Throughout the whole release, the procedures are very different. Some moments are vivid, almost narrative. There are deconstructed references to find, in both energetic and quiet forms. Occasionally, we pass by rearing, foggy drone walls or prancing, twirling, or scurrying melodies carried around, on synths or guitar strings. Blurer seems to harbor atmospheres of comfort in the cold, loops of spiraling memories or expressions of disorientation, that scamper around on the acoustic foundation created by the 19 artists.
(Elia Brülhart, 2025) 

Assembled by Periphery Serpentine
Commissioned Text by Lisa Walder
Mastered & Cut by Isabel Schröer
Artwork & Design by Dimitri Erhard

supported by GGG Kulturkick Basel-Stadt
ryser005 © 2025

blurer

memory glu

Ssaliva - memory glu

Where Consciousness Fades

ambient @3 "Letters on the Water"

Created during a short pause in my main “sharp-series,” this piece came from the simple urge to make something — even when time wouldn’t allow for a full project.

Built on water textures and a vintage upright piano, it layers the creak of old wood with soft ripples of sound.
Not quite a dream, not quite a memory — just a brief moment of stillness.

Play it when you need to breathe,
or when you just want the world to soften for a little while.

ambient @3 "Letters on the Water"

@mgmldrm & @nenaghnenagh
vortexmelbourne@gmail.com
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