Recorded live at the Grove, Saturday 8-10PM, Sustain-Release Year Nine (2023). Thank you to Aurora & the Sustain-Release team for the trust, to everyone who shared this memory I'll never forget.

Aaron J at Sustain-Release, Year Nine

@syberkid

www.wakinglife.pt
19 - 24 June 2024

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Sybil at Floresta - Waking Life '23

GiGi FM - Live at Coppi Berlin

A breath holds time, calibrates space,
The quiet hum of an ancient place.
Petals bloom with power and grace.
The self we hide, the depths we know,
Through shadows deep, the seeds will grow.
A falling leaf, the wind’s soft lift,
Letting go, we rise anew,
Then strength will shine through.
GiGi FM 
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This set was recorded live at the beautiful community space Coppi in Berlin, where I was invited by my dear friends from the Brandwerk collectif. 
🐚 I took the opportunity to craft a sonic journey filled with some of my favorite vinyls, musicians, and labels ~ music I turn to when I’m at home, spending days reconnecting and realigning my spiritual forces. 

🌀🪷 It’s a trip to my safe space (which is the garden of my mind ~ where I prune the leaves that need care, check in on my inner trees, flowers and roots ~ aka my mental wellbeing)
I meditate, dance alone in my living room, laugh, sometimes cry, write, read, cook, question the world and myself ~ everything.

🧿 This mix begins as an invitation for us to start our inner visit together, exploring our personal safe spaces. May it guide you to some depth within and, hopefully, help you find the strength to face your battles and the freedom to be your true self.
♾️ 
Music from @astralindustries, Evigt, @tokifuko, and @box_5ive.
@phi-psonics @rebecca_vasmant @ancestralvoices, @nzenze @djbigleg,  @alex-cortiz 

I hope you enjoy this journey as much as I loved creating it. 

~ With love & gratitude ~
GiGi 💌

GiGi FM ~ Live At Coppi Berlin

Recorded live at Above Below 2024, Chiltern Hills, UK.

Earlier this summer I had the pleasure of finally visiting Above Below, a magically warm and inspiring festival tucked intimately within the Chilterns which I had heard so much about over years. What I discovered there was a community that immediately felt like home, a weekend full of moments both immaculately deep & breathlessly exuberant, and a true sense of independence and discovery in the spirit of the festival.

Playing in the UK will always be a special honor for me, and I wanted to capture my appreciation for such a pivotal scene while pushing myself in ways that are distinctly my own. This set helped me find more than a few footholds in my own practice and I’m so happy to share the recording, one from a lineup full of friends & inspirations. Hope you enjoy it!

@arn_j
@abovebelowfestival

Artwork by Malte Schumann.

Sure Thing Mix 131: Aaron J

Recording of Sybil's set at Dekmantel Ten

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Sybil at Dekmantel Ten

Aaron J B2B Oberman at Draaimolen Festival 2024

The recording from one of my favourite sets last year ~ Transcendence Festival in Japan 🌲🇯🇵

I’ve long been drawn to the deep, organic and electrifying techno of Japan–inextricably linked to open-air gatherings deep in the forest–so it was very special to play this set in the mystical woods of Nagano’s mountains.

I played after Japanese wizard OCCA @oooccaaa, from 11.30PM-2AM ~ descending into the night and far beyond ✧.*｡⋆

Deepest thanks to @takumiinamoto1994 and @djmaria-jp for the invitation to join this gathering of likeminded musical souls, I am very grateful to have shared this experience with friends old + new 🫶

Featuring music from Alan Backdrop, Toki Fuko, Jacques Adda, Nao Nhil, Huda, A Strange Wedding, Conceptual, GiGi FM, Kangding Ray, Zemog, Noise From Beyond, Danieli, Vardae +++

Hope you enjoy this psychedelic forest trip to outer space 🌲🌌🧚🌙

Sybil @ Transcendence 2024

A lesson in rhythm from a former De School resident.

When it comes to minimalist dance music, Ruben Üvez, AKA Konduku, is one of the best in the game right now. With a masterful and ever-shapeshifting understanding of rhythm, the Berlin-based artist crafts sublime dance music with a staunchly leftfield bent. Don't just take our word for it: how many DJs, after all, can claim to have moved De School to a puddle of tears?

Musically, Üvez is hard to pin down. He's often billed as a techno artist, but actually you'll find his sound sits outside of the genre's many conventions. With an outsider's curiosity, he leans into diverse moods, tempos and genres, though one throughline is always how he arranges his drums. Whether it be deep, Nobu-core techno such as 2023's Hayal EP or UK beat science á la Peverelist on 2019's  Gegek, he leads with rhythm across his DJing and production. The end product is a hypnotic, one-of-a-kind sound that hits the body before the brain has time to catch up. In short, it slaps.

As Üvez's RA Podcast demonstrates, he's got a serious knack for crafting and selecting tunes that can  deeply captivate a dance floor. Clocking in at just over 90 minutes, RA.967 is an excursion through a timeless sound, packed with long, layered blends, flick-of-the-wrist transitions, locked grooves and spine-tingling atmospherics. In 2020, we called Ruben Üvez one of techno's brightest new talents. This mix sees him ascending to a seat at the top table.

@kondukukonduku

Read more at ra.co/podcast/967

RA.967 Konduku

@marco_shuttle recorded at the Mizz Softee & Golden Record party in Brooklyn, NY.

December 6th, 2024

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