Ambient selections 2020

Don’t even know where to begin... So many great memories of that little space as it was such an important place for Amsterdam's contemporary music. It has been the home of our residency for 6 years solid and we will never forget all the special moments guests of the show brought. Now that it’s announced publicly it’s time to salut the amazing people of RLR for what they achieved in almost ten years ❤️ Thanks for your trust and we really hope to see that RLR logo in a bright future! In this playlist are the TSS sets that were archived on Soundcloud.

TSS on Red Light Radio

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Frédéric Chopin

TSS on Red Light Radio #37: Aboutface (live) & Will Oirson

Red Light Radio  Amsterdam, Netherlands

Freero 19 advance listening

Playlist: TSS collection 2019, part 1

Freero

All 2019 shows: TSS on Red Light Radio

A cello quartet arrangement of the second movement from J S Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068.
Cello arranged and performed by Deryn Cullen
Mix and mastering by @dan-cullen

J S Bach - Air on the G - String

Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38, was composed from 1836 to 1839 in Nohant, France and on the Spanish island of Majorca. Robert Schumann, who had dedicated his Kreisleriana, Op. 16, to Chopin, received the dedication of this Ballade in return. The piece has been criticized by prominent pianists and musicologists, including its dedicatee Schumann, as a less ingenious work than the first.

Chopin on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/5RFPR9xUOAHPoTvuLMwqpC

Chopin Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Chopin-Essential-Collection-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/dp/B00KNTJ8YC/

Best of Chopin
https://us.napster.com/artist/frederic-chopin/album/chopin-the-essential-collection

Chopin Compilation
https://listen.tidal.com/album/30344018

Frederic Chopin
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/7857432

Best of Chopin Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOac5vF0Ysk&t=4s

Chopin - The Essential Collection

Ballad Op.38 - No.2

Deezer

The Nocturnes, Op. 9 are a set of three nocturnes written by Frédéric Chopin between 1830 and 1832, published that year, and dedicated to Madame Camille Pleyel. The second nocturne of the work is widely regarded as Chopin's most famous piece, and is regularly featured in films, television programs and video games.

Chopin on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/5RFPR9xUOAHPoTvuLMwqpC

Chopin Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Chopin-Essential-Collection-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/dp/B00KNTJ8YC/

Best of Chopin
https://us.napster.com/artist/frederic-chopin/album/chopin-the-essential-collection

Chopin Compilation
https://listen.tidal.com/album/30344018

Frederic Chopin
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/7857432

Best of Chopin Playlist
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k3UamhvL2pVn3hfE7JS9dj-uWbv0ikr_o

Nocturne Op.9 - No.2

Tidal

Étude Op. 25, No. 1 in A-flat major is a solo piano work composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1836, and published in 1837. The work consists entirely of rapid arpeggios and harmonic modulations based on A-flat major.

Chopin on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/5RFPR9xUOAHPoTvuLMwqpC

Chopin Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Chopin-Essential-Collection-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/dp/B00KNTJ8YC/

Best of Chopin
https://us.napster.com/artist/frederic-chopin/album/chopin-the-essential-collection

Chopin Compilation
https://listen.tidal.com/album/30344018

Frederic Chopin
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/7857432

Best of Chopin Playlist
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k3UamhvL2pVn3hfE7JS9dj-uWbv0ikr_o

Étude Op. 25 - No.1

Amazon

Étude Op. 25 - No.1

Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 PLUS A Smattering of Outtakes and Rarities 1986-2002

Blue-Green Arrow

So after much deliberation I’ve finally decided to upload the recording of my set from Freerotation this year.
I was thinking to edit out the imperfections such as record skipping, or where I had the high pass filter turned up without realising (one reason I don’t get on with Allen & Heath), but instead I’ve left it raw, as it was heard on the night, because the atmosphere was electric, saturday night, smack in the middle of this wonderful festival, the room was going off!!! This is a set I won’t ever forget playing, it’s not perfect and my levels are all over the place, but the recording perfectly captures the magical vibes circulating the dance floor that night, and the strength of this outweighs any need to worry about my mistakes, so here it is, hope you enjoy it as much as I did playing it.

Freerotation 2016

Alex Downey Live at Freerotation 2016

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/07/download-a-stunning-new-mix-from-alex-downey/

@alex-downey

Freerotation 2017

Download

Download: Alex Downey - Live from Freerotation 2017

Taken from Kasper Bjørke Quartets forthcoming album "The Fifty Eleven Project"

Buy Single: KompaktRecords.lnk.to/LineOfLifeSD
Pre-order Album: KompaktRecords.lnk.to/TheFiftyElevenProjectSD

On October 19th Kompakt presents a new LP and audiovisual venture by Danish producer Kasper Bjørke and close cohorts. Epic and in length but always captivating, ‘The Fifty Eleven Project’ is an entirely ambient concept album, that interprets and evokes the emotional rollercoaster Kasper experienced, from his cancer diagnosis and throughout the five years of regular check-ups. The week of album release marks his second anniversary of getting the all-clear.

The base of the album was composed on vintage analogue synthesizers, reverbs, echo and sequencers – using the computer solely as a recording device – by Kasper and synth wizard Claus Norreen, in the latter’s Copenhagen studio.

The violins, violas and cellos are composed and played by the Italian composer Davide Rossi, who has also worked with Ennio Morricone, Jon Hopkins, Röyksopp, The Verve and Goldfrapp.

The piano parts are composed and played by Danish musician Jakob Littauer (of Kompakt labelmates Jatoma) on an old upright piano in a studio, and on a Steinway Grand Piano in the concert hall at the Royal Danish Music Conservatorium.

From Max Richter’s ‘SLEEP’, Hannah Peel’s ‘Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia’, to much of Brian Eno’s ‘Music For Installations’, ‘The Fifty Eleven Project’ continues in a rich vein of work by contemporary composers which explores a situation/condition, and is made with functionality and healing in mind.

The visual side of ‘The Fifty Eleven Project’ is made in collaboration with the culture laboratory Prxjects and acclaimed LA based artist/filmmaker/photographer Justin Tyler Close, who has created art films for each of the album’s 11 tracks - plus one music video, including clips from all 11 films. The 11 films will be assimilated into a video exhibition at Klub in Copenhagen from 12th – 21st October. The ambition is that the installation will tour Europe and the US in 2019.

Furnished in an exquisite fabric box, this 180 gram 3LP clear vinyl box is presented by cover art created by world-renowned artist Landon Metz, further cementing the release’s multidisciplinary links to the art world.

Buy/Stream

PREMIERE: Kasper Bjørke Quartet - Line Of Life

Recorded Live at Noods Radio Sep 2018

Listen to all shows: http://noodsradio.com/residents/anina

Anina Noods Radio Show -- September 2018

More info here: https://crackm.ag/2zZZmM7

Crack Magazine 

Crack Mix 236 – Facta

Mashrou' leila - Imm El Jacket

@wanderwelle graced the RLR studio with an hour of pure bliss. All live! They invited @astralindustries in the first hour of the show -> www.soundcloud.com/willoirson/ario-astral-industries-red-light-radio
Livestream: www.facebook.com/thesomethingsomething/videos/450431168815796

Wanderwelle (live) _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #35 pt. 2

Marche Slave, Op. 31 by Tchaikovsky performed at the July 21st concert to benefit the Sean Hanna Foundation

Marche Slave, Op. 31 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

@leifsounds layed down one of his high-end dj sets at the Red Light studio.
Livestream: www.facebook.com/thesomethingsomething/videos/736291336745159

Leif _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #36

Tracklist:
01 Douglas Rain (R.I.P.) - The Deactivation of HAL 9000 [2001: A Space Odyssey]
02 Farron - 528 [XCPT Music]
03 Future Beat Alliance - Feed My Soul [Versatile Records]
04 Answer Code Request - Ab Intus [Ostgut Ton]
05 Nothus & Delikwe - Requiem [XCPT Music]
06 Stenny - Fortress [Ilian Tape]
07 Nothus & Delikwe - Red Walls [XCPT Music]
08 Inigo Kennedy - The Shard [Token]
09 Farron - Paneth [XCPT Music]
10 Jesus Jones - Zeroes & Ones (Aphex Twin Reconstruction # 1 Mix) [Food]
11 Monolake - Static [Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music]
12 F - 0907 [7even Recordings]
13 Paradox - Paragon of Virtue [Archive]
14 Skee Mask - Flyby VFR [Ilian Tape]
15 John Beltran - Moth [De:tuned]
16 D.B. - Subtleties [Flux White]
17 Seafoam - Hybrid [Stretch 2 Activate]
18 Loopdeville - Mazneishu [OdD Music]
19 Vulva - Omnec Onec [Reflective]
20 Adrian Forciniti - Class Of '94 [Syra]
21 Stenny - Corrupt 506 [Ilian Tape]
22 Late Night Approach ‎- Clarence Mews [Klakson]
23 Sensorama - Kondens [Ladomat 2000]
24 Junq - Closer [Furthur Electronix]
25 Silicon - 1094T3 [Undersound Recordings]
26 Gunnar Haslam - Vector No Campo [Lovers Rock]
27 Drexciya - Wavejumper [Underground Resistance]
28 Pacou - Trigger [Tangent] 

Recorded Live on Saturday 7th July 2018, 1:30 - 3am, in Sammy String's (Room 3) at Freerotation Festival, Baskerville Hall, Hay on Wye, UK.
Photograph by Calandra Balfour @Calandra
Audio mixdown by Charlie Tear @charlietear
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/alexdowney
www.facebook.com/AlicksDowney/
www.instagram.com/alyxdowney/

I’ve been holding back on this as I had hopes it would get picked up exclusively by online media or for a podcast series as I did with my 2017 set, but I’ve decided to put it out through my own channels before the year is out instead (as nobody seemed to be interested in anything other than studio mixes!!??).....It might also come as an early Xmas present for those who came along with me for the ride and have been eagerly awaiting the recording - better late than never I guess! 
What can I say about the gig - it’s hard to put into words, I was completely overwhelmed by the energy that I witnessed rapidly coalesce in the sweltering hot room that night. The Freerotation crowd is surely one of the world’s most musically open-minded and supportive that you could ever hope to find as a DJ, and so many inspired & magical moments promptly ensued with the distinct sense of musical freedom that had overcome me. DJ-ing on the opening night was an absolute pleasure with so much excitement in the air, and to have the opportunity to play music at this wonderful event once again, was truly an honour. 
I hope that these sentiments are reflected in this recording, and that it gives those that were there the chance to re-live some of that magic. Peace.

Gratitude to all my friends for their continued love, support and encouragement.
Respect to all the promoters who have got behind me with bookings.
Big-Ups to all the ravers for the boundless energy they’ve brought to the dance-floors I've played to.

Live at Freerotation 2018

Alex Downey Live at Freerotation 2018

Afrodeutsche’s music is a collision of many different worlds. She herself is British born, but with Ghanaian, Russian and German heritage, while her influences and inspirations span classical piano, film and documentary music. Based in Manchester, she is a composer and producer with a regular show on NTS that explores her love of techno and electro and which goes from dark and tough to jacked up and broken. 

Her mix for us is a 90 minute excursion through her musical mind: it’s a busy one that veers from ghostly ambiance to serrated machine music. While a subtle hardcore nostalgia colours the airwaves one moment, decidedly forward facing bass music will twist you inside out the next, and the whole thing is run through with a sense of menace and mystery that is perfect for shady, strobe-lit clubs.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 215 - Afrodeutsche

For the whole of this week, we will be celebrating International Women’s Day with our ‘Celebrating Women in Music’ campaign. Through DJ Charts, statements, mixes and more, we aim to highlight some of the talented and incredible women in the music scene and discuss how we can shape a more gender-balanced world

@johannaknutsson is undoubtedly one of the most talented artists in the electronic music scene today. With an extensive back catalogue, Knutsson founded the vinyl only cult label Zodiac 44 with Luca Lozano and also co runs UFO Station Records with Hans Berg. 

Using these imprints and labels such as Crime City Disco, Random Island and more to release her own music while also making regular appearances at clubs such as Berghain, Knutsson is continuing to develop as an artist with an alluring and otherworldly approach to djing.  

She also plays live as a solo artist and with the group Circle Of Live and she will be releasing her debut album "Tollarp Transmissions" will be released at the end of April. For her International Women’s Day mix, Knutsson goes deep into the realms of electronica and techno.

TRACKLIST

International Women's Day: Johanna Knutsson

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlCLixqxISA

Will Oirson _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #37 pt. 1

NTS Show 53

Sounds of the Dawn NTS Radio March 2nd 2019

Playing with live instruments, samplers, drum computers, CDJ’s and more, this was one of the most special TSS episodes up to date. The Freerotation Festival regular and NTS Radio resident @aboutfacemusik brought pure bliss to the RLR studio.

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSB2yTyUC8Y

Aboutface (live) _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #37 pt. 2

Been a big fan of https://soundcloud.com/zoemcpherson work for some time now. Needless to say we are delighted to have her behind the decks for the 10th Radio yeyeh.

Radio yeyeh

Radio yeyeh #10 (18-02-2019) - Zoë McPherson

Ketama Man and a man called General K select two hours of deep tunes and flip each record to play the version(s), inna true Version Galore style.

Radical HI-FI's Version Galore 91 @ Red Light Radio 03-29-2019

Sound artist, composer, and producer since 1983(!) @michel-banabila visited the show for a dj-set, to showcase his prodigious taste in music:
1.   Field Rec intro
2.   Feldman & Brown - Durations IV.1
3.   Jan Jelinek - What You Should Know About Me
4. Oren Ambarchi and Martin Ng - Surfacing Edit
5.   New Composers from St. Petersburg - Astra
6.   New Composers from St. Petersburg - Something Is Happening With Me
7.   Erik Honoré - Procession
8.   Central African Pygmies - Bow-Harp & Vocal
9.   Michel Banabila - Melodica & Bells (Red Light Radio Remix)
10. Michel Banabila - The Lost Drone Tape 3
11.  Fennesz & Sparklehorse - Music Box Of Snakes
12.  Alva Noto - Xerox Spiegel
13.  Thurayya Qaddura - Fatakatu Lahziki (Time Wept)  - mixed -
14.  Jon Hassell - Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street

Michel Banabila _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #38 pt. 1

Cultural appropriation as its most appropriate, such as latin from Congo, Japanese exotica-pop, soul from Vietnam and African rhythms from Colombia.

Agua Rosa - Chronicles of the Cosmopolites

Radical HI-FI ragamuffin troopers Ketamaman & General K back at it with a serious deep roots selection and some digital madness.

Radical HI-FI's Version Galore 92 @ Red Light Radio 04-26-2019

Vinyl only set by MF Andrade at Red Light Radio

vid: https://www.facebook.com/mfandrade5/videos/288831292056308/?modal=admin_todo_tour

MF Andrade at Red Light Radio 25.04.'19 (vinyl only)

@mattheis blessed the show with an hour of pure bliss. Zone out...

Mattheis _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #38 pt. 2

For our 9th IOD Podcast we are happy to invite Ireen Amnes; producer, DJ and founder of the London collective Under My Feet. Her hardware and DJ sets are moody and unpredictable, often exploring different mixtures of intensity. 
We just released her new EP 'Faus Nova', you can grab it here: 
https://instrumentsofdiscipline.bandcamp.com/album/faus-nova

https://soundcloud.com/ireenamnes
https://www.facebook.com/ireenamnes/

IOD PODCAST #009 /// IREEN AMNES

Opening DJ set from Organik Festival 2019. Over the duration I revisit themes expressed across various mixes released throughout the last year. It was such an honor to play this incredible festival, and I hope to return in the future.

Featuring selected tracks by The CHI Factory, Biosphere, Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourrière, Aleksi Perälä, Drexciya, Donato Dozzy, Archivist, Ekin Fil, CV & JAB, Mind over MIDI, Ancestral Voices, ASC, Sam KDC, Alva Noto, Unjin, Cyme, Pariah, O Yuki Conjugate, KWC 92, Mark Van Hoen, Toki Fuko, Sylvia Monnier, Skee Mask, and many others.

@smokemachinetaipei

Organik 2019

Grant Aaron | Organik Festival 2019

Mixing Jazz records flawlessly. @0rds0 introduces a whole new level to the show!

RDS _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #39

The Australian @thomasgray_liamebbs toured Europe for a couple of weeks and managed to bring their highly recommended liveset to the Red Light studio... Pure bliss! - Full show here: https://soundcloud.com/willoirson/sets/analogue-attic-recordings

Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs (live) _ TSS on Red Light Radio #40 pt. 1

@analogueattic founder Alex Albrecht (@melquiadesmusic) shows off his celebrated musical vision in an hour long live takeover of the show. Highly recommended. - - Full show here: https://soundcloud.com/willoirson/sets/analogue-attic-recordings

Alex Albrecht (live) _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #40 pt. 2

@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

~

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 ~

Deep Mind Music

Sybil ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.11

@janefitz and I really do enjoy doing our B2B sessions. There's a scant amount of planning that goes in to these other than maybe an overarching idea of what we want to start and end with, and maybe a couple Discogs links for reference points mixed in. But that is literally it. We trust each other, and we're confident we can do it, and do it damn well. As always, she's on the audiences' right, I'm on the left, and we go one-for-one the entire time. No escape!!

This recording from October of 2019 at OHM in Berlin is her and I opening the party from zero and doing six hours of tension building hypnotics. Many thanks to the @patternsofperception crew for allowing us to do this, and for letting us use the Rane 2016 even though you've never touched one before.

Enjoy!!

Jane Fitz & Eric Cloutier - B2B At OHM 25.10.2019

Delicate textures and wistful atmospheres.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=710

@nadia-khan-10

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.710 Nadia Khan

Visual artist @heleenblanken doing her very first dj-set ever. So proud of her, for stepping outside of her comfort zone and learning new competences. Big tip for lovers of the deep and dark. Cover design by Rutger Paulusse & Frank Burghout.

Heleen Blanken _ TSS on Red Light Radio #45

A bedtime stories special by @vananh, who's vision is impacting the scene in a very positive way in recent years. Enjoy the incredible selection she's made for this 47th edition of the show.

Cover design by Rutger Paulusse & Frank Burghout.

Van Anh _ TSS on Red Light Radio #47

Avishai Cohen Trio - Remembering

Yo la tengo - Green arrow

Audio and visual output, by Rutger Paulusse and Will Oirson

https://thesomethingsomething.bandcamp.com

Aboutface (live) _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #37 pt. 2

The Something Something...