Grant Aaron

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter I.
PHASE I of II by Grant Aaron. All vinyl ambient set.

Mysteries of the Deep I - GRANT AARON | PHASE1

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter II.
Phase II of II by Grant Aaron. All vinyl ambient set.

Mysteries of the Deep II - GRANT AARON | PHASE2

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter III. Atmosphere by Grant Aaron.

Mysteries of the Deep III - GRANT AARON | ATMOSPHERE

Grant Aaron [ Mysteries of the Deep ] U.S.

https://soundcloud.com/mysteriesofthedeep

www.smkmachine.com

UN #61 Grant Aaron

Joining us on our next podcast is Mysteries of the Deep founder Grant Aaron, who began the New York-based project in 2011 as a podcast and event series for ambient and experimental music, hosting the likes of Neel and Patrick Russell, before expanding it to a label in 2017. In true form Grant has provided us with a mostly-ambient mix, an hour which evolves patiently and profoundly over its course. Grant covers grand territory with his selections, dealing in sparse instrumentation, sweeping drones, and pared-down percussion, weaving these elements into a moving and cohesive whole. Dive in now, or save this one to accompany you on an upcoming journey. It’s worth the wait.

More from Grant Aaron (Mysteries of the Deep):
@mysteriesofthedeep
@insideout

Sure Thing Mix 63: Grant Aaron

Beyond / Below 17 by @insideout of @mysteriesofthedeep. Received January 2019.
Photo by Candace Price

"Listening to this mix is like sailing into a horizon at dawn. It draws you towards a steady line perpetually in view, creating an experience of both distance and nearness. You realize you will never reach the line but that’s ok — it was always there, hovering within you. This is not about arriving at any kind of external destination. It’s about presence. The sun draws its pastel curtain and day imperceptibly emerges. The water is glass; you don’t even notice that you’ve been out on it for a long time. When you let yourself float, transcendence becomes attainable. There are no high crests or crashing waves here — instead only a center point that invites you to focus deeply and let go."
-- Taylor Bratches

1. Donnacha Costello - One Year Later
2. Project STS-3 - Spiralgalaxie
3. Porn Sword Tobacco - A1
4. Deep Catalogue - Glass Airport
5. Unjin - Untitled Space
6. Ekin Fil - Nocturnal Arc
7. Isorinne - Evighetsarp
8. Harold Budd - Abandoned Cities
9. Sunroom - A Soft Breeze
10. Terre Thaemlitz - Aging Core, Aging Periphery
11. Aleksi Peralä - UK74R1512020

17. Grant Aaron

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

Campfire Stories 66 (Alchemical) by Grant Aaron (Mysteries of the Deep)

~ About The Story ~

Alchemical

An organism glows
in this dark, dark room.
The light finds the cracks
in the walls

and stretches its languid arms
to enclose us, to hold us
against its vital pulse.
Tethered to a vibration

both familiar and unknown,
we are sent towards
a portal before
we are spit back into day—

kept close
until the night is done.
The heartbeat of the creature
then dissipates like cloud,

is alchemically transformed,
shifts shapes
like the shadow of fire
then finds its way

into our chests.
We carry our secrets
within them like lead,
lead that wants to be turned

into gold. It’s only a matter
of time before our chests
are unlocked.
When we open

each other up,
what’s underneath
spills out, and it is then
that we remember the pulse

never left – it only
hid itself beneath
our wrists, our lungs.
By the end we’ve lost the map

and know there’s no way back:
the person we were before
succumbs to the person
we’ve become.

- Taylor Bratches

~ Chapters ~

This set was recorded live at Return to the Source: No Way Back @ Tangent Gallery Detroit, Outer Space Room -- Sunday May 26, 2019.

Featuring selected tracks by Lingua Lustra, Thomas Ragsdale, Lua, Nathaniel Young, Organic Dial, Ekin Fil, Mind Over Midi, ASC, Sam KDC, Aleksi Perälä, Sylvia Monnier, Waveform Transmission, Black Zone Magick Chant, Toki Fuko, Vallmo, Mika Vainio, and O Yuki Conjugate.

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Patrick Hendry

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 66 (Alchemical) by Grant Aaron (Mysteries of the Deep)

Ambient world-building from Mysteries Of The Deep.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=738

@insideout

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.738 Grant Aaron

"I approached this set differently than I normally would when opening the Outer Space room at No Way Back. Given this unique moment of mass hysteria, the intention when selecting music was to create an escape beyond reality. The streaming format provided a captive portal for the audience, similar in ways to the cavernous room within Tangent Gallery, except this acted more as a direct feed into the mind. The accompanying video by Candace Price lends heavily to the cinematic nature of the set, creating a strange and textural world, like being locked within a dream."
— Grant Aaron @insideout

video: https://youtu.be/tM8I9_7ouO8

Tracklist:
1. Penelope Trappes - Gnostic State
2. Mark Van Hoen - A World Full Of People
3. Wanderwelle - Death At The Helm
4. Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC1927040
5. CV & JAB - Pungent Lake
6. FFT - Grey Area
7. Lửa - Tôi ở lại
8. Matt Christensen - The Big Decay #3
9. First Tone - Recall
10. Bamboo Music - Part 2
11. Eleh - Living Space
12. Sunggun Jang - Figure 6
13. Coppice Halifax - Deep Earth [Arjen Schat / Al-kimia-00]
14. Wanderwelle - Irrational Demons
15. Jake Muir – Like A Wreath of Mist
16. Autumn Of Communion - Rasayana
17. COH - DOMA
18. Jo Johnson - Haunted by the Legend of Better Days
19. Multicast Dynamics - Part 4
20. Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC1927060 
21. Unjin - Hui Gui
22. James A. Reeves & Candy Chang – Light the Barricades

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

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IT.podcast.s10e02: Grant Aaron at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

Read our interview with Grant Aaron here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-grant-aaron

The first time Grant Aaron (@insideout) went to an event with a chill-out room, everything clicked into place. It was the beginning of a long love affair with ambient and experimental music, with its sparsity and often beat-less nature leaving plenty of room for the imagination to take over. Grant went on to take up DJing in chill-out spaces himself before founding the influential platform Mysteries of the Deep in New York a decade ago. Initially a podcast, Mysteries has evolved over time into an event series and record label, and has established itself as one of the most revered sources for ambient music, both online and offline.

2021 is shaping up to be as busy a year as any other for Mysteries: there are releases in the works from Christina Chatfield (@anitserk), Mosam Howieson (@mos-how) and Grant’s label partner Oliver Chapoy (@ohm_sweet_ohm), plus plans to bring back the podcast after a brief hiatus. In the midst of this busy schedule, Grant took the time to showcase his cinematic, storytelling-driven style for our own podcast, with a mix recorded in a dense New York winter and inspired by the dampening of sound that comes with heavy snowfall.

Of the concept of his Patterns of Perception 80, Grant says: “The last eight or nine months have been some of the most difficult that I’ve been through in several years. A lot of it has to do with my work situation, which has been incredibly challenging and pushed me to rethink many things in my life. Then you have the pandemic, which has been this overarching theme for so many, most just trying to get through each day. But then there are these rays of light. I always try to be optimistic and hopeful about stuff, even when that can be really tough, so while this mix is very solemn, there are rays of light coming through.”

Links:
@insideout
https://ra.co/dj/grantaaron

@mysteriesofthedeep
https://mysteriesofthedeep.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mystofthedeep/

@birdsofprey

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