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For the upcoming fourth edition of Sunday School, a ritual gathering of sonic blasphemy and rave-fuelled devotion, London-based musician Jim Janco steps into the pulpit with A Wilderness Mix—a cryptic sermon through weird, experimental and underground sounds. Janco, the mind behind People Drift—a roving techno night grounded in South East London's freeform spirit—has carved out a reputation for pushing dance music into stranger dimensions. His background weaves through the raw edges of DIY punk, the pulse of '90s techno, and the deep throb of sound system culture—a combination that informs every part of this mix. In this Wilderness Mix for SSIV, Janco charts a path through live instrumentation and synthetic tension. It's both personal and expansive, bridging old favourites with new discoveries. Janco's Wilderness Mix fully captures the Sunday School ethos: dark, devotional, and defiantly off-grid, an invitation to sink beneath the flicker of strobe and sacrilege. Sunday School IV: The Hand of Satan will take place from 19 to 20 April at New River Studios in London. It will feature Beau Wanzer, Container, Nic Krog, Brood x Cycles (Alex Tucker & Nik Void), Ireen Amnes, Severin Black, and many more.

We are presenting our latest auditory journey curated by Taroug for CLOT Magazine's mixtape series. Taroug is the solo project of drummer and electronic music producer Tarek Zarroug, whose unique perspective is shaped by his roots in the suburbs of the Tunisian desert and his upbringing in Germany. Following his 2020 EP "Perpetual" and a series of notable remixes for artists such as Archive, Taroug has continued to evolve and refine his musical aesthetic. Taroug's debut album, Darts & Kites, was released on Denovali Records. Drawing inspiration from the infinite possibilities of Penrose tiling, the album explores themes of change and transformation. This fascination is reflected in the album's nine tracks and cover art design, creating a cohesive artistic vision. The album presents a captivating blend of genres and styles, resulting in a sonic landscape that is both haunting and beautiful while weaving together experimental and abstract soundscapes with oriental influences, collected field recordings, pulsating dark beats, and hypnotic vocals. Contributions from notable artists further enrich the album: Beate Wolff's cello, Benedikt Koch's saxophone, Timo Schieber's piano, and Niklas Genschel's vocals alongside Abdallah Abozekry's saz. The album artwork, a collaboration with architect and designer Marie Brosius, captures the intricate patterns and ornaments that reflect the album's themes. It emerges as a mosaic of sound, seamlessly blending the unfamiliar with the familiar. For this mixtape, the artist mentions he has combined tracks from his album Darts & Kites with unreleased material, sketches, hidden gems, and inspirations from the Tunisian experimental and electronic music scene. Tracklist 1. Dove Molotov Qaas  2. Azu Tiwaline feat. Cinna Peyghamy Magnetic Service 3. Taroug Morphagene Sketch 4. Mash Echoing 5. Taroug Jewels II  6. Azu Tiwaline Luz Azul  7. R.I.G II  8. DVSN SINE LUV  9. Taroug Cicada (work in progress) 10. Taroug Miled (work in progress)

Introducing the latest auditory journey curated by Lola de la Mata for CLOT Magazine's mixtape series. Delving into the mysterious realms of sound, the experimental composer presents a meticulously crafted selection of tracks that traverse the boundless landscapes of sonic exploration. Lola de la Mata, a London-born French/Spanish conceptual sound artist, composer, curator, and musician (violin/voice/theremin), boasts a diverse practice spanning performance art, installation, community projects, and electroacoustic composition. Her first release, the feminist concept album REMISE EN BOUCHE (Pan y Rosas Discos 2018), was followed by The Embalmer (Nonclassical 2021) and KOH—Klee—uh (SA Recordings 2022), laying the groundwork for her latest album, Oceans on Azimuth, set for release on May 8th. Currently, Lola's artistic focus centres around listening and hearing practices, tinnitus and aural diversity, and chronic illness experiences, something she focused on after experiencing a trauma episode herself. Rather than giving up music after developing severe tinnitus and vertigo, as she was told, she decided to listen with a new ear and dive deep into the world of tinnitus to cope with the isolating condition and facilitate the connection between sufferers. For Oceans on Azimuth, she reached out to A.J. Hudspeth in New York who runs the sensory cell lab where they study the cochlea. There, she found collaborators in biophysicists who offered her the unique experience of recording her tinnitus. Drawing inspiration from the intricate forms of the cochlea and the inner ear, Lola's compositions emerge as avant-garde sonic tapestries, woven from the rhythmic pulsations of heartbeats and the ethereal whispers of tinnitus, transmuted through an array of innovative instruments. Metal, glass, ceramic, and ice converge to birth otherworldly timbres, while field recordings and traditional string instruments intertwine with inventions like the Claravox theremin and an ear canal-shaped gong. On the other hand, the artist's influence also extends far beyond the realm of composition. As a multifaceted artist, curator, and musician, her tireless advocacy for inclusivity and representation reverberates through her work. From collaborations with fellow artists (musicians, dancers and queer performance artists, most recently with Eve Stainton to a PhD pursuit in tinnitus research.  For this mix, she mentions: I treated the mix as a sonic collection of some of the artists I met and who inspired me along my project journey. With the exception of AYA and Tomoko Sauvage, whom I haven't (yet?) had the chance to meet, some were chance meetings. Stephan Crasneanscki, founder of Soundwalk Collective and Maria Chávez at Rewire last year, for bagpipe player and composer Lise Barkas and I, it was mutual curiosity sitting by the Niki de Saint Phalle fountain outside IRCAM in Paris; while others such as Kepla are supporters of me and my work, and in Mira Calix's case, whom this record is dedicated to, she adopted me as her mentee for two years before she passed. The other dedication on the record is to Anneka Swann - a friend who will retain part of my soul…with May 8th, the album release date marking one year since I last held her. Just as sombreness infused with respite flows through my body and left ear. The mix is imbued with grief, reflection and recalibration. Tracklist 1. Left Ear - Lola de la Mata 2. Stereocilia - Lola de la Mata 3. Lo Becat - Lise Barkas & Lisa Käuffert  4. Mummer Love - Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith  5. ASLEEP-AWAKE-EKAWA-PEELSA, Spring 2021 - Maria Chávez 6. Sinew (Mira Calix Remix) - House of Bedlam 7. Silence - Keeley Forsyth 8. A Clearing, Spectre in Autumn - Kepla 9. Whorling - Lola de la Mata 10. Icky Dream - Valentina Magaletti & Marlene Ribero  11. Pearl Reservoir - Lola de la Mata 12. Clepsydra -Tomoko Sauvage  13. what if i should fall asleep and slipp - AYA 14. Right Ear - Lola de la Mata

The latest mixtape instalment hails from Seoul-based Korean experimental musician Suk Hong, offering a curated selection of tracks that traverse the artist's creative journey for their upcoming project. Suk Hong's musical style gracefully navigates between neo-classical and electronic influences. Fresh from their recent release on Unseelie, an NYC-based label, Suk Hong returns with a more introspective and expansive piece, My Day is Sold by the Hour, which debuted at the start of March on endonesia, an alternative art platform based between New York and Seoul. Recorded amidst the misty atmosphere of the Guro district, Korea's bustling digital industrial complex, My Day is Sold by the Hour encapsulates the essence of its surroundings through sonic storytelling. While the area is blanketed in fog, its stories are evident sonically. String instrumentations echo like distant growls, while a tapestry of field recordings collected over three years weaves a textured narrative within a granular, deconstructed framework. With electroacoustic techniques and contemporary sonic landscapes intertwined, Hong seeks to unveil the inherent extraordinariness of captured moments, carving timbres that contour the running narrative - an unforeseeable series of vignettes. In discussing what the artist has created for this mixtape, Hong reveals ongoing work on an album delving into the modernity of Korean families, including their own: It follows the approach of My Day is Sold by the Hour, but this time, I need more than one track to present the complete picture. It's a longer project, so I need to cleanse my palette occasionally for a fresh perspective. These are the songs I turn to. This collection of tracks offers a tantalising glimpse into Suk Hong's creative universe, teasing the imagination with its suggestive and mysterious allure. Tracklist: 0:00 Sean McCann - Sylvan Smoke 2:25 Nuno Canavarro - Ultramarina 3:53 Autumn Fair - The Town Clock 7:32 Vanessa Rossetto - early girl 11:45 Asha Sheshadri - Whiplash 15:21 JJ+JS - Lilypad (with Izella) 18:54 Derek Baron - he Matrix 22:47 Natasha Barrett - Impossible Moments from Venice 2 25:33 William Eggleston - Improvisation 28:16 Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Trebizond 30:12 TLF Trio - Suite X 31:52 crys cole - A Piece Of Work 35:30 SUSS & Andrew Tuttle - Rising 40:04 Loris S. Sarid - Yellow Lines 23:20 Tujiko Noriko - Rooftop 46:22 Suk Hong - My Day is Sold by the Hour

Next in our mixtape series, we welcome London-based musician and DJ Aventex (aka Alec Tullio) with a mixtape he has prepared ahead of his performance at our next event, Portals 02.. The Australian artist is a staple fixture of the London experimental and noise-punk scenes. He is involved in several bands (Keno, Skitter, Zek) where he drives the fast-paced rhythmic lines with his relentless and precise drumming. One of his main current projects, Casing, was born as a solo project during the pandemic, out of existential dread and societal dismay. The project, which has received lots of positive reception and press attention, has since evolved into a full band (with Dom Stevenson, also from Keno, and Liam Cadogan of Eros Catheter) for live performances and recordings. Patterns of Deterioration, Casing's first EP, was described as a six-song dive into depravity, nihilism, and desperation. It was praised as one of the most exciting newcomer voices in noise-punk. Over a year of live shows, Casing developed into another beast entirely and the finishing touches are being made to a new album showcasing this new fusion of sludge, grind and power electronics they now exist in as a unit. With his DJ moniker, Aventex began his quest for musical exploration and investigation around the same time as becoming a resident at Threads Radio at the station's inception. The shows can often focus in-depth on a particular genre or be a trademark, unrestrained concoction of whatever would be interesting pieced together unconventionally. He tells us his DJ sets will follow in the same vein but will have a meticulous selection to suit the specificity of the event. Ranging from all-out driving techno to challenging noise and experimental, EBM, Acid, or ambient, there is not much that isn't on the cards. In a nutshell, music for the fresh and/or fried brain. For the mix he has prepared for us, he mentions that he has relished the opportunity to gather some more of the oddball and experimental stuff that's at some further reaches of digging: playing some genres I wouldn't normally include in a mix and trying to work them where the outcome is very all over the place, which is my favourite approach. An hour techno mix can be fun and has its place, but absurd gems and challenging genre pairings are where it's at, in my opinion. Enjoy!" Tracklist: Omen - Not Suitable For Work Vanessa Bedoret - Transition Trystero - La Lingua Rosso (Original) Organizatsiya - Die Idee Der Toleranz Jimmy Smack - Death Is Certain Dark Star - Trip Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Why're You Talking About Henry Hektik - Hong Kong Wedding Night De-Bons-en-Pierre - Le Râle du Mâle Alpha Geier Aus Stahl - Unterland Further Reductions - Aural Equivalent Roly - My Century Further Reductions - Central System Job Sifre - Zeno Dicho KΣITO - Magnet Eric Toornend - Scum Grief Egg Meat - Georgel Bancal - Entresol Bataille - Echo Drift Part 1 Lord Crucifix - Sacrificial Altar PÖ - Fuck Jungle Orphx - Eating The Young Tot Onyx - Propaganda Machine Pontiac Streator - Angelus Spit (feat. Mister Water Wet)

The next mixtape is by Greek/UK-based artist Viki Steiri, who has recently released her debut album on our beloved Alien Jams. The mix is a recollection of sounds that inspired her for her album production. 'Balm' is a powerful album anchored by ritualistic, monolithic cello layers. Steiri combines eerie soundscapes with electronic dance rhythms, synth-tinged folk songs from Istanbul, and reworked cello and santur improvisations. The album encapsulates a hauntingly poignant journey through melancholic soundscapes punctuated by electronic rhythms. Recorded intermittently between Athens and London over six years from 2017 to 2023, the collection of tracks serves as a deeply personal documentation of the artist's experiences and emotions. Steiri's compositions for this album navigate themes of rootlessness, loss, and identity changes, reflecting the tumultuous nature of existence. However, amidst all, there is a profound exploration of humanness, delving into the realms of imagination and introspection. Steiri mentions she had a lot of fun making this mixtape and while preparing it, it made her realize what her inspirations for the album had been: "I hadn't given it too much thought before. This is music that has informed the album, either directly or indirectly, plus a couple of my own tracks. There's no particular cohesion, but to me, these are all musicians who have transcended conditioning, and I feel their music is very free and individual." With this mixtape selection as well as through her music, Steiri uncovers moments of beauty and intensity while offering listeners a transformative and immersive sonic experience. Tracklist: 0:00-1:34 - Rap Street Palestine – Otsha 1:35-4:22 - Tigran Mansuryan – Extracts from ‘The colour of the pomegranates' soundtrack 4:13-8:25 - Viki Steiri - Procession 8:22-11:55 - Kesarbai Kerkar - Lalat -Ghatan Lagi Rain 11:55-14:31 – Safiye Ayla – Aksaray'dan geçer iken 14:31-17:43 - Masahiro Ikumi - ‘Virtual Mima' [Voice version]- (‘Perfect Blue' soundtrack) 17:41-21:05 - Chrisman - Lupupu 21:06-22:51 - Mica Levi - Death 22:50-29:41 - Viki Steiri - Brink 29:31-32:54 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Composition 0919 32:55-37:18 - Tzusing - Gait 37:18-43:33 - Ectopia - Sauna 43:27-46:46 - Avel Mismo - Habibi 46:46-49:36 – Senyawa - Tanggalkan Di Dunia (Undo The World) 49:09-53:12 - Iannis Xenakis – Charisma (for clarinet and cello) 53:13-60:34 - Viki Steiri- Balm

Next on our mixtape series is Bersarin Quartett, the solo project of German electronic musician Thomas Bücker, with a delicate selection ranging from film scores, to gaming, and ambient tracks. Working within the realms of modern classical and ambient music, Bücker has garnered acclaim for his contributions as Bersarin Quartett (which he has been running for over 15 years), notably through his publications with Denovali Records. Bersarin Quartett's sonic landscapes are distinguished by a fusion of atmospheric textures, electronic nuances, and classical instrumentation, crafting a singular and emotive auditory journey. Bücker's oeuvre has earned widespread praise for its unique stylistic approach, captivating both ambient and experimental music audiences alike. A heavy sense of melancholy runs through the Bersarin Quartett sonic core, which Bücker confirms is indeed a big part of the project. The Quartett's most recent release, Systeme, also released on Denovali, marks its fifth release. It is described as probably the artist's most intimate and focused sonic narrative.  In this album, melancholy mixed with a sense of distorted alienation or strangeness is described as something that, while it still sounds popularly symphonic here and there, many soundscapes have an observing, almost unmasking effect. Microtonal shifts, polyrhythmic structures, tempo fluctuations, and sound aesthetics torn out of context create a fragile, unpredictable foundation. The mix he has prepared for us, he mentions, combines many film scores, gaming, and ambient tracks that really impressed and inspired him: First, I sorted the individual tracks by key so they could be mixed together appropriately. Here and there, this even creates completely new soundscapes beyond the original. To present my current album a little more closely, I have interwoven four new Bersarin Quartett tracks! Tracklist: 00:00 Ambience (Taken from "Elden Ring") 00:21 Michael Giacchino · Mayoral Ducting (Taken from "The Batman") 01:08 Spoken Words (Taken from "Women Talking") 02:09 Volker Bertelmann · No End (Taken from "All Quiet On The Western Front") 04:54 Imprints · Blood Moon 08:38 Bersarin Quartett · Firmamente 11:58 Rob Simonson · Rigging (Taken from "The Whale") 13:30 Lusine · Faceless 15:50 Bersarin Quartett · Gespenster 18:27 Loscil & Lawrence English · Grey 22:04 Rob Simonsen · Life Boat (Taken from "The Whale") 23:47 Bersarin Quartett · Für und Wider 26:17 Alix Perez & Headland · Mirage, Pt. II 29:03 Leif · Pteridium (Alternate Version) 30:53 Alva Noto · Sehnsucht 36:37 Hildur Guðnadóttir · Speak Up + Leaving (Taken from "Women Talking") 38:30 Tim Hecker · The Arrest (Taken from "Infinity Pool") 39:59 Aleph · Gradient 43:12 Bersarin Quartett · Illusionen 46:15 Hania Rani · In Between 48:02 Jeremy Soule · Kyne's Peace (Taken from "Skyrim") 50:40 KMRU · Guise 54:00 SSIEGE · Veyl 56:24 Louis Cole · Let It Happen 59:23 Michael Giacchina · Mayoral Ducting (Taken from "The Batman")

We kick off the year with a mixtape from Six Missing, the ambient music project from Austin-based TJ Dumser, with which he wants to take us on a journey with pieces that transcend the illusion of time - transporting you into a timeless, formless, galactic-jell-o. The artist, who is also a sound designer and composer, began releasing music under the name Six Missing in 2017, a moniker that he took after experiencing a supernatural experience while recording in a studio near the site of the Revolutionary War's Battle of Brandywine, in Pennsylvania, in which six participants remain unaccounted for. For Dumser, Six Missing is a way of experiencing music that is meant for inner journeying, calming sensations, and finding peace. The project started by experimenting with ambient and modular systems, and several albums down the line, Six Missing released his latest album in December last year. Titled Here For Now, the album deals with themes around being in the present moment - especially during uncertain times. For TJ, this was during a time of displacement for him and his wife as a way to cope with the uncertainty. Here For Now is comprised of what Dumser refers to as “musical compost” — a concept that isn't nearly as derogatorily gesturing towards the material as it sounds. “It's a bunch of work that I'd previously done that I'd set out to release in its form, but something didn't feel totally right. For the mixtape he has prepared for us, Dumser says that he wanted to find tracks that were on the longer side, with a quiet confidence in their sparseness or even the guts to make production decisions that he admires. For him, Music algorithms these days are giving preference to shorter, more consumable, bite-sized pieces of music, and it makes complete sense to me. However, as a listener, he wants to really spend some *time* with an artist and allow myself to sink into their work.

The last instalment of the year arrives from the hands of Furtherset, the musical project of artist and musician Tommaso Pandolfi, with a mix especially suited for the melancholic nights of December. With Furtherset, the artist has defined his personal sound, mainly composed of layers of timbre-modulated sounds and dense rhythmic geometric passages converging towards a single harmonic plane. His music touches on ambient, modern classical and rave, building on his approach to composition with shifting modulations, synthetic clusters and sampling alongside rhythmic and embracing harmonies. Furthersetmentions that the project, which began in 2011, is envisaged as formal research that follows a path towards saturation and layering but is always capable of generating voids in which the listener can take their place and fill them according to their own focus. Furtherset has released several EPs and two albums with the record label OUS, with whom he's signed with. His most recent one, The Infinite Hour, released in October, puts together all the artist's compositional interests over the years. Six compositions resemble the laboured breathing of one who mourns a disappearance and fears oblivion. The album was created between 2020 and 2022, in a slow process of writing and continuous refinement parallel to the previous EP, Auras. The compositions found their final form during the mixing process carried out together with Bienoise. They were later named based on references to authors who influenced and are dear to Furtherset: Amelia Rosselli, Vladimir Chlebnikov, Hubert Damisch, Dante Alighieri. Furtherset mentions that when preparing mixes, he tries to create listening environments with moments of extreme stillness or sudden changes, but always having the latter have their own general organicity: I also fixate on certain artists, such as Simon Fisher Turner, whom I now propose in every mix. In this case, I added Michèle Bokanowski to my fixations. I found pleasant similarities between Moritz Von Oswald's latest work and Ligeti's. Everything then begins and ends with two voices: with Patti Smith's words and Glenn Gould's whispers over Bach. I look for emotion in the music I listen to. Tracklist: Patti Smith & Kevin Shields - The Coral Sea, pt. 1 Kevin Shields & Brian Eno - Only Once Away My Son Michèle Bokanowski - Tabou Moritz Von Oswald - Luminoso György Ligeti - Clocks & Clouds Michèle Bokanowski - Vers Syracuse Michèle Bokanowski - L'indomptable Marta De Pascalis - Harmonices Infinity Brunhild Ferrari & Jim O'Rourke - Tranquille Impatiences Michèle Bokanowski - Pour Un Pianiste Francis Dhomont - Chambre d'enfants Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Omae Wa Nan No Hana Simon Fisher Turner - The Invisible Frame, a film by Cynthia Beatt Lucy Railton - Rib Cage Jules Reidy - Trances III Ben Vida, Nina Dante & Yarn Wire - Who's Haunting Who Here Luc Ferrari - Cycle Des Souvenirs II Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello, BWV 974- II. Adagio (Glenn Gould)

The next mixtape instalment is by experimental musician Colin Andrew Sheffield. Born in El Paso and now based in Austin, Sheffield took his passion from being a self-taught drummer in Texas to a total transition to electronic music. For this mix, he's compiled a captivating selection of experimental electronic music. Since the mid-90s, Sheffield's work has consistently focused on the use of samples: deconstructed loops of hidden melodies and textures found in his collection of physical media. Through the re-contextualization of other commercially available recordings, like an alchemist of audio collage, he aims to distil the essential qualities of these works and convert them into new recordings. Sheffield's music is full of atmospheric soundscapes, which shift and unfold, offering subtle waves and suspended stillness. From earlier work like First Thus (2005) to the most recent Images (2023), Sheffield's solo projects showcase his ability to explore diverse sonic ranges. One of our favourite records this year, Images, was entirely constructed from heavily edited and manipulated samples from jazz records and represents a true distillation of Sheffield's interests as both a composer and an obsessive listener. In 1998, Sheffield founded the Elevator Bath recording label, which has been releasing experimental works from a variety of artists from the US and abroad, featuring names such as Merzbow, Francisco López, Susane Drone, and himself. The mixtape he's prepared for us, he says, was a lot of fun to compile. I limited myself to selections that are all quite recent or at least no more than a few years old. I tried to represent my tastes in various forms of experimental music and throw in a liberal dose of work from some good friends. There are a couple of brand new tracks in there from forthcoming releases too, so it's a bit of a taster of things to come. Hopefully, it flows well enough and has something for just about everyone. Thanks for giving me the impetus to create this mix! Tracklist: Andrew Anderson + Colin Andrew Sheffield Clarioned - Elegies Valerio Tricoli Mimosa - Hostilis Concepción Huerta - Trepidation Adam Pacione - Pos. Neg. Jana Winderen - The Art of Listening: Under Water Roméo Poirier - Les grandes lignes Matt Shoemaker - Pasar Gede Marta Zapparoli - The resonant sky of Krems Merzbow - Hat 1046 Susana López - Drones to Zazeela Richard Ramirez - Protective Custody 2 Telesurgient - Lifeline Sequences - Illuminated and Translucent TIBSLC - Hypertranslucent (2) Werner Dafeldecker - Neural Pendant - Dream Song Of The Woman Electric Capablanca - Capablanca Spin Felicity Mangan - Digging The Pedospheric Vibes III Jim Haynes - Variant, number four Colin Andrew Sheffield - Embers Kate Rissiek - Floating In Darkness Jake Muir - Cauldron Koray Kantarcıoğlu - Agat 01 Rick Reed - Leave a Light on for Tony

Our new mixtape comes from Copenhagen-based experimental R'n'B artist Karen Juhl. Her influences span from the likes of Laurie Anderson and Holly Herndon to Solange. Juhl is interested in exploring different approaches to songwriting in the 21st century, her style ranging from experimental electronics and contemplative poetry to antithetical rap. Her debut album Mother Tongue, released on the 22nd of September, is a dynamic manifestation of her self-written poems and diary entries. The album explores ideas of fragility within a hyper-globalised world, shifting in dynamics from intensely noisy and emotive to calm and reflective. When explaining her process of making the album, Juhl stated that ‘I brought diary notes and prose poems with me into the studio and worked on vocals in a stream-of-consciousness kind of way.' The album was released on the London-based art platform Inklingroom and worked on with fellow collaborator Johan Feierskov. Using mainly YouTube samples, MIDI instruments and vocals, the album feels incredibly fresh and immersive. The dysphoric and euphoric elements that occur between the music and the voice reflect the contrast and overlap in topics; from personal in relation to politics and gender in relation to time, the songs travel between childhood scenes, psychiatric wards and internet rooms. Alongside the album, an artbook is also set to be released in collaboration with graphic designer Paw Poulsen, that displays digital collages based on Juhl's lyrics for the album. The artbook aims to create an external layer to the album outside of the digital realm, seeking a space of intertwining narratives. The mixtape that Karen Juhl has created for us, entitled Threads, is described by herself as ‘a mix of moods, ideas, sounds, songs, and states. It's full of life, cuz it unfolds in the same way life does, forward and through unforeseen terrains. I wanted to honour sounds on the verge of becoming. My compositions "Face Wash" and "Home" were composed and recorded in this somewhat improvised manner. I delved further into my personal playlists, but I also asked my two close colleagues and friends Laust and Johan to share some of their magical memos with me.' Juhl presents her mixtape as ‘a gentle framework that holds something beautifully frayed—loose threads that just barely come together to form a picture.' Tracklist: Dienne – Mio Signore Hoy La – Ecotone Laust Moltesen – Meditation #1 (memo) Maria BC – The Only Thing Karen Juhl – Face Wash TLF Trio – Trio A Jonas Albrecht – LEIB Laust Moltesen – Meditation #2 (memo) Johan Feierskov – zoom (memo) Karen Juhl – Home Jeph Vanger – CA Study Marina Herlop – miu Johan Feierskov – into (memo) Valeria Miracapillo – Fiction Crush String Collective – Intermezzo II (Fetus) ill – íra ii Laust Moltesen – Meditation #3 (memo) Johan Feierskov – Chalk (unreleased) Pankisi ensemble - Asete ghame Abdullah Miniawy X HVAD – Notice a tiny scratch for the blue behind

We are presenting a new mix that will transport you into the enchanting realm of the early autumn months. This special mixtape is curated by VAST HABITAT, a recently established record label, and it showcases a curated selection of artists and music from their freshly minted catalogue, as well as tunes that have inspired and resonated with them. Vast habitat founders are Daniel Lea and Michael Deragon, aka Heliochrysum (Bedroom Community Records), which we have featured in the past. The project grew out of the artists's desire to create an environment where music, design and art can coalesce. A good demonstration of this is their crafted selection of music and a superb visual approach. The label launched with the release of two new solo albums — Lea's 'ENTHEOGEN' and Deragon's 'DAWN', and a compilation, VHS 001, which is the first in a series of engaging sonic conversations with artists working across electronic music, modern composition, and ambient. The compilation includes a remix by Heliochrysum from Pinkcourtesyphone, another of this house's favourites. For this mixtape, they share they have included things they were listening to while making their records, film scores they love, deep sound design elements, some ambient/electronic music, a few of the works from the VAST HABITAT catalogue and other works that we love listening to or moved us along the way. "As well as being an electronic-focused label, a lot of VAST HABITAT uses real instrumentation, working with amazing players like Yair Elazar Glotman, Bethan Kellough and Jamie McCarthy. So it's nice to hear the instrumentation of Six Organs of Admittance; and Michael and I are huge fans of the 'Crash' Soundtrack from David Cronenberg scored by Howard Shore, which is all guitars very Glen Branca inspired." Tracklist: 1. Valerio Tricoli-Hic Labor Ille Domus Et Inextricabilis 2. Low- Quorum 3. Elliot Goldenhaul-Heat 4. Daniel Lea-Tactile Memory Is Still In His Left Palm 5. Abgail Mead-Leonard 6. Michael Deragon-When Rooms Were Full of Smoke 7. Colin Stetson- West of Arkham 8. Yair Elazar Glotman and Heliochrysum-Abandoned Image 9. Hildur Guonadottir and Sam Slater-Irreversible 10. Howard Shore-Crash 11. Six Orgrans of Admittance-Position of Cherry Blossom Spirits 12. Eric Truffaz and Murcof-Origin of the World 13. New Corroded-Chromosphere 14. E-Saggilia-9 Digest 15. Brian Eno-Signals 16. William Basinski-Meloncholia I

This week's mixtape comes from the multidisciplinary music/art project Ghost Tracks. They are a wife/husband team, and Sylvia Girstmair and David Lopez, originally from Austria and Spain but came together in East London. This happy home life hasn't led them to a place of musical complacency for the duo, though, who also runs the experimental music label Cluster Node. Drawing upon their shared experiences in the art and music scenes, throughout the years, they have cultivated a passion for creating cinematic narratives through their music and visuals. With acoustic and electronic instrumentation, soiled traces of noise and mixed modes of experimentation, their songs present a peculiar intimacy and effortlessness. Ghost tracks sit between a dark lull and eerie, phantasmagoric soundscapes, aiming to create sci-fi soundtracks that evoke vivid and immersive imagery of futuristic dreams and imaginary worlds. They are fresh from a triumphant opening of CLOT and Cluster Node's PORTALs showcase and presenting here a mix of their own tracks and works in progress alongside artists who inspire them: we are most excited about mixing tracks from artists that we really like and think convey a similar emotion. We tried to keep it cohesive and stick to the 'Fragments of Light' theme. Tracklist: Ghost Tracks - Through Time and Space (unreleased) Ghost Tracks - The Zone (unreleased) Ghost Tracks - Stillness Astrid Sonne - Ephemeral IV (Escho) Ana Roxanne - It's a Rainy Day on the Cosmic Shore (Leaving Records) Feeler - Highest Heaven (Cluster Node) Ghost Tracks - Vases and Gold Ornaments (Cluster Node) James K - Soft Key (Cluster Node) Ghost Tracks - 14 (unreleased) Spivak - i b lyin (Cluster Node) An Trinse - Duairc Aontais (Cluster Node) Ghost Tracks - The Morning Veil (unreleased) Ryuichi Sakamoto - Solari (Commmons) Ghost Tracks - Be with me (Cluster Node) Ghost Tracks - Void Celestial - Endless (Ecstatic Recordings) LA Timpa - Brave (forsake) (O___o) Ghost Tracks - Ice One (Cluster Node) Dania - Lament (Somewhere Press) Ghost Tracks - Don't Move (Cluster Node) Edward Artemiev - Solaris Soundtrack Part IX (Song Cycle Records)

For our next mixtape instalment, we welcome Lý Trang, a musician-sound artist who will unveil a haunting musical storytelling piece arranged as an abstract dialogue around time travelling. Born and raised in the mountains of Northeast Vietnam, Trang's experiments with hollow rhythms follow folkloric instrumental phrases, and the music buzzes widescreen magic. Moving to Vietnam's capital Hanoi for school, she connected with the local underground scene, joining Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective for a short period before focusing more on her work as a multimedia artist. In 2018 she self-released ‘Snail Skeleton', an album that hints at her sonic interests and various live-scoring commissions, soundtracks and installation works. Recently she released her second album, 'Syenite', grounded in a sense of alienation, first when she moved to Hanoi for school and later when she relocated to Moscow just a few months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the Russian capital, her separation from home cracked open a deep yearning that swallowed up the erupting geopolitical uncertainty and disillusion, crystallizing into the album's 10 electro-acoustic tracks. Last year she also released her debut film 'Sisyphus's Cat' a conceptually complimentary short that charted the search for a lost pet in a parallel universe, and her music follows a similar trajectory, interpreting interlocking themes sonically instead of visually. The mix she has prepared for us, she says, "Is a musical-storytelling piece arranged as an abstract dialogue between the captain of a time machine and a girl who wants to be transferred to the future. The conversation is sometimes highlighted and sometimes escaped into layers of music, untangled by the thrill of technology in its content and way of producing sounds. The "captain" voice was amped through a vocoder, which dragged my voice down to a voice of a non-human character. In this sense, I tried to constantly call to mind human scales of time, science, presence and sustaining—even if only in their defamiliarizing absence. And I lean into the aesthetics of alienation, trying to imagine the world of immortal and forever-sustaining entities in the future and questioning that idea". Tracklist: Tracklist here: Live Performance “Cosmic Bodies" and phosphenes (from “Syenite") Magnetic iceberg sand congee (from “Syenite") Live Performance “Golden Bridge" sáo cọc ngang ao under the Arbat metro station (from “Syenite) (All tracks written and performed by Lý Trang)

Concluding our summer season, we invite you to descend into the audio abyss sculpted by the enigmatic Gosha Savage, the solo project of Małgorzata Sawicz, a visual and electronic artist hailing from Poland. Savage has prepared a very personal mix, which she also defines as one of her most experimental mixes, an audacious plunge into a sonic chasm. Gosha Savage's musical sojourn is an electrifying collision of the intensely personal and the unapologetically experimental. Imbued with the mystique of dreams and the ethereal allure of fairies, her sonic odyssey is a rollercoaster of emotions—plunging from the abyss of sadness to the heights of nostalgia. At the core of Gosha Savage's sonic landscape lies her fascination with real-time FM synthesis, an art of manipulating frequencies and exploring different timbral possibilities of sounds. This, coupled with her penchant for crafting irregular drum patterns, creates a sonic tapestry that defies conventional genre boundaries. Her musical explorations seamlessly meld elements of post-club aesthetics with the raw intensity of noise while drawing from a diverse array of genres, including trance, ambient, and dungeon synth. Gosha Savage is currently crafting a new EP and tirelessly honing her live act, promising exciting developments for her ever-growing fanbase. We are presenting this mixtape in light of Gosha Savage's live show last June at the Polish Up to Date Festival. The mix is the most experimental and one of her most personal mixes so far. She describes it as a reflection of her Gothic sensibilities and her penchant for constructing and deconstructing emotions through her art. Furthermore, she says, I included incredible tracks from artists I adore. I'm glad I can share this with you and perhaps gain new listeners for them. Tracklist: Cimarrón - Amigxs Montenegro - Suceso de Colisión Seraphim - Bubbles Move No One Thoom - Sound of a Heavy Stone Abssys - SPACE MANTRA (KÖPEK EDIT) Dj Würm - Enchantment ʒLVʒNLIʒD - serial lover Sarahsson - Lime Time Ange Halliwell — My Secret Grief Chino Amobi - LAW II (DEMOLITION) DGNMP - Sanctuary Anthony1 - Arreglo Floral PENELOPES FIANCE - NOT DEAD YET SMILE ft Lag Switch, Tati au Miel, Blood of Aza - münki Hajj - Drag Me Into The Void (Euphoria's Death Edit) KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence Pj Harvey - On Battleship Hill

The next mixtape comes from Alifiyah Imani, an interdisciplinary arts & media practitioner and writer. Imani combines multimedia arts and design, focusing on sound, curatorial research and practice. She enquires into our relationship with space, the workings of our cultures and auditory subcultures. Imani told us that an important aspect of Indian classical music training is practising with the tanpura, a full-bodied stringed instrument that creates a repetitive drone. While practising and tuning the tanpura, the daily ritual of attuning myself to the drone as a sonic companion and as a practice of embodied listening and improvising has been significant for me to understand the structure of sound itself. She said. Last June Imani premiered at Distant Gallery her online solo show Your Listening is a Paracosm, a show that shifts perceptual perspectives through sound and ritual, drawings and prompts. Your Listening is a Paracosm unfolds as an experiment for the web and permeates through radio transmissions. We read in the statement.  Taking this show as an inspiration Alifiyah Imani has prepared a mixtape for us that intends to explore the sound pieces from the exhibition as an extended listening or long-form mix. Imani spent much of this time in her home studio layering field recordings, experimenting with the drone sound of the Tanpura, and improvising with other instruments like the Strumok and overtone flute: It's about different kinds of attention processes, tuning, and studying forms derived from sound. While drone-based and contemplative, it moves between textures, harmony, polyphony of colours, and moments that emerge in nature and improvised music.

The next mixtape comes from Heqc (an alias of Ben Lukas Boysen), an electronic music composer, producer and sound designer based in Berlin, with a selection of tracks that give a insight into some of his compositional interests. Boysen has classic training, being the son of opera singer Deirdre Boysen with the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation in shaping his practice. With his moniker Hecq, he's released several albums since 2003, exploring a wide range of styles from ambient to breakcore and releasing mostly on Hymen records. Under his own name, the artist has also released a series of productions on labels such as erased tapes and ad noiseam.  His latest release as Hecq this year after a break since 2017, Form, released on Mesh, Max Cooper's record label, is defined as an echoic take on rave and electronica and a modern shapeshifting of styles, showing the artist's poly-faceted compositional ranges. Pulsating and syncopated synth lines built up with minimal ambient melodies, dub bases, and breaks fill the album with a breathable summery feel.  His own productions aside, Boysen has led numerous workshops on composition and sound aesthetics, as well as creating custom sound designs for films, commercials, video games and installations.  The mix he has prepared for us is mainly based on pieces that play with overlaying frequencies and oscillations, focusing on the fabric of music without going overboard compositionally. Boysen shares that these pieces are always a good reminder and exercise in exploring and understanding the nature of sounds around us (primarily while working with electronic instruments)and appreciating the beauty of simplicity. Tracklist: 01 Ben Lukas Boysen & Martyn Heyne - Orgeltod 02 Start Greiner - Final Sleep (Hecq Remix) 03 Set Fire To Flames - Kill Fatigue Frequencies 04 Alvin Lucier - I'm Sitting In A Room 05 Illusions Of Safety - P.O.E. 06 Jean-Claude Risset - Mutations 07 Jakob Ullmann - Solo III Für Orgel 1992 _ 1993; 2012 (Excerpt) 08 M U H D - Dalhem 09 Walter Fähndrich - Viola 1 (Excerpt) 10 Max Loderbauer - Au 11 NSI - 16 12 Hecq - Mare Nostrum, Part 2 13 Christine Ödlund - Lightning & Voices 14 Stephen Vitiello - Marfa Mix 15 Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer - Rensenada 16 Frank Bretschneider  - Polaris (Hecq Remix)

The next mixtape instalment comes from American DJ and producer PTHGN, who has prepared a selection to give our audiences a glimpse into what he might want to hear on a night out. PTHGN roots in Chicago's music scene have shaped his unique sound that blends electro with influences from techno to grime and everything in between. The artist started out as a visual arts student in Chicago and was initially drawn to music production after exposure to the city's vibrant House, Techno and Footwork scenes. PTHGN's original work was more focused on the interplay between sight/visuals and sound, but his passion for a wide range of music genres, from electro to jazz and grime, led him to favour music creation and production. Emphasizing sound design innovation and musicality, PTHGN's current approach utilizes hardware and modular synths for production and performance, solidifying his status as an emerging artist to watch. PTHGN's Binary Operation EP perfectly captures this with its pulsating drum breaks, dreamy pads, with urban vocal snippets. With a muscley but very suggestive sound, it's Detroit electro with a fresh, dynamic twist. The EP was very recently released in Fides, a Berlin-based record label founded by Tresor Resident Z.I.P.P.O. in 2015. The label releases music influenced by electro, techno, and IDM genres. For the mixtape he has prepared for us, PTHGN adds that he tried to include as much as he could as far as influences go, within reason: I wanted to showcase something way outside the sounds of my EP to give a glimpse into what I might want to hear on a night out and also shine a light on some artists from past and present whose sounds keep me motivated. Tracklist: Final Cut - Open Your Eyes Chatterbox - Hibernation Machino - Nada Es Real Shallowed - Electric Swell T_ERROR - Hard War Exterminador - Pericos Machino - El Diablo Sabe Norwell - Secret Transmission(Solid Blake Remix) DJ Nepali - Vanity of your ego Dez Williams - Carkrash Vikdim Datawave - Concretion Assembler Code - BIOS Anthony Rother - Destroy Him My Robots Unhuman - Unterstützung

Our new mixtape comes from London experimental musician and producer Kinn, with a mix of sound, youtube rips, film audio, raw sound design and unreleased music from the artist himself, an intimate recollection to take us into the artist's expansive creative universe. Kinn has emerged in recent years with a bleakly psychedelic take on post-rock shifting between traditional band setups and move avante-garde studio works. A rotating cast of collaborators, including Arthur Leadbetter, Maxwell Sterling and Alexander Tucker, bolsters this. Recently they have collaborated with artists Tai Shani and Mark Leckey. Their current offering, ‘Dogtooth', coming out on 7th July 2023, carries off down this path with spoken word, string shards and clouds of distortion, giving away to more traditional song form. The production was all rendered over a 2-year period in precise, spacious, sonic detail, bringing to mind a mood somewhere between Mogwai and The Haxan Cloak or The Body. The album puts a profound and disenchanted humanistic stance at the centre of the stage. As we read, Dogtooth reflects on an array of individual, global and digital, often seemingly esoteric, shared experiences. Anger, conflict, beauty and grandeur, all summarised as part and parcel of wheezing and spluttering modern metropolitan world, looking to peel away the negative smog of contemporary living, the interfering noise which bombards our ever more digital lives, searching for meaning, comfort and ways of goofing off amidst these oppressive forces, sirens and snake oil salesmen everywhere, an all-encompassing true and truly messy beauty. The mix Kinn has prepared for us is built around some of his compositional approaches to long-form and non-linear narrative, spending a lot of time playing around with the arrangement and dynamics of the mix, how one thing can suggest, merge and form a narrative-only by preceding another track completely disassociated from each other in time, aesthetic, even meaning, or how a motif placed at the end can bend time and pull you back to something you heard at the beginning. This never ceases to interest me, how loose "reality" can be, how easily we can be suggested. It can easily be smashed apart and put back together in a different way, a wrangling of ambiguity. As I started to work on this mix, to me, a clear narrative unfurled, I'm keeping this ambiguous from the listeners so that they can invest their imagination in it, that's one of the beautiful things about music. It is meaningless without you to listen to it." Tracklist: Barry Adamson + Pan Sonic + The Hafler Trio - The Hymn Of The 7th Illusion (edit) K.C. Milian - Iconic Building Of The Past Simon Fisher Turner - Excerpts from Derek Jarman's The Garden (1990) Stef Kett - Killing Flaw Laboratorio Palestro - 2 Gil Scott Heron - NY is Killing Me (Chris Cunningham Remix) Kinn - Untitled (excerpt from Pace Gallery performance, 2022) Kinn - ??? Kinn - Dogtooth The Microphones - day one Sonic Youth - JC Godspeed You Black Emperor! - $13.13 EdGein2 - ??? Simon Fisher Turner - Excerpts from Derek Jarman's The Garden (1990) Portishead - Machine Gun L4b - Me4nwhile in the L4b Set Fire To Flames - Barn Levitate K. Leimer - Malaise Kinn - ??? Amateur Childbirth - All Doomed

Next mixtape comes from ZONDERWERK, who are a duo consisting of Linde Carrijn and Dijf Sanders. The artists started this project during the pandemic to explore their relationship as creative partners. Carrijn has a background in acting but recently has been more focused on composing and performing original scores for theatre, while Sanders is also a composer (and music gear enthusiast), with his work drawn from a wide array of non-Western music. The duo explain that their artistic name means ‘'without work', but it also comes from ‘bijzonder werk', where bijzonder is particular and unique. Both artists like to work with images/paintings that are bijzondere werken', odd works, special and weird. The fact of working with images adds a particular approach to their creative process. As they mention, adding music and sound design to the work of art creates a new dimension and amplifies the beholder's experience. It's an extra layer, an alternative storyline outside the frame ZONDERWERK have recently released their debut album babel on the Ghent-based tape record label Dauw (which similarly has a central visual/graphic aspect to their outputs and ethos). The album materialises the duo's conceptualisation for this project; babel is an exercise in translating images into sound. It was initially created for the eponymous theatre piece by architect and artist Steve Salembier. One of the biggest inspirations for the album was Michael Woolf's photographs, which in turn also served as the basis for the original theatre piece. The use of grey and repetition is translated into looped harmonies and fine-grained drones that progressively open up like blooming ice flowers. Using city-reminiscent musical elements, such as bells and metals, to create synthy lines, tape loops, and droney. There are details of fourth-world sounds that delicately populate the different tracks; small oases where to breathe away the man-made concrete jungle that is both inhospitable and endlessly awe-inducing. The mixtape they have prepared for us is full of compositions they are inspired by: Some we love because of the choice of the gear, some of them we love because of the emotionality, some of them we love because of the memory of a moment we listened to it together. Tracklist: Vuurfeest - ZONDERWERK Psalm - Yves Tumor Jynweythek - Aphex Twin known(1) - Autechre Addio - Dienne More Islands - Clark, Budapest Art Orchestra, Peter Pejtsik Lindbergh - schntzl Falaise - Floating Points Powerspot - Jon Hassel Goodbye Pluto- Kohn (clouds) Kristalstoelen - ZONDERWERK Oh Baby - Micachu & The Shapes Wintersong - Elisabeth Klinck Hana - Asa-Chang & Junray

Mixtape 58 The new mixtape instalment comes from Ale Hop(aka Alejandra Cardenas) and Laura Robles. Cárdenas is a Berlin-based artist, researcher, and experimental instrumentalist from Lima, Peru. Earlier this year, together with Laura Robles (a percussionist and bassist formed from a very young age in the rich Afro-Peruvian and Cuban musical traditions and who also grew up in Lima), they released one of the most exciting albums of the year so far, Agua dulce (Buh Records, 2023). This mix takes on and reflects on the artists' inspiration for and during the Agua Dulce album production. The album is titled after the most popular beach in Lima, agua dulce, near where both artists lived during their childhood, houses apart, without ever meeting one another. Years later, the pair met and joined forces, with Robles on a self-built electric cajón and Cárdenas on electric guitar and electronics. With this album, both artists explore rhythmical structures that form the backbone of the complex Afro-Peruvian music and dance traditions – a broad term used for the various musical developments that occurred in the last two centuries at the shores of the Peruvian Pacific. The cajón originated in coastal Peru as a percussion instrument that the black slaves created from wooden fruit boxes when foot drums were banned at the end of the Spanish colonial era in the 19th century. And it was form Perú that the cajón was posterioly introduced into flamenco. From its birth, the cajón was a symbol of resistance, experimentation and transformation. Robles and Cárdenas strived to maintain the instrument's spirit and qualities by pushing the boundaries of its sound into the future. The duo's mission isn't merely capturing something sonically futuristic but is primarily concerned with shaking off the dust: These rhythms have become ossified nowadays, heard in Peruvian folklore shows and on the ‘global music' circuit, but our desire is to experiment and do something more radical with them, connecting to the instruments more radical past, comments Cárdenas. At the same time, this type of percussive instruments infuse the music with a very special physicality and spirituality; the percussion sounds entuned with our heartbeats. Both Robles and Cárdenas chatted to us about the meaning and influence of the cajón on their work. Finally, the mix they have put together for us is a rare combination of very personal influences from each of them, with influences that informed the project and songs they find interesting from Peru. Tracklist: Ale Hop & Laura Robles - Agua Dulce Nicomedes Santa Cruz - Aquí Está la Marinera/Mamita/Mi Señorita Pochi Marambio y Tierra Sur - Canto a los Santos Huayno Tradicional Prenda Querida con Andrés "Chimango" Lares Andrés Soto - Quisiera Ser Caramelo César Calvo La Despedida Victoria Santa Cruz- Me Gritaron Negra! (Daniel Haaksman Edit) Cañaris Incahuasi - Triste con Fuga de Huayno Yma Sumac - Hampi (Medicine) Banda San Miguel De Piura - La Perla del Chira Los Jaivas - Cerro de la Virgen Alice Coltrane - Jagadishwar Aphex Twin - Ageispolis Ale Hop & Laura Robles - Defensoras del morro Miles Davis Bitches Brew (Live In Copenhagen, 1969) Ayacucho traditional music - Harawi (women performing harawi before the plowing of the communal field) Sun Ra - Solar Ship Voyage Los Ases de Huarochirí - El pescadito Oscar D'Leon - Llorarás (live)

Our next mixtape comes from duo Brueder Selke, East Berlin-born, Potsdam-based, polyinstrumental composers Sebastian and Daniel Selke and also curators of the Q3AMBIENTFEST in Potsdam (Germany). The festival, taking place at the beginning of June, is a musical happening that brings together established and emerging artists from various genres and diverse origins. Sebastian and Daniel Selke became well-known as an award-winning cello-piano duo under their pseudonym CEEYS. Throughout the work that has come from this long-term collaboration between the two brothers who grew up on the other side of the Berlin Wall, the essential elements are encounter and exchange. The independent Q3A, invite open-minded music lovers to discover a wide, contemporary sound spectrum. Each year, Brueder Selke invite artists to meet on a common, physical stage, and, with performances that range between academic avant-garde and accessible pop, develop a kind of cinematic music that holds a mirror up to and makes audible the eclectic architecture of the world-famous Filmstadt Potsdam, with its neoclassical palaces and socialist brutalism. The buildings where the brothers grew up gave Q3A its name, which is the abbreviation for Querwandbau, a type of Plattenbau that was very common in the GDR. Coincidentally, the first edition of Q3A took place in the year that marked the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Q3A focuses less on headliners and sees itself as a complement to the local cultural scene. Thus the constellation of the artists is itself the highlight, bringing with it spontaneous, improvised collaborations with Brueder Selke. The 2023 edition will feature analogue and virtual performances by Jakob Lindhagen & Vargkvint, Dirk Markham, Julia Reidy, Alex Stolze & Ben Osborn, Austarda, Sofia Paez, Laura Cannell, Grand River, Mabe Fratti, Yair Elazar Glotman & Johannes Malfatti, Brueder Selke, Sergio Díaz de Rojas & Cedric Vermue, Villemin, Will Samson, Ben Osborn, Hélène Vogelsinger, Tim Linghaus and Simon Ansing. Aiming to expand on traditional playing techniques, artists will combine classical instrumentation with electronic. A visualization of the curators staging moving still lifes in Potsdam will also be screened, which will be scored live by some of the sets. In this mix, Brueder Selke have mixed smooth and silent with bright and intense pieces, inviting open-minded music lovers to discover today's contemporary composers and performers featured on Q3A. Tracklist: 1 Jakob Lindhagen - They Were Never Really There 2 Vargkvint - Fyr 3 Dirk Markham – New Joy 4 Julia Reidy - Imminently 5 Alex Stolze - The Rucksack Song 6 Austarda – suis moi 7 Sofi Paez - Preludio 8 Laura Cannell - Dried Hands Pluck the Stems 9 Grand River – Gold 10 Mabe Fratti - El Trabajo Será Nuestro Final 11 Yair Elazar Glotman - A Mirror 12 Johannes Malfatti - ornament i 13 Brueder Selke – QP (hidden) 14 Sergio Díaz De Rojas - Flores de Papel 15 Cedric Vermue – We Came And Left 16 Villemin - Sirens 17 Will Samson - Arpy 18 Ben Osborn – The Fire 19 Hélène Vogelsinger - Game B 20 Tim Linghaus – Mother, Hurricane 21 Simon Ansing - If Only I Had An Elevator 22 CEEYS – Opal Glass

Our latest mixtape comes from Hora Lunga, a composer, sound designer, and songwriter based in Zurich. With a passion for pushing the boundaries of electronic music, Hora Lunga creates a unique blend of traditional and experimental sounds that take listeners on a soulful journey. Having studied electroacoustic composition, the artist's practice focuses on extended instrumental techniques and improvisation. However, his versatile profile has taken him from pop music productions to experimental works and sound art in recent years. David, as Hora Lunga is also known, co-runs the Swiss experimental music label BlauBlau Records, which is also an artist collective. Hora Lunga's latest release, Wirren (BlauBlau, 2022), is the product of a collaborative artist residency at Dampfzentrale Berne & Südpol Lucerne, and was premiered at Gessnerallee Zurich. Otherworldly drones and chamber music, feverish free jazz, and serene soundscapes provided by a vast ensemble make it an ode to shared improvisational sessions. 'WIRREN' is passionately described as chamber music for anarchists and social media addicts, sleepwalkers and day thieves, social romantics, and post-structuralists; for those who are drowning in everyday life, for the superstitious and control-obsessed, for everyone who can read a map and for everyone who can't read a map. The music reflects this, with each track taking the listener on a journey through a range of moods, from introspective and contemplative to more joyous territories. Hora Lunga weaves together a tapestry of sound that speaks deeply. In this mix, Hora Lunga draws inspiration from their latest album, infusing it with their signature style of weaving together a diverse palette of sounds. With acute attention to detail, Hora Lunga creates a sonic landscape that explores the depths of emotion and expression. Tracklist: Hora Lunga - Réduit Vanessa Amara - Pescado Nicolas Jaar - Vanish Drew McDowall - Agalma VI Coby Sey - Night Ride Pan Daijing - Dictee Noémi Büchi - Nothing Is Artificial Lolina - Fast Fashion More Eaze, Claire Rousay - same Space Afrika, Florence Sinclair - Meet Me At Sachas KMRU - mood Kelman Duran - Freddie King Junge Eko - Funghi Magici Hora Lunga, WIRREN - WIRREN 7

Our Next mixtape lands from the Spanish composer, cellist, singer and producer Yamila, with a unique mix inspired by her last album and a soulful vision inside her art. Dancing between electronic and analogue music, tradition and experimentation. Yamila's artistic practice "looks over the precipice of pure emotion", which couldn't be more accurate. That passion and soulfulness manifest in many (if not all) forms of expression. In her most recent album, Visions (UMOR REX, 2022), Yamila revealed her most intimate catharsis. The album evokes the hallucinatory powers of music. Like an ancient herald, she announces the profound feminine mystique while crossing epic melodies full of pleasure and pain. The album is a journey that prodigiously unites baroque accents, Spanish folklore, such as flamenco, and contemporary electronic music. Pain and glory, lacerating religiosity, feminism cauterized by power, and hallucinations as a source (or pretext/tool) to be heard. All these elements were very present in the Spanish Baroque, one of the most inspired creative epochs in the Mediterranean country, especially in literature, painting and architecture, but in a society lacerated by profound religiousness, poverty and injustice. Yamila's piercing gaze has the fierceness of those who dared to challenge the established powers of the time. Her voice and music –sometimes torn and others buoyant– can resemble the score for a biblical passage (i.e. visions of the Apocalypse), for they are overflowing with physical ecstasy and sounds one can touch. 'Visions' is composed of different forms and rhythms. Blending aural chiaroscuros with contemporary electronics, Yamila exhibits a profuse aesthetic with her music that calls for a look at the far past with romanticism and nostalgia. The mix she has prepared for us she tell, es un viaje compuesto integramente por mí, es una mezcla de temas del disco visions, con paisajes entrelazados, de lugares que visité mientras compuse el album (The mix I have prepared for you is a trip composed entirely by me, it is a mix of tracks from the album visions, with intertwined landscapes of places I visited while composing the album). Tracklist: 1-Landscape 1 2-Visions VII 3-Landscape 2 4-Visions I 5-Landscape 3 6-Visions IV 7-Landscape 4 8-Visions II

The next mixtape comes from the mighty DJ DTEKK, a Polish DJ, promoter and cultural activist, with a meditative mix inspired by the late Angelo Badalamenti.
 DTEKK (aka Jędrzej Dondziło and originally from Białystok in Poland) first stepped behind the decks in 2000. He's known for his relentless techno sets. DTEKK is also the originator and program director of the Up To Date Festival and co-founder of the Technosoul record label. The Up to date festival is a unique event that takes place in Białystok, the heart of north-eastern Poland, and which for over a decade, UTDF has been visited by over 10,000 guests from Poland and abroad. As true music lovers, UTDF supports independent music and is known for its unique creativity and strong roots in the local community. The festival always welcomes the current needs and trends, at the same time reminding the audience about the most important elements of life. A few months ago, the festival introduced Business Techno: The Game, a board game for two to six people in which you trade techno-properties, elements of the T-Corp corporation, and all this to build your own Techno Empire, whose currency is the infamous Techno Coin. The board of Business Techno: The Game covers all the important locations vital to today's club and festival circuit: Detroit, London, Amsterdam, Ibiza, Berlin, Dubai and, of course, Białystok. Each city hosts a number of business key to the scene: clubs, festivals, institutions or media. Managing them is only one of the steps to success.
 The mix he's prepared for us is heavily inspired by the artistic output of the late Angelo Badalementi and the meditative and therapeutic aspects of certain ambient records. A few tracks from the mix were composed for organs or used similar sounds. Seemingly monotonous and simple, they require more attention to be experienced in full. I grew to appreciate this kind of sound and noticed how deeply it affects me. I believe it also affects others. The "Badalamenti element" in the mix is his music's touching, blissful tone that I always track in other artists' music.

One hundred years after his birth, Berlin Atonal's special festival edition X100 was dedicated to the Romanian-born Greek, French avant-garde composer, architect, and mathematician Iannis Xenakis, who pioneered applying mathematical models to music, known as the designer of the UPIC, a computerised system with a graphical approach to musical composition. Studio LABOUR, who co-curated the happening with the OUTER team, share insights into their collaborative sonic practice, the origins of their collaboration sourced in the Xenakis's practice itself and also inspiration and motivation between their new work 'sungazing'

We open the festivities season with a very special mix from DJ, producer and musician Curses, with a dreamy compilation of cinematic elements, radio and tv samples from the 80s and 90s, and an extension of his passion for mixing Wave and the dark and weirder side of Italo Disco. Originally hailing from New York and currently based in Berlin, Curses is well known for blending his Rock & Roll roots with the darker side of Disco and Electro. In both his DJ and live sets. Curses also incorporate his ghostly vocals and guitar with flashes of EBM, New Wave, Post-Punk, and Psychedelic synth vibes. After his debut full-length Romantic Fiction in 2018 on Jennifer Cadini's Dischi Autunno, this year Curses released his second album, Incarnadine, also on Dischi Autunno. His compositions blend Morricone-inspired guitars with elements from early 80s music genres like New Wave, Post Punk and New Beat, pushing the boundaries of these references with an emphasis on his own mysterious vocals and guitars. The album is a dialogue between the inner self and outer, and the romance of eternal and immortal existence. With a big inspiration from the cult classic film The Hunger which explores themes of immortality, love and timelessness, the post-modern vampire film contains a dark glamorous atmosphere. Slick production and dark, grooving melodies push the listener down a sinuous path with nostalgic moody guitars, and haunting vocals. Music is caught in a push and pull between the melancholic beats of the past, contrasted with a contemporary and sophisticated production; the album pays homage to Curses' musical roots and the sounds that have shaped him. The mix he has prepared for us is a sort of version of all the artist's inspirations taken to the weirdest and most experimental, and as he says, is another good disconnect from the screen overload. Escape with it. I really enjoyed doing something different than a club mix. It is always in the back of my desires but rarely comes to fruition. Tracklist: 0. Curses - Miriam (Doom Scroller's Edit) 1.In-D - Virgin In-D Sky's (Curses Carpenter Edit) 2. Emeralds - Double Helix 3. Tangerine Dream - Police Car / Julie's Bedroom w/ Aline Baxley Sermon Excerpt 4. Sofie Winterson - Turning (Waterlelyck remix) 5. Ultimate Spinach - Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess 6. Luca Venezia, The Last Defender - Hollow Shells 7. John Carpenter - The Thing 8. Marcell - Rust Patch 9. Gary Numan - Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement) 10. Floating Spectrum & Lemna - Mr. Dentin's Bubble 11. Autechre - Rale 12. Roni Griffith - Spys 13. Curses - Shade of New_ Death 14. John B - Up All Night 15. S-F-X - HINOKI SKIN 16. Delicate Features - This World 17. Michael Bishop - Steal The Night 18. Curses - Shadows Rising 19. Local Suicide Ombra INTL x Vertere Vocal Utility Tool 20. Paul Hertzog - Morning After 21. Curses - Levitate 22. Laurie Anderson - Gravity's Angel

The next mixtape sees new output 33, aka Billy Bultheel and Alexander Iezzi, putting together a mix of music and musicians that surround them and create their daily musical landscape. Through their collaborative project 33, Billy Bultheel and Alexander Iezzi further consolidate a partnership which has taken many forms within a visual, artistic spectrum. Their practice envelops performance art, music and installation whilst pinpointing, developing and elaborating the most meaningful and poignant marriages of the disciplines. Their differing backgrounds have informed how their long collaboration works – Bultheel with his conservatory training and Iezzi coming from DIY punk and experimental music scenes. Their debut album 33-69 (C.A.N.V.A.S., 2022), aments and commemorates the interruption of the simplicities, beauties and charm of mortal life in full Baroque splendour, whilst also partaking in the final opportunities for carnal pleasure and orgiastic excesses in the earthly realm. 33-69 was conceived during the first Covid-19 lockdowns and documents the duo's experiences of pandemic life in Berlin. Recreating that dopamine shot and collaborating towards a sense of community that the pandemic had suddenly folded away. The record is a short but powerful rush of emotional states and bodily desires, translated into cerebral and carnal electronic compositions of EDM, noise and techno Bultheel and Iezzi carry with them a wealth of composition and performance experience and skill, boasting impressive trajectories which cross each other frequently. This complex and intricate working relationship culminates in the creation of 33-69 as a defiant debut — a dense and finely crafted work that finds unlikely pathways to navigate Baroque, Lieder and exuberant club through humour, dread and exaltation. As we've advanced, the mix they have prepared for us is a compilation of music and musicians that surround them and create their daily musical landscape. Part peers, friends and acquaintances, part inspiration, history and admiration. The mix includes music by Judy Garland, Liza Minelli, Bohren club of Gore, Heith, Lugh, Johannes Ciconia, PC Worship, Rihanna, CEM, Bach and more.

Our next mixtape comes from Luka Aron, a German musician and composer of electroacoustic and minimalist music, with a selection of tunes with unusual harmonics. Based between Berlin and Stockholm, Aron's practice is largely focused in the spectral fusion of synthesised sound and acoustic instruments, combining the raw energy of power electronics with the fragility of the human touch. The framework of Aron's compositions is often based on the observation of psychoacoustic phenomena and how they relate to just intonation. A careful selection of partials is presented, stimulating additional tones in the perception of the listener. Through this, a secondary structure is gradually unveiled: like light rays meeting the surface of water, partially reflecting back to air, and refracting at once as they pass from one medium to the other. As such, Aron employs methods of reverse-engineering auditory processes with the aim of invoking alternative listening modes. By putting the act of tuning at the centre, many beating patterns are exposed, and the spectrum is flooded with overtones and feedback. Aron is a Musikakademie Basel (CH) graduate and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Electroacoustic Composition at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm (SE). He's recently published a new release, Tinctures (Ediciones Capablanca, 2022). The 10” consists of pure and magnified recordings of a chord-zither, laying bare the instrument's inherent resonances and quivering sustain – with an immediate physical and emotional affect. By way of close miking, the instrument appears bigger-than-life; at once cavernous and bone-dry. Through this, the listener becomes witness to microscopically observed sound phenomena as the decay of the string in stasis, unveiling many pulsating patterns, capable of inducing austere and solemn alternate states of mind. As the pieces unfurl, the zither is joined by a neglected and untuned pipe organ found in a 13th-century chapel in the rural North of Germany. Its tones were later electronically matched to fit the harmonic space, adding another layer of the subtle interaction between pitch and timbre. The mixtape Aron has prepared for us aims to explore these unusual tonalities and harmonics in delightful eeriness for the listener's ears. Tracklist: Aleksandra Słyż – Everything tends towards chaos and order Catherine Christer Hennix – Blues Alif Lam Mim In The Modes of Rag Infinity & Rag Cosmosis Terry Riley – Anthem of the Trinity Eyvind Kang – Tanpura Study Morton Feldman – For Samuel Beckett Neil Young – Florida Éliane Radigue & Frédéric Blondy – Occam XXV Morton Feldman – For Philip Guston Sonja Tofik – Sky Trumpets Mazen Kerbaj – The 49 Trumpets of Jericho The Plastic Ono Band, Yoko Ono – John John (Let's Hope For Peace) (Live) Unknown – Ой забіліли сніжки

A Line, a succession of points, a fine line, a route; or many, like when talking about LINE as a label, house, family and source of inspiration founded by sound artist Richard Chartier 22 years ago. Sometimes conceptual, sometimes abstract, sometimes somewhere between the two, or just out of any category, the works published by this label condense a vast and exotic catalogue of sound art, initially created as a division of the mythical 12k, to later become independent in its own search, permeated by a marked but broad vision of sonic minimalism. Among LINE's catalogue, there are true jewels of experimental contemporary music and sound art, such as the legendary Series by Richard Chartier, the compilation Between Two Points, the tribute/non-tribute to John Cage by Lawrence English, and the special Forms of Paper by Steve Roden, considered one of the essential works of the so-called lowercase movement, characterized by music played at low sound levels and lacking in prominence pretensions, a sonic philosophy close to that many of the label's releases. Each release is characterized by always bringing true sonic rarities to the label's universe, one of the most select and diverse catalogues of contemporary sound art, where the meeting of sonority and concept not only satisfies the listener's ears: it extends them, shows something that is very difficult to find elsewhere. This 64-minute mix is a selection of the history of LINE since 2000, focusing on an overlaying of shorter pieces and excerpts to give an idea of the variety of sounds, aesthetics, and compositions of the label. So many of the works on LINE are longer, extended experiences. This is merely a taster. Tracklist: miki yui - schlaf asmus tietchens - parallele ebene 1 oliver thurley - subcutaneous 1b haruo okada + fabio perletta - genkai 12-17+19 (excerpt) norman w. long - return and recovery (excerpt) monty adkins - empire (excerpt) france jobin - scène 3 (excerpt) miguel angel tolosa - salon 20-04 alva noto - interim (for dieter rams) steve roden - airforms (excerpt) robert curgenven + richard chartier - acquisition eviction evelina domnitch + dmitry gelfand - mucilaginous omniverse II (excerpt) masaya kato - m3 lrp-III (excerpt) agf - breathing in lines (excerpt) mark fell - storage 3 porya hatami - 8(kurdhish folk song) emile bojesen - scrape 8 geneva skeen - ii (excerpt) triac - here intro hosoo - p.29 tomoko hojo + rahel kraft - probabilities and possibilities frank bretschneider - circle_cycle ensemble d'oscillateurs - faust: movement 6 (else marie pade) william basinski + richard chartier - untitled 3 [reprise]

Aeondelit, a Colombian music producer, takes us on our next mixtape trip into the sonic landscapes of anime and video games. Aeondelit has just released his second full-length album, Vestigios (Unguarded, 2022), which tells a lucid, captivating story of heritage, transformation, vulnerability and healing. The release will include the artwork created by Petra Hermanova and will be accompanied by limited textile pieces by Diane Esnault. Aeondelit practice explores themes related to technology and the human condition in sound while focusing on the creative use of sample manipulation techniques and digital sound synthesis to deepen the idea of a dialogue between computer and human and how both influence each other. Listening to Vestigio enthrals you in a net woven with the fourth-world meanders of Jon Haswell and the dramatic serenity of Vangelis. Aeondelit's music is strongly influenced by the rocky surrounding of his hometown Manizales in Colombia and fuses electronic sensibilities, ambient streams and avant-percussive rhythms that build his sound identity. On Vestigios, he comments that the memories of past generations, the lives that burn within him, are the pillars of who he is. These constitute longings and traps, sin and strength, the temple that breaks down and rebuilds. The different dimensions of consciousness converge in the mind, which constantly tells us who we are, synthesising and projecting our contradictions. The pain that comes with getting in touch with our vulnerabilities opens the doors to healing through confrontation. Vestigios is the bridge between the temporal and the eternal, the crystallised remnant of pain caused by transformation and recognition of the convulsive underworld of our psyche. For this mixtape, he's prepared a selection of anime and video games, which have always been a key influence in his creative process; this mix is a compilation of his favourite anime and video games soundtracks of all time. Tracklist: Berserk – Guts Donkey Kong Country – Aquatic Ambience Gantz – Titicaca Aeon Flux – Ultimate AF Dragon Ball Z – Battle Point Unlimited Resident Evil 3 – Well Dressed Up Ghost in the Shell – Floating Museum Dino Crisis – Set You at Ease (Save Room Theme) Shadow of the Colossus – Lakeside Neon Genesis Evangelion – Rei I Angel's Egg – Prelude Ikue Asazaki – ObokuriEeumi (Samurai Champloo) Wolf's Rain – Paradiso Animatrix – Beyond Cowboy Bebop – Road to the West Resident Evil Code: Veronica – A moment of Relief (Save Room Theme) Silent Hill 2 -–A World of Madness Bôa – Duvet (Serial Experiments Lain Opening)

South-east Turkey-born DJ sound artist and producer, Banu is bringing the sounds for our next mixtape. The artist uses music as a political tool. For Banu, the strong message carried through sound is a vehicle to express emotions as well as a means of fighting against oppression. Coming from a conservative family, making music has been her lifelong dream. It was the moment she had the opportunity to work with the iconic Arp 2600 synthesiser (a younger sibling to Eliane Radigue's infamous 2500 machine) that all her interests came into place to create an empowering soundscape with the aid of analogue drum machines. In her artistic practice, Banu uses participation, social design, ecology, and feminist and queer theory to create multimedia installations with sound as the main element, making her practice closer to contemporary art and activist spaces than the club realm. Banu has also been exploring her approach to sound and composition through her PhD research, focused on how to include sound in the Urban Design process. As Urban Design and Architecture concentrate mainly on the visual aspect of the urban space, other senses have never thought of or given very little consideration. For Banu, listening and hearing are essential in our daily life to understand the urban space and our surroundings. She also told us how she took the challenge and included human perception with Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening theories and what attentive listening can bring about. She proposes sound as a participatory tool which means not only measurements and acoustics play a role but how we as users hear or listen to the urban space. Banu has also very recently released her debut album 'TransSoundScapes' (Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound, 2022). The production is an exercise in female solidarity between her as a migrant woman (she's currently based in Berlin) and her sisters from the trans community, where an artist from one marginalised group showing support towards her trans sisters, using her platform to help them amplify their voices and building a bridge towards a mutual understanding of femininity. There is also a part where she proposes urban space as a music composition - she doesn't believe in improvisation. She thinks there are rhythms in life that everyone follows, but we still create a holistic composition; this is why life goes. There are ruptures, like accidents or pandemics... But we still find harmony. This mixtape, she says, it's a bunch of secret conversations with her Arp 2600 and everything influencing what she hears and listens to. It is about synths and drums. Tracklist: Banu - When the rain drops the lake - unreleased Banu - Transitioning (Part I) / TransSoundScapes - Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound Banu - Drama - unreleased Banu - Transit - unreleased Banu - Bianka / TransSoundScapes - Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound Banu - Say her name - unreleased Banu - Arp Cry - unreleased Banu - First Time (instrumental) - unreleased Mike Dean - Whales / 4: 22 - MWA Music Pearson Sound X Clara! - Mi Cuerpo Rastronaut - Pontinha Entrañas - OetapaZ Fearz - Tundra / Street Drumz (Vol​.​2) Fearz - Rosal​í​a - Motomami (Fearz Bootleg) Rosalía - A Palé (Overmono Edit) Dinemarca - Holy - Staycore Fatima Al Qadiri - Shaneera

Our next Mixtape comes from Nanook of the North, the duo of composer and violinist Stefan Wesołowski and electronic producer Piotr Kalińsk, with a small introduction to their music and the music of their friends. Taking the name of a 1922 American silent film that follows the struggles of the Inuk man named Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic, the two Polish musicians merge compositional roles blending as seamlessly as their use of acoustic and electronic sounds, with Stefan playing the violin and piano parts with additional synth touches and Piotr taking care of electronics, more synths and the final mix. Their first album, with an eponymous name (published by Denovali), arrived after the pair were invited by the Sopot Film Festival in Gdansk to perform an improvised score to a film screening; they the classic silent movie ‘Nanook of the North and travelled to Iceland to record the album. Despite the icy expansive isolation captured from the movie, the album is also transferrable in scenario and evocation, equally omitting the dangerous allure of dystopian cityscapes or even the 80s sci-fi horror menace of Maurice Jarre, Howare Shore and Jay Chattaway. Nanook of the North are now back with their second album Heide (Denovali, 2022). Their new material is a raw and minimalist sonic landscape, practically devoid of percussive elements but featuring vocals by an acclaimed mezzo-soprano Margarita Slepakova. As with the debut, the music on "Heide" is rooted in nature and its primordiality. The title of the album alludes to wildness and untamedness. The material was recorded last winter in a village in the middle of forests in northern Poland, which is clearly felt in the atmosphere of the 9 new tracks on "Heide". The mix they have prepared is aimed to be an introduction to their craft and the music of our friends and collaborators from other projects - such as Jacaszek or Olga Markowska (also the author of the cover of Heide). 100% Polish music. Including "Hinode Tapes #05" (the second song), which was recorded by Piort's new improvising trio Hinode Tapes (released on August 26 by Instant Classic), a great and very inspiring Krakow label.

Our next Mixtape comes from the Polish producer Cafe de la Jungle, where he has recollected some of his latest inspirations in terms of pace and rhythms. Cafe de la Jungle is Tomasz Zając, a Kraków-based producer who is using modular synthesis, field recording and sampling techniques to build mystical worlds on twelve-inch discs. He's recently released Tuvan Spirits EP (Dans de la Desert, 2022), where he explores his fascination and interest in shamanic practices in highly dynamic sound environments. His excellent debut Dancing with Cicadas was rife with dangerous and mysterious rhythms, but Cafe de la jUngle takes a more laid-back approach in the new EP. Built around cavernous ambience and bass notes, sounds that paint a picture of a dance ritual so subtle, it's visceral and highly narrative at the same time. We were enthralled with his rhythms and track unfoldings. For the mix he has prepared, He shares that It's an extension of his latest inspirations and direction of music in terms of pace and rhythms. I've been listening lately to a lot of halftime, trip-hop stuff. Naturally, with listening, there is a lot of digging and collecting music. I had this feeling that this style would be perfect for your mixtape series.

Next on our Mixtape series is by the one and only Richie Culver. We published an interview with him a few weeks back, and he so generously offered us a mixtape. A selection of drifty suggestive tracks of artists he's been recently interested in, and the perfect companion for the entertaining read that his interview is. Culver has been this semi-outsider, self-taught artist figure in the UK and a few capitals scattered around the world, gaining recognition with his pungent view of "existence" and observation of human behaviour (a lot of it autobiographical). Conceptual, but at the same time direct and full of a minimalistic force, a big part of Culver's work lies in his relationship with technology, the advent of social media, and how antagonistic forces around these affect human interaction, new forms of linguistics and communication, and new levels of cultural symbols, signs and signifiers. A frustrated musician, as he frequently recalls himself (and who isn't, I may dare to say…), music and sound is where he is keeping a lot of his artistic focus at the moment. And he seems to be as prolific as with other different types of media and artistic forms. He'll be releasing his first solo album in the following months; he's also very recently released an EP in collaboration with electronic musician Pavel Milyukov (aka Buttechno), that is receiving a lot of attention from the press as his preceding Blackhaine collab 'DID U COME YET / I'M NOT GONNA CUM. Texts and spoken words have long been central to Culver's practice, and in his audio pieces, these sometimes become the starting point for his compositions. Other is recorded noises or recited words. Culver is also putting his energy into his record label (and creative studio) Participant, which he runs along with filmmaker William Markarian-Martin. The label is where he's been releasing his own material (including a compilation on tape format of his "Full musical archive 1999-2019", and more recently releasing other artists' music, like the phenomenal DRONE OPERATØR latest release. About the mixtape, and especially when asked about the title, Culver shares that he travels to the English countryside often with his family: When I go there, I give my phone to someone, and they give it back to me when we arrive home. The mix is a reference to my brain finding it's self again. When I'm in London, I'm not sure my brain is operating in a healthy way. We all know it's the new normal now with phones etc… But having a week or a few days with no screens or laptops is the most freeing thing ever. I feel I owe it to myself to let my brain meat thaw in the countryside every now and then (and once again, don't we all do, don't we all? :) ) For tracklist please check https://www.clotmag.com/audio-visual/clotmix/clotmix-participant-records-presents-richie-culver

Barkum Deer are Louis Giannamore and Jenny Ames, two talented musicians who met in a London house share and bonded over their love of early Renaissance music, black metal, and Björk. Amid the bleak reality of a winter lockdown, the pair found a space for creative collaboration unencumbered by deadlines or expectations, fuelled by the catharsis of experimentation. Jenny graduated from the RCA, and as a classically trained viola player, has performed with Björk, Floating Points and Mica Levi, while Louis is a drummer, producer, and graduate of Berklee College of Music who's collaborated with the likes of Gang of Youths, Master Peace, and First Light Records labelmate Kinn. Earlier this year, they released their debut self-titled album Barkum Deer (First Light Records, 2022), a dense half-hour trip into bass-rich drones, anxious strings and skittering electronic flourishes. Viola, drums, Jenny's voice, and found samples (creaking doors and dusty footsteps) all come together to form a beautifully cinematic and abstract exploration. The track's sound is designed with a special awareness that makes it something really special, endowing the compositions with a haunting enduring physicality. In some tracks, travelling pulsating drums make you feel like galloping on a horse's back at 100 miles per hour; in others, it's the viola pulsating or stretching, with its string's sound plunging into one body, pungently expanding and contracting within. About the mix they have prepared for us, the whole of it is enveloped in found sounds and field recordings recorded by Louis: I've been on tour for most of 2022 with a band called Gang Of Youths, so I have had the opportunity to capture sounds from all over the world. There is a thunderstorm that you'll hear in there I luckily timed and captured perfectly, Louis shares. The mix opens with a live version of their song 'Folding Fog' and an alternative version of -also theirs- 'Labyrinth', which is found exclusively on the CD format of the album. Following, there are two solo pieces by Jenny and Louis, both of which can be found online. To round it off, they say, we have a roughly mixed, unreleased song for Barkum Deer. It's not even finished, but I love the way it sounds. Referring to my comment earlier, I've been trying to teach my ears to listen to the world around us as if it were music. I feel this mix mirrors that. I'm chuffed about it. Tracklist: 00:00 - ‘Folding Fog' - Piano/acoustic rendition (intro) 03:40 - ‘Folding Fog' - Live 12:38 -‘ Labyrinth' - CD exclusive/alternative version 19:09 - ‘Chrome' - solo piece by Louis Giannamore 23:12 - ‘Organ' - solo piece by Jenny Ames 27:25 - ‘Ground' - unreleased song by Barkum Deer

The next mixtape comes from Akusmi, the new project moniker of French-born, London-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pascal Bideau. It's a dive into Indonesian sounds territories, following his recently published album Fleeting Future (Tonal Union, 2022), which was partly inspired by the artist's journey to the east-Asian country. In Indonesia, Bideau immersed himself in traditional Gamelan and gong music, and many of the themes, motifs and melodies on Fleeting Future stem from the 'Slendro' scale, one of the essential tuning systems used in Gamelan. However, it is not musical scales but scales as in the size or extent of things that most fascinates Bideau. Specifically, he explains the compelling way things dramatically change when you shift from any given scale to another." From the atomic to the celestial, the micro and macro universes of dizzying complexity co-exist within each other. Bideau, who also teaches music production and sound/visual installation at the Roundhouse and the University of East London, feels there is a direct connection between the music he makes to this: You take a simple repetitive pattern, seemingly consistent in its shape, but the more you listen to it, the more it changes and becomes something else. Of course, this is the premise of minimal music, and if you listen to Steve Reich's "six pianos" or Terry Riley's "In C", it does precisely that. But I try to condense it to a much more compact/short time frame to convey the dizziness and epics of the shifting. On the visual arts side, Bideau makes connections between the work of David Goodsell, a structural biologist who paints watercolours of cell interiors obtained by electron microscopy, and many of the traditional aboriginal art that convey the same sense of systems and organisms, though the batik techniques of the Javanese/Balinese art (an older expression form of pointillism one may say) to even the abstractions of Jackon pollock. In that sense, Fleeting Future connects directly to nature and the wider world in its evocation of perceptive shifts and transitions from microscopic to macro scale. Its hallucinatory, genre-defying blend of minimalism, cosmic jazz and Fourth World influences, and its quest for optimism in the face of unknown and limitless possibility. The mix he has prepared for CLOT is a mix of various pieces of Indonesian music that he finds particularly striking in the way they sound: some good examples of different gamelan ensembles from Java and Bali, both bamboo and gong based; some chants from the Kecak music and dance with its highly percussive quality; some pieces of Genggong which is the Balinese mouth harp: I also threw in a few samples of Indonesian radio stations and field recordings done while in Bali for good measure, and some gongs experimentations recorded at my studio in 2018-2019. We are sure it will make the perfect summer treat for our audiences' ears. Tracklist: All hits music: Radio Sumatra / The Indonesian FM experience Gamelan descending a staircase / Arturas Bumsteinas Radio Java / Radio Republik Indonesia The music of Lombok / Ratu Radio Java / Radio Republik Indonesia Bali Music From the North-West / Seka Balaganjur - Balaganjuran Radio Java / Radio Solo, Bandung Best World Sounds / Music of Bali - Kecak 2 Bonang Studio / Gong experiments IV Bali field recordings / Sarinbuana - Gong & Rindik Gamelan from Central Java / Genhing Munggang Bonang Studio / Gong experiments VIII Radio Java / Radio Bandung Radio Java / Radio Solo, Bandung Living Art, Sounding Spirit: The Bali Sessions / Gelaga Punhun Living Art, Sounding Spirit: The Bali Sessions / Semara Guna Bonang Studio / Gong experiments IX Radio Java / Radio Solo, Bandung Living Art, Sounding Spirit: The Bali Sessions / Kepandung Sita

The next mixtape comes from Italian artist Anor Londo (aka Marco Fasoli). Dedicated to drumming for a long time, the artist has more recently moved into more introspective electronic territories. With an artistic name that recalls a fictional city in a series of action role-playing games, Anor Londo is deeply fascinated by alchemical esotericism, philosophical hermeticism, cosmic horror and cyber-decadence. His speculation in the audio-visual field is bound up with the search for timeless perfection, an opportunity to understand the true nature of the cosmos a contemplation of the transcendent, which constitutes a form of esoteric ritual. Transmutations are one of the founding elements of his creative method. He reinterprets in a technological key the broader meaning of alchemical philosophy, which - as the eldest form of chemistry - is committed to the fascinating task of shaping and moulding matter. Anor Londo wants to understand the very nature of the fabric of the universe. Last April Anor London published Chaos & Materia EP, an extremely elegant and soulful ambient expression of abstract and melodic musical forms. The productions, teh artist says, stems from an analogy between hermetic philosophy and Anor Londo's mindset. Chaos' is perceived as the aggregator of all opposites, whilst 'matter' means understanding the foundations of reality. The mix he's prepared for us, Solar Plexus, refers to a complex structure of nerves of the sympathetic nervous system. It's an energy centre necessary for balance and well-being in the body. These networks are like an electrical junction box, distributing wires to different areas of the house, Anor Londo shares. The mix developed is a direct emanation of this concept of interconnection. Different feelings and sensibilities communicate in a dance of gazes, seemingly distant but intersecting at an epicentre that is my own vision. Sometimes they smash into each other, creating a sense of loss, but in the end, it all returns to a global balance like in an infinite loop. Seeing is believing. Tracklist: 01. UVB76 - Onna 02. Calogero Aquilina - Low Tide 03. Khymeia - Runda Munda 04. Gila - Shoulder 05. Mai Mai Mai - Musica Nova 06. Stokowski - Arkansas Black 07. Wiegedood - Prowl 08. Varg & AnnaMelina - To the Sea / Hug Me Like you Love Me 09. Anor Londo - 1+2+3+4=10 10. Bath - Ocean Death 11. Khymeia - Runda Munda 12. Old Apparatus - Dourado 13. Pulshar - Nospheratu 14. Clarice Jensen - For This From That Will Be Filled (b) 15. Daniel Spaleniak - Back Home 16. Deru - The Future Never Comes 17. Genghis Tron - I Won't Come Back Alive 18. Proem - I Don't Know How To Tell 19. Ninos Du Brasil - O Vento Chama Seu Nome 20. Stokowski - Saint 21. Scott Walker - Epizootics! 22. Plaid - Do Matter

The next mixtape comes from musician and composer Remo Seeland, who is behind the Swiss experimental label Hallow Ground. He's presenting a selection of the label's music, partly in response to the label's recent publication, their first ever "concept-compilation" Epiphanies (Hallow Ground, 2022) released earlier in March this year. Founded by Remo Seeland, Hallow Ground was created in 2013 and has been instrumental in launching the careers of artists such as Kali Malone and FUJI||||||||||TA as well as recently releasing albums by Lawrence English, Norman Westberg, Maria W Horn and Siavash Amini, as many of Seeland's composition as well. More than a record label, Hallow ground is a platform for Music and Art that leads to ‘Visions', also acting as We act as publishers, hosts and performers. For the label's first ever compilation, the artists were commissioned to pursue a non-rational creative process in approaching the phenomenon of epiphany through sound. The results, whether long-form, short vignettes, profane and concrete sounds or spiritual and abstract pieces, perfectly encapsulate what Hallow Ground as a label has stood for since its inception in the year 2013: challenging not only conventional notions of what music is supposed to sound like but also the listeners' perception through the power of sound. The mix Seeland has prepared for us reflects on the sound of some of the main artists behind the label, and a joyous and sinuous journey into experimental introspection. Tracklist: 1) Lawrence English - Outside The City of God (Augustine wept) 04:02 2) Miki Yui - Listening (oneness) 10:03 3) Maria W Horn - Oinones Death pt. I 05:36 4) Siavash Amini - Spuming Silver 05:53 5) Kali Malone - Empty The Belief 10:01 6) Marja Ahti - Symbiogenesis 07:22 7) Remo Seeland - Pulse Points Green 05:33 8) Steve Fors - Unsound Structures 06:26 9) FUJI||||||||||TA - sukima 07:03

The next mixtape arrives from V-stock, aka Valentin Doychinov, an electronic musician, guitarist, producer and film score composer. With an interest in nature, mathematics and of course music, he finds inspiration in a diverse set of influences that range from the fringes of experimental club music, noise, and ambient to instrumental genres such as jazz fusion and post-rock. 
 V-stock has released several EPs and albums for several experimental labels, and he has just published a new LP, Liminal (Position Disposition, 2022) where he combines his recent jazz fusion influences with the noise, ambient and broken electronics sound he developed during the last LPs. Incepted during pandemics, the album title Liminal refers to a state of ‘occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold' and very trivially, the spark of inspiration came from a Facebook group called ‘Liminal Spaces' which I came across at some point over the lockdown period. In this group people generally post pictures of cities and buildings when they are devoid of people – these both convey a certain emotion that combines a sense of loneliness, isolation and also otherworldliness which I was also feeling during this year, but I didn't know how to express.  The artist also shares that the way the tracks were made is also a result of a very improvisational approach both with the synth and other production gear he was using; the tracks were recorded live and improvisations were layered on top of each other. I also experimented with techniques for creating very broken and unpredictable beats. 
 Valentin's daytime profession as a wind energy project engineer allows him to contribute to another cause that is massively important to him - the decarbonisation and transition to clean energy sources for society. For our mix, he's prepared a selection of tracks from albums he has been enjoying lately; mostly made of atmospheric tracks that have a certain ambience that communicates well with his approaches to production. Tracklist: Benoit Pioulard - Whose Palms Create Vanessa mara - Piano & Accordion, Pt. 1 Richard Skelton - Pariah Fennesz - Endless Summer V-Stók - A pocket within a pocket Eli Keszler - The Accident Jon Hassell - Picnic Death in Vegas, The Two Lone Swordmen - Neptune City - Concrete Funk 2 Pan-American - Het Volk North Americans - Furniture In The Valley Okkyung Lee - Another Old Story Jean-Claude Vannier, Mike Patton - Insolubles

The next instalment of our Mixtape series comes by Johanna Sulkunen, a Finnish experimental vocalist, composer & improviser based in Copenhagen. A mix of minimalistic sounds combined with vocal compositions to welcome the spring season. 
For Johanna, the symbiosis of vocals and electronics have been at the centre of her career. A frequent collaborator with iconic jazz & improv musicians such as Tomasz Stanko, Axel Dörner, Koichi Makigami and originally labelled as an exciting voice on the alternative jazz scene, Sulkunen has expanded her range from jazz and alternative pop to free improvisation, electronic music and avant-garde.  Only a few months ago, Johanna release Terra, a collection of tracks where the artist invokes imaginary landscapes with her voice, electronics and a stellar ensemble. Terra also represents the second part of her trilogy with the solo project Sonority, in Terra Finnish experimental vocalist creates a global vision while being trapped in Copenhagen, and invites the listener to question our modern life and its often destructive relation to nature. 


On Terra, she continues the work with Zen Buddhism and the koan as in her first release with her solo project, as well as her own lyrics, but she expands her musical space considerably and explores the transformation of the vocal language into instruments such as strings, horns and drums, letting the qualities of texts lead to the result. For this mixtape, she's selected a mixture of very minimalistic sound compositions, some vocal works, and some more ‘embracing' with strings and electronics: I think it intrigues you to listen to the details and allows you to let go of thinking and drift along with sound. I've been preparing the mix while sitting on a tour bus (or more of a tiny, totally packed car) and taking my own time between the concerts sitting alone with my headphones. Tracklist: 1. HYbr:ID Oval Hadron / Alva Noto 2. A HOUSE A DANCE A POEM / Félicia Atkinson 3. III The Body Entire / Johanna Elina Sulkunen 4. VII Abide / Johanna Elina Sulkunen 5. 1 / Mads Emil Nielsen & Andrea Neumann 6. IV Shosen / johanna Elina Sulkunen 7. X Hiemal / Johanna Elina Sulkunen 8. End Of Summer Part 2 / Johann Johansson with Hildur Gudnadottir, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe

Il Santo Bevitore is the artistic alter ego of the Italian born London-based musician, producer and sound engineer Nicola Serra, who is also known for being the founding curator of London's experimental music festival Dronica. The following mixtape is shared on the occasion of his recent debut release for Opal Tapes ‘Water and Tears'. “The mixtape includes tracks from my album as well as music from artists who inspired, either directly or indirectly, the album process”, shares Il Santo Bevitore. To have worked on the album with 11 other musicians and artists, who contributed their vocals and a variety of instruments, shows extraordinary determination to experiment with new ways of working on the recording process, while still on unstable grounds during the past two years of the pandemic. The sound on the album is heavily processed thanks to that and as a result creates an extensive depth of soundscapes, which immerse the listener into the voyage under the artist's spell. ‘Water and Tears' has been inspired by the painful story of the Panas, women lost during childbirth, as well as the Sardinian ancestral pagan past, its people and their echoes. Each of the tracks is characterised by thick sonic textures and comprises multiple layers of sound sources. “Some of the voices I used, belong to an ancestral Sardinian and Italian folkloric past, which is emphasised and brought back to life and projected into the future thanks to technology”. Keen on continuing his explorations of compositions of inseparably intertwined analogue instruments and digital technology, while embracing his curatorial practice, Il Santo Bevitore is now looking forward to more collaborations and working with other artists in the near future. Tracklist: Il Santo Bevitore - A Spell On You Iosonouncane - Hiver Il Santo Bevitore - Malia The For Carnation - A tribute to Pan Sonic - Arktinen Death In June - Rocking Horse Night Goblin - Sighs Swans - In My Garden Maria Carta - Dies Irae Tribes Of Neurot - Achtwan Il Santo Bevitore - Roaming In A Sea Of Blades

For our next mixtape set, duo Auf Togo will be taking us into a session of Pop, Funk & 70's Cosmic Disco, filled with hypnotic grooves and absorbing melodies. Auf Togo is the long-time collaboration between Sasa Crnobrnja and Clement Cachot-Coulom which is inspired by the Cosmic disco sounds of the late 70s/early '80s. Sasa Crnobrnja originates from the deep, disco-laced house duo of his duo alias In Flagranti (Kitsune, Phantasy, Gomma & more) and Clement Cachot-Coulom from bands The Fabulous Penetrators and Big Girls. With the Auf Togo formation, they present a sound that echoes the richness and flavour of vintage recording equipment and instruments whilst holding the edge and sharpness of modern studio techniques. The duo presents a loose, almost improvised sound that works very well within the rigid confines of house music. Psychedelic echoey guitars clash with probing synth lines and live-sounding rhythm sections and their heavy kicks and singing cowbells, their deep basslines and spare guitar licks blur the line between rigid, quantised sounds and the duo's refreshing human touch. Auf Togo recently their new album, Movements (SaS Recording). The record, ​unconventional in its production, stems from samples extracted from Clement's riffs and jams on guitar, bass and keys, all of which are then ultimately sown together by Sasa's expert production For this mix we can expect…well all that has been said before, abstract sensuous grooves, well-crafted melodies, avant-garde Kosmiche and space disco sounds which hopefully take us away from all that January wintery blues. Tracklist: Lion - Youve Got A Woman (Abel Edit) Os Mutantes - Ando Meio Desligado Nu Genea & Celia Kameni Marechià - Marechià Serge Gainsbourg - Sea, Sex & Sun (Barry & Gibbs Edit) Minami Deutsch - Futsu Ni Ikirenai Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Fire Giorgio Moroder - Chase The Fatback Band - Are You Ready (Bus Stop) - Mitiko Puma & The Dolphin - Toys Noise Django Reinhardt - Rhythm Future

Electronic musician and sound artist Josep Kamaru, aka KMRU, takes us on our first December sonic journey. Born in Nairobi and currently based in Berlin, KMRU is a sound artist and producer whose methods include field recording, improvisation, noise, machine learning, radio art and drones. With a paramount sound and visual sensibility, his work is reminiscent of ambient masters such as Lawrence English. KMRU's sound though is uniquely positioned between the rarely-married cultures of ambient and African music, entwining his compositions with field recordings from his native Kenya and the surrounding countries of East Africa. Self-releasing his productions, these have been received very enthusiastically by both critics and the audience. In 2020, he released three albums that showed the depth and range of his sound: Peel, an LP of hypnotic drones on the avant-garde institution Editions Mego; Opaquer, a collection of vivid and dreamlike sound sculptures; and Jar, a dreamlike cassette of found sounds and analogue ambience. KMRU hasn't stopped in 2021 with a few more releases including Logue, an album Formed of tracks written from 2017 to 2019, which represents an artist not only in command of his form but also willing to develop and evolve, ready to deconstruct and radically refocus his music to explore new contours of experimental and ambient sound design. This mix he shares is a liminal narrative of falling asleep, each track feels like an episode of a hypnagogic state. I've been thinking deeply about dreams and nostalgia this past week and these tracks evoke this feeling. Tracklist: Patricia Wolf - Morning Light KMRU & Nyokabi Kariuki – unreleased Fields We Found – Drops Alexandra Spence - Suddenly Silent Perila & Ulla - every something is an echo of nothing Kevin Richard Martin - In Slow Motion Klara Lewis & Peder Mannerfelt - Styrofoam Tone Pita - Two Top Five Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin - Uptown Psychedelia Aho Ssan - Outro (KMRU Remix) Tashi Wada - March 2007 MIGUEL ANGEL TOLOSA - salon 09-02 loscil – Vespera The Transcendence Orchestra - Weather Series John Hassel -Hex Sarah Davachi - Border of Mind

Our 35th Mixtape installment arrives from Dahjyn, a musician, producer and vocalist originally from the Pacific Northwest of the U.S and currently based in Brooklyn. Dahjyn, or Dan Jyn Suk Ahrendt is currently a resident with a monthly show at Hong Kong Community Radio and has just recently published his debut EP, The gall (Most Dismal Swamp, 2021) featuring additional remixes by Endgame, Thegn, and trngs. A new member of the swamp family, his sounds is completely akin to the label's unique sonic aesthetics. With relentless industrial gut-punch percussion, textural power electronics, and reflective baritone verse, the album includes 5 tracks that embody a convulsive tension between an abrasive physicality and a brooding emotionality: a visceral incantation working through aggregate layers of trauma. Alongside his particular self-exploration in identity and ability to express it, he's continually inspired by amazing electronic musicians and producers around the world pushing his boundaries and expectations. Also a In this mix, Dahjyn tells us, he covers a very solid gamut of his driving nostalgia combined with the newer driving interests in his ears. The personal arc has moved from a past more anchored in post-punk romanticism, moving into the atmospheric self-obliteration of the heavier experimental pulling from the traditional music he's found himself lost in. Tracklist: Akai Tori - Takeda No Komoriuta Book of Knots - Drosophila Melanogaster (ft. Blixa Bargeld) Nilotika Cultural Ensemble - Ejokawulida The Anchiskati Choir - Alilio ver.2 Rowland S. Howard - Silver Chain The Blood of Heros - Hecatomb Setabuhan - Tabuh Langit Tanduk Jawara The Bug - Warning (ft. Flowdan) Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Shohmyoh (AKIRA OST) Bark Psychosis - Absent Friend Kim Yung Mi - Haenim

Our end of October Mixtape comes from Bedroom community's Heliocrysum. With a name that evokes the Latin for sunflower but also a healing tincture, the LA-based composer/sound designer duo have just recently presented their visceral, deep and exploratory debut album "We Become Mist". Reminiscence of their name too, their sound blends overlaid orchestration and distorted lightness, simplicity washed with emotional intensity, the remembered dreams of far-off, science-fictive discoveries. Heliochrysum is Michael Deragon and Daniel Lea in which collaboration becomes a sculpted journey into new aural and imaginative cosmology. "We Become Mist" uses analogue and digital processes to mine the depths of industrial and science fictional, psychedelic soundscapes, often cinematic in tone and texture. The album has been mixed by minimal ambient beast Ben Frost and mastered by Valgeir Sigurdsson. Within the melding of the analogue and digital, there was another element mixed: the album is tinged with psilocybin technology. As a listener, you can hear as you move through a psychedelic passage, like out of a state of lockdown into one of alien otherworldliness. Something that also seems to be tingeing the electronic music scenes throughout. Especially on the American west coast. For this mix the duo have selected a series of tracks filled with the atmospheres and textures they love and are inspired by and truly find moving: "there is something like an angelic quality or a spiritual depth to each of the tracks that we are always in search of. Heliochrysum for us is about layers, simple melodies and atmospheres moving towards an immersive experience that take the listener and us somewhere new, unknown and challenging. We also included some things we have made as Heliochrysum as well as other projects that we have been a part of because for us they are all one world and part of this journey". A blissful trip of warm sounds to fill our readers with autumnal feelings . Tracklist: 01. ALVA NOTO - XERROX SORA 1 02. SILVER MOUNT ZION - 13 ANGELS STANDING GUARD ROUND THE SIDE OF YOUR BED 03. MY BLOODY VALENTINE - TO HERE KNOWS WHEN 04. STEVE MOORE - THERE'S NO NEGOTIATING 05. HELIOCHRYSUM - HIVEMIND REMIX 06. L A N D - TRANSITION 07. M. DERAGON - A RADIANT SLEEP SHINE 08. CLINT MANSELL - WAVES CRASHING ON DISTORT SHORES OF TIME 09. HELIOCHRYSUM - LENS NOIR PART 2 10. HOWARD SHORE - MANSFIELD CRASH 11. BURIAL - NIGHTBUS 12. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - SCAPPA 13. HELIOCHRYSUM - ALIENA

With a selection of dark and deep cuts, the rising electronic music producer MINOS is presenting our next mixtape. The London-based, Italian/Colombian electro producer fuses complex synth-work with powerful harmonies. MINOS is a classically trained pianist, however her love for the dancefloor has naturally guided her into electronic production. Her musical training feeds directly into her synth work, which is also underpinned by intricate grooves and an overall love of sound design; and her upbringing in Dubai and Tokyo has instilled a deep interest in the futuristic, which shows up in her music, along with an appreciation for diverse and multicultural sounds. Her music is also Inspired by a sense of apocalyptic chaos and confusion, Minos' knack for rich harmonies and killer grooves becomes her main emotional weapon. She makes no exceptions deploying complex and evocative synth-work for optimum dancefloor effect. Where her music combines a passion for dancefloor dwelling with meticulous sound design and storytelling, Her first release, ‘Compose Urself' is the first representation of how the world of Minos is beginning to take true form. As she facilitates an immersive journey through this rapturous world, With this project, MINOS seeks to captivate the listener both in mind and in body, carrying them away into her rapturous world. This is achieved through her careful attention to sonic detail, wherein every layer and every sound tells its own story, culminating in a unique symphony of acousmatic elements and facilitating an immersive journey through this fantastical world. For this mixtape Minos says it includes a lot of the music and artists that inspired her for the Compose Urself EP and that continue to inspire her in the studio these days: I called it "Hidden Depth" because the music is deep and dark and you really feel it in your gut...I love music that entrances you and makes you explore your depths. I don't think people spend enough time do. Tracklist: 'Hord (Convextion Remix)' - Tolga Fidan 'Ask Me' - Mikron 'Orange Blank' - Chaos In The CBD 'Without You' - Gosub 'Re-Entry' - Mikron 'WAX60006A' - WAX 'Black Sands' - Mikron 'Pattern Rotate' - 214 'Fluid Dynamics' - Morphology 'Downlink' - Patricia 'RDS - 224' - De Lichting 'Interrogator' - MINOS 'let them have the internet' - Ela Minus

Huma is the alias of Barcelona based experimental musician Andrés Satué. who is bringing our next mixtape instalment, following the release of his new EP Se van sus naves. We recently featured Huma ahead is release titled Emergence (Hedonic Reversal, 2021), a release that was an experiment in the irregular rhythmic, textural or physical qualities of sounds engaging with one another. In it, the chaotic nature of these sounds colliding allows for the emergence of atypical rhythms, ones in which preconceived notions of a linear structure are supplanted in favour of melodies and patterns borne from the dissonant sound.
 The new release Se van sus naves is a production of experiments with different creative processes and tools such as granular synthesis or extreme sampling created halfway between Eva and Emergence. Continuing with the exploration of the idea of singularity and exponential growth in which Eva was inspired, Se van sus naves proposes an abstract and delicate universe, closer to ambient but without leaving aside the characteristic abrasion of other albums.
 In this mixtape, Huma shares, you will find music that inspired Se van sus naves but also recent discoveries and music that he really loves and respect: from ambient to club, film soundtrack or computer music. There is a wide variety of genres inside. Tracklist: Alessandro Cortini - SEMPRE Huma - Transcension Variation Bobby Krlic - The Crash Gong Kebyar - Sekar Jepun Tim Hecker - Not alone Tohji, Loota & Brodinski - Yodaka (dir. Taichi Kimura) crnds - 013 Vladislav Delay - Rakkn Aelk Minsur - Drugged Out Ginnix Zuli - Where Do You Go Synalegg - Juggernaut Tim Hecker - Pond Life Huma - 1 Year, 2 Times Terminal 11 - Unpleasant Experience Rrucculla - Ciclo del agua

Dalhous, the music project of Marc Dall and Alex Ander formed in Edinburgh, are bringing our next mixtape instalment, with a mix that will particularly please those with cinematographic inclinations. Dalhous have just returned after a 5-year hiatus with a long-awaited follow up to 2016's House Number 44, presenting the second volume of The Composite Moods Collection: Point Blank Range released on Denovali Records earlier this year. 
 This mixtape is a collection of some of the records Dalhous have been re-listening to recently. They like to make mixes in the same way they make records where entire tracks are used as raw material. The cinematographic influence comes across immediately: There are a lot of cues from film and game soundtracks, from classic FPS games like Wolfenstein 3D and Half-Life through to a library cue from David Cronenberg's Shivers, to direct audio rip from the opening of Abell Ferrera's The King of New York by Joe Delia.

 Tracklist: Concierto for Violin OP. 8# Autumn by Antonio Vivaldi arranged by Joe Delia - King of New York OST (1990) Takefumi Haketa - Intercourse of Ghosts - Kairo OST (2001) / Audio extract from Pulse (2001) / Takefumi Haketa - There is nobody in the laboratory - Kairo OST (2001) Klaus Shulze - Dream Team - Next of Kin OST (1982) Carlo Maria Cordio - Incontro - Absurd OST (1983) Bruce Ditmas - Visioni Sconvolgenti (2017) Edward Artemiev - Part V - Solaris OST (1972) / Tangerine Dream - Terrible - The Keep OST (1983) Popol Vuh - The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner OST (1974) Richard Einhorn - Audio Extract - Blood Rage OST (1987) / Charles Bernstein - Lurking - Nightmare on Elm Steet OST (1984) Miwako Chinone - Saferoom Theme - Resident Evil 7 OST (2017) Christoph De Babalon - Opium - If Your'e Into It, I'm Out Of It (1997) / Alan Splet - Audio Extract - Blue Velvet (1986) Chu Ishikawa - Swamp - A Snake Of June OST (2002) Joji Yuasa - Audio Extract - Funeral Parade of Roses OST (1969) Angelo Badalamenti - Main Theme - Mulholland Drive OST (2001) Clint Mansell - Ambient Music Loop - Pi OST (1998) Akira Yamaoka - The Forest Trail - Silent Hill OST (2001) Mark Isham - Dust and Gasoline - The Hicher OST (1986) Bobby Prince - Wondering About Loved Ones - Wolfenstein 3D OST (1992) Audio Extract - Black Christmas (1974) / Simon Park - Vocal Point - Dawn of The Dead OST (1978) Simonetti-Pignatelli-Morante - Flashing - Tenebrae OST (1982) Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music (1974) / Chris Conner - Key Personnel - Manhunt OST (2003) Laurie Anderson - Gravity's Angel (instrumental) - Naked Lunch trailer music (1991) Muslimgauze - Under The Hand Of Jaruzelsk (1987) / Jack Nitzsche & Barre Phillips - Cat & Mouse - Cruising OST (1980) Graeme Revell - Nobody on the Safety Boat - Dead Calm OST (1989) / Graeme Revell - Fireboat Light - Dead Calm OST (1989) Barry De Vorzon - Men's Room - The Warriors OST (1979) Kelly Bailey - Vague Voices - Half Life OST (1998) / Wang Chung - City Of The Angels - To Live and Die In L.A OST (1985) Nurse With Wound - Spiral Theme - Scrag! (1987) Popol Vuh - Brothers of the Shadows - Nosferatu The Vampyre OST (1979) Coil - Meaning What Exactly-666 - Unnatural History III - (1997) / Coil ‎– Here To Here (Double Headed Secret) - Unnatural History (1990) Akira Yamaoka - Eternal Rest - Silent Hill 1 PSX OST (2001) Akira Yamaoka - Is This The End? - Silent Hill 4 OST (2004) Eugene Cines - Rooms in a Museum - Shivers OST (1975)

Our new mixtape comes from the Norwegian transcendent artist Kjetil Jerve and producer Stian Balducci with a recording specially crafter for CLOT Mag and getting inspiration from their more recent album. Tokyo Tapes: Piano Recycle, released on Dugnad Records in April 2021, is an epic archival collection fusing ambient, drone and experimentalist textures. Performed with a live emotion in mind, this aspect of the collection adds to the innovative spontaneity and the duo's dynamic musicianship. Jerve is an artist known for his genre-defying curiosity, adventures transcending dogma and style and has been running the Oslo-based label Dugnad rec since 2016. He has been an important figure in the next wave of Norwegian jazz musicians, and likewise, Balducci, although coming from strictly electronic musicianship, has moved towards extended jazz and improvised genres. The clear jazz influences are felt moving throughout the 18 track album, in which classicism and electricity combine, crafted through fuzzy textures, cinematic soundscapes and hauntingly beautiful melody paintings. The album centres around Kjetil's unique piano musings, it is then moulded by Balducci through creative warping in order to design and sketch new instruments through the initial medium of the piano. The result is a record that feels both archaic and contemporary, clearly drawing inspiration from and acknowledging Alva Noto/Sakamoto and Bugge/Schwarz as predecessors, but at the same time, residing on its own plane of artistry. The artists suggest a promise to provide a euphoric connection: the record asks to be listened to in a place of nature, free of distractions when its power can be felt most vividly. For this mixtape, they share, they wanted to display a balance between the eclectic and narrow, selecting from a broad spectrum of inspirations and melding it together with a long take of piano improvisation recorded exclusively for CLOT: It sort of sounds like what could be a live DJ set from Stian's studio with Kjetil's piano built-in. There are also some gold nuggets from new and upcoming releases happening here in Norway, and it's always really nice to present our peers' work in a worldwide context. The artists also request their audiences to engage with the listening: Please let us know in the comments how you experienced it, and be sure to check out our socials to take part in our common future. Tracklist: Stian Balducci, Kjetil Jerve - 4.5 Goen Slo (edit) Burial - Subtemple Ben Frost - Forgetting You is Like Breathing Water Robert Turman - Flux 3 Ø - Scene 1 Tortusa - I Know This Place Porter Ricks - Biokinetics 2 Damata - I Say Damata, You Say Matoma Kim Dürbeck - Tma4ever Laraaji - Trance Celestial Movement 4 Stian Balducci, Kjetil Jerve - 3.2 MIN Lövgren - Car Crash Bendik Baksaas, Maria Brinch - Inya Lake II Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto - Uoon II Basic Channel - Mutism Loscil - Discrete Entropy Biosphere & Maâlem Mohamed Kouyou - Boiler Room Marrakech Tortusa, Jo David Meyer Lysne - Jazz Spot Candy Stian Balducci, Kjetil Jerve - 4.5 Goen Slo

The next mixtape instalment comes from the hand of one of the sound artists we have long followed and admired. Jana Winderen is contributing to the series with a mix inspired by one of her recent compositions, the track "Listener" which appears in the VA compilation Colliding Wind by Concentric Records. Jana Winderen is an artist and field recordist that has dedicated a big part of her life recording and revealing sounds from the most remote sources – oceans, glaciers, ice cavities. A multifaceted artist, her impressive amount of work expands from installations, performances, exhibitions, recording releases, field trips. Her practice pays particular attention to audio environments and to creatures which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally – deep under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges inaudible to the human ear. With a background in Marine Biology and also in Fine Arts, she gives life to her compositions listening over and over and, slowly collaging things together, more like sculpting than writing - something she shared with us in an early interview. The Listener’ is a sound composition created from hydrophones and sound field recordings in and by the River Orne in Normandy. As an indicator of the river´s waters health, freshwater biologists count underwater insects and use this data. If one identifies the sound of the specific underwater insects with their varying ability to survive forms of pollution, one can possibly, through focused listening, reach an understanding of the health of the river. ‘The Listener’, was a 6 channel audio installation part of the exhibition Second Nature and the project Nature and Renaturation: A Sensory Overview of a History of Changing Watercourses. A three-year-long project which started in 2014 by Thierry Weyd, Esam Caen-Cherbourg (Art Academy) and Camille Prunet, Research Coordinator chez École Supérieure d’Arts et Médias Caen/Cherbourg. And early this year the track has been included in the Concentric Record VA debut trilogy (courtesy of Touch). CONCENTRIC RECORDS is a multi-disciplinary record label exploring new music that transcends identity and definitions, and is inspired by a sense of collective movement. Spawned by the work of artists who operate in between set approaches and styles, the label releases high quality, carefully-designed physical editions of recordings that defy genres and promote inter-cultural links. In colliding winds, they approach the concept that ‘a COLLIDING WIND binary' is a binary star system in which the two members are massive stars that emit powerful, radiatively-driven stellar winds. The location where these two winds collide produces a strong shock.’ As we reference the state of world chaos today, a colliding-wind is a reassuring reminder of the inspiring thought that the act of coming together as one produces exponentially powerful results. Tracklist: Anodyne - We Are All We Have (Autechre Remix) Melissa Pons - Freita KMRU - Why Are You Here John Grzinich - kinetic sense KMRU - me tal Philip Jeck - Fleeting BJNilsen - Impossibilidad Ipek Gorgun - Tserin Dropchut Ian Wellman - Mercury Seefeel - Lux1