This month’s mix was assembled around the idea of layering as a spatial practice: not the accumulation of sound for its own sake, but the careful placement of elements so that absence becomes as active as presence. Tracks overlap, fall apart, and re-enter from unexpected angles, creating pockets of tension that emerge less from impact than from the distances held between things.

What interests me most is the way multiple layers can generate the illusion of depth. A percussion loop sitting just behind a sustained tone, a fragment of melody appearing through a wash of texture, a vocal trace lingering at the edge of intelligibility — each element reshapes the perceived dimensions of the others. Space is not something that exists prior to the mix; it is produced through these relationships, through the constant negotiation between foreground and background, clarity and obstruction.

There is a delicate tension in maintaining these simultaneous states. Layers function as both structure and interference, supporting one another while obscuring one another. The ear continuously recalibrates, searching for hierarchy, then abandoning it. What first appears crowded gradually unfolds into a landscape of separations and intervals. Sounds cease to behave as isolated objects and begin to act more like atmospheres, extending beyond their apparent boundaries.

Fragments of ambient drift stretch across rhythmic frameworks, low-end pressure carving out cavities beneath brittle percussion, distant harmonic material surfacing momentarily before receding into the mix. Patterns emerge through overlap rather than declaration. Movement is generated through small shifts in perspective, through elements passing in front of and behind one another like changing weather or light.

I wanted this mix to explore that threshold where layering creates openness rather than saturation — where tension is sustained without release, and where space is not an empty container for sound, but something continually constructed, collapsed, and rebuilt through the interaction of the layers themselves.

Versp - th.[f]_sfcs_002610_f71

Azkyll - UGA--EOT

Nnirror - Process Grammar

Joao Ms - Dr Faustus

Guilt Factory - Rokhard

Eczem - Vɛləm

Relicx - MBW Complex

Noxin - Market Forces

Sendai - Isobaric

Scott Gordon - Tilts IIII

Sektion - Kopplung B

Signal Black - Ton

Somatic Responses - Tunnel Trip

Tyler South - Current Vibsule

Ozcan Sarac - UC/II,O

Artur M Puga - The Scent Of Something Gone

Fabian Klimanek - Heauton

Synalegg - Poscar

Da Dub & Pino Basile feat Ludovica Manzo - CollidingExpanses (Iron Lang Remix)

Ecko Bazz - Nsimbudde

S>>D - Intro Preflight

DYL & Senking - 2024

Lee Gamble - Black Snow

Dragon - Inline Conditional

Al Wootton - Arnen

Charlatan - Electronic Horizon

Frank Bretschneider - The Eight Day People

Pent - Section5 Insert1

Goat (JP) - GMF

Animal Collective - Coral Realisation

Basic Unit - Comcent

Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer

Vladislav Delay Quintet - Three

Russell Haswell - Fractured Bones

Hexalyne - Exiadd On

Iron Lang - Insular dub

Kindohm - Untitled 01

MTCH - Thfnd

Shinra Knives & Tenshi - Safe House

Kosu Nes - Alchemy

Lime68k - Dissec 11

Autechre - M39 Diffain

This month’s mix was assembled around the idea of density: frequencies brushing against one another until they begin to blur, distort, and generate new forms in the friction. Sounds are layered not for harmony alone, but for tension — moments where elements seem almost incompatible, yet through repetition and proximity start to imply their own strange coherence. A kind of sonic architecture emerges from collision.

I’ve always been fascinated by this possibility in DJing: the act of holding multiple temporalities open at once. Two or three tracks folding into each other until they no longer feel discrete, then introducing a fourth element not to intensify the mix further, but to subtract from it — to hollow out space again and keep everything suspended in movement. The mix becomes less a sequence of tracks than a shifting ecology of textures, residues, and ghosts.

There’s something illusory in that process: how the ear retrospectively stitches together incompatibilities into continuity. Music has this ability to make contradictions feel inevitable after the fact. A rhythmic dislocation becomes groove; interference becomes atmosphere. What initially appears unstable begins to feel emotionally precise.

Ambient soundscapes bleeding into one another until they become difficult to locate spatially, off-kilter IDM patterns and submerged dub rhythms creating syncopation and propulsion, crescendos gathering like weather systems before dissolving back into haze and background radiation.

I wanted the mix to inhabit that threshold where structure and dissolution coexist — where sound doesn’t simply progress forward, but lingers, erodes, and mutates in real time.

Joao MS - I’ve Been Here before

David Toop & Max Eastley - Burial Rites

Andrea Taeggi - I Alone Possess Nothing

Carrier - Wood Over Plastic

Paperclip Minimiser - TT A1

North Manc Beds - Strak

Fis - Homologous 01

Dean Blunt - Direct Line

Rian Treanor with Rotherham Sight & Sound - Action 6 30 seconds

Alva Noto - U_08

Tyler South - Erfel

Tyryx - Exygyncy??

Honour - Seven Trumpets

Mr 76ix - 010

Azkyll - Glass Rain

Autechre - JNSN Code GL16

Deli Kuvveti - She Sings To A Distant Dawn

Doomed - Maelstrom

E Wata - U D S2S

Fiesta Soundsystem - 05 -09 Deception Is Beauty

Guilt Factory - Na12

Monocondo - Shadow Shades

Grief - Keys To The Astral Gates

Moxus - No.3431

Robert Logan - Children Of Rust

Keith fullerton Whitman - 260409-1

Shed - The Praetorian

Poborsk - Derive Du Bruit

Onokio - Form

WEȽ∝KER - Hinterhoj

Özcan Saraç - KHU

William Fields - Ixowu

Ayrtbh - G

Qancel - Antidevice M

Nesso - Pinecone

Dittofused - Anzy

Nnirror - Return Magnified

Jesse Osbourne Lanthier - Blackwell Dynonetics

Sorbitol Drops - Edgy Ecotone

Eczem - Vormaks II

Vladislav Delay - Rent Seeking Missile

Tsrono - Trencz

Eko : Resonance 04

Ø - Otava

Yves De Mey - Vecto

Arash Moori - Flowers Of Evil

Grischa Lichtenberger - 003 0415 09 0215 13 Youtube Beat Mainliner-Singleshots Recs Arrg ! e Short

Munsing - Squabble

Richard Devine - 0xin2lin

HXE - Worm

Low End Activist - Hope III (Demdike Stare Stressed Version)

Upsammy & Valentina Magaletti - Every Cell Thought Every Thinkabale Thing

Orior - Call

Kode 9 & The Spaceape - Sine

The Binary Colective - Rise Of The Overdrive

Eko - Organism

Dj Die Soon - Qaiju

Milanese - Head Bocs

Andria - Atemlos

Fausto Mercier - Hall Of Frames (FT Francesco Corvi)

Filter Dread - Portal

Guilt Factory - DDD

Heinrich Schwarzer -Figur & Puls 2_3-15

Keith Fullerton Whitman - 251213SKIP_TRACE

Kindohm -It Me.gif

Mike Dred & Peter Green - 105 Cornucopian

Klahrk - Talk To Me FT Ludwig Wandinger

Marshall Applewhite - Marks Fish Tank On Floor One

New Tendencies - r.0419.2

RHGT - Expand Yourself

The Both And - Field 7

Lorem - Raheem 2 FT Acre

Skeemask - 29Hz

Sun Thief - Feast Of The Cumaean

Tranzzet - Keen

Vaag - Find Rhythm

Vladislav Delay - Refunds (available here)

XDCVR_ - Np.linspace

Akeyamasou - 20200205

Ayrtbh - F

Crops - Crop 4

Pent - 3+

Worse - Richka

Resonance is an opportunity for me to experiment with contrasting sounds and discover how they can fit together in unexpected ways. Each month feels like assembling a new jigsaw puzzle—piecing together abstract elements and observing how they reflect and interact with one another.

In this context, DJing is approached not as the application of effects, but as a process of immanent construction. The mix becomes a space in which frequencies collide, interfere, and bleed into one another. What matters is not the track as a discrete unit, but the intensities generated in the overlaps, the friction, the artefacts, the liminal zones between sounds.

This tendency perhaps derives from vinyl culture, where mixing was bound to a linear temporality, a sequencing that imposed a certain discipline on both selection and transition. Digital DJing, by contrast, introduces a fundamentally non-linear logic: loops, cue points, fragmentation. Tracks are no longer played so much as disassembled and recombined.

The result can be a paradox: an expansion of possibility that coincides with a contraction of focus. Against this, there is value in restraint in allowing the music to unfold according to its own internal logic and letting things evolve naturally.

Quilsk - Invisible Migrations

Gondwana - Entelchia

Mark - See In Symbols

6amsunset - Should I go

(d)/glitched - Op-six Process

Calum Gunn - Renmela

Dittofused - No Razor

Bernard Parmegiani - Natures Ephemeres

Ekzon - Dysphonomik

Andria - Flaks

Hexalyne - Exiconal

Christian Vogel - New Value

Luca Bevacqua - Substitution Of The Immutable For The Shifting

Lime68k & Nathan Ho - We Regret The Error II

Modul - Fm Ocul

Synalegg - Barricades

Tom Hall - Void Pointer

Deli Kuvveti - Crimson Crush

Pokk! - Hanway Place

Hitori Tori - Nouve

William Fields - Arctan

Rian Treanor - Obstacle 2

Kosu Nes - Stamode

Renick Bell - Buds

Tranzzet - Puetie Oslo

Tsrono - Voroni Gyre

Yvat - Skew

Ignatius - Risset 1

Kindohm - Veil 2

Qancel - Tite

Duran Duran Duran & Aethereal Arthropod - Deathereal 3

Wolff Parkinson White - Galaxy Cluster 214b Community Advisory Board’s

Most Promising Secretary

Qebrus - ᐔ ᐌ ᐂ ᐍ ᐚ - 06 █ ͇͇͇͇͇͇̿̿̿̿ ͇͇͇̿̿ ̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿┌ ▄█▀▄ ͇͇͇͇͇̿̿̿█ ͇͇͇̿̿ ̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿

Zeuge - Rat Poison ft Lokom

Where the first mix marked an opening, this one moves deeper into the circuitry. Resonance operates as a recursive machine: concerned with feedback and new paths of experimentation. The machine does not liberate us from human listening; it focuses and amplifies it.

Time in this space does not merely pass — it smears, stretches, folds, and fractures. Loops unravel, reweave themselves, and fold back on memory. Glitches are not errors but sigils, fractures in perception that reveal the machinery underneath.

Past futures echo faintly in the background, encoded in texture rather than statement; we do not escape the present — we hear it thinking. Listening is an act of attunement to these spectral currents, where the audible and the haunted interlace.

EKO : RESONANCE 02

JOAO MS - DUB ERGONOMICS

MARK - AUTUMN LETTERS 1903 NO.213

MORDANT MUSIC - ASDIC

FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER - MACHINEGUN

HEAVEE - UNLEASH

S>>D - SILVER SHAMROCK INTERMISSION

LEE GAMBLE - KUANG SHAPED PROWLA

MOIN - WILL I HAVE ENOUGH GRAPES

THE FEAR RATIO - T15

FIS - DMT USHER

WONKS - TELEKOM

ATRA BILIS FT DERIANSKY - SHROOMS

BERT VAN A - LISBOA IDM

BRIAN ENO & ROBERT LOGAN - ENVOID

DYL - SEMANTICS

DONKEY BASKETBALL - REDOX COMP

HITORI TORI - MINDFUL OF FALL

KINDOHM - DUBIOUS TRIANGLE

LAIN - WHITE LIGHT

LIME68K - FRIENDLY COMPOUNDS

LUMISOKEA - UROBOROS

PUSHLOCK - DYED CHANNEL

SHELLY KNOTS - HUMAN FACTORS

SHUBHARUN SENGUPTA - ULTRALINEAE

SOTE - REIGN OF INSANITY

TRANZZET - ASHE CKOPS

C_ROBO - HELP SWAN

CORDELIA - NOT WHAT WE OUGHT TO SAY

ECZEM - KSONC4

NNIRROR - DYE SOAK

/PULSR - DIMORPHIA : A

BYETONE - POSTPOSTREFABRICATED

BASIC UNIT - RECEIVE

GESCOM - TANGLE III LOOP BY 3MINS

SIDEPROJECT - KINGFISHER

The music traces the contours of the sounds I’m drawn to: abstract rhythms, electroacoustic atmospheres, and unstable beats that hover between propulsion and collapse. There is a constant push and pull at work — density against absence, precision against erosion—producing sharp contrasts in time, space, perception and affect. Influenced by the idea that sound can excite, haunt, unsettle and reconfigure how we experience the present, these mixes lean into dissonance, drift and the strange emotional charge carried by synthetic and atmospheric texture.

The Resonance mixes are less about genre fidelity; they foreground sound as environment, as pressure, as residue—where echoes of rave futurism, dub decay and digital excess bleed into one another. In this sense, the music resists closure: it loops, stutters, mutates, and occasionally slips out of focus, revealing moments of fragile beauty and latent unease.

I’ll be releasing new music as Eko later in the year, on one of my favourite experimental labels. Until then, I will be using these mixes as a way of communicating. Thanks for listening to this first session. I’ll return next month with part two.

E K O : R E S O N A N C E 0 1

MILIAN MORI - SPACING OUT

BEEMASK - PINK DRINQ

CHERRYSTONES / DEMDIKE STARE - PROPHET IN VIEW

RUSSELL HASWELL - HEAVY HANDED SUNSET (AUTECHRE FORM CONVERSION)

HEX - OPEN SOURCE

NNIRROR - SIMILARITY

NO STENCIL - SIEGE

RELICX - HRIð 2

SEKTION - KOPPLUNG 2

SCOTT GORDON - TILTS III

TSRONO - IMNSIC

KINDOHM - UNFOLLOWED SILENCE

HUMA - SHIFT BETWIXT

KLAHRK - NAUSEA

ILA MOIRE - SOUNDWAVES FOR SOUNDSYSTEMS

WEȽ∝KER - RAZZI

NATHAN HO - EXTERIOR ALGEBRA & HEROIN

MTCH - NHJBJ

KINDOHM - FERON 5LIP

MOXUS - 2(PERC)

HEXALYNE - XETERCYLECCSEN

LIME68K - DRUMMING OUT OF BODY FIRE

HOLY SIMILAUN - OUTRO

KAGAMI SMILE - UP

DJ STINGRAY 313 - SENSOR DATA

DEL KUVVETI - FLESHIN FLUX

AGF - ABUNDANTIA

QANCEL - LOST LOCKED

IGUANA - TACA

UNEARTH - FAULTY CLIENT

NORTH MANC BEDS - AWARM1

RIAN TREANOR WITH ROTHERAM SIGHT N SOUND - ACTION 4 - ONE

MICA LEVI & OLIVER COATES - DRAGON IN THE MIST

TYLER SOUTH - CLICIWCH

LIGOVSKOI - AURES (PEDER MANNERFELT POWER MIX)

RIAN TREANOR - BRANCHING 2

CONRAD SCHNITZLER & FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER - PHASENSCHIEBER

DEMDIKE STARE & KRISTEN PILON - TWIST