🌞[EQX020] MadZen - A Shaman's Dream EP

@madzenman

@dvniel-dt

@whiteflamingomusic

@huitzimusic

Mastering:

@madzenman

Release Date:

June 21

Stream & Download:

https://go.protonradio.com/r/rlkRwupLE5FwM

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Summer Solstice:

Yang reaches its peak, Yin begins to emerge.

Deer antlers shed; Cicadas begin to sing; Pinellia appears.

Six thousand years ago, in the southeast of Teotihuacan, the ancient Mexicans observed the sunrise and sunset of the summer and winter solstices from a man-made mound shaped like a scorpion. At the same time, on the observatory at the Taosi site by the Yellow River, the ancient Chinese were attempting to converse with the cosmos, observing and recording the two solstices and two equinoxes.

On the same day, the finger of the priest beneath the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, and the finger of the astrologer on the Taosi observatory six thousand years ago, pointed toward the same direction.

The same sun, the same shadow, the same obsession with celestial time.

Carl Jung believed that the root of such synchronicity lies in the collective unconscious. Those innate psychological dispositions called archetypes, manifest unconsciously in dreams, hallucinations, and rituals.

In ancient Mexican shamanic ceremonies, shamans used fire, drums, herbs, and dance to plant dreams into people, leading a collective into the act of co-creating events. While in the East, Daoist practitioners similarly believed that dreams are the passage through which the primordial spirit leaves the body and enters into dialogue with all things and the universe.

Back to this EP, A Shaman's Dream, is entirely created by Mexican musicians. In their blood flows the astronomy of the Maya, the rituals of the Aztecs, the shamanic drumming, and the whispers of the dead.

Yet when you close your eyes and listen, you'll find something familiar hidden between the beats, something that resonates with Eastern souls: the alternation of Yin and Yang, the breath of motion and stillness.

This is one theory expressed in two tongues, a manifestation of what Jung called the collective unconscious across two civilizations, and a resonance born from the same sun illuminating two lands at once.

夏至，阳极阴生。

一候鹿角解，二候蜩始鸣，三候半夏生。

6000年前，在特奥蒂瓦坎东南方的特瓦坎谷地，古墨西哥人在一座被塑造成蝎子形状的人造土丘上观测夏至和冬至的日出与日落。

同样是六千年前，在华夏大地的陶寺遗址古观星台上，古中国人也在尝试与宇宙对话，观测并记录了二分二至。同一天，特奥蒂瓦坎的太阳金字塔下祭司的手指，与六千年前陶寺观星台上占星者的手指，指向同一个方向。

一个在西方，一个在东方。同一颗太阳，同一道影子，同一种对天时的执念。

荣格认为，这种共时性现象的根源在于集体潜意识。人类自存在以来，亿万次社会活动所沉淀的心理模式，经由种族遗传的方式传达给每一个个体。那些被称为“原型”的先天心理倾向，在梦、幻觉、仪式中无意识地显现。

在古墨西哥的萨满仪式中，萨满们利用火焰、鼓声、草药和舞蹈，向人们播种梦境，带领一群人共同去创造一件事情的发生。

而在东方，道家修行者同样相信，梦是元神脱离肉体、与万物和宇宙对话的通道。

这张专辑名为 《A Shaman's Dream》 ，全部由墨西哥音乐人创作。他们的血脉里流淌着玛雅的天文、阿兹特克的仪式、萨满的鼓声与亡灵的低语。但当你闭上眼睛聆听，会发现那些节拍之间，藏着某种让东方灵魂们熟悉的东西：阴阳的交替，动静的呼吸。

这是同一个理论的两种表达方式。

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Nature.

Cosmos.

Inner Voices.

秋分 Autumn Equinox

@autumnequinoxlabel

Voice of Grain in Ear (Mangzhong) [芒种之音]

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Grain in Ear:

Praying mantises are born

Shrike begins to sing

Mockingbird falls silent

Mangzhong is the only solar term that directly guides agricultural work, marking the busiest season for farming.

For most people who are faraway from the land, this year's Mangzhong carries an additional layer of challenge.

2026 is a year of blazing intensity, and Mangzhong coincides with this month, in Chinese calendar they creating a "double fire", making the summer heat even more intense than usual.

Here are a few tips to help you stay comfortable:

❄️ Avoid making major decisions in the heat of the moment. Give your emotions room to cool down, and wait for the right timing amid the busyness.

🕙Follow nature's rhythm: "sleep late, rise early" (but no later than 11 PM), and make time for a midday nap. This will help you stay efficient in work and daily life while effectively nurturing your heart and spirit.

🚶 Maintain a calm and joyful state of mind. Avoid strenuous exercise; opt for gentle activities like walking or tai chi to prevent excessive sweating from depleting your body's fluids.

🎧 Listen to this episode of EQUINOXAST by this talented Chinese artist Biu踢 from Yunnan, a cool and refreshing set to dispel the summer heat.

🧘Biu踢

A member of the collective [1312] and the label [Fofunder], always begins every musical adventure by questioning anything that feels "not fun." With a unique sensitivity to music, he breaks established performance frameworks using a wide range of elements and styles. Rooted in "truth" as the core of electronic music, he adheres to a musical philosophy of "following the heart, moving freely."

Constantly exploring new sounds across global online networks, he continuously injects fresh energy onto the dance floor, making even those who don't know how to dance start dancing.

Follow the artist:

网易云音乐：哪里的歌

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Nature.

Cosmos.

Inner Voices.

秋分🌾 Autumn Equinox

Soundcloud: @autumnequinoxlabel

Bandcamp: http://autumnequinoxlab.bandcamp.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/autumnequinoxlabel/

Beatport: www.beatport.com/label/autumn-equinox/116624

Release: I'm Mady - Schnapsidee [AOD007]

Main artist : @immadyofficial

Remixers: @diereva, @kalunet @medi-zijn, @manojpuri

Label: @art-of-downtempo

Release Date : May 22, 2026

Grasshüpfer, another original from I’m Mady’s 'Schnapsidee', is a refined downtempo piece shaped by fluid melodic lines and understated hypnotic detail. Elegant and introspective, it reflects the EP’s broader theme of transition, capturing the quiet grace of letting go and the subtle pull toward new beginnings.

Follow the artist:

Soundcloud: @immadyofficial

https://www.instagram.com/immadymusic/

Follow the label:

@art-of-downtempo

www.instagram.com/art_of_downtempo/

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https://www.instagram.com/autumnequinoxlabel/

Nature.

Cosmos.

Inner Voices.

秋分Autumn Equinox

Voice of Grain Buds (Xiao Man) [小满]


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🌿[EQX019] Saygin - Hickory EP

@ssuzen

@lenkradofficial

@kaob

@onur-diner1

@ednoodle

Mastering:

@xiakes

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At the point between almost full and not yet full, find the very Hickory that guides you.

Grain Buds (Xiaoman) is the second solar term of summer. At this time, wheat grains are gradually plumping, rains are becoming more abundant, and the world is filled with a humble tension of being "almost full yet not quite."

First pentad: Bitter herbs flourish. Only after tasting bitterness can one truly know the meaning of sweetness.

Second pentad: Shade-loving grasses wither under the scorching sun. The delicate retreat, making way for the resilient.

Third pentad: The wheat's autumn arrives. Though it is summer, the wheat greets its own "autumn." The fruit ripens, hangs low, heavy and full.

These fifteen days form an inner path of awakening: Tasting bitterness → Letting go of fragility → Welcoming maturity.

Just like this EP.

Hickory is a type of resilient wood, often made into a whip：an instrument of guidance and calibration, marking boundaries and pointing directions. This track is a sober guidance, like a warm vine that gently touches the skin, awakening perception. Between breaths and pauses, you learn to listen to your own body, and also learn to let go of blind following.

If Hickory is the Yang side of this beautiful journey, Blindfold is the Yin side: a voluntary obscuring. Covering the eyes is about shutting out external distractions, allowing hearing, touch, and intuition to take over perception.

Grain Buds is a unique solar term, directly reflecting an ancient Chinese philosophy, that the best state is not absolute fullness, but the ease of "just enough."

This EP, within the gaps of downtempo beats, offers you a moment of self-dialogue with a deep breath: "Are you willing, in your own rhythm, to feel just a little bit satisfied?"

在将满未满处，找到那条刚好引导你的藤。

小满，是夏季的第二个节气。此时，麦粒渐满，雨水渐丰，天地间充盈着一种 “将满未满” 的谦逊张力。

一候苦菜秀：苦味植物繁茂。尝过苦涩，方知甘甜的意义。

二候靡草死：喜阴的细软草类在烈日下枯萎。柔弱退场，为坚韧让路。

三候麦秋至：虽在夏日，麦子却已迎来自己的“秋天”。果实成熟，低垂饱满。

这十五天，恰好构成一条内在的觉醒之路：品尝苦涩 → 放下柔弱 → 迎来成熟，如同这张EP一样。

Hickory是一种坚韧的木材，常被制成鞭，一种引导与校准的器具，划定边界，指引方向。这首歌是清醒的引导，如同一条有温度的藤蔓，轻轻触碰皮肤，唤醒知觉。在呼吸与停顿之间，学会听从自己的身体，也学会放下盲目的跟随。

如果HIckory是这段美妙旅程的阳面，Blindfold就是阴面，它是主动的遮蔽。蒙住眼睛是为了关闭外在的干扰，让听觉、触觉、直觉接管感知。

小满是一个独特的节气，它直观反映了古老的中国哲学——最好的状态不是极致的满，而是“刚好够”的松弛。

这张EP，便是在那些慢下来美妙律动缝隙中，为你提供一次可以深呼吸的自我对话：“你愿意，在你自己的节奏里，小小地满足一下吗？”

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Nature.

Cosmos.

Inner Voices.

秋分 Autumn Equinox

@autumnequinoxlabel

www.instagram.com/autumnequinoxlabel/

Voice of Grain Rain (Gu Yu) [谷雨之音]

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Grain Rain:

Duckweed begins to grow,

turtledoves flutter their wings,

hoopoes descend upon mulberry trees.

In the last solar term of Spring, we give you the first episode of EQUINOXAST of the Blood Horse Year, created by DJ Motion.

🧘Dj Motion is a DJ who began his career back in 2007, captivated at the time by the popular Electro House genre while also paying special attention to Minimal. However, time has a way of flowing quickly and bringing changes. Today, his heart belongs to Afro House, Melodic Techno, and Indie Dance. He is always open to collaboration and ready to consider partnership proposals.

Follow the artist:

https://soundcloud.com/motion_dj

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Nature.

Cosmos.

Inner Voices.

秋分🌾 Autumn Equinox

Soundcloud: @autumnequinoxlabel

Bandcamp: http://autumnequinoxlab.bandcamp.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/autumnequinoxlabel/

Beatport: www.beatport.com/label/autumn-equinox/116624

Vavinchi, Andre P - Safari2 by Autumn Equinox

Voice of Beginning of Spring (Li Chun) [立春]


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⚡️[EQX017] Bliz Nochi - Marisa Cinta Musica EP

@bliznochi

@matijasound

@richardelcox

@amu_amu

@thomas-gaarthuis

Mastering Engineers:

@xiakes

Release Date:

February 13

Stream & Download:

https://go.protonradio.com/r/rlkysLPLNeZK4

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Beginning of Spring:

East wind thaws the ice.

Dormant insects stir beneath the soil.

Fish rise beneath thinning ice bearing fragments of winter.

In the autumn of 2025, we journeyed from the southeastern coast to the hidden landscapes of the southwest of China, completing a long tour called Sonic Pilgrimage. It was an outward expedition, connecting with the earth and exploring the possibilities of sound. The most precious gift this journey gave us was a clear conviction: Never stop the exploration of the true self.

Now, the Year of the Crimson Horse and Blood Goat has arrived, filled with trials and transformative revelations. Time no longer feels linear, boundaries grow increasingly blurred, and the currents of the external world swirl with growing intensity, where history and prophecy tangle under grand narratives. It is the time to build spiritual arks for ourselves.

Beginning of Spring marks the start of the solar cycle, the first strand of vitality breaking through the ice. The EP "Marisa Cinta Musica" emerges now as the "first grain", forged by our companions of Sonic Pilgrimage, Bliz Nochi & Marisa Lia, who participated the whole journey. They infused the soul of ethnic roots into a warm body woven from downtempo and indie rock.

We also invited another pioneering companion from the tour, AmuAmu, along with our longtime friends Matija & Richard Elcox and Thommie G, to create three distinctly different remixes. From varying temporal and spatial perspectives, they trace divergent yet captivating paths for this emerging energy grain, allowing sounds rooted in the earth to pulse with new dimensions of life within contemporary rhythms.

This EP is the first fruit offered after our shift from “outward journeying” to “inward rooting.” It signals that our path has entered a new chapter: from mapping the soundscapes of geography to surveying the bloodstream of civilizations; from collecting distant echoes to awakening our shared genetic memory.

立春

东风解冻，蛰虫始振，鱼陟负冰。

2025年秋，我们从中国东南沿海行至西南秘境，完成了一场名为「万物声旅」的漫长巡礼。那是一次向外的行走，在陌生的场景中连接大地、探索声音的可能性。它给予我们最珍贵的礼物，是一个确切的信念：对于真我的探索。

自冬至始，我们从奔走中静定，开启了全新线下活动，更加专注地守护内在的声音。充满淬炼与变革启示的赤马红羊之年已至，时间不再呈线性，边界越来越模糊，外部世界的洪流漩涡愈发湍急，宏大叙事下的历史和预言纠缠重叠。

立春，是节气循环的伊始，是破冰绽放出的第一缕生机。这张名为 《Marisa Cinta Musica》 的EP，便是在此时应运而生的「初纹」。它由与我们共同穿越了「万物声旅」全程的伙伴——Bliz Nochi & Marisa Lia 打造，将根源民族音乐的灵魂，注入缓拍电子与独立摇滚交织的温暖肌体之中。

我们邀请了巡演中另一位先驱同行者AmuAmu，以及我们的老朋友 Matija & Richard Elcox、Thommie G，创作了三首截然不同的Remix作品。他们从不同的时空视角，为这条破土而出的能量纹路勾勒出迥异而迷人的延展路径，让来自于根源和大地的声音在当代的脉动中焕发全新的生命维度。

这张EP，是我们从“向外行走”到“向内扎根”后，递出的第一颗果实。它标志着我们的旅程已经踏入全新的章节：从测绘地理的声景，转向勘探文明的血脉；从收集远方的回声，到唤醒我们共有的基因记忆。

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Cosmos.

Inner Voices.

秋分🌾Autumn Equinox

Voice of Major Cold (Da Han) [大寒之音]

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❄️Major Cold, the final solar term in the 24 cycle, marks the peak of winter's chill.

Poultry begin to brood;

birds of prey turn fierce and swift;

rivers and lakes freeze solid through.

It is a time for clearing out the old Chinese year and welcoming the new.

🧘If you judge an artist by how much fun he has performing and playing music, Sebastian Pedro should be at the top of your list.

He is an absolute music lover with a preference for electronic music performing as a dj as well as organising events with his crew „Techno ist Familiensache“.

Behind the decks he is using digital media as well as analogue vinyl, always dancing, smiling and communicating with the crowd, whereby his sound ranges from driving house or Down-/Midtempo tunes to deeper techno, but never gets too fast and dark

and often contains vocals. The essential is it makes the people shake their asses!

Sebastian has already played in many clubs in the Bavarian capital Munich like

Bahnwärter Thiel or Harry Klein as well as in other german citys and even in some countrys abroad like Austria, Thailand or Marocco!

Sebastian Pedro:

https://soundcloud.com/sebastianpedro

https://www.instagram.com/sebastianpedro_music/

https://www.facebook.com/sebastian.pedro.official

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Nature.

Cosmos.

Inner Voices.

秋分🌾 Autumn Equinox

Soundcloud: @autumnequinoxlabel

Bandcamp: http://autumnequinoxlab.bandcamp.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/autumnequinoxlabel/

Beatport: www.beatport.com/label/autumn-equinox/116624

estimua transforms "Prayana" into pure storytelling – a soulful, emotional odyssey that unfolds like a whispered tale from the heart of the journey itself. The remix breathes with cinematic warmth and intimate vulnerability – delicate melodies drift like memories surfacing, textures layer like chapters revealing themselves, and the groove moves with the patience of someone who knows the destination matters less than what happens along the way. This is downtempo as narrative, touchingly human and deeply felt, inviting you to dissolve into the tale and feel every heartbeat of the true journey.

SiddEffects - Prayana [AOD005]

artist : @siddeffects

with remixes by : @estimua / @immadyofficial / @diereva @langardor

Label: @art-of-downtempo

Mastering engineer: @kip_casey

Release Date : December 26, 2025

Follow the Artists:

@siddeffects

https://linktr.ee/siddeffects

@estimua

https://www.instagram.com/estimuaaa/

Follow the Label:

@art-of-downtempo

www.instagram.com/art_of_downtempo/

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❄️Voice of Winter Solstice (Dong Zhi) [冬至之声]

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☯️The Winter Solstice: Yin reaches its zenith, Yang begins to rise.

The Winter Solstice is a pivotal solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar, marking the longest night of the year. After this day, the Northern Hemisphere enters its coldest phase, with temperatures gradually dropping. Simultaneously, daylight hours begin to lengthen while nights slowly shorten.

🧘Melamanos is a DJ from Minsk, Belarus. This man is ready to sell his soul for soulful music. His tastes cover a large scale from multicultural electronica to romantic tech. A firm chillrave promoter, committed to slow dancing and meditative trances. He has been addicted to downtempo, ethnic, midtempo, organic, ketapop, tribal, folktronica, chillrave from 2018. Since then, a lot of slow rave parties in Minsk have been organized & many sets at different venues & cities played, among them Istanbul, Tbilisi, Milan, Ericeira/Lisbon, Ponta Delgada/Azores and others. In addition, he continues his virtual musical travelings to different countries, recording podcasts/mixtapes for various worldwide downtempo communities/labels.

🌬You can hear many tracks released by Autumn Equinox in this special set.

Melamanos:

https://soundcloud.com/melamanos

https://www.instagram.com/me.lama.nos/

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Nature.

Cosmos.

Inner Voices.

秋分🌾 Autumn Equinox

Soundcloud: @autumnequinoxlabel

Bandcamp: http://autumnequinoxlab.bandcamp.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/autumnequinoxlabel/

Beatport: www.beatport.com/label/autumn-equinox/116624