Between the silence of Ibiza and the pulse of Berlin — @etape_ carries sounds from disappearing cultures back into the present.
June 6th · PAV · Turin
Read the full interview → link in bio
@etape_@presagio.fest
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Opening the new Intuit FM season with one of the world's most revered ambient researcher and soundscape creator, e/tape.
Next Thursday, 21.05 at Platforma Wolff. Open air.
--- 20:00-02:00. Free entrance
!!! ANNOUNCING !!!
SAGAT - VEIL + e/tape remix [GEMS003]
THE NEW GEMS UNDER THE HORIZON RECORD
release date 30/01/2026 / pre-order link in bio
Multidisciplinary Brussels-based artist Sagat steps up with a new mini album on the Basic Moves side label, Gems Under The Horizon, featuring a remix by Slovenian ambient bird e/tape. A few years ago, Wiet Lengeler, aka Sagat was invited by Basic Moves to create a live visual show using an analogue video synth setup to accompany a 5-hour dj set by e/tape at Face B in Brussels. From that moment on, the synchronicity between the two artists was clear - and this EP is the result.
Besides his visual work, Wiet Lengeler is also known for his contemporary techno music, primarily released on Brussels’ cult label Vlek Recordings. For this mini-album, Gems Under The Horizon 003, he presents four grainy ambient and textured electro-acoustic explorations. The tracks unfold organically — like ivy — gradually revealing layers of sound and hidden textures beneath babbling streams of electronics. e/tape’s remix feels like a natural continuation of Sagat’s sonic universe, together forming a mesmerising whole that explores the fringes of ambient music. In addition to the release, a limited run of the release + 30 x 3 riso printed posters from the visual show at Face B, made by Sagat and hand numbered are made available.
Mastering and lacquer cut was done by Frederic Alstadt at Angstrom Mastering. Artwork & inserts are designed by renowned Ghent-based visual artist Dieter Durinck.
Sit back and enjoy the wonderful aural world of Sagat and e/tape.
Sincerely,
The Basic Moves team.
Get comfortable and breathe deeply, as sound researcher @etape_ joins us this week on the mix series. Known for his expansive and cinematic podcast output over the past 15-years, his ambient explorations are masterclasses delivered in an unmistakably personal fashion.
A real pleasure to host something outside of the norm this week ahead of e/tape’s Dimensions debut this summer.
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the whole universe, is nothing but change, activity, and process—a totality of flux that is the ground of all things: every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles.
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what is our life but this dance of transient forms?
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the cells of our body are dying, the neurons in our brain are decaying, even the expression on our face is always changing, depending on our mood.
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where did that good feeling go? new influences took us over as circumstances changed: we are impermanent, the influences are impermanent, and there is nothing solid or lasting anywhere that we can point to.
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the past is past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. the only thing we really have is nowness, is now.
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