31.07.21 @ ://about blank Berlin Featuring Vlada, Gigi FM (stepping in for Maayan Nidam due to illness), Konduku b2b Kim Bergstrand & residents Patterns of Perception emerges from hibernation with a lineup of friends and favourites curated with our favourite summer hideout in about blank's lush garden in mind. Expect a euphoric return to the dancefloor – also marking the collective's five-year anniversary. With guests Maayan Nidam, Vlada, and Konduku, plus the full crew of Patterns of Perception residents. Selected listening Vlada Gigi FM Konduku Facebook / Resident Advisor

20.11.21 @ ://about blank Berlin Featuring Tobias. (live), Mor Elian, Pessimist, Mattikk, Solid Traveller, A Walking Contradiction & Kynant Records Patterns of Perception returns to ://about.blank’s indoor dancefloors to celebrate a milestone: the launch of the collective's record label and first release. Selected listening Tobias. - SoundCloud Mor Elian - SoundCloud Pessimist - SoundCloud Mattikk - SoundCloud Solid Traveller - SoundCloud A Walking Contradiction - SoundCloud Kynant Records - SoundCloud Facebook / Resident Advisor

10.07.22 @ ://about blank, Berlin Featuring Alicia Carrera, Kia, Naone & Special Guest Patterns of Perception returns to the leafy surrounds of the ://about blank garden for their annual Summer Edition. Also marking the collective’s sixth birthday, this event will be a vibrant celebration of diverse grooves and psychedelia in the open air, featuring DJ sets from Alicia Carrera, Kia, Naone, residents and a special guest. Selected listening Alicia Carrera Kia Naone More info: Facebook / Resident Advisor

16.09.22 @ OHM, Berlin Patterns of Perception returns to OHM for the first time since the pandemic began with a night of vibrant, percussive and unpredictable electronic explorations, provided by guest artists upsammy and Felix K, plus residents. Selected listening upsammy Felix K More info: Facebook / Resident Advisor

As a region, Southeast Asia plays host to a colourful electronic music scene, rich with diverse sounds, landscapes and audiences. In recent years, cross-pollination and collaboration have become important facets of this scene, with inspiration and energy transmitting regularly between cities and crews. Central to many of these exchanges has been Bangkok-based DJ, producer and label-head Sunju Hargun, whose distinctive blend of vibrant, sophisticated psychedelia and the natural sounds of his surroundings have seen him grace stages in clubs, caves, forests, warehouses and castles across Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and onwards into Europe. His current project, Siamese Twins Records, also finds a solid foundation in pan-Asian connections. A platform to explore old-world chants and ceremonial percussion, the label hosts many of Sunju's own works, including Bollywood-inspired acid made as Mogambo and wildly meditative Thai temple drone music as Khun Fluff. Sunju’s Patterns of Perception 99 is a recording from a recent visit to Japan - more specifically from his appearance at a Transcendence party at Circus in Tokyo. Humming with psychedelic movement, this set finds Sunju channelling the intimacy of the venue to great effect, intuitively balancing nostalgic groove, sweaty exotica and cutting-edge trippiness. As we descend further into the mix, it's impossible to not feel a tightening of focus as spiralling energies shimmer and release. "Anything could happen, everything was possible, all is connected" - Sunju's perfectly apt before/during/after summation. Sunju Hargun's Links: SoundCloud Bandcamp Instagram Facebook Resident Advisor Siamese Twins Records - SoundCloud

For a DJ with as busy a gig roster as Resom, you’d imagine the ongoing lockdown would lead to stillness and calm. Instead, having already scaled back on touring and travelling a few months ago, Nadine Moser has been keeping a pretty busy schedule in recent weeks. Among the projects keeping her occupied is a sound triptych - three connected mixes, including one for Patterns of Perception - exploring and reflecting her feelings about this difficult collective moment of ours. Unlike the diverse and eclectic party sets for which she has become known, as part of her ://about blank residency and gigs in clubs all over, here she takes it down a gear and delivers an ambient mix embedded in nature - offering up the perfect soundtrack for a walk in the woods, a long meditative run, or just quiet home reflection as we adjust to the new world order. Below, she fills us in about the concept behind the mix, reflects on some unexpected influences from her East German heritage, and explains why politics are as important for expression as the music itself. Can you tell us a bit about both the concept of the project and of your Patterns mix in particular: how does this mix fit into the overall series? Since it’s not possible to be together in a club and listen to music on a big sound system, I have been trying to lock myself away in my own acoustic world - with headphones. An energetic world that makes me wanna go for a walk, a run, yoga, work out, or forest cycling trip - with shifting tempi and patterns. I received a lot of mix requests and I realized that I could actually connect them. So the idea came up to connect the sound that reflects within me and of this period to a series. Not that this is a new idea - but I finally felt like I do have the time and the space to focus on it. So it’s going to be a 3+1 sound triptych that reflects a desire of being in nature, walking and dancing and sleeping and opening up through a different time reception. To me, this is a way of distancing myself from being a human creature that does bad to this planet. It’s an attempt to run away from being connected to all those things that happen around me and us, a run away from the human world that's sickening me, makes me bitter, sad, angry, and helpless. (It involves) using exactly that energy and the human-created synthetic sound world in combination with field recordings I collected over all the years. This mix for Patterns of Perception in particular has actually a bit of a longer story. I had a phase of night dreams when I was walking through forests. ‘Patterns of perception’ means to me mainly a trip to a detailed deepness, that makes your eyes close and focus on an acoustic reception. So I decided to focus on what deepens me these days: ambient sounds. I haven’t done an ambient mix in quite a while; this appears to me as the perfect moment. With gigs and touring on hold for now, how are you spending your time at the moment? To what extent has the current situation allowed you more time to focus on projects such as this mix series? I have been actually pretty busy. Last year I made the decision that I don’t wanna live only from DJing anymore, I wanted to play less gigs because the touring is exhausting my body too much and I felt my brain and mind is not able to develop anymore in a way that I feel comfortable with. Being a nervous wreck before playing took so much capacity and I finally realise that I simply want to have a quieter life now. I’m getting older! :D Over the winter I changed a lot of my behaviours: went out less, played less and focused on getting up very early, having a daily routine and focusing on thinking, reflecting and studying again. So this whole thing hit me emotionally, but luckily not too harsh financially - I took the chance to enjoy being alone again and luckily I do have another two projects that help me survive financially and are simply great! Also I really don’t mind not seeing people all the time or running from one appointment to another. I love working from home and I cannot live another way then organising myself. So not much changed but I do enjoy the extension of being able to focus again - very much! We’re curious about your approach to recording a new mix. Where do you start? Is there a common thread you look for when selecting music? That is a tough question because it differs all the time. Normally I do have an instant feeling when I receive a request or I have a mix I did spontaneously and have an idea where to send it to. This is how for example the mix for Berceuse Heroique made it to the public. Or I come up with a theme. Like: forest. Or like in my former radio shows - weather, water, radio, food… whatever. When I record a mix home, it is a completely different mindset than when I play in a club. That's why mixes that are published as podcasts sound sometimes totally different to what I’m playing at a party and that’s why I don’t share too many live recordings - because it’s a different state of mind. Also, it takes me so much energy to find the right track to what I wanna express emotionally - I realized this again now - I cannot eat well, I cannot do anything else but stay in this mindset. I cannot take a break until I have finished it. It has to be perfectly imperfect. The confusion of certain rhythms is very important to me because in my world nothing is perfect - that’s the beauty and power of life in my opinion, the motor of improvement and development. You’ve previously said that melody is the binding agent in your sets: why do you think melody appeals to you the most? What role does it play in your sets? Ha I think that’s simply because of my inability to use words to express emotions and melodies express emotions. It’s sometimes hard to communicate with human beings, my direct and honest, very egocentric and strong will goes along with conflicting self-doubts, inner hate, and fears. So I often chose music to reflect myself. The melodies soften them and give me the connecting help to survive. Melodies are life for me - they give me the power to ease. How would you say your sound has changed from your Leipzig days up until now? That is another tough question - thank you:) ! I don’t think it changed at all, I just try to go deeper and deeper, but sticking to my musical roots, it's emotional expression. For a long time I felt more freedom to express myself in Berlin. But that changed. I always feel more freedom when I play at Golden Pudel Hamburg, Palomabar or ://about blank or other smaller clubs. The pressure of “serving the audience“ is less intense. I can sound travel again and include all those different receptions, experiences, and people on this trip. But I definitely can hear a connecting line of musical taste expression for example when I listen to the new releases by (Leipzig label) R.A.N.D. Muzik, who in my opinion mirrors a lot of my personal taste as well. So there is always a connection to Leipzig and it will always be, and I still feel home there in my heart. But I also feel a deep connection to a certain sound world being created in other cities like CDMX, Hamburg, Amsterdam, New York, or Detroit. Do you have any influences - early or current - that people might be surprised to hear about? I don’t think so, because I never covered my influences. Ok maybe there is one that may surprise people - but that’s mainly for German people - Heinz Rudolf Kunze. I literally know all of his songs and know all the lyrics. Some of them are very poetic, critical, and made me imagine a certain emotional world I could escape to. I was 11 when this album was released, the same year the Wall came down and confusion, fear, and powerlessness was the state of mind around me. He played live in Erfurt once and I went to see him, alone, and it was great! He later was correctly criticized for his claim that radio stations should have a minimum quota with a German repertoire of music. But those albums - HRK and Brille - influenced me a lot. And yes my first ever 7“ I bought myself was Milli Vanilli on Amiga Quartett (with 6y). You’re a resident at ://about blank, a venue which is very close to the hearts of the Patterns of Perception crew. How important has this club been to your career so far? I couldn’t imagine where I would be without this community. Mainly without Diana’s influence and friendship. The challenges and the freedom of being a part of it reflects a lot in my DJing. I lost so much there - I won so much too - in all forms and shapes. I can only repeat myself here - to learn to be able to discuss, to distance yourself from opinion making arrogance - that is one of my personal life goals and I can see that reflected in the work of each individual at blanki. In addition to DJing, you’ve been actively involved in promoting social and political awareness within the scene, for example via the Amplified Kitchen event series. Away from a party context, why is it important for you to increase awareness of the wider context of club culture? It might be a total illusion to make the human world a better one to be part of but I just feel the urge to stay in discussion. It changes all the time and I just develop and I believe in continuity. But I think the dance floor itself should stay as diverse and open as possible. Learning to be respectful towards different opinions, and social and cultural backgrounds, is a hard but great challenge that I’m happy to face off the dancefloor. Politics are a tool to communicate as much as music itself. Do you already have first thoughts or predictions about how the club scene might look when we are allowed to (safely) return to partying? What changes do you think we could see for artists, clubs and patrons? I’m sure it’s going to be intense. It’s unpredictable to look into a future beside the fact that it will continue. The urge to unite in dance is a given fact that was always there and will always be there, as well as the urge to dive into another mindset, to let go and express yourself. I hope for a change to the better, but it's not me to tell the future. It's in each individual's hands. DIY is my way. And I’m happy to be involved in those improving times. Lastly, what music is keeping you company at this moment in time? I love to listen to jazz, at the moment I do listen to more experimental jazz and can stand the sound of saxophones and trumpets, which I couldn’t do before too much. I recently just discovered Postrock again and I am very happen to listen to bands like Diario, Karate, Bollo, and Shellac again, to explore the soundscapes, the drumming and bass melodies more in detail. Also I listen to a lot of label catalogues again or get inspiration from other people: Alyona Alyona’s trap hop, KiliHippie from Kenya, and always to nature’s sound.

For Amsterdam-based DJ Leoni, rhythm is key. Through residencies at OOST and RRFM, and performances at key events across Europe (including past appearances at Dekmantel Selectors, Zeezout, Wildeburg and Paradigm, with slots at Dekmantel and Zeezout pencilled in for this year), she’s quickly developed her own distinctive understanding of rhythm and texture, from the deep and psychedelic, to the bright and energetic. Patterns of Perception 98 is a perfect summation of DJ Leoni’s fascination and natural aptitude for rhythm. Exploring and interpreting a blend of both faster and half-speed selections, this set glides weightlessly between tempos and grooves; a radiant experience with both power and introspection. And as this mix patiently unfurls, we see the kaleidoscopic become physical, as rhythms and emotions melt. DJ Leoni's Links: SoundCloud Instagram Facebook

Altjira, the new project of Netherlands-born, Berlin-based Marc Leerink, represents the eternal, the uncreated, a being without beginning. Inspired by First Nations’ (Australia) Dreamtime and glimpses into Marc’s own lucid dreams, the selection glides effortlessly through deep, radiant waters, weaving an impressive palette of genres and sounds into a whole that is glitchy, atmospheric, and esoteric yet, somehow, superbly unified and hopeful. With new releases on the horizon, including on Spekki Webu's imprint Mirror Zone, Altjira is a bold new manifestation of a most fascinating artist entering an exciting, ascendant phase, a moment captured exquisitely by Patterns of Perception 97. Altjira's Links: SoundCloud Instagram

For Sybil, embracing diversity and unpredictability comes naturally. With a sound as wide-ranging as it is sleek and vibrant, her careful yet intuitive selections slip smoothly between playfulness and intensity; euphoria and driving energy, covering an array of genres and tempos in the process. A busy DJing schedule has taken Sybil both across the UK (with appearances at Village Underground, Fabric, Glastonbury, and Timedance to name a few), and to respected events and venues around the world, including Berlin Atonal, Berghain’s Säule, the WHOLE Festival, De School (Amsterdam), Brutaż (Warsaw), ZVUK (Almaty) and Honey Soundsystem (San Francisco). Post-pandemic, Sybil has kept busy, playing at local parties across London (including the inaugural Risen festival), as well as hosting off-grid trance raves deep in the British countryside. Her Patterns of Perception 96 is a spirited expedition to the outer edges of consciousness. Simultaneously pulsating and soulful, her selections trace a path through the void, carefully mapping the vast, incomprehensible expanses within. While this mix embraces a darker sonic palette, it carefully shies away from the brutal intensity often associated with darkness. Instead, Sybil’s interpretation is psychedelic and sensuous, guiding us on a journey which is strange, thrilling and ultimately revitalising. Sybil's Links: SoundCloud Instagram Facebook Resident Advisor Buymusic.club SoundCloud - Deep Mind Music

Roza Terenzi has traversed continents, yet her sound as a producer is never quite of this world. Hailing from Australia and now based in Berlin, extensive touring and appearances at a host of electronic music’s most esteemed festivals and venues have only served to strengthen her skills as a producer, with releases on the likes of Dekmantel, Planet Euphorique, Kalahari Oyster Cult, Butter Sessions and her own Step Ball Chain somehow evoking both nostalgia and visions of the future through cosmic atmospherics and warm, alien grooves. Likewise, her Patterns of Perception 95 is luminous, lush and vibrantly nostalgic: like a hazy, sun-bleached postcard from decades past, viewed very much in the here and now. Covering a lot of ground in terms of both tempo and energy - this mix floats effortlessly from downtempo to liquid DNB, from breaks to house and back again, showcasing her effervescent skill and versatility behind the decks. Featuring an array of forthcoming and unreleased material from friends, collaborators and Terenzi herself, the warmth in this uplifting selection stirs hope for the times ahead. Roza Terenzi's Links: SoundCloud Instagram Facebook Resident Advisor Step Ball Chain - SoundCloud

As an artist, GiGi-fm ’s energy and vision is unmistakeable. Known for truly wide-ranging and eclectic selections, and her electric presence in the booth - her sets feel unpredictable, warm and inviting all at once. Underpinned by psychedelic, transcendent atmospheres and rhythms, her sounds expand organically in all directions, with shades of techno, electro, breaks, house, IDM, ambient and more used in vivid, kaleidoscopic and unexpected combinations. Recorded live at our party from this past summer, GiGi’s Patterns of Perception 89 perfectly embodies her indelible energy. As a closing set, this was a blistering performance that left the audience totally transfixed over the course of two and half blissful hours. Capturing spontaneity, improvisation, diversity and vibrancy, this set had a profound, lasting impact on all those present, and we’re pleased to be able to share this recording. GiGi's Links: SoundCloud Instagram Facebook

Rosa is an enigmatic project based in Naarm/Melbourne. Encapsulating a mix series, illegal raves and more recently a record label (the first release of which came from the equally elusive Sa Pa), the project’s unwavering thread is its focus on sound and curation. With Patterns of Perception 90, Rosa offers a visceral, expansive journey that touches nearly every corner of its sophisticated soundscape. Hallucinatory atmospheres flare into vibrant, propulsive energy. Unsettling electronics meet submerged, mutant grooves, kindling a luminous expedition that feels both profound and psychotropic. Rosa's Links: SoundCloud Bandcamp Instagram Facebook