compiled for 34mag.net in dec.2011 by Pavel Niakhayeu (nieviadomy artyst, pavel ambiont)
more info + other people’s mixes: http://34mag.net/post/navagodniya-miksy/

winter songs (selected by nieviadomy artyst)
tracklist:
1. Rusia – Čaho Ty, Łośia… (*)
2. Rajna – Dervishing
3. Donis & Rasa Serra – Bite Lingo
4. Moon Far Away – Žito Žala
5. Kola Beldy – Hoziain Lesa
6. […]

amal spantanny kulturna-mastacki prajekt - sapnai/dreams

sound recording / editing / mixing + music: Pavel Niakhayeu (pavel ambiont)
paintings: Hanna Kurashova
thanks to Alex Omeljanchuk for his help with collecting these stories, interpreting to & from lithuanian.

* - this version is from set played at Satta club, Vilnius on 25.12.2009.

(notes for the paper on �?liminality in Electronic dance music culture’)
A party has a fractal-like structure with at least three levels of liminality\intensity oscillating and fluctuating in and out on each level — track, set, whole party.
Another possible application of liminality\communitas concepts: EDMC communities, after all, truly exist not in the �?profane world’ of everyday, […]

July 21. Chilling at the forest chill-out at Yaga fest, i was reading a book on Lithuanian pagan religion by Algirdas Greimas (translated in belarusian by S. Šupa).
After reading chapter about offerings to fire (ugnis), i went to the ‘healing area’ to check what’s going there. Alas, a workshop on meditation had just finished. But […]

En: Just launched my research project on “rhythmic rituals” — from ancient \ tribal to their contemporary forms. This project mostly considers various aspects of techno & psy-trance (sub)cultures:

Why do we go to techno \ psy-trance parties?
What do we search there?
What do we experience there?
What those parties have in common with ancient \ tribal […]