Ivan:
The origin and the end. The space between.
Sometimes it is not visible, but it occupies volumes.
Science calls it the negation of color, the absence of light.
We never believed that for a second.
With every track, we uncovered new facets, new essences, new gradients. It’s almost paradoxical—how one single color can contain so many variations within.
By the end of the playlist, we found ourselves at the negation of “negative”:
Black is not just darkness, gloom, or fear –
It is also mystery, elegance, depth, silence, the unknown, and discovery.
In the end, one of Black’s deepest truths is this:
Black is Beauty
Ad Terram:
The black essence of the dark night, bottled in a playlist with a decadent charm, to be savored like a fine rare wine, jealously guarded in ancient infested cellars. This playlist will take you on a journey to the most intimate and hidden places of your soul, seducing your ears and heart…
Don’t fear this journey, because behind the dark veil of dense rain clouds, you will discover rare gems!
Track Listing
- Crucifixion / a Prophet – UNKLE
- Don’t Get Me Started – The Smile
- Jealous Of Roses (Pivot Remix) – Bibio
- Narrow Road – DARKSIDE
- Fimmine Fimmine – Mai Mai Mai
- Accade – C.S.I.
- Nerissimo (Italian) – Teho Teardo
- Beauty – Einstürzende Neubauten
- A Well-Made Woman – King Hannah
- Snarge – Luna Honey
- ZZZZ – Peder
- Maximum Black – Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
- Saturn Swallows the Sun – Ghost Twin
- Wax And Wane – Cocteau Twins
- Feu – Flora Fishbach
- Before You Snap – Yonderboi
- Goblin VI – woioi
- Fire in My Heart – Escape from New York
- The Hole – Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra
- The Him (2019 Remaster) – New Order
- Left Speaker Blown – Liars
Playlist image by Ad Terram
About the Curators
Ad Terram
I'm Italian, and you can call me Ad Terram, though I rarely stay grounded. I love to travel with my imagination, and what better way to do that than through Music? I've inextricably linked my "Sound Illustrations," which often have an ethereal theme, and my poems to it. I have a passion for the scent of the ancient and for medieval or tribal-pagan music, but I don't mind a touch of electronics or even a hint of jazz.
Ivan Santini
Natural born Italian, built by 100% Sicilian components, upgraded by residing in many parts of Europe. The latest version of me lives in Hungary, has a wonderful wife + 2 kids and works as a Data professional. Some call us “scientists”, but I totally believe it’s an undeserved attribute.
As much as I may have grips on the ways music algorithmically travels today to everyone’s table, I love to avoid “local minimums”. I prefer to listen to what humans suggest, what vibrations they describe when they talk about music. I often ask myself why an artist puts tracks in that specific order or I hunt down who or what is influencing them.
Research, experimentalism, cross-genres, sounds of the world usually hit me defencelessly, but so do notes as solid as “rock”. You can also find me lost in the many little holes of the 80s, like if the unconscious me-child gets comfort from what he was listening to but not understanding back then.
