Once More Down The Rabbit Hole - soo:k

In spring of last year, an album was released on one of my favourite labels, Swims Records, and it ended up being one of my most-played records of 2025. 

‘Orchadia’ was also my first introduction to soo:k (Soo Kyung Kim), the Korean-rooted Berlin-based producer and DJ, whose musical style sits primarily within the ambient genre, with influences from modern electronica and techno. 

The album itself hit all the right notes in terms of the style of ambient I listen to, particularly in regards to home listening - each track is laden with a variety of electro-acoustic elements, as well as having an almost ethereal / other worldly feel - pure escapism. Difficult to pick stand outs, but if I had to, ‘Mother Orange’ and ‘Fire as Green as Grass’ would get my vote. 

As well as Soo’s debut album playing heavily on repeat, several of her mixes have soundtracked evenings at home, daily commutes and travel to distant places, from the masterful 5+ hour ambient journey from her performance at Migas, Berlin, to the techno / breaks infused edition of the BCCO x Soundcloud mix series. 

Just as last year finished, 2026 looks to be a busy year for Soo, who has a string of releases planned (following recent remixes of Ali Dada - Sum (YNFND)) and a residency in Belgium planned during May.

I’m delighted to welcome Soo as the next contributor to our OMDTRH (Once More Down The Rabbit Hole) series, with a deeply personal mix which focuses on ambient and library music. An artist statement (below) accompanies the recording, where Soo discusses the influences for the mix and drivers for the track selection.

A fantastic addition to our series and I hope you enjoy it just as much as we do.

間 soo:k

“This mix is a one-hour record of a journey. It reflects on the time I spent touring in Japan last year: the people I met, the music we shared, and the sounds that existed around those moments.

Rather than trying to recreate specific scenes, this mix focuses on what remained after they passed: the air, the atmosphere, and the subtle traces left behind. Throughout this process, I found myself thinking a lot about space and resonance: not the sound itself, but how space changes once a sound disappears. Not the birds chirping, but the silence that follows; not the car passing by, but the lingering reverberation left on the street.

This way of listening connects deeply to why I’ve always been drawn to Japanese artists and to Kankyō Ongaku. These works don’t try to fill space or demand attention. They open space, allowing the listener to inhabit the sound and discover their own memories within it.

During my time moving through different places in Japan, this approach to listening began to resonate more clearly with me — through dense and intimate spaces, an everyday sensitivity to sound, and the idea of Ma (間): the meaningful interval between things, between sounds, events, and moments. Not as something fixed to a place, but as a way of perceiving space through distance, attention, and restraint.

This mix is an attempt to listen to those in-between spaces: to focus not on presence, but on trace; not on events, but on resonance; not on the moment itself, but on what lingers afterward. The tracks in this mix are connected to people I met along the way, but what stayed with me wasn’t a specific memory; it was the atmosphere that continued to exist long after the moment had passed.

This mix is a way of learning how to listen... to what’s left behind.”

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Listen to soo:k - 'Once More Down The Rabbit Hole' Mix

Listen to soo:k - Orchadia