Delayed x Les Chaos Ambiants: Orsu
The sense of travel doesn’t always require presence. Sometimes it’s enough to know the people involved, to understand how these gatherings breathe and how much care it takes to hold one together. From a Brooklyn winter locked in snow and ice, the Morvan Natural Park becomes an imagined destination again, green and porous, home to Les Chaos Ambiants. We wrote about the festival in 2024, followed its orbit into the 2025 edition, and return now through a recording that carries the imprint of that place.
The mix comes from Orsu, who opens the first night after Alcachofa. Anyone familiar with events of this type knows the weight of this role. The opening moment involves as much logistics as it does music: people arrive, systems settle, and bodies shift from travel and conversation to listening and dancing. At this stage, judgment matters more than personality. Orsu brings assurance drawn from his work with the Nebuleuse event and podcast series, which blends psychedelic ideas and experimental structures with a physical, grounded approach.
The set moves carefully, attentive to the dance floor it’s meant to serve. Early passages linger in a murky terrain, ambient pressure hanging just long enough to establish density without stalling momentum. Rhythms appear gradually. Energy accumulates in layers. There’s an ease to the progression that suggests experience, an understanding of how sound carries responsibility when others will build on it later.
Although played at sunset, this isn’t the postcard version of that hour. There’s no golden haze or melodic glow engineered for easy emotion. Instead, it’s a darker horizon. Liquid, deep, slightly abrasive in texture, the kind of dusk that appeals to listeners of our channel. Think less about watching the sun disappear and more about noticing how shadows stretch and reorganize the landscape. More sunsets like this would suit us just fine.