Hearing Color
06.04.25
Sound and color are both waves that physically alter our environment, each capable of evoking the full spectrum of human emotion.
The phenomenon of synesthesia is literally the interpretation of sound as color. Synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike experience music-color association — on dancefloors, in dreams, through psychedelia, or in moments of surprise and inspiration.
Hearing Color asks the question: What does it mean to view sound through color instead of genre, and to explore every color in a contemporary sonic palette? What does colorful music sound like?
James Axon looks to the most cosmic, emotive, and lush varieties of dance music past and present for answers, drawing from the sounds of deep house, dreamy techno, italo, balearic, psychedelic disco, ambient, IDM and the in-between. Sometimes it’s a solo mission, and other times like minded guests join in the musical inquiry.
On this edition of Hearing Color, James Axon is joined by Pilo.
Tracklist:
HOUR ONE: JAMES AXON
The Violet Hour – Prisoner of Love
Iron Curtis & Johannes Albert – Private Dancer
Omri Smadar – You are here (Massimiliano Pagliara Remix)
Easttown – Balancing
Half Cut – Energy
Duowe & Picasso – Tumbeweed
Dennis Quinn – Muscle
Tornado Wallace – Bitter Suite (Rui da Silva Remix)
Retroauve – Feel so Right
Demi Riquisimo & The Trip – On A Roll
Michael Cignarale – Your Love is My Drug (Club mix)
Kerri Chandler – Bar a Thym (Tom Middleton Cosmos Mix)
Ron Hagen, Pascal M. – Don’t Hold Back
Sleep D – Bush Snake
HOUR TWO: PILO
Tease – Berserk in a Hayfield
Hong Kong Counterfeit – Metal Disco
in aeternam vale – oh yeah
Le Monsieur Zut Suit – Sid Le Rock
Jamie Paton – Dark Room (remix)
Le syndicate Electronique – En Partance
Steril – say final
Pilo – Transmission [unreleased]
Neon Man – Bundesnachritchen
