2014 October 18

The Manchester artist shares a ‘scary and sexy’ mix, featuring SOPHIE, Kelela, and a slew of unreleased tunes

Ship Sket - Dazed Mix

Lauren Duffus finds the feeling in loose summer club sounds, giddy edits and some of her own stunning unreleased productions.

https://www.factmag.com/2023/08/14/fact-mix-lauren-duffus/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 921: Lauren Duffus (Aug '23)

Ashland Mines, AKA Total Freedom, AKA Big Gay Idiot DJ, AKA Bobby Beethoven, is one of the best and most influential DJs of the 21st century. Starting out at pioneering parties like Mustache Mondays and Wildness (which he cofounded with Wu Tsang)—and a regular at GHE20G0TH1K—Mines helped to define the style that would become known, however cringe-inducingly, as experimental club or deconstructed club, directly inspiring fellow visionaries like Arca. 

Like some of the best DJs before him, Mines uses the CDJs as an instrument, but that doesn't mean just fancy tricks and looping. Instead, he artfully throws together clashing sounds—effects, samples, monologues, pop and R&B acapellas, and beats that run the gamut from dancehall to kuduro to breaks and techno. He's not afraid of the grotesquerie of human life and movement (just check out the monologue at the beginning of this mix), and he likes to push buttons. Once he put on a party where dancing wasn't allowed. Some of his sets are intentionally anxiety-inducing, evoking horror movies and modern classical composers like Penderecki, while others are bouncy and ebullient, weaving between genres and tempos like an old-school platformer. The best are both.

On Mines's RA Podcast—a milestone 900th in the series—he shows off this inimitable style, sharpened and reinforced over a decade-and-a-half of playing some of the world's best parties, fashion shows, you name it. He's the kind of DJ who creates his own music as he goes along. He makes you hear old tracks—especially pop music and R&B—in a whole new way. Titled "Cursed Piercing," this is a near-hour of controlled chaos that'll confound you at one moment and deeply move you the next.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/900

RA podcast

RA.900 Bobby Beethoven (FKA Total Freedom)

06. Godflesh - Curse Us All

The third track from "The Ape of God" - new album by Old Man Gloom. SIGE Records/Profound Lore/Daymare (Japan) - Nov 2014.

Old Man Gloom "Predators"

Artist: Untold
Title: That Horn Track (Dettmann Remix)
Label: Bleep

Pre-Order 'That Horn Track' 12" : http://link.bleep.com/Untold12
Release date: 27th October, 2014

Tracklist:
A) Untold - That Horn Track
AA) Untold - That Horn Track (Dettmann Remix)

Artwork: Optigram

Original track taken from the 'Bleep:10' compilation.
Buy Bleep:10 now: http://link.bleep.com/bleep_10

Untold - That Horn Track (Dettmann Remix)

Artist: MONO
Title: Cyclone
Album: The Last Dawn
Release Date: October 28, 2014

Pre-Order LP/CD Here: http://shop.temporaryresidence.com/trr242

The Last Dawn and Rays of Darkness are a pair of new albums by MONO. Recorded simultaneously yet conceptually and creatively disparate, the two act as both opposing and complementary sides to a story. No strangers to narratives, the twin albums explore familiar themes for the band: Hope and hopelessness, love and loss, immense joy and unspeakable pain. Those elemental parts of life and the complicated relationships they create have never been more resonant through MONO's music than they are here. The Last Dawn is the first of these two companion albums, and is the "lighter" of the two, thematically and melodically. It contains undoubtedly some of MONO's strongest songs ever, drawing on an array of influences from minimalist film score to vintage shoegaze. It is MONO at their absolute purest, executing an uncanny, unspoken dialogue with each other without the dozens of stringed instruments that have been so prominent throughout their catalog in recent years. The songs are also noticeably more efficient – there hasn't been a MONO full-length record that fit on a single slab of vinyl since 2003's One Step More And You Die – and the album benefits immeasurably from this streamlined approach. MONO have always been masters of telling compelling stories without words. But now they've proven they can do it without frills, too.

©2014 Temporary Residence Ltd.

Pre-Order CD / LP Here

MONO – Cyclone

taken from Mouse on Mars forthcoming album "21 AGAIN" (MTR052CD)

Release date: October 31, 2014.

Pre-order here: http://bit.ly/1ntQmis

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https://twitter.com/MoM_official
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Mouse on Mars & Matthew Herbert aka DJ's Collapse "Double Bum" (MTR052CD)Out October 31, 2014

WHY BE on NTS 13.01.25

@henryaleksis
@o-s-t-music

https://o-s-t.bandcamp.com/album/silent-dispatch

Silent Dispatch

pi premiere: bambinodj - Closure [OST]

Breath in, breath out - one hour of everything à bout de souffle with Vendredear
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/hell-of-a-club/episodes/hell-of-a-club-15th-april-2025

Hell Of A Club - Breath Control Special w/ Vendredear 150425

An hour of subtle electronics, low-key rap and big feelings from New York / Houston producer Jetty. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/jetty-17th-april-2025

06. Godflesh - Curse Us All

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