YOKEL - 4.A.M

Dijit - Wisswass (AM018)

fka boursin - you just give in, giving it all to the wind

Digital / Vinyl

B. Rupp - Pop Music

James Massiah meets Lord Tusk - Open Up

EYRA - Snooose

Lithe - & Drop

Yes yes! 
Up next for the series we have none other than Low End Activist. His 140/breaks and grime influenced sound has seen him release some outstanding records over the last few years, on the likes of Sneaker Social Club and Seagrave. Very happy to bring the Berlin-based DJ and Producer to the pod!
We caught up with him for a chat below >> 

AM: Hey hey! What have you been up to recently? 

Holed up for years now! =/

Can't complain though tbh, i'm able to put food on the table, got a roof over our head.
Things are starting to open up here in Berlin, although cases are going up again!
Roll on the summer basically.

AM: We absolutely love the records you’ve been putting out over the last few years. Can you tell us about the inspiration for your latest EP on SCC, and the set up you use?

Yeah sure, the album was finished this time last year! but record production is loooong as we all know. I think i've written nearly 3 albums worth of tracks since lol
A lot of the source samples are taken from old news footage reporting on the riots on the estate I grew up on in Oxford, Blackbird Leys. Even sampling car screeches from the 'hotters' footage.
Shouts to Cando for the treasure trove of old tracks/ recordings from past local young Grime MCs doing bits at the time - 2G/ SFT + crew. There's a bunch of diff beat flexes on there, all spanning various decades of the continuum, but no straight up Breakbeat bits for a change, that was a challenge I set myself and you might hear some exhumed rave/ soundsystem ghosts of the past!
I went back to a lot of equipment I haven't used in a while, The Korg Triton, my beloved EMU E6400, some pedals but honestly it's 80% sample based and in the box. All tracks were expertly mixed down by my good friend Josh (FFT) - which is why I can confidently say it sounds great!
The whole album is a love letter to home, my love/ hate relationship with the place hence the title - Hostile Utopia, it touches on a misspent youth and nails home once again the message of the class divide that continues to choke the city of it's culture.

AM: The mix is really wicked, and spans through seems of different sounds and genres. Where and how did you record the mix? Any theme behind it too? 

1st run was recorded at home on my 1210's and shitty old CDJ800's and a few edits done in Ableton. No real theme tbh, starts slow, picks up the pace a bit. I knew I wanted to start with that Muzikon recording (which I sampled heavily on my first Sneaker 12") into the actual Courtney Melody 'Stop It' record,  and the rest was built it around a few tracks I defo wanted to include 'Space Afrika ft. Blackhaine' that 2min old Pepe Bradock jam, Shackleton's 'Naked', Lukid 'Hair of the Dog' and an unreleased Sneaker bit from Mantra.

AM: Whats next for you?

The album is out June 12th and I need to figure out what to do with all these other new tunes! will most likely just continue to self-release I reckon? we'll see.
Few gigs on the horizon here in Berlin, possible trip to Milan, Gottwood Festival in June. Are thing going back to normal? I hope so!
Thanks for having me! =)

AM Podcast #64 - Low End Activist

Next up we have Yumi! 
Everything we've heard from the NY-based selector has been banging, so we were gassd when they were keen for the pod. The mix keeps to their standard, just over an hour of left-of-centre club sonics, built expertly. Real nice tackle throughout, big ups to Yumi. 
We also caught up for a little chat, which you can check out below > 

AM: Yo! What you been up to recently? 

You know… I’ve been chilling. Grilling with friends, watching the homies play out, just big group hangs when I’m not working. 

AM: How and where did you record the mix? Was there any theme etc behind it? 

I recorded this mix with a pioneer djm-450, two xdj-700s, and my iPhone using the pioneer djm recorder app to record it. That app rocks. I recorded this at my apartment in ridgewood during the day when I probably should’ve been working. I really love going from 90 down to 160… so many crazy tunes in that area. So I started off with some tracks I knew I wanted to play and then let Jesus take the wheel. 

AM: Tell us a bit about IYDE, you run it with a couple others ye? 

In Your Dirty Ears is a monthly newsletter I do with my close friends and former colleagues Amelia Holt and Sara Casella. We were always sending each other bandcamp links and Amelia had the idea to do a newsletter and we were deep in the pandemic and I was like okay why not. Selfishly It’s been really great because it makes me very regimented about checking the hundreds of bandcamp emails in my inbox. But it’s been really nice to hear that ppl enjoy it. Ultimately if ppl r buying music and supporting artists because they checked out the newsletter I’m happy. 

AM: Whats next for ya this year? 

Looking forward to some fun gigs this summer. this weekend gonna be playing fourth world (a showcase of local nyc djs and live acts) at knockdown center with Amelia and Sasha (deep creep). It’s been really really fun to mix with them. I love them. Also amelia and I are going to be in Europe the last half of august playing some shows. But I’m honestly just super hype to see Aba Shanti-I in London.

AM Podcast #72 - Yumi

Dijit - Sharq

Various Artists

AMF&F003

Accidental Meetings

Format: CD + Postcard

Release Date: December 9th

Tracklist:

1. memotone - Brackets 
2. Wild Terrier Orchestra - OSMAN TAKAS 
3. Dijit - Sharq
4. Susu Laroche - Munojat 
5. DJ Ojo - Exit Strategy
6. Ausschuss - True Partner 
7. Luke Lund - Impostor (Bristol Action) 
8. ML - Das Selbst 
9. Bruce - Self Doubt 
10. B. Rupp - Into Flu 
11. YOKEL - Tsunami Ft. D.Ham & Franco Franco 
12. Abu Ama - Away With You 
13. Rupert Clervaux and HMOT - Zum F/F 
14. Best Available Technology - Cortisol Preseason '22 
15. Jay Glass Dubs & X.YPNO - The Creatures in Defence 
16. ELDON x Robin Stewart - Fruit Weh Ripe 
17. Jerome - Both/and 
18. Angel Hunt - Rainham Steel 
19. Saskia - Dizzy
20. FUMU - TOUGHER THAN DARTMOOR TUNDRA 
21. Dan Thorman - DYSB 
22. Ambulance vs. Ambulance - You Are The Answer

AMF&F003

Ausschuss - True Partner

susu laroche - washing touch off

susu laroche - the gebbeths way

Angel Rocket - Metro Hexx

ddwy bring us the first podcast of 2024. The London based duo, supply us with a beautifully crafted hour long mix of House and Acid grooves to ease you into the New Year.

AM Podcast #80 - ddwy

AM Podcast #81 - YOKEL

'ONE 4 ZEE' is YOKEL's latest excursion through their short yet tantalizing
sketches. As part of a four-track EP, called 4AM due for release April 5 via Accidental
Meetings, YOKEL brings forth a flurry of intriguing grooves that loop you back
into pressing replay.

@a_m_radio


Words: https://www.asifnoway.com/premiere-one-4-zee-yokel-accidental-meetings

4 A.M

Premiere Yokel -  ONE 4 ZEE (Accidental Meetings)

@a_m_radio

4 lil skits with attitude from Bristol royalty YOKEL.

BC: https://accidentalmeetings.bandcamp.com/album/4-a-m

pi pi pi premiere: YOKEL - PILL CREEK (Accidental Meetings)

YOKEL - M3D

YOKEL - SEITAN BBQ JUNT

Just under a hour of sub filled & dub heavy tracks from Warsaw's Hermeneia, thx Karolina! <3

AM Podcast #82 - Hermeneia

Erevan DJ, head honcho of the Bamboo Show mixes, label and parties is next up!

AM Podcast #83 - Erevan DJ

Dijit - Tub - ٥ - طَبّ

Dijit - Kartona (Feat. M. Adel & Ahmeddine) - ٤ - كرتونة

Dijit - Do Ko -  どこ

Dijit - Layali El Shouk (Feat. Lella) - ٢ - ليالي الشوق

Dijit - Khazna - ١ - خزنة

Dijit - Kharab (Feat. Sara Shedid) - ٩ - خراب

fka boursin - all kinds of shame (circumcised mix)

fka boursin - decoupled

Dijit - Sarkh - ٧- صَرخ

B. Rupp - Desperate Freaks

B. Rupp - Embrace A Generation

B. Rupp - For Glenn The World We Never See

B. Rupp - Wail Away

B. Rupp - Rose 31

B. Rupp - Time Alive

B. Rupp - Something Lasts Forever

B. Rupp - Our Sedentary Lives

B. Rupp -  I Believe In Falling

B. Rupp - Please Continue

James Massiah meets Lord Tusk - Open Up (Version)

“It's intended to be immersed in as if it was a film, in the first person. Set somewhere in the Middle East, from a busy market you're drawn by curiosity and some entrancing, ominous presence down alleys, stairways and tunnels, getting increasingly dark and distant from the outside world, eventually into some sort of glistening ancient cave. There you discover a beautiful and scary artefact, and in removing it you activate it and set off a ripple of undetermined supernatural consequences that create some cataclysmic event that changes the course of history and society and maybe the universe."

AM Podcast #84 - Ongo Gablogian

Forced to pause the events in the spring, our restlessness has manifested itself in the form of a debut label release: a 21-track genre spanning compilation.

We chose to work closely with friends and family, artists that have an affiliation with AM, each expressing themselves in their freest forms from broken-techno, glitchy breakbeats and mutant dancehall, to IDM & electro.

@de_grandi

De Grandi - How Do You Know (Accidental Meetings)

Forced to pause the events in the spring, our restlessness has manifested itself in the form of a debut label release: a 21-track genre spanning compilation.

We chose to work closely with friends and family, artists that have an affiliation with AM, each expressing themselves in their freest forms from broken-techno, glitchy breakbeats and mutant dancehall, to IDM & electro.

@kincaidofficial
@nadia-lily-sarah-anderson 
@wearekiarascuro

Kincaid Ft. Zaa Zaa - Pages (Accidental Meetings)

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