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WOOM [20.8.25]

Recording of Loek Frey & Timnah's set at the UFO II stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Loek Frey & Timnah at UFO II - Dekmantel Festival 2025

Brief Glimpses of Beauty w/ Anja Ngozi [07.10.25]

artist: @beatricemasters
recorded on the 6th of september 2025
length: 04h01m50s

Full tracklist : https://www.instagram.com/p/DQb73SzjGwQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[Reshape] Beatrice M. (full recording) @ essaim, Paris / 6September2025

Throwing Snow comes through with a stunning mix for your Monday morning. Threaded with electronic and experimental sparks, and laced with moments of folk and avant-garde beauty, this mix showcases the full breadth and depth of Throwing Snow’s musical knowledge and collection. Dive in and get lost in the layers.

In Throwing Snow's own words, 'This is a disparate collage of sounds, barely held together by reverb and distortion, that I have had the pleasure of coexisting with recently.
Music from some truly talented artists and interspersed with a few experiments under my Fellborn alias.'

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Tracklist:
1. Kat Frankie - Joan Didion
2. Agar Agar - Dragon
3. Iarla Ó Lionáird - I'm Weary of Lying Alone
4. Milkweed - How Conchobor was Begotten
5. Amanda Mur - Maithuna
6. feeo - The Hammer Strikes the Bell
7. Rufous Nightjar - Black Horses
8. La Maga - Røjø Latidø
9. Only Now - Power I
10. 15 15 - āfa
11. RÓIS - CITÍ
12. Fellborn - Fractures
13. Mai Mai Mai - Mirabilis (feat. Igor Božanić)
14. Markus Floats - C (Featuring the Voice of Fred Moten)
15. Radio Anorak - King of England
16. Laura Carnell - Archive Energy of Long Gone Forests
17. Etyen - My Goddess
18. Fellborn - Passage
19. Fellborn - Chord 5
20. Low - More

Mesh Mix Series 036: Throwing Snow

A soft introduction to women in Jazz for this month’s special of Violet Rays. Immerse yourself in a sonic landscape of calming and celestial jazz, and underwater ambience created by women. For the next hour, athenian lychee celebrates the recent release of the Women in Jazz (@womenin_jazz) compilation, up and coming artists including Marysia Osu (@marysia_osu) and Celine Dessberg (@celinedessberg) and November, aka the London Jazz Festival season. 


Violet Rays w/ athenian lychee: women in jazz special - 11/11/25 - Voices Radio

Ok folks, podcast number 7 is here. This one is from the enigmatic Floor Length Skirts. 

In a culture of instant gratification, where an instagram reel is now a legitimate source to hear new music and folks seem to demand knowledge simply because it exists, DJs are often incredulously asked, WHERE do you find these records? The answer lies not in a shadowy realm where djs fight demons and overcome obstacles in order to unlock the secrets of music. But rather they are the result of hours and hours and hours of obsessive work, this particular form of compulsive behaviour expertly typified here by Floor Length Skirts. This no-stone-left-unturned approach is demonstrated over nearly four hours of mind blowing records. Yet this is not just an exhibition of a collector's wares, but a beautifully thoughtful piece of free flowing art. The mixing seems spontaneous and surprising whilst maintaining a seamless driving quality, drawing the listener into this strange world. A list of humorous genre names to attempt to describe the selection would be essentially futile, instead we urge you to keep an open mind and enjoy this trip from one of the most exciting DJs around. 


Bakk Heia Podcast 007 - Floor Length Skirts

One of the defining producers of the 21st century steps up for a rare, era-spanning mix.

We've been in a reflective mood lately: mulling emergent icons, modern classic and the cyclical nature of trends. All things bend around eventually, but if you lived through the mid-'00s the first time, it felt tricky to envision some specifics of those interim years making a second splash. More fool us. Amongst many other things, dubstep is well and truly back.

This resurged appetite for low-end has been a central storyline in 2025. Clear tells were there in the form of Introspekt's Moving The Center and Tracey's "Sex Life," two major highlights of the past 12 months. Alternately, cup your ear to the tremors rumbling across the world and you'd find Mala packing up crowds with gusto. Which makes closing out the year with a mix from the man himself serendipitous.

The South Norwood-born sub sensei has held an anchor role in the movement since its earliest days. A little like what Upsetter was to Black Ark, the principles Mala, Coki and Loefah's DMZ laid down have been expanded on by Deep Medi, a label that has cultivated a loyal fandom who watch over the catalogue like a hawk. (Six years of frothy debate and knowing in-jokes between MEDi 99 and MEDi 100 paints a picture of both steep expectations and an affinity for gently ribbing their leader.)

But Mala's banner 2025 hasn't relied on the heads alone. The adrenaline of his fissuring basslines and barrel-chested vocals have drawn people into his orbit, and there are rarer qualities at play, too—like pacifism, winked at by the demilitarized name and reinforced on their all-time greatest tune; or contemplation, inked on flyers beseeching the crowd to meditate on bass weight.

In that spirit arrives a mix we've asked after for years. Subtitled The Listening Session, it's rare on two counts. Despite his enduring popularity, Mala is a conspicuous absence on most DJ series. (It's not that he doesn't enjoy recording, just gets spooked by the reaction.)

A nearly-three hour studio set—spaciously paced and laced with a combination of 2025 highlights, freshly-cut dubplates and some of the biggest anthems in the genre's history—is unheard of. No tracklist for now, on Mala's request. Soon come.

RA.1016 is the kind of document that jogs the memory back to when dubstep was a discrete enterprise, something you could only fleetingly access by, say, dialling into Youngsta on Sub FM, ripping 320s of "Circling" off long-forgotten blogs or hugging the back wall of Mass. Which, in service of thinking the evolution of 21st century electronic music, is pretty perfect really.  – Gabriel Szatan

Find the interview at ra.co/podcast/1035

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RA.1016 Mala

The cloud dancer looks down to the earth and celebrates the nuances of our cultures, our multiplicities, our textiles, our patterns, our joys and our sorrows. The cloud dancer believes in a better world without borders, without arms, without abuse. 

In response to Pantone’s dull and discouraging selection of the colour of the year, the last violet rays episode of 2025 proposes an alternative Cloud Dancer full of life and colour. From Joe Bataan’s The Cloud to a mix of zouk, afrobeat and latin house interlaced with pianos, congas and saxophones, athenian lychee (@geoglitch) celebrates freedom of movement and expression. 


Violet Rays w/ athenian lychee - 09/12/25 - Voices Radio

My recording of Sunshine Day by Osibisa

Thanks to Danny, Dan, Ben Tom, Sam, and the GCS Barbershop

Sunshine Day

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

New Beat was born and initially exploded in 1987, went supernova (in Belgium) in 1988 and then the formula morphed a bit and was declared dead in 1989. It was slow and initially all about the atmosphere with industrial strength beats - the main form of rhythmic propulsion being the pounding kick and heavy snare. It was often mainly instrumental and when there was lyrical content it often became more about slogans and giving commands - "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat!", "Let There Be Brightness!", "Shout Out Loud!". While not really New Beat, it's no surprise Technotronic's "Pump Up Jam" was produced by a crew who had produced a ton of New Beat gems.

In 1989 one of New Beat's founders, Marc Grouls said "New Beat is atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial!!!!!" But, it was already too late. A zillion bandwagon jumpers had diluted the music and flooded the market with too many sub standard 12" singles. New Beat temple, the legendary Boccaccio nightclub, in Destelbergen, near Ghent, had been closed down and it looked like it was all over, but really, it was just the beginning. New Beat morphed into Hard Beat (many of the tracks on this mix are from the Hard Beat era) which quickly morphed into Belgian Rave, which was huge and hugely influential in the UK and is an often overlooked part of the DNA of UK Hardcore, and all that came after. Then from Ghent, R&S Records established itself as thee European Techno label and a huge wave of incredible Techno records emanated from it and many other mighty Belgian labels, but that is another story. 

New Beat arrived just as I first started DJing and I played a lot of it in my DJ sets and built up connections with several of the leading Belgian labels who would send me 12" singles so I had records nobody else here had any idea even existed. I would compile New Beat charts for the music paper The NME which may have given the impression there was a thriving New Beat scene in Scotland. The reality was very different; people here, many of whom would embrace the rave just a little while later never really took to it in a big way.

This mix is comprised of many of my personal favourites that I have loved since they came out (and two I missed at the time and only heard later). I think the tracks have aged like a fine wine, often sounding as good if not better today as they did then. There is definitely a faint whiff of fromage and a big dollop of stoopid in several of these tracks. Of course, it is not all about the cheese and many of these adhere to the "atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial" rule mentioned above. Some of the best programmed 303 Acid basslines ever made can be heard here along with transcendental hypno synths and those Belgian beats going on and on....! Slow and low, from under 100bpm up to 116, New Beat doesn't chug, it swings in a very distinct way. If you get to see any videos of Belgian clubs of the era, the way people moved to this music is incredible and so different to any dancing we see today.

Many of these tracks are made by the same people under various aliases, which will perhaps be audibly evident. Most of the names have been forgotten, if they were ever even known outside their native Belgium at all, but all are legends to me. 

This mix isn't any kind of attempt to tell the story of New Beat but rather a mix 33 of my favourite 12" singles from that era showing many of the various strains of the New Beat and Hard Beat sound. A lot of love went into this and I hope someone somewhere discovers this music for the first time and falls in love with it as I did way back when. This was Belgium!

Sunshine Day

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