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Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

Meristematic Radio w/ Chumbo @ CS Radio - 08/14/2025

Presenting our most ambitious release to date: A 17-track collection of energetic tracks from across the 160 spectrum and the globe, specially curated by Coco Cobra.

Connecting the dots between ghettotech, footwork, Jersey club, jungle, and more, Continental Drift represents the blurred genre lines and uniting of disparate scenes from Seoul to Berlin, Tokyo to New York or Hong Kong and beyond.

https://raiders.bandcamp.com/album/continental-drift

https://soundcloud.com/raiders_records
https://soundcloud.com/yungfya

PREMIERE: Yungfya - No Tears 4 U [RAIDERS]

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TOHA Radio Takeover - LYM & Kerena - 13 Sep 2025

Live recording of Dubrunner's (@dubrunneruk) DJ set during the fourth edition of read the room on 3rd October, 2025. This one is a smooth yet fiery journey through dub, industrial reggae, and bass. Buckle up and lock in 🔒

In collaboration with AMNAP Records and Indiranagar Social.

read the room 004 [3 Oct 2025]: Dubrunner

The phase shift from No Way Back’s nocturne rave acrobatics to Lot Mass’ sunkissed daytime salon is always a sight to behold: an eclectic mixture of smoked out ravers emerging from the depths of Tangent Gallery, freshly showered music heads taking in the Memorial Day sun, & multi-generational dancers defying category or definition, the day feels infinite, & the musical possibilities especially so, bookending the weekend’s mayhem. This year, Johnny Zoloft and Kiernan Laveaux took the post-Scott Z morning baton pass into further realms of house music in the beyond, equipped with nothing but two turntables, Alpha Theta Club Standard DJ Gear, & a surprise special guest: Baltimore saxophonist (and Johnny Zoloft’s brother) Shane Kelly, blowing raucous textures over abyssal blends under the midday sun, as they beckoned dancers towards their final day of Detroit Electronic Music Celebrations. 

Reinvigorating the floor & painting with bold brushstrokes on a kinetic eisel, Laveaux’s xenofeminist inclinations and the duo’s expert dubwise FX manipulation enticed the crowd and provided succulent ear candy throughout the set. Further entrancing dancers into endless movement after No Way Back’s 12 hour marathon in the mind palace, they brought forth a unique vision of so-called Midwest dance music - conjuring soundscapes as informed by the expanses of Detroit’s storied history & multi-lane highways as it is by the DMV’s intersection of funk stylistics, punk attitude, & Sing Sing breakbeats, the expansive mountain ranges & hidden wonders of Appalachia, & northeast Ohio’s irreverent sonic dialectics birthed from the backdrop of industry & decay. All of these combine to form something greater than the sum of it’s parts - an audio cauldron of what makes the midwest so rife with electrified mojo, brought to you by simply another bold presentation of groove, energy, & harmonious cacophony on a special Memorial day afternoon.

Mastered By: @m-parent
Mix Graphic By: @malzof

Recorded Live at Lot Mass 2025 (During Return to the Source 25 @ Tangent Gallery)

Sweet Abyss

MASS CAST 035: Johnny Zoloft B2B Kiernan Laveaux @ Lot Mass

Club-forward Brain Teasers is a show where we honnour those tracks that are a little more out of the club setting ordinary (brain teasers) and contextualise them in totally club forward mixes.

In this show Crisp Sandwich, often talks about the brain teasers, why they have chosen them and demonstrates how they use them in a club-oriented mix that's likely to scratch a few itches.

Let's expand our minds together.

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Club-forward Brain Teasers w/ Crisp Sandwich - 28th October 2025

Dread.

Photo by Joaquin Arenas on Unsplash

TL

Civilistjävel! - XI
Carrier - Amber Circle
Katsunori Sawa - Roughneck
A Made Up Sound - Them
Max Durante - EX-P07
Forest Drive West - Scanners
Tears of Change - Morphine (Alessio Pili Remix)
Atomic moog - Impulse
Overlook - The Totem That Guides Us 
Torn - Wreak Havoc
Overlook - Never Understand
DYL & DB1 - Dual Effect
Abdulla Rashim - Internet Fall
ASC - Dimensional Rift
Vril & Rødhåd - Dementor
Torn - Taiga
Pessimist - The Woods
Holsten - Projectiles
Last Life - Offside (Ancestral Voices Remix)
Holsten - Hidden Figures
Optical - To Shape The Future
Forest Drive West - Ruins
Civilistjävel! - VIII (ft. ELDON & Withdrawn)
DYL & DB1 - ECOU #5

Altar of Sacrifice

Steel City Discs feat. Impérieux - 18 December 2025

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