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Pressure-filled, heady jungle and breaks are the order of the day in our latest Crack mix, courtesy of London’s Lukid (real name Luke Blair). One for the skankers.

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Crack Mix 571: Lukid

Pure musical chemistry from other joe and Lovefear, recorded at the recent Quiet Time event we threw. 

Full Q+A: https://www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/other-joe-and-lovefear

@lovefear1
@josephbuchan

Theory Therapy 70: Other Joe and Lovefear

Conna Haraway

Driven by an intense love for electronic music in all its shapes AliA is without a doubt
one of the most promising deejays from Belgium. Still in her early twenties, she has a surprisingly thorough knowledge of club music and a mixing technique many envy. 

AliA @ Kiosk Radio 09.01.2025

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry.

Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. 

This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. 

A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. 

"How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder.

@livwutang

Read more and find the tracklist ra.co/podcast/975

RA.975 livwutang

This is the first half of the set I played at Horst Club on 09.02.2025, as part of the event curated by Ben Ufo. I played from midday until 3pm: https://ra.co/events/2057540 

https://nonogigsta.substack.com/p/your-verdict-is-in 

Fictions #67 w/ Nono Gigsta 2025.02.27 – At Horst Club (Recorded on Feb, 9th)

extract from 3h live at Open Ground, 1 March 2025
@opengroundclub

LIVE @ OPEN GROUND | 1 MARCH 2025

Special guest shows from around the world. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/the-dubstep---tech-house-connection-ft-appleblim-12th-march-2025

The Dubstep - Tech House Connection w/ Beatrice M. (ft. Appleblim) 120325

@napmusick

Photo by D. Tiffany (@d-tiffany)

pi/live: NAP @ Nowadays Nonstop 12-07-2024

NIKS B2B livwutang - 26 March 2025

ABSORBED on LYL Radio, aired April 10 2025

The next offering on the mix series is here, courtesy of enigmatic producer, Ismail Hosny aka 3Phaz. 

I first caught wind of Hosny's output via the @3phaz alias - one of his several projects at the helm of the thriving experimental electronic scene in Cairo (think @zulimusic, @1127music, @rami-abadir, @assyouti and so on). Their music is often grouped as one in press, but Hosny's buzzing sound design and trap influence is singular, and hard to forget. I asked Rami Abadir (ABADIR) for his thoughts - who played a show with the label in 2022 - knowing he and Hosny had made music together. ABADIR shared:

"Ismail is a good friend, right! It's true that he's more into music than his identity or image. I'd say he's the most serious and dedicated producer from the electronic scene in Cairo (next to ZULI ofc), very well organised and great at planning. His music taste is wide, although he's focusing more on 3Phaz, which I think is for more strategic reasons (since people are more crazy about club music than the non clubby stuff). Definitely his previous collaboration (under ISMAEL) with MSYLMA  gives a good idea how wide his sound spectrum is, his non 3Phaz stuff also shows that he's great as a sound designer. He has also co-produced the next album of Nadah El Shazly which also shows how good he is as a musician"

The new @nadah-el-shazly album releases June 6th, keep an eye for it, & here is an hour of confounding bass workouts to tide you over.

Mutations / Miscellania attendees will definitely enjoy, share with others who might too!

@3phaz @lylradio

Tracklist:
Richter Band - Czech Sadness
Ana Reme - Feening
GAISTER - Source
Ayesha - Pre-Dawn
Modulaw - Echo Silhouette
Big Ever &amp; DJ Plead - June
Nico - Santo Tambor
STS - Souvlaki Man (Danny Daze + Jonny From Space Remix)
DJ Doomscroll - Doomscroll
Daisy Moon - Shadow of Silhouettes
Esther - Complainte (Original mix)
Re:ni - PLAYPLAX
Abadir and Nahash - Tenterle (Ehua remix)
Design Default - Million Knives
Chants and Dave Schoepke - Pressure Slide
Dj Fucci &amp; Jensen Interceptor - Manita De Gato
Ninos Du Brasil - Surgir (feat. Iggor Cavalera)
Sister Zo - Eeny Meeny
Theorist - Twist Warp (Original mix)
Pasq - Sin Perse
COIDO - Chapalo
Ma Sha - Extime
DOVS - Frames

E23 - 3Phaz: Frames

 Kiernan Laveaux, She/They

Kiernan Laveaux is a connective rhythmic energy conduit & ecstatic beat conductor from the Great Lakes. A boundless ball of discordant energy, she’s an adventurous spirit - conducting the vibrant forces of our world that are transmitted through the unbridled passion contained within her DJing. 

Inspired by forces of universal chaos & the innovative, experiential visions found within midwestern electronic music, she's since embarked on a lifelong journey of channeling binary dissolving phenomena throughout our known universe via her unbridled musical vitality & the multifaceted Sweet Abyss imprint. 

Originating from within Cleveland's multiversal DIY underground, she materialized through the rhythms of life & her loved ones - soaking up influence in everything from the enchanted & irreverent joys of disco, the raucous mayhem of hardcore punk & noise gigs, the spatial manifestations of dub, nonlinear revelations & outer reaches of free jazz expressionism, bewitching industrial conjurations, lineages & contrasts of freeform DJing across the world, & dancing with many weirdos in rooms full of fog, neon mesh, & skate ramps.


Notes on the Mix ///

"This mix is a live recorded portion of a set I played late at night at the wonderful club Outra Cena in Lisbon, Portugal in April 2024. The vibe of it is pondering the orb, watching your life and emotions play out in arcane swirls in front of your eyes as you embody the role of an unreliable narrator in your own existence. Sometimes this view allows clarity, other times overwhelmed by imagined insecurities, other times allowing a reprieve from strife into self love. Emotions and mental findings that feel held in many sets of mine. Sonically, I really felt encouraged this night to dive into my love of the stranger ends of house music, and combinations of industrial/dub/breaks on top. Specifically the influence of my lifelong love of industrial and synth music can really be felt throughout, as well as lamentations on loneliness and connection within capitalism that lots of that music speaks to - industrial music for industrial people. Discotekno, Haunted house, whatever name you want to apply to this music - as well as a healthy dose of dubwise rave stylistics. A strange dream within a stranger reality, living in the paradox. Musick for dance, musick for new corridors of your mind, musick against the fascist, ogliarchal pacification of who we are - viva la differenze!"

SOCIALS:

@kiernan-laveaux

http://sweetabyss.bandcamp.com - my debut collaborative EP with Johnny Zoloft as JZKL entitled "Pancake of the Infinite"

In lieu of a tracklist, here's 3 tracks that encapsulate the set to Kiernan:

Melancholy Man - Born to Rock (Rocking Dubwise) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0RYelZ9xGU

Junito Perez / I.M.T. - No Quiero Estar Solo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b5K-GPWSok&t=1s

Outa Tha Blue - Pressures of Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_t_USokvfc


XOXA BLEND 247 - Kiernan Laveaux

Wisdom Teeth with Jorg Kuning - 05 April 2025

A clinic in minimal from the elusive Acting Press boss. 

Why do certain sounds cultivate a cult following? Simply put, it's often because they resist easy consumption. PLO Man and his imprint Acting Press lean into this. 

Searching for the Berlin-based DJ and producer, you won’t find much online presence, interviews or conventional PR. What you will find, if you look hard enough, is a catalogue of records and mixes with a kind of tape hiss charm (a spiritual successor to Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, but scuzzier and lighter on its feet).

Founded in 2015, Acting Press once seemed to belong to the short-lived "outsider house" trend, but is now synonymous with a certain strain of modern minimal, one that is analogue, spacious and pointedly opaque. PLO Man's output is equally sparse by design: this week, he joins the RA Podcast with a characteristically elusive style, accompanying the near two-hour mix is a one-answer Q&A that gives almost nothing away.

Stripped-back, ever-so-slightly sleazy and coated in dust, PLO Man's RA Podcast continues that lineage in style. Opening with the featherlight microhouse of Margaret Dygas, RA.988 unfolds into a carefully curated spectrum of minimal, dub and deep techno. Among familiar names—look out for the blinding Rhythm & Sound and Moodymann blend—are deep cuts and left turns alongside the odd outlier, like lovers' rock pioneer Gregory Isaacs.

Like the best of his forebears, PLO Man wants RA.988 to take time for you to settle in. But once you do, you won’t want to leave. 

@p_el_oh

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/988

RA.988 PLO Man

Champopo Dream

¼ poems [@pppppoems]

_2025


05.07. Kunstmuseum Moritzburg (Halle) 
17.06. Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
23.05. sports raum b2b Genus Aix (Berlin)
28.03. poems @ OHM (Berlin)
08.03. Rinse FM France (online)
23.01. The Bath House (London)
21.01. kindred (London)

_2024
14.12. Haus der Statistik (Berlin)
04.12. Giri (Berlin)
03.12. Radio 80000 w/Leibniz 
30.11. Zur Klappe (Berlin)
08.11. poems @ OHM
03.10. OHM (Berlin)
24.08. Kiosk Radio (Brussels) 
10.08. Backsteinboot (Berlin)
21.07. Panini Boat Party (Copenhagen) 
10.07. Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
15.06. Bike Jesus (Prague) [postoned]
14.06. arkaoda (Berlin)
31.05. Blechsonne Festival 
27.04. p.m.k (Innsbruck) 
15.03. poems @ OHM (Berlin)

_2023
22.12. Open Ground (Wuppertal)
13.12. Fitzroy (Berlin)
09.12. ACUD b2b @macrosft (Berlin)
18.11. Antidote (Brussels)
17.11. Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
28.10. Fitzroy (Berlin)
14.10. Baggen (Kopenhagen)
06.10.  ://about blank (Berlin)
30.09. Bike Jesus (Prague)
23.09. tba (Leipzig)
22.09. Globus/Tresor (Berlin)
02.09. Paloma Bar (Berlin)
24.06. Ziegrastr.11 (Berlin)
14.06.  Kiosk Radio (Brussels)
26.05. Control Club (Bucharest) 
17.05.  [ɔstˈɛnd] (Leipzig)
06.05. Space Between (Nürnberg)
05.05. Mensch Meier (Berlin)
04.05. OHM (Berlin)
15.04.  Schrippe (Berlin)
31.03.  Globus/Tresor (Berlin)
08.03. Aurora Bar [Globus/Tresor], (Berlin)
04.03. Paloma Bar (Berlin)
02.02. OHM (Berlin)

_2022
31.12. NYE Secret Blood Rave (Berlin)
23.12. Aurora Bar [Globus/Tresor], (Berlin)
09.12. Baggen (Kopenhagen)
26.11. Paloma Bar (Berlin)
19.11. Globus/Tresor (Berlin)
05.10. mjut (Leipzig)
20.08. micro festival (Burgscheidungen)
05.08. OHM (Tresor 31 Festival, Berlin)
11.06. Arkaoda (Berlin)
20.05. Zur Klappe (Berlin)
29.04. Servant Jazz Quarters (London)
25.03. Fitzroy (Berlin)

LIVE @ OPEN GROUND | 1 MARCH 2025

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