It’s been 30 years since Sirius beamed its sounds to planet Bong and to celebrate, the band contacted friends, old and new, to interpret those frequencies in new ways. Some headed for the dancefloor and others stuck by the bass bins, but all imparted musical wisdoms that take tracks from Sirius Sounds and its descendant, Not Sirius, to new constellations. These are very Sirius Versions!

soundcloud.com/childrenofthebong were formed in the early 1990s by Rob Henry and Daniel Goganian and soon found acclaim for their fiery acid melodies and earthy dub rhythms, with Melody Maker describing them as creating "the perfect soundtrack for a swirling lightshow". They released one album, Sirius Sounds, on Planet Dog in 1995, as well as a couple of tracks on the label's compilations and a Peel Session recorded for BBC Radio 1, before disappearing in a haze of smoke. In 2023 they re-emerged to release their long lost second album, Not Sirius, on Disco Gecko.

Sirius Versions showcases both the range of the duo’s sonic spectrum and the outsized influence their debut album has had on artists since its release. The various artists who have contributed remixes span generations and genres, with the end results flowing from blissed-out beats to freeform freakouts, organic dubtronica to trancefloor hustlers, with some psychedelic space-funk thrown in along the way.

‘The willingness of all these great artists to get involved in this project  has absolutely blown us away! The care and attention to detail that they’ve put in to each remix has breathed new life into our tracks and makes 30 years ago feel like it was only yesterday!’ (Rob Bong)

Sirius Versions celebrates the joy of Children of the Bong's original creations, highlighting their continuing resonance and glowing legacy. Join these home-grown adventurers for one last trip to Sirius on August 1st.


Children of the Bong - Aphelion Force (Dream Cycle Inc Remix)(preview)

Children of the Bong - Symbol i (Earthling in Dub Remix)(preview)

Children of the Bong head back to bass with soundcloud.com/tormaindub, soundcloud.com/subsetdubs and soundcloud.com/mcthfg as their 30 year mission to Sirius nears its conclusion.

Children of the Bong - Underwater Dub (Tor.Ma in Dub Remix)(preview)

Children of the Bong - Babylon 3 (Subset Get The Funk Out Remix)(preview)

Children of the Bong - Polyphase (mcthfg Remix)(preview)

Take orbit round Sirius as the Year of the Bong gathers pace. Timeshard founder STEVE ANGSTROM  celebrates 30 years of being Siriusly Sound with this eclecticly trippy mix. Psychedelic pioneer Steve Angstrom co-founded TimeShard the legendary ethno-techno explorers of the UK free-festival scene. Fusing shamanic rhythms, sci-fi dub, and cosmic soundscapes, their cult cassettes became Planet Dog classics. Still creating and performing worldwide, Steve’s music remains wildly inventive, deeply immersive, and gloriously strange.

Tracklist:

ABSIS - Orange Sails
Children of the Bong - Dubber FX (100th Monkey remix)
Children of the Bong - In Flight Trance (Steve Angstrom remix)
Steve Angstrom - Tipi Head
Floating Points - Les Alpes
Plastikman - Krakpot
P heckmann - Doomsday
Marcel Detman - Silhouette
Jasen Loveland - F - -K 6 - 6 (Trip Report Mix)
Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon - Electronic Guvenc
Timeshard - Waaroni
Timeshard - Voodoo
Aphex Twin - Tha
Steve Angstrom - Summoner
Steve Angstrom - Your Simulation
Pergon - The deliverer

https://soundcloud.com/angstrom | https://soundcloud.com/discogeckorecordings

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STEVE ANGSTROM | Disco Gecko Recordings Series Ep. 60 | 15/06/2025

Fertilizer

a quick end of school examination..
sit down and turn over the paper..

They Live Trailer remix by FMX
The Orb -  Slave Till U Die No Matter What U Buy (L'Anse Aux Meadows Mix)
DF Tram - Flashbulb Memory (featuring Violeta Vicci)
Nightmares on wax - 3D warrior (Mala's Souljah vip remix)
Orbital & Brian Cox - There will come a time
Children of the Bong - Symbol i (Earthling in Dub Remix)
Gaudi - Bad boy bass (Tor ma in dub mix)
DF Tram - He'll Become A Buddha
Kuba - Pharaohs Day Out feat Youth & Gaudi (Holeg Spies Remix)
Nina Simone - Thandewye (Spiritual)
Jeff Mills & Montpelier Philharmonic Orchestra - The Bells
Children of the Bong - Squigglesonica (Shunt Voltage Remix)
Portishead - Glory Box (6Blocc's Future Jungle Remix)
Benny V & Dfrnt lvls with Stevie Hyper D - What we want

Schools Out 2025

We instantly fell for the dubby electronica of Children of the Bong as soon as we heard them, back in the early 90s, so we were delighted when they unexpectedly returned in 2022 with an album of unheard archive tracks. Now, they're celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut Sirius Sounds with a remix album, live shows - and now a special mix for Juno Daily...

In The Mix: Children Of The Bong

(Orig. The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia; 1999)

Touching the Void (Smells Like Salvation)(preview)

Banco De Gaia has been performing and releasing for over 25 years now, along the way becoming one of the music industry’s most maverick innovators. His legacy is as glittering as it is diverse, ranging from Hollywood film sound credits to the critically acclaimed ‘Last Train to Lhasa’, first released in 1995 to a rapturous reception. His live act still packs out venues and festivals all over the world, with audio-visual performances renowned for their explosive, cutting edge quality: from sampling wizardry fused with haunting vocals and poignant acoustics to genre-hopping musical instrumentals, all accompanied by socially engaged visuals.

Behind Banco de Gaia is artist Toby Marks. Starting out as a drummer in a metal band, he began using sampling kit to cut his own tunes after falling in love with electronica during the 1980s acid house era. By the early 90s, after winning respect for a clutch of credits on the Ambient Dub compilations, he was signed to Planet Dog Records and released ‘Maya’, in 1994, and then ‘Last Train to Lhasa’, in 1995.

Both albums featured an artfully arranged cocktail of textured samples and live instrumentals lifted from across the world. Both went straight to No. 1 in the UK Independent Charts as well as sweeping through the international electronica scene, making him, along with the likes of The Orb, one of the early pioneers of ‘chill out’. Both ‘Last Train to Lhasa’ and ‘Heliopolis (Eudopolis Dog Mix)’ notably featured on Sasha & Digweed's classic ‘Northern Exposure’ mix CD among myriad other compilations. 

Since then, he's released a further 6 studio albums, 1 live album, 1 live DVD and 15 EP’s and also runs his own label, Disco Gecko Recordings. He went back to basics in 2014 with a sold-out 20th Anniversary CD-only (no streams or downloads available) release of ‘Maya’, followed by similar 20th Anniversary editions of ‘Last Train to Lhasa’ in 2015 and ‘Live at Glastonbury’ in 2016.

Pink Floyd and psychedelia remain a constant influence: Banco’s cover of Echoes in 2007 helped shape the ‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections’ collection in 2009 and Floyd’s legendary saxophonist Dick Parry was one of Marks’ special guest collaborators (alongside no-man’s Tim Bowness and Zero 7’s Sophie Barker) on his ‘The 9th of Nine Hearts’ album, which came out in October 2016.

“A continuation of the consistently high form Toby Marks has shown throughout a long and illustrious career” (Total Music Magazine), The Crack described ‘The 9th of Nine Hearts’ as full of “dubby loveliness that fuses psych, spiky rock, acid and ambient” while the Ambient Music Guide hailed it as “Banco's strongest album of new material in 15 years”.