Episode 54 of AIR is here, and welcomes DJs, producers, and founders of the @Slow-Life collective, @laurine_sl and @cecilio-sl, to celebrate their label’s 10 years of existence. Comprised of a core crew featuring Laurine, Cecilio, S Moreira, and Indi Zone, Slow Life are defined by their thoughtful, easygoing approach to everything from music and parties to life itself. They have quickly carved out a niche for themselves through their artist showcases and record label; while Laurine and Cecilio have likewise worked tirelessly to explore careers as DJs and artists in their own right. 

Recently back from a South American tour that took them to a dozen cities across a handful of countries, they’re back in Berlin and looking forward to bringing that inspiration to Hoppetosse, where Slow Life will celebrate its 10 year anniversary on Saturday 26 March. In this conversation, we look back at Slow Life’s 10 years, the collaboration at the heart of their collective, and the philosophies about life and music that drive Laurine and Cecilio as artists.

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Music: 
"Era un Ravero" - Laurine & Cecilio (2023)
"Beyond Lightspeed" - S.Moreira (2013)
"Consciousness" - Paolo Mosca (2022)
"Nobody Knows" - Laurine (2022)
"Metropolis" - Primary Perception (2022)

AIR 054 / Laurine & Cecilio

The Sizeable Mix Vol. 48: Luk (Espacio-Tiempo)

This Futurepast episode opens in pure film-noir fashion: smoky, enigmatic, and charged with tension.

At the turntable is Aton : DJ, producer, and vinyl obsessive for over a decade. Recorded during his warm-up for Zel at Ohm on 19.06.25, the set moves through downtempo electro and raw analog grooves, infused with warmth and record crackles. 

The mix opens with cinematic restraint, not just a collection of tracks, but a carefully paced dialogue between room, records, and instinct. From intimate atmospheres to more industrial pressure, it’s a slow burn with depth, warmth, and intent.

A dialogue between intuition, sound, and space.

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Outsiders: Futurepast w/ Aton @ Kiosk Radio 08.08.2025

Recorded 02.aug.25 at Kristina records / London
Son of Paul truly dedicated to the craft and committed to contribute to the very scene that shaped him, he started Pastry selects in 2019 and co-founded the vision in 2020 - pushing the darker, swampier sounds of electronic music.

SON OF PAUL // Instore session 02.08.25

Milo G is an avid digger and one half of @nightriders, Miles dives deep into his tech house collection for this mix. Inspired by his party days at Birmingham’s legendary nights Below and Cloak and Dagger, expect driving grooves and infectious energy guaranteed to get your blood pumping.

bubble.ldn mix009 - Milo G

Had the honor of playing at the legendary Club der Visionaere when themuddshow invited me to fill a slot last minute <3 No time to prepare, just filled my bag with all the records I still had in my house as I brought all my records back to Amsterdam the weekend before. Even though I had to completely improvise I really enjoyed putting together this 3 hour journey. There's quite some unfortunate needle skipping happening due to a shaky booth and some hectic dance moves being made on the dance floor (some back to back needle skipping between +- 51:00 and 1:02:00 just a heads up :') )  , but it is what it is hope you still enjoy!

Yu Mi @ themuddshow - Club der Visionaere 14.08.25

East London tastemaker and Cartulis Music founder since 2009.

Unai Trotti @ Kiosk Radio 08.10.2025

Situated in the pulsating center of Brussels' Marolles district, GIMIC is a radio station and a space/bar committed to fostering the lively electronic music culture of the city.
Transmitting sound waves from the heart of Brussels.

DJ Rino 
instagram : www.instagram.com/dj_rino_pinguin_society/
soundcloud : @rinobxl

Innuendo :
soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/innuendodiablo

Neverending sounds w/ DJ Rino & Innuendo @ GIMIC - 17 October 2025

Situated in the pulsating center of Brussels' Marolles district, GIMIC is a radio station and a space/bar committed to fostering the lively electronic music culture of the city.

Transmitting sound waves from the heart of Brussels.

Radio Hot Buns
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/radiohotbuns
Instagram : @radiohotbuns

Rozevelt
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/rozevelt
Instagram : @rozevelt_dj

Radio Hot Buns invites Rozevelt @ GIMIC - 18 October 2025

Ever since our first contact in 2020, we have been drawn to Lottie’s distinctive musical expression. We are honoured to now feature her contribution to our Spheremental Series. Expect an expressive and heartfelt mix that invites us in her reflections on the current global moment. Enjoy!

sound: https://soundcloud.com/loti-kavsek
artwork: www.instagram.com/janpaulmueller/

SPHEREmental 16 - Lottie

BASIC MOVES 09  -> PRE-ORDER !

https://crevetterecords.be/Spanky-Rodgers-Basic-Moves-09/release/13070135

Spanky Rodgers – Running Through Time

“A True Story”

The summer of 1991 was on its last legs and to celebrate our high school graduation we had a mad plan. We left "head over heels" to the UK on an improvised road trip with only raving, having fun and doing crazy stuff on the agenda. The early September sun was beating down on the capital and to escape the weekday madness of the inner city we hopped on a random train to the seashore. 

Brighton was hot. A sea breeze blew me (in my romanticized memories) towards a record shop. I bought two tunes the guy in the store was playing and left, straight to the beach: it was going to be a wonderful day.  Summer came and went…The only things I took home from our adventure were: a massive sunburn and two records. One 12" by Luke Slater, and one mysterious beauty by a certain Aubrey/Solid Groove—unknown to me. The clunky, chunky, breaky and speedy weirdness of the tracks left me enchanted. Later, it turned out to have been my first encounter with the music of Allen Saei.

Years went by and playing, making, buying and selling records became my job. I emptied the bargain bins of the London and New York second-hand record stores on a regular basis and little known, mysterious releases on tiny labels such as Surreal, Alien Disco, Textures and (by then my favourite) Solid Groove started to form the backbone of my musical universe. 

These "salvaged records" from all over the world eventually inspired me to open my own record store in the spring of 1997. Starting a shop in Belgium, where even the dullest of little villages had a half decent vinyl outlet wasn't an obvious choice. Belgium was the Kingdom of electronic music and the local shops and distributors had an international reputation: if you wanted to get new import records you had to buy them from them, there was no way to get around the big players in those pre-internet days. When the new imports arrived mid-week, directly from all over the world, there was a ranking order. First, the big stores came in to pick their records, then the lesser Gods, and then at the tail-end, there was me: the new kid in town.  The first time, I faced a "plundered half-empty storage room" clearly depleted of everything a record store considered being interesting or sellable. I thought: "I am F*cked ...." But, ironically enough, what was left was exactly the unidentifiable stuff I was looking for. I filled a box full of little treasures and the best find of the lot was 10 white label copies of a 12" marked SPANKY RODGERS – Digit Fidgit. 

Allen Saei had crossed my path once again and all these little finds helped launch my shop under a clement sky. Very soon both known, and lesser-known DJs, as well as a bunch of party kids crowded the store looking for that techno/non-techno, house/non-house sound that we championed. Quickly, in its embryonic form, "Tech-House" invaded the second floor of Brussels’ main techno club, Fuse. 
 
When in March 2017 I was trying to put the ideas WALRUS had for his new label into words, it was Aubrey I had in mind when penning the phrase: "Just like true renegades, musical outsiders always walk alone, but time can become a weird ally". Over the last decade, digger types from all horizons have started to sift through the past again and have rediscovered these weird undefinable techno house tracks time had buried under a small layer of dust . Records, forgotten, unloved or just under the radar were being given a second chance and put under the spotlight, and Aubrey's work was amongst that.

This release forms a weird full cycle for me, upon hearing the tracks I felt myself "RACING THROUGH TIME" and it felt so good!

Sounds from the past, but always with one foot in the future... Spanky Rodgers, you nailed it once again! 

Your Fan,
Erge Stormen aka Geert Sermon 12/01/19

B. Spanky Rogers - Racing Through Time Pt 2 (Snippet)

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B. Spanky Rogers - Racing Through Time Pt 2 (Snippet)

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