The Basic Moves Of … islas

Attention music lovers ! This is an ultra ultra special mix, since it is the long-awaited islas Basic Moves podcast. Ailsa Cavers aka islas and I started and ran the record label and club nights together for the first four years. As time takes things and things take time (and life rolls on (and off) and on) our paths have brought us back to sharing friendship, culture, and music again :)

islas also Ailsa is a creative centipede roaming the fields of art, design, music, literature and so much more. Originally from Reading (UK) but relocated to Bordeaux (FR) in the early 2000s where she studied at Ecole Des Beaux Arts before landing in what is now her hometown, Brussels (BE). Together with a bunch of like-minded souls she started the electronic music collective Planet, ran a music pop-up called OP-a with her bff Dana Kuehr…overall islas is a busy, gifted artistic bee that never stings.

Sooo to the music: 2 years in the making, this mix is a story of carefully selected, funny and open-minded club music dug up in the garden of electro house, quirky tech house, Detroit techno, and millennium minimal. All with an islas twist and topped with an English, French and Belgian sauce. Praise the lovely, steezy Ailsa alias islas forever !

https://soundcloud.com/islasaliasailsa

The Basic Moves Of ... islas

Label and party in Leeds, UK
info: laikrecords@gmail.com

I would only believe in a god who could dance, 
and when I found my devil I found him serious, 
thorough, 
profound 
and solemn: 
it was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall.

a place for outsider club music based in Brussels/Belgium

walrus dj bookings : 
stijn@headsup.brussels

Basic Moves distribution : 
distribution@clone.nl
For Playful Manners distribution : 
nick@smallblackdots.net 
Gems Under The Horizon distribution: 
markus@wordandsound.net
Back catalog : 
https://basicmovesbrussels.bandcamp.com/

Record shop operating in Adelaide, Australia

Streaming live weekly on Twitch

www.closerclosercloser.com

@contactboomerang
@remoto_rec

dates

24.10.25 Kassablanca, Jena
06.09.25 Südpol, Hamburg
20.07.25 Morevi Records, Tbilisi
19.07.25 Mutant Radio, Tbilisi
18.07.25 Bassiani, Tbilisi
20.06.25 Fichtenroda, Thüringen
21.03.25 Südpol, Hamburg
01.01.25 LC-O
06.12.24 Phantasia / Sterngarten, Hamburg
30.11.24 Institut / Gängeviertel, Hamburg
23.11.24 Bladehouse / Hafenklang, Hamburg
07.11.24 Remoto / Golden Pudel, Hamburg

The Basic Moves Of ... islas

Walrus (and his) Basic Moves