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Three hours of garage, dubstep, grime, hardcore, jungle and techno recorded on a Sunday evening at 121 in Wellington for the Friendly Potential crew. At their request I tried to play with the energy of the old Sunday night sessions at FWD>>, and it was so fun. Old and new music side by side. Spinbacks at 2008 levels. 

Big thanks to everyone involved in this incredible trip to New Zealand and Australia, especially the Friendly Potential crew who made the whole thing possible. It was wonderful to play music again, and I hope to be back soon.

Ben UFO At Friendly Potential, Wellington - May 2021

🟢 Four Decks / Ninety Minutes 🟢
A recording of my set from Primavera Sound last month.
Some brand new Mumdance productions and remixes inside 😮
My first online mix in almost four years - I hope you enjoy it 💚

Mumdance / Primavera Sound 2022 / Four Decks / Ninety Minutes

Recorded live at Waterworks Festival 2021, Gunnersbury Park, London on 25 September 2021

Pressure stage

Live at Waterworks Festival 2021 - London

C90 tape recorded for Cav Empt in Summer 2020 - previously unreleased digitally

Ben UFO - Cav Empt Tape - Side 2

The first show in the series focused on new and unreleased music, pure upfront stuff.

1. J. Wiltshire - The Number Counters (Konx-om-Pax remix)
2. Off The Meds - Hiccups (Roman Flügel E-Mix)
3. Manuel Tur - 126 BPM
4. Two Shell - ◎ huku (edit)
5. Scratchclart - Hard
6. INVT - Sopla
7. Lipelis x TMO - Diet 505 (Dub)
8. Unknown - Unreleased
9. Anthony Naples - Here With You
10. Pearson Sound - Freefall
11. Bakey - Jackpot
12. Pangaea - Fuzzy Logic
13. Joy Orbison - Pinky Ring
14. Pariah - Caterpillar
15. Henzo - Finola Shake
16. Chloe Robinson and DJ ADHD - Pax (Four Tet remix)
17. Instinct - Rain

Ben UFO - BBC R1 Residency - Show 1

Hessle Audio feat. Le Motel Recorded live at Horst, curated by Ben UFO - 03 March 2025

Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO & Joe Delon - 07 April 2025

Original mix desk recording straight from source - ie Soundboard / Tongless

Djrum - Waxcap [Houndstooth]
A Made Up Sound - Ahead [A Made Up Sound]
Paradox - Octa4 [Sneaker Social]
AFX - Phonatacid [Rephlex]
Indian Ocean - Treehouse / School Bell (Part 2) (Short Version) [Sleeping Bag]
Subhead - Mod-U-Like [Subhead]
Walton - More Cowbell [Tectonic]
Conforce - Grain [Clone Basement Series]
MC Shy-D - Shake It (Remix) [Luke Skyywalker]
Kritical Audio - Krupp [Detroit Underground]
Shabaka Hutchins - Explore Inner Space [Impulse!]
Dario Zenker - Quantized Rise [Ilian Tape]
Spacer - Villiger [Pussyfoot]
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore Pres. Derek & Clive - Bo Duddley [Island]
Neotropic - Beached [NTONE]
Atrice - Backrooms [Ilian Tape]
Homelife - Buffalos [Ninja Tune]
Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood And The Fantom Band [CBS]
Martsman - Impending [Hidden Hawaii]
Floral Resources - Botanic Panic [Tech Startup]
Beatrice Pollard - Episode 1 (B2) [MRR]
dgoHn - Invisible Sandwich [Love Love]
Some British Accent And Dialects - Isle Of Man [BBC]
Noise Abatement - Hearing R-Zac In 1997 Made Me Want An R8 [Dance Trax]
Mecanica Popular - La Edad Del Bronce [DRO]
Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand - To Elsa [Freedom]
Hieroglyphic Being - The Language Of Strings: Audio Memoirs Of Electronic Etudes & Nocturnes (10) [Mathematics - MATH 105]
Vaccine - Rhyme Related [VACCWHITE001]
Loxy & Resound - Heritage [CNVX]
Logos - Seawolf [Keysound]
DJ Vadim - Morning Prayer [Ninja Tune]
Logos Feat. Dusk & Blackdown - Alien Shapes [Keysound]
Black Dog Productions - Otaku [Rising High]
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music [ECM]
Soundmurderer & SK-1 - Telembodanustyle [Rewind]
Sixteenarmed Jack - King A De Jungle [Sweet Sensi]
Family Of Intelligence & Vernon Smith - The Fruit Version [3rd Party]
Sister Nancy - Bam Bam (Original Bam) [Big Beat Reggae]
Aroma Nice - Containr [YUKU]
Terrorrythmus - Suicide [BRKN]
Lester Bowie - Rose Drop [ECM]
FFF - World Is Closed [Vibez' 93]
Bala Bala Boys - Sieta [R&S]
E.K.U.D.C.M. - Ultra Jungle (All Nite) [Hard Disk]
Penderecki, Don Cherry & The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra - Humus - The Life Exploring Force [Philips]
Aleksi Perälä - NL-L56-18-07385 [Dub - 037]
EQ Why - Whybot & Whystien [Orange Milk]
J:Kenzo - Dub For Bashenga [Cosmic Bridge]
The Government - How Many Fingers? [The Government]
Hihats In Trees - C=N [Maloca]
Kid Lib - Mental State [Fresh 86]
Lester Bowie - Rose Drop [ECM]
Paradox - Drum Throne [Paradox]
The Jackson Five - Hum Along And Dance [Motown]
Barker - Birmingham Screwdriver [Smalltown Supersound]
Roswell Return - A Goldbach Vibe (Clean Cut Remix) [SD]
Djrum - Sycamore [Houndstooth]
Aphex Twin - Diskhat All Prepared1mixed 13 [Warp]
Kincaid - Slow Stumble Home [Banoffee Pies]
Bass Butches - Loose Lips Sink Ships [Step Ball Chain]
Zenzizenz - Returning From Home [Banoffee Pies]
Affie Yusuf - Equator [Ferox]
Menace Makes 3 - Keep On Comin' (Brainstorm Remix) [Danse City - DC 1205]
Autechre - Maphive 6.1 [Warp]
Mantra - Stomping Ground [Ilian Tape]
Yunis - Preview Of Tomorrow [YUKU]



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2025-03-29 - Djrum - Essential Mix (Soundboard / Tongless version)

Interview:  https://truantsblog.com/2025/truancy-volume-350-facta-k-lone

Soundcloud: @facta @k-lone93

Access the download and full tracklist (Added) on our Patreon (patreon.com/truants). However if you need anything leave us a nice comment here with @facta @k-lone93 tagged and either of us will get back to you with an ID! Your support helps cover all our costs allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform.

Truancy Volume 350: Facta & K-LONE

A new studio set from one of the foundational icons of drum & bass.

Few names in drum & bass carry as much history as Peshay. Paul Pesce came up in the crucible of early rave and left fingerprints on labels like Mo' Wax, Good Looking and, most obviously, Metalheadz. By the time drum & bass was surging in the mid-'90s, he was bolted as one of the scene's most distinctive voices. 

Where others were pushing clinical austerity or waves of dark pressure, Pesce's ear drew him to featherlight, jazzy chords instead. The atmospheric drum & bass movement—or intelligent, as it's sometimes known today—cohered in his hands with timeless staples like "The Piano Tune" and "Miles From Home."

To a contemporary generation, he may now be best known for Studio Set, which caught alight as a prime slice of algorithm fodder on YouTube in the late 2010s, racking up millions of plays. Alongside Bailey’s Intelligent Drum & Bass, the mix has taken on a second life as a seminal document of a genre in flux. All of which made its removal from the internet, based around a spurious copyright strike, a hot concern.

Although a little tad reserved than some of the scene's most dominant names, Pesce has remained a loyal custodian and historian of the sound. While Studio Set was down, we offered him a crack at making something fresh, and though it's thankfully back up, the Kafkian nightmare galvanised his commitment to preserve recorded history.

Known as a DJ for his dynamic way with a groove, extended blends have long been Pesce's signature. You’ll hear plenty of those on his RA Podcast, as golden-age rollers and contemporary vocal cuts push in and out for up to four minutes, painting a portrait of the genre’s vitality from someone who helped define its terms. True to form, RA.993 carries the touch of a jazz conductor and the assured cool of a veteran who's been deep in the culture for over 30 years.

@peshay-official

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/993

RA.993 Peshay

Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO & Soreab - 04 August 2025

stompers stride

Metrist's Crack Mix walks the line where body-music and experimentalism meet.

More info here → https://crackm.ag/2kIpGFY

Crack Mix 310: Metrist

3 hours recorded at Calibre's XOYO residency this summer
Starting at 140 and moving fwd from there :)

Photo is from one of our first sets together at Plastic People nearly 9 years ago!
@joy-orbison @benufo

Ben UFO b2b Joy O - Recorded at XOYO in August 2019 (Calibre Residency)

a SOPHIE Tribute mix I made curated by Chinese music/art platform Shy People featuring mostly SOPHIE's own work and production works as well as a few other tracks I feel are deeply related and inspired by SOPHIE's sound. 

Rest in power angel, we will miss you forever <3

Follow Shy People on Instagram @shypeoplecn
Cover art by ins @mad.lizzard

SOPHIE - Cold Water
Vince Staples - Yeah Right (prod. By SOPHIE)
SOPHIE - Whole New World (Big Kiss Remix)
SOPHIE - Pony Whip
COBRAH - idfka
Quay Dash - Queen of this Shit (Prod. By SOPHIE)
SOPHIE - Ponyboy (SXTH LXX Remix)
SFire - Sfire 7
SOPHIE - VYZEE
Flume, SOPHIE, Kučka - Voices
HDMIRROR - Re-Entry
Le1f - Koi
Charli Xcx - After the after party (Danny L Harle Edit)
SOPHIE - UNISIL
Zebra Kat, Shygirl - LICK IT N SPIT 
Kai Whiston - BOYEI
Charli Xcx - Bounce (Prod. By SOPHIE)
SOPHIE - It’s Ok 2 Cry (DJ Animebby edit)

Legacy of a Star SOPHIE Tribute Mix

Bold, fearless and unpredictable, @jass-29 delivers a crunching high-speed workout for number 10 in the Junction 2 mix series.

Honing her craft as a resident DJ for Berlin-based party crew and label Mannequin, Spanish-born Silvia Jiménez Alvarez has grown into one of the scene’s most distinguished talents. Known for pushing the boundaries with genre-fusing explorations, JASSS received industry wide acclaim for her debut album ‘Weightless’ on iDEAL and followed up last year with a standout solo EP on AD 93 (fka Whities). The all-encompassing selector will be joining us at ION Festival this September.

Ben UFO At Friendly Potential, Wellington - May 2021

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