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Astrofever Radio is a monthly Radio Show annexed to Astrofever Records, an independent record label from Casablanca, Morocco.
The sound of Astrofever Radio stems from a broad musical palette, maintaining a wide spectrum and focusing on good music regardless of genres. Curated by Casablanca-born and based Producer, DJ, and label head Mouhcine Zouitina better known as @Polyswitch. Presenting emerging and established artists from Morocco and beyond via @Worldwide-fm. 

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*Guest Introduction:

Glenn Astro is just one of multiple alter egos the Berlin-based producer and DJ carry for himself. Releases on labels such as @nowtermina @tartelet-records, @ninja-tune, and @wotnotmusic, several high-profile remixes, as well as contributions to the @resident-advisor, Solid Steel, and @dkmntl mix series, helped to heave his name to the public eye. Known for his chunky beats and fuzzy textures, Glenn Astro was a crucial figure in a new wave of electronic music producers setting trends between 2013 and 2015, leaving a distinctive signature on everything he touched. But Astro has quietly been crafting a new sound for himself. Sometimes taking detours, morphing into various band constellations, more alter egos, and experimenting with artist collaborations. Those years of reflection and artistic development have culminated in another facet of his already versatile sound palette that manifests in his productions and DJ sets. 
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*00:00:00 – 00:59:59 / Polyswitch

1– Jeremy - So Peaceful (Re-Ending) (Driftwood)
2– Alex Ho - TYFC (Music From Memory)
3– Marconi Union & Giorgio Li Calzi | Blue Lights (Music For Dreams)
4– Samuel Organ - Guidance (DMY)
5– Aardvarck - Buuv (Rush Hour)
6– Pharaohs - Beyond Within (100% Silk)
7– Ron Trent feat. Venecia - Flowers (Night Time Stories)
8– Fatnotronic feat In Flagranti - Me Diga (Razor-N-Tape)
9– Bangkok Impact - Ice Python (Creme Organisation)
10– Eddie C - Where We Going (Red Motorbike)
11– MLiR - Just In Rooimance (Studio Barnhus)
12– Aloe Blacc - Dance For Life (Stones Throw Records)
13– Tauru Johnson & Lion Heart - Sunny Dae (Mood Hut)
14– Meikbar - Liston (Psychic Phenomena)
15– Eternal Sun - 6-8 Drumz Yoru-Pean Drumz (Pathless Remix) (Talkin’ Loud)

*01:00:00 – 01:59:59 / Glenn Astro

1– Ranie Ribeiro – Het Jaar Rond pt. 2 (excerpt) (Nous'klaer Audio)
2– Md. After Hussain & PAQ - Harmonium (Hive Mind Records)
3– Sunstroke - Re:incarnation (Libreville Editions)
4– Employee - Silke (BeatBude)
5– Salamanda - Rumble Bumble (Human Pitch)
6– Frog Of Earth - Not Too Much (Wheretimegoes) 
7– Tom Churchill - Gradients (2sox)
8– Midnight Star – Midas Touch (BOC Remix) (Solar)
9– Native Soul - Rejoice ft. TapSoul (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
10– East Man - Primary Source (Hi Tek Sounds)
11– Al Campbell - Chimera Dance (Good Company Records)
12– Meftah - Ur Utility (Steady Flight Circle)
13– Versa - Neurogenesis (Modern Hypnosis)
14– ? - unreleased 

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*Polyswitch on the web:

Bandcamp: https://astrofeverinternational.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/polyswitch
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/polysw_tch/
Spotify: http://bit.ly/polyswitch
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/polyswitch/725374038

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*Glenn Astro on the web:

Bandcamp: https://glennastro.bandcamp.com 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/glenn-astro
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glenn_astro
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6NjPS5yGVTioKlN7NsA6Is
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/glenn-astro/464286100

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Astrofever Records Radio @ Worldwide FM

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Astrofever Records Radio w/ Polyswitch & Glenn Astro @ Worldwide FM (13-07-22)

Further information and tracklist: https://bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-247--robert-hampson-loop

"This is the kind of eclectic affair you can find yourself putting on very late on a Saturday night, early Sunday morning where you might be slightly worse for wear and you want a little off-kilter but also some gentle warmth with nothing to freak the cat out, or piss off the neighbours" - Robert Hampson

Bleep Mix #247 - Robert Hampson (LOOP)

https://soundcloud.com/cudmore
https://soundcloud.com/throneofblood
🛒 https://throneofblood.bandcamp.com/album/tob-anniversary-ep-1
🔊 https://youtu.be/jOObCRt0G-0

It’s hard to believe it’s been 16 years since Throne of Blood Recordings began. Originally conceived as a platform to release vinyl singles from NYC legends The Rapture, the label has grown and evolved into a stalwart of leftfield electronic music and a launchpad for some massively influential artists including Daniel Avery and Bicep.

We’ve never needed an excuse to celebrate, but hitting this milestone has made us contemplate our place in the world, reflecting on the relationships that have made Throne of Blood such an integral part of our lives and our legacy as an incubator for tomorrow’s most remarkable artists. So we’ve put together a series of anniversary EPs that bring our past and future together on the dance floor.

The first of four releases, Anniversary EP #1 features longtime friend and label collaborator Chloe Thévenin of Parisian powerhouse Lumiere Noire Records, label manager Max Pask in collaboration with Tigersushi mainman Joakim (for the first time since their killer edit of Evan’s Pyramid for Cultures Of Soul), NYC techno mainstay and Bunker affiliate Justin Cudmore, and Liona, a wildly talented producer from Ulaanbaatar.

Four musical points of view with one goal in mind: making people dance. And there’s loads more to come…

Artwork by Gordon Harrison Hull (co-founder of Surface To Air and Phoenix Rising)

Tracklist: 

1. “The Foss” by Chloè 
2. “Tropical” by Lions 
3. Sunday Lemonade by Justin Cudmore 
4. “Blue Sun” by Joakim & Max Pask

PREMIERE: Justin Cudmore - Sunday Lemonade [Throne of Blood]

As some people seem to have problems accessing our podcasts, i'm going to put this up here too. A shorter version of this podcast is here - http://soundcloud.com/warmhq/jd-twitch-optimo-bass-and-bleeps

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Blurb -


In the late 80s as house music exploded across the UK British producers started to take the new electronic strains coming out of the United States and added their own distinctive British twist to them. Artists such as Bang The Party, No Smoke, Baby Ford, Renegade Soundwave and A Guy Called Gerald amongst many others were releasing distinctive records that worked on the dance floor as effectively as anything coming out of Chicago, New York or Detroit. Then there was Unique 3. From Bradford, they were arguably the first UK act to really bring the BASS and in particular the sub bass to UK electronic music in a way that it hadn't featured before. Britain's deep affinity with reggae and the exposure of many to severely bass heavy reggae sound systems meant it was an inevitability that bass was going to become a distinctive factor and Unique 3's huge (and sadly somewhat forgotten) influence on what came out of the UK cannot be understated: hardcore, drum and bass, dubstep and current UK Bass variants all owe something to Unique 3's bassprints, several of which are included on this podcast. (The earliest, The Theme, dates back to 1989 and still sounds fresh 22 years later.)

In their wake, from the north of England came Warp records and the wave of Sheffield Bass, or Bass and Bleep records (or whatever you want to call them) that begat a thousand imitators.  Once again an often overlooked character is majorly responsible for so much of this music - the mighty Rob Gordon (co founder of Warp and remixer and producer extraordinaire), whom to me is as important a figure in dance music history as any legend one may care to mention. These records had a massive impact on myself and my then dj partner Brainstorm. We were obsessed with bleeps and bass and these futuristic sounds that sounded unlike anything else, especially when blasting out of a huge sound system. We were very fortunate that our club night UFO, which soon morphed into Pure, had possibly the most powerful system in the country. When the bass drop in LFO's "LFO" came in the whole building would quiver and the music would be drowned out by shrieks and screams of delight. Records by Nightmares On Wax, Sweet Exorcist, Juno, XON and a legion of others will be with me as long as I live, and should so many years of sonic abuse one day render my hearing kaput, it's slightly reassuring to know that I'll always be able to FEEL the power of them as they shift masses of air through speakers with their sub bass and low frequency oscillations.

Over the ensuing years I've followed all strains of UK dance music with varying degrees of interest. The last couple of years have been deeply satisfying as records that come from the same mould as that golden 1989 - 91 era (but with a sound inherently modern rather than trying to recreate the past - something so much modern dance music is guilty of) have become more prominent. Artist such as Ramadanman in his various guises, Julio Bashmore and a host of others have brought back the bass, syncopated rhythms and sometimes the bleeps at a manageably groovesome tempo that is sexier, sonically more interesting and more powerful, to my ears, than a zillion unimaginative and derivative deep house or minimal clones. They are pushing boundaries which for me is what electronic music was always meant to do and was one of thee main, but often long undelivered promises of techno.  This mix is 40 tracks of UK Bass music past, present and future (there are actually two non British tracks included. A prize to anyone who spots them) and is a distinctively British sound that in its original form didn't really translate outside the UK, though its mutant offspring have gone on to reverberate around the globe. Old and new sit side by side all (imo) sharing some dna, intentional or otherwise with those Unique 3 records that first lit up my ears 22 years ago. Here's to the next 22 years of UK dance hybrids!


Once again we aren't making a tracklisting available for the podcast but if you want to know what anything is, feel free to get in touch and we will let you know. Nearly all the music contained here is from vinyl records so any audio imperfections are a result of the age and wear of the records; many of the older 12"s on here received a LOT of club abuse. The mix is LONG, contains 40 tracks, lasts 130 minutes and the download is a 192kbps mp3 (188mb). Enjoy, and please, don't listen to it on crummy laptop speakers as yr going to miss the whole point.


Optimo Podcast 9 Bass and Bleepcast 1989 - 2011

Zombie Zombie - Nuits sonores Tanger - 18 oct 2014

It Don't Stop - Fries & Bridges

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-309-wevie-stonder

Earlier in 2025, Wevie Stonder returned to Skam with their first album in 16 years, and such an occasion requires further celebration, no? Sure Beats Living delivers more of the collective’s signature cheekiness, and this mix for Bleep unravels all of the wildly eclectic sounds and styles that have powered over two decades of iconoclasm.

This is probably the only mix you’ll find that travels from drill and bass to Ecuadorian synth cumbia to 40s jazz. Constant stylistic U-turns are the name of the game, and as the group recontextualise tracks with comedic skits and spoken word pieces, you never know which little sonic nugget is going to be the jumping off point for a completely opposite yet cleverly connected world of sound. Wevie Stonder’s own strange crossing between avant experimentation and punkish irreverence sits between the jangling bass guitar of Gary Le Strange, whose reclusive hikikomori-induced paranoia is delivered in an ironic nasally britpop voice, and the wonky synth funk of Devonwho with lush crisp beats and thrumming jazzy keys.

Bucolic Moog wash and lounge piano tiptoe beneath a Radiophonic Workshop-esque segment testing out the possibilities of synthesisers; “Finally, an example of rhythmic electronic music,” says the posh presenter, introducing a full and proper rinsing with some classic Squarepusher chops. Amen breaks are chucked in the shredder and glued back together with thick jungle bass, then dissipate into Hiroshi Yoshimura’s birdsong bliss. With these disparate tracklist transitions, each track in itself brings together unlikely combinations: further melodrama from Gary Le Strange pairs southern crooning with jaunty harpsichord, bass punches and cascading pianos flow between J Dilla’s slow hip hop hits, and Polibio Mayorga merges accordion and cowbells with the theatrics of expressively vintage synth sounds, brass and electronics trading lines on ‘Muñequita Blanca’.

Bleep Mix #309 - Wevie Stonder

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-310-rafael-anton-irisarri

Tracking a personal and pivotal moment in his life, Rafael Anton Irisarri’s fateful album A Fragile Geography has shifted meanings from grief to resilience in the ten years since it was released. Irisarri’s mix for Bleep taps back into those initial feelings changed by time, highlighting glistening blankets of sound, gauzy chord sweeps, and romantic bittersweet swells amidst the swathes of blasting, folding harmonic noise. Ryuichi Sakamoto’s dreamily puffing organ chords waltz towards the swaying pendulum of piano on Bohren & Der Club Of Gore’s ‘Maximum Black’, revealing a jazz backing of noir drum shuffles. Mabe Fratti’s voice is soft and billowy like a cloud of perfume on her rework of ‘Hiatus’, dispersed by the privately reflective noise of Ethel Cain’s ‘Onanist’, both airily cushioning and sharply confronting.

“I made this mix for Bleep to celebrate the tenth anniversary and reissue of my album "A Fragile Geography". I structured the mix to mirror how grief moves through us. It's a haze of fragmented memories and emotions, drifting like smoke through dimly lit rooms with memory stained walls. Each song feels like a whispered thought, a fogged-up mirror, or a letter never sent. Some tracks feel soft and distant, while others hit a little harder. Grief doesn’t scream here; it sighs, loops, and lingers. Tape hiss, faint piano, distant voices, and time dissolved strings shape the sound. I wanted this mix to feel like memory itself: flickering, fading, and returning. Remember, forget, and remember all over again.” - Rafael Anton Irisarri

Bleep Mix #310 - Rafael Anton Irisarri

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-311-u

This is a collection of songs and recordings from U's archive on Archenfield, a place that exists beneath the drifting borders of England, Wales and the Forest of Dean. The mix explores the area's musical history, humour and the sometimes overbearing legacy of senior nostalgia on modern rural culture. Amidst cheeky spoken word passages, rolling waves of piano and agile bucolic guitars, and twanging transatlantic connections, U juxtaposes different versions of folksongs and standards. Lydbrook Silver Band’s performance of ‘Edelweiss’ is dreamily mournful with ghostly brass arrangements, the sound of gloomy moors and overcast marshes switched out for Christine Turner’s arresting voice, while U transitions from Michael Tanner & Alison Cotton’s mystical plucks and string to his own ominously tolling drums and stories of ‘Black Vaughan’.

Bleep Mix #311 - U

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-312-sandwell-district-silent-servant-mix

Rounding out an electrifying year, Sandwell District deliver a mix that both celebrates Bleep's album of the year End Beginnings and pays tribute to the man who helped them get this far. Silent Servant’s discography is a plentiful one and Sandwell shows it in all its colours, ranging from hissing electro to sputtering microbeats to revolving hardcore throb doused in mysterious ambience. Blissful ripples of soft rounded synth melody slowly flow into rebounding beats and slamming dub synths, transformed into tactile laser pulses and howling gusts of distortion. The predatorily strutting bass stabs of Sterile Hand’s ‘The Hunter’ is stealthy EBM under the cloak of night, contrasted by Tropic Of Cancer’s guitar twangs worked into slick yet turbulent percussive sequences Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘Silent Command’ edited into a jittery, woozy lofi dream.

Bleep Mix #312 - Sandwell District - Silent Servant Mix

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-313--ehua

"This mix captures the essence of Panta Rei—a flow through time, space, and shifting emotional textures. Recorded in Ridgewood NYC on three CDJs, it traces the sounds that shaped my early years, from the quiet rhythms of the Italian countryside to the international campervan trips I took with my family, where I spent countless hours gazing out the window and imagining alternate realities, guided only by the magic of my CD player. In this intentional yet spontaneous selection, Italy’s early and mid-2000s trip-hop intertwines with current percussive rhythms, 1970s flute symphonies, regional soundscapes, and spellbinding reinterpretations of Italian and international classics that echo 1990s hip-hop, dub, experimental jazz, spoken word, downtempo and more." - Ehua

Bleep Mix #313 - Ehua

In the first week of September we're heading to the beautiful scenery of Tisno, Croatia, to celebrate the first edition of Dekmantel Selectors. In the run up to the festival, we've launched a new temporary podcast-series where we invite ten of our selectors from the festival to dig deep in their unique collections. The idea behind the mix is to create a Time Document, focusing on a specific period of time with the artist being free in choosing this period. This period could in fact entail anything: a certain decennia, the time he or she fell in love, The Cold War, November ’92 – March ’93, or the rise of Nigerian music. It’s up to the Selectors to choose and tell us a story based on their music collection.

Our next Selectors Podcast is created by the UK based Andy Votel, who we’ve been admiring for the work he has been putting out with his highly anticipated Finders Keepers Records. 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the renowned label, a seemingly tireless imprint which at this point has archived a wide array of psychedelic, jazz, folk, funk music and more from over six decades and across forty different countries. As a co-head of the Finders Keepers operation, Votel (who has also enjoyed a long, prolific career as a DJ and producer) brings a similar passion for disparate sounds to his sets, full of exotic tracks you've never heard before and will likely never hear again.

Votel's love for Turkish records is a well-known thing, and his connection with the country is a truely special one. Votel: "I first discovered Turkish psych in a Dusseldorf bookshop in the late nineties, and was amazed by the loud fuzz guitar which I later learned was a Saz. Since then I have been fascinated with the nations truly alternative approach to pop-music via psych, funk, electronics, surf and disco as well as their total genuine independence from the Western music industry."

Altough his love for this music is a well-known thing, he has never made a mix that fully consists of Turkish. Until now. "I spent a lot of time searching for heavy prog, but after introducing the work of Selda to the wider world via our Finders Keepers label, my obsession with the Turkish female vocals and synthesizers has become more of an unwanning obsession than a passing penchant. Various magazines and festivals have asked me to do a Turkish Mixtape over the years, but his finally seemed like the right opportunity. I’ve been waiting years to do this mix, so it’s very close to my heart."

Votul continues. "The mix is called 'To The Davul A Daughter Vol.1’ and consists of two hours of exclusively obscure ‘Anatolian Femme Funk’. This mix is also dedicated to the people of Turkey who have shown major enthusiasm and encouragement in Finders Keepers activities, via both record digging and parties, which remains globally unrivaled to me. The recent tension and hardships the country has had to face will never destroy the spirit of a nation which continues to dance to the unshakable beat of its own Davul.”

Selectors Podcast 007 - Andy Votel

► Awesome Tapes From Africa is back, bringing his magic to Boiler Room.
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Awesome Tapes From Africa | Boiler Room x VIVA! Festival

Tracklist 
1. Nazia Hassan - Khushi 
2. King Geedorah – Anti-Matter (feat. MF Doom, Mr Fantastik)
3. Apiento - Down That Road
4. 420 - Untitled 4
5. Billie Eilish - Bad Guy (Benedikt Frey Reconstruction)
6. Kirk Degiorgio - Vertical Life (Anthony Child remix)
7. Moksha Black - As It Should Be feat Roba
8. Mary Yalex - Valley Drone
9. The Durutti Column - LC side 1
10. Tyrez - Moda (mHigh fashion pop mix)
11. K. Leimer - All Sad Days
12. Simple Mind - someone somewhere in summertime (Pete Herbert  Darkness to the Light Version)
13. Joe Tossini and Friends - Wild Dream
14. SAULT - Black (Afriqua Shake)
15. Dream 2 Science - My Love Turns To Liquid
16. Meitei - Nami
17. Real Live - They Got Me
18. Bahamadia - Spontaneity
19. METAL - Point Vacancies
20. Darkstar - Wolf
21. Darkstar 1001
22. Andy Stott Versi
23. Eluize - Say
24. Keeley Forsyth - Start Again 
25. DJ Python - mmmm
26. I—cube - NEUTRON 
27. Lina Raul Refree- Maldição
28. Py Corner Audio - Electronic Rhythm Number One
29. Il Quadro di Troisi - Intenzioni

Couleur 3 - Metissages Ripperton Mix - 2021

https://soundcloud.com/al-lover & The Reverberation Appreciation Society present: "Elevated Transmissions", a new mix-tape series from San Francisco producer and sonic explorer Al Lover. 

TRACK LISTING:

Genesis Intro
The Janitors - A-Bow
Villages - Spilling Past (Al Lover Remix)
Elephant Stone - A Silent Moment
Creeping Pink - Eris # 7
Adrian Younge - 12 Sirens
Thee Oh Sees - Night Crawler
Morgan Delt - Barbarian Kings
White Fence  - To The Boy I Jumped In Hemlock Alley
Burnt Ones - Vision forever
The Cult of Dom Keller - Swamp Heron 
The Janitors - A-Bow (Reprise)
Cool Ghouls  - Earthquake
Fuzz - Fuzz's Fourth Dream
The Holy Drug Couple - Paisley
Wall of Death - Believe Me or Not
JJUUJJUU - G 4 A G
Uncle Acid and The Dead Beats - Mind Crawler
Sudakistan - El Movimiento 
Ty Segall - Music for a Film 
Uh Bones - Amess
The Shivas - Living and Dying Like Horatio Alger

DOWNLOAD - http://www.austinpsychfest.com/elevated-transmissions-vol-1/

Elevated Transmissions Vol. 1

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