A bonus track from the planned Microgravity reissue.

Biosphere: Clovis

Solid Steel in association with Serato (24th April) This week we launch a brand new Solid Steel website at http://solidsteel.net and we're delighted to welcome back two guests Caribou and Colleen with exclusive new mixes to celebrate. They both appeared in the same show 10 years ago and on the new website you can hear their 2005 mixes in the Featured section, along with Caribou’s mix from 2000 when he was still known as Manitoba. Also released this week will be a mix from Matthew Herbert as Doctor Rockit (1995), Autechre mix (1997) and a Juan Atkins mix and interview from 1988, plus selected shows from the last 27 years and many more to come each week.
We even have new Solid Steel jingles for the first time in ages, and, over the coming weeks, you can hear what the likes of Luke Vibert, next week's guest Four Tet and FaltyDL (which starts the show this week) have come up with. 

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You can hear the Hour 1 mix from Caribou here https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-2442015-hour-1-caribou

In Hour 2, Colleen is celebrating the release of her latest album 'Captain of None' which is out now on Thrill Jockey. It's a special "Thank You Jamaica" mix that is clearly dear to her heart and she tells us a little more about this love affair;

"My love story with Jamaican music is in three parts: first as a child in the late 70s/early 80s, when my parents bought (probably by accident) a tape containing mostly Lee Perry songs from 1976, which we would listen to on long car trips. Then in my mid-20s when I moved to Paris and bought and borrowed dozens of Jamaican reissues from the Paris music libraries – it was the first time I was listening to the music with a musician’s ear, but given my way of making music at that time (sampling from records) I ended up concentrating on other genres which could be of use as more “unrecognizable” sample-fodder. But in late 2012, just as I was recording my fourth album The Weighing of the Heart, I rediscovered the music and this time it hit me really deep – it was like my ears were finally in the right condition to really hear the music in all its amazing inventiveness, and I had also reached a point in my own way of making music where finally I could see how the Jamaican sense of freedom and experimentation could infuse my own music – and from that moment I knew in what direction I would take my next album, which became Captain of None.
This mix contains some of my favourite Jamaican music and showcases its incredible diversity, with everyone (singers, musicians, producers) at the top of their game and displaying real individuality. "

Hour 2 - Colleen 

COLLEEN – SPECIAL JAMAICAN MIX “Thank You Jamaica”
Glen Brown And King Tubby – Version 78 Style 
The Techniques – I’ll Be Waiting 
Noel Ellis – To Hail Salassie
King Tubby’s and the Aggrovators  - A Noisy Place 
Burning Spear - Ethiopians Live It Out
Glen Brown and King Tubby – Termination Dub
Tappa Zukie – Judgement Dub
Ronnie Davis – Run Around Girl (discomix)
Alton Ellis – I’ll Be Waiting
Stranger Cole and Bullwackies All Stars – It takes Time
Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus – Jesus Christus Is The King
Rankin Devon – Change Your Folly Ground
Lee Van Cliff & Scientist - Wiser Than Solomon (discomix)
The Heptones – Sweet Talking (extended mix)
Winston Wright – Top Secret 
Prince Buster – Rock & Shake


Solid Steel Radio Show 24/4/2015 Hour 2 - Colleen

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Theory of Colours - Versions

Murmure (Rouge Mécanique Running Remix)

All hardware live PA set recorded at MoMA PS1 Warm-Up in Long Island City NY  Sept 1 2018

Live @ MoMA PS1 Warm-Up

6) This Way Out:
"This track came out of a conversation I accidently recorded in the Kings Arms in Blakeney on a particularly bleak and wet day.
‘Is anyone likely to change their minds?’
‘No’
‘It’s on its way…’
‘Ignorance is bliss, that’s what I say.’"

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On the auspicious occasion of the release of his mystical seventh artist album, technological force-of-nature Leafcutter John teams up with fellow stalwarts of idiosyncratic electronica Border Community to gift unto the world the small-yet-perfectly-formed joyously utopian artefact Yes! Come Parade With Us. Weaving field recordings from the Norfolk coastline together with layers of lyrical modular synth, these seven bright-eyed folk anthems sing with positivity and a sense of place, and feel right at home amongst the British label’s unparalleled ever-pastoral and often organic electronic legacy.

During the summer of 2017 exiled Yorkshireman Leafcutter John returned to his one-time home of Norfolk (having graduated in Painting from Norwich’s School of Art and Design back in 1998) and set out on foot along the sixty mile section of Norfolk Coast Path which runs from Hunstanton to Overstrand, trusty audio recording device in his pocket. “And very soon the physical act of walking began to make me think about music,” he explains. “My footsteps dictated the tempo and imagined melodies accompanied me as I slowly moved along the increasingly wild and magical stretch of coastline. Stresses of the city were replaced by the fall and rise of the North Sea and endless salt flats. Sounds from the environment filtered in and I would stop often to record what I was hearing around me.”

Back home in London, the hours of amassed field recordings would form the backbone and inspiration for a whole album worth of outpourings from John’s six-years-in-the-making modular synth. From the evocative sound of sea birds on Pillar and Stepper Motor to the colourful conversation from a country pub in This Way Out, the apposite selection of samples which made the final edit provide the perfect jumping-off point for John’s synths to soar with abandon, at times uplifting, frenetic, haunting, hypnotic or meditative, but always atmospheric and with unstoppable propulsion.

“Above all else, I wanted the album to exude a sense of constant forward motion but at a very human scale,” says John. Thus drummer friends Tom Skinner (Hello Skinny) and Sebastian Rochford (long-time collaborator in the twice Mercury Prize-nominated band Polar Bear) were roped in to lend their suitably clattering human momentum, on Doing The Beeston Bump and Dunes respectively. Working in tempos to match his walking speed throughout - “whether trudging along a rainy shingle beach or running up wildflowering clifftop paths” - Yes! Come Parade With Us is perfect traveling music, and once unleashed upon the world is sure to provide the soundtrack to plenty more journeys to come.

Beginning his own musical journey back in 1999 on Mike Paradinas’ Planet Mu Records and with a widely-varied twenty year career in electronic music already under his belt, the release of his masterful seventh album sees Leafcutter John on career-defining form. An intensely personal project, John has also hand-drawn the labyrinthine album art and animated his own suitably exuberant rainbow-hued video to accompany the boundless enthusiasm of restorative title track Yes! Come Parade With Us. The resultant album gem is both assuredly successful in his stated aim of capturing “both the rugged beauty of the environment and the positivity I felt walking through it” and incredibly infectious, with a harmonious utopian outlook which cannot help but rub off on the listener.

Yes! Come Parade With Us

Leafcutter John - This Way Out

Taken from Vanessa Wagner's EP Inland Versions on InFiné, out September 27.

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Premiere: Vanessa Wagner - Elf Dance (Suzanne Ciani Version) [Moondog]

selected by NCOL & Eva Porating

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Alexander Goldscheider - Panáček Bomiňa a panenka Palele
Koehler - Haunted Diamond
Parris – Southeast Of tHe Mountain (Sam Kidel Remix)
Young Marco – Temple On A Road
Lum – Rosa
Thomas – Calango Fumando Palha (Lunar Version)
Androo - Slice Dub
The Horse He’s Sick – Larynx
Parris – Skeletal (OSVMVSM Remix)
Andrea Noce & David Kristian - So Far So Good
Golden Bug – Yama
Dharma – Light Rain
Megaphonim – Megaphon
Wolf Müeller - Der Vogel Aus Der Unterwelt
Karma de la Luna – Travel Without Moving
Sade – Make Some Room

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LUKE ABBOTT SHARES NEW TRACK 'AMES WINDOW'

NEW ALBUM TRANSLATE OUT 20 NOVEMBER VIA BORDER COMMUNITY

"This is memorable music for exceptional times"
4/5 Mojo 'Electronic Album of the Month'

"Meditative, vital and expertly crafted"
8/10 Loud and Quiet

"A big, satisfyingly holistic record modelled with great finesse"
8/10 Uncut

Luke Abbott's has today shared 'Ames Window', a new track from his first solo record in six years Translate, which will be released on 20 November via Border Community. Remaining just within Luke's control, the track tumbles and whirls with a playful freedom, showcasing a different side to the record from the rich and purposeful 'Kagen Sound' or the steely-eyed focus of 'Earthship''s intergalactic journey.

Speaking of the track, Abbott says:
"'Ames Window' is an indulgent improvised modular synth track. It reminded me of the Ames window optical illusion because it has this spinning, disorientating quality. I like music that is very freeform, and this track is like a wild and amorphous cloud that’s constantly turning itself inside out."

In the time since his last solo record, Luke Abbott has had to re-forge his relationship with making music alone. His solo work has always been deeply entwined with his sense of self and during a tumultuous time in his personal life that needed to be reevaluated, and so did the music along with it.

Recorded at James Holden's Sacred Walls studio complex at various intervals
throughout summer 2019, the result is Translate, a record that sees Abbott with a renewed sense of purpose. Written, recorded and produced by Abbott (with Holden on board as "engineer and spiritual guide") - Translate is a strikingly direct body of work that retains a great depth and fullness. At times dark and ominous, others bright and welcoming, this is Abbott’s sound fully realised and never so sure of itself.

04) Ames Window - Luke Abbott

Classic experimental electronica mix by vcam

Aemic / Adsl
Autechre / Rae
Autechre / 902 Quarter
Funkstorung / Bei Funkstorungen
Michael Fakesch / Proture
Michael Fakesch / From Crocut
Richard Coleman Devine / Untitled
Funkstorung / Must
Michael Fakesch / Rand (Version C)
Richard Coleman Devine / Untitled
Michael Fakesch / Diesenie
Funkstorung / Funktionsstorung
Funkstorung / Tank
Funkstorung / Economy
Gescom / Viral Rival
Autechre / Yeesland
Autechre / Second Scepe
Autechre / Lost

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Obvolution Mix

Obvolution Mix By Vcam

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