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UK inspired electronic music has changed significantly over the past twenty years, mutating between elements of bass, house music, techno and back again. The sounds are often intertwined and linked by creative dj's and producers who aren't keen to be pigeonholed or bound by the limitations of genre or style. 

Tom VR is a perfect example of one such artist, an emerging producer who has risen to prominence with an array of eclectic, thoughtful releases on the likes of All My Thoughts, Lionoil Industries and his own imprint Valby Rotary which he runs alongside Louf. His most accomplished work perhaps has come on a new EP for Midland's record label, Intergraded. A pensive, bass inspired affair which also features beautiful ambient textures and delicate, precise sound design built to immerse dancers in the clubs. 

Tom's own musical tastes are rooted in the more pensive undertones of electronic music, there is a tonal undercurrent which runs throughout his work and sound. That's not to call it 'deep' but it is.

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Tom VR: The Ransom Note Mix

Skylab Radio: Rivtek E1 [24/7/21]

Climb the tallest rock formation you find, take out a small mirror.  Remove your sandals and reach onto your tip toes, stretch the mirror into the sky as high as you can go, hold the mirror so that the sky can reflect itself.   Bury the mirror. 

TRACK LIST
Glacier Descent / Arve Henriksen 
Run From Me / Timber Timbre 
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Microdose by Jarrod Beck 
Gates of Initiation / Byron Metcalf & Rob Thomos  
Healing Song 1 / Peyote Songs in Sioux 
Dle Yaman / Divan Gasparyan
Abel et Cain - Diamanda Galas 
Desert Journey / Jarrod Beck 
Henry Plainview / Jonny Greenwood
Holy Mother’s Protecting Chain / Ruth Barrett 
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Mirage / Mike Ink 
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Mircodose by Nita Aviance @djnitamusic
Violet - Tears in 1993
Anushka - Free Will
Teengirl Fantasy, Laurel Halo - Mist of Time
Hannah Holland - Raindrops
The 5th Dimension - Love’s Lines, Angels And Rhymes
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Native American Music Consort / Shamanic Drumming World
Qasida - Sunset Fever 2 / Fatima Al Qadiri
Cherokee Drums / Drums of the World
Subterranean River / Rudy Adrian
Desert Rose / Sting
Horizon / Jake Hotel 
Oasis / Ashra
U.F.O / Jim Sullivan 
A Horse With No Name / America
Exit Five / Jonny Nash
Wenn der Südwind weht / Roedelius 
Soul Desert / Vinyl Countdown
Mr. Sandman / Unknown 
Mountain Eagle (The Black Frame Desert Mix) / Rebolledo  
High Flyer / Terry Brooks & Strange 
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Microdose by Ahmed Ibrahim 
Nannuflay / Tinariwen
Etkalemy / Mohamed Mournir
Khosara / Adbel Halim Hafez
Al Bostah / Fairouz 
Assi (Greg Bauchau Remix) / Yasmine Hamdan
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Circle in the Sand / Belinda Carlisle
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Cover photo by Iranian artist Shirin Abedinirad

Episode 016

Floating melancholic grooves.

Download and tracklisting: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_Soela

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XLR8R Podcast

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XLR8R Podcast 714: Soela

Next up, a very special international guest and inspiration of mine, Sybil (@syberkid). Sybil has an impressive track record of pivotal parties and festivals under her belt - Berlin Atonal, Berghain’s Säule, Fabric, Honey Soundsystem and Timedance all come to mind. However what’s perhaps even more impressive is the way that Sybil approaches her time in the studio. Sybil’s mixes have landed on platforms such as Discwoman, Dimensions and Crack Magazine as well as her own ambient outlet, Deep Mind Music. 

Sybil’s style of DJing really resonates with me. On the one hand, she creates wonderfully immersive soundscapes, textured collages of meditative and deep ambient music. She’s equally adept and commanding a dancefloor with high-energy, euphoric techno and trance leaning sounds. Of course, Sybil touches on the energies in between, but there’s an undeniable symbiotic relationship between her duality of styles - achieved through a common transcendent quality of both. Regardless of style, Sybil’s mixes are inherently thematic, guided by visual concepts and narratives which are inspired by her “very synesthetic relationship to music”. Sybil’s creative approach to DJing, deep love for music and inimitable ability to craft a story, mean whichever avenue she takes you, you know you’re going on a journey through space, time and texture. I had a wonderful time connecting with Sybil from abroad, all the way from London about all this and more for episode 157, 18-03-2022.

If you're interested in hearing our interview, you can check it out here:
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/passing-notes/2022-03-18/20-00-00

Sybil - PN 157 (3 Years of PN)

Tuff Life w/ dBridge (Black Electric Mix) 19TH APR 2022

ALM Busy Circuits Voices Radio Takeover 29/04/23

As part our Voices Radio takeover listen to a downtempo & home listening inspired DJ Mix from Lauren Flax.

Lauren Flax - ALM Busy Circuits Takeover - 29/04/23

Today, we share with you Mandarín's perception of Far Blue. Besides being an artist who puts together beautiful selections, we got familiar with Mandarín as a pivotal part of the community in the first place. A name who always pops up everywhere, and someone who has a vast musical knowledge by being so invested in everything that is put out by other artists and platforms. It only made sense to ask her to create a mix that represents her feelings of Far Blue, as she has been part of the process for a long time now. An artist that truly understands where Far Blue comes from, which she showcases in a versatile one hour and thirty one minutes mix.

'Yet, in a stillness a flicker of hope,
a promise of solace, a way to cope.
For even as red skies fade and elope,
new dreams emerge, with boundless scope'

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@manndarin

Instagram.com/farblue_ 
Facebook.com/farblueconcept

A Far Blue concept by Mandarín - 'Red Skies Disappear'

music for grocery stores - episode 3 - soela

DJ Flight has been a constant throughout the many peaks and troughs of drum & bass. She's one of the genre's key chroniclers, with a real-time history of drum & bass in her archives as a radio presenter, and a level of behind the scenes involvement that spans decades.

While Flight's advocacy for equitable gender representation in drum & bass through her EQ50 collective is the most visible, it's by no means the sole initiative. Her work also extends to the Prison Radio Association—the only radio station made specifically for incarcerated people—as well as the Windrush Stories series, which focuses on the cultural history and contributions of Afro-Caribbean migrants to the UK.

Flight is also, plainly, a wicked DJ, who doesn't prefer one scene or subgenre over another—which also makes her a font of knowledge. (Her history of 2000s drum & bass is among the best genre deep dives we've ever published.) This RA Podcast is two hours of majestic, freewheeling beats that touch on every corner of drum & bass: from the minimalistic and razor-edged to ragga looseness, with a killer downtempo outro to smooth out the final landing. RA.942 is a first class journey from one of the scene's most enduring heroes. Big up Flight.

@djflight

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/942

RA podcast

RA.942 DJ Flight

Elena Colombi live from The Inn @ Dripping 2024

@elenacolombi

Elena Colombi at Dripping 2024

Our residency returns tonight with a family show <3 Two hours of Ayesha B2B Ma Sha.

http://www.instagram.com/kindergarten_ny

@kindergartenrecords

Kindergarten with Ayesha b2b Ma Sha @ The Lot Radio 10-19-2024

Rinse FM Podcast

C to the Power of X with Bake - 21 October 2024

The snack enthusiast and London based producer and DJ takes on the NTS airwaves. Stay tuned for mixes spanning the breadth of dance and club music. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/peach/episodes/peach-4th-december-2024

Peach 041224

The snack enthusiast and London based producer and DJ takes on the NTS airwaves. Stay tuned for mixes spanning the breadth of dance and club music. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/peach/episodes/peach-26th-february-2025

Peach 260225

The snack enthusiast and London based producer and DJ takes on the NTS airwaves. Stay tuned for mixes spanning the breadth of dance and club music. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/peach/episodes/peach-26th-march-2025

Peach 260325

The snack enthusiast and London based producer and DJ takes on the NTS airwaves. Stay tuned for mixes spanning the breadth of dance and club music. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/peach/episodes/peach-23rd-april-2025

Peach 230425

Recorded at 428 stage at Wonderfruit Festival in 2024.

Aurora Halal is a producer, DJ and creator of Brooklyn’s influential Mutual Dreaming party series & the Sustain-Release festival.

Shadowy and psychedelic, her hardware live & DJ sets have a hazy sensuality and metallic dance floor intensity that’s at turns playful, dark, euphoric and emotionally vulnerable. In all her projects, she treats dance music as an are­na for trans­for­ma­tion and since 2010, her events have been root­ed in an under­ground, DIY approach that push­es for­ward-think­ing sounds, pro­duc­tion, and ideas. She’s spent the last 10 years tour­ing like-mind­ed clubs, raves, and fes­ti­vals world­wide and gained a rep­u­ta­tion for pow­er­ful, unique per­for­mances that work both the body and mind. She’s 4 years into a res­i­den­cy at NYC’s Nowa­days, is a reg­u­lar at Berghain and pre­vi­ous­ly De School.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aurorahalal/

Aurora Halal at 428 Wonderfruit 2024

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Giegling Mix 07 - DJ Metatron - This Is Not

Giegling Mix 02 - Prince of Denmark - this is not...

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

We are honored to have Czech DJ Marie Pradva join our mix series. Marie tells us: This mix was recorded at an event in Ankali club, in coldancefloor with my favorite crew from the Seismic label. I had the pleasure of playing at their festival this summer, but unfortunately, my set was cut short by the police — and to make matters worse, the recording was lost.

With this set, I finally had the chance to make up for it. It takes listeners on a proper journey: starting with deep ambient sounds to set the mood of the night, gradually building energy as the dancefloor fills, and eventually diving into the heavy 140 BPM swamp.

@yomomsmokescrack
https://www.instagram.com/mariepravda/

Danza Nativa Invites 029 - Marie Pravda (Seismic at Ankali Club)

Have I been to Amara? Like anyone who has, I’ve no way of knowing for sure. 

I am told she is wrapped in a blue-grey fog that extends like an aura for miles in all directions. As certain kinds of fog have a way of doing, it only makes itself known to you when you are already well within its grasp. At best, the traveller may remember entering and exiting the hazy periphery of this city, but whatever comes to pass within is impossible to recall, and one can only recognize signs in the traces it leaves behind in the mind and body. This may be as subtle as a change in the way you speak, as disquieting as an unaccountable bruise or scrape on the skin, or as drastic as a sudden change in the length of your hair. 

Recently, lovers have told me that my way in bed has somehow changed, that the color of my eyes has grown cooler and softer. Flavors that I once detested are now among my most cherished. Certain objects or images — a marble figurine, a drop of blood hanging from a small cut on my finger, a glass bowl shot through with broken sunlight — have stirred up in me the faintest and most curious ecstasy. It is as though, by some association conjured in these moments, I behold not a memory in itself but the effects it has on everything around it, the lines of sentiment that ripple across the waters of my mind from the invisible impression of an unknown stone.

A city will change you, slowly in time, in ways you may not notice as they set in. But what if the city that changes you is not so much a place as a strange and beautiful void, one that quietly haunts the heart, and from which no memory can escape?

Words: Devon Hansen
Image: Mike Midnight

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Signals Vol. 5 Derek Plaslaiko [The Bunker NY, Interdimensional Transmissions | Berlin] 
- Recorded Live 12/10/16  @ Signal > Noise V. 2.3 Derek Plaslaiko [open > close]

Q and A :  http://signalnoise585.com/signals/signals-vol-5-derek-plaslaiko/

Signal>Noise Live

Signals Vol. 5 Derek Plaslaiko [ The Bunker | Interdimensional Transmissions ] Berlin

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Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO recorded live at Sorted (Denver) - 21st October 2019

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lvt - [ soundcloud.com/lolavutru ] + [ https://www.facebook.com/lola.vutru/ ]

TL: 
1) Vicky Zissou - Tiden [Huinali, 2020]
2) Earthen Sea - Flowing Style [Huinali, 2020]
3) Atom TM - Stain (Dot) [Rather Interesting, 1994 / Astral Industries, 2019]
4) OWL - Blackstone [Silent Season, 2017]
5) Higher Intelligence Agency - Sound Matter [Headphone, 2020]
6) Elle - Our Love [Accents, 2018]
7) Vako Pachulia - Reliefbelief [Solid Shape, 2019]
8) Cavüm - The Garden Hill [Circular, 2020]
9) Polito - Sublunary [Butter Sessions, 2020]
10) Refracted - Oo-koo-hé [Silent Season, 2013]
11) Formant Value - Polycausa [Well Street, 2020]
12) Mown - Danse Macabre (Forest On Stasys Interpretation) [Norite, 2020]
13) Shaded Explorer - Corresponded Serenity [Silent Season, 2016]
14) Ruff Cherry - Innocent [Well Street, 2018]
15) Kuba - Dance Of The Noise [Matrix, 2009]
16) Loop LF - Natural XT [Well Street, 2019]
17) Javier Marimon - The Tuzz I [Huinali, 2019]
18) Human Space Machine - DGTR8S [De Lichting, 2020]

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Our releases

lvt - hello strange podcast #464

@subglow / liquidtime. 
CCL(they/them) liquefaction of rhythmic and melodic matter—combustive phase transitions through wiggle-steppers, trip-no, dub-core, cowgirl-breaks, trip funk, shoe-gays, drum & face.

liquidtime / subglow 
General Inquiries: cali@charm-artists.com
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