A intelligent dance music song inspired by summer evenings spent catching fireflies. Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRkhow-Mk6M

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Patch notes:

A mix of hardware and software was used to make this song including a eurorack modular synthesizer, a classic Roland Juno 106 analog polyphonic synthesizer, as well as software synthesizers and a DAW. You can see some of the studio process on our Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwv2byKH2...

Pads were created with Native Instruments and Ableton. We used by two evolving layers of Absynth with a third layer created by running a fast arpeggio into a huge reverb patch created with Reaktor Space Master 2.

Mutable Instruments Rings is sequenced by Make Noise René in pendulum mode. This has the effect of putting the piece in 15/8 time signature. We had to learn to count this out to play the shaker by hand. Its counted (1).2.3.(2).2.3.(3).2.3.(4).2.3.(5).2.3

The bass is an Intellijel Dixie oscillator modulated by Maths to create some wonky vibrato. It's run through the Bubblesound SEM20 filter and a VCA.

Percussion was programmed in iZotope Breaktweaker.

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Soma Evening

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On this month's show, Jimi Tenor is back with another summer scorcher while SAULT also return with a stunning new album, their eleventh in just 6 years. We've got an exclusive premiere of a beautiful Anatolian-Funk-inspired track by Dušan Vranić, including a remix by yours truly, while you'll also hear new music from Farhot, Immy Owusu, and Melodies of Love.

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Open Sesame 064 – Sadeedo

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Zlata returns to OpenLab with Diemo, this time joined by Pavel Plastikk, an established Ukrainian DJ and producer most known for his eclectic multi-genre sets and the major work he's done for the Ukrainian house & disco scene as LOW Party series founder.

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Diemo 23 - Zlata [with Pavel Plastikk]

Radio On Vacation With Planet B

Medicine 8 are back. The project of brothers Liam and Luke May started around 30 years ago in their South London stomping ground.

Their sound, which blended electro and acid house with rock sensibilities, saw the pair release a healthy string of records all the way through to the late noughties, along with a handful of remixes for the likes of Orbital, Manic Street Preachers, Nirvana and pop royalty Kylie Minogue.

Medicine 8 has been lying dormant over the last decade but Liam and Luke have been keeping themselves busy in the interim. As well as running Trashmouth Records - the label responsible for bringing you Fat White Family, MEATRAFFLE and Warmduscher - the pair have been keeping the hardware dream alive with Decius, the sleazy acid house outfit they founded alongside Paranoid London’s Quinn Whalley and Lias Saudi, long running label mate and frontman of the Fat Whites.

In April the duo marked their first new music since 2016 with a remix of May Lavie’s ‘The Poem’ for our R$N sub-label Human Endeavour. The request from label boss Rosie Ama has now jerked the project back into action and, since the release of the remix, the pair have got back in the studio under the moniker and are now giving Decius tracks a Medicine 8 make over. Looks like this won’t be the last we’ll be seeing of the project…

To celebrate this triumphant return, boy have we got a treat for you. Luke and Liam have kindly put together a two-hour long 100% Medicine 8 production mix, packed with tracks from the archive, unreleased music, banging remixes and new releases...

Medicine 8 - The 'Ransom Note' Mix

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Appetite For Selection 237 - Charles Webster

unearthed an old mix from the Italians Do It Better days, 15 years ago.  All vinyl obviously

Mike Simonetti - Dazed Mix from 2010 (all vinyl obviously)

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Charles Webster is back with this week’s episode of Appetite For Selection. 2 hours of sonic bliss for your Sunday evening listening pleasure, this week featuring music by Phi-Psonics, Elsa Hewitt, Mikahl Anthony, Cosmic Ear & many more ✨

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Appetite For Selection 238 - Charles Webster

Here's another 1 hour excerpt from our resident DJ and host @Antonio_Prosper ,  recorded live at the Pikes Ibiza Poolside. Expect Balearic vibes, boogie, nu disco, and some unexpected gems.

Join us every Saturday from 12–10 PM, and live on OpenLab 6-8PM at the legendary Pikes Ibiza as we take over the poolside with OpenLab residents and special guests. 

OpenLab Live From Pikes 31/05/25 [with Antonio Prosper]

Not done one of these in a while, having recently stepped away from my residency in Edinburgh. Felt right to record one more before taking a breather and shifting focus.

On the hottest day of the year in the UK so far, here’s a mix of sun-drenched beauties to soundtrack it.

Catch you on the other side x

Scott Proper : Blessings

Colorful Language is the musical love-child of Thomas Hildebrand and Josh Doubles. Their music is a polyamorous exploration of a genre-fluid relationship between house, techno, disco, and minimal—while venturing to keep it weird. Their freshman Retrieve Me EP on Sheik ’N’ Beik Records weaves between house and techno, featuring a heartfelt and empathetic vocal performance by Eamon Kelly on the title track.

Friends since early college days, Josh and Thomas reconnected after both relocating to NYC in the early aughts. They began throwing Jet Lag, a series of weekly outdoor daytime parties that started under the Williamsburg Bridge at Rock Star Bar and later moved to Brooklyn Fireproof. Colorful Language was born accidentally while bouncing music ideas around for their solo projects. They quickly realized that their creative and studio process has a unique synergy.

Soma Evening

COLORFUL LANGUAGE

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