Sci-fi Xicano - Future Past Mix

NIKS (@niksbad) is as dedicated as anyone to furthering dance music culture. Hailing from south-east London via Bath, NIKS has long proven her curatorial skills with radio shows on BBC Radio 1, Rinse, and NTS. Her idiosyncratic blends of ‘90s groovy, rhythmic sounds and forward-thinking, underground-leaning soundscapes have brought her to some of the world’s most revered clubs. After contributing music to various compilations, last year she explored bass-heavy sounds with her first solo EP on Or:la’s Céad label. Beyond her work as a musician, NIKS also co-founded the Black Artist Database, a crowd-sourced list of Black-owned labels, artists, and producers designed to amplify and uplift talent.

Ahead of her debut at the Dekmantel Festival this year, NIKS serves up a 90-minute window into her current musical world, including her own forthcoming productions in a deep, dub-infused journey into hypnotic techno and house rhythms that intertwine to create a warm, supple soundscape. Its seamless flow takes in sounds from the past, present, and future, and they all encourage you to move and meditate in equal measure."

Dekmantel Mix 490 - NIKS

This one has lain dormant in my 'WIP' folder for quite some time, under the working title 'bleak and blue'. The final product is certainly blue in tone, but not quite as bleak as I'd first intended. It's a contemplative yet soothing 70 minute meditation for those early mornings or inter-city sojourns.

ElPH vs Coil - Caged Birds (Eskaton, 1995)
Warmsore - Stone Tape Theory (Frequency Domain, 2017)
Signer - Our Home (Carpark Records, 2002)
D.A.R.F.D.H.S - Leaving Mälaren, Across Austmarr (Field Records, 2018)
Christ. - One Cloudy Sunny Day (Benbecula Records, 2006)
Primal Code - Nocturne (Hypnus Records, 2018)
KWC 92 - Dreaming Of You (L.I.E.S Records, 2013)
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Prowler (Wonder, 2000)
Anne Clark - Shades (Beehive, 1992)
Biosphere - Turned To Stone (Biophon Records, 2017)
Soreab - Rite (Avian, 2023)
Aleksi Perälä - NL-L56-18-07441 (Dub Recordings, 2019)
Exael & Arad Acid - My Love Is An Extension Of You (Motion Ward, 2020)
Pete Namlook - Blue Tube (Fax +49-69/450464, 2007)
Talker - Image Union (Downwards, 2014)
Arca - Piel (XL Recordings, 2017)
Max Loderbauer - Tripod (Non Standard Productions, 2020)
Acronym - And Then There Was Nothing (Field Records, 2017)
Lussuria - Breath Of Cinder (Hospital Productions, 2014)
David J & Ego Plum - I’d Rather Have The Blues Than What I’ve Got (Urbane Music, 2007)

Volte-Face - Nearly Yearning Centre

@bb_fm is a radio host at THF Radio and a versatile DJ who navigates a wide sonic spectrum with ease. As the curator and resident DJ of Aquatic Travellers, an electro-driven party that she co-runs with Black Mirror Park at Paloma, she crafts immersive sets that transport listeners from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of the galaxy. Her signature style blends electro and breaks to create a dreamy yet grounded atmosphere, with a constant sense of motion and narrative.

In terms of sound, she’s my Galaxister — deeply in love with electro that’s both spherical and gritty, always with a bassy touch. Her sets feel like space travel in slow motion: expansive, textured and comfortably otherworldly.


T R A C K L I S T 
Terre Thaemlitz - 040468
Plant43 - Frozen Monarch
Ed Chamberlain - Zarathustra
Stevie Cox - My Lover Cindy
not even noticed - Affected
S.H.  - Geröntgt
Abduction - Hours/Days
Berwick - Mind of A Squid
CH415 -  Nocturnal Mode
Radioactive Man - Uranium
M.S.L - Sundials

GALAXUNITY*ODDCAST by  bb:fm

Legendary UK producer/DJ, @plant43, delivers a diverse set recorded live from the Globus floor at Tresor's 34th Anniversary party March 14, 2025.

https://soundcloud.com/tresorberlin/plant43-live-at-tresor-14032025

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About Tresor Berlin
At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future.

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

Plant43 | Live at Tresor - 14.03.2025

Alex Smoke - Radio Buena Vida 02.07.25

Live recording at the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live every Thursday and Friday on YouTube and futureintelradio.com. For more info, visit our website.

Ambu Bambu╚═ Future Intel ═╗ 18 07 2025

BREAKING IN SPACE.mp3

For Future's Sake and Andi are embracing the retrograde with a 2 hour vinyl b2b set.

https://www.instagram.com/synthicidenyc 
https://www.instagram.com/andi80s 
https://www.instagram.com/forfuturessake

https://www.soundcloud.com/synthicidenyc



SYNTHICIDE with For Future's Sake b2b Andi @ The Lot Radio 08-03-2025

Iris Pertegaz (31/8/25)

Three Electro-Bass bombs, collaboration between DJ Controlled Weirdness and The Dexorcist, limited to 300 copies with insert. Released 2009.

DJ Controlled Weirdness vs The Dexorcist - The Stalker (2009 - Unearthly Records 007)

Neil Keating aka Controlled Weirdness has been rocking the decks and rinsing rough beats for a few years now. As a young kid, Electro and early eighties pirate radio started his obsession with nasty electronic music, breakbeats and hard edged funk. This was the start of a lifelong vinyl obsession that still continues to this day. January 1984 he was asked to DJ at a new club "The House of Dolls" in Farringdon. There he became resident and spun a mixture of electro, industrial, punk and new wave. At the same time he was going out to clubs like Delirium,  Mud Club and Pyramid at Heaven (the first place to play house music in England in 1985) as well as warehouse parties from Family Function and Soul II Soul. These parties were held in old abandoned warehouses down by the Thames. Fast forward to 1987 and the start of Acid House and Neil starts a club called Collision in Islington spinning early house and acid. Through running this club he met a band called Ruff, Ruff and Ready, a South London crew playing a mixture of ska, funk and hip hop. They asked Neil to DJ with them on several gigs and tours, including one round Ireland with Back to the Planet. They were signed by Paul Morley at Island and Neil added some DJ touches in the studio for their debut album. Unfortunately Island lost interest and the album got shelved and the band dissolved. There was one mad gig before they split where they were first on the bill at Spike Island, the legendary Stone Roses event. Neil was one of the dancers on stage as the crowd hurled abuse, batteries and coins. It was a horrible event and The Stone Roses finished it off with an awful set echoing into the night over a sea of flared trousers. Neil moved to New York in 1989 and started going to all the hottest house clubs in the city including parties by Todd Terry and artist Keith Haring. There he met Joel Bevacqua aka DJ Deadly Buda. Joel returned to his hometown Pittsburgh and Neil returned to South London where his sister Stacey had started playing on the early rave pirate station Fantasy FM and was running a record stall selling the latest white labels. Joel decided to hold the first ever rave in Pittsburgh in 1991 and flew Neil over. He brought all the hottest early breakbeat/rave tunes for the party and they were astounded when nearly 1000 people turned up. This was one of the first times early jungle harcore was played on the East coast of America. For the next six months they held some celebrated parties in Pennsylvania culminating in a spectacular event down South at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, staged whilst the city whilst was on full riot alert after LA had erupted. Neil eventually returned to London in 1992, a week after the legendary Castlemorton illegal rave and soon started going to Spiral Tribe parties. Neil and Stacey started doing a Saturday night radio show on pirate station Chillin FM. Through Ruff, Ruff and Ready he had met Phil Conynhgam, a highly accomplished Aussie didgeridoo player who had been making twisted music since the late seventies. Discovering a mutual love of the bizarre they started collaborating on music. Phil released a record on the Stay Up Forever label and on the flip there was a hard and nasty Controlled Weirdness mix. Neil and Phil formed the infamous Waxhead Perverts and embarked on a tour of Germany. Over the next few years there were plenty of mad parties and events. Neil did a 3 hour DJ mastermix on Saturday night on Kiss FM Berlin. Back in London he was playing at The Dead by Dawn parties, held by Christoph from Praxis as well as Techno clubs like Hardware, Electric Underground and Analogue City. In 1996 he formed Unearthly records and the first releases were distributed by Spiral Tribes Network 23. Since then he has played worldwide from plush clubs to dirty warehouses and has appeared on a variety of labels  including Audio Illusion, Control Tower, Praxis, Zhark, Dirty Needles, Fdb and Still Raven.