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Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

Download:
https://corenews.me/dj-python-essential-mix-2024-01-20/?utm_source=soundcloud
Tracklist:
https://tracklists.thomaslaupstad.com/dj-python-essential-mix-2024-01-20-tracklist/?utm_source=soundcloud

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DJ Python - Essential Mix 2024-01-20

EBONMIX001 - Mutagenix (Huey Mnemonic + D. Strange) @ Podlasie Club 06.01.24

Recorded live at The Office on 07/05/2024
@nickboydnyc

Tracklist:
T. Tauri - Joy To The World (Pancakes For Everyone)
Eddie Harris - Bold and Black (DJ Nu-Mark Remix)
The Clash - The Magnificent Dance
Sagat - Luvstuff (Maxi Edit)
Kitachi - Heavyweight (Knock Out Dub)
Piezo - TB2 (w/ K-LONE)
DJ Jnett - Bubbles Away
The It - Donnie (Acapella)
Deep Six - We're Going Deep (Vocal)
Syt - Mind Melt
Psychotropic - Only For The Headstrong
DJ Duke - Shadows (Stripped Down Bonus Mix)
Houz' Neegroz - I Wanna Say (Da Da Da Dah)
Groove Patrol - Lost In The Groove (Deal Mix)
States Of Mind - Audio Q-5A
Soul Rebellion - Simple Rhythm (Let Me See You Shake Version)
Gemini - Substance Groove
DJs Pareja & Lupe - Verano Lejano (Nikki Nair Remix)
Krimp - In The Spirit (The Perk-us-on Mix)
Benji Candelario, Wayne Rollin - Paradise (Kenny Dope Mix)
Ali Berger - The Stew (No Organ Dub)
Affinity - Don't Go Away (Acapella)
DJ Slym Fas - Hula Hoop Dance (T.P.'s Groovestrumental)
Tears Of Velva - The Way I Feel (Terrence Parker Deeep Detroit Heat Re-Edit 4 Daye Club)
Anorak Trax - Swing Yer Pants
Mutiny - Secrets (Rhythm Masters Club Vocal Mix)
Serious Intention - You Don’t Know (Acapella)
Razor N Guido - Sleepless - Good Time (Guido's Sound Factory Mix)
Paul Johnson - Hour Glass Figure
N-Sync - Found Love (Dub 1)
CultureClash - Mystic (House Dub)
Mr. K - Clap Your Hands, Stomp Your Feet
Model 500 - Milky Way
808 State - Cubik (Kings County Perspective)
Spandrel - Night Winds Eternal
The Deacon - Multi-Dimensional Drama
The Believers - Essence of Life (Stompin' Darkside Mix)
2 Men From Jersey - Untitled

Nick Boyd at Cause & Effect - July 2024

Punk house and techno from a modern Midwest icon.

Every DJ has their own genesis story: a pivotal sound, a formative scene, a defining philosophy. In Kiernan Laveaux's case, her philosophy, rooted in psychedelia and experimentation, sets her apart. Inspired by Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode and New Order, she came of age in Cleveland’s acid house and queer party scenes, developing an ethos that constantly pushes dance music’s limits. Her DJ style is scrambled (in the best way), with zany tricks like scratching, creative EQing and modulation.

This approach reflects the Midwest's DIY tradition, where artists thrive in isolation and cultivate a radical disobedience, as seen in contemporaries like Eris Drew and ADAB. As Laveaux recounted in a 2023 interview with GROOVE Magazin, "Titonton Duvante once told me that being a Midwest DJ is about playing music from anywhere and making it sound like a piece of your spirit."

Spanning two and a half hours, Laveaux's RA Podcast showcases this spirit. It’s a testament to her decade-long career, blending tracks from friends and cherished memories into a transcendent mix. It’s "music to shake your hips to and decalcify your pineal gland." (For the curious, the pineal gland helps regulate your circadian rhythm.) RA.963 will make you dance and think in equal measure—a beautiful, restless and resolutely wicked journey through a singular imagination.

@kiernan-laveaux

Read more at ra.co/podcast/963

RA.963 Kiernan Laveaux

The Berlin-based party starter wafts her energy our way for an hour a month. Colourful house & techno, vintage breaks, decontextualised bargain-bin club tracks & more in the mix... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dj-fart-in-the-club/episodes/dj-fart-in-the-club-6th-december-2024

DJ FART IN THE CLUB 061224

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry.

Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. 

This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. 

A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. 

"How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder.

@livwutang

Read more and find the tracklist ra.co/podcast/975

RA.975 livwutang

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PREMIERE: Public Enemy - Bring The Noise (Damaskus Edit)

Didn’t plan this one, it just kinda happened.
Messing around with Kendrick’s N95 and randomly threw in Everything In Its Right Place…
and somehow it clicked.

Bangs in the club. Guaranteed.

Extended version for DJs. Feel free to download and play it out.
Would love to know what you think or see where it ends up.

Much love ❤️

Pawelō

Kendrick Lamar x Radiohead - Everything N95 (Pawelō Bootleg Extended)

CRIM - POP IT (DAY 1)

Four Tet and Jamie xx – Essential Mix (28/03/2015)

Analogue wizards Paranoid London step up for the latest Crack Mix with an exclusive live set.

More info here → https://crackm.ag/2VpygqP

Crack Mix 315: Paranoid London

Recording of Skee Mask & Zenker Brothers' set at Dekmantel Festival 2019.

 Dekmantel Festival 2019

Skee Mask & Zenker Brothers at Dekmantel Festival 2019

Here’s the latest Run it Red show but before you check it out I wanted to flag up some charities. The world out there at the moment is pretty bleak and I, as an artist with a platform, can hopefully inspire a few people to help a bit. The following link will take you to three charities - Black Lives Matter, Stand Against Racism & Inequality and NHS Charities Together - if you can donate, then please do. If you can’t, then perhaps you can share the message a little - https://biglink.to/Charities

Next show >>> 12am (UK Time) 20th June www.nts.live

1. Sibling - Center Of The Earth. Suburban Avenue
2. Van Bonn - Lohen. Etui
3. Shaw & Grossfeldt - Klavier fff. Inverted Audio
4. Hydergine - Therapeutic Flow. Ranges     
5. Biri - Isolator Biri. Counterchange
6. Exos - Sanitatem. Figure
7. Dijuma - Ver7. Subsist
8. Exos - In Plagam. Figure
9. Alek S - Ostkreuz. Made Of Concrete     
10. Hydergine - Retrofitted Future. Ranges      
11. Eduardo De La Calle - Venu-Nada. Macarena Music     
12. Nature Boy - On Up. Frame Of Mind
13. Stephen Brown - Untitled. Unreleased     
14. Santonio Echols - Walk In Power. Drecords 313
15. Fabrizio Rat & Gianluca Petrella - Turn. Jazz-O-Tech
16. Black Girl / White Girl - Green Crack. EI8HT
17. Orlando Voorn - The Illest (Oliver Kapp Remix). Indulge
18. Adiel - At The Bottom Of The Sea. Stroboscopic Artefacts   
19. Eduardo De La Calle - Ansatz. Elektrotribe
20. Inland - Porto. Counterchange  
21. Justin Jay - Marathon. Ovum     
22. Von Tee Rah - Metallic Detail. Primitive State 
23. A Sagittariun - No Drama. MPX
24. A Sagittariun - Loose Fit. MPX     
25. Nino Sebelic - Smog. Aurora     
26. Skudge - Time Tracks. Skudge
27. Romain Richard - Nowhere To Run (Pushmann Edit). N&N
28. ZRK - Miskar. Counter Pulse
29. Tim Baker - Pressure. Elephanthaus    
30. Dorbachov & Fred Asquith - Last. Room 2
31. Roger Gerressen - SO1.  Indigo Aera
32. Stephen Brown - Untitled. Unreleased     
33. Alek S - Sweatbox (Sascha Rydell Remix). Made Of Concrete 
34. Bleak - Killers Smile. Uncage
35. Inland - Trench. Counterchange   
36. 30drop - 63Hz. Concerns Music     
37. Kr!z - Scorpian's Tail. Voltage     
38. Fixeer - Xulf. Dynamic Reflection
39. Insolate - Untitled. Unreleased
40. Ari Atai - Signal Phase. Knowledge Imprint   
41. Romain Richard - Satellites. N&N
42. Kaiser - It Never Ends. Prophecy  
43. Sleeparchive - Porridge. Mindcut Music     
44. Nørbak - Pledge I. Attic Music
45. Lewis Fautzi - Nowhere. Faut    
46. Szmer - Prologue. Dynamic Reflection
47. Translate - Proximity Calculations . Methodical
48. Neiland - La ambición Del Nada. Nada
49. Fixeer - Mass. Dynamic Reflection 
50. Ferze - Clipper Tone. Subsist
51. Cri The Coeur - Diaphragm (Kaiser Remix). Artaphine     
52. Gaetek - Last Three Months/B1 (Sterac Remix). Conform
53. T_Y - Kano. Subsist
54. Nørbak - Pledge IV. Attic Music
55. Selfsoul - Exhale. Indigo Aera     
56. Biemsix - No Matter When. Symbolism     
57. Chontane - Gora. Rekids     
58. Rødhåd - Pigeons Dancing On The Roof. WSNWG
59. Rødhåd - He Didn‘t Seem The Kind Of Guy.. WSNWG
60. Inland - Anemone. Counterchange   
61. Techmarine Bottom Feeders - Squid Ink Posse. EPM
62. Roberto Rodriguez - Aureole. ARTS
63. Basic Soul Unit - Miles Away. Lab Our     
64. Realitycheck - Big Sur. Renascence     
65. Walton - Djembe. Ilian Tape  
66. The Exaltics & Paris The Black FU - We Exist. Solar One    
67. Techmarine Bottom Feeders - A Quagmire of Confusion (Aux 88 Remix). EPM 
68. Adam Jay - Cruces Motile. Detroit Underground    
69. W1b0 - Pathogen Transmission. Bass Agenda     
70. Floating Points - Bias. Ninja Tune
71. Techmarine Bottom Feeders - Sons of Thunder (Ectomorph Remix). EPM
72. Upsammy - Reality Paces The Platform. Dekmantel     
73. Appleblim - Hydrothermal Vents. Dext     
74. Seba & Paradox - Jupiterize . Seba & Paradox     
75. Dillinja - 30hz (L-Side Remix). V Recordings  
76. Seba & Paradox - Come Again. Seba & Paradox     
77. Seba & Paradox - Lifeform. Seba & Paradox

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BEN SIMS Pres RUN IT RED 65. MAY 2020 (+Bonus Hour)

For this weeks mix we gladly present Irish DJ/producer 4MN. Currently based in Glasgow, Raymond has ran several successful nights alongside a friend of his under the name Pruca, which specialised in exploring all things underground from the broken side of techno to bass heavy garage beats. He also co-runs a music blog entitled Bangers and Mash which is focused on showcasing tunes and releases from their collections usually a mix of techno, ambient, broken beat and a wide array of other forms of electronic music always with a forward thinking aspect to it. Fresh off the back of being selected for AVA festival’s top 3 emerging DJs, Raymond’s mix blends the unconventional sides of the genres we aim to showcase at Rotate with polyrhythmic mixing styles for a truly memorable and euphoric mix. Huge thanks to Raymond for providing the goods this week. You can catch his socials here: SC @4-m-n, instagram @pruca and @bangersandmashtunes.

#034 - 4MN

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