Soup To Nuts w/ Scratcha - NTS

Chapeadita - La Gran Banda Caleña (Dub rmx)//Elmulato

Maloya Gazé

Maloya Gazé (La Dame remix)

DO NOT DISTURB

IT'S US (feat. Lil Yachty)

Sombrero

How would you describe a musical mix of kuduro inspired batida rhythms with the melancholic, dreamy mood of Berlin? We´d suggest: "dreamduro"!

With "Flora", Berlin´s tropical bass pioneer Daniel Haaksman returns after 12 months of releasing strictly vintage music and edits. He´s back in bass with "Flora" that is defined by a strong groove inspired by current rhythms from Portugal, Brasil and Angola which he blended with classic orchestral strings in the manner of his earlier releases „Overture“,„Vem“ or "Magma". An additional rolling house piano and a surprise glockenspiel break peppered by a baile funk MC beatboxing adds up to the dense, hyperpop style multi-genre-mix that "Flora" fascinatingly embodies.

Though autumn is in full swing in the Northern hemisphere, it´s now time to make the club flower bomb "Flora" bloom, dreamduro style!

Flora

Dance with Our Ancestors

Dub You Right

Two Little Boys meanwhile, was inspired after seeing two young boys aged around 11 or 12 "stuffing chicken and cornbread down their tasteless mouths, trying to revive shrinking lungs and a wasted mind." They'd walked into Sylvia's soul food restaurant in Harlem, ordered big meals, then bolted them down and run out the door. No one chased after them, knowing that they probably hadn't eaten in days. Fifty years later and children are still going hungry in major cities across America and elsewhere. Abiodun's poem hasn't lost any relevance at all, and neither has New York, New York, The Big Apple. "Although this was written in 1968, New York hasn't changed a bit," he admits, except "today, people just mistake her sickness for fashion."

The Last Poets - Two Little Boys

For this mix, $iCA used club classics from the 90s and early 2000s as main ingredient to set the vibe she wants to bring. She blends these classics with garage and drum&bass edits and more recent pop songs.

$iCA @ Kiosk Radio 01.05.2025

teknana (140bpm)

Coming soon
Distributed worldwide by Rubadub

MH010 - Slow Riffs: Gong Bath / Virgo Dub / Peace Arch

Tail Lift / MPH

Tail Lift

LAPS
Who Me? EP

http://smarturl.it/WhoMeLAPS

Glasgow duo Ladies As Pimps, a.k.a. LAPS, make their DFA debut with the Who Me? EP. After first meeting each other in an analogue production course run by Green Door Studio several years ago, Lady Two Collars (Golden Teacher) and Sue Zuki (Organs of Love) have now refined their sound and produced one of the most focused and vital club singles to emerge from the Glasgow underground, with their unique and thoroughly danceable fusion of dub, house, and trip-hop. 

“Who Me?” asks the question via a French-English narration, anchored by a hard-edged rhythm that assertively struts between percussive triplets and whizzing frequencies. “Ladybug” gets even more dubbed out, with arrangements that unfurl somewhere between Neneh Cherry, ESG, and early Tricky. “Who Me?” caught the ears of everyone from Ben UFO (who hosted LAPS live at XOYO and on Rinse FM) to Rihanna, who featured their music in her Savage x Fenty show at this year’s NYFW. 

On remix duties, LA producer M. Geddes Gengras appears under his Duppy Gun alias, chopping the vocal track into a pleasantly disorienting remix. Vancouver-based D. Tiffany (1080p, Coastal Haze, Pacific Rhythm) and Melbourne up-and-comer Roza Terenzi collaborate on a stripped-back, high-energy take, while ANY WAYS, a.k.a. Tom Marshallsay (Golden Teacher, General Ludd) rounds out the EP, bringing it back to Glasgow. 

“Who Me?” and “Ladybug” were originally released in July 2017 by MIC Records (London, UK). This EP is a co-release between MIC and DFA. Vinyl 12" coming soon.  

1	Who Me?
2	Who Me? (Duppy Gun Remix)
3	Who Me? (D. Tiffany & Roza Terenzi Remix)
4	Ladybug
5	Who Me? (ANY WAYS Mix)

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@roza-terenzi
@duppygun
@ladies-as-pimps

Who Me?

LAPS - Who Me?

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE - https://setwunsounds.bandcamp.com/track/suns-child


Sydney’s Setwun revisits Sun Ra’s ‘Children Of The Sun’ in ‘Suns Child’. 
A unifying 6-minute meditation for dancefloors and bedrooms alike. 
Championed by both Steve Spacek and Alexander Nut on NTS.


Original Recording 'Children Of The Sun' By Sun Ra from Ra To The Rescue. 
Lyrics Written and Performed By Sun Ra. 

Programming, Synthesizers (ESQ1, MiniKorg 700, Juno106)and recorder by Setwun. 
Additional Rhodes played by Soulstranaut Daniel Pliner. 
Mixed by Setwun 
Mastered by Brendan Zacharias at Cirrus Audio Artwork by Thomas McAlister.

Flora

Daniel Haaksman

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