Bside Incoming: Ruben Spa

Reflecting on Episode 100 with the incredible Detroit In Effect, we just wanted to thank all the people that tune into Bside Podcasts, to everyone who reaches out to us with positive feedback, and of course to all the fabulous guests who take the time to share with us their life’s work of collecting, curating, and sharing all the beautiful music in the world.

Without wanting to sit back and admire this landmark, we move on from number 100 with an international superstar to Episode 101 with someone very close to our heart and an integral member of the Bside team: Ruben Spa

With a big love of music, his graphic design skills, and some social media wizardry, his creativity and passion continues to drive the project forward. Ruben Spa continues to build upon his invaluable knowledge of the industry with his involvement at the Surefire agency. He also runs the Koselig event series in Edinburgh, who booked Hidden Spheres for an evening of mid-week madness at Sneaky Pete’s, before which we recorded an incredible live episode of the podcast. 

It was actually his co-founder of Koselig, James Cook, who recorded the very first episode for the Bside podcast. Over 2 years have passed since then, and the platform has grown substantially: 99 other guests and more than 60,000 listens from all over the world, and lots more in the works. 

So, it felt only right that our beloved Ruben Spa, should welcome us into the second century of Bside. Expect jazzy keys, horns, and chord progressions over house, hip-hop and broken beats, moving through beautifully layered techno and IDM

Here’s to many more!

Thanks to Molly Hickey for the beautiful artwork as always. www.instagram.com/mollyth.art/

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Bside Incoming: Ruben Spa

Recording of our set in Wigwam, Dublin. The first gig back in a club with people in attendance in quite a while here, although dancing is prohibited here in Ireland it was still a pleasure to play in front of people and it gave us all a small taste of freedom thats just around the corner now!
Aidan & Dave

Bella Festa - Wigwam - 17-09-21

MARICAS EOS Radio Residency - Jaye Ward

k2k was live with D. Tyrone for this month's Moments. They ran through two hours of progressive house, minimal techno and dub cuts. Bits in the bag from Lydia Rhodes, Ghetto Blaster Ltd and Over The Hill.

Moments w/ k2k and D. Tyrone - April 2022

[c]+[p] 2001 deterministic finite automata
monochrome meter [bmi]
all rights reserved

cyclic subspace

Solid Steel (25th May) It’s a Future Times family affair this week, the label - run by Andrew Field-Pickering (aka Max D) from his base in Washington D.C. - have been slipping out a stream of quality releases for the past decade from the likes of Jack J, Shanti Celeste, Huerco S. and many more. The label has also been the long-time home of Beautiful Swimmers, the duo made up of Max D and Ari Goldman - who runs his own label World Building. They kick off the proceedings this week with a mix featuring tracks from Omar S, Wajeed, plus our Hour 2 artist and Future Times label mate Will DiMaggio. Speaking to us about the mix they said "This is a snapshot of Swimms in pure club mode, which is a very kinetic, fun place to be for a mix. It's the summer, it's sweaty. Let's do it! Honoured to be a part of Solid Steel's history, thanks for having us on!” Check out the full tracklist below, and get stuck in!

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Go to Hour 2 here https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-2552018-hour-2-will-demaggio

Hour 1 - Beautiful Swimmers

1. TATA BOX INHIBITORS - 20 AMINO ACIDS
2. FRANCOIS K - HYPNODELIC (ORIGINAL MIX)
3. IAN TREGONING - I LIKE IT
4. I-iii - BUN SO NUDE
5. SPIRIT GARDEN - ELECTRA CITY
6. WILL DIMAGGIO - STEPPIN W FRIENDS
7. ????
8. PAUL JOHNSON - THE LOVE THAT WE SHARE
9. WAJEED - KINGDOM FT. DODI ALEXANDER
10. KW GRIFF - LET ME TELL U SOMETHIN
11. BASSBIN TWINS - ROCKIN WITH THE BEST
12. WK7 - RHYTHM 1
13. ANGELIQUE KIDJO - WE? WE? (TRIBE MIX)
14. JONSSON & ALTER - EN MELODI
15. OMAR S - SEEN WAS SET
16. MONTE CARLO - GLOBAL CONVERSATION
17. SPENCER KENNEDY - HIGHER (SPREADLOVE MIX)

Solid Steel Radio Show

Solid Steel Radio Show 25/5/2018 Hour 1 - Beautiful Swimmers

En Anden (@lazert) providing the vibes for the eleventh edition of our ØEN & HAVET mix series.

ØEN & HAVET mix series 011 – En Anden

A big moment for myself, as this is my own record label that will release primarily my own music. A special thanks to the City of Yarra for making this project possible by accepting my application for their COVID19 Quick Response grant.

The concept behind this record is that everything has been done witin Melbourne. All tracks were produced & mixed by myself. Mastering was also done locally by Corey Kikos (Sleed D). I went with Zenith Records which is a local vinyl pressing plant. Local record stores will get a round of records to sell exclusively, then the rest will be sold by myself either on Bandcamp or by hand.

Finally, I acknowledge the Wurundjeri People as the traditional owners of the land on which this record was produced. I pay my respects to their elders, past and present, and the Aboriginal Elders of the Wurundjeri People who may be here today. A percentage of the profits will be donated to Childrens Ground Organisation.

Enjoyment Division 001

Enjoyment DIvision 001

Enjoyment Division 001 - Dawn Again (snippets)

Ivy Barkakati is a Barcelona-based dancefloor doyen with music out on Hospital Productions and Modern Obscure Music, and vocals gracing tracks by Cardopusher, Furious Frank / Mind Dance, and Roza Terenzi. She recently teamed up with Venezuelan producer Phran to form IVAN, and on their Delicious Fantasy EP they make soundtrack music for transcendent dancing experiences. She celebrates the imminent release of remixes to that EP with a mix full of soulful delights.

@ivdb
@ivanivyphran

Listen to IVAN · Ivy & Phran here: https://ivanivyphran.bandcamp.com/

Omar S feat. John FM - Second Life [FXHE]
Scott Grooves feat. Seoulonnie - Movin' On [Modified Suede Recordings]
Koni Mazwai feat. Candace Thornton - Sweeter Love [NDATL]
Lee Pearson Jr Collective feat. Aki Dawson - Love's A Secret Place [Alleviated Records]
Kai Alcé - Thoughts...Sunny Day [NDATL]
Stefan Ringer - Club Bang [People of Earth]
One Man's Quest - Smiling Faces "95" (The Quest - Bassment Mix) [World Building]
Lars Bartkuhn - Human (Beat Dub) [Visions Recordings]
Karmasound - Bailando con la luna [Phuture Shock Musik]
IVAN - Costillas (Paulo Olarte Remix) [IVAN]
Sano - I Want You [Public Possession]
Ralphi Rosario - Una Cosa de Amour [Tempest Records]

Ep 212 pt.1 w/ Ivy Barkakati

NEW TO BALAMII - Fred P brings his new show Lush Culture which is a 2-hour exploration through soulful club tracks from across the electronic music spectrum. Deep House, techno, disco and more all appear over the full 2 hours. Highly recommended listening.

Lush Culture w/ Fred P - November 2020

Label and home to degenerates, Public Release Recordings was kicked off by Eug in the early 2000’s, but was more formally introduced as an independent record label in 2009.

Since then, the label has released and supported artists such as Woolfy, Mike Simonetti, Tim Sweeney, Jacques Renault, Eric Duncan, Mark E and several other notable accomplices.

Focussing on quality rather than quantity, the label releases under no particular cadence and works in an organic approach. Public Release has garnered a loyal following globally, with many of their releases remaining highly desirable and eagerly collected.