LUBRIKATE YOUR LIVING ROOM
Episode 2 - 'Remember Yesterday' by Ilan (Night City Life)

WORDS FROM ILAN
"Didn't Time Sound Sweet Yesterday" - Scott Walker

WORDS FROM CASPER
'Remember Yesterday' is a pensive, at times almost elegiac selection of home-listening beauties which have been carefully put together and mixed (with vinyl only) by a dab-hand selector who I've had the pleasure to know for quite some time. Ilan has become known more recently for his synth-driven 'Night City Life' compilations of forgotten and obscure gems, distributed via the Spacetalk label, but we first met on or around the dancefloor of his erstwhile Hypnotic Tango events in various London basements, which he ran alongside my close friend Olly Fas. He's quietly developed a reputation over the years as somebody that goes the extra mile to source weird and wonderful music of a generally upbeat nature, which is befitting of the weird and wonderful chap with a generally upbeat nature that Ilan undoubtedly is.

As with all of the forthcoming mixes in this series, please give it a chance and listen without prejudice. There's no tracklist this time around.

💦LYLR 2💦 Remember Yesterday by Ilan (Night City Life)

This year the Sputnik stage hosts a start-to-finish takeover by the rascals at The Gun – formerly the dirtiest discopub in East London until its tragic closure in March this year: rest in sleaze! To honour its unholy spirit we decided to reach out to pub landlord and flame-keeper Nick Stephens to invite the Gun Club first team down to FM. Not only did they say yes, they fielded Vladimir Ivkovic and Lena Willikens, Tia Cousins, Daisy Moon and – it must be said – an undersung hero of London clubland: bloghouse original and techno survivor Casper Clark.

Nick and Casper will cut the ribbon on Sputnik with a two-hour B2B, which might sound a tiny bit like this warm-up session recorded on the first day of 2025. “Nick and I had the honour of opening up The Gun’s last and final New Year’s Day festivities,” recalls Casper, “before Dan Avery, Lukas Wigflex, Tia Cousins and Nathan Wilkins. Some lineup, that!

“In truth we were confronted by a biblical downpour and the slowest of starts, but if anything that emboldened us to dig a little deeper and play even more eclectically that we’d normally be inclined.” Ah, the E-word. A lot of DJs claim to be eclectic, don’t they? Usually playing a heady mix of techno, house, tech-house and everything in between. Not so with these two, as demonstrated on their finely crafted yet freeform, almost supernaturally guided mix, which wanders like a ghost from underwater dub through to ‘80s minimal wave, Muslimgauze and misty Balearica, before setting us afloat on gentle waves of drug-chug. No requests, please!


FM062: Casper Clark b2b Nick Stephens

DJ & producer Casper Clark  is in the  studio tonight with Mikey Dale. He has been a fixture of the London nightlife scene since the mid-noughties and has played at institutions like berghain/panoramabar, tresor, rex club and local favourite The Gun RIP :(


discøisdead w/ Casper Clark - 12th August 2025

A special midweek addition to the Ceremony mix series comes this week from Casper Clark aka Volte-Face. An artist I’ve long admired, Casper has worn many hats over the years including producer, DJ, radio show host and label head but is perhaps best known for his adventures in promoting events across London and further afield, starting out co-booking Adventures in the Beetroot Field at Camden’s Lock Tavern before running the seminal Blogger’s Delight at the same venue, to Glastonbury, The End and everywhere in between. After Blogger’s Delight ended Clark started promoting under the BleeD name for In Strict Tempo favourites Blackest Ever Black, Downwards and Diagonal amongst others. 

This recording, taken from London’s Unfold is a two hour journey of deep, brooding techno Volte-Face is synonymous with. In his own words: “Unfold CIV was my first Volte-Face gig since a fateful show at Tresor in 2019. It was good to be back. Apologies for the occasional glitches in the recording”

Sit back and enjoy, this one’s special.

Tracklist:
Ligovskoi -Mana
Adhemar - The Name Of Games
Magda Drozd - Reverie
Bas Dobbelaer - Thin Lines
Doltz - Rakuyoh
Tomas Rubeck - Cadence
Daniel[i] - Osmosis
Dima Gaströler - Apieron
Voal - Carpet Crawler
Brendon Moeller - Zur
Foreign Material - Eulogy Of The Sun
H.E.A.D - Into Your Head Again
Primal Code - Autopilot
Mirrorlake - Moa
Laima Adelaide - Silent
Shonky - Solar
John Selway - Wraecca (The Feast Version)
Mental Overdrive - Hellbent
Fonzo - Marbling Voices
nthng - Untitled
Puresque - Spinnenwabe (Cari Lekebusch Remix)
Decoder - 4 Stub (Auspicious)
Polygonia - Shadow Cave
Exos (Alien Eyes)
Translate - Induccion Al Sueno
Test Dept - Tabla Razor
The Source Experience - The Real Thing
Dorisburg - Sensorik
Acronym - Nemo
Sindh - Senses
Florence - The Vineyard (Convextion Remix)

Ceremony #3: Volte-Face

From the Lock Tavern via The Gun to spoons…

Family Silver are Mr Nick ‘The Gun’ Stephens and Casper ‘Volte Face’ Clark.

Nick was the publican at The Gun, a much-loved Hackney institution that recently closed its doors – more on that here for those who have been living under a rock. Nick’s excellent Netil radio show can also be found here.


 
Casper, is based in Clapton and was the music programmer for Camden institution The Lock Tavern where our paths originally crossed – most of the time being kicked out whilst DJing. Casper’s shared stages with Justice, Jeff Mills, Helena Hauff, Daniel Avery and many more and is also known for his long-running BleeD events via which he collaborated with labels like Blackest Ever Black, PAN and Downwards. Both share a love for “v lo-fi early eighties sound, kosmische, post-punk and scuzzy electronics,” with Nick’s influences ranging from 80s TV themes and Giorgio Moroder to The KLF, while Casper was shaped in his youth by electronic acts like Leftfield, Underworld, and William Orbit with DJ Hell’s International Deejay Gigolo Records becoming a huge influence later on.

Their sound sits between post-punk and the electronic… so with that in mind let’s give it a listen shall we?

Handily via the wonder of a recording  from this year’s Field Maneuvers where they opened The Gun’s stage.

Listen and read the interview here: 
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/line-out-family-silver-live-sputnik-field-manuevers-2025/

@volte_face_bleed @fieldmaneuvers

INTERVIEW

Line Out: Family Silver Live @ Sputnik, Field Manuevers 2025

Ganzou b2b Volte-Face - 04.09.25

discøisdead w/ Casper Clark - 11th  2025

LUBRIKATE YOUR LIVING ROOM
Episode 3 -‘Moist Philosopher’ by S. Ruston

WORDS FROM S. RUSTON
A mix of artists I’ve admired for a minute, artists I’ve just discovered, clever friends doing bits, lighting a candle for lost comrades, thoughts on a genocide, small moments of joy, long lost lovers, soothing the nervous system. A prayer.

WORDS FROM CASPER
It’s an honour to welcome the super-talented Sophie to Lubrikate Your Living Room, and they've evidently gone the extra mile to curate a sonically rich and emotional journey for us. We were recently brought together by the passing of a dearly departed friend and fellow rave traveller, Peter Kirk (AKA The Outlaws) and the subsequent ‘megamorial’ that we collectively threw in his honour. This past week, we travelled together en masse to the Birkenhead Day Of The Dead to lay a brick in the KLF’s People’s Pyramid in his honour. We'd like to dedicate this mix to his memory, and invite you to seek solace in the beautifully contemplative mood the mix evokes.

TRACKLIST
Goblin - Suspiria (Narration)
Marsen Jules - Tous Les Coeurs De Cette 
Stina Nordenstam - Little Star (S Ruston Mangled)
Youniss - Walad (KMRU Remix)
AG - untitled, unreleased
Jasmin Wood - II
Perera Elsewhere - Post Everything
suspect - Inclusive Dolphin
Sacre - Sitting With Myself
Shackleton - There Is A Place For Us
lou drago - Patience to See
Jasmin Wood - VII
Marina Herlop - Collige Virgo Gladium
Muslimgauze - Khan Younis (Shaheed Mix)
Murcof - Cometa
pablo diserens & ludwig berger - die basaltfrequenz finden (finding the basalt frequency)
Nick Wales & Stereogamous - Shimmering Spirits
Surgeons Girl - Sever
Masaka Masaka - It’s Okay to Dance Alone
Jasmine Wood & Coby Sey - II (118 BPM)
Joaquín Cornejo - Murmeration
Do Make Say Think - Chinatown
The Knife - N.Y. Hotel
Colleen - Separating Variation II (Live in the Moog Soundlab)
Belldog - Climbing 
Caterina Barbieri - Gravity that Binds
Kelly Moran - Cathedral
Clark - Absence 
Nala Sinephro - Dawn
Hidden Orchestra - Piano and Wings

💦LYLR 3💦 Moist Philosopher by S Ruston

To Rococo Rot & I-Sound - Your Secrets, A Few Words
Saint Abdulla & Eomac ft. Aria Rostami - Organs Without Borders
Froid Dub - Control
Eusebeia - Beyond The Vale
King Softy - Daft Love
Del.Duc - Promethee - (Low Break Mix)
Carcass Identity - Reflexion Ocean
Lostsoundbytes - Brain’s Rewind
The Human Aerial - Spotless
Novo Line - La Birretta (Eva Geist Remix)
Frank Rodas - Glacial Motion
Zoon - Don’t Wait
In Aeternam Vale - Headbanger
Cosmos Diplomatik - Science Lab
Nico - The Old City
PC World - At Heaven’s Gate
Orfeon Gagarin - Un Hublot Pour Voir La Terre

Mutually Assured Distraction with Casper Clark 12/12/25

Outer Dark

"Once in the night she a heard a horse coming along the country road, a burning horse beneath the pale moonlight that trailed a wake of pale and drifting dust. She could hear the labored breaths and harness creak and the clink of its iron caparisons and then the hoofs exploded over the planking of the bridge. Dust and fine gravel sifted down upon her and hissed in the water. The pounding faded down the road to the faintest sound of heartbeat and the heartbeat was in her own thin chest." - Cormac McCarthy

TRACKLIST:

1. DC – Slept Badly
2. Ovis Aurum – Remover
3. BNJMN – Hydrofoil
4. Best Available Technology – D4OG
5. Monrella – Studio 4
6. White Peak – It's Something I Feel
7. Starfish Pool – Submerge
8. LABIIBAT – Decilinear
9. Best Available Technology – Twisted Ladder (Bantam Lions sidestep mix)
10. LOKP – MTG.001
11. BOA – Lunar Dope
12. LABIIBAT - Window


D1 | Best Available Technology (Astro:Dynamics / (left_blank) / Further Records) | Dimension Mix

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