Thanks for listening, dwld link: http://staticdiscos.com/dimension/3ad1/ tracklist soon...

i forgot how deep this one is, C/R eat your heart out :)

in the queue

NE178: Container

Nick Stephens x Casper Clark - 3rd July 2025

Phantasy’s long-running mix series continues apace with a contribution from a key figure in London’s electronic and alternative underground, Casper Clark. Perhaps best known under his former Volte-Face alias, this wide-ranging hour finds Clark reigniting his fundamentally eclectic sensibility, seamlessly blending records from Black Merlin, Idjut Boys and The Parallax Corporation, spanning twenty-five years of music at the authentic margins.

 PHANTASYMIX 52 by Casper Clark is available to stream now from Apple Music and on Soundcloud, alongside dozens of mixes from the label archive.

“I started DJing nearly 20 years ago, at least partially inspired by the way Erol used to play at Trash and later Bugged Out and beyond. I was lucky enough to book him over the years at our Adventures In The Beetroot Field parties as well as Field Day and even the Lock Tavern, which I used to programme back then. As I drifted more towards exploring techno under my Volte-Face moniker, our paths diverged somewhat, and a few years went by when I didn't bump into him or see him play all that often. So this mix feels like a homecoming of sorts, and an expression of a rekindled musical freedom and a cherished friendship. I even managed to squeeze in a track by Tiga, who was another formative influence for me. I hope it's as fun to listen to the mix as it was to make it.” - Casper Clark

PHANTASYMIX 52: Casper Clark

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)

LUBRIKATE YOUR LIVING ROOM

Episode 01 - 'Gradually & Then Suddenly' by Casper Clark

Synopsis : I was listening to some mixes by a recent discovery of mine, Kyle Toole, and felt compelled to start grouping some records from my collection into a playlist. As the list began to burgeon, it seemed to be taking on something of a downtempo, you might even say trip-hoppy flavour. Listening to the playlist took me back to being a young teenager in the living room of my childhood home. My Dad was in the grip of an ecstasy-fuelled midlife crisis and would be near-constantly playing Kruder & Dorfmeister’s ‘K&D Sessions’, bootleg Buddha Bar CDs, Leftfield’s ‘Leftism’, The Beloved’s ‘Conscience’ and various William Orbit and Fluke records. I realised over the years what a profound influence this time had on my eventual obsession with electronic music, especially of the deep and transcendent variety. I think there’s a misconception at times that all music that fell under the chill-out banner was somehow banal or wallpaper muzak, but that’s not the way that I see it at all. Hopefully you’ll agree once you’ve listened to this mix, a near 3 and a half hour journey.

Tracklist :
Perimeter O - Speed Of Light @perimetero
Atom TM & Pete Namlook - Beel
Harz - Noira 
Funcionário - Tributo @funcionario
Natural Information Society - Always 9 Seconds Away 
Twinkle³ - Bodea 998 
Gudrun Gut - Firething (The Orb Firedub) 
Mister Water Wet - Gossamer Hints Softly Spun @titofuego
Ali Omar ft Gina Mitchell - On Release 
Filter Tips - Shanti Plays 
XqST - HRBA 
Strategy - No Defects @strategyofficial
Kilig - Air In The Dark @kiligsounds
Cyclopean - Fingers 
Bill Laswell - Purana 
Ovuca - Northern Comfort
Jhelisa - Friendly Pressure (Beaumont Hannant Beautifully Bare Mix) 
Yello - Distant Mirror 
Dettinger - Totentanz 2 
4E - Bimbo Limbo 
Signaldrift - Undecided 
Gaiko - Millenium @tsugihq
The Mighty Bop ft. Ingrid - Vibrations Mystiques 
Bochum Welt - Suddenly Spring @bochum-welt
Phantom Slasher - Ooo-Err 
Joni Void - Time Zone @joni_void
Bjarki - Everyone Is Annoying @bjarki
Reign Of Ferns - Bamboo 
Nat Birchall - Jungle Trek 
Andrea Parker - Going Nowhere 
Schuttle - Melonweed Musick @schuttle
Yuta Matsumara - Myth Machine 
Komodo Kolektif - Fire Walk @komodokolektif
Gulls Rhythm Force - Tune The System / Start Slow (Dry Drums Motivation Vrsn) 
Static Cleaner Lost Reward - Submerging Emergency 
Shit & Shine - Parkplatz 84 @shitshine
Rapoon - Again We See 
Brendon Moeller - Safari @brendonmoeller-music
A Certain Ratio - Funaezekea 
Crespi Drum Syndicate - Broken Bread @sonidoisla
Oliver Doerell & Jawad Salkhord - Worud @doerell
Keith Hudson - By Night Dub 
Dolphins - Spacecat @freybenedik
African Head Charge - Healing Ceremony 
The Blessed Kitty - Stoned Wire (Always On My Mind) @triplexlarge
Nonplace Urban Field - Fucking Long Time 
Irene Bianco - Sussulti 
Felinto - Encanto Banga 
The Loose Control Band - It's Hot (808 Mix) 
Unitone HiFi - Babylon (Baby Lion by Egon Zo & Zargo) 
Mjulev - Can I Give This Bird Some Speed? @mjulev
Sun Electric - Goldstuck

💦LYLR 1💦 Gradually, And Then Suddenly by Casper Clark

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

Recorded in his studio, August 2015.

01. Don Cherry - North Brazillian Ceremonial Hymn [Caprice Records]
02. Conoco - Keppi [Sigma Editions]
03. Antenes - Fire Rises [L.I.E.S.]
04. nsi. - Bird [Non Standard Productions]
05. Scion - Emerge0 [Chain Reaction]
06. Microsmiles - Drugs Are Right [Logistic Records]
07. Daniel Bell - Science Fiction [Tresor]
08. Don Williams - Orderly Kaos [a.r.t.less]
09. Underground Resistance - Beauty Of Decay [Underground Resistance]
10. Norman - Greenroom [Synewave]
11. Mark Verbos - Mafia [Deepfried]
12. Love Inc. - Contradition [Force Inc.]
13. Peter Van Hoesen - Nineteen Continued [Time To Express]
14. Jasper - The Attempt [Cytrax]
15. Surgeon - Syllable [Downwards]
16. Transllusion - Unordinary Realities [Supremat / Tresor]
17. Acronym - Jotunheim [Semantica]
18. Musicology - Hall Of Mirrors [B12]
19. Gunnar Haslam - Athabaskan Languages
20. Ø - Spiraalit [Sähkö Recordings]
21. Robert Hood - Home [Tresor]
22. Basic Channel - Octagon [Basic Channel]
23. Jeff Mills - Automatic [Purpose Maker]
24. AFX - Batine Acid [Rephlex]
25. ?
26. Beau Wanzer - Grooves No Zone [Beau Wanzer]
27. DJ Harlow - Waxwork (CP Mix) [L.A. Club Resource]
28. Gescom - Motor2 [Source Records]
29. Sun Electric - Osram 527 [R&S Records]
30. Harmonia - Watussi [Brain]

The Bunker Podcast 103 - Gunnar Haslam

Tracklist: http://bit.ly/roy-ayers-75

Celebrating the 75th birthday of Mr Roy Ayers with this mix, showcasing some of my favourite tracks from his slightly lesser known material… Well, I mean compared to tracks like Everybody 
Loves The Sunshine, Searching, We Live In Brooklyn, Running Away, Love Will Bring Us Back Together…

I also hear new stuff that I hadn’t noticed before when I listen to his music - the track with Jack Wilson that opens the mix up is so heavy and cosmic for its time, and I’d forgotten about the track with Wayne Henderson! There are so many great albums out there including the 2 Virgin Ubiquities BBE put out... We could devote a whole week of radio programmes to Roy, his archive is so large… 

He is the key to all things between jazz, soul, disco and hip hop…. Thank you roy for all the music...


Tracklist

Roy Ayers 75th Birthday Mix

Very few musical acts achieve the levels of unanimous acclaim of Autechre. The English duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth are not an act you simply like; they are an act you love, fawn over and dream about. They’ve got themselves here over the course of the last 28 years, and have done so by amassing a discography that’s about as perfect, influential and accomplished as could ever be possible. A key Warp label act from day one, they have released tens of albums, well over a ten EPs and have featured on a dizzying amount of essential compilations, mixes and remixes in that time. Without their contribution to the IDM canon, its fair to say the modern musical landscape would look very different. 

Rhythmic but experimental, absorbing yet abstract, cerebral and psychedelic, their ever evolving output is up there with the likes of fellow luminaries Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin as some of the most important in all of electronic music. As well as being fine craftsmen in the studio, Autechre are also revered live performers who really manage to conjure up captivating and otherworldly soundtracks that marry heavy bass with ethereal melody. The pair themselves do not care for genre, but suffice it to say that they have mastered everything from hardcore to ambient to glitch and plenty of indescribables in between. 

When the pair recently laid down an impressive set at Dekmantel Festival, we asked if they might be up for a doing an early inspiration mix, whereby they put together a collection of the sort of electro and hip hop tracks that turned them on as youths. At first they hesitated, pointing out that "we don't do strictly retro stuff, it's too corny.” But alas, a few days later, a huge file landed in our inbox… That file is a 4 hour and 18 minute mix that basically encapsulates not just Autechre’s own influences, but also acts as a fine anthology of the greatest electro sounds of all time. Every sub genre imaginable gets touched upon along the way, with nods to forefathers like Kraftwerk, killer cuts from Man Parrish, classics from Newcleus and retro gold from the likes of The Beat Club. It is a thrilling ride and a truly rare treat that reminds us just why we love Autechre, as well as shining a light on a vast genre that often pays second fiddle to house and techno.

Dekmantel Podcast 035 - Autechre

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


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