I come back to this masterclass every couple of months its absolutely next level

For his long-overdue Fact mix Pariah chases a jaw-swinging, grin-inducing, eyelid-fluttering vibe that fluctuates between sparseness and intensity, depth and release.

https://www.factmag.com/2022/07/04/fact-mix-866-pariah/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 866: Pariah (Jul '22)

AliA is driven by a fierce and passionate love for a variety of genres. Each time she's able to seamlessly craft an uncompromising and genre-hopping story, without losing coherence or verve. She’s a resident at HORST Festival, a regular at the C12 club in Brussels and has a monthly show on Kiosk Radio. Enjoy!

ITPS082 ALIA

Skee Mask is one of dance music's greatest crossover stories of the past decade, with new albums greeted with the attention usually reserved for an Aphex Twin or a Caribou. ("Loved seeing this on r/indieheads," said one Reddit user, on the release of the 2021 LP Pool.) It's not hard to understand why: albums like Compro, he blends well-worn dance music tropes with incredible, detailed soundscapes and spine-tingling melodies. And on his 12-inches, he brings that sensibility to the dance floor, with an approach probably best described as articulate. Even on his most ambient of tracks, everything is in its right place. Along with founders the Zenker Brothers, his music outlines everything that makes Munich outfit Ilian Tape one of the best techno labels going.

On the decks, it's kind of a different story. It might surprise you if you only know his albums, but Skee Mask is an incredible DJ, balancing his predilection for hip-hop and UK-informed sounds with laser-focused techno. He can adapt to all sorts of situations—there's an incredible recording of him DJing with four of the best grime and drum & bass MCs in the business—and on his RA Podcast he focuses on the techno side of things, with nearly two hours of pacey techno and creative mixing, with dips into acid, electro, garage and more. It's a party-starting mix from a genuine star, perfect for getting through the holiday doldrums or pre-gaming your NYE plans. Like Skee Mask's best records, it's something to enjoy in any number of settings.

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RA.864 Skee Mask

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2023/truancy-volume-299-sputnik-one/

Soundcloud: @sputnik_one

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Truancy Volume 299: Sputnik One

Pressure Dome label boss, Jen Hartley – better known as Yushh – is next to supply a flagship Crack Mix.

“I'm into so many different styles at the minute so it was hard deciding on the vibe I wanted to go for, so there are lots of energy shifts throughout the mix,” she tells us. “It's got some beautiful moments, some deep, moody moments and – of course – some wonky, weirdo high-energy bangers. I also wanted to take the opportunity to showcase some incredible new music from mates, some forthcoming Pressure Dome, and a new remix I've been working on, all of which I'm excited to share!”

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Crack Mix 488: Yushh

Rinse FM Podcast

Ilian Tape Show with Andrea & Zenker Brothers - 3rd March 2023

Fever AM with Mor Elian & RE:NI - 25 March 2023

EMA's work as a DJ, founder of label/party Woozy, booker for Dublin nightclub Yamamori Tengu, Rinse FM resident and co-founder of the Skin&Blister collective is exhaustive, highlighting a relentless work ethic that has inspired a foundational infrastructure for her and those in her orbit to prosper. Enjoy!

ITPS095 EMA

Breaks, techno, hardcore, bass—Skee Mask tore through genres with ease during RA’s takeover of The Void at Dimensions Festival 2019.

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Photo: Rob Jones for Khroma Collective

RA Live - 30.08.19 - Skee Mask, Dimensions Festival, Croatia

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

Here’s the recording of my Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, which I recorded at the start of 2020 and was broadcast in June. Feeling like I’d been given some big shoes to fill, I spent a couple of months planning a rambunctious, high-energy party mix that would also still be pretty ambitious in the range of styles and tempos it would cover, finally finishing it just as the first lockdowns were kicking in. Obviously, by the time it was eventually broadcast it felt a little out of step with the times. But listening back to it I still feel like it’s one of my better studio mixes, and with the holidays (and a vaccine) around the corner maybe its energy will even feel newly appropriate. So in case you missed the official broadcast – or wanted a download – here it is.

I included a handful of all-time personal favourites, and most of the tracks marked “unreleased” are presumably up on Bandcamp by now so go show the artists and labels a bit of love if you’re feeling it.

TL:

Lyra Pramuk - Mirror (Bedroom Community)
Laughing Ears - Blue Dusk (DECISIONS)
Batu - SYX (unreleased)
Doctor Jeep - Snake Eyes (DRX)
Miss Red - Come Again (Pressure)
Yilan x Ren - Ark (Infinite Machine)
Chants - Diptych (Astral Plane)
Quincy Jones - The Verb To Be (Qwest/Warner Bros.)
Pearson Sound - Alien Mode (forthcoming Hessle Audio)
Galaxy Lane - Days Gone By (unreleased)
Roman Flugel - Pattern One (Ongaku Music)
Orange Kush - Tremolo (Botchit & Scarper)
Renegade Soundwave - The Phantom (It’s In There) (Mute)
Lenk - 444 (H. Productions)
Badsista - Soca Sem Parar (ft. MC Morena) (self-released?)
Slowdive - In Mind (Bandulu Out Mind Remix) (Creation Records)
Paul Damage - Passing By (HOG Records)
KAB - Anjua (Sneaky 3) (Azurite Records)
Archetype - Inhabit the Rhythm (Theory Recordings)
Sun Electric - Entrance (R&S Records)
Nothus - Konnor 3O12 (XCPT Music)
Rhyw - It Was All Happening (forthcoming Fever AM)
Nan Kolè x DJ Tess - Gimme Any Riddim feat. NyNy (self-released)
Surgeon - Floorshow Pt. 1.3 (Counterbalance)
Lhasa - Gather Like Dust (Dark Entries)
Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy - Locked In Syndrome (forthcoming BFDM)
Reelle - Hybris (Danse Noire)
RAC - Doublejointed (2) (Warp Records)
Mystic Letter K - See Her Weaving (MLK)
Thee J Johanz - Bass Up (Emergency Broadcast/Furthur Electronix)
Odd Lust - Planet Is Transparent (forthcoming Trilogy Tapes)
X/319 - Effekt_03 (Tau)
DJ Boss - Zakruta (Audio Assault)
Lag - Znoj (unreleased)
Ceephax Acid Crew - Grand Marniacid (WéMè Records)
Grandmixxer & Scratcha DVA - Free Gaza Remix (Allyall Records)
Scorp - Atomitron (Scorp)
Luxus Varta - Magnetic (unreleased)
Al Wootton - Natural Forward (Trule)
FFT - orr din (Super Hexagon)
Pepe - Palinka Hammer (Naïve)
N-ter - Low (Databass Online)
Radioactive Man - Jommtones (Asking For Trouble)
DJ Balani - Balani Sanga (Sahel Sounds)
The Criminal Minds - Change The Pace (TCM Recordings)
Fast Floor - Plight Of The Innovators (Smooth Recordings)
Luxxuryproblems - Ideal, Whirlpool, Transfer (Turbulence) (SPA Recordings)
MC Jessi - AQFFE (Laza Edit) (Tormenta)
Jonny Megabyte - Pickles & Tootsie Pops (Databass Online)
Homemade Weapons - Svalsat (Donato Dozzy Remix) (Samurai Music)
Artilect - Mefo (Samurai Music)
Digital & Sight Unseen - Out of Control (Function Records)
dgoHn - Ninnyhammer (Love Love Records)
RTR - Untitled21 (Analogical Force)
Greta Wohlfahrt - Ausweichquartiere (Greta Wohlfahrt)
C-Tank - Walk On Base (Overdrive)
Lakker - Suburban Cutting (self-released)
Smog - Surfactant (Failed Units)
DJ Pacifier - Ready (Failed Units)
Sample: Rhythm Device - Acid Rock (Music Man Records)
DJ Pacifier - Beginning to Breathe (Daniel Ruane Failed Reset) (Failed Units)
Etch - Lost Orbit (Chrome Drum VIP) (Altered Roads)

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