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There is no way to neatly sum up what @kush_jones does. Part of that is because the Bronx native is so relentless. Part of it is because he makes music purely for himself, self-releases most of it and therefore depends on no one. This year alone he's put out at least five releases. There have been footwork singles, house and breaks EPs, electro tunes and the 13th installment in his tool-y compilation series, Strictly 4 My CDJZ. He is just as flexible as a DJ, threading together Black music from across a global spectrum that can take in the sounds of Baltimore, Detroit and Jersey in the same set.

This is exactly what happens in this week's mix. The tempo is high throughout, but that never restricts what Jones can do. He is still able to explore plenty of nuances and shift the mood and groove while racing along at speed. Super sweet and soulful juke melts away into a flurry of jungle drums. Blistering warehouse techno builds to breaking point then club music takes over. It makes for a breathless but beautiful 65 minutes.

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Dekmantel Podcast 344 - Kush Jones

There is nothing safe about @dis_fig. The Berlin-based artist makes confrontational, unconventional music that harnesses the power of chaos. She initially came up on the New York club scene but was always most interested in the weirder end of the spectrum so moved to Berlin. It is there that she has established herself as someone who operates on the fringes of the dance floor. Her debut album PURGE in 2019 was wrought with emotional turmoil thanks to her own unique vocal work, while the electronics were just as twisted and harrowing. Last year she showed another side to her vocal skills on In Blue, a collaborative album of bass-heavy dreamscapes with The Bug.

This week's mix is 90 minutes of fulsome body music, contorting rhythms and exaggerated percussion. The boundaries between club, techno, jungle, rap and bass are blurred as Dis Fig plots a route through them all with great control. Even when tempos jump around wildly, there is no break in the flow, and to end such a high octane ride on the sultry mind nineties r&b of Total is a stroke of genius.

Dekmantel Podcast 353 - Dis Fig

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Two hours of leftfield dance and beyond every month from AD 93 boss Tasker and guests. Old 88 Transition shows available on the [archive](http://www.nts.live/shows/88transition).

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Live @ Nowadays Nonstop - Jan. 20, 2024

This is a wild, unapologetic, barnstorming ride recorded between 1:00-4:00 on a throbbing dancefloor during the first leg of Nowadays Nonstop on the night of Jan 20. This was a romp of delivering my intentions passionately and precisely, playing many of my favorites, and operating at my very best across genres, traveling through a tunnel of engulfing psychedelic darkness, bass weight, shifting tempos, and beat structures into celebratory light. 

As an artist/DJ, these are some of the moments one lives for. It’s certainly something I’ve dreamed about for years. The opportunity to play in one of the rave’s hallowed halls - one of the most esteemed clubs and my own very favorite - was a dream come true and has been a quiet moment of apotheosis and vindication of years of dedicated, focused work. 

There are many nods and treats in this set: tracks shown to me by friends, absolute hypnotizing favorites and gems I’ve held onto, the voice of my true love, and (for those following my lore closely) the magic of opening with Phil Elverum’s work. Tracklist below:

[artist - track title]

Mount Eerie - Mouth of Sky (Wolves in the Throne Room remix)
Dawn Razor - Scary Movies
Eric Fetcher - Balter
Secus - Time Dilation
Antigone - Artefakt
Teno - Cyclamen (Polygonia remix)
Goyle - Immaterial Expansion
ORBE - Nepo
Erika - Wandering Mountain (Mike Parker remix)
Cirkle - Cygnus
JX-216 - Yuba
Furtive - Body and Mind (feat Emme) (Vocal Version)
stndrd - Trichophyton
George Effe - Metronomic Chemotherapy
Crøwn - Impulsive Decomposition (Begin Repaint)
Klara - Trajectory Bound
Denise Rabe - Don’t Leave
NØ Shelter - Steel Under Skin
JUDAΣ - Anathema III
Robert Hoff - Boderline (DJ Sodeyama remix)
Ritaffein - Tension 05
Fixon - Star Signs
Reeko - Habitación 877
Stndrd - Transmissions (T Kode Remix)
Kavari - Attachment Style
Red Army - Yergacheffe VIP
Blood Trust - Carboot
Homemade Weapons - Vexagon
RDG & Gaze III - Fracas
Bereneces - Rain
Shiken Hanzo - The Reaping VIP
Rhythm Assembler - Geometric (Conrad Van Orton Amen edit)
Verdae - San Caravan
Fetus, Itti - Mayflies
Rask - Artificial Intellingence (Seul Ensemble remix)
Aloka - Granulate
Porter Brooker - Present Tense
Shai FM - Bounce
Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Rat
Intellagama - Tellurian Gait
Kick21 - Hollister model type beat
JC Laurent - Nothing But An Illusion
A Strange Wedding - Temples of Quantum (Straigth Backward mix)
ULV - My Sofa Turns into a Desert
Spekki Webu - Elevation
DJ G2G & Marilao - Swift
KayTV - Fancy Shamancy
DJ Bondefar - Ice Worm
Dejan SE - Mytomani (Juan Trujillo remix 1)
Terminus - Green Mirror
Kyle Geiger - Slingshot Orbit (Stripped Edit)
Benales - Grip
Kuba Sojka - Basic Form
Baugruppe90 - Destiny
Edvvin - Do The Damn Thing (William Arist remix)
Murat - Missing
Johnny from Space - sinimiedo
D Stone - Something is Coming
CRYME - MIND UR BODY (DJ Emerson remix)
n_o - You Deserve Beauty and Spa Juice
Rene Wise - Fuego    
MNLR - Arsenic Mind
Vohkinne - Velocity (Vegin Repaint)
Reeko, Jonas Kopp - Introducción Gradual de la Tiranía
Kastil - Submissive
Ritaffein - Tension 02
Prior & Al Wooton - Leniency
Attenuator - Wyrd
k2dj - Peroxic (with Stella)
Sangam & Kid Smpl - Found Wings

Nowadays Nonstop January 20, 2024

Furtive live at Nowadays Nonstop Jan. 20, 2024

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WHOLE 2024

Tracklist:
YOUTH – Vox Tenebrae
Atte Elias Kantonen – populus alba (i'm fine)
usof – plonplonk
Atte Elias Kantonen – algae & others
Zaumne – Poison
Commodo – Slushbox
Biogen – Mutylin
Dali de Saint Paul & Maxwell Sterling – 5
Peter Rehberg – at GRM (2016)
Fred Ho feat. The Asian American Art Ensemble and Kulintang Arts – Lapu Lapu's Battle Preparation
Scotch Rolex and Shackleton – Serotonin
Carrier – Lost On Me
EVA808 – Y R U N KET
Blurt – Be There Now
Aphex Twin – Isoprophlex (Slow) (Cr7e Version)
Blotter Trax – Super Conductor
Actress – Its me ( g 8 )
Errorsmith – My Party
Evol – Buggy Betty
Ssiege – Drama Lover
Céline Gillain – Fight or Flight
AT-XYA – Dreamo (feat. James K)
Jules Reidy – Slipstream
ssabæ – le roi est l’oiseau
Drexciya – Draining of the Tanks
IZM – Interlude
Death Is Not The End – Are You Sure?
Stas Karpenkov – 1.1
Sote – Kangaroo Court
GCOM – XO Transmission #1 feat. Qebrus
Gerard Hoffnung – Bricklayer's Story
Moritz Von Oswald – Infinito
Powell + LCO – 14, 23, 18
Evol – Buggy Betty
Mister Water Wet – A Whisper Won't Scale A Wall
Dj Fary – Punani Fantasy (Remix)
Maus & Stolle – Itch & Scratch
EDM – The beautiful symmetry of Sasaki Kojiro
Savage Garden – I Want You (Objekt edit)
Fox – Vacio ft. Trigganom (prod. by Florentino)
Aleksi Perala – Meltman / Meltdown man
Henzo – I Can See The Fatigue In You (Popcaan Devil Mix)
Toto – Georgy Porgy (feat. Cheryl Lynn) [Disco Version]
Aleksi Perälä – FI3AC2262010
2302 – Hold-3
Hateful Head Helen – Sweet Pussy Pauline Acapella
Evol – Semi Colin
Syclops – New Bro's In NYC
Valentina Magaletti – A Queer Anthology of Drums
Nilotika Cultural Ensemble – Ejokawulida
The Chemical Brothers – Galvanize
SOPHIE – Bipp (Autechre Remix)
Tokyo Offshore Project – Magic Melody
downstairs J – Soft Tissue
Alexi Baris – Eye Cast Mirror (feat. Emad Armoush on ney)
Spacetime Continuum – Q 11
Objekt – Silica
Hoavi – Phase 8
Cucina Povera – Olen oluen oljen
Rhythm & Sound – No Partial
Lee Gamble – She's Not

OBJEKT

A special liquidtime set from one of my Favs @napmusick live and direct from liquidtime kwia :) 

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Pariah presents Voam with Or:la - 13 March 2025

Bristol-based @k_means operates at the fringes of electronic music. It's not tempo and genre that unites their sound, but more an exploration of mood and texture underpinned by bass-heavy low ends and hypnotic rhythms. The Noods, Rinse FM and Kiosk Radio regular is also resident at Bristol's Psychotherapy Sessions and will debut at Dekmantel Festival where you should fully expect to be taken into plenty of unknown musical territory.

It is the same with their mix for us this week - a wild trip into futuristic drum patterns and interplanetary sounds that melt the mind and contort the body. There is a constant push and pull between the organic and the synthetic with tribal percussion and warped vocals brushing up with bleeping synth modulations and experimental minimalism. It's a magnetic selection that's as much an imaginary movie soundtrack as it is a dance floor escape.

Dekmantel Mix 487 - k means

Vaporous places Everything vaporous 

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JASSS @ The Lot Radio 05-05-2025

A rare club mix from the ever-evolving artist, with 90 minutes of shadowy, atmospheric pressure.

Music's therapeutic value is often linked to relaxation—gongs, singing bowls and the like. Dense passages of foggy droning and eerie static aren't traditionally considered restorative, but Laurel Halo makes a pretty good case for it.

The Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based musician's abstract, often improvised productions are heavy on sound design and emotional climax. Driven by atmosphere rather than rhythm, they push listeners to grapple with their innermost insecurities, fears and dreams. "I'm lucky my music has helped people through crises," Halo once told Discwoman. It's easy to see why.

Since her 2010 debut King Felix, Halo has built a stunningly diverse catalogue of classically-informed records. A multi-instrumentalist—piano, violin, guitar, keys—her sharpest instrument is arrangement. Inspired by the surrealism of Italo Calvino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, her releases, from Atlas to Behind The Green Door, unfold with slow-burning narrative and dense emotional weight. Her soundworlds are layered and labyrinthine—an architectonic space where self-reflection happens almost by force.

Even in the club, the sought-after composer excels in immersion. Her sets extend the expressionist palette of her records, trading traditional rhythm for tension, space and surprise. It’s no wonder she takes a genre-agnostic approach to the dance floor—her deep roots in freeform radio began at WCBN-FM in Michigan, followed by Berlin Community Radio, Rinse FM, and now a regular show on NTS.

RA.992 stitches foggy ambient loops, propulsive techno, mutant percussion and heady left turns with care. Tracks from DJ Rush, Octave One and Eddie Fowlkes nod to her Midwestern heritage, balanced out by deeper, psychedelic fare from the likes of Polygonia and Cousin. It's the mark of an artist revealing both deep curiosity and a precise hand as a selector. Rare, indeed.

@laurelhalo

Find the full interview at ra.co/podcast/992

RA.992 Laurel Halo

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Project Mooncircle 15th Anniversary -  30min Mix

Guest mix on BBC Radio 1xtra hosted by the legendary Wiley, Scratchy, Riko and God's Gift aired 30/01/2013 on Mistajams show

Tracklist:

Wiley – Eskimo
My Nu Leng & Pasteman – 2Twos
Wen – Commotion VIP
Skepta – Pulse Y
Ruff Sqwad - XTC vs Misty Cold
Kamikaze – Ghetto Kyote
Maniac – Mandem
Wiley – Morgue
DJ Eastwood – U Ain't Ready
Jon E Cash – Hoods Up
Lil Silva – Flex vs Pulse
Alias – Warriors
Kahn and Neek – Percy
Bigshot – Stomp Remix
Ruff Sqwad – Functions on the Low


Barely Legal feat. Wiley, Scratchy, Riko Dan and God's Gift (BBC Radio 1xtra)

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