Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2023/truancy-volume-314-moopie

Soundcloud: @moopie

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Moopie

Truancy Volume 314: Moopie

Recording of DJ Fart In The Club's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2023.

Dekmantel Selectors 2023

DJ Fart In The Club at Dekmantel Selectors 2023

Mandel live from The Pickle Factory takeover of the Patio at #GALA24.

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Live from the Patio – Mandel

Recording of Lenxi's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Lenxi at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

@djpgz @yikesone
Two of the most vital voices in so-called Australia’s dance music landscape, heavyweight producers DJ PGZ and Yikes, joined me for episode 315 of Passing Notes. Fresh off the release of their fierce new split EP ‘Come Round’ via Butter Sessions, these two stewards of contemporary dance music and club culture show us what happens when deep musical knowledges, community-first ethos, and production prowess collide. Come Round is a bold, percussive journey through techno and its playful yet unrelenting derivatives. The tracklist features solo cuts, cross-remixes and one standout team-up, Ouss Ouss, that ties it up into a cheeky not to be missed package.

Gunai/Kurnai & Yorta Yorta artist DJ PGZ is a defining presence in the club and festival circuit, from Pitch to Dekmantel his razor-sharp productions and full-throttle sets pay homage to the Black and Brown roots of club music while charting new territory for future First Nations sound. His contributions to the EP tracks like the wub-heavy Solidarity System and acid-tinged Rewind Yourself Mix stretch the limits with style and power.

Wongi artist Yikes is a multi-dimensional creative force. He is the co-founder of Aboriginal-led creative studio Nani Creative, a DJ, producer, and host of the legendary ‘Full Frequency’ show on RTRFM. A mentor to emerging First Nations DJs, Yikes brings intention to every move he makes, including his consistent appearaces at events of the highest caliber including Inner Varnika and Pitch. His rhythm-driven and progressive tracks Sidestep and Check Out That, carry swing, grit and dancefloor depth.

Together, DJ PGZ and Yikes deliver Come Round as both a sonic flex and a communal offering that harnesses and connects the raw dancefloor energy of the east and west coasts. 

We celebrated their remarkable release and the tour that’s taking it to the people live on PBSfm106.7fm on the 28th March 2025.

DJ PGZ & Yikes - PN 315

A clinic in minimal from the elusive Acting Press boss. 

Why do certain sounds cultivate a cult following? Simply put, it's often because they resist easy consumption. PLO Man and his imprint Acting Press lean into this. 

Searching for the Berlin-based DJ and producer, you won’t find much online presence, interviews or conventional PR. What you will find, if you look hard enough, is a catalogue of records and mixes with a kind of tape hiss charm (a spiritual successor to Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, but scuzzier and lighter on its feet).

Founded in 2015, Acting Press once seemed to belong to the short-lived "outsider house" trend, but is now synonymous with a certain strain of modern minimal, one that is analogue, spacious and pointedly opaque. PLO Man's output is equally sparse by design: this week, he joins the RA Podcast with a characteristically elusive style, accompanying the near two-hour mix is a one-answer Q&A that gives almost nothing away.

Stripped-back, ever-so-slightly sleazy and coated in dust, PLO Man's RA Podcast continues that lineage in style. Opening with the featherlight microhouse of Margaret Dygas, RA.988 unfolds into a carefully curated spectrum of minimal, dub and deep techno. Among familiar names—look out for the blinding Rhythm & Sound and Moodymann blend—are deep cuts and left turns alongside the odd outlier, like lovers' rock pioneer Gregory Isaacs.

Like the best of his forebears, PLO Man wants RA.988 to take time for you to settle in. But once you do, you won’t want to leave. 

@p_el_oh

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/988

RA.988 PLO Man

DJ ZOZI aka @d-tiffany on closing duties in the last Lighthouse of this year’s spring season. Oozzing sass and style, this set develops from deep, hypnotic dancefloor hooks into peak time mind-bending zozi moments. Full of percussive spice throughout with a signature blend of bounce and break for an ultra Lighthouse send off. 

LIVE AT FANDANGO - DJ Zozi

For this set I played on 4 CDJ 3000’s and a V10 mixer, using both of its internal effects processors. For every No Way Back set, and for most sets, I try to prepare new hardware remasters and edits of things that I think would be fascinating recontextualized in this setting. But for NWB, it is even more special, a peak moment, so I try to have new records I’m working on in the studio to test out. For this set that means the hardware mixes I’ve been working on for Torrvo and for Andy Toth can be tested, I’m working on this hardware mixing and remastering tone palate, so I spread that to some edits to give them a whole new power. Playing at No Way Back cannot be put into words, though we try every year, it really is inexplicable without experiencing it. It’s the environment you most want to be in, the space is totally transformed, the sound is dialed in, the audience is so ready, very giving and open, and the feedback you get is incredible. People are up for a ride – we start at the Tangent and end up going to the other side of the universe. Freedom within and without. There’s no place I’d rather be, so I thought I’d share this much sooner than we usually do. Enjoy the ride. 
– BMG @bbmmgg

Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine (BMG edit)
Refracted – Beneath The Surface
Torvvo – Carrier (BMG NWB Mix - forthcoming on Interdimensional Transmissions)
Pause – Exode X
Sciahri – Glow
Shed – EMCZ
Amotik – Peela
Erika – Wandering Mountain (Mike Parker Remix)
Translate – Shifted Communications
Dino Sabatini – Peuceus
Feral & Luigi Tozzi – Enigma
PALEMAN – Quarry
D-Leria – Voodoo Magic (Polygonia Remix)
Lory D – Mantrosax 2
Surgeon – Forgotten Gods
Peter Van Hoesen – Definition by Absence
Steve Bicknell – Easing Info Tomorrow
Resonance – Yellow Train (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)
The Fantasy – Soft Space (2025 Hardware version) forthcoming
DJ Funk – House The Groove
Ottagone – Ottagone 021
Andy Toth – Mind Lock (forthcoming on Interdimensional Transmissions)
AgainstMe – Into The Dome
Giordano – Electric Stardust
Alex R – z50
808 State – Flow Coma (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)
Wee Papa Girls – We Know It (KMS mix) (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)
Aphex Twin – Isopropophlex (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)

IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s14e04: BMG at No Way Back 2025

Zen music with a lot of piano to keep you calm and fully relax...

Under water

An audiophiles time trip through space and time inspired by the cosmos and the subjects that live in it in the year 2025. 

Lecce

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