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Selections // 3rd November

Left, Right & Centre with Nusheen - 28 July 2025

A vital cog in London’s modern underground, @dj_tasha is celebrating 15 years of her @neighbourhood-music club night with a string of parties this summer. Having come up through the thrilling crossover era of the 2010s, she's folded her d&b roots and deep affinity for techno into an urgent, in-demand sound that keeps her on the road. 

Alongside a stellar sample of her craft recorded at a recent residency night at Open Ground in Wuppertal, she speaks to Oli Warwick about the peaks and troughs of promoting, her friendship with the late Marcus Intalex, and why socks are at the heart of Neighbourhood's family atmosphere. 

Interview:  https://djmag.com/features/recognise-089-tasha

Interview

Recognise 089: Tasha

Same Thing (Ghost Phone & DJ Persuasion Remix)

Tom Ravenscroft - 31 July 2025

Live recording front closing set - Ubfold Steam Room 10th August 2025

Wes Baggaley Live at Unfold 10th Aug 25

DJ PERSUASION - MOON BLUES (GET ILL) (DEV/NULL & TIM REAPER REMIX)

MUSIC: DJ PERSUASION
MASTERING: BOB MACC
ART DIRECTION: JON K

Ulterior Motives are proud to present a fresh set of versions derived from DJ Persuasion’s Moon Blues (Get Ill).

Dev/Null and Tim Reaper bring a dark, grime-inspired drum & bass workout to the track, featuring razor-sharp breaks and a late-night urban atmosphere.
Liftin’ Spirits (aka Ant Miles of Origin Unknown), donning his Ironic pseudonym for the first time in many years, provides a rolling VIP that stays close to the original but elevates it.
Friske, one of the most enigmatic artists in drum & bass today, who has remained firmly under the radar despite collaborations with artists like Goldie, offers a reflective, refined rendition reminiscent of Subject 13 and Arctix.
In addition to the three remixes, Persuasion adds a new track, Marked, which rounds off the EP with fierce drums and the “Demon Poetry” sample that inspired the NTS Radio show of the same name.

DJ PERSUASION - MOON BLUES (GET ILL) (DEV/NULL & TIM REAPER REMIX) [UMOT001RR]

TRACKLIST 

Billy Daniel Bunter, Vinyl Junkie &amp; Sanxion - Memories
Pete Cannon - Dancin (N4 Dub)
Tim Clay - Dark Clouds (N4 Dub)
Vinyl Junkie &amp; Tim Reaper - Hear Me
Fluid Haunts - Palm Tree Hill (N4 Dub)
Tim Clay - Acid Doubt (N4 Dub)
&gt;&gt; Slipmatt - Breaking Free
DJ Magic Touch - Jungle Track (Hifi Jungle Dub) x2
Optimystic - Come To See (Gunns Road Dub)
SL8R - Say The Word (Repertoire Dub)
Tim Clay - Look Inside (Function Dub)
&gt;&gt; Spirit - International (London Mix) (Function Dub)
Digital &amp; John B - You &amp; Me (Gremlinz Remix) (Function Dub)
Tim Clay - Directions (Function Dub)
&gt;&gt; Rufige Kru - Special Request
IP - Combination Style (Function Dub)
&gt;&gt; Spinback &amp; Gwange - The Execution
Tim Clay - Want You Now (Reinforced Dub)
Section &amp; Tim Clay - Feel For Me (Function Dub)
&gt;&gt;Malign - Outcast
DJ Persuasion - Dub
Section - Set My Heart (Dub)
HLZ - Roadblock (Metalheadz Dub)
&gt;&gt; Fierce &amp; Optiv - Surface Noise
Tim Clay - Seasonal Affected (Repertoire Dub)
Tim Clay - Sunshine Groove

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Pure Vibes w/ Tim Clay & Ethics - 20/08/2025

In 2005 I got my first regular gig which was in the bar of Sketch, the restaurant in Soho with the iconic egg-shaped toilets. This was the mix that got me the slot, it reflects that era really well. There’s some DFA, some EBM courtesy NIN, some electronica and early minimal cuts and some nu disco sounding euphoric bits to finish. Recorded on vinyl and a pair of CDJ 100s which were the cheapest CD decks going, they weren’t much fun to use but they did the job. Hope you enjoy the mix.


Ceremony #4 Semtek - Sketch Mix 2005

He sat upon a little hill beside the bridge and looked out upon the river which passed down beneath. It was hard to see the ripples of the water but for the occasional flicker of the headlights which whizzed by up there on the overpass. Some people came out here from time to time to spot the northern lights but there wasn't much moving in the wayward sky this evening. 

There was a near silence in the air, the occasional scream of something wild in the woods in the distance would echo across the snow capped fields. 

He took a deep breath and watched as it filled the air with fog.

Don't Be Afraid has always represented the very best of the underground, a prominent label with a commitment to the out there. Label boss makes a triumphant return with a new EP.

PREMIERE: Semtek - Northern Lights [Don't Be Afraid]

Hit The Dropbox

Bone Thugz x K.P. & Envyi x Ghost Town DJs x The Beat Club

»winter, or a time which represents that season, in a metropole that appears to be moscow. the visitor is taking metro no. 6 at leninsky prospect as he is on his way to the ballroom close to gorky park. the air is icy, the sky is grey. a cat, previously hidden among the dirty snow, is crossing his way. the closer he gets to his destination, the clearer he can hear music, music that reminds him of future days.

the dimly lit room is only sparsely filled. on stage a graceful singer, capturing the room with her presence. captive voices merge with chords played on yet unknown instruments – machine rhythms cycle in 3/4 time. the vigorous peasant dancers, following an instinctive knowledge of the weight of fall, utilize their surplus energy to press all their strength into the proper beat of the measure, thus intensifying their personal enjoyment in dancing. here, in the transhuman ballroom, time stands still and values are being dissolved by numeric progressions. spiritually allied, the visitor, the singer and the peasant dancers short-circuit the present moment while the last falling snow slowly turns into rain.«

with »walzerzyklus«, atom™ returns to raster to complete his series that has once begun with »liedgut« and continued with »winterreise«. the 7 tracks, created in collaboration with russian singer lisokot, are subdivided into 3 pieces of 2 minutes each and 4 pieces of 3 minutes each, intentionally reflecting the 3/4 time of a classic waltz.

throughout the release, lisokot’s delicate vocals are put into different relations to atom™’s rather cool machine music, either complementing or contrasting each other. in the same line, the 3 shorter “leitmotifs” provide the main theme that is taken up repeatedly in the course of the release.

the EP will be released on CD and as special vinyl edition limited to 300 copies.

Walzerzyklus

atom™ & lisokot »transhuman melody« taken from »walzerzyklus«

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http://londonambient.com
Taken from the @loomsounds 'London Ambient' EP (GOB026) out 24th November, 2017
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Gobstopper alumni Loom returns to the label for his third outing since debuting with ‘Grade’ back in 2014. 

Now a founding member of club collective and party, Acid Fantasy — a popular club night he has helped run for the past year alongside Akito and Nervous Horizon duo TSVI and Wallwork — Loom’s palette has continued to expand and evolve, as evidenced by sparkling new record, ‘London Ambient’. 

Where ‘Grade’ and 2016 follow-up ‘European Heartache’ functioned around experimental grime tropes and fractious melody, ‘London Ambient’ unfurls broader, complex landscapes and sounds, inspired by discovering ‘so much new music’ working in London record shops over the last two years. “I’ve been introduced to so much new stuff, music I never would have heard before”, Loom explains, “…and these new influences gave me loads more drive to start making music”. 

Written with a wide-eyed sense of discovery, ‘London Ambient’ flexes between futuristic, sci-fi soundscapes (‘Heavy Glow’), sprawling acid-y club trips (‘Aacccid’) and sub-heavy, rave breaks (‘Saturday Job At Laser Quest’). These myriad sounds, bookended by the lush ‘Heavy Glow’ and dreamy, bubbling soundscape, ‘Forever’, compound Loom’s new-found sense of discovery — a fitting motif for a label that continues to grow and re-mould with every release.

Loom - Aacccid

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2017/10/k-leimer-noise-coiled-sleep/

[via XLR8R] - FTS001

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Download: K. Leimer - Noise Coiled Sleep'

DBA035: RROXYMORE - THOUGHTS OF AN INTROVERT PT. 1
NOVEMBER 2017
BUY: https://rroxymore.bandcamp.com/album/thoughts-of-an-introvert-pt-1

A1 RROXYMORE - PRODROME

J.G. Biberkopf
'Fountain Of Meaning' EP
DN010
Format: vinyl / digital
Release Date: 8 December 2017
Mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M
@jgb-k


Fountain of Meaning is a new sonic fiction from sound artist J.G. Biberkopf following last year’s Ecologies II: Ecosystems of Excess released on Knives. Emerging out of a situation of overflow, the record burrows deeper into his practice of palpable audio theater with a study of object and relations across space-time specific sounds. 

The Fountain as a theme reflects a spouting and spilling of information, an erotic gushing of imagined aural history. “The Fountain was the source of water in the public space in cities,” J.G. Biberkopf explains. “Now it’s pretty much a sexualised architectural gesture of both beautification and the spectacle of dominant ideologies.” 

The western classical musical canon, much like the perpetual coming of the fountain, flush the headphone space with stimuli. Reflex and memory guides the listener through a semiotic architecture of processed recordings of masses in Catholic churches and contemporary performances of pre-medieval music. A liquidity of structure has an anxious influence and is a closed system approach to form and imagination. When water flows, it fills every space, then spills over to claim more. History is equally abundant and alive. We have never had as much history as we have now. We have never been able to see ourselves as we can now. 

A knowledge of a grander architecture of knowing and recalling oppress the ecologies of human decision-making.The nature of the archive has  transformed into a total and panoptic intelligence. A life is a gamble as the inventory of the world overflows into the production of a spectral third, an other, a confrontation. Fountain of Meaning offers a dynamic tension and release. A molecular tragedy, our abject recovery into a collaborative reimagining of a trauma long forgotten. 

What can be gleaned from this overflow?

DN010 - Fountain of Meaning

Fountain Of Meaning

J.G. Biberkopf - Delirium

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