Introducing The Early Bird Show - our radio offering for morning people, hosted by Maria Somerville (Mondays and Tuesdays), Spirit Blue (Wednesdays and Thursdays) and Jack Rollo (Fridays). Weekday mornings, 7-9am. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird/episodes/early-bird-daniel-avery-23rd-may-2024

The Early Bird Show w/ DANIEL AVERY 230524

Recorded live at 宀 in Hong Kong on November 2nd 2024

After we've carefully set up a few traps, and after Vladimir's extended set for Strange Weather back in October, we can surely say mission accomplished and entanglement's achieved

We like to think that calling him uncompromising triggered the sweetest response: a deffiant cruise barely over 80bpm, only (if ever) reaching a 100 two hours in. But we're only trying to get some credit for these five hours of dignified dancefloor shatter

Because make no mistake, it's been an undoubtedly clubbing experience, with music so excessively fictional but without ever resorting to mime, as like in a dancer's body, with decisions in progress on full display (you know that exact moment, usually before a sequence or combination of movements, that one fraction of a second that happens in a dancer's body - a moment of tension, an unintended delay between the decision to execute a move and the actual execution ; it's not really rethinking or being indecisive - it's another instance in the dancer's body, inseparable from them but remembering things differently, it's an instinct, like right before you wake up, that rarely privileged moment, with only outlines of consciousness available ; a dream is still in progress, but there's potential to intervene as a director)

Live At 宀

MIX070 - Vladimir Ivkovic (貝爾格萊德）[Live for Strange Weather]

Moods went on a little summer break. We hope you missed us, because we missed you.  Season eight continues with house music selector and organizer behind the mix series Otherly Love, Tovar. Tovar, known most for his soulful, thumping, Latin house sets across Los Angeles with crews from Acid Camp to Anemone, pivoted to his parents’ burned CDs, KLVE 107.5 FM, and Grand Theft Auto to anchor his Moods Mix.  From Argentina’s best selling band to the American pioneers of new wave to the video games that sonically defined the early aughts, take a listen.

For the interview, tracklist, and more, head to our Substack: https://moods.substack.com/p/moods-83-tovar

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Moods 83: Tovar

The first-ever live recording from an elusive icon of dubby electronic music.

Lore is an underrated quality. Neuroscientists have mapped that music elicits similar feelings in the brain to when we satiate cravings, but what about the psychological impulse that drives listeners of a certain disposition toward everything they don't know?

It's tricky to put your finger on, but artists able to conjure intrigue without overhawking the backstory can really cut through—just ask SAULT, [ar:pi:ar] or Gerald Donald. Then there are those who don't try whatsoever. These are the ones who stay in mind the most.

In 2001, a striking 12" called Ship-Scope emerged through Chain Reaction, credited to Shinichi Atobe, with no other info available. Okay, mulled fans, this is probably a cat-and-mouse game dreamed up by someone on a label with a fine line in foggy obfuscation. Vainqueur on a wind-up? Another Moritz 'n Mark alias?

But no: Atobe was real, and really had posted a demo to Hard Wax. It was that simple. Then he went back to his day job—until, after 13 years of silence, an even better follow-up emerged.

From the near-perfect Butterfly Effect onwards, Atobe has built up one of the most revered catalogues in underground circles. A steady clip of elegant, transportive dub techno and deep electronics has arrived on Demdike Stare's DDS, complimented by the launch of his own label, plastic & sounds, earlier in summer 2025.

Atobe has also made strides into the public domain, DJing intermittently, as well as performing live for the first time in 2023, gracing WWW at the tender age of 52. It's that debut 2023 show heard on RA.1009: a hypnotic yet comparatively pumping set full of Atobe staples, as well as material you won't find anywhere else.

Contact with the big man, as you might anticipate, is glacial: since we first reached out, the RA Mix has changed name, look and rolled over into its second millennium. Still, patience pays off. This is a one-off we're stoked to run. – Gabriel Szatan

@shinichiatobe

Find the interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1028

RA.1009 Shinichi Atobe

Our next mix comes from Montreal’s enigmatic DJ Frog. Dusty loops and crushed grooves are the highlight of this Doo Records mainstay. Her selections and productions flutter between the minimalist zones of house and dubby techno. It takes in a whole host of unreleased material from Cheeks, Hashman DJ and sometime studio collaborator SnP 500 and stays resolutely buried in swampy sonics and swirling dub undercurrents. Subtlety is key to how moods are built up, then fade away. There are no big moments, just a slow teasing of tension that grows ever more irresistible.

Dekmantel Mix 498 - DJ Frog

@vladimir Ivkovic serves up a mix dust-covered industrial techno, acid-dipped synth workouts, warped rhythms and more in his contribution to the Recognise series, and speaks to Michael McKinney about his devotion to vinyl, his slow and psychedelic mixing techniques, Salon des Amateurs, and a formative summer playing music in his hometown of Belgrade

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-095-vladimir-ivkovic

Interview

Recognise 095: Vladimir Ivkovic

My favourite music of 2025 and music to come in 2026 in a spontaneous mix.

Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt	- Advance
Asa Tone - Two Winds	
Slikback - Snow	
Opsin - craig	
fka boursin - Listless Intertext 
Ina Kacz - Whispers	
J. Albert - envio_3
Rali Pibs - Au Co (Club Mix)
bw - Nights Through Dreams	
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2411408
Benedikt Frey - Rhythm for the Algorhytmned
Oceanic - …
Akusmi - Yurikamome
Erik Luebs - Pretending	
2501 - Alley	
Faulter - Obstinacy
Tom Boogizm - 2 MCR	
LORY D - kllyMI
taschendrachen - Dialogue
gyrofield - Vegetation Grows Thick
Barker - Stochastic Drift	
girl scout cookies - old grey whistle test	
Pancratio - Mapa 
KAKUHAN & Adam Golebiewski - XIII 
Tibi Dabo - Sol O
Impérieux - Fo Pio	
Oceanic - …
Oceanic - …
Croline Shaw & Sō Percussion - And So	
Al Wootton - Essene	
Cousin - No King
Cosime - Wishlist 
Naturalisten - Canopy Dreams	
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Daze
Marc Melia - Volatiles
Kieran Hebden + William Tyler - Spider Ballad	
Davis Galvin - Antic Swoops	
Bruce - Dham's Jam
Sarathy Korwar - Amongst All Of The Rubble
James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel - Incredible Bliss	
Belle - 04:30 voor de vogels

Oceanic -  for calmer waters, and clearer reflections in 2026

RA.419 Traxman

@spiritmirrormix 1-4-1 b-2-b @s-o-n-s live from The Institute of Advanced Thinking

Gabriola b2b S.O.N.S ~ Midnight Vapour Trail Ep.34

Esta sexta entrega de nuestro Beyond the Wall la firma una persona muy especial dentro del colectivo, podemos decir que fue él quien encendió la llama de este proyecto cuando no era más que una loca idea en la cabeza de un empedernido amante de la música. Y es que pocas personas le ponen tanto alma a la movida como nuestro camarada Álvaro, sus palabras lo dejan claro:

“No ha sido fácil grabar este set porque todo el tiempo tenía muchas ideas distintas en la cabeza…al final he pensado hacer un viaje por la interestatal 94 que une Chicago con Detroit poniendo discos de ambas ciudades con algunas pinceladas a New York y a Londres”


Y si hay un tema especial aunque para mi todos son especiales pero el Detroit Experiment - Think Twice (Henrik Schwarz Remix) sería el elegido.Ese saxo y ese pianito siempre me han tocado la patata (risas)

autor | El villano de los 1001 akas: @interstatenuevecuatro
track destacado | Think Twice (Henrik Schwarz Remix) [min 24]

Beyond the Wall #006 Interstate 94

As heard on NTS Radio, Powder live from Love International 2018. 

Love International returns in 2020 from July 15th - 21st, tickets available now at: www.loveinternationalfestival.com/

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Beyond the Wall #006 Interstate 94

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