London's @lorainejames is as experimental as electronic artists get. She doesn't just make hard to categorise music, she makes music for which there are often no words. Depending on your mood, her sounds can suit either full-on dance floor workouts or reflective home listens. That has been the case across two standout albums on Hyperdub, both of which explore vulnerability and identity across tracks that fizz with ideas and energy.  The most recent, Reflection back in June, came with snippets of interior monologue. They lay bare James's most intimate feelings while the beats around her continue to act as something of a safety blanket. 

This week's rule-breaking mix features a number of Loraine's tunes including the unnamed and exclusive opener, plus a flurry of beats from peers like FaltyDL, object blue, Squarepusher and Djrum. They make for a full body workout that twitches your every synapse one minute then sink you into a deeply seductive club sound the next. The transitions from hyper-polished and futuristic rhythms to live jazz drums, or icy dub to glitchy IDM, would seem impossible on paper, but in practice, they are executed perfectly.

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 342 - Loraine James

Juanita's mix 050 with umfang @umfang

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. Passionate & particular about the things I am allowed to control & def a porcupine. 

Q. How long have you been a part of the NYC music scene?
A. 2010 is when I met my idols (Venus X, Shannon Funchess, and Lauren Flax) and DJ'd at Home Sweet Home.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. My love for 90s techno records feels inescapable and ever expanding. I got a number of new records over the last year from a 90s collection sold at Brooklyn Record Exchange so this has some of those and some that have been in my collection for many years. I initially got in to these loopy fast techno records because they were so unpopular and cheap and it has been interesting to see them become so popular again and a rise of people caring about the history and who made them. I'm sure many of the artists think it's silly that I have attached myself to their pasts. Shout out to Tracy and Ren who are maybe the only two people that get me in this regard. Shout out to Akilah Bryant who made very few but such incredible techno records, one of which is in here. There is a GoFundMe for her and DJ Skull's recent house fire here https://www.gofundme.com/f/bryantmaney-family-home-fire if anyone has means to support.

Juanita's Mix 050: umfang

DJ Fart In The Club w/ Akimat 270522

https://www.nts.live/shows/a-long-strange-dream-w-batu/episodes/a-long-strange-dream-w-batu-23rd-august-2022

A Long Strange Dream w/ Batu - 230822

Amsterdam's @zohar01 operates from the shadows. Though she has a reputation for mysteriousness, there is no escaping the earth-rattling rhythms she lays down in the DJ booth. Leftfield electronics, distorted vocals and industrial sounds with 90s roots all feature in her sets as well as productions on the likes of Clone and her own DIY Zohar label. This month she dropped the second entry in her highly personal ZHR series in the form of her Object album, a mix of sound experiments, glitchy textures and abstract rhythms. 

This week's mix is full of similar sonic sorcery and musical black magic. Squealing electronics and fizzing textures evoke feelings of dystopia as crunching drums come and go but the tension is never let up. There are moments of eye-watering density but, just as often, empty spaces leave you hanging before the next thrilling rhythm arrives and takes you somewhere new. Brain and body music rarely collide in such a unique fashion.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 404 - Zohar

Recording of BSS & Zohar's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2022.

Dekmantel Selectors 2022

BSS & Zohar at Dekmantel Selectors 2022

Name: Pablo Diserens
Alias: Ōtone (@otonenoto)
Pronouns: they/she
Location: Berlin, Germany

Influences: sounds from the real, biophonies, geophonies, metallophonies, minerals, frogs, the sea and its dwellers, encountered drones, hums and clangs, and my community of earthlings. When it comes to club music: angels Catartsis and Sister Zo, Regis, CCL and their subglow summoning (Ohm, September 2022).

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: ygam @ygam (ygam.bandcamp.com)

Favorite Quote: “Deep Listening is the foundation for a radically transformed social matrix in which compassion and love are the core motivating principles guiding creative decision making and our actions in the world”- Pauline Oliveros

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: Stay true to yourself and try to forgo the weight of what people may think of you and your work. Create what you want to. Try new things. Listen attentively, you will make incredible (sonic) encounters. Try to focus on presence and connections rather than productivity. Don't hesitate to reach out to your community. The goal is to blossom. 

With this mix Ōtone asks to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ Friends of the Earth (www.foei.org) and their aim at challenging the current model of economic and corporate globalization, while promoting solutions that help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.
❁ Schwulenberatung Berlin (www.schwulenberatungberlin.de/about-us), a Berlin-based counselling center that offers help to gay and bisexual people, trans and inter people, people living with HIV/Aids and their relatives or partners.

Tracklist - https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHbQuTuDeG/

Daisychain

Daisychain 256 - Ōtone

https://soundcloud.com/dstrange-estmort
D. Strange is a techno archivist and textural obsessive based in Chicago, IL. With music released on Tram Planet, Tresor and his own imprint LO·TEK·NO COMM. he continues to explore the loose but ultimately magnetic thread between club music and left-field electronics.

RND 070 - D. Strange

Missed Connections is a Montreal based mix series, radio show and party that wishes to connect you with ~the one that got away

http://www.instagram.com/ziryy_

Missed Connections with zi! @ The Lot Radio 01 - 06 - 2022

Authentically Plastic embraces the sludgier side of life on Crack Mix 491, which features an hour of wall-to-wall thrills that share the same energy-driven source code as the artist's own releases.

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Crack Mix 491: Authentically Plastic

The second broadcast of Machine Age Paradise on NTS Radio.

Friday
7PM-8PM PST
Monthly

MUTISM - BASIC CHANNEL
AUX 88 - WELCOME (INTRO 1)
SPK - GENETIC TRANSMISSION
Ü - GREAT DOES OF MONOTONOUS TECHNO
JOHN WATERMANN - WATCHING A STRANGER WAX QUIETLY
JOHN WATERMANN - INDUSTRIAL DELIGHT
REZZETT - ZOOTIE
LAIBACH - BOJI
JOHN WATERMANN - YEARNING FOR THE MINDBENDERS
MARCO BERNARDI - ERROR MESSAGE 1
KLANKMAN - THERE'S A PLACE FOR EVERYONE
MANARE - AUTOMAT
JAPAN BLUES - BEAK
TZUSING - O.D.D.
THE HORRORIST - PROGRAMMED (SILENT SERVANT REMIX)
SANTIAGO - DUMB CONE
MINUS THE COD - POSITIVE NUISANCE
I - F VERSUS THAT N****    - SUPERCHARGED
ST. JULIEN - INSTITUTE
DREAMS - NOT PHAZED
J. TJIN - TRINITY
AISHA DEVI - THROAT DUB (TOOL)

Machine Age Paradise 7.14.2017 (NTS)

Founder @dancedatarecords & @private-selection

✻ Paraxotica / Vessel EP @dancedatarecords
✻ Machine Age Paradise LP @bankrecordsnyc
✻ Beacon of Power EP @pinkmanrecords
✻ Vision Zero EP @subsubtropics
✻ Not Phazed EP @apronrecords
✻ Off The Grid EP @nous-disques
✻ Twisted Karma EP @private-selection  


*not up to date anymore*
2/29/20 - CDMX, cntct
2/8/20 -Buenos Aires, Family Affair
2/1/20 - Sao Paulo, Mamba Negra
1/25/20 - Sao Paulo, ODD
12/15/19 -Body Factory w/ Ron Morelli & Pod Blotz
10/19/19 -LA, w/ Pasiphae & Lower Tar
10/5/19 -LA, w/ Yves Tumor (DJ)
8/23/19 - LA, w/ Lee Gamble
7/5/19 - LA, w/ Florian Kupfer & Bianca Lexis
5/31/19 - LA, w/ Interstellar Funk
5/25/19 - LA, w/ VTSS
2/22/19  - CDMX, Mexico at EXT w/ Objekt
2/15/19 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
2/9/19 - Santiago, Chile
2/2/19 - Sao Paulo, Brazil @ ODD
12-15-18, Body Factory, w/ Ron Morelli, MGUN
11-10-18, LA, w/ Myn
9-29-18, LA, w/ Rezzett
7-14-18, LA, w/ Florian Kupfer
5-5-18, LA,  w/ Lee Gamble & Sebeyu
2-17-18, LA, w/ Buttechno & Myn
1-27-18, LA, w/ Anastasia Kristensen
10-27-17, LA,  w/ Brkn English Club, Silent Servant
8-12-17, LDN, w/ Funkineven, Molinaro, Covco
7-28-17, Prague, @ Cross Club 
4-29-17, LA, w/ Tzusing
3-11-17, LA, w/  & Anastasia Kristensen
12-9-16, LA, w/  NGLY 
6-11-16, LA, w/  Patricia 
5-20-16, LA, w/ Funkineven
3-18-16, LA  w/ Kyle Hall, Jay Daniel & Arkitect
2-26-16,  LA w/ Madteo
✘

Machine Age Paradise 7.14.2017 (NTS)

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