Drift 28 is perhaps the furthest we've had from club sounds so far and comes from Swiss experimental producer Simon Grab. The co-founder of ganzerplatz sound studios has been an active musician in a wide range of contexts, with a strong punk attitude, always drawing from his roots in dub and noise. As a composer and sound artist, he produces music & sound design for feature films, documentaries, theatre and radio. In live performances and installations Simon Grab uses the venue as an acoustic playground which leads to a truly organic and inimatble approach to his music which caught me compltely off-guard the first time I heard it. 

In his recent work, he focuses on reduction, and the peculiarity of self-referential systems. The album 'Anthropocene Panic' (sound-space Records London 2020) follows his recent LP 'Posthuman Species' and the EP 'Extinction' on -OUS records based in Zurich. His 'Diamonds EP' in collaboration with Togolese rapper Yao Bobby and Asian Dub Foundation’s Dhangsha released on Bristol’s LavaLava Records, and has been chosen as one of the Albums of the year 2019 by the online magazine The Quietus. It is truly a brilliant EP and turned my idea of what music can be completely on its head - if you are into unusual or different sounding music then I urge you to go and listen to it!

For his mix, Simon brings some of his own productions which explore rhythmic and pulsating noise before showcasing some of his favourite tracks from genres including noise, ambient and more. The mix twists and turns through deep and experimental soundscapes with whirling bleeps and crackles stamped throughout. Industrial frequencies jump and jitter for the entire hour - this is not mere background music, rather something to be actively listened to and enjoyed.

Links:
Simon Grab Soundcloud ---> https://soundcloud.com/simongrab
Simon Grab Bandcamp ---> https://simongrab.bandcamp.com/
Simon Grab / Yao Bobby ---> https://yaobobby.simongrab.com/
Simon Grab on Melodic Distraction ---> https://melodicdistraction.com/mdr-selects-simon-grab1

---The DRIFT mix series---

Monthly series aiming to provide a chance for DJs to craft a mix which twists and turns through genres not usually heard in a typical club setting. It has the goal of providing a break from fast-paced and hard-hitting tracks and allowing creativity and experimentation in both track selection and mixing. It features mixes from guest DJs from around Edinburgh and beyond.

DRIFT 028: Simon Grab

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Music for the mind.
Edinburgh-based label curating the finest in home-listening, downtempo and chilled-out electronica.

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DRIFT is a music collective aiming to provide a chance for DJs to craft music and mixes which twist and turn through genres not usually heard in a typical club setting. Providing a break from fast-paced and hard-hitting tracks and allowing creativity and experimentation in both track selection and mixing.
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André De Oliveira AKA Bandhu / Lexand (@lexand-music) is a bolivian artist and Bandhu is his downtempo and eclectic alterego, producing from electronic, trip hop to d&b and combining electronic elements with organic and analog sounds.

He was one of the heads behind Mutando (@mutando) and has worked with projects like La Perseguidora (@la-perseguidora-593964571), 555 (@555-music); artists as Paul Jove (@pauljove), RaBeat (@rabeatmusic), Jorge Zamora (@zamora-hot-city), Marcelo Guerrero (@marceloguerrero) and remixed music from artists like Mayra Gonzales (@mayragonzales) releasing his works on his label @randomwhatever and @san-pedro-music.

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DJ Isuru is a London based DJ specialising in Bashment, Breakbeat and Acid House. Having studied an MA in Buddhist Studies at SOAS University Isuru presents the weekly SOAS Wednesday Sessions and Bhangra shows. He also makes radio documentaries on Bhangra and Asian Underground. Believing that the Sleng Teng Riddim created a paradigm shift in modern Music and that the 90s were an amazing era, DJ Isuru seeks to unite the room playing those pop hits which actually have artistic merit. His style can be described as alchemical and breaking apart song structure and finding the hidden links between genres,

You can check out DJ Isuru's mixes and radio shows at his website www.djisuru.com and his mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/DJIsuruPerera

ojoo is a brussels-based, moroccan-born musician, selector, noisehead, and dub fiend whose sets slide from scorched-earth steppers to brittle dancehall, industrial reggaeton, jagged grime, and mighty physical bass weight. they’re part of psst, an intersectional feminist collective, and co-builder of pssound system, a fully DIY sound system built by and for marginalised genders. not a flex, but an act of resistance. plywood, low-end, community.
raised on bootleg CD culture and shaped by constraint, ojoo found their voice in the pressure zones between dubplate and distortion. no clean lines, no polite transitions. just raw blends, concrete rhythms, sirens, and silence.
they’ve played unsound, out.fest, dekmantel, but you’re just as likely to hear them rinsing bass weight at warehouse squat parties or partaking dub EQ workshops off the grid. regular radio on kiosk (brussels) and noods (bristol) lets them build out their world besides the dancefloor. 
they also curate nights, bringing their vision to venues and festivals; their latest shows in 2025 were at Botanique and Listen Festival, inviting artists to their hometown including Dali de Saint Paul, Grove, DJ Marcelle, Shackleton, Demdike Stare, and more.
ojoo doesn’t play music to pay homage, they live it, twist it, and push it to rupture. every set is a terrain of pressure: political, sonic, personal.