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With two major milestones upon us today, we're fortunate enough to be celebrating with one of the finest in electronic music. A new year is upon us and today we also reach a major podcast milestone, to celebrate we welcome none other than contemporary techno legend, DJ Nobu for MNMT 400.

With decades of experience and as founder of both acclaimed party ‘Future Terror’ and record label ‘Bitta’, DJ Nobu has slowly but surely turned from being one of Japan's finest, to one of the world’s most in demand selectors. A great friend of Monument who delivered an incredible closing set at our first ever Monument City Festival in 2023, we couldn’t be happier to be marking the occasion with him. 

For this very special mix Nobu presents a stunning introspective excursion through electronica and deeper shades to celebrate the two milestones.

Infinite thanks and gratitude to everyone who has made this journey over the last 12 years possible; from all the incredible artists we've been lucky enough to showcase to you, our beloved listeners.

Stay tuned in 2024 🖤

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MNMT 400 : DJ Nobu

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Covered skin
Over ice
Lily-white snow
And sapphire skies

Houses with huge glass domes
Can see the stars at night
Winding roads across oceans
Cars that touch the speed of light

Bridges at the edge of space
To wave to all their friends
And a peacetime boom
That never ends

Poets and prophets
Came and went
Returned to the earth
From where they were sent
Their lies were as worthless
As dwindling stars
Now nobody knows where their graves are

Down south all the deserts
Are covered in forestry
The saplings are free
From the blood-red jackboot
Of history

As they cross the tundra
To work on enormous sleighs
They all laugh to each other
And say it's the only way
To be
[Recording of the band arguing with their landlady and a companion after a set]
Landlady: Thank you lads! Thanks a lot. Cheers. Alright? Thank you
Ian: Well, we seem to have a bit of a problem here. We have a landlady that doesn’t like this music
Landlady: No, I don't
Ian: Well so, there's nothing we can do about it. So, um, that means you should, like, uh, apologize. She’s really embarrassing, but, I'm sorry, but, some people don't have the ability for the insight-
Man: There's no need to be like that, boy-
Ian: Well, I'm not being rude, am I?
Man: I asked them to turn it down, [unintelligible]
Landlady: I'm sorry, lads, thank you...
Man: Stop being like that
Ian: I'm not being like anything, am I? Am I being rude? I'm not, am I? So, it’s fine
Ian: Well, put it this, way, right [unintelligible] We’re gonna do it anyway

Disco Inferno - Footprints In Snow

TEXAS GIRL ASCENSION (WIRE FESTIVAL 2024)

BOMB TECH IS LOVE

Filipino ‘Budots’ pioneer DJ and producer DJ Love (Sherwin Tuna) drops his second single 'Bomb Tech 49’ (31st July) from the upcoming debut album 'Budots World (Reloaded)’.

DJ Love (Sherwin Tuna) explains: “it all just kind of came together through my imagination. You could say this one was born out of pure experimentation, with a major focus on the leads.”

Sherwin Calumpang Tuna, professionally known as DJ Love, is a trailblazing Filipino music producer from Davao City. Globally renowned for cultivating the electronic dance sound ‘Budots’ native to the Filipino archipelago’s region, DJ Love co-founded the Camusboyz budots dance group in 2004 which helped catapult the genre’s exponential movement in the early 2000s. 

Budots originated in the southern part of the Philippines in the 2000s and 2010s. The name ‘Budots’ is derived from a Bisaya slang word meaning “slacker”. Originally burdened with derogatory connotations around juvenile delinquency, it was DJ Love who ‘shifted the definition of Budots from simply bumming around to an art form of expression’ (Mixmag, 2020).

Imbued with a talismanic positivity, DJ Love used Budots and dance as a powerful vehicle to tackle the socio-economic strife native to his beloved Davao City. Both Budots and his dance groups such as Camusboyz and Camusgirls are about empowering his local community with purpose.

In the mid 2010s, Budots exploded in the Philippines. Budots became the bona fide sound of Jeepneys, malls and driveways across the entire Archipelagos. It even reached the point of being used in political campaigns and being danced to by the polarising President Rodrigo Duerte.

Nowadays, in large part due to the digital dissemination of information via social media, Budots’ reputation spreads far beyond the Philippines. Its repetitive yet attention-grabbing nature has made budots ubiquitous on short form video platforms, its sound scoring countless TikTok, Douyins and YouTube videos. DJ Love remains at the centre of this movement: classic tracks of his such as TiwTiw have racked up 50,000 creations on TikTok alone, whilst his set at the now legendary Manila Community Radio Boiler Room of 2023 is the most viewed Boiler Room from the Philippines.

DJ Love (Sherwin Tuna) - Bomb Tech 49 [EM-021B]

This podcast is based on organic, hypnotic and industrial sounds.

BIONIC STRUCTURES

I've tried to capture the feeling of my room, where I've spent unhealthy amount of time throughout the last 2 years. My room is to be taken both literally and symbolically for my head. It took me a lot of iterations and 6 months to finish it. What to convey, in order to remain truthful to the narrative, changed over and over. That's why I read the final product as going nothing/everything nowhere/everywhere all at once. There was some revolt from my ego to accept this understanding, as I was never into sci-fi and I'm very much into consistence/rigidness in a performance of whatever kind. However, my room was not consistent nor rigid in any way.

my room

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