Name: Live at Dream Archive w/ Fragments In Wax by fantasyinorbit
Duration: 57 min 39 s
Description: Recorded live at the Dream Archive on 4th October 2025. Thanks @fragmentsinwax

LUBRIKATE YOUR LIVING ROOM
Episode 2 - 'Remember Yesterday' by Ilan (Night City Life)

WORDS FROM ILAN
"Didn't Time Sound Sweet Yesterday" - Scott Walker

WORDS FROM CASPER
'Remember Yesterday' is a pensive, at times almost elegiac selection of home-listening beauties which have been carefully put together and mixed (with vinyl only) by a dab-hand selector who I've had the pleasure to know for quite some time. Ilan has become known more recently for his synth-driven 'Night City Life' compilations of forgotten and obscure gems, distributed via the Spacetalk label, but we first met on or around the dancefloor of his erstwhile Hypnotic Tango events in various London basements, which he ran alongside my close friend Olly Fas. He's quietly developed a reputation over the years as somebody that goes the extra mile to source weird and wonderful music of a generally upbeat nature, which is befitting of the weird and wonderful chap with a generally upbeat nature that Ilan undoubtedly is.

As with all of the forthcoming mixes in this series, please give it a chance and listen without prejudice. There's no tracklist this time around.

💦LYLR 2💦 Remember Yesterday by Ilan (Night City Life)

This mix pulls together a wide range of material from Japan’s underground between the 1980s and 1990s and focuses on lesser-known and largely forgotten corners of its music scenes across two decades. Pulled from cassettes, privately pressed LPs, demos and worn flexi-discs, the mix moves mostly through DIY avant-garde music and things that don’t really fit anywhere at all. 
 
It’s the sound‑scape of neon‑lit backstreets, late‑night imagination and hidden creativity. A celebration of Japan’s unsung pioneers who never rose to fame yet left indelible imprints in tape loops and DIY pressings. The title refers to that space just out of view, beyond what was documented or preserved, music made outside the spotlight but still full of intention and invention.
 
You’ll hear work from artists like Silent Pulse, Be-2, Normal Brain, K. Yoshimatu, Ayuo Takahashi, and Chance Operation, alongside anonymous or pseudonymous projects like The Husband, Speaking Furniture, and Flare. Some pieces are meditative and sparse, others more chaotic and intense, but all sit just outside of easy categorisation. 
 
The black-and-white cutout of the artists in the artwork captures Peters - also known as The Peaters - a duo formed in Osaka in 1985 by Peter Hayashi and Chaka Kajiyama. Their off-kilter synth pop mirrored the British wave of the era, but filtered through a warped lens all of their own.
 
There’s no attempt at chronology in this mix, more of a drift through mood and texture. Tracks fold into each other, fragments blur, and the medium itself (tape hiss, distortion, decay) becomes part of the atmosphere.

Tracklist can be found on the NTS archive.

NTS 'Doing Time' - Below The Neon: Japan's Underground 80's-90's

Low, slow and sleazy sounds with babyschön, in the studio for the early afternoon shift...  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-babyschon/episodes/soup-to-nuts-babyschon-11th-september-2025

Soup To Nuts w/ babyschön 040925

Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-15th-september-2025

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gómez 150925

Recorded live at the Dream Archive on 4th October 2025. Thanks @fragmentsinwax

Live at Dream Archive w/ Fragments In Wax

Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-6th-october-2025

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gómez 061025

TP545 Orpheu (Love International Sunrise Sessions)

In the words of Scott Zacharias, who closed the Outer Space Room at No Way Back, May 25, 2025, Day 2 of Return to the Source at Tangent, Detroit:

“NWB, being more than just the sum of its parts, always reflects my current life state(or lack of) and this year was no different. My friend Zach reminded me of this ultra-special cut by Arthur Russell: “In the Light of the Miracle.” It’s one of those holy grails and this mix (by Danny Krivit & Tony Smith) only existed as unreleased Talking’ Loud promo until a Soul Jazz comp finally issued it properly in 2005. I used to run it occasionally some 20 years ago, but hearing it again left me shook and set the stage for my entire set. And the rest of my life. My partner Ellen and I learned we were pregnant that same weekend.

Completely overwhelmed, I felt like I just wanted to share music for folks like I do in my own living room. Not really as a mix, but an intimate family affair. In the wee hours of the morning when I finally decided to share Russell’s opus, Ellen joined me on stage. We embraced and cried as we saw all our friends dancing in a now sunlit room. 

“I love you and that's all, living in the light.” — Arthur Russell”


IT.podcast.s14e07: Scott Zacharias at No Way Back 2025

Next up with magic mix number ninety is Vizir - @databxse

Based out of Brest, France where he hosts a radio show on Fréquence Mutine. Here he graces us with a 2-hour vinyl mix featuring some of his favorite records of the moment.

The set is a journey across genres and continents, blending reggae, bossa, synth-pop, and more. It weaves through Brazil, New Zealand, Martinique, Jamaica, Nigeria, Germany, Belgium, the US… and of course France. Enjoy :)

To check out his archived radio shows -

https://www.mixcloud.com/databxse/

M a g i c a s t - 0 9 0  🎇- Vizir

Bill Spencer shares weekend recordings from his living room studio in Detroit, Michigan, from where he brings a range of soulful jazz rock, and ambient sounds, spanning to electronica and psychedelic dub.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/bill-spencer/episodes/bill-spencer-12th-october-2025

A Month of Sundays w/ Bill Spencer 121025

The WEENS

Fantasy In Orbit 

Dates:

2025 
19th Dec - Dream Archive, Rio de Janeiro - TBC
4th October - Dream Archive, London
14th Sept - NTS 'Doing Time' Guest Mix
13th Sept - Brilliant Corners
8th August - Three Wheel Drive Festival, Andover
16th May - Neil Radio w/ 3WD, London
2nd May - Dizonord In-Store, Paris
25th Jan - Brilliant Corners 

2024
30th Nov - Brilliant Corners, London 
29th June - Mystery Dance, Spanners, London
23rd June - Doing Time, NTS Radio
22nd May - Kurage, Tokyo, Japan
19th May - Illas Club, Tokyo, Japan 
9th May - Bar Room, Tokyo, Japan

2023
8th Oct - Lick The Lid, Cafe 1001, London
23rd Sept - Domply Birthday Party, Rio de Janeiro 
16th Sept - Private Party, Rio de Janeiro 
7th Sept - A Night With Gui Boratto, Rio de Janeiro 
1st Sept - Private Party, Rio de Janeiro
30th June - Brilliant Corners
14th May - Lote, São Paulo
6th May - Bruma Festival, Rio de Janeiro 
2nd April - NTS Radio 'Doing Time'
18th Feb - Brilliant Corners (Brazil Special)

2022
5th Nov - Mystery Dance (Rio de Janeiro) w/ Carrot Green
1st Oct - Brilliant Corners 
9th July - Seed Library
2nd July - Brilliant Corners
5th March - Brilliant Corners 
6th February - NTS Doing Time guest mix

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