Next up, we are excited to have Tom Durston aka Antepop sharing a beautiful 2 hour mix with us. Apart from being the founder of well renowned Inverted Audio, Tom has also been making a name for himself as an excellent DJ and selector. 

For his far blue concept, Antepop chose to use his brand new, analogue rotary mixer to emulsify his deep and dubby records into a silky smooth blend. 

“This is a quintessential deeper than deep vinyl mix from me featuring tracks from artists that I admire. I'd like to think that this mix would be best enjoyed deep underwater, in The Mariana Trench perhaps, music for deep sea explorations.”

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Here lies an EP of remixes of 'Floating on Silence' by Tour-Maubourg which will be released on Friday, August 29th, on Noire & Blanche. 

Collaborating with five renowned producers, this new version explores new horizons and takes Tour-Maubourg's music even further.  From the techno of I:Cube to the deep house of K-Lone and Hame, through the minimal stylings of Priori and Edmondson, this project explores new horizons and elevates Tour-Maubourg's music.

Artist: @priori-ties
Label: @noireblanche
Buy: https://noire-et-blanche.bandcamp.com/

PREMIERE: Tour-Maubourg - Longing For U (Priori Remix) [Noire & Blanche]

Welcome “Ecco”, the beaming debut release of Plasma X. 
Four songs that are all about evoking feelings and translating them through a journey into space and time; building bridges between intangible materials and urban fields. You’ll find music that offers a way to contemplate landscapes with a sensation of retro-futuristic memories, playing with stereotypes of transcendental atmospheres and the space opera genre. The sounds, being both striking and ethereal, offer a danceable, albeit meditative listening experience.

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Plasma X - Ecco [MIR28]

Artist: @soelaela
Stream/Buy: www.linktr.ee/scissorandthread

Soela is the DJ and production alias of Elina Shorokhova, a Russia-born Berlin-based experienced pianist and vocalist who has made a hugely impactful transition into electronic music.

Having released material on such labels as Kompakt, Dial, Shall Not Fade, Lost Palms, E-Beamz, Red Ember Records, Sushitech, and others, Soela joins the ranks of Scissor & Thread for this exquisite album - Dark Portrait. 

The album opens in a typically understated manner with Unsuitable - a melancholic trip-hop adjacent track that sets the tone for the next 8 pieces. As Soela explains, “I was dealing with some very complex feelings, so I came up with this album, which helped me not to despair, to work on myself, to grow internally, and to start listening to myself. It helped me to keep sane when my country invaded Ukraine with a full scale war. It absolutely broke my heart, and music was one of my main salvations.” 

This complex mix of emotions plays out across the album with tracks that utilize her beautiful musicality (Through the Windows feat. Francis Harris and Philipp Priebe, Drowning feat. Module One) and ear for details with skittering beats, ambient soundscapes (Spirits, Lost In The Fog) and lose-yourself dancefloor moments such as the collaboration with Lawrence on February Is Not Going To Be Forever. The title track Dark Portrait combines dubby elements with affecting pads and melodic touches, while the lead single Even If I Ask You Stay delves into multiple feelings around escaping toxic situations, and battling depression. It features a powerful vocal from Soela supported by a deeply affecting arrangement. The closing track The Darkest Hour Before Sunrise brings a sense of hope and light, balancing subdued keys and strings with ethereal tones and atmospheres

Dark Portrait

Soela - Through The Windows (feat. Francis Harris, Philipp Priebe)

Scottish innovator @auntie-flo offers a first taste of his incoming record with the Afro-disco dazzler, ‘Green City’

The new album –  ‘In My Dreams I’m a Bird and I’m Free’ – is set for release mid November via A State of Flo Records

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-auntie-flo-green-city

Premiere: Auntie Flo ‘Green City (Extended Version)’

Hell Yeah series File Under Balearic Gabba continues its mission to bring some vital, previously digital-only Balearic Gabba weaponry to vinyl for the first time. This second volume has again artwork by Planet Luke and features Wallace next to new school stars SIRS and Pedro Bertho.

Tartan Records label head and British talent Wallace opens up with a remix of Sewell And The Gong's 'Better Words' that has been a real summer hit for label head Marco Gallerani.
The original came on Jason Boardman's fine Before I Die label and is one of those jams that transcends genre and wins over techno heads, Adriatic beach groovers and festival main stages alike. It is "proper Balearic Gabba" says Marco with its tropical percussion, humid pads and watery droplets all adding lush atmosphere to the dubby drums. The chords and reedy leads are beautifully delicate but get floors in a blissed-out, loved-up trance.

SIRS is an artist on fire right now and already impressed on this label with his remix of Aura Safari which is one of the year's standout Balearic house jams. He has a new single on the way for Hell Yeah but first flips label mate My Friend Dario's 'Tellaro' into a wobbly, psyched-out dub disco and breakbeat chugger. The zippy synths and shimmering keys are underpinned with a taught bassline and playful vocals that bring great fun and irresistible party vibes to any set.

Hell Yeah mainstay Verdo then has his 'Boulevardier' remixed by Pedro Bertho, a rising talent from Brazil with a steamy South American style. This one is a modern beach classic that unites both young and old heads with its frayed analogue drums and snappy percussion joining the dots between 80s Chicago house, new age and Balearic with its big piano chords and phased bass all getting hands the air.

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My Friend Dario - Tellaro (SIRS  Remix)

The Vendetta Suite is back to light up the early part of 2025 with a brilliant brace of singles on Hell Yeah. Kicking things off is a glorious acid house/disco thriller backed by a soothing out of body escape.

We’ve often referred to The Vendetta Suite as Belfast’s best kept secret, but with the quality music he keeps releasing he is rightly picking up ever more of a profile. The Hell Yeah regular has long been a key part of his native Northern Irish scene thanks to the way he mixes genres; ambient, post-rave Balearic, dub and acid house all in the mix with his own unique psychedelic magic.

First up is ‘The Jam Answer’, which taps into plenty of classic sounds but reinvents them for modern dancefloors. Bendy acid lines weave in between the dusty analogue drums, familiar acid house vocal samples and fizzing chord stabs bring the heat before a cosmic synth lead sings out with sunny soul.  ‘Island Hill Microdot’ channels dreamy Chicago house, the futuristic styles of IDM with the blissed out warmth of Balearic. Carried along with gentle percussion, it’s an immersive soundscape that makes for the perfect tropical distraction.

Two very different but equally effective cuts from The Vendetta Suite.

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The Vendetta Suite - Island Hill Microdot

Max Blücher’s new EP „Reverie” is a compilation of previously released tracks, completed by one new song „Reverie”.

„This EP captures all the emotions I feel when making music. Dreamy, hopeful and full of energy.”, says Max.

With „Reverie", Max dives deep into the interplay of jazzy sounds and melodic house elements. An energetic and driving soundscape that reflects his love for the genre. For all the moments between sunset and new beginnings.

„Reverie“ is out now.

Follow Max Blücher: 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maxbluchermusic/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Maxbluchermusic/ 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/0nxOrHT7I34DcoeeEshGge?si=WOLZC5IPQy-UxfVGc904Qw
Website: https://www.maxbluchermusic.com/
SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/VvZYscboWAJEsCzZA

Follow PNEUMA:  
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pneuma_ofc  Instagram: www.instagram.com/pneuma.ofc/ 
SoundCloud: @pneuma_ofc

Reverie

Max Blücher - Reverie (Original Mix)

Play & Go

Play (Original Mix)

Alex Kentucky - Play (Original Mix) [Out 4th Aug 2025]

Dreaming in Circles

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Hidden Spheres is the alter ego of Manchester’s Tom Harris, who first made his mark on the underground circuit with his release 'The Bloos' on Moods & Grooves, before following it up with the much in demand ‘Waiting’ on Lobster Theremin offshoot Distant Hawaii.  

Here, Tom joins the Scissor & Thread family, the Brooklyn label founded by Francis Harris, and home to music that traverses a number of boundaries. Hidden Spheres fits right in - the five track 1985 EP blends house, broken beat, ambient, jazz and other elements into a heady brew. 

'King Tut' starts proceedings, a laid back jazzy groove, rich in textures and soulful flourishes.  

'My Names' touches on the UK broken beat legacy of 4 Hero and Bugz in the Attic - an off kilter groove layered with sweet jazz and house inflected licks.  

'Karl' is a much more direct dancefloor track, albeit with the deepness that we expect from Hidden Spheres.The penultimate track '1985' steps into the unconventional house vibes of Detroit's third wave.

'Soon We’ll' finishes up the EP - a supremely jazzy piece built around the sax, piano and washes of strings and ambient elements - a superb closer for a deep and heartfelt release.

1985

Hidden Spheres - 1985

“The world is blue at its edges and in its depths... For many years I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon... Blue is the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in, for the blue world.” 

- Rebecca Solnit from ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’
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