Object OD

In November 2022, I visited the @Rijksmuseum three times. I went searching for landscapes and seascapes, sculptures, painting and etchings, real from memory or imagined, of a place in time. I picked ten and I wrote something about each one and then a song to accompany it. 

The songs that feature:
1. Soft Meadow - Green House
2. The Endless Sea - Iggy Pop
3. Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960 - Brian Eno
4. The Beachland Ballroom - IDLES
5. View from My Window - Hiroshi Yoshimura
6. The Garden - Einstürzende Neubaten
7. The Ship Song - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
8. A Brand New City - Cosmo Vitelli, Fantastic Twins
9. Inheritance - Lord of the Isles, Ellen Renton
10. At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four
11. Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer(de) - Patti Smith

Pylons on the Polders

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (16.08.2023)

Artist: @fergus_cw

Object OD w/ Fergus @ Radio TNP 16.08.2024

Seite A

Seite B

Broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (11.10.2024)

Artist: @fergus_cw

Object OD w/ Fergus @ Radio TNP 11.10.2024

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (07.12.2024)

Artist: @fergus_cw

Object OD w/ Fergus @ Radio TNP 07.12.2024

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (22.02.2025)

Artist: @fergus_cw

Object OD w/ Fergus @ Radio TNP 22.02.2025

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (30.05.2025)

Artist: @fergus_cw @radio-sofa @tweaksoundsystem

Object OD: Kantarion, Radio Sofa & Tweak Soundsystem Exchange @ Radio TNP 30.05.2025

These 'Super Duty Tough Work' selections were put together for an abandoned radio show I was doing for an unworthy platform that shall remain unnamed. They don't deserve, nor can they handle the sonics within.

Brian Not Brian Presents: Super Duty Tough Work No.1

Japanese drummer and producer Takafumi Okada has had his hands in several projects over the last 12 years or so, and, like with his music, patterns emerge: his discography is full of DIY sounds, an unconventional attitude to production, and an ability to create tension and mystery with layered polyrhythmic grooves.

Takafumi is well known as the former drummer of goat, the experimental band from Osaka. His mathematical lock-grooves helped to zone-out minds and levitate audiences between 2017-2023, notably on goat’s third album “Joy In Fear”. Prior to that, Takafumi was playing in his trio The Noup, a formation of guitar, bass, drums and synths that found their own balance of no wave and trippy homemade sounds over the course of several releases since 2013.

Under his Manisdron alias, Takafumi has a clutch of weighty records and tapes. In particular a 12” EP and double LP “Body of Void” on US label L.I.E.S. demonstrates his high-octane, industrial style, made on hardware and a drum kit. There are also Manisdron tapes of glitchy scatterbomb electronics to be discovered on Takafumi’s own label Cathodic.

Takafumi’s new project Nboj Tespo is another intriguing offshoot. Warm electronic sounds are layered with polymetric rhythms across nine tracks, and arranged in such a way as to bring listeners into a hypnotic dance state. Takafumi combines his Elektron Machinedrum, Boss delay pedal and Novation Bass Station 2 at his home studio, to produce minimal grooves that grow into fully-fledged creatures and take on a life of their own.

While Manisdron is one side of Takafumi’s solo output - that is, industrial and machine-like rhythms made with a real drum kit - Nboj Tespo flips that premise, and creates organic songs with a drum machine. The artist name also hides a clue: shift every letter of Manisdron down a notch and we find ourselves on the other side of the alias - the same identity but from a different viewpoint.

If the viewpoint of Nboj Tespo has a theme, it’s one of finding positivity in life, or a mysterious sense of satisfaction in the everyday. That makes “Blessed Planet” a perfect companion, for both the inside and the outside world.

- Fizzy Veins

All music written, played and recorded by Takafumi Okada in Okayama, Japan
Mastered by The Cologne Wizard
Text by Fizzy Veins
Artwork by Ryan Dougan & Dominik Rodemann
Distributed by Rush Hour

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SONLP-019 - Nboj Tespo - Blessed Planet (snippets)

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. This one's special.

When mulling which direction to go in for RA's 1000th mix celebrations, many options came to mind. Some shadowy character 2-stepping around the fringe of our collective consciousness? An impossible-level IDM icon?

All tempting. But, ultimately, we are a DJ-forward publication and this is a DJ mix series. It felt truer to the history of the RA Podcast to release deep vault material from a time when the world of niche records felt different, tighter, more discrete.

The fourth-longest mix in the series' history is an unrepeatable marathon set recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. 2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000... if we have to clock it, so do you.

It's the coming together of one British icon who passed away in 2020, and another whose time on the road has scaled back considerably as of late. DJ Harvey agreed to exactly one b2b set in his life: this one, with Andrew Weatherall.

The night took place at Trouw, an Amsterdam club already considered legendary before it shuttered its doors in the opening hours of 2015, as part of an RA series anchored around start-to-close combinations. Harvey was at the peak of an irresistible career second act, which dovetailed with a disco revival that dominated clubs for years. Weatherall, with infinite brownie points stockpiled from the '90s, remained everyone's favourite debonair psychonaut. 

What follows is 385 scintillating minutes of arpeggiated chug and slow-cresting climaxes: a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than any comparable point in the 21st century. A masterclass, entirely self-contained in audio form.

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. A disco-dub cover of Echo & the Bunnymen? Smart money's on Weatherall. Exuberant EQ'ing of The Isley Brothers? Gotta be Harvey. As for the low 'n slow, lightly spangled house that was all the rage in the early 2010s (think Maxxi Soundsystem, Disco Bloodbath, Rub & Tug, C.O.M.B.I. and Full Pupp), it's anyone's guess. 127 BPM feels practically like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few goals: tick off a handful of long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else. Full send.

DJing and the mythmaking around it has undergone a quantum leap since 2012, let alone 2006, 1996 or 1989. For those of us who were kicking around in the former, there's a creeping melancholy that our prime is fast becoming a matter of historical record. The killing moon really did come too soon. 

Where will electronic music, DJ sets or any of this be in 2044? Hard to say. Best not to overthink that one. Instead, we want to say thanks to all contributors on the series so far. Now enjoy luxuriating in the company of two of the greatest to ever do it, together, for the first and last time.⁠ – Gabriel Szatan (Editor, RA)

@andrew-weatherall

Read the interview with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall's family at https://ra.co/podcast/1016. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

Sensual Pills 036 by Mattia – photographer, dedicated digger with an extensive sound archive, and co-founder of @trascendanza_ets 

Drawing from a landscape of slow-burning tension and delicate unraveling, Mattia delivers an intimate selection for Sensual Pills – a sinuous dive into temptation and discovery.

Blurring the line between control and abandon, this mix unfolds like a whispered invitation: layered textures, shadowy melodies, and tactile rhythms trace a path through hidden emotional terrains.

Recorded on the occasion of “Altrove è un Cerchio” – an event curated by @trascendanza_ets in Perugia – this set is more than a listening session: it’s a sensory drift, where each track lingers like a touch not yet given, and every transition hints at a story untold.

Credits images: Mattia de Virgiliis

Sensual Pills 036 by mattia / trascendanza

Charlie arriving early with a soundtrack for autumn

More Poetry is Needed | September 20th 2025 | Stranded FM

The full, unedited interview Keith kindly gave to Object OD in October 2024, marking 15 years of the Optimo Music label. 

When prompted for a way to thank him, he suggested a donation to Glasgow NW Foodbank. The link is here if you would like to donate: https://glasgownw.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-money/

Rest in peace Keith.

Until The Music Stops!

JD Twitch interview October 2024

Mutant Radio (Tbilisi, GE) monthly residency, episode #50, September '25. With summer approaching it's end Jouko hooked up with Adrenaline Andrei yet again, all happening after a few months of complete disconnection between the two. No hard feelings though, everybody knows Andrei hates the festival season deeply. These two hours of plastic soup were cooked up at Andrei's mansion as some sort of mid summer depression therapy. It might be helpful to some.

Mutant Radio - Inner Overtones w. Adrenaline Andrei & Jouko [23.09.2025]

Old friends and hapless mavericks Ivan Smagghe and Nathan Gregory Wilkins present a fortnightly window into their ramshackle musical world. A show with absolutely no rules (as they'd only break them). We love the unmixable, old & new. We are oddballs and we love you. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/channeling/episodes/channeling-4th-november-2025

Channeling w/ Nathan Gregory Wilkins 041125

25.10.15 - Amsterdam - TNP ADE Party w/ Yu Su and Luca Lozano
12.09.25 - Amsterdam - Field Notes Stage @ Phonolake Festival w/ Calypso Steve, Space Dimension Controller, Debolina, Detroit In Effect +++
02.08.25 - Vienna - Infra: by Bestand w/ Berna, Asifeh (live), RAZMi (live), Irene Bi, Instruções Rituals
20.07.25 - Paris - Radio Sofa x Tweak Soundsystem @ Parc De  Belleville w/ Marathon Man
11.05.25 - Amsterdam - Kantarion, Radio Sofa and Tweak Soundsystem Exchange w/ Constanza Castagnet, Fenna Fiction, Jouko, Upsammy, Vanja Rakic

JD Twitch interview October 2024

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