Great mix, loving the older bangers from Rachmad, Outline & Bernard.

Wicked set! I saw you at House of God last night 5/5/18 and was wondering if you recorded it, as it was amazing! Cheers.

Techno

Recording of PLO Man's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Dekmantel Selectors 2024

PLO Man at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Extracted from the archives, we have Lena's Bank Holiday set from last August for you. 
It was sadly Lena's only set at The Gun, but it was a wild night, sweaty and heaving in the extreme & certainly one of favourites. The crowd had been dancing from about 7pm (Casper Clark and I's warm up is also available here) so when Lena got on for the remaining 4.5 hours, the room went nuts. Its a brilliantly varied and balanced set that encapsulates so much of what we loved at The Gun, banging enough for a room full of seething heads. dancing into the early hours and considered and classy do that it suits playback at any time of the day.
The recorder died just before the end of the set, so it appears those very last tracks were just for us there on that night, the rest is ready now. (Thanks for this Lena x)


Lena Willikens Live at The Gun August Bank Holiday Sunday '24

Mattias El Mansouri at Dark Skies, Horst Arts & Music 2025

Oceanic at Garage, Horst Arts & Music 2025

Regular techno, electro, and house missives from the Against Interpretation labelhead and powerhouse-club selector Courtesy…
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/courtesy/episodes/courtesy-20th-june-2025

Courtesy 200625

Live recording of my chillout set from @endless-city at Holding Patterns in Leeds on Sunday 7th September '25 🌀🌕

https://ra.co/news/83553

Elliot Holt live from Endless City at Holding Patterns 07.09.25

@second_contact, Honey Trap mainstay, mix series pathfinder and metalsmith at @forge-fm is inspired by those who know the rules well enough to break them. Behind the decks, he oscillates between downtempo, dark wave, and progressive trance exploring the idea between restraint and release.

Second Contact at Nowadays for .·:*¨༺ Honey Trap༻¨*:·. 08-14-25

Proud champions of community and inclusivity, Lakuti and Tama Sumo are long-time Dekmantel favourites and true underground bastions. Deep diggers and lifelong collectors, the iconic Panorama Bar dup built a reputation for sets where pretty much anything goes, as long as it has soul. And the way they mix it, with a rare instinct that pull their crowds in deep is what makes them one of the most revered back-to-back duos in the scene.
This week’s mix is yet more evidence of that: over 80 minutes, they blend old and new. Rooted in house but shaped by global travels, it moves through soul-soaked broken beat, classic US depths and Afro rhythms – always carried by an emotional rawness that resonates. A masterclass in both selection and flow from two of the best.

Dekmantel Mix 497 - Lakuti & Tama Sumo

The first-ever live recording from an elusive icon of dubby electronic music.

Lore is an underrated quality. Neuroscientists have mapped that music elicits similar feelings in the brain to when we satiate cravings, but what about the psychological impulse that drives listeners of a certain disposition toward everything they don't know?

It's tricky to put your finger on, but artists able to conjure intrigue without overhawking the backstory can really cut through—just ask SAULT, [ar:pi:ar] or Gerald Donald. Then there are those who don't try whatsoever. These are the ones who stay in mind the most.

In 2001, a striking 12" called Ship-Scope emerged through Chain Reaction, credited to Shinichi Atobe, with no other info available. Okay, mulled fans, this is probably a cat-and-mouse game dreamed up by someone on a label with a fine line in foggy obfuscation. Vainqueur on a wind-up? Another Moritz 'n Mark alias?

But no: Atobe was real, and really had posted a demo to Hard Wax. It was that simple. Then he went back to his day job—until, after 13 years of silence, an even better follow-up emerged.

From the near-perfect Butterfly Effect onwards, Atobe has built up one of the most revered catalogues in underground circles. A steady clip of elegant, transportive dub techno and deep electronics has arrived on Demdike Stare's DDS, complimented by the launch of his own label, plastic & sounds, earlier in summer 2025.

Atobe has also made strides into the public domain, DJing intermittently, as well as performing live for the first time in 2023, gracing WWW at the tender age of 52. It's that debut 2023 show heard on RA.1009: a hypnotic yet comparatively pumping set full of Atobe staples, as well as material you won't find anywhere else.

Contact with the big man, as you might anticipate, is glacial: since we first reached out, the RA Mix has changed name, look and rolled over into its second millennium. Still, patience pays off. This is a one-off we're stoked to run. – Gabriel Szatan

@shinichiatobe

Find the interview at https://ra.co/podcast/1028

RA.1009 Shinichi Atobe

for a video stream of the full set please check:
http://be-at.tv/brands/maimarkthalle/time-warp-mannheim-2016/len-faki

Len Faki @ Time Warp 2016, Maimarkthalle Mannheim

Blasha & Allatt are two of the residents and promoters behind Manchester's most innovative techno night: Meat Free. Since 2013 they have hosted the likes of Peter Van Hoesen, Steffi, Virginia, XDB, DJ Bone, Luke Slater, Regis, Helena Hauff, Objekt and many more. But as we all know, it's often the residents that are the unsung heroes and these guys are no exception. Regularly putting on residents-only nights with a 'pay what you can' policy, these guys do it for the love. They played FM last year as part of Ben Sim's Machine takeover in the Sputnik Dome and totally blew us away. This FM mix is an intensely beautiful combination of both merciless and melodic tracks.

"This mix was recorded in our cramped attic/music studio about 6 weeks ago. Over the last few months we've not had a chance to play a heavier/faster techno set, so this mix is an amalgamation of old and new records that fit that style."

FM018: Blasha & Allatt
1. Damon Wild - Avion
2. SPX-X - Spectrum Drift
3. Scorp - Crashed at The End
4. Head Front Panel #11 - Track 1
5. Cadans - Hollow Funk 
6. Gian - 041
7. Regis - Careless Pedestrian
8. Tin Foil - Foil 19 
9. Kamikaze Space Programme - Numbers Station
10. Myler - D'Electrocution
11. Head Front Panel #12  - Track 3
12. Mark Bernard - Load (DJ Shufflemaster Remix)
13. Planetary Assault Systems - In From The Night 
14. Dimi Angélis - Eye Of The Storm V1
15. Zadig - Ttrxl
16. Outline - Encounter

FM018: Blasha & Allatt

** Part 1 now available from here - http://soundcloud.com/alexchase/ohm-dedication-series-2-jd **

For my ears, Adrian Sherwood is the most sonically innovative producer the UK has ever given birth to. If you don't know anything about Mr. Sherwood or his ON U Sound label, either do a bit of Googling, have a listen to this mix or read this interview I was fortunate enough to conduct a couple of months ago (when he was in Glasgow) that is on the Racket Racket website - http://racketracket.co.uk/music/jd-twitch-meets-adrian-sherwood/

This mix covers music from the years 1979 - 88 and focuses on Adrian Sherwood's dubwise productions, most of which were released on his ON U Sound label (a great overview of the label can be found here - http://www.skysaw.org/onu/)

The mix is DUB in the widest (and wildest) sense of that word and veers from beautiful, heart-melting songs to cavernously deep, hard bass pulsations to the odd bit of brain melting sonic radicalism. To this day I don't think any other producer has pushed the envelope so hard which is partly down to a general lack of balls on the part of other producers and partly due to the fact that these productions were all recorded to tape and mixed on a desk with 100% outboard gear, so that pushing the tape way beyond its intended limits forms a large part of the character of the sound. His totally deranged dub techniques are perhaps a little more prevalent on part 1 (see below) of this podcast while this part is in the main more of a continuous heart throb with odd moments of sonic destruction, offering a masterclass in dub mixing techniques many of which Adrian Sherwood pioneered.

In my late teens and early 20s, Adrian Sherwood's work impacted on me more than anything I had previously heard and made me think about sonic possibilities in a completely new way. I would buy any record he had been involved with unheard and got into a lot of other artists purely because he had been involved with making their records. Indeed, my nom de plume "Twitch" came from a record he produced and our Optimo slogan "We Love Your Ears" came from the sleeve of a record he remixed. I hadn't listened to a lot of these records for many, many years and fell in love with them all over again while putting this together. It was a complete labour of love to do and a revelation to hear how fresh and wild this music still sounds.

The tracks are mostly mixed together but this podcast really isn't about my mixing at all - it's all about the 25 sonic missives included on it (several of the tracks are different versions of the same rhythm edited together). All the tracks were taken from vinyl so any unintended sonic imperfections are a result of the source records having been played countless times in the past.

This is part 2 of this podcast. Part 1 which focuses on his more electronic wild side (Tackhead, Fats Comet, Keith LeBlanc etc.) is now available here - http://soundcloud.com/alexchase/ohm-dedication-series-2-jd
Should you so desire, the 2 podcasts can be synced together to provide one continuous mix of around 3 and a half hours.

As usual we aren't making a track listing available for the podcast, simply because we feel that knowing the contents often precludes actually listening to it. But, if you want to know what anything is, feel free to get in touch and I will let you know. The mix is a 320kbps mp3 (230mb) and is 101 minutes long.

Optimo Podcast 12 - Adrian Sherwood On U Sound mix part 2 (dub)

The Meat Free founders deliver an intense session in advance of their EC1 debut for Machine.

Blasha & Allatt join us on 03/11: fabricldn.co/lsg0na

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Blasha & Allatt fabric x Machine Promo Mix

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Italian duo 999999999 are one of the most sought after live acts in Europe right now–– here's why.

999999999 (Live) | Boiler Room Paris: Possession

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FM018: Blasha & Allatt

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