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The drums and the bass are there, but so too are vocals, moving melody and lush instrumentation; this is the soul of drum and bass. Switching out rampant hoover synths and chaotic bass-bin-bustin' subs for song structures, pianos and harmonies, Simm takes us on his most polite outing to date. This is drum and bass that you can take home to meet the parents.

D&B Soul

Fresh Soup 102: DJ Simm, The Soul of Drum & Bass

They've been around the world, they're harder, better, faster and stronger, and they've played in the house of the guy who was the first to play them to the rock kids. They are Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, and they need no introduction. When your old man writes D.I.S.C.O. there's only one way to go, and through a fire of screeching 303 acid lines, they found their way home with nowhere left to travel. If you've been living under a rock or self-isolating in a lead-cladded panic room, the Daft Punks have bid adieu to one another, and this is our tribute to their legacy; Pete Carvell cranking up the energy for a thunderous rollin' and scratchin' ode to the two French boys who lived inside robots. To those who lost themselves to dance, we salute you.

Fresh Soup 103: Pete Carvell, a Tribute to Daft Punk

I went into a bookshop yesterday to see if they had anything about turtles. "Hardback?" The guy asks. "Yep, with little heads," I respond. OK, I'll quit it with the jokes, before we head for a turtle disaster. Crashing into the back end of your week, our favourite testudines returns with another blistering session of big room bangers set to leave you shell-shocked.

Fresh Soup 104: Pierre a Soif

Brace yourselves for another incoming attack from the United States of America. Simon Howlett has his deep and dubby disco guns a-blazin' again, rendering reluctant dancers helpless in their wake. From Portland, Oregon, to Fresh Soup with love, steady your stereo for another irresistible invasion of ware-house-music for the soul.

Fresh Soup 105: Simon Howlett

The Prince of peacefulness is back, Matthew Egginton not crashing into our week, rather easing in elegantly from behind-the-scenes like a glamorous supermodel arriving at a shoot she's late for. With his blend of progressive beats and soothing synths, Matt's latest takes us on a sunrise journey to Eden; the perfect tonic for the 22nd of June.

Fresh Soup 111: Matthew Egginton

Time to stock up on flowers to send to the neighbours, JBdeQ is back with an unapologetic ode to his underground awakening. Honouring countless school nights spent staying up late listening to Colin Dales Abstract Dance Show on Kiss FM, this is a blistering 60 minute session containing many of his favourite tracks from those heady days of '90s UK techno; from Slam to Aphex Twin, Dave Clarke to Baby Ford. Turn it up loud and check your home insurance documents. You're going to need some new speakers after this one.

Fresh Soup 113: JBdeQ, An Ode to '90s Techno

Inspired in part by Mr Rycroft's recent 'house awakening' Soup session, our very own Duke of Drifty Synths, Matthew Egginton, calls on some of his favourites from "back in the day" for an hour of progressive house that reaches right into the scene's roots; a world of atmospheric arpeggios, of early trance and Renaissance-inspired euphoria.

Fresh Soup 124: Matthew Egginton

From pop to post punk and back again, Buck delves deep into his mixed bag for another session of sounds from the nether regions. More colourful than a set of Downing Street curtains, but much less shady, let Mr Houston take your hand and help you frolic through our late stage capitalism dystopia with gay abandon.

Fresh Soup 126: Buck Houston

What do you call it, garage? What do you call it, urban? What do you call it, 2-step? At the end of the 1990s, skipped garage beats were forming a new evolution of sound in urban dance music; flooding dancefloors from East London to Ayia Napa with good vibes, attitude and eccentric MCs. Taking the 'speed garage' that Americans Todd Edwards and Armand van Helden had pioneered to a new audience and setting forth a transition that would go on to form UKG and dubstep, this hedonistic summer-ready style was a critical juncture for the British underground. Hollering with the rinsin' sound, Fresh Soup's thememaster drops an hour of sun-soaked club music from the golden era of 2-step.

90's 2 Step

Fresh Soup 127: DJ Simm, Can I Get a Rewind?

Corona and conflict, corruption and climate, uncertain times call for a measure of calm. Who ya gonna call? If global confusion were a ghost, our Matthew Egginton would be the embodiment of Bill Murray and his phantom bashing pals. Fanning out the noise with another session of soothing spiritual house music, lose yourself in the blissful beats of our very own bedlam buster.

Fresh Soup 132: Matthew Egginton

With a record bag capable of slaying a dancefloor at a rate more rapid than care home occupants were slain by a failed herd immunity policy, JBdeQ returns with another hour packed to the rafters with pitched up vocals, breakbeats, acid lines and booty-shaking beats and bleeps; working your inner hedonist into quite the stupor.

Fresh Soup 133: JBdeQ

Active from 1991 until his untimely death in 2017, Marcus Intalex was a true pioneer of drum and bass in the north west of England, and a force our Simm considered one of the very best their was. Also producing house and techno music under the pseudonym Trevino, this tribute to a prolific game-changer in dance music takes us from Intalex's frenetic and soulful d&b back down to the slower but no less intense sounds of his four-to-the-floor alter ego; Simm marking the anniversary of his passing with a mix that embraces tempos from 174bpm to 126bpm.

Marcus Remembered

Fresh Soup 134: DJ Simm, Marcus Intalex Remembered

Summer is peaking through the clouds of Covid and threatening the status quo with the promise of fun. Remember that? To celebrate the return of sunburnt noses and sweaty briefs, our very own Øhm Dawg has cracked open a tinny and is luring us to his pool party with a session of future beats, lo-fi hip hop, neo soul and contemporary r&b.

Fresh Soup 135: Øhm Sweet Øhm presents Pool Beats

Deep and delicious, Simon Howlett's mixes are made for sweltering late nights and balmy evenings as the sun sets of a city skyline. Dropping in another Soup session of house music inflected by gospel, soul, disco and more, this one's to the start of the summer we all deserve but probably won't get.

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Fresh Soup 136: Simon Howlett

If you were in danger of having a lazy weekend, collapsing into your easy chair and tuning into Kenny Rogers, then fear not, our very own hero in a half shell is back to save your Saturday. With a familiar Soup session of squelching electronica and throbbing club-ready beats, the bandana-clad martial arts expert lures you from the sofa into his sewer.

Fresh Soup 137: Pierre a Soif

Engurland, Engurland, Engurland ... your Royal duty as a St George cross-bearing, sunburn-sporting, pint of Carling-swilling, monobloc polypropylene chair-chucking, international King of the louts is upon you. Let batty old Liz swear you into the court of chaos, say your oath to the spirit of Captain Tom, spit on the Marxist cult of BLM and shag a poppy. Your time is now, your country needs you. Or actually, just get in the sea you fascist fucks. Capturing the contradictory spirit of our troubled nation, Hilfingerz welcomes in the wonder and woe of football coming home, from flying chairs to brave lions, settle in for a rib cage-rocking set of tech house that screams 'take the knee', 'shut up you racist wankers', and most importantly 'fucking come on ENGLAND!'

Fresh Soup 138: Hilfingerz, eUROpURO

𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸! After a four year hiatus, the Fresh Soup Mix Series returns with a bumper 2hr 40min session, a typically eclectic affair from the one and only Buck Houston. Expect 1980s boogie, Belgian new beat, synths, edits and the sort of host of surprises that old Soup heads will be familiar with. Here’s to a new dawn, and plenty of soup of the very freshest variety.

Fresh Soup 139: Buck Houston

The new-look Fresh Soup continues with another old face, Barcelona-based JBDEQ returning with a trademark assortment of house, techno, bass, bleeps and frenetic rhythms.

Fresh Soup 140: JBDEQ

The new wave of Fresh Soup continues to wash over us like a salty breaker of floor-filling dance music nirvana, and another name familiar to long-time Soupheads is back, with a stupendous strictly vinyl set of his beloved disco being pushed to its outer limits. Expect chaotic dance floor frenzy, space-age instrumentation and all out electro disco ragers. Happy weekend all, with Fresh Soup 141 in the can, we are all set to have a very lovely time indeed.

Fresh Soup 141: Øhm Sweet Øhm

Pete Carvell digs deep into his record collection and shares choice cuts of house and techno from the past 30 years through to present day. This debut session showcases recent music from East End Dubs, Sam Girling and Special Request, alongside classics from Eurythmics, Sil, Krush and DJ Hell.

Fresh Soup 001: Pete Carvell

Music is a biweekly tour through the kitchen-sink record collection of Buck Houston, a restless pedlar of all accompanied by a groove.

Fresh Soup 002: Buck Houston, Music

Barcelona's JBdeQ spins us through the sounds of off-centre house inflected by disco and soulfulness.

Fresh Soup 003: JBdeQ

Simm discovered electronic music at the age of 11, back in 1991. From there he followed the rave scene through hardcore to jungle and drum and bass. At 16 he got his first pair of decks and started collecting vinyl. Throughout the years he’s been involved in various genres, but drum and bass is always the sound closest to his heart.

This first mix for Fresh Soup is a selection of some of his favourite releases from 1996, the year he began DJ'ing. Tech step through to Jump Up and some of the more deeper cuts, DJ Simm provides a short journey through that seminal year.

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Fresh Soup 004: DJ Simm

Avid rare vinyl collector, Øhm Sweet Øhm, delves into his archives of classic disco for a purist's look into 1970s New York.

Fresh Soup 005: Øhm Sweet Øhm presents Disco Tragédie

Buck Houston returns for a second session of Music, his bi-weekly exploration into sound; digging up a mixed bag that spans six decades.

Fresh Soup 010: Buck Houston, Music

Matt Rycroft returns with a synth-heavy second session inspired by long hot summer days frequenting arcades as a child of the '80s.


Fresh Soup 011: Matt Rycroft

The founder of One Nite in a Disco, Lee Astbury slaps on some Soul Glo and takes us on a journey through the soulful side of house music.


Fresh Soup 012:  Lee Astbury

Following on from yesterday, another member of the One Nite in a Disco team saunters in for a slice of melody-driven house music; Jonathan Kenyon making his Fresh Soup debut.


Fresh Soup 013: Jonathan Kenyon

La Mano—aka Anglo Italian DJ and producer, Carlo Bragagnini—has had his music supported by DJs such as Âme, Man Power, Jennifer Cardini and Henry Saiz, and flexed his muscle for Bicep's Feel My Bicep podcast. Here, he delivers a deep and driving set of house and Italo disco.


Fresh Soup 014: La Mano

As the head of sound at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Steve Mayo is more used to creating sound effects like angry dogs barking stage left than taking the sonic limelight himself. Putting his craft to use for something a little different, Steve makes his Fresh Soup debut with an eclectic mash up of electro that tips its hat to '90s indie and the great Mr Weatherall. Bravo.


Fresh Soup 029: Steve Mayo

"Soup is better than a brick. You can't throw a brick, it's too heavy." Wise words from a wiseguy. Pumping out an electronic soundtrack to an eroding global democracy, Pete Carvell crashes into your weekend with big, big bags of energetic Fresh Soup.


Fresh Soup 030: Pete Carvell

Matthew Egginton returns to the Soup for a second expansive journey through the deep and dreamy sounds of lush, progressive house music.

A Journey Through...

Fresh Soup 034: Matthew Egginton

Dub no bass with my head, man! JBdeQ is back with a boom, honouring the deep and delicious sound of dub; cranking out a heavy mix that touches on the various genres and styles that have been informed by the echoey and expansive sound that filtered out of Kingston in the late 1960s.

Fresh Soup 047: JBdeQ

Øhm Sweet Øhm returns for his monthly genre deep-dive, this time paying homage to the early b-boys and MCs who discovered the robotic sounds of German electronic music during the early 1980s. Rapping over 808s and synths, this sound would define a generation; a carnival of breakdancing that rolled from The Bronx to an international stage.

Fresh Soup 048: Øhm Sweet Øhm presents Break-A-Holic

Heartbreaking but uplifting, Jonathan Kenyon's latest is Fresh Soup's most profound edition to date; the session dedicated to close friend, Michelle, who lost her battle with cancer this week. A touching tribute to someone whose joie de vivre lit up the dancefloor wherever she went, her presence runs throughout Kenny's mix, the bright star even having had a say on its tracklist. Dear Michelle, this is for you.

Fresh Soup 054: Jonathan Kenyon

It is time once more to zone out and drift into the melodic and atmospheric sounds of Matthew Egginton, as another 60 minutes so soul-cleansing progressive house drops into the Soup mix.

Fresh Soup 066: Matthew Egginton

For the third in a trilogy of festive outings, Buck Houston unwraps your Christmas morning with an ode to the iconic anti-Yuletide movies of the 1980s. A jingle-belled bolt of festive frolicking that requires stringent parental guidance, Wholesome Family Entertainment* is 60 minutes of nostalgia and naughtiness that is best served with a pint of Buck's fizz. Naturally.

Fresh Soup 069: Buck Houston, Wholesome Family Entertainment*

It's finally time to put The Worst Year Ever™ into the bin, so Fresh Soup is celebrating in style with a triple drop to get your party hazy. A mix-n-match choose your own adventure of an evening, the Soup NYE special begins with an uplifting jam of broken beats that work their way through hip hop, soul and garage; an urban blend of skittish beats, thick basslines and soulful vocals from the one and only DJ Simm.

Old Broken Beats

Fresh Soup 070: DJ Simm

There's a lot of noise. Headlines, horror, hate. Which means Fresh Soup fans will be glad to know that their monthly dose of soothing sounds have dropped. Mr Egginton is back, delivering another hour of organic and progressive house music to alleviate the most troubled of times.

Fresh Soup 084: Matthew Egginton

Not even a case of Covid can keep Mark Kovich from delivering the goods. After a tough session of isolation, Mark presents Soupers with a deep and dark hour of house music that conjures the polar opposite of seclusion: that primal essence of clubbing, that we are all one under the trance of repetitive beats and squelching synths.

Fresh Soup 093: Mark Kovich

In a world of uncertainty, some things are still set in stone. That the road out of the pandemic will be as precarious as Bolivia's Carretera a los Yungas; that a Pep Guardiola side will pass a lot; that Boris Johnson is a cunt. For fans of Fresh Soup, they'll also be familiar with the gold-standard certainty that an hour with Matthew Egginton will be a sonorous segue from the shit that surrounds us; a blissful session of atmospheric house music that makes it all go away.

Fresh Soup 097: Matthew Egginton

Enter the sound of science, as Hilfingerz drops Fresh Soup 101; a joint ode to the technology that is slowly putting an end to our sad situation and that has shaped the music each and every Souper holds dear. Enjoy our own progress through tech, with a solid 60 minutes of bass heavy, urban-inflected dance music that celebrates the silent work of the scientists who shape our society. (And, yes, Tom does say it's his February mix, which is our fault not his. Sorry Hilf.)

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