Closing out the night, RYKER delights us with a nightcap of 90s Progressive, Hard House, and Trance

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Ryker @ The Lot Radio 10-09-2023

Jefrey Sfire pays tribute to Aérea Negrot

In-studio w/ Jeffrey Sfire 10.13.23

This week, Brooklyn based record label and performance series 29 Speedway is excited to welcome hardware wizard and dj Cades. They will be playing alongside label boss Ex Wiish in preparation for 29S at Bossa Nova Civic Club on December 12.

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29 Speedway with Cades and Ex Wiish @ The Lot Radio 12-07-2023

A Bristol selector on the up, Tilly brings new wave, new beat and danceable dark wave sounds to the London studio every month. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/tilly/episodes/tilly-8th-january-2024

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This edition of the Alpha Runner progressive queering archive gathers from a familiar and potent portal: Breakbeats. A post-human synthesizer holding epic trans-genetic qualities in its proximity to and responsibility in the foundation of contemporary movement-inducing sounds. When funk and soul players let their melodies rest for one phrase while their drummer played on, a revolution of communication was born. Foundational in United States hip-hop, the breakbeat traveled to all razor-n-tape genres of the 80’s, staying in hip-hop as home while landing prominently in England to give rise to UK Hardcore Rave (and its Italian, Belgian and German siblings) and Jungle/Drum & Bass. In the States, the breakbeat stayed in dance music via Tommy Musto, Justin Strauss, Mr. Lee, occasional use by UR-affiliates and other R&B/hip-hop-influenced house producers. The birth of Acid House in Chicago (Phuture) would be handed off to global (largely San Francisco and UK) rave producers, creating the holy bond of breakbeats and 303s which carried breaks into progressive house and trance in the mid to late 90’s (Future Sound of London, Caffeine Records, Deepsky, Band of Gypsies, Northern Exposure mixes by John Digweed & Sasha, to name very few.) While not lost, the breakbeat lessened in prominence in house music in the 2000’s as Drum & Bass loudness/tempo/choppage wars raged on to the point of AKAI-made full-sample-based breakbeats being nearly obliterated by more compressed, louder drum samples arranged as breaks on desktop computers (an important distinction!) Recently, after dance music took a long breather from the early 00’s Breakcore scorching, breakbeats have seen an enormous revival in bass and house music by way of harbingers T4T LUV NRG and LA, Brooklyn/Nowadays and Oakland renegade and after-hours scenes (I must disclaim that I can only name what is in my orbit, contemporary music is quite the unfathomable fractal.) This mix is merely what was on my shelf and what worked together to make a nice time for two hours (I’m also remiss to have only found this moment in this essay to note breakbeats in trip hop and pop music.) Listen to this mix for now, then explore the endless catalog of its artists and the bibliography below.

Bibliography:
Brian Belle-Fortune - All Crews: Journeys Through Jungle Drum & Bass Culture [UK Rave, JDB birth through 00’s]
Douglas Rushkoff - Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace [UK & SF Rave, Acid House]
Josell Ramos - Maestro [Birth of House, Acid]
Carl Hindmarch - Pump Up The Volume [Birth of House, Acid]
John Digweed & Sasha - Northern Exposure [Breakbeats in 90’s Progressive House]
Global Underground Mix Series [Breakbeats in 90’s Progressive House]
Posts and e-journals by Eris Drew and Octo Octa [Hip-hop, D&B, Sampling, Acid]
Going to parties, listening to a whole lotta records and reading those labels…

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Composer and modular synth expert Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith presents TouchThePlants on NTS' Los Angeles studio once a month for a round-up of favourites and inspirations from her label TouchThePlants. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith/episodes/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-23rd-january-2024

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Tune into Coby Sey's show on a Monday afternoon for a masterful selection of his own tunes alongside favourites and influences. Sedated hip-hop, drone, ambience and other glacial and sludge sounds. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/coby-sey/episodes/coby-sey-5th-february-2024

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Once mixed under a sunshiny roof in Cologne, now developed in a snugly room in Berlin: 150 Session has no clue what to do, missed all goals and comes around from all directions. ML's worldly sets are prepared spontaneously, marrying avant-electronics with foretime chants, odd dance emotions, man-made minimal tones, psychedelic fuzz and some neon light jazz. No country, no flag – outernational without a cause! 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/150session/episodes/150session-26th-february-2024

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The Breakfast Show - Alias Error - 26 Feb 2024

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Sounds of the Dawn is a monthly two hour session through new age, ambient, environmental, meditation and relaxation cassettes from the seventies to the nineties. Tune in and zone out. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soundsofthedawn/episodes/soundsofthedawn-20th-april-2024

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Performing TransSensational remodulation to accelerate the coming of the Trans Future.
Vinyl, generally esoteric sounds dense with Queernon particles.
3rd Wednesdays 6PM PDT on Dublab

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

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