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At Kraków's Unsound festival, the London-based ambassador of footwork and jungle opens up about recent musings about legacy and the art of letting go. 

Since her first Boiler Room set went viral (so viral, she claims, it broke her phone), SHERELLE's career has ascended with a rapidness that even she struggles to fully comprehend. Almost instantly, she went from working a day job at Mixmag to DJing major festivals around the world, where she spread the word of 160 BPM music. Today, the London artist has an NTS residency with long-time friend and partner Naina, has two EPs under her belt and is at the helm of two labels–Hoover Sound and Beautiful, as well as the show SHERELLE presents on BBC 6 Music from 11PM on Saturday nights. This year, she even planned to take her reputation as a producer to the next level with a debut album that was scheduled for release in 2023.

But this summer, every musician's worst nightmare happened to SHERELLE. After a mugging in Europe, she lost every bit of her music—her DJ repertoire, her unreleased tracks and perhaps most devastatingly, her entire debut album. Discussing this at Kraków's Unsound festival, however, SHERELLE is chipper and refreshingly wise. In this intimate and hilarious conversation with RA's in-house critic, Kiana Mickles, she describes the incident as a launchpad for recent musings about the art of letting go, the importance of archiving and how she's approaching her debut album differently the second time around.

EX.686 SHERELLE

To close out his annual Machine takeover of Sputnik, Ben Sims tapped Josey Rebelle for a debut back-to-back. Strap in–this one goes wild.

@ben-sims
@fieldmaneuvers

RA Live: Ben Sims & Josey Rebelle - Field Maneuvers, UK

Jay Duncan beams in for our next podcast with her 2024 set at The Packet Inn. An Adonis and Dalston Superstore regular, she sashays through 90 minutes of SXC house groovers, pumpers and jackers.

"I had the best time playing in that silly little pub! Unfortunately, I was clashing with my best friend Angel D'lite who was showing Sputnik how it's done, which was heart-breaking to leave!”. Afterwards, however, they discovered both had played Sunscreen’s ‘Perfect Motion’ peak set (albeit different mixes). “I thought that was such a beautiful moment of natural synchronicity, or as she likes to call it 'the mushroom network’.”

“I also closed my set with this crazy track by George Acosta called Might As Well Party (Jungle Mix) that I'd found the previous week. It's this slutty, chuggy, fast house record and it breaks down into some ragga tip and switches tempo and ramps up to full on jungle track and then just casually resumes into a slutty fun house record. I adore it and think it’s just such a laugh!!!"

Launching new label, Pond Water, this month, Jay christens it with her track ‘Horse That Shows’ on the 29th, while she has an EP coming on Trule in the New Year.

FM058: Jay Duncan live from FM2024

Happy Christmas and Seasonal Greetings all! 

Here's a treat for ya, recorded at the 2nd Tribology event at The Cause in London back in May 2024, this is our all night B2B session in full. Featuring Techno in all it's various guises, plus Acid House, Rave Days faves and more, collected and selected by two of the UK's finest mixologists, enjoy!

The next Tribology is on Feb 8th at The Cause, in the top room and is an all night B2B with myself and the amazing, Josey Rebelle. Tickets available here: https://ra.co/events/2065467

Ben Sims B2B Jerome Hill @ Tribology, The Cause, London. May 2024

Underground techno legend and turntable master Jerome Hill delivers the next instalment of our mix series, and it's as heavy as it is mischievous. Get stuck in!

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeromehill
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djjeromehill/
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/mr3uys5k

Jerome Hill - Minirig Mix

Boiler Room's first show in Sheffield in three years featured some long-awaited Boiler Room debuts including local royalty Big Ang and two rising artists within the speed garage, UKG and bassline scene, Silva Bumpa and Diffrent.

Big Ang | Boiler Room: Sheffield

Striding into the twentieth entry in our humble mix series, we're beyond honoured to host the mighty @unspecified-enemies with an hour-long masterclass of machine funk that lays out some of the dancefloor influences behind the recent Romance In The Age Of Adaptive Feedback EP on @nmbrs .

Detroit fiends take heed for there's plenty of Motor City heat contained within, but also jungle magic from Source Direct, modernist dubwise abstraction from Topdown Dialectic and blown out ambience from Seefeel. 

Learn more about the story and ideas behind Unspecified Enemies in the full article. Tracklisting also included.

https://internationalorange.io/iomix020-unspecified-enemies/

IOMIX020 // Unspecified Enemies

An audio scrapbook compiled by sound artist and musician Graham Dunning, comprised of sonic art and experiments, improvised music, textures and rhythms, as well as selections from Dunning's archive of found home tape recordings, and a variety of regular features. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/fractalmeat/episodes/fractalmeat-10th-june-2025

Fractal Meat On A Spongy Bone w/ Chooc Ly 100625

If Field Maneuvers was a spaceship, Local Group (@wearelocalgroup) would be the rocket boosters: extremely heavy, highly flammable, essential for lift-off – yet, tragically, doomed to part ways at high altitude. The twin propellants of Joe Nonlocal (@ecstasygaragedisco) and L Major (@lamjor) have played every FM since day dot, pumping the dome with the noxious fumes of British rave excellence and even releasing their own tribute to the festival’s beloved Sputnik stage (2018’s ‘Laser Dome’ EP on Ritual Poison). But after 10 years together, they’ve finally uncoupled from the FM payload – though both of them will be back at FM 2025, playing sets right next to each other (Joe Nonlocal b2b Angel D'Lite (@angeldlite) and LMajor flying solo. 

On this farewell mix, captured deep inside the Sputnik laserfog in 2023 (sadly 2024's set recording got disrupted by the powercut) smiley faces explode from rushing breakbeats, boyracer basslines swerve between diva vocalchops, fairground wurlitzers pump up the jams, and Missy Elliott sends us a voicenote after a particularly good balloon. This is the spirit of ‘92 – not as cheap nostalgia, but as an eternal code to abide by. Shades on, cig lit: everything is energy.

As their voyage comes to an end, look out for a small asteroid shower of the recent 'Quantacid' release on Dead Trax and the upcoming Maximum Airtime (that one features a remix from hardcore ledge Jerome Hill) as well as new solo music from both of them, with Joe expanding his Corporeal Face alias.

Joe offered some parting words: “Local Group are heading for different parts of the universe – at least for the time being. It’s been a journey beyond our dreams since we got the name from a book called Cosmos, reading it in a basement flat in Clapton. We’ve got to meet and play alongside heroes such as 2 Bad Mice, Mark Archer and Manix, plus too many others to name. We’ve supported Grooverider and seen what’s on Groove’s rider: a bottle of Grey Goose.

Massive gratitude to everyone who’s been behind us along the way, booked us, danced, bought and played our music. Special thanks to Wavey Garms for championing us throughout. And, of course, our eternal love to Field Maneuvers, where it all started and grew. After a power cut plunged Sputnik into darkness during our FM set last summer, it felt like the cosmos’ way of telling us to end it there too. Hardcore will never die, but we all will. Make the most of it.”

Words by Chal Ravens

FM060: Local Group live from Sputnik FM2023

Original music and cover art design by Victor Candela

Amplex (Impossible Cities New Mix)

From the compilation "Simoom" released on Seagrave late August 2016.
https://seagrave.bandcamp.com



Resonance Cascade

alli donde no llegan las palabras llega la música
thanks to Ed's talent and inspiration
https://soundcloud.com/ed-trum-ped
Original cover art design by Victor Candela

Ed van den Brekel & VictorYibril - Bolero

I recorded this mix in 2018 for the Her Damit festival and titled it the Mystery of the Motherbeat. I was hungry to tour Europe for the first time and agreed to do a mix and play the festival on a shoestring budget. Her Damit went into bankruptcy later that year, failing to pay artists and others for their work.  They also let their Soundcloud account expire, losing all the mixes they commissioned for the series. 

I am re-releasing this mix under its original name. Its real name. It is one of my deepest mixes. It is filled with the love and hope for the future that I put into it. It was recorded a week before I went to visit Maya and Brooke for the first time in March of 2018, exactly two years ago. That visit would change my life.  

Metronome - Voyage to the Bottom of the Bass (WBR Records 1991) 
Visions of Rhythm - Power of Purchase (Klasse Wrecks 2017)
Christian Tiger School - If You Want To (Original Version) (Lissoms 2018)
DJ Python - Cuál (Incienso 2017) 
Pseudopolis - Tracer (Redstone Press 2017)
Bassbin Twins III - untitled (Bassbin Records 1995)
Nitro Delux feat Silk - Hypno House (Deep Dub) (Cutting Records 1990)
Christian Tiger School - If You Want To (Edmondson Version) (Lissoms 2018)
Friends of Mathew - Out There (Raw mix) (Pulse-8 Records 1991)
DJ bwin - Mit Bonus... (First Second Label 2017)
Glas Rm - Fully Dipped (Wells Street  2017)
Ben Cohen - Entrance (from “Lesser Mysteries”) (Brokntoys 2018)
DJ Psychiatre - Trust Issues (Gasp 2017)
Hawke - 3 Moods in a Gurple Parden (Hardkiss Music 1993)
Dream Cycle - Paradise State (Sneaker Social Club 2017)
Human Movement - I Need (12 inch mix) (Of Leisure 2017)
Waterpark - Data Orb (Deep Blue 2016)
Environments - Ultimate Thunderstorm (Syntonic Research, Inc. 1979)

Eris Drew’s Mystery of the Motherbeat Part 1 (formerly Her Damit)

VictorYibril - Impossible Cities  [Panorama] (Full Version)

A project, where we play live improvisations in different occupations in tribute to nordic musicians, such as Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang, Bugge Wesseltoft, Nils Petter Molvaer, Fernando Corona (Murcof) and Jon Hassell – and in tribute to the music of Nik Bärtsch and Dawn of Midi and other minimal and ambient musicians, like Steve Reich and Brian Eno.

www.grahamdunning.com
Sound as texture, timbre and something tactile, drawing on bedroom production, tinkering & recycling found objects. 
Based in London, UK. For bookings please email gndunning@gmail.com

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