'do not fear the darkness (cause the light rests therein)' is the title of this week’s edition of Valley Radio, brought to us by the undeniable force that is Swedish DJ and producer KABLAM (@ka-blam). After uniting people on dancefloors all over Europe and the success of her debut album 'Confusía', she now joins the Valley family and becomes a source of light herself by warmly gracing our eardrums with a tranquil yet cathartic mix:

"The works in this mix have all meant a lot to me this past year. It’s all about feeling both free and safe, rejecting authority and not being scared of the darkness (cause the light rests therein). It’s about deep love and the absurdity of life!!!"


Make your way over to our Soundcloud now and enjoy this composition as a treat to your weekend.



Image courtesy of KABLAM
Lay out by Oliva Rawlings

Valley Radio 060 - KABLAM - 'do not fear the darkness (cause the light rests therein)'

Hard Fantasy lands on All Centre with a 5 track EP, Mechanicus, exploring the distinctive experimental style of the London-based producer's sound.

Rogue Advisor emerges with atmospheric sound design. Pummeling drums provide an industrial groove whilst a piercing siren sounds above, its intensity rising to a fever pitch as the track progresses.

Mechanicus is available across all platforms on the 3rd of February.

@yungadultxx

Mechanicus

Hard Fantasy - Rogue Advisor

The DJ plays my song and I feel alright / So I put my hands up / They're playin' my song, the butterflies fly away / I'm noddin' my head like, yeah (noddin' my head) / Movin' my hips like, yeah (ooh, yeah) / I got my hands up, they're playin' my song / They know I'm gonna be okay (gonna be okay)

Tracklist : https://lyl.live/episode/see-u-there

SEE U THERE! ;) w/ s♡$o (18/10/23)

Long-time friend of the label Plesk Parallel makes her way to All Centre to release a sublime double tracker. On Spit Fountain, Plesk Parallel revitalizes her sound with a pair of transcendent, explorative club tracks.

Spit Fountain opens as a CR-78 drum machine workout heavily manipulated by masterful sound design. Drum clicks reverberate across a cavernous space charted by booming sub-low kicks. A disorienting melody enters the fray in the latter half of the track, reminiscent of AFX b-sides and microtonal experiments.

Morpho shifts into a more mechanical, to-the-grid groove with rigid kick drums and earworm percussion. Drawing on 90s & 00s broken techno, Plesk Parallel puts her own spin on these conventions, augmenting the style with perfected sound design, hypnotic pads and a heavy, dubbed-out bassline.

Spit Fountain is available on all digital platforms from November 10th.

@pleskparallel

Spit Fountain

Plesk Parallel - Spit Fountain [ACEN053]

Lambda

Sea Angel

to commit, to let go

Artist: Dayoung
EP: Latency
Format: Digital
Cat.No: CHI052
Master: Justin Randel
Artwork: Dayoung
Release Date: 25 October 2024

Baroque meets industrial techno on Latency, the latest EP from Seoul-based DJ and musician Dayoung. Through the pounding rhythms of taiko drums and dark swirling electronica, she creates a melancholic soundtrack to an existential crisis on the dancefloor.

Latency, her first release on Chinabot, comes after a period of self-realisation for Dayoung. “I aim to express emotions such anxiety and uneasiness into experimental, deconstructed sounds that are still more or less describable in dance-floor grammar,” she says. “Strong sounds and textures are a kind of release for me. Subversive music is an outlet. It screams out things I can't say in words.”

 

Building from the creeping, liquid sadness of the opening tracks, Strong/Weak, Dangerous fills in a slow BPM with distorted samples, including her own whispering voice, to create a stuttering whirlwind of repressed angst. “Sometimes you want to say something but it’s just not easy due to circumstances, and I wanted to reflect on this kind of situation,” Dayoung says.

 

On the next track, Disturbing Choir, heavy kicks and breakbeats turn the drama up a notch, driven by stacked melodies that interlace like a choir. An ominous feeling grows throughout the record, which ends with Expired, built around a Latin American tresillo rhythm bulked out with heavy bass and kicks. Leaving the listener with a sense of unease, it is characteristic of Dayoung’s refusal to provide any simple conclusions, preferring instead to draw us into the mist of the emotional moment.

Dayoung is a DJ and promoter based in Seoul who plays heavy bass, reggaeton, UK bass, breakbeat and more. She is also a member of the art collective Lost Air which archives and researches the underground electronic music scenes of (mostly) Seoul. In 2023, she launched a new Seoul-based collective, Fragmented Service, with fellow musician and DJ Jaeho Hwang. She has played with and supported artists like Dis Fig, Flora Yin Wong, NET GALA, and Salamanda. At the moment she is the promoter of her own party series [Girls Gone Wild] and is a monthly roster member of Visla.fm radio.

Latency

Disturbing Choir

DEFVULT - Farewell

vaa sun takii

On My Body (Arca Grind Edit)

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Fresh after taking care of our October broadcast on Netil Radio, @BaroqueSunburst flash onto the scene with their third 12-inch" 'Intermedia 1', a vibrant and enigmatic three-tracker from Berlin-based producer @Fl-rist.

On My Body (Arca Grind Edit)

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