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Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO - 03 April 2023

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'Double Divide' is the debut LP from Second Storey, released on Houndstooth on October 6th 2014.

Describing the music on Double Divide, Second Storey says: "The title of the album, 'Double Divide' refers to the different ideas I found myself exploring as the album progressed, relating to tension and release. The 'Double' being the double-intensity beat driven tracks and the 'Divide' being the antidote in the form of the ambient or more introspective moments." This duality is on display throughout the album, which hints at his wide-ranging influences, from the complex rhythmic structures and emotive melodic phrases of Aphex Twin and Autechre, the funk of Prince to Parliament, the crazed robotics of Drexciya and the raw techno sludge of Cristian Vogel and Neil Landstrumm, right through to dark drum and bass of artists like Ed Rush & Optical.

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Paris-based bass devotee @beatricemasters lures us across a tightrope walk of a mix

"This mix is a recording from La Machine du Moulin Rouge in Paris for Positive Education Festival's event in January 2024. I was opening for Flowdan, Toma Kami and Bianca Oblivion, and was never happier to be doing a warmup, as the festival's crowd is super open to more experimental music. Therefore, I felt free to explore my favourite mood which resembles me the most: building a narrative from about 120 BPM to 140 BPM, navigating between psychedelic, syncopated techno and minimal deep dubstep. At the peak of the set, when the room started to full up, I deliberately took the energy down a notch with heavy contemplative dubs. The set felt like walking on a tightrope, balancing intensity and murkiness, bass and techno, playing with tension. It was one of the best times I ever had DJing."

Tracklist + Q&A

The Mix 007: Beatrice M.

Hessle Audio feat. Le Motel Recorded live at Horst, curated by Ben UFO - 03 March 2025

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Darwin operates in the realm of low-end frequencies, delivering a tripped-out, sub-rattling blend of styles firmly rooted in soundsystem culture.

Her sets move with swampy intensity and hypnotic flow, drawing dancers in while maintaining a quiet versatility. A seasoned crate digger across many genres, she’s as comfortable playing back-to-back with DJ Storm, Mala or Lena Willikens as she is closing out Bassiani or Berghain’s Klubnacht.

Born in Canada, Darwin found her way into dance music after moving to London—first working at fabric in the mid-2000s, then experiencing a bass eureka moment years later at a Swamp81 party. That defining night set the course for her next chapter in Berlin, where she founded her label SPE:C in 2015 to spotlight emerging global talents like Decka, Carré, Axle, Beatrice M., and Tano.
In 2016, she launched REEF at the now-defunct Griessmuehle, a club where she had started a monthly techno-focused DJ residency 2 years earlier that helped develop her signature stripped back, sci-fi-infused sound. The boundary-pushing party brought bass music’s alien energy into the heart of the techno capital, which now calls Berghain home. 

2024 marked a new chapter in Darwin’s evolution with the launch of ABYSS, a Sunday evening soundsystem series centered on the restorative power of low-end frequencies. Blending transcendental dance music with breathwork, meditation and healing practices, the event creates a space where sound connects body and mind. ABYSS has also teamed up with Wuppertal’s acclaimed Open Ground club for an extended weekend takeover, with plans to expand the concept to other cities in the future.

PURE Guest.083 Darwin

FM051: Lewis Lowe 

We’re bringing back the title of “soldier of the scene” in order to hand it straight to Lewis Lowe (@lewis-lowe). Hailing from a wee hamlet in the Highlands, Lewis is a proud ambassador of the Scottish rave continuum, carrying the spirit of lochside free partying into all of his on-point curation, both as co-founder of the Redstone Press label (Pseudopolis, Kincaid, Henry Greenleaf) and booker for Glasgow basement The Flying Duck. “We can’t remember how we first met Lewis,” say the always honest FM crew, “but he quickly became one of the team and is our site manager for the build, bossing people about on his walkie talkie.” 

It’s no surprise to find that Lewis’ FM mix opens with a long list of instructions: “Let us beautify the house of Field Maneuvers together!” Recorded inside the Laika tent at last year’s festival (and then lovingly re-recorded at home after the file got corrupted) his mix is a menagerie of big, beautiful hoofers, with every genre, species and colourway represented. Nerdwave electro built by robotic arms and clockwork elves. Debris from a harrowing incident at the airhorn factory. One museum-grade example of late ‘90s trance culture. Tick follows tock follows tick follows tock. Objekt remixing Sampha’s ‘Wildfire’! Notts grime! SOPHIE! These could only be the selections of a DJ with open ears and tidy salute. Now shut up and dance.

FM061: Lewis Lowe

Full Tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-304-mark-van-hoen

Mark Van Hoen has been enjoying a retrospective moment in his career as he has collected for his albums on Dell’Orso Records, and this mix takes a look back at his many collaborations and bands since the 90s. Showcasing great range, Van Hoen has moved from complex analogue synth blips to snarling, sneering, sizzling shoegaze with ease. Sarah Peacock’s vocals come through bright and clear on Scala’s ‘Words & Thoughts’, while later tracks dive into gently shaking bass buzz with angelic voices swooping and gliding, and pulsating hypnotic slowburns. Soon, bittersweet and explorative sweeps of strings evolve into deep guitar grooves, plaintively tiptoeing synthpop, and thrashing blasts of guitar shreds.

Bleep Mix #304 - Mark Van Hoen

Olgica grew up in Serbia and is now living in Austria. She throws events in both countries and beyond. Left field bass, dub, broken techno, experimental downtempo and dizziyng halftime tunes are attributes of Olgicas sets. Enjoy!

ITPS118 OLGICA

The Final Ruffage Session 14 Jan 2010

UK record label based at fabric, East London. Run in part by Rob Booth (Electronic Explorations)