DJ Set - recorded live at Nowadays, NYC - 16th Feb 2025

(Apologies for volume dips - we had slight sound issues)

Om Unit - DJ Set @ Nowadays (NYC) - 16.02.25

Following his Violence of Positivity release on our label, @exitrecords head honcho @dbridge_exitrecords mixes our next CM podcast! 

Listen to Violence of Positivity here: https://orcd.co/camo005

Tracklist
1	Panoram - Brutal Meditation 
2	dBridge - Choose an Inspiration
3    Steve Spacek - HURLUSION
4	The Fear Ratio	- ONEFIVEOOOH
5	Greetje Bijma & Oceanic - Syzygy
6	Dj Fulltono - BC9FW
7	SNKLS -_ESSENCE I
8	dBridge - Enjoyable Delusion
9	Philipp Gorbachev - V KLUBE feat. BESPALEVO
10	dBridge - Uploaded Intelligence
11	Groves x Malfnktion - Drmstemm
12	Poison Arrow - Casa Show (Heart Drive's Slow Bleed Mix)
13	Commix - Laura
14	Tammo Hesselink - Beam
15	Plastikman - Hypokondriak (Sun People Edit)
16	dBridge - Modernistic
17	dBridge - Synthesis of Incompatibilities
18	dBridge - it takes time
19	dBridge - Battle Of The Locust


Candy Mountain Podcast #007: dBridge

Kinetic club energy generated by one of the sharpest talents in drum & bass and beyond.

Much of the best electronic music rests along the axes of versatility and curiosity: being able to a pull a broad array of influences into your orbit and alchemise it into something distinctive and fresh. That's gyrofield to a tee.

Kiana Li began making waves in drum & bass as a teenager, years before setting foot in a club or experiencing the sound on a proper rig. That's a key factor which helps explain how the deeply-considered, Hong Kong-born producer arrived at a style that eludes easy description. Li, one of the foremost trans women working in drum & bass today, marshals complex rhythms like a sluice and has a knack for detailed bass programming that floods the stereo field without ever dominating it.

2024's spellbinding These Heavens was the apotheosis of an already quietly prolific catalogue; we named it the seventh best record of last year, but in truth, it could have actually nudged up a bit higher.

Li's RA Podcast is a blur of rapid motion, featuring stalwarts (Dillinja, Skee Mask, Calibre, upsammy, Marcus Intalex), contemporary limelights (Nestax, Ehua, Aquarian, Maude Vôs), 17 of their own productions and a grip of truly uncommon selections, like Burnt Friedman & João Pais Filipe's "18-140." It's an ambitious mix from one of the most exciting talents at the vanguard of outer-zonal club music right now.

@gyrofieldmusic

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/987

RA.987 gyrofield

DJ, producer and Kapsela label head Objekt comes by for a visit. 

https://www.instagram.com/objekttt 
https://www.soundcloud.com/keinobjekt



Objekt @ The Lot Radio 05-12-2025

Hessle Audio feat. Pearson Sound - 19 May 2025

A new studio set from one of the foundational icons of drum & bass.

Few names in drum & bass carry as much history as Peshay. Paul Pesce came up in the crucible of early rave and left fingerprints on labels like Mo' Wax, Good Looking and, most obviously, Metalheadz. By the time drum & bass was surging in the mid-'90s, he was bolted as one of the scene's most distinctive voices. 

Where others were pushing clinical austerity or waves of dark pressure, Pesce's ear drew him to featherlight, jazzy chords instead. The atmospheric drum & bass movement—or intelligent, as it's sometimes known today—cohered in his hands with timeless staples like "The Piano Tune" and "Miles From Home."

To a contemporary generation, he may now be best known for Studio Set, which caught alight as a prime slice of algorithm fodder on YouTube in the late 2010s, racking up millions of plays. Alongside Bailey’s Intelligent Drum & Bass, the mix has taken on a second life as a seminal document of a genre in flux. All of which made its removal from the internet, based around a spurious copyright strike, a hot concern.

Although a little tad reserved than some of the scene's most dominant names, Pesce has remained a loyal custodian and historian of the sound. While Studio Set was down, we offered him a crack at making something fresh, and though it's thankfully back up, the Kafkian nightmare galvanised his commitment to preserve recorded history.

Known as a DJ for his dynamic way with a groove, extended blends have long been Pesce's signature. You’ll hear plenty of those on his RA Podcast, as golden-age rollers and contemporary vocal cuts push in and out for up to four minutes, painting a portrait of the genre’s vitality from someone who helped define its terms. True to form, RA.993 carries the touch of a jazz conductor and the assured cool of a veteran who's been deep in the culture for over 30 years.

@peshay-official

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/993

RA.993 Peshay

The dub maestro kept the energy up and the crowd sweating in this 80-minute set, recorded at Mode Festival 2024.

@omunit

RA Live - Om Unit - Mode Festival 2024, Australia

Hessle Audio feat. Pearson Sound - 16 June 2025

Hessle Audio feat. Imperieux & MNTY - 07 July 2025

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Shift Work (@shiftworking) are an electronic duo who have previously released on JD Twitch’s Glasgow label Optimo Music. They debut on Houndstooth with ‘Document II’, an EP developed from live jams on outboard analogue gear. ‘Abandoned Hands’ is lean and raw, an angular bassline and indecipherable vox punctuating the relentless 4/4 kick drum and pattering percussion. ‘SBFM’ is fuller-bodied, with the modulating bassline taking centre stage, draped in loose synths and topped with a deadpan vocal refrain.

Shift Work invited remixes from their associates, and the results are impressive, with DVA Damas (@dvadamasdvadamas) dialling down the tempo and stripping back ‘Abandoned Hands’ further still, whilst Factory Floor (@factory-floor) return to remix duty on Houndstooth with a typically subtle yet infectious building take on 'SBFM'.

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Document II

SBFM (Factory Floor Remix)

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Shift Work - SBFM (Factory Floor Remix)

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

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