Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

UC022 // Next up, is DJ Netburner who has recently returned to Melbourne with a back pocket full of stripped down, rolling minimal tunes.  

This mix floats in the void of a steady march with some intriguing emerging ideas as well as an unreleased track with signature Netburner sampling & techy goodness.

"l've been really interested in mixes and songs that have a bit of push-pull to them like the intensity or feeling of the song isn't always building directly towards being more energetic or more intense.  It has a bit of a push-pull feel to it or like ebb & flow so that's what I wanted to do with this mix.  It starts off a little bit more minimal before getting fuller towards the middle and then stripping back towards the end, with little peaks in between."

- Loni Jeffs aka DJ Netburner [ @dj-netburner ]

Full interview: uppercrustau.substack.com/s/mixes-interview
Tracklist to come: www.instagram.com/uppercrust_au/

022 - DJ Netburner

AWOL - A week of Leather & Fetish

DJ mix recorded live at The Laird (Melb/Naarm) for their Jock Party - Aug 6th, 2025

Huge thanks to Brett and the team! 

As always, PM for any tracks IDs

Be Prepared!

Jock Party DJ Mix - AWOL 2025, The Laird

Campfire Stories (Earthscapes) by @funky_jeff

~ About The Story ~

“You wake in the deep woods of Québec, Canada. Alone in the cold north. You think you may have seen something lurking in the shadows. Or is your mind playing tricks on you? Your journey begins in ambient territory. From earth, to sea, to the deep clouds and then, to space. Each section, earth to space, is heralded by spoken words. Lifted into space, you then drift there for an endless amount of time, with nothing but headphones and ambient drones for company. Low frequencies included. Your Earthscapes journey has begun.” - Funky Jeff (Québec City, Canada)


~ Chapters ~

0.1 Vangelis : La mer recommencée (L'Apocalypse Des Animaux - 1973)
0.2 Scanner : Untitled (Mass observation - 1994)
0.3 FFWD : Lucky Saddle (FFWD - 1994)
0.4 K.L.F. : Six black cold hours, Louisiana going to coffee (Chill out - 1990)
0.5 Autumn Of Communion ‎: Rhea (Autumn Of Communion 3 - 2013)
0.6 Electro harmonix : Morphing clouds ( Electro Harmonix - 1994)
0.7 ISHQ : Sunrise on the hill ( The Invisible Landscape - 2014)
0.8 µ-Ziq : Ethereal Murmurings ( Bluff Limbo - 1994)
0.9 Shades Of Orion ‎– Shades Of Orion 2 (Shades Of Orion 2- 1995)
10. Boards of Canada : Sundown (Tomorrow's harvest - 2014)
11. Thomson-Nightingale - Cloud Formations ( Various ‎– Atmospheric - Elements/Weather - 1986)
12. Dreamfish : Underwater ( Dreamfish - 1993)
13. X-102 : The rings of Saturn ( Discovers The Rings Of Saturn - 1992)
14. Spaceci : High flight (Various Artists 1 - 2013)
15. The Orb - Back side of the moon(Adventures beyond the ultraworld- 1991)
16. Biosphere : Startoucher (Patashnik - 1994)
17. Biosphere : MIR ( Patashnik - 1994)
18. Radio Scotvoid : Special K (Mick Chillage's Black Hole Mix) [Rewired Volume One: [Remixes By Mick Chillage - 2013]
19. Mick Chillage : Approaching Antares (FAXology - 2011)
20. Stormloop : Space station ( Snowbound - 2011)
21. Autumn Of Communion : Telos ( Autumn Of Communion 3 - 2013)


~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 17 (Earthscapes) by Funky Jeff

Campfire Stories 23 (A Dream) by Luigi Tozzi


~ About The Story ~

In spring of youth it was my lot
To haunt of the wide world a spot
The which I could not love the less—
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pines that towered around.

But when the Night had thrown her pall
Upon the spot, as upon all,
And the mystic wind went by
Murmuring in melody—
Then—ah, then, I would awake
To the terror of the lone lake.

Yet that terror was not fright,
But a tremulous delight—
A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define—
Nor Love—although the Love were thine.

Death was in that poisonous wave,
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his lone imagining—
Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake.


~ Chapters ~

01. Earthen Sea - The Sky is A Sea of Darkness
02. Luigi Tozzi - Bathypelagic Zone
03. Unreleased
04. Abdulla Rashim - Semien Terara 1
05. Efdemin - Subatomic
06. Evigt Morker - Narke
07. Stewart Walker - Classic Science Fiction
08. Reynold - Over There (Donato Dozzy Mix)
09. Sandwell District - Speed + Sound
10. SYS - Exoplanet 
11. Ben Buitendjik - Trascendend Being
12. Purl - Stillpoint
13. Cio d'Or - Zepto
14. Acronym - Mu 1
15. Unreleased

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 23 (A Dream) by Luigi Tozzi

Campfire Stories 39 (Constellations) by @joachim-spieth

~ About The Story ~

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

~ Chapters ~

01. Clotur - Luminescence XII 
02. SVLBRD - Hvit
03. Råd Kjetil Senza Testa - Of the Augmented Living Dead
04. Moby - LA1
05. Isorinne - 3:29
06. Aphex Twin - 8 #20
07. ASC - The Promise In Your Lies
08. Markus Guentner - Limb
09. Acronym - Pointless Endeavor
10. Toki Fuko - Underwater (ftVadimBassov)
11. Moby - LA2
12. Varg - Ursviken
13. D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - Svältåren

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 39 (Constellations) by Joachim Spieth

Campfire Stories 44 (Middle Of The Way) by Anton Kubikov

~ About The Story ~

The coals go out,
The last smoke wavers up
Losing itself in the stars.
This is my first night to lie
In the uncreating dark.

In the human heart
There sleeps a green worm
That has spun the heart about itself,
And that shall dream itself black wings
One day to break free into the black sky.

I leave my eyes open,
I lie here and forget our life,
All I see is that we float out
Into the emptiness, among the great stars,
On this little vessel without lights.

I know that I love the day,
The sun on the mountain, the Pacific
Shiny and accomplishing itself in breakers,
But I know I live half alive in the world,
Half my life belongs to the wild darkness.
- Galway Kinnell

~ Chapters ~

Anton Kubikov T.D.P.A. - (Dubtil rmx)
Point & Trauma - Push it
Cezar Lazar - Equtime
Noah Skelton - Daytime Hovering ( Kamran Sadeghi rmx)
Sensek / Cosmjn - Cmd Fu
Belinsky - Milkys
Jay Bliss - Mercury
Santierri - Accident
Oge - a 1 - 1
Diego Krause - Return

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 44 (Middle Of The Way) by Anton Kubikov

The Italian DJ shows the depth of her tastes.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=639

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.639 Paquita Gordon

Campfire Stories 91 (A Light Exists in Spring) by Mosam Howieson (@mos-how) 

~ About The Story ~

A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the year
At any other period --
When March is scarcely here

A color stands abroad
On solitary fields
That science cannot overtake
But human nature feels.

It waits upon the lawn,
It shows the furthest tree
Upon the furthest slope you know
It almost speaks to you.

Then as horizons step
Or noons report away
Without the formula of sound
It passes and we stay --

A quality of loss
Affecting our content
As trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a sacrament.
- Emily Dickinson 

~ Chapters ~

1. Jay - Disasterpeace 
2. Bibio - Pantglas
3. Aleksi Perala - nl 156
4. Murcof - Rostro
5. Porn Sword Tobacco - Untitled 
6. Porn Sword Tobacco - Untitled
7. Claudio Fabrianesi & Donato Dozzy - Infecta Atmosphere
8. Saphileaum ‎- Violet Pond
9. Porn Sword Tobacco - Untitled 
10. Ryan James Ford - Lempt Jarkarin
11. Klaus - Cry Tuff
12. Grand River - Recollectio
13. Taylor Deupree - Negative Snow
14. Andrea - Floating
15. Barker - Wireheading
16. Bibio - 0913
17. Regis Solution (Music)
18 . Laksa - Yoig’s Choice
19. Tarquin Manek - locks on our doors (instrumental dub)
20. Grand River - The Question Is
21. Romans - Cyrene
22. Saphileaum ‎- Night Forest Campfire
23. Steve Hauschildt - Subtractive Skies

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Lucia

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 91 (A Light Exists in Spring) by Mosam Howieson

Campfire Stories 96 (Widening Gyre) by o.utlier (@o-utlier)

~ About The Story ~

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst   
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   
The darkness drops again; but now I know   
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
- William Yeats

~ Chapters ~

Coming soon

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

- - -

Photo: Jakob Braun

- - -

www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 96 (Widening Gyre) by o.utlier

Campfire Stories 100 (Through Friedrichshain) by @Chryslsm

~ About The Story ~

I sit by a dancing choir,
of flames that burn in towers.
there are cabins and woodlands,
and pastel and faded flowers.

there is a strange maniac,
that sits on a bucket by the trees.
he sings songs between puffs of smokes,
about horror stories, fates and dreams.

I listen to the chilling crackle,
that lights my eyes in mini-fires.
and hum to the beat of the ukulele,
on the grass path with tracks of tires.

whistle of the ancient winds,
that tell stories of bears and poisonous pears.
the campfire singes down; cool and crisp,
and the maniac disappears.

~ Chapters ~

TREPTOWER

Intro - Walking Through Forest
Saphileaum - Agate Entrance [Annulled, 2019]
Valentino Mora - Ash Walk [Stereo Deluxe, 2019]
MTRL - Genodesic [IO, 2019]
Abdulla Rashim - Semien Terara 1 [Abdulla Rashim, 2013]
Shlømo & AWB - Twelve Fortresses [Taapion, 2018]
Deepchord - Fargo [Soma, 2015]
Cløtur - Clarity [Warok Music, 2017]
Luigi Tozzi - Flusso Perpetuo [Hypnus, 2016]
Deepbass - Cycles [Informa, 2016]
Dycide - Sonnenstrahl (Red Mix) [Lowless, 2019]

PIRATENSPIELPLATZ

Intro - Playground Antics
MTRL - Ascension [IO, 2019]
Valentino Mora - Yant Suea [Spazio Disponible, 2018]
Primal Code - Siwa [Hypnus, 2020]
Birds ov Paradise - Tutor [Hypnus, 2018]
Dycide - Amavasya [IO, 2019]
Kaf x MTRL - Transneptunian Sea [IO, 2018]
Alume - Kotoka [Nyame, 2016]
KAS:ST - Hidden Memory (Claudio PRC Remix) [Concrete Music 4AM, 2017]
Reggy Van Oers, Joachim Spieth - Noctilucent [Affin, 2019]
Evigt Mörker - Epikles [Evigt Mörker, 2014]
Luigi Tozzi - Chemosynthesis [Hypnus, 2014]

RUMMELSBURGER SEE

Intro - Puddles and Small Waves
Ataxy - Spherics [Faint, 2020]
Monochrome - Misme's Breath [Annulled, 2015]
Formant Value & Simone Bauer - Veduta V [Annulled, 2018]
BLNDR, Luigi Tozzi - Dawn [Thule, 2017]
Hydrangea - Lines [Annulled, 2019]
Ignacio Tardieu - Steam Cluster [Unclosed, 2019]
Interlude - Deep Underwater
Monochrome - Senses [Annulled, 2015]
Ignacio Tardieu - Space & Soul [Unclosed, 2019]
BLNDR - Isolate Frequencies 1 [Hypnus, 2014]
Emika Elena - No Language [Human Lessons, 2018]
Discknocked - Luthanum [Echo Disciplines, 2018]
Claudio PRC - Domo [Ultimae, 2017]

ALT-STRAULAU

Intro - City Ambience
Deepbass - Kyma [Informa, 2016]
Donato Dozzy - Aquatica [Palinoia, 2020]
AWB - The Fifth Element [Soma, 2016]
Luigi Tozzi - Binary Sunset [Hypnus, 2017]
9beats - Phreatic Eruption [Annulled, 2019]
The Alchemical Theory - Pentacolo [Subosc, 2020]
Cløtur - Mindfulness [Warok Music, 2017]
Deepbass - Time and Again [Informa, 2018]
9beats - Equilibrium [Annulled, 2019]
Cløtur - Hyperspace Travel (BLNDR Remix) [Warok Music, 2019]
Arnaud Le Texier - Granular Therapy [Children of Tomorrow, 2018]
Deepbass - Circa [Soma, 2016]

OSTKREUZ

Intro - Russian Radio Chatter
Answer Code Request - Odyssey Sequence [Ostgut Ton, 2014]
Function - Zahlensender [Tresor, 2019]
Art of Life - Forgive [Kindisch, 2019]
Etapp Kyle - Void [Gynoid Audio, 2011]
Underjack - Siberia [Attic Music, 2017]
Joachium Spieth - Luciferin [Affin, 2017
Acronym - River Red Gum [Northern Electronics, 2013]
Svarog - FF2 [Edit Select, 2020]
Evigt Mörker - Den Stilla Kammaren [Northern Electronics, 2017]
Primal Code - Artemisia [Konstruckt, 2018]
The Alchemical Theory - Recondito [Norite, 2019]
Dycide - Above the Water [Dycide, 2020]
Outro - Rain on Roof

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Maximilian Meyer

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories

Campfire Stories 100 (Through Friedrichshain) by Chryslsm

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