Hello Everyone, and welcome along to another episode of our infamous Progcast! Transporting you all to our favourite destinations on the planet, in search of those perfect progressive beats..

For the month of June, the Progcast is settling down for a non stop tour of England, as we go scouring the country for some of her finer, edgier, unique artists. With so much excellent music coming into our scene right now, we invite you to settle in and kick back, and let PFG bring you the essential sounds you need.

Our first artist, fresh off the back of an LNOE EP, is always pushing the envelope on what we would describe as underground dance music. Throw your expectations away, get with this program, and make some noise for Ben Watkins, AKA Robots With No Soul! 

Don't be fooled by robotic motifs – Robots With No Soul is an electronic battle cry for authenticity. The British techno renegade is driven by a pit-of-the- stomach feeling. There is no boxing, packaging or mass-producing of his off- kilter drum beats, raging basslines and emotive melodies.  Rejecting mechanical, copy-and-paste culture for something far deeper, his music is a personal exploration into the possibilities of sound...

Robots With No Soul quickly caught the attention of modern techno's most distinctive duo, Dense & Pika. After joining their roster to play the Watergate Berlin main room, Ben released his debut album “Rose” album on their acclaimed Kneaded Pains label in 2020. 

The release of "Sedonda Circle" on Sasha's LNOE imprint last year, further elevated Ben's profile. 

But donʼt believe the hype – use your ears! 

ENJOY THE MIX!

Stellios Vassiloudis - White Cells (Yui Onodera remix) 
Rival Consoles - Noise Call And Response 2 
Subduxtion - Ambience
Otik - Whole Wide Worlds
Flug - Just You
Future 16 - The Kingdom Of Nobody
Birds Ov Paradise - Tutor
Evigt Mörker - Högre
SLV - Darkness
Altman - Floating Dust
Sigha - Christ Figures
Christian Gerlach - Orbit XND
Shlomo - Escape The Void
Falling Echos - Abyss
Vertical Spectrum - Mitochondria
Obscure Shape, SHDW - Geseng der toten Dinge 
Aoud - SE MKII
Amotik - Athais
Answer Code Request - The 4th Verdict
Dorian Gray - Experiencing The Now
Lavel - The Emotion Machine
Raar - Le Sacrifice Moral
ORBE - Dual Synth
Fergus Sweetland & Casual Treatment - Dorian Moods

MORE RWNS:

https://m.soundcloud.com/robotswithnosoul?fs=e&s=cl
https://www.instagram.com/robotswithnosoul/?fs=e&s=cl

The Progcast - Episode 118 - Robots With No Soul

Belfast born, nai living in London, I enjoy throwing a few tunes together, butchering them then harassing my friends until they listen. I started in November 2020 and have become even more obsessed with the progressive side of life after 4 years of listening to it. I hope you enjoy. 

Huge influence from Sasha and Last Night On Earth is present within my mixes. 

Setup:-

3 x XDJ-1000mk2
1 x DJM-750mk2
1 x RMX-1000
1 x Me

#uppapeelers

58 year old raver that’s me 🙌🔊🙌
Craig pailing 🙌🙌 jimi falconer 
John digweed Sasha 
It’s 2020 I need a club to go wild in 🤣🙌

Andreas was born here in June on the beautiful planet Earth in a magnificent solar system. He is very grateful for this, and since then he has enjoyed all kinds of lively music, which plays an important role in his life. He thanks all artists and music lovers for allowing him to continue to experience his life with all its ups and downs ;-)

Music is a special kind of safe in which you can give free rein to your boundless creativity to continue to record positive events in life and process less positive ones. In this sense, time does not stand still, but music remains timeless....🎶💜🎶

It’s not progressive if it doesn’t push music forward: this is the position held by KSTEELE. Be it the next track in his mix or his ambitions out on the horizon, the Denver DJ always keeps it real and keeps it moving.

KSTEELE is the forerunner of #properPROG — less a genre and more a philosophy of sonic exploration. His refusal to conform has yielded an unpredictable style that holds captive house, techno and trance fans alike in rooms like Temple Denver, Bar Standard, Club Vinyl, and Meow Wolf Denver. Only a few short years into his electronic music career, he’s beginning to rapidly accelerate.

It’s a rare sort of confidence that allows KSTEELE to rise above the tribalism that plagues modern dance music. It only makes sense, though, as he’s no stranger to going against the grain.

Born Kalib Steele in Colorado Springs, he first fell in love with trance at boarding school when he found “For An Angel” by Paul van Dyk on a friend’s iPod Nano. He played the track on repeat every day. Even without access to a community who shared his newfound passion, he then explored much of the electronic music landscape on his own before graduating high school.

2013 marked a turning point as Steele touched down in Denver and immediately got involved with Global Dance, the city’s largest electronic music event brand. Doors opened to a world even bigger than the one he envisioned when he heard the otherworldly melodies of his formative influences. He started out as a promoter and quickly worked his way up to A&R.

It wasn’t until much later that Steele entertained the idea of performing himself. By 2017 he was constantly dazzling established artists in the trance-progressive arena with his knowledge of cutting-edge tracks on obscure labels. After enough respected tastemakers pushed him to take up DJing, he finally made his way to the other side of the decks.

KSTEELE debuted at Denver club Bar Standard in December of 2019. He was billed as the opener, but by the time his set ended he had a crowd that any local DJ would envy. More importantly, he demonstrated to all the right people in the city that his passion for music had manifested as a talent for music curation.

The years since have been kind to KSTEELE. His résumé now includes gigs at Club Vinyl, Larimer Lounge, Knew Concious, Temple Denver, Your Mom's House, Milk Bar, Global Dance Festival, X BAR, Meow Wolf Denver, Disco Pussy Las Vegas and both the Denver and Las Vegas iterations of Techno Taco Tuesday. 
He has played support for such well-known artists as Tinlicker, Jody Wisternoff, Simon Doty, Cristoph, Matt Lange, Charles D, John Monkman, Hannes Bieger, Grum, Moon Boots, Shay DeCastro, Qrion, CRi, Estiva and Matt Fax. KSTEELE also boasts strong ties with Denver promoter TheHundred Presents, Knew Conscious, and techno/progressive label JourneyDeep Records.

KSTEELE has covered this much ground in such a short period of time because he’s building something bigger than himself. It’s not lost on him that he’s among a small handful of Black artists active in the trance-progressive range of the electronic music spectrum. He wants his success to lead the way for others in his shoes who might not otherwise see a place for themselves in this community.

At the same time, KSTEELE attests that proper progressive is not a creative range at all. He believes that every piece of music is unique in itself, and whatever meanings we give to the words that become genres will never measure up to the sounds themselves. His drive to unearth a diverse array of forward-thinking gems is what makes his music progressive. His seamless mixing, stage presence, and immediate connection with the audience is what makes it unquestionably proper.

Listen closely enough to the moments that make up a KSTEELE set and you can hear the omen of a not-so-distant future. One thing is for sure: There’s no telling where the #properPROG movement will take him next.

Welcome to Il Modo. Supporters of quality underground electronica, specialising in Progressive House and all related genres. Follow us for Exclusive DJ sets from around the world, both weekly and monthly. Plus our monthly radio shows on DIFM & Subcode! 

We push new and emerging DJs as much as we can, alongside current club favourites and headliners. Fresh talent is always on our radar so if you would like a chance at a guest mix here, impress us! Drop us a message here or through our FB/Instagram channels, we are always listening x

https://www.beatport.com/release/hyperbolic/2759270 my album ENJOY

The Progcast - Episode 118 - Robots With No Soul

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