peas in the pod

Second episode of our Jam RTBF radio residency with ISLAS. 

islas does not care about the Brexit. She will keep on spreading her UK vibes all over Europe and beyond. She was once the female force behind Basic Moves. After collecting electronic gems for a long time she is now also laying them down and weaving them together to create meandering sets. her credo: the more vocals the better.

https://ra.co/dj/islas

Magma - Jam RTBF Residency / ISLAS - 01.05.21

Those who attended Horst Festival 2021 maybe got the chance to experience it in the flesh. But this islas @islasaliasailsa set will do the job at any time and place. The UK born, Brussels based connoisseur curated an intellectual ambient set that perfectly matches our visions.

DSS 053 I islas

CREVETTE RECORDS PODCAST #05 - ISLAS

Read interview here
> https://crevetterecords.be/podcasts

CREVETTE RECORDS PODCAST #05 - ISLAS

The Basic Moves Of … islas

Attention music lovers ! This is an ultra ultra special mix, since it is the long-awaited islas Basic Moves podcast. Ailsa Cavers aka islas and I started and ran the record label and club nights together for the first four years. As time takes things and things take time (and life rolls on (and off) and on) our paths have brought us back to sharing friendship, culture, and music again :)

islas also Ailsa is a creative centipede roaming the fields of art, design, music, literature and so much more. Originally from Reading (UK) but relocated to Bordeaux (FR) in the early 2000s where she studied at Ecole Des Beaux Arts before landing in what is now her hometown, Brussels (BE). Together with a bunch of like-minded souls she started the electronic music collective Planet, ran a music pop-up called OP-a with her bff Dana Kuehr…overall islas is a busy, gifted artistic bee that never stings.

Sooo to the music: 2 years in the making, this mix is a story of carefully selected, funny and open-minded club music dug up in the garden of electro house, quirky tech house, Detroit techno, and millennium minimal. All with an islas twist and topped with an English, French and Belgian sauce. Praise the lovely, steezy Ailsa alias islas forever !

https://soundcloud.com/islasaliasailsa

The Basic Moves Of ... islas

@basicmoves is a Brussels-based "outsider club music" label run by Islas and Walrus. Next month they will give birth to their fifth release, a techno 12" which comes from a mysterious NYC producer. They also run the experimental Gems Under The Horizon night, the next edition of which takes place in September.

The duo have kindly put together this pulsating, otherworldly mix for us - featuring music from the likes of Peter Zummo, Kid 606 and Cristian Vogel, dig in now...

Download + Tracklist

Basic Moves: The 'Monday Is Okay' Mix

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brusselssssss sprout

after studying visual arts, creative centipede
ailsa cavers aka islas slowly drifted 
towards a growing interest in sound. 
islas began crafting long, throbbing
sets that bring together delay
pedals, ASMR, spoken word,
movie scores, and ambient
sounds, playing with the
friction that exists when one
record meets another, with the
joy that erupts when sounds
come together to create the
previously unheard. having
participated in the creation of
belgian dance music label basic
moves, and the PLANET collective, 
islas propels
dance-oriented sets,
all the while conserving a
passion for sampled and loopy
vocals, wonky percussion,
intoxicating breaks, and bird
sounds.
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