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‘For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

Music is an anchor in life, useable in any if not every scenario to shift or change your current mood. It's something that you have complete control of (unless you’re in someone else’s car), this control, I find is somewhat taken for granted every now and then and I think in this strange time of our lives it's very important to take control of what you can. Speaking of control, it's something our next guest has mastered, A Naarm favourite Bex. 

Hard work, dedication, and a belief in one's self are the holy trinity to the path of evolution, All of these factors Bex has mastered. Through years and years of commitment to her craft, Bex has steeled herself amongst her peers and their dance floors, forever increasing her orbit and her listeners inside of it. Encompassing the pure aesthetics of Dj’ing (an understanding of rhythm and how people react to it), she has cemented herself as a staple DJ all across Naarm as well pushing the same ethos with her own party series “Spincycle” (HOT TIP!!). She’s here to stay and it fills me with confidence for the future. 

The mix itself beautifully encompasses the very thing I’ve set out to explore, the other side. For someone who is consistently filling dance floors, you can tell Bex has done herself justice in reaching into her musical peripherals and wholeheartedly enjoyed doing it. Ecstatic trips into euphoria electronica, A consistent theme explored in its whole, done masterfully. Computer-generated soul at its finest, using BPM as a narrative tool, she takes us on a trip through her own mind, leaving no stone unturned. After countless play-throughs, I still find little details that excite me, her technical skills on full display for the world to see. A perfect summary of Bex herself. Enjoy it every way you can. 

Her words >>>> "when I was making the mix I was kind of thinking it was like a bit of a love story. It has lots of songs that have been prominent in my past relationships and lots of songs about love and with love in the title. It’s a bit of a story of the history of love (and heartbreak)"

Her sounds >>>> https://soundcloud.com/becarmstrongmusic

FHUO # 74 // Bex

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After debuting his first VBX event at BRET this year, we're excited to present you one of the long-time resident at Closer club, Kyiv’s most renowned clubbing institution. Noizar is a Ukranian DJ recently relocated to Amsterdam. He is the owner of the vinyl-only label Wicked Bass, on which he releases records from both Ukrainian and international talents. His style is uniquely sharp and groovy – behind the decks he shows a key focus on detailed performances, from the selections to his technical abilities.

@noizar

VBX #30 - Podcast by Noizar

Shanti Celeste is one of those artists whose personality matches her DJ style. Her fun-loving nature and breezy demeanour always light up a room, as do her vibrant sets that span sunny house music, slow-burning disco and emotive techno. Fresh off her Hessle Audio debut, the London-based artist sat down with RA's Martha Pazienti-Caidan for an honest chat about track selection, bad gigs and her approach to production.

During DJ sets, the Peach Discs co-founder doesn’t like to focus on genres. Instead, "I think about, like, building and releasing tension and making sure that I stay in a specific energy level," she explained. "Whereas before, I think I knew the energy I wanted to bring, but I didn't know how to do that cause I was just thinking about everything in terms of genre."

Reaching this holistic stage, however, took time. It was a process of acquiring knowledge and experience but also confidence, she described, adding how she previously had "really bad imposter syndrome." Learning to deal with bad gigs and recognising that certain factors might be outside an artist’s control are essential to self-realisation, she continued. Going on to discuss her experience of playing big festival stages, she noted the importance of "learning what side of yourself to channel" rather than compromise on music.

For more details on her experience playing with fellow women DJs, her lockdown romance and recording her vocals, listen to the chat in full.

EX.628 Shanti Celeste

Part of Uruguay's burgeoning Phonoteque family, Stonem is as uncompromising in his sound as he is in his DJ sets. Square wave basslines, raged synths and room filling drums all feed into his sound palette. Out of the blocks with a bang his first forays into the world of production found their home on Phonoteque, that was back in 2019 and he has been a firm fixture with them since.

The man from Montevideo makes it his goal to seek out the gnarliest sounds and jaw clenching breakbeats. All packaged up in a tightly woven journey that has now dipped into the stratosphere of our InSession series. From more downtempo beginnings Stonem quickly finds his pace and tone and the rest is for you to explore. Zap filled, electro goodies are to be found at the corner of every mix and it is little wonder why he is so prized amongst a label full of legends.

https://soundcloud.com/stonemmvd
https://www.facebook.com/tinchostonem

Stonem - Trommel InSession 084

LYO#216 / Lea Lisa

Taking over Tapes #83 is Hybrid Man, the electronic music project of Naarm-based duo Julien Huynh and Will Holden. Formed in late 2018, the pair’s live set suspends time - drawing you in deep for a moment of keen introspection before erupting into euphoric electronica. 
Keenly, the imaginative world induced nods at dance music past and present, where it fuses ambient soundscapes with IDM, 90s trance, dubbed-out house, techno and beyond for an all-immersive and timeless experience. 

 At the forefront of Hybrid Man’s union is a mutual penchant for hardware-based production. This passion sees the duo side-by-side maneuvering their equipment with the precision of surgeons, championing left-field sonic artifacts, environmental recordings and manually-played improvisatory instrumentation. A patchwork of influences; Hybrid Man have trailblazed the contemporary downtempo meets techno movement in Naarm, peppering their sound to technical finesse with dub-style mixing and effects.

Read the full interview: https://www.originssound.com/os-tapes/hybrid-man-mix

Follow Hybrid Man —
instagram.com/hybrid__man
@hybridmn

TRACKLIST

Work The Peripherals - Hysteria
Admnti - Hypersphere
Earthlink - Flight
Prince De Takicardie - Greetings From Psychedelic Space (Shorftrip Mix)
Anderson - HydroFlux
Salomo - Hydro Twist
Solar Suite - Big Drift
Asphalt DJ & Gzardin - The Figg
Lisene - Square One
Baby G - Dream Routine
Pugilist - Undulate 
Reflex Blue - Trip Sit (Elevate Mix)
Gabriola - Worldwave
Harley Ferris - Return
Dylan Forbes - Djibril 9

Origins Tapes 083 - Hybrid Man

This exclusive mix is part of our book Euro Trash.

With text contributions from Damir Arsenijevic, Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Gracie Mae Bradley, Cédric Durand, the European Space Agency (sort of), Sara Farris, Alexandre Kojève, Maurizio Lazzarato, Sandro Mezzadra, Toni Negri, Thomas Piketty, Beatriz Preciado, Bernard Stiegler, Martin Wolf, Slavoj Žižek.

EVEN THOUGH WE’RE ALL INTERNATIONALISTS, FOR NOW THE BOOK WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE IN GERMAN.

There were concerns about a possible lack of German voices in this collection but acid legend Carlos Souffront came to our rescue and his exclusive “Europe from Detroit” mix dispels them in the most unexpected, poignant and concise way possible. Kraftwerk’s 1977 “Trans-Europe-Express” imagined the continent as a haven of post-historical nostalgia. We asked Carlos to reimagine Europe as a province of Detroit in order to invert the usual perspective.
Often, the Motor City is an object of European musical desire, filled to the brim with projections even, and especially if there is post-industrial desolation to be admired. Let’s try it the other way around. The mix expertly strides between delicacy and a sense of impending dread that culminates in a brief sequence where German history unmistakably rears its ugly head. But there is life beyond that, there has to be. This is not a mind trip, this is a body journey.

CARLOS SOUFFRONT - Europe From Detroit

Musical Autobiographies is a show where artists are invited to share the story of their lives through music - hosted by @benflock1, @itsmerubi, and @zodya on @refugeworldwide. In this episode, we are discovering ten tracks which shaped the journey of @cleymoore.

"Listening to music connects people like no other cultural discipline. Yet, music conveys different meanings, memories and emotions to different individuals. Every piece of music has a personal story, both for the composer and the listener. All these stories combined create musical autobiographies. Everybody has one."

https://refugeworldwide.com/artists/musical-autobiographies

Musical Autobiographies | Cleymoore

Here is the deep world's soundtrack of Ill Spleen, where melodies and beats are the enveloppes of the soul.
A real masterclass by our close friend born in Marocco, living in Paris and member of Sentaku.

Artists : 

ODB (Wu Tang)
Hidden Chipsters 
Polyswitch 
Rock City Shockers
Mos Def x Massive Attack 
Beesmunt Soundsystem
Twins Natalia 
Planet Funk 
Achterbahn D'Amour 
The Drum Club 
Lucy 
Biodive
Laid Back

Positive Podcast #06 - Ill Spleen

Who dares enter the Ruikersroomte… Dive in a world of smoke and filth curated by the joint effort of the Kimura & Hotbox crews.
A monthly selection of favourites and new discoveries.

Ruikersroomte w/ Nathan Boost at WAV | 25-04-25

This consecrated mix is devoted to time and presence.

Aurally infused relaxation, a sweet slowing down to nurture minds and battle pensivity. A souvenir, a keepsake; to encourage patience, to re-enforce: a calmness, a steadiness, and a stabilisation of thought. Thwarting the frenetic and hectic environments which the 21st century life can permit.

Music is one of the mother's to presence and Here, our intention is to be a guide to a present.

here 8th ––– Sound Care System

Dora’s Explorers w/ DJ Spud - Aaja channel 2 - 03 09 25

SOFT is a 55-minute sound journal, I’m exploring music with a sense of formidable, childlike urgency. It features three tracks Chris and I created on a Wintery Sunday eve. SOFT reflects the warm up, the preparation before arriving. Because once you arrive, THEN WHAT? 
Berlin is so urban and large. I’m not done living among people; they are my biggest source of inspiration, but I do keep hearing the birds. 
Enjoy the journey — maybe while cooking.

SOFT - Madame B Sound Journal ft. Nikol

Paquita will be jamming with us on 4th December!

Feel free to join us!
https://www.facebook.com/events/888133481271915/894529703965626/

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