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Thought I'd upload my Essential Mix from earlier this year for your listening pleasure now it's not available on the BBC. 

This is my original recording with no stings and no Pete Tong talking(sadly). 

It was such an honour to contribute to this mix series, i'd rate it up there as one of the biggest achievements i've had as a DJ. Thanks to everyone who listened and wrote me nice messages about it <3

TRACKLIST

Nazar - Unruly
Black Rain - City of Atomic Ghost
Anurah & Impey - Lyre Lullaby
Eric Donte - A Wig Is Born (prod. DJ SWISHA) [Instrumental]
Batu - I Own Your Energy
Basic - 66 Order
Jabes - Body Said No
A.k.Adrix - F.i.l.i.p.a.d.o
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Victims
Bruce & Lurka - Bee Track
Bambounou - Modular Track
Commodo - Guah
Eastman - Fight For A Cause
Air Max '97 - Eat The Rich 
Metrist - VV Squi
Poly Chain - Peculiar
Siete Catorce - Serrano
Rian Traenor - Metrogazer
Jay Mitta - Tatizo Pesa feat. Dogo Janja
DJ SWISHA & Kush Jones - Torcida
Piezo - Rowina
Hyysxl - Loom
Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Young & Healthy
Ido Plumes - Walking With The Tasman Abel
Archivist - Cinder Cone (Patrick Russell Remix)
Nico - Elements
Lyra Pramuk - Mirror
Mang & GRAŃ - Live4evr
Hence Therefore - Census Map Museum
Dehousy - Okinawa
Lil Silva - Gobble That
Batu - Go Deeper
Jabes - Ripples
Dynamite - Link Up
Radeco Domar - Energi a Animal
Nguzunguzu - Times Up (Khole Tribal PVT)
Viers - Douglas Descend
Leonce - Arpjam 916
Kleft + Tolga Baklacioglu - Disguised In Black
EL PLVYBXY - los caballeros del jaguar
Al Wootton - Starlite Xpress
Call Super - Cherry Picker
Two Lone Swordsmen - The Backstair Rattlers
Stanislav Tolkachev - Be Careful And Nobody Dies

BBC Radio One - Essential Mix

Recorded live at Waterworks Festival 2021, Gunnersbury Park, London on 25 September 2021

Pressure stage

Live at Waterworks Festival 2021 - London

Skee Mask is one of dance music's greatest crossover stories of the past decade, with new albums greeted with the attention usually reserved for an Aphex Twin or a Caribou. ("Loved seeing this on r/indieheads," said one Reddit user, on the release of the 2021 LP Pool.) It's not hard to understand why: albums like Compro, he blends well-worn dance music tropes with incredible, detailed soundscapes and spine-tingling melodies. And on his 12-inches, he brings that sensibility to the dance floor, with an approach probably best described as articulate. Even on his most ambient of tracks, everything is in its right place. Along with founders the Zenker Brothers, his music outlines everything that makes Munich outfit Ilian Tape one of the best techno labels going.

On the decks, it's kind of a different story. It might surprise you if you only know his albums, but Skee Mask is an incredible DJ, balancing his predilection for hip-hop and UK-informed sounds with laser-focused techno. He can adapt to all sorts of situations—there's an incredible recording of him DJing with four of the best grime and drum & bass MCs in the business—and on his RA Podcast he focuses on the techno side of things, with nearly two hours of pacey techno and creative mixing, with dips into acid, electro, garage and more. It's a party-starting mix from a genuine star, perfect for getting through the holiday doldrums or pre-gaming your NYE plans. Like Skee Mask's best records, it's something to enjoy in any number of settings.

@skeemask-music

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/864

RA podcast

RA.864 Skee Mask

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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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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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

(tracklist below)

This is part 3 of 3 of the recording from my set at Nowadays Nonstop on April 7, 2024.

I played from 9am-3pm, between JASSS and Bearcat, and it was one of the most creatively fulfilling sets I can remember playing – one of those sets where the audience, environment, atmosphere, tech setup, phase of the moon, whatever, all somehow lined up for a full 6 hours. And happily, the recording is maybe my favorite I’ve managed to capture to date. Huge thanks to Kristin for inviting me and to everyone who was there that morning.


TRACKLIST – PART 3  – 1pm – 3pm

DubGuy – Not Massive
EDM – Chaos Engineer (Tom Mix)
Osheyack & Nahash – Temperance
Oyubi – Taiko160
Low End Activist – Look Up
Sun People – Tell Me Something
Holsten – Odlum
DJ Die – Reincarnations
Krust – Vibration
John Rolodex & Jungle Drummer – Serve No Kings
Type – Hummer
Homemade Weapons – Lingchi (with Artilect)
Kiril & Was A Be – This!
Xsetra – Testudo
Halogenix – Jump Suit
Instra:mental – Shine
Mike Parker – Radioactive Fire
Sam KDC – Decimate
69db – Night Life
NPLGNN – Sirens Steppa
Anna Funk Damage – Tom You Was A Good Player
CAN – Oh Yeah
Balil – Parasight
Coil – The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams II)
Plastique de Reve – Your Future
Head High – Break Away
Studio X – Los Kings del Mambo
Jamie Anderson, Solid Groove, Jesse Rose, No Comment – You Know Beats
Clara!, SKY H1, Pearson Sound – Gotas
Al Wootton – Vitus
Dope Module – We Bring It
Doubt – Brain Zap (Drums)
The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl (Extended Version)
Actress – Gershwin
Dawl – Break It Down
BFC – Galaxy
Renegade Soundwave – The Phantom
BANDULU – Guidance
Autolux – Plantlife


Artwork by Brodie Kaman

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024 - Part 3

Words by Ceci (@ccl-url): 

"Special thanks to Steevio & Suzybee & all the volunteers, workers & dancers 💙

This is my recording from Friday night Room 2, 12:30-2am, my first time being at the mythical Free Rotation. Playing one of the first sets & seeing the room, decor and the big bad subs of Room 2, years of fantastical lore and reality melded, I wanted to keep it sexy, wonky, trippy— imagining a psychic electric swamp and how one would levitate thru it... to the sky. No bpm trickery this time. Out to the heavenly bodies of the universe! ;)

Mastered by Wordcolour"


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ani/live Fifty Six: CCL @ Freerotation

subglow/live returns with a special recording from @beatricemasters & @bambi-dj, two of the best in the game right now. A special closing set between friends - in Bea's words:

"This mix was closing Supercamp festival’s last ever edition, from 6 to 8pm on a sunday. Therefore we thought we do a reverse journey of intensity, starting with 140 pressure taking our time to slow all the way down to 120 during the 2hours - hitting 130 with mellow dub techno cuts or classic-feel ukg, and ending with a series of (very) warm closing tracks upon closing tracks. You’ll know by now that Bambi and Beatrice M. are pretty different in their approach to DJing, which makes it all the more interesting and fun for them to find the lovely middle ground they pleasantly settle in during their b2bs. For this one, the key word is: dub. »

TASCAM DR-40X

subglow/Live 2: Bambi & Beatrice M. @ Supercamp Festival '24

Pariah (Arthur Cayzer) is a British music producer and DJ based in Amsterdam. Since his first releases in 2010, he has made a name for himself off the back of his eclectic take on dance and electronic music, both through his productions and his approach to DJing. He is the co-founder of the Voam record label alongside Blawan (Jamie Roberts), and the two have collaborated extensively for more than a decade, performing and releasing music together as Karenn and Persher.

C12 w/ Pariah @ Kiosk Radio 08.06.2025

Colonised EP

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4/D mix 
Speedy beats , pace changes , cuts ,fades, and rolling blends 

Ladies & Gents !!! Welcome !!!25/8/25.

Adventures in machine music built to make subs rattle and feet wiggle; a convoluted mess of elektrology and teknology, 3-step, bass-core, post windmill, proto-minimal wankstep, gondola, shithouse, acid wonk, ambient gabber, no more, no less.

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Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024 - Part 3

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