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Recorded Live 15.09. 3-6AM @ Sustain Release

Significant Other Live @ Sustain-Release 2024

Bristol-based @k_means operates at the fringes of electronic music. It's not tempo and genre that unites their sound, but more an exploration of mood and texture underpinned by bass-heavy low ends and hypnotic rhythms. The Noods, Rinse FM and Kiosk Radio regular is also resident at Bristol's Psychotherapy Sessions and will debut at Dekmantel Festival where you should fully expect to be taken into plenty of unknown musical territory.

It is the same with their mix for us this week - a wild trip into futuristic drum patterns and interplanetary sounds that melt the mind and contort the body. There is a constant push and pull between the organic and the synthetic with tribal percussion and warped vocals brushing up with bleeping synth modulations and experimental minimalism. It's a magnetic selection that's as much an imaginary movie soundtrack as it is a dance floor escape.

Dekmantel Mix 487 - k means

subcast is born, an incantation of adventurous sonic alchemy behind radiant subs. The inimitable Razrbark kicks things off. Strap in for a chemistry-altering ride.
@razrbark's interview below--->

ℚ: ℍ𝕠𝕨 𝕨𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕔𝕣𝕚𝕓𝕖 ℝ𝕒𝕫𝕣𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕚𝕟 𝕒 𝕗𝕖𝕨 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤?

A: Live edge, live wire

Q: Describe the story behind Razrbark's Specific Heat.

A: Specific Heat measures how resistant (or not) substances are to temperature changes, specifically how much energy is needed to raise the temperature of something by one degree. This concept from chemistry has always stuck with me and is something I thought of after listening to the finished product of this mix/let's be real I just think it sounds cool.

When I first started prepping for this mix, I went in a very different direction and had a rough draft, but it felt tedious, trying to force ideas and tracks in a way that required a lot of energy with little output. Sometimes, things pour out of you and sometimes, they don't. 

One day, a very exciting booking came through (spoiler alert: it was Honcho @ Hot Mass). With the adrenaline rush of the booking, I immediately started mixing tracks from the extremes of my USB, and everything flowed really easily. I decided to hit record, and it came together in a way that felt much more organic. I also unearthed many tracks I had forgotten about that were collecting cobwebs on my stick but that I always loved.

Anyway, all this to say, just like in chemistry, sometimes you need the right conditions for a reaction to truly take off~~~

Q: What is your ideal dancefloor (fictional or real).

The Bronze.

Q: When is the last track that made subs glow for you?

A: Two specific tracks come to mind:
https://snappedankles.bandcamp.com/track/come-play-the-trees-crooked-ankles-2
To me this is the perfect track. I played it at Hot Mass in Pittsburgh sometime after 6am a bit slower than this. I love how it has so much raw power behind it. Big chug NRG. I've always loved this song from the same band. It has a very Iggy Pop/Plastic Bertrand sensibility to it, but I've never been able to play it on a dance floor, so I was happy when I found this edit that is a bit more dance floor friendly and still has the rock/dance vibe that I feel is a hallmark of my sound.

Another track:
I just played this song towards the end of my set at Afterlife in Seattle this weekend. The bass was so intense my drink literally bounced across a table and fell to the floor. I'd say the subs were glowing hard.
https://normalpleasure.bandcamp.com/track/heart-palpitations-on-the-m1

Q: What track/artist was a musical game-changer for you?

A: Föllakzoid. It's psych rock, it's techno, it's everything. Each time I've seen them play, it's world-building and expansive. 

Q: If this mix was a book or a movie what would it be? 

A: It would be in Walk Hard Part 2, when Dewey goes through his drum and bass era.

subcast #1 ✹ Razrbark's Specific Heat

DJ and producer @egavas1 brings a mix full of fluttering and labyrinthine passages to the Ficciones series, pairing familiar cuts with unique selections dredged from the depths of the internet.

Based in NYC via PA and Montreal, egavas is the host of Permutations, which airs Tuesdays at 6pm on 8 Ball Radio.

Ficciones IV - egavas

Al Wootton plays outsider cult rhythms from Ø, Muslimgauze, SPK, Los Niños Del Parque, Hocine Chaoui, Stephen Mallinder, O! Kult, Cut Hands, Mosquitoes, Vox Populi, Youmna Saba, Mixman, Serpente, and loads more.

🌐 "Outsiders" is our daily show hosted by labels, collectives, agencies, venues, clubs, ... worldwide
📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
🔗 kioskradio.com

Outsiders: TRULE w/ Al Wootton @ Kiosk Radio 20.04.2025

Théo Muller at pe:rsona 2024

NAP @ The Lot Radio 05-31-2025

@hjacksonnn b2b @notyumiko live from our first party 

ED0045: Hank Jackson b2b Yumi

Presenting the ever-lovely and ever-inspiring @mikemidnight for #175 in the series. The Boorloo/ Perth based artist initially garnered attention through his output of insanely dreamy trip-hop productions... the perfect combination of emotional & uplifting, and immaculately produced. Mike plays live as a solo artist and now makes up 1/3 of the exciting new band Trickpony, made up of Roza Terenzi, Emkay & Mike himself. 

Beyond his knack for weaving tear-jerkingly beautiful trip hop infused songs - Mike is also a great DJ. Here, with a more club-oriented mix, he showcases his taste & talent, a BTS look into the genres & moods that make up the mind of the talented artist.

Very happy to have you in the series Mike! Thanks for the mix <3

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Animix One Hundred & Seventy Five: Mike Midnight

NE178: Container

This month, Constructive presents mixes by London’s DJ ojo and Tokyo’s DJ Trystero,  artist whose remixes will be released by the label in the coming months.

 DJ ojo who has released music for the ‘trademark nether zone system’ on Blank Mind, Tongue Tied and Oneiric  and has been described by Boomkat as making music 'ripe for early club hours and later sprawled on the rug.’

An enigmatic operator from the fogged-out fringes of techno, DJ Trystero has quickly impressed with a brief slew of releases for Incienso and The Trilogy Tapes. His reductionist style narrates bygone eras in abstracted flow, a singular sound cultivated with an assured touch. He also runs the cult City-St. Giga label out of Tokyo.

🌐 "Outsiders" is our daily show hosted by labels, collectives, agencies, venues, clubs, ... worldwide
📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
🔗 kioskradio.com

Outsiders: Constructive w/ DJ ojo & DJ Trystero @ Kiosk Radio 06.07.2025

Recorded in his studio, August 2015.

01. Don Cherry - North Brazillian Ceremonial Hymn [Caprice Records]
02. Conoco - Keppi [Sigma Editions]
03. Antenes - Fire Rises [L.I.E.S.]
04. nsi. - Bird [Non Standard Productions]
05. Scion - Emerge0 [Chain Reaction]
06. Microsmiles - Drugs Are Right [Logistic Records]
07. Daniel Bell - Science Fiction [Tresor]
08. Don Williams - Orderly Kaos [a.r.t.less]
09. Underground Resistance - Beauty Of Decay [Underground Resistance]
10. Norman - Greenroom [Synewave]
11. Mark Verbos - Mafia [Deepfried]
12. Love Inc. - Contradition [Force Inc.]
13. Peter Van Hoesen - Nineteen Continued [Time To Express]
14. Jasper - The Attempt [Cytrax]
15. Surgeon - Syllable [Downwards]
16. Transllusion - Unordinary Realities [Supremat / Tresor]
17. Acronym - Jotunheim [Semantica]
18. Musicology - Hall Of Mirrors [B12]
19. Gunnar Haslam - Athabaskan Languages
20. Ø - Spiraalit [Sähkö Recordings]
21. Robert Hood - Home [Tresor]
22. Basic Channel - Octagon [Basic Channel]
23. Jeff Mills - Automatic [Purpose Maker]
24. AFX - Batine Acid [Rephlex]
25. ?
26. Beau Wanzer - Grooves No Zone [Beau Wanzer]
27. DJ Harlow - Waxwork (CP Mix) [L.A. Club Resource]
28. Gescom - Motor2 [Source Records]
29. Sun Electric - Osram 527 [R&S Records]
30. Harmonia - Watussi [Brain]

The Bunker Podcast 103 - Gunnar Haslam

Tracklist: http://bit.ly/roy-ayers-75

Celebrating the 75th birthday of Mr Roy Ayers with this mix, showcasing some of my favourite tracks from his slightly lesser known material… Well, I mean compared to tracks like Everybody 
Loves The Sunshine, Searching, We Live In Brooklyn, Running Away, Love Will Bring Us Back Together…

I also hear new stuff that I hadn’t noticed before when I listen to his music - the track with Jack Wilson that opens the mix up is so heavy and cosmic for its time, and I’d forgotten about the track with Wayne Henderson! There are so many great albums out there including the 2 Virgin Ubiquities BBE put out... We could devote a whole week of radio programmes to Roy, his archive is so large… 

He is the key to all things between jazz, soul, disco and hip hop…. Thank you roy for all the music...


Tracklist

Roy Ayers 75th Birthday Mix

Very few musical acts achieve the levels of unanimous acclaim of Autechre. The English duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth are not an act you simply like; they are an act you love, fawn over and dream about. They’ve got themselves here over the course of the last 28 years, and have done so by amassing a discography that’s about as perfect, influential and accomplished as could ever be possible. A key Warp label act from day one, they have released tens of albums, well over a ten EPs and have featured on a dizzying amount of essential compilations, mixes and remixes in that time. Without their contribution to the IDM canon, its fair to say the modern musical landscape would look very different. 

Rhythmic but experimental, absorbing yet abstract, cerebral and psychedelic, their ever evolving output is up there with the likes of fellow luminaries Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin as some of the most important in all of electronic music. As well as being fine craftsmen in the studio, Autechre are also revered live performers who really manage to conjure up captivating and otherworldly soundtracks that marry heavy bass with ethereal melody. The pair themselves do not care for genre, but suffice it to say that they have mastered everything from hardcore to ambient to glitch and plenty of indescribables in between. 

When the pair recently laid down an impressive set at Dekmantel Festival, we asked if they might be up for a doing an early inspiration mix, whereby they put together a collection of the sort of electro and hip hop tracks that turned them on as youths. At first they hesitated, pointing out that "we don't do strictly retro stuff, it's too corny.” But alas, a few days later, a huge file landed in our inbox… That file is a 4 hour and 18 minute mix that basically encapsulates not just Autechre’s own influences, but also acts as a fine anthology of the greatest electro sounds of all time. Every sub genre imaginable gets touched upon along the way, with nods to forefathers like Kraftwerk, killer cuts from Man Parrish, classics from Newcleus and retro gold from the likes of The Beat Club. It is a thrilling ride and a truly rare treat that reminds us just why we love Autechre, as well as shining a light on a vast genre that often pays second fiddle to house and techno.

Dekmantel Podcast 035 - Autechre

magic mountain high
live improvisation
dachstock bern feb 2015
peace yo!

Magic Mountain High @ Dachstock, Bern 2015-02-27

Anina (Happy Skull) mix for Berceuse Heroique

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Anina (Happy Skull) mix for Berceuse Heroique

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