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The fifth installment of the FTC Mix Series is brought to you by Galway based DJ, Mia. Well renowned for her skills as a quality selector, Mia doesn't disappoint as she brings an hour of euphoric breaks and heavy techno numbers to transport you back to the happy hardcore days of the 90's. Guaranteed raving, don't sleep on this one.

Faoi Thalamh Mix Series 005 - MIA

Radiant Love resident and co-founder @byronyeates records a mix of peak time rave euphoria for the Fresh Kicks series

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/fresh-kicks-150-byron-yeates

Fresh Kicks 150: Byron Yeates

Belfast's Ejeca records a mix of uplifting house edits and unreleased productions for the On Cue series, and speaks to Amy Fielding about the value of nostalgia, creating a journey with melodies, and a new live concept for his Trance Wax moniker

Interview + tracklist here: https://djmag.com/features/cue-ejeca

On Cue: Ejeca

KETTAMA - IF U LOVE ME

BANDCAMP

KETTAMA - Strange World (2JZ Mix)

Break Slippy

remix of the 2015 diss track www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKutTL_KLig

Skepta - Nasty (pama edit)

Mall Grab, Nia Archives — Patience (Ned Bennett Edit)

Pitched

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KETTAMA reaches divine peace and prosperity in the new clash with Special Request on Peggy Gou's Gudu Records.

MAXXX VOLUME + MASS EUPHORIA !

12'' Vinyl + Digital

Special Request - Sliver Ft Novelist (KETTAMA Remix)

Following on from their highly anticipated debut on Steel City Dance Discs, Scottish duo Clouds, consisting of Glasgow based Liam Robertson and Berlin based Calum Macleod now unveil their second EP via the label, Positive Delusion. Buy & stream here:https://steelcitydancediscs.lnk.to/PositiveDelusion

Clouds waste no time in bringing us straight into their bass-soaked underworld with the title track and continue this unrelenting musical voyage with Get With It; an aggressive orchestra of distorted instrumentals, rolling percussion, bellowing bass and chopped vocals. The duo’s “mission” of achieving Rhythm Perfection is laid out bare in the aforementioned track, as its piercing stabs keep the listener hooked and chained to this ungodly underbelly of sound. Dreamarena, with its ominous rave-stabs and gut-hurdling bassline takes us eventually to our fate, as the EP reaches its darkest, deepest point with Vyperskin.

Clouds - Positive Delusion

KETTAMA - Scribble (Unreleased)

BEAT VIOLENTO

@pillow-queen
@d-tiffany 
@vani_t
@ex-terrestrial

For its second release, Radiant Love sticks to family values. Paying homage to the party and label’s co-director and resident Byron Yeates, Byron’s Theme comes from the likes of Vani-T (one half of Berlin’s forceful, femme party Climax) and D. Tiffany (who threw down a ruthless remix on the label’s first release by Fio Fa). Together, they take the name of Pillow Queen – a semi-pejorative term for the kind of sub who expects to receive pleasure like a well catches rainwater. No reciprocation, just a reign of sexual passivity.



Their tracks, however, give plenty. “Byron’s Theme” presents a rich palette in its 2-minute buildup: a dry trance hook, high-end synths buzzing and wavering, pitch-shifted voice samples and a pan-flute ran through with tremolo. Throbbing, the 303 bassline picks up after a breakdown at the 4-minute mark, and only then does one realise the song’s still building. There’s still room in the last 40 seconds for some percussion modeled on a breakbeat loop – which is to say, the track is incredibly cheeky and hard-hitting – all that I would hope for in any lover.



While the EP’s first track feels wide, rangy, “Estrel Nights” opens the EP’s B-side in a much closer, tighter space. The build is percussive: bongo taps, claps, cowbell; then a hi-hat snaps things into shape, and in lopes the kick drum. And rhythm remains the central player here. It’s not until 3 minutes in that the percussion finds a melodic backdrop – a dreamy, detuned pad, choral, like a moan.



Ex-Terrestrial’s remix of “Byron’s Theme” repositions some of the elements and ratchets up the tempo of the original, but maintains its respiration: the energy and erotics flow into a different structure, closer to traditional trance, with sharp hi-hats and loopy arpeggios that phase in and out of syncopation, measure to measure. Diagonal, we incline to a climax that dizzily plateaus at 6 minutes, de-escalates and breaks down over the next 2, glows until it’s just a kick drum, slower, slower still; we’re catching our breath.

PILLOW QUEEN
Title: BYRON'S THEME
Cat: RADIANTLOVE001
Format: 12”
Distributed: RUBADUB
Artwork: YENNY JRANT 
Text: NAT MARCUS
Release date: 16.03.20

PILLOW QUEEN - BYRON'S THEME

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Leeds based duo Soul Mass Transit System conjure up a heady mix of Speed Garage, 2-Step and eyes-down Niche pressure for this weeks SYSTEM mix.

SYSTEM Mix 041: Soul Mass Transit System

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