M5// FBi Radio

(Mixed live with ❤️ on FBi radio, 22.09.24)

M5 is a specialist DJ show focused on songs, rather than tracks. Emotional, dreamy melodies, deep riffs and post punk sounds - music from the drive home with mum & dad, bedroom listening and big changes. Tracks we didn't think would make it onto our USB's. 

Episode: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-22nd-september-2024
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lillygrainger/

Send music submissions/interview requests/ say hi at lilly.g@fbiradio.com

Header image by: Annabelle Silk

M5 // Episode 1 (FBi 94.5)

Killian and DJ Mistry mixed live on FBi Radio 29.09.24.

Full episode: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-29th-september-2024

Dj Mistry is an Indian born Sydney local, who’s dj sets traverse across a range electronic music with an aim to spark intrigue, wonder and escapism on the dancefloor through untamed synths and varying rhythms. 

With an affinity to no genre in particular, Dj Mistry gravitates towards music that is deep, abrasive and cathartic, reflecting the absurdity of the world and the spirit of the individuals and the community who strive to maintain sanity within it.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrmistryy?igsh=MTEzc2U2dmwyNGh4NA==

Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/w8bsRte5L9ZvwiNN7

M5 // DJ Mistry (FBi 94.5)

Killian and D-Grade mixed live on FBi Radio 06.10.24

Full episode + tracklist: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-6th-october-2024

D-Grade is a DJ and organiser based on Gadigal land, in Sydney Australia. They present ‘serious’ music with cheek, quirk and unpredictability and love to playfully toy at the margins between ‘mind’ and ‘body’ music. D-Grade enjoys frenetic, bossy and beautiful sounds. They’re partial to a good baseline, gritty drums, a gloomy vocal or gaudy guitar riffs. They sometimes appear as Wings of D’sire with good-friend-and-close-collaborator Wingnut, with whom they also put on intermittent, often-elusive boof functions.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dgradeknockoff 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dgradeknockoff 

Photo by: Otis Burian Hodge

M5 // D-Grade (FBi 94.5)

Just me this week. Mixed live on FBi radio 14.10.24 https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-13th-october-2024

M5 // Episode 4 (FBi 94.5)

Killian and Heaven Spot mixed live on FBi Radio 20.10.24

Full episode + tracklist: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-20th-october-2024

Heaven Spot is a DJ from Aotearoa based on Gadigal land. Weaving together a selection of bold and spacious sounds. Outside playing club focused energetic tracks that leave room for introspection, inside  layering textural pads playful synths and weighty baselines, Heaven spot’s mixes are an escape from the day to day a moment to pause and exhale.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_heaven.spot_/

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/heaven_spot 

Photo by: Annabelle Silk

M5 // Heaven Spot (FBi 94.5)

After a brief hiatus, we're back with episode 38 of our mix series from Nantes based DJ and Macadam's Artistic Programmer Aasana. A beautifully organic 2 hour mix exploring an unconscious inner power, traversing ambient, breaks, techno and DnB. 

@aasana

𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 / 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒔 / 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆

Anaëlle / She·Her / Nantes (FR)

𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒙

For several months now, I have been taking the time to explore Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ book Women Who Run with the Wolves. She specifically discusses the notion of Rio Abajo Rio, the River beneath the river, which echoes the depths of the unconscious and the instinctive wisdom that flows within us, even when we are unaware of it. She uses this metaphor to illustrate the primal life force and feminine intuition that exist beneath the surface of our daily lives.
This underground river symbolizes natural instincts, ancestral knowledge, and creativity that continue to flow within us, even when they are sometimes stifled by social or personal pressures. A book that is both inspiring and unsettling, as it deeply resonates with my life’s quest today.

This set is a search for reconnection with Rio Abajo Rio, a journey toward my purest and deepest essence—my inner power—in order to reclaim my intuitive nature.

From a purely aesthetic perspective, this set is woven with Ambient, Techno, Breaks, Abstract, and D’n’B sounds, all tied together by a percussive and organic universe.

𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄?

"I have been immersed in music since I was a child. My parents were involved in the Hard Rock scene. On my mother’s side, part of my family is from Brittany, so Breton music also played a big role in my childhood.

When I was old enough to go out, I dived into so many different scenes—Tribe, Hardcore, and Trance through Raves and Free Parties, Techno to House, Dubstep to D’n’B through clubs and festivals, Dub, Experimental Music, Noise, Ambient, Punk through alternative spaces and squats. This opened countless doors for me, leading to interconnected musical worlds.

Later, my job at Macadam also broadened my musical perspective, thanks to its artistic direction. That's why I generally need to move between different musical styles. My musical approach is entirely based on my feelings, emotions, moods, and, of course, the connection with the crowd when I play.

This is also why I love b2b sets—they push me out of my comfort zone and allow me to discover even more.

𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒅 𝒗𝒊𝒂 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌:

The next four mixes will be visualised by photographs taken by Joris Van Den Einden for his 'Glass Land' project, which delves into the Dutch Westland region and it's many greenhouses as part of his thesis.

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 & 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆: https://www.jorisvandeneinden.com/photography/glass-land

kinetic mix 038: aasana "the river beneath the river"

The Land of Rah is an Eora-based collaborative world-building project run by Julian Hovenden. Through concept albums with paired artworks the lore of this fantasy world has been steadily growing and the branches of its history intertwining. Eclectic live shows, galleries & hyper-collaborative (20+ artist) studio albums; the open arms policy of this project since its inception in 2019 has led to a beautiful community forming.

This mix features tracks recorded live from Julian's collaborative 'Sleepyhead' show held in late Feb.

M5 // The Land of Rah (FBi 94.5)

A psy-fi power hour from one of Australia’s most exciting artists, LOIF. 

Based in Naarm/Melbourne, LOIF made his production debut in late 2019 with the release of ‘Electronic Organism’ and has since landed on a broad selection of record labels such as Animalia, Ute.Rec, Amniote Editions, INDEX Records and Pressure Dome. Most recently, LOIF released his new album ‘GHOSTWORLD’ on Steeplejack. A project that was five years in the making, featuring collaborations with sina, bluhol, and Nū, ‘GHOSTWORLD’ shows the full breadth of LOIF’s ability to build these immersive worlds, journeying through impeccable sound design and psy-influenced soundscapes whilst accomplishing the balancing act of drawing inspiration from both the natural and the digital. Some stand out moments include the deeply emotive, melancholic tone of ‘As Above, So Below’ featuring sina to the tunnelling, skittering energy of ‘Ektoplazm’. On the album, LOIF has created a world that is so distinctively his sonically that lends itself to his live and DJ sets - a couple of the tracks on there are expansions from a live set LOIF had been working on. Whilst LOIF prefers to play outdoors and is deeply influenced by the nature he is surrounded by in Australia with the DIY park parties and bush doofs, over the last few years, LOIF has made a global leap with performances at Persona, Dekmantel Selectors, Dripping, Ohm, Osmosis, Fata Morgana and Recess (in NYC, which is run by como se DJ, who we featured last week), with plans to return to Asia and Europe in the coming months.

Interview: https://untitled909.substack.com/p/untitled-909-podcast-219-loif

GHOSTWORLD: https://loif.bandcamp.com/album/ghostworld

@loiflan

Untitled 909 Podcast 219: LOIF

salam ! 

i thought it important to stay true to the emotions that birthed seed. so the first one is from me 

i found this process very difficult, got stuck in the headspace of wanting to make it a good ‘mix’ but it just not working while staying true to these feelings. and i realised that it’s not meant to be make sense, feeling these emotions simultaneously is jarring, it’s abrupt highs and lows, it’s stop and start, it’s silence. cold and warm. it’s the complete disruption of flow following slight cohesion- conflicting. it’s disrupted diversions into altering soundscapes

i had a go at this a few times, and this version was my last attempt. i cried the whole way through and it was on that very spicy full moon, it’s raw- but it’s honest

this is how heartbreak and introspection sound to me 

big love
ray xx

SEED001 ~ 'siren in my dreams' ~ on heartbreak and introspection

We are so excited to welcome @opheliek to our mix series. The French, Berlin-based DJ and producer has an affinity for low frequencies, intricate percussions and bass-heavy music in all its forms. As an early lover of dub music, UK techno, IDM, and illegal raves, their sound often finds itself at the intersection between dubstep, techno, IDM, with hints of psychedelic music and trance.

“I had quite a different idea originally for this mix, but ended up being quite ill and super tired the last few days, so the recording had to be much more spontaneous and less planned than what I usually like to do for a podcast. It's more of a feverish dream, and showed me I may have some bottled up feelings and a bit of anger inside (who doesn't, seeing the world we live in now)! It felt good to express it through this mix which ended up being quite intense and psychedelic, but also softer and more introspective in parts.”

Avsluta - Black Mamba
Sebastian Russell - Flow
Toki Fuko - Recognize Your Limitations
Atoloi - 75025 Steppers
Glass - Jim & Caroline Were Bad Omens (Christian Coiffure remix)
Altjira - Overnal
Herbalistek - Exuvia
Carrier - Slow Punctures
Silent Era - Pattern Recognition
Anta Doma - Biocore
Andrae Durden - Estoa
WAPAQ - Bythal Portal Dub
Yogg - Mainstay
TOMO - Takoro
Ancestral Voices - Arawn
St Amp - Cave (Wordcolour Remix)
Peter Van Hoesen - Waving Not Drowning
Priori - Pareidolia (Notte Infinita Hi-Tech Roller)
Kontinum - Arctic Crystal
Aedon - Butterload
Polygonia - Twisted Colors
Biocym - Swamp Creatures
Mown - Reaching The Peak
Smogo - Sauvage
Fluid Matter - Ice Cave
Biosphere - Black Mesa
Shifted - Moving Towards The Exits
Rene Wise - Silo Cybin (Original Mix)
Vardae - The Red Citadel
Björk - Pagan Poetry
R-010 - Thermoplastics Skins (Toxido Mask Remix)
Simone Bauer - Driade
Talik - Brainspace

Osmura w/ ophélie 26

pi/live: seiva @ Outra Cena - This Side 12-20-2024

@tangerine_tangerine (ambient set)

Photo: Romain Guede

Tangerine at pe:rsona 2024

@kendalkim

"I made you a soup with just the right amount of spice. I hope it warms you up and makes you feel right at home.”

C002: kendal

Sharing Stories is the title track from my upcoming EP, out 15 August 2025. This track captures the magic of connection through music - those moments when words aren’t needed, and the energy between the DJ and the crowd creates something unforgettable.

With warm, evolving melodies and a steady groove, Sharing Stories invites you into a space of openness and emotional flow. It’s inspired by nights where music becomes its own language, a shared experience that transcends everything else.

Sharing Stories

FALLING NEXT TO YOU

Humanitarian transit site 1, beng built right now in southern Gaza, bio-metric concentration camp. As revealed by Anthony Aguilar..25 year Green Beret vet, interviewed on the Grayzone..(1 hour into the podcast) which is currently being blocked across europe.. for me-must watch, before it's removed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYky_OZcTNw

After the storm

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