Wrapping up the year in style, we’re happy to share the 2nd pieces podcast: a recording of Ivan Smagghe at Houghton Festival last August. 
“Everything has been said about Houghton and yet, nothing gets close to what it actually is and means. Playing at Outburst has become something of a regular occurence and I get goosebumps every year. Recordings are not the actual moment but some have been asking for the memento so here it is. Huge thanks to Craig Richards and Bobby. for their continuum of love and support”

pieces 002 - Ivan Smagghe - Live from Houghton 2024

https://www.instagram.com/ghunghrusounds
https://soundcloud.com/cabin-w


GHUNGHRU with dj carl dj + healthy dog @ The Lot Radio 07-03-2025

In July 2025, our friends, the Avantgarden Crew, invited Lars Hemmerling and Pat Flanders to the Community Gathering in the Monom Bar of the legendary Funkhaus Berlin, where the two of them stood behind the decks together for the first time.
Still, their gathering felt and sounded more like a team that has been working together forever than an improvised set. 

If you were there, you know that. If not, much of their performance was recorded to give you a flavor of this great evening/night of performances and exhibitions, and perhaps a taste of what's to come.

Eventinfo ||
https://ra.co/events/2208496

Lars Hemmerling ||
https://soundcloud.com/user-943357333
https://www.instagram.com/larshems20

Pat Flanders ||
https://soundcloud.com/mindwaves-music
https://www.instagram.com/mindwaves_music

Download link ||
http://chillinberlin.com/download/697/?tmstv=1753579323

Lars Hemmerling & Pat Flanders @ Community Gathering, Funkhaus Berlin 2025

Artist: Autumns
Title: 'Solid Liquid'
Label: Dystant Recordings
Cat. #: DST012
Format: Cassette & Digital
Release: 17th October,​ ​2025
Pre order: https://dystantrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dea…mance-v-a

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a new Autumns' gem on 'Dystant Recordings'.

''A rose, forgotten in a basket, wrapped in plastic and surrounded by chaos.
Out of place, yet not by chance.
It is there because it endures, and that endurance tells a story.

Death Romance is born from this vision: a silent beauty, muted yet still significant.
It is not mere nostalgia, but a living tension — a tension between what persists and what we choose not to see.
Our music inhabits these spaces.
It is an act of listening, not just of expression.
It does not narrate, explain, or simplify.
Instead, it lets something emerge: scribbles, rips, distorted sounds, raw materials, details that seem out of place.
And yet, they are exactly where they belong.

Each track in this work offers a perspective.
Each artist has contributed a fragment of reality, creating a dissonant and authentic picture.
In a world that moves on, this is our way of staying.
Because certain things — even when hidden, even when dirty, even when left to decay — still pulse.
And from there, they speak.''

@autumns
@dystantrecordings

Premiere: Autumns - Solid Liquid [Dystant Recordings]

Silent Era is the co-founder of the label Of Paradise and its sub-label Badlands on which she regularly releases her music as well. Her versatile productions range between bass-heavy broken rhythms and also more experimental soundscapes as you can hear on her latest release called „Emerald Pool“. And there is more to come. Enjoy the mix!

Tracklist:
1. Identified Patient - Second-Hand Nostalgia [Nerve Collect]
2. Scanner - Trawl, Disappearance [Aquarellist]
3. Priori - Hazard (Forest Drive West Slowmo Remix) [Midgar]
4. POD & Edward Richards - Flux Growth [Kinetic Vision Australia]
5. Stave & Karim Maas - Searching [Standards & Practices]
6. Pessimist - SPRTLZM [Pessimist Productions]
7. Mercy System - Vacuum [Of Paradise]
8. Saffron Bloom - Curtain Call (Original) [Delicate Records]
9. Fracture - Verhoeven (Slow Mix) [Astrophonica]
10. Terrain - Mode [Delsin Records]
11. Pugilist - Daggers [Of Paradise]
12. Client_03 - Thought Disposal (Slow Mix) [Astrophonica]
13. Sepehr - Isfahan Sinistra [GARMO]
14. Destrata - Meridian [Of Paradise]
15. Pugilist & POD - Iridescent [Of Paradise]
16. Stone - Plenty [3XL]

SHAW CUTS PODCAST 048 - SILENT ERA

For this twelfth episode, we are excited to feature XANDY.

“Oncidium” is Elata the side podcast series curated by Elata Community and highlighting artists within our scene.
Also known as the "dancing-lady orchid," Oncidium is a flower similar to the Elata one. For us, it will represent the first dance, the first steps, the beginning of a longer dance.

This series will consist of podcasts made by London (and its area) based artists, with a special focus on Elata Community artists.

Support the Artist: 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xandyuk/
Soundcloud: @xandyuk

Artwork: @ylia_music

Oncidium 012 | XANDY

artist: @janefitz
recorded on the 19th of January 2025
length: 04h57m38s

[Extended] Jane Fitz (full recording) @ essaim, Paris / 19Jan2025

A seminal, pioneering figure in the 90s and 00s UK tech house scene, a mix from Pure Science is as bucket list as they come. With his first Australia tour over New Years approaching fast, the mysterious tech house luminary reappears from his subterranean science den with a whopping five(!!) hour live set, full of moody unreleased gems and carefully reimagined classics from his genre shaping 30+ year discography.

@purescience

Q. What an incredible journey this mix is! What sounds or feelings did you draw upon when gathering inspiration for the mix, and what listening environments could you imagine it being best enjoyed in?

A. Thank you for your kind words, Myles. I was initially asked to do a couple of hours, but thought, I would do at least four, and start with a good hour of unreleased ambient / downtempo tracks that I have made, that I wouldn’t necessarily play out to a dance floor, and build up the tempo. So to answer your question, I guess I was pulling out tracks that were made at a close tempo, and gradually build up to a Deep House / Techno range. There are loads of unreleased bits, which I will be featuring on upcoming albums. I guess the vibe was to keep it deep, and not to bang it out or play too obvious, and to add a couple of surprises in there, as it is for the Melbourne Deepcast after all.

Q. Are there any records in the mix that you were especially excited to share, and what is it about these songs that resonate with you so much?

A. I am not playing any records, CDJ’s or harmonicas on this mix.. Lol, Only Ableton Live, Korg ER1 drum machine, Roland System 100 modular (clone), Novation Nova & Evolution uc-33 midi controller.

There is one track that I have only played out once when I was in my teens, and it was written in 1989, when I was 15/16 years old. It’s called Circle, and is on the mix at around 3:43:43 mark (The hypnotic track with the organ).

Q. I know you’ve made special edits of some of your classic Pure Science records for this mix, tell us about how you like to reimagine your music from 20+ years ago, and how your sound has evolved since creating your most iconic records in the late 90s..

A. I’ve been re-recording, mixing, and mastering some of my classic releases, and preparing them for live, i.e. stripping down the parts to the basic form e.g. Kick, Snare, Hats, Claps, Toms, Congas, Percussion, Bass, Keys, Vox, etc, so I can re-arrange the tracks on the fly or break down to my drum machines / synths / recorded modular jams if I feel I want to improvise to the crowd a bit, or I can just concentrate on the blend of tracks, and the selection like a DJ would, and have complete control of the journey..

Q. We’re all very excited to see you play in Melbourne on NYD! Tell us about your hybrid live / DJ setup, is that something you’ve been refining for a while now?

A. I am very excited too, as I have been going through, my old floppy disks going back to 1987, from my old Ensoniq SQ80, as it has just come back from a service, and has had its 10-year internal battery replacement. 
I have been rediscovering tracks that I had totally forgotten about. Specifically a couple of tracks that I love, one is called Moon from 1992, and the other called Tibet from that same era. Both were made a little faster than what I would play out now, and were over 135BPM, but if you slow them down a bit, they just sound chunkier, and PHATer. x  p.s. It’s only hybrid if I DJ too, and I probably won’t have time for that. Live only on this trip. Thank you all for your time, and I hope to see you on the dance floor..

MDC.316 Pure Science

Ever since we heard @monophonikmusic perform his live set at Mala Junta in June, we knew that Jai is an artist who consistently pushes the boundaries of what playing live in a club can feel like. The perfect moment to experience this again arrived in Jai’s natural habitat, India, during the packed release party for his and Kohra’s debut EP on Harmony, held at Juna Club in Goa.

It was one of those warm nights where the energy is already buzzing before the music even starts. Our own Alfred Czital set the tone beautifully, and as Monophonik stepped into the booth, the room was already humid and moving as one. Within minutes, his production completely took over the space. His live set unfolded with raw intensity and surgical precision, weaving trance lines, broken rhythms and hypnotic sequences into a full-body experience.

Easily one of the most impressive live sets we’ve heard in a long time, and we’re more than happy to share the recording with you.

002

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