Legendary dub techno artist Paul St. Hilaire (AKA Tikiman) announces new collaborative album, marking 10 years of Kynant Records. 

Building on the success of Paul St. Hilaire’s landmark solo album for Kynant in 2023, w/ The Producers switches up the formula to pair St. Hilaire with a different producer on each track. Referencing fellow dub techno pioneers Mark Ernestus & Moritz von Oswald’s acclaimed album w/ The Artists as Rhythm & Sound, St. Hilaire flips the concept to feature as the lone vocalist.

Over the album’s nine tracks, St. Hilaire offers a range of conscious song-writing and headtop musings, such as the spoken-word dread of “What’s This” or the sparse call-to-action of “Send Them On”. w/ The Producers is yet another essential record in St. Hilaire’s unmatched discography.

The album marks 10 years of Kynant Records, with label owner Richard Akingbehin curating an eclectic but sonically connected group of producers. These include luminaries such as Digital Mystikz boss and dubstep trailblazer Mala, or the elusive Chain Reaction artist Shinichi Atobe. They sit alongside some of the most exciting names in recent electronic music - Batu, Gavsborg, Azu Tiwaline, Priori, Cousin, Russell E.L. Butler, Aurora Halal and DJ G - all of whom bring different elements of dub techno into their productions.

w/ The Producers finds Kynant Records bridging the original voice of dub techno with the genre’s new wave. It’s a statement of intent from the label, which began 10 years ago with deep, hypnotic techno and has veered gradually towards more dubwise sounds.

Mastered by Stefan Betke
Artwork by Grant Gibson
Distributed by N.E.W.S 

B1 Paul St. Hilaire & Priori - Send Them On

ED052: Zarina

the 11th entry in our series come from a dear friend and label regular, Toronto based musician and DJ - @ciel_dj

Words from the artist :

"little sounds in huge expansive spaces"

This mix was my musical extrapolation of this quote. As I put together the tracks in the mix, the idea of small sounds in big spaces became more metaphysical, as a metaphor for memory and nostalgia. Small, seemingly insignificant events in our past can expand in significance over time, informed by our experiences later on in life, and with our emotions acting as a tool of reverberation, extending their presence in our lives far past their time of occurrence. What begun as a process of selecting tracks that quite literally feature "small sounds in big spaces" soon morphed into a dig into my distant past, to nearly 20 years ago when I first started learning to DJ. I pulled from the mnml tracks that had an important influence on my formative years, their impact can still be heard in the contemporary tracks I play today, all of them bouncing next to each other in this nearly 2hr musical collage.

naffcast011 ⦾  *̣̥☆·͙̥‧‧̩̥·‧•̥̩̥͙‧·‧̩̥˟͙ Ciel ˟͙‧̩̥·‧•̥̩̥͙‧·‧̩̥‧·͙̥̣☆*̣̥

For the third episode of IREMTOURFM, we are welcoming @basicchanel

basic chanel is a London-based DJ, writer and founder of the long-running music platform Untitled 909 (@untitled909}. The host of two radio residencies on Netil Radio and Refuge Worldwide and a background in music PR, basic chanel's work exists at the bridge between artists and audiences with an importance in world building and creating stories across all outputs


 " one term to sum up the mix is: patience. a key theme in my life right now and something i've learned a lot more about since hiking.  "

IREMTOURFM 03 - Basic Chanel

This week's animix comes from the incredible duo, Atrice (@atricemiras) - a mystical pairing who are part of a pool of insanely talented artists in the small Central European state, Switzerland -  there is a seemingly bursting ratio of talent per capita in this country!.

Drawing inspiration from everyday encounters and digital overstimulation, Atrice's music is refreshing, unique and modern - idm, experimental & bass driven - it somehow also sits perfectly amongst the class & purity of old school & solidified genres like dub, bass, techno - which is seen in their releases on labels like Illian Tape. 

On top of their productions and live sets, Lino & Pablo extend their craft with their on theme DJ'ing - always presenting new & exciting.. and always making perfect sense. For their animix, a beautiful journey through dub and beyond. 

Thanks so much for the mix Lino & Pablo <3

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Animix One Hundred & Eighty One: Atrice

Monthly inter-dimensional techno and rhythm transmissions from GiGi FM.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/gigi-fm/episodes/gigi-fm-10th-september-2025

GiGi FM Presents Mareena  100925

Dubbed out psychedelic percussive dance tracks. 

https://www.instagram.com/al_wootton



Al Wootton @ The Lot Radio 09-18-2025

Three hours of my favourite Muslimgauze tracks, plus a Boss RE-20 delay pedal, recorded live on 24th September 2025 at Ikii, Berlin.

I was first exposed to Muslimgauze in 2017, when Simon Scott opened the Mungo's HiFi stage of Dimensions Festival with an all-Muslimgauze set*. I'm slightly ashamed to say that at the time it wasn't really my thing, but I was intrigued by the sound and I kept my ears open for more in the years that followed. I imagine I had a similar experience to many who cross paths with his music: I picked up a couple of his albums, but his daunting discography of ~200 releases put me off from digging deeper.

Over the past few months I've put in a determined effort to listen through most of it. I discovered a vast expanse of interesting music, a unique soundclash of rhythm, dub and tape loops, all coloured by Bryn Jones's obsession with the Muslim world. I was pleasantly surprised by how much good stuff there is - while there is a lot of repetition, much of it is genuinely hypnotic. It's also raw, experimental and fiercely political.

To help prioritise my digging, I went through several lists of other people's top Muslimgauze releases. One thing that struck me was how different these lists all were, and how little they intersected with my own favourites in the end. Different listeners clearly come away with entirely different takes from his discography. So while I hope this recording piques your interest, I strongly encourage you to go on your own Muslimgauze digging journey and find your own personal favourites. Thanks to the crew at Ikii for giving me the opportunity to share mine.

* recorded here: https://soundcloud.com/kemal187/simon-scott-dimensions-soundsystem-all-muslimgauze-mix-live-dimensions-festival-2017

Tracklist:
Satyajit Eye (Reverse Mix)
Mandarin Guerilla 4
A Nation
Mujahideen
Yasser Arafat's Radio
Sapere Aude
Ferdowsi
Opiate and Mullah
Fazisi
The Taliban
Azzazzin (several mixes mixed)
Palestine Is Our Izlamic Land (two mixes)
Nonehru Jacket
Eleven Minarets Part 9
A Small Intricate Box, Which Contains Old Blue Opium Marzipan
Saddams Children
Extract 2
Bazoft Rope
Nabius
Believers Of The Blind Sheikh
8am, Tel Aviv
Dharam Hinduja
Muezzin Farsi
Tuareg
An End
Negative Of Ethiopia
An Abyssinyan Who Could Kiss Fire
Baghdad
Istanbul
Dome Of The Rock 1
Deceiver
Gulf Between Us
Mullah Said
Masawi Wife & Child
Al Kimia
Meze
Shah Of Persia
Yassin Ayyash Part 2
Uzi Mahmood 12
Medina Flight
Lahore
Eleven Minarets Part 8
Uzi Mahmood 7
Narcotic
Morphina Gobi
Iqbal Singh Will Tatoo You
Bilechik Mule
Sacrifice Pit
Marseille II
Turkish Berlina - Untitled (2 mixes)
Gopi Juggle
Daughter Of The King Of China 2
The Handless Of Bazaars
Karakum Burqa
Uskadar
God And I

In Focus: Muslimgauze

Unreleased

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Issa Sacha - Chrysalis (Short play)

Taken from Herck’s upcoming Snake Eyes EP on Casa de la Planete, “So Bad” unfolds with precision.
OUT SOON.

Herck – So Bad [CASA004 Preview]

Record label lovingly operated by @richard-akingbehin.

Agonis, Aurora Halal, Azu Tiwaline, Batu, Black Sand, Cio D'Or, Cousin, DJ G, Donato Dozzy, Echologist, Edward George, Fjäder, Forest Drive West, Gavsborg, Iori, Korridor, LADA (Dasha Rush & Lars Hemmerling), Max Durante, Michał Wolski, MA, Mala, Mike Parker, NikNak, O Yuki Conjugate, Pangaea, Parallel 9, Paul St. Hilaire (AKA Tikiman), Priori, René Löwe, Riddim Writer, Russell E.L. Butler, Shinichi Atobe, Steven Porter, Tensal, Terrence Dixon, Tilliander : Svreca, TM404 & Echologist, Vohkinne, VRIL, Wata Igarashi

Kynant EX: a sub-label for non-dancefloor focused releases.

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