Marguerite Records invites with Leroy Se Meurt & Rio Velestri on Rinse France

Marguerite Records invites with Leroy Se Meurt & Rio Velestri - 19 Juillet 2025

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 

B2 Paul St. Hilaire & Shinichi Atobe - Time to Wake Up

Animalia's natural evolution into new regions & sounds comes with the introduction of @sub-basics to the label. For the first iteration in a new series of releases by the London based artist, Sub Basics brings his signature blend of minimal UK bass, with prismatic percussion loops & spaced out, psychedelic grooves, meeting a tech-house adjacent score that underpins the release.

Immersive yet functional, the release is versatile by nature, timely and fitting for both the autumnal shift in the northern hemisphere, and the welcoming of spring in Australia.

Artist: Sub Basics (London, UK)
Title: Wavelengths
Format: 12” / Digi
Distributed by: Clone (Rotterdam, NL) 
Artwork & Design by Josh Abramovici, (New York, USA)
Mastered by Jason Goz, Transition Mastering (London, UK)

Animalia would like to acknowledge that whilst all tracks were produced in the UK, the label itself operates on the traditional land of the Woiwurrung & Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation, and pay respect to their elders past, and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.

2025 Animalia Label

Sub Basics - Wavelengths (ANIMA17)

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

the recording of my dj set at @familyaffairfestival - from 00 to 02 am

it was pouring rain for the whole festival but the energy didn't go down for a moment - <3 it was a very special one

full tracklist:

1. Stereometrix - Alligators
2. Command D - 0-Zone (ft. Cousin)
3. Konduku - Gegek
4. Inner Lakes - H2K
5. Mac & Ruhetag - Uncle’s Lonely Nights
6. Elting Lieb - Yukon
7. DJ19 - Phuturefunk (Ross Couch Remix)
8. Export Audio - Giri Effects
9. Vinyl Speed Adjust - Night Sky
10. Wobblehead - Angelic
11. Quazar - La Sirena
12. Skudge - Ontic (Rolando Understands Remix)
13. Eversines - Estrange
14. North Atlantic - Lights Out (Lemon8 Lights On Remix)
15. Der Dritte Raum - Wellenbad
16. Nathan Melja & Flørist - Wonderland (Nathan Melja Version)
17. Sam Brickel - Tone Control
18. JXTPS - Scorpion
19. Sam Brickel - Hit’ Em Up
20. Primal Code - Ai Calculator (Priori Remix)
21. Dienzephalon - Elektroakupunktur
22. Robert Diez - Honey Stash
23. DSV1 - Distress
24. Harry Mariani - Nagchampa
25. Command D - Muzik
26. Hi-Fi Bugs - Lydian & The Dinosaur
27. Two Lone Swordsmen - Neuflex
28. FSOB - Track Six
29. Planetary Assault Systems - Function 4
30. Segment - Basskissen
31. The Persuader - What Is The Time, Mr. Templar
32. Freddie Fresh & Tim Taylor - The Penguin
33. Subb-an - Synchronicity
34. Quazar - Isis
35. Whoosh! - Sometimes (Somedub)
36. Elting Lieb - Drifting
37. Acid Jesus - Uraniumsmuggle
38. Reload - Peschi

Mrtnz @ FaMILY aFFaIR 2025

Promised Me (Radio Edit)

Bassline Jumping

The Rhythm Is Hot

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.

Distributed by N.E.W.S.