For this weeks podcast, we are happy to host one of our favorite storyteller, @Lenawillikens. 
Tracklist: https://leftbank.club/archives/1002

Left Bank 013 - Lena Willikens

Lena Willikens @ Supernova [Gop Tun Festival 2023]

Rinse FM Podcast

ALLECTO B2B Lupini - 02 January 2024

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

the second instalment of your favourite Saturday Club*
90 dancers inside 1 club + 2 djs playing the warmup, builder and peak time sets. Together.
Ambience by Potential Difference 

Next up - Saturday Club* at Spanners - 25th May 2024
Subscribers only - subscribe here ➡️ https://pacifisttechnosyndicate.substack.com/welcome

Saturday Club* at Spanners #2 w/ Miro sundayMusiq b2b TSUNIMAN

SWU FM Podcast

Dual Monitor with Lupini - 25 April 2024

a quick 45 mins of all kinds of textures for the lovely Ally. proper oddball skronk - a home listening kinda episode. runs through from contemporary classical -> idm -> electro(?) -> ???
one to get wiggy and worried to.

Thomas Stone - Host 1
Ben Babbitt - Too Late To Love You
Gunnar Haslam - Just For Me
Andrea Parker - Melodius Thunk
Mira Calix - Skin with Me
DJ Sprinkles - Masturjakor
Mono Junk - Jam Band
TRACES - HUMO
Metrist - Qaqq Ata
Muslimgauze - Yousif Water Pipe Habit
Ogoya Nengo - Orutu Run (Lena Wilikens Remix)
Christos Chondropoulos - War Horns
Elaine Howley - Archaelogical Longing

https://lyl.live/episode/ally-tropical-33

Guest mix for Ally on LYL Radio - originally broadcast Nov 2022 :)

Live in the Valley.

https://solsticefestival.fi

Nosedrip & OKO DJ At Solstice 2024

Recorded on the Sunday in Room 3 
Thanks to  Suzybee, Steevio & all the beautiful dancing souls

Freero 2018

Freerotation 2018 : The House Of Crocodiles (Live Recording)

charli xcx - focus (💞XDx donk edit💞)

Ahead of our fifth birthday celebrations at Corsica Studios, we're thoroughly looking forward to invite a stellar cast of past guests and future heroes. One of which is Cologne DJ, Lena Wilikens. Lena is a resident at Dusseldorf's wonderful Salon Des Amateurs venue and regularly books and plays alongside most of our favourite DJ's and artists. Her mixes are something to behold, look no further than her shows on Cómeme Radio. She has kindly put together a mix to give you an idea of what to expect - lots of good shit. 

Lena will play alongside Oni Ayhun, Planningtorock, Auntie Flo, SOPHIE, rRoxymore, DrumTalk, Latete_Atoto and more. Full details here - http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?421902

Join us.

H&P: 30 - Lena Willikens

lupini - ambien(t) gf 

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radio host on SOUP TO NUTS on NTS - every Tuesday 11-1 
founder of HEAVY TEXTURE
cofounder of ATHE
station manager of MELODIC DISTRACTION
radio host of KALEIDOSOUND on NETIL RADIO
radio host of CLUB DREAD and WAKE UP! WITH on MELODIC DISTRACTION

2022
16 01 22 - Peste, Manchester
28 01 22 - Corsica Studios, London
10 02 22 - Radiophrenia Festival, Scotland
19 02 22 - w/ The Cyclist, Liverpool
19 02 22 - w/ SCALPING, Birkenhead
26 02 22 - w/ Laksa, Liverpool
04 03 22 - w/ Anz, 24 Kitchen St
05 03 22 - Humble Abode, Liverpool
11 03 22 - w/ Jensen Interceptor, Meraki
12 03 22 - w/ Daniel Avery, 24 Kitchen St
18 03 22 - No Bounds Festival Launch
25 03 22 - Hereafter, Liverpool
08 04 22 - w/ Arpanet, IWF
09 04 22 - Royal Albert Hall (Live Set), London
11 04 22 - Loose Lips on Threads, London
14 04 22 - NAM, Manchester
15 04 22 - w/ KINK, Meraki, Liverpool
22 04 22 - b2b 96 Back, DBA, Manchester
23 04 22 - Between Stations, Love Inn, Bristol
29 04 22 - w/ AJA, QUARRY
30 04 22 - 303 at IWF, Liverpool
01 05 22 - HMT at Queens Yard Summer Party
08 05 22 - Laila Sakini & Joanne Robertson at TWH
13 05 22 - Soup, Manchester
14 05 22 - Secretsundaze, Oval Space, London
20 05 22 - b2b w/ 96 Back, Carpet Shop, London
28 05 22 - b2b w/ 96 Back, Happa & Jabes, MCR
29 05 22 - Think Tank, Leeds
01 06 22 - Mad World TV, Corsica Studios, London 
02 06 22 - w/ Demdike Stare, IWF, Liverpool
03 06 22 - Baltic Weekender Festival
04 06 22 - EHFM, Sneaky Pete's 
11 06 22 - Gottwood Radio
12 06 22 - Gottwood Festival
30 06 22 - Common, Manchester
01 07 22 - w/ Vladimir Ivkovic at The White Hotel
02 07 22 - On Kilter Festival

<<< summer holiday >>>

02 09 22 - Watching Trees Festival
04 09 22 - Audio Farm Festival
08 09 22 - Goodfootin' Festival
22 09 22 - NAM, Manchester
14 10 22 - No Bounds Festival
21 10 22 - w/ Romeo Poirier, Stockroom, Liverpool
28 10 22 - The Standard, London
28 10 22 - w/ K Means + DJ Storm, Venue MOT LDN
30 10 22 - Young Echo Halloween, Bristol 
20 11 22 - Live set at The White Hotel
24 11 22 - LYL radio
03 12 22 - NTS Residents party Manchester 
21 12 22 - Solstice Choral at Peste
30 12 22 - BBC 6 Music Guest Show
31 12 22 -Red City , Liverpool