Recording of Avalon Emerson's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Avalon Emerson at Dekmantel Festival 2023

One hour of music all across the board, naturally, with Jonny Mons. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/jonny-mons/episodes/jonny-mons-19th-december-2023

Jonny Mons 191223

Dubstep-tech hybrids from one of 2024's most forward-thinking breakouts.

Born in France to English parents, Beatrice M. is a product of two environments. And like many third culture kids, this lends the Rinse France resident and Bait label head a knack for seeing the realm of possibility beyond arbitrary borders and binaries.

Beatrice M. is a part of a wider cohort of artists spearheading an elastic take on dubstep: take Carré and Introspekt in the US, EMA in Dublin and Mia Koden in London, to name a few. Collectively, they are not only pushing greater representation and diversity, but ensuring a broader palette of sounds find home within the genre's renaissance.

Where dubstep got trapped down a brostep cul-de-sac in the early 2010s, 2020s already seems to be all about a charming phrase Beatrice M. employs: siblingstep. Their RA Podcast, a "full femme, non-binary, trans productions set," is testament to that.

RA.961 finds Beatrice M. embracing the softer, more intimate edges of their sonic world. There's cuts from Grace Jones and rRoxymore, a fresh tech-house venture under the alias B. McQueen and heaps of siblingstep. All in, it's an hour of past reverberations, present rhythms and glimmers of future horizons.

@beatricemasters

Read more at ra.co/podcast/961

RA.961 Beatrice M.

The producer best known as Huerco S. accompanies One Day, our record of the year, with two hours of minimal and dub introspections.

This summer, Kansas-raised DJ and producer Brian Leeds released One Day under his revived Loidis alias. Enamoured with the restrained, loopy sounds of early '00s dance music, the album’s eight tracks linger in the air, luxuriating in dubbed-out chords, swung beats and sub vibrations. It's our favourite record of 2024 for a reason. 

It's a sound he's coined, in his typically teasing fashion, "dub mnml emo tech." All winks aside, it’s no wonder One Day became the soothing balm we all needed. In a scene overwhelmed by hard and fast trends, the softer—and Leeds might argue, more sincere—stylings of minimal and dub techno enjoyed a welcome second wind. 

Not only was One Day one of our favourites of the year (more on that this week), but it also inspired us to break our usual no-repeats rule, inviting Leeds back to the RA Podcast under a different alias after his 2019 turn as Huerco S. 

"The prevailing trends in dance music are more and more maximalist," Leeds noted. "I missed restraint, subtlety, and sensuality." Clocking in at just under two hours, RA.965 embodies that ethos in spades.

@huerco_s

Read more at ra.co/podcast/965

RA.965 Loidis

naffcast005 comes from B. McQueen, who also has a record coming out on naff later this year. 

From the artist :

B. McQueen’s cocktail of recent vinyl purchases (except for a forthcoming Priori collab) from Paris shops like Syncrophone and Dizonord, and a discogs seller in the UK. Wafty 120 bits, some playful some deep, recorded in Paris on a sunny day in a flat with no sunlight.

naffcast005 ⦾ ───── ⋆⋅ ☆ B. McQueen ☆⋅⋆ ─────

Rory Bowens heads The Slip on Sunday mornings monthly - squeezing an hour of hazy dub off-shoots, pupil-dilating shoegaze and uncanny dream music.

https://www.nts.live/shows/theslip/episodes/theslip-23rd-march-2025

The Slip 230325

naff0007 is from a close friend and one of our favorite DJs @livwutang

In Liv's words :

For this mix, I tried to find the sweet spot between sultry and haunting; cerebral yet somatic. It came together almost on its own—a gently cascading rabbit hole of tech and dubstep, guided by indulgent pads and dubbed-out chords.

Third track blends crafted for headphone listening : )

naffcast007 ⦾ ------  ࿔ ᶫwͥuͮtang ࿔ -------

recorded live at good work in a backyard on a lovely saturday in brooklyn

Loidis @ Good Work - 12 July 2025

https://www.instagram.com/no__________sir



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Laurens Burger