Torn Hawk, also known as Luke Wyatt, brings his comedy talk show to the NTS airwaves.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/torn-hawk/episodes/torn-hawk-9th-september-2024

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Torn Hawk, also known as Luke Wyatt, brings his comedy talk show to the NTS airwaves.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/torn-hawk/episodes/torn-hawk-16th-june-2025

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Tear out of school and take the solid orange Chuo line to Kichijōji. Shin, Emi, Chris, Shungo, Andrew, Brett, they nickname you “New Kid” and say you look like the bassist from Green Day. Skate down to the studio, just a few minutes from the station exit. Before heading up to hang out and take a turn behind the kit for 20 minutes, stop by a record store to browse the newest Fat Wreck Chords and Caustic Resin CDs in between Japanese grindcore 7”s. Was this the record store called Warszawa? Or was Warszawa in Shimokitazawa? Wherever it was, of one thing your memory is sure: you all pronounce the name “Wor-ti-zow-wa.” Then on to the teenage pop-punk jam with Dan and Adam moshing in the corner. The studio practice rooms all have huge racked drums with tons of cymbals and toms, you are just learning to play and don't even know how to keep the kick in time. When you tell Shungo maybe you’ll just not use the kick at all, he says calmly, “you should try to learn, cause it’d sound better.” Amps crunch and squeal, covers of Propagandhi, NOFX, and Lagwagon for a couple hours. The drumming continues round your head well after you sit down to a quick pork tonkatsu and then go skating in Shinjuku.

One recording of recent drums + resonators + delay = extension of drum memory to recent Ohio past.

One drum rack constructed out of snippets from recording above + random MIDI pattern generator = memory of learning to play the basic teenage punk beat.

One additional drum kit + random MIDI pattern generator = half-memories of all those years learning to play drums.

Another additional drum kit + random MIDI pattern generator + resonator = half-memories of Tokyo.

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More on this 185th Disquiet Junto project (“Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/07/16/disquiet0185-memorymusic/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

This project was proposed by Robert Thomas, more from whom at:

http://dizzybanjo.com/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Kichijōji Warszawa (Drum Half-Memories)(disquiet0185-memorymusic)

Martinou - Find Me 
Always There [NOUS043 / Nous’klaer Audio]

Produced by Martin Strömstedt aka Martinou
Mastered by Artefacts Mastering
Released by Nous’klaer Audio from Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Release Date: December 12th, 2025
Format - Vinyl and Digital

Swedish producer Martinou returns to Nous'klaer Audio for another dream inducing dance record.

Martinou (Malmö, Sweden)
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Nous’klaer Audio
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Always There

Find Me

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US house stalwart Demarkus Lewis joins the past and the future with his sophomore release on Vibe Me To The Moon Records. 

Demarkus Lewis has made a significant contribution to the evolution of house music since the turn of the millennium. His deep, organic, cultured sounds are up there alongside house greats and sometime collaborators like Glenn Underground and Boo Williams. His style merges vintage vibes with fresh perspective on influential labels including his own Grin Music, Grin Traxx and Grin & Bass, and he has DJed at key spots everywhere from Tresor to Smartbar. He continues his fruitful relationship with Nightsteppaz's Vibe Me To The Moon Records with this latest single. 

The superb 'Drowning In Your Potion' comes in two mixes. The ‘Main Mix’ radiates intimacy thanks to romantic vocals that are whispered closely in your ear. There's a gooey core to the stripped back and deep, dubby groove while lithe synth pads add heat and envelop you in a love-soaked atmosphere that dissolves thoughts of the outside world. The ‘Dub Mix’ transforms the vocals, smearing and refracting them while chopping them between jazzy chords. Crisp, upright drums give the groove extra weight but the mix remains drenched in warm, fuzzy harmonies that speak to Lewis’ masterful musical touch. 


BUY on TRAXSOURCE

PREMIERE : Demarkus Lewis - Drowning In Your Potion (Main Mix)

Long-time NuNorthern Soul contributor B.J. Smith is a man in constant motion. Alongside his solo output, he divides his time between playing guitar in Crazy P man James Baron’s JIM outfit, contributing to acclaimed projects such as Smith & Mudd, Bison and White Elephant, and composing for TV. With such a packed schedule, his solo releases have been scarce, the last being a stripped-back take on his Big Sur single in late 2023.It’s been even longer since Smith added to his much-loved Dedications To The Greats series, which began on NuNorthern Soul in 2013 with striking reworks of tracks by Mos Def and The Pharcyde. Later volumes saw him turn his hand to Outkast, Prefab Sprout and Soul II Soul, each treated with his signature blend of warmth and invention.
Now, five years on, Smith returns with ‘Dedications To The Greats Vol. 4’. This time he offers a “cover of a cover” – a bold reinterpretation of Billy Swan’s version of ‘Don’t Be Cruel’, itself made famous by the great Elvis Presley. The project emerged from Smith’s shared love of Swan’s recording with pedal steel player Joe Harvey-Whyte, whose plaintive, expressive touch is central to the EP. Across three distinct takes, Smith and Harvey-Whyte weave something both expansive and intimate. Leading the set is the 14-minute ‘Mother Earth version’, where rippling acoustic guitars, reverb-laden pedal steel and Smith’s wordless vocals drift into a slow, hypnotic groove. It’s a spacious journey that unfolds with languid solos, gentle percussion and hazy organ motifs, sounding worlds apart from either Presley or Swan.
The ‘Earth Heart version’ – presented in both vocal and instrumental form – takes a different path, pushing the song’s lyric and melody to the fore. Here, Tamar Osborn’s graceful flute lines intertwine with guitar and pedal steel before Smith’s heartfelt vocal enters. The arrangement swells and recedes in waves, building patiently towards a powerful close. Rounding out the release, the ‘Root Heart Instrumental’ fuses Balearic breeziness with Americana tones. Shuffling drums, sun-lit acoustic strums, warm bass and Harvey-Whyte’s pedal steel combine with Osborn’s flute to create a glowing, love-soaked sunset moment. The result is another inspired chapter in Smith’s ongoing exploration of other people’s songs – familiar yet transformed, timeless yet utterly his own.


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PREMIERE : B.J. Smith - Don't Be Cruel feat. Joe Harvey-White (Mother Earth Version)n

The clock in the hallway had always been peculiar. It was tall and wooden, its face a dull brass, with hands that twitched ever so slightly before they moved. It had belonged to an old friend, who claimed it “kept more than time.”

Every night, at exactly midnight, the clock would let out a soft click—the sound of its mechanism resetting for the next day. But one Friday, as the storm outside rattled the windows, the clock didn’t click. It banged

The minute hand shuddered... and jerked backward.

The bang came again, louder, like a gunshot wrapped in thunder.

Then the power surged back. Lights flickered on.

Star Creature really do have a remarkable knack for pulling lost gems from obscurity and introducing them to the modern day. This time around things are no different with a double hitting 7" bundle which showcases some of the rawest, bang the box meets funk from Chicago. Classic sounds all round and very highly recommended. A reminder of what it should be.

PREMIERE: Connie’s Crew  - Bang Goes The Clock [STAR CREATURE]

Julian Bainbridge - Directions LP
BUY LINK: https://soundsoverseas.bandcamp.com/album/directions
Label: Sounds Over Seas (@soundsoverseas)
https://www.instagram.com/soundsoverseas
> (https://soundcloud.com/julian-bainbridge)
https://www.instagram.com/julianbainbridge

Sounds Over Seas is ready to release its very first LP by label founder Julian Bainbridge. The album covers aspects of the Deep House genre in its classic definition, pushing certain boundaries, whilst maintaining the spirit of the genre through feeling and utilising melodies and rhythm to evoke emotions which go beyond the dance floor. Keeping it raw throughout the nine tracks, each one incorporates different elements of the music spectrum. Implementing jazzy tweaks, minimalistic rhythms, haunting melodies as well as ambience and globals sounds in a full dancing and listening experience.

All songs produced and mixed by Julian Bainbridge
except 1,2,7 mixed by Manolo and 8 mixed by matuli

All tracks mastered by Manolo at Superbueno Studios Neukölln

Cover photo by Julian Bainbridge


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PREMIERE : Julian Bainbridge - A Whole Day (Flight Mix)

Mohinder Kaur Bhamra - Punjabi Disco
BUY LINK: https://nayabeat.bandcamp.com/album/punjabi-disco
Label: Naya Beat Records (https://soundcloud.com/nayabeatrecords)
https://www.instagram.com/naya.beat/
> Danger Boys (https://www.instagram.com/danger_boys_music)

Unknown and inaccessible to even the deepest of diggers, ‘Punjabi Disco’ is the first-ever British Asian electronic dance album recorded, and a true lost relic. A chance find of the original multitrack masters during the Covid lockdown and only a tip off to the record's existence from Massimo di Lena of Nu Genea has led to this reissue. Lovingly mixed down and remastered from the original studio recordings, it comes complete with a newly discovered track and fresh remixes by Peaking Lights, Danger Boys, Psychemagik, Dexter+Franz, Mystic Jungle, and Baalti, as well as a cover by Say She


PREMIERE : Mohinder Kaur Bhamra - Par Toon Ki Janay (Danger Boys Remix)

Musical Instruments CASIO TONE BANK MT-750
Drawn by Yasush 　Dec 14 2000

Three stones

 Musical Instruments CASIO TONE BANK MT-750

INOGASHIRA

“One can only arrive at the experience of the transcendental – if it is reached at all – when one is oneself in a position of un-knowing, that is, of humility; namely, while remaining in the world of technê he or she begins to venerate a certain kind of experience, acquires it, makes it one’s own, realizes it, sustains it, repeats it – without burdening its sense, its essence with its own great questions.” - László Krasznahorkai, “The Acropolis in Sunglasses”

Kichijōji Warszawa (Drum Half-Memories)(disquiet0185-memorymusic)

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