BOOKS, BANDS + BANGING TRANCE 

The first in an indulgent series of mixes I’ll be putting out this year, combining my love of books, bands, and banging trance, where I start the show by reading (in my very nicest reading voice) a passage from a book, and then play some songs that (loosely) relate to that book. 

Anything goes in the first half, and then i’ll see us out with a hard n’ hairy trance mix in the 2nd. 

The show is called ROSA CANINA, named after a plant that I read about in Bao Ninh’s ‘The Sorrow of War’. A novel based on the authors 11 years as a soldier in Vietnam. 

In this passage he talks about the ROSA CANINA plant they smoked to alleviate the horrors of war, and it’s psychedelic dream weaving properties.

1. Bao Ninh - The Sorrow of War (Vintage) (1991)
2. Perfume Genius - Your Body Changes Everything (Boy Harsher Remix) (Matador) (2021)
3. Gary Numan + Tubeway Army - Bombers (Beggars Banquet) (1978)
4. Chrome - Ghost Town (Dossier) (1988)
5. Ulterior - Justify My Love (51 Records) (2014)
6. Drab Majesty - Kissing the Ground (Dais) (2017)
7. Boy Harsher - Modulations (Nude Club) (2015) 
8. Këkht Aräkh - Lily (Liver Mortis) (2021)
9. Scano + Afgang - Zirkler (SC DL) (2024)
10. Astral Bandit - Money God (TM8) (2024)
11. Alpha Tracks - June (Alpha Tracks) (2023)
12. Space Brothers - Shine (Sioc Soul of an Angel Remix) (SC DL) (2022) 
13. Courtesy - Night Journeys (DJ Ibon Remix) (Kulor) (2022)
14. LostLegend - Into The Sky (Dave Moth Remix) (Lost Language) (2024)
15. Croatian Armour + Lust For Youth - Sister (Club Mix) (Posh Isolation) (2014)

ROSA CANINA 001

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LOSTLEGEND's INTO THE SKY (LOST186) was a standout tune for us in 2023. A beautifully produced, uplifting prog trancer, with a delicate ascending riff, and an ethereal vocal that whispered 'remix me, remix me' every time we heard it. So after a few (loads of) twists and turns, our first musical offering of 2024 is the much anticipated remix package of LOSTLEGENDS's INTO THE SKY (LOST190)

DAVE MOTH (Federation, Hardbody) heads up the package with an 'eavy 154BPM trancer that wouldn't have sounded out of place at Sundissestial Leeds back in the day. Think Ian M's 'Deep Swarm' repeatedly stinging Reflekt's 'Need to Feel Loved', on plus 8. Pass us the poppers, mate. Tough, tight, with zero fat, we're massive fans of Dave's sound, and you'll be hearing more from him as we continue our countdown to LOST200.

Keeping the NRG high, ASTRAL BANDIT (Area 127, FEED) finally make their remix debut on EL-EL, giving the vocal a hardcore twist, and adding an infectious new riff, that is exactly the kind of trance we live for, here. Totally Yugen, and totally worth the wait.

STANDARD FORM had a great 2023 with the release of Tracks in Crimson Dust (LOST181) receiving a huge amount of love and support, alongside releases on Pure Trance and Krafted, and here our fella takes things down an almost Creamer & K / Rapture-esque route, with a techy vibe that perfectly suits the vocal.

Seeing us out is CONNOR WOODFORD who last appeared on EL-EL when he remixed the aforementioned LOST181 to excellent effect. Connor specialises in that pumping VANDIT esque energy, and we've got that here in spades, weaving in a new riff and baseline, that adds a whole new flavour to LOSTLEGEND's original.

C U IN THE SKY - EL EL 24

Into The Sky (Connor Woodford Remix) [CLIP]

LostLegend - Into The Sky (Standard Form Remix) [CLIP]

LostLegend - Into The Sky (Astral Bandit Remix) [CLIP]

LostLegend - Into The Sky (Dave Moth Remix) [CLIP]

Ben Lost (Lost Language Classics) - LIVE FROM THE LUMINOSITY BEACH FESTIVAL 2024
Saturday 29 June 2024 ▪ Beachclub Bernie's, Zandvoort - The Netherlands

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01. Side Wound - Memory of a Man
02. Qoob - My Heroes (Nordic Echoes Remix)
03. Dave Moth - Racket Sports (Afgang Remix)
04. The MFA - Specific Ocean (Astral Accessories Remix)
05. Origin - Wide Eyed Angel (SIOC Remix)
06. Astral Bandit - Different Kind of Friend (Vergil Edit)
07. Dominion - 11 Hours (Dave Moth Remix)
08. Otto K - Duplicity (Inside Blur Remix)
09. Chris Johnson - Locomotion (Paul Copping Remix)
10. Steve Jones - I Want More (Claire's Accessories Remix)
11. Chris Johnson - Locomotion (Activa Remix)
12. Darkskye - Beneath the Rafters (Claire's Accessories Remix)
13. Natious - Amber (Oliver Lieb Remix)
14. LostLegend - Into the Sky (Dave Moth Remix)
15. Darkskye - But Did We Survive (Factoria Remix)
16. Side Wound ft Paul McGregor - Tremor Dollar
17. LostLegend - Into the Sky (Astral Bandit Remix)

EXHIBITION : RAW

There would be no EXHIBITION : RAW, at least not as we know it, without the spectral presence of DAVE MOTH, a name that threads itself, unassumingly yet insistently, throughout the architecture of BEN LOST’s award-winning compilation.

But, as with all hauntings, the origins are displaced, nonlinear. The beginning, if such a term can even be applied, goes back to 2020; a year already thick with collapse and strange opportunity. It was MOTH who introduced LOST to Archie - who together were operating under the brief, brutish banner of HARDBODY - with Archie simultaneously farming hard trance pastures that would soon go on to bloom under the alias CLAIRE’S ACCESSORIES. And for LOST, it was CA’s 2021 remix of Venus by FEDERATION that signalled a shift towards a tough, speed-drenched sound that circled back to what initially excited him about trance in the wild 1990s.

But DAVE MOTH was never simply a producer. He emerged from the art-damaged debris of the early 2000s, co-founder of THE FILTHIEST PEOPLE ALIVE alongside GAVIN IT, a project less musical act than acid-drenched détournement, somewhere between DIVINE and SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK. From there, Peterborough’s hardcore scene swallowed him whole, going on to tour Europe with the old school / communal HHH on lead guitar.

The early 2010s offered another shift / reconnection. MOTH reunited with LOST, alongside SOLARSTONE, joining aforementioned trance romo’s FEDERATION on guitar, just in time to cowrite and perform on their debut album F, a record saturated with the residue of rave utopias and post-punk entropy.

Parallel to this, MOTH straddled space / acid / hard rock projects in RIDDLES, MAGIC MOSS, and MARSHES - the latter fronted by LOST - before taking a 180 4/4 turn in 2024 to collaborate as SIDE WOUND, whose Leftfield and Lydon after a handful of mitzis debut Tremor Dollar (with Paul McGregor of ULTERIOR) sounded like a late capitalist death disco in an abandoned Meadowhall shopping centre.

Now, RACKET SPORTS (LOST194) marks DAVE MOTH’s solo debut on LOST LANGUAGE: full throttle, high-speed drama, foot to the floor at 154. Haunted wails under steel city kicks and warehouse clangs, channelling the gated spirit of REACTIVATE-era chaos. It’s the kind of gear LARRY THE LOBSTER might’ve smuggled up his CERVICAL GROOVE in a warehouse circa 1996.

FACTORIA, whose DARKSKYE remix was pitched up into the Gods by LOST on his latest EXHIBITION comp, returns with a technicolour remix that finds that sweet spot between peak-time euphoria and undercurrent tension - FSOE via AA Meeting, if you like. While Norwegian talent AFGANG, whose original RACKET SPORTS remix helped set the tone on EX: RAW, brings a club-ready dreamy donk twist alongside a darker, swampier ‘Forest Flip’ version.

Rounding off the package is another DAVE MOTH original CRYSTAL DAWN. A riff-heavy hard trance trip, filled with PSY-FI FX, unhinged fills, and dangerous / playful drops, a record that points backwards and forwards all at once, into rave’s unresolved future.

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Racket Sports (Factoria Remix)

A quick singles set celebrating ‘Racket Sports’  release on Lost Language. 

Engaging backhands settle the mix in (Dave Moth, Tinkerhell) but quickly work the opponent’s baseline harder (Sikoti, Ueberrest) pushing them into the corners (Nijssen, Kosbow). Deep volleys (Kineta, Otto K) set up a physical rally for set and match point (Dave Moth, Dominion).

Dave Moth ‘Set Point’ - May 2025 mix

Ben Lost - LIVE FROM THE LUMINOSITY BEACH FESTIVAL 2025
Sunday 29 June 2025 ▪ Beachclub Bernie's, Zandvoort - The Netherlands

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Racket Sports (Factoria Remix)

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