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The Aptitude Show July 25th 2022 on Blast Radio

We return to NYC where the wonderful @lycheefrut has us fully submerged in a wobbly world of ambient techno moods and grooves. Restorative mind state hypnosis for the early morning acid dreamers with moments of total serenity! 

Q. What inspiration did you draw upon when putting this mix together? Is there a sound, feeling, or time/place in dance music history that connects all the different elements in one way or another?

A. There are a few recent moments that I drew from: I had pulled a lot of dreamy tracks to close out the intimate Sunday evening queer party I throw with my friends called Antidote, and for a b2b with my friend threehz at their party dream/self. I usually spend a lot of time planning a tracklist for studio mixes, but this time, I was struggling to sequence or choose between the tracks I had pulled.

On New Year's Eve, a few friends came over to my studio to pass some time before going to a rave where I was working the door at 8am, and they all ended up dozing off while I was DJing. I was trying to play music that was both energetic enough to keep me awake, but not too intense for people who were sleeping. A few days later, I ended up recording this mix in one take with no strict playlist, drawing from that moment; it was a fun experiment in trusting myself to find a more organic flow.

Q. As someone who’s actively involved in a number of interconnected projects and events within NYC’s underground dance scene, tell us about the idea behind your Spontaneous Affinity outlet for zines, mixes and long form interviews that regularly feature important insights from DJs, producers and organisers alike. 

A. The series has been on a bit of a pause / slow paced moment lately as I focus on getting some other aspects of my life together :) but the idea was to use the interviews to draw connections between different nodes of people working to build scenes in different places. Everyone gets the same set of questions to choose from; it's always fun compiling it all into a zine and seeing what kinds of commonalities emerge. I hope to find time to work on another zine before the end of this year!

Q. And finally, I really enjoyed your set opening up The Grove at last year’s Sustain-Release! Tell us about how you found that whole experience, and how did you approach a set like that where you could seemingly take things anywhere over the three and half hours..

A. This set was a heavy one for me – I've been to every Sustain, and it was a formative part of my journey deeper into DJing and music. This summer also came with a lot of big losses and transitions. I spent as much time journaling and meditating as I did organizing music, and wanted to make space for others to process difficult things before diving into party mode in a psychedelic environment.

As far as the musical approach, I thought of the set in 7 or 8 "chapters" that could expand or contract depending on the energy and vibe. I've played a lot of opening sets over the years and lately have wanted to push myself within that; here, instead of the standard ambient → techno type opening set, I wanted to play with a structure where the set built into a mild frenzy and then settled back down before the live acts that played after me.

MDC.293 Lychee

Saphileaum is the alias of Georgian producer, multi-disciplinary artist and KHIDI club resident Andro Gogibedashvili. Emerging from a profoundly creative family-actors, singers, writers, and poets, Andro’s creative path has been profoundly shaped by his heritage and the traditions that surround it.
Saphileaum makes music for coming together, for meditation, and for mystical, philosophical musings. A sound crafted as unique and consistent as his, only possible through a lifelong passion and commitment to artistic expression. Often drawing on disparate genres, his unique sound is brought together by the beauty of rhythm—live drumming including the Georgian Dhol often featuring alongside starry melodies, woven into half-time grooves, meditative ambient and atmospheric techno. 
Inspired by mysticism, earth and the secrets of the universe, Saphileaum’s journey reached celestial heights in 2022, when a snippet of his piece Cosmic Lake Transparency was transmitted into deep space to the exoplanet K2-18B, just 124 light-years away from Earth. via the Goonhilly Earth Station, making him the second Georgian artist to have their music sent to the stars. (Sidenote: incredible timing finding out this fun fact with signs of life on K2-18B being reported this week!).
His discography spans labels of the highest order: Mule Musiq, Good Morning Tapes, Silent Season, Oslated and more with each release reflecting his creative approach to each label, which he described as ‘like stepping into a new country’. Fresh terrain of culture, sound, and inspiration. Being releasing records, Saphileaum shapeshifts across other mediums, soundtracking Georgian films, collaborating on high-profile art and fashion exhibitions and writing poetry. From club nights to quiet nights, and now from Earth to K2-18B, Saphileaum’s approach to music and art invites us to listen deeply.

Saphileaum - PN 318

Live recording at the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague.
Streaming live every Thursday and Friday on YouTube and FutureIntelRadio.com.
For more info, visit our website.

Loradeniz ╚═ Future Intel ═╗ 24 04 2025

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NO DAWN with AJ XO and threehz @ The Lot Radio 05-01-2025

www.openlab.fm | 106.4FM in Ibiza & Formentera
Check the full tracklist on our website: https://openlab.fm/news/snare-force-one-24-jon-kennedy

Jon Kennedy returns to OpenLab with this month’s edition of Snare Force One, with music from Nick Drake, Pedro Ricardo, Mr Dibbs, Sonar’s Ghost & more.

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Snare Force One 24 - Jon Kennedy

Cascading Sectors arrives, the 11th installment of the Natural Expressions series, where dub techno's subterranean pulse converges with industrial textures and shimmering ambience. Inspired by the hidden anatomy of nuclear reactor facilities-cooling towers, control rooms, and the silent hum of containment systems-this record explores the friction between technological precision and organic decay.

Across two halves, Cascading Sectors balances warmth and tension. The Dub Side unfurls with deep, gelatinous basslines and drifting delays. 'Spiral' pulses with a hypnotic rhythm, evoking the slow, methodical approach of engines synchronizing as they approach the boarding platform. 'Barycenter' finds equilibrium in echoing chords, while 'Nuclear Fission' fractures rhythms with deep dub stabs. A brief sunlit warmth arrives in 'Sun,' where muted pads and submerged percussion hint at a distant horizon, before 'Sector 5,' where Visitor XIX and legendary producer Mikael Delta weave rhythms and chords into the subterranean grooves.

Flip to the Hard Side, and the machinery seems to rev into overdrive. 'Reflector' drifts through the circuitry like a spectral scan, its metallic hits mapping unseen terrain-each ricochet a signal bending space, collapsing distance. 'Peripheral Vision' conjures surveillance-state unease through echoing textures, and 'Z-Axis' delivers a cathartic finale-a distorted cascade of noise and bass that fades into a white-out.

Recorded with vintage analog delays, tapes, spring reverbs, and modular synthesis, Cascading Sectors captures the analog imperfections at the heart of both human invention and inevitable entropy. Whether you're exploring the control room or wandering the turbine halls in your mind's eye, this album is your passport to an immersive dub techno reactor tour. 

limited edition

Reflector

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I86Gipm_HbI

Steppadub (video link in description)

Big up:

Aba Shanti I, Disciples, Dubkasm, Mixman, Bush Chemists, Sis Rasheda, Ishan Sound, Gorgon Sound, O.B.F, Henry & Louis. Jonah Dan, Prince Green, Mark Iration, Rootsman and the all dubheads

Ossia "UK Dub Mix" For Berceuse Heroique's Noods residency

Guys, it's been a while since I made a new dj set, buttt, here it is: A brand new Matthias Ambient Dub-Techno mix. Like to hear your opinion in the comments! 

Smoke a big sigar, and enjoy the trip! 

Playlist:
1. Faded - Warhawk
2. grad_u - Alexanderplatz Station
3. Federsen - Rolling
4. CV313 - A World Apart
5. grad_u - Evening At Vikshtelee
6. Echospace - Firefly
7. Echospace - Liumin
8. DeepChord - Point Reyes
9. DeepChord - Devil Ray
10. Lapien - Moonset
11. Forest Drive West - Drift
12. CV313 - Subtraktive
13. Dorisburg, Efraim Kent - Tecken III
14. Forest Drive West - Parallel Space
15. STL - Spy Vs Spy
16. Deepchord - Voice of Guyana

I will be posting a new set soon, stay tuned! 

Matthias Klein

MIX08 | CV313, Echospace, DeepChord, STL, Lapien, grad_u | 2020

Recording of the mixtape hosted at

https://jahtari.org/archive/player/tapes/rhythmsound_listen.html

Mixed by Krystoff


Tracklist

1. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-13
2. http://basicchannel.com/item/RS-07 Aground played at 45
3. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-12
4. http://basicchannel.com/item/RSD-1 No Partial
5. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-17
6. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-18
7. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-06
8. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-01
9. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-02
10. http://basicchannel.com/item/RS-01
11. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-08
12. http://basicchannel.com/item/RS-02
13. http://basicchannel.com/item/MSR-08
14. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-05
15. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-10
16. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-04
17. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-03
18. http://basicchannel.com/item/RS-05
19. http://basicchannel.com/item/RS-04 Smile
20. http://basicchannel.com/item/MSR-10
21. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-09
22. http://basicchannel.com/item/RS-07 Aerial
23. http://basicchannel.com/item/RS-04 Range
24. http://basicchannel.com/item/BM-07
25. http://basicchannel.com/item/RS-03

Jahtari - Rhythm & Sound Mixtape

Producer and live artist based in Switzerland.

Challenger Deep PSI004 12": https://bit.ly/2R0n3wI

Hello Strange HSV03 12": https://bit.ly/2XWCOqc

R.Hz - Ice Cold (Luss Remix): https://bit.ly/36nO7L3

Figments Of Duality(VA)CD: https://bit.ly/2RyoGlC

Deep Electronics DE28: https://bit.ly/2E282Tn

Hello Strange Story #3: https://bit.ly/2Ywr0Lj


Livesets:
Poisonoise Guest Mix 76:
https://bit.ly/2P4KYK6

Deep Electronics Podcast 185:
https://bit.ly/36iOEOi

Booking:
lussdub@outlook.com

Steppadub (video link in description)

LUSS