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This month we're honored to host a wicked mix from Mike Darkfloor, the chap behind the 'Darkfloor Sound' label and website.  He also hosts Mantis Radio which puts out quality podcasts on a fortnightly basis.
For us, Mike has conjured up a dizzying brew of Techno/Electro and grimey sounding electronics. Jump in and get lost in the drama.

Also in the show we have some upcoming bits from Gated as well as a couple of tracks from Pablo Splice and Hems.

Gated on Bandcamp - https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/

Catch our guest here on SC >> https://soundcloud.com/darkfloor

On his website >> https://darkfloor.co.uk
And elsewhere:
https://instagram.com/darkfloorsound
https://twitter.com/darkfloor

Lloyd Stellar's Esoteric Enterprise is on Gated: 
Juno pre-order  -  https://www.juno.co.uk/products/lloyd-stellar-esoteric-enterprise/846684-01/
Lobster pre-order - https://lobsterrecords.co.uk/products/lloyd-stellar-esoteric-enterprise

Darkfloor Tracklist 

Mazzula - Phased Return [unreleased]
Gescom - Five [Skam]
Rune Bagge - Light Up The Sky [Northern Electronics]
Monotronique - Driiil [Opal Tapes]
Kerrie - Droid Nation [Cultivated Electronics Ltd]
Stanley Schmidt - Brutal Ornament [Viena]
DeFeKT - Time Slip [New Flesh]
ERP - Lodestone [Semantica]
Andrea Parker - No Excuse [Quatermass]
O.b.s.t. - Primary Object [Perfume Counter Records]
Ribes - Oblicuidad [Subsist]
Radial - Boks [Mord]
FoxMind - Drum Format T3 [Circular Jaw]
Phat Chex - Dragons Lair [Darkfloor Sound]
Bjarki - Steikjo [Trip]
Alavux - Floating [Ban Kai Records]
T_Y - Kano [Subsist]
FJAAK - XoXp0rt feat. J.Manuel [Tectonic]
D-Nite - Substantial (Hedchef remix) [Fly By Night Recordings]
Sensei - Twisted Soundboy [Circular Jaw]
D&S - Conjecture [Avoidant]
Nathan Melja - Back and Forth [PARODIA]
Selway - Digital Emotion (Seretonin mix) [Ultra Records]

Gated Section
Lloyd Stellar - Raum & Zeit (Gated)
**Gated forthcoming** - Trinian
**Gated forthcoming**
Pablo Splice - Sambatronics (Woodwork Recordings)
Hems - Madsituation (E2 E8)

Gated Podcast 32 // Mike Darkfloor // October 2021

Introducing the sound and solo career of British techno don Surgeon (@dynamic-tension).

From his early brutalist releases to contemporary heady tracks from the last decade, PRIMER features many of our personal favourites. Including material from his labels Counterbalance, Dynamic Tension Records and SRX; together with cuts from Blueprint, Downwards, and Tresor.

playlist → https://darkfloor.co.uk/primer001

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PRIMER is an introductions mix series produced by Darkfloor for Mantis Radio.

PRIMER

PRIMER: An Introduction to Surgeon

Next Episode of Abaddon Podcast with Skøgen

Skøgen is a project Hålbå & Ex.Hale created to let out their dark and more experimental sides.
Live experimental electronic music that merge ritual, ambient, death/black industrial with obscure beats, granular synthesis and weird production techniques. All informed with noise and live vocals.

Tracklist:
Yosuke Tokunaga - Le nghts 
Aho Ssan - Outro (feat The Mensah Imaginary Band)
Ex.Hale - Unreleased
Roly Porter - Known Space
Hålbå - Free & Hated
Skøgen - Whisper 
111X - Tremor
Topiary - Man Has No Choice In Action Part II
knifedoutifexistence - Holding On With Sore Hands
NTT - VTERVS I
Himukalt - Septic
Ex.Hale & Anji Cheung - Substance
Søs Gunver Rayberg - Seadust
Pascal Savy - Hyperspace Without Atmosphere 
Appropriate Savagery -  Fingers Crossed, Blank Page & Loaded Rifle
Roly Porter - 4101
Camilla Pisani - Endorphins In Ostrand

Follow: https://soundcloud.com/weareskogen

Abaddon Podcast 225 X Skøgen

Black Smith Craft (@tyler-smith) shows his techno might in our session today. Continuing on from the techno slamdown of Dead Sound and Videohead last time.

With music from AAIMON, Flore, Shackleton, Africa HiTech, Emika, Milanese, Subeena, Mika Vainio's Ø, and more.

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Next guest is Puglia, Italy based DJ, producer and live performer Nigh/T\mare. A malevolent obscurity is followed by a sentimental melancholy drifting towards a deep journey into the introspection and the subconscious. It constantly emerges into the horrific and ritualistic soundscape of cryptic techno, of ancient tribal images, and of industrial dystopian visions, all melancholy is then shattered for having embraced evilness.

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PODCAST 041 | Nigh/T\mare

G.xist is a London based techno artist and the co-founder of Depth.Request label.

His music is a combination of syncopated industrial rhythms and sombre soundscapes blending ritualistic, punk but also futuristic atmospheres with noise textures. 

Balancing between downtempo and faster beats, 
the approach of his dj sets creates levels of tension that brings the audience straightforward to a dystopian environment.

鬼面 : GWI MYEON PODCAST 023 G.XIST

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Hadji @ For Division XI, Depo, 14.6.25.

D.C. native Ovid returns to Cork imprint Flood for a third time with his latest EP, ‘The Palace’. 

A follow on from 2022’s ‘Stone Coaster’, the New York based artist returns to form with his uncompromising hybrid of funky and hard drum across 4 original tracks, plus a further remix from Shai FM on ‘Crawl Out’.

The release also sees Flood founders Doubt and Tension collaborate with Ovid for a second time on ‘The Palace Pt. 2’, reigniting a three-way collision of sharp, forward facing club drum. 

Our featured premiere, ‘North From Here’, blurs the lines between mechanical and traditional sounds, fizzing with industrial melodies and effects alongside anthemic percussive builds and foundations.

The EP drops in full on July 31st here: https://ovidmusick.bandcamp.com/album/the-palace

PREMIERE: Ovid - North From Here (Flood)

Section – Far From Home EP [DSCI4]
Release Date: July 4, 2025

UK drum & bass producer Section returns to the legendary DSCI4 imprint with the forthcoming Far From Home EP, set for release on July 4, 2025. The four-track release blends deep atmospheres, tight production, and forward-thinking sound design — solidifying Section’s place among the scene’s most consistent and creative voices.

The EP features a heavyweight collaboration with Wreckless (Metalheadz / Dispatch) on “Seraph,” alongside three solo cuts that span the darker, more cerebral edges of drum & bass.

Tracklist:

Far From Home

Seraph (feat. Wreckless)

Wake Up

Disappearing

Available digitally via DSCI4.
dsci4.bandcamp.com/album/far-from-home-ep

Section - Disappearing [DSCI4]

In session this week on Mantis Radio – Osaka’s Ryuji Takeuchi (https://soundcloud.com/ryujitakeuchi). Music from SHXCXCHCXSH, Acroplane Recordings, Portals Editions, Trevino, Bodyjack, David Meiser, Fracture, Vatican Shadow, Holy Fuck, Ynoji, and an opener from Andreas Gehm who sadly passed away.

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