Name: Synthesis [Manual Smiles] by Manual Smiles
Duration: 5 min 4 s
Description: British-Persian DJ and producer Nickon Faith returns to Manual Smiles with his new Synthesis EP — a deep dive into genre-blurring psychedelia and detailed sound design. Building on the world he set out with 2024’s Digital Moss, the EP moves through tense arpeggios, biting acid lines, shadowy low-end pressure, and misty, dream-state atmospheres.

http://www.clubbingspain.com/podcast/2014/cs-podcast-151-luca-lozano-amp-omega-iii.html

CS Podcast 151: Luca Lozano & Omega III

Transmitting from one of Belgium’s most promising electronic dance spaces, the Garage at Horst club. It’s the most intimate room of the club. Ko-designed, ko-invented and ko(be)-built by the deejay behind this live recorded Basic Moves mix: Kuba’97 ! 

Kobe is part of the early generation of Horst alumni. From his early 20ies he has been involved in this world leading and ultra professional hybrid architecture, art, culture and (club) music festival. They are organising a yearly festival in May and a burgeoning club space that operates throughout the rest of the year on the Asiat site just outside of Brussels. Back in 2018 Kobe started together with a crew of music heads and dreamers a nightlife collective called nacht which operated from the socio-cultural spot Stelplaats in Louvain. This being said Kobe is also the head of production at our Beautiful Freaks parties, a fantastic cook, creative DIY handy person, cider maker, pizza master & great human to have around anytime of the day or night. 

Now let’s put some attention to what Kobe loves the most … records! He has been working hard, digging through the fruitful orchard that is dance music (and beyond), to make his own special brew. This live recording is a perfect reflection of what he loves and has discovered over the last couple of years. We hear shreds of deep techno, spaced out minimal, 80s inspired body music workouts, psychedelic oddities, proggy weird b-sides…and more; definitely not the easiest spread to put together. In Kobe’s hands these three and a half hours are a cruizin’ ride, produced in the dj booth he has built and danced-to by the community Brussels has been (re)building over the last decade … with Kuba’97 unquestionably at the heart of it.

https://soundcloud.com/kuba97

The Basic Moves Of … KUBA'97 (live at Garage/Horst Club 2025)

Ben Kamal launches OG01, the inaugural release on his new label, ov guidance.

Side A features two tracks by the Brussels producer a.brehme, conceived as counterparts to one another. The shimmering, meditative ‘Dawning’ carries the promise of daybreak. Plucked strings and hushed morning whispers cast elusive shadows in the soft glow. ‘Extrapolate’, by contrast, runs deep and wide. It unfolds an increasingly impressive arsenal of layered rhythms and melodies—at times unleashing, at times withholding—always with something new up its sleeve.

On Side B, ‘Extrapolate’ is reimagined by Signal Kommt aka Z@p. The Uruguayan producer tightens his grip, carving out an even more unyielding groove. Rather than smoothing the edges, he sharpens them. As the track pushes forward, brewing drama and flickering synths eventually dissolve into the night.


A2 a.brehme - Extrapolate

It is our pleasure to share our latest podcast, this time from Full Circle’s Alexis Le-Tan.  The mix is a live recording taken from Bakk Heia at The White Hotel earlier this year. Alexis began playing around 3am, just as the club had reached capacity. Energy that was simmering under the surface began to be released, the initial hustle and bustle was over and people had found their place on the floor. As such, this mix expertly demonstrates Alexis’ ability to hook dancers in, giving them a playful push before engaging them into full mind melt mode. Starting with genre defying mid-tempo dubby sludgery, it moves into angular strains of new beat adjecent trancers before unleashing the Goa dragons on the rapturous mass of entranced bodies.   

Enjoy this trip friends :)

Bakk Heia Podcast 006 - Alexis Le-Tan (Live from Bakk Heia @ The White Hotel)

Endorphins 037 w/ Aquatic Formations

Cherished Animalia alumni & dear friend @dollllly, with an extended set from the final  Animalia event of the 2024-2025 season at home, at Miscellania.
27th April 2025.

6pm-10pm before me.

<3 

ani/live Seventy Five: Dolly @ Animalia, Miscellania

Ever since our first contact in 2020, we have been drawn to Lottie’s distinctive musical expression. We are honoured to now feature her contribution to our Spheremental Series. Expect an expressive and heartfelt mix that invites us in her reflections on the current global moment. Enjoy!

sound: https://soundcloud.com/loti-kavsek
artwork: www.instagram.com/janpaulmueller/

SPHEREmental 16 - Lottie

Piecing together some of my favourites from new and far... recorded on technics & xone 92

: ~ )

'25 Mixtape

Meetsysteem is the moniker of Amsterdam-based singer, songwriter, and producer Ricky Cherim. Emerging with his acclaimed 2019 debut Geen Signaal, he has since become known for his eclectic, vulnerable approach to synthy ambient pop with kraut-influenced undertones. After two albums on Nous’klaer Audio and collaborations with Victor De Roo and comforter2, he now returns to the Meetsysteem project with his third full-length, Gekleed In Donker, Ze Vroegen Niks.


Meetsysteem @ Kiosk Radio 17.11.2025

Warm-up at Club Cheek, Brixton, for the London release party of compilation/mix CD 'In The Pocket: The Sound Of Welt Discos'.

Lineup:
Joe Delon
Joe Milli (@joemillimadeit)
Mo Probs (@mo-probs)

Joe Delon @ Welt Discos x Pumping Velvet, 21/11/25

British-Persian DJ and producer Nickon Faith returns to Manual Smiles with his new Synthesis EP — a deep dive into genre-blurring psychedelia and detailed sound design. Building on the world he set out with 2024’s Digital Moss, the EP moves through tense arpeggios, biting acid lines, shadowy low-end pressure, and misty, dream-state atmospheres.

Synthesis [Manual Smiles]

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