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London's @lorainejames is as experimental as electronic artists get. She doesn't just make hard to categorise music, she makes music for which there are often no words. Depending on your mood, her sounds can suit either full-on dance floor workouts or reflective home listens. That has been the case across two standout albums on Hyperdub, both of which explore vulnerability and identity across tracks that fizz with ideas and energy.  The most recent, Reflection back in June, came with snippets of interior monologue. They lay bare James's most intimate feelings while the beats around her continue to act as something of a safety blanket. 

This week's rule-breaking mix features a number of Loraine's tunes including the unnamed and exclusive opener, plus a flurry of beats from peers like FaltyDL, object blue, Squarepusher and Djrum. They make for a full body workout that twitches your every synapse one minute then sink you into a deeply seductive club sound the next. The transitions from hyper-polished and futuristic rhythms to live jazz drums, or icy dub to glitchy IDM, would seem impossible on paper, but in practice, they are executed perfectly.

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Dekmantel Podcast 342 - Loraine James

when you were gone

stuck waiting

not aware enough to stop

too aware to care

Exploring the deeper and more abstract end of the ECM catalogue.

Lot Radio 4/27/25 ECM Special #2

Dusk + Blackdown make their debut at The Lot Radio ahead of Offwrlds 3 yr anniversary at Earthly Delights. Expect a power hour of UKG and rolling bass as they go back to back with Introspekt and Kellen303. 

https://www.instagram.com/sage_introspekt
https://www.instagram.com/kellen303
https://www.instagram.com/blackdownkeysound

https://www.soundcloud.com/kellen303



OFFWRLD with Dusk + Blackdown, Introspekt and Kellen303 @ The Lot Radio 05-10-2025

The Blackest Ever Black released singer-songwriter Carla Dal Forno stops by NTS' London studio once a month for an hour-long show featuring original productions side by side with old favourites and inspirations ranging from minimal synth to folk and dream pop... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/carla-dal-forno/episodes/carla-dal-forno-3rd-june-2025

Carla Dal Forno 030625

Bimonthly excursions through memories, geographies and nostalgia from NYC-based livwutang. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/livwutang/episodes/livwutang-9th-june-2025

Furniture without Memories w/ livwutang 090625

beginning in the dreamy synth haze of Stereolab, then morphing gradually into the edges of dub, UK sounds, and IDM. 


atmospheric, minimalist, and emotionally restrained approach forms the aesthetic backbone of the set, eventually recircling in the krautmosphere of georg-i’s latest release

Tracklist:

After Dinner - Paradise Of Replica
OD Bongo - Rain Dab Weed
Stereolab & Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind
Mike Parker - Make It Up
Instra:mental - Watching You 
Stray - Matchsticks
Om Unit & Sam Binga - Triffidz 
dBridge & Instra:mental - Fist
Radioactive Man - Tuf
Instramental - Sakura
Instra:mental & dBridge - White Snares
Toupaz - Matter Out of Place
Stacktrace - Inna Mind 
Dame Area - Azione Reazione
Toupaz - Frantic Gestures
Klahrk and xato - Spikenard
 Naco - Mappy
Boogie Man - Pachinco Man
Kincaid - Thirds
georg-i - Torn in Two


www.instagram.com/teresagimenez
https://soundcloud.com/balancedtrs


Vertical Strata [21.06.25]

Here’s Fergus Jones, joined at Drift by guest Rok Riley from Perth. The show begins with a hazy glide through trippy downtempo and trip-hop, before lifting off into a textured blend of jungle, trap, and experimental bass at 160bpm.

Fergus Jones & Rok Riley @ Drift Radio 19-06-25

Saxophonist Benedik Giske and experimental pop songwriter Carmen Villain stop by the London studio to play some current favourites ahead of their Cafe Oto performance. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/carmen-villain-bendik-giske-11th-july-2025

Carmen Villain & Bendik Giske 110725

South Of North w/ Marathon Man (22/07/2025)

| HEAVY AS STONE | w/ Midnight Tenderness | E21

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If edm is drug music, Marshall Applewhite is the anti drug. Every 16 year old on molly would run from this stuff. Every person who understands underground dance music though, they will get it, they will love it.

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