From the EP 'Mere Oblivion'
12" release: October 27th, 2014 // Digital release: October 27th, 2014
New Kanada

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For this month's Unrush mix, we're excited to feature Eric Cloutier - a true digger with a deep history in the scene and an ear for detail. His 90-minute guest mix flows through warm, textured ambient with darker, rhythmic turns: subtle, patient, and always engaging.

Cloutier’s path has taken him from Detroit to New York, where his years as a regular at The Bunker New York helped shape his distinct style: deep, body-oriented music with a strong sense of narrative. Now based in Berlin and a resident at Tresor, he continues to bring that same focus and depth to clubs and listeners around the world.

With a straightforward, no-nonsense approach, he has spent years honing his craft. His label Palinoia - named after the act of repeating something until it’s mastered - reflects that mindset: a home for stripped-back, dubby techno and lesser-known talent that fits seamlessly into his sets.

A true digger with an ear for detail — this mix is one to sit with...

Thanks a lot to https://soundcloud.com/cloutier

ERIC CLOUTIER on the web:
Palinoia Bandcamp: https://palinoiarecords.bandcamp.com/
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/3401076-Eric-Cloutier
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericcloutier/
RA: https://de.ra.co/dj/ericcloutier

UNRUSH on the web:
Bandcamp: www.unrush.bandcamp.com/
Hardwax: www.hardwax.com/label/unrush/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_unrush

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria

Tracklist tba...

097 - Unrushed by Eric Cloutier

@ambitdj @beatricemasters
Mastered by @bademjan

Ambit 'In The Dark' (Beatrice M. remix) XMAS 2025 FREEBIE

Inner Echo with No Ice Cream Sound - 26 October 2025

Recorded live from Bal Harbour, Sun & Bass, Sardinia. I was warming up for DJ Die , nice and early vibes as the sun was setting. I mainly played records and as you can hear there was sometimes an issue with the needle - think we tried about 3 before we got it sounding right! Anyway, it's old loved and used vinyl so it's a little rough and raw at times. These records are so precious to me and I also need to biggup Victory V, Double O''s late brother who some of these records belong too.

Mantra - dub & dancehall set - live from  sun & bass 2025

Brand new Mooncast comes from an enigmatic producer hiding by the name of Libertine. Get ready for his debut vinyl release to be announced next week...

Tracklist:
Libertine - Pulse 1
Libertine - Dem A Fear
Libertine - Forces Of Dub
Libertine - Frühling
Libertine - Africa
Libertine - Ice Cream Dub
Pupajim - Business Of War (Libertine Edit)
Libertine - Aerials
Libertine - Blue Monday
Libertine - In The Shape Of Your Heart
Libertine - Seen
Another Channel feat. Prince Morella - Brother Love (Libertine Remix)
Libertine - Jah Nuh Dub
Libertine - Jah Nuh Dead
Libertine - Marijuana

Mooncast #54 - Libertine

Butterfly Wing

A lullaby for someone I love and miss everyday. 

Song for Ariel

One of the defining producers of the 21st century steps up for a rare, era-spanning mix.

We've been in a reflective mood lately: mulling emergent icons, modern classic and the cyclical nature of trends. All things bend around eventually, but if you lived through the mid-'00s the first time, it felt tricky to envision some specifics of those interim years making a second splash. More fool us. Amongst many other things, dubstep is well and truly back.

This resurged appetite for low-end has been a central storyline in 2025. Clear tells were there in the form of Introspekt's Moving The Center and Tracey's "Sex Life," two major highlights of the past 12 months. Alternately, cup your ear to the tremors rumbling across the world and you'd find Mala packing up crowds with gusto. Which makes closing out the year with a mix from the man himself serendipitous.

The South Norwood-born sub sensei has held an anchor role in the movement since its earliest days. A little like what Upsetter was to Black Ark, the principles Mala, Coki and Loefah's DMZ laid down have been expanded on by Deep Medi, a label that has cultivated a loyal fandom who watch over the catalogue like a hawk. (Six years of frothy debate and knowing in-jokes between MEDi 99 and MEDi 100 paints a picture of both steep expectations and an affinity for gently ribbing their leader.)

But Mala's banner 2025 hasn't relied on the heads alone. The adrenaline of his fissuring basslines and barrel-chested vocals have drawn people into his orbit, and there are rarer qualities at play, too—like pacifism, winked at by the demilitarized name and reinforced on their all-time greatest tune; or contemplation, inked on flyers beseeching the crowd to meditate on bass weight.

In that spirit arrives a mix we've asked after for years. Subtitled The Listening Session, it's rare on two counts. Despite his enduring popularity, Mala is a conspicuous absence on most DJ series. (It's not that he doesn't enjoy recording, just gets spooked by the reaction.)

A nearly-three hour studio set—spaciously paced and laced with a combination of 2025 highlights, freshly-cut dubplates and some of the biggest anthems in the genre's history—is unheard of. No tracklist for now, on Mala's request. Soon come.

RA.1016 is the kind of document that jogs the memory back to when dubstep was a discrete enterprise, something you could only fleetingly access by, say, dialling into Youngsta on Sub FM, ripping 320s of "Circling" off long-forgotten blogs or hugging the back wall of Mass. Which, in service of thinking the evolution of 21st century electronic music, is pretty perfect really.  – Gabriel Szatan

Find the interview at ra.co/podcast/1035

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@deep-medi-musik

RA.1016 Mala

Early hour's set recorded live at Leipätehdas...all vinyl. Warming up before LAS & Mikael...also big up @masidub for arranging the event back then!

DJ Mesa-Vatti @ Dubikonna Sound, Leipätehdas, Vaasa, Finland (10.01.2015)

Musician and producer out of Toronto, Canada.

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