DKL006: Disaffected - Now We Will Commence

Off the back of a string of heavy hitting bootlegs over the last few months, Bristol's rapidly rising duo @dsffctd come through with an abrasive and industrial breaks tune; looking back to underground 90s rave music whilst taking inspiration from more modern electro.

We'll also be bringing them down to London for the first time on the 16th of July, tickets available now: https://ra.co/events/1528309

Free Download

Disaffected - Now We Will Commence (Free Download)

Italian producer @notminimalmusic makes his first appearance on Duckland, with an upbeat garage take on UK rap modern classic Iniesta Flow.

namesbliss - Iniesta Flow (notminimal. Edit) [Free Download]

@skimber36 and @hirobbie team up for this week's tune, cooking up some warm and bouncy UKG ☀️

Floppy Disk x hiRobbie - Joy (Free Download)

MAKING CHANGES EP

Give The Game Away

A surefire provider of deep, complex weapons for the dance floor and beyond, French-born, Berlin-based artist Kangding Ray has been minting some of the most strikingly unique techno records in recent memory. His body of work for some of the most reputed record labels out there, including Raster Noton, Stroboscopic Artefacts and his own outlet, ara, cuts an introspective path, halfway modular-leaning escapology and beat-driven abstraction. From his background in architecture, his musical approach retains that fondness for structure and the creation, or re-creation of space, both as an actual object and a mental projection. Immerse yourself into KR's minutely designed headspace with this two-hour deep and intimate audio dive. 

soundcloud.com/kangding-ray

Reclaim Your City 

Reclaim Your City 602 | Kangding Ray

The producer best known as Huerco S. accompanies One Day, our record of the year, with two hours of minimal and dub introspections.

This summer, Kansas-raised DJ and producer Brian Leeds released One Day under his revived Loidis alias. Enamoured with the restrained, loopy sounds of early '00s dance music, the album’s eight tracks linger in the air, luxuriating in dubbed-out chords, swung beats and sub vibrations. It's our favourite record of 2024 for a reason. 

It's a sound he's coined, in his typically teasing fashion, "dub mnml emo tech." All winks aside, it’s no wonder One Day became the soothing balm we all needed. In a scene overwhelmed by hard and fast trends, the softer—and Leeds might argue, more sincere—stylings of minimal and dub techno enjoyed a welcome second wind. 

Not only was One Day one of our favourites of the year (more on that this week), but it also inspired us to break our usual no-repeats rule, inviting Leeds back to the RA Podcast under a different alias after his 2019 turn as Huerco S. 

"The prevailing trends in dance music are more and more maximalist," Leeds noted. "I missed restraint, subtlety, and sensuality." Clocking in at just under two hours, RA.965 embodies that ethos in spades.

@huerco_s

Read more at ra.co/podcast/965

RA.965 Loidis

now just fors 6.4.1.7 arr v1

From an old cassette, belonging to my Babayee (Farsi for grandad).

Khatereh Parvaneh with Faramarz Payvar & Ensemble - Side B

shouldn't work 4.3 levels and arr 134bpm

Escalaid & M Brauer - Traum

FREE DOWNLOAD: https://hypeddit.com/track/3os6vj

"I don't play tunes I've never heard before"

Khatereh Parvaneh with Faramarz Payvar & Ensemble - Side B

Matt Mahabadi