The Factory Edge

@halcyon-veil

Our guest this episode is Rabit. A veritable Houston legend, underground king, Halcyon Veil label-founder, and critically acclaimed producer, who has previously released with Björk, Arca, and many other notable figures.

Rabit seems like a character fresh out of a Harmony Korine film — that grungy, fuck-you-all aesthetic shines through in his CENTER BOOTH performance. He opens with 6 minutes of crackling and howling void, before echoing in ‘Moments in Love’ by Art of Noise. Throughout, subtly chopped classics like Yung Joc’s ‘It’s Goin’ Down’ unravel into melodic samples, ranging as far as Nirvana’s ‘Heart Shaped Box’ before ultimately collapsing into Armand’s Dark Garage Mix of ‘Spin Spin Sugar’ by the Sneaker Pimps, notably one of the few dance tracks of the hour.

Rabit’s set is a masterclass in vocal and melody layering across genres, building tension and only ever releasing us briefly and into the unexpected.

https://youtu.be/zEQcF1ejxFs?si=KUR6ZJV19QY64JC6
https://www.lettonne.dance/

LETTONNE

Rabit – Center Booth ◎ S1E03

@networkerror

No longer lit by the bright ambient light of our CDJ's, this week on CENTER BOOTH we plunge into the dark abyss for our very first live hardware set, and who better to break us in than the legendary Providence-based artist Isabella Koen, a veritable mastermind of the craft. Not only is she known for her crushing live sets in clubs around the world, including at Basement and Nowadays here in New York, Tresor and Draaimolen Festival abroad, just to name a few, she's also a literal Professor of Electronic Production and Design at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston. And if that wasn't enough hats to wear, she's also set to open a new listening bar called Piccolo in Providence, bringing further richness to a city already brimming with talent and creativity.

For her set at CENTER BOOTH, she works with a rather concise sibling-setup of an Elektron Octatrack mk1 and an Elektron Rytm mk2, utilizing a diverse range of propulsive programmed rhythms to wade through thick sonic sludge. The result is a powerful, triumphant sound that never fails to throw crowds into a frenzy. We're in awe of this one, totally confounded by her unique ability to weave together an intricate array of dissonant sounds and somehow make it make complete and utter sense. The experience of seeing it in person is baffling and heroic, garnering a response that is both guttural and genuine. It's an honor to have her grace our stage, and to give you a taste of this inimitable East Coast artist.

For further listening, check out her excellent releases on Peder Mannerfelt Produktions, iDEAL Recordings, Rank+File, and Synthetic Pleasures. 

https://youtu.be/5T4i_KL4Dl8?si=k7gAn-sIGNSFJkVq
https://www.lettonne.dance/


Isabella Koen – Center Booth ◎ S2E06

anti-alias w/ emma rak - 07/08/2025

Smoke Machine Podcast 156 Yan

P.L.N. presents SNIT - Recorded live in Copenhagen at the S/S 26 presentation in collaboration with Halcyon Veil.

TRACKLISTING

* Vocals by LUɳG @lungggg

RABIT, LORD PUSSWHIP - HOOD GHOST
CURRENT93 - ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSIES
BAUHAUS - BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD (HV REMIX)
RABIT - rad2str*
TATI AU MIEL - contemporaneousness*
RABIT - unreleased*
LANE STEWART - unreleased*

P.L.N. - SNIT (HVMIX032)

Composer and sound designer Hesaitix aka M.E.S.H, aka James Whipple, swings by the studio for another guest hour of singular club music. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/hesaitix-14th-august-2025

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@mariusbo

As we approach the end of summer, I am delighted to welcome Marius Bø to Deep Mind Music with an ethereal mix of celestial atmospheres to calm the soul ✧｡⋆.

Inspired by recent time spent in the mountains of Norway, the mix takes us high into the stratosphere, where whispers of cirrus clouds melt into the surrounding sky. Gentle blankets of emotive tones morph around us, as we are carried forth into the sacred chambers of the inner mind.

As the mix progresses, delicate arpeggiated spirals bloom across the imagination, and we are held in delicate suspension above the earth, floating, weightless, in quiet introspection. Thank you Marius for this beautiful mix, a space for deep reflection and blissful harmony within.

Years ago, Marius invited me to make an ambient and downtempo mix for @ute-rec’s mix series after listening to Deep Mind Music (https://soundcloud.com/ute-rec/ute-mix-series-49-sybil), so it is a great joy to present this transcendent mix from Marius himself on Deep Mind Music today 🤍💠🌙

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Downloads Enabled ~

Marius Bø ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.34

from my upcoming album XO Salt Llif3 available for preorder on the 3XL bandcamp out August 29th. 

preorder XO Salt Llif3

Ur Ghost Is My Shadow feat. Kissen

The Ping Report 2025 is built almost entirely from community-sourced selections and productions, drawn from the MD Discord and beyond.

If you know my discography, this mix sits alongside Shared Meanings, Twists and Turns, Pinch B2B Mumdance and FabricLive 80.

Ping isn’t a genre. It's an approach to anchoring and propelling sound without relying on the steady pulse of a kick drum, instead using a “ping”  as a temporal scaffold 

A lot of the early Different Circles tracks had ping sounds running through them. When I played them on the radio, the Discord chat would often react with a meme of Momotaros, a Japanese devil character.

Over time, I started playing more pingy tracks just to trigger the meme. In 2023, I broadcast a moodboard show called The Ping Report, and from there, producers began sending in purpose-made ping tracks. That eventually led to the Ping Volume One compilation.

This 2025 Report is the ping sound evolved, shaped through two years of incubation and dialogue between a community of artists and listeners.

Thank you to everyone involved, especially the Discord crew. It’s been a joy to watch this grow so organically from a single meme. 😂

Tracklist

Tracks with a 🏆 are community produced ping dubs
Tracks with a 😮 are forthcoming Different Circles

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01 - Ex Tynam - Mimeograph (Holywell Echolocation Dub) - 🏆
02 - Mumdance - It Was Summoned - 🏆
03 - 6amsunset - Should I Go v1 - 😮
04 - 6amsunset / Chevel - The Call Rmx NewV v2.1 - 😮
05 - Lillia Betz - Boomerang 😮
06 - Gaunt - Say What
07 - Airhead - Kazzt (Mumdance Remix)
08 - Little Snake - LS_PING_TRACK_V5 - 🏆
09 - Li Yilei - SAN / 散
10 - Outpost - Better Dad - 🏆
11 - Faulty DL - No Lock Ping V3 for Mumdance - 🏆
12 - Sleeparchive - MRI Scanner
13 - Faulty DL - TTB Ping 8_12_25 - 🏆
14 - Raymond Scott - IBM Probe
15 - 6am Sunset - Scroll Of Doom - 😮
16 - DJ Don’t - Key Realmer - 🏆
17 - BFTT - YDONT_RM_v3
18 - Nic As Well - Tickler
19 - LWS - Tar
20 - Beton Brut - Lime Bike - 😮
21 - Benoit - Kimono
22 - Surgeon - Optic
23 - Cortical - Grated - 😮
24 - YG-3 - Percy Pingle - 🏆
25 - EONE - TIME2GET - 🏆
26 - DJ Sinclair - Roll_Deep_Regular_Sinclair_ping_dub - 🏆
27 - Pinch - Tectonic Sound
28 - Kaotic Chemistry - L.S.D.
29 - Moscow Legend - Die Audio
30 - Guide - Ngng - 🏆
31 - Unearth - Stark Realisation - 😮
32 - 6amsunset - What Would My Future Self Do v2.0 - 😮
33 - Logos - Red October - 😮
34 - Dogpatrol - Moist Carpet (Demo v1) - 🏆
35 - Low End Activist - No Trace (P1ng) - 🏆
36 - Aspen Laws - Chintwin-Weightless-011 - 🏆
37 - Xen Chron - Q’omatose - 😮
38 - DJ Don’t – Plug Doubt - 🏆
39 - Joey - Rendr
40 - Rave Creator - Bleep Blaster
41 - Mumdance - Computer-Club (EMS Synthi-100) - 🏆
42 - Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Matrix
43 - DJ Rashad - I Don’t Give a Fuck
44 - Paad - Pseudomorphic Rotator
45 - SNKLS - Essence VII
46 - CORIN - Redux - 😮
47 - Unearth - Faulty Client - 😮
48 - upsammy - Relict
49 - AMIT - Dirt Doctor - 😮
50 - DJ Hidden - In My Blood
51 - Current Value - 2012
52 - Current Value - Interstellar
53 - The Panacea With Limewax - OMG Bleeps
54 - Machine Code - Solitude
55 - Lime68k - 2phive - 🏆
56 - Erasure - Chorus
57 - Raven - Jupiter

Radio Mumdance - The Ping Report 2025 - 20 August 2025

@djvalentimes

It wasn't long after he started DJing and producing that Stefan Cvitanic, aka DJ Valentimes, had found his niche. Whether it's in Providence or Tunisia, Budapest or Oslo, Cvitanic has formed connections with discerning fans all over the world with his uncompromising approach to techno, delivering emotional heft and texture and in every shade of greyscale. Alongside his DJ Valentimes moniker, the Bay Area-born, New York-based artist widened his scope with additional aliases (Kanal Nula, Kirbi Zauvijek, Rangefinder), launched three record labels (Puppy Tapes, Anti-State Electronics, Mineral Resource) and somehow found the time to run the now-defunct Dust Radio and Nausea rave series alongside a spirited cast of his friends.

Following a brief and well-deserved hiatus, DJ Valentimes makes a triumphant return to the decks with a punishing CENTER BOOTH set that reminds us exactly what we’ve been missing. A droning, atmospheric opening passage sets an ominous tone with dank echoes and buzzing sounds that bring to mind a swarm of flies hovering over a rotting corpse. A pounding kick breaks the mix open, with propulsive percussion loops and muted horns that conjure a fast-approaching steam engine train. As the intensity rises, you could imagine lying on the tracks beneath the carriage as the locomotive rushes overhead, finally reaching a point where the experience is more akin to standing in front of a jet engine.

The set contains unreleased tracks from DJ Valentimes himself and a number of his close friends, alongside timeless early 2000s schranz cuts that could have been released 25 years ago or yesterday. It’s proper rinsing techno of the highest order, an enveloping storm as intricate and varied as it is incessantly slamming (well, right up until the chef’s kiss chilly cooldown anyway). DJ Valentimes, you’ve been missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=injQuH32WA4
https://www.lettonne.dance/

The Factory Edge

Max Rollins