Zmatsutsi coming from the industrial nothingness of Leeds, this trio of Leed’s finest late night underground party prowlers can be found forging the sLeedZy sound inspired by italo, wave & slo mo beats.
Their last Mini - Lp on Macadam Mambo was described like this “You find an old VHS tape hidden away on it is a recording of an alternative reality TOTP circa 1984 with Patrick Cowley live soundtracking giantess pegging special, which features a purple thonged Prince being spanked by Cosey Fanny Tutti, with Baldelli serving coke in a black rubber gas mask”.

Zmatsutsi LIve - NARR RADIO x Mutant Broadcast from Golden Lion, Todmorden UK [10.08.2023]

It’s done.  Kontrapunkt International is here.

With artists from all over the world, to listeners all over the world.  A double cassette release featuring artists from all six continents, from long-time collaborators to voices I’ve only recently discovered.

For this NEW HIT we bring you Doc Sleep. Long time Berlin resident now US-based she delivers you this loopy, hypnotic, groovy, melancholic summer tune.

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NEW HIT: Doc Sleep - On Ice [Kontrapunkt]

The voices echoed over the water as the boat reached the port. On board there were elegant dancers, shrieks and yells of joy as the sun set in the distance casting a glimmering shimmer over the soft rolling waves.

This was true love – the beauty of the moment, one to be savoured and cherished in time.

The air was hot and thick – soon they would all disembark and wander onwards into the night. They’d lose themselves on dry land only to reminisce one day about the true love they’d found out on the water.

Tapes never fails to deliver when it comes to a classy dub or rework. This time he reimagines the sound of a cult classic from Laurie Miller. A track called ‘True Love’ which is drenched in sun kissed disco energy and remodelled into a crafty, deeper tool with rolling percussion and a heady energy.

Highly recommended.

PREMIERE: Laurie Miller - True Love (Tapes Dub) [Paesaggi Records]

Another expedition into the fourth world, or is this one the fifth… A place where the spirits of the past come together with those of the future, where haunted ambient and ghostly dubbed out rhythms make you trance out to the world unknown, where esoteric brings you down to earth… Can you still follow? Maybe just listen and get lost.

The Other Side 92, Lyl Radio 13/05/2025

Freak Out! w/ Wormbox: 30th May '25

Hot summer rain hits the cracked pavement in uneven rhythms. A neon sign flickers above a café that never seems to close, its warm white light reflected in the wet ground like a fever dream. The air smells of summer and the world hums with an easy tone, as if the city itself is holding its breath. A light flooded film noir-ish scene, that needs a soundtrack like „POOL JAMS“, the new album of INIT, the Berlin based duo, that already caused quite a stir with their albums for Hivern Discs and Optimo Music. This time, they bring their latest creations out on R.i.O. - a label, with whom they are deeply associated. Their fourth longplayer is a playful one. One that brings trip hopping feelings. That has r’n’b grace, without catering regular trademarks of the genre. Dub, trance, drone, is all there too. Yet, nothing is present in pure definition. Rather suggested, interwoven, or newly twisted in a songwriting style, that haunts and
seduces. On top the voice of Nadia D'Alò dances, steps and hums tempting to the grooves she created with her partner in crime Benedikt Frey. Together they fashioned a record, that, as INIT puts it, is „some kind of old photo from an old dry empty pool that got faded by sunlight “. A dreamy, sunny piece of song art, made for endless smoky LA freeway drives, and other adventures that seek for infinite riddance. You can dream it. You can trance it. You can’t escape it, as soon as it rotates in your dream device for sound and vision.

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INIT - Pinata

Recorded live on Saturday 31st May 2025 at Optimo and Ransom Note's brilliant Watching Trees festival, Watching Morning 2 is a heady ambient excursion inspired by the natural sights and sounds of the event's site in North Wiltshire. It features a mix of ambient, horizontal electronics, field recordings, spoken word snippets and countless 'watching morning versions' created especially for the performance. For full tracklisting, as well as a review of Watching Trees 2025, head to www.jointhefuture.net.

Featured artwork: 'Summer' by textile artist Marion Anniss (2024). Prints available via https://www.marionanniss.com/

Watching Morning 2 (recorded live at Watching Trees 2025)

Christine Renée, a sonic storyteller and American expat, curates themed sets and occasionally interviews a variety of sound artists on her show FOR THE BIRDS. She's collected records since the '90s and DJed since the '00s. Renowned for her residency at Lot Radio (2016) and role at hi-fi club Public Records as head curator (2019), she's now studying sound as a healing modality.

Christine Renée @ Kiosk Radio 08.06.2025

Trushmix 240 presents The Burrell Connection. Live from Globus/Tresor 13th of December 12. At Wania presents!

The Burrell Connection aka Alfie, Dream_E, DJ59. Scotsman now living in Berlin releasing on wax since 19 (labels of Craigie Knowes, Pace Yourself, Tartlet and Optimo.

Here he presents a 55 min live session. Techno and House. Depp electronic performed live with an Elektron Analog Rytm + Octatrack, Roland JD-08, Korg Minilogue + FX.

Enjoy music from the top!

Trushmix 240 - The Burrell Connection

Forms in Motion marks the debut release from Earthbound Recordings, a new label founded by producer Mihail P as a home for deep, transportive electronics. Active since 2016 and known for releases on labels such as Seventh Sign Recordings, Verdant, Distant Worlds, Magnonic Signals, Propersound, and Nebulae, Mihail P launches this new chapter with a four-track EP that pays homage to the 90s UK techno and Detroit lineage.

“Millenium” sets the tone with layered pads and cosmic momentum, nodding to 7th Plain. “Echo Drift” fuses crisp electro rhythms with spacious melodic detail, while “Green Route” reflects the melodic introspection of Likemind Records. The closer, “Shape Without Form”, dives into abstract territory with glimmers of early AFX.

“It’s been a dream to form my own label for years,” says Mihail P. “This felt like the right time to create a space for timeless music that doesn’t chase trends.”

Earthbound’s first step—grounded in memory, aimed at the beyond.

Zmatsutsi LIve - NARR RADIO x Mutant Broadcast from Golden Lion, Todmorden UK [10.08.2023]

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