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@acolourfulstorm label boss Moopie presents two hours of music each month, connecting the dots between club cuts, weirdo experiments, indie sensibilities and more.

Tune in for A Colourful Storm every 4th Thursday of the month, from 00h to 02h [CET] on rinse.fr

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A Colourful Storm with Moopie and Lena Willikens - 03 Novembre 2022

Recording of Vladimir Ivkovic & Ivan Smagghe's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2023.

Lente Kabinet Festival 2023

Vladimir Ivkovic & Ivan Smagghe at Lente Kabinet Festival 2023

Moopie b2b Lena Willikens @ The Lot Radio 11-08-2024

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Hani 10.13.25 | VISLA FM

CMOKAST returns with a new chapter — and who better to reopen the series than Vladimir Ivković. What you hear is an excerpt from the final hours of his five-hour journey LIVE at Club Tunnel. Eclectic in spirit and uncompromising in form, Ivković’s approach is never about trends or clichés: it’s about patience, tension, strange beauty, and unexpected connections. The challenging sets he delivers are not always easy, but almost always ingenious.. Each track feels less like a choice and more like a discovery — a reminder that the best sets are not about control but about surrender. This recording is both a testament to the Tunnel floor and an opening statement for what CMOKAST aims to be — a series dedicated to underground sound, a movement guided by music as a state of mind.

CMOKAST021 LIVE: Vladimir Ivković [Live at Club Tunnel]

VLADIMIR IVKOVIC - Wednesday 5th November 2025

The people say 30 is big, tho its feeling just right to be carried by this special live recording of Angus Mills’ set from Soma Festival 2026 - A weekend in the bush that will forever sit close to the Moonshoe heart.

The unruly clash another beloved VIC bush gathering, Hopkins Creek, meant I couldn’t make it to this year’s edition of Soma.. But am deeply grateful to be transported into the hills of Wiradjuri Country through this recording. 

Lifted, bouncy rhythms weave in and out of deeper, dreamy introspections - laced with weight that you can almost hear echoing off the hills around the Soma shades. Hopefully those who weren’t there can also feel a little of the magic through this… and that those who were, can be taken straight back . More Angus on Moonshoe ~ out very soon !

Moonshoe Selects 00030 - Angus Mills @ Soma Festival

Con Pani https://soundcloud.com/conpani
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steeplejack 8.11 

"Summer nights when you're tossing and turning from the heat, in and out of sleep. Somewhere between a dream and a nightmare."

The Necks - Open
Hand to Earth - Waṯu
CoH vs ITO - Sleepwalker (Original A Capella)
Bitsy Knox & Roger 3000 - Rabbit heart thumping
Chloé - You (Feat. Chris Gameau)
Pavo Cristatus - Untitled
Genesis P-Orridge And Splinter Test - Does Mind Leave?
doris dana - marfa, 1984
Metametal - Rasca y Gana
Genesis P-Orridge And Splinter Test - Thee Fractured Garden
Edvard Graham Lewis - Bluebird
Zeitkratzer & Terre Thaemlitz - Sloppy 42nds
Tapan - Bogovi
lowkey+nude - Excerpt From A Dream
Space Food Chicks - The Wonderful Feeling
OKO DJ - Exolition
Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie - Endless Not
Keru Not Ever - Mezzanine
Einstürzende Neubauten - Total Eclipse Of The Sun

Con Pani

Hecq - Kold
Surachai - Feign
Nurse With Wound - Disintergrate 19 Page 03
Be Invisible Now! - Arsh 5555
Autechre - Silveride
Wahono - Beta Grondwet
Gridlock - Song23
Hosmoz - Drox
Richard Devine - Brux
Nike Vomita - (Aa3)
Nanonum - hot slew
Xingu Hill - The Conquistador Closes His Eyes
Gooooose - Bosch Garden
Silent Strangers - Dan’s Kalimba
Puce Mary - To Possess Is To Be In Control
Cosey Fanni Tutti - En
Coil - Nature Is A Language
ON4B - dotdotdotFive
Circle9 - 2th Difference
Monolake - wave2dot3
Xingu Hill - One Of Us
Ikuko Morozumi - Also
Nike Vomita - Negative Attendance
Terminal 11 - The Bird’s Midair Heartstroke
End - Immeasurable Distance
DUB-Russell - Ciao, a Presto
Mike Mangino - Owl Nanny
r.m. ʝ〜ʎ / W.E._aa - ⠠⠮⠕⠗⠽ ⠷ ⠗⠑⠇⠁⠞⠊⠧⠭⠽ {Theory of relativity}
Philipp Otterbach - The Weak Song

Faith In Strangers #43

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

New Beat was born and initially exploded in 1987, went supernova (in Belgium) in 1988 and then the formula morphed a bit and was declared dead in 1989. It was slow and initially all about the atmosphere with industrial strength beats - the main form of rhythmic propulsion being the pounding kick and heavy snare. It was often mainly instrumental and when there was lyrical content it often became more about slogans and giving commands - "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat!", "Let There Be Brightness!", "Shout Out Loud!". While not really New Beat, it's no surprise Technotronic's "Pump Up Jam" was produced by a crew who had produced a ton of New Beat gems.

In 1989 one of New Beat's founders, Marc Grouls said "New Beat is atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial!!!!!" But, it was already too late. A zillion bandwagon jumpers had diluted the music and flooded the market with too many sub standard 12" singles. New Beat temple, the legendary Boccaccio nightclub, in Destelbergen, near Ghent, had been closed down and it looked like it was all over, but really, it was just the beginning. New Beat morphed into Hard Beat (many of the tracks on this mix are from the Hard Beat era) which quickly morphed into Belgian Rave, which was huge and hugely influential in the UK and is an often overlooked part of the DNA of UK Hardcore, and all that came after. Then from Ghent, R&S Records established itself as thee European Techno label and a huge wave of incredible Techno records emanated from it and many other mighty Belgian labels, but that is another story. 

New Beat arrived just as I first started DJing and I played a lot of it in my DJ sets and built up connections with several of the leading Belgian labels who would send me 12" singles so I had records nobody else here had any idea even existed. I would compile New Beat charts for the music paper The NME which may have given the impression there was a thriving New Beat scene in Scotland. The reality was very different; people here, many of whom would embrace the rave just a little while later never really took to it in a big way.

This mix is comprised of many of my personal favourites that I have loved since they came out (and two I missed at the time and only heard later). I think the tracks have aged like a fine wine, often sounding as good if not better today as they did then. There is definitely a faint whiff of fromage and a big dollop of stoopid in several of these tracks. Of course, it is not all about the cheese and many of these adhere to the "atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial" rule mentioned above. Some of the best programmed 303 Acid basslines ever made can be heard here along with transcendental hypno synths and those Belgian beats going on and on....! Slow and low, from under 100bpm up to 116, New Beat doesn't chug, it swings in a very distinct way. If you get to see any videos of Belgian clubs of the era, the way people moved to this music is incredible and so different to any dancing we see today.

Many of these tracks are made by the same people under various aliases, which will perhaps be audibly evident. Most of the names have been forgotten, if they were ever even known outside their native Belgium at all, but all are legends to me. 

This mix isn't any kind of attempt to tell the story of New Beat but rather a mix 33 of my favourite 12" singles from that era showing many of the various strains of the New Beat and Hard Beat sound. A lot of love went into this and I hope someone somewhere discovers this music for the first time and falls in love with it as I did way back when. This was Belgium!

Faith In Strangers #43

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