DJ Sarah and Georgia Bird make up the marvellous Ozzie based duo project @IN2STELLAR. Their mixes encapsulate exactly what we love about dance music these days, and this set is no different. Perfectly mixed bass heavy whoppers, super fun proggy cuts and some acid infused head tickers chucked in for good measure.... genius.

N-joi da nrg.

HAWSMIX063 / IN2STELLAR

Our next mix comes from another one of our Bristol pals, Joe aka @Remotif.

We were absolutely blown away by his set at space lab a few months ago before our residents Space Cadets and instantly knew we had to get him on the mix series. Not only a fantastic DJ in his own right, Joe is a seriously skilled producer with a string of great releases to his name.

In this mix he expertly moves between breaks, techno, trance and more - enjoy!

Rotation 033: Remotif

Radiant Love & Planet Euphorique CEO's play back-to-back.

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/d-tiffany-byron-yeats-15th-july-2022

D. Tiffany & Byron Yeates 150722

Recording of Cinnaman & Mor Elian's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022.

Lente Kabinet Festival 2022

Cinnaman & Mor Elian at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022

Stay left and take a trip with Macca's Saturday breakfast show on NTS. Weekend musings and eclectic cuts from all over the place, it's a low-key affair and you're all invited. ONE GLOVE!!!
 
https://www.nts.live/shows/macca/episodes/macca-16th-december-2023

The One Glove Breakfast Show w/ Macca: The Soprano Special  161223

Roaming the landscape of Leon Vynehall's musical and creative tastes for 60 minutes in this NTS special residency. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/leon-vynehall/episodes/leon-vynehall-23rd-january-2024

Leon Vynehall 230124

Select live recordings of a performance of the music of Ólafur Arnalds. Performed by Glasshouse in the Pepper Canister Church, which was transformed by striking lighting design and visual installation. 

The ensemble performed Arnald's second album (And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness) in its entirety before presenting a selection of favourites from Arnalds’ body of work.

The evening was a joyous celebration of Icelandic music and of the relationship between Ireland and Iceland. Glasshouse were thrilled to have the support of Ólafur Arnalds and the Embassy of Iceland in London for this very special event.

Glasshouse is a new Dublin-based music ensemble who present performances of popular contemporary music in singular locations.

Glasshouse - 3055 (Ólafur Arnalds)

ORDER:
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/hacking-the-planet-ep
https://radiantlove.bandcamp.com/album/bliss-inc-hacking-the-planet

@bliss_inc
@sunnysibar

There is not much information to be found online about Bliss Inc., whose Hacking the Planet EP comes out on Radiant Love this summer. Beyond the fact they’re named Alexander and hail from Saint Petersburg, the project is cryptic – somehow this is fitting for a set of songs that could’ve fallen out of an obscure 1994 catalogue. This is the year of Robert Leiner’s Visions of the Past, Opus III’s Guru Mother, and Paul Oakenfold’s BBC-1 Essential Mix: an aesthetic region in which tech and new age spirituality braid together, a time before this synthesis reached Silicon Valley; while it still lingered in the rave, incredibly sincere, everything sounded kind of wet, and the efficiency of spirit was means to no end but a state of bliss.

What keeps Hacking the Planet from falling into pure nostalgia is its tuning – the palette of 1994 has been lifted and run through a delicate sensibility. The title track is a piece of buoyant, airy trance, with orbiting filters and a set of loopy, very vocal synths. It bumps along at 130 BPM, but feels slower because of the ease and clarity with which the track progresses. “Infinite” has got the aquatic motifs and soft, panning cymbals of a set-opener, or a comedown jam. The break that swings in after a minute-thirty feels less like a punctuation than another stream of sonics joining the flow. Picking up the pace a little, “Transitions” opens with a whir that could issue from a field of crickets or a stack of hardware. The entrance of the bassline was the first moment in this EP one could call nasty. But its drive and weight is also tempered, played against by a clever drum break, a run of piano keys, and the ethereal reverb-washed vocal sample we expect in a piece of classic mid-90’s trance – absent, however, is any kind of signalling to Goa, “exoticism” or indigenous aesthetics. (1994 was also the year of Jean Paul Gaultier’s Les Tatouages collection, which, for all its romantic nomadism and deft tailoring and syncretic spirit, has no need of a 2020 update).

Bliss Inc.’s songs stream, rather than track – one gets a sense that the elements flow in and out rather than ride a structure. Sansibar, who provides a remix of “Hacking the Planet” to round out the EP, is solidly a producer of tracks: often electro-derived ass-shaking material that hits, and hits in recognisable sections that progress serially. His version of the title cut brings in a hefty acid baseline, jungle-style stretched vocals, and kicks out of the 4/4 grid. But let there be no mistake, this is a producer also quite capable of coaxing delicacy out of hardware. The chimes of the lullaby-like breakdown halfway through the remix sound like nothing but a ghost in the machine.

BLISS INC.
Title: HACKING THE PLANET
Cat: RADIANTLOVE002
Format: 12”
Distributed: RUBADUB
Artwork: BYRON YEATES
Text: NAT MARCUS
Release date: 24.08.20

BLISS INC. - HACKING THE PLANET

Ignorance

Trust

Experimental cellist and producer Oliver Coates heralds his new album with an emotional Fact mix.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2020/10/05/oliver-coates-fact-mix/

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