Credits : 
Spoken words - James Baldwin and bell hooks.
Chanting - Jan Blake.

dan nicholls (live) - Meakusma Festival 2024

Interview:  https://truantsblog.com/2024/truancy-volume-340-jon-k/

Soundcloud: @jon_k_mcr

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Jon K

Truancy Volume 340: Jon K

Level Mix 002 is brought to you by Brooklyn-based Dekalb Works, the collaborative project of Austin Peru (Vision Fortune) & our very own Daniel Creahan (Alien D). In Dan's words: "Last summer, we were invited by our loveable Level family to bring the project upstate for the yearly Glen Falls House weekender. Fortunately - the Tascam was running, and I’m so thrilled to release this one... [It's] got it all - guitars, heavy drones, a Tricky sample. The sky’s the limit."

Q: How much of your performances would you say are planned and how much are improvised? What's your setup look like and how often would you say it varies from gig to gig?

Our sets are almost completely improvised. We started experimenting with this for our Euro tour last summer for our last record, using Traktor to assemble, process and sequence loops. That program has a very sick effects bay and the mixing capabilities really makes for a nice system for assembling and flowing through stuff while also responding in real time to what's playing. 

Some of it was pulled from finished tracks (stems, loops, one shots etc), some are written between sets, so it's always evolving a bit. Dan will use those to move through different sets of arrangements, with Austin playing guitar and processing effects over that. There's also some other tracks we've used regularly for live sampling and grooves to sort of alternate between moments that feel very loose and open-ended and then more tracky, complete ideas to work off. Since then we've written a bunch of newer ideas and bits to work with. We'll also work in some more fully composed backing tracks to sort of reset or give a moment of cohesion to balance the flow out a bit. This has sort of become the default for how we've been playing live, but it's always an open-ended process based on how we're feeling.  

Q: How did you approach this set in particular? 

I think with this set we were pretty comfortable with the format described above as we'd played quite a bit in the month and a half before the set. We sort of got into the habit of this idea of a slow, building tension that occasionally resolves into moments that were more groove focused, so I think we had a nice template that we were working from for this one. 

Q:  Were there any surprises along the way?

... 

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DeKalb Works - Live From Glen Falls House

Mix pour @lafaceb-live // Montréal // 24 Février 2025 // EBM special, sous-titré "Blind Ambient Rage" (musique pour notre temps)

S.M. Nurse — Hot Day In Istanbul [1983]
Ministry — Crash And Burn [1986]
Esplendor Géometrico — Rotor [1988]
I.B.M. — Limelight 80 [2003]
Hypnobeat — Giving Head To Kilian [1985]
23 Skidoo — Kundalini [1982]
Acid Horse — No Name, No Slogan (Cabaret Voltaire Mix) [1989]
ADSR — Freak Response [2024, recorded late 80s]
Final Cut — Burn Baby Burn [1989]
Andromeda Complex — The Servant (Klankman Remix) [2017]
The Soft Moon — Desertion (Phase Fatale Remix) [2016]
Nitzer Ebb — Let Your Body Learn [1987]
Test Dept. — The Unacceptable Face Of Freedom (Face 3) [1987]
Agaric — Tiled Room (Reversed Mix) [1991]
Automelodi — La Poussière (Neonlichter Edit) [2019]
B The Vox — Stay Silent (Mick Wills Cut) [2017]
M Parent — Acid Thirst [2023]
Cuerpos — Juegas [2023]

Blind Ambient Rage (Mix for La Face B)

Sold - The Ever Afters Campout 2025 - Yurt

Slipping

Slipping (aya been caught mix)

Situated in the pulsating center of Brussels' Marolles district, GIMIC is a bar and a radio station committed to fostering the lively electronic music culture of the city.
Transmitting sound waves from the heart of Brussels.

Sookie
soundcloud : @sarah-vergaerde
instagram : www.instagram.com/sookie.sarah/

atmospherics by Sookie b2b Nico @ GIMIC - 03 September 2025

"I dreamed a wonderful dream of a flower.
On the hill-side green it grew:
But the tongue would fail, nor has brush the power
To paint that flower for you."

A fresh journey through space and time by @ghosttropics

✢

MFIS LXIV ✢ ghosttropics

Ethio-jazz luminary Mulatu Astatke graces us with an hour of music – including Ethiopian jazz that has influenced him over the years, and some picks from his new record Mulatu Plays Mulatu. Astatke plays the Southbank Centre as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival November 16th.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/mulatu-astatke-28th-september-2025

Mulatu Astatke 280925

Techno Ruined My Life: The Hostile Ambient Takeover Mix (Excerpt)

In anticipation of Atom™ and Tobias' tour of the US over the next two weekends (July 29 - Stereo Montreal, July 30 - The Bunker New York,  August 5 - Surface Tension SF, and August 6 - Lunar Lodge Colorado), we dug up this set, recorded at The Bunker New York showcase at Anthology at The Works in Detroit on May 25, 2015.  This three hour live and improvised set of hypnotizing mind control music closed out Movement weekend in epic fashion.  The room was still packed when they finished at 6am.

The Bunker Podcast 129

The Bunker Podcast 129 - Atom™ & Tobias

@n10-as / @eastvillageradio / Days Of Steam / Dastgâmachine (drones + tones)
neonlichter.dj@gmail.com

2025
09.26 Meridian Arts Centre (Toronto)
09.14 Chillits 2025 (Laytonville)
06.21 Life On Marz (Chicago)
06.20 Interzone (Lexington)
06.13 Adelaide Hall (Toronto)
06.02 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
05.29 Casa Del Popolo (Montréal)
05.14 Wavelength (Toronto)
05.10 Cafeteria (Toronto)
04.26 Alphaville (NYC)
03.08 TD Music Hall (Toronto)
03.01 Alphaville (NYC)

2024
12.31 Party World (Montréal)
12.29 BSMT254 (Toronto) 
11.14 Casa Del Popolo (Montréal)
11.13 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
08.16 Layer05 (Montréal)
06.28 Osmo (Montréal)
06.27 Sans-Soleil (Montréal)
06.23 The Little Jerry (Toronto) 
06.21 Tapestry (Toronto) 
04.28 Sounds Good (Toronto) 
04.27 Standard Time (Toronto) 
02.17 Heatsync (New Haven) 
01.18 Tapestry (Toronto) 

2023
12.21 Tapestry (Toronto)
12.14 Système (Montréal)
11.28 The Lot Radio (NYC)
10.19 Tapestry (Toronto)
09.30 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
09.24 The Little Jerry (Toronto)
09.21 Tapestry (Toronto)
09.15 Nouvel Établissement (Montréal) 
08.10 Sans Soleil (Montréal)
07.14 Revival (Toronto)
06.07 Système (Montréal)
01.19 Sans Soleil (Montréal)

2022
10.25 Système (Montréal)
09.24 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
08.27 Nouvel Établissement (Montréal)
04.29 Bambi's (Toronto)
03.24 Houndstooth (Toronto)
03.16 The Little Jerry (Toronto) 

2021
12.11 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
09.05 The Little Jerry (Toronto)

2020
03.14 Bambi’s (Toronto)

2019
12.09 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
05.27 Giant Steps (London)
05.25 Ransom Note (London) 
05.23 Rye Wax (London)
03.01 El Rey Theater (Los Angeles)
02.28 Mezzanine (San Francisco)
02.23 Neumos (Seattle)
02.22 Doug Fir Lounge (Portland)
02.21 Imperial (Vancouver)
02.16 Bottom Lounge (Chicago)
02.15 El Club (Detroit)
02.14 Mod Club (Toronto)
02.13 Théâtre Corona (Montréal)
02.10 Elsewhere (NYC)
02.09 Union Stage (Washington DC)
02.08 Elsewhere (NYC)
02.07 Brighton Music Hall (Boston)

2018
05.12 Brilliant Corners (London)

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