Restrained freakout sonics and subcranial rhythms from the Chennai-based @icarus-redux — “earth-moving kicks, baleful, eyes-dilated synths, and rough, mostly unsampled breakbeats. Fog machine bathing all as one.” 

Inspired as an artist by a mixed bag of artists and theorists that cast light on the darkness - Fisher, Graeber, Preciado, Shadow, Thaemlitz, Tiqqun, Weatherall - an Icarus Redux mix (of which there are many amazing ones on their Soundcloud) has a distinct ebb and flow, often reminding me of early cut-and-paste techniques or Richie Hawtin’s Decks x EFX mixes that reassemble contexts on a micro-level, not just layering tracks over each other but reconstructing them. highlighting the spaces between the notes, the snatches of memory that flit through your brain.

A lot of the tracks from the early 2010s are records I remember hearing and playing when I lived in Leeds, which I had associated with a very different scene that I naively believed at the time would never truly take off Stateside. At the same time, Disclosure were getting big then and I thought the US would pass them over - from downloading italo and house rips off of Bicep's old blog to seeing them headline warehouses in Brooklyn that charge $40+ admission (both Disclosure and Bicep, at this rate it's probably $60+...mais je divague).

Bianca Scout - Kingdom [2022, First Terrace]
Herbert - Deeper (Basic Soul Unit Remix) [2016, Curle]
T++ - Dig [2010, Honest Jons]
Avatism - Self Control [2017, Vakant]
Basic Soul Unit - Jak'd Freq (A Made Up Sound - Puur Natuur Mix) [2010, Crème Organization]
Ayln - Victim [2018, Nous]
Tenebre - Axe Nord-Sud [2018, WNCL Recordings]
Reckonwrong - Morton [2015, Pinkman]
Taraval - Bart's Sanctuary [2016, Text]
Blawan - Iddy [2010, Hessle Audio]
Martyn - Body Music [2018, Dolly Dubs]
Pugilist - Déjà Vu [2022, Banoffee Pies]
Ryan James Ford - Brixa Endt [2018, SHUT]
Shed - Lumber Fix TT [2018, The Final Experiment]
Private Press - Wetweird [2022, Of Paradise White Label]
Clark - Superscope [2014, Warp]
Andrea - Rainbow [2015, Ilian Tape]
Glaskin - Grey Lines [2018, Hotflush]

Days Of Steam 008: Icarus Redux

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

Sold - The Ever Afters Campout 2025 - Yurt

Slipping

Slipping (aya been caught mix)

Expansive dub vibrations from the On-U Sound maestro.

Adrian Sherwood has spent nearly five decades reshaping how dub is heard and felt. From absorbing reggae and funk as a teenager at the Newlands Club in High Wycombe to cofounding On-U Sound in 1979, he’s been a restless force in British sound system culture. His debut production, Dub From Creation, signalled his instinct to twist the Jamaican form into bold, experimental directions.

That spirit defined On-U Sound, where reggae collided with post-punk, industrial and synth pop to forge a catalogue still unlike anything else. Sherwood became a crucial bridge, producing for legends like Prince Far I, Bim Sherman and Lee “Scratch” Perry, while also working with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Sinéad O’Connor.

His  RA Mix (yes, you read that right) arrives at a moment of renewal—RA.1001 is the first in a new era for the series. (After 1,000 editions of the RA Podcast, we're updating the name to better reflect what it's become.) 

Recorded at his Ramsgate studio, the 76-minute mix folds in cuts from <i>The Collapse Of Everything<i> alongside material from across the On-U Sound universe, plus collaborations with Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Coldcut and Spoon. It's Sherwood doing what he's always done: stretching dub into endless new shapes.

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1019

RA.1001 Adrian Sherwood

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

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)

Days Of Steam 008: Icarus Redux

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