Love how slow and progressive it was to get there

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Regis and Function's first mix in over 10 years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material.

When it came time for RA to compile our Albums of the 2010s, one record with a tauntingly limited availability of 500 copies was never in doubt: Sandwell District's era-defining 'Feed-Forward'. Encompassing Karl O'Connor (Regis), Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Sandwell District had the underground in a vice grip for over a decade.

The collective imploded in 2013, with Sumner and O'Connor's relationship appearing beyond repair. And yet, an unlikely second phase is here, featuring imminent comeback LP 'End Beginnings' and their return to the RA Podcast after 16 years. In 2023, the trio of Function, Regis and Silent Servant had been performing and laying down new material before the latter's shock death last January. It's in the shadow of loss that this unique mix was forged.

Founded in 2002 as a spiritual sister to seminal Downwards, Sandwell truly began to hit its straps in the late '00s, as shadow-stalking cuts sliced through clubland orthodoxy like a switchblade. In parallel, the label's artwork—a noir recombination of Burroughs cut-ups, DIY zines and arthouse amour that Silent Servant made his own—helped fortify a movement which placed an aesthetic premium on grit, grain and sadism.

By the early 2010s, this fixation on the dark arts had utterly permeated the mood inside techno's masonic temples. Labels like Blackest Ever Black, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Avian and Modern Love were in their pomp, razorwire legends like Severed Heads and Chris & Cosey benefited from second winds, and it was briefly a jailable offence to not have a press photo in black and white. 'Feed-Forward' was the exceptional coronating statement.

RA.978 features a stack of unheard recordings from each of the trio, as well as close allies Stefanie Parnow and Tropic of Cancer, while also gathering many of Silent Servant's all-time favourite songs, including Psychic TV, Grace Jones and Galaxie 500. It's a strikingly vulnerable listen, one without many parallels on the Podcast. We're glad to run it. – Gabriel Szatan

Read more and find the tracklist here: ra.co/podcast/978
Read our new feature with Sandwell District here: https://ra.co/features/4426

RA.978 Sandwell District

@gigi-fm at Floresta

foto: fofo.altinell

GiGi FM at Floresta - Waking Life '24

From the Morevi Records night at Horoom on June 13th comes this next instalment in the series. In a little over a decade, Separat has proved his mettle behind decks in his hometown Aachen, current base Cologne and other places like Gewölbe, Tresor or Openground. His sound has been instrumental in the local scene, a true underground talent and one of the heads behind Brandwerk. His press presence is fairly light, and a keen focus on his sound the most critical part of his work: groovy, immersive and playful. Fun through and through, with tones and charging rhythms which are designed for dancing the night away. Enjoy his three hours vinyl mix for Bassiani Podcast 270 is pure, movement-geared music recorded live on the Horoom floor.

@separatdj

Bassiani invites Separat / Podcast #270

On this month's episode, GiGi FM invites Belgian artist Robin, known as Phara, to share his luminous alias In Glass ~ a live studio analog jam of slow burning, dub infused journey for summer heat and golden hours.

Artwork by http://mete.fyi/

NTS GiGi FM PRESENTS IN GLASS (Studio Live Jam Recording)

3h dj set recorded on sunday august 17th (11:00 - 14:00)
at ratherlost, lofi amsterdam

photo by martijn kuyvenhoven

nthng (3h dj set) at Ratherlost 2025

Quadrant Soundscape presents In:Focus 009

For our 9th mix of the series we turn the spotlight to one of our favourite labels of the last few years, Australia's finest - Primary [colours]

Primary Colours was founded in a pub over an IPA in 2012 (The Perfect place to form a label, in our opinion) and is the brainchild of Lance Harrison and Mark Baumann, aka Echo Inspectors. 

Over the last few years the label has gone from strength to strength and really carved out a unique sound amongst the Deep and Dub Techno Community. They showcase some of the top artists from around as well as bringing to the fore some of Australia's best talents. 

As with all our In:Focus mixes the challenge is to highlight the breadth and diversity of the label in question. It is by no means a 'greatest hits' and there is so much amazing music on this label that we didn't manage to include in this mix but we urge you to check out if you haven't already.


Tracklist - 

Stillhead - Recreational Beats (Beatles Rework) (2024)
Adam K Roll - Into the Ocean (2023) Mike Schommer - Very Being (cv313 Fling Dub) (2020)
Noosa Sound System - Ah Go Build (2025)
Stillhead - Iden (2024)
Stefan Gubatz - Noble Booth (2025)
Echo Inspectors & Subset - Youthman Feat Prince Morella (2023)
Stefan Gubatz - Village Whispers (2025)
Altone - Srene Abyss (2024)
Echo Inspectors - Archetype (Knowone Dub) (2020)
Echo Inspectors & Insect O. - Bourne Dub (Silver Ash Remix) (2020)
Altone - Effuse (Upwellings Remix) (2021)
Mike Schommer - Lost in You (FDF’s Down Under Cut) (2022)
Echo Inspectors - Eosophobia (2020)
Echo Inspectors & Silver Ash - Mad Roy (Bluetrain Special Dub) (2021)
Altone - Self-Replication (Brendon Moeller Dub) (2024)
Stelios Vassiloudis - Impulse Response (Stefan Gubatz Version) (2025)
Mike Schommer - Very Being (Deadbeat Blood & Bone Dub) (2022)
Echo Inspectors & Insect O. - Bribie Dub (2021)
Resoe - Chordology (Luke Hess Remix) (2022)
Stelios Vassiloudis - Complicity (Ohm & Kvadrant Remix) (2025)
Mike Schommer - City Sleeps (Steve O’Sullivan Remix) (2020)
Mike Schommer - Three Tears (Feat. Andrew Fagan) (2020)
Echo Inspectors - Lunar Shadows (Luke Hess Remix) (2020)
Altone - Self Replication (Brendon Moeller Remix) (2024)
Adam K Roll - Sweet Breeze (2023)
Subset - Impedance (2025)

Check out more from Primary Colours here -

https://primarycoloursmusic.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/primary_colours_music
https://www.facebook.com/primarycoloursrecordlabel
https://www.instagram.com/primary_colours_music/

In Focus 009 - Primary [colours]

When OK EG enters Varden it’s 8:30PM on Sunday. It’s been a slow and steady build during the day, much slower than the day before, people have been given time to rest properly from a late night on Saturday. This is the journey. The ebb and flow of the forest. It’s their job to get the crowd going for the last couple of interval sprints. They are well rested and ready.

OK EG’s expansive sound is deep and diverse. Their compositions display a range that shifts between delicate, textural soundscapes, and spiralling, mesmerizing, mind-trip techno.

They first went to Monument festival in 2024, taking a break from a residency at EMS in Stockholm to spend a weekend in the forest. They brought a field recorder with them and spent time on the riverbank recording the sound of stones and water.

And listen to this level of dedication; while preparing for their live set in 2025, they used those recordings to write a closing track called Monument Stone. This is what they said about it. ”In the moment of performing it at the festival, we felt that everything came together. The crowd, the music and the site connected and it happened just as we’d imagined it.”

During their set day turns to dusk. We transition together, ready for the night - the sound, nature, forest and lights. Hand in hand. 

Follow
https://soundcloud.com/okegmusic
https://www.instagram.com/okegmusic/

Monument Festival 2025 : OK EG (live)

Universal and electric, flowing with liquid and environmental sounds. Latin rhythms collide with broken fragments, building a crescendo of sensuality and velocity. Intriguing vocals ride over rolling grooves, acid tones, and techno kicks, creating irresistible bursts of energy.

Kia’s meditative cosmic aura meets Bitter Babe’s rhythmic fire in a tribal, sassy mix that moves, pulses, and evolves. Layered textures, ancestral grooves, and veteran bass carry the set through ravishing hours of sound.

Kia b2b Bitter Babe - Climate of Fear x Sustain Release - June '25

Jius-Ed & Move D all night long at Globus, Berlin 2025-09-05
I'm joining in at around 1h30min

JUS-ED & Move D ALL NIGHT GLOBUS 2025-09-05

Full tracklist & Video Mix: bleep.com/bleep-mix-309-dj-food

To celebrate the release of the Telepathic Fish compilation, we have a special ‘O Is For Orange 2025’ Bleep Mix from DJ Food.

"A version of this mix first appeared in 2013 at a night to celebrate the release of Boards of Canada’s ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’ LP release. It then morphed into an Audio Video DJ set that I toured around the UK in 2019, playing the Bluedot festival to a packed tent that year. The idea was to thread Boards of Canada’s music with original sample sources, tracks they’d remixed, fan remixes or songs that fitted their sonic blueprint.

I recently resurrected and refined the mix for a gig booking, updating it into a new version. This happened to be a week before I was due to deliver my guest mix to Bleep and it seemed to be too good an opportunity to pass up. I abandoned the mix I was going to deliver and put down the first hour of the ‘Orange’ set including a video mix to go with it. I used stem splitting apps to deconstruct some of the tracks into unique versions before video mixing it all on turntables using Serato then editing the footage in Premiere." - @strictly

Bleep Mix #308 - DJ Food

Fly back to that hazy afternoon when the Berlin-based selector Eric @cloutier delivered an infectious and organically pulsing ride in the Lofi Courtyard, Amsterdam.

Eric Cloutier - Ratherlost 17.08.2025

@noname_community 2025❤️
Mastering - Daniel[i]

LaNatureFestival 2025

this was the first live show with my dear friend doltz at womb in tokyo
https://soundcloud.com/doltzdeep

Tobias. Doltz. live at Womb Tokyo _18.7.25

This leading light from the Berlin scene is up next with 85 minutes of feel good tunes guaranteed to get you moving. Partok’s rise as go-to DJ for clubs like De School, Blitz, Basement and Panorama Bar is really no surprise. The recipe? Bridging genres and histories from Detroit to early UK rave, and constantly correlating those with more recent developments in music, and always through a queer lens. These deckside stints have a soft galvanising power, chugging rhythms with social change front and centre, grassroots house that spurs dancefloor denizens to action with selections that prioritise the work of fellow queer artists. Along with Roi Perez and David Elimelech, Partok's also at the reins of transnational party series Laundrette, a forum for endurance-testing B3B sets. And the fun doesn’t stop there, his past forays into production as 1/3 of Partok Matushka Apfelberg on Kompakt have set the bar even higher, fleshing out a vision for sound that flips the script at every turn. For Bassiani Podcast 279, this Berlin selector brings a singular magic, anthemic grooves and butter-smooth transitions, this is highly combustible house from a one-of-a-kind talent, an exclusive mix recorded at the K41 garden in Kyiv for Bassiani.

@partok

Bassiani invites Partok / Podcast #279

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Just a small town ham
Building stuff at SoundCloud


aka Harry

nthng (3h dj set) at Ratherlost 2025

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