Recordings/mixes

The first of a 3-month series where I’ll be showcasing the sounds of Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Feels like all the records I’m buying and mixes I’m digging right now seem to be from this city so for the next months I’ll be on the radio with some of my favourites.

First off I’m joined by Neurocrank a wicked party & mix series who have had guests such as Solar Suite, Guy Contact and Anderson in the mix - well worth a check.

@neurocrankk

Noods Radio - Ollie Kirk w/ Neurocrank - 01.04.21

Further information: bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-197-Cignol

A long-standing favourite of ours as well as countless electro labels like Further Electronix and Altered Sense, Paul Hammock aka Cignol has been in the business of refined machine funk for over a decade. But naturally, his exclusive Bleep mix is less about looking back and more about the future. Stacked with a bunch of brand new, forthcoming and unreleased tracks from across Cignol’s arsenal of contemporaneous releases, the mix delivers an hour-long journey in non-stop 4/4, from squelching acid textures to laser beamed bass sequencers.

"I’ve put together a mix of mostly new or forthcoming tracks.  All hardware jams made using x0x, Miami, rd-8, 707, Juno-60, jp-08, Juno-06 and Sh01a if you’re interested in that kind of thing. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed putting it together!" - Cignol

Bleep Mix #197 - Cignol

Skylab Radio: Rivtek E1 [24/7/21]

Bizarro Blends 84 // Allure

Vortex Mix ✻ Allure

Rotation 032 comes from a long time friend of On Ro: FROND 
@fr0nd

As well as being a fantastic DJ, she is the co-creator of Pollination, a London based not-for-profit focusing on providing a platform for diverse positive social change through music. 

In this mix, she takes us on a masterfully crafted tour through a variety of psychedelic styles, from deep techno to breaks, trance and beyond. 

Check out Pollination's recent album raising funds to fight the Nationality & Borders bill here: pollination-uk.bandcamp.com/
pollination-uk

Rotation 032: FROND

Test subject 1.25 @allurein of the beloved @neurocrankk collective, unearths a primordial dance between the hunter and it’s prey as they weave through an aberrant, glitching biosphere. A true narrative of survival where tension rises and falls as the hunt plays out through alien flora.

“I made the visual prompt my lock screen first and foremost, so that I’d be met with it every day. Any time I was listening to music it was right there; either to remind me to be listening for certain sounds I associated with the visual, or so that the visual would be so deeply engrained in my mind that I was always listening to music with a lens directly associated with the visual. 

I developed this sort of sci-fi story, of predator and prey that I felt came as a consequence of this relationship between the lushness of the visual; and the striking contrast of the sharp, grey, almost extra-terrestrial intrusions. Notwithstanding the embarrassment factor, it helped me create a narrative that I felt the interplay of songs could tell. 

I tried to imagine the strange sounds and animals that might arise, the ups and downs of my participation: haste, fear, exhilaration, and brief moments of tranquillity. As I said, it’s pretty embarrassing, but honestly it brought the visual to life and meant when looking for music, these were all the ways I wanted it to make me feel.

For me, the mix conveyed a story of survival in this glitched-out rainforest – a strange subsection prompting the discernment of what is artificial in an environment that was seemingly so close to a rainforest here on earth.”

Manifestation // Allure

Afterglow 23.2.23

Next up is HENRY.

Some of you will know the duo as the guys behind the People & Places podcast series, who over the last few years have given a platform to many young and not widely known artists, showcasing new talent, getting people heard, and expanding the network.  It should come as no surprise then that they're great DJ's too! 

Having grown fond of the boys over the years, wether catching them play around town or chatting nonsense on various dance floors, it seemed only right to ask them to provide us with a mix.

So, with nearly 2 hours of solid, no messin, giddy prog, we present HENRY!

@HENNRRYY
@peopleandplacesldn

S:S 009 HENRY

meltdown 40 - allure

Preorder Vinyl & Digital via Bandcamp:
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One Eye Witness:
https://bit.ly/40J09KS

Six years, fifty releases, countless artists and multiple subsidiaries; the Oyster Cult’s reach extends far beyond what sceptics once thought possible. It’s only fitting, then, that we gather some of our finest under the Kalahari banner in celebration.

The anniversary release is upon us. Six whole years since Jacy helped inaugurate the label with a spin on Midwestern house, OYSTER40 signals a landmark occasion. 18 tracks, quadruple vinyl boxset action, and in true Oyster Cult tradition, it comes bearing pearls.

Dancefloor squarely in focus, the Cult assembles on a compilation spanning alumni and new inductees alike. It’s an assemblage of the fractal, explorative and ritual-ready; at once a focused distillation of the Kalahari sound and celebration of its many acolytes. Big on atmosphere, heavy on groove, we delve deeply into the musical DNA shared by all who grace the label.

Tough, direct cuts (Sansibar, Roza Terenzi, Big Zen, Maara & Priori) to the pristine and widescreen (S.O.N.S., Volodymyr Gnatenko, Adam Pits), this is all quintessentially Kalahari. Elsewhere though, the likes of D. Tiffany and SW. journey further into realms of abstraction: the former opting for hi-tech, dreamstate IDM, while the SUED co-founder dissolves a house template into dubby introspection.

Calling upon contemporary talents, for the most part, there are also exceptions. Raymond Castoldi - the one-time house producer best known as Madison Square Garden’s music director - returns with an unreleased nugget from ’91, while an ‘Aliens’-sampling track from Detroit-indebted techno outfit Syzygy gets the reissue treatment.

Various - The Chants Of The Holy Oyster | Kalahari Oyster Cult (OYSTER40)

The first episode of our podcast is an offering by crew member Dr. Salat. A selector through and through, he has spent the last years digging into a wide variety of genres. He has a nag for the intricate and introspective and always stays close to the funk. But be prepared: If the time is right he does not shy away from cheese and pure rump shaking rhythm cannons.

Get a glimpse of his idea of a dancefloor trip into space in this first set, express-delivered from wax straight to your hips.

@drsalat

Graphic Design: Sebastian Day

QDNF Podcast [01] - Dr. Salat

Jane And Lyosha 03.09.2023*quickafters

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”.
More info and music: https://kioskradio.com


Cisco FM @ Kiosk Radio 06.12.2023

The name on every electro lover's lips, Lou Karsh aka Reptant treats us to an hourlong live set at our London HQ.

Sound brought to you by Void Acoustics loudspeakers - www.voidacoustics.com

Reptant | Boiler Room x Craigie Knowes

🔮🍄🦑🐚🌸
Down To Earth | Noods Radio | Grade 10
Bookings: o.kirrrk@gmail.com

2024
03/02: Love Inn 10th Birthday, Bristol
15/02: InnSession, Bristol
17/02: Back To Life, Leicester
30/03: Back To Life, Leicester
04/05: Eminent Open Air, Bristol
04/05: Queens Yard Summer Party, London
10/05: Void, Bristol
18/05: Down To Earth, Bristol
26/05: Hidden, Manchester
15/06: TBA
26/07: Madruga Festival, Wales
30/08: TBA
05/09: TBA

2023
01/01: Club Blanco, Bristol
16/02: Inn Session w/ Grade 10, Bristol
03/03: Come Bye The Pub, Bristol
07/04: Down To Earth, Bristol
14/04: Whomp, London
21/04: Sonic Rites, Wales
30/04: Down To Earth, Bristol
13/05: Stokes Croft Block Party, Bristol
20/05: Back To Life, Leicester
03/06: Cider Box, Bristol
10/06: Madruga Day Party, Bristol
17/06: Volunteer Tavern, Bristol
21/07: Secret Garden Party, Cambridge
30/07: Madruga Festival, Wales
04/08: Get On, Westbury
27/08: Out Of Joint Records After Party, Leicester
07/09: Come Bye, Wales
07/10: Transmissions from Hackney, London
14/10: Down To Earth, Bristol
20/10: Sassafrass, Amsterdam

🎀  𝓃𝑒𝓊𝓇♡𝒸𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓀  🎀  

bookings: neurocrankevents@gmail.com

Noods Radio - Ollie Kirk w/ Neurocrank - 01.04.21

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