London’s friendliest DJ duo Merchant summon their deepest club crates for two hours of summery prog and rhythm heavy house heaters!

Oozing their signature feel good sensibilities, this one’s a bumping ride with classy 90s groovers and contemporary UK dance music mixed up with love as the main ingredient..

@merchantrecordslondon

Q. What inspiration did you guys draw upon when planning out and making this mix together, and what kind of listening environments might you see it being easily enjoyed in?

A. We’ve always loved a variety of different music and it feels really nice to be able to put out a dance mix that shows that side of our sound. We often spin dance music with our mates at home before a night out, so this could be quite good for the pre-game or as you’re gearing up for the dance in the festival campsite.

Q. Are there any songs in the mix that are especially close to your heart, and what is it about these tracks that resonate with you so much?

A. Two of the three tunes we’ll be releasing in our first EP this summer are in the mix so look out for tracks Viva and Twenty46. We worked with our very talented producer friend Strath on those and we are excited for playing them more this summer. 

Another standout is Rockin The Boat by Reflex Blue. It’s got the perfect amount of groove to it with that sax coming over that acid line and it’s a great track for moving sets in different directions. 

We are also really fond of the last two tracks. 

Life Formation by Epsylon 9 is a 90s trance track that has got a lot of positive energy. We paired that with the closing track Please Come To My Show by Kolter which carries that atmosphere but with a more contemporary sound. 

Q. Harry I know you’re heading back to the UK to reunite with Al after spending the summer down here in Aus. What are you guys looking forward to upon your return, any new projects or parties in the works?

A. Mainly excited to give each other a big hug, crack a bottle of wine and chuck a few records on. DJing never feels the same when we aren’t together so we are really looking forward to some nice European gigs soon. Obviously the EP is also exciting. We are also starting a run of parties later this year so keep an eye out for that on our insta if you’re listening from London.

MDC.306 Merchant

~ Deep Breakfast 302 by https://soundcloud.com/bambi-dj ~

Tracklist:
1. Akob - [ut] 
2. Tdel - Make Noise 0-Coast
3. Wa Wu We - and the drowned Sea
4. Forest On Stasys - Atlántico Sur
5. Adhémar - The Scent Of Wind
6. Zemög - Fogata Chamánica
7. Valentino Mora -  Mass Frequenz
8. Adhémar - Subglacial Lake
9. Multicast Dynamics - Grain Extract
10. Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2410109
11. Björk -  Mutual Core (Eternal Injection Underwater Live Edit)
12. Dilate - Oblivion
13. Jonny Nash - Maroon Crisp
14. Babe Roots - World Struggle (Ambient Dub)
15. Babe Roots - Extent
16. Toxido Mask - Along The Vibe
17. bdtom - Payload
18. Mondo Obscura - Sacrum

Photo by Aida Infanti

Bambi
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Deep Breakfast 302 ~ Bambi

record live from the annex snuggle puddle sleepover club during ABYSS @ open ground at 5am -7am 
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Neel	Lullaby
Night Sea Small Bird
Bernstein	tīrtha
Axs	Frozen Signpost
Zemög	Sailing Timbiquí River
zakè	Gaffney Fields
36 & zakè Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel
Adhémar - Red Birds (Ambient Version)
Ehndo	The Entrance
Primal Code	Annie's Diaries
ASC	A Song For Hope
Sunju Hargun	Dakini
Ishq	Sky glide
Axs	Empty Sky
zakè	guide
Warmth	Reflector
zakè	home
Claudio PRC & Rambadu	Aqua
Multicast Dynamics - Cell Structure
Enamel	Quad
Malibu	Lost At Sea

sounds of healing vol. 8

For the next edition of the AWK cast we have Berlin-based artist ZE:NA serving up a fresh blend of UK flavours. Effortlessly oscillating between dubstep, grime, 2step, ukg and more, this mix will certainly lift your spirits, even on the rainiest of summer days!

Remember ZE:NA's name as she's sure bound to make some more big waves in the local scene soon.

Also, don't forget to check out one of her recently founded Rise nights, raising money for Rise Foundation e.V, a local Homeless Support Charity. 


Awkwardly Cast 071 / ZE:NA

“An effervescent ode to holy wells and sparkling water”

Drenched in the pensive intensity of tonight’s Aquarius full moon, Aoife returns to her roots with an expansive mix of Irish releases and field recordings. She reimagines ancient reverence through the prism of modern sonic ritual, guiding you through sensory rebalancing and communal healing; a tender homecoming for the senses. 🕊️

Aoife is a DJ, researcher & founder of Overflow - a project re-imagining the rave landscape through sensory rebalance and wellbeing. Their 'Sensory Rave Spa' event combines restorative soundscapes, aromatherapy, nourishing elixirs and somatic experiences to create a soft-landing after a long weekend.

~instagram: @____aoife
~soundcloud: @overflow-berlin

Aoife @ SWOON | 09.08.2025

NUDECAST 005 by our dear friend Galo

"Galo conjures a lust-drenched ritual — bodies in heat, rhythm as possession. As co-founder of Berlin’s Insolar coven, he weaves hypnotic spells that blur the line between sacred and sinful. His new label, Resurrection, dives into deeper, darker currents — soaked in sweat, charged with desire. This isn’t a set. It’s an invocation."

NUDECAST 005 - Galo

The gifted London DJ and curator goes big on bass futurism.

"To pull a thread." This old English adage means to follow a small detail that might unravel into something larger and more significant. It's also the inspiration behind London artist mi-el's NTS Radio show, and a neat way of understanding her approach as a DJ. 

Take mi-el's rich archive of mixes. From NTS to The Trilogy Tapes, they show her to be a deeply personal selector and curator, pushing past functionality into something more expressive, narrative and often political. A show about Refugee Week? Afrofuturist world-making? Interlocking systems of domination? All material is putty in her hands. 

Now based in Berlin, mi-el is simply a wicked club DJ. In just a few years she's played Panorama Bar, De School and FOLD, as well as festivals including Waking Life, Terraforma and Field Maneuvers. 

Alongside peers and predecessors like Josey Rebelle, she represents a new generation of Black British artists reinventing the wheel, and as we mark the beginning of UK Black History Month, no other candidate felt more fitting. 
 
RA.1007 shows why. The 55-minute session is a deft balancing act of depth and playfulness, humour and heaviness, rooted in club intensity and the futurism of the UK hardcore continuum. It's firm confirmation that, in mi-el's hands, the art of the DJ mix is alive and well.

@miellllllll
Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1026

RA.1007 mi-el

puppyqq ~ missed calls @kwia 20.11.25

@loketsounds

~ Tracklist ~

Steve Hillage - Garden of Paradise (loket’s saxophonic version)
Omformer - Spheroid (loket’s saxophonic version)
Hiver & hammer - 5 million miles ft. Java (exael x loket’s saxophonic ambient edit)
loket - Dear Stranger
Shygirl + Arca - unconditional (loket’s saxophonic version)
Rasmus Juncker - Sauna (loket’s saxophonic version)
Pontiac Streator - Transier Unt (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - lila Gazelle
Lyra Pramuk - Tendril (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - Improv for Elim
Paul Horn - Ancient Kings (loket’s saxophonic version)
Delta Rain Dance - Kosmische Elemente (with loket)
Linnuissa - Janis Kertoi Minulle Salaisuuden (loket’s saxophonic version)
SUSS - Salt Flats (loket’s saxophonic version)
Suzanne Kraft & Johnny Nash - Beluga’s Song (Kelela x loket’s saxophonic ambient edit)
Laurel Halo - Marbles (loket’s saxophonic version)
loket - Althüttendorf
John Beltran - soft summer (loket’s saxophonic version)
Akis - New Age Rising (Part VIII) (loket’s saxophonic version)
The Soft Pink Truth - Grace (loket’s saxophonic version)

~

I am so excited to share the latest, and most unique, Deep Mind Music entry. This mix, by my good friend Tahl, has been in the works for a long time. A mixtape of 100% saxophonic versions & originals which is the first manifestation of Tahl’s new alias for saxophonic exploration - loket.

A member of Berlin's Power Play collective, Tahl debuted the combination of live saxophone played over ambient music at the intimate confines of Power Play’s foggy chill out room. Tahl first proposed the idea of this mix to me back in April, and throughout lockdown he has been chipping away at it, keeping me updated as it has slowly evolved from a loose initial concept into a fully formed immersive journey. 

Taking the listener through flurries of arpeggios, introspective poetry, delicate piano, vulnerable vocals, and lush, sunlit pads, the mix resonates on a tender, personal level. A story told through prescient programming between tracks and sonic palettes, it subtly ebbs and flows between different emotional states. Throughout the mix the free flowing saxophone jams flitting between the tracks take you far, far away, adding a soft trippy fluidity to the edges of the soundscape. By the end of the mix you are totally submerged in effervescent mind-melting deepness.

I’m so grateful to loket for putting together this truly special entry, and I hope you enjoy listening to it, and find as much solace, peace and catharsis in it as I have.

~

Some words from loket about the mix: 

This project started in many ways in a dank room in what is now a demolished squat in Lichtenberg Berlin at a Power Play Rave in the middle of 2019. Empowered by an unreasonable Funktion One Soundsystem flush inside of our chill out room, I experimented with playing live modulated saxophone for the first time. 

I was shaking so intensely I could barely blow air through the horn. But when what I played was channeled through my computer and out into the audience, the power of the sound, and of the moment, was sickening. Since then I’ve spent many hours honing and sculpting and experimenting to try and bring that feeling “to tape”.

I can’t stress enough how much of this project has been an exercise in moving forward slowly while having mostly no idea what I’m doing. I’m sure i broke every “rule” imaginable in recording and processing the saxophone on this mix. Maybe that is somewhat reassuring to those of you who also feel burdened by the glossy perfection and successes seemingly surrounding us at all times.

It’s also an exercise in reconnection. In patience. I stopped playing saxophone entirely in 2010 because I felt inadequate in my jazz skill. I haven’t practiced “a lick” in 10 years. I barely remember basic scales. But by revisiting the saxophone many years later through a more imaginative and electronic production lens, I’ve been able to move closer to creating the voice I always wanted to make.  

~

loket ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.15

Reimagining the rave landscape through sensory rebalance and wellbeing 🌀

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