My set for Subsurface Radio with guest Force Placement. For full 2 hours with both mixes click ---> www.dublab.com/archive/kaustin-subsurface-radio-w-force-placement-04-06-21

Subsurface Radio 4/06/21

Om Unit & Laurent Fintoni ran an early online stream from their front room in Tulse Hill called La Maisonette Electronique from 2010 to 2013. It was a real community hub with artists from all over the world crashing at their flat while on tour and then playing on the stream. It was an incredible time of cross pollination of styles and really helped paved the way for me to make tracks such as Loving Touch and opened my ears to artists outside of my Jungle roots. We went off on a real deep conversation about music - Footwork Jungle and the LA beat scene, the effect of the internet and how community can continue to exist in an online sense.

Be sure to check out Om Unit’s new album Acid Dub Studies and Laurent’s book ‘BEDROOM BEATS & B-SIDES’

0860 is an album, mixtape, radio station and interview series that explores the history and legacy of Pirate Radio and its importance in the development of UK underground music.

PREORDER album http://bit.ly/APHA0860

Including: 

2x12” 8 track vinyl
Cassette mixtape including bonus tracks and skits
Iconic Pirate stations art print by @utile.studio
T-shirts

Over the coming weeks, 0860.fm will broadcast interviews with Bryan Gee, Eastman, DJ Flight, Scratcha, Dextrous, Uncle Dugs, Mantra, Missing, Eddie Peake, Om Unit & Laurent Fintoni, Naina & Sherelle, Stamina MC + more TBC, lost recordings of original 90s & 00s London pirate station broadcasts and more.

0860.fm INTERVIEW #10 Om Unit & Laurent Fintoni

Bad and Clean (Napes Refix)

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Two Toke
Descend [EP]

https://soundcloud.com/two-toke

01. Concrete 

‘Concrete’ - mixture of jungle and progressive underground. Futuristic sound with a touch of traditional jungle acting as a foregrounding basis of the track.

Two Toke is a Bristol-based artist, producing Breakbeat, Jungle and Intelligent Drum & Bass. He has released on labels such as Rat Face Records Maison Fauna and Motive Hunter where he explored influences from artists such as LTJ Bukem, Sully and LMajor. Two Toke is making his stamp in the DJ world as he supports the likes of Sherelle, Grooverider and Fabio.

soundcloud.com/two-toke
instagram.com/twotoke_uk
twotoke.bandcamp.com/music

Descend

Two Toke - Concrete

Closing 5am set for my debut at Pistil. Had too much fun to not archive it ;)

Track List

1. Celestial - Ricky Force
2. Voices - Damian's Ghost
3. Bliss Machine - Kloke
4. The Only Boy I Ever Loved - DJ Sofa
5. Plastic Mentality - Ricky Force ft. Tamen
6. Normal Function - Harmony
7. Bells Of Arpatzia - Liquid Silk
8. Quiet Storm (Tim Reaper Remix) - Special Request x Tim Reaper
9. 5:48 AM Sunrise - Tim Reaper
10. Silent Silk - Specialist X
11. Give Me Love ft. Fox - Fracture
12. Waveform 01 - ASC
13. Easy As - Cheetah
14. Voychek (DJ Sofa Remix) - Nectax

20231208 Steppas at Pistil 5am

Wings of the City - NIMNOI & TAATI 09.05.24 | VISLA FM

140bpm Heart Beats - Nimvy with ABOPF 09.09.24 | VISLA FM

Available from band camp.
https://fendi-k.bandcamp.com/track/upper-echelon

Fendi - K - Upper Echelon

Desastre Total

Desastre Total (OUT NOW)

T.E.Q.L.L

T.E.Q.L.L (OUT NOW)

... the voices in my head told me to face the future ...

The story of this mix dates probably back to 2014, but I've lost track. Having recorded my previous studio mix I was wondering where I should take things next. The obvious next step from a DJ perspective would have been to record something harder, to showcase the side of my selection that hadn't received its spotlight. Maybe get a booking or two off the back of that. Then I decided to do the exact opposite! I picked the side of drum & bass that most promoters steer clear of, but that resonates with me the most - Autonomic.

... the voices in my head told me I'm not good enough ...

Can't count how many times I've scrapped the tracklist ideas I've had for this mix whenever I'd acquire a track that I felt NEEDED to be featured. Those tracks always ended up changing the direction of the set. Or I'd play back the combos I already had picked and realised they weren't all that good. That led me to believe *I* wasn't that good if I can't piece a mix together (and believe me, that shit really goes to my head, I'm an ambitious motherfucker). I would give up working on it for a week or even a few months. As time flew by, I had even more tunes that in turn kept changing my initial concept... well, you get the picture!

... the voices in my head told me to stop looking back ...

Until one day I finally decided to just say: "fuck it!" and get that final draft of the tracklist. Still took me a good few evenings piecing the idea together and I had no clue whether it would flow as well as I would imagine it to be until I'd actually have a go and actually record it. But then another thing dawned on me. I've put over 131 tracks on the list (137 if you count the teased ones) and the entire thing would take 5 hours or more to mix. Well, shit.

... the voices in my head told me to stay true to myself ...

That raised a whole new level of self-doubt. Who would even listen to a mix that long? We live in an age of an ever shortening attention span, people stop listening to mixes in favour of single tracks (hell, I myself find myself listening to less sets than I used to because "I don't have time"). But then I remembered why I wanted to record this in the first place - for myself and myself only. And if I would end up the only listener who would take the time to travel the entire journey and take the story in from beginning til end, then so be it. Thankfully some of your responses to my doubts on FB encouraged me as well. If you were part of those few voices outside my head, thank you. A special shout-out goes to my man CrissNSA of Dungeon Beats for letting me use his 3-deck setup. That definitely helped me push myself even further, as well as shorten it to 4,5h.

... the voices in my head told me it's time to let go ...

And that's exactly what I did, finally. I recorded this mix over a year ago and I still wasn't sure if it's good enough. I had a couple of people test-listen to it for feedback, but most of all I needed to have that one final internal dialogue (monologue?) to make the final decision and leap of faith. It may be "just a mix" to some, but by the time I scrapped yet another tracklist and started putting together the final one, the intent of this being my opus magnum was very strong. 

Did I succeed? Time will tell. But it's also time to stop being so precious about it.

TL;DR - This is a mix that took me a good 4-5 years to put together, for all the reasons mentioned above and more. There's more to it than just Autonomic of course, it bridges the gap between that side of DNB as well as its roots and other bits and pieces that just fit the story well. I hope you take your time to listen to it in one sitting, one day. The music deserves it.

(tracklist: https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2019-12-25_-_Alegria_-_Voices_In_My_Head )
((artwork created by EXID of Dungeon Beats / Lucysfear, all rights reserved))

20231208 Steppas at Pistil 5am

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