Back to our mix series with this wonderful offering from Marijana Croon.  Originally from Belgrade but now based in Cologne, Marijana is a molecular biologist as well as a vibrant member of her local scene. In normal times she can be found DJing in places like Salon des Amateurs and Acephale and hosting her radio show 'Deflections' on Retreat Radio. 

Her Phase Group mix fuses otherworldly sound designs with echoing percussion pieces and slow dark club music for the twilight hours, futuristic synthesised environments dripping with reverb and long echoes inducing trance states and transcendence. Thanks Marijana!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Marijana Croon

New Phase Group mix recorded in Bryansk by LVRIN.

LVRIN is a producer from Russia who's unique takes on drum machine, synth and studio hardware manipulations have found homes on labels like Pinkman, Käften, Arma, Phormix, LuxRec and others.  His DJ mixes show a deep musical knowledge and sensibility to the leftfield, psychedelic, industrial and Lo-fi corners of electronic music. 

His Phase Group Mix blends ethnic percussion and instrumentation with the rhythms of New Beat, and slow trance. Thanks Jenya!

Phase Group Mix - LVRIN

The latest Phase Group mix,  sent to us from Milan with love from the Italian wizard Joseph Tagliabue. 

Joseph is a talented producer and DJ, skilled at creating and building psychedelic, cosmic and euphoric atmospheres in his productions and sets. Make sure to check out his releases on Lustpoderosa and Blue Sea. 

His Phase Group Mix flows through psychedelic ambient, cosmic synth, slow trance and downtempo acid excursions. Thanks Joseph!

Phase Group Mix - Tagliabue

New addition in the mix series comes from Phase Group label head, Thomas.  This mix pulls from the post-punk, wave and industrial side of his tastes and features artists like Blak Saagan, Datblygu, Body Without Organs, Pre Fix, Kulku and SM Nurse as well as some forthcoming material that will be coming out soon on Phase Group. 

This mix was originally aired on Athens' Fade Radio for Petros Spatharos' Forget The Rules show.

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - MR TC

BXP and Filibalou provide the next Phase Group mix from Bologna. Born in Sardinia, but now based in Bologna, Carlo Mameli, aka BXP heads up the excellent Random Numbers label. Through his own productions and curation of the label he explores the multiple possibilities in electronic music production, with a closer look at its IDM side, ranging from ambient to techno, electro, and acid. Filibalou is a vinyl collector and producer, influenced by the contemporary drifts of kraut, IDM and trance. He has produced releases on Glasgow's Invisible Inc label and runs the Mint Sound party series in Bologna.

This mix moves through the sounds of their contemplation on the return to communal dancing, reopening of clubs and shared music experience and was recorded by the two of them one evening in the company of friends. Thanks guys.

Phase Group Mix - BXP & Filibalou

The first Phase Group Mix of the year and the 23rd in our series is sent to us by Roma Nemov from Saint Petersburg, resident of the Изич club in his home city. 

His Phase Group Mix carries you through new-age minimalist percussion layered with Italian folk song, moving through dark tribal rhythms and idm, bass music and slow heavy trance landscapes. Thank Roma!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Roma Nemov

New Phase Group mix from Glasgow by way of London DJ Mag who is a resident at Clyde Built Radio and co-runs the new Glasgow-based ‘Testing The Water’ gig/club series. Recorded in a single take from her living room during a pre-Christmas Covid isolation, her mix takes us on journey through haunting vocals, woozy electronics and sharp EBM.

Find her playing at the upcoming Lezure event at La Cheetah on the 1st of April.

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Mag

The latest Phase Group mix comes from Berlin-based artist Nein Rodere. He recently released a debut LP on London’s Horn Of Plenty after self-releasing a string of cassettes. Fresh from a performance at Knotwilg Festival in Belgium, future Nein Rodere performances include Berlin’s Arkaoda in May, whilst a number of appearances are lined up over the next year on a variety of compilations.

For his mix, Nein Rodere has provided a beautiful hour of music taking us through various folk formats, DIY textures, surprise cameos and transportive emotions.

Phaze

Phase Group Mix - Nein Rodere

Acoustic, no-age krautrock from Berlin releasing on Glasgow label, Phase Group. 

The next release on Phase Group unearths a truly unique project that has existed as an outlier in the Berlin underground since 2002. 

A stage decked out with xylophones, tambourines, timpani, wooden percussion, two drum kits, a cello, harmonicas, saxophones and pieces of scrap metal. Eight unassuming musicians playing repetitive, trance-inducing phrases, at times serene, fragile and dream-like and at others wild, primitive and driving. This isn’t a scene you might associate with hazy nights out in Berlin but it’s what you’d find if you ended up at a Kulku show.

Kulku's music is a hard to define blend of percussive minimalism, folk, krautrock, post-punk and no wave, almost exclusively derived from acoustic sound sources. Their debut album ‘Fahren' presents this unique sound-identity that they have been crafting for the best part of two decades. 

The A-side presents 3 tracks of percussive propulsion, minimalist xylophone motifs and repetitive drums alongside monotone organ, dramatic narration and woodwind instruments moving in and out of dissonant howls and melodic improvisation. The B-side is devoted to lighter tones, beginning with the glockenspiel minimalism of ‘Unterm Himmel’ and rounding the record out with trance inducing drone of the album’s title track which builds up into a cacophony of snare drums, dissonant accordion and melodica before fading out like dream.

All songs composed and recorded in Berlin by Wenzlovar, Gatis Silde, Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Johanna Riska, Cornelius Onitsch, Alexander Samuels and Maxfield Gassmann

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

‘Fahren’ is released in August 2022 on Phase Group Records. Distribution via Rubadub.

Fahren

Kulku - Fahren (Preview)

We are very happy to have a new Phase Group mix to share with you thanks to Jazz from Australia. 

Jazz lives in Naarm where she hosts the weekly Spaces Within Space radio shows every Sunday night at midnight on PBS 106.7 fm. Her radio shows and mixes  showcase an amazing selection and ability to blend varying textures, tempos and soundscapes that comes with a deep knowledge of electronic music. She's an in demand DJ in Naarm regularly playing in clubs around the city whilst working hard to push the local scene and she also recently released her first original music on @phenomenarecords in the form 'Subtype' a brilliant half-tempo, dubbed out, percussive, psychedelic acid/idm track that she produced in collaboration with Georgia bird.

Her mix for us moves through those same psychic, cerebral and echoing spaces, taking in downtempo acid, dark idm, lofi drum machine jams and  slow trance atmospheres.

@spaceswithinspace

Phase Group Mix - Jazz

Phase Group continue their exploration of the fringes of contemporary electronic music with a release that brings together two separate projects born from analogue hardware improvisations. 

‘A Given Moment’ presents the dub-laden, mind-bending and noise-driven music of Brussels-based artist and Vastechoses label head Lostsoundbytes, and the lo-fi, early morning lysergic experiments of Lowspace, an unearthed, forgotten collaborative project by French DJ and musician Low Bat and Dresden-based producer Heninspace.

This is music that takes you deeper into the vortex, made for dark and smoke-enveloped clubs and cosmic day-break afterparty moments. On the A-side, Lostsoundbytes continues his prolific output of masterfully crafted bass-heavy and dub-wise analogue machine jams, while the B-side presents two lost psychotropic experimental recordings by Lowspace made in 2016 upon a visit by Low Bat to Heninspace’s Dresden studio.

Tracklisting: 
A1. Lostsoundbytes - In 1000 Years
A2. Lostsoundbytes - Fou De Croire
A3. Lostsoundbytes - Brain's Rewind 
B1. Lowspace - Sonntag Gibt Milchkaffee
B2. Lowspace - Dance For The Underwear Hour

'A Given Moment' will be out on Phase Group in December 2022

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović
Mastered in Glasgow by Murray Collier.
Professionally dubbed to cassette in Prague by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

Lostsoundbytes / Lowspace - A Given Moment (Preview)

The next instalment in the Phase Group Mix series is delivered by dear friend and contributing artist to the label, Low Bat. 

Low Bat lives amongst the black coal hills of northern France. When he isn’t marking textbooks and exposing Neue Deutsche Welle to the classrooms, the French DJ, musician and teacher keeps himself busy playing with his band Jean Luc, co-running the Yellow Light of Death festival and curating radio as 1/3 of the team behind Tblisi’s Mutant Radio. 

On top of this, he makes up 1/2 of Lowspace, the newest additions to Phase Group, who’s split tape with Lostsoundbytes will be coming out in December

His Phase Group Mix is a masterfully sequenced mad ride through post punk, psych rock, French trip hop, and proto trance. Thanks Louis!

Phase Group Mix - Low Bat

For the final Phase Group Mix of 2022 we invite Loma Doom from Amsterdam to the series. 

Loma Doom - real name Femke Dekker - lives in Amsterdam where she's a vital member of the music scene, a seasoned digger and radio host as well as a curator and educator of contemporary art. Her dedication to radio is quite amazing, holding residencies on Radio Tempo Nao Para, Echobox Radio and Stranded FM as well as Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, an online radio station dedicated to art.

For her Phase Group Mix she has gifted us with an expertly composed deep listening experience. One hour of shamanic trance moving through dark droning soundscapes, tribal percussion and ancient voices chanting echoing incantations, recorded live at the Radio Tempo Nao Para studios in Amsterdam. Thanks Femke!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović.

Phase Group Mix - Loma Doom

The next release on Phase Group is a truly singular and original album from Rotterdam-based producer Ayaz.

With ‘Unpinned’ Ayaz presents a window into a uniquely crafted and highly personal sonic environment, where intercepted radio broadcasts tune in and out of focus, modulating drones echo through cavernous space and the sound of experimental synth explorations are layered over heady dub-laden beat work, deep bass lines and expertly programmed traditional sampled artefacts from the music of his native Azerbaijan. 

This is an uncanny and evocative sound universe both cinematic and driving, music that would work equally scoring science fiction cinema as in the most avant-garde club environments. Mind-bending and visionary music for those that explore.

Unpinned is released on vinyl (edition of 300) and digitally in March 2023 on Phase Group Records. Distributed by Rubadub.

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

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Ayaz - Unpinned (Preview)

The Phase Group Mix continues with Vienna-based DJ and record collector Andrea Ida, a mainstay on all of your favourite radio platforms who you'll find playing records around Europe regularly.

Her mix takes us through forlorn practice-room jams, German new age, and some wonderful weighted and dreamy drum machine sessions, all blending together outside of history for our pleasure.

Phase Group Mix - Andrea Ida

The Phase Group Mix continues:

 «Self-» a story by Prince of Gosplan

This story is an attempt to live through the personal experiences and events that have accompanied me for the past year and a half. Inside, I collected the sacred music that I listened to in moments of greatest sorrow and greatest joy! These are healing songs with which I feel a personal connection and which I associate with a sense of home and inner safety.

www.youtube.com/@PrinceofGosplan

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Prince of Gosplan

Kulku return to Phase Group with the release of their new album 'Reset To Be'

Formed in Berlin at the turn of the millennium, Kulku have evolved as a highly unique and free-formed collective of musicians that make trance-inducing, jazz-entwined, percussive and soulful (mostly) acoustic music that takes cues from the rhythmic propulsion of Jaki Leibezeit’s Can, the street-folk of Moondog, the minimalism of Steve Reich, and the droning rock n’ roll of the Velvet Underground, forming a sound that they themselves have coined ‘No-Age Krautrock’. 

Following on from last year’s sold out debut LP ‘Fahren', 'Reset To Be’ offers 5 new songs across 2 sides of vinyl. This is a record that perfectly showcases the unique identity the band have been developing over the past 20 years, a sound crafted through experimentation and innovation with primarily acoustic instruments; droning harmoniums, repetitive and phasing xylophones, timpani, cello, scrap metal and woodwind reeds, all sitting alongside soulful saxophone and the voice of frontman Andreas Riska, singing in both German and English. 

‘Reset To Be’ is a truly special offering that we’re proud to be able to share with you on Phase Group, and the album will be available at the beginning of 2024 on vinyl and digital, with distribution via Rubadub. 

Pre-order will be available tomorrow at the Phase group Bandcamp page to coincide with Kulku’s homecoming concert of their Reset to Be Tour at Urban Spree on the 29th of October.

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Kulku - Reset To Be (Preview)

The first Phase Group Mix of 2024 comes courtesy of London-based DJ, Sallad Egg, who takes us on a journey from mystical synth worlds and fourth-world delicacies to post-punk musings and Turkish psych, and lots in-between.

Sally can be found DJing across London and beyond, and is never one to be missed.

Phase Group Mix - Sallad Egg

Yssue takes up the reigns on the next Phase Group Mix.   

A dear friend of the label and a talented producer and DJ, Dima is part of the Esthetic Joys collective that were behind some of the most compelling underground parties in Moscow. Now a resident in Paris after some time living in Armenia, Yssue continues to create his own brand of evocative left field electronic music, the likes of which has been released to great effect on labels such as Paris' Global Warming Records, Belgrade’s YES, Lyon’s Kump and Edinburgh label Sounds of Ogigia.   

His mix for us is a heads-down psychic journey across genres from haunting spoken word through dubbed out post punk, brooding hip hop  and psychedelic downtempo electronics,  all the while with multilingual voices echoing to us from beyond. 

Thanks Dima!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Yssue

Don De Lenguas (or the gift of tongues) is the supernatural ability that allows someone to speak languages ​​they do not know, fluently vocalizing syllables similar to speech, and which is related to states of delirium, trance, enchantment, rapture and mystery - all of which can be found in the latest edition of the Phase Group Mix, provided to us by Malu. 

Malu is a DJ and yoga instructor from Spain, currently based in Berlin and known for her versatile selection at parties around the city and excellent radio show Don De Lenguas on Radio Relativa. She will be joining us at the release party for Kulku's new album 'Reset To Be' at the Berghain Kantine on the 30th of April!

Phase Group Mix - Malu

“It’s not easy to transform a jam into a proper tune that haunts forever. The two Glaswegian friends MR TC and Lo Kindre are in possession of that special skill that can transform spontaneous tuned-in music into something significant without losing the gut feeling along the way.

As solo artists they have released on labels like Optimo Music, 12th Isle and Against Fascism Trax, and together released 'The Storm EP' in late 2018 on Vienna's Neubau. Now they continue their collaborative work on PHASE001 – an EP that also marks the launch of their own label that listens to the same name. The start-up brings four analogue tracks that courageously link cold waving synth-shocks, neon-light nonchalance and haunted spoken words; deep hypnotic musical witchcraft that peels itself out of the history of dark electronic music with a pulsating and haunting atmosphere.” 

- Words by ML

released late August 2019 

Recorded and mixed in Glasgow by MR TC & Lo Kindre 
Artwork by Andrija Čugurović
Mastered by Curved Press 
Vinyl Distributed by Rubadub

PHASE001

MR TC & Lo Kindre - PHASE001 (Preview)

With the first Phase Group Mix we introduce you to Andria - a young producer from Serbia who you may know through his output on the excellent YES label. Andria also works as our graphic designer and he's provided us with a mix of slow industrial breaks, dark IDM and otherworldly sound design that is representative of the sound he creates himself. The mix also includes some upcoming Phase Group material which we’re looking forward to sharing with you very soon. Enjoy.

@androan97

Phase Group Mix -  Andria

Katza is a DJ from Bilbao and was part of the Paraleloan crew that threw parties both in Bilbao and at San Sebastian club, Dabadaba. His mixes draw on obscure sounds, varied and emotive, moving through genres and tempos with free spirit but maintaining immediacy and atmosphere. It's a joy to spend some time going through his soundcloud and we're really happy to have a mix from him for our second Phase Group Mix in the series.  Thanks Katza! 

@ktz

Phase Group Mix - Katza

ML is a friend from Berlin, extremely knowledgeable about all kinds of music. Many hours can be spent and lots learnt listening to his amazing 150 sessions radio show on NTS that doesn't stick to one style or code but instead gives you the best and weirdest of everything. Thanks ML! 

“This mix was done under a smoky roof on a flashback Sunday melting Monday while raindrops danced on the streets. No country, no flag, just a hole in the ground. Sometimes the oceans of time can’t stand the fracking.”

Phase Group Mix - ML

Mykonos lives in Paris where she is part of the Bruits De La Passion crew, a diverse and devoted gang of friends and diggers that organise hybrid parties around the city as well as the Zone Disco Autonome Festival in the summer. 

Her music selection for her Phase Group mix is dub-wise, playful and eclectic, favouring the down-tempo, cosmic and cerebral sides of breakbeat, IDM and trip-hop. Thanks Anna!

Phase Group Mix - Mykonos

Misonica sent us an hour of far out and trippy club music, ranging from dark tribal sounds to slow trance excursions. 

In her hometown of Vienna, Misonica is an extremely active member of the local scene. She was part of the team behind the Femdex, mix series, workshop and event platform that worked to highlight female identifying DJs and producers. They recently put the project (for the time being) on hold but she can still be found pushing the Vienna scene through the NNNN party series that she runs alongside Bocksrucker, Paul Uhlmann and Samo Zeichen.

Phase Group Mix - Misonica

@claudia_fv lives in Prague where she is a DJ and key member of the Czech scene with a taste for unorthodox sounds. She is also the mind behind the expertly curated @deviant-planet podcast series and parties that take place at Ankali  and recently launched a new sister space to Ankali for dancing to more experimental sounds, Planeta Za.

Her mix for Phase Group takes us from dark ambient and spoken word recordings through tribal percussion rides before breaking into dark slow electro and techno work outs. Thanks Claudia!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Claudia

The next Phase Group Mix is provided by Gamba, head of the record label ANA. Since 2019 ANA have been releasing a steady stream of brooding and dark, bass-heavy, leftfield club and ambient music by artists like Beyaz, Gamba & Rezka, Kaval Yahuda, Bearer and Genghis Kohn. For this mix, label-head Gamba serves up an hour of heady dub-infused bass music and ambient akin to the sounds you might hear on their releases.

Phase Group Mix - Gamba

The first Phase Group Mix of 2021 comes to us from Frank D'Arpino, a local of Dusseldorf and resident of the Salon Des Amateurs known for his brilliant radio shows on Dublab.de. Frank has been playing music for people since the early 90s, with an open minded approach that finds harmony and evolution in mixing differing types and speeds of music together, advocating for "belief in unconventional music on the dancefloor". For us he's put together a mind-melting hour of low velocity, space age, tribal electronics and industrial level trip hop. Thanks Frank! 

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group

Phase Group Mix - Frank D'Arpino

Hipushit lives in Moscow where he's known for his versatile, futuristic and broadminded sets that could take a turn in any direction at any moment. Here is a unique type of DJ and music fan, the kind that is as comfortable playing modern bass and trap as he is playing legacy of acid and ebm. He is a resident of Mutabor and member of the celebrated Arma17 crew that have been a huge presence in Moscow's nightlife landscape since 2008. 

For the next Phase Group Mix he presents us with an hour of absorbing music, shifting in tempo and styles, filled with digitally manipulated voices echoing in different languages across futuristic trap beats, industrial rhythms and synthesized percussion. Thanks Igor!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Hipushit

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