Phase Group Mix

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

A new recording in the Phase Group Mix series coming to us from France thanks to the intriguing Erevan DJ. 

Erevan DJ heads up the excellent Bamboo Shows label out of Lyon and is behind some fascinating releases that delve into the realms of deep and psychedelic ambient music, trance reflections, fourth world tribal meditations and sci-fi dub dancefloor experiments. Make sure to check out the Bamboo Shows Tapes compilations and Jonquera's album on the imprint. 

For his Phase Group Mix he's provided us with a deep listening experience, inviting you into the sonic environments that inform his work with the label, beginning with serene and blissful ambient sounds, moving through spoken words layered with uncanny sound design,  industrial dub, mutant folk music, dark trance and IDM. Thanks Loïs!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Erevan DJ

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

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

Lo Kindre is one half of the team behind Phase Group. Right now he is holed up in isolation, somewhere in the south of Glasgow. The time alone gave him the opportunity to put some music together for you and we're sharing it here now as the next edition of the Phase Group Mix Series. 

When he's not in isolation, LK can be found making music and releasing it on labels like 12th isle, Neubau, Optimo Music and Byrd Out. He's a frequent collaborator with MR TC and an adherent to sounds of the dub-wise, psychedelic, lo-fi, left-field, experimental, emotional and mutant sides of music, like the sounds that you can hear in this mix. 

We hope that everyone out there is healthy and looking after each other. Stay home and stay safe x

Phase Group Mix - Lo Kindre

Ayaz is a young Rotterdam-based producer hailing originally from Azerbaijan. His debut album Bildi Bilmedi, self-released on his own Yalanci imprint is a masterpiece of deep and atmospheric soundscapes, interlaced with dub-wise electronics and Azerbaijani poetry. Easily one of the best releases of last year for us. 

His mix for Phase Group navigates over the space of an hour through evocative synth landscapes, spoken word, slow idm and percussive dub music. Thanks Ayaz!

Phase Group Mix - Ayaz

@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 mysterious DJ Caapi supplies the latest Phase Group Mix. Field recordings blend with blissful ambience, spoken-word and percussive Fourth-world oddities as he takes us on a journey through unknown terrain.

It’s a pleasure to have the Glasgow-based artist and DJ join the mix series and we hope you enjoy this trip crafted by one of Glasgow’s finest as much as we did!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Caapi

A new Phase group Mix from Moscow made for us by Región Salvaje, a revived alias of Russian experimental sound enthusiast Dima Gerasimov aka Jan Fietser.  

Dima is the guy behind the excellent 'Muzak for Cycling' radio show on St Petersburg's Test FM. He has also released music on Towlie's Käften label under the Jan Fietser moniker. Following a recent move from St Pete to Moscow, Dima is focusing his energies these days on recording new music with his band Argonauts. 

This mix was recorded in March on the first day of Lockdowns in Russia, when Dima decided to spend his time digitising the tapes and vinyls from the most unpredictable purchases that he had made in the last few year. What results is an hour of charming and intriguing cassette-world oddities, DIY home recordings and lo-fi Groovebox experiments. Thanks Dima! 

@argonaut_s

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Región Salvaje

The latest Phase Group mix comes from Toronto-based DJ and producer, and June Records affiliate, Raf Reza who takes us on a journey through various worlds and rhythms, from traditional South Asian percussion work-outs and jazz, to minimalist composition and dub.

Phase Group Mix - Raf Reza

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 last Phase Group Mix of 2020 comes to us from Lithuania, courtesy of Roudtraxx.

Roudtraxx, aka Erikas Rudenia, is a young DJ from Vilnius who, most of the time, you’ll find organising the crates and making music recommendations to customers whilst working at Discotag. Elsewhere, you'll often find him playing in clubs and festivals around LT. 

For this mix he’s put together a great all-vinyl mix of experimental, downtempo, leftfield & wave music from his personal collection. In his own words: 

“this selection of mine is more like for working, thinking, walking or simply listening (you know the drill 🙂 )”

Thanks Erikas!

Phase Group Mix - Roudtraxx

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

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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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