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Since the launch of their much-loved party brand in 2002, Giles Smith and James Priestley – Secretsundaze’s founders and residents – have dedicated their work and output to ecstatic club experiences. 

A record label followed suit, as did their booking agency, long-running NTS radio show and a stack more DJ and production projects undertaken by the pair. Plus, of course, plenty more parties. 2022 marks 20 years of Secretsundaze, with the duo currently working on some exciting anniversary celebrations – but we’ll leave them to reveal those in due course. 

Here, the pair usher in the new year with their first new mix in 18 months. “The mix is direct and club-focused,” they tell Crack Magazine. “All-vinyl, with our typical Detroit and NYC stylings before moving into some more pushy atmospheric, European bizzness.” 

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Crack Mix 432: Secretsundaze

This week's mix is 2 hours of heaters from one of Scotland’s finest labels and DJ duos, Craigie Knowes ☄️

It’s a real pleasure to have the lads as part of the series ahead of their much anticipated stage take-over at Dimensions this summer.

DIM289 - Craigie Knowes

Ein Krieg der Träume

Taken from LEGACY FROM A COLD WORLD LP, aufnahme + wiedergabe (2013).

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BLACK EGG - Meaningless

Prochaine édition la Culottée le samedi 16 novembre à Petit Bain avec JOE DELON, BENEDIKT FREY, CEYDA YAGIZ & TRUSSPE

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returning to obscure business with an illicit contribution by @yurijdt

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DC Promo Tracks: Brainwave Research Center "Open Your Mouth" (Nathan Dawidowicz Remix)

Take a leap into the new week with Customs’s 14th Outsiders show. A borderline Balearic selection of horizontal downtempo and hazy dub as we break through to brighter days.

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Outsiders: Customs @ Kiosk Radio 14.04.2025

Red Laser Records crew brings Manchester's own blend of Manctalo, Disco & Boogie. A high energy Sunday Buzz guaranteed. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/red-laser-records/episodes/red-laser-records-20th-april-2025

Red Laser Records w/ Royal Male 200425

The following episode is the first mix in my new series BATH BUILDING SESSIONS - we know Bristol's got bass, but has it got rhythm? Guest mixes, new tracks, a bit of live programming, interviews... the form is fluid. 

This first mix is recorded by yours truly, so please excuse some sausage finger moments or some questionable selections - I'm rustier than a pirate's ford transit.

A rather eclectic blend of rhythms and tempos from the fine folks over in the 313 and beyond - there has to be something in the water there - what fine musicians.

Stay tuned to the end for a special appearance from my good friend . . .

H. Green on the tables and a bit of '09 action.

Cheers
H x

BATH BUILDINGS SESSIONS VOL. 1 FEATURING H. GREEN 28.04.25

Recorded live at Club Liesituuletin private houseparty on Vappu / May Day eve. Contains FInnish Music from 60s to 00's, with focus on synth music from 80's. Lot's of cover versions of famous hits, you might recognise a few. Many tracks discovered originally from Mikko Mattlar's Synteettinen Suomi mix series. Set recorded at about 05.00-07.00 in the morning with vinyl only.

Club Liesituuletin, Suomidisko Set 30-04-2025 (Olli Koponen)

Artiom - The Dance Of Dead (Demo)

PHNCST233 - Theorama (Sonotown - Basement Tales)

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Beautiful darkness for my Darling M.W. xx

The Depths

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

New Beat was born and initially exploded in 1987, went supernova (in Belgium) in 1988 and then the formula morphed a bit and was declared dead in 1989. It was slow and initially all about the atmosphere with industrial strength beats - the main form of rhythmic propulsion being the pounding kick and heavy snare. It was often mainly instrumental and when there was lyrical content it often became more about slogans and giving commands - "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat!", "Let There Be Brightness!", "Shout Out Loud!". While not really New Beat, it's no surprise Technotronic's "Pump Up Jam" was produced by a crew who had produced a ton of New Beat gems.

In 1989 one of New Beat's founders, Marc Grouls said "New Beat is atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial!!!!!" But, it was already too late. A zillion bandwagon jumpers had diluted the music and flooded the market with too many sub standard 12" singles. New Beat temple, the legendary Boccaccio nightclub, in Destelbergen, near Ghent, had been closed down and it looked like it was all over, but really, it was just the beginning. New Beat morphed into Hard Beat (many of the tracks on this mix are from the Hard Beat era) which quickly morphed into Belgian Rave, which was huge and hugely influential in the UK and is an often overlooked part of the DNA of UK Hardcore, and all that came after. Then from Ghent, R&S Records established itself as thee European Techno label and a huge wave of incredible Techno records emanated from it and many other mighty Belgian labels, but that is another story. 

New Beat arrived just as I first started DJing and I played a lot of it in my DJ sets and built up connections with several of the leading Belgian labels who would send me 12" singles so I had records nobody else here had any idea even existed. I would compile New Beat charts for the music paper The NME which may have given the impression there was a thriving New Beat scene in Scotland. The reality was very different; people here, many of whom would embrace the rave just a little while later never really took to it in a big way.

This mix is comprised of many of my personal favourites that I have loved since they came out (and two I missed at the time and only heard later). I think the tracks have aged like a fine wine, often sounding as good if not better today as they did then. There is definitely a faint whiff of fromage and a big dollop of stoopid in several of these tracks. Of course, it is not all about the cheese and many of these adhere to the "atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial" rule mentioned above. Some of the best programmed 303 Acid basslines ever made can be heard here along with transcendental hypno synths and those Belgian beats going on and on....! Slow and low, from under 100bpm up to 116, New Beat doesn't chug, it swings in a very distinct way. If you get to see any videos of Belgian clubs of the era, the way people moved to this music is incredible and so different to any dancing we see today.

Many of these tracks are made by the same people under various aliases, which will perhaps be audibly evident. Most of the names have been forgotten, if they were ever even known outside their native Belgium at all, but all are legends to me. 

This mix isn't any kind of attempt to tell the story of New Beat but rather a mix 33 of my favourite 12" singles from that era showing many of the various strains of the New Beat and Hard Beat sound. A lot of love went into this and I hope someone somewhere discovers this music for the first time and falls in love with it as I did way back when. This was Belgium!

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

Machine with souls. 

Promoting cutting edge electronic music since 2010. 
Media, parties, DJ team.

NEXT : TBA !

They played for us : Call Super, Skåtebard, Dopllereffekt, DJ Marcelle, Anthony Shakir, Orpheu The Wizard, Batu, Bambounou, MCDE, Funkineven, Bruce, John Heckle, Marcellus Pittman, Bradley Zero, Huerco S, Kyle Hall, Paquita Gordon, LNS, Mark Grusane, ...

Synthesizers, loops and abstract beats.  These are a few of my favorite things?  I am a strange breed, other worldly, and a super freak.   Cold wave, minimal techno, electro abstract, avant- hard, hardcore techno, break core, IDM, EBM, Death Rock, punk Rock, New Wave,Dark Wave, Ambient, MiamiBootyBase, SpeedBase, Dub, RagaMuffin, Dubstep, Industrial, Noise, Experimental, world beat...did I forget anything?  Neophyte, for sure, and these are all my newly found treasures, that I have dug up from around the world.  One day I will produce some tracks again, until then, I will spend every minute listening to all the newly found gems!

PHNCST233 - Theorama (Sonotown - Basement Tales)

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