Saxophonist Benedik Giske and experimental pop songwriter Carmen Villain stop by the London studio to play some current favourites ahead of their Cafe Oto performance. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/carmen-villain-bendik-giske-11th-july-2025

Carmen Villain & Bendik Giske 110725

the 10th mix in our naffcast series comes from Jasmín. An incredible Amsterdam based dj and producer Jasmín. Here's a few words from the artist herself :

This mix was recorded at home during a heatwave in Amsterdam. The faint voices and warm, slightly distorted drums echo the hazy, feverish heat of humid summers in a city for me. Most of these tracks are older, have been with me for years, and I keep coming back to them. Others are more recent discoveries, found in digital back catalogues.

naffcast010 ⦾ Jasmín 𐔌՞. .՞𐦯 ୭ ˚. ᵎᵎ

Elena Colombi helps to keep nights weird - expect a diverse range of up-and-at-'em records: from techno to post-punk, through EBM, industrial and -wave... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/elena-colombi/episodes/elena-colombi-21st-july-2025

Elena Colombi 210725

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

Releasing a mix from recording of May PACIFIC MODE.
002 is DJ FROG (@djfrogunit) from the label *Doo* in Montreal who played chuggy, dusty, loopy and bouncy house & techno.
Dip in the groovy set captivated the crowed!

5月のPACIFIC MODEからミックスをリリースします。
002はMontrealのレーベル*Doo*からループ、ダスティーで、そしてパワフルなビートのハウス〜テクノを披露したDJ FROG (@djfrogunit)が登場。
フロアを虜にしたグルーヴィーなセットに浸ってほしい。

PACIFIC MODE mix002 - DJ FROG

pi/live: Maara live at Solstice Festival in Ruka, Finland 06-20-2025

Elektorni presents an immersive three-track 12" from Picture (aka Central). Pulsating and introspective techno. Out 8th of September. Pre-order elektorni.bandcamp.com. Distributed by Clone.

A1 Picture – Alf
A2 Mesak – Ei Damagea (Picture remix)
B1 Picture – Mi Mi

ELKTRN004: Picture - Mi Mi

West Mineral's Loidis returns for august's Outsiders installment. 

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Outsiders: West Mineral Ltd. w/ Loidis @ Kiosk Radio 05.08.2025

(127m005s)

Al Wootton returns with a heavy trip through psychedelic, dubbed out, primal, ritual post-punk-proto-industrial dance music.

Tracks from Little Annie Anxiety, Elkotsh, Regis, De Leon, Carrier, O Yuki Conjugate, Phew, Muslimgauze, Malaria!, Mad Professor, and Asahito Nanjo.

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📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
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Outsiders: TRULE w/ Al Wootton @ Kiosk Radio 17.08.2025

@johnbarera

Introduce yourself? Hometown? Where do you currently reside? 

Hi! My name is John, I was born in Massachusetts, in Boston. I currently live in Queens, NY with my fiancée Rochelle and our cats Chris and Cosey. If I can be honest, I’m a tremendous music nerd first and foremost. 

Favorite music collective atm?

There is a crew in Mexico City that is amazing called Ext. They are throwing really fun and free-spirited parties. Volvox and I went to play for them last year for a collaboration with our label. It was a killer party and it left a great impression on me. I gotta say though - the hot mass crew are doing the good work stateside. Any serious music heads who have never been to that space have to make the trip. 

Favorite mix series?

Daisychain, I really admire what Leesh is doing there. Many killer artists contributing and always very thoughtful presentation. 

How do you hydrate at a gig?

With my go to drink, the often misunderstood white wine spritzer. It’s half water! Drink these in the booth and you are good. In general if I’m partying I’m aiming to be drinking a glass of water with every drink so I can stay sharp. 

Dream b2b? 

Wow, great question. I guess I would have to say I would love to play b2b with Tama Sumo at a Panorama Bar for a long, exploratory closing set across many genres. She’s pretty much my favorite DJ in the world. She has good energy. 

Let’s play a pipipi game… I give you a situation and you give me a track 

Eating leftovers while its snowing
https://youtu.be/QUMuDWDVd20

An endless highway drive in the mountains 
https://youtu.be/nybfYilzHXE

First track to begin a sunrise set
https://youtu.be/OmFJcFYCTkM

b2b with an alien from mars
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eCif-0vKEhI

Secret weapon track? 
https://youtu.be/VHI04NbN9Fs

Describe the best dj/live set you have seen this year? 

CCL At Smangtasia festival. It’s hard to describe their style, that’s prob what makes it so good. Been really into Flora FM, CCL, Ciel, the TerraFirm & Is/was labels lately. Musically these are along the lines of colorful steppin’ liquid break house, if that makes ANY sense lol. Good music from good people at the end of the day. 


What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

Inclusivity. Creativity. Thinking outside the box. I feel that gatekeeping is one of the biggest problems for our scenes.  Breaking down insular behavior, I think promoters should stop booking the same people over and over while ignoring other quality talents in their midst. Very often I look at the programming of clubs and parties and I’m like oh! you booked XYZ again for the 11th time.. It could be a headliner or an opener I’m referencing - there are so many quality acts out there! In my ideal world more people get a chance to do this stuff that we love. 

In every dance community there are loads of musically talented individuals not getting their due. It can be alienating to feel like your putting all your blood, sweat and tears into your music to be denied opportunities. Critically though, there are two sides to this coin : artists, you can’t go around thinking people owe you something. For me that’s super toxic to the scene as well. What we need is a more open forum based around positive cultural exchange.

John Barera - 137˚

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