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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Outsiders: TRULE w/ Al Wootton @ Kiosk Radio 17.08.2025

@sofialakis

Introduce yourself? Hometown? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself?

My name is Sofia Lakis, I grew up as a military brat so I don’t really have much of a hometown, but Columbia, South Carolina comes pretty close, which is where I lived before finding a home in Richmond, VA five years ago.  

Fun fact: I play in a couple of heavy bands called .gif from god and Listless (bass and guitar respectively). Both bands have six members and share three between them.

Describe the vibe of your ideal party? Space? Smell? Drinks? Anything you can think of ;)

Intimate settings filled by dancing, uninhibited bodies. Preferably the faint aroma of a joint rather than spilled beer. I want the Dionysian mystery, the ecstatic orgia rave. 

Dream b2b? 

akua, Endlec, LSDXOXO are some of my favs rn and I feel like they’d be really fun to play off of. 

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

** Sunrise in Berlin during the summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL_jCTm4vRs

** 1 track to help your future self understand where you are today in music

https://lotionmultinationalcorporation.bandcamp.com/track/cut-the-wires

** b2b with Moby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbyGHg8dYW0

** 1 way ticket to Mars with all your best friends

https://alienravemusic.bandcamp.com/track/letus-alien-abduction-kinko-remix

Advice to beginning djs?

Playing shows is the best practice for playing shows. Practicing in your comfort zone can only get you so far. In my few years experience, the ability to adapt and react in the moment is just as valuable as being prepared prior to performing. 

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

GABBERBITCH69 at Behavior in Richmond. Super clean transitions for such fast and nasty selections. It was my first time seeing them. The whole room was moving, it was irresistible.

Most underrated artist at the moment?

Machine Girl deserves more acclaim, they’re the cutting edge of transgressive and aggressive electronic-noise-punk-whatever, in my opinion. It’s exciting. 

What is your prediction on the next music genre re-vamp 2020?

Gabber, breakcore, hardcore techno are on the rise. Acid. Heavy bands getting into The Prodigy worship… It's great.

Favorite DJ trick?

Beat juggling on vinyl is a skill I do not possess but I find mystifying. I keep it simple on a digital set up myself, lots of looping during transitions, long blends bordering on mash-ups, stacking effects and filters to make fadeouts more organic. 

Describe the first moment where you had an epiphany about your love for music?

I was 11 when Daft Punk came out with “Discovery” and they were blasting MTV and Toonami hard with their videos and that’s definitely when I fell in love with “dance music” specifically. Going to my first small time punk show in high school sparked my desire to perform music, and gave me the thought that it was something I could pursue. 

DJ dream of yours?

I’d love to play overseas, particularly Crete in the spring or summer. I’d really like to work with Discwoman collective in some capacity in the future. 

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

More DIY, underground venues and parties, more accessibility in terms of equipment and venues, more young queer people involved in DJing and facilitating their own spaces. Less commercialization, less commodification, less ego, less elitism.

Sofia Lakis - 6000˚ C

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