IBU 600 from Imaginary Friend crew - very special guest mix and refuge debut. check out more bits here: https://soundcloud.com/user-785368649

PLO_radio // drizle.FM - Ep:003 PLO man, IBU 600 - 13.12.23

Australian producer Cousin warms up for his performance at Horst Festival's Moon Ra stage.

Cousin @ Kiosk Radio 29.04.2025

A rare club mix from the ever-evolving artist, with 90 minutes of shadowy, atmospheric pressure.

Music's therapeutic value is often linked to relaxation—gongs, singing bowls and the like. Dense passages of foggy droning and eerie static aren't traditionally considered restorative, but Laurel Halo makes a pretty good case for it.

The Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based musician's abstract, often improvised productions are heavy on sound design and emotional climax. Driven by atmosphere rather than rhythm, they push listeners to grapple with their innermost insecurities, fears and dreams. "I'm lucky my music has helped people through crises," Halo once told Discwoman. It's easy to see why.

Since her 2010 debut King Felix, Halo has built a stunningly diverse catalogue of classically-informed records. A multi-instrumentalist—piano, violin, guitar, keys—her sharpest instrument is arrangement. Inspired by the surrealism of Italo Calvino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, her releases, from Atlas to Behind The Green Door, unfold with slow-burning narrative and dense emotional weight. Her soundworlds are layered and labyrinthine—an architectonic space where self-reflection happens almost by force.

Even in the club, the sought-after composer excels in immersion. Her sets extend the expressionist palette of her records, trading traditional rhythm for tension, space and surprise. It’s no wonder she takes a genre-agnostic approach to the dance floor—her deep roots in freeform radio began at WCBN-FM in Michigan, followed by Berlin Community Radio, Rinse FM, and now a regular show on NTS.

RA.992 stitches foggy ambient loops, propulsive techno, mutant percussion and heady left turns with care. Tracks from DJ Rush, Octave One and Eddie Fowlkes nod to her Midwestern heritage, balanced out by deeper, psychedelic fare from the likes of Polygonia and Cousin. It's the mark of an artist revealing both deep curiosity and a precise hand as a selector. Rare, indeed.

@laurelhalo

Find the full interview at ra.co/podcast/992

RA.992 Laurel Halo

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mi-el – In Dreams

the 11th entry in our series come from a dear friend and label regular, Toronto based musician and DJ - @ciel_dj

Words from the artist :

"little sounds in huge expansive spaces"

This mix was my musical extrapolation of this quote. As I put together the tracks in the mix, the idea of small sounds in big spaces became more metaphysical, as a metaphor for memory and nostalgia. Small, seemingly insignificant events in our past can expand in significance over time, informed by our experiences later on in life, and with our emotions acting as a tool of reverberation, extending their presence in our lives far past their time of occurrence. What begun as a process of selecting tracks that quite literally feature "small sounds in big spaces" soon morphed into a dig into my distant past, to nearly 20 years ago when I first started learning to DJ. I pulled from the mnml tracks that had an important influence on my formative years, their impact can still be heard in the contemporary tracks I play today, all of them bouncing next to each other in this nearly 2hr musical collage.

naffcast011 ⦾  *̣̥☆·͙̥‧‧̩̥·‧•̥̩̥͙‧·‧̩̥˟͙ Ciel ˟͙‧̩̥·‧•̥̩̥͙‧·‧̩̥‧·͙̥̣☆*̣̥

artist: @faited

It is during summer 2024, in front of 40 subs stacked under the trees of Draaimolen’s Forest Rave stage that we first met Faited. Envelope Soundsystem conjurer, soundsystem fabricator, and a wonderfully skilled vinyl DJ, Faited has made of sound an element that she invokes, crafts and playfully selects. Based in Oakland, CA, she is deeply involved in building and nurturing communities in the pure rave spirit, sharing both her knowledge of acoustic waves and bringing people together around music. 

When it comes to her vinyl selection and practice, it is raw sounds and moving energies that connect her record collection. From mind melting drum’n’base to ravey techno and trippy tech house escapes, it is a body freeing feeling that she creates on the dance floor. 

Faited had a busy summer, touring in Europe and playing a few festivals: The Great Beyond Festival in Minneapolis, Draaimolen in Tilburg (with an incredible performance alongside Octo Octa), and the multi-day rave System Activate in Vermont. When not DJing, she designs and fabricates new loudspeaker designs under her brand Faited Systems.

It is a real honour and pleasure to host Faited for Polychrome Radio on Echobox Radio. This hour of music encapsulates her unique dance floor perspective, and we can’t wait to share it all with you!


Polychrome Radio on Echobox - Episode 44 - Faited

3 hour set opening The Grove on Saturday night at Sustain-Release Year Eleven. thank you for listening :) 


tracklist:
Gigi - Abay
Translippers - Sun Temple
Blu - Midnight Bazaar
SUBSET - Decoded
Burland - Me So Love Ya (feat. Adotey Johnson)
African Head Charge - Hold Some More
Kondi Band - Yeanoh (Powe'hande Binga'dbe)
No Sir - Even The Flowers
Afrobuddha - Zone (drum mix)
Powder - Busy Port (Original Mix)
5ive - Planet Be
Daniel Haaksman, Paul St.Hilaire, Mad Professor - City Life  (Mad Professor Dub)
Sub Basics - Fluctuate (Original Mix)
Nga Tae - Whanau Puhi (Paddy Free Dub)
deep fried dub - Crispy Circuits
Sard & Anabasine - Frank Jasmine (unreleased)
Katiusha - The Sellout
DJ Hedoni$t - Untitled #5
Tamburi Neri, Off The Meds - Bolle di Dolore (Off The Meds remix)
Lurka - Signal
Appleblim - Wah Tin
KROTONE - Mr Law Man
Bandulu - Jahquarius
Deep Fried Dub - Tectonic Dubplate
Dapashu? - smokebreak (unreleased)
Instinct - Apache (x 0113)
breakcheck - Bicycle Kick
Kreggo - Bass Finger Villain
Mantra - Locked In, Locked On
DJ Distance - Dark Crystal
RSD - Recall
Sub Basics - Lift Off
deep fried dub - Subterranean Kastles
Commodo x Gantz - 89! Gloom
indigenous resistance - Free west Papua / Two Thousand Seasons Dub
IR: Indigenous Resistance & UR Underground Resistance - Krikati: Power Outage
Gary Martin - Mambo Elektro
Oprofessionell - Pull Up (bound 2 meet the taxman mix)
Bakongo + Scuba - Over Again (Hassan Abou Alam Percussive Tool)
Sputnik One, EMBY, Honeydrip - Sputnik One & EMBY - Supa Natural (Honeydrip & Spud Breaks Mix)
Om Unit - Righteousness (Original Mix)
Earl Grey - Wiretap
Breaka - Solaria
Lewis James - Kit 5000
Train To Eltanin + Dj Iodosan - F1 - 4 * Use Only
Austen - Medulla
Trancemaster - Blue Shost
Schacke - Paraphilic Love Map
Andy Martin - Codex Borgues
Katiusha - Intend
Adiel & Tamburi Neri - Silenzio
Dubrunner - Destination Unknown

zi! @ Sustain-Release Year Eleven

As we edge closer to Gateway next month, deep creep joins our Gateplay series with a percussion-driven mix made for the late hours. A hypnotic slow-burner built on momentum and mood — offering a glimpse of what’s waiting for us under the trees.

Gateplay 005 - deep creep

Artist: @evankki

The artist’s first release and the label’s final highlight of the year — After 2AM by Evánkki.
This LP features 7 groove-driven tracks — diverse yet harmoniously in sync. Each piece is tied together by a deep groove, subtle restrained melodies, lively percussive pulses, and a tactile, textured sonic space you can almost touch.
We’re thrilled!
Dive in — the release is now available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms!

After 2AM

W00006

Crazy Maracas

I Want To Believe Part 2 (Hurukan )

Buy on bandcamp

Red Richards & Maximilian Beck - I Want To Believe Part 2 (Hurukan )

Pump Machine

Amsterdam based independent record label distributed by One Eye Witness.

Underwater EP by RDS available via Bandcamp and One Eye Witness

Polychrome Radio on Echobox Radio.

Polychrome Radio on Echobox - Episode 44 - Faited

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