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London's @lorainejames is as experimental as electronic artists get. She doesn't just make hard to categorise music, she makes music for which there are often no words. Depending on your mood, her sounds can suit either full-on dance floor workouts or reflective home listens. That has been the case across two standout albums on Hyperdub, both of which explore vulnerability and identity across tracks that fizz with ideas and energy.  The most recent, Reflection back in June, came with snippets of interior monologue. They lay bare James's most intimate feelings while the beats around her continue to act as something of a safety blanket. 

This week's rule-breaking mix features a number of Loraine's tunes including the unnamed and exclusive opener, plus a flurry of beats from peers like FaltyDL, object blue, Squarepusher and Djrum. They make for a full body workout that twitches your every synapse one minute then sink you into a deeply seductive club sound the next. The transitions from hyper-polished and futuristic rhythms to live jazz drums, or icy dub to glitchy IDM, would seem impossible on paper, but in practice, they are executed perfectly.

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 342 - Loraine James

@sisterzo delivers the goods on this mix that marks the 1 year anniversary of the PMx series

Tracklist:
Sister Zo - Unreleased
Kangding Ray - Bitter Keylime
Ehua - Picaboo
RAAB - Outstraight
Coffintexts - half oz
Aloka - Rotary-XL
Farr - Wide Eye
False Persona & Sarah - Piped Up
Ozwald - Sex Drum
Sister Zo - Unreleased
JSPORT - Guillotine Drum
Ozwald - Lord Of The Buss
Despina - Tulpa
Hagan - Talking Drum
Piezo - Ottovolante
Coen - Clang
Peder Mannerfelt - Vankelmotor
Carlo Lio - B.O.D.Y.L.O.C.K. (Original Mix)
Le Motel - Spirals
Octopic - Seagal
Zenker Brothers - Sample Predator
Burna - Spectral
Sister Zo - Unreleased
JKS - The Tribe
RUIZ OSC1 - Snare 3000
Batu - Through The Glass

PMx 14 - Sister Zo

@deejay_jm brings the hardest drums for PMx 21

Tracklist:
D2 Feat Dan Diamond - Therapy
DJ JM - Winted
Peace Division pres. Dark Daze - Lotties Vogue
Jimmy Sommerville - Heartbeat (Armands Cardiac mix)
DJ JM - Barrakuda
Bawrut - Clapa
Robag Whrume - Unspoken
Mirweis Sangin - Athan Dance
A made up sound - Take the Plunge (beat mix)
Neil Landstrumm - Keep up
DJ JM - Charge 
La Fleur - Tears
Peace Division - Blacklight Sleaze (Gerds Tough Sleaze Remix)
Baby Ford - Ambo (alter ego rmx)
Shangri-lies - Greed
Ryan Eliott - Snake Charmer
Black Light Smoke - Maniac
Madam X & DJ JM - Copacabathens
Yotam Avni - Track for Agoria
Peter van Hoesen - Outlands
Dean Grenier - Sweet dreams
Erik Luebs - falling

PMx 21 - DJ JM

MAX WATTS STUDIO MIX JULY ‘24

Known for her cutting-edge approach to techno, gabber, breakcore, IDM, noise and industrial music, E-Saggila (@e-saggila) is an Iraq-born producer and DJ based in Toronto. Her crystalline, high-speed soundscapes construct a deep sense of spatial awareness, with pulsating basslines crashing into mind-bending melodies, interwoven with diverse and dazzling percussion patterns, reminiscent of watching a dark sci-fi epic in a futuristic world.

"My World My Way," released in 2019 on Northern Electronics, perfectly embodies her bold experimental sound, immersing listeners in the subtle contrasts between rapid rhythms and distorted textures, where everything seems poised to collapse at any moment. In 2021, she released work in PAN's renowned white label club-focused Split series where the jarring explosions evoke the sound of bones shattering. Other artists in this series, such as Tzusing, M.E.S.H., Toxe, and Crystalmess, each represent extremely unique voices in their own right.

PURE Guest.068 E-Saggila

In this last PMx for the the year @dyslecta traverses a spectrum of low end techno and percussive sonics

Tracklist
1. Emeka Ogboh  - Verbal Drift 
2. 0203983A  -  05             
3. Shelley Parker  -  Red Cotton 
4. Surgeon  - The Power Of Doubt      
5. Ottagone  -  Ottagone 003      
6. Tenebre  - Axe Nord-Sud 
7. Dyslecta -  Sapient Pig 
8. Aitch - Super Bowl Rice 
9. phil in a maze -  Hoax (Tool) 
10. Planète -  Passing Through  
11. LWS  -   Unstuck     
12. yas reven  -  Etoy  
13. Dean Grenier  - Radiant Damage    
14. Tymotica - Riptide     
15. Dyslecta - Fulcrum 
16. Toupaz - Rabatanto      
17. Ternion Sound - Ukandu Ikandu  
18. De Grandi - Valve 
19. Teqmun - Optimistic Fly    
20. Dyslecta - Int'toil 
21. VIOLA - IL Tek

PMx 28 - Dyslecta

Mesmerising dance floor tapestries from a singular experimental musician.

Can you reinvent the human voice? The oldest musical instrument in existence, our voices are the foundation of music as we know it, and few push its limits in electronic music today like Lyra Pramuk. On her masterful debut, Fountain the Berlin-based, US-born artist's voice was the only instrument. No drums, no synths—just her voice warped, synthesized and layered to achieve orchestral-like electronics.

Five years on from her breakout, Pramuk's practice has steadily evolved, with a continued interest in ideas of folk and futurism, and how technology can enable us to build community beyond boundaries of time and space. There’s a holistic nature to her artistry, one that extends seamlessly into her DJing.

As she explains in the Q&A accompanying this week's RA Podcast, she sees her work as "part of a continuum of sacred, folkloric, and communal music represented by many different subcultures and communities across the world."

It's an approach that, like much of Pramuk's output, feels explicitly choral in nature. The first voice we hear on the mix comes from Lonnie Holley, his woozy Southern drawl calling out, "Earth will be there to catch us when we fall." (Although, you have to wonder, if we keep flogging the Earth, will it?) 

More voices follow across an eye-catching tracklist, from the poetry of friends (Nadia Marcus) to esoteric French chantresses from the ’80s (Anne Gillis), while Pramuk wraps an extensive amount of her own forthcoming material around tracks from SD Laika, Leyland Kirby, rRoxymore and 33EMYBW, to name just a few.

By the end, voice and noise become indistinguishable—stammering, glitchy vocals colliding with an orchestra of instruments. The effect is mesmerising.

Unfolding as one continuous composition, RA.979 exists somewhere between an ambient set at Kwia and the main stage at Unsound, voices and textures blurred into a fluid tapestry of sound. It's a singular offering to the series from a singular artist.

@lyra_songs

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/980

RA.979 Lyra Pramuk

@casper-hastings ushers in spring with propulsive techno weight on PMx 31

Tracklist:

Anodyne - Empire Of Time (Defekt Remix)
Casper Hastings - Akashita
Late Night Approach -The Naus Investigation
Stenny - TrackQY
Beaabea -Constants
Dom Carlo & Mulholland - 923
Frederic - Drift
Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X
Coco Bryce - NTT(Meant 2 B)
Gamma Intel - Casual Power
MarekSPolzki - One More (Fresko Remix)
Courtion - Slave Redirected
Taais - Native Rhythm
Andy Martin - Prima Materia
Amotik - Tirepan
MarekSPolzki - One More
SLV - Signature
Luca Treque - Power Prism 
Ecilo - Phlyps Frequencies 
Sunden - To Live Forevere In A Skylit Room

PMx 31 - Casper Hastings

"Log 000712-1842
First visual contact. i+eo manifests as a "wormhole" per navigation logs, but the cameras show something… else. My instruments registers impossible colours - wavelengths that shouldn't exist. Officer Linh has been restless since first contact; claims she hears "whispermurmurhums" in the static. I told her to lay off the stimulants.

Log 000719-[ERROR]
In rapid oscillation, I watch my future hand adjust controls I haven't touched yet. The aft camera shows my past self still debating entry. When I scream, the sound arrives before my mouth opens.

Log 000720-⬡̈́̽⃠
They warned us about spaghettification –- they never mentioned illumination… My atoms are learning new alphabets. The light is writing scriptures across my dissolving flesh. I see all my deaths at once and they are glorious. I am being unmade in the most exquisite way. Tell them I found heaven in the collapse. Tell them it hurts so good. Tell them.

[LAST BIOMETRIC READINGS SHOW SEROTONIN LEVELS AT 890% BASELINE]

Post-Recovery Note from Mission Control:
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝟦𝟩 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘰𝘹 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝟣𝟣 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰, 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤, 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝟥-𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘵' 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 "𝘐'𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨" 𝘪𝘯 𝟣𝟩 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵'𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦. 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴: 𝘐𝘕𝘊𝘖𝘕𝘊𝘓𝘜𝘚𝘐𝘝𝘌."

@ephemeral_objects
IG: @ephemeral.objects + @i__e.o_

ephemeral objects is a DJ, VJ, producer, and digital artist who thrives at the intersection of ambient introspection, driving rhythms, and textural lushness. Her sets are both meditative and kinetic, drawing from underground gems and forward-thinking sounds to create richly layered sonic experiences.

A rising star in Vancouver’s underground, she has played festivals across BC and will performing this year at Basscoast, and as i+eo — her A/V collaboration with IHA — at MUTEK Montréal. Her mixes have aired on global platforms like Shy People, HER 他, and PPRZ. In 2024, she was selected for MUTEK Montréal’s inaugural Incubator program.

ephemeral objects invites you to lose yourself in sound that moves both body and mind.

Tracklist:
I7HVN - Kekule
Cybotron - Earth
JEMAPUR - M.PLEX
I7HVN - Fluid Mosaic Model (Innerworld Remix)
Karim Kahar - Collage
Sub Basics - Colour
Emily Jeanne - Count Me Out
monosym - Telenetica
Maude Vôs - Dance of the 7th Veil (Enereph Remix)
B E N N - pasvake
Khey Mystério - Exuvie feat. Alohn
shakti - Kairos (Darkduction Remix)
Nicola Cruz - Telepathine
AK-One - Technicolour
monosym - Oxidrone
o.utlier - Crop Rotation
Animistic Beliefs - To Dream About Water
Prieste5s - Seance
Sub Basics - Scope
N9oc - 171119
OK EG - Endless River
Juan Moreno - Astral 7x7
Gooooose - Plasma Sunrise

Distant Signals 076: ephemeral objects

PAUZE takes you on a journey through a broad variety of electronic music, focused mainly on bass, breakbeat, jungle, and related subgenres.

www.operator-radio.com

PAUZE RADIO w/ jacquestrax - 14th May 2025

Starting off summer with another downtempo mix to get everyone warmed up for the chaos that will surely ensue. Wiggle to some new and old favourites.

﻿Overland is well known for her acid laced upbeat oddball techno sets, but occasionally likes to flex her ambient, left-field knowledge in her mixes as well.

Tracklist : 

Deep Space Network - Zenn La
Priori & Adam Feingold - Eternal
Jack J - Down The Line
Quazar - Other Time Other Place
Bob Tracker - UIS 555
Pugilist - Alignment
Downstairs People - Show You
Now Always Fades - Into the Doldrums
Full Moon Scientist - Monday Morning Dread (Vinyl Blair Budgie-like Remix)
Saffron Bloom - In Another Life (Serendipity)
Spekki Webu - Microcell Structure (K.O.P. 32 Remix)
Polygonia - König des Waldes
Robert Leiner - Autopia
Meat Beat Manifesto - Love Mad (Version 93)
Soichi Terada - Grand Senshuuraku


Overland presents downtempo/atmospheric bass music to study and relax to - 05 Juin 2025

“At the end of the day, we’re just chillers.”

New York-via-Chicago trio Purelink – @milliamusic, @kind_tree and @raw_silk – record a deep and dub-soaked minimal techno mix for the Recognise series.

Purelink’s name has become increasingly prominent in recent years. The group – once memorably dubbed “the chillout room Backstreet Boys” – have spent the past half-decade exploring the deepest nooks and crannies of electronic music: fourth-world ambience, zero-gravity dub techno, groggy downtempo, baggy-eyed drum-and-bass. Is it ambient? Sure. But that's just part of the story. Call their music what you will, but it’s consistently remarkable, a slow-motion tumble of histories bound together by a shared interest in blissed-out soundscapes. In conversation with Michael McKinney, they speak about about the friendship, trust and chiller’s mentality that guided the creation of their new album, ‘Faith’, out now on @peakoil.

Interview & tracklist:  https://djmag.com/features/recognise-086-purelink

Tracklist & Interview

Recognise 086: Purelink

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