Радиант

Mixes

The latest "Радиант" in 2024 was recorded for RS by Juliana Ahulijing (https://soundcloud.com/ahulijing), a selector, multi-genre DJ, and co-founder of the "Welofi" label (https://soundcloud.com/welofi).

At the heart of the mix lie nostalgic tracks that bring back Juliana's memories of the 2010s, a period when she fell in love with drum-n-bass. "This mix is a tribute to a lighthearted and romantic youth, to drum parties on dancefloors of which unity and kindness always reigned, and to a time when DJs didn't hype with bare torsos but instead were able to express truth," - shared Ahulijing.

The selection touch on various drum-n-bass subgenres, venturing into jazzy hip-hop and downtempo territory. Structurally, the mix resembles the stages of an intense Saturday night party, with distinct intro, pinnacle, and the epilogue which you listen on Sunday morning taxi ride.

Cover by Alisa Voronina, inst: @alalisa

Радиант #21 – ahulijing

Musical reviewer and author of the Telegram channel What's That Noise?, Leonid Kravchenko (https://soundcloud.com/whats_that_noise), recorded for RS a soundtrack to accompany the darkest months of a year. As the author explains, this selection adapts a gloomy urban sound, ranging from illbient and industrial to future garage and dreampunk, with a special emphasis on dub elements. The mix includes both fresh tracks and those Leonid first listened to more than ten years ago.

Cover by Alisa Voronina, inst: @alalisa

What's That Noise? in Telegram: https://t.me/whats_that_noise

Tracklist:
The Haxan Cloak - Dieu
Young Ruji - Herbal Jars
JK Flesh - Crawler
Primitive - Rental Snake
Subtle Noise & Vanya Limb - Illusions
Spirivox - Friggatriskaidekaphobia
Kontext - Spare Senses
Jay Glass Dubs x Laura Agnusdei - Jungle Shuffle (JGD Beatless Version)
The Bug - Puppy (feat. Jonnine)
Zaliva-D - Illusion
Alexander Nacraptor - Owlution (Beginning)
Nsasi - Endoongo (feat. pq)
SKI - SKI 07 (feat. swrcfx)
Svetiritm - Das
Cooly G - Weekend Fly
F0x3r - Falling
Modela - Indigo
Neinzge - Timelapse
Vex’d - Heart Space (feat. Anneka)

Радиант #22 – What's That Noise?

The new «Радиант»‎ for RS has been arranged by Kostya Kokokei (https://soundcloud.com/kokokei), electronic artist, producer, and co-founder of «Местность»‎ label (https://soundcloud.com/mestnost-records) — well known to our readers.

Compiled by the musician, the mix is released at the perfect time — just like spring, it represents a kaleidoscope of colors and vibes. Here, starry-eyed cosmic ambient meets energetic uplifting breaks, immersing the listener in pleasant dreampop melancholy and more.

As Kostya shares, he hadn’t prepared mixes for a long time, making his return to the process particularly interesting. «Some things I already had, others I found among recent releases. The entire compilation process was deeply enjoyable,»‎ he says. «In a way, the mix is a certain slice of things currently related to me by vibe and sound. I aimed to create a cozy, comforting atmosphere — a safe space to be in»‎.

Tracklist:

1 Polypores — Foreverglade
2 Legowelt — Nebbia Vera Pellliccia
3 White Poppy — On Love
4 Exotic Gardens — Soundwaves And Dark Caves
5 Good Block — Strong Relax
6 Other Lands — The Old Ways
7 µ-Ziq— Approaching Lifetime
8 Solar X — dileg
9 Maelstrom — Res 06 (feat. Fasme)
10 Xylitol— Miha
11 Lord of the Isles — Meet Me at the Portal
12 Polypores — It Was Here All Along, Between The Dandelions
13 FROID DUB — Item By Item Dub
14 State Azure — Azimuth
15 Suumhow — F
16 The Advisory Circle — Nuclear Substation PIF

Радиант #23 - Kokokei

The 24th "Радиант" for RS was recorded by Artem Timofeev — founder of the Картаскважин label (https://soundcloud.com/kartaskvazhin), collector, tape DJ, and promoter of cassette culture.

At the core of the mix is a selection of cassette releases from Russian labels, compiled by Artem toward the end of 2024. He supplemented the selection with works by Russian (or Russia-affiliated) artists released on international platforms. In result we have sort of snapshot of experimental music genres whose artists often favor releasing their work on tape.

According to the author, in conditions where streaming services dominate over other music listening means, cassettes offer a way to go beyond musical industry and discover an amazingly diverse slice of culture with a extensive spectrum of sound forms and aspects of visual decoration.

Cover by Alisa Voronina, inst: @alalisa

Tracklist:

01. Tim Six - summer cycles (альбом Les Cartes Sonores, лейбл Underwater Computing _, 2024)
02. Никита Олещенко-Коржаков - Часть II: гидрофоны, объекты и инструменты (фрагменты) ("Не Болит Голова у Дятла", New Sense Of Hearing Editions, 2024)
03. 大泊VENV - Lucid Dream ("eerily realistic", Go4aWalk Music, 2024)
04. Рим Менко - Сумерки. Шампанское. Салют! ("Полуночный Интурист",  120 - 130 BPM, 2024)
05. Ряска - Фарфоровая лиса ("Ряска", ФАКТУРА, 2024)
06. Frunk29 - 05 Sluchai Na Pliaje ("Drifting Horses", Not Not Fun, 2024)
07. nonpandoras - слои восприятия ("Пять лет лейблу Картаскважин", 2024)
08. Cliff Ruin - A (фрагмент)("Compilation", holographic rainbow tapes, 2024) 
09. Roman Golovko - Mystery at Theater Center of Drama and Directing part 1 (фрагмент) ("INTERSTITIAL" audiovisual performance, WLFFFLW RECORDS, 2024)
10. .hrshn - solace ("シフト", лейбл electrotapes archive, 2024)
11. Reather Weport – Pattern #2 ("МИФ", Not Not Fun, 2024)
12. X.Y.R. - Cafe a La Cardamome ("Fruity L∞ps Series Vol. 1 "Exotique Waves", лейбл Atlantea Records, 2024)
13. Piper Spray & Lena Tsibizova - External ("Debtor,  Theory Therapy, 2024)
14. Невыпущенный (пока что) материал лейбла Картаскважин.


Радиант #24 - Скважин

Black/death/doom metal tape DJ-set played at Cassette Market in Audio Club, Saint Petersburg

Tracklist:

Darkspace - Dark -2.-2
Dekonstruktor - Contagious Parasitism
Sarke - Death Construction
Grima - Skull Gatherers
Second To Sun - On The Wild North
Malist - Ode to the Night
Immortal - One by One
Enslaved - Daudningekvida
Nox Doloris - Pecheneg
Pestilence - Non Physical Existent
Wormed - Pareidolia Robotica
Burzum - Rundgang um die transzendentale Säule der Singularität

Tape Metal Set (Audio Club, 27.04.2025)

Микс записан в "Мачтах" на вечеринке ГРАДИЕНТ.

WTN — создатель коммьюнити «What’s That Noise?», известного своим вниманием к локальной экспериментальной музыке, а также сооснователь проекта Tapehood, занимающегося популяризацией кассетной культуры.

Микс сведен с кассет и CD от локальных и зарубежных музыкантов. Материал для него отбирался в стремлении создать атмосферу линчевского сюрреалистического нуара, но без использования очевидных для этого треков (разве что старая композиция группы Côte Déserte напрямую отсылает к "Твин Пиксу"). Кажется, задумка удалась - а интерьер и освещение площадки этому немало поспособствовали.

Tracklist:

Lamina - Saliendo de la sombra
3TM - Clermont Flutes
Alfia V. Bergström - A Bizzare Environment - Musik Till Gelo
Jum-Jum - Verba
Reather Weport - Pattern #1
Laura Agnusdei & Daniele Fabris - Specchi
Boris - Old Projector
Côte Déserte - The Red Room Revisited
Piper Spray & Lena Tsibizova - Arp Test
Serwed - Vert
Vokeebokæybgo Lochtyblchvvaii - 21o412 i Prästmon (till Tove N.)
ПОЛЕ - The Valley of the Elves
Julianna Barwick - Big Hollow
Gia Margaret - 2017

ГРАДИЕНТ, 31.01.2025 (ambient, experimental electronic tape/cd set)

“In this mix I’ve compiled some dark tunes from my tape collection in such genres as illbient, noise, dungeon synth, post punk, minimal wave and blackened folk. Also I’ve included here a fragment of the recording of my live performance in a duo with c.w.cult - this piece contains a processed recording of the snoring of my beloved dog who passed away recently. All tracks were digitized from audio cassettes.”
Guest link https://www.instagram.com/cluster_88/
With @whats_that_noise

WTN - artistic alter ego of Leonid Kravchenko, a music reviewer, author of the Telegram channel about strange music “What's That Noise?”, music lecturer, event organizer, noise musician, DJ and co-founder of Tapehood - a project dedicated to cassette culture


Kotä.Moscow • Tape Darkscapes • Guest Mix by WTN w/ Gleb Glonti (26.05.2025)

«Радиант» under the beautiful number 25 was recorded for RS by Pavel Fedoseev — a musician from Perm, formerly the drummer of the shoegaze band Gnoomes, and now fully immersed in his solo work under the alias KIKOK (https://soundcloud.com/kikok_audio).

Debuting in 2018 on the Dutch label Magnetron Music, the artist has since released around 20 records, including seven albums of bright, danceable electronica. His most recent work is the full-length album «Slow Crunch» released on the «Mestnost» label (https://soundcloud.com/mestnost-records). Pavel describes his music as “shoegaze-Italo-disco,” though the influence of many other genres can also be heard. The producer’s wide-ranging musical interests are reflected in his mix for RS as well.

The main image that came to mind during the creation of this «Радиант» was a leisurely river sparkling in the rays of the summer sun. Over the course of an hour, we drift along a warm current of ambient textures, psychedelic guitar chords, and gently swaying dance rhythms. Much like KIKOK’s own work, the mix is filled with purely positive emotions — tranquility and a love of life — delivered in a slower, more contemplative rhythm.

Cover by Alisa Voronina, inst: @alalisa

Tracklist:

1. Beach Towels - Pear Island
2. SYMBOL - Homeless Vessel
3. berdmajik - Another Day In The Multiverse
4. Chrome Wings - Drip City
5. Dang Olsen Dream Tape - BODY WORK
6. Loving - A Long Slow Little Wave Citizen, an Activity
7. Connan Mockasin - Andrew VanWyngarden-Surf Or Not
8. Gaussian Curve - Dancing Rain
9. Good Doom - Total Animal Soup
10. Sunbeam Sound Machine - In Your Arms
11. Pacific Yew - (((( Flowersss ))))
12. Beach Towels - Sun Soaked
13. wwoman - New Ferments
14. Dang Olsen Dream Tape - MIND TO MIND
15. Chrome Wings - New Lands
16. berdmajik - The First Time
17. Gaussian Curve - The Distance
18. Valet - Child
19. Good Doom - Love Cults
20. White Poppy - In The Sun

Радиант #25 - KIKOK

a mix of japanese ambient and experimental music, recorded by dj and music reviewer leonid kravchenko aka wtn for playnflate station, inspired by a spontaneous dj set played at the kvartira onfima bar in veliky novgorod on june 20, 2025

Tracklist:

Masahiro Takahashi - Minamo
Ikegami Tomohiro, Onogawa Hiroyuki, Yuya Shito & JiN - Nayami
Kuniko - Last Scene from a Play of a Play
Midori Takada - Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter (In the Morning)
H Takahashi - Pulse
Yuta Komatsutsuka - Orion
Yaryu - Sougen
Neo Museum - Area
Tokio Ono - Insular
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Something Blue
Soshi Takeda - Quiet

Радиант #22 – What's That Noise?

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