Ozel was live, spinning 2 hours of reggae and dancehall selections.

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6ft Cuts w/ Ozel AB - January 2023

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Jay Carder with unknown - untitled - 06 March 2023

https://soundcloud.com/toyacoyah-brown
Toyacoyah is an avid record collector who started DJing in the late 90s hosting a drum n’ bass radio show at the University of Oklahoma. After graduating she moved to Austin, Texas where she continued pushing the drum n’ bass sound at raves and clubs throughout Texas, Colorado, California, and even internationally in Brazil. While in Austin, she was one of the original resident DJs for Mental Note, a night dedicated to liquid funk + jazzy drum n’ bass at Plush nightclub. 

After a brief hiatus due to motherhood, she’s back playing the music she loves for folks across the Midwest and is now affiliated with Proper Chicago, Tao of Amen Productions, and Siren Project. She’s grateful to have played alongside many of her favorite DJs (Addison Groove, Andy C, Drumagick, Fabio, LTJ Bukem, Random Movement, and Sam Binga) and looks forward to what the future holds! Expect to hear a full spectrum of bass sounds in her DJ sets including electro, breaks, juke, jungle, and footwork.

RND 082 - Toyacoyah

Jossy Mitsu - 03 May 2023

DJ and producer Ehua smashes the next OK submission with a 100% production mix comprised mainly of unreleased and never-heard-before original music. Deep bass soaked textures, eratic yet seamless, this mix spans tempos and weaves fragments of techno, dancehall and experimental hip hop. 


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Italian-Ivorian producer and DJ Ehua has been making waves since the release of her 2018 debut EP, ‘Diplozoon’ on Femme Culture. She’s since remixed records for Ninja Tune, played at some of Europe’s most iconic festivals and recently started a residency at Rinse FM, where she explores the percussion-influenced realms of experimental techno each month.

Her most recent releases include ‘Clouds’ EP [3024], ‘Aquamarine’ via Nervous Horizon, an EP inspired by both the colour and motion of water, ‘Venom’, single part of Cutcross’s V/A CXT003 ‘With The Pulse’,
‘Helios’ on Fabric Presents Leon Vynehall and ‘Deepstaria’ via Nervous Horizon latest compilation NH

V/A Vol. 4.

Away from club music, Ehua also retains a life-long interest in the arts and has composed various soundtracks for short and feature films, as well as for artistic performances. Ehua is part of GRIOT — a collective and influential online media hub based in Italy focusing on arts from Africa and its diaspora.

Follow: @ehuamusic
Instagram: @ehuamusic

OK014 - Ehua

OYE Podcast number 6 is coming from Guava. We have already sold some of his records in our shop. More will follow, we are very sure about that!

Guava is Bradley Hutchings, a session guitarist and composer. As a touring musician, with bands such as Malena Zavala and LION, he has played at Abbey Road Studio 2, BBC Maida Vale, Hammersmith Apollo, The Roundhouse, and Green Man Festival. Under his alias, Guava, Bradley's released records on 'Holding Hands', Nick Höppner's imprint 'Touch From a Distance', R&S, Rhythm Section and more.

Tracklist:

X - Guava (unreleased) 
Orb - Minimum Wage Maximum Joy 
Ilroy - Martyn / Om Unit 
Spice Up - Fireground 
Sway (Call Mohandes Dub) - Minimum Wage Maximum Joy 
X - Guava (unreleased) 
X - Lisene (unreleased) 
X - Guava (unreleased) 
Nineteen - Dawn Razor 
X - Lisene (unreleased) 
X - Guava (unreleased) 
X - Lisene (unreleased) 
Bluff Mind State - Minimum Wage Maximum Joy 
X - Guava (unreleased)

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/guavanoise
RA: https://ra.co/dj/guava
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guava_noise/

OYE Podcast #6 Guava

After heavy-duty releases on self-administered imprints Low End Activism and Sneaker Social Club, as well as London’s beloved graffiti-laden mutant-bass stronghold Seagrave (RIP), the almighty Low End Activist makes a welcome debut with the ESP Institute. No stranger to mining distant regions the hardcore continuum and the residue of soundsystem culture at large, his relentless traversing and assembling of U.K.-specific rhythms demonstrates there is no end in sight when it comes to evolving the region’s musical gene pool. The 5-track 'Gossip Is The Devil’s Radio' strings together a smear of dystopian instrumentation—ghostly pads wrapped in melancholy, percussion that marries bleep with low resolution shrapnel, and vocal fragments that resemble a control tower’s two-way radio on the fritz—all imperfectly focused through a damaged lens of dancehall. We’re drawn to a dull moan that pervades throughout the record, reminiscent of the nihilistic moments in Abigail Meade’s score to 'Full Metal Jacket' where the sonics resemble a slow churn of molten steel occasionally punctuated and pierced by crystalline shards. The depth between the bone dry immediate foreground and distant wet background creates an exquisite sense of longing which isn’t inherently dark or menacing, but seductively bleak. As voyeurs, we may certainly appreciate the aesthetic LEA portrays, but we can’t fully comprehend the sense of escapism rooted within this music without having come of age in the damp and restless confines of England on the cusp of Thatcher’s abuse. Its a reminder that the light at the end of a tunnel, while it may be dim and grey, is still a light after-all, and the only way out is through.

[ESP115] Gossip Is The Devil's Radio

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Based in Chicago, R&D is a music event/mix series focused on nurturing new sounds, experiences and atmospheres while exploring the music and culture it was born or mutated from. Techno, electro, EBM, bass, breaks, club and beyond.
Current personnel
Jeremy Alvarez - JS Alvarez
Eric Fernandez - Makeen
Shanti Chu - Shanti
Dan Hood - Dan B Hood
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RND 082 - Toyacoyah

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