Someone once said "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture", so imagine the difficulty one might have to put words to these mixes every month... Like the music, it can sometimes be formulaic, however formulas can also provide great remedies... Repeating yourself also helps to perfect your art, as long as you can stay inline with your taste and its values you are heading in the write direction. Enough talk, lets dive into this sea of dolphins and let go!

More info and tracklist here: lyl.live/episode/the-other-side-65

The Other Side 66, Lyl radio 07/03/23 (The Sea Of Dolphins)

Betonkust - (untitled track)
Betonkust - It Comes In Waves
Betonkust - Entertaining My Goth
Betonkust & Palmbomen II - Bart Is Alone Again
Betonkust & Innershades - Forever In Boccaccio
Betonkust - Because I Want To Fit In
Betonkust - Nozema

Betonkust hardware live set @ REVEAL - INTERGALACTIC FM

Welcome to LXXXVIII – the ninth Actress album to be created by Darren Cunningham and the very first presentation of Actress’ voyage into luxury sonics.

A lifetime in the making, LXXXVIII is the culmination of 25 years’ honing mind-shorting, soul-igniting audio
infusions for dance floors, rave dens, festivals, and concert hall, and the inaugural vessel for Actress’ cruise into novel strata of artistic influence: the executive suites, yacht decks and private jets of our planet’s ultimate power players. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/actress/episodes/actress-13th-october-2023

LXXXVIII w/ Actress 131023

https://soundcloud.com/sneakerdj
Sneaker has been on a mission to reveal the origins of electronic music for more than twenty years now. Whether as a producer or DJ – Sneaker is doing it properly but always after careful consideration. He loves music which imparts atmosphere and attitude towards life, even in a parodying way that doesn’t take itself too serious. Early on, he fell in love with Detroit and Chicago but furthermore there are the obscure Italo, new wave and minimal synth gems that make his sets and Dunkeltier edits special and provide his productions with that edgy Sneaker flavor.

If he doesn’t ponder on the history of dance music, the graduate of Fine Arts shuttles extensively between his part-time-hometowns Berlin and Dresden, where he operates the TailOut mastering studios with long-time collaborator Jacob Korn. He remixed classic EBM and minimal synth bands such as Twilight Ritual, Esplendor Geométrico, Absolute Body Control, S.M. Nurse, De Fabriek and Click Click on his contributions on Frigio, based in Madrid, Bahnsteig 23 and the Macadam Mambo Edits label from Lyon.

In regards to this particular mix: 
This is the other view, the cold hand of ragged whities, this is the answer to a question not asked, these dots were never connected in 33 years (the earliest pick dating back to the UK in 1990).
Records from Germany, Italy, Finland, Holland, Switzerland, Austria - they all contribute to this woven fabric.
A bunch of my own joints sneaked in, plus a track (indeed done in a tracker in the early 2000s) by my best buddy Jacob Korn (we run tailout.de).

Be sure to catch Sneaker while he's on his current US tour including an appearance at Podlassie Club on January 26th 2024 alongside Beau Wanzer and Jonathan Valdez!

RND 098 - Sneaker

Warming up with Slowfoam

Opening our October edition of A NEW WAVE - Slowfoam's place for introductory ambient sonics certainly found itself here, helping raise the curtain on a Winter edition that welcomed in the warmer sounds for the colder months. A certain tastemaker and selector at large, enjoy the first movements of Slowfoam's inagural Absurd Lustre set.

Event: https://ra.co/events/1752085

Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/es/artist/6862620-slowfoam
Bandcamp: https://slowfoam.bandcamp.com/album/worlding-with-earth

ALxFW: Slowfoam (01.10.23)

ZK Bucket’s debut album! Mirroring his wide musical influences and production techniques from early detroit to UK wave and dub music. Techstar Liner is powered by a drumbrain and flying on ringing spring-reverbs. Stripped down rhythms, sequenced synthesizers and wide atmospheric pads with a spooky touch. Zoned-out machine music from the gritty side of town. Make sure to check the wavey vocal track “Natural Peeling”. 200 copies only.

Official release is 20th of may.

PREORDER HERE NOW: 
moonwalkx.bandcamp.com/album/zk-buck…r-lp-preorder

ZK Bucket: 
https://soundcloud.com/pilou_fuzz

ZK Bucket – Techstar Liner LP B-Side SNIPPETS

Clandestine record label, The Trilogy Tapes, tear up the NTS studios once a month, ripping through the grittiest and muddiest tracks. No words on this one, just tunes. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-trilogy-tapes/episodes/the-trilogy-tapes-27th-may-2024

The Trilogy Tapes 270524

What We Are

In the tongues of the Firstborn, Ambar means "the world"
Not as a place, but as a burden, heavy, sacred, and alive
A crystal suspended in void, spinning slowly under fading stars

This track is denser, faster
A pulse of resistance
The heartbeat of a world that refuses to vanish

Inspired by Tolkien’s mythology and artists like Anyma, Tale of Us, and Kevin de Vries
ATWO channels Melkor’s dissonance through ritual soundscapes

🛡️ Chapter VIII of the album Sounds of Arda
👁️ New releases every Friday

📲 Instagram: @atwo.oficial
🎥 TikTok teasers: @atwo.oficial
🔊 Full Visualizer on Youtube: youtube.com/@atwo.oficial
🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/artist/7JfarkLNoDlEJX7Bpqu8qS

Ambar

Travman vocals 

Endo techno beats style mix of

Pleasures of SLI.wav

During production of his latest epic compilation, Frans Æmbient (https://soundcloud.com/kashual-plastik) found some time to create a mix for EDWIN that fuses lo-fi rock oddities, handsome pop wave, abstract electronics and synth-pop classics by current artists like Blod & Miljö from Sweden, XVARR from London and YL Hooi from Australia as well as sung and unsung heroes from the past such as The Human League, Orfeón Gagarin, Bronx Irish Catholics and primitive synth punker Tom Fazzini.

Find the full interview and Tracklist at https://edwin-europe.com

№ 91 - Frans Æmbient

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
Kona Mazariegos - Zona Cinco

RND 098 - Sneaker

Research & Development Mix Series