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The Kempe Stone Portal is the long awaited debut album from long time musical adventurer The Vendetta Suite. It arrives on Hell Yeah Recordings on June 25th, and spans over 20 years of diverse musical experiments. In the words of label boss Marco, "it's a nice ride."

Gary Irwin started dancing in 1990, when he was drawn to the dubbed out and psychedelic sounds of Andrew Weatherall and The Orb, at the same time falling for the forward looking house and techno played by David Holmes and Iain McCready at their regular nights at Belfast's Art College. After studying music technology and performing arts, Irwin gave Holmes a cassette of bedroom produced techno and it started a long and fruitful relationship that has continued to this day.

In the intervening years, Irwin has been the in-house engineer at Holmes' Exploding Plastic Inevitable studio and label, has engineered and remixed with him, released on his labels and written music for his Holy Pictures album, all while picking up credits on labels like NovaMute, Sabrettes, 13Amp and many more. As time passed, Irwin explored non-dance sounds such as krautrock, library music, synth and 80s b-sides before more recently circling back to acid house, downtempo and Balearic. All of this and more informs this panoramic 12 track album, which is a testament to a life spent submerged in many different sound worlds.

The Kempe Stone Portal opens on the ‘Neon Secrets’, which along with tracks like ‘Morning Star’ and ‘I Am The Ghost In My House’ betray Irwin’s love of wonky, shimmering experimental synth-pop musik. They are glistening tracks with heavenly harmonies that are truly life-affirming in their richness. Elsewhere, ‘Purple Haze, Yellow Sunrise’ is an homage to his early experiences of Balearic acid house music from the late eighties and early nineties with a not too subtle reference to the narcotics of the time. ‘Who Do You Love’ was Irwin’s first non-dance music production in 1998, a cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain's version of the Bo Diddly classic, with guitar feedback and distortion drawing you into a murky world of fuzzy sonics.

‘Della Notte’ came 10 years after, with rumbling toms, bubbling synths and phased Rhodes making for a psyched-out post punk dub. Seasonal sleigh bells and obvious krautrock influences abound on ‘Christmas in Cologne’ while ‘Maybe Tomorrow’ is Air meets Phil Spector on a beach at sunset. ‘Warehouse Rock’ is a dubby acid track that follows on from where 2017 track ‘Shut Up Ya Dub!’ left off, but with a more experimental approach that found the artist limiting himself to a 303, drum machine, dub effects and samples. If King Tubby were to release on Acid Trax, this is how it would sound. Shorter tracks ‘Spring Blues’ and ‘The Adult Section’ were originally made for a modern library music side project and are brilliantly suspensory pieces of lush electronics, yawning chords and gentle rhythms that empty your mind of any tension.

This is a storied album that traverses different musical worlds with style and skill. Some are old, some are new, but they add up to a long player that is both fascinating and timeless.

The Kempe Stone Portal

Neon Secrets

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SSS Podcast #536 : Pepe del Noche

There was a strange hypnotic quality to the sound which rumbled between the distant walls of the great cave. They were in the belly of the beast, deep beneath layers of rock which had stood firm and tall for centuries. It had been a long, weary walk to get this far but now they were here it all seemed rather worth it. The drums had begun to bang and bounce from room to room, there were kick's by two, snare's by two and tom's by two. Soon the roar of the band would echo and meander all the way to the core of the earth itself. 

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Hey, world of internet. This is a mix by lovely Sleeptwitch, a lover of oldschool sounds, psychedelic LED color shows, amazing flower bouquets and nasty raves. You can find Sleeptwitch on Soundcloud @kickslikeasleeptwitch and on IG @sleep.twitch. For this episode the artist themselves wrote a little cute blurb for you: 

"Do you want a hug? Dive in this mellow mixtape with me. It contains a lot of puffy dreams, soft 80s textures and messages from the stars. A dash of post punk, trip-hop and some breaks are also on board. Look after yourself, float through life and space.  It isn`t always linear."

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Playlist Mutant Disco Radio Show by Leri Ahel #388 - Guest Mix Billy Bogus

Welcome to Italian DJ, producer's and one of the founders of Pizzico Records, Billy Bogus' “recap” of released and unreleased music from these last two studio years. Of course this is not all, there's plenty of music to be released in the near future although you can get the idea of the creative recipes Bogus constantly draws from soundtracks, downtempo, cosmic music, funk and electro, which are definitely the core of his production; surprisingly some Vapor Wave is in the air as well. Enjoy the trip. 

Social media links:

https://www.facebook.com/billybogusjunk
https://billybogus.tumblr.com
https://www.instagram.com/billy_bogus
https://soundcloud.com/billy-bogus

Leri Ahel Mix

01. The Detroit Escalator Company - Force (Musique Pour La Danse Promo)
02. Terror/Cactus & GUAZÚ - Cueva (ABI LEAN Rework) (Earthly Measures)
03. Museum Of No Art - Textile Trance (spell by Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh) (Séance Centre)
04. The Threshold HouseBoys Choir Peter - Intimations Of Spring (Musique Pour La Danse Promo)		
05. Pink Skull - New Orgo (original) (Beachcoma Recordings Promo)
06. Concret & Mijo - Le Campane (Rollover Milano Records)
07. Neil Landstrumm - 80 Clicks Of Your Hand (Discs Of The World Promo)
08. Exhausted Modern - Regular Wacko (Veyl)
09. Justin Jay - We've Been Hacked (Fantastic Voyage)
10. Nico Note - Orizzonti Perfetti (New Interplanetary Melodies/Kuro Jam Recordings)
11. A-Tweed - Cyanobacteria (SABI)

Billy Bogus mix

01. Billy Bogus & Federico Bologna - Yor (Screaming Cockatiel)
02. R¥ALTO - Trocadero (Illuminated Paths)
03. The Caribbean House - Lost in Persia pt. II (Unreleased)
04. Billy Bogus & Federico Bologna - Bernardo (Screaming Cockatiel)
05. Billy Bogus - Necula (Pigmaliao Remix)(Pizzico Records)
06. Billy Bogus & Max Paparella - Tensione Casio (Pizzico Records)
07. Billy Bogus & Max Paparella - Mistero Mecca (Pizzico Records)
08. Billy Bogus - The Precinct (The Caribbean House Remix) (Pizzico Records)
09. Bardamu - Japanese Toys (The Caribbean House Remix) (Emerald & Doreen)
10. Luca Mazzieri - Nico (The Caribbean House - Instrumental Remix) Unreleased
11. Billy Bogus - SHE (unreleased)
12. R¥ALTO - Effluvia (Illuminated Paths)
13. Billy Bogus & Max Paparella - Agguato Caraibi (Pizzico Records)
14. Billy Bogus & Max Paparella - L’escavatore di New York (Pizzico Records)

Airing dates:

Monday January 24th @ Radio Roža 9 PM CET (Croatia)
Tuesday January 25th @ Radio Student 10.30 PM CET (Croatia)
Friday January 28th @ Kanal 103 9 PM CET (North Macedonia)
Friday January 28th @ Radio Aparat 10 PM CET (Serbia)
Saturday January 29th @ KLFM 00 AM CET (Croatia)
Sunday January 30th @ Dinamo FM (Turkey)

Mutant Disco Radio Show By Leri Ahel #388 - Guest Mix Billy Bogus

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Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @janvdlugttsepo & @smokescreen_rtm

RRFM • Realising Stuff w/ Tsepo & Froses • 09-03-2022

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Cameroonian father, Ukrainien mother, blessed with an innate swoop of energy and trained as classical, modern, hip-hop and salsa dancer: when analyzing the instaurations of William Kouam Djoko one can only conclude that the Amsterdam based artist is blessed with an enviable framework for a prosperous career in music. His vibrant appearance shows he’s an entertainer par excellence; Djoko is able to grab the attention of his audience instantly thanks to an unbridled onstage enthusiasm. In the 30th edition of the Dekmantel Podcast, Djoko demonstrates his versatility and unstoppable love for rhythm with a percussion-soked mix that will shake up your day.

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Intergalactic Gary is a Dutch DJ and producer who has many miles on his DJ clock. He first started plying his trade on the raw West Coast of the Netherlands back in the early nineties, where he would rock squat parties and amaze club crowds with his widescreen sets. Ever since then he has been a key player in the Dutch scene, is part of cult crew The Parallax Corporation and is never far away from a pirate radio station. As well as this, nowadays he is a regular on the European circuit at places like Panorama Bar and has long been a Dekmantel favourite.  A real mix specialist who has put out countless official compilations over the years, Gary is behind the next podcast, which is a 3,5 hour live recording, for us and it is a typically well formed affair that takes us deep into his world.  

With more than a hint of the cosmic atmospheres you would expect of someone called Intergalactic Gary, his selection is a dark, moody one full of broken disco and whacked out electro. Shades of new wave, Italo and synth pop also colour the grooves he lays down, and the cumulative effect is an absorbing, slightly unsettling ride through fierce textures, prickly percussive patterns and otherworldly atmospheres. 

Dekmantel Podcast 031 - Intergalactic Gary

This black bird has been recorded in front my house by myself

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On January 19 2018, I played all night long on Concrete's amazing WOODFLOOR. 

It was an epic 8 hour adventure, probably my favorite DJ experience in a club.

I have almost 7 hours recorded, but Soundcloud does not love long sets so here is part 1 of 2, the first half of the night. 

No edits to the recording, no mastering, just the set as it is. 

I hope you'll have as much fun listening to this as I had playing it! If you like the set, please go ahead and like it / share it.

Once again, a huge thanks to the crowd, it was the perfect mix of friends, fans and randoms, energy levels were high and I had some really uplifting interactions with the dancers! And a shout out to Brice for the invitation and to the whole team at Concrete.

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