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TemeT avec Less-O invite Lolo Batten - 14 Avril 2024

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A rare club mix from the ever-evolving artist, with 90 minutes of shadowy, atmospheric pressure.

Music's therapeutic value is often linked to relaxation—gongs, singing bowls and the like. Dense passages of foggy droning and eerie static aren't traditionally considered restorative, but Laurel Halo makes a pretty good case for it.

The Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based musician's abstract, often improvised productions are heavy on sound design and emotional climax. Driven by atmosphere rather than rhythm, they push listeners to grapple with their innermost insecurities, fears and dreams. "I'm lucky my music has helped people through crises," Halo once told Discwoman. It's easy to see why.

Since her 2010 debut King Felix, Halo has built a stunningly diverse catalogue of classically-informed records. A multi-instrumentalist—piano, violin, guitar, keys—her sharpest instrument is arrangement. Inspired by the surrealism of Italo Calvino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, her releases, from Atlas to Behind The Green Door, unfold with slow-burning narrative and dense emotional weight. Her soundworlds are layered and labyrinthine—an architectonic space where self-reflection happens almost by force.

Even in the club, the sought-after composer excels in immersion. Her sets extend the expressionist palette of her records, trading traditional rhythm for tension, space and surprise. It’s no wonder she takes a genre-agnostic approach to the dance floor—her deep roots in freeform radio began at WCBN-FM in Michigan, followed by Berlin Community Radio, Rinse FM, and now a regular show on NTS.

RA.992 stitches foggy ambient loops, propulsive techno, mutant percussion and heady left turns with care. Tracks from DJ Rush, Octave One and Eddie Fowlkes nod to her Midwestern heritage, balanced out by deeper, psychedelic fare from the likes of Polygonia and Cousin. It's the mark of an artist revealing both deep curiosity and a precise hand as a selector. Rare, indeed.

@laurelhalo

Find the full interview at ra.co/podcast/992

RA.992 Laurel Halo

Cozi head softi, live at last year's Draaimolen Festival. 

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Outsiders: Cozi w/ softi (live at Draaimolen Festival) @ Kiosk Radio 19.07.2025

"The context:
I am alone. I am found. I died alone. I never thought I’d be found. I am overwhelmed by memories of a dystopian existence on a collapsing planet where evil took over and subsumed good. All of the kindness evaporated and was swallowed by greed. Memories of my past life occlude my consciousness causing confusion between modes of time like a mirage. Is it the past, present, or future? I can no longer tell.

A journey through being:
Confronted by the pain of knowing but trying to exist and embrace being in the world. Did I give up too quickly? Did I fail to change reality? What did I sacrifice in order to function and live a worldly existence like everyone around me? Blinded by hedonism, the collapsing of the mind and soul into the throws of desire left me empty. I gave up. I lost myself. I returned to the comfort of despair. It’s throbbing. To live without hope is to live in despair. Was there a reprieve from it all? Distractions, pleasure, and attachments turned into a vicious cycle of yearning and loss. Accepting impermanence with a half-open heart. It never got better. It just got worse. Functioning with an ever-growing sense of doom. And now I’m here. Alone. All I have are my memories. But existing in confusion from when these memories took place. Introspection with escapism outside of time. The vicious interplay between existence and non-existence. I am left with nothing."

Opening for Rrose at Smartbar, Chicago in June utilizing 4 CDJs and a V10 mixer.

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Shanti has made textured waves in Chicago’s techno scene with her curation of dark, sinister, and ethereal soundscapes. Music has always been a means of coping with the otherness and hybridity Shanti experienced throughout her life. She has been deeply moved by the transcendent ability of music to express concepts, states of consciousness, and conflicting emotions. Shanti’s sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition and illustrate an intentional trajectory through combining and cultivating surreal, atmospheric, and haunting sounds.

Enamored by the liminal dynamics of sound, she cohosts Otherworldly Ambiguity with Scum.ee –an experience that is centered around the phenomenon of existing in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories. She is also a member of techno collective Research & Development and hosts a monthly radio show, “Liminal Radio” on WIIT 88.9 FM featuring thoughtful artists at the core of Chicago’s underground music scene. Shanti has had the privilege of warming up and closing out dancefloors for incredibly inspirational artists such as Rrose, DJ Nobu, Ø [Phase], Aurora Halal, Mozhgan, Lady Starlight, Black Light Smoke, Esther Dune, Zenker Brothers, Noncompliant, Xtin, and more. She has had the immense pleasure of conjuring spirits at Chicago’s most beloved clubs such as Smartbar, Smoke & Mirrors, Podlasie Club, and several underground gatherings.

Experiencing music outside of the confines of a club or the underground is extremely important to Shanti as she had initially discovered her favorite artists through online podcasts and radio. The universalizability of podcasts and radio enable music to be experienced by more humans situated in different contexts. This is why she has contributed to many notable online mix series and radio channels. Her mixes have been featured on The Black Lodge Radio, SutroFM, Mutant Radio, PPRZ, Death Decay & Magic, Braid Records, Low Visibility, Dance All Day, and m50’s etc radio among other podcasts and shows. This past year, Shanti has expanded her surreal storytelling beyond Chicago by playing in Amsterdam, LA, Detroit and notable Midwest festivals such as Minnesota’s The Great Beyond and Madison’s Musique Électronique. This Halloween, she will be playing at Chicago’s notoriously dark music festival, Sanctum.

Distant Signals 084: Shanti

the 11th entry in our series come from a dear friend and label regular, Toronto based musician and DJ - @ciel_dj

Words from the artist :

"little sounds in huge expansive spaces"

This mix was my musical extrapolation of this quote. As I put together the tracks in the mix, the idea of small sounds in big spaces became more metaphysical, as a metaphor for memory and nostalgia. Small, seemingly insignificant events in our past can expand in significance over time, informed by our experiences later on in life, and with our emotions acting as a tool of reverberation, extending their presence in our lives far past their time of occurrence. What begun as a process of selecting tracks that quite literally feature "small sounds in big spaces" soon morphed into a dig into my distant past, to nearly 20 years ago when I first started learning to DJ. I pulled from the mnml tracks that had an important influence on my formative years, their impact can still be heard in the contemporary tracks I play today, all of them bouncing next to each other in this nearly 2hr musical collage.

naffcast011 ⦾  *̣̥☆·͙̥‧‧̩̥·‧•̥̩̥͙‧·‧̩̥˟͙ Ciel ˟͙‧̩̥·‧•̥̩̥͙‧·‧̩̥‧·͙̥̣☆*̣̥

@no_sir in the basement on July 25th, 2025.

No Sir Kismet July 2025

https://www.instagram.com/daniel__rincon


NAP @ The Lot Radio 08-27-2025

3 hour set opening The Grove on Saturday night at Sustain-Release Year Eleven. thank you for listening :) 


tracklist:
Gigi - Abay
Translippers - Sun Temple
Blu - Midnight Bazaar
SUBSET - Decoded
Burland - Me So Love Ya (feat. Adotey Johnson)
African Head Charge - Hold Some More
Kondi Band - Yeanoh (Powe'hande Binga'dbe)
No Sir - Even The Flowers
Afrobuddha - Zone (drum mix)
Powder - Busy Port (Original Mix)
5ive - Planet Be
Daniel Haaksman, Paul St.Hilaire, Mad Professor - City Life  (Mad Professor Dub)
Sub Basics - Fluctuate (Original Mix)
Nga Tae - Whanau Puhi (Paddy Free Dub)
deep fried dub - Crispy Circuits
Sard & Anabasine - Frank Jasmine (unreleased)
Katiusha - The Sellout
DJ Hedoni$t - Untitled #5
Tamburi Neri, Off The Meds - Bolle di Dolore (Off The Meds remix)
Lurka - Signal
Appleblim - Wah Tin
KROTONE - Mr Law Man
Bandulu - Jahquarius
Deep Fried Dub - Tectonic Dubplate
Dapashu? - smokebreak (unreleased)
Instinct - Apache (x 0113)
breakcheck - Bicycle Kick
Kreggo - Bass Finger Villain
Mantra - Locked In, Locked On
DJ Distance - Dark Crystal
RSD - Recall
Sub Basics - Lift Off
deep fried dub - Subterranean Kastles
Commodo x Gantz - 89! Gloom
indigenous resistance - Free west Papua / Two Thousand Seasons Dub
IR: Indigenous Resistance & UR Underground Resistance - Krikati: Power Outage
Gary Martin - Mambo Elektro
Oprofessionell - Pull Up (bound 2 meet the taxman mix)
Bakongo + Scuba - Over Again (Hassan Abou Alam Percussive Tool)
Sputnik One, EMBY, Honeydrip - Sputnik One & EMBY - Supa Natural (Honeydrip & Spud Breaks Mix)
Om Unit - Righteousness (Original Mix)
Earl Grey - Wiretap
Breaka - Solaria
Lewis James - Kit 5000
Train To Eltanin + Dj Iodosan - F1 - 4 * Use Only
Austen - Medulla
Trancemaster - Blue Shost
Schacke - Paraphilic Love Map
Andy Martin - Codex Borgues
Katiusha - Intend
Adiel & Tamburi Neri - Silenzio
Dubrunner - Destination Unknown

zi! @ Sustain-Release Year Eleven

DRIFT PHONK - INSTRUMENTAL BEATS - FREEDL - CCBY

Midnight Rev – Drift Phonk Instrumental Beats

End-of-days club music.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=718

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