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Nightmares On Wax  -  African Pirates

Here's a new edit I did of this very groovy track of Labi Siffre. 
The original track has 2 parts but I only kept the first one for this short edit.
Some kind of summer vibes here again...
I hope you'll enjoy it!

C.

Free download : https://civilianmusique.toneden.io/spotlight/i-got-the-civilian-modern-edition-free-dl
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/civilianmusique


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I Got The (Civilian Modern Edition) [Free DL]

Detroit Electro royalty DJ Stingray, recorded live from Babrarella's on Saturday night. As you'd expect it's a white-knuckle ride through breakneck BPM's, with Sherard expertly twisting and turning the ship. A rare live recording of a true master at work.

@djstingrayofficial

DJ Stingray - Live From Dimensions 23'

MNMT Label Showcase presents Northallsen Records mixed by Aleja Sanchez (@djalejasanchez)

Northallsen Records is an electronic music label founded in Bogotá, Colombia in 2016 by Aleja Sanchez.

The label's sound embraces the realms of hypnotism and explores the fusion between organic soundscapes, experimental and acoustic elements, with the powerful load of techno music, revealing a sonic narrative that flows between the mysticism of ancestral cultures and the spiritual power of nature.

In order to build the concept, far away from trying to emulate a sound, the label curation is focused on artists with their own identity and particular voice, with a foundation into their musical and artistic proposals. Recent releases have featured the likes of Oscar Mulero, Deepbass, Reggy van Oers, Magna Pia, Polygonia, Tekra, !nertia, Psyk, Laertes, Iori and founder Aleja Sanchez.

The label is intended to keep and highlight the deepness and beauty of techno and electronic music since Northallsen considers music as a tool to help bring harmony and peace in the middle of the tragic war-related situation we all are facing currently around the world.

TRACKLIST

NTS032-Martin Goodwin-Descent
NTS035-Sqeef - Equilibrium Point
NTS029-Svarog - Decepticons (Alderaan Remix)
NTS046-Reggy Van Oers & Aleja Sanchez - Estado de Empatía
NTSAL004-Tekra-Ybbob
NTSRAI001-Reggy van Oers-Flexible Morality
NTSRAI001-Oscar Mulero - Form of Subsistence
NTS019-JustLocal - Persistence
NTSRAI002-Tekra - Iridecence
NTS028-Infinity (CRO) - Space drone (Sandra Mosh remix)
NTS-041-Sqeef - Flickering Lights
NTSRAI002-Aleja Sanchez--Frozen eyes
NTSLTD003-CHPTR - Apodictic Certitude
NTSAL004-Tekra-Skogafoss
NTS041-Sqeef - Instanton
NTSLTD001-Aleja Sanchez-Caelum
NTSRAI001-Deepbass-Sietch
NTS046-Reggy Van Oers & Aleja Sanchez - Respiración Circular
NTSLTD003-Oscar Mulero - Self Determination
NTSRAI003-Psyk - Yugen
NTS035-Sqeef & Strom (UA) - Disturbed Motion
NTSLTD002-Aleja Sanchez & Dino Sabatini-El Resplandor de los Ciervos
NTSRAI003-Inertia - El Respiro de la Tierra
NTS025-Tekra - Eudaimonia
NTS046-Reggy Van Oers & Aleja Sanchez - El Mito del Alma

FOLLOW:

https://northallsenrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/northallsenrecords
https://www.instagram.com/northallsenrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/northallsenrecords

https://soundcloud.com/djalejasanchez
https://www.instagram.com/alejasanchezofficial
https://www.facebook.com/AlejaSanchezOfficial

MNMT Label Showcase :  Northallsen Records

DASCO is a hurricane force with recent roots in Berlin, active for the past decade and packing as strong a punch today as she ever has. That’s as true of her music as it is her persona. She has the kind of rare, contagious energy that’s capable of setting dancefloors ablaze: animated, celebratory and full of joie de vivre. As DJ, she draws from the wells of Chicago house and UR, as much as 90s UK rave: dispatching rhythms from the booths at Tresor, Panorama Bar, RSO, Bristol’s Motion and many more. As producer, she’s released records on the likes of Shall Not Fade and pushed her own vision via her recently launched Bisexuality Exists imprint (2022). Catchy name and it serves a purpose. Through her music, DASCO wants to lift people up, that includes people like herself who identify as bisexual and see a frequent tendency towards bi erasure: ‘With the label, I would like to show the world that music - like life - is rarely ever black or white.’ The label’s first release was the acid influenced Get High With Me, featuring her own vocals and a slew of punchy 90s beats - an attempt to bottle the feeling of dancefloor rapture that washes over a crowd every time she plays. She’s here again spreading love and positive vibes for Bassiani Podcast 201. An irresistibly dancy studio mix, an hour of poker-hot tunes for late hour dreamers from this incomparable musical talent.

@dj-dasco

Bassiani invites DASCO / Podcast #201

Intricately woven ambient.

Download: https://xlr8r.com/mp3/download-bvdub-inquiri-please-let-go-and-let-me-hold-you/

Support the album on Bandcamp: https://bvdub.bandcamp.com/album/destroyesterday

Destroyesterday.

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Download: bvdub & Inquiri - Please Let Go and Let Me Hold You

Following on from their recent EP on Halcyon Veil, Bapari comes through with bass-heavy club heat and taps into the emotive, textural depth at the centre of their craft. Play this one loud.

Check out the tracklist on crackaudio: https://crackm.ag/49Naev1
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Crack Mix 561: Bapari

FAUZIA is an artist of many moods. The UK talent moves from IDM to soul on her NTS Radio residency, while her club DJ sets reveal her love for '90s-style breaks, electro and bass-heavy sounds. In the studio, she explores her softer side through self-released homespun dub and ambient jungle.

In recent years, she's gravitated towards live performances. Her gossamer vocals, one of her strongest suits, cuts through live instrumentation like a hummingbird in agile flight. In 2020, the London-based talent told Mixmag that she was done being categorised as a "dance music" artist—and so far, she's succeeded. While she incorporates clubby touchstones into her work, there's a deep level of cross-genre knowledge and blending at play.

FAUZIA's RA podcast makes that clear. Free of any four-to-the-floor music, it moves from experimental jazz to orchestral melodies to R&B ballads for a thoughtful and introspective journey full of her own unreleased music that points towards her newer interest in composition. This is music to be felt, so let your guard down and let it wash over you.

@FAUZIA

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/926

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RA.926 FAUZIA

FAUZIA (@djfauzia) is an artist who is always evolving. The UK DJ, producer and live act first broke through as a DJ who played fast music be it techno, electro, IDM or bass-heavy breaks. Her famous NTS show has always shown a different side, where anything from soul to jazz can be called upon to tell a story. As a producer since 2020, she has tended to mine a more emotive side with releases that explore dub, ambient and jungle. She has also done pop collabs with Kelela and sings ever more on her own material. Basically, she is anything but easy to categorise, and instead works in many different worlds with equal style and skill.

For this week's mix, FAUZIA focuses on the dance floor with a thrilling 90-minute selection. The scene is first set with some escapist ambience, deep and beatless jungle and spine-tingling vocals but then some serious breakbeats arrive. They come thick and fast and take on many forms from heavy and apocalyptic to blissed out and astra. FAUZIA's own voice occasionally arrives to lend them a personal, intimate quality while the mix grows faster and more futuristic. It's a showcase that's as brilliant in taste as it is in technique.

Dekmantel Podcast 478 - FAUZIA

The producer best known as Huerco S. accompanies One Day, our record of the year, with two hours of minimal and dub introspections.

This summer, Kansas-raised DJ and producer Brian Leeds released One Day under his revived Loidis alias. Enamoured with the restrained, loopy sounds of early '00s dance music, the album’s eight tracks linger in the air, luxuriating in dubbed-out chords, swung beats and sub vibrations. It's our favourite record of 2024 for a reason. 

It's a sound he's coined, in his typically teasing fashion, "dub mnml emo tech." All winks aside, it’s no wonder One Day became the soothing balm we all needed. In a scene overwhelmed by hard and fast trends, the softer—and Leeds might argue, more sincere—stylings of minimal and dub techno enjoyed a welcome second wind. 

Not only was One Day one of our favourites of the year (more on that this week), but it also inspired us to break our usual no-repeats rule, inviting Leeds back to the RA Podcast under a different alias after his 2019 turn as Huerco S. 

"The prevailing trends in dance music are more and more maximalist," Leeds noted. "I missed restraint, subtlety, and sensuality." Clocking in at just under two hours, RA.965 embodies that ethos in spades.

@huerco_s

Read more at ra.co/podcast/965

RA.965 Loidis

A wintry collage from one of 2024's breakout stars.

As far as crossover electronic success goes, Barry Can't Swim's 2024 scorecard would take some beating. His singles have racked up hundreds of millions of streams, he bagged a Mercury Prize nomination and has the range to both pack out festivals as a DJ and sell out tours worldwide with a string-accented live show. 

Barely 12 months on from the release of debut album "When Will We Land?", it's fair to say Josh Mannie is one of the most in-demand artists working in dance and electronic music right now, with a follow-up LP nearly done, he says.

For RA.968, he pulls in the complete opposite direction from any of that. Sure, there are nods to Mark Leckey and late-night jazz haunts throughout his catalogue, and the ruminative clouds drifting across his signature golden-hour glow do suggest an artist with a sharp grasp on meteorological melancholy. But a beatless collage featuring Suso Sáiz, Slow Attack Ensemble and Lorenzo Senni? It's a surprise, and a welcome one at that.

Speckled with exclusive airings of brand-new ambient material, Barry Can't Swim's RA Podcast charts a path from This Mortal Coil to Ryuichi Sakamoto, with a detour through some Linkwood and Anthony Naples deep cuts we've not heard for a good while. (He even includes a Stars of the Lid favourite which namechecks Fulham's home ground, an act of mid-table grace for the diehard Everton fan).

RA.968 has the crackle of a frosty night walk set to tape—a holiday gift from one of the most popular acts in the game. 'Tis the season.

@barrycantswim

Read more at ra.co/podcast/968

RA.968 Barry Can't Swim

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

Part two of RA.996 comes from a modern-day house luminary. 

As part of our countdown to RA.1000, a milestone in the 24-year history of RA's weekly mix series, we're switching up the usual format. The next few editions will pair two acts who compliment each other's strengths, offering a fresh take on a particular community, scene or style.

This week, we're zeroing in on two names who fly the flag high for old-school, US  house—a foundational pillar of the electronic underground. The first half comes from Ron Trent, which you can read more about here. 

On the B-side is Ash Lauryn. Hailing from Detroit, she's a modern-day house savant. Her comprehensive understanding of the genre's history—knowledge gained from the Detroit greats who that inspired her—and her own inimitable blend of old-world soul meets new-school grooves make her a force to be reckoned with. 

A former RA contributor, Lauryn keeps it <i>real</i>, whether in the booth or beyond. A role model to a new generation of DJs, she can just as easily be found teaching workshops at Underground Music Academy in Detroit or sharing tricks of the trade in the green room at some of the best clubs in the world.

An unwavering champion of Black dance music, the Atlanta resident makes it a point to play as much Black American music as possible, as she told us in her 2019 podcast. Not much has changed since then. Her contribution to RA.996 spans favourites like Larry Heard, Mood II Swing, Byron The Aquarius, Moodymann, Ron Trent and plenty of Detroit heavy-hitters.

Listened to together, both mixes are a powerful snapshot of house's timeless elegance and, most importantly, understated yet innately euphoric joy.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/998

RA.996 Ash Lauryn

Part two of RA.999: two NYC Downlow favourites go back-to-back for the first time with a jubilant homage to classic house.

The RA Podcast launched 19 years ago in 2006, making it one of the world's longest-running online mix series. As we gear up to celebrate the 1,000th episode, RA.999 lands with five mixes across five days with a cohort of artists who've left a singular mark on electronic music over the past few decades. The chemistry and legacy of these duos make for something very special—and worthy of such a huge milestone.

First up was 1morning and Regal86 with a live recording from New York's Bossa Nova. Next up? We move to NYC Downlow, and who better to capture Glastonbury's beloved queer utopia than Prosumer and Peach, going back-to-back for the first time.

If house is your thing, then Prosumer and Peach going one-for-one on the decks is nothing short of a treat. With Glastonbury still just about in the rearview mirror, this mix captures the spirit of NYC Downlow. If you're familiar, you'll know this means steamy euphoria all-night long, sweat dripping from the ceiling and an intoxicating feeling in the humid air.

And Prosumer is a true Downlow darling—a treasured custodian and storyteller of dance music who delivered his first RA Podcast way back in 2007. "If a record doesn't move me emotionally or physically, I won't play it out," he said at the time, befitting of the impeccable curation and irresistible body groove that became his trademarks. He is, in the words of the Johnny Dangerous track in the mix, the "King of Clubs."

For Peach, RA.999 marks a full-circle moment: Prosumer's 2019 closing set in the Downlow is one of her all-time Glastonbury memories. Since her first RA Podcast in 2021, the London-based artist has only grown more in-demand, with sets that typically traverse the house and techno lexicon—and occasionally R&B—with a distinctly peppy energy. "Neither of us are afraid to go deep," she said about playing with Prosumer. "We just had fun with it."

@ohpeach
@prosumer
Read the full interview at ra.co/podcast/1006

RA.999 Prosumer & Peach

LTJ - I Dont Want This Groove To Ever Ends

NTS Radio - FAUZIA b2b Ikonika & Scratcha DVA 25th July 2018

Bonobo - Days To Come (feat. Bajka)

NTS Radio - FAUZIA 14th December 2018

NTS Radio - FAUZIA 4th January 2019

Read the feature: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3431

Lift LDN - FAUZIA

NTS Radio -  XTC w/ FAUZIA & SHERELLE 15th May 2019

Crack Mix 297 – FAUZIA

"I wanted to do something a but different so I decided to string together a mix of tracks and edits I’ve made in the last couple months. Still a work in progress but I thought it’d be nice to get out of my comfort zone. I want to work on my production this year so I thought this would be a good exercise to do. I think it’s quite representative of me, it’s ultimately a collection of sounds across the spectrum. Almost didn’t do this as I didn’t think it was good enough but my friends forced me to see it through! I’m glad I did though." - @djfauzia

Tracks 100% FAUZIA
Read Q&A http://discwoman.com/mixes/fauzia

DISCWOMAN 87 x FAUZIA

Here's a treat for you: over three hours of vinyl only low-slung techno, electro and more, served up by two of the best DJs in the game.

RA Live: 2019 - Craig Richards b2b Nicolas Lutz, Love International, Croatia

UK rave sounds for two hours with FOUR HEADS. Spacey breaks and fast drums for the full 120, featuring tracks from Oral Deep, Jon Sable, Vince Watson, and more.

FOUR HEADS - September 2020

Birds sat in for Fade to Zaire's October show and brought a bag of experimental post punk, chugging EBM and squelchy acid house. Deep and dark selections from Uncanny Valley, Neud Photo and more.

Birds - October 2020

Holloway was live for a full 120 with a selection of bass heavy UKG and bumpy 2-step in the first hour, in the second hour he’s playing early jungle tracks ranging from ‘92-95. Classic tracks from Photek, Ray Keith and DJ SS all coming up.

Holloway - October 2020

was v fun to go down to the new strange brew spot and play some tunes on the opening streamed night alongside a load of Bristol legends (Danielle and Shanti pictured!) was playing pretty frantic trying to squeeze loads of new bits into the hour. did a tracklist too for once which you can peep below.

hope you enjoy and make sure you get down to Strange Brew and ofc lock into @Noodsradio.

Addison Groove - Burning Spear
Duppy Gun Production - Gran A Day
Ikonika - Body Servants
Tookie - The Hotspot
???
Seven Orbits - Mantis (Zaliva D Remix)
BZMC - WURAL
Badsista - VAI FDP
3Phaz - Drill
Bala Bala Boyz - Sieta
Ronan - Crystal Viewer
Laksa - Sen On One
Icey Love - Icey Like A Hockey Puck (??? Edit)
Mark Pritchard - Rakatak
upsammy - Reality Paces The Platform
Fibre Optixxx - Clairvoyant
Chevel - Crush
Kabuki - Shimmer
Suns Of Arqa - Acid Bends (Muslimgauze Remix)
OMAR - SABE
Dengue Dengue Dengue - Yangol
Studio Bros - Durante
Drum Thing - Bazo
Ase Manual - Shakti (Neana Remix)
Paul St. Hilaire & Rhauder - Skank (Cobblestone Jazz Reconstruction)
Ingrate - Yourself

Live at Strange Brew, Bristol, UK

Batu @ Strange Brew x Noods (20th August 2020)

Tribute to Marlena Shaw.
Credits 
Vocals: Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto Live 

RA.926 FAUZIA

Resident Advisor