soundcloud.com/ruoho
https://www.discogs.com/fr/label/43535-Defchild-Productions

De'fchild Productions - Bad Man Dub Mixtape (2005)

@nueen steps up on Barcelona's @balmat_cat label with ten tracks of ambient and downtempo music with an autumnal Balearic feel

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-nueen-let-me-be-gone-while

Diagrams of Thought

Premiere: Nueen ‘Let Me Be Gone For A While’

Heat wave

The legend Stinky Jim blessed us with this epoc Dub workout for the 2024 Boomarm Family Album. 
Out now on Bandcamp.

FAMILY ALBUM 2024

Stinky Jim - Lie in King

Originally released on vinyl 12", this four-tracker entitled Afternoon Delighting draws conceptual and lyrical inspiration from the "Chanson d'Après-midi" by Charles Baudelaire (and others from the collection Les Fleurs du Mal), each piece ruminates on the myriad shades of grey between the poles of bitter & sweet, friendship & enmity, sacred & profane love.

Showcasing his affection for dub-influenced production and inter-wreathed textural deployments, Ruoho Ruotsi uses these elements as a compositional base upon he builds and intertwines an assortment of sonic leitmotifs, invoking on one hand the imagery of wistfulness and bygone intimacy and on the other a capricious and whimsical pneuma.

Sweet Bits

This track is a 10-minute-version (Soundcloud limit) of the original on "Miðpunkts Útgáfurnar (the Centerpiece Versions)". Grab the full length album on Bandcamp, esp. for the 16 & 20 minute long-playing tracks.

Description:
Fogged up Tendernob rhapsodies in an unctuous Seocho-Gu dive. Pendulous, vaporous tapestries lurch through a Pacific rim hinterland. Elasticated ama-tremolos palpitate on repeat-one. Billowing indigo moods erupt into sumptuous, sidewinding derangements, then repose into gurgling, glacial meltwater.

May the journey continue to be the reward. Headphone listening recommended, you know, for the sonic details.

Credits & Ethics Statement → This work, based around a Mango Drive style dub chord + vocal leitmotif, is 100% hand-{written/played}, recorded and arranged by Ruoho Ruotsi using NI Reaktor, Ableton Live, a DR-40X and an unrivaled, guitar-pedalboard dubstation.

Mastered by Cem Oral @ Jammin Masters | Berlin
Words & album photograph by Ruoho Ruotsi

Torfbær Version

To celebrate the highly anticipated Sabres of Paradise album reissues, we're ecstatic to bring the iconic sounds of the Sabresonic club night to Stranger Than Paradise for one night only on
Wednesday 6th August from 7pm til midnight.

On the night we'll be treated to DJ sets from the band's Jagz Kooner, alongside Sabresonic regulars Alex Knight and Sherman at the Conrols.

An Evening with Sabres of Paradise @ Stranger Than Paradise Records | 06/08/2025

Samples from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ian2z4mxGZM&ab_channel=SWANS

Monologue

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles

ZamZam is proud to present a long-awaited 7” from Portland pillar Gulls AKA Jesse Munro Johnson.  Johnson is known the world over as label boss of Boomarm Nation, one of the jewels of underground Cascadian sound.  The Boomarm aesthetic is one of experimental brilliance, sound system music from outer worlds and inner dimensions, responsible for many heads’ first exposure to artists such as El Mahdy Jr and Iskeletor.  

A&R moves aside, some of the most unique and memorable moments in the Boomarm catalog are Gulls’ own.  In a scene full of copycats strong on presets but weak on voice, Johnson is a producer that has fully digested many influences to create a truly unique sound.  Deploying hardware, software, live instrumentation and desk-as-instrument, Gulls knows his history and the present moment but stays focused on manifesting his saturated, distorted out sound from way in.  

Water Creature is a 110 bpm beast of fuzzed bassline, panned toms, 80s claps, syncopated snares, shimmering, distorted synth melody and insistent rave-ish stabs. Dubbed & delayed guitar figures recall West Africa without resorting to ethnographic forgery or facile sampling.  An enveloping, mesmerizing, neck-snapping journey through shades of dancehall and dub techno that will demand replays, lingering in the psyche long after the runout groove.

On the flip Gulls delights as band leader of the Gulls Rhythm Force, a real-time ensemble of horns, percussion and electronics deployed in the service of the same simmering, shimmering Gulls aesthetic.  A steady 140 bpm 4/4 kick pulse anchors a hallucinogenic world of ghosting skanks, a static, hazy motif that feels like double and triple exposed silver-gelatin prints, clear images giving way to abstract grain. Mirage-like guitar, smearing trumpet and bubbling keys float in and out of focus, emerging from a haze of pink distortion and purple reverb, only to be subsumed in the thick atmospheres and overlapping echo trails once more.

Released mid-April, 2016. Limited to 600 copies for the world. No digital, no repress. Design & screen print by Polygon Press.

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Gulls "Water Creature" b/w Gulls Rhythm Force "Message to Rogg" ZamZam 37 7" vinyl rip

Multicoloured blasts of undulating, unstable tapestries, ricocheting Dancehall mutations over reverbed-out dread techno bassline warps

Raised on a diet of  1970s Afrobeat, Jùjú music & genre-defying Black American pop, Ruoho's music draws upon the visceral aesthetics of dub, techno, garage & impractical melodic leitmotifs from experimental electro-acoustics, fusing them into imaginative new exhilarations, sometimes 4-on-the-floor, other times Avant-dubwise or ambient. His music has been described by some as “vaporous”, “aching and expansive” & “a wicked dub abstraction”.

Ruoho won an international BBC Radio 1 remix competition, reshaping Steve Reich's seminal piece “Music for 18 Musicians” & has released 12" vinyl records on numerous boutique labels like Unfulfillment (Montréal), Zero G Sounds (Boston), Thoughtless Music (Toronto), de'fchild productions (San Francisco), Adjunct Digital (Los Angeles), Skor Records (Los Angeles), Auralism (San Francisco) & Creaked Records (Switzerland). He has performed live at the Winter Music Conference (Miami), Decibel Festival (Seattle) as well as numerous underground venues across North America.

Sweet Bits

Ruoho

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