Sunday Week 47 2017

UK based record label Weapons of Desire was born on the 30th November 2017. The brain child of three friends Alex Handley, Mick Clarke and Toni Aslam. Alex and Toni first met Mick two years before when they had a couple of Auto Sound City EPs out on Mick’s long running Flight Recorder label. 

The saying “Being around the block a few times” is an understatement when you look at the recording history of them all. Playing, making and releasing music all the way back to the 80’s (even further in Mick’s case) seemed like a natural progression when talking about a potential label and the vision they had before its creation using their recording names (Iron Blu and Auto Sound City) to make the kind of music they wanted to dance to. The ethos was and still is to release tough dancefloor publications as stated in the label description "Spinning an endless cable of steel sound".

Over the years Weapons Of Desire has released vinyl as single-sided two track hand stamped records, four track EPs, a couple of six track compilations entitled Machine Funk Vol. 1 and 2, double packs and an album. The label Is also now fully integrated with regular digital releases too.

31 releases and a total of 33 different artists, Weapons of Desire has a seat firmly at the table with more chairs added for 2025. Afterall without great music, life would most certainly be a mistake



Weapons Of Desire takeover w. Timothy J. Fairplay [05.05.25]

St. Andrew - Time flies

The realm of modern music is dynamic and perpetually shifting. This show is dedicated to connecting with contemporary music, exploring a blend of unique and recognizable tones, and uncovering both the enigmatic and unrefined aspects of the musical spectrum.

www.operator-radio.com

Ernestas Sadau Presents- Masma Dream World - 12th July 2025

Torpedo ahoy! Valentin invites you to Polly's Square Dance Session. An hour of creaky energy dossier. Gather friends and foes and then dive headfirst into the gutter. Let's go for a one-legged Tanz unter Tassen.

@valentin-wedde

Metamorphosen 42 | Valentin

A long-awaited contribution from @sashazlykh — a key figure in shaping the sound of Ukrainian electronic music and a voice that continues to reach well beyond.

Known for his sharp selections and unpredictability behind the decks, Sasha has been turning heads since the early Cxema days and has been part of Kontext since day one.

They say: no Sasha — no party 
And this mix is proof

Kontext mix w/ Sasha Zlykh

Long story short - this one’s a riot.
Kadabras Trick brings groove energy, deep basslines, and that proper jackin’ fuel.
Pure gold for the heads who know. Let it ride

Andrii - Kadabra's Trick 04.08.2025

Beyond the fabled chill-out room and into the field we go...

Joe Muggs has lived and breathed 'electronic music culture' for many, many years... like a lot of us probably for more than he'd care to imagine.  From journalist and observer to active participant and curator, beyond his celebrated writing career spanning publications like The Wire, FACT, The Guardian, and his co-authorship of  Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture. Muggs has built many bridges across the worlds of the electronic and handily, for us, ambient.

Experimental, ambient, and leftfield sounds to the fore, get horizontal. Something's feeling quite full circle here.

So it is with some excitement that Joe agreed to don his ambient trousers again and step up for part 4 of the Seeds mix. "Music to Smell the Jasmine Whilst Watching for Bats in the Twilight" encapsulates what is often a poetic approach to ambient curation - clearly less about the dancefloor and more about creating an experience that enhances the environment around you.

Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/seeds-mix-4-joe-muggs-music-to-smell-the-jasmine-whilst-watching-for-bats-in-the-twilight/

@loosefm

Tracklisting: 

Dr Rod Octopus vs Kirsty Hawkshaw – Ghost Town

Cobey Sey – Eve (Anwummer)

Om Unit – Springdub Meditation

Wombo – Spyhopping

Ada – 25 or 6 to 4

Omara Portuondo – Tabu

Aswad – Ethiopian Rhapsody

Nwando Ebizie – Shadowland (In the Dreams of Others)

Muito Kaballa – Like a River

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes – Theem Prototype

Ego Ella May – The Morning Side of Love

Minnie Riperton – Minnie’s Lament

Julee Cruise – She Wold Die for Love

Ennio Morricone – Messico E Irlanda

Alice Zawadzki, Fred Thomas, Misha Mullov-Abbado – Tonada De Luna Llena

Resavoir – Sunset

Durutti Column – Grace

Scrimshire, Stac – Pep Talks

Brandee Younger – Dust (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello)

D’Angelo – Unshaken

Sabrina Bellaouel – Clémence

Bill Frisell – Sing Together Like a Family

Bobbie Gentry – Something in the Way He Moves

Frederic Galliano – Niamien Kinkeling (feat. Cissé Diamba Kanouté, Koko Ouadjah)

Underworld – Dune

Rufus Wainwright – Tiergarten (SuperMayer Lost in the Tiergarten Mix)

Talaboman – Dins el Lit (Superpitcher Remix)

FULL INTERVIEW

Seeds Mix #4: Joe Muggs' Music to Smell the Jasmine whilst watching for Bats in the Twilight

For our next instalment we draw from our own fertile waters. This time with a two hour recording from Bakk Heia resident and label partner schuttle. 

Schuttle has been a resident DJ and sporadic guest of the Bakk Heia parties since their inception. In fact he played our very first party in TWH nearly 10 years ago, at a time when the sky lights were yet to be covered and day light would filter unashamedly over the dancers as the sun rose. It came to our attention that since that set, schuttle hadn’t set forth on a solo flight, so it seemed high time for him to spread his tentacles over the closing hours. 

Through this mix schuttle channels the seething energy that is only possible during those final hours. The part timers have left, the room is totally locked in and the allure of chaos is strong. As such, it invites the dancer to delve a little deeper, perfectly navigating the dark into light. Often hypnotic and tunnelling, sometimes euphoric, sometimes explosive, but always directly from the heart. It was a truly beautiful experience to witness such a concise and coherent artistic expression from someone who understands, on a fundamental level, the power these hours can have, and what they mean to us. 

As the lights came on at 7am, there was palpable outpouring of love. The closing moments evoke that beautiful feeling of returning somewhere familiar. Wrapped together in euphoric joy.

Bakk Heia Podcast 005 - schuttle (Live from Bakk Heia @ TWH)

Live from Berlin: Cosmo Vitelli is at the studio!

Exploring the fringes betwixt indie/prog-rock-infused melodic soundscapes and daringly off-kilter electronics, French disc jockey and producer Cosmo Vitelli's name has become synonymous with deep, no-holds-barred forays into uncharted territories and full body-&-soul sonic immersion. Schooled by the sound of guitars, it’s when confronted to a 4-track tape recorder that young Cosmo experienced an epiphany, which resulted in him dabbling in production as French Touch was soaring towards worldwide popular acclaim. Released in 1998, his eponymous debut for Etienne de Crécy’s Disques Solid launched his career, soon followed by an array of extended players and remixes that established him as one of the spearheads of the French electronic scene on an international scale.
 
Taking a sharp turn back to the leftfield after a ruthless stint in the arcane world of the majors, Cosmo Vitelli created his record label I’m a Cliché in 2004. Always a step ahead of his time and contemporaries, the Frenchman’s made it his signature to scout artists on the rise - Simian Mobile Disco, Azari & III, Yuksek, Moscoman, Red Axes to name but a few - offering them bespoke support and assistance to climb the ladder towards wider recognition. In parallel to his label-running venture, Cosmo went back to the basics with Bot’Ox, his joint project with Tekel’s Julien Briffaz. Merging alternative pop harmonics with a rock sensibility of varying scale and synth-heavy precision mechanics, the duo’s graced the grooves of labels as diverse and highly regarded as DFA and DC Recordings, eventually landing a gig at the legendary Olympia in Paris.
 
Now working from his Berlin studio, Cosmo Vitelli immerses himself in the heart of the vibrant European electronic music scene. Over recent years, he has left his mark with noteworthy releases and remixes on labels such as I’m a Cliché, Edit Service, Les Disques de la Mort. Among his standout releases are the two EPs 'Holiday In Panikstrasse' on Malka Tuti. Rather than conforming to formulaic and DJ-friendly beats, Cosmo's focus is on sound, deeply immersing himself in production, working towards aesthetic unity in each release, and refining his craft with each new record. 
 
In 2020, he curated a triple-LP VA compilation entitled 'Bongo Beats & Bankruptcy: The Sound of I’m A Cliché', released during the peak of European lockdowns, before releasing another EP under his name, 'As She Rolled Another’.
 
In 2022 he finally delivered his third album, 'Medhead', featuring eight cuts, five of them with vocalist Truus de Groot from the Dutch new/no-wave outfit Plus Instruments, 'Medhead' saw Cosmo liberated from conventional confines and arbitrary labels, effortlessly traversing various genres—from slow-drip kraut to intoxicating disco, murky motel-pop, neo-kosmische, hip-hop, industrial, and revamped indie-rock elements. This was followed the next year by an album of Medhead remixes by up-and-coming and well-established producers, including Krikor, Froid Dub or Khidja's Andrei Rusu.
 
In 2024, Cosmo Vitelli will have a busy year with the release of two collaborative albums. 
'Dopamine Dreams', set for release in March, renews his creative partnership with Truus de Groot, through a full collaboration authored equally by both artists. The dream-like soundscapes, enhanced by de Groot's vocals, evoke moods reminiscent of the 70s and 80s, with a timeless, debonair, and almost sardonic attitude. The next step in Cosmo Vitelli’s focus on high production values, Dopamine Dreams invites listeners to delve into its melodic and emotional depths.
 
This will be followed in September 2024 by a brand new album created with his Bot’Ox partner in crime Julien Briffaz after the project was left on standby for almost a decade.

Cosmo Vitelli [26.08.25]

This is the first DOP mixtape, my very personal selection of music that stood the test of time.
The first track is sort of the DOP manifesto.

Listen carefully and enjoy!



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T R A C K L I S T

Family Of God — Center For The Dull
Egon Elliut — Level Up
Cabaret Voltaire — Low Cool
Herbert — Never Give Up
Peter Power & Psilosamples — Erva Dos Sonhos
Lowtec — A2 (Untitled)
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm — Wide Open
Airliner Series — 12.9 C
Mariel Ito — Life Index
Rhythm & Sound — No Partial
Donato Dozzy — Vaporware 07
Thomas Brinkmann — Margins
Afterhours — Salt On The Wound
Alice Coltrane — Krishna Krishna
Aphex Twin — Cliffs
Terence McKenna


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www.doorofperception.com

Artwork: http://bit.ly/28IZGDr

DOP Mixtape 1 — The Ideal is Unreal

[SKKB004] B1 Carlo - Teddy Westside (12"Preview)

Instinct : A Groove

After three years of existence, releasing digital music, Bosom is now ready to drop the first vinyl. For our first physical format we have decided to bring together a set of talented producers. Night Creatures, Red Meat Therapy, Max (Italy) and Kubo King are the choosen to deliver this limited and exclusive vinyl.

We have combined in this record deep-tech and minimal with some tech influences.
The sound of each producer has blended into a alluring piece. Fresh minimal grooves fitting perfectly with deep tech elements turning it into a desirable item.

Womb Looter

B1. Max (Italy) - Evolution (Original Mix)

A2. Red Meat Therapy - Under The Sheats (Original Mix)

Spirit of music Manitou this time chose mysterious artist "616" with 3 classy tracks, driving mid 1990s, with fresh oldschool -  not - oldschool, elegant and mind blowing in the same time; the B2 is an UK broken beat vibes with an incredible stunning voice, that will stay in your mind forever.

616 - MANITOU004 - B1

HOWL back on track for the autumn season with a stunningly fresh dance-floor tracks from Dj Unrefined, where raw drums and sharp organs whilst flirting together in a perfect dance with rolling voice samples. the italian duo Howl Ensemble enrich and complete the EP with a timeless Remix where the bumpy bass and restrained synth stabs supporting some minimal rhythms for a flawless groovy night.

Dj Unrefined - HOWL011.2

Sakskøbing [ˈsɑksˌkʰøˀpe̝ŋ]- the first reference to this Danish town, which name could be translated as "the city of scissors" brings us 700 years back to the Lolland Island. 
Going through the vision of the legendary Moscow based graffiti artist Geka, vintage Scandinavian aesthetics blends with the idea of unconfined culture. Label honchos Sil and Ottuga redirect this reverberating wave to their own DJ devices, putting out vinyl releases since 2016.

for booking, demos and all other inquiries please send an email to: info@sakskobing.net

[SKKB004] B1 Carlo - Teddy Westside (12"Preview)

Sakskøbing

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