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Pugilist is a Melbourne based producer & DJ, releasing multi genre bass music on labels like 3024, Rupture and Modern Hypnosis. Enjoy!

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MIST008 - Various Artists - Fountain of Reason
Release Date: October 29, 2024 (12” & Digital)
Buy: https://surethingrec.bandcamp.com/album/fountain-of-reason

A1. Vardae - Pahlevan
A2. Kick21 - Bright Interface
A3. Porter Brook - Three Things You Can Watch Forever
B1. Ayū - Light & Reflection
B2. Atàvic - Subconscious
B3. Tammo Hesselink & DYL - Accent Award
B4. Plebeian – Gowanus

Sure Thing continues its label excursion into unwound, blurred-edge territory with Fountain of Reason, a 12” compilation of kaleidoscopic, tempo-spanning tracks aimed squarely at the far reaches of the dance floor.

Mastered by Neel at Enisslab
Artwork by Sofia Hjortberg

MIST008 - V/A - Fountain of Reason

Bambounou & Priori - C.R.U.S.H. - Bambe - BAMBE005

buy: https://bambounouofficial.bandcamp.com/album/c-r-u-s-h
distribution via rush hour: https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/crush-2

a1. C.R.U.S.H.
a2. Bubble Mechanics
b1. Polyester Mood
b2. Dub Affectif

A secret love letter concerning the new Bambounou and @Priori-ties collaboration has been delivered...

“Darling,

I’ve been thinking about how beautifully our love has come together, like a song crafted with care and passion. It reminds me of a melody written by Jeremy Guindo and Francis Latreille, every moment we share feels like it was meant to be, perfectly aligned, just like their music.

From the moment we met, you’ve been my crush, the one who makes my heart race and my world brighter. Our love is full of tenderness and understanding, much like the way each song was carefully mixed at Jump Source Studios. Every word we say, every look we exchange, blends together to create something truly special.

Like a song polished by Nik Kozub, our love has grown stronger and clearer with time, resonating in my heart with pure, unwavering devotion. And just like an art piece, our journey together has been beautifully designed, every detail carefully shaped by the hands of fate, much like the work of Dimitri Erhard and Janic Fotsch.
You are my melody, my rhythm, my everything. With you, life is a beautiful serenade, and I can’t wait to keep writing it. I love you more than words can express, and I always will.

Yours forever,

Crush"

Bambounou & Priori - C.R.U.S.H. [BAMBE005]

Dubstep-tech hybrids from one of 2024's most forward-thinking breakouts.

Born in France to English parents, Beatrice M. is a product of two environments. And like many third culture kids, this lends the Rinse France resident and Bait label head a knack for seeing the realm of possibility beyond arbitrary borders and binaries.

Beatrice M. is a part of a wider cohort of artists spearheading an elastic take on dubstep: take Carré and Introspekt in the US, EMA in Dublin and Mia Koden in London, to name a few. Collectively, they are not only pushing greater representation and diversity, but ensuring a broader palette of sounds find home within the genre's renaissance.

Where dubstep got trapped down a brostep cul-de-sac in the early 2010s, 2020s already seems to be all about a charming phrase Beatrice M. employs: siblingstep. Their RA Podcast, a "full femme, non-binary, trans productions set," is testament to that.

RA.961 finds Beatrice M. embracing the softer, more intimate edges of their sonic world. There's cuts from Grace Jones and rRoxymore, a fresh tech-house venture under the alias B. McQueen and heaps of siblingstep. All in, it's an hour of past reverberations, present rhythms and glimmers of future horizons.

@beatricemasters

Read more at ra.co/podcast/961

RA.961 Beatrice M.

Laksa's (@laksauk) contribution to techno is as vital as it is hard to define. The London-based Bristolian never sits still in one stylistic niche and is as likely to ramp up the techno as he is slow then down. His meticulously designed grooves have come on tasteful labels like Hessle Audio, Timedance and Ilian Tape, always with a focus on dance floor dynamics. Further creative outlets come in the form of the re:lax label, club night and NTS show he runs with with re:ni. Most recently he has cooked up the WONDA EP which includes a vocal collaboration with Nyege Nyege-affiliated Phelimuncasi

The podcast he serves up for us is, in his own words, "a mix of hype and hypnotism" and it includes some tasty unreleased music from the man himself as well as the likes of Ma Sha, Siu Mata, Erik Luebs and Crespi Drum Syndicate. The 90 minutes are as wide-ranging as you might expect with bass-heavy grooves, trance-inducing synths, broken techno workouts and tribal rhythmic explorations all making sure both head and body are catered for in style. 

Dekmantel Podcast 481 - Laksa

Recorded live from @RefugeWorldwide - this show inspired by Mist, all things deep, atmospheric and spacious, with some warmth and soul -- dub techno, deep house, dub-wise tracks.

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #12 Mist @refugeworldwide

The Dekmantel favourite kicks off 2025 in an exploratory mood.

Since her breakout in 2017, Thessa Thorsing has built an enviable CV: a debut release on Nous'klaer Audio, an album on Dekmantel and a residency at former Amsterdam clubbing institution De School. Over these years, she's honed a singular sound, navigating wild variations in tempo and mood that dance along the edges of techno, IDM and drum & bass (we could list many more, but you know the drill).

Her creative arc has seen her delve into ever more abstract concepts, such as 2024's ambient-leaning album, Strange Meridians, exploring the interplay between synthetic and natural textures through drumless experimentations. As she explained in her 2018 RA Breaking Through profile, "I just want to hear the weirdness in the music."

Thorsing's RA Podcast showcases exactly why she's one of the most  consistently adventurous names in dance music. Describing it as "a mix with a narrative," the former landscape architecture student flexes her ability to build sonic environments, beginning in a landscape more akin to a swamp than a club.

Across 90 minutes, she moves through numerous layered terrains, exploring everything from Skee Mask's lucid, beatless techno to the piercing acid of Mike Parker. Unfolding with a restless sense of curiosity, RA.970 captures an artist challenging the boundaries of electronic music, ever upward.

@upsammy

Read more at ra.co/podcast/970

RA.970 upsammy

Milan-based Piezo (@piezopz) sits at the heart of the current club sounds. He has long had an obsession with sound system music and that defines what he does today: mutant and beguiling club tracks with meticulous sound design and thrilling energy, heavy low ends and a real dose of UK influence from d&b to garage, grime and techno. He kicked off the year by dropping his genre-busting Ecstatic Nostalgia EP on our Dekmantel-UFO sub-label and now returns with a podcast that is just as fresh.

It's a futuristic mix of bleeping machines and lurching rhythms with bright synth designs and deep space ambience. Over the course of 90 minutes, the pace picks up and you're whisked along a variety of rhythms from broken to dubby, head spinning to minimal. It feels utterly spontaneous but is also a fully coherent mix from this restless innovator. 

Dekmantel Mix 483 - Piezo

Today we open another page of our Herbarium mix series. It's DJ Winggold's turn to show us his musical translation of the plant he picked. He created a colourful story full of energy and dynamics. It's definitely a mix which urges you to move your body while listening, what a banger.

DJ Winggold selected the Kudzu Vine (Pueraria Montana) for his mix, let's lean about his thoughts behind this:
By its nature, the kudzu vine is a relentless plant that is infamous for its ability to invade its surroundings and constantly be growing. Given the way it bulldozes through its environment, overrunning everything in its path, It’s seen as a negative thing, but I wanted to turn it on its head - what if the leaf could represent love and the way we need to constantly feed love in our lives, allowing it to unrelentingly flow in order to be truly fulfilled? Given the wriggly, unrelenting energy of the kudzu vines, I wanted to play wiggly, unpredictable tunes that fan out in multiple directions.

With this starting point, the mix inadvertently became a mix of distinct parts - there’s a point where the energy shifts and gets murkier, representing negative energy fighting against the warmth of love, with the kudzu leaves starting to gnarl, tangle and creep out further. From there on out, the battle intensifies with the mix getting more frantic and frenzied, with this representing the way love needs to be fought for on a daily basis.

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About DJ Winggold
DJ Winggold is one of the key minds behind Unbound Events, a London-based events platform and monthly radio show carving out a space for minorities in the underground scene through the medium of forward-facing music. 

As an artist, he uses Afrofuturism as a guiding principle to direct his creative pursuits, focusing on the intersection between race, identity, history and culture. Sonically speaking, this manifests through the fusion of lysergic, hypnotic techno with sub-bass heavy global sounds inspired by and from across the hardcore continuum. This comes together to create something respecting the black roots of electronic music whilst remaining firmly forward-facing and unique.

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Follow DJ Winggold
Insta - https://www.instagram.com/winggold_unbound/
Unbound Insta - https://www.instagram.com/unboundevents2.0/
Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/unboundevents

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Artwork by @polygonia

Herbarium No 28 - DJ Winggold - Pueraria Montana

A brief insight into music I’ve recently bought or been listening to in lockdown.
https://buymusic.club/list/slacker-slacker-threads-mix-2206
Space Afrika - dairyday4 (Not on Label)
Joey Anderson - My Dream (Avenue 66)
Syz - 1E (Not on Label)
Upsammy - Melt in My Heated Hands (Dekmantel)
Flaty - Elevation (Soda Gong)
Joey Anderson - Heaven Help Us (Avenue 66)
Afrodeutsche - I Know Not What I Do (River Rapid)
AceMo - Where They At Ft. John FM (Not on Label)
Klein Zage - Tip Me Baby One More Time (Facta Re-Tip) (Orphan Records)
Bakongo - Bopster (Roka Kicks & Snares)
Leonce - Vesper (Morph Tracks)
Swordman Kitala, K-Lone - Malanga Ja (Blip Discs)
rRoxymore - bRINGTHEbRAVE (Timedance)
Realitycheck - Dem (Renascence)
Alex Falk - Lift (Allergy Season)
Wata Igarashi - Question and Answer (Bunker NY)
Karima F - Random Loop From Doepfer Site (Schloss)
Anz - Helps Your Two Hips Move (2 B Real)
Reptant - Phasic Reflex (Kalahari Oyster Cult)
Russel Ellington Langston Butler - I haven’t been ok for a long time (Not on label)
Space Afrika - where is (Not on label)

Slacker Threads Mix - 26 June 2020

If ya wanna get 2 me holla @ slackertracks@gmail.com
One Half of @pseudonymrecords