Recorded live in studio from @refugeworldwide, a journey into the darkside of 2-step, garage, and proto-dubstep.

Big up the bad gyals, boys and theys!

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #9 Cape Fear: A Trip to the Darkside of UKG @refugeworldwide

Putting this mix up I recorded late 2023. A lot of the tunes in here were meant for a party that unfortunately got shut down before I hopped on the decks.

It leans into stuff what I've always wanted to play for a while: fast/slow higher pressure stuff that  folds onto itself. This time a bit more faster and relentless than usual.

Fine, but the pipes are going too

https://lyl.live/episode/busy-sign-ls-7

Thank you Elle for the invite <3

Guest mix for Elle Andrews BUͧS͛Y S͛IͥGN∀LS͛ (LYL)

Punk house and techno from a modern Midwest icon.

Every DJ has their own genesis story: a pivotal sound, a formative scene, a defining philosophy. In Kiernan Laveaux's case, her philosophy, rooted in psychedelia and experimentation, sets her apart. Inspired by Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode and New Order, she came of age in Cleveland’s acid house and queer party scenes, developing an ethos that constantly pushes dance music’s limits. Her DJ style is scrambled (in the best way), with zany tricks like scratching, creative EQing and modulation.

This approach reflects the Midwest's DIY tradition, where artists thrive in isolation and cultivate a radical disobedience, as seen in contemporaries like Eris Drew and ADAB. As Laveaux recounted in a 2023 interview with GROOVE Magazin, "Titonton Duvante once told me that being a Midwest DJ is about playing music from anywhere and making it sound like a piece of your spirit."

Spanning two and a half hours, Laveaux's RA Podcast showcases this spirit. It’s a testament to her decade-long career, blending tracks from friends and cherished memories into a transcendent mix. It’s "music to shake your hips to and decalcify your pineal gland." (For the curious, the pineal gland helps regulate your circadian rhythm.) RA.963 will make you dance and think in equal measure—a beautiful, restless and resolutely wicked journey through a singular imagination.

@kiernan-laveaux

Read more at ra.co/podcast/963

RA.963 Kiernan Laveaux

NUNCA MUDA?

For the second show of 2025, and DJ Winggold's first in the studio for a while, he links up with @sarjan-paul, one of London's best kept secrets and resident of respected party series Expert Death Club.

Two purveyors of warped, unpredictable yet lush sonics, the result is a twisty, turny show that runs the full gamut of sound yet remains wonderfully cohesive the whole way through

Unbound Riddims w/ DJ Winggold B2b Sarjan - Feb 2nd, 2025

Low speed ooze lifting through to the weekend

Trough The Oxide w/ Sarjan - 14th March 2025

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

C to the Power of X with Bake: Live @ Spirit in Glasgow - 21 April 2025

Accidental Meetings resident and Bristol-based i-sha plays on Kiosk with styles grounded in the dubwise principles of negative space, physical pressure and adventurous sonics. Playing music from labels such as AM, Somewhere Press, ANA & A Colourful Storm.

i-sha @ Kiosk Radio 16.05.2025

As we lead in to the release of his debut Samurai Music EP 'Flaming As A Cloud', Vardae takes over the Samurai Music Podcast series with a live DJ set that captures his techno infused psychedelic hypnotism at 170 perfectly.

This set was recorded at Blitz Club in Munich for the Qeone label night on 29.03.2025

https://www.instagram.com/vardae__/

Vardae - Flaming As A Cloud [SMDE50] https://vardae.bandcamp.com/album/flaming-as-a-cloud

Subscribe to the Samurai Music Official Podcast on iTunes - http://found.ee/samcast

Vardae - Samurai Music Podcast 063

inside <-> out

Resident of club night Expert Death, Netil Radio and Voices radio