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Sundays are for… Eugenia

The Bologna based artist, and DJ had struck an auditory nerve when her entry for the aptly named, ‘This Is Not… A Mix’ series played through my home speakers. Her choices were eclectic, deep, and full of emotion. Showcasing her musical knowledge and storytelling ability. With this in mind, we’re incredibly happy to premiere another mix, for another Sunday. Eugenia has done it again, and we couldn’t be happier! 

Fantastic Man - Antiboudi
Tinenet - Come Out Too Foam Bells
Voyeur - Philae & Rosetta 
K-lone - Honey 
Lynx - Call…(Jan Jalinek Remix)
CiM - Soft Rains
Leif - Taraxacum 
Telepopmusik - Dance Me
Dwig & Deer - Organic
Ahu - Ascosmic
Cloudface - w w I 
Vid - Cusaufara (SAM reshape)
Raul Lovisioni & Francesco Messina -Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo
Soela - The Same Things, the Same thoughts
Tilman Ehrhorn - Path
Move D - Soap Bubbles
Ex-terrestrial - Everybody Dreams
Perko - Edie


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Sundays are for... Eugenia

The Smoker's Lounge - Show 35
Broadcasting every 2 weeks on Orbital Radio
Sunday 1pm - 3pm AEST
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1st hour mixed by RT
2nd hour mixed by special guest Alex Dowsing

Tracklist:

1st hour mixed by RT

Num Title - Artist - Label

1	S.U.S. - Placebo - Sdban Records
2	Spirit C (Interlude) - Telemakus - 	Radio Juicy
3	Slipher - BluntOne & csnts - Radio Juicy
4	Afuera - Draugh	Artist Republik
5	General Factotum - bernard moss - pork recordings
6	Let Em Take It (dub) - Dubblestandart / Ari Up / Lee Perry - Finetunes
7	The Great Aerial Ocean - Afternoons In Stereo - Kraak
8	Edge Hill - Groove Armada - Jive Electro
9	Guilty Gear ☪ - Devon Hendryx - self-released
10	Valley Of The Dub - Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - M Records
11	Strange Times - Robohands - Village Live
12	Imagineering - Nightmares On Wax - Warp Records
13	Invisible - Cassius - Cassius Records
14	Wake Up - Soupbox - self-released
15	G.H. No Contact - Luke Force - Red Motorbike
16	It Takes A Thief - Thievery Corporation - ESL Recordings
17	Spacehub - Baaz- Office Recordings
18	Blue Lotus (Original Mix) - Fauna Flash - Compost

2nd hour mixed by special guest - Alex Dowsing

Title - Artist 

Protection (Original Mix) - Massive Attack
Going Under - Kruder & Dorfmeister 
Nunovo - Tango	
Reality Check (feat. Onemanarmy, One Be Lo & Senim) - Binary Star
Herbie Hemphill - Surprise Chef	
Thin Line - Jurassic 5	
We Must Go On - Pretty Lights							
Sign 'O' The Times (Original Mix) - Prince 					
Valley of the Dolls	- Mylo
La rue - Cortex				
Space Funk: The Journeymen - Desmond Cheese							
Cavern - Liquid Liquid
Lesson 6 (Reprise) - Jurassic 5								
The State Were In	- Chemical Brothers
96  - Mercston 
Desire - Moodymann
Undo (Instrumental) - MJ Cole
Sunworshipper - Mylo	 	
My Elastic Eye - Chemical Brothers

2nd hour guest mix by Alex Dowsing

The Smoker's Lounge - Show 35 - Orbital Radio - w guest mix by Alex Dowsing - Dec 2021

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ZG is the moniker of London based Zansika Lachhani and Grant (aka Anthony Collins, and the Tony in Frank & Tony). Their upcoming de- but-album ZG is set for a release in November and was borne out of a connection online, as Grant and Zan connected on Soundcloud, both independently vibing off each other's music and approach to their art.

Jungle Times sets the scene for the album with an atmospheric, ambient opening giving way to a wonky breakbeat and whispered vocals from Zan. It sets the tone perfectly, pitching the sound equally between London and New York.

Jungle Times

ZG - Jungle Times

For Viscera 097, we welcome a special mix from Mayurashka!

'Mayurashka is a DJ and electronic music producer based in Tokyo, Japan. She played at nightclubs and music festivals in Japan as DJ over the past decade. She also made some DJ mixes for international labels and radios such as Born Free, Animals Dancing, NTS Radio, Skylabradio, XLR8R etc. She has started producing electronic music since 2020.

In December 2021, she participated in the compilation cassette "Donne Che Corrono Coi Lupi" released by the Amsterdam label "osare editions" with two tracks. In March 2022, she released her first single "waterskipps EP" on the Japanese label "Lady Bug".

In April 2022, her work appeared in an omnibus album "ORDINARY DREAMS VOL.
2" released by an Australian label "planet trip". In August 2022 she participated in a compilation co-produced by Osàre! Editions and XLR8R. More releases are planned in the future.'

In the words of Mayurashka "This mix was a record-only mix that I recorded shortly before I entered the Corona disaster. I had planned to upload it somewhere, but the mood of Corona and my mood had put it in storage."

Sit back and enjoy this cosmic journey.

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Mayurashka | 097

Lipelis' Low Budget Family invites Vilnius based DJ Pletnev. 

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Taffel 23.03.23 - Pavel Plastikk, Rulefinn

Alex Albrecht returns with Aurora - a pristine followup to his Blue Caves transmission via Scissor and Thread in 2018. 

The Melbourne based composer and sound designer Albrecht has leans into his predilection for woozy, affecting melodies intertwined with skittering drums and snaking grooves, and Aurora brings that to the fore with six tracks of shimmering beauty. 

Spring Orchard opens the record, effortlessly merging deeply buried keys with washes of dreamlike synths, and dubby effects. 
Wildflower Walk is a melancholic affair, underpinned with a restless groove. 
The title track Aurora treads a similar path, but with a more driving approach, while an interplay between piano, guitar, and synths drenched in reverb offer a warm, enveloping atmosphere. 


Aurora is also shared here as a remix by Roza Terenzi, who entirely reworks the track with her signature club ready grooves . 

Kennett River exhibits a kind of smudged, cinematic hip hop feel, while closing track Morning Piazza showcases Albrecht’s sense of drama and pacing, producing a sublime ending to this deeply affecting collection.

Aurora

Alex Albrecht - Aurora

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Soela releases the first single from her upcoming album Dark Portrait on Scissor & Thread - Even If I Ask You Stay. 

Russian born Berlin based Elina Shorokhova has made a transition from pianist and vocalist into electronic music, balancing her ear for melody and musicality.

With this single, we get to see a very vulnerable side of Soela; "Even If I Ask You To Stay has several meanings for me. The most direct one is about an abusive relationship where you're already openly asking the person to leave, but are so attached that you want them to stay. The second meaning is with my struggle with depression. My experience is that it takes a lot of inner strength to heal from depression, and sometimes you're still powerless against the disease. So it stays with you again and again”.
 
The track itself merges a skittering rhythm, gorgeously melancholic piano and string sections with Soela's vocals that cut deep - resulting in a beautifully realized and powerful composition

Even If I Ask You To Stay

Soela - Even If I Ask You To Stay

Artist: @soelaela
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Soela is the DJ and production alias of Elina Shorokhova, a Russia-born Berlin-based experienced pianist and vocalist who has made a hugely impactful transition into electronic music.

Having released material on such labels as Kompakt, Dial, Shall Not Fade, Lost Palms, E-Beamz, Red Ember Records, Sushitech, and others, Soela joins the ranks of Scissor & Thread for this exquisite album - Dark Portrait. 

The album opens in a typically understated manner with Unsuitable - a melancholic trip-hop adjacent track that sets the tone for the next 8 pieces. As Soela explains, “I was dealing with some very complex feelings, so I came up with this album, which helped me not to despair, to work on myself, to grow internally, and to start listening to myself. It helped me to keep sane when my country invaded Ukraine with a full scale war. It absolutely broke my heart, and music was one of my main salvations.” 

This complex mix of emotions plays out across the album with tracks that utilize her beautiful musicality (Through the Windows feat. Francis Harris and Philipp Priebe, Drowning feat. Module One) and ear for details with skittering beats, ambient soundscapes (Spirits, Lost In The Fog) and lose-yourself dancefloor moments such as the collaboration with Lawrence on February Is Not Going To Be Forever. The title track Dark Portrait combines dubby elements with affecting pads and melodic touches, while the lead single Even If I Ask You Stay delves into multiple feelings around escaping toxic situations, and battling depression. It features a powerful vocal from Soela supported by a deeply affecting arrangement. The closing track The Darkest Hour Before Sunrise brings a sense of hope and light, balancing subdued keys and strings with ethereal tones and atmospheres

Dark Portrait

Soela - Unsuitable

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DaRand Land, who hails from the post industrial confines of Buffalo, NY was one of the leading figures of Deep4Life, a cult label known for submersible oriented, yet dancefloor-friendly productions. With ambient synth-driven tones and heavy funk basslines being at the center of his sound, DaRand Land’s music often evokes an introspective quality, without losing its groove fundamental.

Following on from a number of releases on Pulp, Downbeat, Urban Imagery and the “Discover You” EP on Scissor & Thread, here is Nature Of Reality, the single taken from DaRand Land’s second album Wander Being, released on Scissor & Thread in late November 2024. 





“In particular, the single, The Nature of Reality”, says DaRand, “was written to convey a sense of what it feels like to be in a state of suspended animation. There is a natural tension introduced via the organic, swirling pad progression juxtaposed against endless vocal echoes and the low-end groove of the bassline. Thematically, I wanted to carry this forward through the entirety of the album.”

The Nature Of Reality

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DaRand Land - The Nature Of Reality

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DaRand Land, who hails from the post industrial confines of Buffalo, NY was one of the leading figures of Deep4Life, a cult label known for submersible oriented, yet dancefloor-friendly productions. With ambient synth-driven tones and heavy funk basslines being at the center of his sound, DaRand Land’s music often evokes an introspective quality, without losing its groove fundamental. DaRand’s works, which span decades on deep house labels such as Downbeat, Confluence and Pulp have been described as “uncompromising” and has afforded him a passionate following of listeners who seek a more emotive, thought-provoking brand of underground music.

Teaming up once again with Scissors and Thread - the perfect fit for his sound - DaRand Land drops an album full of crafty, trippy house for the heads. Wander Being contains 10 tracks on the double vinyl release with a pair of additional tracks for the digital release. The vibe is deep and sleek, with a rough, bumping edge. The title track sets the tone, a smattering of percussion accompanying a thick, round kick drum and Rhodes chords, giving off a classic Detroit feel. Tracks like Turn to The Music ramp up the energy somewhat, but overall the tracks sit in the sweet spot between dancefloor burners and soulful, jazzy, deep cuts. 

Noticeable is the space given to each element across the tracks - the hi-hats sparkle, the snare snaps, and the basslines roll and rumble. Add to this the magic melodic flourishes provided by the pads and synths, reminiscent of the late Mike Huckaby in places, made this whole album a thoughtful, joyful experience.

„The genesis for the Wander Being LP”, says DaRand “was a desire to return to the essence of some of my original Deep4Life productions. How was this accomplished? Principally, through the exclusive use of hardware components, minimalist arrangement, and a minds-eye approach to source the musical elements. In particular, the single, The Nature of Reality was written to convey a sense of what it feels like to be in a state of suspended animation. There is a natural tension introduced via the organic, swirling pad progression juxtaposed against endless vocal echoes and the low-end groove of the bassline. Thematically, I wanted to carry this forward through the entirety of the album.

Wander Being

Jazz Intend

DaRand Land - Jazz Intend

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Ars Obscura

Release date: 03.10.25

Written & Produced by Addison
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Addison

Grounded

A chilled out ambient vibe on this which gently floats into the ether with some nice groves and gentle vocals running through it 

Midnight Static

For this new blend, we welcome the british duo https://soundcloud.com/tokyofantasy. They're definitely not the most established diggers or big touring djs you all already know, therefore we are glad to put a shine on them with this awesome fresh mix. Based in London, Nervous Fergus & Cosmic Cam hosts their own podcast series, promote cool parties here and there and are little "protégés" of UK pillars  Secret Sundaze. They also made a mix for the awesome series "Ace & Tate" from Amsterdam just like us and many artists we respect. Nuff said, let the music talks !

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Scissor & Thread is cut from a different cloth than your average dance imprint.

ZG - Jungle Times

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