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The Smoker's Lounge - Show 39
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 Lazy Suzan 

Tracklist:

1st hour mixed by RT

Num   Title - Artist - Label

1	Winds of Northern Hills - Ko-Dan - Catharsis
2	Private Paradise - Space Ghost - Pacific Rhythm
3	A Real Dream - CFCF - 1080p
4	Spinning - Vienna - Radio Juicy
5	Morrow - Max I Million & E.Classic - Radio Juicy
6	Embers - Hibernation - Interchill 
7	Golden Hour - OK EG - Wax'o Paradiso
8	Storm - Rare Sillk - Emotional Rescue
9	An Unspoken Thing - Eulenspiegel - Stereoheaven
10	Jamming The Session - Poets Of Thought - Good Looking
11	Flava - Soupbox - VinylDigital
12	In Your Mind - Groove Collective - Shanachie 
13	One Beer - The Pro-Teens - College Of Knowledge Records
15	Zionsville - Khruangbin - Night Time Stories

2nd hour mixed by special guest - Lazy Suzan @ellie-may-locke

Artist - Track

Audio Lotion, Noreen - Dub Freezer
Marley Sherman - Aye Aye
Merge Of Equals - In The Blue
Groovecatcher - The Electronic Kick
Afterlife - Res Freq
Bassti - Lil skit
Cam - Love Junkee
Jaffa - bklyn bobbi
Bonus Points & Tetsuo - Malibu
Makez - Sonder
Melodiesinfonie - There Is You
ELIZA - All Night
June Marieezy - All the Other Girls
Pyko - Save My Day (DJ Python Nice Remix)
JFC - Strange New World
Beanfield - Planetary Deadlock 
Broadcast of Variants - Gobi Sundown
Fatima ft Floating Points - Cinnamon
Contours - Eyes Down
Erika de Casier - Polite
Mr. Fingers - A day in Portugal

2nd hour guest mix by Lazy Susan

The Smoker's Lounge - Show 39 - Orbital Radio - w guest mix by Lazy Suzan - Mar 2022

~ Christian S [Germany] ~

The great Christian S a.k.a. “the man with the masterplan” from Cologne is an old hand who has been djing for more than 20 years. Since the mid-90s, his flawless career has taken him all over the world, from Europe to the US. Back in time, he earned his stripes promoting parties locally and had been holding a well-deserved residency called “Lost” together with the like-minded fellow Matias Aguayo for many years. No doubt that these parties has casted a major influence on him and his current tastes both as a producer and DJ. Now, he is part of the international Cómeme crew and is regularly blessing his audience with top-notch radio shows. It’s also noteworthy that he made his first Boiler Room appearance in 2014, throwing a memorable eclectic house set you should keep getting back to when you feel uninspired. As an artist, he is this kind of wild and careful selector who tightly unearths gems from all genres, from house to techno through disco, to create a fine assortment of oddball dance music. There’s absolutely no barriers in his style, which enables him to freely express his adaptive take on house music with limitless creativity. Since the beginning, he has been supported by a wide number of promoters and clubs across the world (Panorama Bar, Salon des Amateurs, De School, etc.), honorably establishing him at the rank of top DJ.

All that being said, this is a masterful house mix brimming with propulsive and intoxicating jams that he gave us as a gift. Those intriguing and jangling melodies from Antonelli, Raphael Top Secret and Nelson Bishop are truly perfect to open the spring season under the best possible conditions.

Christian S’s latest crush: The Photographs of Harry Gruyaert

Our team’s recommendations: Do You Do (Christian S Sax Edit) [Mana All Nite], YOU [Scheinselbständig], Tannin [Permanent Vacation]

s. // @christian-s-1
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b. // www.christian-s-dance.bandcamp.com/

047 ~ plastic/vibes x Christian S 🇩🇪

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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

Lipelis' Low Budget Family invites Vilnius based DJ Pletnev. 

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In this episode of Outsider's, Opium Club goes 'Ant Bangos' festival to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The first hour belongs to V, the artistic director of both the club and the festival, who will showcase the 'Ant Bangos X' vinyl, commemorating the occasion. The other half of the episode is entrusted to Dreems, a comrade of the festival and co-founder of the Ant Bangos afterparty.

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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

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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

fka boursin is a DJ and producer out of Bristol, UK. 
Previously known as DJ Boursin, he is recognized for his deep, ambient-infused house music that explores political dimensions of clubs and identity politics.

Welcomed into the Scissor & Thread fold, fka boursin shares two cuts of deep and introspective electronic music. 

The original Listless Intertext is a hazy trip through ambient soundscapes, shuffling rhythms and half-caught conversations, drifting across a 12 minute run time that slowly evolves and shifts with time.  

"Listless Intertext is a track centred around the "failed" employment of cheap vocoder software that attempted to process explicit words and phrases across 11 minutes." says fka boursin. "Instead, the vocoder output made any words indecipherable and I was left with thematic vagueness. The final text of the track is simply a submission to its own limitations with some french thrown in."

When label bosses Frank & Tony step up for their Housebeat Dub, they keep the essential mood but introduce a thick, fat groove that works just as well in conveying the mood. 

"Our remix is a strictly dancefloor approach," says Frank, "an extended psychedelic beat rework perfect for late night, early morning vibes".


Listless Intertext (Frank & Tony's Housebeat Dub)

Mystic downtempo ambient with deep pads, soft drones, whispered chants and wide spatial depth. A quiet hypnotic journey into the realm of Inner Vibrations.

Shadows of the Sacred Flame

Are You Shimmied?

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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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