For our final mix of a relentlessly difficult year we can think of no greater duo to see us into a new, hopefully brighter one than Time Is Away.

https://www.factmag.com/2021/12/27/fact-mix-840-time-is-away/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 840: Time Is Away (Dec '21)

@omunit b2b @simonexodusscott recorded live at the weekly downtempo psychedelic chillout event @clubcosmos in Leeds, UK.
This was following the excellent Om Unit (Acid Dub Studies Live) set and Simon Scott on the warm up 
https://soundcloud.com/simonexodusscott/simon-scott-live-club-cosmos-19th-march-23

Om Unit B2B Simon Scott @ Club Cosmos, Leeds (19/03/23)

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2024/truancy-volume-326-404-eros/

Soundcloud: @404eros

A slick snapshot into the rich and often overlooked world of Memphis rap from London based diggers, DJs and music archivists, 404 Eros. The mix serves as an audio accompaniment to their latest project, a zine showcasing the visual artwork of Memphis rap tapes.

Music from Playa G, Pretty Tony & 38 Slug, Gangsta Pat, Lil Noid , Eightball, MJG and more.

Their zine exploring the artwork of Memphis rap is available now here:  https://404eros.bandcamp.com/merch/memphis-hip-hop-album-covers

Access the download on our Patreon. No tracklist for this one but if any listeners would like to help put one together please leave a comment on the Soundcloud link with your finds and we will compile. Your support helps cover all our costs, allows us to now pay our guests and allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform. patreon.com/truants

404 Eros

Truancy Volume 326: 404 Eros

Some sounds I was actually looking for when I once went to dig at Fat Cat in the 90's, but they noticed my German accent and interrogated me about Frankfurt Techno instead.

0032 - Cellar Dwellers

Dusk + Blackdown make their debut at The Lot Radio ahead of Offwrlds 3 yr anniversary at Earthly Delights. Expect a power hour of UKG and rolling bass as they go back to back with Introspekt and Kellen303. 

https://www.instagram.com/sage_introspekt
https://www.instagram.com/kellen303
https://www.instagram.com/blackdownkeysound

https://www.soundcloud.com/kellen303



OFFWRLD with Dusk + Blackdown, Introspekt and Kellen303 @ The Lot Radio 05-10-2025

DJ Plead - 19 May 2025

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

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eXoWorld II (part 1)

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

This was the set I recorded for the 2nd edition of Club Quarantäne in April 2020, an initiative raising funds for the following organisations - Berlin Collective Action, Reach LA, Casa 1, BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100), The Trussel Trust, Viva Con Agua and Sea Watch.

Club Quarantäne

Spinning wax since '89

Events
@outlookfestival - Croatia
@dimensionsfestival - Croatia
@clubcosmos - Leeds
Subdub - Leeds
Exodus - Leeds
Dancehall Science - Leeds
Future Daze - Leeds
Amado - Leeds

email : dubexodus@gmail.com

Om Unit B2B Simon Scott @ Club Cosmos, Leeds (19/03/23)

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