Skif Tafari - Antique Clock

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🛒 https://allmythoughts.lnk.to/HYDRA
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After a decade of shaping their deeply emotive sound and becoming mainstays of Ireland's club and festival circuit with standout performances at AVA Festival, All Together Now, and Electric Picnic, Dublin-based duo Long Island Sound celebrates a pivotal milestone with their first major album, Hydra, on Seb Wildblood's esteemed label, all my thoughts. Known for their broad emotional palette and sophisticated sound design, Rob Roche and Tim Nolan have also built a reputation for their captivating DJ sets, gaining acclaim with performances in internationally renowned clubs such as London’s fabric and Berlin’s Watergate. With coverage from leading music publications like Resident Advisor, Mixmag and DJ Mag praising their work, they explore esoteric themes throughout this stunning body of work, channeling a range of powerful emotions that echo through each track.

Hydra bursts into life with “As One,” a bold opener that sets a solid, commanding tone with metallic slicing arps and swirling, dynamic textures. Next, “Anchor” lays down a clear sonic intention for the album, drawing listeners into a beautifully constructed state of flux, driven by rising chords and mounting tension that keeps you suspended in its grasp.

In “Full Effect,” the duo introduces a hypnotic, ping-ponging synth line that pans beautifully across the soundscape, with swathes of pads and sheets of noise creating a layered foundation for a delicate plucking melody and ethereal vocals. Further vocal prominence emerges in the anthemic “Terra Nova,” a piece filled with atmospheric detail where tastefully washed-out vocals evoke an arcane yet hopeful feeling.

Roche and Nolan’s carefully crafted sound shines in the cinematic interlude “Adrenaline,” where CMI-style synth vocal one-shots fizz alongside softly detuned flutters. “Warsaw” follows, standing out as an infectious, earworm-laden cut where synthesized vocals meld seamlessly with an analogue bass, and a brooding synth hook dances over rattling percussion.

“Searching” takes a turn into a shimmering synth line that cascades into layers of emotive pads, building anticipation before the distinctive vocal emerges. “Timelapse” brings a silky flange skipping over a precise kick and snare, building to a crescendo of resonant synths, vocals, and detuned effects. Tugging at deeper emotional strings, "Curved Air" maintains the album's weight with a blissful pad circling a glimmering melody.

Balancing deep emotional resonance with dancefloor energy, the vocal-led “Mira” closes out the album, delicately navigating quick shifts from melancholia to euphoria. As Hydra unfolds, it opens a deeply introspective realm filled with aqueous sound design and thoughtfully defined melodies—a true testament to Long Island Sound’s mastery of their craft.

Marking the release of Hydra, Long Island Sound will perform their debut live show in Dublin, with more dates soon to follow, aiming to bring the album’s rich textures into a live setting.

Tracklist: 

1 As One
2 Anchor
3 Full Effect
4 Terra Nova
5 Adrenaline
6 Warsaw
7 Timelapse
8 Searching
9 Curved Air
10 Mira

PREMIERE: Long Island Sound - Full Effect [All My Thoughts]

Hermetics returns with Vertigo of Eternity, which sees the Colombian producer serving up a debut album even warmer, deeper, richer, and finer than the very best cocoa his home nation has to offer. Released 29th November, after a string of stunning EPs, Vertigo of Eternity is his most eclectic, diverse and incredible work to date.

Back in 2018, Santiago Nino (AKA Hermetics) participated in an Ayahuasca ceremony, (a spiritual, shamanic ritual designed to take you on a journey into a higher state of consciousness.) The experience was life changing. Hermetics explains more: “In the most intense moment of the journey, after the near-complete dissolution of my ego and my identity, I encountered an overwhelming, radiant, and dizzying spiral that defies description. The freedom, beauty, and terror were so intense that in that moment, I found solace in being a limited human, in a body, on this planet.”

Years later, Hermetics listened to an interview with Dutch philosopher and LSD experimenter Bernando Kastrup, who after a similar experience, coined the term Vertigo of Eternity.

Buy: https://othernessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vertigo-of-eternity-2

PREMIERE: Hermetics - Vertigo Of Eternity [Otherness]

As a special New Year’s gift, we’re thrilled to present Radio Plato Compilation Vol. 2 – a musical collection featuring contributions from our homies, including show producers and close friends of Radio Plato.

The result? A surprisingly cohesive compilation, rooted in house and branching out into acid, broken beats, deep, and atmospheric sounds. It’s infused with a festive spirit that invites you into a world of daydreaming and inspiration – like the warm glow of candlelight on a winter night. In our opinion, it’s the perfect soundtrack to ring in the New Year with a touch of musical magic.

Happy New Year, and enjoy the journey!

The compilation features: Funkyjaws, Four Walls, Schmoltz, ZAL, lwptch, loukii, Iner, Patapenka, Domsun, Anton Anishchanka, Kolasau, Myownchoir, Ilya Semashkevich, Aslamin

Myownchoir - Like Dizz

Yansima - Take Top

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Skif Tafari - Kaleidoscope

The third release on Dubrunner's Menace label finds the soundsystem stalwart continuing to refine his distinctively modern club twist on dub sensibilities. Drawing elements of techno, trance, amapiano and dubstep into his lean and mean digi-dub workouts, Blackheart arrives as a laser-focused selection pitched at forward-facing DJs working the dance at peak time.

For all the weight powering the likes of 'Protocol', Dubrunner's distinctive style is rooted in minimalism. The tangible breathing room in the mix leaves plenty of space for every subtle synth flourish and spring reverb splash to shine while maintaining a seductive tension throughout, all the better to hold the dancefloor energy on a tight leash.

There's an even stronger sense of pressure bubbling under the surface on 'Blackheart' thanks to the looming low-end which purrs away underneath the crooked-but-driving drums, leaving the lead lines to add an emotive flourish as a foil to the introspective dub chords which shimmer through the track's latter stages.

'Bad Mind' is a precision-sculpted throw down shaped out by delicate percussive intrigue and snaking groove, leaning further into a dub techno palette to set the mood and offset by flickers of auto tuned vocals that nod to amapiano.

To round the EP off without easing up on sheer soundsystem impact, 'Night Shift' carries some of Dubrunner's most assured production work to date. The ramp up for the drop is undeniable, letting the bass snarl and the drums roll without losing that sharply-rendered restraint we've come to expect from one of the most inventive producers in the broad expanse of contemporary bass music. 

Dubrunner - Bad Mind

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Contrebande - Shiloh reviens

Contrebande is a duo of producers and DJs from Toulouse composed of Nano and Plombier. Navigating between Disco, House and Garage, their sets are a crossroads of influences carried by an overflowing energy behind the decks. Prolific producers in 2024, the duo has an independent EP, a release on the cluster label and 2 edits on the TheDisco Express label.

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Skif Tafari or his favourite tempo!
Over the years of his extensive experience as a DJ, he has continuously immersed himself into countless music scenarios and sound combinations which at some point resulted in willingness to come up with and bring to life his own ideas. This decision became fundamental in launching Taras Kohanovskyi’s project named Skif Tafari. Taras is not only a DJ but also a vinyl enthusiast with an impressive collection of top-notch music of various genres that has been formed for more than two decades. It varies from acid house, breakbeat, late 80’s / early 90’s jungle to contemporary sounding of deep house, microhouse, breaks, dub techno, minimal breakbeat, ragga dub, 2step and d’n’b. 
During the soundcheck at one of the major music events, Taras once heard an old-school breakbeat piece which stirred his nostalgic feelings and brought him back to the basics. Dusting off his old records and a collection of music samples, he got down to writing new tracks as SKiF TAFARi. Owing to many years of experience and reconsidered look at his favourite rhythms, SKiF TAFARi’s tracks gained high-quality sounding which is highly recognizable and sometimes ironic.

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