Vocal sample from I'm Still Here (2010) by Casey Affleck. Quote at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1356864/quotes?item=qt1325297

holy goodness n tekno gods.   that was uplifting, mind expansive... epic.  thanks

Live recording from @lunaludmila at ZerøBpm, 23-11-2024

Luna Ludmila: ZERO BPM left a big impression on me. Together, we created something special. It was a collective journey inward—each of us drifting into our own minds, yet connected in the same moment and room.

Each track in this live set was created specifically for ZERO BPM, and experiencing it come to life in the beautiful church was truly moving.

ZERØ BPM Session - Luna Ludmila (live)

Regis and Function's first mix in over 10 years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material.

When it came time for RA to compile our Albums of the 2010s, one record with a tauntingly limited availability of 500 copies was never in doubt: Sandwell District's era-defining 'Feed-Forward'. Encompassing Karl O'Connor (Regis), Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Sandwell District had the underground in a vice grip for over a decade.

The collective imploded in 2013, with Sumner and O'Connor's relationship appearing beyond repair. And yet, an unlikely second phase is here, featuring imminent comeback LP 'End Beginnings' and their return to the RA Podcast after 16 years. In 2023, the trio of Function, Regis and Silent Servant had been performing and laying down new material before the latter's shock death last January. It's in the shadow of loss that this unique mix was forged.

Founded in 2002 as a spiritual sister to seminal Downwards, Sandwell truly began to hit its straps in the late '00s, as shadow-stalking cuts sliced through clubland orthodoxy like a switchblade. In parallel, the label's artwork—a noir recombination of Burroughs cut-ups, DIY zines and arthouse amour that Silent Servant made his own—helped fortify a movement which placed an aesthetic premium on grit, grain and sadism.

By the early 2010s, this fixation on the dark arts had utterly permeated the mood inside techno's masonic temples. Labels like Blackest Ever Black, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Avian and Modern Love were in their pomp, razorwire legends like Severed Heads and Chris & Cosey benefited from second winds, and it was briefly a jailable offence to not have a press photo in black and white. 'Feed-Forward' was the exceptional coronating statement.

RA.978 features a stack of unheard recordings from each of the trio, as well as close allies Stefanie Parnow and Tropic of Cancer, while also gathering many of Silent Servant's all-time favourite songs, including Psychic TV, Grace Jones and Galaxie 500. It's a strikingly vulnerable listen, one without many parallels on the Podcast. We're glad to run it. – Gabriel Szatan

Read more and find the tracklist here: ra.co/podcast/978
Read our new feature with Sandwell District here: https://ra.co/features/4426

RA.978 Sandwell District

“I really love to do the opening set. It's a special responsibility to take an empty room and build the vibe, to prepare the audience for the night to come, to leave them wanting more. For this edition of Samhain, I began beatless and worked through organic creepers into techno slow jams, setting up BMG to shepherd us into the psychedelic techno assault to be wrought by Wata Igarashi.” — Erika @erikadotnet


IT podcast

IT.podcast.s14e01: Erika opening Samhain XXIV

Here’s the recording of my eclectic DJ set from Friday evening at Monument Festival 2024. Played during a golden sunset on a warm, beautiful Norwegian summer night in early August, the vibe was pure magic. This set blends dubby deep house, rominimal, house, and tech house — a journey through grooves and textures tailored for that perfect transition from day to night.

Thanks to everyone who danced with me. Hope you enjoy the ride. 🌅✨

Nils Wiiburg @ Monument Festival 2024, Haven stage

Avsluta (Lucie Stepankova) moves with quiet precision, tracing the lines between ambient stillness and rhythmic motion. As a London-based sound artist, DJ, live performer, and curator, she explores the spaces where sound lingers and transforms.

Her set at Mostra Festival 2023 left a lasting impression. A seamless journey through moods and tempos, carried with effortless elegance. It felt only right to invite her to Unrush, and now here we are finally.

For this mix, Lucie dives into deeper ambient landscapes, showing the same thoughtful sensitivity that shapes her work. Over the past decade, Lucie has refined her musical voice behind the counter at Phonica Records, guiding London’s ambient and downtempo seekers most Saturdays, building connections, sharing music, and fostering community along the way.

She’s the founder of Introspective Electronics, a platform for radio shows, guest mixes, and listening events. Together with producer and DJ Alicia, she also curates Terra Obscura, an intimate club night series devoted to slower, introspective sounds.

This DJ set holds that same spirit: a quiet invitation to slow down and listen...

AVSLUTA on the web:
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/avsluta
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/introspective_electronics
Website: https://introspective-electronics.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avsluta_

UNRUSH on the web:
Bandcamp: www.unrush.bandcamp.com/
Hardwax: www.hardwax.com/label/unrush/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_unrush

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria

Tracklist:
Le Motel - A Conversation Under the Night Sky (Cuộc chuyện dưới trời đêm)
Kocho no Yume - Kakuriyo
Ameeva - Bajo la sombra del Sol
Autumn Of Communion - Interval One 
Andy Cartwright - Jade Surface
Perila - Fallin Into Space
Mick Chillage - McMurdo Blues
Endurance - Sunrise
Anasisana - Reasoning
Igor Dyachenko - Depth Camera
Zaumne - Éther
ØjeRum - Vi Hængte Vores Harper I Piletræerne For Enden Af Dalen
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2410603

095 - Unrushed by Avsluta

Full Tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-297--sandwell-district

For our latest Bleep Mix instalment, Sandwell District come through with a hefty programming of dark rollers fulfilling that promise of reinvigorated purpose they mentioned before: “Having a good time”. And with a wealth of exclusive unheard material it’s hard to refute the mission statement. Dropping straight into the cavernous environs of an unreleased Regis side Frosty Jack’s, the selection rides a restrained line building tension through a number of Nastia Reigel tracks deployed with utmost precision before upping its stride with Luke Slater’s Planetary Assault Systems and quickly landing first peak from The Wizard himself, with Jeff Mills' slamming ‘93 cut Step to Enchantment (Stringent). Taking in a track from their comrade Surgeon’s forthcoming album, as well as the simmering acid of their own tune Hidden, Sandwell District bring it back round full circle via two further unreleased reworks of heroes Meat Beat Manifesto providing a breakbeat singed rupture to close out the proceedings with the vocal snatches of MBM’s Helter Skelter summing it all up really: “It's in my brain now. This is it!”

Bleep Mix #297 - Sandwell District

A recording of Shhhhh playing on the final morning of The Labyrinth 2024, October 14th.

The Labyrinth 2024 - Shhhhh

A recording of So playing at The Labyrinth 2024 on Sunday afternoon, October 13.

The Labyrinth 2024 - So

The world COSMO creates is reminiscent of the nostalgic deep house of the 90's, yet somehow futuristic, and you lose yourself in the groove, you feel as if you have boarded a time machine from the future to the past. Enjoy this light minimalist set, which straddles the line between melancholy and exhilaration, delivered by one of Korea's leading DJs of the new generation.

COSMOが創り出す世界は90年代のノスタルジックなディープハウスを彷彿とさせながらもどこか未来的で、そのグルーヴに身を委ねていると、まるで未来から過去へ向かうタイムマシーンに搭乗しているような気分になる。韓国の新世代を代表するDJによって届けられた憂鬱と爽快感の狭間を往く、軽快なミニマルセットをお楽しみください。

rural Podcast 015 Cosmo

A recording of Sapphire Slows playing a dj/live hybrid set at The Labyrinth 2024 on Sunday morning, October 13.

The Labyrinth 2024 - Sapphire Slows (dj/live hybrid)

Ricardo Donoso [ Digitalis Recordings ] Brazil

Ricardo Donoso is a composer, percussionist, and electronic musician from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who currently lives in Boston. He is one half of the ever morphing electronic duo Perispirit and also performs solo electronic music under his own name. In addition, he composes music for film and television.

His debut solo LP 'Progress Chance' on Digitalis Recordings was released in September 2011 to critical acclaim, displaying his more recent gravitation towards more techno infused, polyrhythmic based electronic music. September 2012 will see the release of his follow up 'Assimilating the Shadow' taking his morning sound to new levels.

1.Ricardo Donoso - War of Attrition pt2 (Deterrence) 
2.Scuba Death - Receptor Antagonist (unreleased) 
3.Milton Bradley - Reality is wrong (Reality is wrong) 
4.Yellow Tears - Remnants of Humanity Bead Off Our Skin (The Cult Of Yellow Tears) 
5.KPLR - ErroRythm (unreleased) 
6.Charlatan - Codex (unreleased) 
7.Ricardo Donoso - Axiom of Choice (Deterrence) 
8.Claudio PRC - Echoes (Inner State) 
9.KFW - live at smash palace (unreleased) 
10.Redmath - Kiss (Obsolete Systems) 
11.Holy Herndon - Interlude/Movement (Movement) 
12.Ricardo Donoso - War of Attrition pt1 (Deterrence) 
13.Gabriel Fauré - I: Introit And Kyrie ( Requiem) 
14.Monolake - rebreather mix (Plumbicon Versions) 
15.Raica - Satmor (Dose) 
16.Prostitutes - Make a hole, look out (unreleased) 
17.Marble Sky - Dull hue (The Sad Return) 
18.Ehnahre - Revelation & Decline (Taming the Cannibals) 
19.Redshape - its in rain (Square) 
20.Wzrdry - Octophase Meditation 1 (Octophase Meditation EP) 
21.Pye Corner Audio - The Black Mill Video Tape (Sleep Games) 
22.Ricardo Donoso - War of Attrition pt3 (Deterrence)

www.ricardodonoso.com
http://digitalisrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/assimilating-the-shadow

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Release date // 22th November 2012

UN #24 Ricardo Donoso

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UN #24 Ricardo Donoso

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