Further information: bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-183-coldcut

Legendary duo Matt Black and Jonathan More aka Coldcut deliver a boundless career spanning Bleep mix. Since the late 1980s, their sound has morphed from cut-and-paste approaches into some of the foundations of every alternative and electronic hip-hop LP made well into the millennium. The duo’s exclusive Bleep mix is testimony to how deep their impact has been over the years, as each selection indelibly refracts from their own innovations. Actress and Floating Points are in there, as well as some ace remixes of Marie Davidson and Cinematic Orchestra, and of course, a smattering of Coldcut’s own collaborations with Bug Brand Modular and Synth Farm.

Bleep Mix #183 - Coldcut

Hexaghost

CCL (@ccl-url) has many tricks and plenty of surprises up their sleeve. London-born, US-bred but now Berlin-based, they are playful in what they play but serious about how they play it, whether that's head spinning 160bpm cut, "cowgirl-breaks or wiggle steppers." The key for this multidisciplinary artist and former New Forms festival curator is to find the similarities and differences between shades of sound and rhythm and exploit them to spellbinding effect. As a producer, they are no different and have always managed to find fresh in-between sounds on labels like Fever AM and Discwoman. 

The singular DJ steps up this week with almost two hours of pure sonic adventure. It's a perfect showcase of how they can soundtrack imaginary worlds from humid future jungles to robot dances in the sky. You'll hear rhythms you could never imagine and contort your body in impossible ways, all while admiring the dexterity of the DJ who has threaded together such a trippy trip.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 427 - CCL

A 75-minute rollercoaster through colourful, percussive and bass-heavy club music–get stuck into Aquarian recorded live from Sónar Festival 2023.

@aquarian
@sonarfestival

RA Live - 16.06.23 - Aquarian - Sónar 2023

Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO (recorded live at Open Ground) - 22 July 2024

A rare club mix from the ever-evolving artist, with 90 minutes of shadowy, atmospheric pressure.

Music's therapeutic value is often linked to relaxation—gongs, singing bowls and the like. Dense passages of foggy droning and eerie static aren't traditionally considered restorative, but Laurel Halo makes a pretty good case for it.

The Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based musician's abstract, often improvised productions are heavy on sound design and emotional climax. Driven by atmosphere rather than rhythm, they push listeners to grapple with their innermost insecurities, fears and dreams. "I'm lucky my music has helped people through crises," Halo once told Discwoman. It's easy to see why.

Since her 2010 debut King Felix, Halo has built a stunningly diverse catalogue of classically-informed records. A multi-instrumentalist—piano, violin, guitar, keys—her sharpest instrument is arrangement. Inspired by the surrealism of Italo Calvino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, her releases, from Atlas to Behind The Green Door, unfold with slow-burning narrative and dense emotional weight. Her soundworlds are layered and labyrinthine—an architectonic space where self-reflection happens almost by force.

Even in the club, the sought-after composer excels in immersion. Her sets extend the expressionist palette of her records, trading traditional rhythm for tension, space and surprise. It’s no wonder she takes a genre-agnostic approach to the dance floor—her deep roots in freeform radio began at WCBN-FM in Michigan, followed by Berlin Community Radio, Rinse FM, and now a regular show on NTS.

RA.992 stitches foggy ambient loops, propulsive techno, mutant percussion and heady left turns with care. Tracks from DJ Rush, Octave One and Eddie Fowlkes nod to her Midwestern heritage, balanced out by deeper, psychedelic fare from the likes of Polygonia and Cousin. It's the mark of an artist revealing both deep curiosity and a precise hand as a selector. Rare, indeed.

@laurelhalo

Find the full interview at ra.co/podcast/992

RA.992 Laurel Halo

Method One - City Of Ghosts [Modern Conveniences]
Alegria - Petrograd (Method One Remix) [Modern Conveniences]
Mineral - Velvet Horizon [Omni Music]
Bravil - Ocean Mist [Fokuz Recordings]
Mister Shifter - Feeling Infinite [Forthcoming Over/Shadow]
Park Shadow - Higher Realms [Metalheadz]
Akuratyde - Liminal Drift (Feat. Alegria) [Microfunk Music]
]Method One - Sylvan [Forthcoming Silent Force]
Conrad Subs - Technical Pressure Part 1 [Metalheadz]
Nectax - Passing Rain [Over/Shadow]
Method One - Moving In Circles [Modern Conveniences]
Wagz - Straight Time [Metalheadz]
Channell - Velocity [Footnotes]
Method One - Echelon [Forthcoming Silent Force]
Madcap - Hide (Seba VIP) [Soul Deep Exclusives]
Method One - Planetarium (Remix) [Modern Conveniences]
Method One - Bokeh [Modern Conveniences]

City Of Ghosts EP

Modcast Episode 026 with Method One

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-313--ehua

"This mix captures the essence of Panta Rei—a flow through time, space, and shifting emotional textures. Recorded in Ridgewood NYC on three CDJs, it traces the sounds that shaped my early years, from the quiet rhythms of the Italian countryside to the international campervan trips I took with my family, where I spent countless hours gazing out the window and imagining alternate realities, guided only by the magic of my CD player. In this intentional yet spontaneous selection, Italy’s early and mid-2000s trip-hop intertwines with current percussive rhythms, 1970s flute symphonies, regional soundscapes, and spellbinding reinterpretations of Italian and international classics that echo 1990s hip-hop, dub, experimental jazz, spoken word, downtempo and more." - Ehua

Bleep Mix #313 - Ehua

Live from The Great Beyond music festival in Minnesota on Saturday, July 26th, 2025.

Thanks to my family at Peoples Sound and the beautiful souls who come together to make the festival happen. It's my favorite weekend of the year, every year.

TGB 2025

Advanced drum and bass from an Autonomic stalwart.

RA.288 Consequence

JD Twich is one half of Optimo, the legendary Glasgow party and a label. Some time ago he launched a new imprint called Against Fascism Trax, attempt to “provoke dialogue that is fundamentally anti-racist, anti-sexist, non-homophobic, non transphobic, non-ageist and non-ableist”. This podcast is a two-hour segment of this set at Hotel Forum's Kitchen from Unsound 2019. Before the performance, JD Twitch said of his Unsound set: “This will be the first ever presentation of an Against Fascism Trax DJ set, an experiment in whether music can convey an intent non verbally.” Starting the set and threaded throughout is the Italian protest song "Bella ciao", which originated in the late 19th century as a working-class anthem and was adopted as a hymn of the anti-fascist resistance in the 1940s. The song takes on new meaning in the current pandemic, as the need for new forms of solidarity — with health workers, cleaners and sanitation workers, impoverished people and all manner of vulnerable populations — becomes urgently clear.

Hexaghost

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