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A live recording of Ani Phoebe (Bad Times Disco) opening up our party at Milney's Upstairs space, with 3hrs of sonic gems for your listening pleasure 💎

Track ID's: @aniphoebe

Proto Mix 002 - Ani Phoebe

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Episode 2 - 'Remember Yesterday' by Ilan (Night City Life)

WORDS FROM ILAN
"Didn't Time Sound Sweet Yesterday" - Scott Walker

WORDS FROM CASPER
'Remember Yesterday' is a pensive, at times almost elegiac selection of home-listening beauties which have been carefully put together and mixed (with vinyl only) by a dab-hand selector who I've had the pleasure to know for quite some time. Ilan has become known more recently for his synth-driven 'Night City Life' compilations of forgotten and obscure gems, distributed via the Spacetalk label, but we first met on or around the dancefloor of his erstwhile Hypnotic Tango events in various London basements, which he ran alongside my close friend Olly Fas. He's quietly developed a reputation over the years as somebody that goes the extra mile to source weird and wonderful music of a generally upbeat nature, which is befitting of the weird and wonderful chap with a generally upbeat nature that Ilan undoubtedly is.

As with all of the forthcoming mixes in this series, please give it a chance and listen without prejudice. There's no tracklist this time around.

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I-F b2b Intergalactic Gary at Time is the New Space for Intergalactic FM XXL Summer Edition.

Bookings I-F | Beverly Hills 808303, Intergalactic Gary and Intergalactic FM club and festival hostings: carlos@pontoonbookings.com

I-F b2b Intergalactic Gary at Intergalactic FM XXL Summer Edition 09.08.25

Words by Nick Fatouris from Field Notes | @fieldnotesintl


This story is in two parts; the first is about Field Notes. Let's start there. Field Notes is a project started by my dear friend Sam that I quickly latched onto. It's a left-field music event series. We focus on intimate, community-driven parties that are stripped back and fully tuned in to the sound.

We wanted to be involved in the music scene in Amsterdam, but didn't really resonate with anything. Both of us being expats, we decided to create something ourselves, no matter how small. Nearly three years later, we’ve hosted over 20 parties, with some of my personal favourites being Charlie Bones and Sound Metaphors.

To go a little deeper into my own experience with music, I haven’t often put my thoughts on DJing into words. Most of the time, when I’m mixing at home, I’m simply trying to make sense of my ever-growing library (and my shrinking hard drive). The result is usually a mixed bag that reflects whatever mood I’m in. But lately I’ve been thinking more about what informs my taste, and why I feel drawn to cataloguing music, putting together mixes, and DJing at all.
My earliest memory of how music could capture a mood was watching skate videos as a kid. Each skater would choose a track that represented them, their style, and their personality. Over time, as you kept watching their parts, you could see them evolve. Their music taste might shift wildly, and their style would change along with it.

I think I’m still doing the same thing. Every mix I make is an attempt to capture who I am in that moment, what I’m into, and how I’m feeling that week. Partly, it’s for others to get a sense of me. But it’s also for myself, so I can look back and see who I was at a certain time. I love that you can get to know someone through their mixes, just like you can understand a skater better by watching all their video parts.

*Recorded live at Nick's home in De Baarsjes, Amsterdam (2025).

Fables 002 | Field Notes

5 years in the making, thanks so much @normgrv 

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German producer based in Leipzig, celebrated for crafting some of the most unconventional yet hypnotic house and techno of the past two decades. For this show, Mosse guides us into a smooth, immersive, deep house journey. 

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Outsiders: Meakusma w/ Kassem Mosse @ Kiosk Radio 17.09.2025

Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-6th-october-2025

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Friday 28-11 | De Kelder, Haarlem - Promomix

A long time fascination with Japanese music and culture. This is the full lenght Techno Kayō inspired mix that has been released in parts via various radio stations (Rinse FM, BBC, NTS) in 2025.

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One of the defining producers of the 21st century steps up for a rare, era-spanning mix.

We've been in a reflective mood lately: mulling emergent icons, modern classic and the cyclical nature of trends. All things bend around eventually, but if you lived through the mid-'00s the first time, it felt tricky to envision some specifics of those interim years making a second splash. More fool us. Amongst many other things, dubstep is well and truly back.

This resurged appetite for low-end has been a central storyline in 2025. Clear tells were there in the form of Introspekt's Moving The Center and Tracey's "Sex Life," two major highlights of the past 12 months. Alternately, cup your ear to the tremors rumbling across the world and you'd find Mala packing up crowds with gusto. Which makes closing out the year with a mix from the man himself serendipitous.

The South Norwood-born sub sensei has held an anchor role in the movement since its earliest days. A little like what Upsetter was to Black Ark, the principles Mala, Coki and Loefah's DMZ laid down have been expanded on by Deep Medi, a label that has cultivated a loyal fandom who watch over the catalogue like a hawk. (Six years of frothy debate and knowing in-jokes between MEDi 99 and MEDi 100 paints a picture of both steep expectations and an affinity for gently ribbing their leader.)

But Mala's banner 2025 hasn't relied on the heads alone. The adrenaline of his fissuring basslines and barrel-chested vocals have drawn people into his orbit, and there are rarer qualities at play, too—like pacifism, winked at by the demilitarized name and reinforced on their all-time greatest tune; or contemplation, inked on flyers beseeching the crowd to meditate on bass weight.

In that spirit arrives a mix we've asked after for years. Subtitled The Listening Session, it's rare on two counts. Despite his enduring popularity, Mala is a conspicuous absence on most DJ series. (It's not that he doesn't enjoy recording, just gets spooked by the reaction.)

A nearly-three hour studio set—spaciously paced and laced with a combination of 2025 highlights, freshly-cut dubplates and some of the biggest anthems in the genre's history—is unheard of. No tracklist for now, on Mala's request. Soon come.

RA.1016 is the kind of document that jogs the memory back to when dubstep was a discrete enterprise, something you could only fleetingly access by, say, dialling into Youngsta on Sub FM, ripping 320s of "Circling" off long-forgotten blogs or hugging the back wall of Mass. Which, in service of thinking the evolution of 21st century electronic music, is pretty perfect really.  – Gabriel Szatan

Find the interview at ra.co/podcast/1035

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