2024-09-14-Messing-Around-Pt2

FLUX AETERNA 071: BORED LORD

In-studio: DYLUSION

@faited b2b @octoocta
Coming at you direct from the Little “T” LUV NRG Soundsystem truck radio! All the galloping and rolling late 90s tech step and proto-neurofunk that Octo Octa and Faited blast out of a tiny bluetooth speaker inside the cab of an Isuzu NPR HD.

This set was played live at Envelope Soundsytem’s 2024 Ēostre ritual deep in the redwood forest within the Oakland, CA hills. The intention behind this ritual: 

“Ēostre marks a period of rejoining with queer family and community, and of setting intentions towards the approaching sun-drenched days. We celebrate this ritual to conjure the collective dream, and to see the fractal paths toward our individual dream’s first concrete forms. But dreaming alone can not dispel living nightmares—we must speak our dreams aloud and act towards them in anger. Come, you and yours, come weave your hopes with ours.”

Eostre 2024 - Faited b2b Octo Octa

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

Hailing from Northern California and currently residing in San Francisco, MILANA converges elements of freetek, psytrance, IDM, and deep techno to create her own sonic identity. Her psychedelic soundscapes evoke feelings of melancholy and euphoria, deeply exploring the splintered edges between light and dark.

Follow the artist: @milsonline

techlab.bp podcast - MILANA

For this set I played on 4 CDJ 3000’s and a V10 mixer, using both of its internal effects processors. For every No Way Back set, and for most sets, I try to prepare new hardware remasters and edits of things that I think would be fascinating recontextualized in this setting. But for NWB, it is even more special, a peak moment, so I try to have new records I’m working on in the studio to test out. For this set that means the hardware mixes I’ve been working on for Torrvo and for Andy Toth can be tested, I’m working on this hardware mixing and remastering tone palate, so I spread that to some edits to give them a whole new power. Playing at No Way Back cannot be put into words, though we try every year, it really is inexplicable without experiencing it. It’s the environment you most want to be in, the space is totally transformed, the sound is dialed in, the audience is so ready, very giving and open, and the feedback you get is incredible. People are up for a ride – we start at the Tangent and end up going to the other side of the universe. Freedom within and without. There’s no place I’d rather be, so I thought I’d share this much sooner than we usually do. Enjoy the ride. 
– BMG @bbmmgg

Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine (BMG edit)
Refracted – Beneath The Surface
Torvvo – Carrier (BMG NWB Mix - forthcoming on Interdimensional Transmissions)
Pause – Exode X
Sciahri – Glow
Shed – EMCZ
Amotik – Peela
Erika – Wandering Mountain (Mike Parker Remix)
Translate – Shifted Communications
Dino Sabatini – Peuceus
Feral & Luigi Tozzi – Enigma
PALEMAN – Quarry
D-Leria – Voodoo Magic (Polygonia Remix)
Lory D – Mantrosax 2
Surgeon – Forgotten Gods
Peter Van Hoesen – Definition by Absence
Steve Bicknell – Easing Info Tomorrow
Resonance – Yellow Train (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)
The Fantasy – Soft Space (2025 Hardware version) forthcoming
DJ Funk – House The Groove
Ottagone – Ottagone 021
Andy Toth – Mind Lock (forthcoming on Interdimensional Transmissions)
AgainstMe – Into The Dome
Giordano – Electric Stardust
Alex R – z50
808 State – Flow Coma (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)
Wee Papa Girls – We Know It (KMS mix) (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)
Aphex Twin – Isopropophlex (BMG Hardware Remaster edit)

IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s14e04: BMG at No Way Back 2025

For our 40th (!) entry into the PPRZ Podcast series, we have none other than Mina Mills rolling up with a 2 hour vinyl mix chocked full of gritty and soulful midwestern techno of the highest order.

Mina Mills is a Chicago based DJ and producer from Des Moines, Iowa. She plays techno and house music.

Description of mix: This mix was recorded using two Audio-Technica AT-LP120 direct drive turntables, one deck of a Numark Mixdeck Express and a Xone 62 mixer. This is the DJ equipment that I have access to and I've grown to really love it. 

If you enjoyed this mix, please consider donating to Mina's organization of choice: https://givebutter.com/TransChicago

PPRZ Podcast 40 - Mina Mills

A live recording from my headlining set at Braket's sold-out Flinta techno party, Recohernece, as direct support for Evelyn.

ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴀᴛ ʀᴇᴄᴏʜᴇʀᴇɴᴄᴇ [sf 19.07.2025]

Recorded live at Braket's FLINTA* Underground party: Recoherence in July 2025 in San Francisco.

Closing out until the sunrise after a stunning set by Evelyn. 

Myca: 
https://soundcloud.com/myca-hz
https://www.instagram.com/myca.hz

Braket: 
https://instagram.com/braket.sf
https://soundcloud.com/braketsf

My Socials:
https://www.instagram.com/dahlia.hz

Tracklist:
nthng - The Traveller
Phil Berg - Raid
HIGHLIMITER - Lost In Fractals
Eman - Pink Marble
Inox Traxx - No Leaving
Luap - Surrender (Original Mix)
Ricardo Garduno - Naughty Thoughts (Original Mix)
Stef Mendesidis - Aquaton
Regent - Aphid Riot (Original Mix)
Modēm - Void
Lucas Sosa (AR) - Wu Tang Style
KUSS - Nocturnal Contrast
Klint - Social Evil (Original Mix)
Setaoc Mass - Where the Rainbow Begins
Lindsey Herbert - Control
Sciahri - Divisione
Measure Divide - Minor Cortex
KUSS - Panic
Mark Broom - Movement (Original Mix)
Rill - Cicadas
DK8 - Murder Was The Bass (Reworked)
Veiga - Narcolepsy
Daniel Rifaterra - Omura (Original Mix)
Exos - Fire Chant
PSYK & ORBE - Blinding
Volster - Turned
Innersha - Elysion
Franco Rossi - Elysia Chlorotica
Rrose x Polygonia - Stretcher
Slone - Damascus
Toki Fuko - Polar (Original Mix)
LDS - Grain Rain
Yanamaste - All Night
Toru Ikemoto - Don't Play 170 (Lindsey Herbert Stripped Down Remix))
Zara - Euci
Rill - Parabel
Lask - White Ibis
Eman - Kapara
Polygonia - Whirlwind Of Hearts
MZR - Seduce E2
Innersha - Emeralds
Vardae - Loose It
Hitam - Chanu Akan
Priori & Al Wootton - The Bell With The Wooden Tongue
Vxlr - Score Line
MTRL, FTP Doctor - Drilling Concept
Vxlr - Score Line
Ketch & Hitam - Spirits
Rise 1969 - Dar el-Amar
Hitam - Hoia Bacu (Original Mix)
nuir - Nasty Squares
Nawaz - Scarlet Cloak (Nawaz Remix)
Polygonia - Mindfunk
Sexapil - Stepper Mind
Piezo - Ultra
Kamen - Revolution
Innersha - Shmana
LDS - Punk Coding
Eli Høff - Gils
deoxyt - Fainting Spell
Feral - Sadhu
Aerae - Silva
Hitam - Precious Skin
Spekki Webu - Replicant Harvester
Hitam - Future Kill
Innerworld - Surge
OTON - Time To Forgive The Winter
Aerae - Flumen
Dycide - Carnyx
Vardae - Rites
FTP Doctor, MTRL, Polygonia - Lavender
Donato Dozzy & Anna Caragnano - Parola (Rework)
.Vril - Sohn

2024-09-14-Messing-Around-Pt2

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