Live from the Junkyard at Lost Village

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Live from the Village - TSHA

Manchester producer and WH Lung mastermind, Tom Sharkett unveils his second release, "It's Not That Deep," on Optimo Music on August 25th, 2023. His previous "Futuro EP," was a banger and this one is too. Sharkett draws inspiration from the otherworldly, psychedelic moments that transport the dancefloor into an altered reality.


We're premiering the flip side of his new EP "It's 5am Somewhere"... he's not lying.

It's Not That Deep

PREMIERE: Tom Sharkett - It's 5am Somehwere [Optimo Music]

IYA SHILLELAGH - WaterWeight (FELT005)
Release Date: 29th September 2023

Vinyl: rubadub.co.uk/products/waterweight
Digital: f-e-l-t.bandcamp.com/album/waterweight

A1 – reGenaRation 
A2 – WaterWeight (ft. How du)
 B1 – out ere as a outlaw (ft. Shifting Borders)
B2 - Scyatta

IYA SHILLELAGH is ELDON & Withdrawn

Recorded at Zig Zag Zig Studios

Mastered by GENG PTP
Cover photo by ELDON
Design by Fergus Jones
Distributed by Rubadub

IYA SHILLELAGH - WaterWeight (FELT005)

A cheeky wee edit I made mashing up Theus Mago & Curses track Dafne (Optimo Music, Glasgow) and Qatar by Darco (Diynamic, Hamburg)

Photo: Darja Dell / The Night Trains

PREMIERE: You Don't See Me Now - Theus Mago & Curses X Darco

A dance floor ready edit I made involving CHROMA 01 by Bicep cut up with Always Ascending by HAAi, Jon Hopkins & KAM-BU

Photo: Darja Dell

PREMIERE: CHROMASENDING - HAAi X Bicep X Jon Hopkins X KAM-BU

Sello: @othernessrec
Artista: @luxhermetics

Estrenamos nuevo track de Lux & Hermetics, I need you loved.

Trás el éxito en su anterior release en Optimo music, ahora nos adelantan uno de los tracks de su próximo trabajo en Otherness, titulado Aurora EP. De este disco de tres originales estrenamos I need You Loved. Una experiencia electrónica de breaks y sutileza armónica vocal que envuelve el track en un aura lounge.

A la venta desde el 18 de Abril.

Bandcamp

PREMIERE: Lux & Hermetics - I Need You Loved [Otherness]

Following December’s amazing Helios EP (Optimo Music), Argentina’s finest, Lux & Hermetics return with the incredible four track Aurora EP, released 18th April on Otherness.

Lux (Lucas Chaumont) and Hermetics (Santiago Nino) have been friends for over a decade and almost inseparable for the last three. The duo share a deep fraternal love for philosophy, psychology, spirituality and the esoteric, which spills over in abundance into their music, offering a different flavor to most other electronic music collaborations. In fact, the pair are on a sonic quest to inject wonder, mystery, and a little sanctitude into your record collection.

Aurora was recorded in Buenos Aires in the midst of (Southern Hemisphere) Summer 2023. As you listen to the EP, feel your speakers bleed the atmosphere and ambience of those hazy South American early evenings on the beach, yellow parasols set against the red skies and the turquoise seas of the South Atlantic. If Helios is an EP for watching the sunset, then Aurora is for watching the stars come out as you and your friends prepare yourselves for an epic night ahead.

Buy: https://hermetics.bandcamp.com/album/aurora

PREMIERE: Lux & Hermetics - Aurora [Otherness]

The minimalist master meets the maximalist maestro. 
 
Photo: Darja Dell / The Night Trains

PREMIERE: Infinity Generator - Jlin X HudMo X Nikki Nair X Philip Glass

Joy Ride 66 / back to back with guest dj Jauzi

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

New Beat was born and initially exploded in 1987, went supernova (in Belgium) in 1988 and then the formula morphed a bit and was declared dead in 1989. It was slow and initially all about the atmosphere with industrial strength beats - the main form of rhythmic propulsion being the pounding kick and heavy snare. It was often mainly instrumental and when there was lyrical content it often became more about slogans and giving commands - "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat!", "Let There Be Brightness!", "Shout Out Loud!". While not really New Beat, it's no surprise Technotronic's "Pump Up Jam" was produced by a crew who had produced a ton of New Beat gems.

In 1989 one of New Beat's founders, Marc Grouls said "New Beat is atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial!!!!!" But, it was already too late. A zillion bandwagon jumpers had diluted the music and flooded the market with too many sub standard 12" singles. New Beat temple, the legendary Boccaccio nightclub, in Destelbergen, near Ghent, had been closed down and it looked like it was all over, but really, it was just the beginning. New Beat morphed into Hard Beat (many of the tracks on this mix are from the Hard Beat era) which quickly morphed into Belgian Rave, which was huge and hugely influential in the UK and is an often overlooked part of the DNA of UK Hardcore, and all that came after. Then from Ghent, R&S Records established itself as thee European Techno label and a huge wave of incredible Techno records emanated from it and many other mighty Belgian labels, but that is another story. 

New Beat arrived just as I first started DJing and I played a lot of it in my DJ sets and built up connections with several of the leading Belgian labels who would send me 12" singles so I had records nobody else here had any idea even existed. I would compile New Beat charts for the music paper The NME which may have given the impression there was a thriving New Beat scene in Scotland. The reality was very different; people here, many of whom would embrace the rave just a little while later never really took to it in a big way.

This mix is comprised of many of my personal favourites that I have loved since they came out (and two I missed at the time and only heard later). I think the tracks have aged like a fine wine, often sounding as good if not better today as they did then. There is definitely a faint whiff of fromage and a big dollop of stoopid in several of these tracks. Of course, it is not all about the cheese and many of these adhere to the "atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial" rule mentioned above. Some of the best programmed 303 Acid basslines ever made can be heard here along with transcendental hypno synths and those Belgian beats going on and on....! Slow and low, from under 100bpm up to 116, New Beat doesn't chug, it swings in a very distinct way. If you get to see any videos of Belgian clubs of the era, the way people moved to this music is incredible and so different to any dancing we see today.

Many of these tracks are made by the same people under various aliases, which will perhaps be audibly evident. Most of the names have been forgotten, if they were ever even known outside their native Belgium at all, but all are legends to me. 

This mix isn't any kind of attempt to tell the story of New Beat but rather a mix 33 of my favourite 12" singles from that era showing many of the various strains of the New Beat and Hard Beat sound. A lot of love went into this and I hope someone somewhere discovers this music for the first time and falls in love with it as I did way back when. This was Belgium!

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

recorded live at watergate, berlin // 02.03.13 

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Kenny Larkin at Watergate 02.03.13

DJ, writer and founder of The Night Trains.

Optimo kid. Former Sub Club promoter.

One half of Frolic+Detour.

Screw your courage to the sticking-place.

PREMIERE: You Don't See Me Now - Theus Mago & Curses X Darco

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