During 2021, to help get through the ongoing lockdown I made a series of 90 minute cassette tapes, one a month for ten months. I thought there would be a small demand but was blown away by the response. People really embraced them and copies went to every corner of the planet. They became a huge part of my year and really helped me through a tough time.

A little later I made them available digitally for a short period and all the proceeds raised went to Glasgow NW Foodbank. I was again blown away as thousands of pounds were raised.

I have decided to put the series on Soundcloud. I'll upload them sporadically over the coming months. I'm skipping the 2nd one as it has the same title as a compilation I put out recently and I don't want the two getting confused, but I may come back to it later. This is the 3rd one titled “SMI²LE - Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, Life Extension".

Smi²le was Timothy Leary’s mid 70s vision of the future of humanity. It's Utopian & in hindsight wildly optimistic. He believed we would have colonised space & have cloned ourselves by around the year 2000. He envisaged millions of us would be living in “High orbital mini Earths” in our own small Utopian communities. I have a long time fascination with (unrealisable) Utopian communities and Smi²le has always been one I particularly liked as it was so fully thought out & even by Utopian standards wildly hopeful & unrealistic. It's also relevant to our times as contentious/ awful figures like Peter Thiel & Elon Musk have adopted the worst parts of these ideas without any public scrutiny. Free market space migration may not be a positive thing, particularly if we are exporting this planet’s problems into outer space.

Anyway, that’s an aside and it’s basically a 90 minute space themed mix of music. Understanding / knowing about the Smi²le concept is not essential to its enjoyment. :)

Tape released May 7, 2021

Artwork – Musheto Fernandez.

JD Twitch - SMI²LE (Optimo Music Tape 003 - originally released May 2021)

Mornings with... A Sagittariun - 09 Septembert 2025

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We Rule The Night

Benji became a key figure in Berlin’s early ’90s club scene with residencies at Tresor, Bunker’s Red Hot Chill Out Club, and the first SNAX parties. From 1999, he pioneered the fusion of Italo-Disco, synth/wave, and obscure disco in Berlin, hosting the Italo-only show Radio Tenax on Twen FM (2003–2011). With 30+ years behind the decks, Benji keeps pushing boundaries with genre-blending sets across Europe.

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 38 : BenjiDF

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It is our pleasure to share our latest podcast, this time from Full Circle’s Alexis Le-Tan.  The mix is a live recording taken from Bakk Heia at The White Hotel earlier this year. Alexis began playing around 3am, just as the club had reached capacity. Energy that was simmering under the surface began to be released, the initial hustle and bustle was over and people had found their place on the floor. As such, this mix expertly demonstrates Alexis’ ability to hook dancers in, giving them a playful push before engaging them into full mind melt mode. Starting with genre defying mid-tempo dubby sludgery, it moves into angular strains of new beat adjecent trancers before unleashing the Goa dragons on the rapturous mass of entranced bodies.   

Enjoy this trip friends :)

Bakk Heia Podcast 006 - Alexis Le-Tan (Live from Bakk Heia @ The White Hotel)

PDA MIX 19 ♥ John Loveless 

Our latest PDA mix is from John Loveless. A DJ, producer and writer from the North West of England. He is known for his residencies on Refuge Worldwide and Cashmere Radio, where his long-running show ‘Display Resolution’ recently concluded after 100 episodes. As well as his own Hot Concept imprint and parties, he is creatively involved with both Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound and CWPT with Palms Trax.

“PDA and the generous musical universe around it is one of the things that has kept me most excited about Berlin in the last few years, and this mix, recorded in one hasty take, is specifically my own interpretation of what might be possible on the dancefloor there. It takes inspiration from my early, mindbending clubbing experiences at parties in Manchester like Wet Play and Red Laser, as well as every producer making club music by their own strange and essential rules, for our communal pleasure.”

John’s presence is that of integral figure and fixer in this world of music, he’s also formidable force behind the decks and we are very pleased to welcome him for this weekend’s Public Display of Affection starting on Saturday the 4th of October and running until the following Sunday afternoon 💘

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PDA Mix 19 ♥ John Loveless

You can download it for free on Bandcamp : 

https://fromdaundergroundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/apatribe-01

Mornings with... A Sagittariun - 09 Septembert 2025

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