Isaac returns for his monthly dose of deepness. 

Isaac Carter - 09 June 2025

Ciel - Live From Dimensions 25'

Ciel B2B Zeynep - 30 October 2025

Ollie Kirk with ADDSOUND - 05 November 2025

NIKS is an inimitable self-taught producer and DJ, steadily rising and making waves organically and powerfully. Not only a pillar in the community for championing the underground, but a staple and integral part of contemporary dance music.
The South East London-based artist has paved the way in the scene for herself and her sound. NIKS has displayed a truly natural and organic growth to her journey, refusing to be genre pigeon-holed and flexing musical knowledge and skill across the board.

NIKS @ Kiosk Radio 10.11.2025

beltrac, no brainers, get fucked, ricardo villalobos, harold heath, dj name, hatori hanso

Séarlait / Triple J Mix Up - 15th Nov 2025

For this set, which was my European debut, I brought my most cherished records to play over the the monolithic speaker stacks of the Forest Rave Stage. The ethos of the set was an invitation to begin the next day of dancing. Starting with house records infused with messages of music’s power to lift our spirits and ending with faster-paced rolling techno to really shake out any of yesterday’s body aches, I wanted to warm the forest floor and welcome the open-minded dancers to a new day. 

It was a great honor to set the stage for the many incredible artists that followed on Saturday. My immense gratitude goes to Eris & Maya for trusting me to open the stage, to Fait for making the speaker stacks sing, and to the entire Draaimolen team for being such a dedicated and lovely crew." 
- Mx. Blaire


Photo by Paul Düstersiek.

Mx. Blaire at Draaimolen Festival 2025

A seminal, pioneering figure in the 90s and 00s UK tech house scene, a mix from Pure Science is as bucket list as they come. With his first Australia tour over New Years approaching fast, the mysterious tech house luminary reappears from his subterranean science den with a whopping five(!!) hour live set, full of moody unreleased gems and carefully reimagined classics from his genre shaping 30+ year discography.

@purescience

Q. What an incredible journey this mix is! What sounds or feelings did you draw upon when gathering inspiration for the mix, and what listening environments could you imagine it being best enjoyed in?

A. Thank you for your kind words, Myles. I was initially asked to do a couple of hours, but thought, I would do at least four, and start with a good hour of unreleased ambient / downtempo tracks that I have made, that I wouldn’t necessarily play out to a dance floor, and build up the tempo. So to answer your question, I guess I was pulling out tracks that were made at a close tempo, and gradually build up to a Deep House / Techno range. There are loads of unreleased bits, which I will be featuring on upcoming albums. I guess the vibe was to keep it deep, and not to bang it out or play too obvious, and to add a couple of surprises in there, as it is for the Melbourne Deepcast after all.

Q. Are there any records in the mix that you were especially excited to share, and what is it about these songs that resonate with you so much?

A. I am not playing any records, CDJ’s or harmonicas on this mix.. Lol, Only Ableton Live, Korg ER1 drum machine, Roland System 100 modular (clone), Novation Nova & Evolution uc-33 midi controller.

There is one track that I have only played out once when I was in my teens, and it was written in 1989, when I was 15/16 years old. It’s called Circle, and is on the mix at around 3:43:43 mark (The hypnotic track with the organ).

Q. I know you’ve made special edits of some of your classic Pure Science records for this mix, tell us about how you like to reimagine your music from 20+ years ago, and how your sound has evolved since creating your most iconic records in the late 90s..

A. I’ve been re-recording, mixing, and mastering some of my classic releases, and preparing them for live, i.e. stripping down the parts to the basic form e.g. Kick, Snare, Hats, Claps, Toms, Congas, Percussion, Bass, Keys, Vox, etc, so I can re-arrange the tracks on the fly or break down to my drum machines / synths / recorded modular jams if I feel I want to improvise to the crowd a bit, or I can just concentrate on the blend of tracks, and the selection like a DJ would, and have complete control of the journey..

Q. We’re all very excited to see you play in Melbourne on NYD! Tell us about your hybrid live / DJ setup, is that something you’ve been refining for a while now?

A. I am very excited too, as I have been going through, my old floppy disks going back to 1987, from my old Ensoniq SQ80, as it has just come back from a service, and has had its 10-year internal battery replacement. 
I have been rediscovering tracks that I had totally forgotten about. Specifically a couple of tracks that I love, one is called Moon from 1992, and the other called Tibet from that same era. Both were made a little faster than what I would play out now, and were over 135BPM, but if you slow them down a bit, they just sound chunkier, and PHATer. x  p.s. It’s only hybrid if I DJ too, and I probably won’t have time for that. Live only on this trip. Thank you all for your time, and I hope to see you on the dance floor..

Ollie Kirk with ADDSOUND - 05 November 2025

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