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Four Tet | Streaming From Isolation – #8

Late night listening, broadcast live from SE26 via the magic of Radio Waters.  Every 4th wednesday, 10pm to midnight UK time.

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Aural Design - Light and movement
The British Stereo Collective - Travelogue (The Journey)
The Utopia Strong - Swimmer
James Holden - You Can Never Go Back
A Reminiscent Drive - Leg Show
MOON　BIRD - Cristal n°3
Orbital - The Girl With The Sun In Her Head (Floex Remix)
Lake Night - Those Birds Are Drones
Polypores - Frost and Moss
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Part of the Union
Twilight Sequence - Mindful of Woodland Phases
Sasha - Detour (Eat Lights Become Lights Remix)
M. Craft - Chemical Trails (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-animation)
Eyes of Others - Once Twice Thrice (The Orielles Remix)
Rhythm Plate - We Were Made To Be Artists
Polyop - Ceremony
Insync - Reflection
Wiktor Stribog - Czas Pracy
ANDY FOSBERRY - Infinite Space
Daniel Avery - Spider
Justin Robertson's Deastock 33s - Spice-y Shuffle 23
Big Wild - 6's to 9's (feat. Rationale) [Neil Frances Remix]
Richard Pinhas - Ruitor
Spencer Callum ft Luke Reynolds - Dietriche Buxtehude
Minke - Mellotronic
Nils Frahm - All Melody
Glass Eaters - Whickers Way by :dead voices on air:dadu:

The Future Sound of Sydenham

The Future Sound of Sydenham - 10th Jan 2024

Tracklist:

Paula Tape – Panamericana
Steele-Up – Waiting For You (Fabrizio Mammarella Rework)
Zerocks – Margin / Industrie
Iro Aka – Olafon
Dave Aju – Telekuneko
In Flagranti – Raw Substance (Eric Duncan Remix)
Cowboy Rhythmbox – Rock Music (Erol Alkan Rework)
Miss Represented – Crack That Habit (Johnny Aux Remix)
Open Secret – Chatterbox
Amor Fati - Snow Cupboard (Matt Cowell Edit)
Idjut Boys – Schlagstock (Vacant Gaze Version)
Babes In Love – Bonus Babes Dub Reprise
Benedikt Frey – Dominatrix
Cute Heels – Third Skin (Steffi Remix)
Nova Materia – Aparence en Suenos

FMB MIXTAPE 251 | Tia Cousins

We are excited to share the recording of the great opening set of @tiacousins at our January edition. Enjoy the music journey!

Nothing Special Live: Tia Cousins Opening (18.01.25)

Expansive dub vibrations from the On-U Sound maestro.

Adrian Sherwood has spent nearly five decades reshaping how dub is heard and felt. From absorbing reggae and funk as a teenager at the Newlands Club in High Wycombe to cofounding On-U Sound in 1979, he’s been a restless force in British sound system culture. His debut production, Dub From Creation, signalled his instinct to twist the Jamaican form into bold, experimental directions.

That spirit defined On-U Sound, where reggae collided with post-punk, industrial and synth pop to forge a catalogue still unlike anything else. Sherwood became a crucial bridge, producing for legends like Prince Far I, Bim Sherman and Lee “Scratch” Perry, while also working with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Sinéad O’Connor.

His  RA Mix (yes, you read that right) arrives at a moment of renewal—RA.1001 is the first in a new era for the series. (After 1,000 editions of the RA Podcast, we're updating the name to better reflect what it's become.) 

Recorded at his Ramsgate studio, the 76-minute mix folds in cuts from <i>The Collapse Of Everything<i> alongside material from across the On-U Sound universe, plus collaborations with Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Coldcut and Spoon. It's Sherwood doing what he's always done: stretching dub into endless new shapes.

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1019

RA.1001 Adrian Sherwood

Full tracklist & Video Mix: bleep.com/bleep-mix-309-dj-food

To celebrate the release of the Telepathic Fish compilation, we have a special ‘O Is For Orange 2025’ Bleep Mix from DJ Food.

"A version of this mix first appeared in 2013 at a night to celebrate the release of Boards of Canada’s ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’ LP release. It then morphed into an Audio Video DJ set that I toured around the UK in 2019, playing the Bluedot festival to a packed tent that year. The idea was to thread Boards of Canada’s music with original sample sources, tracks they’d remixed, fan remixes or songs that fitted their sonic blueprint.

I recently resurrected and refined the mix for a gig booking, updating it into a new version. This happened to be a week before I was due to deliver my guest mix to Bleep and it seemed to be too good an opportunity to pass up. I abandoned the mix I was going to deliver and put down the first hour of the ‘Orange’ set including a video mix to go with it. I used stem splitting apps to deconstruct some of the tracks into unique versions before video mixing it all on turntables using Serato then editing the footage in Premiere." - @strictly

Bleep Mix #308 - DJ Food

Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food, aka one part of Openmind, takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.

Strictly Kev likes the company of plants whilst working on music so that's handy for us isn't it?! We're assuming he's talking about a beautiful Calathea sitting in the corner for inspiration, tho his dream plant setup - a conservatory packed with Romanesco broccoli, trippy Caladiums, and Persian Shields - is something we'd be well on board with too.

Enough of the plant talk for a second and back to the music, ambient music to be clear. For those that weren't squatting in South London back in the early 90s, Openmind were the four-piece behind the mighty Telepathic Fish - the legendary ambient afterparty that transformed chill-out rooms from dub-playing afterthoughts into proper destinations.

Kev, along with Chantal Passamonte (Mira Calix, RIP), David Vallade, and Mario Aguera, started in a shared house above a shop with no neighbours to complain/bash the door down. What began as art school parties quickly grew into Sunday afternoon sessions in squatted venues - a former dole office in Brixton and even the derelict Roundhouse on New Year's Day. They hosted everyone from Aphex Twin to Mixmaster Morris among wall-to-wall mattresses, UV installations, and  Coldcut's Matt Black with his boundary pushing video projections.

The idea was simple: recreate that post-clubbing comedown vibe but on a massive scale, as an "aural and visual blanket" for club-rattled minds. They even published a fanzine called Mindfood and worked at the scene's hub, Ambient Soho record shop, helping shape what Simon Reynolds called a "wombeldelic sound-and-light bath" in contrast to the current trend of hardcore and it's relentless assault.

Thirty years on, that spirit's having a comeback. Events like London's A Loose Ting are bringing back the bedding and the hushed reverence, while Berlin's Overflow is going full sensory overload with vibrating mattresses, fountains, and harpists. New York's Planetarium gatherings have people mostly horizontal, inspired by psychedelic therapy sessions. There's even and ambient sauna in South London you might have come across via the wonder of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By's recent takeover.  Our very own Watching Trees dabbled in said chill out space this year, pairing the abstract and the ambient with projected dappled sunlight visuals from the mighty Jamie House. Turns out people still need those little havens away from the madness, especially in this day and age!

Also handily 30 years on the Openmind crew have just compiled the first-ever Telepathic Fish retrospective for Fundamental Frequencies - a double vinyl love letter to those hazy early-90s mornings when the music finally slowed down.

For this Seeds Mix, Kev has leaned into his love of minimalism and systems music - repetition built from layers of loops offset against each other to form subtle polyrhythms. There's a deliberate avoidance of drum machines here in favour of organic percussion, and around the eight-minute mark, a section from Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia that captures the feeling of being deep in the forest, phone abandoned, discovering that paradise was just a forage away.

Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/seeds-mix-005-openminds-leave-your-phone-at-home-discover-paradise-after-a-forage-in-the-forest/

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INTERVIEW

Seeds Mix 005: Openmind's Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest

Iñigo Vontier - Friction

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A very special 40th episode showcases arguably one of the best triple packs every released, especially considering it was relatively early in the timeline of mix cd history (1996). It features selections from Derrick Carter, Andrew Weatherall and Back to Basic's resident, Ralph Lawson.

We originally featured this CD in the early days of The Classic Mix CD Series, when it was recommended by Shindig's Scott Bradford as his most influential piece in his collection.

So it's fitting, that after more shouts out to use it from everyone on Facebook, that we feature all 3 discs for the 400th episode celebration. Thanks to everyone for getting involved all of the plays and positive messages.

Can me make it 500!?

Back to Basics: Cut the Crap

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041 - Back to Basics 'Cut the Crap' - Andrew Weatherall / Disc 2 (1996)

Paresse – La Paresse EP
4 Track EP out on Magic Feet Recordings

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Hypno Hips

Here in Calypso we love Israeli cuisine, it is part of our every day meals, so we are happy to welcome to the family a good backer hailing from the lands of Haifa, "AckerMan". This time our good friend spices up with some hummus a well known classic dish from New York. It has been part of our sets for the last year like Iñigos presentations in Ant Bangos or Mayan Warrior Burning Man, so please enjoy the meal while dancing.

Take it while it's hot. Enjoy your meal.

Soundcloud: @ackerman_music

Calypso Take Away

Calypso Take Away 20 by AckerMan

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