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Refuge Worldwide resident @Stem whips up a vortex of percussive, experimental club music for the Fresh Kicks series, and chats to Niamh O’Connor about her interest in dance genres’ cultural histories and evolutions

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/fresh-kicks-155-stem

Fresh Kicks 155: Stem

Three hours of garage, dubstep, grime, hardcore, jungle and techno recorded on a Sunday evening at 121 in Wellington for the Friendly Potential crew. At their request I tried to play with the energy of the old Sunday night sessions at FWD>>, and it was so fun. Old and new music side by side. Spinbacks at 2008 levels. 

Big thanks to everyone involved in this incredible trip to New Zealand and Australia, especially the Friendly Potential crew who made the whole thing possible. It was wonderful to play music again, and I hope to be back soon.

Ben UFO At Friendly Potential, Wellington - May 2021

We are proud to present you the latest addition to our mixtape series by @cemdukkha @herrensauna co-founder & resident. With a background in club culture going back more than 10 years to his hometown in Vienna when he co-organized the first queer techno event while being still a teenager.
CEM's mix is a journey through IDM, Breaks, Techno and heavy Electronics textures - get ready!

SPND20 Mixtape By CEM

There is nothing safe about @dis_fig. The Berlin-based artist makes confrontational, unconventional music that harnesses the power of chaos. She initially came up on the New York club scene but was always most interested in the weirder end of the spectrum so moved to Berlin. It is there that she has established herself as someone who operates on the fringes of the dance floor. Her debut album PURGE in 2019 was wrought with emotional turmoil thanks to her own unique vocal work, while the electronics were just as twisted and harrowing. Last year she showed another side to her vocal skills on In Blue, a collaborative album of bass-heavy dreamscapes with The Bug.

This week's mix is 90 minutes of fulsome body music, contorting rhythms and exaggerated percussion. The boundaries between club, techno, jungle, rap and bass are blurred as Dis Fig plots a route through them all with great control. Even when tempos jump around wildly, there is no break in the flow, and to end such a high octane ride on the sultry mind nineties r&b of Total is a stroke of genius.

Dekmantel Podcast 353 - Dis Fig

Recorded live in Brooklyn August 27th 2021.

CNC LIVE - AKANBI B2B DJ VOICES

Last year, TSVI and object blue released Hyperaesthesia’ on Nervous Horizon, described by the pair as “body music”, meshing together object blue’s widescreen, experimental club tones and TSVI’s borderless percussive styles. We loved the EP so couldn’t resist inviting them to play an extended b2b set at Unsound this year, and now we can’t resist releasing the recording as part of our podcast series.
TSVI and object blue played to a packed room from 1am onward, moving at a frantic, skittering pace through a diverse range of tracks and genres, with percussive elements threaded throughout. “One of the best sets we've played, solo or together,” says object blue. “There was so much mutual love between us and the dancers, it felt intimate despite the massive crowd.”
Arriving just in time for the festive season, turn up the volume and enjoy...

Unsound Podcast 77: TSVI b2b object blue

KAVARI (11/3/22)

🟢 Four Decks / Ninety Minutes 🟢
A recording of my set from Primavera Sound last month.
Some brand new Mumdance productions and remixes inside 😮
My first online mix in almost four years - I hope you enjoy it 💚

Mumdance / Primavera Sound 2022 / Four Decks / Ninety Minutes

HDMIRROR is pushing club music into overload, colliding emotional and intense genres such as rave, trance, and gabber. Heavily influenced by the impact of the Internet on musical practice, their music blends many influences, utilising web aesthetics and a sense of humour to create frenetic audiovisual experiences. Associated with experimental labels such as Genot Centre and Jerome, they are at the forefront of new wave of avant-hardcore music. Here's a recording of their explosive live set from Unsound 2018 in Kraków, featuring many new tracks from the freshly released ABSTRACT URGENCY album. 

Tracklist:
DANCE NOW
THE CLIMB
NOT GONNA GET US 2
PITCH
TOTAL 
CLEARCUT
SPIKE
SPLASHY
MICRODOT
SPAWN
HOOVERKLUB
REVERSAL
TURMOIL
POINT BREAK
HAMMERHEAD
IN THERE
CURRENT
SICK TO DEATH
ABSTRACT URGENCY

ABSTRACT URGENCY

Unsound Podcast 42: HDMIRROR

Interview + Download: http://truantsblog.com/2019/truancy-volume-240-batu/

Soundcloud: @batuuk

For our 240th Truancy Volume, we have the great honour of hosting Bristol-based luminary Batu in the mix. Emerging as one of our favourite producers, DJs and curators in dance music over the last few years, Omar McCutcheon released the first compilation from his brilliant label Timedance in 2018: Patina Echoes highlighted some of the label’s regulars as well as new talent, also featuring individual releases by Laksa, Lurka and Ploy. After a packed few months for Batu himself with releases on other labels including R&S and XL Recordings, this week marks a return to his own imprint with his new EP, False Reeds. False Reeds consists of three percussion-driven cuts for the club, born out of vocal samples re-synthesized into new sounds as source. While it unmistakably sounds like Batu, with a thread of absorbing polyrhythms and a healthy injection of bass-weight, the EP is deliberately more in line with the warmer end of the spectrum rather than techno this time around.

http://truantsblog.com

Batu

Truancy Volume 240: Batu

Live recording of @djshyboi & @deejayBRS at Club Eat Mehanata 2019.04.13

DISCWOMAN 69 x SHYBOI b2b DJ Bus Replacement Service

Desk Recording — recorded Live From WWW Tokyo - 17th June 2019....

Lee Gamble - NTS RADIO (JUN 19') — recorded llive at WWW, Tokyo

Metrist's Crack Mix walks the line where body-music and experimentalism meet.

More info here → https://crackm.ag/2kIpGFY

Crack Mix 310: Metrist

3 hours recorded at Calibre's XOYO residency this summer
Starting at 140 and moving fwd from there :)

Photo is from one of our first sets together at Plastic People nearly 9 years ago!
@joy-orbison @benufo

Ben UFO b2b Joy O - Recorded at XOYO in August 2019 (Calibre Residency)

It might well have been her set at Freerotation in summer 2018 that really got people talking about Gigsta. It was there that the hardcore heads in the crowd were all abuzz with her fresh mix of heavy bass, house funk, off kilter rhythms and kinked synths. Since then she has become more and more visible at key parties round Europe, not only as resident at Berlin's Room 4 Resistance but also through her painstakingly researched and assembled radio shows for Cashmere, where she takes cues from literature, NASA launches, spoken word pieces and plenty more.

As the eagled-eyed will know, Gigsta has already been confirmed for Dekmantel Selectors in August, but to keep us going until then she has served up a special mix for us. You never know what you'll get with the Belgian artist, it could be hard and fast, could be grime, or could be garage. Here she goes for creepy and unsettling ambiance that eventually gets contorted into warped bass music, hyperactive club, hammering techno and euphoric jungle. It shows an unrivalled command of tempo and makes for a real seat-of-your pants ride.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 265 - Gigsta

"That moment of heavenly clarity in the rave when you look around + all the people you love are well and truly inside having really fucking great time"

hex code: #ffff43

soundcloud: @bftt
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bfttyco/
twitter: https://twitter.com/bfttyco

tracklist: 
Phone recording from Anz live @ Mutualism @ The White Hotel, 13.04.18
Torus - Circles
Metrist - VV Squi
Martyn Bootyspoon - Lickety Split
object blue X TSVI - Syntax
Endless Mow - Fey Dor
Hamilton Scalpel - Cadzow Skrak
MoMA Ready - Portal Step
Low Budget Aliens - Hazardous Waste Pump
4 Hero - Reality
The 2 - We Is 1
Cryptobitch - DDoNK CrySyS
Yazzus - Wonky Raver
Prospa - Ecstasy (Over and Over) [India Jordan Remix]
Fracture - Brothers and Sisters
Bone Head - Clover
Strayer - Room To Give, Room To Take
Rian Treanor - Hypnic Jerks
Sidney Samson ft. Wizard Sleeve - Riverside (Lets Go!) [TC Dirty Remix]
Club Winston - Reject
EMILY GLASS - SNOWDREAM
D’Cruze - Heaven

BFTT - neon

A master of kinetic percussion and low end bass weight, Hemlock, Timedance and Hessle Audio producer Ploy (@deejayploy) has long been a techno favourite. On his most recent album, Unlit Signals on L.I.E.S., however, he mixes it up much more across nomadic tracks filled with visceral energy. In fact, the record chews up and spits out influences taken from "decades of UK dance" as well as plenty of harder, more raw and noisy industrial scenes. It features eight tracks all with a darker overriding mood, as well as "dishevelled closing hours delirium applied across a spectrum of bpm." 

That is of course the case on this week's podcast, which is a slippery selection of weighty rhythmic propulsions. As they pull you up, down, forwards and back, fractured percussion peppers the groove and twisted synths weave their way in and out of the cavernous spaces left behind. Whether playing slow and sludgy bass or hard and fast techno, Ploy seems somehow able to warp space and time, and often your mind and body are left just as bent out of shape.

Dekmantel Podcast 302 - Ploy

a SOPHIE Tribute mix I made curated by Chinese music/art platform Shy People featuring mostly SOPHIE's own work and production works as well as a few other tracks I feel are deeply related and inspired by SOPHIE's sound. 

Rest in power angel, we will miss you forever <3

Follow Shy People on Instagram @shypeoplecn
Cover art by ins @mad.lizzard

SOPHIE - Cold Water
Vince Staples - Yeah Right (prod. By SOPHIE)
SOPHIE - Whole New World (Big Kiss Remix)
SOPHIE - Pony Whip
COBRAH - idfka
Quay Dash - Queen of this Shit (Prod. By SOPHIE)
SOPHIE - Ponyboy (SXTH LXX Remix)
SFire - Sfire 7
SOPHIE - VYZEE
Flume, SOPHIE, Kučka - Voices
HDMIRROR - Re-Entry
Le1f - Koi
Charli Xcx - After the after party (Danny L Harle Edit)
SOPHIE - UNISIL
Zebra Kat, Shygirl - LICK IT N SPIT 
Kai Whiston - BOYEI
Charli Xcx - Bounce (Prod. By SOPHIE)
SOPHIE - It’s Ok 2 Cry (DJ Animebby edit)

Legacy of a Star SOPHIE Tribute Mix

Abena b2b Sonice - 9.2.2021

Bold, fearless and unpredictable, @jass-29 delivers a crunching high-speed workout for number 10 in the Junction 2 mix series.

Honing her craft as a resident DJ for Berlin-based party crew and label Mannequin, Spanish-born Silvia Jiménez Alvarez has grown into one of the scene’s most distinguished talents. Known for pushing the boundaries with genre-fusing explorations, JASSS received industry wide acclaim for her debut album ‘Weightless’ on iDEAL and followed up last year with a standout solo EP on AD 93 (fka Whities). The all-encompassing selector will be joining us at ION Festival this September.

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