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On the Dec. 2025 edition of the Art in Action interview series we hear from cultural worker Marina Mardas in Paris. Marina speaks about a major cultural publication project POSTMORTEM. This interview addresses the social, political and cultural context for a publication that aims to lift up alternative experiences in the European context and beyond. This publication illustrates through the artistic content a challenge to persisting western European claims around the reality of a common universal experience set. The project is described this way:

"Through essays, poetry, interviews, and contemporary art, Postmortem dissects and illustrates the present in order to reimagine our future."

Learn more about Postmortem here:

https://www.instagram.com/postmortemissue

Stefan Christoff produces this artist interview series, Art in Action, the theme music is by Anarchist Mountains. This program broadcasts monthly on:

Radio AlHara, Palestine
On the first Friday of each month at 5:30pm in Bethlehem and 10:30am eastern time (radioalhara.net)

CKUT 90.3 FM, Montréal
On the third Friday of each month at 11am (ckut.ca)

CJLO 1690 AM, Montreal
On the second Thursday of each month at 8am. (cjlo.com)

Art in Action interview - Artist Marina Mardas on Postmortem issue

Well, it's winter here in the northern hemisphere and the sun has departed our shores. What little vitamin-D we are able to glean through mile deep clouds permits our bones just enough strength to nod and vibe for roughly 1hr 20mins, before passing out where we land, waiting for the soft dew of spring to wake us from our calcium deficient slumber. This year's hibernation hymnal comes from Isis O'Regan, poet, sound-artist, occasional radio host and recent émigré to Glasgow. When asked to give a brief description of her Forecast she described it thusly:

"Something strange, a weird listening: Éisteacht Aisteach. The soundtrack to riding a waltzer in
slow motion, your stomach twisting mid-air, butterflies knocked down a few Hz."

Our idea of a good time right there.

Forecast 080: Isis O'Regan

Peverelist's set recorded live on Friday, 25 July 2025 at Paral·lel Festival in Port del Comte, Spain.

Peverelist @ Paral.lel 2025

A track made with an Essence FM and Juno 106 Synths. Tiptop Audio 808 and 909 Drum Modules sequenced by a Cirklon. 

Delay time on the 808 messed around with by Midi CC. Roland Dimension D Chorus on the synths.

 Recorded and mixed through my Solid State Logic System. 

Now Here

A statement mix from the Dutch artist also known as A Made Up Sound, 2562 and ex_libris. 

What makes something sound like Dave Huismans? His music carries a signature you can't quite name, a tension which has defined every chapter of his career. And unlike most producers, he really does operate in phases. 

A man of many monikers, Huismans resurfaced this year after nearly a decade away with two new aliases, ex_libris and In Transit. His latest ventures, though sonically a world away from the work under his most recognised projects, share the same slipperiness, intricacy and disregard for tidy genre borders. 

"Naiveté and a lack of prejudice… a really wide-eyed type of open-mindedness," Huismans once told RBMA, recalling his youthful forays into dance music and that ethos is alive and well on RA.1015.

Huismans's second RA Mix is as equally thrilling as his first one 15 years ago, traversing a map of influences from Madlib and Gyrofield to Prince and Autechre.  There's no shortage of atmosphere (Losoul's "Sunbeams and the Rain" is one particular highlight), but the throughline is groove: soulful, vocal deep house into driving techy depths, walls of glitchy drums and frantic percussion into guitar funk. 

"I got carried away a bit," Huismans says of RA.1015 below. And that's no bad thing. It sounds like someone enjoying himself again, and perhaps, after letting a few old skins fall away, Huismans is ready to shift shape once more. And if it's anything like the last time, a lot of good music awaits. 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1034 
@2562amadeupsound

RA.1015 Dave Huismans

Snide Rhythms - 04.12.25

One of the defining producers of the 21st century steps up for a rare, era-spanning mix.

We've been in a reflective mood lately: mulling emergent icons, modern classic and the cyclical nature of trends. All things bend around eventually, but if you lived through the mid-'00s the first time, it felt tricky to envision some specifics of those interim years making a second splash. More fool us. Amongst many other things, dubstep is well and truly back.

This resurged appetite for low-end has been a central storyline in 2025. Clear tells were there in the form of Introspekt's Moving The Center and Tracey's "Sex Life," two major highlights of the past 12 months. Alternately, cup your ear to the tremors rumbling across the world and you'd find Mala packing up crowds with gusto. Which makes closing out the year with a mix from the man himself serendipitous.

The South Norwood-born sub sensei has held an anchor role in the movement since its earliest days. A little like what Upsetter was to Black Ark, the principles Mala, Coki and Loefah's DMZ laid down have been expanded on by Deep Medi, a label that has cultivated a loyal fandom who watch over the catalogue like a hawk. (Six years of frothy debate and knowing in-jokes between MEDi 99 and MEDi 100 paints a picture of both steep expectations and an affinity for gently ribbing their leader.)

But Mala's banner 2025 hasn't relied on the heads alone. The adrenaline of his fissuring basslines and barrel-chested vocals have drawn people into his orbit, and there are rarer qualities at play, too—like pacifism, winked at by the demilitarized name and reinforced on their all-time greatest tune; or contemplation, inked on flyers beseeching the crowd to meditate on bass weight.

In that spirit arrives a mix we've asked after for years. Subtitled The Listening Session, it's rare on two counts. Despite his enduring popularity, Mala is a conspicuous absence on most DJ series. (It's not that he doesn't enjoy recording, just gets spooked by the reaction.)

A nearly-three hour studio set—spaciously paced and laced with a combination of 2025 highlights, freshly-cut dubplates and some of the biggest anthems in the genre's history—is unheard of. No tracklist for now, on Mala's request. Soon come.

RA.1016 is the kind of document that jogs the memory back to when dubstep was a discrete enterprise, something you could only fleetingly access by, say, dialling into Youngsta on Sub FM, ripping 320s of "Circling" off long-forgotten blogs or hugging the back wall of Mass. Which, in service of thinking the evolution of 21st century electronic music, is pretty perfect really.  – Gabriel Szatan

Find the interview at ra.co/podcast/1035

@maladmz
@deep-medi-musik

RA.1016 Mala

Rain

Interview:  https://truantsblog.com/2025/truancy-volume-357-jonnnah/

Soundcloud: @jonnnah

With the release of his new album 'What They Left' on Friday, the The Second End Records founder delivers a quietly transportive mix of introspective soundscapes and tender experimentalism.

Music from Pavel Milyakov, Lucas Dupuy,  Mammo, Fred P, Igor Dyachenko, Dublicator, DJ Trystero, Lord of the Isles & more...

Access the download and full tracklist (Confirmed, added) on our Patreon (patreon.com/truants). However if you need anything leave us a nice comment here with @jonnnah tagged and either of us will get back to you with an ID! Your support helps cover all our costs allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform.

Truancy Volume 357: Jonnnah

B-side to "WOR" by Django Django, the second release on The Bonjour Branch.

Written & Produced by Django Django.
Backing vocals and Oboe by Cara Tolmie

Django Django - Skies Over Cairo

Established in 2009 as a 7" (mainly) vinyl label by Dave Maclean (Django Django), Craig Coulthard (Randan Discotheque) and Andy Wake (The Phantom Band). We specialise in funtimes.