Like countless others, Steve Goodman played a lot of video games during lockdown. At the time, the artist known as Kode9 and founder of the iconic Hyperdub label found himself imagining a game about Scotland and the country's plan to set up a colony in Panama back in the 1690s. Those thoughts later crystallised into Astro-Darien, an AV installation, "sonic fiction" and album that explores Scotland's space program and its past colonial ambitions through the lens of a video game.

Speaking to RA on this week's episode of the Exchange, Goodman delves into the various facets of this project, including Escapology, his score to Astro-Darien. The album, released in July, is "like a film trailer that's giving you a little taste of various bits of story and strands of a kind of palette of sounds and a world," he explains. "So if you want, there's places to go deeper on it but if you are not interested in that, just treat it as a slightly weird dance music record."

Science fiction aside, the Hyperdub founder also discusses the cyclical nature of music and why jungle is currently experiencing what many have called a revival. "Music doesn't move forward, it doesn't progress in a linear fashion," he describes, attributing that to "generational relationships."

For more deep thoughts and Goodman's guide on hiking in the Scottish Highlands, listen to the conversation in full.

EX.624 Kode9

Snowboarding in Argentina

Burma Heights (2023 Edit)

The Irresistible Force - Space Is The Place (Intergalactic Ambient Mix)

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2024.07.05.html

@aguilaofficial...
Central - Lost Touch
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb
Shigeto - Soul Searching
Sade - Mermaid
Tycho - From Home
Lord RAJA - Split Out In Cursive
Sade - Pearls
Vangelis - Rachel's Song
Maizena - Dynamic Noose
The Orb - Backside Of The Moon (Under Water Deep Space Mix)
Massive Attack - Group Four
Simply Red - Thrill Me (Steppin' Razor Ambient Mix)

@scape-one... (1h 2m)
Q_IX – Liquid Love
XY0815 – 16mBit
Ensemble Pittoresque – Schets 3
Analoc – Chase at the Docks
Mathew Jones – I Am the Jones
DKAPZ – Anti Viral Defence Suit
Wellenhafen – Elements
Vector Lovers – Solitude
Scape One/Kurt Baggaley – Shielded Reasons
Grey skies – Heavy Burden
Tech Palms – Brenda
Hamatsuki – JX3P Srisdasris
Tod Dockstader – Jigjag
Tau Sagittarii/Scape One – Asterism
Sacred Seeds – Paralled
Jonny Nash – Kala
Ninechecker – Antennas
Sun Glitters – Not everyday Sometimes (Logreybeam Remix)
Phonem – Suffer
Scape One/Kurt Baggaley – Artificial Fatherhood 
DogTech – Drowning
Vertical – A Beginning without an End
Sonorus – Exit Towards Another Sun
Illuvia – Stellar Darkness
Emre Turkes – Introduction
Nacht Plank – Vannemmet
Rene Lorenzo – Good Trip
Tau Sagittarii/Scape One – Ceres
Glint – LTR014
Szelest – A Submissive Smile
Jay Riordan – Kuiper
Goo Age – Frogslide (Refraction)
Portable Sunsets – Guitar Plume
Solyst – Tesla
Double Knots – Double vision (Toby Tobias Remix)
Minima Moralia – A Pressing Need
Dream Lover – Heartbreakers
Adelbert von Deyen – Silver Rain
Fatima Yamaha – Migratory Floozy
Einka – Veneon Venimeux

@m50... (3h 31m)
being : The Wheels : Spaces : This Machine Is Broken
The Jaffa Kid : Trip Hop-Downtempo Track 2 : Future Mellow : The Jaffa Kid
Leon Vynehall : Blue : Music For The Uninvited : 3024
Grouper : Fallow : [split]
[unknown] : [b1] : 07 : Mystic Versions
Tim Koch : Dendrils : Tourbillon : CPU

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Aguila + Scape One + m50 @ etc 2024.07.05

Remix of The Grid single Rollercoaster by Global Communication. UK official chart #19, 1994.

Rollercoaster - The Global Communication Yellow Submarine Re - Take)

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wtf am i cooking

As Trip To Planet U

A1) Ted Milton – Love Is Like A Violēnce ‎​
A2) Ted Milton – It’s Only Recently That Stalins Have Begun To Roost​

AA1) Blurt – The Ruminant Plinth​

Blurt are perhaps the act who have played live at Optimo more than any other. Active for close to 40 years they are one of the UK’s all time great acts, phenomenal live and on record and supremely underrated.

Blurt mainman Ted Milton is a living legend. Now in his 70s but more vibrant on stage than most artists 50 years his junior, he is a man of many talents; artist, poet, musician, performer….

In 1984 he released a solo 12”; “Love Is Like A Violēnce”, a no doubt accidental dancefloor gem completely out of kilter with any other music of the era that now makes total sense in 2017. Dubbed out stabs, programmed rhythm, trademark sax squeals and a more subdued than normal vocal that is strangely reminiscent of Vincent Price. Thee definition of a cult classic and much in demand, side A of this 12” presents the A and B side (the equally outre “It's Only Recently That Stalins Have Begun To Roost”) of this mighty 12” on one side of vinyl.

“The Ruminant Plinth” is but one of multiple classic tracks in the Blurt catalogue and is a long, long time personal favourite that takes pride of place of the other side. Tribal hypno rhythms, chicken wire guitar, sax and Milton’s voice on fire, this was a genuine party starter on the Optimo dance floor on Sunday nights in Glasgow. So louche it should probably be banned.

12” vinyl release in full picture sleeve designed by Glasgow artist Andrew Beltran.

Released on vinyl (and digital) on January 19th 2018. Distributed by Kompakt.

Optimo Music 39  - Ted Milton / Blurt - Ruminant Violence 12" EP  (sampler)

A 100% homegrown mix from multifaceted Polish producer and former Ptaki member Bartosz Kruczyński, whose work has found a home on Phonica Records, Growing Bin, Emotional Response, Rhythm Section, Echovolt and Les Yeux Orange.

Interview and tracklist: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/02/28/self-portrait-earth-trax/

Self-Portrait: Earth Trax

//Youtube - https://youtu.be/le5ly5k8jGk

Ppalace
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"7774L1F3 - Emotional & Interestellar Outsider is our new compilation with the curation of Mente3000, it is a double cassette compilation designed to raise the vibration of the planet and has 23 artists from planet earth."

7774L1F3 ** emotional & interestellar outsider **

Sphere Of Love

PREMIERE: Ppalace - Sphere Of Love (Infinito Audio Network)

Official Soundcloud page for Dave Ball and Richard Norris aka The Grid. Expect news in 2015.

Contact - thegrid@gmx.us