London-based artist Bianca Scout moved from her home of Newcastle to immerse herself in her work as a dancer and musician. As well as exploring the connection between the two mediums, her creative activity concerns itself with the imagination and unlocking your spiritual potential, realised through her fuzzy potion of experimental sound collage and wistful vocal snippets. 

She translates these creations through performance, her self-released output and on records for labels like Jungle Gym, Opal Tapes sub-label Beatrice & Annie and Infinito Audio Network. More recently she contributed a track to Blank Mind’s Comme de Loin compilation, alongside contemporaries like Lack, Big Hands and Clara de Asis, which explored everything from textural ambient and field recordings to spaced-out modular work and intricate instrumentation.

Noting that Monday's 'can have very different tones', Bianca put together two mixes for us to pick from: 'one for a blue sky' and 'one for a rainy day'. We are treated to the former which she delves into in more detail on site...

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Bianca Scout: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

Mother - Radio Buena Vida 16.07.21

Smoke & Mirrors Residency - July 2021 - Radio Raheem
w/ @autumn-bpr  

Guest Mix by https://soundcloud.com/mistareez

Smoke & Mirrors w/ Mistareez

Mixtape named after a pub in Land's End. Fleetway Tapes 006.

Andy Mac - First & Last, Sennen

Diffus

Bandcamp

Shielding - Equance

Latest mix for @nousklaeraudio on @Refugeworldwide
Tracklist:
SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL - BloodRun
Jane Bee/Bukkha - Dub Mommy
Jackie Mittoo – Disco Jack
Al Wootton - Fellaheen
Djoser - Faded red
Ossia - Drum Tangle
Mafou - Blind
Yushh - Periwink
Planète - Deep Navy
Furtive - Humid Creeper (Steamy Shadows)
BFTT - XCUSEME
DJ Lag - London Riot
Krotone - Immersed
Cassius Select - Fish Tek
Destrata - Bait & Switch
Fiesta Soundsystem - Pulse Fiesta
Djoser - Untitled
Fekry Kashef - Ya Rait Mina

Djoser for Refuge Worldwide Radio- Nous'klaer Showcase

Featuring tracks from Dean Blunt, Anthony Naples and, of course, The Beach Boys.

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Sunday Mix: DJ Pitch

Dilly Joints w/ Akimat (5/11/21)

Haiku #3

Discerning Shadow

A meditation on distance and collapse, “Far” begins in quiet reflection and swells into a dense, dissonant expanse. It is an ambient piece that captures the tension between serenity and decay.

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