at the end of the day it's a game ov two halves really init.

@aya_yco has dazzled the UK underground with her experimental club productions and genre-hopping sets, which she demonstrates in her exhilarating Recognise mix. The London-based, Huddersfield-raised artist also speaks to Sophie McNulty about how her creative upbringing in West Yorkshire informs her work, and how her hyper-detailed process allows her to create art that is genuine

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-aya

Recognise: aya

VALERATE 0.2 - for Montez Press Radio 28/07/22

Detox № 16 - Unknownloops

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French songwriter and dream pop explorer Tryphème takes over in a guest slot, selecting music from her new record, as well as tracks from Pavel Milyakov, Anatolian Weapons and more.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/trypheme-7th-june-2024

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Bianca Scout is a multi disciplinary musician and performer who recently released her album ‘Pattern Damage’. It was an album rooted in the exploration of trauma and human behaviour in response and channeled a deep sense longing for escape from cyclical patterns.

As a musician she has worked and collaborated with the likes of Space Afrika, Klein, Coby Sey, Mica Levi, Ben Vince and Elena Isolini. Her music is at times haunting, at others ethereal.

This mixtape is a reflection of that and has been paired with the following piece of descriptive text.

“The babe and the ancient : A sonic adventure about the half phantom bride ‘Origin’ who finds StoneFace amongst the rocks on Jersey Shore. Including songs such as ‘This City Had A Wall’ from ‘The Heart Of The Anchoress’ and ‘Anon’s Song’ from ‘Pattern Damage’.

We can hear the voices of friends and collaborators such as Elena Isolini, Coby Sey, Darkmarik and Cam Molloy weave in and out as Bianca Scout threads together pieces and sounds from different places of her world.

The last track you hear is from an album still in the making, made with fellow producer who goes by the name Cajm, and its called ’Silent Treatment’ … coming soon… “

Bianca Scout: The Ransom Note Mix

For this month’s Bodyvision West installment, host Gavilán Rayna Russom is joined by “local dj” (artist Adonis Huff who also performs noise as Mercury Symbol) for an hour of party jams with sharp teeth. Bodyvision West is the NYC local offshoot of Gavilán Rayna Russom’s residency show Bodyvision on Mutant Radio Tbilisi. Both shows explore the connections between bodies, sound, memory and knowing.

https://www.instagram.com/gavilanraynarussom 
https://www.instagram.com/mercurysymbol

Experimental, Noise, Dance, Funk, Techno

Bodyvision West with Gavilán Rayna Russom and “local dj” @ The Lot Radio 09-05-2024

Vibrazioni nella macchina

“You don’t understand my pain“ - Pain Speech x All I need (outro) Radiohead

After more than a year in the works, we are pleased to announce our debut VA available through digital streaming and on vinyl.

Mélange is a new community and online platform for young emerging artists based between Europe and Australasia. The first of the label’s VA compilation album spans corners of electronic and world music and weaves between classical/ambient sounds and UKG, Jungle & Disco. It’s a commitment to multi-genre discographies and the need for more established career paths for young, gifted artists.

With early support on the vinyl from Four Tet and Haai, our goal is to help share and further establish European and Oceanic sounds with music lovers everywhere.
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released September 30, 2025

A1. Alice Freeman - Neptue
A2. Flavour - LeSpag
A3. Raffa - Drowning In Your Love
A4. DJ Dern - Higher
A5. Noneohone - Knew It All Along

B1. Roka - D Beam
B2. Gabriel Griffith - P's & T's
B3. Shep - M1 Sun
B4. Sharksss - Morning Star
B5. Manoah Kenna - Just A Bit Of Rain
B6. Mélanger Le Miel, Alice Freeman - Bloom
B7. Mélanger Le Miel, Alice Freeman - Bloom (Ambient Mix)

Music from:
Alice Freeman, Tom Palazzo, Oscar Robson, Lachie O'nians, Tom Cronin, Hannah Donnelly, Alfie Harding, Sebastian Batchelor, Zeke Joyce, Andrew Beveridge, Rocker Rammage, Gabriel Griffith, Max Shepherd, Mark Leighton, Manoah Kenna.

Mixing: Ethan Ash, Elon Bust
Mastering: Joseph Buchan
Release: Mélange (Melbourne, AUS)
Lacquering: StarDelta (Edinburgh, UK)
Pressing: SeaBass Ltd (Edinburgh, UK)
Distribution: Rubadub (Glasgow, UK)
Artwork: Tymaniah Newman & Gabriel Griffith
Compiled & Directed: Sebastian Batchelor & Gabriel Griffith

Mélange acknowledges the Traditional Owners of this land, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation in which we operate. The Wurundjeri People are the people of the wurun, the river white gum, who have been custodians of this land for thousands of years. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders - past, present, and emerging.

Purchase

Mélanger Le Miel, Alice Freeman - Bloom (Ambient Mix)

Astrid Sonne - Strong, Calm, Slow
Emily Glass - Classroom
Nimi Aghiani - Kah-Gash
Croatian Amor - Like Angel
Fausto Mercier - Check Realité
Steve Roden - Forty Hands In Anticipation Of A Word
Xenia Xamanek - Comido
Arca - Mother
Klein - Lifetime
FKA twigs - Water Me
Geir Jenssen - Palung (A Yak Caravan Is Coming)
Virgin - Strafe FR
Rainforest Spritual Enslavement - The Case Of The Male Witch From Goroka
Tirzah - Fine Again
field recordings from various locations by yyed

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