Optimo live from The Beach Stage at Love International 2023. 

First 3 hours of their 6 hour set on the Beach.

Live from the Adriatic 2023: Optimo

Classic Candy Store Show 89.1 WNYU , Shouts out to Hanna for the tape

Maurice Fulton WNYU 7-28-97

TASCAM DR-40X

2025-01-18 Live At Paloma Invites (Richard Sen)

Recorded live at the k hole disco (Lunacy party), Angel Bar, 2025.

Aradea Barandana, widely known as Dea, began his DJ career in high school, spinning records as background music for a breakdance crew. What started as a casual exploration of rhythm soon blossomed into a passion for building community through music. Dea launched his own club night in Jakarta, where his eclectic taste began to take shape.
While studying in London, Dea delved deep into the world of underground and obscure cosmic sounds, honing a style that defies strict categorization. His sets are a rich tapestry of exotic psychedelia, infused with electronic grooves that transcend traditional genre boundaries.
Dea has released numerous records under his own name and as part of projects like Precious Bloom and Zatua. His collaborations span diverse fields, from co-creating a short film soundtrack with DJ Harvey to contributing to albums by A Mountain of One and Ricardo Villalobos. He also made waves with an EP released on Peggy Gou’s Gudu Records.
Looking ahead, Dea is set to release his highly anticipated solo album on Rush Hour Records in summer 2025, a testament to his ever- evolving artistry and deep connection to the global music scene.

H.A.N.D. MIX 068 : Dea Barandana

E ruscha V - reaching up
Gemini - away from earth
Inner space quartet - computer cals
John cale & terry Reilly - church of anthrax
Valcrond video - oh yea cop collar
Los ojos - spaced out (sax mix)
Sheer taft - cascades
Beppe loda - Elettronica Virtuale (Ivan Berko Remix)
Altz - gonno I got ya
Wah wah wino - heavy traffic
Conor scmutz - red lights only please
Daniel wang - file 7
Opal sunn - elastic phase 2
Felix Dickinson - widow maker
Sam redmore - woah!
Web web - apotheosis
Galambo - el dinero no lo es todo
Soft machine - soft weed
Fundido - take me to Mecca Masha mar
Fine tuning edit 11
Timetrap - yakayaka katakana edit
Mark 909 king - after dark
Lord echno - cosmic echos in dub
Dif już - no motion
Steve Jansen - the journey back
Hausfrau - dancehall days


Back before acid house changed the world, Jaye was already ploughing a unique path playing weird and wonky musics of all flavours at squat parties and industrial based do’s, she flung herself whole heartedly and without concern for her safety into the oncoming tsunami of what we would end up tagging as house, techno or the multitude of varying descriptive titles it has been given and has stayed true to ‘our thing’ ever since.

Dancing wildly at dirt box, the mutoid waste parties, the hacienda, ministry of sound, tonka, moist, sabresonic set her up for the ‘90s where, while Jaye was behind the counters of a number of soho record shops during the day and doing the ambient ‘creamy meat’ show as bish on the legendary chillin’ FM pirate radio, she was often found behind the decks at the legendary WANG parties, the back room at Golden in Stoke on Trent, her residency at London’s sadly defunct END with the ‘for your pleasure’ crew and numerous long gone all nighters and late into the night dark room parties. Getting her second wind at the start of the 00’s via the ‘softmachine’ parties she ran alongside George ‘black merlin’ and Kyle & Johnny from ‘land of light’ she’s been playing regularly across the country for numerous nights such as LOVE MUSCLE & COSMIC SLOP in Leeds, HOMO BLOC & KISS ME AGAIN in Manchester and further a field as a resident at the KALA festival as well as Field Maneuvers, Love International and dimensions in Croatia. She is also the resident at long running & fiercely loyally supported Bristol party PLU, alongside Ranks which has carved out a name for interesting left of centre guests and a distinctly gnarly music policy.

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eclectics mix - 177 | Jaye Ward | April 2025

A memorable all night set at London's Night Tales Loft 
Big thank you to all the dancers!

Move D @ NT-Loft London 2025-02-21

Download available here: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/dj-harvey/

DJ Harvey Ray-Ban x Boiler Room 007 Milan DJ Set

Running around

Gambling have this minimal dance floor sound u will love

Gambling

Free DL

Vittor, ONNE - Disco Shit

What and who the hell are Decius you ask? Well, we'll leave it up to them to introduce themselves... 

'Decius is when members of Trashmouth Records, Fat White Family & Paranoid London find themselves climbing out of a “hole” together at a disco after hours.'

This magical (and inebriated) coming together of minds has resulted in a ton of edits and re-works which will form a series of EPs followed by two artist albums. We've been lucky enough to get dibs on the first series - Decius Edits Vol I - which you can hear in full on today's 'Wednesday Alternative' mix...

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Decius: The 'Wednesday Alternative' Mix

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