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BALEARIC

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Proud to present Mumsfilibaba for BD #5
These guys are amazing selectors in many genres, and they are here spoiling our ears with one hour of smooth balearic sounds.

Balearic Discoveries #5 - Mumsfilibaba

I discovered Frankie Knuckles through his music, one that was, gentle, lush with a subdued, understated power that rocked many a dancefloor.
I had the privilege to hear him once in the heyday of his legendary residency at Sound Factory Bar in New York. I was submerged, sonically and emotionally by the beauty of the music I heard that night. I remember very clearly saying to myself that this would be impossible to ever equal.
That was 20 years ago, and I never got to hear this magic combination again.

I got to meet Frankie a few times, and he was always like his music, gentle, humble,   yet naturally imposing

I've put together here some of my favorite music from him. So that his legacy can keep on inspiring other people.

Rest in peace, Frankie, may your music keep on moving people eternally

My Tribute To Frankie Knuckles

I put Michael Jackson and 2pac together. RIP to both. 

Michael Jackson - The Lady In My Life (Remix) Feat. 2pac

Sun Scope is a soundtrack to a dreamlike journey through nature.

ᴏʟʟᴏᴀ*
ʙᴇɴᴛʜᴏs
sʜᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ
sᴜᴍᴀᴄ*
ᴅᴇᴇʀ
ᴇʏᴇ ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ
sᴜɴ sᴄᴏᴘᴇ
ᴍᴇsᴀ
ᴛᴇᴍ ᴛᴡᴏ*
sᴇʜɴsᴜᴄʜᴛ
ᴍʏ ᴍɪsᴛᴀᴋᴇ
ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ*
sʜᴏʀᴛᴡᴀᴠᴇ
ʀᴇʟɪᴄ
ʙʟᴜᴇ ʀᴇᴅᴡᴏᴏᴅ

*not on vinyl

LP out now on Is It Balearic? Recordings
CD edition: https://maric0pa.bandcamp.com/album/sun-scope

☼⊕

Vinyl

Sun Scope

FADER Mix: Retiree

Hello and Welcome to the Decisive Podcast Series Guest Mix & Interview #20 with Mr. Afrikan Sciences from (New York City ) and your host Roberto Ingram. 

Afrikan Sciences has released on countless labels but his mainstays are Aybee`s DeepBlak imprint (http://deepblakmusic.com/db2/) & Pan (http://delinear.p-a-n.org/), he is a magical producer who`s style mirrors Poly Rhythms, Jazz, Improvisation, Abstract, Groovy, Creative and Fun.  

He has presented us with a lovely dj mix different than his past appearance in which I am sure you will feel comfortable with. 
Note Please that: The Decisive Podcast Series Guest Mix #20, Will be posted with out interview Thursday October 12, 2017.

So with that information sit back relax, have a beer and tune in with your ears to the Decisive Podcast Series Guest Mix #20. 

Afrikan Sciences Decisive Podcast Series Guest Mix #20
Tracklist:

01. Two Thou -Group Technology with Alberto Collodel

02. Ra Toth and the Brigantes Orchestra - Nicos Bass

03. Amelia & Quaid - Monologue in a zoo

04. Afrikan Sciences-Just in case I do

05. Super Black Tapes - Black Beauty Salon

06. Personal Life- There's a time for everything 

07. Dego & Kaidi- Decide what you choose 

08. AYBEE &Lars Bartkuhn -Passage

09. Damon Bell -Safe from harm

10. Fred Buddah- Free my Soul(Afrikan Sciences remix)

11. Hieroglyphic Being-The way of the tree of life

12. Woodworks Collective- Woodworks Theme

13. Roy Ananda- The only thing that makes sense is you(Opolopo remix)

Afrikan Sciences DPG - 11 - 10 - 2017

A Mixtape of Hiroshi Yoshimura

Crack Magazine

Crack Mix 254 – re:ni

One-Hundred-Twenty-Sixth HATE exclusive podcast with Sugar

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Tracklist:
Coil - Chaostrophy
Schacke - To The Outer Limits And Back
Vladimir Dubyshkin - I Decided To Fly
D.Dan - Guiness Dan Records
Marie Davidson - Paranoid Workaholic Bitch (Nina Kraviz Remix)
Kwarts - Show Me The Light (Cleric Remix)
Setaoc Mass - Psycho Filler
Schacke - Trained To The Floor
Mark Broom & James Ruskin - Hostage
Blawan - The Narrowing
Sugar - Untitled
Repro - Beleive In Credit
D Dan - Switchblade
Remco Beekwilder - Escape Form Niburu (Arnaud Le Texier Rework)
Sugar - Ketamine
Sugar & Repro - Semanticum
Skee Mask - Rev8617<

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Sugar - HATE Podcast 126

This month we’ve got party starters Tokyo Fantasy taking the lead in our mix series. Cam and “Nervous” Fergus are the self-proclaimed music dork duo from London, whose diverse parties have hosted highly respected names like Tornado Wallace, Secretsundaze, Jamie Tiller, and previous guest mix contributor, Carista.

Whilst they have outgrown their reputation as “perpetual warm up DJ’s”, Cam and Fergus do know how to de-ice a crowd like no other. This is exactly what you’ll hear in this 1 hour 45 mins long mix, developing gradually from smooth-as-Sade tracks, to dubby instrumentals, into boogie, slow Italo, African voodoo, finishing off with some grade A disco. Absolute diggers delight, without any of the pretentiousness. As they say, break out the lambrini and enjoy. 

Arigatōgozaimashita Tōkyō Fantajī!

@tokyofantasy
Q&A: https://www.aceandtate.com/journal/tokyo-fantasy/

Ace & Tate Sounds - guest mix by Tokyo Fantasy

Nothing but love for the wonderful @SpekkiWebu. We met about 8 years ago when he would come into Clone and pick up his order full of dubby deep tripping techno. Only years later we would meet more at parties and start hanging out together. Now he runs one of our favourite labels; @MirrorZone. Take a peek into his mind with this new NK Radio he made for us. Big up Spekki!!

Nous'klaer Radio

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Nous'klaer Radio #20 - Spekki Webu

Taken from SBKT026: Various Artists - Cache 01

Release date: April 26th 2019

Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork by Kim Laughton

Cache 01

Hyph11e - Sinking

@mikeservito is no stranger to the turntables and The Bunker NY community. His history in raves and DJing reaches back to the mid-’90s in Detroit, where he came up with the local scene. A move to New York led him to become a resident at The Bunker party in 2012, and around that time the wind picked up in Servito’s career, bringing him to clubs internationally and cementing him as an important figure in the house and techno world. His sets are technically skilled and notoriously bitchy. In honor of Pride Month, Servito will join us in the NYC studio to play a set — he’ll also discuss Pride and its meaning to him and the larger gay community, its importance, influence and reverberation through the world.

tracklist:

1st set:
Aérea Negrot  – Pisco Sauer (Shaun J. Wright Remix) (Twirl)
Aérea Negrot  – Pisco Sauer (Jason Kendig Remix) (Twirl)
Tama Sumo & Prosumer – Brothers, Sisters (Ostgut Ton)
Jamie Principle – Drive Me (Magda Edit)
Phresh Phantasy – Come On Acid (Logistic)
Lauren Flax – A Deeper Side Of Jack (The Bunker NY)
Savage Hymn – La Vida Sigue Igual (Instrumental) (Dark Entries)
LSDXOXO – Smoke of the Skunk
Paranoid London – Beats & Bubbles (Paranoid London)
Bill Converse – W.A.T.B. (featuring Carlos Souffront) (Dark Entries)
Blotter Trax – Rhythm Device (Frustrated Funk)

interview bed tracks:
Patrick Cowley - Timelink (Dark Entries)
Slowdive - Good Day Sunshine (Creation Records)
Huerco S. - The Sacred Dance (Probito)
Aphex Twin - Stone in Focus (Warp)

2nd set
Blotter Trax – Programmed Memories (Frustrated Funk)
Jasen Loveland – Psychotic Tango (Demo Mix) (unreleased)
Wata Igarashi – DNA (The Bunker NY)
Veledrome – Capataz (BMG Re-Render) (unreleased)
Baby Ford – Normal (Helston Flora remix by AFX) (Rephlex)
Vin Sol – Misguided Until Today (Dark Entries)
D.I.E – Get Up Edit (Detroit Electro Vox Super Bomb)
Truncate – 7_2B (Truncate)
Cardopusher – Mental Jobs (NYC Mix) (Super Rhythm)
Josh Caffe & Manny Cuevas – You'll Never Know (Twisted Fantasy) (Manny'z 90'z Rave Edit) (Snuff Trax)
Random Xs - Give Your Body (Lost Trax Remix) (Delsin)
Luke Vibert - iWash (Libertine Traditions)

The Bunker on Red Bull Radio: Mike Servito 06/20/2019

JD Twich is one half of Optimo, the legendary Glasgow party and a label. Some time ago he launched a new imprint called Against Fascism Trax, attempt to “provoke dialogue that is fundamentally anti-racist, anti-sexist, non-homophobic, non transphobic, non-ageist and non-ableist”. This podcast is a two-hour segment of this set at Hotel Forum's Kitchen from Unsound 2019. Before the performance, JD Twitch said of his Unsound set: “This will be the first ever presentation of an Against Fascism Trax DJ set, an experiment in whether music can convey an intent non verbally.” Starting the set and threaded throughout is the Italian protest song "Bella ciao", which originated in the late 19th century as a working-class anthem and was adopted as a hymn of the anti-fascist resistance in the 1940s. The song takes on new meaning in the current pandemic, as the need for new forms of solidarity — with health workers, cleaners and sanitation workers, impoverished people and all manner of vulnerable populations — becomes urgently clear.

Unsound Podcast 64: JD Twitch - "Against Fascism Trax"

Beesmunt Soundsystem @ TESTFM — 07/03/2020

@markknekelhuis is a world explorer who brings a love of live instrumentation to his dance music. The Knekelhuis label boss is a staunchly DIY operator who is also the voice of Volition Immanent, a live act along side Dekmantel regular Parrish Smith. He makes music that manages to be deeply personal but also immediate and arresting and that same style defines his radio shows on Red Light Radio.

His mix for us is an exploration of deeply hypnotic sounds and dreamy breakbeats to slowly but surely wake you up right at the start of the week. Once you’re in the groove, there is space travelling electro and beautifully delicate melodic techno that continues to sooth your soul as you journey through the cosmos and off to a better place.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 279 - Mark Knekelhuis

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

New Beat was born and initially exploded in 1987, went supernova (in Belgium) in 1988 and then the formula morphed a bit and was declared dead in 1989. It was slow and initially all about the atmosphere with industrial strength beats - the main form of rhythmic propulsion being the pounding kick and heavy snare. It was often mainly instrumental and when there was lyrical content it often became more about slogans and giving commands - "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat!", "Let There Be Brightness!", "Shout Out Loud!". While not really New Beat, it's no surprise Technotronic's "Pump Up Jam" was produced by a crew who had produced a ton of New Beat gems.

In 1989 one of New Beat's founders, Marc Grouls said "New Beat is atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial!!!!!" But, it was already too late. A zillion bandwagon jumpers had diluted the music and flooded the market with too many sub standard 12" singles. New Beat temple, the legendary Boccaccio nightclub, in Destelbergen, near Ghent, had been closed down and it looked like it was all over, but really, it was just the beginning. New Beat morphed into Hard Beat (many of the tracks on this mix are from the Hard Beat era) which quickly morphed into Belgian Rave, which was huge and hugely influential in the UK and is an often overlooked part of the DNA of UK Hardcore, and all that came after. Then from Ghent, R&S Records established itself as thee European Techno label and a huge wave of incredible Techno records emanated from it and many other mighty Belgian labels, but that is another story. 

New Beat arrived just as I first started DJing and I played a lot of it in my DJ sets and built up connections with several of the leading Belgian labels who would send me 12" singles so I had records nobody else here had any idea even existed. I would compile New Beat charts for the music paper The NME which may have given the impression there was a thriving New Beat scene in Scotland. The reality was very different; people here, many of whom would embrace the rave just a little while later never really took to it in a big way.

This mix is comprised of many of my personal favourites that I have loved since they came out (and two I missed at the time and only heard later). I think the tracks have aged like a fine wine, often sounding as good if not better today as they did then. There is definitely a faint whiff of fromage and a big dollop of stoopid in several of these tracks. Of course, it is not all about the cheese and many of these adhere to the "atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial" rule mentioned above. Some of the best programmed 303 Acid basslines ever made can be heard here along with transcendental hypno synths and those Belgian beats going on and on....! Slow and low, from under 100bpm up to 116, New Beat doesn't chug, it swings in a very distinct way. If you get to see any videos of Belgian clubs of the era, the way people moved to this music is incredible and so different to any dancing we see today.

Many of these tracks are made by the same people under various aliases, which will perhaps be audibly evident. Most of the names have been forgotten, if they were ever even known outside their native Belgium at all, but all are legends to me. 

This mix isn't any kind of attempt to tell the story of New Beat but rather a mix 33 of my favourite 12" singles from that era showing many of the various strains of the New Beat and Hard Beat sound. A lot of love went into this and I hope someone somewhere discovers this music for the first time and falls in love with it as I did way back when. This was Belgium!

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

Click here for the interview with Jesse Futerman: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/jesse-futerman

Here's one we've been looking forward to for a quite some time now, welcoming one of the deepest diggers of jazz, soul and hip hop out there, Montreal's @jessefuterman! One of the nicest fellas, not to mention best producers in the game for labels like SOBO and Church, Jesse's exquisite home listening journeys have really hit the spot these last few months of quarantine. With a masterful ear for jazz and library records – an obsession since his teenage years – we couldn't be happier to present Jesse's latest selection, full of the music closest to his heart.

www.melbournedeepcast.net

Interview

MDC.246 Jesse Futerman

A familiar face around the Dutch capital, Amsterdam-based DJ and producer Kennedy has been immersed in music and records for over two decades, putting into practise his mantra of moving both the body and the soul.

While day-to-day he can be found behind the counter at Red Light Records pushing wax, as well as being part of the team at Jamie Tiller and Tako Reyenga's Music From Memory imprint, his own musical endeavours see him taking over the waves at Red Light Radio and running his own Dream Machine imprint, which he launched last year with a debut record from himself. 

This year will see him release a second on the label and also debut overseas on DJ D.Dee's renowned Pacific Rhythm imprint. In the run up to these production outings, we asked him to take the reigns for this week's Shine A Light On mix, which sees him serve up a soothing selection of music for the soul...

Kennedy: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

The Cairo based DJ has been raising ears and attention with his passion and selections in sets. Today we’re happy to both have Sabrout as a writer at Delayed and taking the helm to guide us down the softer side of a Sunday morning.

1. Leafar Legov - Never Ending Beginnings (Giegling)
2. Koss - Kokoro (Mindgames) 
3. Dakota Suite - Things We Lost Along the Way (Loscil Remix) (Karaoke Kalk)
4. Isorinne - Odemark (Northern Electronics)
5. Akira Ito - Praying for Mother/Earth Part 1 (Light In The Attic)
6. Hiroshi Yoshimura - Water Copy (Empire Of Signs)
7. 36 - Esper (A Strangely Isolated Place)
8. Burial - In McDonald's (Untrue)
9. Sarah Davachi - For Voice (Students of Decay)
10. Soela - The Same Thing, The Same Thoughts (Dial)
11. Desolate - Farewell #6 (Fauxpas Musik)
12. Tale of Us - Definizione Dell Impossible (Deutsche Grammaphone)
13. Sade - I Never Thought I’d See the Day (Epic Records)

Sabrout on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sabro96



https://www.itsdelayed.com/

Sundays are for... Sabrout

To celebrate the release of Artificial Dancers - Waves Of Synth, (RHMC005) we hosted another Rush Hour Store Broadcast.
 
On the bill, we had Artificial Dance label founder, Interstellar Funk alongside good friend, the designer of the artwork, and excellent wave collector Steele Bonus.

Store Broadcast 017 I Interstellar Funk & Steele Bonus

"Arms of Morpheus"

This somewhat epic ambient set was put together for after hours chalet sessions at the ever so crazy Bloc Festival back in 2010.

Chapter I
X102	 /Discovery
Suburban Knight /Collaboration Alpha
Stacy Pullen /Liquid Letter
Future Beat Alliance /Eon Link 500
Luke Slater's 7th Plain /Astra Naughty
Model 500 /Neptune
Pametex /...
Norken /Fern
Deepart /Night Light
Mayday /Kaotic Harmony
MIllsart /Shibuya-Ku
Innerzone Orchestra	/At Les
Convextion /Astrum
Duplex /Desolate Place

Chapter 2
Indio	 /Kino Flow
System 7 /Overview
Arne Weinberg /qdr-xy
Future Sound of London /Mountain Goat
Autechre /Windwind
LSG /Into Deep
Salt Tank /Isabella's Dream
James Bernard /Unreleased 3.2
Biosphere /Cloudwalker II
Sun Electric /Lichterfeld
Aphex Twin /Untitled aka "matchsticks"
Black Jazz Consortium /The Message

Chapter 3
Strike 154	 /A Brighter Day
John Beltran /Collage of Dreams
B12 /Sanctum
Mantsevich Dzenis /November
Arc of Doves /Arabesque
Variant /Adrift
Naono /Healing Process
Sven Weisemann /Xine XV
Max Richter /Iconography
Willits + Sakamoto /Chi - Yu
Tim Hecker /Paragon Point
Rafael Anton Irisarri /Waking Expectations
Loscil /Fragile
Brock van Wey /Too Little Too Late

end

verdant-recordings 2010

Arms of Morpheus

Dreamy ambient and throbbing dub from Alex Paterson. 

Interview: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_TheOrb

@the-orb-official

XLR8R Podcast 647: The Orb

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