Recording live in Brooklyn on 04/02/2022
@toma-kami

CNC LIVE - TOMA KAMI

There was change in the air, some sort of strange shift.

The tone of the evening had become ominous and menacing as the lights flickered and flashed beneath the bridge. Cars went past oblivious to the crowd who had gathered upon the bridge to watch the race unfold. In the distance the sound of engines could be heard from up on the hillside.

Plastic egos were aplenty, fragile yet furious in equal measure.

Soon everything would be dark but for the headlights careering through the darkness. They'd watch from overhead as they drove strikingly beneath - onwards and into the black.

Trip The Light originated in Manchester but is now based in Berlin, the collective, come partym come label have been at the forefront of a new wave of bass music which challenges the preconceptions of the genre and this new release from one of their residents Akïi cements that.

PREMIERE: Akïi - shift [Trip the Light]

TRACKS IN THE MUD – Retreat Radio's first-ever compilation of original music drops on April 20, 2025! Available as a double CD, on a wrench-shaped USB, digitally, and across multiple streaming platforms. Listen to the first 4 tracks and pre-order: retreatradio.bandcamp.com/album/tracks-in-the-mud

Tracklist:
SAATANS KVINNA - I have a lot to say (intro)
HOS - Jorn
Prins Emanuel & Rivet - Umarel
Klofink - Triple Tundric Vision
Goaty - Drear
Thomas Bush - Loneliness Remembers
DJ Sandylion - Look Out!
Moonilena - Solarna
Sofftronic - Metallic Dub
Oklo Gabon - The Theoretical
Jonte Prippz - Nomore
Digge Shim - Dawn 2 Dusk
East Moon - Soloflight (Ecover Version)
Miranda Magdalena - Polly Pocket (Rivet Scrub)
CYSP - Farever
tala drum corps - conc
Aircode - Came Back
Oblinof - KK2 Corp
Rumina - Rezillik
Ceqi - Fog Juice
tZimtZum - Re-Koil
towLie - taLk to me
Five o'clock Traffic - double refusal
2Lanes - Tadpole Prime

The online radio station Retreat Radio has acted as a unifying force on the underground scene in Malmö for close to a decade and now offers its first compilation of original music from its vast community.

A community grown exponentially like a virus, with Retreat Radio as the source of infection, comprised of artists in various stages of despair revelling in hazy ambient, angular industrial rhythms and post-dub influences. Now bringing you 24 tracks of frog-induced head music made for a sad generation that wanted to be club kids but had no club to go to.

Many - if not all - of the names behind this mammoth of a compilation are Retreat residents with current or past monthly shows on the programme. Many of whom have walked the stark lit street at the outskirts of town at night to climb a spiral staircase above a carwash to play their shows.

Loosely centered around the interpretation of dub as a genre, the compilation hand-picks a curation of tracks which nonetheless point to a coherent vision: that of dub as a vital cornerstone in the development of new music reflecting on an urban post-capitalist environment.

releases April 20, 2025

Mastered by: Martin Blomberg & Jonatan Bergsman
Artwork by: Oda Haugerud
Design by: FETIDGRUPPE©
Words by: Simon Eliasson

TRACKS IN THE MUD

premiere: towLie - taLk to me

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+++ w/ Giulia Rae @ GIMIC - 23 March 2025

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soundcloud : @le-motel

Le Motel @ GIMIC - 26 March 2025

April 20, 2025 Special. Originals and edits made by my buds and I.

Carl OG - Girls I Like (Dub)

Back with a deeper, more hypnotic mix for this month. 

Expect dubby textures, proggy grooves and chuggy tech throughout.

Gazeli 003 // April 2025

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