Optimo is JG Wilkes & JD Twitch; record label, and longstanding Glaswegian party. You can expect a lot from their new monthly slot, sure to dig up some obscurities from post-punk, new wave, EBM, house and techno. Bags of unreleased stuff, too. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/optimo/episodes/optimo-9th-july-2024

Optimo 090724

More Info: http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2015/03/premiere-stream-live-at-robert-johnsons-upcoming-lifesaver-compilation-in-full

Full stream of 'Lifesaver Compilation 2', a new collection of tracks from the Live at Robert Johnson label (out on March 16).

https://soundcloud.com/live-at-robert-johnson

Benedikt Frey - Brainwashed

fka boursin is a DJ and producer out of Bristol, UK. 
Previously known as DJ Boursin, he is recognized for his deep, ambient-infused house music that explores political dimensions of clubs and identity politics.

Welcomed into the Scissor & Thread fold, fka boursin shares two cuts of deep and introspective electronic music. 

The original Listless Intertext is a hazy trip through ambient soundscapes, shuffling rhythms and half-caught conversations, drifting across a 12 minute run time that slowly evolves and shifts with time.  

"Listless Intertext is a track centred around the "failed" employment of cheap vocoder software that attempted to process explicit words and phrases across 11 minutes." says fka boursin. "Instead, the vocoder output made any words indecipherable and I was left with thematic vagueness. The final text of the track is simply a submission to its own limitations with some french thrown in."

When label bosses Frank & Tony step up for their Housebeat Dub, they keep the essential mood but introduce a thick, fat groove that works just as well in conveying the mood. 

"Our remix is a strictly dancefloor approach," says Frank, "an extended psychedelic beat rework perfect for late night, early morning vibes".


Listless Intertext

Outsiders: Various Perfumes w/ Matthew Walker @ Kiosk Radio 10.09.2025

You hear a pulsating rhythm. What does it mean when the intensity rises? Is it the blood rushing from the sound of the drum that brings meaning or is it the anticipation of what’s next?

Kasra V’s returns to his budding V-sion imprint with its third installation. This latest offering brings us to the totality of physicality, where grooves and melodies do not require a resolution. The tracks bring to mind the unbridled maverick spirit of early Techno and Tribal House where the rulebook was tossed into flames and only the unfettered psyche remained.

Keeping the spirit of experimentation alive, Kasra’s affinity for manipulating samples and sounds in obscure ways shines through with playful nods to both industrial and early Midwest dance music alike.

Unchaining the shackles of where dance music has gone wrong, Kasra is trying to maintain the connection to a time when bodies moved to the beat religiously and held reverence only for the speaker stack.

Drum hypnosis is beginning now. Please enter the room and have a seat.

written and produced by Kasra V
Front cover by Taro Ray
Design by Morteza Vaseghi
Mixed by Tiarnan Mcmorrow
Mastering by Marco Pellegrino
Text by Sepehr Alimagham
Distribution by clone

Bandcamp

VSION03 - Kasra V

1st episode of new show by Sacha Mambo, al around Leftfield from Ambient to downtempo, to dub and more...

Courtesy Of Choice w/ Sacha Mambo: 24th September '25

Buy at Bandcamp

Anatolian Weapons Presents Octabot: OCTA 25.10.25 01

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (04.10.2025)

Artist: @montana-bourke

Desired Paths w/ Montana @ Radio TNP 04.10.25

| BLUE LENS | w/ Selena | E14

GLYKMIX63 / yet unseen – state of motion

Out in the shed there was a dusty old toolbox, it had been used time and time again to dismantle and rebuild the old machinery which sat mysteriously at the foot of the garden. Inside - a dusty old wrench, an unpleasant looking hammer and enough bits and bobs to assemble a small factory. The machine was a piece of forgotten technology, a rusted pile of junk, yet one day he hoped it might have value or meaning for something more. A chance to offer an insight into a bygone world in which we weren't under the contol of a system, when machines were free and not a source of contention. 

BFTT is an up and coming producer with an abstract edge, previous releases have appeared on Cong Burn and Whities. His latest comes on All Centre, a bass inspired experimental two tracker. One for the intelligent heads and the weirder feet.

Mauldeth

PREMIERE: BFTT - Wrench [All Centre]

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