Space Disco '20

Live from Du Beast: for the next two hours, Zillas on Acid are serving up a feast for your ears.

Zillas on Acid [11.8.25]

From the Lock Tavern via The Gun to spoons…

Family Silver are Mr Nick ‘The Gun’ Stephens and Casper ‘Volte Face’ Clark.

Nick was the publican at The Gun, a much-loved Hackney institution that recently closed its doors – more on that here for those who have been living under a rock. Nick’s excellent Netil radio show can also be found here.


 
Casper, is based in Clapton and was the music programmer for Camden institution The Lock Tavern where our paths originally crossed – most of the time being kicked out whilst DJing. Casper’s shared stages with Justice, Jeff Mills, Helena Hauff, Daniel Avery and many more and is also known for his long-running BleeD events via which he collaborated with labels like Blackest Ever Black, PAN and Downwards. Both share a love for “v lo-fi early eighties sound, kosmische, post-punk and scuzzy electronics,” with Nick’s influences ranging from 80s TV themes and Giorgio Moroder to The KLF, while Casper was shaped in his youth by electronic acts like Leftfield, Underworld, and William Orbit with DJ Hell’s International Deejay Gigolo Records becoming a huge influence later on.

Their sound sits between post-punk and the electronic… so with that in mind let’s give it a listen shall we?

Handily via the wonder of a recording  from this year’s Field Maneuvers where they opened The Gun’s stage.

Listen and read the interview here: 
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/line-out-family-silver-live-sputnik-field-manuevers-2025/

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INTERVIEW

Line Out: Family Silver Live @ Sputnik, Field Manuevers 2025

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The Breakfast Show - Stella Zekri - 22 Aug 2025

"I wanted to record a set with faster pace and a higher energy and I had put together a playlist with recent favourites in that category - but when I started recording, the tracks I had gathered didn't really fit the vibe at that moment (mainly because I was recording in a studio and not at a party) so I dug into other folders and made some spontaneous choices. 
the mix still became energetic and pacey but more suited to the listening experience."

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Mantissa Mix 371: Sam Goku

Mantra ๒ is presented by fellow space cat @freybenedikt. He describes this mix as one “For the Birds and the Trees” and we couldn’t agree more.

Listen and dream. here, music is the medicine.

Mantra ๒ Benedikt Frey

Pass The Time w/ Matt Cowell - Aaja channel 2 - 16 08 25

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Voyage De Lux w/ Alex Downey - 27.08.25

Upfront the official release on September 19th.

Hot seducers. Two of them. On one 7inch. A/B Side business, hard to choose a fav, as both so fab. The A-Side is called “Happen”. It comes from prolific Tokyo based DJ and producer Hoshina Anniversary. A simple drum machine groove, a manic melody, witching siren sounds, psychedelic voices, some soft chords, and soulful high-pitched singing, somewhere between Dam-Funk coolness and Ian Svenonius- The-Make-Up sixties pop longing. One for warm sexy nights under neon lights. Out there in psychic realms. The flip brings a Dolphins interpretation. Yes, that feverish trio behind R.i.O., consisting of Nadia D'Alò, Benedikt Frey and Menqui. Their freshly recorded version comes with haunting nonchalant singing, displaying the tunes core melody as a more prominent actor of the play. Michael-Mann-Pop- Nostalgia with a baroque touch, that waves dark-ish. Even some Jon Hassle feeling is in there. Hoshina Anniversary disclosed, that the original song is inspired by jazz musicians like Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius and Keith Jarrett. None of them is directly stylistically audible. But their kind of blue is all over. On the A as well as on the B. Twice soul music for the free.

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Hoshina Anniversary - Happen (Dolphins Remix)

SPEK / Siblings / Kiosk Radio - Antwerp native, Brussels based dj, Sixsixsixties is a co-founder of the SPEK and Siblings party series, and a Kiosk Radio resident since the beginning.

Sixsixsixties @ Kiosk Radio 29.08.2025

Psychedelic Techno grooves from The Great Beyond co-founder and head of Enemy Records.

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Dustin Zahn @ The Lot Radio 08-29-2025

A1. Neil Diablo - Berwuda
A2. - Neil Diablo - Berwuda (Coyote Remix)
B1. - Neil Diablo - Berwuda (Tiago Remix)
B2. - Neil Diablo - Berwuda (Dawn Again Re-triangulation)

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Neil Diablo - The Bobby Moore/Berwuda EP - OUT SOON ON ROTHMANS

The rising notes echoed amidst the summer field as the harp was plucked gracefully. Upon the breeze blew a hectic blur of wild grass and fragrant flowers, it was hard to take it all in. Sat beneath the tree she watched as the wild world embraced the sweet escape of summer, families walked whilst friends laughed beneath the glow of the mid morning sun. There was a special sense of elegance and grace which lingered amidst the fresh clean air. This was the time of year....

Marius Circus is set to release a new EP on his own In The Garden label. The EP consists of two light hearted dancefloor cuts perfect for the new year...

Apt EP

PREMIERE: Marius Circus - Apt [In The Garden]

For its newest record, Public Release soars over the Atlantic and glides into Greece to convene with two brothers from Thessaloniki, Christos and Fotis Papadakis, for Cosmic Swimmer, a gentle, lilting sunbleached house escapade.

The 12-inch opens with their soft and cushy original mix of “Cosmic Swimmer”, a charmed layer cake of round, full-bodied hand drums, airy pads, and washed-out vocal harmonies. A breezy, wide-open endless groove that ambles along at a not-too-slow, not-too-fast Goldilocks pace that will easily keep you undulating on the floor or in your head. Another pair of brothers, the Soulwax boys, making a very rare, celebrated appearance here, take the reigns and fill out the arrangement by wrapping it all up in some stone-cathedral euphoric resonance and injecting it with their trademark finger-plucked bass struts. One of their top remixes ever? Perhaps.

The hot potato is then passed to New York City’s Kim Ann Foxman for her take, a more urgent and pressed affair that swaps the organic elements for jittery programmed percussion, strobed effects, and brittle synth licks, all the while somehow keeping the dusting of Balearic feel-good presence intact. Finally, Eric “Dr. Dunks” Duncan jumps into the frame with a tough love acid- flecked interpretation that thrusts the record into peak-hour rave territories.

For the digital edition, a bonus is offered, a peppy, saucy Hi-NRG piano number that has echoes of late-80s New Order. A carefree, cheeky encore that caps off the party with a bolt of electricity.

Tracklist:
A1 Cosmic Swimmer
A2 Cosmic Swimmer (Soulwax Remix)
B1 Cosmic Swimmer (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
B2 Cosmic Swimmer (Eric Duncan Remix)
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Tendts - Cosmic Swimmer (Eric Duncan Remix)

David Shaw and The Beat - The Jackal (Pulp Disco and The Outcasts remix)

Vilnus-based producer Pletnev (also known as Ponty Mython) drops a fresh EP on Tushen Rai’s & Cornelius Doctor imprint, Hard Fist.  This record comes with a mad remix from classic Berliner producer Sascha Funke, hyper percussive and cosmic tornado with loud kraut riffs. 6th release of this promising label « Peep Of Dawn » will soon be available everywhere, 12 inches & digital.

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PREMIERE | Pletnev - My Words Against Yours (Sascha Funke Remix) [Hard Fist] 2019

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PREMIERE: Marius Circus - Apt [In The Garden]

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