Timothy J. Fairplay is back with the second edition of Dungeon Module of 2022. This month including new music by The Jak, Herzel, Donato Dozzy, Club Music, Gesloten Cirkel and Smakos as well as a track from his forthcoming album on Höga Nord.

Timothy J. Fairplay pres. Dungeon Module [12.02.2022]

Listen back to March's instalment of The Ransom Note Dispatch on Netil Radio. Drive time tunes, premieres from the site, standard mic difficulties. Matt and Rosie at the controls.

The Ransom Note Dispatch on Netil Radio (March 22)

Une fois par mois, Lion's Drums nous fait découvrir la scène du sud de la France, dans sa résidence Abstraxion !  Ce mardi, on y découvrait Vanda Forte, qui allie dans ses mix, force et vandalisme, sons expérimentaux, field rec &amp; club music.  
www.tsugiradio.fr

Lion's Drums invite Vanda Forte

@cursesforever is known to mix his rock & roll roots with the darker side of disco, with influences from EBM, new wave, psychedelic synths and post-punk. On his show, he likes to invite guests who all pride themselves on their own unique interpretation of post-punk, 80s, electronic music, and encouraging them to explore their roots and get out of their club music comfort zone.

Listen to Together Alone every 2nd Saturday of the month, from 20h to 22h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

Together Alone avec Sister System & Cosmikuro - 14 Mai 2022

DIG Radioshow S02E22

Kirsty P 30/07/22

Ali Renault @ The Lot Radio 09 - 11 - 2022

With individuality and experimentation at her core, Ellie Stokes is very much her own DJ. Having immersed herself in Bristol’s music scene since arriving in the late 00s, she could reasonably be considered a product of the city’s unique creative culture. Let’s sidestep tired ideas about trip hop and D&B for a second and focus on the West Country capital as a hotbed of broadminded experimentation, with a community ethos and supportive framework that encourages talent to shine through. 

Stokes was already working within the music industry when she started to channel her passion into DJing – she was working at vital independent venue The Love Inn, one of the hubs of Bristol’s underground music culture, where she’s now the booking agent and venue manager. When the female / nonbinary Mix Nights DJ course began (helmed by leading lights such as Danielle and Daisy Moon), Stokes found the right nurturing environment to discover her instinct for selecting and spinning, initiating a career which has grown exponentially ever since. In 2018 she became a resident at Bristol’s leading club space Motion, and played life-affirming slots at premier league events and spaces such as Glastonbury, Love International, Warehouse Project, Love Saves The Day, Corsica Studios and Simple Things. 

As well as her dancefloor presence, where she’s likely to be plying leftfield house and techno tinged with industrial and 90s motifs, Stokes has a regular radio outlet via Bristol’s leading station, Noods. It’s on these shows her tastes truly open up, touching on ambient techno and electronica, all manner of wave-related sonics, EBM and much more besides. It’s a non-conformist style that favours individual expression over generic consistency, championing the omnivorous spirit of the times and presenting selections that feel honest, heartfelt and constantly surprising. 

Stokes’ musical endeavours reach beyond her DJing too – she also helps steer the city’s much-loved queer dance party Bitch, Please! and came on board as a partner in Futureboogie, which will soon branch out into a new label project in the near future. Her keen ear for the unusual and distinctive shine through in these ventures as much as when she’s on the decks, rounding out her positive contributions to all corners of the music scene in Bristol and beyond. She may be representative of the city as it stands right now, but Ellie Stokes is just as much her own vital energy in a tangled network of scenes, communities, parties and platforms that stretches out internationally.

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/elliestokesdj

209⚡Ellie Stokes

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄: Tom Nikso - Bows of the Dust (Atarrayo Remix) [Camel VIP Records]

Buy on Beatport
https://www.beatport.com/release/bows-of-the-dust/5365310

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄: Tom Nikso - Bows of the Dust (Atarrayo Remix) [Camel VIP Records]

Elemental Vol. 1 moves through earth, air, fire, and water not as metaphors but as emotional states. The songs drift like weather systems, mixing tenderness with atmosphere - acoustic guitars and field-warm vocals meeting the pulse of understated techno rhythms. The production is deliberately porous: wood and wire breathing alongside soft synths and spectral drum-machine traces. It's an "acoustic techno" album in the sense that rhythm and resonance share the same dirt. The songs carry the physical textures of wind in rafters, gravel underfoot, or rain on a roof, yet they shimmer with digital light. This meeting of folk intimacy and electronic timbres gives the album its peculiar gravity - part back-porch confession, part after-hours heartbeat.

Lyrically, Elemental Vol. 1 abandons conventional pop architecture. Instead of verse–chorus–bridge repetition, each piece unfolds as a field poem - free-form, continuous, and responsive to its own inner weather. The writing treats structure as tide rather than grid: refrains return when they need to, not when they're told to. This openness lets the language breathe in sync with the natural imagery that drives it - storms, light, stone, silence - and invites listeners to inhabit the songs as evolving spaces rather than predictable forms. Across the various mixes of its six song poems - We Learn the Sky, Don't Sightsee This Heart, Be a Storm in Me, Til the Heat Is Gone, You Happen Like Weather, and Wild Gifts - the album traces the cycles of intimacy and impermanence, finding in their motion the same quiet power that turns seasons, wheels, and hearts.

Wild Gifts (IV)

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