Playlist here: https://kioskradio.com/episode/2022-02-07/dc-salas

Kiosk Radio Residency — February 22

WhyPeopleWar - Fundraiser for Ukraine vol.2

WhyPeopleWar: Radial Gaze - Navus

Summerish Mixtape II

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https://soundcloud.com/paradise-palms
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Following on from his “Georgia Keep Me Vital” track which featured on our Bonnie Tropical 6 compilation in February, we welcome Ravelston back into our wee party palace for a full EP release. 

Ravelston recently relocated to Edinburgh after twelve years on the Bristol scene. He hosts Dot Joining and Freaks & Beats on Edinburgh’s EHFM and Bristol’s 1020 Radio respectively. He also co-runs Moving Heads Festival and The Washing Machine Soundsystem. 

As a DJ and producer he digs from broadly eclectic tastes with a deep fondness for leftfield, cosmic, and psychedelic sounds. He's often found idling in the lower tempos, but with a keen determination to start a dance. A heady blend of chuggers and freaky bits - plus house music.

For this EP he's provided us with four low tempo cosmic bangers and two spooky interludes. These instrumental electronic tracks capture various vibes, vices and pastimes that Ravelston enjoyed whilst living down south Ravelston’s Bristol Pleasures EP was produced between his former home of Bristol, and his new one in Edinburgh, and we very much hope you enjoy it as much as we do. 



Track List: 
1. Open Shrub
2. The Druid's Chop
3. Iron Boots
4. Middle Sickness
5. Serpent Boogie
6. Dogsuit Fantasy

PREMIERE: Ravelston - The Druid’s Chop [Paradise Palms Records]

Now onto its fourth volume, NuNorthern Soul’s annual ‘Summer Selections' EP is fast becoming a must-check for fans of slow-motion sunshine sounds, contemporary Balearic beats and sumptuous downtempo grooves. As the label prepare to celebrate their 10th Anniversary, ‘Summer Selections Four’ showcases six “cream of the crop” tracks from an exciting release schedule, as NNS boss, Phil Cooper, cherry picks a sun-kissed platter of stunning evocative melodies, atmospheric chords and easy-going grooves.

The first track comes from James Bright, whose cut ‘Amber’ is a colourful and analogue-rich mid-tempo Balearic house outing. Next up is ‘Nana a Leon’, a gorgeous collaboration from Be.Ianuit with vocalist Marcos de la Fuente, who deliver a mixture of deep bass, twinkling pianos, sultry synth-strings, topped off with a spoken word. San Francisco’s Cole Odin offers a slow-motion sunset soundscape of ethereal chords and chiming melodies on ‘Growing’, while Gold Suite’s ‘The Cowboy’ joins the dots between jangling Americana, mid-‘80s Balearic Reggae and sun-soaked synth-pop.

Next up, making their NuNorthern Soul debut, is North Of The Island with their spaced-out, mind-altering delight, ‘I Feel’, loaded with sunset ready musical flourishes and chugging, delay-laden rhythm. And rounding off another sizzling Summer Selections excursion is ‘Smoke & Fly - a dusty, bass-heavy, picturesque chunk of Balearic dub from Ibiza-based Italian duo, Residentes Balearicos. It provides a fittingly triumphant conclusion to another essential sampler EP from NuNorthern Soul.

Throughout 2022, NuNorthern Soul’s releases will feature illustrations from Ibiza artist Emily McGuinness, who has created a series of illustrations inspired by ‘Myths Of Ibiza’ based on the folkloric tales of the White Isles. Inspirations include Es Vedra Rock, believed to be the most magnetic point on the planet by residents; Tanit, a warrior queen said to be the protector of women on the White Isle; and Hierbas Ibicencas, a herbal mixture known as the “famous spirit of Ibiza”, among others.

PREMIERE : James Bright - Amber

Basic Space

Big bunch of edits from Krjuk, author of the famous remake of the Dancing Lights Cafe. Edited tracks, that I listened on the radio when was a child.

https://soundcloud.com/krjuk

PREMIERE⚡️Krjuk - Rememberme

Lion's Drums ne s'interdit rien et c'est pour ça qu'on l'aime !

Lion's Drums - Octobre 2022

NEATKID_-_BIG_SHORT_[ORIGINAL_MIX]

Soon to be released on Plastik People Digital...

Credits - 

Keys  & Production - BradRad.

Through The Night

Our track as part of a mega release on Bass Agenda, CAREBOT$ The Second Mission (for Medical Aid for Palestinians & Gaza Soup Kitchen.
Mastering: Sensorium <3

Help a good cause and buy here: https://bassagendarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/carebot-the-second-mission-for-medical-aid-for-palestinians-gaza-soup-kitchen

CAREBOT$ The Second Mission (for Medical Aid for Palestinians & Gaza Soup Kitchen)

Separate Signal - Silent Zillion (CAREBOT$ The Second Mission)

Remix Requests  please contact lipstudio2@gmail.com

EMPEROR MACHINE  Biography
Over 30 years since acid house’s summer of love and there are few of 1988’s cast of actors still left standing. Still fewer are those whose music is still resolutely pointing towards the future rather than endlessly looking to the past. In fact, there’s arguably only one candidate left in the UK. While his peers are content with revival parties and classical house nights at the Albert Hall, Andy Meecham is out on his own as one of the few whose gleaming analogue machines are still pointing towards an imagined future rather than an endlessly relived history.
As the Emperor Machine, Meecham’s solo project since 2003, he has been wrenching monumental basslines, strange keyboard figures and luminescent rhythms from his beloved synthesisers, inspired by everything from sci-fi movies and KPM library albums. In some ways, his mission has scarcely altered in the 35 years since he first heard ‘Planet Rock’ in the early 1980s. “That’s the thing that got me hooked,” recalls Meecham. “The fact that it was futuristic sounding.  Anything that was sci-fi: UFO programmes, Dr Who, Star Trek. Stuff that suggested the future.”
While he’s happy to plough towards the future, we still has some serious history to contemplate. Meecham is one of the clique of acts in Staffordshire inspired by house music that included Candyflip, Altern-8, Sure Is Pure and Nexus 21. Meecham’s band with long-time conspirator Dean Meredith, Bizarre Inc, was one of the most successful of their generation and 1991’s ‘Playing With Knives’ was a staple in all self-respecting DJs bag that year. Major label deals, led to swift dissatisfaction; Meredith and Meecham went back to the mixing board to rethink their future. 
As Chicken Lips, they re-emerged alongside peers like the Idjut Boys and Faze Action, to offer their delayed and dislocated rhythms to an audience hungry for relief from the monotony of the four-to-the-floor house rhythm, with joyously dubbed out originals and fiendishly clever remixes for luminaries like Ennio Morricone and Groove Armada to Wolfmother, transforming Love Train from a metallic romp into a disco-dub delight with a bottom-end bigger than a Kardashian. Then there are Andrew’s other aliases (he’s had more than Carlos The Jackal), notably Sir Drew, Future Four, Gino Fontaine, BIG 2000, Randee Jean and Zeefungk.
The Emperor Machine was born out of an online slating of one of his favourite synths, the Roland SH 3A. Indignant at this appalling slight, Meecham set to work on a track only using said Roland. James Dyer at DC Recordings loved it so much, he asked him for another and gave the project its name. Emperor Machine it was.


 As with most of the Emperor Machine music, the methodology goes against the grain of how most electronic musicians approach producing. Rather than reducing it to mathematical blocks of music on a computer screen, Emperor Machine is about long passes, played live and then edited down by a crack team of highly-trained Potteries-based orang-utans, lorded over by merciless taskmaster Meecham.
The key to success is not dancefloor domination, but a far simpler rule, says Meecham. “The music has to make me shudder. So I work on something until I get that tingling feeling. So it’s almost more of a drug thing really. I have to get that out of the music and I can’t get that from full-on 909 four-to-the-floor dance music.”
A shudder and a tingle. And maybe a monster bassline. Emperor Machine redux. 
Bill Brewster

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