Name: Timo Soriano - Pavement View Vol. 010 by Timo Soriano
Duration: 1 h 38 min 16 s
Description: after more than five fucking years pavement view is back, vinyl only

A lot has changed for Jack Hamill aka Space Dimension Controller since he last graced the wheels of steel at (the first ever) AVA Festival, breaking the internet with his unforgettable Boiler Room debut. In the years since, Hamill has been on a journey just as much as we have. After over a decade in the game he’s quit alcohol, launched a new record label, Tiraquon and streamlined his entire production process. 

Lock in for an hour of out of this world house and techno from the back of the cosmos. It's a blend of intergalactic bleeps and bloops that contrasts the personalities of Space Dimension Controller and the new-age of Tiraquon.

Ahead of his set at AVA next week, we got together with Hamill for a candid interview about music, process and his current worldview. Head to our website to see what the Belfast native has to say about his homecoming.

Our Mothers Meds - Bathing The Ghost - Sores (Sound+Matter)
Mark E - Rain (Patrice Scott Remix) - 18437
Louf - Tides (Saine Remix) - Omena
Marlon Kirk - Don’t Call Me I’ll Call You - Unprincipled Records
Schiggeria - Morning Dew - Wetpak Rec.
Tristan Arp - Alternate Looking Glass - Eternal Ocean
Giulia Tess - Mesto Ritma feat. ioieo - Scarlet Tiger
Doctor Jeep - Key Activation - DRX
CiM - Crash - Delsin
DJ ADHD - Blem - Pretty Weird Records
Tiraquon - Unreleased - Forthcoming Tiraquon Recordings 
RR - Chord Bomb - Paloma
Silas Ryder - Inaugural Dance - untitled (recs)
Yush - Periwink - Awkwardly Social
Tiraquon - Unreleased - Forthcoming Tiraquon Recordings
Lack - Microshift - Livity Sound
Anastastia Kristensen - Volshebno (Ctrls Remix) - Houndstooth
Bolam - Hype Shifter (Al Wootton Remix) - Breaks N Pieces
Plant43 - Cloud Monolith - Future Massive
VC-118A - Update - Delsin

AVA MIX 004 - Space Dimension Controller

Ahead of his debut Subculture appearance this Saturday, @veitch-dj has stepped up to deliver the inaugural edition of our new Subculture Spotlight Mix series. The series will be motivated by providing an advance insight into the musical character & energy of forthcoming Subculture guests, alongside shining a light upon the wide array of rising local talent Glasgow has to offer and to introduce the sounds of artists that we are excited about from further afield.

We genuinely could not think of anybody better to kick this series off than @veitch-dj. Sean is a true student of the Subculture sound and as a long term Subbie family & staff member he has developed a depth of insight & understanding forged over many years both behind the bar & on the dance floor. This paired with his experience as a resident/chief-organiser of Pala Glasgow in recent years alongside his new @fenixglasgow residency has shaped an incredibly considered & talented DJ. This one has been a long time coming and we are very much looking forward to hearing what magic Sean will conjure down in our subterranean Jamaica Street haven. 

As always Sean will be joining the OG's Harri & Domenic on Saturday with Valencia born/Glasgow Based selector & wax lover Iris Pertegaz kicking things off on the night. 

Advance tickets available via @resident-advisor >>> ra.co/events/1529532

Subculture Spotlight Mix 001 ~ Veitch

The whole night in one cut. 8pm to Midnight. Running order Biancolato, Gavin Castle, James Steer, Code618.

audible fotosynthesis all night

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @siem-siem-siem

RRFM • SIEM • 07-06-23

after more than five fucking years pavement view is back, vinyl only

Timo Soriano - Pavement View Vol. 010

A Midsummers Night Mix

Slacky co director of Narr Radio and runs the Space Ritual label.

Slacky - NARR RADIO x Mutant Broadcast from Golden Lion, Todmorden UK [10.08.2023]

Guest mix; Christopher Tubbs - September 6th 2023

20 years later...

In recent times there has been a lot of looking back to the early 1990s in house music which made me curious about what my dj sets actually sounded like back then. As it's 20 years on I thought it might be fun to put one up as an Optimo podcast, but sadly I had no recordings of that time as I had long given away or lost any tapes i had from then (everything was on cheap C90 cassette tapes in those days). Then, last week a local producer sent me his album to peruse and mentioned that he had a couple of mix tapes of mine, both from 1991.

So, here is a genuine 1991 mix recorded in that year when I was co-resident at Pure in Edinburgh (which ran from 1990 - 2000) when i was known simply as Twitch rather than JD Twitch (the JD was added many years later to stop people billing me as DJ Twitch, which I loathed).

Although I started djing in 1987, I didn't start mixing records together until 1990 and couldn't afford turntables until the end of that year, so initially when i was djing at Pure I was literally learning on the job. Thankfully the euphoria of those times coupled with the fact it was all so new and exciting to so many meant that I got away with it as audiences were a lot more forgiving than they are today. Requests were fairly rare and usually a lot more oblique, often along the lines of "Can you play some "E" music?" Heckling or shouting "come on!', "harder!", "techno!" was non existent. it wasn't a better time, just different, but audiences in general were a bit politer and more patient.

This mix is two sides of two different C90 cassettes stuck together. The first half is from late 1991. It has a lot of that "E" music people were asking for on it. The mixing ranges from pretty good to the odd "ouch" moment but overall is not bad for a beginner. The second half is from earlier in 1991 and the mixing is a lot more, uh, "freeform" and gets through a high number of tracks in a short time. I think this section may have been recorded live at Pure although I can't be sure as despite running for ten years we only ever made a tiny number of live recordings. There are a couple of massively cheesy and seriously dated rave anthems on here and a couple of tracks I have absolutely no recollection of ever having heard in my life, but there is also a lot of music that I still play to this day and indeed have never stopped playing since, and some, such as MK's "Burning", Mike Perras and CLS that are enduring classics. To use the parlance of back in the day, the mix gets a little "mental" towards the end. The tape begins with a live recording of a bit of chat from the Ragga Twins live at Pure in early 1991 and ends with a particularly twisted take on David Lynch's "Lady In The Radiator Song" followed by a blast of Throbbing Gristle. Sometimes I'd drop in things like that at Pure which maybe helps explain why a few regulars ended up with mental health issues! Pure had a reputation for being a techno club and in the early days a temple to all things rave but it was always a lot more than that (as well as those things too of course) as this podcast demonstrates. Despite the sound (and mixing) limitations I think it's an interesting document of what was going on in my world 20 years ago. 


The audio fidelity of this podcast is not high, particularly in the second half. The original cassette tape was probably copied multiple times as it was passed around from person to person. Richard Chisolm who excavated the tapes has done some remastering to improve the sound but old multi generation tapes rarely sound good and it was probably quite lo fi to begin with. It was mixed live using a cheap mixer through a cheap amp. Back then the vast majority of dj mixers were very basic - no eq, no gain and no gizmos whatsoever; just a volume fader, a crossfader and phono / line switches which I used to flick to cut tracks in and out. The mix is 85 minutes long and is a 192kbps mp3 (118mb). 

Thanks to Richard aka Restless Native.
 

Optimo Podcast 11 - Twitch 1991 (recorded in 1991)

Next up we invite two friends of Ransom Note - longstanding and truly important to London's cultural community on a grand scale they have each played a key role in pushing dance music forward in the capital. Dan Beaumont is perhaps best known as the founder of Dance Tunnel and Dalston Superstore but behind the booth he has long since established himself as a fearsome selector having appeared at the likes of Panoramabar and beyond. His Chapter 10 party series is one of the best recognised and consistent in the city... Wes Baggaley is a disc jockey with a muscular stature who has become an icon of sorts amidst the LGBTQ community. He knows how to party and sure as hell knows what works well in the club...

We are delighted to be able to showcase a set from the pair recorded live a few weeks back - lock in, it gets real.

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Dan Beaumont & Wes Baggaley: The Ransom Note Mix

Over the past 22 years I have been recording & adding to a mixtape series begun in 1998 in San Francisco. I started putting together selections from the deeper, “late night” end of my record collection that almost never made their way onto regular DJ mixtapes we were all making in the late nineties. Back in the day before Uber, all those after-hours minicab rides in London were sound tracked by African & Caribbean pirate radio stations playing the most incredible Downtempo Soul, R&B, Roots and Gospel. For me, the better the DJ, the slower BPM they would have the guts to play. And here in London even today, generally speaking, the blacker the party, the slower the music ( and inevitably, the hotter the vibes )…a simple equation really. This 33 hours worth of music features tracks from every genre and every era……the only thing they all have in common is that they would sound pretty dam good at 8am Sunday morning in the back of a minicab on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton.

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