21.06

'A Hot Summer Night in 1991'
This mix was made to bring you back to the golden days of House.
Back when it had never been on the radio, never seen on tv & only some Parkzicht-tapes circulated the neighbourhood.
Step into this time machine & enjoy thé most beautiful tracks from that era! 🙏🌌💫🌃💥

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/spacearppete/

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 37 : Space Arp Pete

This podcast is a spiritual journey, bringing together tracks from diverse origins, eras, and musical worlds. Blending sounds that range from Dub, Ambient, New Age, Ethereal, Abstract, and Acid Jazz, it aims to showcase musical spheres beyond the club-oriented sounds we usually associate with Abajour. It also reflects a parallel project called ‘Desira Noroi‘, and an event series in Paris called 'Trip Tease' dedicated to opening up and exploring a broader musical spectrum.

Abajour: instagram.com/abajour_bp?igsh=MTBtNWFhOGIzcDN3MQ==

Desira Noroi: instagram.com/desira_noroi_dj?igsh=MTJ0bHVxZmQ4aDVrMA==

Tracklist:

Cheval Fou - La fin de la vie, le début de la Survivance (1994 - Legend music - FR)
Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm - My Boar (2021 - Stroom - BE)
Vangelis O. Papathanassiou - We Were All Uprooted (1973 - Vertigo - GR)
Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors - Tsunami (2001 - Raven - US)
MDCIII - Miniature II (2018 - W.E.R.F. - BE)
Richard Horowitz & Sussan Deyhim - Desert Equations (For Brion Gysin) (1986 - Music Box - GR)
Toshinori Kondo - Dub Deep Inside (2021 - JET SET - JPN)
Dream Dolphin - Tour 5 Modern Blue Asia (2003 - FOA Records - JPN)
Klaus Schulze & Rainer Bloss - Racing (1984 - Inteam GmBH - GE)
Nurse With Wound - Yagga Blues (1995 - United Dairies - UK)
YL Hooi - Strobe Lite (2021 - Efficient Space - AU)
Angel's Breath - Velvet (1994 - Imago - YU)
Coil - Broccoli (1999 - Chalice - UK)
Anadol ‎– Ay Çürüdü (2019 - Kinship - GE)
New Composers & Pete Namlook - In Memory of Magnitola (2001 - Elektrus - RU)
Abdur Razzaq & Rafiyq - The Night of Power (1983 - Green Essence Records - US)

H.A.N.D. MIX 072 :  Abajour Aka Desira Noroi

voices illuminating the dark edges. raw acid. unholy synth. silicon rain save me! 
recorded in my living room on 2 technics 1210s and a xone 62, sometime after midnight, 25.05.25 berlin

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 38 : ābnamā

Jaye Ward: 25th June '25

‘For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

Alas! We’re still alive (whatever that means) and still here (wherever you are). Returning from the far edges of the cosmos-via the duty-free shop-we bring an audible delicacy to share. People of Earth, Fefe has arrived, and you should be both honoured and excited.

An introduction stitched with the very fabric of time and space, Fefe offers a love letter that strikes straight at the heart-lifting happiness by at least 50-60%. A radiant testament to the kinder side of human nature (the part we sometimes forget), and a gentle reminder of music’s true power when made with pure intent.

Switch to airplane mode, take the long way home, and enjoy this in full.

Love from us. 

His new ep >>>> https://danzanativa.bandcamp.com/album/body-weather

FHUO # 97 // Fefe

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JUAN MACLEAN @ The Lot Radio 08-11-2025

This week's mix is by @bian_ca, a DJ based in Rio De Janeiro, a dedicated vinyl collector and resident at Nervosa, one of Rio’s key underground parties! His sets weave the sweat spot between techno and house, and he keeps it timeless and unexpected. 

The 100-minute mix is a journey where the tension stays exactly where it's supposed to be, shifting in genres and moods, and guides you to a grand finale, leaving you mesmerized. 

Track highlight:
‘’This selection is very special to me, as many of these tracks have been with me for a long time. It includes music from close friends I greatly admire, like Muta’s Poem by Capetini and Black Jesus by Vaskular (feat. Valesuchi). However, the track I’d like to highlight is In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women by Robert Ashley. I still remember hearing it for the first time, and it’s hard to believe it was produced in the ’70s. This was the first time I’ve had the chance to play it in a set, and I fall in love with it all over again every time.’’

Thanks Caio<3

bian.ca...IsBurning #174

@jeffreysfire 
This Smoke mix is by no one other then Jeffrey Sfire an household name in the elecontronic music- and queerscene. Originally from suburban Detroit. Behind and in front of the scene pushing sounds and providing platforms. 

As a producer he had a lot of projects: Sfire (with SOPHIE), Looky Looky, and Pushing Movies with releases on labels such as Dark Entries, Cocktail D’Amore Music and Ultramajic. 

With this Smoke mix Jeffrey evokes a timeless contrast between melancholy, heartache, loving and hopeful at the same time. It might be the balance of life or it suits the feeling of the nearing end of summer which is just as finitely as good and bad times. 
 
Thanks for this beautiful journey Jeffrey<3

Jeffrey Sfire - Smoke #25

R E L A X E R goes leather 2005

The Kompakt cofounder writes a personal pop music diary.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=570

@wolfgang_voigt

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.570 Wolfgang Voigt

Jah Division Cubana

Jah-Division-Дворник

Kit: CS2x, PO-33, iMono/Poly, uKORG, iMini, Launchpad, Aparillo, Sonar X1...
Vocals: SpinningMerkaba, SackJo22
Cover Art: “Cave” by Antony Gormley

Acknowledgements: [Vocal samples]
- Hope Is (Like A River) by spinningmerkaba (copyright 2010) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/28031

- Lamadio Tiado Vocals by SackJo22 (copyright 2011) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SackJo22/33441

- Indelible Choices -- Background Vocals by SackJo22 (copyright 2011) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SackJo22/32703

- Untethered (BG Vox) by SackJo22 (copyright 2010) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SackJo22/27512

Hope is like a river (ft. SpinningMerkaba and SackJo22)

Jah Division - 01 - Molitva

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

New Beat was born and initially exploded in 1987, went supernova (in Belgium) in 1988 and then the formula morphed a bit and was declared dead in 1989. It was slow and initially all about the atmosphere with industrial strength beats - the main form of rhythmic propulsion being the pounding kick and heavy snare. It was often mainly instrumental and when there was lyrical content it often became more about slogans and giving commands - "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat!", "Let There Be Brightness!", "Shout Out Loud!". While not really New Beat, it's no surprise Technotronic's "Pump Up Jam" was produced by a crew who had produced a ton of New Beat gems.

In 1989 one of New Beat's founders, Marc Grouls said "New Beat is atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial!!!!!" But, it was already too late. A zillion bandwagon jumpers had diluted the music and flooded the market with too many sub standard 12" singles. New Beat temple, the legendary Boccaccio nightclub, in Destelbergen, near Ghent, had been closed down and it looked like it was all over, but really, it was just the beginning. New Beat morphed into Hard Beat (many of the tracks on this mix are from the Hard Beat era) which quickly morphed into Belgian Rave, which was huge and hugely influential in the UK and is an often overlooked part of the DNA of UK Hardcore, and all that came after. Then from Ghent, R&S Records established itself as thee European Techno label and a huge wave of incredible Techno records emanated from it and many other mighty Belgian labels, but that is another story. 

New Beat arrived just as I first started DJing and I played a lot of it in my DJ sets and built up connections with several of the leading Belgian labels who would send me 12" singles so I had records nobody else here had any idea even existed. I would compile New Beat charts for the music paper The NME which may have given the impression there was a thriving New Beat scene in Scotland. The reality was very different; people here, many of whom would embrace the rave just a little while later never really took to it in a big way.

This mix is comprised of many of my personal favourites that I have loved since they came out (and two I missed at the time and only heard later). I think the tracks have aged like a fine wine, often sounding as good if not better today as they did then. There is definitely a faint whiff of fromage and a big dollop of stoopid in several of these tracks. Of course, it is not all about the cheese and many of these adhere to the "atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial" rule mentioned above. Some of the best programmed 303 Acid basslines ever made can be heard here along with transcendental hypno synths and those Belgian beats going on and on....! Slow and low, from under 100bpm up to 116, New Beat doesn't chug, it swings in a very distinct way. If you get to see any videos of Belgian clubs of the era, the way people moved to this music is incredible and so different to any dancing we see today.

Many of these tracks are made by the same people under various aliases, which will perhaps be audibly evident. Most of the names have been forgotten, if they were ever even known outside their native Belgium at all, but all are legends to me. 

This mix isn't any kind of attempt to tell the story of New Beat but rather a mix 33 of my favourite 12" singles from that era showing many of the various strains of the New Beat and Hard Beat sound. A lot of love went into this and I hope someone somewhere discovers this music for the first time and falls in love with it as I did way back when. This was Belgium!

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

Tuned every instrument to a 30-tone equal temperament scale for some reason. 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Kb0P1um94CA

Image: https://www.nathanielmerz.com/pacificnorthwest

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The Judgement of The Toroid

I started DJ'ing in 1987, am 50% of Optimo (Espacio) and I also run the Optimo Music record label.


“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”
Mark Vonnegut

Email - kmcivor@me.com

Optimo Music Soundcloud here - https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music

DJ bookings (worldwide) - caroline@spunoutagency.com



Press - optimopr@mac.com


Discography - http://www.optimo.co.uk/discography/

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

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