With his lengthy, freewheeling sets, spanning everything from dancehall to new wave and IDM, Tom Boogizm is gaining recognition as Manchester's best DJ, playing sets that are eclectic not as a flex but as a necessity. He appeared at the Unsound 2022 opening party at 89, the former strip club beneath Hotel Forum, and delivered one of the festival's highlights - which you can now experience as an Unsound podcast.

Heading up the Shotta Tapes label, Boogizm has also developed a reputation for his unclassifiable productions under the Rat Heart moniker, where he's able to lurch into polar zones just as easily as he does in his DJ sets, flickering from deranged lo-fi disco into melancholy blues without missing a beat. It's Northern British eccentricity at its most blunted.

Unsound Podcast 84: Tom Boogizm

Rine France Podcast

Lee Gamble - 17 Mars 2023

i-sha feels through a deeply personal session of emotional resonance and cathartic intensity for this week’s Fact Mix.

https://www.factmag.com/2023/04/03/fact-mix-i-sha/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 902: i-sha (Apr '23)

Spring 2023 is shaping up to be Tzusing season, with appearances at Manchester's The White Hotel (where he'll make his debut in the city at a party with the PAN crew this evening), Rewire and Lyon festival Nuits Sonores all taking place in the coming weeks. This playful selection of hard drum, hip-hop edits and other dancefloor weapons plucked from his current club set rotation makes it easy to see why.

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Tzusing plays Nuits Sonores, Lyon, 17-21 May.

Crack Mix 495: Tzusing

Bill Kouligas is the mind behind one of modern electronic music's greatest and most innovative labels, PAN. His remarkable ear for music meant that he released some of the earliest records from luminaries like Yves Tumor, Helena Hauff and Eartheater, helping to jumpstart several remarkable careers. And each PAN release is lovingly and lavishly packaged like an art object in itself, an approach you can read more about in this month's feature-length cover story.

The Berlin artist's RA Podcast is an audio companion to that cover story, and it underlines not only Kouligas's range as a label A&R but also as a DJ. Reflecting the label's evolution from straight-up noise to musique concréte to leftfield dance music and then avant-pop, the mix cycles through stages of strange, staggered beats, almost celestial ambient music, passages of overwhelming noise and sound that sublimate into floating clouds before solidifying back into club music, and a couple engaging spoken word passages and endless manipulations of the human voice. In other words, it sounds a lot like PAN.

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RA podcast

RA.880 Bill Kouligas

Simo Cell’s visit to Ankali last November was nothing short of a jaw–dropping masterclass in blending bubbling rhythms with cutthroat subs and forward–thinking UK sounds.

Surpassing all expectations, Simo delivered an uplifting closing set that we couldn’t keep just in our memories. We bring back the Dancefloor Archives series to deliver you all the recording of the bass boss himself. Give it some love.

@simocell
@ankali

Dancefloor Archives 003 — Simo Cell

Lee Gamble in his ‘Motor System’ moniker bringing you the sound of his forward facing, club ready DJ sets exploring contemporary dance floor-mechanics. Expect futuristic club bangers..

https://www.nts.live/shows/motor-system/episodes/motor-system-15th-may-2023

Motor System 150523

The fast-paced bass pioneer from Paris.

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PURE Guest.039 Toma Kami

Unsound Podcast 94 features DJ and producer Toumba, recorded at this year's Ephemera Festival in Warsaw.

Born and raised in Jordan, Toumba fashions melts Middle Eastern elements with dubstep basslines and clattering breaks. Last year he experienced a flurry of interest when Hessle Audio label released his Petals EP. At Unsound Kraków 2023, Toumba will debut his live show.

Unsound Podcast 94: Toumba

@huerco_s
Recording of Huerco S.'s set at PURE G 2023.

Huerco S. at PURE G 2023

Prague's phil in a maze is at the helm of this week's Rhythmic Culture podcast. With an ear for breakneck syncopation and rattling low end, phil's tracks and sets subvert genre conventions, writhing around a vast range of influences: from murky dub, oldschool dancehall and system-shaking dubstep all the way to skewed grime, halftime d'n'b and UK steppers. Dive in to hear what the Ankali resident and one of the key figures behind Deviant has in store.

@philinamaze

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An amorphous global-minded festival and creative platform dealing with music, sound, words and related visual arts. Founded in Krakow in 2003, Unsound has taken place in 30 cities around the world.

Unsound Podcast 94: Toumba

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