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Actress' highlight reel needs little exposition. Darren J. Cunningham has been a prominent yet inscrutable figure in electronic music since the late 2000s, typically flickering to life from the margins before receding into the shadows. Beloved albums like R.I.P., Karma & Desire and Splazsh may switch up the template, but the Actress hallmarks of haze, murk and showstopping beauty remain.

As you'll see in the interview below, he's a man of few words—that's in character for him. What's characteristic, too, is a taste for surprises. Ahead of the release of tenth studio album Statik on esteemed Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound next month, here's the "Дарен Дж. Каннінгем RA Mix"—a tapestry of 100 percent original and exclusive Actress music you won't find anywhere else. Flowing between pensive, rugged and stargazing moods across an album's worth of unaired tracks, Actress' first time stepping up on the RA Podcast was clearly worth the wait.

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Dark Entries reissues archival and contemporary gems that prove to be crucial to our modern idea of bodily music that exists out of time. Electro, italo, cold wave, new beat, house, techno from a one-of-a-kind digger who visits dusty basements to rescue lost tapes. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dark-entries-record/episodes/dark-entries-record-26th-june-2025

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Dark Entries reissues archival and contemporary gems that prove to be crucial to our modern idea of bodily music that exists out of time. Electro, italo, cold wave, new beat, house, techno from a one-of-a-kind digger who visits dusty basements to rescue lost tapes. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dark-entries-record/episodes/dark-entries-record-24th-july-2025

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Dark Entries reissues archival and contemporary gems that prove to be crucial to our modern idea of bodily music that exists out of time. Electro, italo, cold wave, new beat, house, techno from a one-of-a-kind digger who visits dusty basements to rescue lost tapes. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dark-entries-record/episodes/dark-entries-record-21st-august-2025

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Dark Entries reissues archival and contemporary gems that prove to be crucial to our modern idea of bodily music that exists out of time. Electro, italo, cold wave, new beat, house, techno from a one-of-a-kind digger who visits dusty basements to rescue lost tapes. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dark-entries-record/episodes/dark-entries-record-18th-september-2025

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Dark Entries reissues archival and contemporary gems that prove to be crucial to our modern idea of bodily music that exists out of time. Electro, italo, cold wave, new beat, house, techno from a one-of-a-kind digger who visits dusty basements to rescue lost tapes.

From host: _"Tribute to Keith McIvor"_ 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dark-entries-record/episodes/dark-entries-record-16th-october-2025

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NIGHT BUS 4: MEMORY OF NIGHT BUS
http://doulikenightbus.com

AFTER THE DEATH OF NIGHT BUS, ITS DESICCATED CORPSE TURNED TO DUST, GRADUALLY DISSOLVING INTO INFINITELY SMALLER UNTRACEABLE PARTICLES. THESE "GHOSTS" ONCE HAUNTED OUR EVERYDAY WORKINGS IN CURATED NETSPACE UNTIL THEY BECAME UNDETECTABLE AND WERE EVENTUALLY SUBSUMED BY THE UTTER MASS OF ACTIVITY. NOW, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TRULY INTERFACE WITH NIGHT BUS. WE CAN ONLY GATHER PARTIAL INTEL FROM SHORT, REPEATED MISSIONS INTO "MEMORYSPACE" -- PART NOSTALGIC TRIP, PART DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY, PART SHARED COMMUNAL MYTH. THIS ARTEFACT, "NIGHT BUS 4: MEMORY OF NIGHT BUS", IS ENTIRELY COUNTERFEIT. OBSCURE DETAILS MUST GIVE WAY TO OBVIOUS TOUCHSTONES FOR THE SAKE OF AN APPEALING REPRODUCTION: A DASH OF BJÖRK HERE, A TWIST OF YOUNG THUG THERE, CULMINATING WITH AN EMOTIONAL FINISH THANKS TO A RE-APPROPRIATED R&B QUEEN. A MELODRAMATIC NIGHTMARE 'IMITATION OF LIFE'. AT BEST, A FORGED OSSUARY; AT WORST, BAD TAXIDERMY. LIKE THE JAMES OSSUARY, IT IS A FABRICATION CARVED ONTO AN AUTHENTIC BUT EMPTY CONTAINER SO AS TO CONVINCINGLY DECEIVE, OR, LIKE THE LION OF GRIPSHOLM CASTLE, IT IS AN ABSURD ATTEMPT TO RE-CAPTURE MAJESTIC LIFE FROM A CORPSE FOR THE SAKE OF DECORATION; LIKE THE LION, IT CACKLES STUPIDLY AT US FOR EVEN TRYING. HYUCK. IN ANY CASE, THESE NIGHTS JUST AIN'T GETTING ANY EASIER, AND WHO COULD JUDGE US FOR SEEKING COMFORT IN THE HAZY COUNTERFEIT LAND OF MEMORY.

RIP MARK HOLLIS
RIP SUSUMU YOKOTA
RIP PRODIGY
RIP ROBERT MILES

Ed Tomney - Safe
Goldie - Letter of Fate
Susumu Yokota - Sea Blue
PNL - Sur Paname
Moby - Feeling So Real
Lorenzo Senni - Angel
Chemical Vacation - Real Style
Yves Tumor - Role In Creation
Babyfather ft. Arca - Meditation
Carla dal Forno - Fast Moving Cars
Marie Davidson - La chambre intérieure
Sky H1 - Air
exael - flowered knife shadows
Oval - Do While (Command+X)
ANOHNI - Marrow
Bjork - Hyperballad
The Blue Nile - Stay Close
Portishead - It Could Be Sweet
Kuedo - Slow Knife
Massive Attack - Man Next Door
Andrea Parker - Ballbreaker
Basement Jaxx - Just 1 Kiss (nb fix)
Oblivion - Last Dance
Terre Thaemlitz - Love Theme From Ai No Bakudan
Jon Hassell - Slipstream
Intense - The Genesis Project
Tim Hecker - Up Red Bull Creek
Mobb Deep - Quiet Storm
Actress - Ascending
Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
Underworld - King of Snake
The Future Sound of London - Spineless Jelly
Young Thug - Safe (nb remix)
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb
Rihanna - Sex With Me (nb remix)
Jennifer Lopez - Waiting for Tonight (nb remix)
Faye Wong - 童 (Child)
Alexander O’Neal - If You Were Here Tonight
EMBACI - Walk on May 5th
Pentagon - Heal
Talk Talk - Wealth
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Loss
Yves Tumor - Limerence
Julia Holter - Hello Stranger

conceived & arranged by cfcf, November 2016 - November 2018
3d artwork by nicole ruggiero http://www.nicoleruggiero.com

Night Bus

Night Bus 4 : Memory of Night Bus

Hot on the heels of podcast 13 comes this one to celebrate 50 years of Jamaican independence. It was recorded live at the Sub Club, Glasgow on Sunday 29th July 2012 and is an edit of the 4 hours of Jamaican music played that night. Twitch did a one off night of all Jamaican music in 2011, that time only playing 7" singles and had so much fun that we decided to make it an annual event, this time allowing a few 12"s and album tracks in there and giving the night a name - Bucky Skank - named after a Lee "Scratch" Perry song. There is a very popular fortified wine on the West coast of Scotland called Buckfast that is known locally as Buckie so it seemed the perfect name. Twitch will also be launching a Bucky Skank record label soon to release his and others takes on Jamaican dancehall. It won't be a very prolific label.

Alongside the records there was a Roland Space Echo, a dub siren, a very old percussion synthesiser and Maschine, used to trigger various sounds and vocal samples. JD Twitch was playing the records and triggering the samples while JG Wilkes was operating the Space Echo, dub siren and percussion synth. Listening back, we probably overdid the sirens and bleeps in places, but hey, it sounded good on the night. 

Musically it is all over the place and spans 50 years of Jamaican (and British-Jamaican) music but not in any chronological or even logical order. Reggae purists may well be horrified, but whatever, it was one of the best nights we put on all year. I got to play so many records I adore and the atmosphere in The Sub Club was fantastic, bringing in a lot of people who had probably never set foot in the club in their lives before. There were a lot of big smiles all night. Normally when I finish a dj set I am quite wired but after playing this music for 4 hours with only a quick bolt to the toilet mid way I was incredibly relaxed (as were all the staff in the club). Rastafarians believe Reggae is the music to bring world peace and unite mankind and even my in built cynicism finds that hard to argue with.

You'll probably notice it starts off quite quietly and gets louder. This is simply due to the volume being turned up as the night went on and we thought it better to leave it how it was rather than mastering the audio. Mixing wise, well, there are a lot of crashing segues and some minimal mixing but this was most certainly a case of a night where the music was far more important than any technical prowess. Give me another ten years of doing this annually and maybe it will all be semi-seamlessly mixed.

I'll end on a controversial note. Over the years I've lost count of the number of times I've heard people say they hate Reggae or that when I've played a single Reggae song in a set it has ruined their night. Apart from "hate" being quite an extreme emotion to direct at music I've always been bewildered how anyone can dismiss an entire nation's music that is so varied, joyous and original and whose DNA has become woven into so much other music, especially here in the UK. Just as I'm always suspicious of anyone who is a Tory I'm suspicious of anyone who can "hate" the entire musical output of Jamaica. Either they haven't been listening very deeply or possibly there is a fundamental flaw in their musical soul?

Almost every track on this podcast was played from vinyl. Jamaican record pressings can be a little bit poor on occasion so there are a few tracks with quite low fidelity and the odd skipping record here and there. As usual we aren't making a track listing available for the podcast, simply because we feel that knowing the contents often precludes actually listening to it. But, if you want to know what anything is, feel free to get in touch and we will let you know. The mix is a 320kbps mp3 (330mb) and is 135 minutes long.

Optimo Podcast 14 - Bucky Skank (Jamaica 50) Live At The Sub Club, Glasgow

On July 27th we returned to Nowadays in New York for our second twenty four/seven party. We saw DJ Sprinkles (inside) and Actress (in the garden) playing at sunrise. Aurora Halal tore up the main room. Mister Sunday closed in their own back yard. As we gear up for twenty four/seven London, we’ve revisited some of our favourite memories from the New York edition.

RA Live - 27.09.19 - Actress - twenty four/seven New York

Visible Cloaks' Spencer Doran turns in a chilly mix of ambient, new age and experimental music.

For more information and tracklist head here: https://www.factmag.com/2019/11/05/visible-cloaks-fact-mix/

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