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Ron Morelli at SAVE 2019 * ARMA. Mutabor, Moscow. 16 Nov 2019

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Ciao tutti ~ was back on NTS Radio for a new episode ~ à la carte this spring 🌸

🌑 Cosmic update ~ Taurus New Moon bringing grounded new beginnings ~ time to nurture what truly supports us, emotionally, spiritually & financially.

✨🌀 Guest mix by the legendary Efdemin aka Phillip Sollmann ~ a deep, raw, hypnotic journey with pulsing textures and hidden vocal whispers ~ a techno ritual blooming just in time for spring spirits 🦋💌
He’s been a big inspiration to me from day one, and I’m so honoured to welcome him onto the show this month 🥰🙏 Grazie mille Efdemin 💫

Link in the usual spot 🖇️
Artwork by @mete.fyi

~ with love & gratitude ~
GiGi 🧜‍♀️

NTS RADIO GiGi FM PRESENTS EFDEMIN APRIL 2025

DTP#45 - Selene

And we continue with a new mix full of versatile electro the way we like it. 
Waving from Santa Fe, Selene draws from her seemingly endless pool of records. Be it her love for acid sounds and techno deeply rooted in the 90s, deep dug electro or ambient. She should be familiar to long time listeners of Intergalactic FM, where she played a beautiful ambient set at this year's festival. 

Her mix highlights electro from its more menacing side. Bass-driven, frightening vocals, tuff and atmospheric at the same time. A journey into the unknown known, perfectly fitting for dark times like ours.
https://soundcloud.com/selene-theteahouse

Tracklist:
B Calloway - Phone Home [Submerge Recordings]
Phoenecia - Odd Job (Get Fresh Version) [Schematic]
Solid Blake - Soap Cube [Seilscheibenpfeiler]
Matti Turunen - Tharsis [Vortex Traks]
Uni - Latch [Interdimensional Transmissions]
KafkaCtrl - Inertial Observer [Noise To Meet You]
Fabio Vinuesa - Numbers [Distrito 91]
Shun - Rohan [Central Processing Unit]
CYRK - Seen Unseen [Science Cult]
Alien FM - Journey's (In Dub) [430 West]
Pip Williams - Cutty Told Me [Central Processing Unit]
London Modular Alliance - Lump of Coal [20:20 Vision]
Ectomorph - Time Fold [Interdimensional Transmissions]
Carl Finlow - Conduit [Electrix Records]
Remote - Protecting My Hive [Underground Resistance]
SEM - Area 5 [Electron Industries]
Fleck E.S.C - Further Away [Science Cult]
Caron - Terra [Brokntoys]

DTP#45 - Selene

One of the enduring powerhouses of our era returns for RA.1000 with a riotous mix.

When Helena Hauff made her first RA Podcast appearance back in 2013, she was on the eve of releasing her debut production on Actress' Werkdiscs imprint. In the 12 years that have elapsed, she's become not just a household name within electronic music, but the kind of rare talent that lives in seclusion from industry tumultt.

(Hauff, enviously, has never even owned a smartphone.)

Her calling card continues to be her penchant for rough and ready EBM, electro and new wave. Her unique ability is creating a singular listening experience from disparate or out-of-favour tracks, with a raw immediacy that functions as a redress to over-choreographed modern DJing.

Her outsider approach is on show once again for RA.1000. Threaded together by strobe-lit DIY electronica, old-school acid house and corrosive machine funk that chews up the ear, the nearly two-hour set raises the bar once again.

In the sci-fi themed first half, Hauff drops two Cybotron tracks, nodding to Juan Atkins' blueprint for electro. You'll also hear "Riot" by Underground Resistance, the definitive mission statement for a world ablaze. This is musical anarchism, executed to the highest degree.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1017. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Helena Hauff

Ron Morelli, Founder of the cult label L.I.E.S.

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Renegade Radio Camp - RON MORELLI - Mix 06-07-2025

Recording of Efdemin's set at the UFO I stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Efdemin at UFO I - Dekmantel Festival 2025

Recording of Elena Colombi & Lena Willikens' set at the UFO II stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Elena Colombi & Lena Willikens at UFO II - Dekmantel Festival 2025

90s techno,100% vinyl set recorded @ matriz party in Grannada

Umwelt - 90s techno - 100% vinyl set @ Matriz | 26.09.25

combining a couple of upcoming own projects & remixes w. old and new, you know the drill. trouble on

Benedikt Frey - Troubled Funk MixX #6

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!

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