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A “get me out of here, I want to drown in the club PA” session from @objectblue.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2021/03/29/object-blue-fact-mix/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 801: object blue (Mar '21)

Very, very pleased to have the one and only Glimmerman onto our show!

He blessed us with a fantastic set full of seriously sick system shakers, which is nothing less than what we expected. Very glad to hear plenty of dubstep towards the end as well, makes our little hearts that beat at 140 so warm.

Featuring tracks from +1, DJ JM and DJ Plead among others from Glimmerman's side, and tracks from Finn, SOPHIE and Fracture from our side. Also worth mentioning that there's not one, not two, but THREE tracks from Tommy Holohan in there as well from our side.

(Glimmerman's set starts at around 59 mins in)

TRACKLIST:

VARIANT CREW

Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy Tears
Cornaleena (Audio Extract)
Enya - Boadicea
DJC - CC102
Finn - TMHM
Tommy Holohan - Iced Out 3D
BAKGROUND - THANKS FOR PLAYING
Callisto - Junkle II
Animistic Beliefs - Ojo De Las Grayas
Binary Digit - Rocade Sud Funk
Negroni Nails - White Matter
Pinch & Kahn - Crossing The Line (Feat. Killa's Army)
Dave Quam - Snare Screams
SOPHIE - Faceshopping (Euphoric Reduce Me To Nothingness Remix)
OSSX - Split Wig
Tommy Holohan - South Beach Burnin Bins
Wiley - From The Outside (Special Request VIP)
LSDXOXO - Rockstar69
Octavian - Rari (Feat. Future) 
Fracture - Some Love (Feat. Lucie La Mode)
LOBBY - Collapse
Alex Autajon - Jaxy Driver (DJ Earl Teklife Mix)
Tommy Holohan - Fantasee Life
Icicle - Amp

GLIMMERMAN

SIM - LOCKDOWN (ft. 45DiBoss)
Doctor Jeep - Pax
Miss Red - Come Again
Yak - Darunia
Hodge - Night Run
DJ JM - Nasty, but attractive
Jacques Torrance - Attempt
DJ JM - Pacemaker
TSVI - Cooly G - Narst (TSVI edit)
Nico - Ventana
NA DJ - rave slaps xtarri
DJ Plead - Massari for Relief - X5
RSD - Over It
Author - Teacher
Jook - Behind Schedule
Skee Mask - Reefer Madness
LCY - 2020
Yak - Lod's Tribe
+1 - HOME (SKIT)

Variant Sound w/GLIMMERMAN 1st May 2021

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's long-awaited debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations, the first of ten mixes this week. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's collaborative party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2020). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come back. On RA.1000, you'll hear Theo in his element.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by image-driven marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. Theo, once again, proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

@theoparrish @fabric @soundsignaturedetroit @crownruler

Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

Rising Dutch star upsammy opened Resident Advisor's first-ever stage at The Crave Festival with nearly two and a half hours of trippy oddities, mellow dub and atmospheric drum & bass.

@upsammy
@thecraveofficial

RA Live - 01.06.19 - upsammy, The Crave Festival, Netherlands

Recorded live at Nuits Sonores 2019, 15:00 - 18:00, before Donato Dozzy took over.
Marissa Cetin from Resident Advisor wrote about the afternoon:
"Unlike the other daytime curators, Lena Willikens chose to open La Sucrière's impressive main hall on Friday, playing alongside her usual back-to-back partner Vladimir Ivkovic. The two looked relaxed behind the decks, swaying, smoking and sometimes smiling. The crowd, less dense than during the other headliners due to the early start, were also in a good mood, using the extra space to feel out each beat of the slower selections. Much of the two hours felt like existing in the lagging moment of a sci-fi movie, just before a spaceship launches into warp speed (in a good way, I promise)."
https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/23893
https://www.nuits-sonores.com/

Willikens & Ivkovic live at Nuits Sonores June 1st 2019

Seattle-based CCL (@ccl-tuf) is a DJ, promoter and curator. They’re a founding member of TUF, a local collective focused on community-building and creating visibility for underrepresented artists in dance music. Known for bold musical choices, CCL blends a caleidoscope of rhythms, usually playing a mixture of deep, immersive breaks, electro, techno and bass music. Ahead of their Unsound Kraków 2019, CCL has prepared an exciting mix full of deep sounds, bookended by experimental Polish music from past and present. Enjoy!

Unsound Podcast 56: CCL

On the last day of our Hyperdub takeover, we’ve got a double-bill of exclusive mixes, starting with Proc Fiskal.

See the tracklist here → https://crackm.ag/2BoVggB

Hyperdub Takeover: Proc Fiskal

Proudly presenting TPF–007 from upsammy, the singular Dutch artist with ears trained on the unknown.  

When we asked rising (and rising) star Peach to curate a night with us on November 1st 2019, she reached out to long-time friend and fellow Torontonian Club Fitness, and De School resident, upsammy. The latter, whose refined taste and genre-elasticity has been quietly garnering her a cult following in recent years, steps up to the plate from TPF–007, a live recording from her three hour warm up set that night. 

The result is one of the most imaginative and masterful early door sets we've had the pleasure to host at Pickle. Departing from the high-octane / tempo sounds upsammy often champions, expect a winding journey through dub, experimental bass, oddball techno and plenty more besides.

TPF–007: upsammy

Variant Sound 12th January 2019

Variant Sound feat. Baliboc from Club Comfort!
Originally meant to be just us mixing for the first hour and then Baliboc taking over the second, a technical issue made it so that it was an all out b2b2b (b3b?) session in the second hour. Mad fun as expected!

Variant Sound w/Baliboc 9th February 2019

Our 3rd show with the the cousin of Nihilist and son of a gun, the one 'n' only DJ Biblical Plague! He was also known as DJ Lipsetti, bfalcon9000 and probably some other cool names that we're unaware of, but the main thing is that he's on this mix in the second half of the show doing his thing with the vinyls and it's lovely.

Variant Sound Mix w/DJ Biblical Plague 9th March 2019

Our fifth mix as Variant Sound on DDR, on May the 4th, no Star Wars tracks to be heard on this mix though. Perhaps a random droid on Coruscant tuned in? Maybe. We'll just say one did. Or two. Or fifteen, maybe they had a droid party while listening to us mixing. Yeah. Yeah, we'll just say that happened.

Anyway, it's just the 2 BoYz on this mix, with one hour of b2b footwork in the second hour. Enjoy!

Variant Sound 4th May 2019

Our sixth Variant Sound show on DDR, this time with special guest Rob Ickis Mirolo!

Rob was indeed a very special guest as he treated us to a psych-rock set, a set that is quite distant from the usual sounds we play on our show. We loved every minute of it.

Also, fun fact, there were some technical difficulties with playing USB's for Rob(i.e., we didn't have a linking ethernet cable for the two decks), so our work-around was to have one deck using Rob's USB, while the other was hooked up to Rob's phone playing tunes off Spotify. It went surprisingly smooth!

Anyway, hope you enjoy the mix!

Variant Sound w/Rob Ickis Mirolo 1st June 2019

Underground Resistance is probably the most important Detroit record label since Motown: their sound and attitude emerged in the early '90s as the most uncompromising one from the Motorcity, it was pivotal in shaping US and European Techno, started the resurgence of 90's Electro, but most of all indelebly marked the consciousness of thousands of people around the world who share their messages of resistance and hope.
And last but not least, they did so many amazing records!

So, 30 years has passed since UR-001 came out in 1990.
Since UR and 'Mad' Mike Banks were so influential for me, not just sonically but mostly on the attitude side of things, I decided to go thru all my 12"s and make a retrospective tribute mix to celebrate this anniversary.

At first I wanted to pick 30 tracks only and keep it compact but so many great ones were left out.. so I just started and at the end I used 60+ tracks! Almost all the classics are there, plus a fair share of lesser known tunes which really shine as well in my opinion. All from the UR catalogue only. No Z-tracks unfortunately :)

I really hope to have done justice to their sound, and I hope as well that the listeners will enjoy the ride, have the chance to discover some amazing music, and maybe feel the energy and pride and love that Mike Banks and the UR crew put into the music and pressed into the grooves.

In memory of James Stinson, Ron Murphy, Aaron-Carl Ragland
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30 years of Underground Resistance – Tribute Mix by Andrea Passenger

UR-001 – UR w/ Yolanda‎ – Your Time Is Up
UR-007 – UR – Living for the Night – The Feeling
UR-004 – UR – Beauty Of Decay
UR-013.5 – X-101 – Sonic Destroyer
UR-005 – UR – Nation 2 Nation
UR-020 – UR – Jupiter Jazz
UR-010 – UR – Riot
UR-024 – UR – Twista (The Dance)
UR-014 – Drexciya – Sea Snake
UR-029 – UR – Acid Africa (Roots Electric Mix)
UR-003 – UR – The Final Frontier
UR-030 – Drexciya – Wavejumper
UR-040 – The Hostile ‎- Ambush
UR-042 – UR – Hi Tech Funk (Sonic Grits Mix)
UR-029 – UR – Atomic Witchdokta
UR-015 – Mad Mike And DJ Rolando The Aztec Mystic – Aztlan
UR-059 – The Aztec Mystic ‎– Aguila
UR-020 – UR – Amazon (UR Meets 4 Hero Mix)
UR-2001 – UR – Timeline
UR-038 – UR – Codebreaker A1
UR-044 – UR – Hardlife
UR-079 – UR – GoodTime
UR-042 – UR – First Galactic Baptist Church
UR-3000 – UR – Transition
UR-045 – Gerald Mitchell – Soulsaver
UR-049 – The Aztec Mystic A.K.A DJ Rolando – Jaguar
UR-028 – Galaxy 2 Galaxy – Hi Tech Jazz (Live Version)
UR-080 – DJ John Collins ‎- Yeah
UR-090 – Mark Flash – King Of Light
UR-027 – Scan7 – System Work
UR-032 – Andre Holland – Inversions
UR-037 – Drexciya ‎– You Don't Know
UR-039 – The Infiltrator – They Will Never Know
UR-033 – UR – The Illuminator
UR-026 – Drexciya – Bubble Metropolis
UR-025 – Galaxy 2 Galaxy – Journey Of The Dragons
UR-052 – Timeline – Journey Of The Dragons (Time Sensitive)
UR-2005 – UR – Attack Of The Sonic Samurai (The Battle Within)
UR-072 – UR – I Am UR
UR-071 – Mad Mike – Hi-Tech Dreams
UR-088 – Vintage Future – Dookie Machine
UR-045 – Chaos A.K.A. Marc Floyd – Afrogermanic
UR-045 – The Aztec Mystic A.K.A. DJ Rolando – Mi Raza
UR-043 – Chaos – The Safety Is Off
UR-047 – Vintage Future – Antimatter Premium Unleaded
UR-031 – Dark Energy – Black Strategy (DJ Dex Edit)
NSC-3 – UR – UR046
UR-048 – Remote – The Swarm
UR-058 – UR – Actuator
UR-040 – UR – Analog Assassin
UR-076 – Bileebob – Sunshine
UR7-055 – UR‎ – Soul Power!
UR-078 – DJ Mark Flash ‎– Sao Paulo
UR-085 – Timeline Feat. Jon Dixon & De'Sean Jones – Black Bottom Stomp
UR-054 – Perception & Mad Mike – Windchime
UR-025 – UR – Metamorphosis
UR-034 – UR – Electronic Warfare (Drexciya Electric Eel Mix)
UR-005 – UR – 303 Sunset
UR-008 – UR – The Theory
UR-004 – UR – Quadrasonic
UR-084 – Alone – Has God Left This City? 7601 12th Street
UR-085 – Timeline – Ghosts Of Graystone
UR-087 – Timeline – The Conscious Dream
UR-054 – Perception – Abandoned Building In Mono

1990-2020: 30 Years Of Underground Resistance - Tribute Mix

53°20'49.3"N 6°15'49.7"W

Hailing from Ireland, @woozydublin label head and co-founder of @skinandblisterdublin EMA (@emma-jane-g)conjures an hour of majestic atmospheres and slinky dubs recorded in an empty club in Dublin.

d o w n 2 e a r t h 17 - EMA

@ciel_dj

For valentine´s special we have invited the super talented Ciel to join us for our next mix in her own words: 
In honour of Valentine's Day, I decided to make a mix that's all about love. Love that's flirty and sweet, sometimes shy and sometimes passionate, sometimes tumultuous and sometimes ecstatic, sometimes innocent and sometimes sensuous, love that's fun, joyful, and open-hearted. Of course everyone has their own definition of love music, and what they tend to associate with love is usually dependent on the style of music they share with their past and present partners, and so is very personal. For me I tend to think nothing is more romantic than soul, r&b, and jazz. But since this is a dance mix, I selected music for the dancefloor that I consider the descendants of these styles---house, hardcore, and UKG. And just so I can be extra cheesy, every song talks about love explicitly. This is my first year since I started touring that I'm actually home for Valentine's Day, so I plan on enjoying it with my two loves—my bf & our cat. :)

MARICAS - Ciel's  Love Is A Roller Coaster  Mix

Selectors @FalxVariant and @NihilistVariant based in Dublin, Ireland.

Monthly radio show Variant Sound @DublinDigitalRadio

Turbo Boiz

Variant Sound w/GLIMMERMAN 1st May 2021

Variant Crew