i hope this means an ambient album is immanent! :)

LUBRIKATE YOUR LIVING ROOM
Episode 2 - 'Remember Yesterday' by Ilan (Night City Life)

WORDS FROM ILAN
"Didn't Time Sound Sweet Yesterday" - Scott Walker

WORDS FROM CASPER
'Remember Yesterday' is a pensive, at times almost elegiac selection of home-listening beauties which have been carefully put together and mixed (with vinyl only) by a dab-hand selector who I've had the pleasure to know for quite some time. Ilan has become known more recently for his synth-driven 'Night City Life' compilations of forgotten and obscure gems, distributed via the Spacetalk label, but we first met on or around the dancefloor of his erstwhile Hypnotic Tango events in various London basements, which he ran alongside my close friend Olly Fas. He's quietly developed a reputation over the years as somebody that goes the extra mile to source weird and wonderful music of a generally upbeat nature, which is befitting of the weird and wonderful chap with a generally upbeat nature that Ilan undoubtedly is.

As with all of the forthcoming mixes in this series, please give it a chance and listen without prejudice. There's no tracklist this time around.

💦LYLR 2💦 Remember Yesterday by Ilan (Night City Life)

A special midweek addition to the Ceremony mix series comes this week from Casper Clark aka Volte-Face. An artist I’ve long admired, Casper has worn many hats over the years including producer, DJ, radio show host and label head but is perhaps best known for his adventures in promoting events across London and further afield, starting out co-booking Adventures in the Beetroot Field at Camden’s Lock Tavern before running the seminal Blogger’s Delight at the same venue, to Glastonbury, The End and everywhere in between. After Blogger’s Delight ended Clark started promoting under the BleeD name for In Strict Tempo favourites Blackest Ever Black, Downwards and Diagonal amongst others. 

This recording, taken from London’s Unfold is a two hour journey of deep, brooding techno Volte-Face is synonymous with. In his own words: “Unfold CIV was my first Volte-Face gig since a fateful show at Tresor in 2019. It was good to be back. Apologies for the occasional glitches in the recording”

Sit back and enjoy, this one’s special.

Tracklist:
Ligovskoi -Mana
Adhemar - The Name Of Games
Magda Drozd - Reverie
Bas Dobbelaer - Thin Lines
Doltz - Rakuyoh
Tomas Rubeck - Cadence
Daniel[i] - Osmosis
Dima Gaströler - Apieron
Voal - Carpet Crawler
Brendon Moeller - Zur
Foreign Material - Eulogy Of The Sun
H.E.A.D - Into Your Head Again
Primal Code - Autopilot
Mirrorlake - Moa
Laima Adelaide - Silent
Shonky - Solar
John Selway - Wraecca (The Feast Version)
Mental Overdrive - Hellbent
Fonzo - Marbling Voices
nthng - Untitled
Puresque - Spinnenwabe (Cari Lekebusch Remix)
Decoder - 4 Stub (Auspicious)
Polygonia - Shadow Cave
Exos (Alien Eyes)
Translate - Induccion Al Sueno
Test Dept - Tabla Razor
The Source Experience - The Real Thing
Dorisburg - Sensorik
Acronym - Nemo
Sindh - Senses
Florence - The Vineyard (Convextion Remix)

Ceremony #3: Volte-Face

From the Lock Tavern via The Gun to spoons…

Family Silver are Mr Nick ‘The Gun’ Stephens and Casper ‘Volte Face’ Clark.

Nick was the publican at The Gun, a much-loved Hackney institution that recently closed its doors – more on that here for those who have been living under a rock. Nick’s excellent Netil radio show can also be found here.


 
Casper, is based in Clapton and was the music programmer for Camden institution The Lock Tavern where our paths originally crossed – most of the time being kicked out whilst DJing. Casper’s shared stages with Justice, Jeff Mills, Helena Hauff, Daniel Avery and many more and is also known for his long-running BleeD events via which he collaborated with labels like Blackest Ever Black, PAN and Downwards. Both share a love for “v lo-fi early eighties sound, kosmische, post-punk and scuzzy electronics,” with Nick’s influences ranging from 80s TV themes and Giorgio Moroder to The KLF, while Casper was shaped in his youth by electronic acts like Leftfield, Underworld, and William Orbit with DJ Hell’s International Deejay Gigolo Records becoming a huge influence later on.

Their sound sits between post-punk and the electronic… so with that in mind let’s give it a listen shall we?

Handily via the wonder of a recording  from this year’s Field Maneuvers where they opened The Gun’s stage.

Listen and read the interview here: 
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/line-out-family-silver-live-sputnik-field-manuevers-2025/

@volte_face_bleed @fieldmaneuvers

INTERVIEW

Line Out: Family Silver Live @ Sputnik, Field Manuevers 2025

Ganzou b2b Volte-Face - 04.09.25

Live recordings from the gigs Nina Hitz (cello) and Rutger Zuydervelt (electronics) performed for 'Galm 750', during Open Monumentendagen, Schiedam, September 2025.

Sint Janskerk, 12 September 2025

Havenkerk, 13 September 2025, Set 1

Havenkerk, 13 September 2025, Set 2

The score for the video game Microtopia. Also available to download here: https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/microtopia-original-game-score

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