North London native and Hyperdub signee Loraine James is an electronic producer who effortlessly blends Electronica and IDM with whispers of jazz and ambience all wrapped up in the artists key avant-garde aesthetic and sensibility.

https://www.nts.live/shows/loraine-james/episodes/loraine-james-27th-october-2022

Loraine James w/ Kiernan Laveaux 271022

There’s nothing like playing No Way Back. It’s such a unique environment. All the DJs look forward to their set all year, but then low key freak out before they play. Will they live up to expectations? Will they surpass their previous sets? You ask yourself, is this what feels like to throw lightning? You can sense the room expand and contract. Connecting to the audience and taking them on our journey is what it is all about. For this adventure I played on 4x CDJ-3000’s, a Pioneer V10 using 2 internal delays and a Strymon El Capistan pedal. I played some new tunes I had remastered, as well as a remix from Love Letters I had just completed on my new mixer, along with an edit of an unreleased version of Jordan Zawideh’s “Magellanic Cloud”, also mastered through my new mixer. What an amazing space to test these new tones. This was quite a sonic journey for me, and put me on an amazing trajectory where I feel like I’m constantly growing and improving and adding newly remastered music to every set. Looking forward to playing this coming weekend at No Way Back in NYC with the Bunker at the Chocolate Factory. 

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (BMG dub) 
CHBB – Disconanz
Terence Fixmer – Paroxysm
Matrixxman – Opium Den (Mike Parker Remix) 
Stanislav Tolkachev – Now We Are Talking 
Analog Solutions – Oxygen Tank Failure
ASEC – Reconnaissance
Kyntral – Yuco 
Neel – Afro Aliena
Cabaret Voltaire – Silent Command (Function Edit)
Marcel Dettmann – Throb
Silent Servant – Invocation of Lust (12” Mix)
Freddy Fresh & Tim Taylor – 5 Mouths
Architectural – Rare Ceremony Tapes
Lory D – John Carpenter
Architectural – Bad-Tempered Drumming
Robert Hood – Unix
Phuture – Rise From Your Grave
Mood II Swing Productions – 8 Ways To Knock Down A Wall
Jordan Zawideh – Magellanic Cloud (2024 BMG V2 Edit)
The Fantasy – Strong Dub
Love Letters – Morse (BMG Mix)
DJ Who – Give A Little More (MIke Parker Remix)
The Maghreban – Patterns
Ratsnake – Hole 
Mike Dred – Macrocosm
Jamie Jupitor – Computer Power


IT.podcast.s13e04: BMG at No Way Back 2024

hypno dub

@soundsofluxe tripped low-end seductions 

a collection of low-end witchcraft informed by the delectable tension between pressure and weightlessness —supernatural attitude and mystery—sonic witchcraft for the depths of the dancefloor and beyond.

Out to all witches, worldwide, Nov 07th.

tracklist:
god69 - amulet
upsammy - Ripple
Luxe - Skin
Softi - command
Roza Terenzi - Glow Up Throw Up
rRoxymore - Dub Me Somewhere
Sobolik — Skip Dub
Sister Zo - The Fastness
x3butterfly - Abysmal Yearning
ophélie - Sea Gooseberry
Perila - Apocalypta's Dream
Beatrice M. - Meopham
Mia Koden & Cousin - B Alo
Yushh - Feeling Everything All At Once
Xades - Qluless

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[subgl002 sub-alchemy] Luxe - Skin

the war on bits continues 
 
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The essence of psychedelia is disrupting expectations and altering perspectives - what better place to do so than in the vortex of the rave? 

It was an incredible honor to be a part of the inaugural edition of System Activate. The entire weekender campout rave was an exercise in intentionality, a generous labor of love with visionary execution. Anchored by a single stage with a pristine sound system, brought to life by a seasoned, die-hard-DIY team, and animated with an incredibly unpretentious, open-minded, and imaginative crowd of ravers, System Active was truly a novel, eye-opening adventure that struck real sparks of psychedelic inspiration. 

I believe this is one of the finest sets that I have played to date. Completely at ease in the booth, I played fervently and completely from the heart. This is a totally honest and unrestrained rendition of my creative screwball sensibilities as a DJ, conjuring a propulsive rhythmic tunnel and peeling away into moments of whiplash slack-jawed surprises. Rooted in wormhole-traversing techno but stretching well into psychedelic sludge, shameless sentimentality, poignant lessons, heaving bass-weight, and references to formative personally-precious material, this is a completely earnest translation of my psyche that also incorporates the work of friends and peers. 

It was a deep joy to be in the company of so many brilliant and clever dancefloor scramblers and dear friends as I landed us in dawn's first light. I am deeply grateful for this experience, and excited to share this transmission from the vortex.

TRACKLIST
[artist - track title]

ENTRANCE - Winterlude
Ryuichi Sakamoto - fullmoon
Rose Monica - Be Your Better Self
Plead Slyngshot Neewt - Studio Pressure
Forest on Stasys - Torre De Alquimia
Brnches - Weird Bells
Callum Plant - Nothing More
Marteka Fair - Lucid Thinking
Ω - 99HMI
Perc & Passarella Death Squad - Temperature’s Rising (2025 mix)
Âsan - Reason
Jonas Kopp - Ocher System #1
Max Cantrell - Temporal Shave (Hpin Remix)
Verschwender - Anxiety, Always Haunting Me
Allana Letm - Tempos Múltiplos (Centrific Dump A Puddle In My Hand Remix)
Vertical Spectrum - Oko bez sowy
ANFS - Gesha
Orbe - Jaxa
Goyle - Notice
Blawan - Slow Mick
Zagc - SwampWorld dance dance 500
Concept of Thrill - Cert
LaWhat - Trippy Widow
Kalocain - OBE
Simic - Valley
Joshua James - Coarse (Justin Cudmore Remix)
Richard Holhburn - Better Not Look Too Close
Torvvo - Relay
Astral Renegades - Pluto FM
Switch & Erol Allan - A Sydney Jook (Bok Bok Remix)
The Books - I Am Who I Am
Answer Friend Request - Behringerbandpass (V2)
Erol Alkan - Spectrum (Special Request Kaleidoscopic Mix)
Simic - Orbetello
U - Ascension Hymn
A Strange Wedding - Les Ké de la Daurade
Strapontin & Zillas On Acid - What Worse?
Sextile - 99 Bongos
Slowglide - Solstice (Stonehenge mix)
Arthur Johnson - On The Request Line
Radart - Welcome
Dido - Here With Me
Bruno Sanchez & The Next - Born Hip
Hysterical Love Project - Psychic Nausea
Sideral Tapes - Sideral Tapes #4B
James Begley - Distance
Now Always Fades - Into The Doldrums
APRS - I Was Still Awake
Mint Julep - Aviary
Miles J Paralysis - Still Waiting
Deep Dark Blue - Reincarnation (Otodojo Remix)
DJ Frog and SnP 500 - Cali
Yeyo - feel it
Chelsea Wolfe - Dusk

Furtive live at System Activate 2025

The phase shift from No Way Back’s nocturne rave acrobatics to Lot Mass’ sunkissed daytime salon is always a sight to behold: an eclectic mixture of smoked out ravers emerging from the depths of Tangent Gallery, freshly showered music heads taking in the Memorial Day sun, & multi-generational dancers defying category or definition, the day feels infinite, & the musical possibilities especially so, bookending the weekend’s mayhem. This year, Johnny Zoloft and Kiernan Laveaux took the post-Scott Z morning baton pass into further realms of house music in the beyond, equipped with nothing but two turntables, Alpha Theta Club Standard DJ Gear, & a surprise special guest: Baltimore saxophonist (and Johnny Zoloft’s brother) Shane Kelly, blowing raucous textures over abyssal blends under the midday sun, as they beckoned dancers towards their final day of Detroit Electronic Music Celebrations. 

Reinvigorating the floor & painting with bold brushstrokes on a kinetic eisel, Laveaux’s xenofeminist inclinations and the duo’s expert dubwise FX manipulation enticed the crowd and provided succulent ear candy throughout the set. Further entrancing dancers into endless movement after No Way Back’s 12 hour marathon in the mind palace, they brought forth a unique vision of so-called Midwest dance music - conjuring soundscapes as informed by the expanses of Detroit’s storied history & multi-lane highways as it is by the DMV’s intersection of funk stylistics, punk attitude, & Sing Sing breakbeats, the expansive mountain ranges & hidden wonders of Appalachia, & northeast Ohio’s irreverent sonic dialectics birthed from the backdrop of industry & decay. All of these combine to form something greater than the sum of it’s parts - an audio cauldron of what makes the midwest so rife with electrified mojo, brought to you by simply another bold presentation of groove, energy, & harmonious cacophony on a special Memorial day afternoon.

Mastered By: @m-parent
Mix Graphic By: @malzof

Recorded Live at Lot Mass 2025 (During Return to the Source 25 @ Tangent Gallery)

Sweet Abyss

MASS CAST 035: Johnny Zoloft B2B Kiernan Laveaux @ Lot Mass

Tracklist: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQcTubRDKU1/
b2b sets are a delicate dance, especially so when meeting a teammate for the first time to collaborate on the spot. without prior discussion of direction — listening to each other’s selections, brief communication between blends and attention to the lovely folks on the dancefloor brought us all into sync over time. there’s a point in the set where it starts to sound less like two DJ’s and more like a cohesive, unified journey. there was also a moment where the dancefloor passed ‘the wave’ into the dj booth.   the spiral shows itself. 🌀😍
-Mars / quest?onmarq

I can’t help but reflect back on this set like playing a pickleball match with a partner with whom I’m totally in sync: Mars & I vibed off each other’s tracks all night to build or shift the momentum however we saw fit. Hearing our tracks played slower and filthier through Globus’ delicious soundsystem was a bucket list-tier experience. Staying in the 100-130 BPM territory without the urge to go fast & hard too soon was a joy in that room.  This recording represents what a DJ team working in unison sounds like. 
-DJ BRS

DJ BRS b2b quest?onmarq at Globus, Berlin 2025.09.13

ambient salon no. 1 : played on a beautiful mid-november sunday. bubbly drippy sound waves, big deep vibrations. light refractions, friends spilling in and out, a dear one bopping in the corner, and others sinking into sheepskins under the sub.

ambient salon no. 1

One of our all time favourites delivers a 4,5-hour long live recording for this week’s Dekmantel Podcast: BMG is the man in charge of the Interdimensional Transmissions label and Ectomorph - two dynamic, long-standing Michigan institutions. Brendan M. Gillen is part of the history of Detroit as much as the acclaimed superstars. Through a network of pseudonyms such as Ectomorph, BMG, Flexitone, Existence And Uniqueness Of Solutions and others he wrote pages and pages of history. Gillen will play this year’s Dekmantel Festival By Night as part of the No Way Back showcase, featuring Bryan Kasenic, Carlos Souffront, Erika, and Derek Plaslaiko. The mix was recorded at a The Bunker Limited night at Trans Pecos.

Dekmantel Podcast 077 - BMG

Central American born Silent Servant has performed worldwide in clubs from LA, Berlin to Osaka. A chance meeting with Karl O'Conner in 1999 would establish a friendship that would open the door to the Sandwell District label in 2006. Silent Servant's sound is a reinterpretation of early '80s post-punk electronics, paired with the deep, metallic sounds of Basic Channel and Downwards.

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