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Calm and Steady tracks series no. 466

created on 2024/08/10

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The chordfreak

Sounds & Sequences - Haze

> @teskera
> @labelafterme

12inch craft from Teskera and Superlounge.
Mastering by Kashatskikh Studio.
Design by Kirill Kashatskikh.
Vinyl Only.

PREMIERE: Teskera - Leap In Space [VAM09]

Through her involvement working in the electronic event, festival and club culture in Rhein-Main over a long time @etiennettereimann came into contact with various established artists who inspired her. 2018 she decided to start Djing by herself - among others, influenced by  the sound of Cinthie which also ignited her passion for vinyl. 2021 she moved to Berlin and since 2022 she’s part of the Elevate Team.

Her mostly energetic DJ sets are characterised by a fusion of Deep and Minimal House, UK Garage and Breaks, with a strong emphasis on groove and emotional depth.

Just in time for her 2-year anniversary at Elevate she delivers a mix of deep, minimalistic, and breaky tracks.

Elevate Mix 026 - Etiennette

end zone (spy hunter)

Download

yrc - lasy

Pulsatille

Above a Mercury Ground (Re-Edit)

We're pleased to present the first edition of our digital VA releases under the PENDA banner. Featuring music from our residents, bookings & friends. A range of styles reflecting the eclectic but underground sounds likely heard at our PENDA parties. Available on Bandcamp and all other good platforms.

TRACKLIST:
Bunny CWC - Wildcard at 48 [ @bunny ]
Croft. - Fine Layer [ @arroncroft ] 
Elliott Boyd - Within Cells Interlinked [ @elliottboyd ] 
Cinders - Don't Press [ @arron-whall ]
Josh Guest - Kit Kat [ @joshgu3st ] 
RIOT Z - Pleasurable Acts [ @paoloriozzi ]

Mastered at Cold Water Cuts, Birmingham.

PENDA VA 001

Buy on Bandcamp

PENDA V.A. 001 [digital]

Sisyphos Re-Opening I Wintergarten 08.03.25

A 1 hour and 20 minute excerpt from a live recording at PENDA NYE 2024. Our good friends Lewis Oxley and Matt Jones warming up the evening with the deeper and groovier side of their record collections, a reminder of why we all love what we do...

@lewis-oxley @matt_j_ones

PENDA 011 - LEWIS OXLEY & MATT JONES (LIVE AT PENDA NYE)

We're really excited to bring you the 2nd volume of Inter-Connections to mark the 20th release on Leftback Intercities. The Inter-Connections concept is simple, we bring together our friends from across the globe into one compilation. The album flows from super stripped back cuts, to heavy hitting dancefloor groovers, right through to breakbeat laden tracks to round things off.

Artwork: James Micallef

Mastering: Play Mastering

Bandcamp release - Fri 5th Sept 2025
All other stores - Fri 3rd Oct 2025

COMING SOON...

desmond - The Bleed From Upstairs (Original Mix)

Were back again with the second installment of our digital VA series. This time we have some good friends and previous bookings, some guys who we've wanted to work with on a release for a long time... JOS and TC80 deliver some wicked tunes in their signature style. Plus some dope shiiiiz from our good friends and residents. Get it on Bandcamp!

TRACKLIST
Bunny CWC - Generation PlayStation [@bunny]
Broken Joe - Moved Fusion [@joe-phase2]
Cinders - Wet Pussy [@arron-whall]
JOS - Housetrak11 [@jos-productions]
TC80 - Resurgence [@tc80]
The Cardinal - Code Unknown [@m-cutz]

PENDA V.A. 002 [digital]

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

Artist: Croft.
Title: Rascal EP
Label: On The Button
Cat No: OTB003
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 

A1. Aloo Tuk
A2. Coin Toss
B1. Bop To The Bee
B2. Rascal

On The Button are back again and coming in strong with their 3rd release. This time Birmingham native Croft. delivers his first full debut EP for the Leeds based record label and Event.

Croft. has delivered 4 heavy cuts all ready for the dancefloor, a mixture of a 4/4 groove laden techno/tech house and breaky electro, all 4 tracks truly complimenting each other with Croft. establishing his unique sound.

Croft. - Rascal EP (OTB003)

Nicolas Lutz - Live at WOMBTOKYO 22/03/2025

->https://ra.co/dj/szymonwnuk
<-https://ra.co/dj/rtrdsc

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International Vermin Consortium
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The vermin will outlive your grand children's grand children.
Like Mickey Mouse the vermin is immortal.
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Antifa is my cousin.  I heard some people were looking for her.  Since I like to be helpful when I can, she was in Alexandria last time I talked to her, three weeks ago.  I think she mentioned going to Zurich in the near future.
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Is it 1984 already?!?!
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I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
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This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

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You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
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My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
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I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
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Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

yrc - lasy

szymon

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