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The Spotlight showcases the best in electronic music on dance floors around the world. From emerging artists to industry leaders, each month shines a ‘spotlight’ on talent that’s making serious waves in the clubs, festivals and studio alike.

This month Jay has an in-depth chat about production with superbly talented and highly revered producer Rival Consoles, and talks to promoter & owner of the Star pubs collective, Rob Star.

The Spotlight #24 with Jay Carder: Rival Consoles + Rob Star (060821)

Some people drive under the influence (DUI), me I am creative under the influence, done with Sativa 2024-08-17 :) Spontaneus curation of dub / deep house / spoken words / ambient & IDM. 


#thedude

#Lebowski

#chillax


1) Biosphere - Le Grand Dôme	
2) African Head Charge  - Blessed be  1998 
3) Chateau Flight - Brain On Drugs (Dub) 
4) Biosphere  Black Mesa [Biophon Records] 
5) Global Communication - 14 31 (2 tracks Bootleg Pitch Edit)
6) Aphex Twin - Polynomial C (Maceo Plex edit)
7) Leftfield - Space Shanty 
8) Jam & Spoon - Heart of Africa- Paul Daley remix (ex Leftfield)
9) Prince Fatty & Shniece - Black Rabbit (with Dub)
10) Dubtommy  Immersion 
11) Muslimgauze - Mullah Said 
12) Appleblim and Peverelist - Circling 
13) Shackleton - Hamas Rule 
14) Nomine -  Blind Man 
15) Subsurfing - The Number Readers (Main Mix) 
16) The Revolutionaries - Kunta Kinte
17) Beat Pharmacy - Sunshine feat. Paul St. Hilaire (Intrusion's Sunset Dub) 
18) DJ Shadow - Trip Out (DJ Food Mx1)

Chillax 001 - The Dude DUBides

TASCAM DR-05X

Daniel Avery B2B Richard Fearless "GOO" 26.10.24 @TheBerkleySuite

Tracklist: 
A1		Not A Perfect Party (Opening Speech)
A2		A Perfect Mission
A3		Chemical Process
A4		Loop'92
B1		Loop'97
B2		Untitled
B3		Loop'93
B4		Loop'91
B5		Loop'95
C1		A Rave Loveletter
C2		Move On
C3		Loop'99
C4		Euphoria
D1		There Is A Million Ways To Come Down
D2		Loop'94
D3		Don't Be Afraid
D4		Bonsai
D5		Loop'108
E1		Gate Two
E2		Spinning Universe
E3		Untitled
F1		The Arrival
F2		Amnesia
G1		Eleusia
G2		We Are Almost There
H1		Last Days Of Infinity
H2		Escape
H3		Outro
H4		Love With U Is Real

DJ Metatron (A.K.A. Traumprinz) - Loops of Infinity (Mixed)

Live recording from The Aquarium at Fandango at the Lighthouse 
Plötzensee February 23rd, 2025

The latest live mix comes direct from the aqua depths, courtesy of @johnloveless & @danielavery ’s full six hour underwater wade. Floating from spooky to smoky, bass-heavy, and bouncy, sail through this truly epic aquarium experience.

Our AQUARIUM CHARITY V/A is available now on bandcamp:
https://fandangooo.bandcamp.com/album/aquarium-charity-v-a

LIVE AT FANDANGO - Daniel Avery b2b John Loveless

Swayzak - Radio Buena Vida 24.04.25

Introducing Quinn & Del from Paranoid London.

Paranoid London - 23 June 2025

Dub Explorations 132

Broadcast 2025 / 07 / 24


Tracklist:

Cousin Silas - Beginnings
Nosnar - Abandoned Souls (Ohm Series)
AGP - Behold Begin (Axaminer)
Nosnar - Sources of light (Ohm Series)
Wade Watts & Sir Rizio - Limitless Progression (Lempuyang)
ARUM - Guss (Deadbeat Remix)
Wade Watts & Sir Rizio - Innermost Existence (Lempuyang)
Pasiphae Group - Aegaeon (Ohm Series)
DJ Lincs - Cloudy Day (Dub Mix) (Jiggy Astronaut Music)
Io - Claire (1994 Original Mix) (Cheap Classics)
Radic The Myth - Phone Calls (Bandcamp)
Fluxion - Magenta (Vibrant Music)
Sleney - Density (Oldschool_Dubtechno.Producer HB Version) (Piranha Siberia Dub)
Sirko Muller - Provenance (Kontakt)
Monimal - Crystal Stars (Piranha Siberia Dub)
Sirko Muller - Providence (Kontakt)
Substak - Above the Stars (Insectorama)
Deadbeat - Double Bubble (Echocord)
D.Diggler - Red Mercury (Noosa Soundsystem Remix) (Forthcoming Refraction Records)
Addex - Planemo (spclnch)
Dubrovnik (UK) - Galazxian (Forthcoming Axaminer Records)
Yagya - Góður Dagur (Lempuyang)
Massimo Music - Full Speed Ahead (Insectorama)
Aeikus & Pedro Capelossi - Topaz (Refraction Records)
Schulz Audio - Riddim Room (Axaminer Records)
The Open Circle - Transition (Greyscale)
Federsen - Plato (Spigl Remix) (Forthcoming Axaminer Records)
SND&RTN - Jawa Dub (Intrusion Reshape) (Forthcoming Kontakt)
Deadbeat ft Paul St Hilaire - Run Tings So (Kontakt)
SND&RTN - Jawa Dub (Cv313 Redesign) (Forthcoming Kontakt)
Deadbeat ft Paul St Hilaire - 3 steps to Oblivion (Kontakt)
Dubrovnik (UK) - Trip (Spigl Remix) (Forthcoming Axaminer)
Modernism - Deserve Rage (Ohm Series)
Baigø - Planet X (Mixcult Records)
Luis Bravo - Mindscape (Refraction Records)
Federsen - Spring Tank (Forthcoming Axaminer Records)
Octal Industries - Locked Down (Kontakt Records)
Hart Thorson - Mahakala (Axaminer Records)
Hydergine - Ultraviolet (Lempuyang)
Jonah Van Der Hout - Wunsch Traumwelt (Piranha Siberia Dub)
JS Zeiter - Momentum (Kontakt)
Sirko Muller - Provenance (Don Williams Remix) (Kontakt Records)
Aeikus - Starflow (Mixcult Records)

Dub Explorations 132

Hello Everyone. 
Im pleased to have Alessandro Crimi to the mix series. Definetly one of my favorite artists for a long time now. Im honored to Have him on my vinyl series . He has already one apperance and another is coming soon .. Feel free to ask for Track id´s .
Like always I start the first hour and Alessandro finishes the show with his set .
Enjoy

OHM Series with Alessandro Crimi

Today's guest mix arrives as the perfect soundtrack to these scorching summer days that seem to stretch on endlessly, capturing the vibrant energy and laid-back vibe of the season. We welcome Vakula, a leading figure in the Ukrainian electronic music scene.

The journey began in 1998, behind the decks of a local radio station, where Vakula played drum & bass and trip-hop sets for a handful of night listeners. By 2004, he was already diving into the deep waters of dub techno, drawn not by fashion, but by a persistent inner frequency.
Soon after, Vakula moved to the capital — a city now at war — where he spent eleven formative years. The original plan was simple: earn enough money to reach a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. But life, borders, and timing had other ideas. Instead, he stayed and followed sound.
Over the years, Vakula became part of the underground scene, eventually becoming a resident at iconic clubs such as Propaganda and Zeppelin, while also playing in many of the legendary venues of that era. By 2008, music had turned into a passport, taking him across continents to places where electronic sound truly thrived.
Genre was never a boundary. Jazz, rock, hip-hop, ambient, house, techno, drum & bass — everything served the same purpose: to explore, to feel, to connect. In 2011, he returned to his small hometown and built an analog studio, carving out space to listen more deeply.
Over time, the surface of the global scene began to feel thinner, less sacred. In 2020, he stepped back from performance and immersed himself in a three-year exploration of shamanic practices — not for spectacle, but for personal insight. This inner work changed his relationship with sound, and opened up new levels of depth, stillness, and presence in his music.
By 2025, Vakula let go of the path of the spirits, realizing that some stories are not his to walk. Vakula returned, not to where he started, but to a clearer understanding of his role: to keep listening, to keep creating, and to stay honest in sound.
Through it all, Vakula remains one of the early pioneers and enduring voices in the Ukrainian electronic scene — not the mainstream one, but a world of his own: where forest replaces the city center, where meadows stand in for mindless entertainment, and where trees are steadier than fleeting friendships. His connection to Ukraine has never been about slogans. It’s a quiet, unwavering love — for the land, for the people who still feel, and for his hometown of Konotop, which lives in every frequency he shapes.

Tracklist:
1. Vakula - Thaw of the Silent Peak
2. Jonn Serrie - The Observation Deck
3. Ariel Kalma - Flute Meditation
4. Vakula - Stellar Echoes
5. Steve Roach - The Ancient’ Way
6. Vakula - True Self
7. Jonn Serrie - Along The Way
8. Vakula - Ananta Nada

Photo by Kyan Tijhuis

Vakula
Soundcloud: @vakula
Bandcamp: https://vakula.bandcamp.com/music
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vakula_sound

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Deep Breakfast 319 ~ Vakula

Rodion & Mammarella - Inner Outer (Toulouse Low Trax Radient Walk Remix)

DLM006 A1 Rodion & Mammarella - Inner Outer (Toulouse Low Trax Radient Walk Remix) PM 1644

HEROINY - BRAIDS DUNNO002

From the "Tokyo Black Star-Edo Express EP" (wf-002) to be released on vinyl in stores worldwide on November 2nd, 2015 through Complete USA

Paris-born, Tokyo-raised, New York-based international eclectic French DJ, music producer and sound designer Alex from Tokyo is very excited to announce the October 2015 launch of his record label "world famous" with a new Tokyo Black Star EP (the first release in three years)!

Working in harmony with music partner and sound/mastering engineer Isao Kumano in Tokyo, Alex from Tokyo formed Tokyo Black Star in 2000 while remixing Big Moses feat. Jan'elle's house classic "For you" for Kerri Chandler's label Bassmental records. Since then Tokyo Black Star has released five EPs including the first-ever release on high-profile Berlin label Innversions (the "Psyche Dance EP," 2005) and their full length debut album “Black Ships” (April 2009, also on Innervisions), an EP on DJ Deep’s Deeply Rooted House label and remixes for artists like Tony Allen (P-Vine records Japan, 1999), Carl Craig (Psyche “Neurotic Behavior” on Planet E, 2011), Phenomenal Handclap Band (Tummy Touch Records, 2013), Bing Ji Ling (Lovemonk), and Kuniyuki (mule music), and among others. 

Always looking for new challenges and sonic adventures, in the summer of 2010 the Tokyo Black Star duo were joined by top Japanese audio professionals at Isao’s studio in Tokyo, leading to the creation of a new “revolutionary” audio brand called phonon (www.phonon-inc.com), which makes exceptional pro-audio equipment for studio and DJ use. phonon has been getting lots of attention for their legendary studio monitoring headphones the SMB-02, and now, at the same time as the launch of the world famous label, phonon are releasing their brand new mobile hi-fi phonon 4000 headphones. The attention to detail shown in the production of these top class electronics is typical of the kind of the care and love Tokyo Black Star put into their productions and Alex from Tokyo displays in his much-respected always-joyous DJ sets around the world.

Tokyo Black Star's last release, in 2013, was a special musical contribution called "X"  for a unique celebratory 10th anniversary compilation for Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas fashion brand Y-3.  Alex from Tokyo co-directed the exclusive compilation which can be heard at www.Y-3.com/music. Early in 2014, Alex from Tokyo was chosen to compile Volume 10 of the great CD series "Originals" on the London label claremont 56. Shortly after, in the summer of 2014, Tokyo Black Star started to work again on some new original music with the help of their great musician/analog equipment otaku friend Kenichi Takagi. The collaboration was fruitful, leading to Kenichi san officially becoming the third Tokyo Black Star member, bringing along some of his favorite old, new and handmade (modular) synths into the mix.

The four different straight up house music club tracks here on the "Edo Express EP" showcase Alex from Tokyo's versatile and funky DJ style and come from a very special fun jam session that took place in January 2015 at Isao’s Tokyo Black Star and phonon studio with Kenichi. The stunning artwork for the release is done by long-time collaborator the very talented New York based Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama, who has been creating the Tokyo Black Star visual identity since their first release on Innversions in 2005. Please note that this is the first release on world famous but the catalogue number is actually wf-002. 

Tokyo Black Star-Mitokomon

Kognokoura
Daphni's Part 2 edit
Additional production by Daphni
Flute by Rob Piilonen
Courtesy of Niama Makalou

Niama Makalou et African Soul Band - Kognokoura (Daphni's Part 2 Edit)

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