Name: Skylab - Yikes: Beam Me Up E11 by Yikes
Duration: 2 h

meltdown 69 - dawn again

Unknown Mobile & CFCF - A Windless March Ouest
Slow Attack Ensemble - November, 1st in Detroit
Bill Nelson - Buddha Head
Love apple, Lou ragland - I’ve Gotta Move 
Robin Trower - I’m Out to Get You
Jeffrey Silverstein - Sunny Jean
Life Without Buildings - Envoys
Rock Band - Bizzy
ML Buch - Pan Over the Hill
Sean Murray and Shawn K. Clement - Anything
Milou Moon - Circles 
Dan Lacksman - Love You Every Day
Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Risky
Pink Industry - What You Couldn’t Give
Mathematiques Modernes - Jungle Hurt
Cold End - Metropolitan Jungle
Billy Idol - Adam in Chains
Jack J - Down the Line
Don Cherry - Universal Mother
Kofi - Curious
Ali Omar - On Release (feat. Gina Mitchell)
Kyoko Koizumi - No No No (Dub Mix)
Hidemi Ishikawa - Love Comes Quickly ～霧の都の異邦人～
My Bloody Valentine - Soon


| GOOD MORNING SKYLAB | w/ Simon 23.05.25

forwards and backwards through bits of a [mostly] electronic music timeline. reverence for BCR. records i’ve played forever and new records i’ve just found. boil it down. one z in drizle. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/drizlefm-w-plo-man/episodes/drizlefm-w-plo-man-26th-june-2025

drizle.FM w/ PLO MAN feat. DJ Spence 260625

Tracklist: https://www.originssound.com/os-tapes/arianev-mix

Up next for Tapes #162 is South London-based DJ Ariane V, with a recorded set from Corsica Studios’ Palestine Fundraiser back in May.

Ariane’s reputation continues to rise as her sound becomes ever-more assured. Whether turning up the energy with breaks and acid cuts at peak time or locking in for a heads-down ride, her selections are rooted in a deep sense of groove. Emotive house cuts give way to driving prog, punctuated by leftfield disco, glistening italo, and euphoric piano moments. all delivered with a joyful appreciation and deep connection to the music.

Follow Ariane V -
@arianev
https://www.instagram.com/arianev__/

Origins Tapes 162 - Ariane V

Lou Karsh, the Australian producer better known as Reptant, “started out in 2016 with a 303 clone and slowly building from there, his style has blossomed from breakbeat-driven acid to sleek, forward-thinking electro infused with other genres and ideas.

Beautiful Freaks w/ Reptant @ Kiosk Radio 02.08.2025

✱ CONFIDE IN HANNAH D ✱ Live at Miscellania – 08.06.2025

Recorded live at Miscellania, let local legend Hannah D take you on an expertly curated journey through her plush, progressive soundscape.

Soundcloud — @hld
Instagram — www.instagram.com/hannah.d.__

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CONFIDE IN HANNAH D (025) (Live at Miscellania – 08.06.2025)

Sunset at Mach One festival on the 5th April 2025.

Photo by Luka Filips


Sunset at Mach One

@myles-mac and @djpossums live at @nowadaysnyc Nonstop 3-6am ヽ(^o^)丿

Myles Mac & DJ Possum @ Nowadays Nonstop - 30th Aug 2025

Old school d&b with some history licks in their. Someway is a route of inspiration trying to get through lifes struggles. Enjoy!

SOMEWAY

https://skylab-radio.com/

What's Going On (Truth & Rights Remix) - Marvin Gaye/Bob Marley 
In Ya Area - Dougie Conscious 
Nika - Vicious 
Izzy Izzy Ahh - Missy Elliott 
Steelo - 702 
Ciara - Like U (Miracles Remix) 
heatwave - louli 
Check 4 U (Original) - Bovel 
No Scrubs - TLC 
Reasons - Colloboh 
Sponsored Ritual - trickpony 
Purple Airplane - D. Tiffany 
Ain't Nobody (Hallucinogenic Version) - Rufus & Chaka Khan 
Inside Out (MCM Mix) - Electribe 101 
You're My Last Dub (Piafra Edit) - Hip Edits 
Who Said? (Vocal Version) - Two The Hardway 
Ravers Dream - Skeleten 
Schizofriendly - Midnight Savari 
Je T'Aime Tous Les Jours (Fundido Mix) - Fundido 
Sagittariun – Different Planet - A Sagittariun 
You Show Me Love (Andy Bainbridge Remix) - MOCHUDI  
Amajovi Jovi (Lion's Drums Edit) - Sandy B & Lion's Drums 
Ibiza Ritter - DJ Fettburger & DJ Speckgürtel 
Second Sunday - eliphino 
Meticulous (Alex Kassian Remix) - comforter2 
Over The Edge - Secretsundaze 
Searching - Showerhead

Skylab - Yikes: Beam Me Up E11

20 years later...

In recent times there has been a lot of looking back to the early 1990s in house music which made me curious about what my dj sets actually sounded like back then. As it's 20 years on I thought it might be fun to put one up as an Optimo podcast, but sadly I had no recordings of that time as I had long given away or lost any tapes i had from then (everything was on cheap C90 cassette tapes in those days). Then, last week a local producer sent me his album to peruse and mentioned that he had a couple of mix tapes of mine, both from 1991.

So, here is a genuine 1991 mix recorded in that year when I was co-resident at Pure in Edinburgh (which ran from 1990 - 2000) when i was known simply as Twitch rather than JD Twitch (the JD was added many years later to stop people billing me as DJ Twitch, which I loathed).

Although I started djing in 1987, I didn't start mixing records together until 1990 and couldn't afford turntables until the end of that year, so initially when i was djing at Pure I was literally learning on the job. Thankfully the euphoria of those times coupled with the fact it was all so new and exciting to so many meant that I got away with it as audiences were a lot more forgiving than they are today. Requests were fairly rare and usually a lot more oblique, often along the lines of "Can you play some "E" music?" Heckling or shouting "come on!', "harder!", "techno!" was non existent. it wasn't a better time, just different, but audiences in general were a bit politer and more patient.

This mix is two sides of two different C90 cassettes stuck together. The first half is from late 1991. It has a lot of that "E" music people were asking for on it. The mixing ranges from pretty good to the odd "ouch" moment but overall is not bad for a beginner. The second half is from earlier in 1991 and the mixing is a lot more, uh, "freeform" and gets through a high number of tracks in a short time. I think this section may have been recorded live at Pure although I can't be sure as despite running for ten years we only ever made a tiny number of live recordings. There are a couple of massively cheesy and seriously dated rave anthems on here and a couple of tracks I have absolutely no recollection of ever having heard in my life, but there is also a lot of music that I still play to this day and indeed have never stopped playing since, and some, such as MK's "Burning", Mike Perras and CLS that are enduring classics. To use the parlance of back in the day, the mix gets a little "mental" towards the end. The tape begins with a live recording of a bit of chat from the Ragga Twins live at Pure in early 1991 and ends with a particularly twisted take on David Lynch's "Lady In The Radiator Song" followed by a blast of Throbbing Gristle. Sometimes I'd drop in things like that at Pure which maybe helps explain why a few regulars ended up with mental health issues! Pure had a reputation for being a techno club and in the early days a temple to all things rave but it was always a lot more than that (as well as those things too of course) as this podcast demonstrates. Despite the sound (and mixing) limitations I think it's an interesting document of what was going on in my world 20 years ago. 


The audio fidelity of this podcast is not high, particularly in the second half. The original cassette tape was probably copied multiple times as it was passed around from person to person. Richard Chisolm who excavated the tapes has done some remastering to improve the sound but old multi generation tapes rarely sound good and it was probably quite lo fi to begin with. It was mixed live using a cheap mixer through a cheap amp. Back then the vast majority of dj mixers were very basic - no eq, no gain and no gizmos whatsoever; just a volume fader, a crossfader and phono / line switches which I used to flick to cut tracks in and out. The mix is 85 minutes long and is a 192kbps mp3 (118mb). 

Thanks to Richard aka Restless Native.
 

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