Against the backdrop of the global pandemic that radically altered her everyday reality and the Black Lives Matter movement that sharpened her focus on black equity and erasure in dance music, the much-loved London-born, Manchester-based producer and DJ launched OTMI. While this genre-spanning label will release music from friends and collaborators, its debut release came from Anz herself as 001 explored the processes of coming un-done and rebuilding. Hard relate. At the beginning of lockdown, the industrious talent set herself the target of making 40 tracks and by the summer she had channeled her closed club frustrations to amass 74 tracks to soundtrack these unprecedented times. Throughout it all, Anz has played her signature blend of bass, UK funky, breakbeats, ghetto tech and electro selections once a month on her NTS Manchester show. As she’s been a regular of the station for half of its life, who better to close its 10.10 Store Mix takeover? Just as Manchester International Festival (MIF) announced her as one of the acts for its Homecoming Live night, Anz – who spends so much of her time recording club mixes –  wanted to share something different. Here, she wants you to take it easy with 65 minutes of “stone cold classics”.

10.10 NTS 10 STORE MIX: ANZ

Presto

@jayeward

o•rbyss aims to help soothe the queer spectrum and focus on the well-being of the community. Queer DJs are invited to submit a mix to showcase an alternative side to their music library outside of a rave and take us on a meditative journey. ✨

Notes on the mix:

"'Finding space to be totally horizontal can be difficult, this mix is a sort of gateway to that way of feeling. Ambient but with rhythm, with peaks and troughs to keep you focussed and in the game. Lots of deep listening, lo fi textures, slow arpy funks & dense devotional synths. Log on and tune out!!'"

Back before acid house changed the world, Jaye Ward was already ploughing a unique path playing weird and wonky musics of all flavours at squat parties and industrial based do’s, she flung herself whole heartedly and without concern for her safety into the oncoming tsunami of what we would end up tagging as house, techno or the multitude of varying descriptive titles it has been given and has stayed true to ‘our thing’ ever since.

Dancing wildly at dirt box, the mutoid waste parties, the hacienda, ministry of sound, tonka, moist, sabresonic set her up for the ‘90s where, while Jaye was behind the counters of a number of soho record shops during the day and doing the ambient ‘creamy meat’ show as bish on the legendary chillin’ FM pirate radio, she was often found behind the decks at the legendary WANG parties, the back room at Golden in Stoke on Trent, her residency at London’s sadly defunct END with the ‘for your pleasure’ crew and numerous long gone all nighters and late into the night dark room parties. Getting her second wind at the start of the 00’s via the ‘softmachine’ parties she ran alongside George ‘black merlin’ and Kyle & Johnny from ‘land of light’ she’s been playing regularly across the country for numerous nights such as LOVE MUSCLE & COSMIC SLOP in Leeds, HOMO BLOC & KISS ME AGAIN in Manchester and further a field as a resident at the KALA festival as well as Field Maneuvers, Love International and dimensions in Croatia. She is also the resident at long running & fiercely loyally supported Bristol party PLU, alongside Ranks which has carved out a name for interesting left of centre guests and a distinctly gnarly music policy.

As well as a bi-monthly ambient tinged ‘starmaps’ show of MUTANT RADIO Jaye also runs the long running weekly sunday night ‘Magical Real’ show on Netil Radio, from which she broadcasts a monthly dose of all things dub, disco, psychedelic, Balearic, and more.

Jaye has just released the 2nd release from DJ BSH on her own FIBS record label here >> https://fibs.bandcamp.com/

o•rbyss - Jaye Ward

M?Y?A:
🎶 https://soundcloud.com/maya-elimelech
👤 https://www.instagram.com/mayamelech/

M?Y?A: guest mix

040 - Randomer - fabric podcast

Recorded live in Los Angeles, May 10th 2024  
@ Dislabel Los Angeles w/ Coco Bryce & Tim Reaper

01. Es.tereo - Flying Disc
02. LRRP - This City 
03. Overlook - Bear Trap (Madcap Remix)
04. Disaffected PATCHWORK
05. RuptureLDN - Annoko
06. Sempra - Ascension 
07. Weighty Jungle - Sparkle Bark
08. Outer Heaven - Untitled Jungle
09. Kahn - Way Mi Defend (Kami-O Bootleg)
10. Slick Shoota - Hardcore Junglist
11. Krysa - Gunman
12. K-65 - Ominous
13. N4 Records - 1021 Crew
14. BB Shaine - On Fiyah 
15. CM-4 - Push It 
16. Namarone - Burning Touch
17. Sun People - Sate of Flux
18. Tweakz - Velvet Jungle
19. L U C Y - Attack 
20. Fade - Thinking of You
21. J-Shadow - Ambien 5mg
22. Cheetah - In My Mind

Live @ Dislabel Los Angeles 05.10.24

Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO (recorded live at Open Ground) - 22 July 2024

Closing set in the warehouse on Thursday night. 
Huge thanks to Aurora and all the festival staff. It meant the world to me!

Ben UFO - Sustain Release '23

A dubstep legend roars back.

When dubstep ruled the roost in the late '00s, electronic music had no shortage of icons and spinoff variants to rally around. But one rumble from  Bristol stood out: the Purple sound. Popularised by Joker, AKA Liam Mclean, with Guido and Gemmy in support, it hit like a beam of bright light flooding through the basement dank.

When America cottoned onto bass quakes in the next decade, Mclean's taste for chiptune-coded synths and maximum intensity kept his vision alive at arena level, even while he retreated from view as an actively touring performer.

In 2023, "Tears," a collaboration with Skrillex and Sleepnet, helped remind the world just how much Joker's juddering sound could put us in a headlock. True to form, this year's gargantuan "Juggernaut"—Mclean's first solo single in six years—crashes through the speakers with as much glorious crunch as earlier classics like 2009's "Purple City."

Mclean has kept busy in the studio applying his perfectionist streak as a producer and engineer to many sound system anthems, which means his influence is never far from a dance floor being turned inside out. The fact that Joker had never laid down an RA Podcast before was, being honest, a blemish in our copybook. RA.962 fixes that in style.

@jokerkapsize

Read more at ra.co/podcast/962

RA Podcast

RA.962 Joker

On Saturday, February 1, 2025 Clockshop hosted a special SOLD-OUT ‘Reading By Moonrise’ with Little Flower Cafe and Octavia’s Bookshelf featuring writers and artists with a direct connection to the Altadena Public Libraries. 

Featuring:
Empress Of 
York Chang
Ayasha Guerin
Maryam Hosseinzadeh 
Lester Graves Lennon
Sesshu Foster
Lynne Thompson 
Sehba Sarwar

100% of donations from this event directly supported the Altadena Library Foundation and LA County Library Foundation’s LA Wildfires Connected Wellness Campaign.



Reading by Moonrise; Benefit for Altadena Libraries

This is the recording of my live performance at Paragon in Brooklyn on February 21 2025 as broadcast on NTS Radio. Enjoy!

Foreigner live @ Paragon (Brooklyn) February 2025 [NTS Radio]

Recording Artist | Composer | Proof of Concept

Presto

Zhao