Track Of The Day: Can - Vernal Equinox - Live at BBC The Old Grey Whistle Test 1975

 

This popped up on my”my feed” this morning, and it’s a belter. It comes with caveats though. I know next to nothing about Can. Although I’m as old as Nebuchadnezzar, when this was being played I wasn’t into anything like it. It just wasn’t in my orbit. It was glam rock and anything weird on Top Of The Pops. I’m sure that if Can had been the subject of our Friday morning walk to school conversations we would have been even weirder than we already appear. That would have been great, but it didn’t happen. One of the lads liked Billy Cobham, on account of an older brother. That was as avant-garde as we got. So all of this appreciation is retrospective. Better late than never, because this is amazing. Great flow. The guitars solo but they’re never alone. Everything just gushes at you in a long, untrammelled wave. The backbone is the incredible drumming of course, and the weird, off-key keyboard flourishes. It sounds like nothing else because it is something else.

Rebolledo | HÖR - July 11 / 2026

 

Dekmantel Mix 513 - Nicolas Lutz

 

dekmantel · Dekmantel Mix 513 - Nicolas Lutz

Track Of The Day: .xtrak - Multiplexor (7th City)

 

Take kick, some handclaps, an undulating synth line, bass, flange it! Let the percussion’s intensity fluctuate and once these elements are bouncing and somehow, like two giant out of time skipping ropes being brought into an unholy alliance everything coalesces, you have a piece of minimal magic. Dan Bell and Todd Sines anticipate some of minimal’s best moves by around ten years here. A sound which was particularly amplified by the Minus stable of artists, but not improved on.  This is one of those tracks which is so well produced that it is far more than the sum of its very easily-recognised parts. Play it loud and listen to it fill the room.

Track Of The Day: DJ Sense - Ritual One (The Chant) (Casa Del Soul)

 

Casa Del Soul was a house label that emerged out of Denver at the arsenal end of the twentieth century, and I had all of the releases. That was until I put the majority of them on Discogs last year. Still, they sold well. I didn’t sell all of them though, and this is one I kept. Elemental tech house innit. Haunting overtones and solid percussion driven by a dominant bass. It has just the right amount of everything. Which isn’t an easy thing to produce as quantifying the sound and the effect it produces isn’t easy. This would sound great with a Pure Science track being expelled from its rear end. So make it happen.

Track Of The Day: Dopplereffekt - Limit Zero (Skynet Supersonic)

 

‘Limit Zero’ is one of two tracks on the recently-released ‘Eonfield’, the latest Dopplereffekt release which is, for some unfathomable reason, very difficult to get hold of. I guess that’s because label bosses are twigging that this stuff is very collectible and why not? Dopplereffekt make techno/electro/ambient, call it what you like, of an unworldly variety. Spectral, needle shop keys haunt their tunes (having said that, I’m never sure exactly who or what Dopplereffekt is, besides Gerald Donald.) Anyway, there’s nothing else that sounds quite like this. Can you dance to it? Being double-jointed everywhere would help, as well as being a contortionist.

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Track Of The Day: Karim - In My Mind (Acid Pink)

 

Acid was a sub-label of Classic and, for my money, didn’t release a dud track. This one from Karim, aka Rob Mello, is a typical piece of very danceable, wonky deep house that still sounds fresh today and, because of it’s long length, would easily fit in with a minimal percussive Villalobos groover. Some of these tracks have found their way into the sets of like-minded groovers due to their linear approach and moderate, but incisive inflections. That Phillipe Maurice III release on Classic for example is much loved by those Romanians. Anyway, Rob Mello DJed at a party myself and my mate Kev put on down at Herbal, a bar in Shoreditch. It was a grand night and we made about £10 each. Which was nice.

Track Of Yesterday: Paul Mitchell - Ceres (Ohm Series Digital)

 

A random pick from a digital-only release from around a year ago. Paul Mitchell, a producer whose genius has been featured before on this blog, rises to the occasion once more with a piece of shimmering dub techno in the form of ‘Ceres’. And while this, like probably every dub techno record I’ve featured, is no radical departure from the norm, it “does” something on a certain level that will forever defy mere words.

Track Of The Day: Anton Lanski - Cyanogaster (Berg Audio)

 

Great track by Anton lanky on the excellent Berg Audio. A label which spans the whole spectrum of deep, dubby goodness, rarely putting a foot wrong even when it occasionally drops its guard and goes slightly off piste. Anyway, this is a great piece of dub techno, a genre which seems to have evolved in one fell swoop as a result of Maurizio’s doodling. Tracks which will remain unique and separate. The rest of the genre is different, owing a debt to Von Oswald, but developing in a different direction. This track, due to its interesting percussive patterns feels a little bit more original than most.

BLUR x Sono Ventura w/ Grant Dell @ Kiosk Radio 03.07.2026

 

Laurine ✺ Slow Life Weekender live recording / Nov 2025

 

ESMERO · Laurine ✺ Slow Life Weekender live recording / Nov 2025

Track Of The Day: Le Dust Sucker - Mandate My Ass (Carbon Recordings)

 

This takes me back. More than 20 years old now, and wrapped around an eponymous spoken word sample from Gil Scott Heron’s ‘B-Movie’, this track was big when it came out. Listening to it today however, for the first time in a long time, it has great chug credentials. Lovely monolithic undertow with a euphoric upper layer. One of those that rode the electroclash fad, even though it’s quite unique. It popped into my head today unsolicited, as a lot of these tracks do, so here it is.