Track of The Day: The Todd Terry Project, Bango (To The Batmobile) (Fresh)

 

A house record that feels like it’s been composed entirely of cut ups straight out of a hip-hop playbook. The beats have momentum but they never seem to cut loose. The laughing girl sample feels fresh after having already been used god knows how many times. The other elements, notably the little squiggly myth line feels raw. And then the pipes come in along with the bass. I used to play my cd copy of this to death, and there’s no reason why I shouldn’t dig it out now. It’s house music as collage ruthlessly spliced together on two turntables, and it works. Fresh and Sleeping Bag put out some great hip-hop/soul by the lies of Mantronix, Just-Ice and Joyce Sims, but maybe Todd Terry at this time, was the most radical of all.

Beautiful Freaks w/ Budino @ Kiosk Radio 08.08.2026

 

Track Of The Day: Greville - Sonic Tonic (Visions Mix) (Mad Habitat)

 

Greville is an Australian artist who I discovered about ten minutes ago.And I’m glad I did. This kind of elemental shizzle is very important and carries a tribal whiff that first emerged in The UK’s rave culture back in the late eighties. That said it is unmistakably of its place. It would appear to only be available on vinyl, as is the case for all release on this label, which is a pity. A great piece of work all the same, and one which could function on a visible level throughout a set.

Track Of The Day: Peter Lazonby - Sacred Cycles (Brainiak Records)

 

An absolute beast of a record. As soon as the synth washes come in you know you’re on a mission. It takes a while to warm up but that’s all part of the game. It’s a real tease. It’s trance distilled to its constituent elements which disperse and recompose themselves in a myriad of different ways. And all the while you’ve got those immortal washes. I guess one of the biggest criticisms of trance is that it lacks soul. Not this. However, “It’s soul Jim, but not as we know it.” It’s best moments are when it’s accompanied by the synthetic low end. It’s not Goa, but it’s on its way. A landmark piece of music that has stood the test of time and is due a new leash of life.

Track Of The Day: Tape 05

 

Sleep D from Butter Sessions @TheLotRadio 07-27-2026

 

Track Of The Day: DAF – Kebab Träume (Mute)

 

Watching this video I’m reminded of being in Berlin in June. Not just that but this footage looks very much like the are we stayed in. There were some great kebab shops s couple of metro stops away as well. This is a great track. Slow motion electronic menace. Cold War vibes. A menacing tone implicit within the groove. Ahead of its time this one. We were dancing to it and other insidious grooves at The Chelsea Reach every Tuesday, as well as the State on a Thursday and the System on a Saturday. Fridays at Leighton Court also. I don’t know where I slept in those days, but it was rarely at home.

DJ BONE @TheLotRadio 08-07-2026

 

Colin Dale - Abstrakt Dance Show 06.08.2026

 

Track Of The Day: John Tejada & Arian Leviste - Ramps & Rails (Playhouse)

 

From the ‘Geriatricks’ EP and picked because I was reminded the John Tejada is till alive & kicking on account of posting his The Lot Radio set earlier today. Is ‘Ramos & Rails’ a skateboarding reference? Anyways, this is the glitchy minimal sound then kids were going crazy for back in the day. As much about the space between the sounds as the noise itself, and funky as hell. Best when part of a set which pairs it up with more depth and linear groove. A kind of pause I the passage if you know what I mean. A pot pour of fragments which have somehow become elongated into their own sonic signatures, and often misunderstood.  It’s coming back. Watch this space.

Titonton Duvanté | themuddshow

 

Modern Funktion - Truly Madly | HÖR - August 3 / 2026

 

John Tejada ‪@TheLotRadio‬ 07-31-2026

 

Track Of The Day: Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Epic)

 

I’ve just finished reading the eponymously-titled autobiography of Sly Stone. It was good. However, as with most autobiographies of musicians, there is a sense of the whole work being a collection of sequential anecdotes. After what he went though the most amazing thing is that he had any memory left. This is one of his best. Maybe the first time a bass was ever plucked so specifically and disco before it existed. I think the video is important because these recorded TV performances very much recall a time and place. Even though the UK already had its fair share of music-based tv, nothing compares to the technicolour dream of American band performance in the late sixties and early seventies. I don’t know if this particular video is mimed or done live, but it doesn’t really matter. it’s memorable and, as far as an example of a group of musicians standing in front of the cameras is concerned, never bettered.