Track Of The Day: Marco Bernardi - The Dancing Clowns (Berceuse Heroique)

 

It’s never nice to be reminded of the passage of time. This record came out ten years ago, when the label was at its peak and maybe Mr Bernardi was as well. He was very prolific around that time but his output has dropped off more recently with only two releases under this name since lockdown. This is a great piece of work though, all fifteen or so minutes of it. Not a second passes that doesn’t want you to take it all in. A truly panoramic piece of semi-orchestral electronic music. Grand and panoramic in scope. The music of the spheres if only they knew how to make it. It comes with an ace Specter mix on the B side too.

Track Of Yesterday: America - Horse With No Name (Warner Bros)

 

One of the most sixties songs wasn’t released until 1971, so it’s true what they say. The decades backslide and happened later than thought. One of my first memories of watching ‘Top Of The Pops’, along with seeing T.Rex perform ‘Metal Guru’, and Bowie sing ‘Starman’, was watching the promo video for this amazing song. Some other videos found their way onto the TOTP playlist at that time. Notable ‘Silver Machine’ by Hawkweed, and ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ by  Stealer’s Wheel. This hinted at something quite different and exotic though, and kept the hippie dream alive, if that’s what it was. This sound seeping its way into the carpeted and wallpapered living rooms of working class British semis felt weird and emphasised that you could have a beard in the hot weather. Not glam rock at all.

Stacey Pullen @TheLotRadio 08-15-2026

 

Circoloco Radio 463 - Tia Cousins

 

Circoloco · Circoloco Radio 463 - Tia Cousins

Track Of Yesterday: Oliver Dollar, Ben Silver & Boogs - Cosmic Weapon (Rekids)

 

Yesterday The UK’s 5th, (or is it 6th?), heatwave peaked in the east of England, and I went running, because I’m a masochist. I had intended to do 10K. However, after stopping for a hydration break, I found it difficult to get moving again. Fortunately I was listening to Eli Vervain’s recent set for The Lot Radio, and this track was in its infancy. It’s really not an exaggeration to say that I could still be loitering beneath a bush on a country road if ti weren’t for this piece of quintessential bass-driven deep house. The undulating beats come in hard and heavy when necessary, embellished with spoken word samples which sound like something broadcast on Funkadelic radio. You know the sort. Bordering on manic at times, mixed with a more relaxed tone floating over the kick. Thank god for track lists.

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.

Track Of The Day: DJ Sneak - Show Me The Way (Henry Street)

 

In the mid n nineties DJ Sneak seemed to be recording on every label known to man, although it was probably his work on Relief that brought him more fame than any other. Anyway, ‘Show Me The Way6’ hit the shelves just as filter disco was taking off and there you go. Timing is everything because this tune isn’t that remarkable. It does have that certain something though. Probably familiarity more than anything., You know what’s coming around the corner and if you like those sampled strings along with what sounds like tin cans being banged together then you’re on to a winner. DJ Sneak’s house gangster persona is a little bit hackneyed. He does have the chops to back it up though.

Vladimir Ivkovic b2b Chez de Milo @ Club Blanco - The Love Inn [03/07/26]

 

Club Blanco · Vladimir Ivkovic b2b Chez de Milo @ Club Blanco - The Love Inn [03/07/26]

Track Of The Day: IAMTHATIAM - The Invisible Children (Fit Sound)

 

There was a period when Jamal Moss seemed to be releasing a record every five minutes. And the first thing that I would think is “but are they all any good?” The answer is of course no. Interesting though, and with sparks of genuine genius and a feel for the machines. ‘The Invisible Children’ is such a track. It feels like a hauntalogical lost transmission from a parallel world. A sonic imprint that has slipped through the cracks of reality and taken on a new life in a surreal sound clash where the thread of abstraction pootles along but never gets lost.

Chimes At Midnight lV

Thetreecanopy · Chimes At Midnight lV

After having procrastinated like few others do, I finally got my act together for the fourth mix in the ‘Chimes At Midnight’ series, the last one being uploaded around four years ago. This coincided with me getting a dog. However, that’s no excuse. And while I know that the online mix market is one of the most oversaturated in the world, how many mixes are named after a film that features Orson Wells in the role of Falstaff? This doesn’t have any influence on the music though. There are no madrigals featured in these sets. I practiced this once, went on holiday and then got busy on the ones and twos yesterday. The equipment is the same as last time. Two Technics 1210s, two Pioneer XDJ700s and an Allen & Heath Xone:32. I’m sure I speak for most when I say that doing this sort of thing is a cathartic experience. Once finished the sense of accomplishment is similar to that of finishing a long run, (another thing that’s taken up a lot of time since 2022). So here’s the track list. And, although one or two of them might be out of order, this is what I got through.

Russ Gabriel - Peace For Thought (Ferox)

T.Dave - Bilaterale (We’re Going Deep)

Sweater - Feelings Of The Future (Omnidisc)

ARDB - Mind Drift (Geodesic)

Module One - Animation (Luck Of Access)

DKMA - The Safe (Forensic)

Idealist - Mountain Lake (Mojuba)

DJ Catt & DJ Foxx - Casified Modern Music (Deep Mix) (Casa Del Soul)

Olsvanger - Goldman’s Propellor (Craigie Knowes)

SIT - Magnetised (Amphia)

Fred P - Dance Of Rhythms (Syncrophone)

Eversines - Progression (Nous Klaer Audio)

Peace Division - Body & Soul (Low Pressings)

Na Nich - Crust (Space Lab)

JS Zeiter - Open (Lempuyang)

Christopher Leger & Haventepe - Silica (Berg Audio)

Halo Varga - Future (Siesta)

Urges 3 (Appleheadz Remix) (Primitive)

Aril Brikha - On & On (Transmat)

Stochje - Granada (Convextion Remix) (Syncrophone)

Reeko - Para El Conjunto De Las Esferas (KR3)

Thoughtforms - Chicago Trance (Thoughtforms)

VC-118A - Avian (Delsin)

Dominic Cappello - Be Still The Need (Clone Royal Oak)

DJ Compufunk - Beyond Mind (Beltran’s From Detroit With Love Mix) (Creative Issues)

Track Of The Day: Underground Resistance - The Illuminator (UR)

 

The UR quality control is set at a very high level. And ‘The Illuminator’ may be at the highest of all. I think I’ve finally arrived at the point where I think that this transcendent pice of music is, along with ‘Gamma Player’, in my all-time techno top three. I don’t know what number three is yet though, so I’m working on it. Hi-tech soul was invented to describe tracks like this. Coming as part of a double pack in an unassuming brown cardboard sleeve, there’s not m much to rival it in the UR canon. There are some tracks though, and maybe one of them could be number three? I’ve got one in mind now. But nothing touches this for soul. Listening to it is like practicing hydromancy. The results might not always be desirable but that’s life. You take what you can get I guess. So much depth eloquently sustained over eleven minutes. That’s not easy.

Track Of The Day: Throbbing Gristle - Still Walking (Carl Craig Reversion) (Mute)

Fresh back from holiday and out of the frying pan and into the fire. It was hot over in France, but it’s similar in The UK. When we landed just over a week ago, then plane descended through what we thought was fog. It became apparent on landing that it was smoke drifting over from the forest fires near Bordeaux. We flew to an airport a couple of hundred kilometres away, then. Drove back in the opposite direction to our destination, all the while the smell of burning getting stronger, So what better way than to get back into the swing of things than with some Throbbing Gristle, remixed by Carl Craig when he was good. This version of ‘Still Walking’ comes from a compilation of remixes on Mute called ‘Mutant TG’ and, although it doesn’t go off the beaten track until the silent breakdown at around five minutes, to emerge into the dawn of time underworld closing the track, it’s a salient reminder of just how great Carl Craig used to be. I should qualify this by admitting that I haven’t heard ‘Meditations’, the album he has just produced. It might be a masterwork. However, his more recent output generally, as well as his choice of headgear leaves a lot to be desired. This though, as well as his remix of ‘Hot On The Heels Of Love’ show real imagination and a desire to go out on a limb. This isn’t techno as such, rather something uncategorizable and instinctive. Not following a prescribed pattern and relying as much as can be expected on a stream-of-consciousness approach. It still has to be polished and refined in the studio, but a rawness remains.

Call Super & Parris (Can You Feel The Sun) at Le Soleil Rouge, Horst Festival 2026

Horst Arts & Music · Call Super & Parris (Can You Feel The Sun) at Le Soleil Rouge, Horst Festival 2026

Voyage de Lux - X w/ Alex Downey - 29.07.26

 

1BTN · Voyage de Lux - X w/ Alex Downey - 29.07.26

Track Of The Day: Low Life - Blue Moon (Mosaic)

Low Life was a collaboration between Ben Sims and Mosaic boss Steve O’Sullivan, and the three tracks on here do veer slightly away from the standard minimal Mosaic sound. That is both good and bad. Good for trying something different, bad because it’s a sound I really like. I chose this from the release mainly because I love the sound of the drums. There’s also the underlying spoken word sample, which has a shelf life of fragrant smoke. I’ll wager that the driums are at the newest of Ben Sims, and most of the rest is the work of Steve O’Sullivan. Of course I could, and usually am, wrong. Off on my hols tomorrow so more posts in a week or so. Also a new mix coming up. Hold on to your hats!

Coyote July Mix isitbalearic..?

 

isitbalearic..? · Coyote July Mix

LIVE SERIES 001 - Cecilio @ Slow Life Weekender 2025

 

Slow Life · LIVE SERIES 001 - Cecilio @ Slow Life Weekender 2025

Track Of The Day: Electrospy - Voice (Mix 1) (Brain Coral)

A great piece of groovy proto tech house. Rare as hen’s teeth nowadays, hence the high Discogs prices, but sanity has prevailed and it can be found digitally. It comes in two mixes and I prefer this one as it’s groovier and more linear than the other version. A pitched up version is the second track on Terry Francis’ ‘Architecture’ mix. One of the fruits of the Wiggle heyday. Anyway, I prefer it at the speed it was recorded at. Horses for courses and all that. An underrated tune and one that someone needs to rerelease.

Track Of Yesterday: Infiniti - Walking On Water (Tresor)

 

A piece of dub techno from Juan Atkins who, even though he isn’t necessarily known for churning this stuff out, produces something fresh and a little bit different. It feels like quite an organic piece of work, which is something rare in the synthetic world of a genre which, apart from obvious influences from other areas, seems to have arrived zipped up and ready to go from nowhere. Maurizio was doing it before I guess, and everyone else has been producing facsimiles. This is ok if you like it, which I do.

Track Of The Day: Sunrise Society - Astral Travel (Sterac Mix) (Pacific)

 

One of those tracks where what isn’t done plays as much of a part as what is. Sterac has always been very good off the ball, and this remix is all about patience and construction. In that sense it is as great a stand out peak time tune as a mixing tool. The drums are particularly pleasing. There seems to be exactly the right weight on every beat. And when the cymbals come in they sound like a deluge. However, it’s by no means Rachmad’s best work and one can be forgiven for thinking there’s not much to it. Not a bad piece of ordinariness though.

Track Of The Day: Dawl - Asylum (Tone Dropout)

 

I love everything about the Tone Dropout label. The analogue purity and depth of the productions, (now I’m going to find out that they’ve all been made on Ableton). The logic and the graphics. Most of all though it’s how the music makes me feel. They hearken back to a rave I was at, or was I? Break beats and acid rule the roost and the tracks slip into more groove-laden tunes to rock the boat a little and remind you that, even though the music is top notch and takes you back, a little bit of chaos in the mix is always a good idea. ‘Asylum’ is typical of the label. Everything I’ve already described as well as a reliable functionality which is much more than the sum if its parts. Lovely stuff.

Claudio PRC | Sound Metaphors TV | July 20, 2026

 

Track Of Yesterday: Maurizio - Domina (Carl Craig's Mind Mix) (M)

 

One of those Carl Craig remixes that makes you regret he’s still not churning stuff this good out. I guess we all change. Different priorities, etc. This is amazing though. A little bit like his later remix of ‘Johnny L’. It has an eponymous, repetitive vocal allied with a bittersweet backing. An embryonic exploration into the possibilities of sound. A track where Detroit techno collides with IDM, (WHATEVER THAT IS), and an emotive dose feeling borne of an explorative sensibility is sprinkled on top.  I posted the other side of this a few years back. Something much more conventional, in spite of it being distilled straight from Maurizio’s creative juices and having featured on Eddie Richards’ ‘Essential Mix’ back in 1996. Something that the late Peter Pulford recorded for me. This is out on it’s own though. A more wistful piece of electronic music you will never hear, let alone one that can do it on the dance floor. Beautiful.

Journey into Sounds with H Foundation (Hipp-E & Halo Varga) @TheLotRadio 07-19-2026

 

IA MIX 403 Eric Cloutier

 

INVERTED AUDIO · IA MIX 403 Eric Cloutier

Track Of Yesterday: Faze Action - In The Trees (Nuphonic)

 

At the tail end of the twentieth century, one of the sounds that dominated deep house clubland, particularly in London, was that of Nuphonic. And Faze Action was its standard bearers. ‘In The Trees’ is one of those tracks that probably invented the term ‘nu-disco’. Now that category has mutated to become a byword for Balearic in more recent times. This track, however, could only have come out of The UK. There’s great attention to detail and a reverential use of orchestration that typifies the times. London was very much the centre of the dance music universe at that time and tracks like this helped to put it there. And, even though it wears its influences on its sleeve, there is more than a whiff oof the timeless about it. Funny that the track it most reminds me of is ‘Clubbed To Death’, the downtempo classic which also indulges itself in the symphonic.

DJ Koolt — The Quarry — Wonderfruit 2025

Wonderfruit · DJ Koolt — The Quarry — Wonderfruit 2025

Daniel Bell Sunrise Set - [ K70A x BLANK BALI - 2026 ]

K70A____ · Daniel Bell Sunrise Set - [ K70A x BLANK BALI - 2026 ]

Track Of The Day: Chuggernaut - Darkstrut (IMIX)

 

This is one of the most genuine tracks of the day I’ve posted. Reason being is that I only discovered it today. I’ve just posted Grant Dell’s session on The Mudd Show and, looking at the comments pin YouTube somebody decided to do everyone a favour by trying to compile a trackless. They didn’t get very far. However, they did manage this and open or two others. What’s more, the people behind this are DJ Catt, DJ Rico & Wyatt Earp, late of Casa del Soul fame (well, not DJ Rico). Now as explained in a post earlier this week, I’ve jus offloaded a few from that label. I did keep some though, and this release of a similar standard to that label’s best work. This track is from the ‘Casatek’ EP, so it’s hiding on plain site. And selling for a pretty penny on Discogs. It’s got what you want. Sleazy spoken word vocals over a deliberate chugging bass. Not chugging in the ALFOS sense, but I see no reason why this track couldn’t cross over into the world of pre 122 bps given the chance. It’s woozy, messy and magnificent. Say no more.

Grant Dell | themuddshow

 

Colin Dale - Abstrakt Dance Show - 16.07.2026

 

Track of The Day: Dr. Timothy Leary Meets The Grid – Origins Of Dance (Electronic Future Mix) (Evolution)

 

A track that is so full of Timothy Leary token word snippets that he gets an artist credit. It’s like a bleep lecture crossed with a heavy dose of orbital rave ambience. This is one of those tracks that typified the era, whether you heard it at the time or not. It’s so much of its time that a mere listen will have you spinning back through the time tunnel into a world of long sleeved t-shirts, bucket hats, good pills and sleepless nights. Listening to this really takes me back and fills me full of regret for not having maximised my hedonistic youth. I did a lot tbf, but there was always room for one more tune.

Track Of The Day: Cabaret Voltaire - I Think (Apollo)

 

I’ve probably featured about half of ‘The Conversation’, Richard H. Kirk’s Masterwork under the name of Cabaret Voltaire. It’s not clear whether or not he would be touring with them if he were still alive. However, what is is that the album this track is taken from is an amazing piece of work. It is one of the most haunting and prescient works I’ve had the pleasure of listening to. Was Kirk a genius? I think so. And this track along with all of the album this is from, is as good an example as any of his unerring knack to reach inside the mind and lay bare the paranoia that lies within.

Obey Records episode 83 Intergalactic Gary

 

Intergalactic Gary · Obey Records episode 83

Track Of The Day: Donato Dozzy - Aquatica (Palinoia Ltd)

 

A double artist release, with label boss Eric Cloutier’s ‘Ekpyrosis’ on the flip. This came out a month or so into lockdown, a period that already feels like a world away and a boundary of sorts. Here we find Dozzy on deep, dawn of time soundtrack form. It’s a ill-named tune, emitting liquid and expansive vibes. An atmospheric composition that hints at more powerful thins to come. Itsounds like a newly - resurrected symphony designed to accompany the exploration of an abandoned brutalist power station on the outskirts of Grozny. There are primitive lifeforms within however, Here be monsters!

Track Of The Day: Remote - The Swarm (UR)

 

This is the ultimate insect menace track. A piece of Funkadelic-inflected electro built around a squiggle of synth with what sounds like pots and pans being rattled in the background. Then the handclaps come in and it takes off. And underlining everything is the constant menace of the bees. Of course they’ve got to be African or Asian bees. None of our nice European bees would ever be as funky as this. And with that in mind: “Artium Instruments The Swarm is a portable, hybrid 8-voice polyphonic synthesizer and standalone stereo multi-FX box. It is highly regarded for its massive "super saw" oscillator—comprising seven individual, detunable saw waves stacked together to create huge, lush, 80s-style vintage sounds.” Meanwhile, Remote is Mike Banks and Buzz Goree. They got the funk!

Eric Cloutier | themuddshow

 

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.

Track Of The Day: LRNT - Recovering Conditions (Sintope vinyl Series)

 

Tracks like this really hit the sonic g spot. Low slung, minimal and moody. It just pootles along in a sinister way. There’s only one reason that a tune like this is made and that’s to enhance the messiness on the dance floor. It’s not just about feeling good. Sometimes that’s not enough. You need to dig deep into your consciousness as well. This is the type pop stuff that Barac builds his sets from. Deep, dark and mind-expanding. So much going on here between the grooves and the beauty of it is that everybody will take something different away from it.

Track Of Yesterday: Unkle G & Gavsborg - Riding My Bike To The Studio (Equiknoxx Music)

 

I’ve just come across this track on a Coyote mix I posted a week or so ago and, although it 

sounds like reggae, I suppose that’s just because of the spoken word vocal. The whole vibe is a pastoral, hippy one, which fits in with a roots feel. However, it also feels like a bit of a novelty record. We’re not talking on the same level as ‘The Birdy Song’, rather something more stoned and out there. Certainly a head turner though

Track Of The Day: DJ Compufunk - Beyond Mind (Beltran's from Detroit with Love Mix) (Vibes & Pepper Records)

 

DJ Compufunk is a Japanese producer from Osaka whose reverence for deep house, and particularly Detroit, runs deep. And in order to crystallise that devotion, who better to enlist for a remix than John Beltran. The analogue warmth is tangible, as is the evocation of that timeless techno ambience that here nods heavily to the type of emotive machine funk that was augmented by a host of British producers throughout the nineties. The label art nods to that of the Underground Resistance ‘Interstellar Fugitives’ releases that straddled this century and the last. And an embellishment of the vintage electronic ambience on show here comes in the form of a spoken word vocal that lifts the track into the realms of some of the best on the DNH label. Lovely stuff.

Track Of The Day: Metal Urbane - Paris Maquis (Rough Trade)

 

Metal Urbaine were standard bearers for French punk, and with ‘Paris Maquis’ they give a great account of themselves.They also have the distinction of this track being the very first release on Rough Trade. The catalogue number is 001, so I suppose it must be? Anyway, ‘Paris Maquis’ is a great ;piece of work. The guitars sound great. Loads of fuzz, and a drum that sounds like it’s being hit with balsa wood. The group were relatively ignored in France, with arguably a bigger audience in The UK. They also used a synth, which was pretty unique at the time. This probably contributed to a wall of sound approach. Sounds great through headphones. 

Track Of The Day: Fusion - Jack The Voltage (Ferox)

 

Ferox, a label that never released a bad tune. Some are better than others, obviously, but quality control was high. And this one comes in from Fusion, aka label boss Russ Gabriel. A great track that predates the minimal boom of around ten years later and, for the most part, surpasses most of it. The exact type of track that I used to love to play out and layer with complexities. More than just a whiff of Dan Bell about it. Lovely stuff!

Ticket Memories 1

Finding this on the floor of my wardrobe prompted the previous post. A trip into nostalgia, a simpler life and one which was probably my happiest time. I have been told on good authority that the other DJs were Andy Wevvers and Adrien Sherwood. I remember nowt unfortunately.