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Thirty Years On, Basic Channel’s “Radiance II” Sounds Like It Was Written Yesterday

The chords sound as if they’re bouncing off the walls of a room. This sort of effect is now synonymous with dub techno; these fellas made it a thing 30 years ago. Atmosphere established immediately.

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Friendship Fuels Denmark’s Underground: Digital Twin’s Hyperlink & Safe Distribution

Collectively, Hyperlink feels like speed skating through space. Zooming between constellations, gliding past meteor debris and the occasional unexplained lifeform. What I find most appealing is the jacked-up attitude it exudes, unrelenting yet super playful.

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Party Series Turned Solo Project: The Evolution of Running Hot | TROVE 40

Even six years on, those close to it all feel the DNA of those London parties still courses through Mark’s veins. Whether behind the decks or writing his own hammers, he refuses to be boxed in by genre, forever expressing the same sense of playfulness and exploration that defined Running Hot from the get-go.

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Heat, Dust, Water, Sound: Waking Life | Scott Petterson | Photo Study

I shot fewer frames this year and let faces drift or blur out of them entirely. The edges of the party turned out to be more interesting than what was happening in the thick of things – dust hanging in the afternoon light, countless bodies wading in the water between sets.

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Fables 012 (Mix) | Manmade Deejay

It can sometimes feel as if I’m slightly elsewhere. Not in a bad way, but a lot of my life revolves around arriving and departing. Every now and again, it’s as if I’m never quite arriving and never really leaving, just sort of right between places.

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AI Dominated Indie Week. Humanity Won the Conversation.

Somewhere between all the chatter about robots replacing musicians and the mountain of LinkedIn posts promising AI will save the music business. I realised Indie Week wasn’t obsessed with technology; it was actually obsessed with people – the passionate industry pros sitting in the same rooms as I.

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Three Hours at Dawn: Amelia Holt on the Magic of Waking Life & her Honey Trap Imprint | TROVE 039

From 4–7 on Sunday morning, she took the Floresta stage on a quest, knitting together top-speed selections that carried a surprising delicacy. No records were mirror images of their predecessors, yet somehow they all stuck together like Velcro.

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Midland’s “All Crews”: Born to Prolong the Party | Phelt Phinds 080

What I love most is the sexy, sleazy energy coursing through it. It’s the kind of music that helps loosen the knots that life in the fast lane causes.

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A Genre-Spanning Banquet: Born At Midnite on the Making of their Debut Album, Eternal BAM Nation

For me, the album carries this romanticised college-town energy. Picture a neophyte band playing in the corner of a university bar; the longer their set rolls, the more ears and eyes gravitate towards them.

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Extra-Ordinary | Ricardo Vázquez Ortega | Photo Study

The result is random, a sort of urban archeology in which arrangements of various elements create rhythms, accents, plays of light and shadow, colour contrasts, detonating compositions in the future through which we move.

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“Dawn”: The Tender Home Run You’ve Hopefully Never Heard | Emma Donovan & The Putbacks | Phelt Phinds 079

Although the subject matter is heavy, it’s plated so gently. No crescendo, no grand declaration – just an understanding that Emma is going through it, and that things will slowly shift.

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Fables 011 (Mix) | Matt Hübner

As the solstice approaches and the sunset lingers in the sky for hours, accented by plumes of candy floss clouds and the wispy contrails of planes gone by, it’s hard not to get swept up in the intoxicating energy of a city finally unshackled from its winter months.

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S.A.M’s “Ripe Fields” Almost Lay on A Hard Drive Forever | Phelt Phinds 078

Each element comes with intention — a representation of the sights and sounds of days past. A spelling-out of lying in a field of dirt, soaking in the fragrance and birdsong of a summer’s day.

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The Many-Headed Monster ZDBT | TROVE 038

In addition to blending tracks together, Zach is also an accomplished producer and mixing engineer. Most recently, he released an EP as DOSIS (alongside Daniel Rincon/NAP) via Amela Holt’s label, Honey Trap, while also contributing the dubby “Rorrim” (with Syd Woz) to Short Span’s latest compilation, aptly titled Short Tracks.

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A Song For Before Life Gets Serious: “Flawless” | other joe | Phelt Phinds 077

The final version stands out. If it were a criminal in a lineup, even a witness who’d only caught a glimpse of the perpetrator would pick them out instantly.

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Hannah Cohen’s “Earthstar” is A Soundtrack for Your Sixth Sense | Phelt Phinds 076

Heard together, they take me somewhere specific – sitting beside my grandfather on his patio as the sun sets, our old family dog Gypsy chewing on a stick out on the lawn . A quiet warmth hangs over everything.

Thirty Years On, Basic Channel’s “Radiance II” Sound Like It Was Written Yesterday

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