
Dongyang Sports Center, photo by Song Lin
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Space Is The Place 234 – RAY LA SOUL // Deep Space Radio 07-04-2026
Dynamic, groove-led futuristic Breakbeat / Electro live set by Netherlands-based experienced versatile DJ and Space Is The Place radio host Ray Sedney aka Ray La Soul.
- London-based future garage /breaks /drum & bass producer Rift – “Morana” from “Morana” EP [Metalheadz]
London-based drum & bass producer with a future garage heritage strikes a fine deft balance between moody lingering tension and ghostly, haunted atmospheric textures through the propulsive drive of skittering rapid breakbeats alongside droning, reese bass lines, and achingly ethereal female vocals, to build suspenseful and ominous edges before an emotional stringed interlude brings slowed-down relief and clarity unto a banishment of sinister echoes.
- Grenoble-based ambient /field recordings /drone /percussive /tropical /psychedelic /world /dub /techno /house /spoken word sound artist Denis Morin, Vague Imaginaires “Le Village” from upcoming “L’Île Sans Frontieres” EP [Multi Culti]
Grenoble gardener churns out a vibrant, colorful, upbeat, boundless percussive organic microcosm that is simultaneously tactile, playful and verging on the surreal. A dreamy, exotic, at times sinuously mind-bending narrative that captivates with quirky hyper-vividness and a chimey bubbling sonic palette, rich in tonal nuance and striking detail, flavoured by an array of autotuned voices from migrant communities, expanding on the borderless sonic landscape of his “Island” series.
- New York acid /dub /disco /techno /electro experimental performance project of interdisciplinary artist and Voluminous Arts founder Gavilán Rayna Russom, aka Black Meteoric Star “Subwoofer Speaker Freaker (feat. Scotia) (FAFF Remix)” in anticipation of the forthcoming full “Wet LP [Dark Entries / Ransom Note Records]
Lolloping groove-laden dub disco creeper from London-based DJ duo Faff rework, that bounces on crisp, cowbell-heavy snappy beats, infectious squelchy rubbery bass swagger, echoing wobbly synths and hypnotic “Freaker” vocal loops, to herald the start of a sultry and sleazy summer.
- Los Angeles ambient /cinematic /electronic /experimental pop musician Cate Kennan “Rain” off the self-produced second full-length “Shadows” [kranky]
- Portland, OR-based Canadian–American ambient /ethereal /modern classical /piano artist Hollie Kenniff “Portrait of Light” from V/A “Pigments” compilation series LP [Moderna Records]
- California-based ambient /found sounds /electro-acoustic /experimental folk collaboration between ambient project Ship Says Om (Jenny Gillespie Mason) and Swedish singer Emma Lucia, Ship Says Om & Emma Lucia “Water Prayer” from “Djuphjärtad” EP
- Toronto-based experimental /ambient /indie /piano /electronic independent music producer and composer James Hill, aka Projectwhatever “Full Moon feat. Shn Shn” from “A Year to Remember” LP
- Welsh ambient /ethereal /Celtic new age musician Aisha Vaughan “The Water” from upcoming LP “Water World” [LEAVING RECORDS]
- Portland, OR ambient /drone /minimal /electronic project of Projekt Records and Black Tape For A Blue Girl head, Sam Rosenthal “The Width of Shadows” title track of the album “The Width of Shadows” [Projekt Records]
- Eureka Springs, Arkansas ambient /drone /classical /electronic sound artist RL Huber “Night Walker” from “The Backwards Sun” EP
- Paris ambient /field recordings /cinematic /meditative /experimental /electronic /piano /ambient and film composer Philippe Deschamps “Liquid Murmur” from “Liquid Murmur” EP [Silent Sonic Records]
- Vancouver, BC ambient /drone /lap steel guitar /veteran electronic musician subtractiveLAD “Former Glory” from “Onward” LP
- Naarm/Melbourne ambient /field recordings /drone project of bassist and producer Karl Willebrant, aka Willebrant “Grove (Kilometre Club Rework – Short Form)” from “Grove (Kilometre Club Rework)” EP (rework from Toronto-based producer Daniel Field, aka Kilometre Club)
- Hudson Valley psych /kraut /electronic /experimental /improvisational jazz instrumental trio Play Time “Wanderers from the upcoming “Magic Object” LP [Balmat]
- Texas-born, Maui-based ambient /field recordings /jazz /electronic musician and producer Jesse Peterson, aka Turn On The Sunlight “El Halcón De Ryujin Onsen” from “Iseo” LP [Music From Memory]
- English experimental /ambient /field recordings /exotica /electronic veteran international music explorer, lap steel guitarist, singer, improviser and composer, Mike Cooper “THRASHIN MARLIN” from “Stochastic Parrot” LP [Room40]
- London-based experimental /ambient /IDM /cinematic /electronic artist and composer Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner “Auguries in Polyphonic Blue” from “The Prophet” EP
- Italian veteran ambient /IDM /braindance /electronic producer Gianluigi Di Costanzo, aka Bochum Welt “More Light (JS Show Mix)” from “Mixes” LP
- Spanish ambient /IDM /trance /electro /experimental electronic producer (aka analog ufo), Uf0 “Glitch Orbit” from “Dark to light” LP
- Manchester-based ambient /IDM /broken beats /electronica producer Rick Jones, aka Dark Fidelity Hi Fi “Tukushima Transmission” from “Your Skyline Correspondent” LP [Bricolage]
- Swedish ambient /drone /field recordings /modern classical /experimental eclectic electronic musician, and producer (TM404 and Mokira), Andreas Tilliander “Vankiva Maharaja” from the LP “Lava” [quiet details]
- Brussels-based ambient /trance music /experimental /MIDI-controlled pipe organ musician and electronic composer Maxime Denuc “La Paloma” from the upcoming double LP “Club Imperiale” [light-years]
- Yorkshire, UK-born ambient /fourth world /percussive /minimalism /experimental electronic artist Kirk Barley “Ecstatic” from “Arc” LP [Marionette]
- Japanese ambient /trance /deep techno /electronic producer Yoshinori Noguchi, aka silentwave “MINIMAL GINGA” off “TSURUKAME LAND” LP [FORM@ RECORDS]
- Santa Cruz, CA ambient /breaks /hip hop /hardware-driven electronic musical project of multi-media artist Jahandar Hamidieh, Fields of Mist “Masters of the known universe!” from the LP “Intergalactic Rose” [ILIAN TAPE]
- Italian ambient /experimental /techno /electronic producer Lorenzo Montanà, aka LoMo “Movement 03″ from “29526” LP [Neo Ouija]
- Sheffield, UK experimental IDM /ambient /techno group THE BLACK DOG “Every Empty Room” from “Feral Grace” LP
- De Wijk, Netherlands ambient /berlin school /chillout /electronic DTime “Low Gravity Dreams” from “Spacetime Crystals” LP
- Detroit ambient /experimental /minimal /dub producer Infant “Aura” from “Dustlick” LP [kino disk]
- Turin, Italy ambient /percussive /dub /techno producer Sabla “Punto Uno” from “SI 00” EP [Sistema Infinito]
- Aarhus, Denmark ambient /dub techno producer Natal Zaks, aka Picture “Leeeeeee” from “Uuuuuuuu” LP [Short Span]
- Malmö, Sweden ambient /minimal /house /techno DJ-producer Martinou “Through You” from “Ever Changing” EP [Mulemusiq]
- Dutch ambient /house /techno /electronic producer Job Oberman, aka OCEANIC “ICI” from upcoming “ICI” EP [Nous’klaer Audio]
- UK/Italy ambient, acid, psychedelic, percussive, drum & bass, and deep techno collaboration of Bristol‘s Omar McCutcheon and Rome‘s Donato Dozzy, aka Batu and Donato Dozzy “Swarm” from “Exhale” 2xLP [K7 Records]
- Berlin-based IDM /trance /experimental /drum & bass /hypnotic techno producer Delta Division “Dead Channel Rituals” from “Dead Channel Rituals” EP [AcidReflux]
- Milan, Italy ambient /psych /breaks /drum & bass /minimal /hypnotic /deep techno duo Biocym and Ronsucco, aka Piante Vive – “Null” from “Ars Goetia” EP [Virtual Forest Records]
- Lisbon-based, Portuguese ambient /psych /half-time /drum & bass /deep techno duo Floating Machine & Inerte “Profane” off V/A “Synaptium” compilation LP [Orbitando]
- Sydney-bred dark ambient /bass /trance /tribe /deep techno producer Autogenesis “Communion” from “Convergence” LP [Blue Night Jungle]
- Marseille, France ambient /abstract /trance /dubstep /bass /drum & bass /tribal techno /electronic DJ-producer and Blue Night Jungle label head Bertrand Lachambre, aka Smogo “Spy Warfare” from V/A “Arkhë” LP compilation [Murk Collective]
- UK ambient /house /dubstep /techno producer Untold – “Last Day of the Bluebells” off upcoming “False Vacuum” EP [Hemlock Recordings]
- London-based ambient /experimental /hypnotic /deep / techno Taiwanese sound artist, DJ and producer Jin Synth “Intention from “Intention” EP [Fractal Phenomenon]
- Brooklyn, NY electro /garage /percussive /broken beats /tech house producer djfix “The Dial (ft. Gbar)” from “The Dial” EP [Craigie Knowes]
- London-based ambient /jazz /downtempo /deep house producer Ally McMahon, aka MidGround “Yo! Picasso” from “Lewisham Downtempo” EP [Egoplanet]
- Italian ambient /Balearic /dub /downtempo /techno Trancepelagic-Adriatic producer Oltrefuturo “Iridescent Mekong Flow ft. Microvoto” from the double album “Figure Del Flusso (Movimenti Adriatici)” 2xLP [Macadam Mambo]
- UK bass music /grime /dubstep /spoken word collaboration between Bristol‘s pioneer producer and Tectonic label head, Pinch and East London MC Trim, aka Pinch & Trim – “Striker” single [Tectonic Recordings]
- Italian techno /breaks /electronic production duo Kang Brulèe & Polezsky “In My House” single Fides Origami Series [Fides Records]
- Valencia IDM /bass music /breaks /leftfield techno DJ-producer Pépe – “K-Hole” from “Search Engine Optimisation” EP [Elicit Records]
- New Haven, CT based acid /techno /house /electro /experimental synth project of veteran Bristol, UK born composer and producer A.D. Goodfellow , aka Antoni Maiovvi, aka Pleasure Model “Wire To Ground” from his forthcoming album “Operator” [Dalmata Daniel]
- Swedish ambient /machine funk /electro producer Haslam “H260402” from “Haslam” EP [Stilleben Records]
- Spanish IDM /electronica /breaks /electro all-rounder Ana Artalejo Moreno, aka Annie Hall “Cyber Arena” from “Future Sports” EP [Synaptic Cliffs]
- London, UK ambient /IDM /electro producer Emile Facey, aka Plant43 – “Mycelium Network” from “Mycelium Network” EP [Plant43 Recordings]
- Berlin-based breaks /techno /electro producer 3DIZ “Clockwerk Smoker” from “Clockwerk Smoker” EP
- New Zealand-based techno /electro artist Wiremu Hohaia, aka Mechanoreceptor “Fractured Quartz” from “Fractal Analysis” EP [No Photo Policy]
- Estonian veteran techno /electro producer Raakel Bloody Raakel “Portal” from the split “ALKALINE TRAXXX · Vol. 2” —
Raakel Bloody Raakel · Roi EP [COSMIC TRIBE]
- Berlin-based acid /breaks /futuristic electro Ukrainian producer Koloah “Graduate” from “Residual Future” EP [Mechatronica]
- Berlin-based EBM /rave /acid /dark electro duo Onirik and JJ Martinez, aka Comply “Icarus” from “Comply” EP [Klasse Wrecks]
- Berlin-based ambient /electro /techno /experimental moniker of veteran producer Dave Sumner (a founding member of the Sandwell District collective, Ostgut Ton and Tresor Records), aka Function, “Growth Cycle (Hermetic Mix) ft. Stefanie Parnow” from “Aeternum (Existenz)” mini-LP [Tresor Records]
- Argentina techno /electro producer SAIGG “Freak (SAIGG EDIT)”
- French industrial /dark techno /electro /techno /cold electronic producer from Bordeaux, Djedjotronic “Consequence Feat Anna Lann (L.F.T RMX)” from “Consequence RMX” EP [Superwave]
- Brighton, UK-based acid /industrial /breakbeat /techno /electro producer L/F/D/M – “Munzar (Moonlight Mix)” from “The Importance of Impossibility” EP [Selvamancer]
- Paris-based cinematic /industrial/techno producer Substencia – “Barbarians” part of an upcoming liveset
- Cologne industrial techno producer Rezystor “Dunkelheit” from the compilation LP “Archive 19-24” collection of tracks from the 2019-2024 period
- Buenos Aires, Argentina EBM /industrial /techno duo Abby Knives & Manuel Matarasso – “You Can Only Feel it” off V/A “Made By Humans” compilation LP [Wie Ein Gott Records]
- Los Angeles experimental /noise /new beat /techno duo Midnight Zone “Psyops” from the s/t album “Midnight Zone” [X-IMG]
- Berlin-based Indie Dance /Dark Disco /EBM duo Dash + DJ80zz – “Decadenza Meccanica” from “Decadenza Meccanica” EP [NEIN Records]
- 1988 UK Hi-NRG classic XS5 – “I Need More (Franz Scala Version)” [Slow Motion Records]
- Ibiza acid /psych /indie dance /cosmic disco /tech house production duo Bea Tricks & Beatmaster G, aka Class B Band “Dodge Revolution”
from “Lotus Revolution” EP [Rotten City Records]
- “Ritmo” from The Diyeis‘ “EDITS Vol. 1” LP rewired classics, rerubbed grooves, dancefloor alchemy from Mexican acid /leftfield /psychedelic /minimal house collaborative project of producers Concret & Iñigo Vontier, aka The Diyeis
- Berlin-based dark disco /indie dance Italian DJ-producer and IDWT label founder, Berny “Zoinger” [IDWT/In Dark We Trust]
- Dutch veteran house /electro /nu-disco versatile producer Alden Tyrrell, aka Tyrell Corporation “Romance Obscura” off “Midnight Machines” EP [Bordello A Parigi]
- Mexican bass /tech house /house producer KinAhau – “Danza De La Pau” off “Cicek” EP [Crosstown Rebels]
- Naples, Italy tribal deep house producer Zapo – “The Secret To Find Inner Peace And Tranquility” from V/A “Sage” EP [Rooms Inc]
- Los Angeles-based, Calgary-born ambient /experimental /drone/ minimal /choir music /historical pipe organ player, composer and performer Sarah Davachi “Songs of the Smile’s Fig: III. Follies” from “The Will of Tongues” LP [Late Music]
- Greek dark ambient /drone /noise /improv /experimental electronic producer Kostas Staikos, aka Substak “Breath stuck in buffer” from “Fades & Shadows” LP [Chronos Records]
- Experimental /abstract /avant-garde /free improvisation /noise /jazz duo of Australian guitarist Oren Ambarchi and Franco-Australian drummer Will Guthrie, Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie “This Cold Shoulder” from “Cold Shoulder” LP (recorded live October 9, 2024 at Morphine Raum, Berlin) [Futura Resistenza]
- Accrington, UK ambient /drone /minimal /abstract /electronica project of Andrew Johnson (Hood, The Remote Viewer, and Famous Boyfriend), aka a new line (related) “Indefinitely blue 3rd March” from the 3-piece long-form LP “Indefinitely blue numbers” (recorded live through 7 Walkmans with live dubs by Craig Tattersall)

Dongyang Sports Center, China
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