Fresh Soup

Soaring and sonorous, deep and delicious. And that's just the velvet voice of Fresh Soup's Pete Carvell. Dropping another hour of lush house and electronica into our hearty bowls, lose yourself in some Sunday slurping as episode 108 transports you to a strobe-lit main room of ragged revellers.

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Feel the sweat drip from the ceiling and the moist embrace of an animated stranger. We will dance again, and to soundtrack the optimism that we're all allowing ourselves to feel just a little of, Mark Kovich is back behind the ones and twos with a hedonistic 60 minutes of deep and soulful house music, funky flex and disco dirt.

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Hold your horses, Johnny 5 is feeling alive in his guise a rootin'-tootin' sentient cow-bot. The nostalgia is back centre-stage at Fresh Soup, which can mean only one thing: Matt Rycroft is back with another hour-long good time session of electropop, tops off house joints and synth-driven electronica. Gitty-up all you robotic buckaroos, Saturday just got off to a flier.

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Brace yourselves for another incoming attack from the United States of America. Simon Howlett has his deep and dubby disco guns a-blazin' again, rendering reluctant dancers helpless in their wake. From Portland, Oregon, to Fresh Soup with love, steady your stereo for another irresistible invasion of ware-house-music for the soul.

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I went into a bookshop yesterday to see if they had anything about turtles. "Hardback?" The guy asks. "Yep, with little heads," I respond. OK, I'll quit it with the jokes, before we head for a turtle disaster. Crashing into the back end of your week, our favourite testudines returns with another blistering session of big room bangers set to leave you shell-shocked.

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They've been around the world, they're harder, better, faster and stronger, and they've played in the house of the guy who was the first to play them to the rock kids. They are Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, and they need no introduction. When your old man writes D.I.S.C.O. there's only one way to go, and through a fire of screeching 303 acid lines, they found their way home with nowhere left to travel. If you've been living under a rock or self-isolating in a lead-cladded panic room, the Daft Punks have bid adieu to one another, and this is our tribute to their legacy; Pete Carvell cranking up the energy for a thunderous rollin' and scratchin' ode to the two French boys who lived inside robots. To those who lost themselves to dance, we salute you.

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The drums and the bass are there, but so too are vocals, moving melody and lush instrumentation; this is the soul of drum and bass. Switching out rampant hoover synths and chaotic bass-bin-bustin' subs for song structures, pianos and harmonies, Simm takes us on his most polite outing to date. This is drum and bass that you can take home to meet the parents.

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Enter the sound of science, as Hilfingerz drops Fresh Soup 101; a joint ode to the technology that is slowly putting an end to our sad situation and that has shaped the music each and every Souper holds dear. Enjoy our own progress through tech, with a solid 60 minutes of bass heavy, urban-inflected dance music that celebrates the silent work of the scientists who shape our society. (And, yes, Tom does say it's his February mix, which is our fault not his. Sorry Hilf.)

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Free-falling Fresh Soup into three numbers, Buck Houston takes a leap of faith for this momentous mix, fixing the metronome at 100 beats per minute. Marking the big one-hundred with a typically eclectic session of movers dialled into the same speed for just under an hour, dive into Fresh Soup 100 and celebrate this and the previous 99 sets of unwavering quality. Felicitations Fresh Soupers, we made it.

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Tonight we're going to party like it's Fresh Soup 99. To mark our last session in double figures, resident raver JBdeQ gets our party started with a familiar blend of dubby and clubby house, breaks and bangers. Limber up like you've just heard the pandemic is over, put on your dancing shoes, and celebrate 99 marvellous mixes from team Fresh Soup.

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