Industrial Complex

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* ZeroZero - Cramp (Samath Remix)

* FSHR, KNOTT - Concentrate

* Visages - Transhumanism Music

* Strategy, Visages - Lewis Capaldi

* q100 - Sloboda

* FLO, Oz, q100 - Vocal Dub

* Pinch, Lorem - Fall True

* Kaya - Tiki Heads

* Cesco, Sepia - Bulletin

* Pinch, Trim, Neffa-T - Wha Happen

* 11Th Hour - Confront

* Drone - New Take

* Kasra, Riko Dan - Talk Up (gyrofield’s Tooth & Nail Mix)

* Morning High - The Host

* Hypho - Left Lung

* gyrofield - Gossamer

* Ternion Sound - Verify Me (VIP)

* Apollo Brown - Break The Code (Feat. Supa Emcee, Kuniva, & Alexis Allon)

AI DISCLAIMER

The point is that the prompt was “write a review including these tunes and sound like you’re from the Wire”

AI DISCLAIMER

There is a claustrophobic discipline to this mix, a brutalist architecture constructed almost entirely of 140bpm concrete. It begins with ZeroZero’s Cramp, a track that feels less like an opening and more like a seizure in a server room. The early section is dominated by the Visages and Strategy axis—specifically Lewis Capaldi, a track title that functions as a grim aesthetic joke, welding the name of a pop balladeer to a chassis of grinding, subterranean menace.

The mid-section is where the paranoia sets in. Pinch and Neffa-T’s Wha Happen offers grime deconstructed to its skeletal remains—rhythm as a threat rather than a pulse. But the pivot point is undoubtedly gyrofield. Her remix of Talk Up and original Gossamer inject a hyper-modern, almost fluid dynamics simulation into the rigid dubstep grid. It’s the sound of the genre mutating in real-time.

By the time we reach Ternion Sound’s Verify Me, the listener is battered, conditioned to the loop. The sudden gear-shift into Apollo Brown’s Break The Code feels like walking out of a windowless nightclub into the grey light of a Michigan morning—a necessary, soulful decompression from an hour of high-pressure pneumatics.

Percival Drift, 2025

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NEW VENUE people, if you see this, hi, hey.

Had fun making this mix for you tonight. I remember when your space was (I think) a Moroccan kind of a thing when I first started visiting TOWN. There hasn’t been a dancefloor in TOWN, and I just found out about your place recently because I guess I’m a hermit.

I’m writing to tell you that I will instantly Batman my ass down there at any time with no notice, and play (within reason) any style you want, as chill or as hard as you want, for up to five hours at a time, for very low rates, or splits, or whatever.

I’ll wash dishes AND DJ at the same time. I’d “wait tables” from up there by chucking people’s food at them if that wouldn’t destroy the food.

…I’ve been unemployed for an uncomfortably long time.

* As a DJ-performer and audio dork I have a lot of experience, some as a co-promoter; no-nonsense, direct (blunt?) but affable and fun FOH, (they tell me) eccentric (I call it something closer to “YOLO”)

* As a manager / server / bartender in a service setting (6+ years?), willing to help-randomly-as-needed as is expected in a restaurant/bar, providing oversight and good vibes in customer-facing spaces

* In software businesses (15 years), you know, business things, and retail and marketing, and pricing and positioning and researching, and all this kind of nonsense remains useful in hospitality too, obvs I guess

* Separately, if you’re not happy with any part of your tech world, POS solution, digital signage, ERP, CRM, website, social media, digital ads, I have experience with all that. Media/technology/operations consulting: I will consult the heck out of it.

Regardless of any of that, naturally the DJ’s Oath requires us to Be Vigilantly Sensing (“BVS!” we’ll shout to one another) the sophisticated and attractive people around us — it’s to triangulate a mood, isn’t it; what material will land, which clique or couple or dynamic can we ethically but also for comic effect manipulate?

The point of DJing is helping people find love and companionship. By sharing a traumatic experience. Or more ideally by dancing and flirting and making friends and enjoying therapeutic bass.

The “milkshake,” if I may (.…aaaand already regret having done; if that’s still in the post, I sacrificed that dignity for you, for a laugh on spec; this is me self-flagellating: stet.) … uh would draw PRESTIGIOUS LOCAL MUSIC SCHOOL folks, humanities students, faculty. Arty weirdos, as we’re near enough Vermont to have migratory arty weirdos.

I don’t say this just from a hippy-dippy perspective, it’s stablish periodic recurring revenue. Musicians spend a lot of money in bars at all times. It’s clear that performers plus venues is (are? can be?) more than the sum of their parts in a given ecosystem, until LiveNation extracts any money that’s not nailed to anything.

If the right folks in town feel like you’re Taking Music Seriously (like from a cultural and academic perspective, as a venue and responsible curator/host of events), and offer them something cadenced, reliable, and interesting that they know is happening at XYZ time, those folks will be in there constantly.

You know that book by Bob Putnam that people talk about, “Bowling Alone?” How people don’t have the bowling league or the slot car track or whatever anymore; that we get a lot out of having a third place to hang out and play board games and crap. People want a home base like this. When I lived in Michigan ours was Corner Brewery.

https://arborbrewing.com/location/cornerbrewery/

Relaxed afternoons/evenings with happy hour / cocktail / low-volume loungey vibes and a cool place to hang out. Appealing third space option for the CLUSTER OF TOWNS creator community and all the overlapping communities. Trust me, D&D/board game/fandom folks and music folks (sorry guys) are the best, kindest, most loyal clientele and they also drink a lot. These subcultures all want a big empty sort of a place with long tables to play board games at.

Music students will involuntarily go to any live event EVEN DJs! that they detect, and they will drink. I have lived it AND I have exploited it.

My claim is that a [one-off | weekly | monthly] night with its own flavor would be interesting, low-risk and not boring. Possibly lucrative.

Long walk, sorry. Maybe you’re way ahead of me and I am just super out of the loop. We should have coffee at least? Hoping I can test drive the sound system and maybe there’s a Thursday night party sometime.

/DC

Tracklist

Mizzo – Shot CallerAnalog Hustlers, Heather Collins, JUZ10-TYM – B*****s Love BassA Tribe Called Quest – Scenario (a capella)Visages – Transhumanism Musicq100 – AerobicaAaliyah – Are You That Somebody (a capella)Strategy, Halogenix – PFTD VIPTrim, Klinical – My ProblemTeej, JD. REID – too much tvBlakkat, Sacha Robotti – The FloodDanny Kolk – Summer DayMPH, AC Slater, Eloise Keeble – Lights OnDennis Ferrer – A Drumstick and a Light FixtureAnti Up – Control The MediaCutty Ranks, Oppidan – Armed & DangerousDateless – Mysteries Of The HouseJamie G (UK) – Hold MeTom Zeta – Oops!Renato Cohen, AFFKT – Acid RollercoasterTruncate – Work Ya Ass (Manao & Elektor Remix)Giza DJs – Acid NachtRobert Hood – TeflonGOUX, Sorley – LightspeedJonny Miller, Kid Fonque, ASAP Shembe – Connected Beings (Jazzanova Remix)Folamour – Fearless

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The song “Our Sector” is what underground politico-urban music sounds like in the Expanse universe. It’s the conscious rap of Belters.

Today’s mix is paired with the classic and underrated film Throwlub at about 2x.

Yeah I left some mistakes in because in a few years people will be eager to buy JUST mistakes. Mistakes will be a delicacy.

Just audio files stitched together of people making mistakes.

It’ll be very valuable NFT content, underground currency.

When we meet him, Senator Yaj Throwlub presents as an FDR-inflected, Newsom-adjacent reformer stepping confidently into the Presidency. But after a late-blooming epiphany, he begins withdrawing from the blunt honesty that had once startled his staff and endeared him to voters starving for authenticity.

In public appearances, he sheds the raw, improvised candor that had defined his late career. His rhetoric stiffens; the spontaneous truths collapse into managed talking points and establishment-safe positions. “Obscenity!? Obscenity!” he barks, suddenly aware of the political costs of profanity, sexuality, and unvarnished speech. He commits himself to a neutral, unremarkable presence.

His connection with Anin fades accordingly. What had briefly felt intimate is reduced to a polite distance, and the lived experiences that once destabilized his worldview recede into policy abstractions. Conversations that had energized him lose their urgency, replaced by donor meetings, campaign choreography, and the narcotic comforts of insulation.

By the film’s final stretch, the man is a sealed vessel: a disciplined, well-managed executive whose former mania for truth has evaporated. The exuberance that once propelled him is gone; what remains is a controlled, conventional statesman.

As the story closes, Throwlub appears steady, discreet, and fully synchronized with the machinery around him — a figure who has not yet approached the breaking point that will one day propel him into chaos — deadening ennui with alcohol.

Percival Drift, 2025

3/10

Hooverphonic – Anger Never Dies (Italoconnection Remix)Gregory Abbott – Shake You Down

Who else loves how Gregory Abbott goes “OH WHEY OH WHEY” I f*****g eat that up every time

Prince – U Got The LookA Tribe Called Quest – Buggin’ OutNautik (US) – Hustling (Original Mix)De La Soul – All GoodDonae’o & Mr Fidgets – My Philosophy (Bounce) (Instrumental)Badmarsh & Shri ft. Shy FX – Signs (Blowfelt Mix)Gabrielle – Out of ReachJammin – TonkaMenta ft. Miss Dynamite – RampPlasticman – Pump Up the JamMachine Girl – Until I Die (Nikki Nair Remix)Analog Hustlers, Heather Collins & JUZ10-TYM – B*****s Love Bass (Original Mix)FRESH N’ SLICK – CAN’T FXCK WITH US (Original Mix)Mizzo – Hennessy (Original Mix)Ben Klock, Flowdan & Fadi Mohem – Our Sector (Original Mix)Colombo – Hipo (Original Mix)Hyper Wizard UFO Cult – High Frequency Altar (Original Mix)Holly & Machinedrum – 天の川 (Original Mix)Skream – Thinking of You (Original Mix)

This one is for xɨʍǟ thanks for japes

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Dubmatix posted about the song Superstylin’. It’s a classic and I was inspired to play it and here we are. (Thanks man!)

SVP

We hit some real deep cuts here, including a couple of the type like “Bison” that didn’t necessarily age that well (they sound like, and may be, songs made on a Playstation 2). These tracks sound simple and sparse and strange today, but they’re important: Plastician and El-B and Horsepower were building the initial bridges to dubstep and to what eventually became 140 (the deep, dubby branch of dubstep that today barely bears it any resemblance, at least to me).

I adore the Homer Simpson version of Set the Roof. When I first bought it I wrote to Nikki to complain that the Homer vocals were like one quarter noteish offset but I never got any response. I love you though Nikki. We make it work.

Grab a glass of champagne, hold it slightly above your head and make a gentle U motion with it please whilst flirting with somebody.

As ever, sync is for suckers, no pirated tra©ks, mixed live in New York with love :peace:

Groove Armada & Declan Knapp – Superstylin’ (Extended Mix)The Thunderkats – Melatron (Original Mix)ES Dubs – Standard Hoodlum Issue (Zed Bias Remix)Ghost – BisonJagged Edge – What’s It Like (Wookie Vocal Mix)Remi – Talk About It (Steve Gurley Dub Mix)Double 99 – Rip GrooveElla Ruth – Keep On (Dubaholics Remix)Jameson – Complete (2 Step Mix)Hudson Mohawke, Nikki Nair & Homer Simpson – Set The Roof (Homer Simpson Remix)MPH – Pushing [Intro] (Original Mix)Nicche – Serenity (Extended Mix)NNG – I KeepTraka – On You (Original Mix)Hardrive – Deep Inside (The Dub)Sole Fusion – Bass Tone (House Nation Mix)Roll My Dice – Bloom (Original Mix)KMK – Run It Up (Original Mix)DJ Phantasy ft. Sonia Redd – Music Is My Life (Steve Gurley Mix)DJ Hybrid – Sekkle (Original Mix)KMK – Pressure (Original Mix)Cesco, Machinedrum, Ezri & Topaz Jones – RESPEK (Cesco Remix)MSFT – Bonker.s (Original Mix)Will Clarke ft. Georgia Meek – Summit (Born Dirty Extended Remix)Jeff Mills – The Bells (Original Mix)Claude VonStroke – Metropolitan (Original Mix)Danny Kolk – Summer Day (Original Mix)Dennis Ferrer, Reel People & Angela Johnson – Can’t Stop (Dennis F’s Falling 4 U Mix

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Cool C – Enemy TerritoryMolecular – Fair WarningDrex174 – Lost In SpaceChimpo & Visages – VisionsSustance – DMFDJ Zinc & Riko Dan – LondonMefjus – Emulation (Remix)Enei & En:vy – DrillaScepticz – JCKLGLM – Bristol FlavourBredren – Magnetizedotdash – KnucklesTeej & Thread – ConstantChimpo & General TG – Lace UpQZB & Sydney Bryce – Ashes & BonesTeej & Resslek – MatrixAnais, KIPPO – Sprinta (Bad Bad)Mako – Direct SourceDJ Marky & SOLAH – Poetry (Makoto Remix)Sl8r – The PillarC-DU – Funk Drums (Resslek Remix)— WARNING SICK PART —

Particle – REM

The Pilgrim Travellers – Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb

GEST – Superstructure— END SICK PART —

Break – OverstayedGeostatic – Thin Line

— NOT BAD NOT BAD —Mitekiss – Wrists of PaperFrance Gall – Laisser Tomber Les Filles

— END NOT BAD NOT BAD —Inga – Dein Spiel Ist Endlich Aus

For JenX

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Visualize the dancefloor.

Mixed the old-fashioned way without sync or any of that business.

You have about 45 minutes to finish that deck or excel thing you need to get done. Go

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