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Underground Pleasure returns to the studio with their September offering, digging beneath the surface of indie music and the many subcategories, textures and scenes that orbit around it.

This month, the show welcomes singer-songwriter Alex Helsby for a deeper conversation around his own music, creative process and the sounds that have shaped his musical world.

Expect ambient folk, leftfield discoveries and a closer look at the connections between songwriting, influence and the wider underground.

Celestial Vibrations and Spoonful of Sugar join forces for a 3 hour takeover, opening up the crates across Ambient, Brazilian jazz, funk and spiritual jazz and world fusion.

Moving between wax and digital, the session draws from the personal collections of Chloe and Mark, pulling together records that have soundtracked their summer, alongside new-found favourites that have made their way into the rotation.

Expect deep grooves, sun-soaked rhythms, unexpected connections and plenty of musical left turns as two distinct collections meet behind the decks.

Starting the morning with Sway of the Verses, bringing an eclectic selection to the airwaves, today’s offering moves through shoegaze fusions, South Asian hip-hop and dubstep, connecting hazy textures, heavy low-end and sharp rhythmic ideas across very different sonic worlds.

A beautifully unpredictable way to ease into the day, part introspective, part bass-heavy, with plenty of left turns along the way.

It felt only right to welcome @jedaub aka ANTIPODES onto the show after his mesmerizing set earlier this year for our Groovetank livestream. A DJ with the rare ability to finely balance intensity with restraint, this mix pushes and pulls from the very beginning.

Some words from the artist below:

For this mix I wanted to bring together my usual style with a bit more depth and quoting from a friend who listened to it: slow, stylish, deep with just the right touch of darkness.

I've been enjoying a slower pace and with this, I believe requires a bit more refinement in the intention of each selection. The dancefloor today asks for speed/intensity but where there is intention there lies a way to make you think, listen and most importantly dance.

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Goh Well is fascinated by the broad spectrum of club music, drawn to detailed, colour-driven sounds unified by textured percussion, deep bass and dynamic melodies, while revelling in the strange intersections between them.

She's played beloved London venues including Fabric, Village Underground, Corsica Studios, Carpet Shop, Grow, The Cause, XOYO, and Dalston Superstore. She holds a residency on Foundation.FM, with further guest appearances on Rinse, NTS, Netil Radio, Voices, and Balamii.

Her approach is rooted in revolutionary optimism and the belief that the dancefloor is a site of collective release and resistance.

For this month’s show, Goh Well plays some recently found gems. Expect a mixed bag of left-field soundscapes, sultry grooves, percussive symphonies,

This month, Leo welcomes Dielli for a vinyl-only hour of deep, atmospheric electronics, broken rhythms, electro and textured techno. A space where each track is given time to fully unfold.

TRACKLIST

Daniel Avery - Sensation

Urenga - Remora

Luigi Tozzi - Cohuätl

Priori - The Bell With The Wooden Tongue

Pridi - Hollow Whispers

S.O.N.S. - Zzya

Arkityp - Maximum Boost

Scratch Massive - Dance (Siskid's Gnashing Teeth Dance Final Mix)

Witness Of Venus - Occult Prophecy (Classy Mix)

Kohra & Monophonik - Uyire

Iota - Terminus

September's edition of No Returns brings us @yellowcar.dj as they take you on a journey through ambient noise, harsh kicks and industrial drone like sounds inspired by their gig for Trans+ fundraiser GREMLIN.

Expect no chatting, strictly business (tunes)

Offside in Toronto. With our friends across the pond, we recorded a podcast touching on all things world cup, music and the general life of immigrant children through the lens of football, Toronto and as always offside. After our stop in the six, we are back in London with Tosin Gbaja continuing the same theme with some London specific perspectives.

The Wrong Side of History is a narrative podcast that explores why intelligent, well-meaning people opposed changes we now take for granted, women’s suffrage, civil rights, medical advances, and more.

Instead of flattening the past into heroes and villains, we do something harder: we take these people seriously. Using their own essays, speeches, letters, and books, each season reconstructs how the world looked to them; the fears they had, the values they held, the trade-offs they believed they were defending.

The goal isn’t to agree with them. It’s to understand what made sense to them at the time.

Because nobody thinks they’re the villain. And if we can’t fairly explain why past beliefs felt reasonable, we probably don’t understand our own as well as we think. This is history as an exercise in intellectual humility — and a challenge to ask a harder question:

What might we be on the wrong side of today?

Welcome to The Potluck Podcast show on Voices Radio. I’m your talk show host, Alabama Jewel. London is one giant simmering cultural melting pot that’s filled to the brim with deliciously rich and flavourful conversations.