The Lowdown: NVST

In my recent conversations with friends I’ve come to realise that a lot of my favourite labels and artists at the moment are based in France, Austria and Switzerland. There has to be something in the water as some of the craziest but also beautiful and serene music is coming from those countries with NVST

The Lowdown: Field Maneuvers

In the last few years I’ve seen an increasing appetite for smaller DIY festivals which are usually less than 1000 capacity and have a community-driven approach to programming. Whether that’s because I’m getting older and my social anxiety steers me away from these huge, often commercial, festivals or that the world that I orbit in

Untitled 909 Podcast 163: Kampire

I’m writing this up as another edition of Dekmantel Festival comes to a close and it could not be more fitting. I first saw Kampire play at Dekmantel last year after serendipitously coming across her set at the Greenhouse stage. It ended up being one of our favourite sets of the weekend – the energy

Premiere: tenndril – Call Of The Ancients (GODDEZZ)

“Thermal scans through the forest canopy reveal previously undiscovered energy sources… beacons from an unseen world.” Previously releasing under the moniker Native Cruise, UK-based DJ and producer tenndril returns to local label GODDEZZ for a celestial three-track EP which spans across luscious ambient, balearic and hip-house soundscapes. tenndril made their first appearance on the label