As the year winds to long overdue a halt, we called on local Berlin DJ, Love On The Rocks favourite and all round class act @alexkassian to supply us with one of his finest blends, rewinding to the dawning age of early morning trance hypnotics and big outdoor breaks with splashes of dream house for the tired minds. We linked up via the Internet to speak about Alex' latest musical endeavours, touching base on the @opalsunn collab and @planetsundae label he shares with likeminded studio head @hiro...
Dec 22, 2020ā¢1 hr 27 min
Click here for the interview with Regularfantasy melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/regularfantasy Never afraid of switching the party up a notch, Montreal's @regfant dances that fine line between all-out-fun and sentimental nostalgia, fusing fluffy late 90s-early 00s filter house with deep burners and catchy vocals from records that sound familiar but you just can't quite put your finger on it. With a myriad of projects on the go and a killer new record just out alongside her Plush Managements Inc...
Dec 14, 2020ā¢1 hr 37 min
Click here for the interview with Route 8 melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/route-8 With a freshly released debut album for Lobster Theremin soundtracking the melancholic landscapes you're likely to encounter cruising through the lush Hungarian countryside, we caught up with the Budapest based producer to chat about the album, his multiple aliases, the Hungarian Italo Disco movement of the early 80s and, of course, his mix - stocked full of new music from Budapest and beyond. Cruise control > o...
Nov 30, 2020ā¢1 hr 3 min
Click here for the interview with DJ Earl Grey melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/dj-earl-grey Finishing the working week with a mix of truly beautiful sounds thanks to one of Australia's very best music selectors, DJ @earlgreyradio! A true purveyor of introspective cuts that can transcend the dance floor and recalibrate the mind/body/soul, Nik Thorup has to be one of the deepest diggers we've encountered, specialising in nostalgic genre benders and soothing ambient, downtempo and dubby grooves of ...
Nov 13, 2020ā¢1 hr 6 min
Click here for the interview with Hugo Incognito melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/hugo-incognito With those balmy summer nights just around the corner, we've called on a local music enthusiast and incredible digger of forgotten gems to serve up one of his signature blends, jamming out broken beat street soul, dub, house and UK garage nostalgia. One of the minds behind local mix series and intermittent party @city-bleus, Hugo's mixes have become absolutely essential home listening for us this year...
Oct 30, 2020ā¢2 hr 6 min
Click here for the interview with Bex melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/bex With memories of the dancefloor becoming blurrier by the month, we're handing it over to Melbourne's Bex (@becarmstrongmusic), a lovely human, super slick DJ and one of the finest diggers of vintage tech-house, minimal and techno around for an extended rewind through space and time, digging out dusty atmospheric rollers and nods to the tech-house gods of the 90s and 00s golden years... Lock in!
Oct 16, 2020ā¢2 hr 6 min
Click here for the interview with DJ Sports melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/dj-sports It's with real joy that we're able to press play on another epic journey from our favourite Aarhus collective, with MilƔn Zaks aka @s-p-o-r-t-s from the Regelbau crew stepping up this time for two-hours of mind massaging atmospheres, mixing sci-fi ambience with his signature floaty house, deep jungle and bass heavy UKG. An incredible producer with an ever growing swarm of aliases, labels (No Hands, Help Recs, R...
Oct 05, 2020ā¢2 hr 1 min
Click here for the interview with Fei Pao: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/fei-pao Welcoming a great friend, collaborator and long time purveyor of high quality sound, music and parties thrown with 100% love! Melbourneās Fei Pao aka Glenn Ellingsen, the mind and master craftsmen behind @hotwaxsoundsystem has a deep appreciation and love for great music in everything he does, building soundsystems to honestly reproduce what the artist originally intended ā a philosophy championed by NYC Loft lege...
Sep 03, 2020ā¢52 min
Returning to the lab for a special lockdown edition with two hours of bumpinā slow jams courtesy of @myles-mac and DJ Possum! Hailing from Colombia and a longtime contributor to the Latin music scene in Melbourne, @djpossums (aka Jolie) has a wonderful ear for the slower, soulful electronic love songs of the 80s and early 90s, with recent sessions for @hotwaxsoundsystem and @loopdreamsau some of the smoothest youāll hear! Get comfy for 120 minutes of lounge friendly nostalgia with chunky UK stre...
Aug 31, 2020ā¢2 hr
Click here for the interview with deep creep melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/deep-creep Locking in next with a banging mix of hi-energy hypnotics from the Brooklyn rave specialist and all night party professor @deepcreep88! Cutting her teeth throwing wild DIY after-hours parties in Austin before landing in NYC three years ago, @thelotradio resident and host of the killer @pipipigroup mix series soundtracks a sunny NYC summer of quarantine with some 'super-posi' rave nostalgia, weaving deep tranc...
Aug 27, 2020ā¢1 hr 17 min
Click here for the interview with Steve Duncan melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/steve-duncan Step inside the mind of @patternsofperception's @steve-duncan with the Australian DJ and long time Berlin-based tastemaker treating us to a soothing fusion of chillout techno meditations spun at 33rpm. Now settling into a new life in Helsinki while navigating the pandemic, we chat about where he got his start back in Canberra and Sydney around the turn of the century, and how it lead him to Berlin to star...
Jul 31, 2020ā¢1 hr 39 min
Click here for the interview with Gabrielle Kwarteng melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/gabrielle-kwarteng Time for a dose of much welcome dance floor positivity from the eclectic mind of NYC native, now Berlin based DJ @gabriellekwarteng! Born in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronx, Gabrielle's unique musical appreciations stem from a early diet of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian Afrobeat cassettes, alongside the American disco, funk and jazz her Ghanaian parents had on heavy rotation at home. These d...
Jul 17, 2020ā¢1 hr 1 min
Click here for the interview with DJ Popup: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/dj-popup Throwing it over to our great pal DJ Popup (@why_u_poppin) from Copenhagen! The mind behind the magnificent NES (@noc_e_space) label and close affiliate of the Regelbau crew in Aarhus, PU hit our radar last year with his breakout debut 'Heather' EP, a deep garage infused house bomb with serious timeless appeal. We were lucky enough to catch him doing what he does best in a sweaty room here in Melbourne over the ...
Jul 06, 2020ā¢1 hr 10 min
Click here for the interview with Jesse Futerman: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/jesse-futerman Here's one we've been looking forward to for a quite some time now, welcoming one of the deepest diggers of jazz, soul and hip hop out there, Montreal's @jessefuterman! One of the nicest fellas, not to mention best producers in the game for labels like SOBO and Church, Jesse's exquisite home listening journeys have really hit the spot these last few months of quarantine. With a masterful ear for jazz...
May 25, 2020ā¢46 min
Click here for the interview with diskonnected: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/diskonnected In some truly safe hands this week with one of Asia's finest operators treating us to three hours of intergalactic house! Gregory Huang aka @diskonnected is one of the pioneers behind Taipei's Smoke Machine (@smokemachinetaipei), the long running techno podcast and party series that started 10 years ago as a semi regular run of "chaotic" DIY parties around the city, and has since gone on to become the ep...
May 19, 2020ā¢3 hr 11 min
Click here for the interview with Citizen Maze: melbournedeepcast.net/citizen-maze A couple of months into studio isolation and Melbourne's @citizenmaze presents us with a new live set and our deepest trip yet! Hitting the radars in 2018 with a debut EP of four incredible mind melters for local label Analogue Attic, Citizen Maze (aka Adam McCoy) has an innate sense for the natural spaces we inhabit, intertwining serene soundscapes, organic drum sounds and synthesised atmospheres custom built for...
May 04, 2020ā¢57 min
Click here for the interview with Respect Guy (@treffene): melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/respect-guy Stepping to it this week we present you a Brisbane house music authority and a genuine don of the underground scene, Respect Guy! A co-founder of Brisbane's Bad Taste House Collective, Matt Treffene's latest pursuit has been to serve dancefloors with the respect they deserve, channeling the energy and tranquility of underground sounds lost in the pre-information age to refocus our minds, ears a...
Apr 21, 2020ā¢1 hr 32 min
MontrƩal's @priori-ties was our special guest for the latest Skylab Radio session with a mind bending hour of sounds from across the multiverse, now eternally online for your home listening pleasure. big shouts to @slowburncast! <3
Apr 09, 2020ā¢1 hr 7 min
Click here for the tracklist & interview with EMA: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/ema/ Subwoofers at the ready, today we have a boombastic mix full of heavy dub and deep bass rumbling wonkiness from the founder of Dublin's Woozy parties, EMA (@emma-jane-g). With her clubnight focussed on exposing the full gamut of dub-heavy sounds and the DJs of modern soundsystem culture, EMA has been pushing the decibels of Dublin's bass movement with her full body shaking euphoric selections, this one be...
Apr 01, 2020ā¢1 hr 2 min
Click here for the tracklist & interview with Dawn Again: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/dawn-again Next up weāre treated to a max chillinā afternoon soundtrack from Melbourneās @dawn-again (aka Nick Verwey), full of breezy live percussions, jazzed out chords and soulfully serenading vox to keep the temperatures steaming! With The Love Above label he runs alongside local heads Ryan Berkeley and DJ Ingrid recently dropping their first 12ā³, we caught up with Nick to get the scoop!
Mar 17, 2020ā¢1 hr 30 min
Click here for the tracklist & interview with Khotin: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/khotin/ It's with real pleasure that we welcome Vancouver's @khotin, CEO of Khotin Industries and the mind behind some of the finest downtempo experiments to come out of Canada in recent times. With blissed out ambient LPs the likes of New Tab and Beautiful You brilliantly channeling feelings of stillness and after hour melancholy, here we catch Khotin back in deep dance mix mode for the first time in two y...
Feb 19, 2020ā¢1 hr 14 min
Click here for the full episode & interview with Ally Tropical: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/ally-tropical/ Next up we have a classy instalment from @allytropical, the Glasgow born DJ and promoter who now resides in London working as editor of the almighty @the-ransom-note, while running nights under the Data Bank banner with 12th Isle's Fergus Clark and planning the launch of his forthcoming label, Plant Life. A keen nature enthusiast and lover of lush electronics, Ally ups the tempo for...
Feb 11, 2020ā¢1 hr 8 min
The Toronto producer eases in with a tranquil blend of fresh Australian electronica. Interview with @cl_lit: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/ciel/ About the mix: "I had toured for the first time in Australia late 2018 and it made a massive impression on me. In many ways, it reminded me of a warmer version of Canada. People were incredibly kind and welcoming and I was blown away by the hospitality the promoters and local artists showed me. I also absolutely adored the incredible nature I saw in A...
Feb 03, 2020ā¢1 hr 35 min
Another year of finely spaced groovers and killer vibe trax from our friends around the universe wrapped and mixed into a two-and-a-bit hour de33ep blend by @myles-mac. Enjoy at your leisure!! Tracklist: Unknown Mobile - Looping Truths And Expectations // Pacific Rhythm DJ Python - Espero // Dekmantel Pilgrims Of The Mind - Digital 4A Groove // Echovolt Dust-e-1 - C-Thru // DustWORLD Freda & Jackson - Slo Mosely // Ken Oath New World Science - Movement 3 // Temple Big Zen - Buoyant Beat // D...
Dec 23, 2019ā¢2 hr 20 min
Moody breaks and wild beat tracks from the Antinote producer. Interview with @d-k-music: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/d-k About the mix: "Itās a bunch of tracks that Iāve been playing in clubs and festivals lately. Special mention for this crazy beat track 'Battered' from Cocktail Party Effect on cold Recordings and for those who havenāt listened to it yet, 'Frozen Sword' is an extract from my new record Rising."
Dec 16, 2019ā¢1 hr 3 min
Bone rattling jungle madness from Sydney's DJ Scorpion! Interview with @djscorpion3000: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/dj-scorpion About the mix: "Hahaha well I probably took the brief of ādeepā a little too literally. Itās a pretty dark mix at times, which I didnāt intend for it to be initially but as I was sorting it all out I was like fuck it, this is all the stuff Iām massively vibing on at the moment. It was recorded at home in my lounge room with numerous cups of jasmine tea and a big sag...
Dec 05, 2019ā¢54 min
A 15 year veteran of the UK radio, club and festival scene and a seriously accomplished DJ with an ear for the undiscovered and a feel for those euphoric goose bump moments, we're chuffed to throw it over to London's @saoirsemusic ahead of her upcoming Australian visit.. Interview here: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/saoirse About the mix.. "It was kind of weird because I had to pretend to be somewhere else when I put this together, it was cold and about 5 degrees here in London but I wanted to...
Nov 21, 2019ā¢1 hr 28 min
Well-spiced rave NRG with a local lord of the blend. Interview with @toniyotzi: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/toni-yotzi About the mix.. "Thereās upcoming Sam Brickel on Steeplejack, one of the most interesting labelsā out of Australia atm, a very tightly packed release schedule coming up too, buckle up š Also a spicy Urulu remix of Jeigo - Fluerella...everything Taylor (Urulu, Liquid Earth) has sent through recently has been so so good. Classic Thomas P. Heckman + as per touch of āclassy tra...
Nov 14, 2019ā¢1 hr
Live from MUTEK with Montreal's master of chill. Interview with @duste1: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/dust-e-1 About the mix.. "Ya! It was a blast to play at MUTEK this summer! I did so on Friday around 6 pm at the outdoor stage, sun was streaking out over the plaza (see picture) and people were filtering over from work, lying down on the floor and vibing, getting their evening going. The mood of my set catered well I think, very happy with how it all turned out! My setup was using one of my ...
Oct 30, 2019ā¢45 min
Bouncin' club workouts with the Dig Deeper LA boss. Full interview with @alisonswing: www.melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/alison-swing About the mix: "I grabbed a bunch of new tracks Iāve been really into as well as some unreleased goodies from friends, old favorites and records Iāve snagged on the road. I recorded this at my home in Berlin. I especially love one of the new tracks from Das Komplex on Love on the Rocksā forthcoming compilation. I tried to not play too many Australian tracks but I...
Oct 08, 2019ā¢1 hr 21 min
