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London
18:00 - 20:00

Old friends and hapless mavericks Ivan Smagghe and Nathan Gregory Wilkins present a fortnightly window into their ramshackle musical world. A show with absolutely no rules (as they'd only break them). We love the unmixable, old & new. We are oddballs and we love you.

2
Berlin
19:00 - 20:00

Champeta on Cassette is a selection of rare, unreleased, and instrumental tracks that are essential to Cartagena’s champetúa culture. Producers like Raúl "Romy" Molina handed their music directly to picó owners, allowing fans to feel and learn the tracks before their official release. Cassettes were the pulse of Bazurto’s market and the underground bootlegging scene. This mix revives that raw, magnetic energy.

Phuturistix

Phuturistix

Phuturistix has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 19 episodes and was first played on 21 October 2013.

Phuturistix, otherwise known as Zed Bias and Injekta, head up the Phuture Lounge operation as label bosses and executive producers at the PL Studio. Betwee running the studio and playing a part in many of the label’s releases, somehow they still find time to maintain their reputation as the most prolific music makers around. The duo are famed for their tight beat-mastery and tough, funky, but soulful and atmospheric style. Countless aliases include Phuturistix (Locked On, Hospital Records, Inspirit Music), Maddslinky (on Sirkus Records), Daluq (with Italy’s DJ Rocca) and The Henchmen (with MC Juiceman and Simba).

Zed Bias, a producer, DJ and true innovator from deep within the UK music scene, scored his first top 30 track with 'Neighbourhood’ before setting the blueprint for the darker UK Garage sound at the end of the 90s. He was asked to mix the definitive “Sound of the Pirates” compilation and at this time began to infuse a jazzier influence into his tracks. Alongside remixes for Whitney Houston, Destiny’s Child, The Streets, Kosheen and Gabrielle, Zed was instrumental in the formation of an alternative urban scene that ‘Wasn’t dependent on champagne, Versace and Moschino; A scene that was all about the music.'

Soon after the Maddslinky project was signed to west London beats label Sirkus. Having remixed 'Hook And A Line' for 2Banks Of Four, the ‘Make Your Peace’ LP hit the streets mid 2002 and heralded a new direction for garage, somewhere between the west London sound and garage’s b-line dynamics.

Over the years, as Phuturistix, Zed and Injekta have pioneered some seriously twisted soul music that is unmistakably British. The 'Matrix EP' and 2001's ‘Deep Down EP’ for Locked On was quite unlike any of the UKG before it and their debut album project ‘Feel It Out’ dropped in September 2003 on the much respected Hospital Records. Featuring the combined talents of Jenna G, Amma, Nicky Prince, Martin Iveson (Atjazz) Amma and the secret weapon that is MR J, it painted a bigger picture, combining the depth of soul and jazz-past with the tuff swing of broken garage beats and the odd heavyweight bassline. Several remixes followed, including a number of reworks for the Inspirit Music label.

Phuturistix have now completed their second LP, “Breathe some Light.” The album features vocals from Mr J, Jenna G, Mpho Skeef, Fyza, Oezlem, Vaceo, and co-productions with Afronaut and Kaidi Tatham, AtJazz and Dharma One. Choice cuts from the LP have been remixed by the likes of Mark de Clive-Lowe, Domu and Osunlade for release on 12" later this year. From west London jazzers to the east London raves, Japanese festivals to New York clubs it seems everyone’s in tune to Phuturistix, as they continue to redefine genres with ease.

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Phuturistix

Phuturistix has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 19 episodes and was first played on 21 October 2013.

Phuturistix, otherwise known as Zed Bias and Injekta, head up the Phuture Lounge operation as label bosses and executive producers at the PL Studio. Betwee running the studio and playing a part in many of the label’s releases, somehow they still find time to maintain their reputation as the most prolific music makers around. The duo are famed for their tight beat-mastery and tough, funky, but soulful and atmospheric style. Countless aliases include Phuturistix (Locked On, Hospital Records, Inspirit Music), Maddslinky (on Sirkus Records), Daluq (with Italy’s DJ Rocca) and The Henchmen (with MC Juiceman and Simba).

Zed Bias, a producer, DJ and true innovator from deep within the UK music scene, scored his first top 30 track with 'Neighbourhood’ before setting the blueprint for the darker UK Garage sound at the end of the 90s. He was asked to mix the definitive “Sound of the Pirates” compilation and at this time began to infuse a jazzier influence into his tracks. Alongside remixes for Whitney Houston, Destiny’s Child, The Streets, Kosheen and Gabrielle, Zed was instrumental in the formation of an alternative urban scene that ‘Wasn’t dependent on champagne, Versace and Moschino; A scene that was all about the music.'

Soon after the Maddslinky project was signed to west London beats label Sirkus. Having remixed 'Hook And A Line' for 2Banks Of Four, the ‘Make Your Peace’ LP hit the streets mid 2002 and heralded a new direction for garage, somewhere between the west London sound and garage’s b-line dynamics.

Over the years, as Phuturistix, Zed and Injekta have pioneered some seriously twisted soul music that is unmistakably British. The 'Matrix EP' and 2001's ‘Deep Down EP’ for Locked On was quite unlike any of the UKG before it and their debut album project ‘Feel It Out’ dropped in September 2003 on the much respected Hospital Records. Featuring the combined talents of Jenna G, Amma, Nicky Prince, Martin Iveson (Atjazz) Amma and the secret weapon that is MR J, it painted a bigger picture, combining the depth of soul and jazz-past with the tuff swing of broken garage beats and the odd heavyweight bassline. Several remixes followed, including a number of reworks for the Inspirit Music label.

Phuturistix have now completed their second LP, “Breathe some Light.” The album features vocals from Mr J, Jenna G, Mpho Skeef, Fyza, Oezlem, Vaceo, and co-productions with Afronaut and Kaidi Tatham, AtJazz and Dharma One. Choice cuts from the LP have been remixed by the likes of Mark de Clive-Lowe, Domu and Osunlade for release on 12" later this year. From west London jazzers to the east London raves, Japanese festivals to New York clubs it seems everyone’s in tune to Phuturistix, as they continue to redefine genres with ease.

Original source Last.fm

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551 Blues
Phuturistix
Locked On2001
High Rollin'
Zed Bias, Injekta, Phuturistix feat. Anthony Brisset
Hospital Records2003
In The Sun
Phuturistix
Phuture Lounge Recordings2005
Feel It Out (Daluq Mix)
Phuturistix (Daluq, Dave Jones, Luca Roccatagliati mix)
Hospital Records2003
Ocaj
Phuturistix
Phuture Lounge Recordings2005
I Do (Phuturistix Mix)
Blaque Ivory (Phuturistix mix)
Columbia1999
Feel It Out
Zed Bias, Injekta, Phuturistix feat. Mr. J
Hospital Records2003
Different Drum (Phuturistix Remix)
London Elektricity (Phuturistix mix)
Hospital Records2003
Beautiful (Bugz In The Attic Remix)
Zed Bias, Injekta, Phuturistix, Jenna G (Bugz In The Attic, Matt Lord mix)
Hospital Records2003
Someday (Phuturistix Mix)
The Beard (Phuturistix mix)
Inspirit Music2001