Roma Tsepelev aka Illuminated Faces takes you back to dust masks, glow sticks and living for the weekend. Seizing the optimistic spirit of early acid house an the Warp catalogue, he forces the spirit of outdoor rave into rather peculiar Russian dimensions, finding a new wave breakbeat sound, fused with deeper electronica. His are sweet melodies and urgent beats designed to make you clutch the hand of a stranger and smile.

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Nuff love in the heart of Bavaria... The Bogaloo crew played no less than three jams off the 2008 Various Assets compilation on their latest radio show for Samurai FM: I’m Goin’ Wit’ You by Débruit, Om’Mas Keith and Jamie Woon, I’m So Over You by Cornelia, Om’Mas and Robin Hannibal, and Timetravellin’ by Fatima and Dorian Concept. Grab the latter below as this week’s Podfood…

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Whether SOS, SMS or BYO, we all need help sometimes, and Guillamino has penned this Moroccan gospel waltz just for the occasion. Kiwi contender Coco Solid and the-girl-most-lilacly-to Violet bring the fizz, joined by a chorus of Samaritans Sans Frontières.

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For this week’s Podfood, Academy alumni Samiyam from Los Angeles and Hudson Mohawke from Glasgow, both certified wonkmasters in their own right, hook up to bring you beats, beats, and more effing beats.

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The Africa Hi Tec album is easily the Detox of afro-steppers tech dub: there’s about thousand times more interviews on it than jams from it, but we’re damn sure it won’t leave one single soundsystem in good order when it finally drops in, err, 2026. Clicking through our Various Assets vaults after reading a Harmonic 313 interview recently, we at least stumbled upon what the Antipodean expat duo of Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek churned during the 2007 Academy after just another night out in Toronto.

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