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Prague
06:00 - 07:00

Tearooms in post-revolution Czechoslovakia symbolised places through which new spiritualities were flowing, and the influx of largely uncharted ways of life closely intertwined with new age, ambient, folk and minimalism. With their minds altered thanks to smuggled records by Fripp & Eno or Steve Reich, this loose network of musicians had begun composing meditative music, using loops and handmade instruments, with a different sensibility. Compared to the boisterous Zappa-adjacent and booze-soaked underground movement, which was led by Plastic People of the Universe and provoked the state authorities, this music was meant instead for tea rooms and spiritual sites like churches or monasteries, as if occupying some place where time flows anticlockwise. Music journalist Pavel Klusák dubbed this 1990s scene a “tearoom alternative”. Experimental folk singer Oldřich Janota, Jaroslav Kořán’s various ensembles like Modrá or Orloj Snivců (The Horologe of Dreamers) or Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi were drawn by the light and composed music that didn’t match the fast pace of newly imported capitalism. Mix created by: Miloš Hroch

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Kingston
06:00 - 07:00

Deep dive into the work of Kingston rocksteady trio The Heptones.

Ellen Allien
Ellen Allien
24.03.22 · London

Ellen Allien

With Ellen Allien

BPitch Control founder & Berlin techno royalty Ellen Allien stops by the London studio for an hour long guest session.

Tracklist

  • Crystal Geometry 
    Eyes Closed
  • ASEC 
    2001
  • Milo Spykers 
    The Helicity
  • Ellen Alien
    Hante Edit
  • Ellen Alien
    Caresse Edit
  • Seul Ensemble 
    Never Win
  • L.F.T. 
    Hashima
  • Raibow
    Whit Black Ellen Alien Edit
  • Ellen Alien
    Doric Edit
  • DJ MELL G, DJ Godfather 
    HIT THAT SHIT
  • Ellen Alien
    Technofreak Edit
  • Ellen Alien
    Rosen
  • Ellen Alien
    Enola Edit
  • Krid Snero
    Lsd Thats Take You Free (One For You Remix)
  • Ellen Alien
    Lovers Of The NIght Edit
  • Uncrat 
    Xilo
  • Ellen Alien
    The Condos Edit
  • Ellen Alien
    Lezdom Edit

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