New Year's Eve on Twitch and Zoom!

Citizens of Earth...

You are cordially invited to our rather splendid New Year's Eve Jamboree!

A one-off night of music, magic and general malarkey.


Festivities will be simultaneously brought to you by means of the magical lantern mastery of Mister Twitch & Madame Zoom!

This year’s event will be an extra special musical request show ....
An impromptu extravaganza of your personal favourites :: u name it & we’ll play it!
So, please send all your party requests ...

In advance to either our
Twitter account : twitter.com/_abstractradio

Or
Facebook : facebook.com/AbstractRadio-348332858659139/
Or, on the night itself / during the Live event :
via the live Twitch stream’s “chat” feature only


Doors open and performance starts at 10:30pm GMT Location: www.twitch.tv/abradio

Dress to impress

There will be dancing

Entry is free

And you’ve got nowhere else to go and nothing else to do, so please come and join us in kicking out the old and seeing in the new

Bring your own airhorns.
Looking forward to seeing you there.



NB: During rehearsals, we've noticed some of the camera feeds occasionally drifting in and out of sync - sorry about this - we're working on fixing the issue [and improving the image quality] in future shows.
The music should sound OK though, which is what we're here for really, no?

AbstractRadio session - big room II - december 2020

Blistering barnacles, we're back with some biggies!

Do y'a like loads of big-room belters, some a bit bonkers, all of 'em bangers?
Well, consider y'selves blessed, cos that's what we have here.
Lots of fresh stuff, plus the odd oldie to keep you on your toes.

If you approve, please SHARE / REPOST / LIKE !!
Many thanks.

Love and pygmy shrews,

x
The AbRad team

select mixes by genre:

House

Deep

Funky

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
000:00	ivan dorn	right wrong	spinnup
005:27	low steppa	heaven	armada deep
008:23	sonny vice	aliens from space	ulybug
013:14	dj rae & martin badder	change	ltbh
017:36	low steppa	sunshine	armada deep
022:05	marco lys	body roots	soulfuric
025:25	felix da funk	pastanaga	tactical
029:16	rendher & richard ulh	talk of the town	solid grooves
031:49	radio slave	live my life	rekids
035:24	fabio vela feat. liz hill	I can handle it	defected
040:29	litmus	m22 v innercity	blanco
047:03	jake would	pump it	basement sound
052:24	mistajam	rotate	delecta
056:22	daniel dash	get a life	play and tonic
060:12	dennis ferrer	hey hey	defected
066:35	beyond therapy	higher	champion
073:30	oliver heldens	rave machine	toolroom
076:18	brookes brothers	good thing	drum&bassarena
081:14	belocca	chemical substance	mainground
086:49	sllash & doppe	gingoba	toolroom
088:53	dick johnson	senegal	play it down
091:10	dave winnel	kazoo	axtone
092:45	antoine clamaran & agua sin gas	I wanna give you	whore
094:18	anil aras	planet a	soulfood
099:10	soul central	strings of life	defected
104:15	mark knight & tuff london	jus' come	toolroom
106:04	wild cherry	play that funky music	sony
110:26	re-tide & rocoe	let's go to the disco	re-tide
114:00	felix da housecat	sinner winner litmus remix	blanco
120:55	k london posse feat. maydie myles	I believe	4tothefloor
127:15	pete heller	big love	defected
129:41	atfc	tech house kinda thing	toolroom

-- Total running time – 2:14:47 --

AbstractRadio session - november 2020

Welcome back and all that.

This month's session features some delicious & delectable deepness, comprising as it does of something jazzy, something de profundis & bit of something in between - consider it a buffet of bouncy underground booty from the last few months, plus more than the odd smattering of choice cuts from a bit further back in time.

Like the AbRad elves themselves, as things go on, it gets deeper, and progressively more unhinged. Love and ocelots,

x
The AbRad team

Giving the gift of music, whether you want it or not.

select mixes by genre:

Deep

House

Funky

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
000:00	litmus	blunted poetry	blanco
001:27	supernova	the wobble	downtown underground
005:36	dj jazzy jeff	evil	mirror ball
008:41	moreno pezzolato & octahvia	take me up	la luna
011:52	ridney & angie brown	believe	let there be house
015:00	demarkus lewis	dreams come true	supportsystem
020:19	jesse bru	in different places	delicieuse
025:12	sous sol	macarena	south park
033:14	omar s	the shit baby	fxhe
038:31	kerri chandler	midnight city blues	large
045:32	laurence guy	saw you for the first time	church
051:26	dj island	one love	hovse
056:36	soul groove	ashburnham jazz	feedasoul
062:33	mad rey	quartier sex	dko
067:34	richard earnshaw & inner spirit	summer rain	one51
073:45	eskuche & nathan kersaint	get down	freakin909
078:13	dual beat	deja que llora	africanism
083:21	fabio aurea & toshi	yini	radiant
085:13	lifelike & kris menace	what time is love	spinnin
086:40	nick curly	plenti	8bit
092:19	jay vegas	set u free	hot stuff
095:55	nick hook	actual matter of fact	go deeva
101:04	bontan	move on out	toolroom
105:42	caldera	get it right	blackboard
109:41	sweetpower	power bounce	bedroom
115:51	marco lys	blue cream	100% pure
121:26	kaiser souzai	sequoia	ballroom
126:51	bicep	opal	ninja tune
129:52	silvano del gado	from jamaica to brasil rework 2020	del gado rec
136:38	mambo bros	discoteq	defected
142:48	marco lys	you'll be mine	armada subjekt
148:27	monkey safari	safe	spectrum
156:10	blindsmyth	gryllidae	connaisseur

-- Total running time – 2:45:29 --

AbstractRadio session - september 2020

Salut!

As far as anyone can tell, human beings have been dancing together for 10,000 years, no doubt much more.
But, for the time being at least, we dance alone - no shared sweat or euphoria, no collective experience, unless you count twitch & zoom dance-a-longs, but who does?

In the meantime, we've witnessed a huge proportion of the entertainment industry being brought to its knees - there's a temptation here to go off on a serious rant about greedy djs & promoters, covid raves and misguided & nefarious governmental practices, but we shall resist.

Suffice to say, we live in interesting times.

All things must pass; even though we can't dance together, the music plays on regardless.
And for that we are immensely thankful.

Stay safe & enjoy the tunes.

Love & socially distanced hugs,

x
The AbRad team

Giving the gift of music, whether you want it or not.

select mixes by genre:

House

Deep

Funky

Disco

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
000:00	harry nilsson	everybody's talking	rca
001:28	xoxo feat bellanova	and I love him	tiger
005:05	the life & soul project	neon lights	life & soul
010:00	david penn	the heat	club sweat
012:47	I gemin	misco dusic	villes et fleurs
016:09	groovenerd	somebody help	juiced
021:04	qubiko	mono tono	wired
025:05	saison	the last time	defected
029:14	herald	party time	blockhead
035:03	ladycop	to be real	new state
038:58	litmus et al	always say yes	blanco
042:28	rout funk	jacking fella	guesthouse
045:18	earth n days	burning up	there was jack
049:58	bellecour	los choukarios	insomniac
052:18	silvano del gado	from jamaica to brazil	del gado
054:22	rhythm staircase & sweetpower	piano funked	lw
060:04	dario g	cry	superland
063:55	litmus	no no no	blanco
067:52	kink	raw	running back
071:38	litmus	free feat ultra nate	blanco
075:30	tony humphries	oh adam	tr
078:06	simion	can you feel it	mother
082:14	md x-spress & simion	god made me feel it	defected
086:07	blvckr & morsy	still loco	purple tea
090:47	bicep & ma1	glue - litmus' high definition mix	blanco
094:55	kormak	let's talk about it	dvine
101:12	mike mago	smells good	bmkltsch
103:47	buka!	acidisco	high roller
106:30	colour castle	joy	hot sunday
112:00	black caviar	praise	thrive
115:28	atfc & emy perez	one step ahead	armada

-- Total running time – 2:00:45 --

download from house-mixes.com

AbstractRadio - lockdown session one - july 2020

Collected connoisseurs of abstraction ... hello once again!

This is the first of a small number of live lockdown sessions we're knocking out over the course of 2020.
Originally broadcast through twitch.tv on 4.7.2020, the video is now available for viewing on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXjaVOzJ3uI

Featuring a slew of relatively new[ish] material, we've included some grooves, some tribal stuff, even the odd cheesy piano - some tracks may be pretty recogniseable as they're rehashes of older tunes.
As with all AbRad sessions, every one's a winner, but expect the real cream to appear nearer the end!

Stay safe and all that,
Peace, love and hyraxes,
x

The AbRad team.

Giving the gift of music, whether you want it or not.

select mixes by genre:

House

Deep

Funky

Disco

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
000:00	cisco cisco	jazzy days	apersonal
005:26	joe corti	the first time	better listen
009:42	muzziq and samo	your kisses	ltbh
013:45	mike dunn	if I can’t get down	defected
019:09	mark blair	biggie was a jazz fan	blanco
021:53	pavel svetlove	ahah!	nurvous
025:44	soul avengerz & gs heron	someday - litmus' revolution mix	soda
031:25	supernova	RLH	lapsus
033:28	hector couto	tierra santa	soulman
040:32	brrak	faith in the people - litmus edit	cultural district
042:31	kpd & andy reid	deep in your love	motive
047:45	rout funk	nobody baby	pornstar
052:47	sllash & doppe	makeba	toolroom
057:25	frank lamboy	coffee break	bridge & tunnel
063:03	jude & frank	quem vai querer	sprs
066:54	stacy kidd & ron carroll	voodoo ray - litmus edit	house 4 life
069:13	don welch	push it	underground network
072:57	earth n days	soulshaking	houseu
077:05	earth n days	everything	there was jack
080:55	arduini & pagany	house is the light	on air
085:00	mattei & omich	it’s a house thing	m & o
090:26	makree	piano groove	ltbh
096:20	jazzanova	I can see	objektivity
100:19	melba moore	my heart belongs to you	soulfuric
103:24	milk & sugar	love is in the air	m & s

-- Total running time – 1:51:10 --

Here's the vid:

download from house-mixes.com

Live Lockdown Session on Twitch!

Yes, it has come to this...

Our first live session on Twitch.

6:30pm BST
Saturday 4th July

https://www.twitch.tv/abradio

Bring your own airhorns.
Looking forward to seeing you there.

The plan is to do about four of these lockdown sessions in total, possibly more if they go down well.

We're starting "light and fluffy warm-up" with the first of the four.

Expect each set to become progressively more clubby as summer progresses, before culminating hopefully with a special end-of-season request show some time down the line.

These sessions will mainly be "house" sets - our apologies if you're expecting something else - with all relatively new[ish] tracks, though some may be pretty recogniseable as they're rehashes of old tunes.
As with all AbRad sessions, every tune's a winner, but expect the real cream to come near the end.

NB: During rehearsals, we've noticed some of the camera feeds occasionally drifting in and out of sync - sorry about this - we're working on fixing the issue [and improving the image quality] in future shows.
The music should sound OK though, which is what we're here for really, no?

---

*** Update ***

Details of the first session can be found here.

Tune of the Week - No.11 - 22.05.20

With so much wonderful music knocking around here in the Abstract studio, we thought we'd take the opportunity to showcase a few very special items that are close to our hearts. Our choices for Tune of the Week may be fresh through the door, or decades old - our aim is that they will always epitomise the ethos of AbstractRadio...

Some time later...

Joi Cardwell - Trouble
Eight Ball Records - EB40



Ok, pay attention now, as we're only going to say this once.

We consider this little gem to be our favourite house track.
Ever.
And, to really put the cat among the proverbials, we also believe it to be one of the finest pieces of house music ever created.

Released way back in '95 when NY garage quite rightly ruled the roost, "Trouble" was an underground favourite that never quite crossed over to become a genuinely major club hit.
Now, 25 years on and, franky, it's sounds just as valid, vibrant, poignant, beautiful and timeless as before, and continues to crap over the competition from a humongous height.

Some of you might not understand or appreciate quite why this is so wonderful.
We mourn for thee.

And we never play it "out".
Why, we hear you ask?
Well, honestly, no one really wants to see grown men cry.

---

Here's the vid:

Oh, almost forgot - the Deep Dish remix is pretty fucking special as well:

AbstractRadio session - february 2020

Hail, fellow pioneers of an abstract groove!

After no small hiatus, here's another maelstrom of sultry dancefloor silliness, featuring easily the finest tune of 2019, along with a couple of stunners from Sweetpower [more from them anon]. Everything's pretty much up-to-date & mainstream this time round [in our opinion], and we've thrown in the odd old-timer for the sake of balance.

If you're pleasantly tickled by the gospel of AbRad, please help us spread the word and REPOST!

Love and a paddle of platypuses,

x
The AbRad team

Giving the gift of music, whether you want it or not.

select mixes by genre:

House

Deep

Funky

Disco

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
00:00	sokur	I'm going away	moiss
06:14	freiboitar	bombin	urbana
10:30	angelo ferreri	magic	motive
14:46	dirty disco stars	love of my life	crms
18:55	crush club	my man	tinted
23:37	brothers in arts	right on the dancefloor	duffnote
27:30	jay potter	feeling happy	phoenix soul
33:58	sharam jey	4 your mind	nervous
39:28	the vision	heaven	defected
44:22	peter brown	delirium	ftloh
48:31	bratt	I love it	zero eleven
50:35	barry & gibbs	move on	sakura
54:04	mike newman	easy	bagira ice
59:33	sweetpower	groovin to the beat	blockhead
64:02	hot chocolate	every 1s a winner	blanco
66:45	robbie dox	my mind	cube
71:16	sweetpower	happy days	blockhead
75:40	disco town	one love	nervous
81:10	kormak	love on the line	dftd
88:13	sphinx	what hope have I	champion

-- Total running time – 1:35:06 --

download from house-mixes.com