Floating Beats 766 welcomes back DJ Joshua for another edition of his long-running electronic music series on Scientific Sound Asia. Scientific Sound Asia operates as an Asian electronic music radio station, DJ agency, promoter and music news platform, connecting underground artists and listeners across the region and internationally.
Based in Évora, Portugal, DJ Joshua has been involved with electronic music since the mid-1990s, developing his knowledge through vinyl, cassettes, CDs and later digital formats. His background spans House, Techno, Drum and Bass and Chillout, giving him a broad musical foundation built across several decades.
DJ Joshua’s early involvement included DJing, record collecting, local radio and participation in Portugal’s developing rave scene. He also remained active through event organisation, collaborations and support for local artists before stepping away from regular activity to concentrate on family life.
His eventual return led to Floating Beats, which became an outlet for deeper, progressive and hypnotic underground electronic music. Joshua builds each edition around atmosphere, pacing and gradual development, giving individual tracks room to unfold without relying on abrupt shifts or constant peak-time pressure.
Alongside broadcasting, Joshua produces under several aliases that allow different areas of his studio work to develop independently. Each project represents another part of the musical perspective shaped through years of collecting, DJing, radio and production.
As Joshua Fernand, he concentrates largely on contemporary Techno and tougher club-focused material. Releases include Blue River on MixCult Digital alongside Breaking Rocks and Tearing Metal through his own JFLM Recordings.
Closed Door and Open Door on Radickal Records explore darker and more hypnotic territory through repetition, tension and stripped-back rhythmic structures. Killer’s Plan on Rice Bowl Recordings introduces a more melodic direction, connecting his harder productions with the atmospheric ideas found elsewhere in his catalogue.
The Joshua Marian alias carries much of his warmer and more soulful output, with greater emphasis on groove, melody and smoother rhythmic development. Releases include Soul Zone, Love My Soul, Tengo Rojo, Restless Lips, Always On My Mind and I Can Go, You Can See.
K Joshua provides space for more abstract, hypnotic and experimental material, with dub-influenced textures and spacious arrangements forming part of the project. Promised Work on Kopoc, Stranger Things on dublucid, As You Are on Liberty Rhythm and Slow Laziness on Ghetto Rhythms Records illustrate that deeper side of his catalogue.
Working through several identities gives Joshua room to explore contrasting ideas without forcing every production into the same framework. Joshua Fernand carries much of the tougher club material, Joshua Marian represents the warmer and more melodic side of his work, while K Joshua provides an outlet for deeper and more experimental productions.
In 2024, Joshua launched JFLM Recordings as an independent outlet for his productions and collaborative projects. The label gives him greater control over how new material is presented while providing a dedicated home for music connected with the different sides of his studio activity.
That production work feeds naturally back into his broadcasting and broadens the perspective behind Floating Beats. Episode 766 continues the series with carefully paced underground electronic music shaped by decades of listening and Joshua’s continuing interest in new records, production techniques and ideas.
DJ Joshua opens Floating Beats 766 with Santos' Subdivision, immediately establishing the raw and hypnotic character of Deep Techno before Uncertain follows with Shift. Jon Hester's Through The Smoke maintains the same stripped-back pressure, building the early stages around repetitive movement, restrained percussion and a darker late-night atmosphere.
Greg Gow and Brian Kage introduce a straighter Techno passage with D Send to Ascend before OFF/GRID's remix of Emmanuel's New Media pulls the selection back towards Raw Techno territory. Klint and Krist continue that direction through Shadow Ritual and Number 155, keeping the middle section tightly focused on raw textures and controlled rhythmic tension.
Riko's Whoa 55 delivers the episode's only Peak Time Techno selection, briefly raising the intensity before The Advent's Cause & Effect returns to a deeper and more hypnotic framework. Tony Miler's Treasure Hunt and Human Safari's Trap Door then extend the darker run, maintaining the set's persistent and stripped-down character.
Uncertain appears for a second time with Express, reinforcing the episode's strong connection to Illegal Alien Records before Perroxx follows with Dream. Joshua Fernand closes the programme with White Solarium, bringing the set to an understated finish while preserving the raw, deep and hypnotic direction established from the opening track.
Across Floating Beats 766, DJ Joshua keeps the focus firmly on raw and hypnotic Techno, with twelve of the fourteen tracks sitting within that deeper territory. A single straight Techno Music selection and one Peak Time cut provide brief changes in intensity, but the episode remains deliberately cohesive, dark and tightly controlled throughout.
Tune in to his live radio show on Monday, October 26th, 2026, from 6 to 8 p.m. Indochina Time (ICT). If you can't catch the live broadcast, you can listen to the replay on Friday from 6 to 8 a.m. (ICT).
Floating Beats 764 by DJ Joshua
Feral - Unplace (Original Mix) [Non Series]
Alinep - Petmalu (Original Mix) [Molecular Recordings]
Joshua Fernand - Switch Off (Original Mix) [Promo]
Jesterr - Underworld (Original Mix) [Timeless O'Clock]
Lewis Fautzi - Paranoid Signals (Original Mix) [Faut Section]
Truncate - The Trip (Original Mix) [Truncate]
A Thousand Details - Kilburn Grange (Original Mix) [TH Tar Hallow]
A.Paul - Subterfuge (Original Mix) [ONHCET]
Carara - Suermonths (Original Mix) [Casanova Bar Records]
Eubo - Aluminium (Original Mix) [CEP Records]
Jorg Rodriguez - Jumper (Original Mix) [Illegal Alien LTD]
Raho - It's Not The Same Thing (Original Mix) [contempo]
Uncertain - Phrase (Original Mix) [Symbolism]
Vinicius Honorio - Inframundo (Original Mix) [Mord]
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