Ezmun presents Cooking With Gas 07 on Scientific Sound Asia. Scientific Sound Asia is an Asian electronic music radio station, DJ agency, promoter and music-news platform connecting audiences across Asia and internationally.
Cooking With Gas is Ezmun's weekly exploration of percussive, groove-led and dark music. For this edition, he handles the full two hours, beginning with an hour of dark 100 BPM techno and bass before moving into an hour of leftfield bass.
Ezmun is from Cumbria in the United Kingdom and had relocated to Vietnam to develop his ambitions as a DJ and producer. During 2020, COVID-19 forced a temporary move to Melbourne, from where he planned to release a weekly show featuring his preferred sounds.
Like many DJs, Ezmun began in his bedroom before playing house parties with close friends and cohorts. By 2019, he had begun playing clubs in Manchester, Hanoi, Laos and Ho Chi Minh City.
His approach draws on the dark, sparse atmosphere of minimal half-time 140s and the louder clatter of percussive leftfield bass, using both as peaks and troughs within an energetic techno setting. He was gaining recognition in Vietnam's underground scene and hoped to return there.
While in Melbourne, he intended to explore the local underground scene and develop his production skills with the aim of releasing his own music in later years. Cooking With Gas also gives him space to showcase friends and undiscovered DJs while examining the genres he enjoys in greater detail.
Ezmun's Cooking With Gas 07 episode begins with Piezo's The Mandrake, a Breaks opener that establishes the programme's low-slung pace. Toma Kami's Suomi on Livity Sound Recordings brings Bass / Club and Bass pressure, before DJ Python's Alejandro on Incienso and Lurka's Stay Let's Together on Wisdom Teeth return to fractured rhythms.
Bruce's Baychimo on Hessle Audio adds another broken rhythmic angle, and Lurka's Bodied on Wisdom Teeth keeps the first-hour tension taut. Impey's Conquest Mode on Ghost Notes Worldwide then meets Reggy Van Oers and Dubit's B.S. (Mynude Extended Mix) on Several Reasons LTD, introducing Peak Time Techno without abandoning the set's dark focus.
Esther's App Green on POLAAR brings the off-centre bass emphasis back into view, while Aphex Twin's Cheetah2 on Warp Records introduces Techno in the middle of the programme. Tzusing's Esther on L.I.E.S. Records returns to breaks before SHELLY's Bait on Abundance opens into Dubstep.
Natural/Electronic System's Vespero on Delsin Records, Pearson Sound's self-released Untitled and Albino Sound's Dried Seeds on Modern Obscure Music hold the broken-beat thread through the second hour. Minor Science's Underripe on Whities Records shifts the texture towards Electronica, followed by Roberto Clementi's Plebiscite (Rebar's Broken Dream Remix) on made of CONCRETE.
Wen's Late Night on Wisdom Teeth and Ido Plumes' Which Way Is Up on Livity Sound Recordings keep the rhythmic detail restless, before Yak's Skooma on R&S Records gives the sequence a firmer edge. Neana's Soiree brings a touch of Dub, following the unclassified Salt Water by Pervelist without assigning it an unsupported style.
Lamont's Titanic introduces Electro (Classic / Detroit / Modern), then Alex Coulton's Ambush on Tempa returns the mix to Bass / Club terrain. Walton's SBWYS on Tectonic brings 140 / Deep Dubstep / Grime into the closing stretch, while Cassini's Fermi on Tessier-Ashpool Recordings closes with Peak Time Techno intensity.
Cooking With Gas Episode 07
Piezo - The Mandrake
Toma Kami - Suomi
Dj Python - Alejandro
Lurka - Stay Let’s Together
Fleksor - Storm
Bruce - Baychimo
Lurka - Bodied
Stagga, Magugu - Blow On My Whistle
Impey - Conquest Mode
Reggy Van Oers, Dubit - B. S (Mynude Extended Mix)
Esther - App Green
Aphex Twin - Cheetah2
Tzusing - Esther
Shelly - Bait
Natural/Electronic System - Vespero
Pearson Sound - Untitled
Albino Sound - Dried Seeds
Minor Science - Underripe
Roberto Clementi - Plebiscite (Rebar’s Broken Dream Remix)
Wen - Late Night
Ido Plumes - Which Way Is Up
Yak – Skooma
Pervelist - Salt Water
Neana - Soiree
Lamont - Titanic
Alex Coulton - Ambush
Walton - Sbwys
Cassini - Fermi
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