Ezmun presents Cooking With Gas 10 on Scientific Sound Asia, revisiting selections from the programme’s first nine shows. Scientific Sound Asia is an Asian electronic music radio station, promoter and music-news platform connecting audiences across Asia and internationally.
Cooking With Gas is Ezmun’s weekly dose of percussive, groovy and dark music. After using as much new music as possible in the previous sets, episode 10 revisits some of the biggest tunes from all nine earlier shows in a rowdy two-hour mix of 100 BPM, leftfield bass, global bass, techno and dubstep.
Ezmun is originally from Cumbria in the United Kingdom and had recently relocated to Vietnam to develop his ambitions as a DJ and producer. Covid forced a temporary move to Melbourne, from where he planned to release a weekly show featuring his favourite sounds.
Like many DJs, Ezmun started in his bedroom, which led to house parties with close friends and cohorts. By 2019, he had made his breakthrough into clubs, playing venues in Manchester, Hanoi, Laos and Ho Chi Minh City.
Drawn to the dark, sparse atmosphere of minimal half-time 140s and the forceful clatter of percussive leftfield bass, he uses both as peaks and troughs within an energetic techno setting. Ezmun was gaining recognition in Vietnam’s underground and hoped to return there.
In the meantime, he planned to explore Melbourne’s underground scene and develop his production skills, with the aim of releasing his own music the following year. Cooking With Gas also gave him an opportunity to showcase friends and undiscovered DJs while exploring the genres he loves in greater detail.
Ezmun's Cooking With Gas 10 episode opens with Stagga and Magugu’s Blow On My Whistle, then moves through Shelly’s Bait on Abundance and its dubstep weight. DJ Python’s Alejandro on Incienso introduces breaks before Piezo’s The Mandrake keeps that rhythmic focus in place.
Wallwork’s Hacienda on Nervous Horizon brings in a tougher bass and club approach, followed by the bass pressure of Impey’s Conquest Mode on Ghost Notes Worldwide. Zuli’s Trigger Finger (Tsvi Remix) on Haunter Records adds electronica detail before the next run of low-end material.
Toma Kami’s Suomi and Kouslin’s Sharper, both on Livity Sound Recordings, lead into Ploy’s Footprints In Solid Rock on Timedance with a club-built bass focus. Albino Sound’s Dried Seeds on Modern Obscure Music returns to breaks, while Bakongo’s Anytime on Roska Kicks & Snares brings the passage back towards bass and club material.
Yak’s Skooma on R&S Records keeps the breaks moving before Lamont’s Titanic introduces electro textures. Deke Soto’s Last Derm on Tessier-Ashpool Recordings brings a trap edge, then Esther’s Hedon Hack on POLAAR and Walton’s Smashed Crabs on Tectonic return to bass and club pressure.
Ikonika’s Position on Hyperdub provides another electronica turn, while Pearson Sound’s XLB on Pearson Sound adds UK Garage swing. Blenk’s Forward on Enemy Records brings raw, deep and hypnotic techno into view, and Yak’s Fret on Phonica Recordings follows with Deep House.
Tsvi and DJ JM’s Xus Lord leads into Lag’s Sama Doma on Mord, where Peak Time Techno takes hold alongside Death Abyss’s Destroy The Mundane on Rodz-Konez and Crae’s Corrupt Me on Finder Records. Tessela’s Nancy’s Pantry on R&S Records, Goncalo M’s The Evil Within on Intuition Recordings PT and Giant Swan’s Pandaemonium on KECK close with techno force and an alternative final edge.
Cooking With Gas Episode 10 28th of June 2020
Stagga, Magugu - Blow On My Whistle
Shelly - Bait
Dj Python - Alejandro
Piezo - The Mandrake
Wallwork - Hacienda
Impey - Conquest Mode
Zuli - Trigger Finger (Tsvi Remix)
Toma Kami - Suomi
Kouslin - Sharper
Ploy - Footprints In Solid Rock
Albino Sound - Dried Seeds
Bakongo - Anytime
Yak - Skooma
Lamont - Titanic
Deke Soto - Last Derm
Esther - Hedon Hack
Walton - Smashed Crabs
Ikonika - Position
Pearson Sound - Xlb
Blenk - Forward
Yak - Fret
Tsvi, Dj Jm - Xus Lord
Lag - Sama Doma
Death Abyss - Destroy The Mundane
Crae - Corrupt Me
Tessela - Nancy’s Pantry
Goncalo M - The Evil Within
Giant Swan - Pandaemonium
Listen on Mixcloud here.