DJ Joshua presents Floating Beats and Velvety Elements on Scientific Sound Asia. Scientific Sound Asia operates as an Asian electronic music radio station, event promoter, DJ agency and music news platform, connecting underground artists and listeners across Asia and internationally.
Based in Évora, Portugal, DJ Joshua has been involved with electronic music since the early 1990s and has developed his knowledge through decades of listening, collecting, DJing and broadcasting. His wider musical background spans House, Techno, Drum and Bass and Chillout, giving his radio work a broad foundation across several generations of electronic music.
During his teenage years, Joshua became closely involved with Portugal’s developing underground scene through record collecting, local radio and events organised with friends and fellow enthusiasts. That period placed him close to the growth of rave culture in the country and helped shape the musical curiosity that still informs his selections today.
After stepping away from regular musical activity to concentrate on family life, Joshua eventually returned to DJing and broadcasting through Floating Beats. The programme became an outlet for deeper, progressive and underground electronic music, with careful pacing and gradual movement forming an important part of its identity.
Velvety Elements developed as a complementary series focused more closely on the warmer and more soulful side of House Music. Deep House, Soulful House and groove-led material give the programme its own character while retaining the smooth transitions and considered structure found throughout Joshua’s radio work.
Alongside broadcasting, Joshua has become increasingly active as a producer through several aliases. Each project gives him room to explore a different area of electronic music without forcing every release into a single stylistic direction.
As Joshua Fernand, he concentrates primarily on contemporary Techno and more driving electronic material. Releases including Blue River on MixCult Digital and Breaking Rocks and Tearing Metal through his own JFLM Recordings represent a tougher and more rhythm-focused side of his studio work.
The Joshua Fernand project also reaches into deeper and more melodic territory through tracks such as Closed Door and Open Door on Radickal Records. Killer’s Plan on Rice Bowl Recordings extends that side of his catalogue towards Melodic House and Techno.
Joshua Marian carries much of his House-focused production work and connects naturally with the warmer musical direction of Velvety Elements. Releases such as Soul Zone, Love My Soul, Tengo Rojo, Restless Lips, Always on My Mind and I Can Go, You Can See explore deeper, soulful and groove-led House.
His K Joshua alias moves further into hypnotic and experimental territory. Tracks including Promised Work on Kopoc, Stranger Things on dublucid and As You Are on Liberty Rhythm draw on Dub Techno, Ambient and deeper rhythmic structures.
Joshua also founded JFLM Recordings as an independent outlet for his productions and collaborative projects. The label gives him greater control over how new material is released while providing a dedicated home for music connected with the different sides of his studio work.
That production activity now feeds directly back into his radio programmes. Floating Beats explores deeper, progressive, hypnotic and Techno-oriented electronic music, while Velvety Elements concentrates on warmer House selections built around groove, soul and understated movement.
Together, the two programmes reflect the same broad musical curiosity that has followed Joshua from his early years collecting records in Portugal into his current work as a DJ, producer and label owner. His approach remains centred on rhythm, melody, atmosphere and the connection that carefully selected music can create with the listener.
DJ Joshua opens Floating Beats 461 with Recondite’s “Serenity” before Danilo Schneider and Damian Rausch establish a deep, restrained Techno foundation. Linkwood and Joel Mull keep the first hour atmospheric and tightly controlled, balancing hypnotic repetition with subtle melodic movement.
Toni Varga and Tini Gessler bring a firmer rhythmic edge with “Lazaro”, followed by Trendroid and The Subjective as the set develops towards heavier club pressure. Exploit’s “Defaced” in the Quinto remix and Van Czar with Samuel L Session then strengthen the darker techno character without pushing the hour into outright peak-time territory.
Kevin Saunderson and Patrick Topping add a more direct groove with “Frisk”, introducing a crossover between Tech House and Detroit-rooted club music. Jonas Rathsman and Lazarusman close Floating Beats 461 with the Tunnelvisions remix of “Take Me There”, giving the first hour a more melodic and expansive finish after its deeper techno opening.
Velvety Elements 033 starts with Rocco Rodamaal and Keith Thompson in an Atjazz Galaxy Aart remix before Franck Roger and Jovonn bring the second hour firmly into Deep House. Mihai Popoviciu and DP-6 continue that warm, groove-focused direction, keeping the percussion understated and the basslines fluid.
Darius Syrossian in an Alex Ranerro remix and Loco Dice with Eddie Fowlkes add more drive through the centre of the hour, edging towards Deep Tech House while retaining the soulful character established earlier. Platzdasch and Dix, Gorge and Vertigini then settle the mix back into deeper territory with a looser, more spacious club feel.
Powel’s remix of Nepotek leads into Chris Stussy before Iron Curtis and Vanilla Ace with Venky complete the final sequence. Across both shows, DJ Joshua blends deep Techno and Tech House in Floating Beats with Deep House, Deep Tech House and soulful underground grooves in Velvety Elements, giving the two hours distinctly different but complementary identities.
Floating beats 461 (first hour) by DJ Joshua
Recondite - Serenity (Original Mix)
Danilo Schneider - Suspend (Original Mix)
Damian Rausch - Riverdance (Original Mix)
Linkwood - Future Mirror (Original Mix)
Joel Mull - Ahead of The Past (Original Mix)
Toni Varga, Tini Gessler - Lazaro (Edit)
Trendroid - Ignition (Original Mix)
The Subjective - Critical (Original Mix)
Exploit - Defaced (Quinto Remix)
Van Czar, Samuel L Session - Princeps (Original Mix)
Kevin Saunderson, Patrick Topping - Frisk (Extended Mix)
Jonas Rathsman, Lazarusman - Take Me There (Tunnelvisions Remix)
Velvety Elements 033 (second hour)
Rocco Rodamaal, Keith Thompson - Break 4 Love (Atjazz Galaxy Aart Remix)
Franck Roger, Jovonn - Remember (Rocco Rodamaal Remix)
Mihai Popoviciu - Going Around (Original Mix)
DP-6 - Impact (Original Mix)
Darius Syrossian - The Renegade (Alex Ranerro Remix)
Loco Dice, Eddie Fowlkes - It's a Thief (Original Mix)
Platzdasch & Dix - Felt Slippers (Original Mix)
Gorge - Erotic Soul (Crimsen Remix)
Vertigini - Voices (Original Mix)
Nepotek, Powel - Magnum (Powel Remix)
Chris Stussy - Seeing & Believing (Extended Version)
Iron Curtis - Everything's Alright (Original Mix)
Vanilla Ace, Venky - Feel Your Body (Original Mix)
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