Welcome to The Void. Music for lonely places and distant spaces. May 2025 with me, Nick Rodger.

Enjoy the show.

Tracklist:
BVDUB - Colder Than Snow (iv) (self released)
Bistro Boy - Colour Arrow (Neotantra)
Plank & Ishq - Cromity Moon (Past Inside the Present)
Hendekagon - Moment 4.2 (Neotantra)
Fallen - All the Dreams We Forget (Neotantra)
Phaeleh - Opal (self released)
Comit - Behind Dulled Eyes (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Digitalverein - Internal Discourse (Seven Villas Voyage)
Bjorn Rohde - Dissociated Memory (Insectorama)
Conna Haraway - Freon (InDex)
Earth House Hold - Cry Your Eyes (self released)
Spacecraft - Obscured by Light (self released)
58918012 - Decision to Leave (Syntes)
Aural Imbalance - Dream Assembly (Spatial)
Jamie Myerson - Interpose (self released)
Slow Dancing Society - Moments Bruise and Bleed (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Mikkel Rev - Transmit (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Mikkel Rev - Expanse (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Vector Lovers - Metrolux Forever (Soma Quality Recordings)
Collateral Intelligence - Waking Up to a Better Tomorrow (Gated Recordings)
Yagya - My Own Worth (Small Plastic Animals)
Ambidextrous - My Life (Past Inside the Present)

McMo is back with a fantastic new mix for May. Weaving together a selection of progressive house from the last few months, McMo has created a deep, twisted and dark little journey...with a certain 'War of the World's' feel...enjoy!

Tracklist:
1. Ismael Rivas - Evolutione [VIBRANZ]
2. Sebastian Haas, Ignacio Corazza - Magna 101 [RKP]
3. Hernan Cattaneo, Soundexile, Paula OS - Harvest (Hernan Cattaneo & Soundexile Remix) [Renaissance Music]
4. Michael A -Trigger [Genesis Music]
5. AZLN - Cherry Flame [Kitchen Recordings]
6. Benja Molina - Sirio (Extended Mix) [UV Noir]
7. Brann (AR) - Bad Apple [LuPS Records]
8. Paul Deep - (AR) Rea [Sudbeat Music]
9. Fran Garay - Modularity [Melorama Música]
10. Supacooks, Bondarev - Activator [WARPP]
11. SOULE CASE, John Shepard - Principle (Extended Mix) [Intricate Records]
12. Byhon, Agustin Massari - Transmission [Timeless Moment]
13. AZLN - Scattered Dreams [Schallmauer]
14. Quivver, Dave Seaman - Cowbells of Nuneaton [Sudbeat Music]
15. Ulises Espindola - Deeper [AH Digital]
16. Emmanuel Dip - Nebula [RKP]
17. Sebas LP - Delirium (Rabiee Ahmad Remix) [AH Digital]
18. Moodfreak, Juani Bria - Blue Ice [YOMO Records]
19. Galgo, Javier Valencia - Musick (Greg Tomaz Remix) [Stripped Digital]
20. The Wash, Callecat - Symbiotic Symphony (Weird Sounding Dude Remix) [Manual Music]
21. Dylhen - Zenith (Extended Mix) [Pattern]
22. Tiefstone - Eclico (Extended Mix) [UV Noir]

Sasha 30th Anniversary Essential Mix @ Que Club. I lovingly recreated this mix to celebrate the 25th anniversary, it's now 30 years since that mix. With over 10,000 downloads on my soundcloud page - it was clearly a well loved mix.

Background
In 1995, BBC Radio 1 and Cream put together their 'Live' tour with amazing line ups and aired them 'live' for the first time on the radio for listeners. On the Saturday 27th May, The ‘Grande Finale’ of the tour was at the legendary ‘Que Club’ in Birmingham and boasted a line up that featured the biggest Dj’s in the UK at that time. An all-night affair at a club that could hold thousands from 10pm-6am was a first of it’s kind and for the first time you could sit at home listening to the music and madness erupting.

After Sasha & John Digweed’s 1994 Renaissance album had converted and gained so many more fans to the duos epic brand of House Music, 1995 was to take it to the next level. The advancements in the sound they started playing was to be an insight into the future of electronic music. Progressive House suddenly had a harder edge and pushed the boundaries of sound using technology far away from the traditional House music sound with piano and soulful vocals.

The reason I have chosen to commemorate this mix is that it changed my outlook on House music. I have always enjoyed all genres of music but back then we didn’t have the amounts of genres and sub-genres enjoyed now. I knew I was hearing something very different.

I recorded the whole broadcast from start to finish, swapping 90 min tapes in and out, barely containing my excitement for what I was hearing and capturing. The crowd noises, Tong’s voice bellowing out over the roar of the crowd announcing the DJ's – it was just amazing, literally AMAZING.

Out of all the mixes, it was, of course, Sasha’s that caught my attention and engaged me more than all the other mixes. Having already seen him play this was the nucleus for a brand new Sasha obsession.

To celebrate 25 years since Sasha played the mix live on air that Saturday evening (I still have the original tape, see pic) I’m going to play all the tracks he played* and hope to give us all the sense of nostalgia and wonderment I felt that night.

Most of the tracks are recordings from my vinyl collection before I sold it all to a collector back in 2014.

The mix itself is only around 80 mins so I’ll play some extra tracks from his other sets around the same time.

For myself, 1995 was my favourite year of clubbing ever. The music, the DJ’s the energy at that time was explosive. Join me and let’s take the journey back together.

TRACKLIST 27.05.1995: RADIO 1 ESSENTIAL MIX. LIVE FROM QUE CLUB, BIRMINGHAM.

Intro - Danny Jarvis - Sasha & Pete Tong

1. BT – Tripping The Light Fantastic (Perfecto)
2. Microman - Microhouse (Pumphouse)
3. Hal 9000 - Stoopid (Fresh)
4. Count Indigo - Unknown Love (Cowboy)
5. Speedy J - G Spot (BMU)
6. Blue Amazon - The Blessing (Jackpot)
7. BT - Loving You More (Dub Mix) (Perfecto)
8. BT - Loving You More (Vocal Mix) (Perfecto)
9. Parks & Wilson vs Quivver - I Dream (Perfecto)
10. Bump – I’m Rushing (Bump's 95 Mix (Deconstruction)
11. New Order - Blue Monday (Hardfloor Remix)
12. Bassheads - Is there Anybody Out There (Hardfloor Remix)
13. Moziac 'Rays of the Sun' (Dekkard & Dane Mix)

Outro - Danny Jarvis - Pete Tong