I make a couple of new music mixes every month… DesireLines is dreampop meets PostPunk meets shoegaze/nugaze. Its a never ending procession of great new tunes www.mixcloud.com/GiganticDan/...

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💚 new music track of the day Regicide - new candys Psych dreampop from Italy’s finest. Sounds massive open.spotify.com/track/3FjGKU...

Watched ep3 of Adam Curtis The Trap. Bought home what the thinking behind whats happening in the US. Part failing to learn lessons of trying to reconstruct Russia and Iraq in an uber free market form, part the cancer spreading back to the host. Spoiler… it doesn’t end well. youtu.be/m25q3it0rDs?...

💜new music track of the day Freak Eyes - Sextile Modern take on electro(clash) party music that wouldn’t look out of place in a 2002 or 2008 electro-sleaze dj set. open.spotify.com/track/17zn1m...

💜 new music track of the day The Secret - NNHMN Another great release from favourite Berlin dark electro duo. Icy and banging (and lovely pair of people to boot) open.spotify.com/track/6wdugM...

🩷 new music track of the day Different XXX - Redrago, DJ Tennid & Red Axes Sometimes you need a banging dance tune in your heqdphones as therapy when the world goes to s**t open.spotify.com/track/2fGYz4...

💜 new music track of the day Fun Times - Marie Davidson Everyone’s favourite Canadian electro queen in alliance with the Detwiije brothers, from the freshly released City of Clowns album. open.spotify.com/track/7LD3zy...

💚 new music track (and album of the day) In the Electric Field - Bdrmm ft Olivesque Wasn’t quite prepared for how good the new album would be (it’s a classic) and could have chosen many tracks here. Makes me stragely proud to be a(n adopted) Northerner open.spotify.com/track/0dSJKT...

🩷 new music track of the day Give me more - The Moonlandings New single keeps the interest going. Tour goes on sale today open.spotify.com/track/619Hk7...

🩷 new music DJ-mix Gigantic - February 2025 www.mixcloud.com/GiganticDan/...

💜 new music track of the day Black is Black - The KVB Favourite coldwavers are back with more hauting nu-gaze electronica open.spotify.com/track/5jTbex...

💚 new music mixtape DesireLines Feb 25 part 2 9 brand new Psych-postpunk and nu-gaze-electronica tracks, mixed for 30 mins of aural pleasure www.mixcloud.com/GiganticDan/...

💚 new music track of the day Dreamers - Ruth Radlet, Nat Walker, Adam Miller The Chromatics (-Jonny Jewel) have made something haunting yet soothing & a natural progression from what came before. Given the state of things all I want to do is listen on repeat forever open.spotify.com/track/1Drny9...

💚 new music track of the day Quiet Thing - Better Joy Beautiful and heartfelt as ever from better joy, keep them coming open.spotify.com/track/3oOQGN...

💚 new music mixtape DesireLines - Feb 25 part 1 So many good tracks this month I’ve had to break this in two. First part (here) is indie & dreampop. PsychPunkNoiseGaze (part 2) to follow www.mixcloud.com/GiganticDan/...

💚 new music track of the day Lake Disappointment - bdrmm Monster of a track that takes bdrmm further down the electronic path into a huge nu-gaze cavern of sound open.spotify.com/track/4GMSss...

🩷 new music track of the day Brooklyn on Acid - Marc DePulse Stellar acid-electro floor filler with a vocal line that makes you yearn for a wilder, freer and more bohemian existance open.spotify.com/track/7gkkAV...

💚 new music track of the day Casio Oblivion (Bring Down The Power) - Aus!Funkt Excellent (and slightly punkier) return showing a confident step forward from last year. Plus given the state of things what’s not to like about a Canadian band sticking two fingers up open.spotify.com/track/2uDoo4...

💚 new music track of the day A Few More Years - Wings of Desire Opening shot in the next chapter from anthemic indie gooduns WoD. Can’t get over its nearly 5 years since 001 appeared in a Spotify search in Covid lockdown. Why are they not massively popular yet 🤷‍♂️ open.spotify.com/track/6qGNXK...

🩷 new music track of the day Between You -Factory Floor Stunning comeback single certain to be a dance floor filler. Got a feeling this will be in my end of year ‘best of’ lists. open.spotify.com/track/1KOhBD...

🩷 new music track of the day New York Is Dead - Black Light Smoke Like a closing chapter of the book James Murphy started writing 23 years ago. open.spotify.com/track/42Bsi4...

💚 new track of the day Lillan’s Revenge - Hallan First track back after over a year Hallan return with a 00’s influenced indie anthem open.spotify.com/track/1hJrvn...

💜 new music mixtape Artificial Life (dark disco/electro/techno) - Feb 25 All the real rave-y club tunes that i’ve been sitting on for a few months came out when I put this together. It’s a bit of a monster. www.mixcloud.com/GiganticDan/...

Old music mix of the day Darts of Pleasure - Electro I'm back out DJing in real life at The Trades Club in Hebden Bridge on Friday 21st Feb. I'll be bringing my 00's alt-indie-electo night to town which is a pretty faithful revival of my old Leeds clubnight Gigantic www.mixcloud.com/DartsOfPleas...

💜 new music track of the day City Lights (Phase Fatale Remix) - Years of Denial A full on rave in Euro dark disco, electro, techno clothing open.spotify.com/track/3r6bDH...

💜 new music track of the day Darkside - Desire Closer and probably my favourite track off Desire’s new record. Looks back a bit more to the more haunting material she’s released previously as opposed to the full on synthwave of the rest of the record. open.spotify.com/track/2VrfsS...

🩷 new music track of the day Time - SALVIA Slightly arch European electro. Dark room, late night, loud open.spotify.com/track/4u1CTA...

💜 new music track of the day …Disco Goth - Dina Summer & Local Suicide I sometimes DJ modern electrogoth clubnights, i feel this might be the perfect track to play (see also Goth Enough by Last Grasp that came out last year for what would be a great double header) open.spotify.com/track/04kklb...

💜 new music track of the day Ghost - Mercy Girl Another slice of dark post-punk with goth undertones from interesting Glaswegians. File next to Nightbus open.spotify.com/track/60dAUx...

💜 new music track of the day Bending the Branch (Hans Mix) Remix gives these LA post punkers an old school EBM (that’s Electronic Body Music) feel. open.spotify.com/track/1G5gqX...

Tainted Love 2.0 (Leeds). Many 100’s of amazing people, young old and in-between, in a great venue dancing to music that we all love. Each one a legend.

💜 old music mix of the day Moving my real life 80s electropop & alternative clubnight to a shiny huge new venue (Project House) in Leeds tonight. Very much looking forward to sharing physical space with real humans. Here’s a taster of what we’ll getting up to. www.mixcloud.com/TaintedLoveL...

💚 new music track of the day Burning 305 - Floral Image Psych-indie track which creeps up on you as it builds and layers up. Worth giving it 3 minutes to do its work on you. open.spotify.com/track/5fzZbd...

🩷 new music track of the day The Sign of A Man - The Moonlandingz Missed the original in 2017 has I was having 5 years away from music following DJ burnout but have come to all the elements later (FWF, the Sheffield lot) so may have to look back on the basis of this open.spotify.com/track/4eeyqI...

🩷 new music mixtape 30 mins of new scuzzy electro and electro-punk with liberal helpings of my own mash-up remixes to spice to sauce. www.mixcloud.com/GiganticDan/...

💚 new music track of the day Heaven - swim school Another great single from Glasgow’s finest, coming across like an early 00’s guitar revival (think Metric or 2nd album YYYs). open.spotify.com/track/2DiIOq...

🩷 new music track of the day Firstborn - Cutouts Brooding synth sounds from New York open.spotify.com/track/5rkC5x...

💚 new music mixtape Time for a DesireLines monthly DJ-mixtape for January 25 - bringing together my favourite dreampop, indie & punk related sounds. I’ve added in Nobody Shouts by AK/DK which came out last summer as it’s call to action seems sadly appropriate now www.mixcloud.com/GiganticDan/...

🩷 new music track of the day Raoul - Snapped Ankles A band I love, still it took a few listens and crucially headphones to work out what a monster this track actually is. So cans on (or buds in), turn it up and let it take over… it’s worth submitting to. open.spotify.com/track/1vwEPy...

💚 new music track of the day Choose Life - Shark School Irish noisy post-punk band cover the PF Project song from Trainspotting… and it works open.spotify.com/track/2oDWs9...

🩷 new music track of the day Power - PRIMITIVE IGNORANT Scuzzy punk-electro from the bass player from 80’s Matchbox b-line Disaster. Got a feeling we’ve been on a similar journey open.spotify.com/track/0BhU3d...

💚 new music track of the day Afraid - Chalk Another slice of LOUD post-rock if you fancy blasting away some cobwebs open.spotify.com/track/0TesiD...

💚 new music track of the day Idols - Ela Minus Not sorry for being in the midst of new album awe. Could have chosen 3 others but have gone for Idols today. open.spotify.com/track/0b1Hgi...

🩷 new music track of the day Loving The Insect -Wet Man Lo-fi electronic meets lounge singer oddity from Sheffield from the school of Fat Truckers and Relaxed Muscle. open.spotify.com/track/77bEY9...

💚 new music track of the day What are you doing - Phoebe Green Return to the brighter production of the first album but married to the anthemic approach of recent singles. Although as always she’s still in a state about her ex. open.spotify.com/track/0sMWCc...

🩷 new music track of the day Queen of 14th Street - Decius, Lias Saoudi Struts along nicely open.spotify.com/track/63RQQo...

🩷 new music track of the day QQQQ - Ela Minus Have spent the last few days preparing for the new Ela Minus album DIA by falling back in love with the last one… but here is the last new track before the full release tomorrow. Going to be hard to beat this year open.spotify.com/track/3B9gRL...

Having a quick re-watch of Twin Peaks and realised I’m now older than Ben Horne, Leland Palmer and Pete Martel. Indeed the only Peakers older than me are Dr Haywood and Catherine Martel. But but but. Surely I’m still 17 right and in a Twin Peaks time machine

💚 new music track of the day Waiting On Time - Better Joy Another 3 mins of glorious indie-pop from my favourite new band out there. Keep it coming open.spotify.com/track/5fZ9ls...