Nottingham born and now London based Matt Cutler aka Lone landed firmly on the artistic map with his highly successful 2010 LP, ‘Emerald Fantasy Tracks’. The accolades continued to amass from there, with Lone’s sweet as candy ‘Galaxy Garden’ and dusty hip-house hitter ‘Reality Testing’ catching the ear of the critics, whilst his high profile remixes, including Radiohead, Disclosure, Friendly Fires, Nathan Fake, TEED, Underworld, Steffi and Midland helped spread his sound to the masses.

Picture this scenario; after months of searching through YouTube and Discogs comments for a lead, you receive a random notification for an old IOM thread. You click through, expecting to be greeted by the usual sandstorm (wink), but instead you find a YouTube link that’s named in such a way you begin frantically thinking to yourself, “Is this the one?” You click through again, but as you hit play, disappointment floods the senses, and the realization becomes clear.

This track originally cropped up at the start of summer via an IOM video from the woods at Junction 2. It was there that Sonja Moonear and Nicolas Lutz played out their now legendary 3-hour B2B set. The clip shows some pretty hectic scenes, and towards the end of the video the crowd reaction to the track developing just about sums up the excitement around this one.

Alice Gordon AKA @kiia_alice is a name that many within the UK dance music scene will have no doubt come across during the last couple of years. A 20 something DJ based in Bristol, Kiia has spent the last 5 years building her artistic profile within the musically rich landscape that Bristol currently has to offer.

Bristol based DJ and top-drawer selector Tilly has been on our watchlist since day one, and as such, we’re very proud to have her join the Neighbourhood Watch family.Originally from Gloucestershire, Tilly has spent the last 2 years DJing in and around Bristol, as well as performing every 4th Wednesday for her popular Noods Radio residency.

One such artist on this journey is 23-year-old Moose, a fresh-faced, aspiring DJ & Producer currently based in the Midlands. Unearthing a passion and love for the dance music scene whilst at university, he has spent the last few years discovering his sound and soaking in the experiences he found within Hull’s vibrant electronic music landscape.

In the third installment of Tanner's monthly guest mix series on Aaja, he invites along an artist increasingly known by many, for her varied yet carefully considered selections. Prague-born and London based, Ariane V is a selector on the rise.

Back for the fourth instalment of his monthly resident show on Aaja, Tanner invites along Julia, an artist who, despite being early in her DJ journey, has spent the last two years honing her craft via a growing selection of carefully curated mixes and radio appearances.

Back for the fIfth instalment of his monthly resident show on Aaja Radio, Tanner invites along Sophia, a rising electronic artist based in London. A rave lifer and self taught producer whose love of club music and culture led her to pursue production when the world came to a halt in early 2020.

Shrike is a Sri Lankan-born, Scotland-raised DJ based between London and Norwich. A former classical musician, she came to electronic music relatively late and has since been having a whale of a time on the dancefloors of places like Corsica Studios, Fold and Phonox. Her sets are a textured journey through dark, simmering depths and euphoria, spanning mostly chug, house, EBM, electro, techno and trance.

Very proud to have a fellow midlands based artist on the show this month. At home mixing old school classics, forgotten gems, or shiny dubs - Ringers has already firmly established herself as a second city selector with endless versatility. Ranging from jungle to breaks, UKG to dnb, and garage to hardcore, she sits at the forefront of an exciting new generation of DJ talent emerging from in and around Birmingham.