The Phuturelabs collective return for their fourth experiment, with the summer breeze in their sails the boys bring you a fine selection of techno, house, dubstep and electronica with a side dish of ambience and IDM. There’s also a couple of tasters for this weekend’s RockNess festival and Cliff takes up the 105BPM challenge. Pass the Pimms.

Good news has come festival worshippers. RockNess has just announced a handful of intensely immense artists for their 2010 line up. Ed Banger Records have confirmed their all mighty, all star, all French line up with Club 75, Xavier De Rosnay (one half of Justice), Cassius, Busy P and to top it all off DJ Mehdi all heading to bonnie Scotland for what looks set to be, yet again, one of the definitive festival calendar dates.

With a lots more talent to be announced over the course of the next six months, other confirmed acts for 2010 include, The Strokes, 2 Many DJs and Friendly Fires. Arcadia Arena, who stunned Glastonbury last year, are adding their mad, world class audio and visual skills into the mix for their Scottish debut. RockNess will take place on Friday 11 June to Sunday 13 June, repeating three days of musical bliss after its success of the last three years.

Last year Radio Magnetic were fortunate enough to visit RockNess and recorded some outstanding live DJ sets including the sounds of Mixed Bizness resident, Boom Monk Ben, Sub Club’s Kinky Afro and Subculture residents, Harri and Dominic as well as Soma Record’s Harvey McKay and Mark Henning. You can check these out here.

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Next up in our series of RockNess sets from the outstanding Soma and Sub Club stages comes Soma Record’s Mark Henning. Mark Henning’s trademark deep and jackin’ techno-house sound has seen him win over crowds all over Europe and beyond and this set was no exception.

Mark has built a significant reputation through releases on various notable electronic labels such as Clink, Foundsound, Tic Tac Toe, Cynosure, Trapez, Freude am Tanzen, and of course Glasgow’s Soma as well as through his Europe-wide performances, mixing up his own clever style of deep, yet jackin’ house and techno to get the dancefloor kicking up a sweat.

His releases have found their way into the record boxes of the likes of Craig Richards, Brett Johnson, Akufen, Fumiya Tanaka, Ricardo Villalobos and Richie Hawtin to name just a few. Inspired by a whole range of music (from Dan Bell to Dinosaur Jr. to Ed Rush & Optical) Mark-Henning’s sound sits somewhere between house and techno with a healthy dose of futuristic and haunting bleeps, funk, darkness, groove and deepness. Enjoy this set from Friday night at RockNess.

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Our RockNess series continues this week with a blistering techno set from Glasgow’s Harvey McKay. Harvey rocked the Soma stage on the Friday of the festival and you can listen to it right here.

Harvey McKay is one of a school of new young artists to come out from Glasgow’s thriving underground club circuit. His first residency was at Tin Pin Alley at the less-than-legal age of 16. Since then his DJing career has been on the up, touring with Smirnoff Ice and M8 Magazine before he finally made the decision to turn his ear to production.

His influences range between Alex Under, Mark Romboy, James Holden and Soma label-bosses Slam. Ironically enough one of Harvey’s first attempts at production was attempting to recreate the sounds he heard on Slam’s Alien Radio album, in particular the deep techy bass frequencies.

Check out his set from RockNess 2009.

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Kinky Afro are Clash Magazine deputy editor Matthew Bennett and Radio Magnetic founder and director Dougal Perman AKA Mr Mafro and The Kink Dogg. Here’s their set from Sunday afternoon at RockNess 2009.

The Kinky Afro club night has been one of the many stand-out clubbing attractions at the internationally renowned Sub Club in Glasgow for almost a decade. The nights blend an innovative fusion of house, techno and electronics with live African drumming and always aim to think outside of the DJ box.

Kinky Afro nights at the Sub have seen special appearances from the likes of Thomas Fehlmann (The Orb), Benga, Toddla T and Radioactive Man which gives you an idea of the broad and forward-thinking musical standpoint they’ve created and maintained through the years. The set at RockNess is captured here with the club residents showcasing their trademark merging of collective vigour with alternative rhythms and new beats and breaks. Enjoy.

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Subculture is the name of Harri and Dominic’s long running Saturday night residency at Glasgow’s Sub Club. Here’s  their set which well and truly jacked the bodies of the RockNess crowd this year on the Sunday night of the festival.

For over a decade and a half the reputation of this institution has grown and grown to the point that now Subculture and its resident DJs are revered by the electronic music fraternity the world over. Deeply rooted in the early Chicago and Detroit sounds responsible for today’s clubbing and electronic musc culture it’s also a night which rarely looks back.

Subculture also provides a platform for the city’s young up-and-coming DJs, notably Junior, Esa and Telford in recent years. All in all Subculture is testament to the tastes of a true musical city and is perhaps the best representation of the Glasgow population’s reputation for working hard and partying harder.

Harri and Dominic’s main objective has always been to create a party atmosphere and a forum for people to basically have a great time whilst introducing them to the best new dancefloor music around. This mix from Rock Ness presents that party-starting ethos perfectly. Enjoy

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Mixed Bizness is the name of Boom Monk Ben’s weekly club night at The Glasgow School of Art’s notorious Thursday evening parties. Here’s Boom Monk Ben’s set which opened the Sub Club tent on Sunday at RockNess 2009.

Ben, himself, is heavily involved in the Glasgow clubbing scene promoting and organising the bi-monthly How’s Your Party? night at the Sub Club amongst various other projects in the city. Having cemented his position as one of Glasgow’s most popular DJs, Boom Monk Ben’s Mixed Bizness club nights attract substantial crowds of 800 plus to the Glasgow School of Art every Thursday.

The night continues to lead the way in one of the most vibrant and productive club scenes on the planet, catching the attention of clubs nationwide. Special guests gracing the Mixed Bizness stage and sharing the decks with Ben since the night’s inception have included Hint, Jackmaster, A La Fu and Hudson Mohawke to name but a few. Hope you enjoy his set from the festival. We certainly did.

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