Various Artists
"Exhibition: Raw - Mixed by Ben Lost"

07.10.21 > Claire’s Accessories has remixed Federation's ‘Venus’, pitching it up to 170bpm + DJ Hyperdrive has played it on his Boiler Room Hard Dance 121 set. I am out for a run, listening on my bone conductors. What is this? It is fast. It is raw. It is animal. It has the thrash metal / crust-punk pace of psy, but without the trite robot farts + UFO samples. There are gabber kicks + Bladerunner riffs. It is cold + it is minimal. + then it is hard + it is beautiful. I want to hug a dog walker. 11.10.22 > SIOC has remixed Otto K (LOST182), Claire's Accessories has reworked Steve Jones (LOST183), + Astral Bandit’s oneiric psy-gaze masterpiece ‘Different Kind of Friend'(LOST185) has broken all known BPM records for a Lost Language a-side. 21.12.22 > A quiet night in sharing music over a bottle of red, some shrooms, + a fish pie - Melissa + I had a moment listening to Matriark’s ‘Virvle’. I have stuck it on a 2hr mix, alongside current faves from Pro Athlete, Mikkel Rev, Mac Declos etc / recent EL-EL signings. This is THE PULSE OF A TIMELESS WAVE. 28.04.23 > Matriark is DJing at COCYX in London. It is my 43rd birthday. The venue is an old office space in Tottenham that I worked in 15 years ago. It has since been turned into a nightclub + I find myself dancing where my desk used to be. Pissing on the ghost of a photocopier. I bore everyone with this synchronicity. Matriark drops Lost Tribe's ‘Gamemaster’ (HOOJ081), pitched up into the high 160’s. It goes off. Drunk on meaning / a heavy dose of McKenna Mushrooms (Terrence / Paul) I fall into a fugue. I feel unreal. 11.9.23 > Thanks to a campaign by Trance vet J00F, Beatport have introduced a new genre tag - RAW TRANCE, + with EL-EL sat firmly in the uncooked camp, they have asked me to submit a video talking about it. I stand in a field and blabber on about — The sound. The art. The underground. + a 'NEW PUNK ENERGY'(TM). When things are truly exciting, it is never just about the music. 10.12.23 > Holeigh loved the EL-EL promos. She’s gonna play Factoria's Darkskye remix in Paris tonight. Said it sounds wicked at 155. 12.4.24 > Loving the Afgang Remix of 'Racket Sports'. Almost 'donk' when it breaks. (Donk-ish? Donk-y?). With the Nordic Echoes remix of 'Sun's Horses', that's 2 killer cuts from Denmark. 1.10.24 > Dave Moth has reworked Dominion's '11hrs' + we’ve collaborated with Ulterior’s Paul McGregor as SIDE WOUND. It is a dream. Paul ‘Speedmaster’ Copping’s remix of Locomotion (LOST193) has just been released, + the Vergil edit of DIFFERENT KIND OF FRIEND has racked up plays from new breed heavyweights KI/KI, Hyperdrive, + Charlotte de Witte. 10.12.24 > SIOC has remixed 3 classics from our back cat. The masters sound great. Hard to pick one, but Origin (LOST001) is 100% going on the next EXHIBITION. 07.02.25 > I am sat in my local trying to write a blurb for this comp. All our raw cuts on one CD length mix. As usual, it is a fucking jigsaw. The running order - a puzzle. Until you find the corners. + the edges. + then it isn’t. I keep a daily record in lined red + black. Dreams, shadows, cosmic love / loathing. The last 4 years are on the table in front of me. Everything takes forever. This is that. Never not was. BL 25.

Tracks
1) Written and Produced by David O’Sullivan and Ben Woods
2) Written & Produced by Kirill Andreev. Additional Remix production by Nordic Echoes.
3) Written & Produced by Dave Moth. Additional Remix production by Afgang Remix
4) Written & Produced by Alastair Douglas & Rhys Evans. Remix & Additional Production by Archie Bolton & Halden Cooke.
5) Written and Produced by Dave Wood and Anthony Mein. Additional Remix production by SIOC
6) Written & Produced by Christopher Cooke. Additional Remix production by Vergil
7) Written and Produced by Nigel Dawson. Vocals by Liianne. Remix and additional production by David O’Sullivan
8) Written & Produced by Anton Ligun. Additional Remix production by Inside Blur
9) Written & Produced by Chris Johnson. Additional Remix production by Paul Copping
10) Written & Produced by Steve Jones. Additional Remix production by Claires Accessories.
11) Written & Produced by Chris Johnson. Additional Remix production by Activa.
12) Written and produced by Cademan Lillywhite.. Additional Remix production by Claires Accessories.
13) Written and Produced by Tim Ratcliffe. Additional Remix production by Oliver Leib
14) Written & Produced by Brendan Fitzpatrick. Additional Remix production by Dave Moth.
15) Written and produced by Cademan Lillywhite. Additional Remix production by Factoria.
16) Written and Produced by Paul McGregor, David O’Sullivan and Ben Woods
17) Written & Produced by Brendan Fitzpatrick. Additional Remix production by Astral Bandit
Track 01,02,03,04, Published by Copyright Control.
Track 05,06,07,08,10,11,12,14,15,16,17,18 Published by Dharma Songs
Tracks 09 Published by Truelove Music Publishing
Track 13 Published by Proof Songs.
(P) & (C) 2025 Lost Language