The Secret Shade

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Japan’s Powder returns for an extended 3-hour set, joined by former Bristol legend Cleyra. Elusive and transformative house and techno with plenty of left-field gems from two inimitable selectors!⁠ ⁠ The Secret Shade & Strange Brew present:⁠ ⁠ Powder (Tokyo, Japan) @thinnergroove ⁠ Cleyra (London, UK) @cleyraaa ⁠ ⁠ Powder isn’t one to miss, whether it’s your first time seeing her or your tenth. The Tokyo-based DJ and producer blends minimal, floaty club sounds into a style that feels both familiar and entirely her own. Her sets gently bend convention, balancing playful weirdness with restraint. She focusses on texture and tactility, building almost fantastical atmospheres that leave dancefloors dazed and beautifully puzzled.⁠ ⁠ Cleyra operates in a blurred club space that feels warm yet distant, layered with emotion, intention and a strong sense of poetic intensity. Having released via Timedance and Twin System and now based in London, they have been heard playing low-lit grooves at EXLRUTH’s legendary Opera Sunday party and textural, sub-driven oddities at Fold's Steam Room.⁠ ⁠ Beautiful artwork including hand-drawn type + illustration by the bestest @cmaclagan ⁠ 🌷 ⁠ Earlybirds / general tix now on-sale via Headfirst
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11 days ago
Ugnė Uma at Strange Brew (20.02.2026) 🩶
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1 month ago
Tonight! Doors from 7pm. First act on at 7:30, make sure to get down early. Tix cheaper in advance on Headfirst but there will be some on the door too 🌹
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2 months ago
💧 Artist spotlight 💧⁠ ⁠ FEEO | @_feeo_ ⁠ ⁠ We are delighted to host the return of feeo!⁠ ⁠ For some time now, feeo's work has shown a deep commitment to exploring and holding space for multiple forms across experimental music, something that extends beyond her own practice and into the community-driven corners of London where this music finds its footing.⁠ ⁠ Her debut album Goodness on @ad93rec from October 2025, was voted one of the best electronic albums of the year by @pitchfork and for good reason! It’s a beautifully intricate and emotionally charged body of work, moving through smudged electronics, drone, ambient and minimalist dance music with striking fluidity.⁠ ⁠ Outside of feeo, she is 1/2 of @_crosspiece with bassist @caiuswilliams_ (who she performs with on the night) and a member of the @grain_residency for improvised and exploratory music. The residency has hosted Steve Noble, Elaine Mitchener and Maggie Nicols and is homed in some of London’s most cherished DIY spaces.⁠ ⁠ Seriously breathtaking sonics that feel in the spirit of Klein, Okkyung Lee, Nova Varnrable, Mica Levi, Dali de Saint Paul, Niecy Blues, Vanessa Bedoret, Claire Rousay and ãssia ghendir. _________________ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ @thesecretshade & Strange Brew presents: feeo, Ugnė Uma & Radio Hito - Friday 20th February, 7pm til 10pm.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Last few tix on Headfirst
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3 months ago
A beautiful monochrome edit by the incredibly talented @fem.kecampbell plus a few extra close-ups to appreciate those finer details… Our first event is just 7 days away with feeo, Radio Hito & Ugnė Uma. Three artists you need to catch live and two of them performing in Bristol for the very first time! Beautifully liminal and low-lit styles feeling reminiscent of Astrid Sonne, Jenny Hval, Jabu, Rat Heart, Jon Hassell, Amateur Hour, Tujiko Noriko + early Grouper. The last few general release tickets are up on Headfirst. If finances are tight, please get in touch and we can sort some lower-priced tickets 🎟️
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🥀 Artist spotlight 🥀⁠ ⁠ UGNĖ UMA | @ugneuma ⁠ ⁠ We had the pleasure of catching Ugnė Uma live at @meakusma in 2024 which gently pulled us into her private headspace and drifting train of thought. Think RnB abstractions, frosted daydreamer ambient-scapes and slurred vocals that ooze with nostalgia and intimacy. ⁠ ⁠ Towards the end of last year, she released a fantastic, smoky, dim-lit 7” on one of our most trusted labels right now, @somewhere.press - the record landed at number one on Boomkat’s 2025 discovery list and sold out almost instantly, then again on a later Bandcamp repress.⁠ ⁠ Ugnė has a slew of dreamy, lo-fi self-released tracks, as well as a collaboration with saxophonist Sam Gendel (via Meakusma). She also features on @kirk_barley ’s EP for @odda_recordings and on Marija Rasa aka emer’s brilliant two-tracker on @stroom.tv ⁠ ⁠ And keep your eyes peeled for another upcoming feature with a Bristol-via-Newport artist, landing on a Bristol label soon…⁠ ⁠ A huge tip if you dig Jabu, Rat Heart, Voice Actor, Eliana Glass, Shell Company and early Grouper.⁠ _________________ ⁠ @thesecretshade & Strange Brew presents: feeo, Ugnė Uma & Radio Hito - Friday 20th February, 7pm til 10pm.⁠ ⁠ Tix available on Headfirst
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🌷 Friday 20th February 🌷 ⁠ RADIO HITO | @radio_hito ⁠ ⁠ We are stoked to finally welcome Radio Hito aka Zen My Nguyen to the Brew alongside @_feeo_ and @ugneuma - her music strips sound down to the essentials, turning minimalism into something beautifully powerful.⁠ ⁠ Over the past two years, Zen has adapted Claude Royet-Journoud’s poem L'usage et les attributs du cœur (POL, 2021) into a ten-sequence song cycle for soundfonts and voice, complete with an evolving Italian libretto performed across 80 concerts. The project lands on @meakusma and @mapledeathrecords in March 2026.⁠ ⁠ On stage, she keeps it delightfully simple: a vintage Casio keyboard quietly doing the heavy lifting. No flashy gear, no spectacle - just pared-down tools wielded with intent. A must for fans of Fiesta En el Vacío, Permanent Draft, Tax Free Records, Loopsel, Astrid Sonne & Sacro Bosco Mediazioni.⁠ _________________⁠ ⁠ @thesecretshade + Strange Brew presents: feeo, Ugnė Uma & Radio Hito - Friday 20th February, 7pm til 10pm.⁠ ⁠ Last few tickets on Headfirst
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3 months ago
Three of today's most distinctive artists shaping hazy, experimental worlds of minimal electronics, voice and ambient poetics. All tipped throughout many of 2025’s end-of-year lists. Essential listening for ya ears!⁠ ⁠ The Secret Shade ⁠ & Strange Brew presents⁠ ⁠ feeo [AD 93]⁠ Ugnė Uma [Somewhere Press]⁠ Radio Hito [Maple Death / Meakusma]⁠ ⁠ Friday 20th February, 7pm until 10pm.⁠ ⁠ ______________________⁠ ⁠ feeo | @_feeo_ ⁠ ⁠ feeo's debut album Goodness on @ad93rec was voted as one of the best electronic albums of 2025 by Pitchfork. The incredibly intricate and beautiful body of work is an impressionistic mix of emotive and expansive sounds, improvisation and minimalist dance music. The record is illuminated by striking vocals and poetic language, shifting fluidly between forms and voices. Outside of feeo, Laird is one half of Crosspiece with bassist @caiuswilliams_ and a member of the GRAIN Residency.⁠ ⁠ Ugnė Uma | @ugneuma ⁠ ⁠ Ugnė Uma is an out-of-tune chamber piano. It’s a clear, slowed-down voice. Snippets of radio cut with pinking shears and a piano pedal that yawns. A disjointed, sacred, loving experiment of RnB, in the greatest simplicity - ‘Big city folklore from the siren with the loose fit jeans’.⁠ ⁠ Ugnė Uma draws from poetry and Lithuania’s 20th-century underground jazz and folk scenes, emerging alongside the country’s independence movements. She's collaborated with saxophonist Sam Gendel on the @meakusma label and most recently, she released her first solo 7" on Glasgow label @somewhere.press - a smoky, dim-lit record that sold out instantly on Boomkat, following a later repress selling out on Bandcamp.⁠ ⁠ Radio Hito | @radio_hito ⁠ ⁠ Radio Hito is the musical project of Belgium-based composer, writer and artist Zen My Nguyen. She makes quietly captivating music built around soft electronics, piano and voice with italophone lyrics. Her songs feel intimate and understated, blending simple melodies with poetic lyrics and subtle repetition, sitting somewhere between experimental and ambient songwriting.⁠ ⁠ ______________________⁠ ⁠ Artwork by @fem.kecampbell ⁠ ⁠ Tickets on Headfirst
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4 months ago
I have the loveliest @sinanagram joining me on Noods this evening. Super happy to have ‘em on. I’ll be running some tunes for the first hour and sinny for the second - both live in the studio ❤️‍🔥 Keeping it relatively dark and moody on this beaut sunny day. Feat. dizzying ambient textures, some sparse dubby bits, experimental +++ Gorgeous dragonfly drawing from @charles.mackerel - thank you!! 🍃
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1 year ago
Back on radio with the greatest mishhlordd for tonight’s show. We’ll be playing b2b for the whole 2 hrs across scuzzy downtempo / trip-hop / dub / dark ambient / post-punk / experimental +++ Has been a long time coming! @hey____mish is prob one of my favourite ever djs. Thank u for coming on the show 💛 Tune in via noodsradio.com or come thru for a pint 6-8pmmm
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2 years ago
V happy to have the amazing Copenhagen-based @negirl.fka joining me tonight for this months radio :) Was lucky enough to play alongside Esther around October time last year at Avalon Cafe alongside absolute lovs @damosroom - I was blown away by her set, super understated, progressive and beguiling throughout. The show airs tonight through the Noodio airwaves, 9pm-11pm. You can catch N.E.GIRLS part around the 55 min mark, lots of dub-oozing techno & twisted syncopated rhythms 💛🌺
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2 years ago
Septembers radio show with guest Jack James is up on the Noodio archive to listen back to ☁️☁️☁️☁️ His guest mix starts on the 1 hr mark, full of ooozing subterranean ambient & downtempo / sci fi techno textures ++ My first hour features music by halfnelson (@will_memotone ) @salac.music @wiltedwoman ++ Link in bio 2 listen 🤍
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