Awesome meeting you on Saturday. Loved this set! Thanks for the great vibes 🙏🏻

Alinka - Griessmuehle - One Last Time - March 20 2021
Mix mastered by Tim Xavier Man Made Mastering

Alinka - Griessmuehle - One Last Time

B2B SET for Gay Pride at Tanzhaus West/ Frankfurt/Germany 17.07.2021
photo credit: Christian Schuller

DORA TANZT B2B ZUM CSD 2021 MIT MASSIMILIANO PAGLIARA UND ND_BAUMECKER

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 390: fka.m4a's Fever Mix

Cormacs Essential Mix from Friday, Sept 4.9.2021.

A two hour excursion into a unique sound crafted over 15 years of mixing. Included is the debut of "Heartcore", Cormacs first solo release on his label Polari. The track is an homage to the HI-NRG sound of the early 80's.

Elsewhere on the mix are exclusive pre-release tracks from KiNK, Alan Dixon and Jordan Nocturne.

Cormac - Essential Mix 04.09.21

Recording of Skåtebard's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2021. 

Dekmantel Selectors 2021 was a much needed musical reunion. After the preceding period of stillness, the catharsis and pure joy of finally being together again has been overwhelming. In the words of Skatebård: "I hope this recording can give you an idea of the vibe of the Beach stage at Selectors. And for those who were there, a snapshot of how it was actually like.
For me it felt like a lot of the music I like to play was made for moments like that night right there."

Skatebård at Dekmantel Selectors 2021

Another recording from one of the wonderful nights during my Asia tour recently, this time Savage in Hanoi!

Not my first time playing at Savage, can it be the fifth time? If you search Soundcloud, you may find recordings dating back as far as to 2016.

#skatebård #skatebard

Skatebård at Savage Hanoi, April 2023

Check out this Am Deck's track list and read our interview with @sedefadasi here: bit.ly/AmDeck35

Am Deck 35

Tracklist

Am Deck 35 - Sedef Adasi

Today we’re all super hyped for for Lente Kabinet this weekend so to get us even more excited we’ve got Job Jobse making his entry to the series. He will play a closing set at the festival and as resident at De School is a master for serving up the perfect record at the perfect time. Initially a slow burner, he’s long been loved by Amsterdam locals for his richly melodic take on house, techno, Italo and disco, and himself is happy to call it trance. 

It’s certainly a spell being and emotional style that characterises his work here. With something of an old school slant, there are stiff vocal cuts and robotic grooves that slowly loosen up and turn to more hands in the air and zoned out fair before getting more sci-fi and occult later on. As ever with Jobse, it’s feel good and fun without being obvious.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 231 - Job Jobse

Tune in for a sick back2back session between living legend and moustache boss soundcloud.com/david-vunk from Rotterdam and Norwegian’s finest underground artist soundcloud.com/skatebard! The mix was recorded earlier this year during the very first edition of ZeeZout presents Liberté Liberté, where these two ever-smiling legends sent us to 7th heaven. The two crate diggers guide us seemingly effortless through their eclectic musical universe and play their favourite records that turn every dancefloor into a beautiful chaos. A wide selection of catching disco, eccentric energy-loaded Italo, futuristic house and a small touch of cutting-edge techno filled with bursting rhythms and kicking snares pass by in this two-and-a-half-hour trip.

ZeeZout Podcast 116 | David Vunk & Skatebård

Recorded live in a club in Berlin, on a Sunday afternoon in September 2014.

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Massi In The Mix (Live in Berlin Sept. 2014)

A fictional soundtrack for better days. I hope they arrive soon. ♡

Artwork by Fenna Fiction.

Onderweg Naar Morgen

“There are at least a few people in this thing determined to keep House Music weird. Chicago’s Alinka is one of them.” – Terry Matthew, 5Magazine

Alinka is the kind of DJ other DJ’s will tell you about. She has a unique power on the decks that comes from lifelong passion and time served, with a focused devotion to her first love – house music. Raised on Chicago’s vibrant house sound with toes dipped into Detroit techno, Europe’s more robust approaches to bass music and the myriad of genre’s coming from cities like Berlin, London and Paris.

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, her early childhood included reluctantly learning the piano, her mother is a pianist, while trying to convince her parents to let her play guitar. Her exposure to Western music was limited, living in a communist country where censorship was common practice. Her family eventually immigrated to Chicago as Jewish refugees in the late ‘80s as the USSR crumbled. This was her first experience of pop music and she fell head over heels for the chart sounds of Madonna and Janet Jackson. Then came house music from local radio shows where you could frequently hear tracks by Chicago legends like Cajmere and DJ Funk, and shows like Sonic Boom helped expose underground music to the masses.

By the late ‘90s, music had taken over her life. Teenage Alinka immersed herself in the dance music scene spending her summer pulling double shifts at a local pool and moonlighting for rave promoters to build up enough cash to buy decks. After a year of skipping class to relentlessly practice her mixing skills, she began her full-time musical pursuit. Working for various club promoters, doing odd jobs passing out flyers and helping with party logistics - anything just to get into clubs underage to see her favourite DJs - all while spending hours digging for tracks at Chicago’s legendary record shop Gramaphone. In 2001 Justin Long recruited her to be the opening resident for his .Dotbleep party at Smartbar where she honed her skills for the best part of a decade.

In 2012, an impromptu meeting with former Hercules and Love Affair vocalist, Shaun J. Wright, changed her life forever. Their evolving friendship resulted in what would be the first of many musical collaborations. The pair launched their Twirl parties and label, continually strived to inspire each other both musically and spiritually, the result has been an impressive catalogue of material for both of them collaboratively and individually on the likes of The Classic Music Company, Jackathon Jams, Crosstown Rebels, Leftroom, and of course Twirl, where as well as their own material the duo have welcomed renowned artists like Spencer Parker, Virginia, LA-4A, Kim Ann Foxman, and Jason Kendig onto the label.

Recent years have seen Alinka really hit her stride as a producer with successful releases on world renown labels like Rekids, Crosstown Rebels, Need Want, Permanent Vacation, and Peggy Gou’s Gudu Records, which is forthcoming in 2024. She also turned out a standout collection of remixes for labels Me Me Me, Live At Robert Johnson, Lone Romantic, Keinemusik, Get Physical and Pets Recordings.

Now living in Berlin, Alinka has well and truly found her feet and inspiration. Alinka has used this base to throw down at parties across Europe from Berghain/Panorama Bar to Circoloco, with regular visits back to the US to play standout clubs like Smart Bar and Ukraine's famous ∄ club in Kyiv, both before and during the on-going war. Her evolution continues with the recent re-launch of her Twirl imprint, highlighted by the ‘Day Dreamer’, ‘Sorry For Not Trending’ and ‘Edgewater’ EPs that finely balance Alinka’s future-focused ethos, with a unmistakable, proud passion for her Chicago heritage.

MGMT: 
AG@285.group

Bookings World: 
consti@sweatlodgeagency.com

Italy: 
simone@oltrebooking.com

Promos: alinkapromo@gmail.com

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