a sublime journey, thank you magical Hekske @the-house-witchtapes  xx ('Heksie' in my moedertaal Afrikaans)

beautiful mix, as always! ✨🧚‍♀️🦋

On this sunny and warm friday evening we're introducing a premiere on our show.

For the very first time on a Belgian podcast, we're introducing:
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⁠-l| HEKSKE |l-⁠
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She's been on our radar for almost a year now, determined to stay anonymous in this world, she's got an amazing project running on soundcloud called 'the house witchtapes' where she has over 10 thousand true listeners.

In these mixtapes she features guestmixes from witches and magicians all over the globe with angelic vocals, hypnotizing soundscapes and magical downtempo beats which will take you on a deep and relaxing journey.

For this guestmix, which she carefully prepared over the last months, she carved an emotional and relaxing experimental story with an intimate touch.

Super proud to introduce her for the first time in Belgium!
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⁠Support the artist:⁠
⏩ https://soundcloud.com/hekske

Enjoy this downtempo, organic and emotional mix and adjust your mind.

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The multi-talented artist Hekske grew up on a little farm in a forgotten hamlet in the North of Belgium at spitting distance from the Dutch border.  At age 18, she left the farm and went to study in Leuven, after which she lived in South-Asia for several years before returning to Belgium and settling down in a small village near the sleepy town of Ninove in East-Flanders, where she quietly spends lots of time in her garden in the company of her rabbit.

After discovering electronic music during the summer of 2016, she decided to make a little fun mix with Audacity in January 2017 and casually posted it on Soundcloud, thinking it would get no more than 20 plays.  The tape got way more success than expected and was a few months later renamed Witchtape #1, at the moment when Hekske converted her Soundcloud page into a fairy tale-like channel with the name ‘The House Witchtapes’.  Since then, she has invited close to 100 guest witches and wizards into her unique mystic magic world, while writing a witchy little fairy-tale for each episode. 

And in parallel, Hekske rapidly developed her musical and storytelling skills and in the course of the last 4 years she has made podcasts for over 20 top-tier channels like Deep Stories,  Baikal Nomads, Sunset Grooves and Elektro Uwe. But strangely she has so far never made a tape for a Belgian channel.  So buckle up and brace yourself for the long overdue Belgian debut of the ‘Bibi Blocksberg of the downtempo scene’
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Adjust (BE) Invites #058 | HEKSKE |

Deep / hypnotic / ambient / atmospheric

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DORIAN • KHOROS • BAHN • THE GODS PLANET • INITIATE • KVLTÖ • LINDERLUFT • AURORA MÍSTICA • MODERN MINIMAL • INFORMA • LOTUS PARABLE • SPACE TEXTURES • KITCHEN SYNC • SBERT RECORDS • ARCADIA AUDIO • DERAILED RECORDS

“An unseen balance between light and darkness”

Scattering for many years between different underground music genres, this frequency collided with the techno soundscape in 2016, creating an outburst of energy.

Equipped with a rumbling, driving, and unseen dedication to his passion, his journey began...

After he took the Belgian MUSICASA producer’s education, as a first step to pursuing his dream, he quickly released EP's and remixes on melodic techno labels such as SMR Underground, Melodia Records, Tanzgemeinschaft, and Papaya music.

After releasing and performing on various stages, and through the process of producing and self-awareness, he felt the melodic techno genre wasn’t the perfect reflection of what inspired and drove him.

In 2022 he had a change of heart as he started focusing more on
underground hypnotic, atmospheric and ambient techno, reaching for that inner spirit and dynamic balance. This resulted in releases on some of the biggest labels in the hypnotic scene like DORIAN, The Gods Planet, BAHN, Khoros, Informa, Space Textures, Arcadia,... with many more on the way.

Host of the podcast ‘Adjust (BE) Invites’ (2020-2023), he invited numerous DJ’s and Producers to make a signature guest mix, where the DJ/producer is the key element.

For over 130 episodes spreading over 3 years and reaching new listeners each month, the fanbase and mutual respect between colleagues kept growing daily.

In 2023 he started a new and hypnotic/deep-techno-exclusive podcast called ‘Andhera’, which translates to ‘darkness’ in Sanskrit. With every Full Moon or Solar Eclipse, a talented and highly respected DJ/producer creates a unique story.

An artist, hand-picked by himself, whom he highly admires, respects and who empowers and understands techno’s dark, ambient and emotional side.⁠

His style of playing and producing can be described as a perfectly, yet delicate, carved out balance between light and darkness, melancholic and emotionally charged. Cinematic sounds, rich and full of atmospheres, super evocative soundscapes with an inexplicable soul that can only be grasped when fully immersed into it.

Are you ready… to adjust your mind?

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