Mellow Prog Vibes 94 – April 4th 2025
Guest DJ: Nikoloz Kvitatiani (Tbilisi, Georgia)

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TRACKLIST
Cafe De Anatolia, Casnik - Resiliencia (Intro Mix) [Cafe De Anatolia LAB]
Juan Buitrago - Anja (Original Mix) [Juicebox Music]
Fran Garay - Phase Sync (Eichenbaum & Stereo Munk & Dublew Remix) [Mango Alley]
GMJ - Silver Sky [Deep Down Music]
Fran Garay - Power of Expression [Meanwhile]
GMJ & Matter - Telomeres [Meanwhile]
Amháin - Unencumbered  (Original Mix) [HIGHER STATES]
Amháin & Covsky - Salamander (Kasey Taylor Remix) [Musique de Lune]
Gai Barone - Bitter Misery (Extended Mix) [Univack]
Andrea Cassino & Lio Q - Shintaro (Original Mix) [Traful]
Emphi - Locate [Solis Records]
Sasha - Belfunk (Amháin & Freedo Mosho Remix)  [Electronic Groove Records]


This week we travel to the Caucasus and the beautiful country of Georgia where our next guest, Nikoloz Kvitatiani, is based. He is the co-founder of Sunsets Georgia, who produce live recording streams of progressive house music from stunning locations. This is one epic set you won’t want to miss.


Mellow Prog Vibes 94 – Nikoloz Kvitatiani (Tbilisi, Georgia)

ABOUT OTTAWA PROG VIBES

Alain M.'s weekly podcast, Ottawa Prog Vibes, is now in its 7th year and is a recognized presence among Canadian Electronica shows. The show has two goals: showcase progressive DJ's from Ottawa (and Canada) to a global audience, and bring international DJ guests to an Ottawa (and Canadian) audience). 

Alain plays three out of every 10 shows. His mixing has been noted as particularly creative and smooth, a skill that allow his sets to be experienced as seamless stories.

An offshoot series, called Mellow Prog Vibes, is released every two weeks and focuses on more chill vibes, slightly more downtempo, to create a more relaxed vibe. It is curated by OPV resident DJ Boraa, who plays every other episode, with guest DJs playing the alternate.

Ottawa Prog Vibes and Mellow Prog Vibes are broadcast weekly on UK's Saturo Radio, New York's Chill Lover Radio and Ottawa's Blast the Radio.


ABOUT ALAIN M.

Alain M. started dj’ing in his early 20s and played a variety of clubs, big and small, in Ottawa, Montreal and Kingston. From teenage influences in progressive rock, metal and blues, and later New York and Chicago house, Dutch techno and early trance, his style has evolved towards the more melodic, infectiously rhythmic and thoughtful sounds of progressive house, with a particular fondness for Argentinian productions.

Over his 30+ years as a DJ, Alain has cultivated a signature melodic, danceable, and thoughtful style with enough surprises to keep even the most devout listeners on their toes. His live events, organized only a few times annually, are a hypotonic, transformational experience for attendees, putting the Nation’s Capital on the map for electronic music. He has organized and collaborated in a number of events including Levitar, Sunday Meet & Beat, Sit-Down Sessions, Shake my Thursday and Expeditions, attracting a thoughtful crowd who stay mesmerized by his melodic, danceable sets, always peppered with delightfully unexpected sonic elements.

Alain M. is also a guest DJ submitting regular sets to several radio and online outlets. He is a resident on X-Beat Radio (France, Belgium). He was a monthly resident on Abyss Sound Experience on QuestLondon Radio in 2021 and on UK-based Beach Radio between 2021 and 2024.

He has appeared as a guest on a number of shows in several countries including the UK, Argentina, Spain, Poland, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Peru, Turkey, Israel and the US. In Canada, he has been featured as a guest DJ at several events by Ottawa-based Music.Art.Ppl, on CHUO FM’s Vanguard Pulse Radio, on CKCU FM’s Lost In Bass and Mapped Out Radio, on Montreal’s Afterhour radio show and on Toronto’s ION radio show.

Runik doesn't believe in barriers between music genres, just in good music.

Dig around and you'll find dark melodies, hypnotic grooves, bright vibes and much more !

Nick Denny's A Life Less Ordinary resident guest on Saturo Sounds since 2023.

Not your run-of-the-mill working-class Eastern European non-binary DJ. The producer, vocalist, but also visual and digital artist strives for innovative sound design and visceral body response, despite (or maybe coupled with) raw emotion that permeates their musical output. They’re a proud member of the Ciężki Brokat crew (with whom they run the annual Warsaw Pride official afterparty), co-creator of Radio Kapitał, Polish ambassador for Keychange and SHAPE Platform 2021 resident.

Their own music has morphed several times throughout the last 15 years – from industrial or purely synthetic timbres, through polyphonic singing with Pleśni to a perplexing fusion of rhythmically and sonically jagged compositions, bass-heavy club tracks on their EPs, 'Gusła (Human Rites)' on Tańce, a limited vinyl release on London-based 51-53 Records, 'Doolska' and the latest, more experimental 'Lamenty' EP.

They presented their music during numerous festivals (Unsound, CTM, Schiev, Up To Date, Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Les Siestes Electroniques, Audioriver) and an assortment of clubs (including the legendary Berghain) in Poland and abroad (Berlin, London, Prague, Oslo, Copenhagen, Ljubljana). They remixed tracks by Kamp and Baasch, recorded mixes for Resident Advisor, DJ Mag, HӦR and CRACK, composed and created impromptu live music for interactive theatre plays: Method of National Constellations, quadraphonic sound for Jawić się, music for a Women’s Strike street theatre Manifesta and original score for Ideologix, a US-written and directed queer opera.

In the club their seventeen-year experience of supporting queer, anti-fascist and underground scenes results in an almost annoyingly disparate selection of the most forward-thinking sound offered by today’s scene. In their series of DJ-sets and club nights they blend unusual rhythmic patterns kicked up a notch with their improvised vocals.

I'm connected to electronic music since my early youth. Everything began in my childhood, I got a Casio Mini Keyboard from my dear father, who loved to play electronic organ and keyboard. As young boy, I learned to play several classic songs on the keyboard.

In my youth, I made first experiences in electronic music production with so called tracker programs like Fasttracker and Octamed on the good old Commodore Amiga home computer. Later, I loved to listen to trancy DJ sets in the weekly radio "HR3 Clubnight".

Later, I proceeded in electronic music production with workstations like Yamaha SY85. Synthesizers and sound design enthused me very much. In 1999, I moved to software synthesizers like Dream Station and later to DAWs like Orion, Fruity Loops and Reason. I made some nice tunes with them, using the power of virtual analog synthesis. Furthermore, I checked out techno workstations like the Raven and groove boxes like MC-303 and the Korg EMX-1. I also made experiences with new sequencer software, VSTs and DAWs.

In 2007, I set up a myspace music page and started digital DJing on a web readio. I affiliated with trance-is-life.de, spinning favourite trance and progressive tunes live in the weekly "Trance is Life" Radio Show. 

Since 2008, I produced several tracks with Ableton Live. I focused in sequencing and sound design, while I improved my mastering / mixing skills in order to produce classic-trancy, non-ordinary emotional and thrilling electronic tracks.