@Dekmantel invited me over to Amsterdams Echobox radio for the kick-off of their residency. My last set of 2021 includes lots of spacey bleeps and hypnotic techno. Tracks I would love to play on the dancefloor!

Wish you all a happy new year! 
Xx Nelly

PS: If you want to listen to the full recording of the 3 hour podcast, also including a mix of @mimi-mhb you can click on this link. https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/dekmantel-radio-w-m-i-m-i-nelly-dragon-17122021

Dekmantel Radio w/ Nelly

Recording of Gonno's set at Karma Kastle 2022

Gonno at Karma Kastle 3.0

Another party from 2012. This one was a mere month before the mammoth PCM2 rave so I don't really know what we were thinking doing something so close to that and with some pretty tricky bookings to pull off in the process, but a certain Mike Parker was over from the states in Europe playing so naturally we had to do it.

Along for the ride on the night was Donato Dozzy and both he & Mike played 3hr sets after a Arpanet live set if memory serves.

Mike Parker plays techno like nobody else. Mike Parker makes techno like nobody else. He is (imo) a seriously underrated artist both with music and on paper - I'm lucky to own a huge print of his akin to his screen printed 12" covers he did/does on his Geophone releases. The man is just super talented full stop.

This is a really special set marred only by the fact that about 50 mins is sadly missing after a Zoom recorder failure. Irrespective of that it's still well worth a listen!

PLEX - [05.10.12] - RM1

[PLEX ARCHIVES #17] - Mike Parker - [05.10.12]

Thanks for listening!

https://donatodozzy.bandcamp.com/music
https://spaziodisponibile.bandcamp.com/music

https://soundcloud.com/spaziodisponibile
https://soundcloud.com/donato-dozzy

[00:00]  DONATO DOZZY - K7
[02:59]  DONATO DOZZY & NUEL - Aqua 6
[07:16]  DONATO DOZZY - The Drunken Ghost
[09:51]  VOICES FROM THE LAKE - Drop 2
[14:36]  DONATO DOZZY & NUEL - Aqua 4
[16:55]  DONATO DOZZY - K2
[20:31]  VOICES FROM THE LAKE - Orange Steps
[22:21]  VOICES FROM THE LAKE - Zulu Vortex
[26:42]  VOICES FROM THE LAKE - Sentiero
[28:22]  VOICES FROM THE LAKE - Secondo Tempo
[33:04]  VOICES FROM THE LAKE - Velo di Maya
[36:57]  DONATO DOZZY & SAY DJ - Tutto Positivo
[41:34]  DONATO DOZZY & NUEL - Aqua 1
[44:34]  DONATO DOZZY - Techtresor
[47:33]  DONATO DOZZY - Terzo Giorno
[51:00]  DONATO DOZZY - Quadra Sette
[53:27]  NEEL - Plantatia
[58:19]  DONATO DOZZY & ANNA CARAGNANO - Conclusione

Mixed @ Mission Control // Jan 2024

Bass 24.11 - Donato Dozzy / Voices From The Lake

At Varden, the fusion of nature and music becomes reality, and Detroit-based artist Erika made it her playground. The Monument Family moved as one, a sea of smiling faces and dancing bodies flowing in sync, like waves in an ocean. Carried by her deep, hypnotic, and atmospheric sounds.

Dancers look on with childlike awe at the projections on the surrounding trees around Varden, painted by light in all of the colors of the rainbow. Smoke is suddenly coming in from the side, taking the shape of fog you can see over water sometimes. Time moved in slow motion, and all that could penetrate the fog was laser beams. It felt like being inside a lightning storm in a cloud. The ultimate synaesthesia vortex unfolding right before our eyes.  

Erika’s music felt alive, creating moments where the boundaries between nature, technology, and human connection blurred. As if the trees Varden was built with helped her to fine-tune the sound. Those who danced that night weren’t just hearing techno, they became one with it under the stars.

Tune in now for Erika’s set closing the Varden stage on Saturday night of Monument Festival 2024.

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Monument Festival 2024 : Erika

Brace yourselves for a breakneck ride this month as our longtime friends and distributor Clone hijack RYC frequencies with a massive takeover for the whole month of October. Breaking this four-part installment in, Amsterdam’s Afra cuts in with two-hours of old-school Detroit electro vibrations, hi-velocity breaks and future-facing floor narratives beckoning us onto a whole distinct dimension entirely. All in finessed vortical dynamics and rapid-fire bass deluge, the Dutch DJ pulls out an absolute charge of a chiseled and finely-curated mix, locked-and-loaded on having ravers lose their mind to this effervescing fusion of frantic sci-fi-like atmosphere and proper nuclear propulsion. Buckle your belt.

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Dorisburg @Paral·lel Festival 2017

DJ set recorded at Breakfast Club, Amsterdam 2018.10.20

Dorisburg @ Breakfast Club Amsterdam 2018.10.20

An improvised and mostly unrehearsed three turntable Techno throw-down, performed live at the temporal point in space-time that is Freerotation Festival.

The last time I played an up-tempo Techno set like this at Freerotation was in 2011, and I’ve been pestering Steevio to let me bang it again ever since - this was the year it finally happened. 
Set times aren’t announced until the day, so it was as much of a surprise to me as anyone else to find out that I would be playing the closing set in that room.
After a night of excellent live & DJ sets from the highly talented women I had the honour of sharing the bill with, I had to be on top of my game to maintain the energy levels at the high bar they had set. 
My aim was to keep the tempos up around 137 BPM, make good use of all three turntables, improvise as much as possible in a spontaneous way by keeping the rehearsing to a minimum, and stay as present in the moment as much as I could possibly be.
I worked out the intro and the first couple of tracks, but then kept it mostly freestyle after that, which led to some unexpected twists, turns and inspired moments that kept me on my toes, and the crowd buzzing. 
This was one of those special nights where the amazing and supportive crowd gave so much energy, that it fed straight back into the music, which then began to feel like an energy flowing right through you, that pulled you even deeper into the moment. 
Presence!
I was ecstatic to  have been so well received by the large crowd that had gathered, it was an honour & a privilege to hold the space for 90 minutes, and a joy to have the opportunity close the room on such a high. 
Unfortunately some of the amps developed a fault, causing them to overheat & create a nasty burning smell, so the set had to be brought to an abrupt end to avoid causing a fire. 
An unmet demand for a final tune rampantly ensued, I loudly and regrettably responded “The Amps Are On Fire!!”, to which someone remarked “of course they are, you did a good job”, which I felt was a fitting end to a smoking night of Techno-music, that was pure heat from start to finish! :)

Recorded Live on Sunday 7th July 2019, 
4:30 - 6am, in Sammy String's (Room 3), 
at Freerotation Festival, Baskerville Hall, Hay on Wye, UK.

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Interview: www.untitled909.com/alex-downey/

Photograph by Calandra Balfour @Calandra
Audio mixdown by Charlie Tear @charlietear

Freerotation 2019

Alex Downey's 'The Amps Are On Fire Mix' Live at Freerotation 2019

Alex Downey has been supporting the UK electronic underground movement as a DJ, record-shop manager and now radio presenter for nearly 20 years. Based in Brighton on the south coast of England, he is arguably the city's most prominent purveyor of all things Techno, where he is a regular fixture at the premier high profile events, alongside acts such as Underground Resistance and Derrick May.  
As the main driving force behind the counter at Brighton's highly respected and much-missed [covert] record store & web-site, he was instrumental in bringing quality Techno & House to the city - and beyond, developing along the way a boundless knowledge, vast record collection and infectious passion for the music that's unmatched by most. 
His musical taste & experience speaks for itself and his nocturnal activities behind the decks have earned him much respect and a great reputation amongst the global electronic community. He has been invited to perform at many key events such as ‘Free-rotation’ in Wales,'The Big Beat Boutique' & 'Stompa-phunk' in Brighton, 'Retro_vert' & 'Wiggle' in London, ‘Labyrinth’ festival & ‘Haus-Tek’ in Tokyo, and at many other far-flung destinations, hundreds of smaller parties and long-forgotten club nights that rocked hard, and kept the lifeblood of the scene pumping. He is currently resident DJ at 'Our Friends Electric' in Brighton as well as the 'Split' / 'B A L A N C E' parties in London where he has recently shared the stage with Red-shape, Dave Clarke, Robert Hood, Luke Slater and Carl Craig, to name a few. You can also hear him spin on the ‘Split Show’ - a globally syndicated online radio show with a large number of keen listeners worldwide that he co-presents alongside techno legend Ben Sims.
Alex’s energetic style and enthusiasm for all things deep & electronic are sure to bring some magic to the party and are matched only by his razor-sharp DJ skills. One of the UK’s treasures, solidly and confidently attending to business while other media-hyped storms have come and gone.