UBC 2020

Tokyo's @sapphire-slows has her own distinctive aesthetic. The music she makes is ghostly and delicate, eerie yet beautiful. The multi-talented artist plays her own synths and keys and layers her own beautiful vocal drones into her tracks to lend them extra intimacy. This of course means she has toured extensively and released on labels such as Japan's Big Love, Greece's Nous and LA's Not Not Fun/100% Silk. Despite often making and playing music with the brain cleansing purity demonstrated on 2017 album Time, Sapphire Slows can also do more caustic and mechanical sounds, as on 2014's Allegoria LP.

This week's mix explores a melancholic and introspective mood, but it is never dark. A range of mid-tempo rhythms set the tempo. Sometimes they're dubby and linear, at others more bubbling and off-grid, while the synths above glow like fireflies or glisten like knives in the sun. Organic bird calls float above hyper-real synthetic textures and the overall effect is to cocoon you in suspensory and meditative sound that feels out of this world.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 330 - Sapphire Slows

In our latest feature, we look back at 15 years of Nottingham-based party series Wigflex. 

To mark the occasion listen to this unreleased mix from founder Lukas Wigflex from their stage at Gottwood in 2018. 

Read more here: https://ra.co/features/3935

Lukas Wigflex - Wigflex Stage Gottwood 2018

Recording of Bored Lord's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2023.

Dekmantel Selectors 2023

Bored Lord at Dekmantel Selectors 2023

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Borne Fruits with Amaliah b2b Parris - 19 August 2024

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Olin's World - Olin & Leila Samir - 23 Nov 2024

Just want to express my gratitude to Agnes. The song "Familiar" is one of my favourite songs of all time. It has really helped conduit to my inner feminine and connected 
me on an emotional, somatic and spiritual level for many years. Agnes' musical works
have always been a quite visceral journey for me.
I myself being a drum and bass producer, wanted to encapsulate this feeling of 
deep sentimentality and spin it within the flow of my own creativity. My intention with
music is to create a bridge between the harder grittier aspects of certain genres 
and aggregate the softer more gentle side. Which for me means a symbiotic coalescence of masculine and feminine energies.

Agnes Obel - Familiar (ENLIL Bootleg)

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Bandcamp: https://nununtp.bandcamp.com/

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https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownsound/

PREMIERE: Nunu ntp - Wastegate [Ghosttown]

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The champagne-tinged, Moschino clad sound of UKG may have filled the clubs and late-night bars of London from the late-90s and went on to become a cornerstone of British dance music, but at the turn of the millennium over in Hamburg, Ostgut Ton’s Nick Höppner was pioneering the sound in a city known for it's techno. At the time, Höppner formed part of the UKG crew Tune, picking up rare records and dubplates in London and throwing weekly garage raves in Hamburg’s red light district.

Decades have passed since that time of Hennessey fuelled revelry. Höppner has gone on to become a linchpin of Berlin’s underground and is now fronting a new label imprint Touch From A Distance. But UKG never dies, and thanks to a rediscovered plastic bag full of minidiscs nearly 20 years old we have Höppner’s Y2K mix, a rarely heard homage to garage grooves from the German selector that pays tribute to this foundation sound. Pull up.

Nick: "I‘ve recently borrowed a minidisc player from a friend and went through a plastic bag full minidiscs, which has previously collected the dust of seven different flats since the turn of the millennium. Amongst them I found this mix here which I must have recorded at some point in 2000 in my Hamburg bed room. At that time I’ve been part of the Tune crew and we were running a weekly UK Garage night at the Lounge, a club in the heart of Hamburg’s redlight district. I was also still working as a music journalist for Groove Magazine and going to London frequently, where I had access to a lot of UKG records which never even made it out of the UK (or London). Stupidly, though, I sold the biggest chunk of that collection sometime in 2006, but here is a little time capsule documenting my (ongoing) love for this music. Enjoy!"

Pic of Nick by Alex Kuru.

Mixes

FM033: Nick Höppner (Y2K UKG MIX)

Read our interview with @ripperton and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/RippPod

Groove Podcast 230

Tracklist

Groove Podcast 230 - Ripperton

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Nice to finally share my opening set recorded live from the Mixmag Live event at Patterns on 06.10.18

Mixmag Live - Charles Green at Patterns 06.10.18

Returning to his original Black Jazz Consortium moniker for the first time in five years, Fred P delves into the rhythms of Brazil for this show.

More info here → https://crackm.ag/2FgVk43

Brazilian groove – Mixed by Black Jazz Consortium

A memorable night in Montreal.

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XLR8R Podcast 627 - The Mole

Martyn draws from his roots with deep, genre-spanning percussive sounds for the 200th mix in our series. Operating independently of genres and bpm, his mix offers lots of fresh perspective on a typically UK club sound, with an array of hefty selections extending from techno to drum and bass. It's with this seemingly effortless style and inventiveness that Martyn's sound continues to appeal to a broad range of dance music selectors and fans.

Martyn has an equally creative approach to his music production and an eye (and ear) for like-minded creators with releases coming via his own 3024 imprint (which he runs together with long-time collaborator Erosie) including the latest release from https://soundcloud.com/tsvisions entitled 'Stargate'.

https://soundcloud.com/3024world
https://everpress.com/martyn-3024

DIM200 - Martyn

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