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Digital: https://joeyandersondekmantel.bandcamp.com/album/fall-off-face

DKMNTL015 // Joey Anderson - Fall Off Face

New EP from the talented man from Ukraine on the Dekmantel Imprint. Full length album coming up!

VAKULA - A1 - PICTURE OF YOU

Digital: https://mfomusic.bandcamp.com/album/future-city-traffic-part-1

Mephisto Frequency Oscillator (MFO) is a dynamic production duo made up of Italians Rio Padice and Massimo Di Lena. Here they release their first of a two part EP series, Future City Traffic, on Dutch label Dekmantel having only previously released on Early Sounds Recordings. Across three tracks they lie out some fine space funk and dirty deep house and prove they have a great understanding together.

First up, 'Anti Social Plan' is riddled with a scuzzy Detroit soul. The drums and claps bounce like an imperfect Kyle Hall cut and great chords and melodies dance about with a refreshingly liveliness. Then comes 'Slow Run In Our Dreams', which has hurried, rough sounding drums down low and odd, awkward but soulful piano patterns played out up top. Blurts of analogue bass add weight, and breathy vocal sounds make things seem all the more organic. It's a truly inventive track, as is closer 'Crisis Zone' with its deep, dread fuelled drums. Raw as you like with super sharp hi hats, this is a knackered sounding track that scuffs along the ground as all sorts of pixelated melodies and crushed 8 bit sounds rain down up top like some sort of crystallised rain. This is house music, but not as we know it!

DKMNTL018 // MFO - Future City Traffic - Part 1

Digital: https://mfomusic.bandcamp.com/album/future-city-traffic-part-2

After making their debut on Dekmantel not so long ago, Italian duo Rio Padice and Massimo Di Lena, together known as Mephisto Frequency Oscillator (MFO) now serve up part two of the Future City Traffic EP. Across four new tracks they continue to explore grainy, dirty house that is variously soulful, funky or cosmic in nature.

Opener 'Motor' is the funkiest of all the cuts, with well-defined drums keeping a fine disco groove locked down as whirring machines and wubbing synths dart and dance all around it. Next, 'Oman Jazz' pairs malfunctioning percussion and truly out of control synths that burst, blob and drop into the arrangement at random intervals with a fat and gloopy acid line and a soupy, gloopy deep house track of the highest order results.
'Design The Future' is another meaty and hugely textured track, this time taking its melodic cues from distant planets and intergalactic life forces. Finally, 'Arctic Lodge' kicks things off with a heavyweight kick drum, paranoid synth sounds and jumbled percussion that sounds like Kassem Mosse at his most angry. It's a beautifully lumpy, frayed sounding track that moves in many different directions at once.
This EP oozes live and creative invention from start to finish, and for that reason is amongst some of the freshest stuff you are likely to hear all year.

DKMNTL019 // MFO - Future City Traffic - Part 2

Joey Anderson - 1974 - DKMNTL024
a1.	Joey Anderson - 1974
b1.	Joey Anderson - Under Water
b2.	Joey Anderson - Back Draft

Digital: https://joeyandersondekmantel.bandcamp.com/album/1974

The art of omission is a craft New Jersey native Joey Anderson masters like few others. After releasing an acclaimed debut album in 2014, Anderson returns to the Dekmantel label serving up the signature sound we love him for. With the 1974 EP, he continues his modern day techno odyssey investigating the outskirts of the genre, while focusing on details and unexpected twists. Serving up dense melodic structures, intense chord progressions and unique but relentless drum programming and sounds, Anderson shows that the future of techno is bright, original and full of energy.

DKMNTL023 // Joey Anderson - 1974

Palms Trax - In Gold - Dekmantel (DKMNTL024) 
a1.	Palms Trax - In Gold
a2.	Palms Trax - People of Tusk
b1.	Palms Trax - Sumo Acid Crew

Digital: https://palmstraxdekmantel.bandcamp.com/album/in-gold

"I can’t even afford bed linen, let alone a 909". The unpretentious of Jay Donaldson is disarming in many different ways. We consider Donaldson aka Palms Trax to be one of the most promising new artists to date. His sound situates him firmly along the Chicago-Detroit axis, cooking up pad-driven jams, off kilter drums and hazy synths that shift like a gentle musical tide. In 2013 he inaugurated the Lobster Theremin label, the London-based imprint that quickly became one of the most talked about record labels around. When not travelling the world for prime-time gigs Donaldson holds a residency at the widely respected Berlin Community Radio. It's with great pleasure that we welcome golden boy Palms Trax to Dekmantel Records.

DKMNTL024 // Palms Trax - In Gold

In Gold

Mr. Terrence Parker at his best! Two tracks that asked for a re-issue.. 

DKMNTL 007

1. Polartronics - In The Deep (Instrumental)
2. Tralopscinor - Always Did, Always Will

DKMNTL007 // Tralopscinor - Always Did, Always Will

DKMNTL029 // Joey Anderson - Invisible Switch

a1.	Joey Anderson - Invisible Switch
a2.	Joey Anderson - Organ To Dust
a3.	Joey Anderson - Reset
b1.	Joey Anderson - Tell Us Where
b2.	Joey Anderson - Amarna
c1.	Joey Anderson - Nabta Playa
c2.	Joey Anderson - 18 Arms
d1.	Joey Anderson - Beige Mantis
d2.	Joey Anderson - Blind Light

http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/4879/invisible-switch

The art of omission is a craft New Jersey native Joey Anderson masters like few others. After releasing his acclaimed debut album After Forever in 2014 and the 1974 EP earlier this year, Anderson returns to the Dekmantel label serving up the signature sound we love him for. Invisible Switch is the perfect example of what Anderson can do with very little, catapulting him to one of the finest and most original techno and house producers to date. 

DKMNTL029 // Joey Anderson - Invisible Switch

DKMNTL030 // Palms Trax - High Point On Low Ground
a1.	Palms Trax - High Point On Low Ground
a2.	Palms Trax - Cloud City
b1.	Palms Trax - Paws

http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5156/high-point-on-low-ground

Jay Donaldson a.k.a. Palms Trax transpiring career is the stuff of dreams. The Berlin-based producer appears set to continue adding to his run of quality efforts with the forthcoming release of his High Point On Low Ground EP: impressive effort number two for the Dekmantel imprint. Serving up three retro-futuristic killers, Donaldson parades his ability to touch on the many different corners of contemporary house music, whilst delivering heavyweight dancefloor standards. The title track blazes a beaten-up vocal snippet over stanked-out synths, stretched to a breaking point across a low-riding bass line. A stabbing Moroder-esque bass line dominates 'Cloud City', whilst 'Paws' equals pure and raw broken-beat bliss with a pinch of acid.

DKMNTL030 // Palms Trax - High Point On Low Ground

DKMNTL - SLCTRS001 // Selectors 001 - Motor City Drum Ensemble

A1 DJ Slym Fas - Luv Music 
A2 House Of Jazz  - Hold Your Head Up

B1 20 Below - A Lil Tribute To The Moody Black Keys
B2 Risque III - Essence Of A Dream

C1 Licky - African Rock
C2 Raphael Green - Don't Mess With The Devil

D1 Ahzz - New York's Movin (Instrumental)
D2 Bill Deal - Freak n Freeze 

http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5231/selectors-mcde	

What, exactly, is a selector? Dekmantel has long been determined to find out, even before the Amsterdam-based crew added an official Selectors stage to its annual summer festival in 2014. While the stage has since played host to an elite class of DJs that includes the likes of Floating Points, Mike Servito, Traxx, DJ Harvey, Ben UFO, and Donato Dozzy, to name just a few, Dekmantel came to realize that the Selectors concept needed a larger platform of its own.

As such, 2016 will see the launch of both a limited-capacity capacity festival and compilation series, both bearing the Selectors name. The compilations will come first, with Motor City Drum Ensemble, Young Marco, and Joy Orbison at the helm of the initial three chapters. These are not mix CDs; every Selectors compilation will include a collection of hand-picked, unmixed tracks personally curated by the artist.

Admittedly, drawing a line between "selectors" and mere DJs is an all-but-impossible task—it's essentially a "you know it when you see it" proposition—but it's hard to argue that Motor City Drum Ensemble (a.k.a. Danilo Plessow) doesn't tick all of the required boxes. He's been digging for records since his teenage years, and his DJing has become the stuff of legend, thanks in no small part to his head-turning sets at the last few Dekmantel festivals.

In truth, Plessow's relationship with Dekmantel dates back to the earliest days of the Motor City Drum Ensemble project, making him a natural candidate to head up the inaugural Selectors compilation. As expected, he's thrown himself into the task; selecting a want list from his collection of 15,000 records was no easy task, but getting permission for the final tracklist was even tougher.

One song in particular, Raphael Green's "Don't Mess with the Devil," required him to personally call up a church in St. Louis, Missouri. "The guy, he's a Bishop," he says. "When the Ferguson protests were happening, for example, he was on CNN explaining his thoughts on the whole thing, so he's a known public figure, but nobody really knew that he had this amazing record that was recorded in '79 or '80. His voice is just unbelievable. It's the kind of record that when I heard it the first time, I couldn't believe that there had only been like 100 copies pressed, and that this wasn't actually big."

Motor City Drum Ensemble's record bag is full of these kinds of gems, but he has no qualms about sharing a few of his secret weapons with a wider audience. "I wanted to get some of the stuff that is really, really hard to get, and make it available for younger people," he explains. "I used to be in the same situation. Back when I was 18, I would listen to a Rainer Truby mix and he would only play these $400 Brazilian records. I was like, 'Fuck, how am I ever going to be able to afford these?' I was glad when there was a reissue, and it's a bit the same with the compilation now." 

"Basically," he explains, "the approach for the compilation was, 'If I walked into a record store, what kind of compilation would I buy?' That's what I did."

Motor City Drum Ensemble's Selectors will be released in March 2016 on double vinyl, and CD formats.

DKMNTL - SLCTRS001 // Selectors 001 - Motor City Drum Ensemble

Call Super - Nervous Sex Traffic - Dekmantel (DKMNTL033) 

a1.	 Call Super - Nervous Sex Traffic
b1.	 Call Super - Mount Grace

Vinyl: http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5244
Digital: https://callsuper.bandcamp.com/album/nervous-sex-traffic-3

Call Super never takes the safe road. The London but now Berlin based DJ and musician has carved out his own place in the landscape of electronic music. He dares to challenge his audiences to the fullest with brittle percussive chaos, off-kilter bass lines and haunted, esoteric melodies. His strength most definitely lies in his variety, both playing and producing music that draws from early Perlon bliss and bone-crushing-missile-techno. After producing one of the standout LPs of 2014 (the critically acclaimed Suzi Ecto), cooking up a Dekmantel Podcast and performing at last year’s festival, Call Super now makes his Dekmantel Records debut.

Nervous Sex Traffic’s title gets you off on the wrong foot. A nine-minute long house odyssey, Call Super wraps your head around brain warming chord progressions and an organic sub-bass that keeps on giving. Subtle, progressive, mind-blowing. Mount Grace on the other hand, draws from a clanking, industrial sound palette. Endlessly deep, spacious and dub-heavy, this electro inspired excursion teases the bass synth in slowly, but starts to go wild as the music builds up.

DKMNTL033 // Call Super - Nervous Sex Traffic

Central - Political Dance #1 - Dekmantel (DKMNTL034) 
a1.	 Central - Keep Love On Me
a2.	 Central - Body Issue
b1.	 Central - Tube Life
b2.	 Central - This Is Hand
b3.	 Central - Longest Way Between Two Points

Vinyl: http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5243/political-dance-1
Digital: https://central.bandcamp.com/album/political-dance-1

Central - Political Dance #2 - Dekmantel (DKMNTL035) 
a1.	 Central - Convenient Departures
a2.	 Central - Detour King
b1.	 Central - Political Dance
b2.	 Central - H Ain't Nothing But A Number

Vinyl: http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5269/political-dance-2
Digital: https://central.bandcamp.com/album/political-dance-2

When we first got our hands on a cassette tape released by Dutch label Yield, we were introduced to the unique sound of @NatalZaks a.k.a. Central. Hailing from Århus, Denmark second largest city, Zaks feels closely connected to the rock, punk and experimental scene blooming in his hometown. The same DIY esthetics can be found throughout his own, idiosyncratic take on electronic music that, apart from being highly distinctive, is best to be described as incredibly versatile. 

His sterling label debut is spread out into a montage over four sides of vinyl - DKMNTL 034 & 035. Zaks deviates between the deepest, vocal tinged house of 'Keep Love On Me', via breezy breakbeats ('This Is Hand'), to the lush ambient-jam 'Longest Way Between Two Point'. On the second EP, the innocuous playfulness of 'Tubelife', the soulful and brooding 'Detour King' and the jazzy undertones of 'Politcal Dance' are colorfully-plumed dance tracks drawing on jazz-soul and deep house knitted together with impressive precession. The breadth of diversity and quality of his execution is a testament to Zaks' skill as a producer. 

Zaks: ‘‘I'd describe my sound as curious and fun club music, because it's based on curiosity and yes, having fun. I'm fascinated with many genres, styles and movements of danceable music. Generally the Central project draws inspiration from my interest for the dancefloor, whereas most of the other endeavors I work on are less crowd friendly. If you’d ask me, a lot of the very best dancefloor music was made a long time ago, so I'd say I'm very influenced by both sound, production and musicality from older records. The general idea is to make tunes that simultaneously look back- and forward in time. I think style and genre is secondary to quality and to trueness. Not trueness to a scene or whatever, but being able to do something that is a true continuation of our person(-ality).’’

DKMNTL034-035 // Central - Political Dance

Occult Orientated Crime - Just A Clown On Crack - Dekmantel (DKMNTL036)

a1.	Occult Orientated Crime - Bridge Over A Golden Duckpond
a2.	Occult Orientated Crime - Japanese Trains
a3.	Occult Orientated Crime - Telephatic Consultation
b1.	Occult Orientated Crime - Blue Austral
b2.	Occult Orientated Crime - Central Coast Drifter
b3.	Occult Orientated Crime - Just A Clown On Crack

Vinyl: http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5083/just-a-clown-on-crack
Digital: https://legowelt.bandcamp.com/album/just-a-clown-on-crack

Dekmantel is proud to present Danny Wolfers a.k.a. Legowelt's ambient project Occult Orientated Crime. It's for the first time ever that this moniker of the prolific Dutchman will have a physical release. Wolfers: "The OOC sound is an accumulation of twenty years of musical training and research and what effect it has on the brain. Simply put it's electronic ambient music, which is more advanced compared to the music I’m creating with my Smackos alias. OOC is deeper and more melodic, less loose and vague but perhaps more intense. It can bring the listener into a completely different state of mind, you can almost call it ritualistic neuroscience music."

The six tracks are recorded around the same time, using coherent recording techniques. "Let's say I was in a flow, or something like that. But I rather think it's the music itself that gives it a distinctive sound: the way the music was composed, the notes and the sound palette. I haven't used any sharp sounds for example, but everything is very round so your brains will soak it up as something smooth."

Apart from the track 'Just a Clown On Crack', the release lacks kick drums. "Most or nearly all music from PC doesn't have a beat because it is often unnecessary, it distracts from the melody or what should be processed in the mind of the listener. The melodies, sounds and structure itself are enough to bring the listener into a certain mindset: a beat there would almost sound cheap, tacky. 'Just a Clown On Crack' has a trip-/hip-hop feel to it and was craving for a beat. It’s also the last track of the album and, in a rather fluent way, brings the listener back to the misery and tragedy of the normal, everyday world. It’s like returning from the OCC dimension with a soft landing."

DKMNTL036 // Occult Orientated Crime - Just A Clown On Crack

DKMNTL-UFO2 // Randomer - Running Dry
a1.	Randomer - Running Dry
a2.	Randomer - My Ears Hurt
b1.	Randomer - Rendell Pips
b2.	Randomer - Music For Two Kalimbas

Vinyl: http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5131/running-dry
Digital: https://randomerdekmantel.bandcamp.com/album/running-dry

Next up for the brand new DKMNTL UFO series is Rohan Walder aka Randomer, who has been causing a stir with his uncompromising, bass heavy cuts. The Londoner graces our new platform with his signature sound that blurs the lines between big boned techno, sizzling side-step house and Afro-inspired drum programing. Delivering a four-tracker that’s a highly energetic and confident outburst of a unique electronic music soul, Randomer properly handles the abstract sound esthetics of DKMNTL UFO.

DKMNTL-UFO2 // Randomer - Running Dry

For Dekmantel's fifth birthday a compilation will be released which features tracks from friends and artists who have performed at Dekmantel's parties. A divers compilation which will be released in a series of several EPs.

Juju & Jordash - African Flower (Cosmic Dub)

Awanto3 - Pregnant

Lisbon’s Inés Coutinho aka Violet is one of the main faces of Lisbon’s blossoming underground music scene, co-running a queer event series called mina and local internet radio station Rádio Quântica. After starting out as a DJ in shops, pubs and hotels — a time she values greatly —, she briefly lived in London for a while, and around the time she returned to Lisbon her career took off.

Not in the slightest due to her impeccable label Naive, which has been turning heads for its boundless approach and string of strong releases by often upcoming and mostly female artists like Octo Octa, Almaty, Ilana Bryne and Eris Drew, and on which she also released her own ‘Togetherness’ EP. Her mixing approach is a captivating concoction of breakbeat, bass, techno and basically everything else — not eschewing an occasional Cardi B or RnB from the 00’s weaved into her sets.

This Selectors Podcast reflects her engagement with her local scene and its upcoming artists: “This mix is like being surrounded by friends and inspirations from my local scene. Most of its tracks are quite recent and made by young artists whose relentlessly imaginative output has been capturing my imagination”, like BLEID, Stasya and Odete, as well as more established artists from her scene like Photonz and Príncipe’s Marfox. The result is a 70-minute rollercoaster of drums, rhythms and surprises, full of different sounds and influences. According to Coutinho herself, that’s “what [she] feels makes it special, rather than having a specific geographically-pinnable sound.”

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