A | Bear Bones, Lay Low - Dissolve Into The Night / 15:03
B | Don't DJ - Rag For Rudolf Rocker / 17:27

Vinyl: https://clone.nl/item51735.html
Digital: https://bakk.bandcamp.com/album/plafond-3

For the third installment of the Plafond series, BAKK presents a mind bending record that brings together two contemporary innovators. Don’t DJ and Bear Bones Lay Low have both earned their stripes when it comes to heavy trance inducing electronics. On the A side Bear Bones Lay Low delivers earthly rhythms in heavenly fashion with a 15 minute piece. Don’t DJ calls upon the spirits with a soothing yet satanic 17 minute narrative on the flip. Comes in a hand printed sleeve with spell casting obi strip made by the BAKK Ancestral Archipelago.

Design by Mike Kokken and Heer Badoux

Available now

BAKKPlafond3 | Bear Bones, Lay Low / Don't DJ - Plafond 3

“Somebody else’s idea of somebody else’s world is not my idea of things as they are. Somebody else’s idea of things to come, need not be the only way to vision the future.

What seems to be, need not be; What be, had to be; For what was, is only because of an adopted source of things. Some chosen source as was, need not be the only pattern to build a world on.” — Sun Ra




Music label, based in The Hague.

BAKK then, now Plafond.

Manfredas and Vilnius are not one and the same but so intrinsically linked that the Lithuanian capital makes a good starting point. Although, Manfredas got his first musical experience via his hometown radio (long shifts soundtracking a country exploding itself out of the Soviet glaciation), it was his move to Vilnius that started it all. 

Skip a few shifts at legendary club Gravity and an electroclash band and we get to Opium and Smala. It is quite hard to fathom how important the club and Manfredas’ imprint were to the Vilnius nightlife, and still are. For years, this was the party and what a party that was; creating a scene out of not much, educating a couple of generation of clubbers, tightening friendships and making Manfredas the international DJ he is today. For many, it made Vilnius unexpectedly the best clubbing city in the world.

After a string of solo releases and remixes aimed at the furthest corners of the dancefloor, Manfredas took a deep breath and reached out even beyond that furthest corner. With drummer Marijus Aleksa, he created Santaka, an organic/electronic post-jazz (insert whatever term you please) with releases on Byrd Out and legendary Finnish label Sahko, and a live project where the dance floor and non-dancefloor merge hypnotically.

When Manfredas co-created Radio Vilnius in 2021, a hub for experimental music in a dire national landscape, it was another way to pay his dues to the local scene. Born online, Radio Vilnius has now launched it's own record label, inaugurated by Santaka themselves.

When The Last Smala happened in 2020, Manfredas & Ivan Smagghe created a new party outfit: Dresden, a bastard child of Vilnius and London, mother of all nighters, designer of t-shirts, travelling circus (from Love International to Wonderfruit, Glastonbury to Sonar). More hours put in for unruly people, more psychedelic music, including a two-day “weekender” at Gallery, the new hyper-club opened by the Opium crew.

Jack of all trades but master of many (we haven’t talked about his love of food), you can find Manfredas touring the world searching for that extra sparkle and sharing it with all of us.

bookings : caroline@spunoutagency.com