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Cool Dj Introspekt ( Female Dj ) Dj Mixes 2025

Introspekt joined Ollie Rant from LA this month, with plenty of UKG flavours in tow. Bubbly selections from front-to-back, this one will have you missing the club.

Ollie Rant w/ Introspekt - March 2021

T4T LUV NRG affiliate Introspekt comes through with a buoyant soundtrack for your end-of-year celebrations. 

“The intention behind this mix was groove and bounce," Introspekt says of the hour-long mix. "I wanted to touch on various styles of garage (and the adjacent genres I play) while focusing primarily on the classic 4x4 garage sound. The bulk of this mix weaves back and forth between lush garage house vibes and dubbed-out 4x4. I round it all off with a few heavy 2-step rhythms…”

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Crack Mix 540: Introspekt

LA-based DJ and producer Introspekt delivers a monthly missive of UK garage, 2-step and more. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/introspekt/episodes/introspekt-2nd-february-2024

INTROSPEKT: Dubstep is a Feeling 020224

Last year, when we wrote that "the best UK garage is coming out of Los Angeles," we were talking about Introspekt. The US DJ, who has since moved to New York, really understands the genre—its appeal, swing and unique, bassy whomp. Listen to any of her tracks, like last year's "Forlorn," and you'll hear someone who produces like she's been making UKG all her life. This is probably partly because she comes from a dubstep background, but either way, if you're looking for new UK garage beats, Introspekt is one of the best going right now.

Her DJing also hits a distinct sweet spot, zeroing in one of the proto-dubstep, dark UK garage days when producers like El-B were making the hottest shit around. Her sound is both retro and forward-looking, as you'll hear on her RA Podcast, which balances vintage Big Apple cuts from Skream & Benga with new-school tunes from Amaliah and Surusinghe. It's not so much a throwback as it is a rejuvenation of an old sound—a new way to look at it and a new way to make it. If hindsight is 20/20, then Introspekt has perfect vision, and mixes like this are the perfect way to educate listeners, make them move and innovate a little in the process.

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RA.929 Introspekt

American artist Introspekt (@sageintrospekt) has a sound rooted in the darker side of UKG but comes at it from a unique perspective that incorporates elements of US garage and ballroom. The LA-born, NYC-based talent has now made her mark in Europe as a DJ and a producer on labels like Eris Drew and Octo Octa's T4T LUV NRG. Her style blends heavy basslines, diva vocals and well-crafted broken beats into something that harks back to the sounds that once came out of the likes of Paradise Garage and Club Zanzibar, always with a focus on bringing up her own community.

She says that the idea behind this week's mix was "to take the listener on a journey through tech-garage sonics and intergalactic dancehall rhythms." Tracks of her own and those from Skream, Holloway, Hatcha, Phuturistix and many more all plot a line through earth-shatteringly heavy rhythms from across the past, present and future of garage, dubstep and bass. It's a mix aimed at both body and head from this formidable talent and is a great taste of what to expect from her when she plays Dekmantel Festival later in the year.

Dekmantel Podcast 466 - Introspekt

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/3BuWlWw

@sageintrospekt collapses "past, present and future" into a timeless mix.

"I’ve done a lot of planning for it. The theme behind the mix is ‘Past, Present, Future’, which is obviously the theme of FWD>>. There’s this idea in my music and a lot of my peer’s music as well where, as opposed to a linear, progressive idea of time, there’s this thread of more recursive or cyclical view of time and temporality. There’s gonna be a lot of deep cuts and classics, but also a lot of new stuff, and new stuff that sounds like old stuff. So that’s the theme of this mix: collapsing past, present and future into one totality."

Tracklist + Q&A

The Mix 032: Introspekt

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.

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FM033: Nick Höppner (Y2K UKG MIX)

in this set i've joined forces with 2 of the biggest mc's on londons Rinse fm to bring you an Old Skool Garage set like no other . we have received much excitement about this particular recording so i had to get it online for you guys to listen to and download @DjGsmallz

Old Skool Garage Mix with MC Bushkin HLC & Mc Shantie

To cure the 'Lockdown Blues' @lil-mofo-business brings you a mix that melds house and UK Garage with a continuous funk vibe, bringing together a selection of UK artists such as South East London garage producers D.E.A. Project, electronic dance music duo R.I.P. Productions and legendary breakbeat and jungle pioneers Shut Up & Dance.

For the full tracklist, visit https://edwin-europe.com

№ 88 - Lil Mofo

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Kush Jones - 08 May 2020

recorded on one 1210, one 1200 and an allen & heath xone 92
apologies for the pops & scratches, ive had some of these records since I was 15 
xx

wooly window sessions part wun - UKG 4/4 +++

Ollie Rant was live for the full 120 with a signature blend of UKG flavours. In the bag - tracks from Bumpi Biznizz, Smokey Bubblin’ B, Youka, and more.

Ollie Rant - February 2021

Smokey Bubblin' B with Ollie Rant & Oppidan - 13 February 2021

UKG Valentines Spesh 2021

DIY Excellence. From London To The World.

Ollie Rant w/ Introspekt - March 2021

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