It's Nick León who's delivering the goods in this week's Rhythmic Culture podcast. The Miami-based DJ and producer is known for mixing organic textures with club polyrhythms and sci-fi sound design. With releases on Tra Tra Trax, NAAFI and recently on Future Times, Nick is in front of a new generation of exciting artists coming out of Miami's club scene.

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RC:081 Nick León

They say that you need to understand the rules before you can break them. If that's true, @toma-kami is a true sage of rhythm. The Paris-based artist and Man Band label boss defies convention each time he drops a new 12" or one of his famously physical DJ mixes. He bends and toys with drums and bass, twisting and turning them through the worlds of house, techno, breaks, juke and club to come up with something thrillingly fresh and hard to define.

Toma will join us at Dekmantel Selectors in August, but before that comes this week's mix. It is a masterfully controlled but edge-of-your-seat ride through all those sounds and more. At times they are piled up on top of each other to the point of collapse, at others they are teased apart and drawn out to hypnotic effect. These are supple but muscular and physical sounds that make you want to bend every bone in your body in pure appreciation of Kami's unique rhythmic gymnastics.

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Dekmantel Podcast 369 - Toma Kami

Staring At The Wall w/ Jurango Noods Show: SIU MATA

Stem, aka Jenny Cheng, is a London-based DJ and radio host. Stylistically, her curiosity-fuelled approach sees her prioritising energetic selections and explorative sounds from a global network of artists above any one genre or mood in particular. Very much in keeping with the musical melting pot bubbling away within the capital itself. 

Threading breakneck footwork and explosive East African club music with flashes of eerie ambient and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, Cheng’s Crack Mix is a fast and heavy thrill ride through some of her recent favourite tunes. Expect “many colours and flows” stitched together with serious velocity. 

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Crack Mix 444: Stem

@mdsm_certified is a duo and power couple based in Berlin/Montreal. Coming from different musical backgrounds, their project is aiming at merging their sound into a sexy and progressive entity, navigating across genre, with a taste for dreamy trancey dub. This mix is a sonic attempt to take you on a journey to connect earth and sky.

025 - Missed Connections w/ MDSM

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Sha Ru | Radio Raheem | February 2023

Entering bunni's world is like peering into someone's diary. It's honest and vulnerable with all of her emotions laid out on the table. Launching the moniker three years, bunni started working on music as a way of helping her find herself again after feeling lost following college. bunni is one of the artists coming through the new wave of Miami's underground and has already released on esteemed labels such as Omnidisc and Juke Bounce Werk. It wasn't until earlier this year that bunni released her first fully formed project, the 'tender' EP, a colourful release which is driven by emotive lyrics covering love, lust, heartache and the loss of innocence. The EP comes at a time where we've seen poppy club music come to the forefront with such crossover appeal with the likes of PinkPantheress and piri & tommy, however, bunni is still very much in the club scene, playing at local Miami parties such as Jezebel, PROIBIDÆ and Perreo del Futuroo. Last summer saw bunni perform live on her biggest stage yet at III Points festival and with the goal to work more within the live world, bunni recently moved to NYC where she sets her sights on new challenges, looking to build a new community in the city whilst bringing visibility to the city she grew up in. 

For this edition of The Lowdown we chat to bunni about growing up in Miami and her relationship with music at that time, her motives for moving to NYC, the story behind the 'tender' EP and how she uses music as an emotional outlet. To accompany the feature, bunni has contributed our latest mix which she says "captures these feelings of excitement from living in a new city."

Read the interview here: https://www.untitled909.com/the-lowdown-bunni/

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Untitled 909 Podcast 149: bunni

Simo Cell’s visit to Ankali last November was nothing short of a jaw–dropping masterclass in blending bubbling rhythms with cutthroat subs and forward–thinking UK sounds.

Surpassing all expectations, Simo delivered an uplifting closing set that we couldn’t keep just in our memories. We bring back the Dancefloor Archives series to deliver you all the recording of the bass boss himself. Give it some love.

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Dancefloor Archives 003 — Simo Cell

Audio Explorations with Mzzz Adele @ The Lot Radio 05-23-2023

This week Reinartz entrances us from the very first beat with a madly pleasurable journey of tension and release:

"To be blasted with music as a mechanism for healing after a period of forced emotional instability and extreme physical exhaustion. Lots of tension and release within this genre soup. Even if I'm playing music just for myself it has to be delicate and I have to make up some sort of story. This one is in constant movement, shapeshifting, warm and icy. I recorded this at home on a particularly nice day. Couldn't stop dancing the whole time."

//about the artist 
Mexican-born, rave experimentalist Reinartz got into DJing at the old Sunday Club parties where he developed a sensitivity to the odd sides of rave music. With multiple releases and a monthly Threads radio show where he showcases sonic adventures of the "gelatinous" kind, he‘s set himself the task of fully immersing the dancer, always blending multiple styles and eras with a penchant for the weird, the fast, the cosmic and the absurd.

//tracklist
Steevio - Peacecry
Cousin - The River
Fearful & Mtwn - Twelve Over
Verraco - Ronaldinho Hace la Elástica
Oceanic - Connect in Rest
Oscean - Multidimensional
Air Max '97 - Psyllium
Beach Orphans - I Just Wanna (PG13 Mix)
Burna - Dispute
Ike - Gage
Metrist - Ark Specific
Fky - Fky_Rps04_Rubikon 
DJ Stingray - Enzymatic Detergents
Buttechno - Dark Pearl
Batu - Deep Breath
SW. - RAMframe 
Simone - 006
Neil Landstrumm - Alt Rocker

//follow Reinartz here:
 @rreinartz
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BLEAK119 - Fluid Under Pressure by Reinartz

It feels like a lifetime ago now: 25th Jan, we had no idea what 2020 had in store for us all; Cleyra was finishing off his set of elegant, tripped out and slinky rnb-meets-Techno upstairs; Mehtola had sealed the brick in the dungeon with an extra varnish of "tuff", punching holes in the air with mean, broken, bass wrecking sluggers; it was time for the French lads to step up.
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The Fusion Mes Couilles residents delivered three hours of a fuckin mental hammering of everything "ball breaking": hardcore, acid, techno, ghetto tech, trap, jungle and everything inbetween. Mean and fringe burning; people were pulling themselves up the the stairs, out the dungeon, needing a break, having no idea what just hit 'em!
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Here is the final 1.5h of what was a really special set. Needless to say, you can hear everyone present, well and truly got loose. 
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Big love and thanks to all those that performed, attended and helped make GET LOOSE #2 a real special night to remember.

BLEAK119 - Fluid Under Pressure by Reinartz

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