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

Kyiv-born, Chicago-raised DJ @aalinkaa delivers an hour of energising house

"This mix is dedicated to my first love, house music. I wanted it to fit the vibe of my new EP with Robert Owens, so it's a lot of tracks I like dancing to at the club and in my living room."

Tracklist + Q&A

In Session: Alinka

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/lucifer_lp_dl

With Lucifer, Kompakt presents an album of rare beauty from two masters of modern music. A family affair, it’s a collaboration between the Italian father-and-son duo of Luciano Michelini and Lorenzo Dada, whose combined histories bring to Lucifer a depth of experience alongside clarity of vision and a finely tuned, neatly developed combined compositional voice. A lovely, beguiling suite of music that combines the electronic and the acoustic, the urban and the pastoral, its gorgeous night-eye vision and tender melancholy sits neatly within the Kompakt universe, while offering the curious listener some rich new perspectives.

There is already plenty to know both artists by. Lorenzo Dada creates across multiple fields – a techno producer and DJ who has already worked with the likes of Jay Haze, Fete, Leo Benassi, and Der, he’s released a small clutch of stylish, smartly designed EPs, and a solo album, Second Life (2018). His complementary background in classical music and composition informs his ensemble project, Tears Of Blue (who appear on Lucifer), where Dada paints with neo-classical tones for a quartet of violin, viola, cello and grand piano, supplemented by electronics for live performance.

Luciano Michelini’s history is yet richer. He may be best known, to many, for his piece “Frolic”, the theme to Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm series; it was also sampled by Snoop Dogg for 2022’s “Crip Ya Enthusiasm”. But there’s much more to Michelini’s story. A successful soundtrack composer, Michelini both studied and taught at the Conservatoro di Santa Cecilia, and worked for RCA from the sixties to the eighties; his soundtracks from this period are gorgeous examples of the form, particularly his work for Il Decamerone Nero (1972), L’Isola Degli Uomini Pesce (1979), and the devastatingly gorgeous Dimensione Donna (1977).

In the eighties, Michelini and his wife Anna Gutling founded the Electronic Music Division studio and academy in Rome, which is where the majority of Lucifer was recorded. Dada reflects on the experience: “We never worked together before, so it was all new for both of us,” with Michelini adding, “I truly love this experience with my son. He’s a talented pianist and composer. I am not very familiar with electronic music nowadays, but we did it fluently.” There’s certainly a familial energy at play through Lucifer, and you can hear how Dada and Michelini, through exploration and experiment, find a shared language, balancing Dada’s tendency toward minimalism, and Michelini’s composerly voice.

Lucifer flows as a suite that interweaves electronic music with acoustic instruments: the lonely sigh of saxophone; Michelini’s lush, verdant piano; the weeping strings of Tears Of Blue (recorded at the studio of Michelini’s friend, the late Maestro, Ennio Morricone). These multiple voices are located within the electronic sighs and swarms from Dada’s kit; there are moments of propulsion, and passages of lambent drift, where the album revels in its tonal sweetness. If it flows so effortlessly, that’s because Lucifer was designed that way, as a suite or a sonata of sorts.

And the title? Dada reflects, “Lucifer was an angel who decided not to be one anymore. The miracle of life is that we can decide what we want to be, even if we are born as angels or vice versa.” This feels somehow apposite: there’s certainly something of the transformative, and the transportive, in Lucifer, a unique family collaboration of rare poetry and sensitivity, where two generations meet in the modern crucible that is the electronic music studio.

Lucifer

Modular Clouds In Rome

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Modular Clouds In Rome

Level 29

RELEASE-DATE: 09.01.2026

The latest single from Luke Francis is truly a rocket. After the deep intro and a short interlude, the track slowly picks up speed. Take off!

@lukefrancis

Rakete

Perth

Buy & Stream

COMING SOON: Luke Francis - Perth

Original Afro house track by Jules.Austruy

Mahaba - Jules Austruy (Extended).wav

BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/miss-kittin-the-hacker-lost-tracks-vol-2-ep/
Miss Kittin & The Hacker are the Electro duo of Caroline Hervé and Michel Amato from Grenoble, France. The pair met during the early 90s at a rave and soon after bought turntables and began DJing. In 1996, they started writing music heavily influenced by 1980s synthpop and post-punk bands like Fad Gadget, DAF, Liaisons Dangeuresues, and Yazoo, as well as Italo Disco. Bored by the techno scene at the time, they set out out to lighten the serious tone and bring a campy sexiness to the dour musical landscape. Upon hearing their demos DJ Hell signed them to his Munich-based International DJ Gigolo label and released their first 2 EPs in 1998 and 1999. Their debut album ”First Album" was released in 2001 followed by “Two” in 2009.

“Lost Tracks Vol. 2” contains 4 previously unreleased demos recorded between 1997 and 1999.  The duo fused 80’s European New Wave/Italo Disco with 90’s Detroit Electro acts like Le Car and Dopplereffekt. By utilizing verse-chorus structures, they playfully shook up the loop based hard techno and electro that was popular at the time. Their studio set up at the time was a Korg MS-20, Roland SH-101, TR-606, TR-808, Siel DK80, and Boss DR-660 drum machine. The songs are direct, spontaneous, seemingly improvised in places. Miss Kittin sings about falling in love in the new millennium, snuff movies and controlling the unknown trip to death, all in her cheekily derisive French accent. All songs have been transferred from the original DAT tapes by the band and remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The vinyl comes housed in a glossy jacket featuring a black and white photo of the duo taken in 1996. Each LP includes a postcard with liner notes from Miss Kittin and The Hacker designed by Eloise Leigh. As Miss Kittin says of these demos, “We were naive, innocent, adventurous and we didn’t expect anything in return”.

Lost Tracks Vol. 2

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Upstart

Valerian was originally released in 2008 on Orlando Voorn's label Triangle. It's quite obviously an homage to Gerald Mitchell/Los Hermanos, who were a massive influence for me at the time. 

I've made fresh mixdowns for Valerian and remastered it. This release has been unavailable for several years.

You can grab it here: https://chymera.bandcamp.com/album/valerian

Buy on Bandcamp

Valerian (2019 version, originally released 2008)

Oh shit whaddup? Sitting back in Bristol, loving the summer time (it is raining), love being wet (and not in a good way), love it hells yeah! 

So in trve Maiovvi fashion after releasing an LP of oversaturated occult electro bangers on Bunker Records I decided to make an Italo mix, cause even though you fashion pricks have abandoned it in favour of whatever it is you "love" now, I still think Italo is great AND it's summer time so you can go get yourself an iced cream and then go do a ton of disco dust in a portable toilet and dance the night away before drowning youself in a lake of Club Mate and bad luck... Or walk around in the rain like I'm preparing to do, dreaming of being on a beach somewhere and not being so god damn broke.

Have fun or don't but I'll be there with a grin cause I got that magickal power to laugh alone...

Real talk, was fun doing this

Ennio Morricone - Girl Stalk
Blue Gas - Shadows From Nowhere
G.A.N.G - Incantations
Gaznevada - Special Agent Man (Instrumental)
Efence - Spaceflight
Peter Jaques Band - Dancin’ Down The Street
BWH - Stop
Valerie Dore - The Night
Tony Moore DJ - Tonight
Alex Valentini - Beautiful Life
Image - Hot Stuff
IMS - Dancing Therapy
Sally - Erotica
‘Lectric Workers - Robot Is Systematic
Mike Canon - Going Crazy
Hypnosis - Astrodance
Mike Rogers - Just A Story
Manhattan Project - That’s Impossible
Cyber People - Polaris
Miss Plug In - You & I
Capricorn - I Need Love (Instrumental)
Jessica Blue - The Dark Of Light
Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk
Mata Hari - Mata Hari
Sahara - Shining
Scotch - Mirage
Larabell - I Can’t Stop
Mauro Michelini & F.M.Band - Looking For Love (Dub)
Video - Somebody
Hysteric - Pepper DJ
Charlie - Spacer Woman
Riz Ortolani - Sweetly

Antoni Maiovvi's Summer Time Good Time Italo Mix Of Doom

The first set from our first-ever broadcast from inside the walls of DC-10: 
Is Burning's founder Carlos Valdes.

Carlos Valdes | Boiler Room Ibiza: DC-10

Golden Baby - Graduation
Out on Forgotten World ‎/ FW1

golden baby aka prince of denmark aka prime minister of doom aka traumprinz aka dj metatron aka dj healer aka dr sun aka kasha

Golden Baby - Graduation

*Sinchi "Redemption" Mix is inspired from emotions of this tumultuous period. The one hour journey split into 3 parts: Regret, Hope and Liberty. Despite saying this, it doesn't take itself too seriously with some fun vocal samples added within this trip.

Artist Info:
The Sinchi label goes from strength to strength with a combination of singles and compilation releases. Featuring remixes from such artists as Sascha Funke, Curses, Khidja, Roe Deers and Tolouse Low Trax to name just a few . All aimed at raising funds for social causes, such as our own Foundation, which focuses on the preservation of indigenous culture & knowledge. Read more via www.sinchi-foundation.com

Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/sinchicollective

Social Media:
www.facebook.com/sinchicollective
www.instagram.com/sinchicollective

Tracklist:
01. MR TC - 20/44(Orchid)
02. Tagliabue_Ipnotica (Lustpoderosa)
03. Dreems - Shark Water (Abyss Mix) (Le Temps Perdu)
04. GilbʼR - Cosmogonie (Microdosing)
05. Borusiade - Lament (Dark Entries)
06. Stevie R feat. Anna Maria X - Ta Paidia Tis Geitonias [Chapter24)
07. The Mekanism - Missing Love (Musumeci Remix) (Needwant)
08. Kadosh & Nariz - Nightmares (Echonomist Rmx) (Engrave)
09. Last Magpie - Kissing Stones (MeMeMe)
10. Ditian-Etnika (Snake Dub) (TAU)
11. Fayrouz - Al Bosta(Sara Dziri Edit) (Sinchi)
12. Underspreche-My Beloved (TAU)
13. Bangkok Impact - Aus Birgittes Tagebuch (Creme Organization)
14. Inkipak - Centero (Mighty Force)
15. Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight (Richter Studios)

Curator:
Manny Cais

Artwork:
Eduardo Nascimento

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Sinchi Collective @ Chicago Calling #096 - Netherlands

Irish producer and performer based in Berlin making various shades of techno and house since 2002 on labels like Maeve, Ovum, Delsin, Cocoon & Kompakt.
Bandcamp: http://chymera.bandcamp.com/

Also releases synthesizer based, ambient epics as Merrin Karras on A Strangely Isolated Place.

Valerian (2019 version, originally released 2008)

Chymera