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Thought I'd upload my Essential Mix from earlier this year for your listening pleasure now it's not available on the BBC. 

This is my original recording with no stings and no Pete Tong talking(sadly). 

It was such an honour to contribute to this mix series, i'd rate it up there as one of the biggest achievements i've had as a DJ. Thanks to everyone who listened and wrote me nice messages about it <3

TRACKLIST

Nazar - Unruly
Black Rain - City of Atomic Ghost
Anurah & Impey - Lyre Lullaby
Eric Donte - A Wig Is Born (prod. DJ SWISHA) [Instrumental]
Batu - I Own Your Energy
Basic - 66 Order
Jabes - Body Said No
A.k.Adrix - F.i.l.i.p.a.d.o
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Victims
Bruce & Lurka - Bee Track
Bambounou - Modular Track
Commodo - Guah
Eastman - Fight For A Cause
Air Max '97 - Eat The Rich 
Metrist - VV Squi
Poly Chain - Peculiar
Siete Catorce - Serrano
Rian Traenor - Metrogazer
Jay Mitta - Tatizo Pesa feat. Dogo Janja
DJ SWISHA & Kush Jones - Torcida
Piezo - Rowina
Hyysxl - Loom
Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Young & Healthy
Ido Plumes - Walking With The Tasman Abel
Archivist - Cinder Cone (Patrick Russell Remix)
Nico - Elements
Lyra Pramuk - Mirror
Mang & GRAŃ - Live4evr
Hence Therefore - Census Map Museum
Dehousy - Okinawa
Lil Silva - Gobble That
Batu - Go Deeper
Jabes - Ripples
Dynamite - Link Up
Radeco Domar - Energi a Animal
Nguzunguzu - Times Up (Khole Tribal PVT)
Viers - Douglas Descend
Leonce - Arpjam 916
Kleft + Tolga Baklacioglu - Disguised In Black
EL PLVYBXY - los caballeros del jaguar
Al Wootton - Starlite Xpress
Call Super - Cherry Picker
Two Lone Swordsmen - The Backstair Rattlers
Stanislav Tolkachev - Be Careful And Nobody Dies

BBC Radio One - Essential Mix

recorded this mix in one take while messing around at home one evening last week

decided to put it on soundcloud until i change my mind


T/L:

PVAS - Passing Through
The Exaltics - 00.154.33.68
Actress - Turin (feat. Aura T-09)
Piezo - OX
Simo Cell - Cegetel
Round Three - Acting Crazy (feat Tikiman)
Vapauteen - Spender's Permit
Gong Gong Gong 工工工 - Inner Reaches III 慾望的暗角三 (Zaliva-D Remix)
DHS - # 9 Bad Acid
Si Begg - Time Is Flexible
Dengue Dengue Dengue - Minerals
Brain Pilot - Serotonin Flow
Jon Watts - Now Its Done
Inga Mauer - Islington
Unknown Artist - Primitive Tools Edition One - B2
Shed - Try
Ambien Baby - Aventura ft. Priori
Naco - Koeq
ISSHU - Schizo+
G Flame - I Want You
Dalibor Cruz - Debase
Shit and Shine - Upside Down Cheeseburger
De Bons en Pierre - Pop Corn Sous le Lit
Gunnar Haslam - Seasick Acid
P.A. Presents - Freaky
Si Begg - U R D Best
Sun Electric - Osram 527
DMX Krew - RAM Expansion
Heiko Laux - Re-Televised
Terrence Dixon - Resonator
hanali - Diagonal Hold
Sigha - AVN014 B3 Loop 1
DJ Boss - Fak Trak
Archetype - Ancestors of Language
GILA - NANAO feat. Kloxii
Burnt Friedman - Monsun
Parassela - The Berlin Experiment
Lårry - Bessernach

felt cute, might delete later

Prescribe yourself a genre-free, highly emotional course of Physical Therapy.

https://www.nts.live/shows/physical-therapy/episodes/physical-therapy-12th-august-2022

Physical Therapy: Live From Nowadays 120822

Recorded live at Waterworks Festival 2021, Gunnersbury Park, London on 25 September 2021

Pressure stage

Live at Waterworks Festival 2021 - London

Recorded live at Interdimensional Transmissions presents Return to the Source - Tresor 313, Tangent Gallery, Detroit (28-05-2022)

Main room closing set after Underground Resistance presents Wavejumpers (live)

Live at Return to the Source 2022 (Tresor 313) - Detroit

Recording of Batu's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022

TASCAM DR-40X

Batu at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Name: Davis Smith
Alias: DJ Heaven (@davis-smith-1)
Pronouns: they/them
Location: Chicago

Influences: nature, red lights, anything dreamy, the psychedelic experience, love, friendship, detroit, all my amazing dj friends and producers <3

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: I have a vinyl record incoming on Leisure Records entitled 'Dream Phases' under my alias Ephemeral. The record should be out in the next few months so keep your eyes peeled! I use to do a bi-weekly radio show called Spirit Radio, it is currently on hiatus but I am looking to start back up again :).

Favorite Quote:  "god is the spiritual power within yourself"

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: don't compromise on your vision, learn from others but make your own rules

With this mix DJ Heaven asks to please learn more about and consider donating to:
❁ chicagoland pig rescue (https://www.chicagolandpigrescue.com/#/)
❁ afrorack (https://www.afrorack.org/)

Daisychain

Daisychain 263 - DJ Heaven

' In celebration of Warp's re-release of Artificial Intelligence - a mix of some of the stuff that was floating around us at the time ' - Autechre
https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/autechre-5th-february-2023

AUTECHRE

Recording of Batu B2B Donato Dozzy (the secret B2B) at Aura, Draaimolen Festival 2023, Day 1.

Batu B2B Donato Dozzy at Draaimolen Festival 2023

Here at Dekmantel we are a big fan of Berlin based Brit Objekt. Evidence: you will see him play our festival in Amsterdam as well as Lente Kabinet, and then Dekmantel Selectors in Croatia. And right now, the man known for his unrivalled technical nous is in a fine run of form. His recent, self-released EP is another testament to his ability to skew house, techno and breaks into his own imaginative forms. Following on from releases on Hessle Audio, Bleep and an album on PAN, it is another boon in his fine discography. 

And he is just as impressive across a 90 plus minute selection for us: it finds him serving up a cavernous world of intricate and hi fidelity sounds that are abstract and unusual. Moving through sparse minimal soundscapes into pummelling but atmospheric drum tracks and on to jungle, dub and experimental worldly rhythms, it is a wildly compelling and singular selection filled with unusual sounds that often leaving you wondering WTF?!

Dekmantel Podcast 116 - Objekt

Crack Mix 169 - Batu

SC DOWNLOAD REACHED ITS LIMITED BUT UPLOADED IT HERE THX XX https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ibirkhj2i8b4m5/BATU_%20P13%20X%20TIMEDANCE%20%40%20TWH%2024.02.18.mp3?dl=0

ello

here's a recording of my set from The White Hotel in Manchester, Feb 2018 - i was closing from 5-7am after a bumpy Lena Willikens set. it was my 2nd gig of the night and my 4th in 3 days, there's a few sketchy transitions but the vibe was great so who cares.

it's definitely pretty peak time, with a few twists and turns in there too - also loads of fresh music which you might hear more of later in the year...!

P13 24.02.18

Live @ P13 X Timedance 24.02.18 - The White Hotel [Manchester] (dl link in bio)

Seattle-based CCL (@ccl-tuf) is a DJ, promoter and curator. They’re a founding member of TUF, a local collective focused on community-building and creating visibility for underrepresented artists in dance music. Known for bold musical choices, CCL blends a caleidoscope of rhythms, usually playing a mixture of deep, immersive breaks, electro, techno and bass music. Ahead of their Unsound Kraków 2019, CCL has prepared an exciting mix full of deep sounds, bookended by experimental Polish music from past and present. Enjoy!

Unsound Podcast 56: CCL

Recording of upsammy's set at Dekmantel Festival 2019.

Dekmantel Festival 2019

upsammy at Dekmantel Festival 2019

Set recorded for the 3rd edition of Club Quarantäne in June 2020, an initiative raising funds for Center for Black Equity in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

upsammy & Oceanic @ Club Quarantäne

Here’s the recording of my Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, which I recorded at the start of 2020 and was broadcast in June. Feeling like I’d been given some big shoes to fill, I spent a couple of months planning a rambunctious, high-energy party mix that would also still be pretty ambitious in the range of styles and tempos it would cover, finally finishing it just as the first lockdowns were kicking in. Obviously, by the time it was eventually broadcast it felt a little out of step with the times. But listening back to it I still feel like it’s one of my better studio mixes, and with the holidays (and a vaccine) around the corner maybe its energy will even feel newly appropriate. So in case you missed the official broadcast – or wanted a download – here it is.

I included a handful of all-time personal favourites, and most of the tracks marked “unreleased” are presumably up on Bandcamp by now so go show the artists and labels a bit of love if you’re feeling it.

TL:

Lyra Pramuk - Mirror (Bedroom Community)
Laughing Ears - Blue Dusk (DECISIONS)
Batu - SYX (unreleased)
Doctor Jeep - Snake Eyes (DRX)
Miss Red - Come Again (Pressure)
Yilan x Ren - Ark (Infinite Machine)
Chants - Diptych (Astral Plane)
Quincy Jones - The Verb To Be (Qwest/Warner Bros.)
Pearson Sound - Alien Mode (forthcoming Hessle Audio)
Galaxy Lane - Days Gone By (unreleased)
Roman Flugel - Pattern One (Ongaku Music)
Orange Kush - Tremolo (Botchit & Scarper)
Renegade Soundwave - The Phantom (It’s In There) (Mute)
Lenk - 444 (H. Productions)
Badsista - Soca Sem Parar (ft. MC Morena) (self-released?)
Slowdive - In Mind (Bandulu Out Mind Remix) (Creation Records)
Paul Damage - Passing By (HOG Records)
KAB - Anjua (Sneaky 3) (Azurite Records)
Archetype - Inhabit the Rhythm (Theory Recordings)
Sun Electric - Entrance (R&S Records)
Nothus - Konnor 3O12 (XCPT Music)
Rhyw - It Was All Happening (forthcoming Fever AM)
Nan Kolè x DJ Tess - Gimme Any Riddim feat. NyNy (self-released)
Surgeon - Floorshow Pt. 1.3 (Counterbalance)
Lhasa - Gather Like Dust (Dark Entries)
Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy - Locked In Syndrome (forthcoming BFDM)
Reelle - Hybris (Danse Noire)
RAC - Doublejointed (2) (Warp Records)
Mystic Letter K - See Her Weaving (MLK)
Thee J Johanz - Bass Up (Emergency Broadcast/Furthur Electronix)
Odd Lust - Planet Is Transparent (forthcoming Trilogy Tapes)
X/319 - Effekt_03 (Tau)
DJ Boss - Zakruta (Audio Assault)
Lag - Znoj (unreleased)
Ceephax Acid Crew - Grand Marniacid (WéMè Records)
Grandmixxer & Scratcha DVA - Free Gaza Remix (Allyall Records)
Scorp - Atomitron (Scorp)
Luxus Varta - Magnetic (unreleased)
Al Wootton - Natural Forward (Trule)
FFT - orr din (Super Hexagon)
Pepe - Palinka Hammer (Naïve)
N-ter - Low (Databass Online)
Radioactive Man - Jommtones (Asking For Trouble)
DJ Balani - Balani Sanga (Sahel Sounds)
The Criminal Minds - Change The Pace (TCM Recordings)
Fast Floor - Plight Of The Innovators (Smooth Recordings)
Luxxuryproblems - Ideal, Whirlpool, Transfer (Turbulence) (SPA Recordings)
MC Jessi - AQFFE (Laza Edit) (Tormenta)
Jonny Megabyte - Pickles & Tootsie Pops (Databass Online)
Homemade Weapons - Svalsat (Donato Dozzy Remix) (Samurai Music)
Artilect - Mefo (Samurai Music)
Digital & Sight Unseen - Out of Control (Function Records)
dgoHn - Ninnyhammer (Love Love Records)
RTR - Untitled21 (Analogical Force)
Greta Wohlfahrt - Ausweichquartiere (Greta Wohlfahrt)
C-Tank - Walk On Base (Overdrive)
Lakker - Suburban Cutting (self-released)
Smog - Surfactant (Failed Units)
DJ Pacifier - Ready (Failed Units)
Sample: Rhythm Device - Acid Rock (Music Man Records)
DJ Pacifier - Beginning to Breathe (Daniel Ruane Failed Reset) (Failed Units)
Etch - Lost Orbit (Chrome Drum VIP) (Altered Roads)

Radio 1 Essential Mix

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Crack Mix 169 - Batu

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