Millos Kaiser at Dekmantel Selectors 2023

*** You can buy the CD mix at my bandcamp ***
https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/merch/groovy-girl-bang-the-drum-cd-mix

Hiii, Octo Octa here! I'm sharing a new mix series I'm doing under the name "Groovy Girl" and the first entry is "Bang The Drum" <3 

It is a house and acid percussive groover of a mix that will hopefully have you raving where ever you are. Mixed on two Technics 1210 M5Gs and a Pioneer A9 Mixer, plus some overdubs on the recording. 

This release is a Mix CD tracked so you can jump back over and over to your favorite part. The CD insert has photos of all of the records I used for the mix in order.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it. Can't wait to get started on the next in the series!!

*** You can buy a digital version of the mix on Nina ***
https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/groovy-girl-bang-the-drum

xoxo Maya

Groovy Girl - Bang The Drum Mix

Some of the tracks that have become classics at Romance, the weekly Thursday night party at Gabriela.

Romance Mix

Romance Thursdays Mixtape

For RA.1000, we take it back to the source with two never-before-heard tapes from Frankie Knuckles's private collection

There is no house music without Frankie Knuckles, literally or figuratively. The queer icon's luxurious DJ sets at Chicago's Warehouse gave a rising movement its name. From there, countless offshoots splintered and travelled the globe. But what did the genesis and growth of the sound really feel like?

The Godfather of House left behind not only timeless records, but personalised cassettes with hand-drawn liner notes handed out to friends and family. Two of those, dated to 1989 and 1996, have been digitised especially for RA.1000. (Thank you to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.)

To put that in context: the first tape predates not only many of today's active clubbers, but the entire existence of jungle, drum & bass, UK garage, French touch, Jersey club, Afrobeats, IDM, baile funk, hardcore, footwork, dubstep, dub techno, tech house, breaks, minimal, maximal, gqom, gabber, grime and hyperpop.

In short… that's a very, very long time ago. The world of dance music was much smaller. DJ culture was functionally unrecognisable from the one we see in 2025. 

And yet, to some degree, what you'll hear on RA.1000 hasn't changed at all. It's a capture of not only what made Frankie Knuckles one of the beloved pioneers of first-generation dance music, but what draws people to club culture in the first place.

The mood on these Frankie Knuckles sets outlasts even its creator: a spirit of optimism that floods the world's best dance floors and keeps dance music pulsing on into the future, nearly 40 years later, in spite of it all. We end our 1000th mix celebrations here because it all starts there.

Find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1018. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles

Tracklist 🎵🍇🍷

Artist - Song 

Vinyl: Solo - Feel It
Pal Joey - Love Dub
Laurie Destal - Frivole de Nuit
Vinyl: Nature Boy - Prayer (2017 Edit)
Nelson Bishop - Still Life Noix de Coco
aka-Sol - No Más
Vinyl: Mya & The Mirror - Hesitation
Altin Gün - Doktor Civanım
Vinyl: Hamlet Minassian - Al Elnim (Frolov Edit)
Steve Watson - Born to Boogie
Vinyl: Tony Glenn - I Just Wanna Dance
Vinyl: DJ Sinjin - A Midnight Summers Drive
Vinyl: Marques Wyatt & Jay-J - Fog Theme Player
Vinyl: Brent Laurence - Rhythm 
Vinyl: Brent Laurence - Wanna (Chocolate Vocal)
Sister Sledge - You Fooled Around (Joey Negro Rmx)
Hardsoul & Ron Carroll - Back Together
Vinyl: Jaz - Spring Fever
Waze & Odyssey - Please Don't Dance
7th Movement - Odyssey (Love Star Disco Mix)
Naomi Daniels - Stars (DJ Dos Mix 2)
Robyn & Mr. Tophat - Trust Me
Conducta & Rachel Chinouriri - Right Together
USG (Ron Trent) & Monica Elam - Life 4 Living
Dj Steaw - Le Fifrelin
Jondi & Spesh - Creep Phase - vinyl
Command D - Step Animation
Vinyl: Miles Mercer - My Name Is What
Baaz - gummy
Erika de Casier - Delusional
fka boursin -  all kinds of shame (circumcised mix)

OTHERWORLD: JENNGREEN - Oct 2025

Blck Mamba at Dekmantel Selectors 2025

Perlenbad w/ Samira (28/11/25)

Recording of Wes Lee's set at Lentekabinet 2025.

Wes Lee at Lentekabinet 2025

The Brazilian party starter unveils 60 minutes of sun-drenched house.

Minas Gerais isn't the typical Brazil of postcards. Yet from this landlocked terrain emerged one of its most accomplished sons. As OMOLOKO, João Vitor has mastered the art of summoning summer on the dance floor. Armed with a pair of CDJs and a USB, he carries sun-kissed house dreams shaped by countless hours lost in Discogs rabbit holes, forgotten corners of YouTube and the dust of hidden record shops. 

Vitor was born in Rio Grande do Norte, in Brazil's northeast, before moving south as a child when his family set out in search of new opportunities—a well-worn path in the world's fifth-largest country. Adopting the alias OMOLOKO in the late 2010s, he quickly became a beacon in Belo Horizonte's bubbling electronic scene. Carrying sounds from home deep in his memory alongside a restless desire to make the world dance to his own findings, he carved out a singular voice with genre-hopping sets, grounded in an affection for infectious grooves and warm, rolling kicks.
 
In recent years, Vitor's fine-tuning of his craft behind the decks have made him more than a familiar face at countless essential nightlife hubs around the world, from Panorama Bar to Dekmantel, São Paulo's Gop Tun to Ibiza's DC-10. His résumé, already impressive, is expanding nicely. 

So to mark the beginning of carnaval in Brazil, who better for RA.1025. Vitor's RA Mix draws deeply from the lineage of house's most celebrated names, alongside obscure gems your Shazam wouldn't dare recognise. With slow-cooking patience, the session follows wherever the language of dance leads: South African kwaito, diva vocal flashes, funk-laced deep house, vibraphone-led strides and salsa-laced drumwork. It’s like a dream team of house offshoots, all meeting for the very first time at the beach. 

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/1044
@OMOLOKOO

RA.1025 OMOLOKO

#165 in my weekly radio show focussing on electronic, urban music from Brasil, Portugal, Angola, Mocambique and the WWW. Every Saturday from 11pm to midnight on German public radio, WDR Funkhaus Europa. www.funkhauseuropa.de , broadcasted terrestrially in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Bremen, Berlin and Brandenburg, and via live stream.

This week with an exclusive mix by @attooxxa/atoxadao

Tracklist:

1. Elza Soares “Pra Fuder”
2. Dr*ke “Controllizinho” (Viní Edit)
3. Dennis DJ ft. MC K9 “No Swing”
4. Dennis DJ ft. Nandinho + MC Nego Bam “Convocaçao Das Novinhas”
5. King Doudou + Omulu “Vai”

- Begin Of Mix -

6. Nina Simone > F££LÏNG GØØD(ÀTTØØXXÁ ®MIX)
7. Saiddy Bamba > TØM TØM£(ÀTTØØXXÁ ®MIX)
8. Russo & ÀTTØØXXÁ > PL?K PL?K
9. É Xeque > DXLØK(?.M?.$$? ®MIX)
10. PSIPVCK > ?.M?.$$? MASHUP
11. ÀTTØØXXÁ > SÄLV£ ÄNC£STRÄL
12. Jus Now > TÜN ÜP(ÀTTØØXXÁ ®MIX)
13. VANDAL > TIPUH LAZH
14. BS > PL?¥ SØM(ÀTTØØXÁ ®MIX)
15. ÀTTØØXXÁ feat Rikô & KNALHA > TÔ LÁ
16. ÀTTØØXXÁ > F*DÄ P*RRÄ
17. ÀTTØØXXÁ feat LU > NÄO P*D£ PÄRÁ
18. OZ feat ÀTTØØXXÁ > £LÄS GØ$T?M
19. OZ feat ÀTTØØXXÁ > B?NG


- End Of Mix -

20. Sants “Ze Povinho”
21.  Sango “Infinicidade”
22. Soulja Boy “Crank That”
23. João Brasil ft. Gaby Amarantos “Garafa De Licor”

Illustration by www.sarahillenberger.com



Luso FM #165 on Funkhaus Europa of 28/05/2016 w/ mix by Atoxxa

Recording of a real fun party at Club Ohm in Berlin. 02.06.18. I Played from 2:30 till 8:00 am in the morning. Here is the full set..... @alteredsoulexperiment

Luso FM #165 on Funkhaus Europa of 28/05/2016 w/ mix by Atoxxa

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