@ruksby beams in from Moscow to Melbourne with a no fuss, all fuzz selection of body moving electro and squelching acid.

Dart Echo Mix #009 - Ruksby

Lindo (@philip-sammassimo) crafts a delicate mix of airy, sotto voce electro and tech house, building from a moody, eerie underground into the ravey crescendo that both genres lend themselves to.

Dart Echo Mix #010 - Lindo

Monako (@monakooo) opens the second season of Dart Echo's mix series with a boiling selection of choppage, breakage and bleepage which irradiate heat and energy throughout.

Dart Echo Mix #011 - Monako

Lounge room dancefloor, fairy lights, and a lockdown mimosa. Liucy (@liucyliucy) rises to the occasion with a bouncing party mix for our twelfth instalment.

Dart Echo Mix #012 - Liucy

Knee-wobbling acid and glacially deep dub sounds - DJ Aime (@jasauphigh) progresses through just over an hour of immense and heartfelt groove for our latest mix.

Dart Echo Mix #013 - DJ Aime

Endorfin (@endoorfin) blitzes through 59 minutes of funky and lush electro-techno at a supersonic pace for Dart Echo's fourteenth instalment.

Dart Echo Mix #014 - Endorfin

"A shower head is a perforated nozzle that distributes water over solid angle a focal point of use, generally overhead the bather. A shower uses less water than a full immersion in a bath. Some shower heads can be adjusted to spray different patterns of water, such as massage, gentle spray, strong spray, and intermittent pulse or combination modes."

<3 @showerhead_dj

Dart Echo Mix #015 - Showerhead

Nymphschism (@abel-swain-25858012) crafts an intimate and wandering vinyl-only mix in the latest installation for Dart Echo's Mix Series, drawing connections between melodic, beatific IDM to modern jazz before plunging into the regular pulsations of soaring acid and moody techno.

Dart Echo Mix #016 - Nymphschism

Kalani (@nathankalani) slides across multiple grounds of emotion and texture for the seventeenth iteration of Dart Echo’s mix series. Don’t be surprised to witness @jamie-xx-official blended into chugging Detroit techno, science-fiction electro into hardcore chameleons, or the hyperrealist onslaughts of @rustie mixed into glissando breakbeats and drill spin rave stabs - not forgetting a touch of arms-raised house classics for good measure.

Dart Echo Mix #017 - Kalani

Purple, blue, neon flashes. Acid rain splatters across Motor City while trains blur underneath at the speed of sound. The chip is broken and you’re released - but you’ll need a head start. Black concrete, slick like oil, reflects the towering lights above. Best to make a break for it now. Try to be Not Even Noticed.

<3 @not-even-noticed

Dart Echo Mix #018 - Not Even Noticed

@lumamusicc serves up 90 minutes of pure, unadulterated disco bliss in perfect timing for the blue skies and cool grass of summer.

Dart Echo Mix #020 - Luma

The latest mix from Bangalore’s I7HVN ( @i7hvnmusic ) brings new heights of racing dancefloor ecstasy, spotlighting tunes from their contemporaries in a no-holds-barred selection of groove-embedded bass, punchy electro, and the occasional flip into scattered and melodic IDM.

Dart Echo Mix #021 - I7HVN

Mr. Gristle graces the Dart Echo mix series with an impeccably refined selection of leftfield ambiance and electronics. @gristletv 's patient hand deftly crafts the first half, before gradually stirring and moving into familiar dancefloor ranges.

Dart Echo Mix #022 - Mick Gristle

A spontaneous curation by Melbourne's own @katharine-motiontheory :

"It seems more so than ever that these days when I open my email to catch-up it is filled with musings from friends devoted to the future thinking movement. We live in an age now that many of us read about as children, we absorbed science fiction and fantasy novels in our youth. With artificial intelligence now a real thing, with talks recently that it has already become self aware. We like AI, seem to be forever longing to better understand the world we are growing up in. Some of us discovered music and never let go, always yearning to feel the next release on our ears from our favourite artists and bands. @katharine-motiontheory is one of those DJ’s who is always seeking, and we are lucky to have her. Who better to write the code required to appease the darkest of electronic souls. If machines could listen to the music they created it might feel something like this. A perfectly asymmetrical compartmentalisation of sounds circuit bent through quartz locked hearts."

- Jimi Polar

Dart Echo Mix #023 - Katharine

@Tamen and Stormn Norm of @modernhypnosis deliver a poised mix full of dark twists, jagged syncopation, and sauntering club sounds for Dart Echo’s number 24.

Dart Echo Mix #024 - Tamen B2B Stormn Norm

This mix from @devorgilla is a mesmerising fusion of innovation and experimentation, where boundaries are shattered, and the familiar is reimagined. Immerse yourself in a symphony of unconventional beats, glitch-infused rhythms, and ethereal textures that challenge the very essence of sound itself. The mix seamlessly blends hauntingly beautiful melodies with dissonant harmonies, creating an intricate tapestry of auditory emotions. Elements of found sounds, manipulated field recordings, and synthesised ambiances converge to craft an otherworldly auditory experience that defies conventions.

Dart Echo Mix #025 - Devorgilla

Explore a textural landscape, where every beat, melody, and rhythm is carefully woven by @labasscour-notacollective . With a forward-thinking approach, the mix seamlessly blends genres and styles, pushing the boundaries of conventional sound.

Dart Echo Mix #026 - La Basscour

Dart Echo's mix series returns to the dance floor with San Diego based artist @oxvac steering the fast-paced ship for our 27th edition.

Dart Echo Mix #027 - oxvac

Fig. ( @f_ig ) presents the twenty-eighth instalment of Dart Echo’s mix series.

Brooding percussive textures build into heady oddball techno before giving way to skittish broken beats and deep dubstep stylings. The Melbourne-based artist then traverses low-end bass pressure, glittering ambient techno, and everything in between.

A two-hour soundscape for body and for mind. Immerse and enjoy.

Dart Echo Mix #028 - Fig.

Searching builds upon the scope of Showerhead releases to date, but takes a unique styling on the hallmarks on electro, ambient and breakbeat. As per the title, it could be typified as seeking something expressive, a somewhat tricky path to navigate in an IDM space more often than not characterised by an abiding coldness and austerity.

Perhaps one aspect of what has characterised Showerhead’s productions to this point is the layering of IDM, breakbeat and ambient sounds in a sonic space that retains depth and focus, even given the myriad details. And even though many of these gestures and ambiences bear nostalgic weight and nods to the past, there is still ample space and possibility for novel slants to be taken, if handled with dexterity and balance.

A truly neat miscellanea, every aspect of this remarkably spotless record bears the unmistakable aura of a Showerhead production. A thoroughly consistent continuation of Showerhead’s work til now and a vital extension to a growing catalogue, Searching is electronica at its most classically redolent: nostalgia-encoded and future-fixed, and glistening with detail and intrigue.

Produced by Alex Clayton
Words by Nico Callaghan
Photography by Pim Rinkes
Mastered by Loz Grover

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A fast-paced journey through heavy kicks, break-infused rhythms, uplifting melodies, and acid-laced euphoria — the latest (after a seriously long hiatus due  to all our energy pumping into Bambra) Dart Echo mix from @danhornstra pushes energy to the edge while keeping emotion at its core. A relentless yet melodic exploration built for late nights and open minds.

Dart Echo Mix #029 - SEE'URCHIN

Dart Echo's mix series kicks off with Rings Around Saturn (@rdjm0). Notorious for idiosyncrasy, experimentation, and a wide breadth of taste and knowledge, Rory McPike's 2020 releases saw him jump from fizzing electro on Pure Space to low-ride, dubbed-out bass on Modern Hypnosis. 

His Dart Echo mix is evidence that no genre is safe from the Melbourne stalwart: the journey paces beautifully through the bubbling groove of tech and deep-house with highlights from Galcher Lustwerk and Loraine James and Le3 bLACK. Cognisant of the global predicament, McPike expertly expresses how we're feeling, delivering a mix equally apt for a socially-bubbled lounge-room boogie or a solitary plunge into headphone-headspace.

Dart Echo Mix #001 - Rings Around Saturn

Qi M0N0 (@qi-mono) arrives with an assiduous selection of rolling left-field sounds with a particular focus on mid-tempo tracks with vocal oddities.

Dart Echo Mix #002 - Qi M0N0

RUPA (@rupa_anurendra) follows with a superb mix of well-rounded electro and modern breaks, beginning gently before cranking the heat up with belters from the likes of Rudolf C and Ex-Terrestrial.

Dart Echo Mix #003 - RUPA

Lily July (@lylyjuly) jumps into the high gears of DnB before weaving an immaculate blend of contrasting tones and sounds that gradually cools down in the second half, all picked out by an ear that is evidently far reaching and curious.

Dart Echo Mix #004 - Lily July

Lara K (@l_arak) smears the lines of conventional mixing by expertly selecting a non-linear myriad of sounds and feelings, leaping from serious head-bangers to more contemplative and wandering tones.

Dart Echo Mix #005 - Lara K

moloch.exe’s (@moloch-exe) 60 minutes reeks of electrical burning, with smouldering 303 lines, bleeping melodies and spanking 808 drum kits defining a classic mix that could have been ripped straight off a 1988 cassette.

Dart Echo Mix #006 - moloch.exe

A.Mogila (@amogila) wastes no time in getting the ball rolling, with the DJ serving up a blistering hour of transcendental techno full of bleeping acid lines and clattering breaks that closes with a gentle simmering.

Dart Echo Mix #007 - A.Mogila

Coxy's ( @h-temptation ) stellar mix transports us back in time with a compilation of sounds that would be aptly suited for London's Shoom or The Haçienda in Manchester. The selection shirks categorical genres, instead finding the glorious interstices between trance and downtempo, acid and breaks, bleep and house. Through and through this mix is a quintessential glimpse into the Second Summer of Love.

Dart Echo Mix #008 - Coxy

Dart Echo continues to explore sounds emerging from circuitry, orchestrated in pure or hybrid forms by genius, and always affecting people, whether alone or with others, viscerally, cerebrally or both. Recalling analogue sound’s definition, our releases are infinitely variable in nature.

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