Here’s the new Expedition instalment just before my own expedition to Burning Man next week!

Gabriel Brasil - Midnight Meeting (Gui Boratto's "La Chapelle" Mix)
Of Norway - Levity Berceuse (Original Mix)
Re. You - Hands (West & Hill Remix)
Dee Montero - Aquila
TAYA. - Elevate
AVÖ, Syon, QT-HIGH - Only You
Maxim Zatonski, Studio Deep, Nastine - Dark Dreams
Cipy - Blue Grass
Underworld - Two Months Off (Tim Green Remix)
DJ T., Emanuel Satie - The Feeling
AMÉMÉ - Balafonerra
Róisín Murphy x DJ Koze - Can’t Replicate 12” Edit
map.ache - IZA
Massiande - Through The Walls

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Dee Montero is a lifer. He’s the former Mambo Ibiza resident who at the end of 2017 received Pete Tong’s Essential Tune Of The Year on BBC Radio One for the string-fuelled, epic end-of-nighter ‘Halcyon’, originally released on Solomun’s acclaimed Diynamic imprint. And he’s been busy ever since with various eps including ‘Pangaea’ on Knee Deep In Sound, ‘Shadows’ on All Day I Dream and also the scintillating ‘In The Wild’ and ‘Headspace’ featuring Meliha on Anjunadeep.

From Asia to America and everywhere in between it’s all been about the music for Dee. Performances in Australia, India and Dubai have been interspersed with US tours and appearances at Burning Man on the Robot Heart and Carl Cox Playground stages as well as summer shows in Ibiza including Hï with Joris Voorn and Nic Fanciulli.

In 2020 Dee launched his own imprint Futurescope bringing in fellow musical alchemists Patrice Baumel, Fort Romeau and Lauer for remix duties. He unleashed his diverse 12 track artist album ‘Artifacts’ to the world in 2022 playing to those deft melodic touches, twinkling synths and positive peaks. ‘Maya’, the standout track from the LP and a homage to Future Sound Of London’s ‘Papua New Guinea’ got a special rework from mastermind Rodriguez Jr. pushing the release to even bigger, higher heights. 

As well as forthcoming eps on Nora En Pure’s Purified label later this year Dee’s next single ‘Freedom’ on Hot Since 82’s Knee Deep In Sound will continue the upward electronic pressure into summer 2023. These are exciting times for an artist with Dee’s attention to detail and there are so many sonic terrains still left to discover…

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