Dirty Epic welcomes aboard @shantievanti for the 127th installment of Amplify Series.

Shanti has made textured waves in Chicago’s techno scene with her curation of dark, sinister, and ethereal soundscapes. Music has always been a means of coping with the otherness and hybridity Shanti experienced throughout her life. She has been deeply moved by the transcendent ability of music to express concepts, states of consciousness, and conflicting emotions. Shanti’s sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition and illustrate an intentional trajectory through combining and cultivating surreal, atmospheric, and haunting sounds.
 
Enamored by the liminal dynamics of sound, she cohosts Otherworldly Ambiguity with Scum.ee –an experience that is centered around the phenomenon of existing in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories. She is also a member of techno collective Research & Development and hosts a monthly radio show, “Liminal Radio” on WIIT 88.9 FM featuring thoughtful artists at the core of Chicago’s underground music scene.
 
Experiencing music outside of the confines of a club or the underground is extremely important to Shanti as she had initially discovered her favorite artists through online podcasts and radio. The universalizability of podcasts and radio enable music to be experienced by more humans situated in different contexts. This is why she has contributed to many notable online mix series and radio channels. Her mixes have been featured on The Black Lodge Radio, SutroFM, Mutant Radio, PPRZ, Distant Signals, Death Decay & Magic, Braid Records, Low Visibility, Dance All Day, and m50’s etc radio among other podcasts and shows.

"For this closing set, I wanted to cultivate an atmosphere of releasing the turbulent emotions we have been experiencing in Chicago as a community. I anticipated the desire for this release but experiencing it in the subterranean context of Smartbar - in the darkness - in real time- felt so powerful and transcendent. This experience was not merely an escape, but a channeling of the heaviness within us - how do the mind and body cope and grasp what is happening? I was fueled by the defiantly heavy energy from the dancers and it was such a testament to the healing power of music during these dark times."

LINKS:

SHANTI:
Soundcloud: @shantievanti
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shantiism/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/shanti

DIRTY EPIC:
Website: www.dirty-epic.com
Merch: shopby6am.com/collections/dirty-epic-collection
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DirtyepicLA
Twitter: twitter.com/dirtyepicla
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtyepicla/

Amplify Series 127 - Shanti (live Smartbar, Chicago 10/25)

It’s back to the city by the sea for Bassiani Podcast 285 and Lournco Lvgs is flying the flag. On the Lisbon beat he works across different media including sound and visual, exploring the nexus of both disciplines with interminable passion and proposing a world rich in pattern and texture. Integral to the city’s creative landscape, you’ll find him regularly bouncing between venues like the storied LUX Frágil, community staple Zé dos Bois and the festivals Waking Life and Boom. Highly dynamic and plugged into a landscape of his own design, his sound is a testament to the grassroots energy currently taking over his hometown. As producer, DJ and organiser, he cofounded the record label Vilamar, is part of the Capsula experimental collective and also performs in the duo Adão e Erva- there’s little he hasn’t touched on as his creative impulse keeps exploring. The confident blurring of genre boundaries has lent his sound a depth of reference points and expanded the scope of his work far beyond anything expected, these are serious beats for serious ravers. Seeking to investigate the connection between the physical and the intangible elements in music, Lournco Lvgs tirelessly reformulates elements and yields the best sounds as a result. For this latest instalment, the Portuguese provocateur supplies just under two hours of liminal drumloops and tunes hot off the grill, explosive beats from a local talent.

@lourenco-vgs

Bassiani invites Lournco Lvgs / Podcast #285

Live recording from our event Singularity, every Monday at Tresor, Berlin 🖤

SUBSTANCE*live 12.5.2025 Singularity @ TRESOR

Laura MRLS submits a session rich in energy for Episode 493.

A far reaching journey encapsulating the Helsinki based artists capability to provide melancholic and atmospheric selections in a seamless package for the listener.

Follow : 

https://soundcloud.com/laura_mrls
https://www.instagram.com/la.mrls/

MNMT 493 : Laura MRLS

Hamburg’s Shimmy Robin brings a kind of precision that feels alive — sharp edges wrapped in warmth. With her blipmotif nights at Golden Pudel Club, she’s been shaping a sound both elegant and unpredictable, where rhythm turns into emotion and back again.

Her Monument debut at Backsteinboot was loud, fearless, and beautifully unhinged — a peak-time charge that hit like a rotating flaming whip, all motion and fire.  A set that burned straight through the night. Her first time with Monument, and definitely not the last.

Follow:
SC : https://soundcloud.com/shimmyrobin
IG : https://www.instagram.com/shimmy.r0bin/

MNMT Recordings : Shimmy Robin @ Monument Reunion 2025

For episode 242, we feature Sphinx, a Detroit-based DJ and multimedia artist whose path into electronic music is shaped by years of creative exploration and deep connection to community.

What began in a bedroom in West Michigan—while studying Fine Art and Illustration—has evolved into a distinct sonic practice rooted in Detroit’s rich techno legacy. After returning home in 2021, Sphinx immersed herself in the city’s underground, drawing inspiration from its enduring ethos of experimentation, resilience, and collective energy.

Her sound blends layered percussion, acid grooves, and Detroit’s driving pulse into mixes that are both introspective and physical. Influenced by early exposure to live jazz, spiritual traditions, and symbolic storytelling, she creates sets that move beyond the functional—toward the transformational.

From stages like Movement, Electric Forest, and The Great Beyond, to this latest offering for Blank Code, Sphinx continues to craft experiences that resonate on and off the dance floor.

Tracklist: 

Vacil - Infans
The Living Planet - Foreign Material
Corel - Cloned
Wobani - Luigi Tozzi 
The Summon - Wata Igarashi
The Message - Forest On Stasys
Bacchanalia I (Al Wootton Remix) - Big Hands
Block Nine - Forest Drive West
Bending - Kobe Dupree
Marchesa Deserta - PRG/M
South Meridian - Cliche Morph
Wandering Endlessly - Robert Hood
Winged (Donato Dozzy Remix) - Priori
808 Trax (Original) - Alpha 606
Multiform - al dente
Doctors Note - Acutek
Mockingbird - KGIV
Bolt - Planetary Assault Systems
Chez Driss - Feral
Mindless Chaos - Joshua Calleja
Cave - Rene Wise
No Dice - Paul Fleetwood
Breathing - Son Error
Goddess Within (Give It To Me Daddy) - Maara
Epoxy (Patrick Russell Remix) - Jasen Loveland
Diamond City - Obscur
Curve Pericolose - Marco Shuttle
Norm - Philipp Stoffel 
Vardana Zaf - QUELZA
Virgo Space Acid - GiGi FM
the temptation - al dente

Blank Code Podcast 242 - DJ Sphinx

Loek Frey is a producer, DJ and live artist from the Netherlands whose work defies easy categorization. Blurring the lines between techno, experimental, IDM, and ambient, he crafts a sound that is at the very forefront of avant-garde electronics. His exceptional releases on Omen Wapta & his own OQAD perfectly demonstrate his mind-bending expertise and finesse in the studio. Whether through his DJ sets or live performances, Loek is renowned for dismantling the minds of the dancefloor, having brought his electronic alchemy to the controls of legendary parties like Ratherlost, Berghain's Saule, De School, pe:rsona, Refractor and many more.

For MNMT 494 Loek Frey pilots a descent into uncharted sonic territories: a transmission from a haunted and murky alien world, unfolding as a piece of cinematic sound design for a forgotten sci-fi landscape. Hi-tech fragments, ghostly echoes and unconventional grooves weave through the dense atmosphere creating an ominous yet deeply alluring hypnotic pull. A complex deep space trip of sophisticated sound design and psychoactive exploration. 

Dive into the abyss now

Follow
https://soundcloud.com/loekfrey
https://www.instagram.com/loekfrey/
https://oqad.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/oqad.label/


MNMT 494 : Loek Frey

Lumina rave

mini clip from a free style mix ~

The Bad Place - Hemka 
Aura - Fran LF

Xx

mini groove³

Curated by DSH #144: Toxido Mask

1 hour journey into deep rhythms provided by the magnificent Toxido Mask!

More info about Toxido Mask
https://www.instagram.com/toxicmassk/
https://soundcloud.com/toxido-mask
https://www.facebook.com/Toxicmassk/

Playlist for the show:
1. Rrose - Disappeared
2. Plants Army Revolver - Macao
3. Rrose - Open Cell
4. ASC - Permafrost
5. Refracted - Convolution 4
6. Evigt Mörker- Huggormen som vilar
7. Kobe Dupree - Jacurutu
8. Korridor - Array
9. Acronym - Jotunheim
10. Desroi - Pulsed Field
11. Nørbak - Otr 
12. Border One - Segment
13. JXTPS - Insinuator
14. Desroi - Hiccups Will Stop If You Choke Me
15. Reeko - I've Seen A Civilization
16. BNKMN - Tor
17. Pris - Hunger
18. Kr!z - There Is No Sun
19. Müzmin - Tata
20. JUDAΣ - Disgrace IV
21. Marçal - Nothing About the United States
22. ASC - Tenebra
23. Einox - Brute Saw

Curated by DSH #144: Toxido Mask

Unforgettable moments together with Esse during the daylight time in Masada.
The genuine technique of him brought his deeper soul in a sophisticated mixture of house, minimal and techno sounds.
Enjoy the ride.

Essē @ Acquario 08/02/25

Deep Space Helsinki is a radio show hosted by Samuli Kemppi and Juho Kusti, serving you with the most essential underground techno since 2009.

Curated by DSH #144: Toxido Mask

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