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Limb Slip EP [All Centre]

KINDER011 - 'Gravity Games'

New York's Despina makes off-kilter, bass-heavy manoeuvres on their seismic All Centre debut.

'Limb Slip' is out February 11th on All Centre.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3ojWGBQ

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Premiere: Despina - Packing (Phallus) [All Centre]

Brooklyn’s @despinadespina debuts on @all-centre-504822953 with four hi-def dancefloor mutations. Hear ‘Alexa In Despair’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-despina-alexa-despair

Limb Slip

Premiere: Despina ‘Alexa In Despair’

Intergalactic bass mutations from New York-based artist Despina for their All Centre debut.

Following on from their Kindergarten Records release last year, Despina continues their exploration in powerful rhythmic records layered with Earth-shattering bass with ‘Limb Slip’ EP, due to be released on All Centre on the 11th February. Primed and ready for the dancefloor, ‘Akimbo’ is a futuristic cut filled with sci-fi soundscapes and warping wormholes - keeping the energy high. The release highlights Despina’s knack for intricate sound design whilst flirting with juxtaposing styles of intensity and playfulness. 

‘Limb Slip’ by Despina will be released via All Centre on the 11th February - pre-order here: https://allcentre.bandcamp.com/album/limb-slip

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Premiere: Despina - Akimbo [All Centre]

Pre-order: https://kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-games

Fresh from the milestone of their 10th release @kindergartenrecords keep their foot on the gas with another collection of percussive sorcery from label stalwart @despinadespina. A titanic clash of the organic and the synthetic, ‘Gravity Games’ crashes about with gleeful abandon, guided by an unrelenting intensity and the sense that every space should be filled, every sense overloaded. Within these tracks respite is rare: precious gasps for air never far ahead of a tumbling return to neurological bombardment. ‘Blure’ keeps up the pressure with an amalgam of serrated synths, old-skool vocal chops and a rippling cascade of percussive texture.

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Premiere: Despina 'Blure'

Despina returns to Kindergarten Records with a new EP, ‘Gravity Games’. The releases follows shortly after their debut on London-based label All Centre earlier this year. 

On ‘Your Invisible Room’, Despina explores the concept of space and stillness, with moments of quietness amid of the chaos of jittering, warping synths and crashing drum pattern. It’s a track seeped in organic textures, with the bird song opening inviting you into Despina’s futuristic nature. 

‘Gravity Games’ by Despina will be released on the 1st July via Kindergarten Records - pre-order here: https://kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-games

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Gravity Games

Premiere: Despina - Your Invisible Room (Kindergarten Records)

Playful and percussive, Despina graces Kindergarten Records with a bassline-leaning wrecker.

'Gravity Games' is out July 1st on Kindergarten Records.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3OipkhR

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Premiere: Despina - Selfcare Dot Gov [Kindergarten Records]

Fresh from the milestone of their 10th release, Kindergarten Records keep their foot on the gas with another collection of percussive sorcery from label stalwart Despina. A titanic clash of the organic and the synthetic, ‘Gravity Games’ crashes about with gleeful abandon, guided by an unrelenting intensity and the sense that every space should be filled, every sense overloaded. Within these tracks respite is rare: precious gasps for air never far ahead of a tumbling return to neurological bombardment. ‘Skin Psychic’ is a tightly-wound, halftime stepper with glimmers of sweetness buried amidst its grotesque, heaving mass.

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Buy:
https://kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-games

PREMIERE: Despina - Skin Psychic [Kindergarten Records]

First show of Kindergarten Residency on The Lot Radio <3 A special first hour set from Despina celebrating their new "Gravity Games" EP release as well as their birthday + a second hour of Kinder fam b2b2b action.

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Kindergarten with Ayesha b2b Despina b2b Drummy @ The Lot Radio 07 - 02 - 2022

NYC’s Despina brings their signature metallic palette to the 909 mix series. Someone we’ve had our eye on for a while now through their releases on Kindergarten and All Centre, Despina is quickly becoming known for their thrilling take on club music. I think RA described their All Centre release as ‘unhinged’ and it feels like an appropriate word to describe this session. It’s robotic, sometimes spiralling out of control before commanding back into action with high energy rollers and percussive-driven rhythms. It has left me very very eager to see them play in a club setting. This itch needs to be scratched asap!

‘Gravity Games’ by Despina is out now on Kindergarten Records - buy here: https://kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-games 

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Tracklist:
Dennett - Kalli
Triple Pendulum - Air Max '97
Console - Pluralist
Backstab - Troy Gunner
Murmurs - Krithi
Temporary Transit - Teleself
Spati Creatures - Squidbrain
Bilka - Blawan
Skin Psychic - Despina
Bayon - Yilan
Triangulation - Farsight
Spit - Gag Reflex
Sumatra - Glimmerman
Tranki - Bitter Babe & Nick Leon
Hi Tek Music - East Man
Afloat - Ido Plumes
Ad Punks - Strange Contents 
EN LA FIESTA - badsista
Overtone - Teo Drean
Thermal - Atrice
Selfcare dot gove - Despina
Hypnobody - Ekzander

Untitled 909 Podcast 130: Despina

Despina @ Nowadays 10/27/23

Despina heads to The Lot to celebrate the release of their new EP 'Erupting Color', dropping May 31st on All Centre. They'll bring their signature whirling rhythms, alien textures, and earth shaking bass.

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Despina 'Erupting Color' EP Release Show [All Centre] @ The Lot Radio 05-24-2024

Despina (they/them)

Despina (they/them) is a Queens-based producer and DJ. Their music explores the intersection of psychedelic textures, intricate rhythms, and pounding grooves. They are a longtime stalwart of the New York label Kindergarten Records, releasing 2 EPs on the label. Despina’s most recent EP ‘Erupting Color’ was released on All Centre in May 2024, marking their second release on the London based label.

Notes on the Mix ///
"I imagine this mix existing in some primordial future – magma spilling over glass, flowers consuming steel, oceans rising over long-abandoned cities. Or maybe it's just a colorful, deep little mix for you to enjoy on a wistful Spring day."

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TRACKLIST:
Arushi Jain - Play In The Void
Homelander - Indx
Teqmun - Balsa
Ezy - Maps
Sam Goku - Spirit Link
E-Unity - Avray Link
not even noticed - Step Aside
Lårry - Kauz
ABSL - Bestial
Gamma Intel - Trust
Talik - Wood & Water (French II Remix)
Le Motel - Piga Makoni (feat. Nan Eeto)
Leif - Kallt
Kazuki Koga - Confidentiality
Whylie - In The Sky
Jörmugandr - Root Mender
ANMON - Orch II
Sarah Farina - Doki Doki
Ehua - Gesso
georg-i - Change
Mad Zach - Tunnel Snare
Reeko - Black Owl On My Shoulder

XOXA BLEND 211 - Despina

Kindergarten Records starts off the new year with a deep dive towards our intimate,  digital futures; courtesy of Despina - who rings in 2021 with a solo four-tracker entitled  Data Soft. Coming off their debut on our label through a split EP with Kindergarten  residents Ma Sha Ru entitled 'Polychronia' - as well as a track on Kindergarten's frst  compilation, 'Fluo I' - Despina provides a journey that leads to reconciling the ways that  the digital world has seeped into our most private aspects. From ascending sonics  to jagged juxtapositions of rhythm, texture and harshness - Data Soft is a record that delineates our current social climate succinctly with each passing kick and snare. 
 “Vitamin Party” plays off the electrolytics of the former track, lulling the listener towards  a comfortable nestle until the drop hits hard - cataclysmic and crisp percussion that  invites the listener to get cautiously cozy with an ASMR layer of metaphysical  stabilization after the catharsis is reached.
Taken as a whole, Data Soft is an attempt to reconcile the ways that the digital world  has seeped into our most private aspects. Can we be sensual and celebrate our  bodies while corporations defne us with endless data? Is true inner peace even  achievable in our strange virtual dystopia? Despina does not seek to answer these  questions, but rather to look at the slippery nature of data, sex, and the future through a sonic telescope. 

Despina (pronouns: they/them) is the pseudonym of New York based producer,  composer, and DJ Mica Matchen. Their work explores the dichotomies and  contradictions inherent in sound and life: rhythm and texture, male and female,  hedonism and mindfulness. As ferce as Mica is with their rhythms, they are just as  ferce about their politics, seeking to imbue their work with revolutionary passion,  socialist ideals, and an ear to the future. 

Kindergarten Records is a Brooklyn-based record label, rave, radio show specialising  in cosmic club workouts with wigged-out rhythmic structures. 

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Data Soft

PREMIERE: Despina - Vitamin Party [Kindergarten]

https://kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/data-soft

@kindergartenrecords starts off the new year with a deep dive towards our intimate, digital futures; courtesy of @despinadespina - who rings in 2021 with a solo four-tracker entitled Data Soft. “Vitamin Party” plays off the electrolytics of the rest of the EP, lulling the listener towards a comfortable nestle until the drop hits hard - cataclysmic and crisp percussion that invites the listener to get cautiously cozy with an ASMR layer of metaphysical stabilization after the catharsis is reached.

Premiere: Despina 'Choker Release'

@despinadespina's 'Utopia in Retrograde' is dripping with anxious melodics, gripping bassline and hypnotic yet headstrong percussive throughways. Forthcoming on Kindergarten Records.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/despina-utopia-in-retrograde

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Premiere: Despina - Utopia in Retrograde

Despina explores intimacy and identity in our digital future on their ‘Data Soft’ EP for Brooklyn’s Kindergarten Records. Hear the high-voltage club cut  ‘Deep State Cam Girl’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-despina-deep-state-cam-girl

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