Name: Avalon Emerson at Dekmantel Festival 2023 by dekmantel in 2401
Duration: 2 h 2 min
Description: Recording of Avalon Emerson's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

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Dolfin Records' Ben Hixon runs through old vaults of most of his friends and Dolfin Peers, including an exclusive Jon Bap/JT Donaldson Edit, Old Soul 45s, Deep House, Southern Rap and some of Chicago's finest Artists of today.

Dolfin Records w/ Ben Hixon - April 2021

Eris Drew — live from Boiler Room at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Eris Drew | Dekmantel 2022 | Sunday

You know me, live from the board recording plus crowd mic. One of my final festival sets of 2022, closing out Making Time ∞ in one of my favorite cities, Philly (long live dave p!) eternal gratitude crystals to all and to all a good night <3

Avalon Emerson Live in Philadelphia 2022 - 09 - 24 @ Making Time ♾️

Robert was our friend, and we miss him. It's difficult to put into words just what he meant to us. He was a mentor, an inspiration. Canada’s, and more specifically Montreal’s, disco deity. We won’t burrow into his biography, as it is extensive, and footnotes would simply not do him justice. Check out the Red Bull Music Academy video interview if you want to start to journey into who he was for yourself. We made this mix just a few days after he died. It is a cathartic, vastly imperfect, and quick expedition into his music. It merely scratches the surface of who he was, musically.

We connected through a party we were playing for Pride Toronto, after we suggested that he replace the divine Nicky Siano on the bill, as Nicky had to back out at the last minute. After that party, we played together a handful of times, both in his native Montreal and in Toronto, but we really became close through afternoons spent in his home studio, sharing songs. He was more passionate about music than anyone we’d ever met. He was in his seventies, some forty years our senior, but was a big kid really, and when we were together we were contemporaries. We loved taking him out to dinner, which happened about once a month, and hearing stories of his Limelight disco days, or of his experience making house music in the nineties. Or speaking to what it was like to be a seventy-odd something still making music and djing parties. He was always working on something. Always. We were so proud to help get a few of his edits out to the world, through connections with GAMM, Basic Fingers, and Whiskey Disco. He had so much music to share, and was constantly clamouring for us to send him edits for his radio shows, a request we complied to, often and happily. 

When the world stopped with Covid, we were no longer able to make it to Montreal. We’d chat over the internet, or do video calls, but, in hindsight, we could and should have stayed better connected. When the news of his passing broke, over a stranger's shared Facebook post of all places, we were breathless and in disbelief. We called his phone, over and over again, putting our faith in the unreliability of social media, but he didn’t answer. Shortly after, a text came from his phone, from a friend of his, confirming the news. The hardest part was knowing that those dinners were over. No more advice and no more shared wisdom. The promise of another party to play together was to be left unfulfilled. We just hope that he knew how much we loved him and how important he was to us.

Dylan & John aka the Patchouli Brothers

Lumberjacks Tape 044: Ode to Robert Ouimet by The Patchouli Brothers

Dekmantel - Avalon Emerson  HÖR - Aug 6  2023

Massive Mix Series

The Patchouli Brothers Are Massive - Mix 007

Recording of Avalon Emerson's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Avalon Emerson at Dekmantel Festival 2023

BBC Radio 1's Residency - Moxie - An Introduction

BBC Radio 1's Residency - Moxie - Festival Favorites

*** 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

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/TheMix043EDOO

For 2024’s final instalment of The Mix, @eris-drew & @octoocta provide an hour of Motherbeat-infused ecstacy

"We wanted to do a proper, 128 BPM house mix. Our very ecstatic, house energy mix. It’s going to be just over an hour, because we want it to be in that radiant space for the entire time and play some of our older favourites, as well as newer favourites from our record bag over this past year. We’re not like ‘track of the week’ DJs, when we love something, it’s getting played over the span of a few years, sometimes even 10 years."

Tracklist + Q&A

The Mix 043: Eris Drew & Octo Octa

Avalon Emerson - 9000Streams (Triple J Mix)

Boiler Room and Sugar Mountain's iconic link up expanded to two days this year to include more heavy hitters plus the long-awaited return of a BR legend.

Gabrielle Kwarteng | Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain 2025

F71K (FLIK) is Canadian producer Greg Flichel. KARTOFFEL is his debut release under the F71K moniker. This EP is the result of a freak electrical storm where a humble potato achieved sentience and discovered techno. His other musical projects include live electronic duo DIG.IT.ALL and alternative-rock band
Robot Hive.

Enter The Robot:
youtu.be/WJN-T5e66O8

Generator:
youtu.be/26rtuIs8AdQ

Secret Candy Shop:
youtu.be/sMATSYPtTvI

Trickster:
youtu.be/rhMv9Dlztf0

Secret Candy Shop (3Bot Remix)
youtu.be/UPNc1smHKHw

Snübrovk.Urshk - Mashed Potatoes:
youtu.be/xl6uXjGgEHM

Kartoffel EP Release Interview:
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F71K - Trickster

Live from the board plus crowd mic on Saturday November 24, 2018. Thank you to Mutek and everyone in attendance.

Partial BMC tracklist of music available on bandcamp:
https://buymusic.club/list/avalon-emerson-mutek-mexico

Live at Mutek Mexico

Eris Drew is one of those artists who seemed to blow up over night, but who had actually been hard at work for decades. A long-time residency at Chicago's Smart Bar brought her to international attention, and her own Motherbeat parties at various places around Europe furthered that reputation. It is there that she manages to cook up pure, unadulterated dance floor love and euphoria with hi-energy selections and a unifying sense of oneness that is put together with her own so called “orchestration” mixing techniques. An inquisitive musician and innovative recording artist, she has also just put out her debut solo EP on Interdimensional Transmissions and runs T4T LUV NRG with partner Octo Octa. 

This week's mix is all of the above and more: a throbbing, impulsive and full bodied experience that serves up the most bumping house grooves but run through with the warm ambient glow of a post-rave comedown. The music feels at classic but also thoroughly contemporary: it will make you pump your fist in sheer joy, but also sends warm waves of euphoria through your body. This is the sound of the Motherbeat.

Eris on her mix:
"In a recent interview for DJ Mag I talk about my connection to the song “Secrets of Mediation” by Dutch producers Alex Dijksterhuis (Jamez) & Gaston Steenkist (Dobre). At Chicago raves in 1994 and 1995, this track revealed to me that modern dance music contains archaic ritual elements such as trance-inducing resonances, penetrating sacred drums, and language transformed into glossolalia. My DJ mix for Dekmantel is inspired by my formative dance experiences and by the intense extended sets I play at psychedelic raves such as Motherbeat and No Way Back. The mix includes bass music, progressive, breaks, house, techno, and minimal, all of which I collage, drop and scratch to put us into a tunneling trance."

Full tracklist here: dkmn.tl/270-ErisDrew

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 270 - Eris Drew

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