tracklist: http://www.mixesdb.com/w/2015-08-17_-_Intergalactic_Gary_-_Dekmantel_Podcast_031

Yes...Anne Clarke...¡Our Darkness...Qué delicia!!

Music in praise of the Moon
Mix series hosted by Stathis (@stathisvt) and Luigi Di Venere (@luigidivenere)
27th Episode by Agatha & GRETA (@dj_greta) 
Artwork by Thodoris Dimitropoulos

Moon Gazing 027 by Agatha & GRETA

TOTALLY CORRUPT with DJ Lou Go @ The Lot Radio 01 - 10 - 2023

Sons Of Kemet - Envision Yourself Levitating [Impulse!]
Theo Parrish - All The Way Back [KDJ]
Thomas Cox - The Rotor [Q.E.D. Recordings]
Arbeid Adelt! - Death Disco (Marcellus Pittman Alive Disco edit) [Yellow Jackets]
Hieroglyphic Being - Nights Under The Nubian Sky [Soul Jazz Records]
Juju Christian Treuter - Same Ol Day [Juju Music]
Luke Hess - Break Through [FXHE]
Fanon Flowers - Up (Sect Records)
W1b0 - Program Yourself To Feel (Human Form remix) [U-Trax]
The Youngsters - Illogique [F Comm]
Kerrie - No Imitation [Dark Machine Funk]
W1b0 - Beilstein Reference [U-Trax]
Sunil Sharpe - Goddhead [Don’t Be Afraid]
Tachyon - PCM (dub) [Unruh]
Oceanic - Green-Blue [Nous’Klaer Audio]
Jeroen - Partial Simulation [Cache]
Rustal - The Chieftain [Diffuse Reality]
Gez Varley - Bounce Back To Mars [Self Released]
MoMa Ready - Groove & Talk [Self Released]
MoMa Ready - Depth of Field II [Self Released]
Ambulance - Greasy Combover [Open Ear]
ZOiD - 9713Poochy (Dan Curtin Remix) [Metamorphic Recordings]
Tr One - I’m Dreaming Again (Scott Ferguson remix) [Intrinsic Rhythm - forthcoming]

393 Podcast 010-Kenny Hanlon

I-F @ HEAT x Intergalactic FM 11.02

40 mixes in and the Off The Record series has seen a wide spanning in range of artists and styles. Its dug deep into DJ's record bags and has let us hear some of their holiest gems. Our 40th mix comes from one of the most solid selectors Amsterdam has to offer; Olf van Elden aka Interstellar Funk. 
Having started off working at the Dutch institution that is Rush Hour Records as a label manager and playing sets year in and year out at the monumental Dekmantel, Interstellar Funk has taken himself worldwide as well as releasing records on labels like L.I.E.S, Berceuse Heroique, Rush Hour, Dekmantel along with his own Artificial Dance label. A label he has run with a keen ear since 2017 releasing artists like Genetic Factor, June, Black Merlin and more. 
For Off The Record 40 Interstellar Funk takes us in the realms of home and club listening with a well crafted mix that builds and warms us into the floor beautifully. We had a chat with the artist about the mix and about what he has going on:

Off The Record Mix Series 40: Interstellar Funk

July 2023 Santuario Show Final

Intergalactic Gary is a Dutch DJ and producer who has many miles on his DJ clock. He first started plying his trade on the raw West Coast of the Netherlands back in the early nineties, where he would rock squat parties and amaze club crowds with his widescreen sets. Ever since then he has been a key player in the Dutch scene, is part of cult crew The Parallax Corporation and is never far away from a pirate radio station. As well as this, nowadays he is a regular on the European circuit at places like Panorama Bar and has long been a Dekmantel favourite.  A real mix specialist who has put out countless official compilations over the years, Gary is behind the next podcast, which is a 3,5 hour live recording, for us and it is a typically well formed affair that takes us deep into his world.  

With more than a hint of the cosmic atmospheres you would expect of someone called Intergalactic Gary, his selection is a dark, moody one full of broken disco and whacked out electro. Shades of new wave, Italo and synth pop also colour the grooves he lays down, and the cumulative effect is an absorbing, slightly unsettling ride through fierce textures, prickly percussive patterns and otherworldly atmospheres. 

Dekmantel Podcast 031 - Intergalactic Gary

10 years ago Carlos declared that there must be truth in advertising and pushed the original leaky warehouse No Way Back til 5 PM the next day. He has constantly evolved as a DJ, he always plays with great gravitas to whatever the given context. Here we find Carlos Souffront in his indigenous habitat - at No Way Back 2016 in the Ballroom of the Tangent Gallery, playing after Patrick Russell and before Derek Plaslaiko.

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

IT.podcast.s06e01: Carlos Souffront @ No Way Back, Tangent 2016

NTS Radio - 29.05.2018

The final chapter in Phonica’s 2018 Mix Series comes in the form of an intricate and eclectic 75-minute long recording from Optimo’s JD Twitch.

Check out the mix and interview over on Off The Record 👉 bit.ly/PhonicaMix55

Phonica Mix Series

Phonica Mix Series 55: JD Twitch (Optimo)

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

New Beat was born and initially exploded in 1987, went supernova (in Belgium) in 1988 and then the formula morphed a bit and was declared dead in 1989. It was slow and initially all about the atmosphere with industrial strength beats - the main form of rhythmic propulsion being the pounding kick and heavy snare. It was often mainly instrumental and when there was lyrical content it often became more about slogans and giving commands - "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat!", "Let There Be Brightness!", "Shout Out Loud!". While not really New Beat, it's no surprise Technotronic's "Pump Up Jam" was produced by a crew who had produced a ton of New Beat gems.

In 1989 one of New Beat's founders, Marc Grouls said "New Beat is atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial!!!!!" But, it was already too late. A zillion bandwagon jumpers had diluted the music and flooded the market with too many sub standard 12" singles. New Beat temple, the legendary Boccaccio nightclub, in Destelbergen, near Ghent, had been closed down and it looked like it was all over, but really, it was just the beginning. New Beat morphed into Hard Beat (many of the tracks on this mix are from the Hard Beat era) which quickly morphed into Belgian Rave, which was huge and hugely influential in the UK and is an often overlooked part of the DNA of UK Hardcore, and all that came after. Then from Ghent, R&S Records established itself as thee European Techno label and a huge wave of incredible Techno records emanated from it and many other mighty Belgian labels, but that is another story. 

New Beat arrived just as I first started DJing and I played a lot of it in my DJ sets and built up connections with several of the leading Belgian labels who would send me 12" singles so I had records nobody else here had any idea even existed. I would compile New Beat charts for the music paper The NME which may have given the impression there was a thriving New Beat scene in Scotland. The reality was very different; people here, many of whom would embrace the rave just a little while later never really took to it in a big way.

This mix is comprised of many of my personal favourites that I have loved since they came out (and two I missed at the time and only heard later). I think the tracks have aged like a fine wine, often sounding as good if not better today as they did then. There is definitely a faint whiff of fromage and a big dollop of stoopid in several of these tracks. Of course, it is not all about the cheese and many of these adhere to the "atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial" rule mentioned above. Some of the best programmed 303 Acid basslines ever made can be heard here along with transcendental hypno synths and those Belgian beats going on and on....! Slow and low, from under 100bpm up to 116, New Beat doesn't chug, it swings in a very distinct way. If you get to see any videos of Belgian clubs of the era, the way people moved to this music is incredible and so different to any dancing we see today.

Many of these tracks are made by the same people under various aliases, which will perhaps be audibly evident. Most of the names have been forgotten, if they were ever even known outside their native Belgium at all, but all are legends to me. 

This mix isn't any kind of attempt to tell the story of New Beat but rather a mix 33 of my favourite 12" singles from that era showing many of the various strains of the New Beat and Hard Beat sound. A lot of love went into this and I hope someone somewhere discovers this music for the first time and falls in love with it as I did way back when. This was Belgium!

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

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