Music For Robots On Acid.

Tokyo's @sapphire-slows has her own distinctive aesthetic. The music she makes is ghostly and delicate, eerie yet beautiful. The multi-talented artist plays her own synths and keys and layers her own beautiful vocal drones into her tracks to lend them extra intimacy. This of course means she has toured extensively and released on labels such as Japan's Big Love, Greece's Nous and LA's Not Not Fun/100% Silk. Despite often making and playing music with the brain cleansing purity demonstrated on 2017 album Time, Sapphire Slows can also do more caustic and mechanical sounds, as on 2014's Allegoria LP.

This week's mix explores a melancholic and introspective mood, but it is never dark. A range of mid-tempo rhythms set the tempo. Sometimes they're dubby and linear, at others more bubbling and off-grid, while the synths above glow like fireflies or glisten like knives in the sun. Organic bird calls float above hyper-real synthetic textures and the overall effect is to cocoon you in suspensory and meditative sound that feels out of this world.

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Dekmantel Podcast 330 - Sapphire Slows

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SID Le ROCK - Slow Motions (Mixtape #03) -Spring 2014
Special extented mix of my original Podcast for ENVOLVENT RADIO #023.

TRACKLIST:
1) The Asphodells - Prejoy (Barbaric Splendour Version) - Correspondant
2) Spitzer _ Sergen - InFine Records
3) Vondelpark - California Analog Dream (Robag's Habay Latoff) _R&S Records
4) Ada & Benno Blome feat. Rachele - Zen Cruiser (Sid Le Rock Remix) - Senzen Records
5) Nhar - Lifes Ether - My Favorite Robot Records
6)  Athos Araujo  - Doppler Effect - Sick Society Records
7) Edu imbernon & Los Suruba - Talgo - Beachcoma Recordings
8) Cable Cat - I'm Alone - Acid Fruits
9) Konstantin Sibold - Gestade - Salon Rosi Records
10) Arthur Oskan - 99 - Beachcoma Recordings

Sid Le Rock - Slow Motions (Mixtape #03) -Spring 2014

@gardenpartyy sets the opening vibe at Canyon Vibration 2023 in Tygh Valley, Oregon. 

Photo by Drew Cornwall.

Gardenparty @ Canyon Vibration 2023

With music being the only external force that has found its way into Cisco's soul, he is constantly seeking these profound and heartfelt emotions when discovering new music. Brutally stubborn refusing to fit into a single genre box, Cisco wants his DJing to be a true reflection of his personal music taste. Through the Deep Dive collective, hypnotic and deep territories of electronic music are expored. Yet his love for soulful grooves will never die, and honestly, who can resist some proper house tunes?

Cisco FM & Malo Z @ Kiosk Radio 07.08.2024

Bliss Point welcomes B+, An event producer, DJ, and one of the great enthusiasts of our time.

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Bliss Point with B+ @ The Lot Radio 09-30-2024

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CTCE w/ Sarkawt Hamad & Nèna - 10th October 2024

Found You There

There is no one quite like Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being in today’s electronic music scene. A Chicago native who runs the Mathematics label and releases on Rvng Intl, Soul Jazz and Ninja Tune, he is a raw, uncompromising and experimental live act and producer who operates right on the fringes of house, acid and techno. As such, he very much embodies the contemporary Windy City sound having first been taken under the wing of Adonis way back when. The charismatic Moss has put out music on Creme Organization, Further and Planet Mu, is a notoriously analogue centric artist and releases an awful lot of essential music on a regular basis.

And a lot of it is showcased in this podcast, which was a live and fully improvised three hour session recorded on a Friday night at Secret Service on November 20th 2015 in Minneapolis. The raw, expressive set really showcases the breadth and depth of Moss’s sound. Ranging from prickly and abstract to melodically inventive, acid laced and dark, it is a truly textural affair that never stops evolving from start to finish. 

Dekmantel Podcast 052 - Hieroglyphic Being

It is still only a couple of years since Moire first emerged, but already he operates in his own distinctive sound world. It is a place his broken house and techno is murky and disorientating, ambiguous and otherworldly. So far it has come on cult labels like Spectral Sound, Ninja Tune and Actress’ Work Discs in the form of some essential EPs and an LP, and now he steps up to our mix series ahead of the arrival of his second full length on Ghostly International. 

Over the course of an hour the Londoner lays down some loose and hazy house that gets more and more rugged as the grooves unfold. It’s lo-fi but stirringly emotive stuff that ends in a place of refracted melodies and heavenly vocals that really lift you out of the real world.

Dekmantel Podcast 105 - Moiré

In the early hours of 2018 a duo of house preachers of the highest order was in control of the Ankali dj booth. Map.Ache and Sevensol aka Manamana hail from Leipzig where they run the label/recordstore Kann Records and if their debut Prague performance has taught us one thing, it's that the two know where the groove is at. We're glad we could share an hour-and-half long excerpt of their set, as the vibe they delivered is a supreme cure for the vicious frost outside.

Ankali #002 — Manamana [extract]

October welcomes Peaking Lights to our podcast series but also our label, because on the 15th of the month the Californian electronic pop duo serve up Sand of Sea. It’s their first release of the year and a six track trip into their woozy and immersive, dubbed out electronics. It comes after a decade of Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis and honing their sound on a broad selection of labels from Domino to 100% Silk. The husband and wife pair are known for their spellbinding live show and have put out nine LPs that mirror the shimmering horizons and long warm nights of their LA hometown. 

This super extended four hour jam is a comprehensive overview of what they can do. It has a global narrative that takes you to a humid African plain then on to a beach a sunset. It veers from clunky mechanical grooves to blissed out synthscapes with ease, and tempos always stay at an invitingly slow pace, so there is plenty of space to think and get lost between the beats. Summer might now be in the rear view mirror, but this mix will always bring some sunshine into your life.

Dekmantel Podcast 199 - Peaking Lights

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