When Ploy released the 2018 club smash 'Ramos', it was clear he’d hit on a winning formula.

Like the music of his Timedance label mates Batu, Bruce, Lurka et al, this was slick, modern dance music full of know-how and technical trickery – but it was also cheeky, with an infectious energy that gave it head-turning appeal and real staying power.

Ploy's contribution to our Crack Mix series maintains this same energy as well, as it races through themes and styles that influenced his 'Rayhana' EP – out now via his new label Deaf Test. 

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Crack Mix 430: Ploy

For American artist @nick-klein, music is a gateway deep into our collective and individual psyches. He explores loudness as a form and "the sociology and ideology that presents in self-identifying music subcultures." He does this with his own @psychicliberation label, we all as with music on the likes of L.I.E.s and Viewlaxx. Next up for this prolific producer is a forthcoming double album - roughly his 15th overall - on IDEAL that will continue to explore the fringes of electronic sound with a bank of trusted modulated synths. 

Of this week's mix, Nick says, "Happy Valentine's Day! The hour of material here is a collage of releases that have come out in the previous three years on my label Psychic Liberation, or the collaborative installment of releases between Enmossed and Psychic Liberation known as ENXPL. Here you have layers of material that map the cloud of my music listening consciousness. The interior includes artists who have participated on PL since the 2013 inception. Artists like Berlin's Wilted Woman, ENXPL artists Bridget Ferrill or Rene Nunez's Horoscope project, the PL Seoul based crew of Yeong Die, Jiyoung Wi, and Joyul, prolific Iranian brother band powerhouse of Saint Abdullah, and founder of the Enmossed label Glyn Maier are found braided through each other sonically.

"While a lot of the work here isn't directly oriented towards the club setting, it could be congruous as an epilogue to an evening's more psychedelic potential. It is interesting to see how broadly sonic aesthetics in electronic music have shifted in the absence of major clubs operating at capacity, if at all. I am pleased to share pieces of what has been in my head as an obsessive listening journey and the process of documentation throughout that time. Thanks to Dekmantel.”

Dekmantel Podcast

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 372 - Nick Klein

Kasra Vaseghi homes in on leftfield music on a monthly Friday, playing new beat to trance, ambient to Middle Eastern disco and other oddities. The show regularly features guests who are upcoming DJs, local heroes or avid collectors.

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Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/kasra-v/episodes/kasra-v-18th-april-2024

Kasra V w/ Amaliah 180424

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Olin’s World: Wino Edition - Olin - 31 Aug 2024

Last Noche

I made my first remix!!! Heard this banger in the car and instantly thought of ways to play with it. What do you think?

Hey B... That's Hella Good (No Doubt Remix)

Here's an 8.5 hour set (in 2 parts) recorded at Inciting's 11 Year Anniversary party in Philadelphia on November 3rd, 2017.

As always, these long sets at Inciting HQ are always such a pleasure to do. Thank you to Justin Gibbon for continuing to bring me back every so often to take over the room for the night. I am absolutely honored to do so every single time. 

Also thanks to Mike Brunner for recording the evening.

Enjoy!

Inciting 11 Year Anniversary - 11-03-2017

Part 2 - Inciting 11 Year Anniversary, Philadelphia - November 3rd, 2017

Beta Librae is the brightest star in the Libra constellation, but also one of the brightest stars in techno. Bailey Hoffman hails from New York City and arrived in 2015 pretty much with a fully formed and decidedly singular sound. Releasing albums and EPs on labels like Incienso and Allergy Season, she draws on ambient, downtempo, new age and house music to stir up weird atmospheres and slow motion grooves. Lots goes on between her lazy kicks, and it all serves to sink you into a cavernous and expansive world of beautiful melody and loose percussion.

Over the course of ninety minutes, Hoffman’s wide sphere of influences are all exposed. There’s kaleidoscopic techno that traps you in a hall of mirrors as melodies refracted all around, ramshackle drums that are on the verge of collapse and murky house music that’s gritty and grimy. The transitions between these worlds are subtle, and for every passage of dark and dirty texture there are moments of light emitting beauty that keeps the whole thing moving.  This is club music from a whole new perspective.

Dekmantel Podcast 213 - Beta Librae

We're stretching out a bit further with this next recording from the booth and we've got Toronto's finest, Ciel, to thank for all three hours of it. 

She came through at the beginning of June and turned the place upside down and inside out with an all-night set packed full of super punchy, deeply searching, epically swirling and down-right slamming tech-house and breaky heroics. 

Thanks and praise to the wonderful Cindy for whipping this one up for us and, as always, to the dancers who came along for the ride. Yeehaw.

Nowadays Live And Direct 004 - Ciel

Tough, dark and textured, System’s set bridges the gap between the hallmarks of the scenes in Florida and the Danish capital.

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Courtesy Curates #1: Sister System

A selection of records to illustrate the sound behind Dream Software

Tracklist:

Anaconda – Ideas For Virtual Reality (Basic Energy)
Galactika 1 – We Come In Peace (Fabric Of Life)
Vector Trancer - Wormhole Chant (Mirror Zone)
Pilgrims Of The Mind – Good Morning Angel (Interchill Records)
Harmon Eyes – Sensaesa (Loop Records)
Chapters – Ray Trace (Pacific Rhythm)
Villa Åbo – From Askew To Eternity (Bio Rhythm)
EX-T - Portal Vision (Plain) (NAFF)
Jeff Samuel – New (Digital Self) (Tektite)
Audio Quest – Luminous Egg (No Bones Records)
Space – Time (Tripnotic Mix) (Heidi of Switzerland)
Outerzone – The Deep (Zodiac Records)
Neuron Systems – Digital Penguin Amazing Journey (Lumukanda Remix) (Global Warming Productions)
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Benjamin Milz - ORKL-0114-02 A (Die Orakel)
Eric Cloutier – Ekpyrosis
Emotive Response – Push to the Extreme (9300 Records)
Transform – Transformation (X-Paradise Mix)
Jupiter 8000 – Music Junk (Liquid Audio Soundz)
Innersphere – Necronomicon (Sabrettes) RIP AW
Alien Mutation – Alqa (Ambient Space Acid)

Dream Software's Sonic Universe

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