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Top Studio Mixes

Sound Metaphors (@sound-metaphors) is Nemo Ripoll and Castro Moore, but it is also the name of their famously well-curated label and record shop in Berlin. As such the pair has been helping to define the sound of the underground on many different fronts - electric DJ sets, cult events and even through the custom-made sound systems built for customers worldwide. With a vast musical knowledge between them and a never-ending supply of their own unreleased edits and DJ tools, they are able to tell musical stories that draw from all across all genres and many different eras.

That plays out in the superb mix they have put together for us this week. It's a full-bodied selection that shows off their love of contrasting styles - loose, percussive house music brushes up with deep and dubby cuts, dark acid grooves sit next to '80s synth sounds before a disco finish goes from stomping to funky. The exuberance of it all is infectious and leaves you wanting more.

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Dekmantel Podcast 477 - Sound Metaphors DJs

FAUZIA (@djfauzia) is an artist who is always evolving. The UK DJ, producer and live act first broke through as a DJ who played fast music be it techno, electro, IDM or bass-heavy breaks. Her famous NTS has always shown a different side, where anything from soul to jazz can be called upon to tell a story. As a producer since 2020, she has tended to mine a more emotive side with releases that explore dub, ambient and jungle. She has also done pop collabs with Kelela and sings ever more on her own material. Basically, she is anything but easy to categorise, and instead works in many different worlds with equal style and skill.

For this week's mix, FAUZIA focuses on the dance floor with a thrilling 90-minute selection. The scene is first set with some escapist ambience, deep and beatless jungle and spine-tingling vocals but then some serious breakbeats arrive. They come thick and fast and take on many forms from heavy and apocalyptic to blissed out and astra. FAUZIA's own voice occasionally arrives to lend them a personal, intimate quality while the mix grows faster and more futuristic. It's a showcase that's as brilliant in taste as it is in technique.

Dekmantel Podcast 478 - FAUZIA

London's Moxie (@djmoxie) has always embodied a fearless approach to DJing. Her sets are driven by her famously eclectic taste and can go from deep Detroit techno to face-melting bass via loved-up disco in an instant. She made her name as one of the earliest hosts on NTS Radio but is now a favourite of the global underground who has often impressed at our own events. Her "Moxie Presents" compilations have shown her dedication to championing forward-thinking artists and have helped make her a genuine new school tastemaker.

This week Moxie has put together a breezy jaunt through many different facets of her sound. There are balmy summer pads and carefree house beats to start with then things head indoors for deeper, darker sounds but always saved up with plenty of warmth and emotion. This mix is a perfect encapsulation of how Moxie can take you from the early evening to late into the night without you even noticing.

Dekmantel Podcast 479 - Moxie

Whatever Jennifer Loveless (@jenniferloveless) turns her attention to, she always looks to find real human emotion. The Berlin-based, Australian-born multidisciplinary artist works across a wide musical realm as a DJ, producer and top-line writer who also scores for the screen. In the club, she is all about big energy, warmth and colour as she flits between future sounds and euphoric nostalgia all while dropping plenty of big tunes on labels like Sex Tags UFO, Planet Euphorique and Future Classic.

Over the last decade-plus, she has proven herself adaptable in the DJ booth and just as able to lock in a heady crowd at Panorama Bar as she is making her mark on festival stages like Horst. Across 90 minutes in this week's mix, Loveless draws on all of that experience to lay down a silky smooth trip that touches on deep techno and lush electronic minimalism before delving into more menacing atmospheres, jacked-up house and feel-good sunrise sounds.

Dekmantel Podcast 480 - Jennifer Loveless

Laksa's (@laksauk) contribution to techno is as vital as it is hard to define. The London-based Bristolian never sits still in one stylistic niche and is as likely to ramp up the techno as he is slow then down. His meticulously designed grooves have come on tasteful labels like Hessle Audio, Timedance and Ilian Tape, always with a focus on dance floor dynamics. Further creative outlets come in the form of the re:lax label, club night and NTS show he runs with with re:ni. Most recently he has cooked up the WONDA EP which includes a vocal collaboration with Nyege Nyege-affiliated Phelimuncasi

The podcast he serves up for us is, in his own words, "a mix of hype and hypnotism" and it includes some tasty unreleased music from the man himself as well as the likes of Ma Sha, Siu Mata, Erik Luebs and Crespi Drum Syndicate. The 90 minutes are as wide-ranging as you might expect with bass-heavy grooves, trance-inducing synths, broken techno workouts and tribal rhythmic explorations all making sure both head and body are catered for in style. 

Dekmantel Podcast 481 - Laksa

Download the set here:
https://corenews.me/objekt-essential-mix-2020-06-06/
Tracklist over here:
https://tracklists.thomaslaupstad.com/objekt-essential-mix-2020-06-06-tracklist-playlist/

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Objekt - Essential Mix 2020-06-06

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Perila Mix Nº46

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Gorgeous synthwave music and sci-fi-esque backdrops, layered with hard-hitting drum patterns.

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Crack Mix 376: Interstellar Funk

As a resident for musical collective / radio community Melodic Distraction and one of the key organisers for the inclusive event series ATHE, Ben Sleia has had her feet firmly planted within the Northern music scene for some time now. From her excellent selections in experimental techno and maintaining a strong voice for female, queer and minority musicians, Lea has long championed an ethos of complete diversity and liberation. 
These values are reflected in ATHE's programming and her own musical choices.

For the next instalment of our DETECT series, Lea sent over an exclusive mix.

DETECT [021] - Ben Sleia

Good friend of the label, Morah is coming in with a full rock and roll attitude, making you want to light a cigar in a bar till you remember it’s a Monday morning. Some brutish 80s industrial, punk and wave in the mix. Buckle up

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PNKMIX-56 | Morah

Twenty-second guest of the club's podcast series is a family member of Mannequin Records, French DJ and producer - Tomas More aka December.

KHIDI Podcast NR.22: December

Rinse FM  Podcast

Funster - 25 Years Of Subject Detroit ft. DJ Bone Presents Further (UK Techno) - 30 September 2020

the 2nd segment from our new series focusing on 
rare vinyl from the basement/vaults,cd and music material from the headquarters and recording 
studio of Nation focuses on Dj Rush.

Born in Chicago (USA), he grew up on the South Side 
and started to party at a very young age, immediately 
picking up on the fever of the music.
He would attend clubs like The Ringzone, Playground, 
The Candystore and The Music Box. Before he began 
playing gigs in Chicago,he started making tracks in his 
bedroom with his friends' sinsonic drums.

In 1989 Rush had his first residency in a club called 
The Reactor in Chicago playing 70's disco for a crowd of 800, 
including 10 hour non-stop sets for party kids.
He then continued to play for the famous Medusa club, 
Power House, Music Box, and Warehouse quickly becoming 
a central figure in Chicago's house scene.

Rush's uniqueness and individuality has always been portrayed 
in his productions and djing. "Not letting the music control me, 
but letting the music guide me"

In Majors' own words, "It's always important and interesting 
to make music according to your feelings and experiences” 
that he does playing with voices and percussion that are both 
wicked and legendary in his many releases.

Traxx presents a selection of his favorite productions all 
created in Chicago with a powerful and energetic journey 
into his psyche of sound alongside the last moral leader of Truth; 
Martin Luther King Jr with word insight of right now.

Traxx Presents: A Black United Front (chapter 2) Inspiration/Dedication

A master of kinetic percussion and low end bass weight, Hemlock, Timedance and Hessle Audio producer Ploy (@deejayploy) has long been a techno favourite. On his most recent album, Unlit Signals on L.I.E.S., however, he mixes it up much more across nomadic tracks filled with visceral energy. In fact, the record chews up and spits out influences taken from "decades of UK dance" as well as plenty of harder, more raw and noisy industrial scenes. It features eight tracks all with a darker overriding mood, as well as "dishevelled closing hours delirium applied across a spectrum of bpm." 

That is of course the case on this week's podcast, which is a slippery selection of weighty rhythmic propulsions. As they pull you up, down, forwards and back, fractured percussion peppers the groove and twisted synths weave their way in and out of the cavernous spaces left behind. Whether playing slow and sludgy bass or hard and fast techno, Ploy seems somehow able to warp space and time, and often your mind and body are left just as bent out of shape.

Dekmantel Podcast 302 - Ploy

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