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@animisticbeliefs bring energy and innovation in equal measure whenever they serve up one of their electrifying sets or thrilling tunes. They are most at home when on stage cooking up captivating mixes of IDM, club music and drum & bass with smart infusions of influences from South East Asia and a sense of spiritualism that sees all things as equal. Their productions have come on labels like Cultivated Electronics and Pinkman and always push technical and emotional boundaries. 

The pair will be joining us at Dekmantel Festival 2024 in August and here offer up a teaser of what you might get: darkly involving moods, industrial textures and otherworldly timbres that are paired to a wide range of rhythms and tempos. There is a looseness to the set that keeps your body in constant motion while the details woven in between the beats keep your mind just as busy. From unusual instrumentation to foreign language vocals, this is an action-packed selection for peak-time dance floor fun.

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Dekmantel Podcast 454 - Animistic Beliefs

If Bitter Babe was a perfume, her scent would be animalic—heavy musk, bergamot, worn leather and burnt spices. The Bogotá-born, Miami-bred and now Berlin-based artist has a heady, ultra-rhythmic sound that feels made for sweltering summer nights and feral fantasies. Combining pan-Latin styles with hard drum and industrial touches, she's crafted a singular mood that defines her DJing and production: hazy, high-energy and sensual.

Bitter Babe's ascent on the international circuit has been tied to her role in Miami's electronic renaissance. Whether it's proto-reggaeton, dense ambient or guaracha, her sets and productions are characterised by evocative low-end, darting synths and distorted frequencies that exude drama. With releases on TraTraTrax, Air Texture and SVBKVLT, she's cemented her position as an experimentalist, leaving the door open for more deconstruction and abstraction.

As cofounder of multidisciplinary project LATITUDES, Bitter Babe seeks to unify Latin America's electronic music communities. Her mixes are a great source for discovering under-the-radar acts from Peru, Brazil and beyond, some of whom are featured on her RA podcast. Starting with subby downtempo before moving onto swampy baile funk, technoid mutations of dembow and cheeky UKG, it showcases her expertise for trippy yet deeply kinetic grooves. 

@bitterbabe

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/924

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RA.924 Bitter Babe

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Tracklist : 
1		Dancehall	Bella Boo	
2		How Deep (Original Mix)	Mr. G	
3		Moonraker (King Unique Moonrakapella)	Foremost Poets			
4		barrakuda	DJ JM			
5		Say It Loud 	Planetary Assault Systems 	
6		Gestures, for 5.1 Surround Soung: It Begins With Colors (First Recording)	Joan La Barbara & Morton Subotnick	
7		speedy J - armstrong 	Speedy J	
8		Mata Mata (Roman Flügel Remix)	Trikk, Gabriel Massan	
9		All in Your Hands (HD version)_PFM 1.2B	Peder Mannerfelt 			
10		Hold, Doubt, Back (Original Mix)	Billie (SE), Par Grindvik	
11		Vril__Torus XXXII__(Verraco TribalTek edit)__v1	Verraco			
12		Rio	MMM (Errorsmith & Fiedel)	Dex / Rio		
13		Allaby	Addison Groove
14		Sugardaddy	Jimi Tenor	
15		Applause	TWR72	
16		Eso Eso	Mor Elian		
17		She´s Eclectic_MST 4416	Terry Cotta		
18		Lip Locked [PRECISE MASTER] 	Parris x Untold	
19		Glissandi (1957)	Ligeti			
20		B1. Garys	Ploy	
21		Version	James Ruskin	
22		VOAM013 - Eurotrashed Peder Mannerfelt	
23		BATESTE	DJ Kolt	Verdadeiro	
24		Drum Pit	MM	ETS000	Hard Drum	
25		11. Nyksan x Moa Pillar — Aló ma	Nyksan x Moa Pillar	
26		Out of Space (Original Mix)	The Prodigy	
27		dj_adhd-warm_up_hm1.1	DJ ADHD		
28		Progressiva	TSVI		
29		VOAM013 - Pumping Plastics -Peder Mannerfelt	
30		Flash My Flip Phone 3.3	Peder Mannerfelt			
31		Chromo	Alarico			
32		1-03 His Money	Blawan			
33		B3. Drumz (Leod Edit)	K-LONE	
34		Switchblade (Descendant Mix)	D.Dan	
35		É Africa	DJ Fofuxo	DJs Di Guetto		
36		Wave	TWR72	
37		ALEX (いつまでふたり)	Oyubi	2020 unreleased trax ii		
38		Acid Dip (Original Mix)	Radio Slave	
39		Tanan	Talismann	Percussion Part 3 
40		War In The Streets	Robert Hood	
41		Cosa Cougat (Original Mix)	Gary Martin	
42		Memento	Elise Massoni	
43		Extended Playtime_Unknown Composer - CompilationsTechno För Hela Familjen	DJ Shufflemaster Cari Lekebusch
44		Bang The Box	KETTAMA	
45		02. Badsista — BAGUNÇA MINHA B***** Ft. JUJULIETE — TRA015	Badsista	
46		NHD008 - Big Ball	Peder Mannerfelt		
47		Dont You Dare Squawk At Me test	Blawan		
48		VOAM013 - Vankelmotor Peder Mannerfelt	
49		Milk Man	Aphex Twin	
50		Stinger	WARLOCK		
51		Decompression (dB's Raw Edit)	Mathew Jonson	
52		OOOOOOO, AAAAAAA	Alex Wilcox	
53		Blawan - The Pauls In Your Court (Finalv1L)	Blawan		
54		Oh No ft. なかむらみなみ (extended mix)	Itoa 		
55		Coen - Role play v12	Coen	
56		Lettuce Is A Type Of Lettuce [Finalv3] [Lv3]	Karenn	
57		Black Rose	Hokusai	Source Direct (SDR006)
58		Acid Trak	Dillinja		
59		Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb	
60		The Light 3000 Remake By Schneider Tm, & Kptmichigan

Peder Mannerfelt at Outra Cena, This Side, 09/02/2024

Get the full tracklist: https://blrrm.tv/48thpr7

This weeks SYSTEM comes from Lot Radio resident Yumi, who’s deep at the heart of an exciting new wave of DJs emanating from New York.

SYSTEM Mix 104: Yumi

As founder of the GROOVY GROOVY party which started in a college basement in New Jersey, Akanbi has established his vision of a cozy, spiritual, intentional, friendship and love party as one of New York’s finest gatherings for all kinds of sexy electronic music. 
Tapping into spiritual frequencies, he brings a focused intention to the community that goes beyond the surface. Available on SoundCloud and Apple Podcasts. Enjoy!

ITPS103 AKANBI

Tracklist and interview: https://bit.ly/themix004tsvi

Italian innovator @tsvisions fires through a mix of propulsive club sounds, including unreleased @nervoushorizon material.

"With this mix I wanted to showcase the music I've been making over the past months, forthcoming material from Nervous Horizon, as well as tunes from some of my favourite producers. It’s a snapshot of where my sound is at the moment. I'm quite happy with how this mix has turned out, it used to be quite rare for me to play my own music in mixes, but lately I’ve been really enjoying it!"
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The Mix is our new online mix and interview series, dedicated to the spectrum of electronic music from around the globe, exploring sounds and stories from the early days of rave to the future.

Mixmag has a long history of publishing mixes, from our legendary cover CDs accompanying the print magazine to our worldwide video streams in The Lab. Last year we celebrated 40 years in the game and The Mix now arrives as a fresh outlet to document DJs and the musical movements they represent, showcasing their sound alongside an in-depth interview. The design pays homage to a previous Mixmag logo from the ealy ’90s, nodding to our heritage while using the square and rectangular building blocks to construct an aesthetic that works cohesively with contemporary design elements and digital motion systems.

We’ll still be bringing you the Cover Mix, The Lab and occasional sets in other formats, with The Mix is taking the place of our In Session and Impact features, intending to bring an updated look and vision to our flagship weekly DJ profile and sequencing them into one place, without separation. We hope you enjoy.

The Mix 004: TSVI

Saturday, April 13th RA Mix of the Day <3

Definitely one of my favorite sets as of recent, I had the opportunity to bring the sun down at Nowadays Nonstop, to a crowd so enmeshed in a thinning sunny haze of a Sunday afternoon. It felt like the first day of spring, and it was so sweaty and so sexy.

MORENXXX @ Nowadays Nonstop 03/03/24

For our 20th mix we have a very special guest.

Straight from the ghetto in the mountain region at the north of México, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Regal86 (@bregal86) is a producer and DJ who’s sound mixes chicano rap, the dark side del rap sureño and the thickest rhythms from rave and club culture.
Regal86 has published more than 40 albums and more than 400 tracks online, in only a couple years, strongly defining his style.

GYSTMIX-020 - REGAL86

Crack Mix 566: Peder Mannerfelt

In very loose terms, James K's (@jamesk_1 music operates at the fringes of the pop world. It is experimental and industrial, packed with hooks and riddled with dreamy textures that show off her mastery of synths. She has released it in album form with Dial and Incenso, dropped EPs on AD 93 and collaborated with the likes of Drew McDowall and Stefan Maie, and always manages to imbue her adventurous arrangements with real-world emotions and anxieties. This year she will join us at Dekmantel Festival but not before serving up this week's podcast.

It's the sort of rhythmically thrilling workout that has always stood James apart: jittery drum patterns and kinetic grooves that unfold at 100 miles an hour as a barrage of caustic motifs, hypnagogic melodies and hyper-real colours all bounce about the mix. There is an ever-present sense of tension in the way things are assembled - it's as if they might implode or explode at any minute, and it all sounds fantastically futuristic.

Dekmantel Podcast 460 - James K

@jasminhoek showcases her unique style of forward leaning percussive mixing for PMx 20.

Tracklist:
Harald Uunk - As Much As You Do
Laenz - Choices
Azu Tiwaline - Mei Long
Jasmín + Whitner FaGo - Ea Ninkkanwe (forthcoming)
Human Space Machine - ARP
YearsAstray - Aixalda
Deetron - The Dark Room
Jonas Kopp - X
Kombé - Third Pillar
Oyubi - bass28
Surusinghe - Bad Girls
Tzusing - Face of Electric
T5UMUT5UMU - Rainmaking 請雨
Laksa - The Art Of Slip
re:ni - Beauty Sick
Regis - Blood Witness
Manni Dee - Sister Nobody
Taraval - Pumpkin
Ziúr - Blur
James Ruskin - Dilemma
Lydo + Tomás Urquieta - Overture
Ignacio - Humana-ised
Emily Jeanne - Redefining Privacy
E-Saggila - Profiteer
Floorplan - Wall to Wall
Deadbeat - Woah!
T++ - Allied
Carrier - Ten By Ten
E-Saggila - N3n

PMx 20 - Jasmín

Answer Code Request (@answercoderequest) has long since mastered the art of mixing up the physical the with cerebral. His broken, industrial-tinged techno drums are powerful enough to have made him a long-time Berghain resident, while his harmonic pads make a lasting impact on your mind. While releasing on the likes of Ostgut Ton, Dolly Deluxe and Monkeytown Records, he has also established his own ACR label and never fails to blur boundaries between sub-genres whenever he steps out with a new sound or set.

He pulls no punches on this week's mix which is a broad showcase of his ability to thread together many different strains of techno and beyond into a coherent whole. There's everything from transcendental and linear rollers to dubby bangers, twitchy rave anthems blissed out deep space minimalism via party starting piano house. It's fun and functional in equal measure and is the sound of a DJ very much in full flow.

Dekmantel Podcast 461 - Answer Code Request

JakoJako (@jakojako_live) always wanted to make music and her self-confessed hyperactivity ultimately led to her getting the most joy out of playing about with machines and patching up synths. These days the Berghain resident is a celebrated live act and DJ who draws on the considerable knowledge she picked up working at Berlin's legendary synth shop SchneidersLaden, but she has also worked on several high-profile motion sensor dance projects at places like The Royal Albert Hall. Her smart sound designs and unique rhythms have landed on Leisure System, Tresor and Figure and she has a new EP coming on Mute this June.

Her mix for us this week features a sneak preview of one of the tracks from that EP as well as mixing up music from Alaric, Siege, Altinbas and many more. It's full of high-speed sounds couched loosely in techno but with moods and textures borrowed from industrial, minimal and even trance as things reach an emotional peak late on. Though she broke through as a live act, this set shows JakoJako can now speak just as freely through the decks.

Dekmantel Podcast 462 - JakoJako

There is nothing ordinary about Sepehr (@sepehr-a): he hails from the Bay Area of San Fran, is based in New York City but has Iranian heritage and takes great pleasure in pulling apart everything you think you know about dance music. His maverick approach results in versatile and genre-defiant sounds that collide EBM, drum & bass, techno, electro, acid and plenty more on some of the finest labels out there. He runs his own Shaytoon Records which is focussed on the Middle Eastern underground, and in May lands on our own Dekmanel Records with Genesis Domain, a varied EP full of intriguing sounds.

The same could be said of his mix for us this week. It's a deep dive into his eclectic and eccentric musical mind that spans several sounds and scenes. Although united by body-moving rhythms, there is everything from club to techno to broken beat and plenty more besides. Each track is packed with detail and surrealist sounds that will keep your head as busy as your heels.

Dekmantel Podcast 463 - Sepehr

Simon Aussel is known for a particularly wild DJing style and leftfield bassy bangers, and it's his curious and playful approach to clubland that's won him loyal fans over the years. Whether photographing drink tokens from gigs or creating an 8-bit version of his debut album on a Game Boy cartridge, he seems to approach every endeavour with childlike joy and wonder—rare qualities in an industry that can leave so many jaded.

The Nantes-born, Paris-based artist's love of club culture, digging and world-building has set him on a blazing path in club music. He's released an exceptionally wide range of music, including a Memphis rap tape for Trilogy Tapes, dubstep-trap-jazz hybrids with Egyptian singer Abdullah Miniawy and deadly hard drum for Livity Sound. His mixes, meanwhile, are fast becoming DJ lore thanks to his knack for connecting seemingly opposed genres like new wave and fast techno. Look no further than his now-infamous Dekmantel Selectors set from 2021 or a marathon back-to-back with Skee Mask in 2022. 

As the French DJ gets more comfortable with story-telling, he's getting more personal and focusing on deeper, slower sounds. That's evident on this RA Podcast—six months in the works—which incorporates woozy downtempo, weighty dub and bleepy beats. Of course, in the chaotic middle section there's plenty of huge basslines, plus old-school electro, acidic techno and even a bouncy edit of the Montell Jordan classic "This Is How We Do It." Showcasing his quirks, influences and growth, this is Simo Cell in prime time.

@simocell

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/934

RA.934 Simo Cell

Stella Zekri (@stella-zekri-ouiddir) is based in Berlin but her sound defies the usual expectations of those who dance in the city best known for house and techno. Her sets instead are instead led by soul and emotion and reach far and wide into the worlds of hip hop, house, new beat, trance, jazz, disco and bring rich colours and exultant vibes to the scene. She often likes to play long sets and isn't afraid of twisting and turning through diverse tempos and rhythms along the way, which is something she also does at the Body Language events she founded with Camilla Rae and Caitlin Russell in 2021. They have brought something all new to the queer scene in Berlin, while her monthly Breakfast Show on Refuge Worldwide and her studio work with 80s zouk and boogie band Stella and the Longos are further creative outlets that make Stella a new school star.  

All of this is reflected in the sixty-minute selection Stella has put together for us this week: it's a celebration of her eclectic collection that is powered by outgoing pianos, emotive vocals and gleeful grooves. There are old school house jams and silky soul-laced depths, happy 90s tracks and plenty of sensuous voices that all prove Stella Zekri's ability to keep the good times flowing is second to none.

Dekmantel Podcast 464 - Stella Zekri

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