Dutch-born but Brussels-based Zeta Lys aka Lucia (@zetalys) has a club-ready sound that draws on a world of broken rhythms and heavy percussion. Her influential radio show at The Word Radio finds her head into all new genre pockets around the globe and she has previously stood out at our Dekmantel Selectors festival. Lucia also composes for film and video and techniques from both disciplines inform and inspire her work with the result being music that is rich in dynamic narrative and ever-evolving mood. 

Her selection for us is prickly and fizzing with fresh rhythmic patterns. Static electricity, warped basslines and distorted synths bring great movement from the off as mutated and broken techno, dystopian jungle and deconstructed club rhythms all collide at great speed. It's an involving selection that combines many different worlds with great control, ramping up and then smoothing out the grooves at whim.

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Dekmantel Podcast 455 - Zeta Lys

In-demand DJ and radio host, producer of sound system shakers for labels like @Timedance and Ilian Tape, promoter and label co-founder at re:lax, Lauren Bush, aka @renildn, has become a seemingly unstoppable force in UK club music through a combination of hard work and self-belief. Alongside a pulse-quickening Recognise mix, she speaks to Jasmine Kent-Smith about formative club experiences, the importance of role models, and the pursuit of authenticity.

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-reni-timedance-interview

Tracklist & interview

Recognise: re:ni

Crack Mix 566: Peder Mannerfelt

@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

“I realise how my musical experience in Bristol has broadened my musical horizons” Saskia reflects on her entry into the Crack Mix series, offering up a heady fusion of subaqueous bass, experimental club kinetics and murky dub.

Check out the tracklist on crackaud.io: https://crackm.ag/3PO8qdC
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Crack Mix 568: Saskia

Berlin-based Objekt makes his Lot debut.

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Objekt @ The Lot Radio 04-09-2024

Happy new week to everyone. New mix from Peder Mannerfelt!

Enjoy!


Peder Mannerfelt splits the difference between playful immediacy and daring experimentation. You’re as likely to find him premiering a live show at Berlin’s Atonal festival as pulling apart fabled techno meccas from Berghain to Fabric with synapse-frying precision. One minute he’s being asked to remix Björk, and the next he’s dropping EPs of non-conformist techno for Karenn’s Voam label.

As a prolific collaborator throughout his career, Mannerfelt has veered from the orchestral tension of Roll The Dice (with Malcolm Pardon) to the anything-goes maximalism of Aasthma (with Pär Grindvik). As a producer, he’s worked on every one of Fever Ray’s acclaimed albums and live shows, as well as projects from alt music heavyweights such as Smerz, Blonde Redhead and Glasser. His Peder Mannerfelt Produktions label has become another outlet for his singular approach, presenting his work alongside similarly experimental operators like Sissel Wincent, Machine Woman, Klara Lewis and Hodge.

More recently, his PM+ series celebrates the immediacy of club-focused tracks, and Mannerfelt thrives on the energy and community of contemporary club music. What makes him different is his response to that energy, as he pushes the music’s possibilities in wild, unpredictable directions.

Adroit Podcast Series #072 - Peder Mannerfelt

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

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Fever AM - Mor Elian with Árni - 27 April 2024

Recording of our weekly Dekmantel Radio show at @redlightradio.

First hour: Pangaea
Second hour: Haron

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