Name: Helena Hauff & DJ Stingray at Dekmantel Festival 2016 by dekmantel in C
Duration: 2 h 5 min 33 s
Description: Recording of Helena Hauff's & DJ Stingray's set at Dekmantel Festival 2016.

Several years after re listening this set again. What a madnesssssss

Lucas J. Hatzisavas has several different aliases but as Reptant (@reptant_the_lizard) since 2017, he has really excelled. The Melbourne-based reptilian has spread his electro sounds far and wide on always classy labels from Kalahari Oyster Cult to Trust to Craigie Knowes. His acid-laced machine sounds are often jammed out live before being edited into tracks. They are imaginative, bristle with energy and feed into an alien lizard narrative he's built around the project, not least with his debut album Return To Planet X'trapolis.

This week we're invited to peer through a window into that otherworldly universe with 60+ minutes of kinetic rhythms and cinematic sound designs. All shades of electro come up from sleazy and ghetto to sci-fi and smooth. Plenty of acid lines weave their way throughout as Reptant slithers from dark corners of the cosmos to strobe-lit dance floors amongst the stars.

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Dekmantel Podcast 423 - Reptant

Helena Hauff (@helena-hauff) expertly curated DJ sets spanning acid, electro, techno, EBM, and post-punk. Her powerful drum beats collide with freely wandering melodies. Her sound is tailor-made for those who appreciate raw, yet restrained intensity, dragging the dance floor into a frosty abyss. Her debut album "A Tape" in 2015 garnered attention for its intricate manipulation of sound, where she meticulously arranges gritty and rough noises, filling in the gaps with rhythmic intricacies. Her other releases, "Discreet Desires" and the EP "Have You Been There, Have You Seen," experimentally layer and intertwine, with twisted waveforms akin to rusted artifacts, creating an unfriendly listening experience that compels bodily movement to escape Helena Hauff's auditory swamp. It evokes sounds from the Hague's western coast in the Netherlands—blending synthesized tones of Italo Disco with the gritty spirit of Detroit. Despite its unfriendliness, "Have You Been There, Have You Seen" still offers warmth and rhythmic service to dancers with tracks like "Nothing Is What I Know" and "Gift." This year, renowned dance label fabric Records recognized Helena Hauff's unique selections and released "fabric presents Helena Hauff," recreating the dance scenes she once fostered at the Golden Pudel club in Hamburg, Germany.

Gigging incessantly (and still lugging a heavy box of records across the world), Helena's reputation earned her an invitation to join the BBC Radio 1 Residency. She was the subject of cover features for Crack Magazine and DJ Mag, played headline sets at Sonar (b2b with Ben UFO) and Dekmantel, and at the end of 2017, Crack Magazine declared Helena "The Most Exciting DJ In The World (Right Now)" and her ballistic BBC Essential Mix was voted the best of 2017. With razor-sharp precision, her melodies redefine Electro/Techno, adhering to her signature cold and dark taste over the past decade, regardless of current musical trends. Utilizing turntables for minimalist yet forceful performances, she effortlessly navigates between peaks and troughs, even with the risk of needle skips, confidently rolling cigarettes as she cruises at high speeds between highs and lows, making her a unique and standout figure in the scene.

PURE Guest.055 Helena Hauff

pi/live: Aurora Halal b2b deep creep @ Mansions 02-16-2024

DJ set, recorded live on 17 Aug 2024 in Oslo for Harmony Rec label techno-focused night

Xiaolin @ Harmony Rec label night, Oslo 17/08/2024 (live recorded)

Dj Maria. b2b Oceanic at Draaimolen Festival 2024

Ciao tutti 💖
So happy to share the recording from my last set at Open Ground from December 2024. 

It was an emotional journey ~ I wanted to tell a story of diving into underwater dream lands, where spirit guides and glitchy creatures meet and send us messages from the other side... where sound takes over the brain and opens something in the heart and body.
I waved through many genres ~ ambient, jungle, electro, dubstep, drill, jazz, techno and the wonky in-between. It felt like I had the chance to express a fuller spectrum of who I am as a music lover. 🙏

That night, I had the honour of opening for the legend Surgeon ~ someone who’s deeply inspired my path since the very beginning. Sharing that moment with him and connecting was just wow. 🥹

Open Ground truly is one of the most special places on earth ~ the care, the sound, the freedom, the community, the crew… just perfection. 

So grateful to be invited back this saturday ! (26.07.2025) 
Don’t skip ~ come sweat and feel with us 🌀💎💦

~ with love & gratitude ~ 
GiGi🧜‍♀️

GiGi FM at Freifeld / Open Ground 14.12.2024

Hard Wax w/ Fadi Mohem: 6th August '25

HQ 134: DJ MARIA - 04 October 2025

** FREE DOWNLOAD**
HANAMI Sounds Presents:

H-DUBZ VOL.1 

We are gassed to present you with our very first VA 'H-DUBZ'. 
8 Club ready heaters courtesy of 8 of the finest up and coming producers in UK Garage and Bass. All Available as a free download to bless the USB sticks and leave them stacked.

TRACKLIST:

1. hiRobbie - Check It
2. Seah - Break It Down
3. Chrissies - Rudeboi Anthem 
4. GBSN - Brazil 
5. PCKRNG & THT GRL - Move That Body 
6. smokeylegatta - Gorilla DUB 
7. TABZ - It's My Beat!
8. YVES - Section DUB

Free Download via the link on each track or download the Full VA on Bandcamp

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Chrissies- RUDEBOI ANTHEM [H-DUBZ VOL.1]

High-definition psychedelic techno.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=681

@itsallhalal

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.681 Aurora Halal

Mixed from Saint-Petersburg by @producedbyflaty

Support:
https://anworecords.bandcamp.com

Mixtape For W Λ V E S

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Proud to present a new mix from Patricia Kokett.
"The music of the Lithuanian producer Gediminas Jakubka, who turns into Patricia on stage, balances between borders. Patricia Kokett blends rave with mysticism, futuristic industrial with shamanic noise and various reworked voices with hypnotic output. The latest release - Bizarr LP - is upcoming on Knekelhuis imprint on the 11th of May. 
This mix contains of music I played in clubs before corona shutdown and the most recently found tracks. The podcast represents what I love the most - ritualistic aspect melted together with voices from diverse mouths, tripped out atmosphere and a strong emotional tie."

@patriciakaas
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/patriciakokett
https://www.discogs.com/artist/5579538-Patricia-Kokett
https://patriciakokett.bandcamp.com/releases
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Phormix Podcast #175 Patricia Kokett

"German producer Benedikt Frey likes to challenge both DJs and dancers by writhing unpredictable tracks, with the aim to push against the boundaries of functional and "safe" dance music. Although he had been producing for five years previously, his career upped a notch in 2015 upon releasing five separate records, among those Ghosts best demonstrates his penchant for shambling groove. From there, his productions went from strength to strength, culminating in a full-length album in 2018, Artificial, which abandoned club sensibility in favour of low-slung chugging rhythms. Frey's debut single, 2010's Escape/Indica, saw a low-key release on Aldebaran, causing him to step back for a couple of years to further his craft. Upon his return in 2012 Frey had amassed a wealth of material, which he spread across three labels: releasing Fairytale on Mule Electronics, Running in Circles on Live at Robert Johnson, and Delinquencies, the latter of which he released through his newly minted record label Love Pain Sunshine Rain (aka Lopasura). Frey once again stored most of his music for a further two years, springing back in 2015 with another barrage of records; amongst them were his breakthrough EP Ghosts on Crème Organization and a full-length album, 2015's Two Pole Resonance, recorded as @initinit in collaboration with @nadia-d-al and released via @hivern_disc . Frey released his debut EP for ESP Institute in 2016, titled The Lobbyist, before going on to release his debut solo album, 2017's Artificial, on the same label. He spent two years recording the album, deciding to veer away from a record full of high tempo tracks, instead delivering a broader take on his ramshackle productions, partly inspired by industrial music."


@freybenedikt
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/benediktfrey
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1886061-Benedikt-Frey
https://freybenedikt.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/freybenedikt

Phormix Podcast #182 Benedikt Frey

Mixed from Moscow by @vosuru

Moscow musician and designer Alexey Urusov (our irreplaceable cover artist for W Λ V E S mixtapes and party posters) returns with the third musical travelogue through rosy-hued landscapes of meditative ambient house and atmospheric downtempo. 

The Vo5uru selection is like a fruit shop, where you go for ripe tropical fruits and want to try everything.

Support:
vo5uru.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:

• AKASHA SYSTEM - Cascade
• ASC - Simple Things
• upsammy - Extra Warm
• LEFTIE - Comets
• WEIRD WEATHER - Bamboo Room
• D.K. - Clarity
• COMIT - Soft Focus
• RAMZi - Mutation
• vo5uru - Corny But Cosily
• BLACK MERLIN - PKL 7
• TEMPELHOF & GIGI MASIN - Corner Song
• SHELTER - Senhor Zalla
• HTRK - New Year's Day
• TARWATER - Rome
• BABY MAMMOTH - Smoke

Download link:
https://bit.ly/3jHNLX4

Cover art by @pseudo-art-rose
pseudo-art-rose.tumblr.com

Mixtape For W Λ V E S 081

vo5uru — Mixtape For W Λ V E S 081

Recording of Helena Hauff's & DJ Stingray's set at Dekmantel Festival 2016.

Dekmantel Festival 2016

Helena Hauff & DJ Stingray at Dekmantel Festival 2016

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Helena Hauff & DJ Stingray at Dekmantel Festival 2016

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