Name: ISAbella at Dekmantel Festival 2023 by dekmantel in 2401
Duration: 2 h 49 s
Description: Recording of ISAbella's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

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Dolfin Records' Ben Hixon runs through old vaults of most of his friends and Dolfin Peers, including an exclusive Jon Bap/JT Donaldson Edit, Old Soul 45s, Deep House, Southern Rap and some of Chicago's finest Artists of today.

Dolfin Records w/ Ben Hixon - April 2021

Panorama Bar’s newest resident, @sedefadasi, balances blissed-out house with rave-ready acid, trance and electro in her Recognise mix

The Augsburg DJ and producer also tells Sophie McNulty about her route into DJing, her HAMMAM Nights events, fostering a sense of togetherness through music, and why she's not moving to Berlin

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-sedef-adasi

Recognise: Sedef Adasi

Being named a resident at Berghain is likely an unattainable dream for so many DJs, but for Sedef Adasi, it all happened naturally. The Turkish producer grew up in the mid-sized Bavarian city of Augsburg, where a lack of spaces she felt comfortable with—she's mentioned DJing in shoe stores—led her to start her own party, HAMAM Nights. From there she made her name with a vibrant, diverse sound that encompasses breaks, electro, techno and more, with soft-focus melodies and plenty of vocal hooks. She's one of the first residents at the legendary club to truly reflect the glorious cross-pollination of dance music styles in the '10s, when techno absorbed ideas from dubstep, garage and more. 

Adasi represents both floors of that club, and you could imagine this RA Podcast going down in either room, but of course, she exists outside that club's narrative too. What you'll hear here is a cutting-edge and dynamic blend of electro and Latin techno—with two tracks from 2022 MVP Nick León—mixed with grace and finesse. Her sound is immediately approachable, well-paced and full of catchy moments and breakdowns. Listen and find out.

@sedefadasi

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/861

RA podcast

RA.861 Sedef Adasi

Robert was our friend, and we miss him. It's difficult to put into words just what he meant to us. He was a mentor, an inspiration. Canada’s, and more specifically Montreal’s, disco deity. We won’t burrow into his biography, as it is extensive, and footnotes would simply not do him justice. Check out the Red Bull Music Academy video interview if you want to start to journey into who he was for yourself. We made this mix just a few days after he died. It is a cathartic, vastly imperfect, and quick expedition into his music. It merely scratches the surface of who he was, musically.

We connected through a party we were playing for Pride Toronto, after we suggested that he replace the divine Nicky Siano on the bill, as Nicky had to back out at the last minute. After that party, we played together a handful of times, both in his native Montreal and in Toronto, but we really became close through afternoons spent in his home studio, sharing songs. He was more passionate about music than anyone we’d ever met. He was in his seventies, some forty years our senior, but was a big kid really, and when we were together we were contemporaries. We loved taking him out to dinner, which happened about once a month, and hearing stories of his Limelight disco days, or of his experience making house music in the nineties. Or speaking to what it was like to be a seventy-odd something still making music and djing parties. He was always working on something. Always. We were so proud to help get a few of his edits out to the world, through connections with GAMM, Basic Fingers, and Whiskey Disco. He had so much music to share, and was constantly clamouring for us to send him edits for his radio shows, a request we complied to, often and happily. 

When the world stopped with Covid, we were no longer able to make it to Montreal. We’d chat over the internet, or do video calls, but, in hindsight, we could and should have stayed better connected. When the news of his passing broke, over a stranger's shared Facebook post of all places, we were breathless and in disbelief. We called his phone, over and over again, putting our faith in the unreliability of social media, but he didn’t answer. Shortly after, a text came from his phone, from a friend of his, confirming the news. The hardest part was knowing that those dinners were over. No more advice and no more shared wisdom. The promise of another party to play together was to be left unfulfilled. We just hope that he knew how much we loved him and how important he was to us.

Dylan & John aka the Patchouli Brothers

Lumberjacks Tape 044: Ode to Robert Ouimet by The Patchouli Brothers

Massive Mix Series

The Patchouli Brothers Are Massive - Mix 007

Recording of ISAbella's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Dekmantel Festival 2023

ISAbella at Dekmantel Festival 2023

BBC Radio 1's Residency - Moxie - An Introduction

BBC Radio 1's Residency - Moxie - Festival Favorites

@sedefadasi's style is impossible to pin down. Embarking on her sonic journey, she fearlessly navigates her craft through a multifaceted universe of rhythms and genres, captivating dance floors with her everlasting groove and electrifying embrace. The best place to experience this rollercoaster is her own monthly HAMAM party at City club in Augsburg where she has invited plenty of international guests to join her. The Turkey-born, Germany-based artist is also a resident at Blitz Music Club and is set to join us at Dekmantel Selectors later in the summer, but first comes this week's podcast. 

It launches in seductive fashion with the moonlit deep house of Chicagoan Ben 'Cosmo' D then cruises through smooth but punchy grooves that stay low and bring hints of old-school cool in the basslines, stabs and drum breaks. Adasi's shift through the gears is almost imperceptible here as the pace quickens and the drums grow more physical. That is a testament to not only her smart selections but also to her ability to thread together these sounds quite so seamlessly.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 452 - Sedef Adasi

Maximalist house from the sibling duo at the forefront of Berlin's new wave. 

Berlin is built on dance music. But of the many DJs who live, work and play there, few represent the evolution in the city's club culture like Tania and Dominik Humeres-Correa, AKA S-candalo. If the city was once governed by the tyranny of minimal, the post-pandemic era has cemented its reputation as the spot for "more-is-more" club soundtracks. It's still house and techno, but the chords are big, the drums are big and the basslines are even bigger. 

Nowadays, S-candalo are firm favourites at hotspots across the German capital, from Panorama Bar to Multisex and Radiant Love (not forgetting La Noche, their own burgeoning party). The duo find rich inspiration in '90s-era Latin house, a sound that takes New York house and incorporates rolling percussion from Latin genres such as samba, popularised on labels like Cutting Records and Strictly Rhythm (there's not one but two records from the latter in this mix). 

RA.956 fittingly lands at the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month in the US (more on that to come) and it's a resolutely fun affair. The duo's RA Podcast has got drive, sultry vocals and enough bounce to make you want to keep dancing way beyond the 90-minutes, marrying percussion-heavy house and ballroom with trance-inflected Eurodance from the '90s and early 2000s. (Oh, and a Shakira moment.) 

Genres aside, the duo's musical raison d'etre is pleasure. Perhaps the real scandal here is how it took us so long to get them on the series.

@s-candalo @thc_dj @dhc_bln

Read more at ra.co/podcast/956

RA Podcast

RA.956 S-candalo

Live recording from Fandango at the Beach (via the Lighthouse)
Plötzensee, 2nd July 2024

On yet another rainy beachside Tuesday this summer, @byronyeates joined us to lift the clouds for a Lighthouse moment packed with house classics & new flips. Sexy-bright vocals had us all forgetting showers outside as dancers basked in an early evening bounce through Byron’s wet hot indoor floor. Now you can soak up a part of the 4 hours once more, enjoy x

LIVE AT FANDANGO - Byron Yeates

Live recording of the amazing Running Hot at PDC Kreuzwerk Berlin in November 2024

PDC Live - Running Hot at PDC @ Kreuzwerk Berlin Nov '24

Live Recording by @byronyeates from La Noche (Berlin, 22 Feb 2025 at OHM)

BYRON YEATES Live at La Noche

Mike Starr @ Body Language, 17.05.25

https://roundhouserecords.bandcamp.com/album/round1

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@lukeymusic420

Premiere : Ben Gough - Plain Sailing (Round1)

Victor Lou, MC Theuzyn - SOCA SOCA (JOOST MX EDIT)

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