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

Really digging this one - anybody knows the ID?

PARTY JA

For @fafi-abdel-nour, music is a means of building community. The Syrian-born, Amsterdam-based artist looks to make a better future through human connections. He does so with his own LHBTQIA+ club night concept BUTTS at OOST in Groningen where he plays a free-spirited mix of records with real soul. They come from across the genre spectrum and mix up the old and the new, always with love as the messages and ecstatic sensations in high supply. 

Fafi has a way of effortlessly winning you over with his smooth grooves, and that is evident right from the start here: balmy house sweeps you up and douses you in positive cosmic vibrations and that sense of warmth never dissipates through faster, jazzier house, thumping euphoria and nonstop neon grooves. Every slick transition turns up the temperature a notch and takes you ever closer to real dance floor nirvana.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 431 - Fafi Abdel Nour

Steffi and Virginia have been creating fantastic music for decades, both together and individually. They are also absolute bosses behind the decks. In Portugal they founded the label, studio space and artist-driven creative hub Candy Mountain. Enjoy!

ITPS097 STEFFI X VIRGINIA

5:02 All I Need - Demi Riquísimo, Michelle Manetti
19:30 Bounce - Shanti Celeste
22:20 Shame - Centuras
38:11 Sunrise Mood - Subb-an
1:04:28 Second Choice - 16 Million Dollar Man
1:09:18 I Nee Your Love (Vers Trance Mix) - Pervers of Innocence Milan

Dekmantel - Shanti Celeste & Peach | HÖR - Aug 6 / 2023

Sally C @ The Lot Radio 09-25-2023

Recording of ISAbella's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Dekmantel Festival 2023

ISAbella at Dekmantel Festival 2023

Rounding out the year with two and a half hours of perfectly weighted dream grooves, tech savvy-transcendence and heavenly vintage house music from a beacon of the deep dancefloor, Hannah D! 

@hld
@thespacebetweenus

Q. Hey Hannah, what inspiration did you draw upon when putting this mix together? Is there a sound, feeling, or time/place in dance music history that connects all the different elements in one way or another?

A. Hey Myles! Thank you so much for having me on, I’m over the moon to be a part of the series. This mix is a bit of an ode to my favourite time and place to DJ — sunset at a festival or doof in the bush. When the day turns to night is such a special time, especially in these settings, and I really wanted to try and emulate that feeling — starting out soft and building into something a bit euphoric.

Q. Are there any records in the mix that are especially close to your heart, or new or old favourites that you’ve been keeping up your sleeve for the right moment?

A. Yes actually! One that comes to mind is Dario - Sweet Love (Evolution Mix). I found it a few years ago and was obsessed with it but the record was so expensive on Discogs (currently $200!) and I couldn’t find it anywhere else so I kinda gave up on it. When you asked me to do this mix I decided to have another look for it and ended up being able to trade someone for a rip of the vinyl. So happy to finally play it!! Another special one is Kalle-M - This Place. My partner David actually found this and sent it to me a while ago and I love it so much, so shout out to Dave for that one :) and a final special mention for Blue Noise - Coldflow which is close to the end. It gives me goosebumps every time, so intensely emotional and I would be crying if I heard this on a dancefloor!

Q. I know you’ve had quite the busy year on the events front, hosting a number of different parties with great local and international DJs as part of the Luna Blessings and Send/Return collectives. What were some of your favourite moments from the year that was, and what projects are you looking forward to working on in 2024?

A. Thank you! It’s been a crazy year looking back and I’m so grateful to be a part of so many special parties. A moment that stands out was the Waxo Paradiso x Hope Street Radio party the other week, the vibes were so perfect all day. This year I’ve actually played quite a lot of b2b sets which has been so fun, and I’ve had the chance to play interstate a couple of times and in Europe which was amazing :) We’ve got a super stacked year ahead with both Luna Blessings and Send/Return which I can’t wait for! We’re hosting one of my favourite artists ever for Luna in January which we’ll announce very soon. I’m looking forward to more of all of the above in 2024!

MDC.291 Hannah D

On this years carnival we hosted the 2nd floor at Kunstwerk beside the cutest Crews from E.P.I.Q., Cypher, Brutalism & Schleuse Eins. We serve you four hours of peak time vibes from Victoria Tall, IBU400 & Oli Rambo.

Victoria Tall, IBU400 & Oli Rambo b2b2b special 10.02.2024

Next up on the Groove Podcast is @mattiaselmansouri. For interview and track listing, check bit.ly/MansPod

GROOVE Podcast 428 – Mattias El Mansouri

ketia at Ring, Horst Arts & Music Festival 2024

@ketia

Photo by Illias Teirlinck

ketia at Ring

Summer in Australia 2024, an only vinyl set at the dusty Wildlands Stage in Tocumwal'

STRAWBERRY FIELDS FESTIVAL  | Marie Montexier at Wildlands Stage

Yamour has quickly gained a reputation for her versatility as a DJ, serving both House and Techno music with equal passion and finesse in her vinyl-only sets. Besides touring around the world, she is a regular guest at Giegling events and at Blitz Club in Munich. Enjoy!

ITPS113 YAMOUR

Deep house with heaps of soul to guide spring into summer.

"House music to me is about emotion… it's about how it moves you," says Suze Phaff, better known as Suze Ijó. Emerging from a thriving Dutch scene, Ijó belongs to a generation of DJs reshaping dance culture from the ground up, restoring soul and musicality to the centre of house music. It's a conversation happening not just in her home town of Rotterdam, but globally, among kindred spirits like MUSCLECARS and Dee Diggs in New York, Errol and Alex Rita of Touching Bass in London, and OMOLOKO in Belo Horizonte.

You could call Ijó a deep house DJ, but it's much deeper than that. Her sets embody house music in its most musical sense, rich in nimble percussion, woodwinds, calypso drums, gospel vocals, and romantic string sections. They channel the jazz-inflected heartbeat of the East Coast, the breeze of Balearic shores, and the light-footed rhythms of the Caribbean.

As Ijó explains in her Q&A, her RA Podcast "hopefully feels like a loving embrace." Opening with Key Trunks Ensemble's "Calypso of House (Paradise Mix)," she sets a buoyant, life-affirming tone that carries through the next 90 minutes. As the mix unfolds, her affinity for timelessness is clear, with selections that hark back to the golden age of house, from Lonesome Echo Production's "Sweet Dream (Shrine Sweet Mix)" to the euphoric swell of Blaze's "Klubtrance."

Listening to RA.986, it's no surprise that The Loft—David Mancuso's legendary, much-missed New York party—serves as a key influence for Ijó. "He wasn't confined to just one genre but would just play 'good music' in the right context," she explains. "He allowed the music to breathe."

If ambient music is defined by its ability to breathe in and reflect its surroundings, then Ijó's RA Podcast is ambient in the truest, most human sense: a deep, enveloping soundscape that feels like sunrise, like community, like home—wherever you may choose to listen.

@suze_ijo

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/986

RA.986 Suze Ijó

@DARKSIDECULT

"CLOSE YOUR EYES & LISTEN"

TRACK LIST

SIDE A: 
1. HAY ST
2. GET BUSY

SIDE B:
3. 6PM IN THE CBD
4. POOL RAVE ʼ99

**FULL STREAM ON OTHER PLATFORMS**

SUAAVI DEBUT PROJECT

Close Your Eyes & Listen

PURCHASE

CLOSE YOUR EYES & LISTEN | EP

Earpy - Wasted Man

A little memory from last summer at my favourite festival in the world. Sending love to everyone in these trying times. It looks like it's gonna take a while before we'll be able to dance together again... Until then, check in on each other, stay safe and stay home. <3

Job Jobse - Sunrise at the last ever Nachtdigital - Olganitz, August 2019

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ISAbella at Dekmantel Festival 2023

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