Later beluisteren 2

November 2019

Recordings Dekmantel Selectors 2019

go to work 13

for my 6th edition of my bi-monthly @operator-radio show i played 2hrs solo..

Abadan Bar 006 w/ Moody Mehran

Dj Okapi at Jaeger Oslo
live recording 04/09/2019

I have to tune the car radio manually to get to the place I want to be on Cape Town’s FM bandwidth. The seek button scans over the desired channel even though I’m just a few blocks away from the broadcasting headquarters. Immediately, the old, but familiar hiss of white noise transports me back to my youth and then it pops into life as I get to 89.5. A two-step punchy snare and a syllabic yelping in Zulu greets me on the other side, this sounds more like home.

“You have to listen to Bush Radio” a friend told me the night before, “if you want to hear South African music”. For the past week I’ve been driving around my hometown listening to the ubiquitous sounds of popular music from Europe and USA proliferated by the nationally syndicated stations like 5FM. This has always been the case in South Africa and notwithstanding the community focussed programming from small, inconspicuous stations like Bush Radio, this has remained the broadcasting practise for the most part of my adult life too.

Every time I return to South Africa I’m always astounded and dismayed how very little has changed in that regard, even when in Europe, South African music is being proliferated by DJs and radio everywhere. The sound of GQOM, the band BCUC, a revival of seventies era Fusion, and the newfound interest in the eighties bubblegum sound had all been largely instigated and promoted through European labels and record stores in recent years.

Limited by constricts like the lack of vinyl presses to re-issue music and the fact that most of the original records are harboured in European record collections, it’s obvious why this has happened, but it doesn’t look set to remain this way for much longer. In recent years a DJ, a blog, a label and a record store has come along, all dedicated to changing this, bringing South African music back home and making availeable on the vinyl format again. It all funnels down to one man, Dave Durbach, better known by his DJ alias Okapi, who is tirelessly and selflessly, collecting and re-distributing this music through Afro-Synth, a blog, store and record label dedicated to new and forgotten South African music.

Hailing from Cape Town, where he cut his teeth around the bars and clubs in the small scene around Long Street, playing everything from Hip Hop to Jazz, Dave had always been known as something of a “vinyl junkie” by the locals. At a time when the format was largely forgotten for the more accessible digital formats, Dave would haunt the used record shops in and around Cape Town for obscure records from the eighties. The records largely disregarded as disposable “bubblegum” music by a predominantly white music media, became an obsession for the latent digger in his teens and laid the foundations for what would later become Afro Synth; a blog dedicated to shedding new light on a lost era in South Africa’s rich music history.

Afro Synth garnered attention for its unique and largely untapped source of records from from an apartheid-era South Africa with considered reviews and articles about the artists and the records sound tracking the end of white-minority rule and the first exciting years of post-apartheid South Africa. These were the talented, mostly black artists that remained obscure for the longest time, pressing limited runs of their records on independent labels that were quickly assigned to bargain bins all over SA. He established the blog to highlight these finds and through his words, many South Africans (this writer included) were lead on an extensive journey of discovery through a very niche, and almost forgotten corner of music history.

Dj Okapi at Jaeger Oslo - live recording 04/09/2019

Playing deep Indonesian digs in the RLR AMS SHOP listening basement. One hour of esoteric gems, traditional Sunda, psych rock and more.

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RLR AMS SHOP - Sekan for Waves September 19th 2019

CC&PT with Steven van Hulle #013

"[Started DJing] sometime around 2011-2012. I'd made hiphop beats for a long time before that and then stopped for a few years. When I started making music again, I was focused on dance music and DJing seemed like a good outlet for that." - @reverenddollars

DISCWOMAN 79 x Reverend Dollars

Buy:https://www.traxsource.com/title/1215019/i-robots-present-we-are-opilec-vol-4

Experienced Italian artist I-Robots takes to his own Opilec Music imprint with the fourth installment of his sought after 'We Are Opilec!' compilation series. 'I-Robots present: We Are Opilec! Vol. IV' consists of an extensive amount of club-focused material with 24 tracks from the likes of Hard Ton, Dj Skull, Iker Elan and more. Within the new material is I-Robot and Hard Ton's' unique cover version of Madonna's hit track 'Lucky Star'. Flipping the original with a driving percussion, italo synths and a hard hitting motif, the new version is primed for dancefloor destruction. 

'I-Robots present: We Are Opilec! Vol. IV'  is set for release October 28.

I-Robots present: We Are Opilec...! Vol. IV

More exclusive music

Premiere: I-Robots 'Lucky Star' ft. Hard Ton (Rimini Rimini Version)

AGLE - An Easy Heaven (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)

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L&L&L Record Club @ The Lot Radio 11 - 04 - 2019

We're glad to welcome Spivak (@mspivak) to the mix series, she hails from the mystical island of Cyprus, she was part of our recent "Sphere" compilation which includes her slow-mo electronics "Solar Sail" track (https://soundcloud.com/samorecords/spivak-solar-sail).

She provided us with a slow burner mix, so spread out and enjoy.

Samo Records / Podcast #34 - Spivak

NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE is I'm a Cliche's radio show on NTS.
You can check it live on www.nts.live and a few days after on I'm a Cliché's Soundcloud.
Cosmo Vitelli played this one.

Tracklisting :

Smagghe & Cross - Monody
Cosmo Vitelli - Irritable
Golden Bug & In Fields - Breath
Tik & Tok - Theme From The Dome Bros
Lyndon B - Traffic
Paul Nagle - The Mesomeric Effect
Konstruktivists - How You Say
Fashion - Dress 2 Kill (Unknown Edit)
GOTT - En Blick ufs Matterhorn
Hajime Tachibana - Unknown
William Orbit - Scorpion 
Youkounkoun - Musique du texte
Apollon Telefax - Aleph
Cándido - Shaktiman
Cosmo Vitelli - He Just Wanted to Hang Out With Dj's

No Weapon is Absolute by Cosmo Vitelli - NTS - 23/10/19

Recording of Mick Wills' set at Dekmantel Selectors 2019.

Mick Wills at Dekmantel Selectors 2019

Recording of Solar's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2019.

Dekmantel Selectors 2019

Solar at Dekmantel Selectors 2019

Recording of OKO DJ's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2019.

OKO DJ at Dekmantel Selectors 2019

Recording of Identified Patient's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2019.

Identified Patient at Dekmantel Selectors 2019

Recording of Objekt's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2019.

Objekt at Dekmantel Selectors 2019

Recording of Intergalactic Gary & Pasiphae's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2019.

Intergalactic Gary & Pasiphae at Dekmantel Selectors 2019

JK FLESH RECORDED LIVE @ GEGEN PAIN AT THE ALTAR OF NYX ON NOVEMBER 1ST 2019 @ KITKAT CLUB, BERLIN. FOREVER THANK YOU JUSTIN.

@jk-flesh

NYX RITUAL XVII - JK FLESH LIVE

01 Seleccion Natural : Absolute Zero - PoleGroup
02 Dibu-Z : Battleship Routine - Dominance Electricity]
03 Dead Husband Facial : Recognition - Sisters
04 London Modular - Concerning Irregular Figures 
05 Surit : dying Alone - Nicz
06 Amato : Machine Outil (Umwelt Remix) - Return To Disorder
07 Sorcery : Manufactured Conflicts - Midnight Shift
08 Paula Temple : Joshua & Goliath -Ghost in the Machine Remix - Noise Manifesto
09 Ansome : Pedal To The Metal - Perc Trax
10 I Murdered : Insomnia - Jk Flesh Remix - Reclaim Your City
11 Rendered : Seekers Of Justice - Infidel Bodie
12 Ceili : Not A Fear Of It - Rommeks remix- Obscuur Records
13 Locked Club : Doschitai - Boysnoize
14 Umwelt : Computer Controled - Midnight Shift
15 DJ Richard : Casca’s Theme - Flexxseal
16 Machino : Navajas - New York Haunted
17 1NC1N :  Xank - Kromatones
18 SAAH : Engage - Typeless Records
19 N-Ter :  Subduction - Crobot Music
20 False Persona : System
21 Cyrk : Superior Things - Vakant
22 D. Strange :  Shift - Vanity Press
23 Smolny : Blenda - Bourassa 
24 warlock : Work Dat Shit. We Build Gold
25 New Frames : Scatter - Haven Records
26 randomer : Sleep Of Reason - Headstrong Records
27 Sleeps Everywhere : Subject to Corruption - Marked 
28 Moteka : Final  Confrontation - Skryptom
29 Jk Flesh : Human  Pack Animals - Nicz Records
30 Vlaysin :  Open Your Mind - Flesh Or Die
31 Mercury 200 : Fundamental Relationship - Umwelt Remix - Bipolar
32 karenn : Kumquat - Voam
33 The Advent : Lost f2 - Mord
34 Selección Natural - Split Didactics - PoleGroup
35 Dimi : Drive Me Up - Momomm Black
36 Desroi : Floating In Empty - Semantica

Umwelt Presents Ravoluson / Episode 18

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