Neu 2024

2024

Dekmantel Selectors 2024 recordings

MIXES

Recording of DJ Plead & Phillip Jondo's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Dekmantel Festival 2022

DJ Plead & Phillip Jondo at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Phillip Jondo X Radio SUNNEI

Recording of Objekt's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Dekmantel Festival 2023

Objekt at Dekmantel Festival 2023

Ben Bondy - 'Notes On Letting Go From The Backseat Of An Uber'  ⓜⓘⓧ ⓪⑤⑤

Purelink have been described more than once as an "ambient boy band." (They themselves say "jam band.") It's not meant dismissively—the American trio purposefully mean to function as a band, even if their main instruments are laptops. Ambient might not quite cut it as a descriptor, though. The group's music crosses eras and scenes, touching on the late '90s clicks & cuts boom as well as the billowy ambient techno put out by labels like 3XL, West Mineral Ltd. and NAFF. 

Their most recent LP, Signs, released on enigmatic imprint Peak Oil (and one of our favourite albums of 2023), is especially impressive, made of stuttering rhythms and glassy textures. In other words, it's ambient-not-ambient. While members Concave Reflection, kindtree and Millia have all made excellent music on their own, something special happens when they come together.

Purelink's RA Podcast is another stellar contribution to our post-New Year's tradition, where we highlight a more laid-back sound to soothe weary minds and frazzled brain cells after the heavy holiday celebrations. This is 90-plus minutes of intricately textured downtempo, dub techno and even UK garage, all cut through with a floaty, almost drowsy quality, with plenty of exclusives and unreleased cuts from the likes of Nick León, James K, Downstairs J and more. It highlights Purelink's position as a bridger of worlds, sounds and tempos.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/917

RA podcast

RA.917 Purelink

@mu_tate

Luka Beatović - Porcelain
DJ Olive - Turn In
Pontiac Streator - real world fade from view
Shuttle358 - spiff
shiner - super you
margo proxy - Margo Missing 122
nic - galene pond
kindtree - Don't Forget It
Alsi - sunstarer
Lord RAJA - Cryotherapy
Otto Benson - Apogamy
Holodec - Some Way
John Glacier - On Formulation
Vegyn - Thers Bass In Here
Moneyisagas - Wraps IC 150
asciiwings - 5 - 25 - 23
Eyedress - Smoke & Mirrors
Otro - Accord
sofa - fat jesus
the blessed kitty - edm lifestyle
sjs - gm / kombucha
canopie - ships that die faster than they're started

3XL w/ mu tate on NTS radio 08012024

Living Room n°65 ~ @ev-ia

q. pls introduce yourself 
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q. is there a story behind the mix? 
it mostly unfolds from a 2000s micro-ambi feeling.

q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix? 
just in a quiet space, 

q. describe a favorite object in your living room... 
piano / window

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)
soon i can share an exciting new project, also just finished an album with a friend, and i'm working on my own music

Living Room n°65 ~ èvia

We joined forces with two labels at Berlin’s beating heart: Kulør & Radiant Records.

Courtesy | Berlin: Kulør x Radiant Records

POISON (@1djplead & @tmorimoto) play Trackwork's CLUB SERVICE at The CTA Business Club, Sydney (3.6.23) ☣︎☣︎☣︎

Presented by Vivid Sydney, City of Sydney & Trackwork 
Curated by @utilitycatalogue
Recorded by Nahar Pleshet
Live sound by Jon Watts

MIXWORK 006 - POISON (DJ PLEAD X T. MORIMOTO) - 16/1/24

Ariel Zetina is as charming as she is talented—one of the many reasons she was named "Chicagoan of the Year for Pop Music" by the Chicago Tribune last month. A straight shooter with strong principles, her witty personality shines through on social media and in person. She radiates both best friend and boss energy.

Musically, she wears her heart on her sleeve, infusing her personality into her DJing and production. Her sets and mixes are adventurous, moving from hard to soft to playful with precision. From producing theatre shows and opening for Beyoncé to releasing her RA-recommended debut album on Local Action in 2022, the smartbar resident approaches each venture with meaning and depth. That LP explored the complex experience of being a Belizean-American trans woman, using fiery house and techno to express vulnerability and triumph. 

Ariel Zetina's multifaceted personality is on full display in her RA podcast. There's baile funk-infused techno, crisp drum & bass and plenty of tracks from queer producers from all sorts of scenes, including Michael Cignarale, StrikeStone! and Perfect Lovers. It's a grand statement of power, flow and seriously good taste.

@arielzetina

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/919

RA.919 Ariel Zetina

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

Keinemusik Radio Show by Matisa 19.01.2024

SPA's very own Phillip Jondo sharing two hours of dancehall-infused, percussive electronic downtempo music.

Phillip Jondo @ Avatar.fm (May 2024)

Rinse FM Podcast

DJ Plead B2B Phillip Jondo - 17 June 2024

Recording of CEM & JASSS' set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Dekmantel Selectors 2024

CEM & JASSS at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Recording of DJ Koolt's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

DJ Koolt at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Recording of L.B. Dub Corp's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

L.B. Dub Corp at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Recording of Phillip Jondo's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Phillip Jondo at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Recording of Angel D'lite's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Angel D'lite at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Recording of CCL & Objekt's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

CCL & Objekt at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

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