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CC:DISCO! (1979 SPECIAL) - 16 May 2021

Each year, we ask a few artists from the Dekmantel Selectors line-up to deliver a mix in anticipation of the new edition. Who could be a better fit than DJ Python to re-initiate this tradition?

Even before Dulce Compañia, which introduced the Python alias to the world, Brian Piñeyro has been providing a wide array of unique sounds to those who care to listen. To be fair, he makes it hard not to care, and also to describe his ambling, dembow-inspired rhythms as something other than ‘deep reggaeton’. But if Piñeyro has taught us one thing, it is that music is just moods flowing into one another. Sometimes, the mood is a percussive therapy session, and sometimes it warps drone-driven electronica, tingly synths, and steely dancehall.

It is unsurprising that this mix is all about the mood too. A 60-minute journey across genuinely emotive songs and honeyed hymns. In his words, it’s just about “enjoying the time with people around you, whatever shape the people or the time may take”. When listening to this mix, keep in mind DJ Python’s approach to making soup: you can only really do it well if you allow yourself to move beyond the recipe. The only thing left to do is let go and get locked in.

Selectors Podcast 028 - DJ Python

This instalment of our annual Selectors Podcasts series comes from Mika Oki, who is probably best described as a sensory artist. Heavily influenced by a background in sculpture and electro-acoustic music, her work frequently revolves around weaving together sound and vision – simultaneously creating and exploring intangible spaces, be it in installations, performance pieces, music, or mixes. And when it comes to the latter, Mika Oki has proven, time and time again, that an amalgamation of grime, reggaeton and dancehall might just be an essential component of a well-crafted, esoteric soundscape.

What you’ll hear in this industrial and organic mix partly derives from Mika Oki’s friends, producers and residents at LYL radio, as it happens that she recently opened the third, Brussels-based branch of the Belgian webradio together with a collection of dedicated musicians. Combined with sounds reminiscent of “broken machinery” and a “glitched, collapsing world”, we are left with a celestial selection that converges across the realm of sonic experimentation and - somewhat otherworldly - club rhythms. One thing is for certain: this mix will leave you wondering what you were doing before you started tuning in, once it’s over.

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Selectors Podcast 029 - Mika Oki

Recording of Tom Noble's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2021.

Dekmantel Selectors 2021

Tom Noble at Dekmantel Selectors 2021

DJ Tracksuit é natural da Bélgica, e mudou-se para Amsterdã por causa da música,  agita a cena com os seus " grandes passos de dança", organiza pequenas festas, apresenta o seu programa online ‘Hot Records’ e escreve sobre a música e os artistas que ama para seu próprio blog e para Steppin 'Into Tomorrow.

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From Afro Boogie to Zouk this guy travels across the genre alphabet all whilst sweating up a storm in a tracksuit. The Belgian born DJ Tracksuit moved to Amsterdam for the music, he now contributes to the scene with his self proclaimed "great dance moves", organising small parties, hosting his online show ‘Hot Records’, and writing about the music & artists he loves for his own blog & for Steppin' Into Tomorrow.

DJ Tracksuit - Alter Disco Podcast 112

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @mendel

RRFM • Mendel • 25-11-2021

Each year, we ask a few artists from our Dekmantel Selectors line-up to deliver a mix in anticipation of the new edition. First up in this year’s series is Garage Noord resident and LYL radio show host @merelrhizoom. As a proper connoisseur of modular synth tracks and avant-garde compositions, merel rhizoom tends to navigate the musical stratosphere between what one could refer to as “weird psybient”, hypnotic jungle, trance downtempo or industrial breaks with implausible ease in her selections.

The mix at hand makes a good case for doing what feels right: merel rhizoom told us that she “initially was very tempted to make a more dance-oriented mix”, but then decided to go into a different direction: “focussing on (modular) synthesis of veterans such as Max Loderbauer, Robert Aiki Low, Andreas Tilliander and Driftmachine, while on the other hand including more avant-garde compositions by Jon Hassell, Oren Ambarchi, Upperground Orchestra and others”. What already sounds good on paper, has turned out to be a mesmerizing and thoroughly mind-altering listening session – enjoy it with your eyes closed and mind open.

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Selectors Podcast 030 - merel rhizoom

For this instalment of our Dekmantel Selectors podcast, we welcome Amsterdam-based Nèna (@castro-nena). Her song selections range from reggaeton and bass-heavy beats to dancehall and dreamy pop. When Nèna enters the booth, an emotional genuineness and an open atmosphere will connect the audience.

Defined by its day to night feeling, this mix continues to enter your ears with beams of sunlight and fast-paced emotions revolving around 'break-up season'. "This mix is created to break away from anger and sadness, dancing forward towards a new season," Nèna explains. "A higher pace than my usual mix, characterizes this podcast. It is created to trigger emotions." Moving your body and processing all kinds of feelings is facilitated by this sincere Dekmantel Selectors 2022 artist.

Selectors Podcast 031 - Nèna

Richard Sen runs through two hours of leftfield cuts. House, cosmic disco synth and italo business inside.

Richard Sen - April 2022

Musical pieces fusing sophisticated pop, groovy funk and electrifying rock, Powerful syncopated groove with punchy bassline and vintage 80s electronic drum rhythms, Saturated electric guitars with virtuoso solos, blended with warm analog synthesizer pads.

Neon Devotion

After starting the mini Dekmantel Selectors podcast series last year, we couldn’t resist continuing it with artists from this year’s line-up. In the next couple of months, we will release 5 podcasts by some of our favourite artists. This year’s podcast theme is all about ‘another side of me’, wherein the artists show another side of theirselves.

Following up A Good Christian’s stunning podcast from two weeks ago is DJ Okapi (Dave Durbach). The South-African DJ and selector is known for running his Afrosynth-blog and playing fantastic collection of African flavored music all over the world. His performance at Dekmantel Selectors in August marks his debut on Dekmantel-grounds, so we are honoured to have an amazing warm-up with his contribution to our series.

With his Selectors Podcast for us, Dave shows another side of himself by playing none African tracks only. "These days I can get away with playing only South African music, but I used to be focused more on American music. Here’s a selection of tracks that complement the Afrosynth sound but are all from outside Africa, from remote and exotic corners of the world like the USA and UK, by artists like Aurra, Ashford & Simpson, Marcus Miller, Bernard Wright, Alphonse Mouzon, Rock Steady Crew and The Rose Brothers. Hope you enjoy it.”

Selectors Podcast 012 - DJ Okapi

@mendel - Into the Woods ADE Weekender 2017
October 20th - Werftheater
Amsterdam, Holland
www.intothewoodsfestival.nl

Mr. Mendel - Into the Woods ADE Weekender 2017

https://www.nts.live/shows/bell-towers/episodes/dance-music-show-w-bell-towers-21st-april-2020

DANCE MUSIC SHOW - BELL TOWERS LIVE AT CORONA D'AMORE  210420

Sara Mautone, ex-fotógrafa de moda, cultiva sua paixão pela música desde sempre, o que a levou as suas sessões de rádio em 2018, com foco na música mundial e balearica.

Seus programas foram apresentados pela primeira vez na Radio Raheem, de Milão, e recentemente no Le Mellotron e Rinse em Paris. É também uma apaixonada colecionadora de vinis, especializada em produções brasileiras, africanas e japonesas dos anos 70 e 80.

Juntamente com sua carreira no rádio, Sara também está provê música em clubes/bares italianos e europeus.

Para Alter Disco: "eu fiz uma seleção de música mundial orientada para os anos 80, alternando entre diferentes gêneros: do funk / pop brasileiro ao reggae japonês, produções sul-africanas e sons latinos, tudo que eu geralmente amo tocar nos shows!"

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Sara Mautone, formerly fashion photographer, cultivates her passion for music since ever, which brings her to start her radio sessions in 2018, focusing on world and balearic music. 

Her shows have been first featured on the Milano based Radio Raheem and lately by Le Mellotron and Rinse in Paris. She is also a passionate vinyl collector specialized in Brazilian, African and Japanese productions from the 70’s and 80’s. 

Together as her radio career, Sara is also selecting music in Italian and European clubs/listening bars. 

For Alter Disco: " I made an 80’s oriented worldwide music selection switching through different genres: from Brazilian funk/pop to Japanese reggae, South African productions and Latin sounds, everything I usually love to play at the gigs!"

Sara Mautone - Alter Disco Podcast 68

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CC:DISCO! - 09 January 2021

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