Name: Selectors Podcast 030 - merel rhizoom by dekmantel in Selectors Podcast Series
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Selectors Podcast Series

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.

Tracklist

Selectors Podcast 029 - Mika Oki

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.

Selectors Podcast

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

Raised in the underground music scene of Buenos Aires, recent years have seen Blume (@keinblume) continue to hone her vision in Europe - first in Amsterdam and now Berlin. With a complex approach to beat programming, hip-hop inspired use of samples and a melding of odd melodies and experimental textures, her sets are distinctive, technical and enthralling in equal measure. 

A passionate contributor to the scene, Blume hosts the bi-monthly show "The Otherness" on @noodsradio, and runs the record store Format Wars, which provides her with another channel to express her unique tastes - from lavish ambient to bracing jungle and beyond. Originally a digital shop, Format Wars will move into a physical space in early December 2022. 

Blume’s Patterns of Perception 104 is an homage to a multitude of formative moments in Berlin: indelible, visceral musical experiences that have shaped her vision and being. 
Crystal clear reflections of hazy sequences in which the unexpected became the norm. An emotional connection of disparate times as unfettered energy warps into mind-bending experimentation. Sharp polyrhythms expanding out of mesmerising, high-speed techno trips. Endless energy and motion. 
This mix reflects the feeling and eclecticism of odd Berlin nights - the discovery, the euphoria and the memories that never die.

Links:
@keinblume
https://www.instagram.com/keinblume/
https://www.instagram.com/formatwars.records/
https://www.discogs.com/seller/formatwarsrecords/profile

Tracklist:
01 . Beatrice Dillon — Workaround Ten
02 . aya — If [redacted] Thinks He's Having This As A Remix He Can Frankly Do One
03 . Ikävä Pii — Process Fatigue
04 . Awo Ojiji — Ridicoloum (blume edit)
05 . SKSSS — Resistance M1_Seph_16bit
06 . CCL — Drum On
07 . Vel — Freed And Delicious
08 . Nebuchadnezzar — Passion of my Failure
09 . Konsudd — Lift Clique
10 . LEVL — Nullpunkt #2
11 . Thugwidow — A Reduction In Stress
12 . Rhyw — Caramel Core
13 . Sputnik One, EMBY, Honeydrip — Supa Natural (Honeydrip & Spud Remix)
14 . Delay Grounds — How To Monetize Existential Dread
15 . Basic Rhythm — Le Samouraï
16 . Shiken Hanzo — The Reaping (VIP)
17 . GOD69 — Drakx
18 . Martsman — Subbed
19 . Plus One — Trial
20 . Cressida — Move To The Witness (blume edit)
21 . Felix K — Flower Of Destruction #8
22 . Tangerine — No Upcoming Shifts
23 . Homemade Weapons — Svalsat (Donato Dozzy Remix)
24 . Xen Model — V9 Flash (blume edit)
25 . exael — Ice That Melts The Tips
26 . Deactivation of Hal 9000
27 . Laughing Ears — To Cover 遮掩
28 . Monolake — Cern
29 . MSJY — Crab Walk
30 . DJ Double Oh! — Cuerpo
31 . Nick León — Fire Dub
32 . Toma Kami — Mzecal
33 . Katatonic Silentio — Waiting For The Dust To Settle
34 . Nina Simonishvili — Meanwhile
35 . LOIF — Dark Grid
36 . Monotronique — No Other Place Like Home
37 . dBridge — Depersonalised
38 . Cryptographic — Echo I
39 . Ghost Warrior — Frost
40 . borderland state_the best kisser in l.a. — iuo feat. anna b
41 . ben bondy — mi bebe

Patterns of Perception 104 - Blume

Amsterdam selector Orpheu The Wizard connects oddball and straight forward jams from different decades and different record shelves in a monthly two hour show.

https://www.nts.live/shows/orpheu-the-wizard/episodes/orpheu-the-wizard-9th-december-2022

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45th Episode | @jinsynth
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Open Soul Session #45 - Jin

"Hey it's DJ Lag, from Durban, South Africa. I recorded this mix back home in Clermont. Some of the tracks are from my album 'Meeting with The King' since I am celebrating a year since the release! I have also included some of the new stuff the young kids are doing down here in Durban - enjoy the mix!" - @realDJLag

Bleep Mix #258 - DJ Lag

https://www.instagram.com/romidumitrescu/
https://soundcloud.com/4142

4142 at TON 1 Jan 24

Guest appearance on Netil Radio for @dannichollsldn's show.

Luca – 16.11.2023

solance

overworked

bandcamp

we're all living under different sized rocks

~ Tracklist ~

New World Science - Coral Riff
JV Lightbody - Darkening of the Night
Voyage Futur - Eternal Dawn
Soda Lite - Mara Sento
Acidliner - Purple Flowers For The Funeral
Wild Adoration - Soul
JQ - Komorebi
JQ - U 
India Jordan - See Four 
Voyage Futur - Animalia 
JQ - Drifting Sands 
JV Lightbody - The Great Bowl (Sacred Vessel) 
Voyage Futur - Echo Shore
Nabihah Iqbal & Deadbody - Westway (Ambient Mix) 
Acidliner - Die-As-He-Pan
JQ - Ocean Symphony 

All tracks are releases by @newatlantismusic: http://newatlantismusic.bandcamp.com

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For the next Deep Mind Music mix I. JORDAN pays homage to New Atlantis, the Sunday daytime ambient party they have run out of Rye Wax in South London for the past few years, and which held its last ever event this March.

I. JORDAN and I actually first met when I worked at Rye Wax in the record shop and they were setting up for a New Atlantis. Before they became known for their incredible rave-ready productions, much of the South London community knew them for the non-dancefloor soundscapes of New Atlantis. It was the place to be on a Sunday afternoon, winding down from the weekend in the cozy Rye Wax basement. A spot which always feels like your pal's well-loved living room, a community cross paths where you’re always guaranteed to see a familiar face. 

Right now as we’re all stuck at home, listening to music in isolation, it’s a bitter-sweet memory to revisit as I’m writing this. I’d do anything right now to be back there comfortably snuggled on a sofa letting the sounds of this mix wash over me chatting to friends. Nevertheless, the beauty of music is that it transcends space, anyone listening to this mix from very different locations can experience the same emotions. A blissful calm, a wistful introspection, an enveloping warmth. That is something I’m very grateful for right now. 

New Atlantis is also a label, and all the tracks in this mix are releases from the label which you can find at: https://newatlantismusic.bandcamp.com/ 

I. JORDAN says about their mix ~

This is a collection of my favourite New Atlantis releases, which most of the time reminds me of being sat down drinking tea in the Rye Wax basement. The last ever New Atlantis Social also happened to be the last public event I went to before the lockdown. So this mix has a special place in my heart for all those reasons.

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Deep Mind Music

I. JORDAN ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.13

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