Name: Soft Break at Dekmantel Selectors 2024 by dekmantel in Live DJ sets
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Description: Recording of Soft Break's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Live DJ sets

Recording of Nala Brown's and Soft Break's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Dekmantel Festival 2022

Nala Brown & Soft Break at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Recording of Soft Break and Nala Brown's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2022.

Dekmantel Selectors 2022

Soft Break & Nala Brown at Dekmantel Selectors 2022

SOFT BREAK @ DGTL AMSTERDAM 08.04.23

Saturday 27 January 2024
CTM 2024 – Sustain
OXI

Genre-busting energy-driven aural narratives, full of unexpected twists and turns. With formative encounters with the jungle, dubstep, and grime scene in her native Rotterdam, audiovisual artist and graphic designer Soft Break melds the tender with the tumultuous in her work. Delicate vocals skitter atop footwork and hip-hop snares, heavy percussion, and heavier bass in works that feel both piercing and at times ethereal. A founder of the collective AMPFEMININE, her work amplifies the voices of femme-identifying artists, musicians, and other collectives, causes, and brands.

@softbreak

CTM 2024: Soft Break at OXI

ROOM 2 - SATURDAY 20 til 22 🐊🐊🐊

Thanks to Suzybee & Steevio, the volunteers, the dancers, the musicians, Théo & Ugo, the Friends of Fictions, Alex & very special thanks to @iambruce for mastering the recording :)

Hug to @r4r_luz who sadly couldn't make it this year and was supposed to play before me.

Shorter context: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9NI2bwMVcu/

Longer context: https://nonogigsta.substack.com/p/1ec95196-66ba-45d9-91d0-3b1031fc5c42

Freerotation 2024 : The House Of Crocodiles Part 2 (Live Recording)

Live recording of Dj set - opening back up the grove stage 8pm-10pm on the 2nd night. Thank u SR team x

https://soundcloud.com/secondcousins

Cousin @ Sustain Release Year 10

Recording of Soft Break's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Soft Break at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

For her 2024 set at MUTEK Montréal, Brooklyn-based DJ Ayesha performed a one-hour mix of original music made during a period of healing and exploration whilst recovering from a brain injury.

If you’re a fan, become a Supporter: crackm.ag/subscriptions

Live from MUTEK Montréal: Ayesha

Milan-based Piezo (@piezopz) sits at the heart of the current club sounds. He has long had an obsession with sound system music and that defines what he does today: mutant and beguiling club tracks with meticulous sound design and thrilling energy, heavy low ends and a real dose of UK influence from d&b to garage, grime and techno. He kicked off the year by dropping his genre-busting Ecstatic Nostalgia EP on our Dekmantel-UFO sub-label and now returns with a podcast that is just as fresh.

It's a futuristic mix of bleeping machines and lurching rhythms with bright synth designs and deep space ambience. Over the course of 90 minutes, the pace picks up and you're whisked along a variety of rhythms from broken to dubby, head spinning to minimal. It feels utterly spontaneous but is also a fully coherent mix from this restless innovator. 

Dekmantel Mix 483 - Piezo

Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

subcast is born, an incantation of adventurous sonic alchemy behind radiant subs. The inimitable Razrbark kicks things off. Strap in for a chemistry-altering ride.
@razrbark's interview below--->

ℚ: ℍ𝕠𝕨 𝕨𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕔𝕣𝕚𝕓𝕖 ℝ𝕒𝕫𝕣𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕚𝕟 𝕒 𝕗𝕖𝕨 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤?

A: Live edge, live wire

Q: Describe the story behind Razrbark's Specific Heat.

A: Specific Heat measures how resistant (or not) substances are to temperature changes, specifically how much energy is needed to raise the temperature of something by one degree. This concept from chemistry has always stuck with me and is something I thought of after listening to the finished product of this mix/let's be real I just think it sounds cool.

When I first started prepping for this mix, I went in a very different direction and had a rough draft, but it felt tedious, trying to force ideas and tracks in a way that required a lot of energy with little output. Sometimes, things pour out of you and sometimes, they don't. 

One day, a very exciting booking came through (spoiler alert: it was Honcho @ Hot Mass). With the adrenaline rush of the booking, I immediately started mixing tracks from the extremes of my USB, and everything flowed really easily. I decided to hit record, and it came together in a way that felt much more organic. I also unearthed many tracks I had forgotten about that were collecting cobwebs on my stick but that I always loved.

Anyway, all this to say, just like in chemistry, sometimes you need the right conditions for a reaction to truly take off~~~

Q: What is your ideal dancefloor (fictional or real).

The Bronze.

Q: When is the last track that made subs glow for you?

A: Two specific tracks come to mind:
https://snappedankles.bandcamp.com/track/come-play-the-trees-crooked-ankles-2
To me this is the perfect track. I played it at Hot Mass in Pittsburgh sometime after 6am a bit slower than this. I love how it has so much raw power behind it. Big chug NRG. I've always loved this song from the same band. It has a very Iggy Pop/Plastic Bertrand sensibility to it, but I've never been able to play it on a dance floor, so I was happy when I found this edit that is a bit more dance floor friendly and still has the rock/dance vibe that I feel is a hallmark of my sound.

Another track:
I just played this song towards the end of my set at Afterlife in Seattle this weekend. The bass was so intense my drink literally bounced across a table and fell to the floor. I'd say the subs were glowing hard.
https://normalpleasure.bandcamp.com/track/heart-palpitations-on-the-m1

Q: What track/artist was a musical game-changer for you?

A: Föllakzoid. It's psych rock, it's techno, it's everything. Each time I've seen them play, it's world-building and expansive. 

Q: If this mix was a book or a movie what would it be? 

A: It would be in Walk Hard Part 2, when Dewey goes through his drum and bass era.

subcast #1 ✹ Razrbark's Specific Heat

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2025/truancy-volume-348-reni/ 

Soundcloud: @renildn

Access the download and full tracklist (Added) on our Patreon (patreon.com/truants). However if you need anything leave us a nice comment here with @renildn tagged and either of us will get back to you with an ID! Your support helps cover all our costs allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform.

re:ni

Truancy Volume 348: re:ni

GRIT - Grittier Extended Version

Starší track ktorý dlho ležal v šuflíku, tak som ho trocha upravil a dal von.

Buy it here :-)

VegaTek - Brainwashing

liquid FM DJ Savage - protect your spirit

Started DJ'ing 6 months ago and in that first one month later I already had my first radio show at Operator Radio with Concentric Circles (Mo Jakob). The following months I got the opportunity to share my music at MONO Rotterdam, Bound Centre and Amsterdam Dance Event. I then moved to Berlin for a graphic design internship where we collectively decided on my new dj name: Soft Break.

I'm currently doing a DJ program with No Shade collective in Berlin, although I'm back in Rotterdam for now.

I'm so grateful for all the dancing, shouting, believing and supporting. Focusing on graduation this year and continuing to explore my new favourite hobby.

Enjoy my recorded set from Bound Centre w/ Winterdagen, Ice Viper, Lin Tonic, Ezra V and Victor Metske @ Roodkapje Rotterdam (14-12-2019).

Track list:
DJ Orange Julius - Gangs (feat. DJ Mastercard)
Buraka Som Sistema - Sente
Galtier - Mind Aggregate
Lunice - Purp Walk
Highlands
Staysa - Narciso
Boska - Barso re-edit
Goro & Vaiper - F IT UP
Yung Lean - Hurt
Ase Manuel - Shakti (New Position)
Key Glock x Lilocox - 6ix (BAE BAE edit)
VHOOR - Escorregou
Goro - Fire Blood
Jameszoo - Mrm Aid S
HI$TO - Get Nasty (feat. TT THE ART)
Ariel Zetina - Addy (feat. London Jade)
Omaar - Druman
Macabre Unit - Dem Na Ready (Vocal Remix)
Famous Dex - Pick It Up (feat A$AP Rocky)
Amor Satyr - Tumba Tic Tac
Know V.A. - NY is killing me edit

Soft Break @ Bound Centre - 14.12.2019

bookings: anna@momanager.nl
mgmt: mo@momanager.nl
@ampfeminine

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20.07 b2b YoungWoman, Nyege Nyege Festival, Garage Noord, Amsterdam
12.07 Shift Return, Echobox Radio
28.06 Nous'klaer Festival b2b Jameszoo, Rotterdam

past:
21.06 Ray-Ban x Echobox Radio, Amsterdam
14.06 Shift Return, MYNRGY sits in, Echobox Radio
13.06 (Talk) POING, Rotterdam
01.06 Elements of Sound, AMPFEMININE, KODA, Schiedam
30.05 FIBER Festival, Amsterdam
23.05 Nyege Nyege, b2b Deborah X, Worm Rotterdam
17.05 Shift Return, Echobox, Amsterdam
08.05 +++ b2b dirtydms, Future Intel, The Hague
01.05 THE BEAT, 3FM RADIO
19.04 MOMO Festival (Talk), Rotterdam
11.04 N8W8 (Talk), Rotterdam
05.04 ISSUE (DJ Workshop), Amsterdam
29.03 b2b dirtydms, Amsterdam
22.03 Shift Return, Echobox Radio, Amsterdam
08.03 KIOSK, Brussels, Belgium
01.03 La Fabriek, Brussels, Belgium
22.02 Shift Return, Echobox, Amsterdam
21.02 Diaspora Radio b2b DJ Shahmaran, Club RAUM, Amsterdam
25.01 Shift Return, Echobox, Amsterdam

2024
OOO
30.11 Shift Return, Echobox
28.11 Loom, Jungle Amsterdam
07.11 Traumgarten X Future Intel
02.11 Plakboys, Tilburg
02.11 Shift Return, Echobox Radio
18.10 RA x B.A.D. ADE Panel Talk, Tilla Tec, Amsterdam
12.10 West, Den Haag
05.10 Shift Return, Echobox Radio
05.10 MONO Fundraiser, Rotterdam
21.09 b2b Bella Hall, La Cassette, Skatecafe, Amsterdam
24.08 Dekmantel Selectors Boat Party, Croatia
22.08 Dekmantel Selectors, Croatia
16.08 Kabul à Gogo, Utrecht
10.08 Shift Return, Echobox, Amsterdam
08.08 Ecdysis w/ DJ Shahmaran, Operator Radio
03.08 Garage Noord, Amsterdam
20.07 Echobox Anniversary, Benelux Bar, Amsterdam
13.07 Electropark Festival, Genoa, Italy
29.06 Jams & Gems Afterparty, Eindhoven
29.06 Jams & Gems Festival, Eindhoven
15.06 Shift Return, Echobox, Amsterdam
14.06 w/ TEMPEST + Arcturius, Kanaal40, Amsterdam
02.06 Patio, LOFI, Amsterdam
24.05 Club3, Haarlem
18.05 Shift Return, Echobox, Amsterdam
10.05 Creatures of the Night (b2b Ka-Raba), RADION, Amsterdam
04.05 POING Club, Worm, Rotterdam
13.04 Tilla Tec, Amsterdam
13.04 STRP & Breek, Eindhoven
16.03 DOKA w/ SAIDAH, Amsterdam
16.03 Curated by Rupture, Amsterdam
10.02 40 degrees, kanaal40, Amsterdam
27.01 CTM Festival, Oxi, Berlin
26.01 Hope House, Leeds
14.01 Het Einde, De School, Amsterdam

2023
31.12 RELOAD, De Helling, Utrecht
16.12 PARDON, Parallel, Amsterdam
15.12 Plasma, RSO, Berlin
25.11 Somatic Rituals, Garage Noord, Amsterdam
18.11 Mo Manager Anniversary, Skatecafe, Amsterdam
11.11 Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair, Parallel, Amsterdam
11.11 Le Guess Who? AMPFEMININE, Basis, Utrecht
04.11 Meredith Monk, Museumnacht Amsterdam, Oude Kerk
20.10 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
06.10 Stepping Into Tomorrow, DOKA, Amsterdam
30.09 Vulvaverse, Poing, Rotterdam
29.09 Unlocked DnB, Bird, Rotterdam
13.09 Het Huis Utrecht, Utrecht
19.08 Decoratelier x touche--touche, Brussels
19.08 Kiosk Radio, Brussels
29.07 WORMHOLE, Rotterdam
28.07 Cinnaman 22 years, De School, Amsterdam
22.07 COMPLEX x Heesterveld, Amsterdam
21.07 La Cassette, Levenslang, Amsterdam
14.07 EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
23.06 Echobox Presents, Amsterdam
17.06 PARDON, Amsterdam
16.06 kanaal40, Amsterdam
10.06 Boothstock Festival, Rotterdam
03.06 Cakes Da Killa, Rotterdam
05.05 Floorjam, The Carpet Shop, London
27.04 Het Kroonjuweel, Rotterdam
26.04 UNiiQU3 X AMPFEMININE, Tilburg
22.04 Schietclub, Amsterdam
08.04 Rewire Festival, Den Haag
08.04 DGTL Festival, NDSM, Amsterdam
25.03 b2b Nèna, Melkweg, Amsterdam
24.03 Nią Archives, Parallel, Amsterdam
10.03 b2b Ngoni Egan, POING, Rotterdam
04.03 Museumnacht Rotterdam
25.02 b2b Nala Brown, Garage Noord, Amsterdam
07.01 De School, Amsterdam

2022
03.12 AMPFEMININE X OOST, Groningen
25.11 Boiler Room Festival, Amsterdam
25.11 Herfstdrift Festival, Nijmegen
05.11 FAQ Festival, Den Bosch
05.11 Museumnacht, Amsterdam
23.10 De School X ADE, Amsterdam
21.10 Noclubs & Order ADE, Amsterdam
21.10 AMPFEMININE X ADE, Amsterdam
07.10 COLORS, Amsterdam
30.09 Sonic Acts: Flashing Horizons, Amsterdam
17.09 Radio Radio, Amsterdam
16.09 DISPLACED, Amsterdam
16.09 Poing Weekender, Rotterdam
09.09 Festival DWNTWN, Rotterdam
09.09 Gemaal op Zuid, Rotterdam
03.09 MOMO Festival, Rotterdam
02.09 EINHUNDERT, Rotterdam
27.08 Dekmantel Selectors (b2b Nala Brown), Croatia
25.08 Dekmantel Selectors AMPFEMININE Boat Party, Croatia
12.08 Sugarcane Collective, Rotterdam
06.08 Dekmantel Festival 2022 (b2b Nala Brown), Amsterdam
16.07 HÖR, Berlin
12.07 Refuge WorldWide, Berlin
01.07 VANDALIZED, Amsterdam
01.07 WOO HAH!, Tilburg
30.06 Sonsbeek X Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
04.06 Marry Klein, Munich
29.05 SPIELRAUM, Garage Noord, Amsterdam
20.05 COLORS, Amsterdam
26.04 Radio Radio, Amsterdam
15.04 BIT, Rotterdam
08.04 Citrus Veiling, Rotterdam
01.04 Poing, Rotterdam
23.03 Dawning Voidance, Rotterdam
12.03 Hard Opening, Garage Noord, Amsterdam
04.03 (AMPFEMININE X KONTRA) FEMFEST, Worm, Rotterdam

2021 (selected)
05.11 Radio Tempo Não Pára Anniversary, Skatecafe Amsterdam
30.10 RECALL X Phuture West, Weelde, Rotterdam
16.10 Opening, Garage Noord, Amsterdam
10.09 Blockparty Werkwarenhuis, Den Bosch
05.03 Radio Melkweg, Amsterdam

2020 (selected)
21.12 Dekmantel Connects X Bureau Punt
18.12 Dekmantel Connects X MONO
29.02 No Shade 360°, Tabu Bar Berlin
13.02 Discoteca Amore, Het Magazijn, The Hague
24.01 (A)WAKE Anniversary w/ Sippin' T, MONO Rotterdam

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