Vale Budino describes herself simply as a ‘music lover,’ but ‘music obsessive’ might be more apt. Since moving to Berlin from her native Italy in 2018, she has spent just about every penny she’s earned on records. Afro, Italo, funky, new wave, disco, soundtracks, you name it, she has it. The diversity of her taste slowly but surely won her the ears of people in the know and she became resident for Discodromo and DJ Boris’ party CockTail d’Amore having already founded her own event, Oscillator. In the last year, she has also become Music director and project lead at Terminal of Babylon, “a performative game and a social experiment in authority, fluidity and chance” hosted in Berlin.

A grand and theatrical track opens this week's mix as if it were a Hollywood movie from the 60s before crashing beats take you to the heart of the party. There is then a real sense of occasion to each and every mix. Euphoric Italo sits next to sleazy wave, tripped out cosmic minimalism brushes up with disco rap that is high on attitude. Every track is so full of flavour, passion and energy that you cannot help but react in the most physical of ways. What a ride.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 336 - Vale Budino

Recording of DJ Nobu × Sandrien's set at Rainbow Disco Club 2022. Enjoy their thrilling and dramatic 3-hour set, a highlight of last year's event.

RDC 053 - DJ Nobu × Sandrien

Ciao tutti, 
For this episode of my NTS radio show, I am in Asia / Japan all month and invited the Tokyo based painter of sophisticated techno, Haruka. 
For this hour we go deep within and hop of the slow groovy train of time and space for a beautiful reflective journey with a pallet of feels and kinda right on point with the eclipse season & our cosmic skies as Pluto goes direct and marks the end of its stay in Capricorn, prompting reflections on transformations since 2008.  

Hope you enjoy ! ❣️

@haruka_ptc

NTS RADIO GiGi FM Presents Haruka October 2024

Donato Dozzy has long been a revered figure in the global electronic music scene, known for his rare ability to craft hypnotic soundscapes that linger in the mind. Whether in contemporary clubs or classical settings, his sets consistently conjure deep moods and immersive atmospheres.

With this being his first mix release in over 5 years, we’re treated to an early insight into what he’ll bring to Continuum on February 1st. 

RA tickets: https://ra.co/events/2051095

051 - Donato Dozzy - fabric podcast

A self-described "record digging psychopath," Eric Cloutier’s standards are representative of the pre-social media craze and arguably the old adage of letting music speak for itself. Cloutier’s twenty-plus year commitment has been built upon his integrity as a DJ and authority as a selector. His reputation as an unequivocal, dexterous force is increasingly becoming one of note. He’s a DJ for whom quality - above all else - is the watchword.
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Eric Cloutier on Soundcloud: @cloutier

SIDE B | Podcast Series 010: Eric Cloutier

Andreas Baumecker launched his DJ career in the early 90s, a Frankfurt native coming of age in the halcyon days of his country’s reunification. His first stop was the city’s storied and centrally located Romantica, then its affiliate Intimbar where reps from house label Playhouse picked him up for buying duties at record store Delirium. After an uptick in local bookings, he made a brief stop in Mannheim for more of the same before moving to Berlin in 2004, where a recently opened Panorama Bar scouted him as resident and offered him the role of in-house booker for its Berghain operations. As word got out and the city started to draw larger crowds he became a fundamental force in crafting the club’s story. Hesitant to define the upstairs-downstairs split as house and techno, he practices his preachings through an approach that embraces a range of different sounds. ‘Surprise is important’ and his 25,000 strong vinyl collection lends a hand in the process, an assemblage that oscillates between disco, house, electro, techno, breakbeat and pop; the key is to capture the spirit of a crowd. This strategy has borne not only his label Freundinnen (put on hiatus in 2007, relaunched in 2023), but a lasting collaboration with sparring partner Sam Barker as half or Barker and Baumecker (four 12” records and two albums on his alma mater’s imprint Ostgut Ton to prove it). nd_baumecker deals in all things funky and uplifting, a thread of life-affirming melodies and historically literate beats that drive seamlessly forward. Bassiani Podcast 255 alludes to his well stocked portfolio of references, with hints of disco and balearic house, it's more of what his fans know and love to usher in the warmer months; this latest episode is full of spacey tenor, refreshing and gently rolling, breezy chill-out expertly compiled by this fabled German veteran.

@ndbaumecker

Bassiani invites nd_baumecker / Podcast #255

The Flava (Extended)

MonoKick - Abyss

Chicago born @Antenes is a Brooklyn based synth obsessive. She builds her own modulars and then sets them to the future to cook up rough edged warehouse tracks that are gritty and bleakly atmospheric, as well as more textured, detailed ambient work. She has done installations at Moogfest as well as playing as far afield as China, Colombia and Japan, and has appeared on LIES, Silent Season, Bunker NY and Mord. She DJs as well as playing live, has roots in goth and industrial as well as noise  from her early years playing guitar, but also has a real love of techno, electro and experimental.

Her darkly absorbing mix for us this week includes tracks from Electric Indigo, Stephanie Merchak, Fjader, Oisel, Rrose, Lonefront, DJ ESP, Erica Mar, Wata Igarashi, Silent Servant, Ewa Justka, Bergsonist and Uun. It reflects her interest in a healthy amount of ominous dance hypnagogia while also drawing from a large pool of influences from the experimental to her roots in the Midwest. “The ESP track in there has some weird filtering and panning with the crunchy drums for example,” she says, “I love hearing how raw it is”.

Dekmantel Podcast 259 - Antenes

Here's another mix of new tracks that I would have been playing in my DJ sets (see if you can spot the old track) for you to enjoy during self isolation.
Stay safe, clean and please look after each other.

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Formally Unknown - Lotus Turbo
Farron - Contaship
Pessimist - Rut
Staffan Linzatti - Mystery Man
VIL - Field
Makaton - Rise and Kill
Orion - Succumb
Peder Mannerfelt - Summercase 2006
Calum Gunn - Esephony
Stanislav Tolkachev - Everything Ends
H&M - Perception
Head Front Panel - HFP#014 b2
Surgeon - Aqua Marina
Farron - Brooklyn Banks
Jacksonville - Jacksonville
Kouslin - The Beast of Bolsover
Ribé - The Cause
Chrissy - Composition for Sampler, Flexatone, & Vibraslap
Surgeon - The Golden Sea
VIL - Swing My Ass
Jordan Zawideh - Work Delay
Tornado Wallace	 - Midnight Mania
Farron - Liquid Shorts
Reeko - XXX2
Ruhig - Semita
Mike Parker - Grey Morph
Otik - Gravel

Isolation mix

Self Isolation mix Vol.2

Dorisburg [ Aniara / Bossmusik ] Sweden

Live recording from Organik Festival 2019

www.smkmachine.com

Smoke Machine Podcast 139 Dorisburg

UK electronic music performer and recording artist. 
Bookings: michael.matuschek@triangleagency.com