⚡️2022⚡️

With his roots in Amsterdam’s DIY scene, Extase Urbaine has been quick gaining a momentum, achieving local and international recognition. He is the co-founder and resident DJ of HDE, a collective dedicated to pushing the boundaries of underground clubbing.  Extase's DJ sets cross weave genres, scenes, past and present, blending everything from EBM and New Beat, to electro and trance-y explorations.

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168⚡Extase Urbaine

Gradually developing taste of a mixture made with dark disco, ebm and post-punk. Ceremonial Rite is a Ukrainian DJ and music producer, currently living in Poland. She considers music as a manifestation and dance as liberation in which inspiration often turns to art or ritual practices. Her debut EP "Serpentes" was released on Haunted Space. 

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167⚡️Ceremonial Rite

Robsn is a Moscow based producer and live performer with releases on Avacha and Global Hybrid. He is constantly on the move and creating music, inspired by new places and the surrounding reality. This selection was made on Sakhalin island, immediately after disembarking from a long sea expedition.

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169⚡️Robsn

Isla to Isla is a team of passionate music lovers and bunch of friends pushing the boundaries of clubbing culture. Since it’s start in 2017 Isla has proceeded a number of events (residencies at Lizdas club and Empty Brain Resort), art happenings and 2 small festivals. Now it’s even more scaled with a launch of label called Isla to Isla. For now, 2 tapes of Vladas Dieninis and Jūra Elena Šedytė have been released but the ambitions are on fire and there is a vivid aim to release much more quality music on different physical formats. For Electric Shapes Isla co-founders Hìldá & Patricia Kokett recorded an intense and colourfully dynamic mix, consisting of their  eclectic tastes and giving a glimpse into what’s happening during their b2b’s.

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171⚡️Patricia Kokett x Hìldå

Lithuanian trance state warriors Donatas Chipak and Titas Tumosa.

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170⚡️Circus Operandi

I was first turned on to Goa music in the early 90s, young and innocent, discovering the communal state of trance for the first time. Back then I wasn’t interested in its roots or it’s origins and preferred to get lost in music not thinking of the days to come or those gone by.
When it all became formulaic and a genre as such, things started to lose their magic and I begun to explore sounds of the past, turning my nose up at something which for me had lived it’s course…
I dived into a whole new sonic horizon, old relics which sounded new to me and more interesting than a lot of contemporary releases. Unconsciously, I was drawing a map which covered many seminal dancefloors worldwide. I would later find out that the distance between most of these tracks had no boundaries as they could just as well have been played in Chicago, Manchester, Gent, Ibiza, Baia Degli Angeli, or Goa…
This mix can be listened to like a GPS directing you towards those places, somewhere in the mid 80s, with Goa as the meeting point and final destination. Funnily enough it is also very close to the first mixes that helped put my name on the map almost 20 years ago…

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175⚡️Alexis Le-Tan

CEO of AAB and a house lover. Valma draws inspiration from graphic fantasies about a place full of smoke, beautifully lit, reminiscent of a club full of people. He says that he is simply trying to convey the visuals into the sounds. Everything is a feeling, so he is not attached to any labels or specific genre names.

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172⚡️Valma

Sasha Vepr is Moscow based DJ and vinyl collector also half of СDDOMA collective. 

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173⚡️Sasha Vepr

There is no society without culture...

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174⚡️FAR EAST FLIGHT

Sabla is a project born and raised in Turin, devotely committed to the study of hypnotic sounds and polyrhythmics.  He’s co-founder of Gang of Ducks, a collective which takes care of music releases, editorial issues and art projects. 

He has released two Ep,  Spirits on Gang Of Ducks and DanzaGuida on Dont’dj’ DISK.  He also appeared on compilation on Amsterdam’s Knekheluis, Bristol Normcore and Hivern Discs.
 
In November 2021 he has released his first album, Music for Melted Floors, on Pensaments Sònics, a new project run by the team of Hivern Discs.

"It's been quite some years since I wanted to record a mix based on Muslimgauze-only tracks so I took a podcast invitation from Electric Shapes as a chance to finally do it.

I dug in around 60 of the over 90 albums recorded by Bryans Jones over his 16 years of activity and went into the rabbit hole of his insane discography.

I realized that there could really be hundreds of directions you can take by doing a mix right in his records, this is one of them. Hope you’ll enjoy the journey."

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176⚡️Sabla (Muslimgauze ONLY)

Owner, producer and designer at Big Science Records, Warzou releases tracks since 2019 on labels Nous Disques, Kump, Mystery Booms, Macadam Mambo, Marguerite Records, Vastechoses, and many more. Started in 2013 as VFR with club acid tracks on That Place (TPL001, TPL003), deejay resident at Le Sucre with PALMA from 2014 to 2016, and Ambassade Club during 2017 and 2018. Lyon Based, and LYL radio resident since 2016. He’s also part of Warzabart with Gil.Barte.

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177⚡️Warzou

The man, the machine, and the usual suspect. Not truly sure what that means but the line hides somewhere on Koneliūnas profile. He’s been involved in the scene with projects such as Skalbiankė and Antidote Community. Sometimes as a father, sometimes as a brother, and always as a lover. 

Over the last several years, he has been making a step towards becoming a producer, thus, one soon-to-be-released track appears on the mix. Consume freely.

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Follow Antidote - https://soundcloud.com/antidotecommunity

178⚡️Koneliūnas

Gumar aka Break Mode is always riding a wave of outsider joy. From his irreverent DJ mixes and club appearances to his stacked discography of remixes, re-edits and original material there's always an electric sense of expertly harnessed ecstasy which has made his events and releases west coast classics.

Gumar resides in Portland with his small dog and best friend Tomato where he manages the Bed of Roses label/collective.

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179⚡️Break Mode

Nick Gynn has been a part of the London scene for over a decade, having moved to East London from his home county of Devon. His passion for sound was cultivated at an early age; sneaking into clubs and raves around the South West was the first indicator, and shortly afterwards Nick had his first set of decks, at the age of seventeen. The move to London brought him closer to the underground scene where he frequently attended nights at legendary clubs The End, fabric, Tea Bar and Public Life alongside the growing warehouse scene of the time around East and North London.

Having watched his area transform, the musical landscape around the city has changed wildly too. Nick’s taste is wide-ranging, and he has built up an extensive cross-format library throughout the years. Taking listeners and dancers through from house, garage, electro, techno and breaks to rare disco, afrobeat and Balearic, he is not afraid to draw onmore left field and spacey sounds along the way.

2022 is gearing up to be an important year for Nick with his record label Superlux records and numerous EP releases on other labels.

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180⚡️N-GYNN

Alfredo92 is a DJ and producer based in Copenhagen. He runs the label Axces Recordings which saw the release of his debut EP Helfand in 2020. Alfredo92’s style as a DJ is primarily based in the club scene, and as a producer never compromises to explore new realms. Alfredo92 has released as TAXA on the Mirror Zone label run by Spekki Webu- a release driving tempos to a sense of urgency, resulting in what best can be described as kaleidoscopic brain dance. In november 2021 Afredo released his Debut album “Transient” on Axces Recordings. Transient is rooted primarily in dance music, the eleven album tracks range from beatless experiments to faster-paced stirring melodies and bubbling trancey pulses. 

"The idea behind the mix was to try to connect some dots between minimal progressive trance and some industrial tribal records. I recorded it in my home in Copenhagen in January during a self-iso, and it turned out quite gloomy and sinister. Thanks to Proton records in Copenhagen for providing some of these lovely records and to Dj Ibon for for turning me on to Ka-Sol"

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181⚡️Alfredo92

Even though Bastiaan was producing hiphop and Luuk was part of a band, the two high school friends still managed to find a middle ground playing and producing electronic music together as Match Box. Making use of their beloved 90’s / 00’s gear Match Box released some euphoric and dreamy EP’s full of house, breaks and trance. Also on the dancefloor they spread their love for the 90’s British and Dutch sound where they play lively sets filled with electro, house, trance, breaks and techno, for instance at their newly launched party Vuemer. Business in the front, party in the back, you might say.

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182⚡️Match Box

In this vinyl-only mix AJO (aka Kalocain aka Steppin’ Wolf) shows us a bit around in his downtempo collection.  Look forward to lots of psychedelic wrongspeeders and other treasures. Enjoy the trip!

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197⚡️AJO

Justas Jelisejevas sees music as a way to transcend the boundaries of space and time. Sludgy baselines, hypnotic sonic expressions and repetitive rhythms combined together will lead into a liberating experience that he seeks to achieve. Currently Justas spends most of his creative time by working together with Radio Vilnius community, hosting Hypnosis and Puppystyle radio shows, painting weird animals and digging through archives of musical oddities.

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213⚡Jelisejev

Infused releases on labels such as Höga Nord, Ombra International and NEIN. January 2023 will see the release of her new EP which focuses more on heavy duty bass lines and broken percussive rhythms, alongside her recognisable vocals. It will be the first release on her brand new label Feed The Void, which takes its name from the show name of her long standing Netil Radio residency. DJ wise, she lays down no rules for herself in terms of genres and BPMs. This mix flexes over 75 minutes of industrial dub, world rhythms, progressive house, electro and breaks.

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214⚡Birds (UK)

Berlin-based MINOU ORAM [LYL / Cereals] is a DJ and producer  blending music over many decades and styles between  meditative serenity and dazing temper in quest of  evoking catharsis through sound. In her boundless sets she draws upon a wealth of musical influences roaming  through the abysses of abstract electronica, cosmic and  tribal timbres, industrial post-disco, alienated pop,  personal field recordings and more. 

In 2016 she founded the FEMDEX project to promote gender  diversity in electronic music, since 2017 she hosts  the bimestrial show SVVENIR on the French radio station LYL and 2022 she joined CEREALS, a collaborative practice for music, art and design.

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215⚡Minou Oram

Music is the cure

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