Name: Live PA Set @ Canary Sound Werk Radio on Dublab (9-7-25) by Force Placement
Duration: 1 h 2 min 38 s
Description: Excerpt recording of my live PA hardware set and interview recorded at Dublab on 9/7/2025 for Canary Test / Canary Sound Werk Radio

Tokyo's @sapphire-slows has her own distinctive aesthetic. The music she makes is ghostly and delicate, eerie yet beautiful. The multi-talented artist plays her own synths and keys and layers her own beautiful vocal drones into her tracks to lend them extra intimacy. This of course means she has toured extensively and released on labels such as Japan's Big Love, Greece's Nous and LA's Not Not Fun/100% Silk. Despite often making and playing music with the brain cleansing purity demonstrated on 2017 album Time, Sapphire Slows can also do more caustic and mechanical sounds, as on 2014's Allegoria LP.

This week's mix explores a melancholic and introspective mood, but it is never dark. A range of mid-tempo rhythms set the tempo. Sometimes they're dubby and linear, at others more bubbling and off-grid, while the synths above glow like fireflies or glisten like knives in the sun. Organic bird calls float above hyper-real synthetic textures and the overall effect is to cocoon you in suspensory and meditative sound that feels out of this world.

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Dekmantel Podcast 330 - Sapphire Slows

Vi - resident of the Ciało club, member of SLAP collective. From 2022 AURA event host. Vi presented her selections in many important clubs and festivals in Poland and also at legendary Tresor; HÖR, Berlin as well as in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.Based on constant openness and searching in music for what most affects emotions and loss, Vi treats electronic music as the best therapy. She focuses on deep, raw techno but nevertheless not afraid playing with the stylistics and boldly calls her club sets eclectic. In selection Vi looks for stimuli that they transform spatial ballads into a fast, galloping groove.

Importants moments from Vi's bio (2018 - 2022 archives)

10.16.2022 Ciało - Francois X, Concept Of Thrill, Vi
26.03.2022 Ciało - Marco Shuttle, Dtekk, Vi
30.10.2021 Jasna 1 - Marco Shuttle, Michał Wolski, Vi
01.10.2021 Ciało - Etapp Kyle, Sept, PAWEL, Vi
28.08.2021 Transformator - HGR aka Hintergrundrauschen, Aksamit, Re_silence, Vi
02.07.2021 Las Festival - Dasha Rush, Valentino Mora, Spectribe, Aksamit, Vi
02.10.2020 Nowa Rezydencja - Błażej Malinowski, Vi
02.09.2020 Up To Date Festival - Retina.It, Birds ov Paradise, Raroh, Vi
05.11.2019 HÖR - P. Leone, Vi, Justine Perry
09.06.2019 999 - Subjected, Szmer, Vi
27.01.2019 Prozak 2.0 - Ellen Allien, Vi, Discox
15.07.2018 INTRO Festival

Links:

Soundcloud: @vi-official
Resident Advisor: residentadvisor.net/dj/vi-pl
Facebook: facebook.com/vi.officialmusic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/vi.noir/

Unknown stories with: Vi

@poly-chain very much takes electronic much into the future. The Kyiv artist born Sasha Zakrevska uses IDM, electro, and techno as building blocks to construct her own eerie, intense, and atmospheric sound worlds that are as cinematic as they are physical. Her edgy melodies are inventive, and her machine rhythms are hugely distinctive. She has not only written solo albums but has composed for theatre and museums, collaborated with Nene H, and released charity albums for Ukraine as part of her ongoing musical resistance.  

For this week's podcast, Poly Chain has sent us the recording of the very special live show she played at Dekmantel Festival this summer. It is an absorbing hour of beatless sound that will move you as much as any drum track. There are storytelling chapters to the set that takes you from darkened underworlds to starry cosmic expanses as the moods go from reflective and calming to more intense and unsettling. It is very much the sound of tomorrow, today.

Dekmantel Podcast 450 - Poly Chain

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Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ben-sims/episodes/ben-sims-6th-october-2024

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Operator is an online community radio station and cultural platform based in Rotterdam.

www.operator-radio.com
www.instagram.com/operator.radio
www.youtube.com/operator-radio

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Excerpt recording of my live PA hardware set and interview recorded at Dublab on 9/7/2025 for Canary Test / Canary Sound Werk Radio

Live PA Set @ Canary Sound Werk Radio on Dublab (9-7-25)

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