@zvrra is an avant-garde artist by anyone's standards. Her background as a video game developer has a clear influence on the music she makes. That can be anything from industrial to techno, witch house to hip hop, but most often her sounds exist in the intricate spaces in between all that. Her perfectly entitled November album Bizarroland on Avian was a fine example of that, and one united by an eerie darkness that kept you looking over your shoulder.

But this week's mix is full steam ahead through a shadowy world of grit and grime. It's a one-hour techno excursion that explores myriad different rhythms from flat-footed to floating, broken to brutal. It is unrelenting from start to finish, building the tension through a mix of texture and tempo, pulling back then going again just when it matters. It speaks of DJ with a unique sense of control and mastery of darkness. 

To learn about what inspired the mix, how it was put together, the influence of video games on Zvrra's music and about her recent EP, head over to our website to read a quick interview with the artist herself: https://dekmantel.com/editorial/dekmantel-podcast-363-zvrra

Dekmantel Podcast

Short Q&A

Dekmantel Podcast 363 - Zvrra

... BUT RATHER SEND IT LIGHT

Miami dream team Bitter Babe and Nick León jump aboard crackaud.io with an hour of high-energy club music, Venezuelan raptor house and hard drum rudeness.

Check out the tracklist on crackaud.io: crackm.ag/3HVrIIU
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Crack Mix 455: Bitter Babe & Nick León

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OK WILLIAMS @ADONIS NYD 2024

The primary thematic focus of this gathering lies in the realm of ambient music - 100 bpm - elements of dub & introspective sensations.

https://www.instagram.com/rendezvous.ambient4babies

https://soundcloud.com/vor4gine

Ambient 4 Babies with Viiaan & Villaseñor @ The Lot Radio 07-21-2024

Live at Tossd 003 - DJ DEADNAME

back in september i had the chance to play the @sustain-release-nyc year ten pool party—probably my favorite part of the festival after years i been attending. i was lucky to share the decks with fam and favs rose kourts and colored craig, which made it even more special <3 

as some know, this set was originally meant to be a b2b with sekucci and i , but due to some last-minute changes, we had to pivot and i ended up playing solo. this one’s dedicated to u—sending much love ur way always 💞

was lucky to get the recording of the set, though i had no idea it was being captured. it came out super blown out, but huge thanks to love letters for working their mixing and mastering magic to bring some life back into it. the result is crunchy, textured, and a bit raw, but it feels right.

the energy that day was unmatched, and this set holds a special place in my lil heart. if you were there, thank you for dancing and being part of that moment. if not, tap in and let me know what you think—so glad this lil time capsule made it 😁

Sterling Juan Diaz Live @ Sustain-Release Year Ten Pool Party Closing

Tomás Urquieta: ‘Ai Ferri Corti’ - HERRENSAUNA Release Special

https://www.instagram.com/tomasurquieta
https://www.soundcloud.com/tomasurquieta



Tomás Urquieta ‘Ai Ferri Corti’ - HERRENSAUNA Release Special @ The Lot Radio 03-21-2025

Relentless rhythms and Latin dance history, courtesy of the TraTraTrax innovator.

Percussion is, at the root, a conversation. It's about different instruments meeting each other, and interacting to form something bigger than the sum of its parts. 

Few engage in this dialogue as boldly as Pablo De Vargas, AKA Uruguayan experimentalist Lechuga Zafiro, who draws from tradition, to make sounds like candombe and clave feel, well, completely new.

De Vargas' music reaches outward, building bridges between Montevideo and Bogotá, Tijuana, Berlin and beyond. He's a key figure in the hybridisation of Latin American club music, with releases on labels like NAAFI and an album on TraTraTrax.

His RA Podcast plays like a manifesto in motion. RA.985 opens with a recording of Jorginho Gularte, a Uruguayan composer, playing a jazz rhythm, from there, it expands: cuban guaguancó, Venezuelan drums, batida, tribal, techno—it's all here, stitched together with precision and intention.

De Vargas is also, crucially, reckoning with these roots. His 2018 EP Testigo confronted the colonial violence embedded in the history of the Río de la Plata. His sets are similarly alive with memory—asking, without nostalgia: what does it mean to inherit rhythm? Who gets to carry it forward?

He's also just a killer DJ, one of those rare artists who uses CDJs like an instrument. His sets are full of hot cues, delay FX and left turns. It's technical, but never cold. It’s, in a word, funky.

@lechugazafiro
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/985

RA.985 Lechuga Zafiro

CENTER OF THE RING

Umor Rex, Acid Test, Omnidisc, New York Haunted, Antime.

North America: joe@surefireagency.com
Europe: leo@awesome-agency.com
Mexico: marco@borninmexico.tv

2018
05 May 18, CDMX LIVE, Volvox, John Barera
12 May 18,  CDMX Dj set, w Danny Daze
02 Jun 18, Peru, Red Bull Festival Cultura Libre
13 Jul 18, Por Detroit, Cdmx
22 Jul 18, Elsewhere, New York
3 Aug, Garage Noord, Amsterdam
9 Aug, Institut fuer Zukunft w/Resom, Leipzig
17 Aug 18, BERGHAIN, Berlin
23 Aug 18, New York, Ext, Bossa Nova
13 Oct, Pervert CMDX
23 Nov-MUTEK MX w/ Itaru Yasuda
2019
19 Jan Pervert x EXT.
26 Jan New York UNTER
1 Feb, Dj set, San Francisco
15 Feb, Live, They're here, San Francisco
17 Feb iii Points Festival Miami
22 Feb DOVS CDMX EXT. TBA
4 May, YUYU CDMX, w/ Arpnet
24 May, CDMX Foro Roma, w/ ANNA
17 Aug Terminal w/PLOY DJ Unfollow
23 Aug EXT. Legowelt, CDMX
24 Aug, Hellow Festival, Monterrey
6 Sept, EXT CDMX w/Courtesy, Nico.
7 SEPT, CDMX Japan w/ BRUCE

2020 RIP

2021 

Floyd Miami, Sept 9
EXT CDMX, Oct 22
Sunday Sunday 12 NOV
EXT CDMX, NOV 20
Common Sense, 26 Nov, CDMX
Oaxaca, 4 Dic.
EXT 11 Diciembre
YUYU 31 Enero

2022
Day Zero Tulum, Jan 10
17 Enero Comunite x Jeff Mills x Dj Stingray 
5 Mar EXT x Aurora Halal
18 Mar Ensenada, Beer Fest
20 Mar Teotihuacan
25 Mar Ensamble, CDMX
1 Abr SPEED MOMENT ACID - DOVS, CDMX
30 Abril Anomaly Fest CDMX
28th May, EXT. Schacke CDMX
4 Jun, EXT. x Where are my Keys Miami, w/ Paranoid Lonon & Danny Daze
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10 Sept Bar Americas GDL
16 Sept Indie Rocks w/ Gus Gus CDMX
17 Sept Topaz Club Monterrey
23 Sept, HHH - Industrial Juarez.
24 Sept, HHH - Industrial, El Paso TXS
28 Sept, Centro Cultural España, CDMX

2023

14 Jan Comunitext, Juan Atkins, Skee Mask
20 Jan, Los Ángeles 
21 Jan, Acid Varsity, San Diego
24 Feb, Texture Detroit X EXT
17 Mar, EXT D. Tiff
15 Abril, Funk
13 May, EXT 
20 May CDMX w/ Ben KIock
17 Junio Leon, 
28 Jul Guadalajara Bar Americas
25 Aug MUTEK Montreal Festival (live)
26 Aug Algo Bien Matrix (DJ Set)
01 Sept EXT - Speed Moment 5 (live)
02 Sept BRUTAL w/ Slam (Dj Set)
15 Sept Pervert CDMX (Dj set)
16 Sept San Luis Potosí DeepArt (Dj Set)
22 Sept Okzy Club Colima w/ Patricia 
22 Sept Funk w / Legowelt  
30 Sept MTY TBC 
14 Oct Boiler Room CDMX (Dj set / Offline)
20 Oct EXT x T4T LUV NRG
28 Oct Hidalgo, Pachuca FPF Live
04 Nov Morelia, Femme la Nuit (Dj Set)
10 Nov TJ, (Dj set)
18 CDMX MGNT
08 Dic Campeche TBC
09 Dic Bar Oriente

2024
24 Feb CDMX

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