@biancalexis brings a whole new level to the world of eclectic DJing. Anyone who has regularly tuned into her radio sets for dublab or NTS will know that there is no limit to what she might play. It isn't just the electronic spectrum she traverses with ease, but also soul, synth-pop, folk, post-punk, soft rock and myriad other sounds. She also knows how to hold down a vibe in the club, either at her Standard Downtown LA residency or anywhere else around Europe. Later in summer, she will play at both Lente Kabinet Festival and then Dekmantel Selectors, but first...

Bianca keeps one foot firmly on the dance floor with her mix this week. That's not to say it is a traditional club set, but the whole thing is underpinned by a very seductive and danceable groove that is always slowly building. There are proto-house cuts, dusty and analogue 80s rhythms, flashes of acid and breezy, feel-good sounds that send you off on a high. It is a perfect taster of what to expect from this exciting break-out selector.

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Dekmantel Podcast 379 - Bianca Lexis

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp @ https://djbeige.bandcamp.com/album/amen-vol-1

T4T LUV NRG is proud to present “Amen! Vol. 1”, a breathtaking DJ mix tape conceived and blended by Detroit’s DeeJay Beige. “Amen! Vol. 1” is a singular presentation of a sound developed by Beige that is very personal and deeply connected to their history. Beige’s mix is an amalgam of ecclesiastical breaks and gospel house delivered with intensity and soul power like only they can do. Prepare to be enthralled with one of the most exciting DJs currently burning their way through the American underground. From the Holy Ghost TO YOU, this is Beige! Be not afraid…

ARTIST STATEMENT:
In the strictest sense, Amen! Vol. 1 is the result of more than a year’s worth of obsessive brainstorming, digging, planning, arranging, re-arranging, and countless discarded takes. And in another sense, this mixtape has been in the works for the six years since I started DJing, the ten years since my baptism as a teenage club rat, and for my entire life, which for better or for worse has been shaped by The Church and church music since birth. 

My mother was a promiscuously Christian divinity school dropout who pushed my family through a run of increasingly conservative churches: Unitarian, Episcopal, Baptist, Presbytarian, Charismatic-Evangelical, and probably a few others I forget. My fathers family on the other hand were career scientists and committed atheists who also all happened to sing in church choirs for fun. I cannot remember a time when Beethoven, Bach, folk hymns, old negro spirituals and gospel were not playing in my house, day in and day out. 

Cutting ties with both family and organized religion in my early teens left a void of community and belonging that wouldn’t start to be filled until my first experiences with clubbing (sometimes with drugs, sometimes without) years later. And when I started collecting records years after that, I gravitated heavily towards any music incorporating the familiar imagery, themes, musical motifs and language of church (especially Liberation Theology) which remained kind of bittersweetly comforting long after I stopped trying to believe. This might sound heretical, but over the last several years “gospel” has become much more of a feeling to me than a genre or even a sound. As far as I’m concerned, the rave, the club, the congregation, the choir, are only different ways to experience a many-sided mystery. 

For this project, I wanted to challenge myself to imagine going beyond just using a little soulful house to end the night or the mix on an uplifting note, and instead program a fantasy “gospel rave” for a thousand of my closest friends dancing in a field on a moonless night. How would I do my best to deliver a powerful, meaningful, salvatory collective experience from midnight until sunrise? Amen Vol. 1 is a snapshot of that imaginary night. 

The need to use contrasting peaks and troughs to create a sense of narrative for your audience includes emotional or spiritual contrast just as much as it does changes in BPM or a kick pattern.  So, it was important for me to try exceeding simply the emotions associated with “praise” music (like joy) because encountering the truly divine should also inspire fear and awe. Disregarding genre as much as possible, each piece of music was chosen for the sensation or sentimental meaning it inspires for me personally: you probably wouldn’t call most of them “rave tracks”, and plenty aren’t explicitly religious at all. Finally, of course I had to make sure that Detroit and Chicago were properly (but not exclusively, that’s for another mix) represented in the tracklist. Where I’ve ended up, grounded by a repeating classic “anchor track” for each side, is an attempt to simulate Genesis and Revelation, the Good News and the Flood, the dark night of the soul and the moment of salvation–whatever those might mean for you. Can I get a witness?

Beige - AMEN! Vol. 1

Fantastic Man has become one of the most exciting and revered producers on the circuit having released music on the likes of Mule, Love on the Rocks and Kitjen. He is also the founder of Superconscious Records alongside Griffin James.

As a DJ his musical taste is broad and wide ranging, drawing upon far reaching influences from the realm of House, Trance, Downtempo, Balearic and beyond. As such you never quite know what you are going to get but that's all part of the fun right?

Most recently he has been dabbling in a fast paced, new age approach to House and Trance - channeling the free spirited energy of the 90's and a sun kissed era for dance music.

Some might feel it to be nostalgic but he is very much at the forefront of a new wave of producers and DJ's looking to breathe life into and reinvigorate the sound.

This mixtape is one of the best we've heard in a while and is rightly suited to a Friday.

Fantastic Man: The Ransom Note Mix

September’s Pop Zone mix comes courtesy of Canadian artist and infectious club music purveyor Regularfantasy. 

Bright and decidedly pop-infused, this one sits somewhere between winkingly nostalgic and firmly rooted in the present. A fine accompaniment to Regularfantasy’s forthcoming 'New Glow' EP for Vancouver imprint Specials Worldwide.

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Pop Zone: Regularfantasy

Recording of Lauren Hansom's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2022

Lauren Hansom at Dekmantel Selectors 2022

Choosing a name for any artistic endeavour, regardless of size, purpose or ambitions of the proposal is an unavoidably daunting task. It can be a collective, a label, a party, a festival, a moniker… It is always a tough decision to pick a word or a set of them to define something that is such a public part of your innermost creative self: deeply personal as a choice yet inevitably collective as a strategy. Nevertheless, it is the content, not so much the concept, what matters most when we are enjoying any creation. So, when someone decides to name herself after such a fundamental aspect of our existence that is a core element of how we experience the world, she certainly knows what she means. What is Pleasure after all? An essential human drive, the root of the best things we can feel and sense. Both emotion and sensation, an object and an objective. A phenomenon that is the artistic pseudonym and animistic project of a uniquely talented individual who not only means what she says, but knows what she plays. Always seeking to materialise the principle that names her endeavour while living up to it in the process. Something she achieves at every opportunity, on any dancefloor or astounding mixes such as this one, simply by crafting impeccable selections that are as relentless as they are replenishing. And, luckily for everyone, she's always willing to take us along for these exhilarating rides.

Gop Cast 098 - Pleasure

Estrenamos las Rhythm Control Barcelona Mix series con el enigmático @orionagassi  desde Oviedo (Asturias), alguien que lleva mucho tiempo metido in the game aunque este proyecto tenga unos pocos años de vida.
En febrero de 2022 empezó el proyecto de su sello Ritmo Astral publicando sus propios trabajos o de colegas como su socio DJ Bert o el canario Jaisiel. 
El sonido de Orion Agassi bebe tanto del electro old school, el Miami Bass y el house de Chicago adornado con vocales latinas reggaetoneras. 
Su estilo tan personal ha hecho tenga buena acogida entre djs de todos el globo de la misma forma que el sello de Glasgow Huntleys + Palmers se interesó por su música cuando un buen día el capo del sello entró en Discos Paradiso y estaban sonando los temas de Orion. Esa casualidad se ha materializado en el primer vinilo de Agassi "Hot Jams Straight Out The 330XX" que saldrá el 17 de febrero de 2023 en el subsello Belters en colaboración con Ritmo Astral con una selección de seis cortes publicados anteriormente en digital.
El petardazo final saltó cuando el pasado mes de septiembre, The Newyorker publicó un artículo sobre Solomun donde explicaba que abrió uno de sus sets en Ibiza con el tema "Dos Blokes" de Agassi avivando el interés por el productor.También hay que decir que la promo de su 12" está teniendo muy buenos feedbacks de grandes nombres.
Así pues, podemos vaticinar sin mucho miedo a equivocarnos que la carrera del artista tiene mucho futuro por delante.
En su mix para Rhythm Control Barcelona donde podemos escuchar acid house,  latin house, o edits de Agassi de clásicos del pop latino así como un par de cortes inéditos hasta la fecha, el remix de Paula Tape y el track "Esto Si Que Está Bueno" de un próximo EP de Orion Agassi & DJ Bert.

Tracklist:
Intro From John Heaven
Ritmo Astral Edits - Noches Eternas - Ritmo Astral (forthcoming)
Raz - Amour Puerto Riqueno (Orion Agassi Edit)- Unreleased
Simple Simmetry - Danza Sueno - Thats a Steal
Gloria Estefan - Oye Mi Canto (Orion Agassi Edit) - Ritmo Astral
The Beatmasters - Dont Stop The Beat - Rhythm King
Ritmo Astral Edits - Levanten Las Manos - Ritmo Astral
Orion Agassi & DJ Bert - Esto Si Que Esta Bueno - Ritmo Astral (forthcoming)
M&B - The Future Is Ours - City Beat
Passion Beat - Love Culture - Casablanca
Ritmo Astral Edits - Pump Fiesta - Ritmo Astral
Orion Agassi - Dos Blokes - Ritmo Astral / Belters
Hidden Spheres - Tanzen (Paula Tape Remix)- Unreleased
Sueño Latino - Sueño Latino

RHYTHM CONTROL BARCELONA MIXES 001: ORION AGASSI

Live recording from Fandango in backsteinboot, 2022

The perfect warmup delivery courtesy of @e_talking from our most recent Spandango adventure.

LIVE AT FANDANGO - E-Talking

We are more than thrilled to present Omoloko with a deep Kwaito selection here on 5918mins. João has an impeccable, deep and honest way of going about his selections. His mixes feel enigmatic yet relaxed and, most importantly, full of love. We suggest you just kick back and enjoy this one together with us :)

Omoloko

Ensembles are not the norm among the preferred performance formats chosen by the craftsmen that make up this noble art of playing music for the enjoyment of others. It's been deeply individualized throughout most of its history and, looking carefully into it, one might be able to find a few famous duos or even fewer legendary trios, but seldom quite a tight knit quartet such as the people responsible for this platform and everything behind, beneath and beyond it. Gop Tun, the name of the project that congregates them around a common goal and shared vision, is more than just the multifarious brainchild of four music lovers truly, madly and deeply committed to make us dance by any means necessary using every tool at their disposal, it is also a collective effort in trying to foster the perfect conditions for that precious interaction between their peers and their public to happen, generating the priceless moments that make the stuff of indelible memories. As a visionary group of curators, their unified efforts nurtured a host of initiatives that range from events that shaped their hometown’s nightlife, a label that is relentless in promoting regional talent, as well as this very series now celebrating its 100th edition of collecting musical journeys helmed by people from all over the globe. As a gifted team of selectors, interconnected by the type of complicity built over decades of friendship, they operate at a molecular level in which every aspect that binds them is exactly what makes them move freely in order to create astounding musical experiences of which this mix is but a tiny yet powerful example, one that carries within it all the energy and inventiveness that goes into everything they do.

Gop Cast 100 - Gop Tun Djs

Belo Horizonte’s OMOLOKO(@omolokoo)is one of the hottest DJ’s on the scene in Brazil right now. His sets are always coming from the heart, infused with soul and free flowing. This podcast is a prime example of that. A live recording from the latest @selvagem party in Sao Paulo where he played a radiating House and Disco infused set. Check it out!

OMOLOKO - United Identities Podcast 034

Record label, party collective and djs crew based in São Paulo. We're dedicated to exquisite permutations of inspired music. 

Gop Tun DJs: Nascii, TYV, Gui Scott e Caio T

get in touch: goptun@gmail.com
dj bookings: carolina@coral.ag

Gop Cast 098 - Pleasure

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