Each year, we ask a few artists from the Dekmantel Selectors line-up to deliver a mix in anticipation of the new edition. Who could be a better fit than DJ Python to re-initiate this tradition?

Even before Dulce Compañia, which introduced the Python alias to the world, Brian Piñeyro has been providing a wide array of unique sounds to those who care to listen. To be fair, he makes it hard not to care, and also to describe his ambling, dembow-inspired rhythms as something other than ‘deep reggaeton’. But if Piñeyro has taught us one thing, it is that music is just moods flowing into one another. Sometimes, the mood is a percussive therapy session, and sometimes it warps drone-driven electronica, tingly synths, and steely dancehall.

It is unsurprising that this mix is all about the mood too. A 60-minute journey across genuinely emotive songs and honeyed hymns. In his words, it’s just about “enjoying the time with people around you, whatever shape the people or the time may take”. When listening to this mix, keep in mind DJ Python’s approach to making soup: you can only really do it well if you allow yourself to move beyond the recipe. The only thing left to do is let go and get locked in.

Selectors Podcast 028 - DJ Python

〜 Taken from Debit's album 'The Long Count', out via Modern Love on Feb 18th 2022 〜

Delia Beatriz’s musical output straddles two distinct artistic poles; her debut solo album, 2017’s acclaimed “Animus”, oozed from sensual, beatless soundscapes to high-octane club music, while her 2019-released EP “SYSTEM” harnessed tribal guarachero elements while simultaneously scraping ideas from industrial techno. 

On “The Long Count”, the Mexican-American producer has inked her most rigorous statement to date, sublimating opaque ancestral knowledge into vaporous AI-stirred fog banks, activating an ancient rite that reaches into tomorrow. It’s audacious electro-acoustic archaeology that sounds disorientating, anachronistic and arcane.

“The Long Count” is rooted in research Beatriz made into Mayan wind instruments – whistles, ocarinas, flutes and trumpets – using the archive of the Mayan Studies Institute at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, the oldest and largest collection of its kind. Developing a set of digital instruments that could be played using different types of temperaments and scales, Delia processed these sounds using machine learning techniques to shuttle the distant past into our extant artistic universe, peering into Mexico’s pre-colonial history and weaving those ideas into complex tonalities gleaned from musique concrète and contemporary electro-acoustic music.

The ten tracks of ‘The Long Count’ form a ritual that’s a few footsteps out of time – neither a part of our present, nor the past. Beatriz describes the Mayan instrumentation as ancestral technology, part of a world that’s not so much been forgotten, but purposefully erased. And although it’s impossible to know exactly how Mayan music may have sounded, it’s feasible to converse with history using modern technology to conduct a ceremony of remembrance.

Beatriz’s soundscapes are haunted by indistinct, shared memories and centuries of pent-up emotion, and are as intentional, direct and meticulously crafted as the work of Deathprod or Thomas Köner. Her microtonal compositions are psychedelic to their core, shapeshifting through dimensions and painting complex mental images, while retaining a stylistic focus and lucidity that’s all too rare. Although “The Long Count” was nurtured by machines, human experience is coded into its DNA – an ancient-future heirloom that whispers through countless generations.

File under magick concrète.

All tracks written, produced & mixed by Delia Beatriz
Additional Machine Learning for Audio by Isomov
Mastering by Rashad Becker
Album Art Photography & Creative Direction by Debit
AI Album Art by Moisés Horta Valenzuela

The Long Count

Debit - 2nd Day

See comment section for time codes.

Works well with friends, family or alone.

Music Quiz Rules:
1. We play you a mashup consisting of different elements (drums, vocals, etc.) from various songs.
2. Identify as many songs as possible.
3. For every song, write down the following:
- Artist name (1 point)
- Track title (1 point)
- Album title (1 point)
- Release year (1 point)
4. If there are several correct answers, you get more points by writing down the info on all the different songs.
5. No googling, of course!
6. We will repeat this for four different mashups.

Concept and rules developed by Anders P. Jensen.
Mashups by Smerz.

Time codes:
00:45 Rules
02:42 Mashup 1
05:46 Mashup 1 (rep)
11:35 Mashup 1 (answers)
14:22 Mashup 2
18:04 Mashup 2 (rep)
24:31 Mashup 2 (answers)
28:15 Mashup 3
31:21 Mashup 3 (rep)
37:25 Mashup 3 (answers)
40:28 Mashup 4
44:52 Mashup 4 (rep)
52:30 Mashup 4 (answers)

Smerz Music Quiz on NTS Radio 23.12.21

Ahead of the release of her new album, 'The Long Count', on @modernlove, @yourdebit records a “pre-hispanic to post/transhispanic ambient mix” for the Recognise series

As Debit, the Mexican-American producer, DJ and audio engineer Delia Beatriz has released thunderous, triplet-filled club music, invigorating ambient, and percussive remixes. She also DJs for Azaelia Banks, and on her new album, combines ancient Mayan wind instruments with machine learning. She speaks to Eoin Murray about her desire to contribute to the canon of electronic music, working with new tech, and making ambient music that goes beyond “beautiful”

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-debit

Recognise: Debit

More @tayhana: http://movement.radio/podcasts/sensual-club

Sensual Club w/ TAYHANA (13.04.2022)

3024 TAPES 001 : Black Rave Culture

For the first installment of our brand new mix series "3024 TAPES" we are super proud to present Black Rave Culture!   James Bangura, Dj Native Sun and Amal provided an EPIC 3 hour rave journey for your enjoyment!  Repost and link as much as you like and let the music travel!  

3024:   Please describe the mix in a single sentence ? 

BRC :  "I’d say the mix was like water, a natural flow that we usually lock into when we’re DJing together."


3024: What DJ inspires you at the moment / has inspired you throughout the years and why?

BRC: "For inspirations, I’d say a lot of the greats who came before us that we’ve had the opportunity to perform with. Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, etc. We haven’t had the opportunity to perform with him yet but Goldie is also an inspiration. These are folks that paved their own way ya know."



3024: What are you working on / what have you got forthcoming? 

BRC: "BRC 3 is in the works and is slated for release next year. We also have individual projects slated for release next year also." 


Enjoy!!!

3024 TAPES 001 : Black Rave Culture

A Sound Place with Boo Lean, James Bangura and Bassbear!! @ The Lot Radio 06-11-2023

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8alYoaQ1QY&spfreload=10

Remix of Kaytranada's "At All" - https://soundcloud.com/kaytranada/at-all

Artwork: Aminé

Not At All - Kaytranada (Aminé Remix)

"JFK"  
Opera by David T. Little (composer)and  Royce Vavrek (librettist)
"Prologue - Spin, Measure, Cut" 

Fort Worth Opera Chorus
Fort Worth Symphony
Texas Boys Choir
Talise Trevinge As Clara Harris
Steven Osgood, Conductor 

From the orchestral workshop, September 18, 2015, Fort Worth Opera


Fort Worth Opera, Lead Commissioner
Opéra de Montréal, Co-Commissioner
American Lyric Theater, Developmental Co-Commissioner

Copyright © 2015 by Hendon Music, Inc.
a Boosey & Hawkes company.
International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

Posted with permission by Boosey & Hawkes and Fort Worth Opera.

For more information, see: http://www.fwopera.org/opera/jfk/

JFK -  Prologue - Spin, Measure, Cut

Recorded by Brian Knox at the Shenandoah University Recording Studio.
Greg Brown - vocals, trumpet, piano, synth bass, percussions
Matt Wolfe - guitar
Chelsea Meynig - flute
Eric Taylor - clarinet


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