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Safe to say this one has been worth the wait! Relentless Sydney digger @daniel-lupica uncovers some seriously next level 90s kwaito and mid-tempo house from South Africa for a summer time spread full of pure under the radar heat! 

Q. Hey Daniel, what inspiration did you draw upon when putting this mix together? Is there a sound, feeling, or time/place in dance music history that connects all the different elements in one way or another?

A. Kind of, but it wasn’t super intentional; obviously I’m into 90’s sounds (in particular South African Kwaito and House) so I wanted to share some of my favourite finds of this year and string them together in a cohesive mix, keeping a steady mid-tempo vibe, where everything sounds both similar and different the whole way through. Nothing groundbreaking, just trying to keep an emphasis on quality and not play too many jams I’ve heard before in other DJ’s mixes.

Q. Are there any records in the mix that are especially close to your heart, or new or old favourites that you’ve been keeping up your sleeve for the right moment?

A. There are a few! As a lot of the SA stuff is not easy to come by, it feels like it’s by chance (right place, right time) that I ended up with a couple, so pretty grateful to have some of my grails in hand, such as the “Shima - S'Phete Vibe” LP, the song “Dlayani” is in the mix but it’s packed full of heat. Another is the “Andile - Want Me (Viagra Mix)” (recently added to my YT) that is red hot fave at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laSet9roaPA

Q. With so many great under-the-radar South African records in the mix, can we expect to hear a few of these popping up on your youtube channel in the months ahead? And what other rabbit holes have you been exploring for the channel of late?

A. Yes for sure! There’s 3 or 4 in there that I plan to throw onto my channel. But hopefully I don’t sit on them too long and miss the boat.

The other rabbit holes that I’m always exploring include 90’s Latin/Spanish/Brazillian Hip Hop and Hip-House, as well as Reggae and Dancehall covers of 90s RnB and pop songs. Always nice to throw something familiar yet different into the mix when playing in a bar or club.

MDC.290 Daniel Lupica

Recording of one of my favourite parties of last year, Metropolis in Brussels.

Photo: Nine Louvel

Konduku at Metropolis 29.10.23

Konduku (@kondukukonduku) is Dutch-born but with a proud Turkish heritage that colours the music he makes. It's impactful techno but with curious time signatures and minimalist percussive that draws on the rhythms of his ancestral homeland. As the son of a musician and Balkan folklore dancer, he was always set to spend his life in music and so far it's been a rich one that has included a standout debut album on Nous’klaer in 2018 and fresh EPs on the cult likes of Delsin, Bitta and Spazio Disponibile.

This week's mix showcases exactly what he is all about with 80 minutes of supple and subversive techno. Liquid tracks from Jeff Mills, Donato Dozzy, Shackleton and plenty of his own all feature in this timeless trip where slick transitions and carefully threaded grooves constantly build mood and atmosphere. From deep and cosmic to dark and dystopian, there is an always underlying tension that keeps both mind and body utterly locked in.

Dekmantel Podcast 472 - Konduku

2018’s chilled-out Kiran LP was a first step towards Konduku’s inevitable fate as electronic music producer par excellence. The Dutch performer’s right brain rhythms were perhaps aptly timed, touching a spot made tender by the period of introspection forced upon us by an unprecedented global pandemic. These were spartan experiments in sound that reverberated within the cavernous space isolation prised open but didn’t stay that way for long. With the return to normality came another side to Konduku’s work, productions and real-time sets that focused on a heavier, more techno-leaning sound; though they still took inspiration from bass, sometimes house, and the plangent loops of mid-2000s Italian hypnotica. These beats found a perfect home on Spazio Disponibile, Delsin’s Mantis as well as DJ Nobu’s Bitta label, and even claimed a sublabel all his own on Rotterdam’s Nous'klaer Audio, the music and photography outlet K Series. A highly satisfying alliance of liquid basslines and layered echoes put his name on the rise, and today his relentlessly chugging and nimble beats are very much a known quantity, a unique and welcome proponent for cerebral, subaqueous loops. Bassiani Podcast 223 is top-form Konduku recorded live at the club back in May, three hours of forward-thinking techno that’s thick with ideas and rattling rhythms, far-out frequencies for the temporal lobe that surprise at every turn.

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Bassiani invites Konduku / Podcast #223

A lesson in rhythm from a former De School resident.

When it comes to minimalist dance music, Ruben Üvez, AKA Konduku, is one of the best in the game right now. With a masterful and ever-shapeshifting understanding of rhythm, the Berlin-based artist crafts sublime dance music with a staunchly leftfield bent. Don't just take our word for it: how many DJs, after all, can claim to have moved De School to a puddle of tears?

Musically, Üvez is hard to pin down. He's often billed as a techno artist, but actually you'll find his sound sits outside of the genre's many conventions. With an outsider's curiosity, he leans into diverse moods, tempos and genres, though one throughline is always how he arranges his drums. Whether it be deep, Nobu-core techno such as 2023's Hayal EP or UK beat science á la Peverelist on 2019's  Gegek, he leads with rhythm across his DJing and production. The end product is a hypnotic, one-of-a-kind sound that hits the body before the brain has time to catch up. In short, it slaps.

As Üvez's RA Podcast demonstrates, he's got a serious knack for crafting and selecting tunes that can  deeply captivate a dance floor. Clocking in at just over 90 minutes, RA.967 is an excursion through a timeless sound, packed with long, layered blends, flick-of-the-wrist transitions, locked grooves and spine-tingling atmospherics. In 2020, we called Ruben Üvez one of techno's brightest new talents. This mix sees him ascending to a seat at the top table.

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RA.967 Konduku

Having made a name for himself through a string of choice releases for the likes of Nous’klaer and Delsin, Dutch producer Konduku has been turning heads with his ever innovative take on the techno medium. Pushing for new directions, Konduku’s been laying down intriguing blends of dubbed-out, Afro-infused grooves and plural strains of abstract-leaning, breaks-friendly hybrids. The present mix showcases the breadth of his influences and essential components, extrapolating techno’s genre-transcending nature through a fine mix of heavily verbed-out electronics and shape-shifting buildup, never quite going where you’d expect it, rather seeking the excitement of suspenseful arcs and unsuspected developments. Bold as it should.

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Reclaim Your City 635 | Konduku

Next up in our podcast series, Amsterdam born & raised Iggy P curated a vinyl only mix. Infused in pure nostalgia, it blends tech and progressive house with a touch of tribal sounds - featured tracks from the 2000s and a forthcoming banger on his sub-label Dzungla. Enjoy!

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Harmony Rec. podcast | Iggy P

Inner Zone, the London duo behind Transmissions, come in fresh off the decks with a razor-sharp 73 minute mix stacked with progressive groove and slick tech-fueled rollers that don’t quit. Enjoy the ride!

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Harmony Rec. podcast | Inner Zone

Recorded live from our FOLD takeover with Transmissions, this one comes courtesy of softi who opened Room 2 with a two hour set we simply couldn’t keep to ourselves. Weaving through glitchy, swamp-soaked textures and deep, hypnotic rhythms, she laid down a trippy journey that set the perfect tone for the night ahead. Dial in and drift!

@jazz_brown

Harmony Rec. podcast | softi

For the next episode of our mix series, we welcome GTI – a French producer and DJ currently based in Berlin. A resident of the legendary French underground institution Macadam and co-founder of the event and podcast series X-Wave, he steps up with a one hour groovy progressive house journey, packed with percussive drums and deep vibes. Exactly how we like it :) enjoy!

@gtidj

Harmony Rec. podcast | GTI

Usually known for his wild and eclectic house selections, Kasra V switches gears for us with a rare techno set. Clocking in at 59 minutes this mix is driven by rolling drums and tribal rhythms: it’s fast, playful and irresistibly sexy – still groovy at the core but with a rawer edge built for the floor. Turn it up!

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Harmony Rec. podcast | Kasra V

@myles-mac takes care of the first hour with new bits from Mårble, Tornado Wallace, Ludwig AF Röhrscheid and Will DiMaggio, then Montréal bad man @ex-terrestrial aka Adam Feingold closes out the show with a guest mix stacked with unreleased cuts from the @naffrecordings camp.

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Skylab Radio w/ Myles Mac & Ex-Terrestrial 13.07.18

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DJ set for the release party of "Urgent Music vol. II: Assemblage" by Kavir + Montage at Beursschouwburg Brussels, 22.2.2020

Different Fountains DJ set @BSB Brussels, 22.2.2020

Our next podcast is brought to us by an amazing DJ & producer hailing from Munich. She is a core member of the IO and Lowless collectives, who together form a family and outlet for deep techno across Europe. Her own production work is captivating, swathed in brooding ambience and revealed through moments of vibrant emotion. The goal of her sets is to lead the listener through a colorful story, which includes a palette from bright moods with a lot of atmosphere and harmony into the polyrhythmic abyss of techno or dark ambient. Please help us give a lovely welcome to @polygonia

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The first week of May 2020.
Oslated Mix Episode 200 - Forest On Stasys

Danza Nativa
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Owner and Electronic Explorer in Danza Nativa.

The creativity of Forest On Stasys is Influenced by tribal minimalist techno in the nineties and the deepest and most abstract techno currently. In his tracks the most seductive elements are the use of resonant basses perfectly combined with long and reverberated pads, extensive sonorous landscapes that are modified by continuous movement of LFO, solid grooves and strident percussions.

But not everything that comes out of his head is created with an intention to be used on the dance floor. He has a great admiration for drone and ambient tracks, without a rhythmic pattern that predominates, where the main factor is to captivate the listener with melodies that can be marked by a strong melancholy or with notes that give a certain feeling of satisfaction depending on his current mood.

At the beginning of 2019, he released his first work 'A Vision Of Light' in Danza Nativa, where currently he is one of the pillars of the label based in Buenos Aires.

Forest On Stasys 는 Danza Nativa 의 오너이자 전자음악의 탐구자이다.

그의 창의성은 90년대의 부족적 미니멀 테크노와 최근의 깊고 추상적인 테크노에 영향받았다. 그의 트랙에서 가장 매혹적인 요소는 공명하는 베이스들과 길고 리버브된 패드, LFO 의 운동과 견고한 그루브 그리고 격렬한 퍼커션으로 지속되는 광활한 음향적 랜드스케이프의 완벽한 조화이다. 

하지만 그의 머리에서 나오는 모든것들이 댄스 플로어를 위한 것은 아니다. 그는 리듬적 패턴이 없고 청자들에게 강한 멜랑콜리 혹은 현재의 기분에 의존하는 느낌을 선사할 수 있는, 매혹적 멜로디들을 가지는 드론과 앰비언트 트랙들에도 훌륭한 영감을 가지고 있다.

2019년 초에, 그는그의 첫 번째 작업 'A Vision of Light' 를 그가 부에노스 아이레스에서 운영중인 Danza Nativa 에서 발매했다.

Discography
V.A - Summer Hits Vol I [2020 / Worst Records]
Ataraxia LP [2020 / Accent Records]
In Search Of Balance EP [2020 / Kizen Records]
V.A - Enlightenment Volume 1 [2019 / Ritualism]
V.A - The Ugandan Rite (Remixes) [2019 / Danza Nativa]
V.A - La Furia Del Pueblo [2019 / UTCH Records]
Expedition EP [2019 / Subosc Records]
V.A - Rhizome 2 [2019 / Lowless]
V.A - Esadimensional I [2019 / Anekoic Records]
A Vision Of Light EP [2019 / Danza Nativa]

https://soundcloud.com/forestonstasys
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https://soundcloud.com/danza-nativa
https://www.facebook.com/danzanativarecords
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https://danzanativa.bandcamp.com

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- Artwork by Clément Davout

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Oslated Mix Episode 200 - Forest On Stasys

3h of my set at Waking Life 2019 on the ´floresta´ stage

DeWalta at Waking Life 2019 - Floresta

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A re-imagination of a mixtape I never finished.

I started putting the pieces of this mix together in early 2018, and stopped after a head injury that made listening to music painful. These songs have gotten me through some of my darkest times, I hope this trip can provide you with some solace in 2020. 

Re-imagined, reorganized, re-edited songs, personal recordings, voice memos, bits of books...from “before,” from now. 

Recordings and music from: Amazondotcom, Ash Ra Tempel, ASMZ, Barefoot, Babyfather, Beautiful Pea Green Boat, Beat Happening, Carmen Maria Machado, CCL/Cecu, COH, Cocteau Twins, The Congos, Drome, The Durutti Column, Echium, Faye Wong, Freeway Fusion, Graham Lambkin, Jana Rush, Jake Muir, Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourriere, Koñca Taniec, Kelsey Lu, Kuedo, M. Geddes Gengras, Madteo, Miles Davis, Mark Van Hoen, Mark Clifford, Nat, Sky High Diamonds, Second Woman, Siete Catorce, Sun Araw, Tricky, Ulf Lohman, Vince Watson, Wilson Tanner

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MNMLT (Savage Arts | Red Moon | Australia)

"An artist that believes less is more, pushing the boundaries with diverse sets that shift through tempos, genres and styles to keep you on your toes. Being no stranger to the Melbourne scene, he has landed himself on support duties for artists such as Cleric, Lewis Fautzi, VSK, Wrong Assessment and Reiner Zonneveld to name a few.

MNMLT first introduced himself to the Melbourne scene at the start of 2018, having being involved in underground warehouse raves and bush parties. He is a resident DJ for Red Moon, and has continued his love for darker and more experimental sounds with his collective; Savage Arts.”

Fur:ther Sessions x Savage Arts | MNMLT

Set recorded for the 3rd edition of Club Quarantäne in June 2020, an initiative raising funds for Center for Black Equity in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

upsammy & Oceanic @ Club Quarantäne

Two hours of rolling techno and house grooves from Oakland's Russell E.L. Butler.

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EF50 - Club Dreams

Dmitri Van Elsen - Photosynthesis
Carly Barton - Loading Screen
Voice Memo - 5/27/12 12:01 AM
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Westerman - Friends (Barefoot Jerry Cover)
Pepe Bradock - Eteinds Le Chauve
Tooth Choir - Dream 2
Rroxymore - Asmatik Garage
Jackson Ryland - Open Up
Analog Tara - Heat Lightning
Yu Su - ??
Swing Ting - Signs w/ Lovescene
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Space Master - Jumping To The Party (U.S.U. Mix)
Rod Lee - Hi-Man
Devoye - I Got to Have Ya
Timbre Fractured Remix DJ Griffin Freesound (Edit)
BN PST - More Than A Test v1
DJ Nativesun - Align
Bushwacka! - Bluntski
Martyn - Vancouver
Jackson Ryland - Ari & Space
Plebian - Morphing Lattice
DJ Paradise - Ssumo
MIDI Boy - MIDI Jungle (Congapella)

Sami - Club Dreams

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After a short break, we are returning with a new episode of the Harmony Rec. podcast series. Today, we have the honour to finally introduce an artist who has been on our radar for a while. 

Konduku aka Ruben Üvez is a Berlin-based DJ and producer, originally from the Netherlands. Starting his career by releasing a well-received debut LP - "Kiran," Konduku quickly got recognition among the listeners. Since then, Ruben has been a part of several impressive music projects. His work has been released on record labels such as Delsin, IDO and Idle Hands, proving Konduku as a natural talent. Producing is not the only thing that keeps Ruben busy.  His DJ CV includes a variety of prominent European clubs beginning with De School and ending with Berlin's about blank. 

The set itself describes Konduku in detail. Excellent mixing skills accompany the unique music style that we would describe as groovy and organic. The transition from summer to autumn is often uneven. Still, we believe that Konduku's set will make it softer for you. Enjoy.

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Harmony Rec. podcast | Konduku

This set is a wild ride through a range of different genres and a journey through light and dark, a blend of hectic and uplifting, including all of the skitz fun parts of course. I spent a long time crafting this set and I hope it takes you on an exciting journey through the full array of emotions that can be conveyed with music <3

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