Recording from Vault Sessions Weekender July 3-5 2021
15-19h Sunday at BRET Amsterdam 
xxx

📷 Clemens Wildschut
@vault-sessions-collective

D.Dan at Vault Sessions, Amsterdam [July 4, 2021]

Haven is a place of safety, warmth, and comfort. 


Something a little different from my last few mixes - many of you know me for faster uptempo club mixes, but I also love and dig a lot of slower hypnotic tracks since I started DJing in 2007. I wanted to make a paced-out mix that I could really sink into and feel safe to tap into states of intimacy and warmth.

This mix was recorded on July 26 during one of Clara Tatjana and I's long music sessions in my studio. We were jamming to tunes and she contributed many awesome selections to the tracklist <3

With the current wave of lockdowns and many gig cancellations, I thought it fitting to share this feeling as we all incubate for the next.

Tracklist:
1. Contra Natura - Forest On Stasys
2. Do U Feel Me - Maara
3. Recollect - John Selway
4. It's You (Free House Mix) - Mr & Mrs Dale
5. Calling Me - Pillow Queen
6. Sound Of A Goat In A Room - Twice A Man
7. Trinity Dub (Three) - Massive Attack
8. Lola - Pearson Sound
9. Unreleased - D.Dan
10. Naked Groove - Omni A.M.
11. Jupiter Jazz - Underground Resistance
12. Negative Extasy - Toma Kami
13. TTT - Fakundo
14. Erotica (William Orbit 12") - Madonna
15. Urth Man - Ex-Terrestrial
16. State Of Mind (Alex Kassian Dream State) - Peyote Dreams
17. Intermission - 2562
18. Apache - INSTINCT
19. Tedra - Kenny Larkin
20. We Live In Brooklyn Baby - Roy Ayers

Haven Mix

much love for all the support for this one on insta and tiktok <33

Free DL

Knucks - Los Pollos Hermanos (Hemmi Edit) [FREE DL]

2025-03-20 Bring it back

Waves of pulsing, layered techno from the revered Mala Junta resident.

If the electronic music industry is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over what makes for true techno, then D.Dan is one of the underground's great modern emissaries.

A figurehead from the new guard of DJs to arise in the '20s, the Berlin-based artist and Mala Junta resident is an ambassador for a sound that is strongly anchored in the classic roots of techno. His productions, like his mixes, are revved-up takes on the hypnotic wormholes that defined dance floors last decade, but with a fresh (and high BPM) millennial twist. 

Originally from Seattle, D.Dan became enamoured with the spectral stylings of psych rock and shoegaze in adolescence. It's not difficult to see how the cosmic tapestry of bands like Cocteau Twins became a blueprint for the entrancing music he's gone on to make as an adult. His releases on Mutant Future and summerpup are latticeworks of loops and layered percussion, custom-tooled for lost hours on the dance floor and drawn-out mixes behind the decks. 

This approach directly extends into his DJ practice, where he pairs song selections from contemporaries that mirror his own reduced, controlled approach to techno. RA.994 is a Grade A display of contemporary four-to-the-floor from flagbearers like Roll Dann and Marcal.

And like D.Dan's standalone records, his RA Podcast finds room for sweetness—the intermittent peal of an open clap, the steady ripening of a chord—while ultimately emphasising the beauty of function and form over flair.

@ddan-sounds

Find the full interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/994

RA.994 D.Dan

Shanda // boisha Podcast 095

Tracklist:

1.	Volpe (ARG) - Failures Point To The Future - PHTM	
2.	Deluka - Reach - End Of Dayz
3.	Joaquin Ruiz - Magma - RI7MO
4.	Martin Stagnaro - China Muerta - RI7MO
5.	Mislaw	- Safe Space - BCCO
6.	Stephen Disario - In Motion - SYXT
7.	Arkan - Speedway
8.	Arkan - Nasty Tool
9.	GCOD - Bitter - Bipolar Disorder 
10.	Paul Laurens - Svengali 
11.	Sicion, Kuss - Ego Death - Molekül
12.	Lucas Sosa (AR), Udolph - A5 [R7M017] Unreleased - RI7MO
13.	Enigma Trax - Vivienda - Unreleased
14.	Lucas Sosa (AR), Udolph, Zisko - A2 [R7M017] Unreleased - RI7MO
15.	Augusto Taito	- Mi Tierra - fabric Records
16.	Goncalo M - LV-426 - Intuition Recordings
17.	Stef Mendesidis - Minore - Klockworks

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Shanda // boisha Podcast 095

Here's Doppelganger's LIve opening set at last week's Hard Room Vol.3 - enjoy!

Doppelganger Live @ Hard Room Vol.3 - 7-5-2025 - RAVEMASTERZ

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

2025-03-20 Bring it back

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