CLASS OF 2022

4.10 The Upload

Clouser

Ras.piz.dos

Ghetto Sunrise aka Vlad Kovalov b2b Roma Khropko (Criminal Practice @ Closer 03/09/2021)

@facta & @k-lone93 have been on a roll recently. Their Wisdom Teeth label has seen them put out not only excellent music from Tristan Arp, but also Facta's brilliant downtempo album Blush and K-Lone's recent Zissou EP. Both hail from London but are now Bristol-based and they mix up many of the different styles you'd expect from those two musical hotbeds. Everything from 2-step to Baltimore, post-dubstep to deep house gets distilled into their sets and productions, but always with well-swung drums and high-pressure bass. 

The pair kick off the New Year for us with a nimble mix that moves smoothly through glossy house depths, stripped-back broken beats and elastic rhythms. There is always a rich layer of percussion, sweet vocal or elegant melody burrowing deep into your brain while the beats keep your body happy. It's a perfectly persuasive listen that eases you off the sofa and back to the dance floor in no time.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 366 - Facta & K-LONE

Originally made to celebrate Luca Lozano's first Canada Tour in 2016, the 'Junglish Massive' mixtape features 90mins of screwed and chopped Jungle and Breakbeat. The tape was limited to 100 copies only and is now available for free to all fans on Soundcloud! Enjoy.

Luca Lozano Junglish Massive Side Two - Breakbeat Mix

The Sundowner. Mix #15 comes from our very own Inés @ines-cartas, who had her debut gig last October at Hoppetosse for the System Error Worldwide residency party. Tune into her fresh new mix and be sure to check out the full interview we had with her:

https://sundownerberlin.de/2022/01/11/sundowner-mix-15-by-ines-cartas-interview/

Sundowner. Mix #15 Ines Cartas - Midnight Acapulco Cruiser

The happiest of New Years to all of the Honcho family! We have a lot great artists lined up for 2022 and we're excited to kick things off with Lisbon's @joedelon. Joe’s greatest satisfaction comes from linking the most vivid elements of dance music’s past with the best of its vibrant present to create moments of pure pop catharsis.  

Joe has put in the work and built several platforms for himself such as  his long-running show Flamingo on Lisbon’s Rádio Quântica and his record label Welt Discos.

Enjoy!

Honcho Podcast Series 104: Joe Delon

‘For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

Music is an anchor in life, useable in any if not every scenario to shift or change your current mood. It's something that you have complete control of (unless you’re in someone else’s car), this control, I find is somewhat taken for granted every now and then and I think in this strange time of our lives it's very important to take control of what you can. Speaking of control, it's something our next guest has mastered, A Naarm favourite Bex. 

Hard work, dedication, and a belief in one's self are the holy trinity to the path of evolution, All of these factors Bex has mastered. Through years and years of commitment to her craft, Bex has steeled herself amongst her peers and their dance floors, forever increasing her orbit and her listeners inside of it. Encompassing the pure aesthetics of Dj’ing (an understanding of rhythm and how people react to it), she has cemented herself as a staple DJ all across Naarm as well pushing the same ethos with her own party series “Spincycle” (HOT TIP!!). She’s here to stay and it fills me with confidence for the future. 

The mix itself beautifully encompasses the very thing I’ve set out to explore, the other side. For someone who is consistently filling dance floors, you can tell Bex has done herself justice in reaching into her musical peripherals and wholeheartedly enjoyed doing it. Ecstatic trips into euphoria electronica, A consistent theme explored in its whole, done masterfully. Computer-generated soul at its finest, using BPM as a narrative tool, she takes us on a trip through her own mind, leaving no stone unturned. After countless play-throughs, I still find little details that excite me, her technical skills on full display for the world to see. A perfect summary of Bex herself. Enjoy it every way you can. 

Her words >>>> "when I was making the mix I was kind of thinking it was like a bit of a love story. It has lots of songs that have been prominent in my past relationships and lots of songs about love and with love in the title. It’s a bit of a story of the history of love (and heartbreak)"

Her sounds >>>> https://soundcloud.com/becarmstrongmusic

FHUO # 74 // Bex

Zenith

After debuting his first VBX event at BRET this year, we're excited to present you one of the long-time resident at Closer club, Kyiv’s most renowned clubbing institution. Noizar is a Ukranian DJ recently relocated to Amsterdam. He is the owner of the vinyl-only label Wicked Bass, on which he releases records from both Ukrainian and international talents. His style is uniquely sharp and groovy – behind the decks he shows a key focus on detailed performances, from the selections to his technical abilities.

@noizar

VBX #30 - Podcast by Noizar

@katewebb bringing the heat for our latest podcast.

Inheriting that ‘wonky’ sound which has come to define east midlands club music over the last decade where Kate was raised and what resonates the dynamic bleeps and grooving, glitchy rhythms which occupy the foci of her diverse yet definitive record bag. Kate has seen an exponential rise over recent years via sets at festivals and venues both at home and afar such as Wigflex, The Lion & Lamb, Corsica Studios and securing regular slots with her own party at Tola and Brilliant Corners, then guesting on radio shows such as NTS and Berlin's HÖR. Now working on her own productions and relocating to Europe this winter for more music endeavours whilst remaining active in London.

One Records Podcast 016 - Kate Webb

Shanti Celeste is one of those artists whose personality matches her DJ style. Her fun-loving nature and breezy demeanour always light up a room, as do her vibrant sets that span sunny house music, slow-burning disco and emotive techno. Fresh off her Hessle Audio debut, the London-based artist sat down with RA's Martha Pazienti-Caidan for an honest chat about track selection, bad gigs and her approach to production.

During DJ sets, the Peach Discs co-founder doesn’t like to focus on genres. Instead, "I think about, like, building and releasing tension and making sure that I stay in a specific energy level," she explained. "Whereas before, I think I knew the energy I wanted to bring, but I didn't know how to do that cause I was just thinking about everything in terms of genre."

Reaching this holistic stage, however, took time. It was a process of acquiring knowledge and experience but also confidence, she described, adding how she previously had "really bad imposter syndrome." Learning to deal with bad gigs and recognising that certain factors might be outside an artist’s control are essential to self-realisation, she continued. Going on to discuss her experience of playing big festival stages, she noted the importance of "learning what side of yourself to channel" rather than compromise on music.

For more details on her experience playing with fellow women DJs, her lockdown romance and recording her vocals, listen to the chat in full.

EX.628 Shanti Celeste

Techu - Omaha

The special guest for 98th episode is an artist, collector and very talented dj based on Atlanta and for this fratiicast he brought a serious minimal where you can to trippy for some grooves and weird elements.

As the basic, less is more, so listen and enjoy.

Welcome to the family, Pheno. 


SoundCloud : @napz

Fratii.cast#098 - pheno

Part of Uruguay's burgeoning Phonoteque family, Stonem is as uncompromising in his sound as he is in his DJ sets. Square wave basslines, raged synths and room filling drums all feed into his sound palette. Out of the blocks with a bang his first forays into the world of production found their home on Phonoteque, that was back in 2019 and he has been a firm fixture with them since.

The man from Montevideo makes it his goal to seek out the gnarliest sounds and jaw clenching breakbeats. All packaged up in a tightly woven journey that has now dipped into the stratosphere of our InSession series. From more downtempo beginnings Stonem quickly finds his pace and tone and the rest is for you to explore. Zap filled, electro goodies are to be found at the corner of every mix and it is little wonder why he is so prized amongst a label full of legends.

https://soundcloud.com/stonemmvd
https://www.facebook.com/tinchostonem

Stonem - Trommel InSession 084

LYO#216 / Lea Lisa

Caution: Bass Heavy Deep House Bangers provided by Phil Evans.

A1 - Chuuch
A2 - Goin'
B1 - Neva Kno
B2 - Steez 

Mastering: Analogcut 
Artwork: Optik Illustration
Distribution: Ba Dum Tish 

 c2022, Freizeit Records 

1Love

FREIZEIT002 - Phil Evans - Tha Lowride EP

a tribute to a club called RAGE at Heaven under the arches, London...this selection of tracks is from early 1991 timeframe

RAGE 1991

Amir @ Closer, Kyiv || Masnytsya Epilogue 23.03.24

Available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMaJgum4f0s

Label: Self-Release
Artist: Christopher Ledger
Format: 12” / Digi
Cat. Number: HDF003
EP Title: NRG EP
Release Date: 06.10.2024
Support it: https://christopherledger.bandcamp.com/album/christopher-ledger-nrg-ep-hdf003

Christopher Ledger returns to his Hidden Folder imprint for its 3rd edition via the ’NRG’ EP, complete with a remix from Donnie Cosmo.

The 5 track release effortlessly fuses sounds from right across the rave continuum into a coherent, highly functional collection of dance-floor ready weapons. From UKG & Nu Skool Breaks to House & Minimal, the EP is a distillation of the hybrid productions fast becoming synonymous with the burgeoning imprint.

Christopher Ledger : 
https://www.instagram.com/christopher.ledger/
https://soundcloud.com/christopher-ledger-1


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For our first Free Download of 2025, it was only fitting that we deliver something rather special. As well as this being our 100th track in the series, we present an artist from an emerging country with plenty to say. Having recently presented the debut release from Bolivian artist Andy Somoza on his new label People Unpleaser, the landmark EP comes from a previously unrepresented territory and “Beat Misterio” proved to be an instant bass-fueled hit. [continue reading at...

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Hello, everybody.
We are proud to present our new monthly Killekill podcast.
From now on we will present you an exclusive dj mix or live set of mostly artists from our roster, but also friends or artists who play at one of our nights. Check out this first mix, provided by SNUFF CREW, who have recently released two massive tracks on our label (Killekill 004).  

SNUFF CREW´s mission is to bring back the fun on the dancefloors worldwide. The masked duo is known for their jacking live shows that combine the raw energy of early Chicago and Acid house with a fresh and modern sound. Rumour has it that they come from “somewhere in Germany”, but their sounds draw a very heavy influence from the original acid house city of Chicago alongside Italo-disco and old school techno flavours. The use of old school roland boxes as sound sources and almost non existent use of even basic effects means their sound is Rough, raw and aimed squarely at the dancefloor.

Check out the release on KILLEKILL:
http://soundcloud.com/killekill/killekill-004-snuff-crew-domo

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KILLEKILL PODCAST #01: SNUFF CREW - recorded live at Horst Krzbrg 2011-10-22

DJ Set 25.04.2020
Video: https://youtu.be/QXn_q5hKPJg?t=6707

Artist: Adelina: @oracool111
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