Skee Mask is one of dance music's greatest crossover stories of the past decade, with new albums greeted with the attention usually reserved for an Aphex Twin or a Caribou. ("Loved seeing this on r/indieheads," said one Reddit user, on the release of the 2021 LP Pool.) It's not hard to understand why: albums like Compro, he blends well-worn dance music tropes with incredible, detailed soundscapes and spine-tingling melodies. And on his 12-inches, he brings that sensibility to the dance floor, with an approach probably best described as articulate. Even on his most ambient of tracks, everything is in its right place. Along with founders the Zenker Brothers, his music outlines everything that makes Munich outfit Ilian Tape one of the best techno labels going.

On the decks, it's kind of a different story. It might surprise you if you only know his albums, but Skee Mask is an incredible DJ, balancing his predilection for hip-hop and UK-informed sounds with laser-focused techno. He can adapt to all sorts of situations—there's an incredible recording of him DJing with four of the best grime and drum & bass MCs in the business—and on his RA Podcast he focuses on the techno side of things, with nearly two hours of pacey techno and creative mixing, with dips into acid, electro, garage and more. It's a party-starting mix from a genuine star, perfect for getting through the holiday doldrums or pre-gaming your NYE plans. Like Skee Mask's best records, it's something to enjoy in any number of settings.

@skeemask-music

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/864

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RA.864 Skee Mask

CCL (@ccl-url) has many tricks and plenty of surprises up their sleeve. London-born, US-bred but now Berlin-based, they are playful in what they play but serious about how they play it, whether that's head spinning 160bpm cut, "cowgirl-breaks or wiggle steppers." The key for this multidisciplinary artist and former New Forms festival curator is to find the similarities and differences between shades of sound and rhythm and exploit them to spellbinding effect. As a producer, they are no different and have always managed to find fresh in-between sounds on labels like Fever AM and Discwoman. 

The singular DJ steps up this week with almost two hours of pure sonic adventure. It's a perfect showcase of how they can soundtrack imaginary worlds from humid future jungles to robot dances in the sky. You'll hear rhythms you could never imagine and contort your body in impossible ways, all while admiring the dexterity of the DJ who has threaded together such a trippy trip.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 427 - CCL

(tracklist below) 

This is part 1 of 3 of the recording from my set at Nowadays Nonstop on April 7, 2024.

I played from 9am-3pm, between JASSS and Bearcat, and it was one of the most creatively fulfilling sets I can remember playing – one of those sets where the audience, environment, atmosphere, tech setup, phase of the moon, whatever, all somehow lined up for a full 6 hours. And happily, the recording is maybe my favorite I’ve managed to capture to date. Huge thanks to Kristin for inviting me and to everyone who was there that morning.


TRACKLIST – PART 1 – 9am – 11am

Moritz Von Oswald – Opaco
La Fe – Alta
Xcor – transmission
Levl – Nullpunkt #4
DB1 – B5
Es.Tereo – Temple of Ra
Skeptical, dBridge – Poor & Poverty
Last Life – Hope Killer
Metrist – GMFGR
Fracture & Deft – I Just
Reeko – Rooted
Massive Attack – Inertia Creeps (Floating On Dubwise)
Overlook – Phantom
Scotch Rolex and Shackleton – The Eleventh Voyage
Cortex of Light – Key Hall Mix
Sote – Kangaroo Court
Meo & Steve – Global Village (Funk Version)
Ali – Abyadh Aswad
Kalua feat. Dj Brahms – Brain
Hysterical Love Project – Boyracer
Scorn – Exodus
El Alfa, El Mayor Clasico, Chael Produciendo – Galapin
Osheyack & Nahash – Bait (Florentino Remix)
Material – Reality Dub
Golden Bug – Tokoyo No Kuni (Wolf Müller Remix)
Tammo Hesselink – Work Work Work
Robo-Gnostic – Ghost Rider
Sea Of Disillusions – Voodoo Heaven
Om – Brother That (Tribal Om Acid Remix)
Mosca – Thin That Blood Down
Timeblind – Come Back Wicked (Original Mix)
Pluralist – Body
Einstürzende Neubauten – Yü-gung (Fütter mein Ego)
Piezo – Skinner
Hypna feat. Warrior Queen – Rolling Deep
Kouslin – Michael
Siu Mata – Vaalbara
TEACHI feat. カクマクシャカ – Esther
vromb – emphase
Two Dogs in a House – Dogs DJ Tool
Neon – Voices
The Knife – We Share Our Mothers's Health
Unknown Artist – Spider Crab [Sacred Stones 01]
Ssiege – Drama Lover


Artwork by Brodie Kaman

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024 - Part 1

(tracklist below) 

This is part 2 of 3 of the recording from my set at Nowadays Nonstop on April 7, 2024.

I played from 9am-3pm, between JASSS and Bearcat, and it was one of the most creatively fulfilling sets I can remember playing – one of those sets where the audience, environment, atmosphere, tech setup, phase of the moon, whatever, all somehow lined up for a full 6 hours. And happily, the recording is maybe my favorite I’ve managed to capture to date. Huge thanks to Kristin for inviting me and to everyone who was there that morning.


TRACKLIST – PART 2 – 11am-1pm

Ssiege – Drama Lover
Carrier – Harsh Features
Lithe – Modd
aya – Dexxy Is A Midnight Runner
Commodo – Shadowing
Galtier – Absentia Essentia
DJ Zinc – Unstable
Skee Mask – Dachtekker
David Spanish – One New One
Fadi Mohem – Recess
Konduku – Ebedi
Setaoc Mass – It's never too late, or is it?
T++ – Voices No Bodies
Objekt – ???
Marc Ashken – Size 3 (Skream Remix)
Icicle – Need A Job (Original Mix)
LAS – Mental Judgement
Cyrus (Random Trio) – The Watcher
The Bug – Gutted (Human Filth)
Hoavi – PHASE 10
hashman c3d-e – 0-02B
pretty sneaky – PRSN3 A
pretty sneaky – PRSN1 B
Mike Parker – Radar Signal
Fergus Sweetland – Dub 1
Stanislav Tolkachev – Till you get it off
Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 22 [Parallax Mix]
qebrus – ༜°༜ ᓭᘳᓆ⊆⊂⊚⊃⊇ᓏᘰᓯ༜°༜
xupid – Grip
WTCHCRFT – What Do You Call A Flood
ASEC – Traffic
Joline Scheffler – Hathor
Vladimir Dubyshkin – Glucose Guardian
Tracing Xircles – Voyage
Jodey Kendrick – Body Hammer
Squarepusher – Snake Pass
Roma Zuckerman – Like My News
Sympletic – Noname
E-Unity – Avray Link
Arovane – yua:e
Mezey & Nosho – Liverbox Recordings
Phalcon – Foreseen
Ceephax Acid Crew – Red DX Acid
Dolo Percussion – DOLO 27
Dolo Percussion – DOLO 30
Manisdron – Restive Lines
Sepehr – Delicate Senses
Batu – Other Means
Lanark Artefax – Meszthread
RP Boo – Azzoutof Control
Mr. Ho featuring Gedvile Bunikyte – Medicine
DubGuy – Not Massive


Artwork by Brodie Kaman

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024 - Part 2

TRACKLIST

Syclops - New Bro's In NYC
Koreless - Seven (Drumhell)
Kreggo - Pheeroan
Rhyw - Calippo
Unknown Untitled - uu011 - a1
Marcel Dettmann - Cycling Bits
DJ Patrick R ft. MC KVN & DJ Pikeno MPC - Vai no Chão
Deft - It's Made of Shine
Andy Martin - Electric Blue
Pump Media Unlimited - Bobo 500
Identified Patient - My Way (Hilton Mix)
Harmon Eyes - Tension
DJ Doomscroll - Doomscroll
STEYA - Fast Life
Cirkle - Lunar Orbit
Dead Man’s Chest x King Kutlass - Ananda Tandava
Boris Noiz - Inceptive Point
E-Unity - E-Ternity
DE GRANDI - I Can Relate
Aulic Veil - A-V_001.2 (Bonus Track)
G Jones - Help! I Can't Find My Way Out
Meat Beat Manifesto - Into The Sun (Pts 1 / 2)
Dom & Roland - Interstellar Subs
CCL & Ciel - Spiral Drive (Objekt edit)
gyrofield - Occam's Razor
Shxcxchcxsh - DO 3
Uneak - Bless Dem
DJ Trace & HLZ - Raptor
DJ Phiene - Bass Fanactiks
Marco Maldarella - Buio Omega
solar-x - bionic man
Carrier - FATHOM
Stingray313 - Sentiment
Otto - Hazer
AceMo - Jungle Storm
Objekt - Ganzfeld (Djrum Remix - short edit)
CCL - Strange Attractor
Sonic - Taxi Driver
Instra:mental - Photograph

Objekt at Draaimolen Festival 2024

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry.

Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. 

This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. 

A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. 

"How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder.

@livwutang

Read more and find the tracklist ra.co/podcast/975

RA.975 livwutang

Recording from a special night at Ankali for the Dekmantel party 2 weeks ago, it’s one of the best clubs in Europe for me, truly a place for pure creative expression.

From House to Techno to Ghetto Tech to more minimal and tribal and dub stuff. Lately, I feel like I’m getting deeper into my sound and storytelling as a dj. I’m also getting better at playing with 3 decks, and I got back into vinyl. It changes everything, the music feels physical again. I'll try to share things more spontaneously like this one in the future, thanks for your constant support.

Tracklist available on IG : https://www.instagram.com/p/DHtG-0aoyMJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Simo Cell (dj set) @ Dekmantel in Ankali - 2025

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-300-barker

Fresh from Stochastic Drift, Barker’s buzzing second album named Bleep Record of the Month alongside an exclusive 12”, Barker sends a mix that really digs deep into the unique sonic methodology he has constructed across his solo career width a suitable breadth for what is also a milestone in the series, Bleep Mix #300.

From Debiasing to Utility to Stochastic Drift, Barker has been reimagining club music without its definitive thump, instead driven by melody and tactile synthesis, and this selection of tracks expands Barker’s soundworld with a host of artists walking a similar path. “For this mix, I picked out some of my favourite uptempo ambient tracks, recorded at home with two decks and a mixer. It’s music I've used in a lot of different contexts, as a DJ and listener, and I hope you enjoy it.”

Though the occasional dancefloor thump makes itself known, such as on Adriana Lopez’ ‘What Lies Behind’, it’s mostly in quaking subs rather than actual four to the floor, providing some ground for this mix’s airy freeform variety to fly over. We have the wooden plunks and seaspray of Afefe Iku’s Kenyan island sound, the wonky gamelan of Tyler Friedman’s maze of bells and chimes, the dense atmosphere of shaker-produced rain and electrical chirps forged deep in the ruins of The Future Sound Of London.

The midsection of this mix contains some magic in particular: the maestro of drumless trance Lorenzo Senni creates motion from pure jagged synth energy on ‘The Power of Failing’, dissolving into the aether of an unreleased Barker track, which further discharges into the kaleidoscopic stutters of Caribou’s ‘Never Come Back’ with jubilant piano chords and vocal clips wrought into a glitchy, swirling maelstrom of Koreless' prickly warmth. Digital Justice’s ‘Theme From It’s All Gone Pearshaped’ follows, a timeless staple for anyone wishing to dabble in melodic motion and synthsmithery, or any DJ set seeking to add some lift without losing momentum, of which this mix is in no short supply.

Bleep Mix #300 - Barker

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Adventures in machine music built to make subs rattle and feet wiggle; a convoluted mess of elektrology and teknology, 3-step, bass-core, post windmill, proto-minimal wankstep, gondola, shithouse, acid wonk, ambient gabber, no more, no less.

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