Recording of Forest Drive West's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Dekmantel Festival 2023

Forest Drive West at Dekmantel Festival 2023

The next Dekmantel mix is a wild melting pot of dark, murky techno grooves by @mattikk. A pillar of the Amsterdam underground, the Garage Noord resident has a long history of DJing in the city and is closely connected to your favorite techno labels. He’s the mind behind Delsin Records' Mantis series, collaborating with artists like Forest Drive West, Konduku, Lemna, and Dino Sabatini.

Drawing on UK sound system culture, his selections always carry an experimental edge, whether diving into deep Italian techno or ambient. Usually, he crafts mixes for immersive listening pleasure, but here he makes a rare turn to the dance floor, inspired by his closing set on the UFO2 stage at last year's Dekmantel Festival. Over an hour of powerful, driving grooves and subtle details, sprinkled with new tunes and some personal favorites that span low-end-heavy electro and broken beats.

Tracklist/
Dasha Rush - 100 Hearts
O.utlier - Evoparation 
Tammo Hesselink - Harbour Launch
R-010 - Exhaust Pipes (Absis Remix)
Amotik - Iktalis
Kon Janson - Unbound Perspective 
Saku Niamh - Unreleased 
Roseen - Separation
Stenny - Hazy Grove
CAIV - Shimmer 
Broken English Club - Ghost
Konduku - Unreleased Remix
Agonis - Unreleased
James Ruskin - Lahaine (O/V/R Remix)  
Konduku - Unreleased
Firn - Rakaposhi
Vand - Futureshock
Gez Varley - Purgę
DJ Slip - Spice
VC-118A -  Unreleased
Carrier - 2 Slow
Kellen303 - Pinehearse
Fret - Stuck

Dekmantel Mix 486 - Mattikk

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2025/truancy-volume-349-zara

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Truancy Volume 349: Zara

Oslo is burning, Please add water! Broken deep techno after after hours mix

140 BPM. Filtered grooves, warm loops, and that early-2000s French touch. For fans of Daft Punk, Cassius, and dusty vinyl vibes.

SPACE DISCO

FIRST MIX ON TRAKTOR S4 BEATMATCHING WAVEFORMS WITH NO HEADPHONES . RECENTLY I JUST WANTED TO LIE ON THE FLOOR AND DIE. IF THE WORLD WAS TO EXPLODE RIGHT NOW THAT WOULD BE OK WITH ME. BUT KIYANI NEVER DIES. MY PAIN IS MY TEACHER AND I BROUGHT IT ALL UPON MYSELF. A PART OF ME DIED AND ANOTHER PART FED ON THE ROTTING CORPSE. HELL'S TORTURE... HIS TORTURE... CONTINUES

''The dark night of the soul is a stage of final and complete purification, and is marked by confusion, helplessness, stagnation of the will, and a sense of the withdrawal of God's presence.[note 1] It is the period of final "unselfing" and the surrender to the hidden purposes of the divine will. The final stage is union with the object of love, the one Reality, God. Here the self has been permanently established on a transcendental level and liberated for a new purpose.[8]''

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL. KIYANI LIVE @ THE GRIFFIN 1hr techno mix

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Master of minimal techno Robert Hood, recorded live at London's Printworks in December 2019.

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Oslo is burning, Please add water! Broken deep techno after after hours mix

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