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https://corenews.me/skee-mask-essential-mix-2021-05-15/?utm_source=soundcloud
Tracklist over here:
https://tracklists.thomaslaupstad.com/skee-mask-essential-mix-2021-05-15-tracklist-playlist/?utm_source=soundcloud

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Skee Mask - Essential Mix 2021-05-15

Further information: https://bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-227--minor-science

"My taste at the moment seems to have gone to two extremes. At home, I mostly listen to jazz and Joni Mitchell. In clubs, I’ve pretty much been playing the most stupid, over the top stuff I can find. After the last couple of years, there doesn’t seem to be much point in holding back. This mix reflects the vibe of shows I’ve played since last autumn. It was planned at the tail end of my Covid isolation and recorded on CDJs and a Xone 92 in as few takes as possible." - @minor-science

Bleep Mix #227 - Minor Science

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

live @ Nowadays for livwutang’s residency

Jonny From Space @ Nowadays

Fever AM with Mor Elian & Rhyw - 24 May 2025

Forward thinking underground music from across the musical spectrum. Techno and house alongside selections from more experimental styles and sounds.  

Pariah - 03 July 2025

Ilian Tape with the Zenker Brothers - 29 September 2025

The gifted London DJ and curator goes big on bass futurism.

"To pull a thread." This old English adage means to follow a small detail that might unravel into something larger and more significant. It's also the inspiration behind London artist mi-el's NTS Radio show, and a neat way of understanding her approach as a DJ. 

Take mi-el's rich archive of mixes. From NTS to The Trilogy Tapes, they show her to be a deeply personal selector and curator, pushing past functionality into something more expressive, narrative and often political. A show about Refugee Week? Afrofuturist world-making? Interlocking systems of domination? All material is putty in her hands. 

Now based in Berlin, mi-el is simply a wicked club DJ. In just a few years she's played Panorama Bar, De School and FOLD, as well as festivals including Waking Life, Terraforma and Field Maneuvers. 

Alongside peers and predecessors like Josey Rebelle, she represents a new generation of Black British artists reinventing the wheel, and as we mark the beginning of UK Black History Month, no other candidate felt more fitting. 
 
RA.1007 shows why. The 55-minute session is a deft balancing act of depth and playfulness, humour and heaviness, rooted in club intensity and the futurism of the UK hardcore continuum. It's firm confirmation that, in mi-el's hands, the art of the DJ mix is alive and well.

@miellllllll
Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1026

RA.1007 mi-el

From BBC Radio 1, March 2011 - chat free version

Tracklist:
Hype Wiliams — Your Girl Smells Chung When She Wears Dior – Hippos in Tanks
Warren G — Regulate – Violator
Ossie — Moves – Hyperdub
Fhloston Paradigm — Chasing Rainbows – Saturn Never Sleeps
Giorgio Moroder — The Wheel – Pye Records
Attica Blues — What Do You Want (King Britt Remix) – Sony
Kudu — Transit – Bitasweet
Nubian Mindz — Future Past – 2000 Black
A Guy Called Gerald — Finley’s Rainbox (4 Hero Remix) – Juice Box
Kode9 — Green Sun – Hyperdub
Kode9 + The Space Ape — Love is The Drug (feat. Cha Cha) – Hyperdub
Funkystepz — Trouble – Hyperdub
Kode9 — Black Sun (Partial Eclipse Mix) – Hyperdub
Zed Bias — Basic Needs – Swamp 81
DJ Rampage — Deep Inside (Rama Re-edit)
2562 — Cheater – When in Doubt
Karizma — Outta Control – Defected
Ossie — Set The Tone – Hyperdub
Ill Blu — Meltdown – Numbers
Zed Bias — Stubborn Phase – Swamp 81
Funkystepz — Fuller – Hyperdub
Hard House Banton — Sirens (Sami Sanchex Remix) – Dub Organizer
Funk Bias — Last Forever – Swamp 81
Champion — Loose Control – Hardrive
DJ Naughty — Firepower – Kicks And Snares
Funkystepz — Hurricane Riddim – Hyperdub
DJ Naughty — Gearshift – Kicks And Snares
Devine Collective — House Girls
Bok Bok — Look – NIght Slugs
Kode9 + The Space Ape — OTherman – Hyperdub
Riko — Woo Freestyle – Slaughter House Rydims
Terror Danjah — Minimal Dub – Hyperdub
L-Wiz — 442 Oz – Kapsize
Addison Groove — Nautilus
Andreya Triana — A Town Called Obsolete (Mala Remix) – Ninja Tune
Dok — West Coast – Hyperdub
Grain — Untitled
Dok — West Coast VIP – Hyperdub
Mala — Education – DMZ
Terror Danjah — In The Biz – Aftershock
Girl Unit — Wut – Night Slugs
Mala — Bury The Boy – DMZ
Gucci Mane — O Dog – Mosca Instrumental Remix
Kode9 feat. Cha Cha — Time Patrol (Dub version) – Hyperdub
Spooky — Spartan – Terror Danjah
Morgan Zarate — Hookid – Hyperdub
DJ Rashad — Itz not Rite – Planet Mu
DJ Spinn — Lol – Planet Mu

Kode9 Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1 (2011)

Back in 2016, Skee Mask and Zenker Brothers spontaneously attempted to play together at an afterparty in Prague, but after ten minutes the electricity failed. Two years later they finally had the opportunity to play a joint extended set for the first time - at Unsound Kraków 2018. The three DJs closed Saturday night in Hotel Forum with an expansive set building on adventurous forms of techno, jungle and broken beat, combining the collective interests of Ilian Tape. The set kicked off at 4am in the Ball Room.

Unsound Podcast 39: Skee Mask b2b Zenker Brothers

Our final podcast this year from the one and only Skee. Enjoy the holidays and have a good start into the new year!

Tracklist

The Dirty Criminals - Existance
GM Cole - Peacmaker
Sphere - Soulscape
DJ Zank - Officer (Short)
Gaetek ‎- The Advanced Series Vol. I (A2)
Ian Lehman - Veemente Effeto
Exium - Unit 1
Stave & Grebenstein - Alfa
Terrence Dixon - Live in Detroit 2 (A2)
Pandora's Box - Eskibongo
User - 18 (B2)
Joel Mull & Adam Beyer - Remainings II (A1)
Infiniti - Skyway
Mr. James Barth - One Side Each (B1)
Projekt 69 - Wagons One
Driven By Attraction - Bubbleon
Doctor Y.S. & The Cosmic Drunkards - Secret Samba
Reducer - Inside Information (B1)
DJ Nehpets - Pop-U-Late (Edit)
Hedgehog Affair - Mystic
Autechre - 90101-5l-l
Tektrax - Tektrax Volume 1 (B1)
Feadz - Hawaiian Smut
Curve #136 - Monoton. 146
DJ Bake - BC Basketball Anthem (feat. OMG Addy & DJ Jayhood)

Kode9 Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1 (2011)

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