@airmax97 concocts rhythms and manipulates synths in weird and wonderful ways. His tracks are brilliantly curious and drip with personality while also making you want to move. He layers up textures and atmospheres like a painter spreads oil on canvas and does so with both eyes firmly on the future. Releasing mostly on his own DECISIONS label as well as the likes of Timedance, the multidisciplinary artist works across a number of creative fields from design and art direction to mixing music. Most recently, he has put out his 'Psyllium / Eat The Rich' release on Timedance featuring two highly detailed, sub-heavy bangers.

On this week's podcast, he threads together a diverse array of sounds. There are contemporary grime rhythms, heavy bass cuts and stripped-back techno twisters from the likes of Ikävä Pii, Azu Tiwaline and Ayesha as well as plenty of some unreleased exclusives and a host of his own remixes and originals. It's seriously playful and - like his more recent productions - grows increasingly minimal and skeletal as it unfolds, with devastating results.

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 354 - Air Max '97

Peach's DJ bio simply reads: "Ball of energy." And that's exactly what she brings each and every time. The Toronto-born, London-based DJ has made high impact, thrillingly eclectic sets an art form in the last few years having first started to turn heads with her brilliantly broad radio shows on NTS. Her dynamism also carries over into the music she has produced for labels like Midland's Intergraded and Shanti Celeste and Gramrcy's Peach Discs. 

Peach's signature passionate style runs all the way through this week's mix. From the flurry of jungle breakbeats that open it up to the prickly bass, frenetic club rhythms and euphoric rave of the midpoint, it's an unrelenting ride. The second half becomes more spaced out, with roomier cuts and hypnotic grooves carrying you through the night and into the next morning.

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Dekmantel Podcast 383 - Peach

Recording of Aquarian's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Aquarian at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Artist: Dircsen
Title: WGD 12004
Label: We're Going Deep
Cat No: WGD12004
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 

A1 Nothing Remains 
A2 Artificial Mind
 B1 Nervous Disorder
B2 Imminent Flow

Placid aka Paul Wise is the leading light behind ‘We’re Going Deep’ – an online community and record label, born out of a lifelong affair with the many shades of electronic rhythm and obsession for collecting records since 1988.

Known to many in underground House and Techno circles, he’s spent the last few decades moving heads and feet at select venues, parties and fields across the UK and beyond. On a mission to share and release new music via his imprint: only the best in Acid, Electro, Techno and Deep House for the dance floor, front room or even just your headphones makes the cut.

For the latest We’re Going Deep solo series edition, Paul welcomes the mysterious talent and touch of Dircsen. Whilst little is known about this impressive producer hailing from Germany, his superbly rounded set of releases for the Hague’s Soundtravels and Croatian outfit Beef Records have certainly captured the ear and the imagination. With a penchant for the purest sounding waves of TB-303, soaring synths and punchy percussion – there’s nothing but magic when it comes to his work.

Kicking off with the hypnotic, dubby tinged tones of ‘Nothing Remains’ on A1 – the stripped back shuffle of percussion and shimmering stabs evolve in ghostly fashion as an evocative mood prevails: a purist exercise in restraint and calm. Balanced with gnarly intent of ‘Artificial Mind’ on A2, he lands the cutting SAW of his trusty synth to an unfaltering 808 groove. That simply grows in intensity and growl – burying itself in your psyche in the process.

B1 ‘Nervous Disorder’ drives on even further into twilight zone, unleashing a soaring lead to the punch of a swinging 909 that’s designed for pure pleasure – an ode to Chicago’s finest. Ending out on the mellower, house inflected tones of ‘Imminent Flow’ on B2. The cyclical roll of the melody and gentle sub compliment each other perfectly as airy pads lift the atmosphere and bring the EP to a dreamy conclusion.

Dircsen - WGD 12004 (WGD12004)

This evening we will be joined by a very special guest, our brother Koki all the way from Tokyo, Japan!
 
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The Pleasure Presents… NIGELTHREETIMES & MAACHEW BENTLEY with KOKI (JPN) @ The Lot Radio 09-17-2024

Stepping in our podcast series this week, London DJ and Neighbourhood chief operator Tasha graces us with a versatile, shape-shifting helluva mix she holds the secret to. Keeper of a sound amplitude that sees her run the gamut from Latin music-inflected techno to proper industrial, Birmingham-style tempi, through hardcore-friendly outbursts and out-there acid mind trips, Tasha has us bedazzled with every bar, wrong-footing any expectation in the process. And just like a good DJ does, she weaves a totally unique web of sound for us to get caught in, cohesively braiding the kind of electronic journey you can not but want to return to. Hop in for a much addictive rollercoaster ride across Tasha’s vortical headspace.

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Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 621 | Tasha

2025July21BPM 90

Mike Dean, one of the game's most prolific producers and its reigning master keyboardist, spent a weekend in the Moog Music Factory.

Surrounded by analog synthesizers and immersed in an environment of experimentation, Mike selected 6x Mother-32 synthesizers to create his sonic palette and a Voyager XL as his master controller. 

In just 48 hours, this is what he synthesized...  here is link to video of him creating this epic piece  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evi12DFoPrc          Art : Liath by Louise Donegan

Opening Evening 19th May 6-8pm at Salomon Contemporary Gallery
525-531 West 26th Street / 4th floor
Showing 19th May through 11th June

http://www.salomoncontemporary.com/exhibitions.html

Production Assistant : Kez Khou
Promo : Gustavo Guerra
Thanks to : Emmy and Jason at Moog Music


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[New Forms] dBridge X Itti X Kabuki X Undefined - Chatter

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

from the album "forget the pink elephant"

your smile

Hailing from the colorful streets of Tokyo, Japan Koki Sugiyama has worn many hats in the world of music and production (at least the hats that fit on top of his pineapple shaped hair-do). In 2003 Koki formed a Japanese rock band in Tokyo and was the front man as vocalist until 2004. Accepting the downfalls of managing and maintaining a 5-piece band, Koki realized it was best that he continue on his musical path solo. 

In 2005 Koki was introduced to DJ-ing and electronic music production from a Toronto Native who was playing in Tokyo at the time. Exploring the sounds and styles of this musical genre, Koki began practicing and playing at Local venues in Tokyo and growing more and more in love with this scene. After graduating from Tamagawa University in Tokyo where he studied computer and hardware engineering, he moved to Toronto to pursue music. 

As Koki got acquainted with Toronto’s underground scene at venues such as Footwork, he quickly found himself a midst a social circle of talented DJ’s and producers who he would grow and work with. Koki continued his musical education at Trebas for Audio Engineering and after completing this program; he teamed up with Bohemian Yacht Club Music as label assistant manager. 

So far in his career Koki has played venues such as Coda, Footwork, Air (Tokyo) and Womb (Tokyo) as well as Toronto’s best summer series Electric Island and the very special little Sunday social down at Cherry Beach. Koki’s musical style ranges from funky jazz-infused deep house to more upbeat tech house and techno. His versatile sound has landed him gigs playing alongside a range of world-renowned artists. 
He’s played with artists such as DJ Tennis, Magda, Marc Houle, Tiga, Guido Schneider, Noah Pred, Greg Gow, Soul Clap, Navid Izadi, Bob Moses, Gui Boratto, Max Cooper, Catz ‘N Dogz, Noir, and Masomenos. Koki currently is working on a few projects in the studio, including an EP that is set to release March 31st on Bohemian Yacht Club Music. 

Written by Samantha McMeekin (LCPR)

2025July21BPM 90

K O K I

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