Haven is a place of safety, warmth, and comfort. 


Something a little different from my last few mixes - many of you know me for faster uptempo club mixes, but I also love and dig a lot of slower hypnotic tracks since I started DJing in 2007. I wanted to make a paced-out mix that I could really sink into and feel safe to tap into states of intimacy and warmth.

This mix was recorded on July 26 during one of Clara Tatjana and I's long music sessions in my studio. We were jamming to tunes and she contributed many awesome selections to the tracklist <3

With the current wave of lockdowns and many gig cancellations, I thought it fitting to share this feeling as we all incubate for the next.

Tracklist:
1. Contra Natura - Forest On Stasys
2. Do U Feel Me - Maara
3. Recollect - John Selway
4. It's You (Free House Mix) - Mr & Mrs Dale
5. Calling Me - Pillow Queen
6. Sound Of A Goat In A Room - Twice A Man
7. Trinity Dub (Three) - Massive Attack
8. Lola - Pearson Sound
9. Unreleased - D.Dan
10. Naked Groove - Omni A.M.
11. Jupiter Jazz - Underground Resistance
12. Negative Extasy - Toma Kami
13. TTT - Fakundo
14. Erotica (William Orbit 12") - Madonna
15. Urth Man - Ex-Terrestrial
16. State Of Mind (Alex Kassian Dream State) - Peyote Dreams
17. Intermission - 2562
18. Apache - INSTINCT
19. Tedra - Kenny Larkin
20. We Live In Brooklyn Baby - Roy Ayers

Haven Mix

Highly anticipated, highly delivered. In pure doghead fashion, enjoy Mabel's late night psychedelic Zumba class from the final night of Moniker. 

Recorded live from 02:00 - 03:30 on Sunday Sep 18. 

@mabelau

Live at Moniker - Mabel

Mama Snake is the reptilian alias of Sara Svanholm, a Copenhagen-based DJ/Producer whose slithering beats are every bit as cunning as the name suggests. She’s an integral part of her city’s scene and a card-carrying member of collaborative ‘mixed media channel’ Amniote Editions alongside names like Celestial Trax, Hadone and D.Dan. Her full-blooded sound leaves no room for misinterpretation, it is thrilling, primal and overwhelming in the vein of the most compelling main stage techno. There’s a raw practicality to the music too, perhaps a function of her second career as a medical surgeon; Mama Snake wants to create a communal feeling through her work, and there’s the human touch. These rumbling rhythms might sound formidable, but they’re there to bring people together and get both bodies and progressive ideas moving. Bassiani Podcast 163 is pure, unadulterated, percussive power, 80 minutes of coiling loops and white-hot basslines from the Denmark-based techno matriarch.

@mamasnake

Bassiani invites Mama Snake / Podcast #163

A seriously damaging techno cut from rising London talent Manse. Scraping scum off the sink this one!

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Manse - Threadbare

Local selector and Horoom resident Dito Chikovani delivers a perfect dose of blissful house for Bassiani Podcast 180. His trade is intimate and done by feeling, mood being key to his dancefloor dialogues, no doubt helped by an impeccable taste for records that lends a hint of the unexpected to his work on the decks. This modus operandi naturally extends to this next instalment: patient, confidently shapeshifting through space and time, communicating through progressive rhythms, sultry melodies and deeper interludes. This one’s a live recording from the Bassiani season closing night back in July when he took over opening duties just ahead of DJ Masda. Close to three hours packed with uplifting beats and dreamy synths for balmy summer nights.

@ditochikovani

BASSIANI PODCAST SERIES

Bassiani invites Dito / Podcast #180

Zeynep at SPIELRAUM - July 2nd 2023

Kasper Marott techno mix for Mala Junta NTS show (7/8-23)

For the 24th edition of our mix series we are happy to have a live set by our dear friend @peachlyfe - recorded at TILT @ RSO 18.10.24:

"This live set is a hypnotic blend of psychedelic techno, glitchy textures, and deep, rolling basslines. It’s a long progression of warped synths, distorted vocals, and captivating melodies. It’s the fruit of many hours contemplating: What’s the perfect mix of techno and trance? You be the judge if peachlyfe found that balance."

SC: @peach-lyfe
IG: www.instagram.com/peachlyfe/

TILT.cast 24 Peachlyfe

For the next Harmony podcast, a vinyl-only mix delivered by Berlin-based @salty_dj.

Blending deep progressive sounds and evolving textures that culminates in a high-energy end.

Enjoy! xx

Harmony Rec. podcast | Salty DJ

Jorkes and Valley Dolly are cut from similar cloth. The previous Bassiani Podcast guests are known for their bouncy house incursions and involvement in Tbilisi queer collective Hydrash. Jorkes holds that standard high in the DACH Welt, with her founding of Freeride Millenium together with partner Paris Bohm, as well as frequent DJ duties on Munich-based Radio80000 and Stuttgart’s Romantica. In the other corner comes Georgia-based friend and Bassiani light designer Valley Dolly, whose equal penchant for New York’s disco and ballroom era is a point where these two paths cross. Together these queer agitators champion the political vision of LGBTQIA+ inclusion and openness, holding an insubordinate middle finger up to oppression of any kind. These are clubbable tunes with a loving message, communally driven house fantasies that manifest a fierce diva spirit. Sometimes a little fun is truly the best prescription, and this buoyant duo is here to bring it. Bassiani Podcast 249 is a live recording from their New Year’s set at the club back at the end of ’24 and the beginning of this new age, a four-hour b2b set brimming with raunchy vocals and maximal melodies, sisters forever.

@jorkes
@valleydolly

Bassiani invites Jorkes b2b Valley Dolly / Podcast #249

The 166th guest of KHIDI’s podcast series is Trotsky, local DJ and producer, founder of the Fantastic Planet imprint and TRUST Festival. Trotsky focuses on the unknown music of the 90s, rare sounds which are the source of today's house, electro, or breakbeat music

@trotsky0

Manse - Threadbare

Lobster Theremin