Manfredas, master of sounds! Thank you, you made my day!

Dresden (Ivan Smagghe & Manfredas) playing at Gallery1986, Vilnius on April 9. Long morning hours.........

Next one - May 13 at Corsica Studios, London. Tickets :

https://ra.co/events/1515073

Dresden (Ivan Smagghe & Manfredas) Gallery1986, 22 04 09

Finally a new DJ mix:
This is 90% the selection played at Outro Lado on Thursday afternoon at Waking Life 2022. Thanks to the fantastic crowd for the open-mindedness and the energetic dancing. Also much appreciated the various personal feedback!
You can do me a favour and listen to it in full without skipping at least once. I feel it's quite a trip.

Lastly thanks to the charismatic organisers and the Giegling crew for the huge effort in realising this festival and keeping the spirit alive.

Big hugs, MP

Photo credits: Kieran Behan

The Outro Lado Session

XDB @ Selectors Club @ Stilbrvch / Göttingen

recorded at More Dresden 21/09/24 - Opium, Vilnius . A beautiful Saturday (and Sunday Morning). huge thanks to Enrica. <3

More Dresden 24 - Enrica Falqui

all night long at Platforma Wolff in Bucharest 25.02.22

Make Love International Again.

https://www.instagram.com/loveintfestival



Love International with Dave Harvey, Chez De Milo and Ellie Stokes @ The Lot Radio 03-14-2025

through music

Spinning Grounds w/ Philipp Priebe

The monthly show hosted by @katharina-davids is returning with guest @priebe
As producer & DJ, the best way to describe Philipp Priebe’s music might be as dancefloor-prose. His sounds feel like they wrap you in a blanket of melancholy ~ deep house with the dusty grinds of dub techno. While everything’s seems to become faster & shorter in musical spaces, it feels like a fresh breeze to come across someone you could call an ‚album artist‘. Ready for that hour of a warm blanket.

'Spinning Grounds' is all about opening grounds - for both newcomers and experienced selectors alike - to spin music outside of club spaces to explore a wide range of genres from house, Detroit, deep house, dub house, ambient, breaks, UK garage, minimal, dub techno to .......

Spinning Grounds w/ Philipp Priebe @THF Radio, 10/04/25

Mix number 14 in our series, and the first live recording from Bonanza 2025 from none other than Ivan Smagghe. 

Recorded on the Sunday night of the festival, Ivan ushered the terrace through the penultimate set, handing over to Unai Trotti just before the light began to creep in over the river for the final sunrise of Bonanza. This is Ivan in deep, trippy and bewitching mode, just how we like it. 

In his own words, “I am always unsure recordings translate what happens in the moment, but people like them”. Hopefully some of the electricity from what was an incredibly special experience at the time trickles though your speakers at home xx

Rio 014 - Ivan Smagghe (recorded live at Bonanza 2025)

2025 Beat Snippets 1

Jane Fitz and XDB have known each other for around ten years and have supported each other since first hearing each other's sets at Freerotation every year. For Jane's last residency show of 2018 at the Pickle Factory in London, she played back to back with Kosta all night. Here is the first three hours.

Jane Fitz + XDB back to back at Pickle Factory 30/11/18 PART ONE

Manfredas and Vilnius are not one and the same but so intrinsically linked that the Lithuanian capital makes a good starting point. Although, Manfredas got his first musical experience via his hometown radio (long shifts soundtracking a country exploding itself out of the Soviet glaciation), it was his move to Vilnius that started it all. 

Skip a few shifts at legendary club Gravity and an electroclash band and we get to Opium and Smala. It is quite hard to fathom how important the club and Manfredas’ imprint were to the Vilnius nightlife, and still are. For years, this was the party and what a party that was; creating a scene out of not much, educating a couple of generation of clubbers, tightening friendships and making Manfredas the international DJ he is today. For many, it made Vilnius unexpectedly the best clubbing city in the world.

After a string of solo releases and remixes aimed at the furthest corners of the dancefloor, Manfredas took a deep breath and reached out even beyond that furthest corner. With drummer Marijus Aleksa, he created Santaka, an organic/electronic post-jazz (insert whatever term you please) with releases on Byrd Out and legendary Finnish label Sahko, and a live project where the dance floor and non-dancefloor merge hypnotically.

When Manfredas co-created Radio Vilnius in 2021, a hub for experimental music in a dire national landscape, it was another way to pay his dues to the local scene. Born online, Radio Vilnius has now launched it's own record label, inaugurated by Santaka themselves.

When The Last Smala happened in 2020, Manfredas & Ivan Smagghe created a new party outfit: Dresden, a bastard child of Vilnius and London, mother of all nighters, designer of t-shirts, travelling circus (from Love International to Wonderfruit, Glastonbury to Sonar). More hours put in for unruly people, more psychedelic music, including a two-day “weekender” at Gallery, the new hyper-club opened by the Opium crew.

Jack of all trades but master of many (we haven’t talked about his love of food), you can find Manfredas touring the world searching for that extra sparkle and sharing it with all of us.

bookings : caroline@spunoutagency.com

all night long at Platforma Wolff in Bucharest 25.02.22

MANFREDAS

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