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

Manfredas

@eli-verveine

www.wakinglife.pt
19 - 24 June 2024

📸 camille blake

Eli Verveine at Floresta - Waking Life '23

@xdb

www.wakinglife.pt
19 - 24 June 2024

📸 camille blake

XDB at Outro Lado - Waking Life '23

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Chunk: Smallville Records Special with Julius Steinhoff - 18 November 2023

The Bristol city stalwart shows us how he does it with an extended session that moves through galaxial techno grooves, retro trance cuts and Villalobos-esque, scatty minimal, before building gradually to peak time floor shakers.

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Crack Mix 594: Chez de Milo

Pintai Mix 005: Orion | Recorded at Pintai x Delayed

Favourite episodes of my show on Radio Vilnius from year 24. Lots of gold. Put this together to compliment a little write-up on substack.

Fade In Gently August 27 2024

Fade In Gently 29 October, 2024

Fade In Gently 17 September, 2024

The djset of @xdb on the Club Krokant stage at De Weide Festival 2024

XDB / Club Krokant / De Weide 2024

Savage Club in Hanoi Feb 7, 2025

all night long at Platforma Wolff in Bucharest 25.02.22

This podcast is composed of edits, remixes, and unreleased productions crafted by the Parisian duo Abajour over the course of this year. Designed for the club, these productions bring together diverse influences, oscillating between house, dub, breakbeat, and trance, as well as sounds not originally intended for the dancefloor, drawn from jazz pieces or synth-driven bands from the '80s.

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 34 : Abajour

Live recording from TES club by Trotsky, the co-founder of Trust Festival and boss of fantastic planet and timetravelstuffff, record labels known for showcasing and supporting Tbilisi’s local talent. 

The mix features a selection of trance, breaks, acid, and house characterised by remarkable record selection and smooth technical skills. 

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 36 : Trotsky

Chez has a style that is hard to put your finger on, as Rio 017 well demonstrates. Recorded on the opening night of Bonanza, Chez kicked the terrace into action with a chuggy but cheerful selection of swampy groovers. 

Moving seamlessly from heads down tech house to breaks and EBM-ish numbers, Rio 017 is peppered with flecks of acid, swaying basslines and plenty of character. 

One to keep the summer flowing xx



Rio 017 - Chez de Milo (recorded live at Bonanza 2025)

Giant Cicada

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

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