benedikt frey & chez de milo b2b all night long at the love inn, bristol

Benedikt Frey b2b Chez de Milo @ Club Blanco - The Love Inn, Bristol [18/11/23]

something a bit different, Gallery opening of the main room.  next Dresden in Vilnius: Red Room with Craig Richards on 18th of April

MORE DRESDEN - GALLERY 1986 - MAIN ROOM WARM UP

@melquiadesmusic
Good friend and constant source of inspiration Alex Albrecht, joined me to celebrate my 300th episode of Passing Notes.

Few artists channel a consistent stream of creativity like Alex Albrecht. With over a decade of music-making under his belt, Alex has cultivated a distinct and frankly iconic musical identity. Effortlessly shapeshifting between experimental jazz, ambient, atmospheric house, and deep techno, Alex’s compositions are marked by an environmental undertone that imbues them with a uniquely “Alex Albrecht” earthly sense of place. Simultaneously anchoring and weightless, the common thread between it all is Alex’s ability to leave listeners safely ensconced in a swell of emotional resonance.

Improvisation and exploration are at the heart of Albrecht’s craft. His constantly evolving and captivating live performances have taken him to far corners of the globe, with appearances at iconic venues like Bassiani in Georgia, Monument in Norway, and Vent in Tokyo just to name a few. Each journey fuels his exploratory nature, offering new opportunities to immerse himself in the world around him. Field recordings serve as an auditory journal—postcards sent home to evoke memories of space and place that form the ever-important foundation of his creative process. These recordings provide a naturalistic canvas upon which Alex layers syncopated rhythmic subtleties and soaring, colorful synthetic brushstrokes.

With a rich discography amassing on celebrated labels such as A Strangely Isolated Place, Constellation Tatsu, Apollo, Scissor & Thread, and his own Analogue Attic Recordings—also celebrating its 10th anniversary this year—Albrecht’s work reflects a steadfast commitment to artistic authenticity and a depth of accrued knowledge now expressed through a craft so refined that oft feels effortless.

It was an honour to have Alex performing LIVE in the studio to celebrate this milestone together and share in his music that will continue to inspire us all.

Alex Albrecht [LIVE] - PN 300

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

Marianna Maruyama, Hessel Veldman - Are You Satisfied?
Sam Gendel - Cosmic Love 
Sam Gendel - Miss U Sonny
Robert Wyatt - Revolution Without ‘R’
Don Cherry - BenoEgo
DJ Python - Juntos
Machine Drum - Big Beauty Hose
Refracted - Reverie
Ale Hop - Asi Baila el Sintetizador (Flora Yin- Wong remix)
Reframing - Barker
Susumu Yokota - Nacre
Jonus Eric - Darkwhirl
Gombeen & Doygen - Sequel
Siegmar Fricke - Expo 92
DJ Silver - Future Domination
100 records - 57
Siegmar Fricke - The Appointment (Giles Parry Mix)
Ovatow - My Empty Shell
Geins’t Nait - HATE
various - KWALK
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Surround
Robert Wyatt - Heathens Have No Souls
Dennis Bovell & Janet Kay - Game Of Dubs

Fade In Gently 4 April, 2025

@colonelgatito live at Sunday Service on December 1st - a moment suspended in the haze of an infinite afternoon, somewhere in a foggy room in Montreal…

Ivan Smagghe ༄ Live from Sunday Service (December 2024)

Music played : 

Madteo - Emo G (Sticky Wicket)
Monolake - Fragile
Doctor Rockit - Tape Measure
Connective Zone - Palm Palm (Broom And Hill Remix)
Lbe - Nothing But The Electricfunk
Eletun Selona - Livia
Djrum - Frekm, Pt. 2
Patrick Conway - Silencio
Terre Thaemlitz - Seashore (Sprinkles’ Ambient Ballrooom)
Miles J Paralysis - Still Waiting
Jay Glass Dubs - Swint
Multicast Dynamics - The Process
Various – KWALK
Giraffe - ATOM I
5AM - Coffee Milk
In Camera - Fragments Of Fear
Index For Working Musik - 2×1

Fade In Gently 15 April, 2025

Per Amžius Ambient @ Radio Vilnius 04.24 w/ Marijus Klimaitis & Nic Arizona

1part Marijus Klimaitis
2part Nic Arizona

Per Amžius Ambient 04.24 w/ Marijus Klimaitis & Nic Arizona

first two hours of my annual all-nighter back home.

ALL NIGHT LONG @ GALLERY1986, 2025

releasing this track is to the aether 

RIP JD Twitch, you are deeply missed

listen to the full tribute here:
https://thedarkoutside.bandcamp.com/album/ilx-and-friends-celebrate-jd-twitch-one-more-tune

Meditation for JD Twitch

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

Fade In Gently 15 April, 2025

MANFREDAS