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

A part of Riesutines 2024 event at the Opium Club @opiumclub in Vilnius.
One hour of live looping, mixing, editing, electronic music flow.

Most of the tracks are unreleased, some of them are coming out next year. Let me know which ones you would like to hear more often 🙏🏻

Huge thanks to all the dancers! 🕺🏽👯💃🏽

Matas Petrikas Live Set @ Opium Vilnius 2024.10.12

This is the second time I've spent my birthday weekend playing a set at Heideglühen, and I don't think I could spend the very beginning of my 30s in a better place. I'm so happy and grateful to have this amazing opportunity to play at my favourite club in the world, a club that feels like home, where I'm loved and appreciated. 

This is a re-recorded set inspired by the music I played at Heide on the 2nd of November, it’s not a recording from a club. 

I love you all, 
Ela xx 

P.S - if it's nice, play it twice

inspired by what I played at heideglühen, 2 pm

some words to this here

https://substack.com/home/post/p-155608868

Potato Head Sunset Session January 18, 2025

Music for feeling in the morning when you get up

Euphoric Touchdown

Morning Vibes

A distinctive piece from the Ballroom Records archive, “Strawberry River” by Ben Haydie and Noaski is featured on TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 4 — a curated collection exploring the label’s most atmospheric and genre-defying Electronica.

TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 4

Strawberry River

The recording of my annual solo night at Opium Club, Vilnius. This is second part of 12 hours set. Things get messier, but more fun indeed here. More coming up, stay tuned!

MANFREDAS 12 HOURS AT OPIUM PART 2

Jesus, we just did the maths and its just over 1 month till we are back in Tisno for the 4th edition of Love International.... 
How has it come around so quickly? This year we have been focusing the podcast series on new artists to the festival and next up is someone we have wanted to play for a long time, its everyones favourite Lithuanian, Manfredas.

He turns in the 17th podcast in the series and this really skips through all the genres, from ambient weirdness at the start to that wonderful dub track which completes the journey at the end. Put your headphones on and get ready for a definite highlight of our Olive Grove programming. 

@manfredas

Tickets still available for the festival at loveinternationalfestival.com/

Love International Mix 017: Manfredas

Extract from a 5h back to back at Paradise City festival - 07.06.19

Ateq b2b Molly @ ParadiseCity 06.07.19

Aired by GDS.FM (@gdsfm) from 19:00 - 20:00 CET on the 6th of May 2020
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Radio G::G:::G # 1 SCHAALY

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