Manfredas

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

Chez de Milo b2b Ellie Stokes live from The Olive Grove at Love International Festival 2024

TASCAM DR-05X

Live from the Adriatic 2024: Chez de Milo b2b Ellie Stokes

@edward live at outro lado

The first track is an unofficial remix of Dimension 5 - Network. Check out the artist if you don't know them already :)

foto: coletivo.negativo

Edward live at Outro Lado - Waking Life '24

Recording of Sean Johnston & Vladimir Ivkovic's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Sean Johnson & Vladimir Ivkovic at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

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

Move your ass! Back to the glory days of Belgian New Beat with Jane Fitz at Mirano Brussels ☻

Special thanks to director Joachim Michaux & film crew for setting up this magnificent New Beat night for the filming of his movie ‘Un Ciel Si Bas’.

Move your ass! Back to the glory days of Belgian New Beat with Jane Fitz at Mirano Brussels ☻

Special thanks to director Joachim Michaux & film crew for setting up this magnificent New Beat night for the filming of his movie ‘Un Ciel Si Bas’.
Full video at https://youtu.be/RKOSxp_4U6g


Jane Fitz @ Kiosk Radio 30.01.2025

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

Recorded during Bruno Schmidt's All Night Long set at Mansions on January 4th, 2025.

https://soundcloud.com/bruno-schmidt

Night Club Music with Bruno Schmidt

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

Shoes on cobbles providing the beat, saudade notes whispers softly.
@luisa_sm transmits by candlelight.

Superluminal.fm ☼ Luisa

After starting the mini Dekmantel Selectors podcast series two years ago, it feels like a tradition to bring this back to life again in anticipation of the third edition in August. In the next couple of months, we will release 6 podcasts by some of the exciting artists from the line-up. This year’s podcasts challenges the artists to work around a theme or idea they picked theirselves. First up: French/Belgian selector Raphaël Top-Secret.

Raphaël Top-Secret is known for his notorious digging skills, which he prefers to put in practice at the best Parisian record stores or unknown flee markets. In his earlier days, he used to dj frequently with Antinote label boss Zaltan, touching on everything in between balearic, boogie, reggae, world music, disco and house. As a producer, Raphaël’s work is remarkable too — his ‘Love So High’ EP dropped in 2016 on the same label and three dance floor gems we still can’t get enough of. It should come as no surprise that we’re more than happy to have Raphaël joining us not only for Dekmantel Selectors, but also for Lente Kabinet later in May.

For us, he put together a special mix that covers and touches on many genres. Raphaël on is own podcast for us: "This mix going from 90s hip-hop and R&B to downtempo, house and tropical dance. Overall, it's stuff that I recently found out about and that I really wanted to incorporate in a mix. Beside that, it includes long time favorites as well. I only had two days to do the mix, so the approach was more spontaneous - it was quite fun to do as I was less prepared and just went with the flow. Hope you'll like the vibe and see you in Tisno!".

Selectors Podcast

Selectors Podcast 017 - Raphaël Top-Secret

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

Savage Club in Hanoi Feb 7, 2025

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