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Over the past three years, with your invaluable support, we have gradually grown Mantissa from a pre-recorded mix show on Universtity Radio Bath to a project which has hosted some of the country’s most talented young DJs across London, been awarded a residency on 10Twenty radio, and hosted exclusive mixes/interviews on our SoundCloud and blog. 

We have never tried to compete with the likes of RA and Crack; we simply aim to carve out our own identity, digging deep for under-the-radar DJs who are willing to take the time to contribute an interview or mix. 

To all that have contributed, including all of our writers and artists, thank you so much. You make all the effort worthwhile!

In celebration of releasing two year's worth of mixes in our series, we have recorded a total of four mixes for Mantissa 104 with an A-side and B-side each. The "A-side" reflects what we play/ love to hear in the club, and the "B-side" represents a part of our record collections that we rarely showcase. 
Today we share with you the A-sides, with the B-sides to follow next Thursday.

Enjoy, and many thanks,

James and Tom

2 Years of Mantissa Mixes

Chilled Mixes

We like to mark the anniversary of our mix series each year with contributions from everyone here in the Mantissa Team - it's crazy that we have got to 4 years of mixes now, and we'd like to say a huge thankyou to every artist that has helped and contributed over this and past years!

The past year has been crazy for all of us, and it's been a year of big changes here at Mantissa - we've added to our team with the exemplar Angus Whitfield joining our ranks, and launched a label side of the project!

The first in our mini 208 series comes from co-founder Tom Allman, we hope you enjoy!

Tracklist:
HVL - Nom Zen
Otik - Gravel 
Primitive Needs - Eastern Philosophies
Sputnik One - Kerosene
Minor Sciences - Blue Deal
Hodge - Sense Inversion (Facta & K-Lone Remix)
Unknown Artist - Frozen Bounce (Unknown Artist re-edit)
Iota - Terminus (Reptant’z Lizard Plant Tech Mix)
Junes - Shifting Sands
Akiko Haruna - Die and Retry
HVL - Nom L3
Jay Gadian - Pink Vapour
Unknown Artist - NGLC Refix
Overmono - Verbosa
Two Shell - Speedrun
Al Wootton - Baccata
Unknown Artist - Lockbreak
Kareem El Morr - Trance with Benefits
Es.tereo - Perception
Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing (Om Unit Remix)
2562 - Narita
Banshee - High Let Me Fly


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Mantissa Mix 208.1: Tom Allman

Number 17 in our humble mix series sees good friend @mantissa1 co-founder @thomasallman-1 contribute a truly stellar guest mix. 

Mantissa is an online platform, mix series, occasional party and - as of late - also a label which will soon be two releases deep. Find out more here: https://mantissamix.com/

Gliding through a range of bouncy, polyrhythmic tunes, the mix is a breezy hr long ride that effortlessly ties together a wide set of genres with panache. Full of bouncy, wiggly tunes, it's a mix that massages your brain and gets your feet moving. Enjoy!

Explorations Mix #17 - Tom Allman (Mantissa)

Mantissa - 7 July 2022

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Mantissa w/ Jambo on Refuge Worldwide - 04/08/2022

Tracklist:
Naone - X-TDB133
Guy Contact - Drinking From The Mirage Featuring Nori
Helium - Try Me
Marc Cotterell - Make Me Feel (Mike Millrain Mix)
Yazz - Calling 2 U (Anthem Dub)
George Morel - A Groove Thang
Kano - Nite Nite
Stedit - Never Leave You
Map.ache - Nihilistic Vacation
The Mingers - Emancipation (Silverlining Remix)
DJ Rasoul - Untitled Deepness
Harry Wills - Aquaplane
Lovestation - Teardrops (Flava Mix)
Stanton Warriors - She’s a Bitch (Cold Mix)
K-Lone - One
D Base - Can’t Stop 
Rob Amboule - Tommy’s Glasses
Liebus - Baile Bias
Infinity - Judgement Part 1
al dente - seven 
Priori - Winged
Dan Piu - Aztec Challenge
Nate S.U. - 1800 Cowboy
Kassian - No Clear Way
Buen Clima - Transferencia Electronica
Reece Walker - Palindrom
Audri & Tommie - Pro One Attack
Triform - Vinaloop (Liquid Earth Remix)
Karen Pollack - You Can't Touch Me (You Can't Hurt Me) (Murk Remix)

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Mantissa w/ Jambo on Refuge Worldwide - 4th August 2022

Mantissa Mix 312: Tom Allman

“This is the first mix I’ve put out for a while, and I really enjoyed getting back into the process of finding what works. This is an amalgamation of a bunch of new finds, and some tracks sent across from friends that I’ve been digging - aimed at emulating that time of moving from the warm up into the main event.”

https://soundcloud.com/thomasallman-1

Mantissa Mix 312: Tom Allman

Yay!

Happy to introduce @mantissa1 co-founder @thomasallman-1 contributing to our series with a truly stellar mix.

Mantissa is an online platform, mix series, occasional party and label which does an amazing job in curating music and collaborates with tons of great artists around the globe.

Gliding through a range of bouncy and spacial melodies, this mix is an hour full of bouncy and wiggly broken beats over acid baselines that will get you to the end of the week!!!

Enjoy!

TOMBOLOMIXX 122 - Tom Allman

"I’m really happy to be part of the anniversary series with this mix, which is all about pure fun — Chicago house energy, jack all over, and a few of my own unreleased cuts.
Thanks so much for having me!"

Tracklist:
DJ Split – Disco House Team (Edit)
DJ Split – Cum As You Are
DJ Split – Up 2 You 
Daphne – Change (Cafe Con Daphne)
Tony Delux – Tony Nice Too Meet
2 In A Room – Do What You Want
Jack & Jill – Go Miss Thang (Club Mix)
Q-Bik Moz – Can U Feel It? (Feel It All Mix)
DJ Split – Make Me Make
DJ Split – Put Your Thingz
Duce Martinez, Kimara Lovelace – You Better Think (Duce’s Dub Mix)
Cerrone, David Morales – Cerrone Dub Mix (David Morales Remix)
BBC feat. Erin – Just Be Tonight (Atlas Mix)
Don Carlos – Alone
Classic Man – Rapid Winds (Remastered)

@djsplitsplit

Mantissa Mix 375: DJ Split [10 Years of Mantissa]

"I made a mix for Mantissa, yeay!  it’s driving, bouncy, proggy, and percussive. It brings together everything that currently gets me moving on the dancefloor. Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I do."

@lindosxp

Mantissa Mix 376: lindos xp [10 Years of Mantissa]

Next up in the 10 year celebrations, runa & asha lead us through the bass-driven wilderness with a live recording of their excellent three hour opener from Montreal's Exposé Noir.

"This 3-hour recording is taken from our opening set at an Exposé Noir day party in Montreal last October. It captures a pivotal moment in our musical journey. We’ll always have a deep love for bass (and it’s definitely present here), but this set marks the moment when we began exploring new textures, emotions, and modes of storytelling.

Starting with slower tempos and syncopated rhythms, the mix moves through atmospheric tracks with sentimental breaks before closing with rolling, bass-heavy, percussive, techno-adjacent sounds. This set reflects how our approach to DJing has evolved—layering rhythms, basslines, and tonal elements to create something fresh and engaging for the dance floor.

For us, this mix is a snapshot of our growth and experimentation. Hope you enjoy xx"

@runa-asha

Mantissa Mix 377 - runa & asha (live at exposé noir) [10 Years of Mantissa]

For the fifth instalment of our podcast series, we have Bath based Origins Resident DJ, Mantissa Co-Founder, and all round mr nice guy Tom Allman.

- Good morning Tom! The mix is incredible, thankyou! Tell us more about it, how you made it, what records you included, the title, the photo and so on. 

So I liked the idea of having to give your mix a title and creating it around that, so I used the title “Space” for mine. I like to think the mix is quite an open interpretation of that word, with some tracks reminding me of wide open natural spaces (like in the artwork for the mix), and some other tracks being a bit more ‘futuristic’ and more reminding me of Outer Space – with the focus on this being a mix ‘not for the club’ as such. The first track by Midori Takada is my favourite from the album it’s off – Through The Looking Glass; I found that album a couple of years ago and find its really nice to listen the whole way through when you just want to relax, so I thought it would be great to start this mix with it. I then go through a lot of tracks I really enjoy when chilling out that I wouldn’t normally play. I also put in a track that my mate Jake made, it’s got no name but I think it’s a sick track that works really nicely at its intended pace or slowed down, and for this mix I slowed it right down and think it fits really well. After that track, which is kind of the crescendo of the mix, I take things down a notch again with some tracks from Matt Tolfrey, DJ Sprinkles, Huerco S, and finishing on my favourite Black Sabbath tune, Planet Caravan.

- You’re the first special guest to do our podcast, your not releasing music with us, but you are pretty close to the label. What is your relationship to Oleeva?

So I’ve known Will (head of Oleeva) for a number of years now pretty much ever since I moved to Bath for University. I can’t exactly remember how we met to be honest, but Will has always been a very good friend, and he’s always so cheerful and helpful which is great! When he first told me he was going to start his own label/project you could just tell it was going to work because of his enthusiasm and positivity – and although I don’t produce music I’ve tried to help where I can in other ways, and I’ve always been itching to contribute in some way musically to Oleeva.

- Your a busy man, as we've found out when trying to get together to play records, what have you been doing these past few months? 

Yeah we’ve both been pretty busy which has made it hard to play some records together. Over the last few months (well more than a few months now) I’ve been finishing Uni and putting a lot of my spare time into a music project I co-founded with my friend James Glover called Mantissa, and Djing pretty regularly at Origins too! Mantissa is a project we started when we were both at Uni but have really put more emphasis on it since September just gone. It’s basically a project we founded with the intention of showcasing our interpretation of forward thinking music; we do this through a weekly mix series where we ask DJ’s/producers we like to create a mix for us with the emphasis on playing what you want and not feeling restricted by genres or anything, and it seems to be going pretty well and getting some traction which is great! We also have a monthly radio show on 10 Twenty Radio based in Bristol and have started running nights in London which, so far, have gone really well. Alongside this we also write some reviews of nights we go to and try to interview people we find interesting, we use our website https://mantissamix.wordpress.com/ as a hub for all this really! So yeah I guess quite a few things really haha.

- Last but not least, your dream DJ gig, if you could play alongside anyone, anywhere. Tell us.

Urm, that’s a pretty tough question as there is so many talented DJ’s out there but for me it probably would have to be Ben UFO either in Studio Spaces in London or The Island in Bristol, they’re some of my favourite venues.

Oleeva Podcast Five: Tom Allman - Space

Sleep D encapsulates the sound of Butter Sessions. 

Read the feature: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2955

RA Label of the month

Butter Sessions - RA Label of the month

Gandalf works his magic to spoil your mind ...

He’s now resident dj and part of the art direction of important city festivals such as Movement Torino and Kappa Futur Festival and he’s been booked as guest for parties (Dude, Il Suono, Glucose…), and festivals around Italy (Nature Beat in Rome, Aurora Festival in Lecce, Forevergreen in Genova and Milan, Bardonite…). In March 2013 he also had the opportunity to play at the French techno club Concrete, and in early 2015 he had his first gig in Berlin at Griessmuhle, followed by an appearance at Karnival Der Kulturen Kreuzberg. Summer 2015 he as been booked for the "Numa" party in Tokyo, Japan, and in October 2015 he was guest of the infamous "Staub" party in Berlin before returning at About Blank for the "Away meets Genau" party in 2016 and at Kosmonaut in 2017. In April 2017 he returned toJapan where he performed at Dommune and at Unit in Tokyo.

Enjoy the ride my friends

DSS 025 | Gandalf

Blazej Malinowski (The Gods Planet, Semantica, Technosoul)
Polish producer, dj, radio journalist based in Berlin. In his work obsessed by the musical genres related to techno and deep evolving forms. Founder and curator of Why So Silent events which include Live electronic music and avant-garde Silent Movies. Co-founder of Fűnfte Strasse project, which includes a radio broadcast and recurring music events to promote techno and electronic music. Connected to The Gods Planet, Semantica, Technosoul, Silent Season, Phorma, Kontrafaktum. We welcome Blazej on Slam Radio today

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#SlamRadio - 265 - Blazej Malinowski

Multicast Dynamics – Atra II (Denovali 2016)
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange – Falling (BBC 1964)
Varg – Náströnd (Northern Electronics 2013)
Romans – Alba Lulia (Global A 2014)
Gunnar Haslam – Second Version (The Bunker 2017)
Conforce – Artefact From a Higher Dimension (Delsin 2015)
Mohlao – Individual (Meanwhile 2009)
Drexciya – You Don’t Know (Underground Resistance 1996)
Plant43 – GJ1214B (Cultivated Electronics 2014)
Global Goon – Pathwayz (030303 2016) 
Mikron – Out of Body (CPU 2016) 
Versalife – Pathogen (Trust 2017) 
VC-118A – Click (Lunar Disko 2014)

Drift Podcast 019 - Micha Venderbos (MV)

Terekke delivers an exquisite flowing chill mix to soothe your mind, body, and soul. Recorded at his home in Amsterdam he masterfully cruises through atmospheric melodies to dreamy house and beyond.

soundcloud.com/terekke’s new album “Plant Age” will be coming out on LIES as the 100th official release later this month.

ZeeZout Podcast 041 | Terekke

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Phuong-Dan - 12th June 2018

Phuong-Dan - 10th July 2018

In celebration of releasing two year's worth of mixes in our series, we have recorded a total of four mixes for Mantissa 104 with an A-side and B-side each. The "A-side" reflects what we play/ love to hear in the club, and the "B-side" represents a part of our record collections that we rarely showcase. 
Today we share with you the A-sides, with the B-sides to follow next Thursday.

"I wanted to create something deep and progressive that would be suitable for the early hours of the morning, outside as the sun rises. These hours, dancing outside at a club or festival with mates, in the summer months as the sun comes up are amongst my favourites of the year.

The mix features tracks from many of my favourite producers from the past and present as wells as a random white label from London's best record shop, DnR. I haven't tried IDing it yet but shazam may do the trick. Cheers to the random chap in the shop who recommended it!" 

Blind Observatory - The Long Tomorrow II
Fred P - Dawn
TR One - Road To The Sea
Octo Octa - Adrift (Dorisburg Remix)
PLO Man - Tx-ii
Move D - Marshmellow Boots
Dorisburg - Om Oceanen
Aleks - Void (Kiyadama's Acid Expansion)
Forest Drive West - Escape
Upsammy - 09 - 06
Violet - Abyss
Fred P - Tokyo To Chiba
Fantastic Man Pres. P.M.T.C. - Reality Change 
??? - ??? (Some White Label)

Recorded 100% vinyl with my 2 x Technics 1210s, Tascam DR-40 and E&S

Mantissa 104 - Jambo (Side A)

"As a teenager I would rush home from school and download a load of albums, sync them to my 30GB iPod Video and listen on the journey, to and from school each day.

This love and curiousity for music spanned genres, however it is the discovery of 'old school' that I still hold dear to my heart. I went for a relaxed vibe with this mix, suitable for the wind-down after a night out.

Plenty of my favourite artists didn't make it in, so shouts to Outkast, Notorious BIG and Raekwon."

Gangstarr - Above The Clouds 
Fat Joe - The Shit Is Real (DJ Premier Remix)
Jehst - High Plains Anthem
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Harold's
King Tee - Let's Go Dippin' 
Big Pun - My Turn
Black Star - Respiration Feat. Common
Defari - Bionic
Mos Def - Mathematics
Action Bronson - Tan Leather
AZ - Hey AZ Feat. SWV
2Pac - Old School
Tha Doggfather - Up Jump Tha Boogie
Kam - In Traffic
AZ - For The Love Of Money

Mantissa 104 - Jambo (Side B)

In celebration of releasing two year's worth of mixes in our series, we have recorded a total of four mixes for Mantissa 104 with an A-side and B-side each. The "A-side" reflects what we play/ love to hear in the club, and the "B-side" represents a part of our record collections that we rarely showcase. 
Today we share with you the A-sides, with the B-sides to follow next Thursday.

Tom - "This mix is really an attempt at me trying to encapsulate as many different styles of music as possible that I love hearing out, Almost an homage to all the DJ's and producers that have inspired me throughout the years and kept me in love with dance music. I hope you enjoy :)"

Mantissa Mix 104: Tom Allman (Side A)

"For this mix I wanted to create something much more relaxed, showcasing tunes which are generally not going to be heard in the club - and so with that in mind I've put together some of my favourite ambient and chilled tracks that help me unwind.
I hope you enjoy :)"

Tracklist -
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Feel
Huerco S. - Struck With Deer Lungs
DJ Richard - Stygian Freeze
Skee Mask - Session Add
Aphex Twin - #3
Laksa - Hallyah
Young Male - A Shaft of Daylight
Nils Frahm - Says
DJ Healer - At Last (Becalming the Storm)
Joey Anderson - The Vase
HVL - When Rivers Flow
Pariah - Here from Where We Are

Mantissa Mix 104: Tom Allman (Side B)

Bringing us mix number 145 in our series is the talented Cape Town resident, blaqkongo. He was kind enough to take the time to answer a few questions for us too about his party Casa Kongo, and his experience in the South African Dance scene.

https://mantissamix.com/2020/02/15/an-interview-blaqkongo/

https://soundcloud.com/blaqkongo

Mantissa Mix 145: blaqkongo @ Casa Kongo

Mantissa Radio on Resonance Extra w/ Tom Allman & Jambo Feb 2020

Our latest mix comes from Quiver and features plenty of acid, chug and rollers. It's a big'un, make sure to check it out!

@therealquiver

Mantissa Mix 147: Quiver

Our 148th mix comes from Ben Boe, the founder of one of our favourite labels, For Those That Knoe. Ben set up For Those That Knoe in 2013 with an intention to turn the reissue market on its head. Rather than plainly reissuing individual expensive records on Discogs, Ben has re-positioned several artists previously unknown to most and given them a platform to shine; most notably Casey Tucker and Derek Carr in recent years. Ben is well respected for the breadth and depth of his A&R approach - For Those That Knoe will release two LPs before summer: the dreamy, super deep house of Planisphere, and the edgy, intergalactic electro sounds of ADJ. This approach is reflected in his DJing, with an ability to stitch together a rich tapestry of electronic sounds. This mix however has focused more on newer music with records purchased in the last year.

"On the mix I wanted to record something a bit fresher although I haven't really been on top of record purchasing in the past 12 months. It definitely leans more towards my housier sound and I managed to slot in two tracks from the forthcoming Planisphere LP. It was mixed at home on two technics 1210s and my Vestax PMC CX rotary mixer."

This mix has been in the works for some time so we are very happy to finally have it come to fruition. Big thanks to Ben for what is one of the best submissions we have had to our mix series!

@forthosethatknoe

Mantissa Mix 148: Ben Boe

"I rarely get asked to do a mix so specific, but given the subject matter of this one I immediately got working on it and dug for some of the headiest afterhours vibes I could think of. I probably could have made this thing seven hours long..."

@cloutier

Mantissa Mix 149: Eric Cloutier

Monthly 1020 residency with @thomasallman-1 (co-founder of @mantissa1 and also resident at 1020 with the Poyntz Show) taking over the first hour before our Seb takes the reigns in the 2nd half.

1020 Radio Show w/ Tom Allman & Seb  🧠(28 Dec 2020)

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