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The dance scene in Istanbul might not be one of the most talked about in the world, but whenever it is mentioned it’s impossible not to talk about Zozo. She is a left of centre DJ who was previously in charge of the musical direction of Hush, a gallery and bar on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, and nowadays she plays cult clubs like De School and Salon des Amateurs. She has also put out key cassettes like ‘Witchez of Anatolia’ on Sameheads, as well as being part of the famous curveball label Macadam Mambo. Reaching for curious sounds from her homeland as well as new wave, disco, synth pop, house and acid, a Zozo set of "oriental crime" is as magical as it is mysterious.

And her mix for us is no different. In her own words, "frogs, communication, Russians, aliens, nature, wizards, friends, psychedelia, technology, joy, fear, love, human beings, publicity, toxic world and internet" are all sources of inspiration here and it shows. Her 75 minute set is wholly intoxicating, with synthetic sounds and real world samples, languid grooves and drunken rhythm all slowly unfolding and pulling you into their midst before tripping you out. It's weird and wonderful, and sounds like little else out there right now.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 135 - Zozo

Red Light Radio Will Oirson with Kiani & His Legion (08 - 07 - 2017)

Did the last hour on the final day at the RLR broadcast & stage at Dekmantel 2017, fun times!

Closing The Red Light Radio Stage At Dekmantel 2017

Playing records in the wind, on the Red Light Radio stage at Dekmantel Festival!!!

Dekmantel Festival 2017 ~ Red Light Radio

Invited Hylke to join for a 2hr radio show.

Abadan Bar 004 w/ Moody Mehran & Hylke

for my 6th edition of my bi-monthly @operator-radio show i played 2hrs solo..

Abadan Bar 006 w/ Moody Mehran

Dj Okapi at Jaeger Oslo
live recording 04/09/2019

I have to tune the car radio manually to get to the place I want to be on Cape Town’s FM bandwidth. The seek button scans over the desired channel even though I’m just a few blocks away from the broadcasting headquarters. Immediately, the old, but familiar hiss of white noise transports me back to my youth and then it pops into life as I get to 89.5. A two-step punchy snare and a syllabic yelping in Zulu greets me on the other side, this sounds more like home.

“You have to listen to Bush Radio” a friend told me the night before, “if you want to hear South African music”. For the past week I’ve been driving around my hometown listening to the ubiquitous sounds of popular music from Europe and USA proliferated by the nationally syndicated stations like 5FM. This has always been the case in South Africa and notwithstanding the community focussed programming from small, inconspicuous stations like Bush Radio, this has remained the broadcasting practise for the most part of my adult life too.

Every time I return to South Africa I’m always astounded and dismayed how very little has changed in that regard, even when in Europe, South African music is being proliferated by DJs and radio everywhere. The sound of GQOM, the band BCUC, a revival of seventies era Fusion, and the newfound interest in the eighties bubblegum sound had all been largely instigated and promoted through European labels and record stores in recent years.

Limited by constricts like the lack of vinyl presses to re-issue music and the fact that most of the original records are harboured in European record collections, it’s obvious why this has happened, but it doesn’t look set to remain this way for much longer. In recent years a DJ, a blog, a label and a record store has come along, all dedicated to changing this, bringing South African music back home and making availeable on the vinyl format again. It all funnels down to one man, Dave Durbach, better known by his DJ alias Okapi, who is tirelessly and selflessly, collecting and re-distributing this music through Afro-Synth, a blog, store and record label dedicated to new and forgotten South African music.

Hailing from Cape Town, where he cut his teeth around the bars and clubs in the small scene around Long Street, playing everything from Hip Hop to Jazz, Dave had always been known as something of a “vinyl junkie” by the locals. At a time when the format was largely forgotten for the more accessible digital formats, Dave would haunt the used record shops in and around Cape Town for obscure records from the eighties. The records largely disregarded as disposable “bubblegum” music by a predominantly white music media, became an obsession for the latent digger in his teens and laid the foundations for what would later become Afro Synth; a blog dedicated to shedding new light on a lost era in South Africa’s rich music history.

Afro Synth garnered attention for its unique and largely untapped source of records from from an apartheid-era South Africa with considered reviews and articles about the artists and the records sound tracking the end of white-minority rule and the first exciting years of post-apartheid South Africa. These were the talented, mostly black artists that remained obscure for the longest time, pressing limited runs of their records on independent labels that were quickly assigned to bargain bins all over SA. He established the blog to highlight these finds and through his words, many South Africans (this writer included) were lead on an extensive journey of discovery through a very niche, and almost forgotten corner of music history.

Dj Okapi at Jaeger Oslo - live recording 04/09/2019

Playing deep Indonesian digs in the RLR AMS SHOP listening basement. One hour of esoteric gems, traditional Sunda, psych rock and more.

@redlightradio

RLR AMS SHOP - Sekan for Waves September 19th 2019

CC&PT with Steven van Hulle #013

"[Started DJing] sometime around 2011-2012. I'd made hiphop beats for a long time before that and then stopped for a few years. When I started making music again, I was focused on dance music and DJing seemed like a good outlet for that." - @reverenddollars

DISCWOMAN 79 x Reverend Dollars

--- Weekend Lotto 1st hour  --- 

Track 4 - Narwal 
 Lazy calm - Cocteau Twins 
 Subway - Thick Pigeon 
 Fever walk - Carla dal Forgo  
Molitva - Bastion
Oro in el crisol - Brutal 
Non Calculant  Hit snow - Black Marble 
Who by fire - Coil 
Family tree - The Raincoat Family 
 Chock Loni - Young Marble Giants
Rain - Tones On Tail 
Peru - Lori & the Chameleons 
Stranger in the new light - Zazou 

 --- Moody Mehran 2nd hour ---

 Tango Japan	- Al Onzo 
Disco Di Morte Lenta - Fringe Society 
Night of acid - Tyree
 Backstreet Boy - Paul du Lac 
In the delta - Philipp Gorbachev
 Spys - Roni Griffith
 Fetish Abuse (Murray CY edit) - Beats Per Minute 
Stay in Seattle (zombies in Miami Mix) - Russian Chandeliers Industrial Bass (Backroom Mix) - project 86 
Cy-Sex (Seismic Mix) - Pornotanz 
 nGUU (Petite Fugue) - À;Grumh  
Don’t stop - DJ Overdose
Rollerblade on the grass - Voiski  Computered 
Love - Carol Rich

Abadan Bar 007 w/ Moody Mehran & Weekend Lotto

For the 2nd hour of my bi-monthly radio show on @operator-radio I invited my super talented friend @tjade-de-vries .

Abadan Bar 008 w/ Moody Mehran & Tjade

Part 9 of my 2hr radio show on @Operator-radio b2b with my dear friend @luckydonegone for the 2nd hour.