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F/W 24

Live recording @ the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live on Youtube.

Nèna ╚═ Future Intel ═╗24 11 2022

Live recording @ the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live on Youtube and futureintelradio.com.

Nèna ╚═ Future Intel ═╗ 13 07 2023

@castro-nena

For episode four of MARKHAM we've connected with Amsterdam based artist Nèna. A dreamy landscape sets the scene for this mix, weaving through both lengthened cords and chugging low end. Nèna is no stranger to bass-heavy beats, leaving listeners enamoured both at live events and on radio broadcasts on the likes of @radioradiofm / @radiotemponaopara / @strandedfm

MARKHAM 04 w/ Nèna

Whether its warming up Dekmental, playing side by side on a sunny day with @worldwideunlimited, closing our little party, or slamming it out at De School last weekend - Nèna's drum-led sound, meandering between techno, reggaeton & kuduro is unmistakable. 

So we are super pleased to have one of our favourite artists @astro-nena share with us an hour from her busy ADE weekend. Warming up for @overmono in Amsterdam's famous Paradiso - a 19th-century church squatted by hippies back in the 60s. So yeah - Turn on, tune in, and drop out 🥁✌️😊🌻🌈✌️

Hidden Rooms w/ Nèna (Live at Paradiso ADE)

Recording of Nèna's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Dekmantel Festival 2023

Nèna at Dekmantel Festival 2023

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @castro-nena

RRFM • Nèna • 13-02-24

RRFM • All I Do Is Apricate w/ Nèna • 25-06-24

A couple of days later - but I'm overly excited to present Wanderers 55 to you!

Created by the Amsterdam based Helena Castro, better known as Nèna (@castro-nena), and a true master behind the decks. She is well known for seamlessly mixing a wild variety of rhythms and percussive elements that will transport you off the dancefloor, on the dancefloor, and set it ablaze all the same.

This episode is an open exploration of the sounds and moods that move her, with the vocal as a returning element in the mix. Enjoy!

Be sure to visit POING CLUB X Worm this friday, if this episode got you excited: nl.ra.co/events/1952963

You can also catch Nèna playing at Lowlands this summer! Be there ;)

Nèna:

SC: @castro-nena
Insta: www.instagram.com/nena.info/

Wanderers 55: At Sar's Place w/ Nèna

Recording of Mala Junta's (D. Dan, Hyperaktivist & DJ TOOL) set at Dekmantel Ten

Pre-register for Dekmantel Festival 2025 here: bit.ly/4fyWKXc

Mala Junta (D. Dan, Hyperaktivist & DJ TOOL) at Dekmantel Ten

Zenaari's Podcast is back with a very special number, and this one’s from German juggernaut Efdemin. Phillip Sollmann’s nefarious allonym claims a well-deserved space on many a record cover and many a flyer. So large is his footprint that now, years since he first picked up a piece of hardware, or even started building his own, he’s largely liberated from the real world constraints many younger artists face. With nothing left to prove, and all this newfound freedom comes the space to truly probe the possibilities of sound in all its dimensions. This method is tried and tested (think 2019’s New Atlantis), but with each passing year the road travelled gets longer and no less full of surprises. It’s all down to his highly personal and off-centre approach - to be sure, he’s just as comfortable with feel-good techno (and his unconventional treatments make an appearance there too), but the real magic happens without preconceived ideas about genre or format, and the result is both organic and capable of opening doors no-one ever knew existed. Zenaari Mix 013 is a mind-maze in sound, from gentle piano and theremin allusions, to spoken narratives and dialogues that anticipate the world to come, and of course, there are Sollmann’s beloved bells. This is fresh ground trodden, Efdemin bravely charging into the unknown, a strange and spiritual palette of sounds from one of electronic music’s most iconoclastic figures.

@efdemin

Rain tree crow - I drink to forget
Nuno Canavarro - Bruma
Hiver - 83-84
Luigi Nono - Das atmende Klarsein
Luigi Ceccarelli - Birds
Jonty Harrison - Klang
Brunhild Ferrari & Jim O'Rourke - Tranquilles Impatiences
Nika Son - Drift
Cergio Prudencio - Otra Ciudad II
Ash Ra Tempel -Le Sourire Volé
Blue Gene Tyranny - Remembering, from Mary Ashley's "My Song"
Dolde - Hitokoi
Reckno - Fallacy
Will Guthrie - Catlike
Jeff Mills - future speech
Holzt - Mimei
Monolake - Cyan
Efdemin - Oh, lovely appearance of death
François Bayle - Grande Polyphonie
David Behrman - Leapday night
Endurance - Crest
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - Love without sound
Mike Parker - Voiceprint
Men with secrets - 4th Dimension Signal
Batu - Don´t
Konrad Sprenger - Unreleased
Cleric and Setaoc Mass featuring John C. Lilly - Altered States
Evan Parker - Pulse and circulation of blood
Jeroen Search - Unstruck Sound
Popol Buh - Im Reich der Schatten
Bobby Brown - My Hawaiian Home
Modular Organ System (live in Nürnberg - unreleased)
Terre Theamlitz - Liberation model
Gregg Kowalsky - Pulse Wave and Mouth Harp for Anton Bruhin
Michel Redolfi - Deep Blue Silence
Nuno Canavarro - Untitled
Michel Redolfi - Blue Horizon
Joe Jones - Fluxus Meditation
El Mal - Path
Maryanne Amacher - Synaptic Island
Terre Thaemlitz - chng yourlove
Sensorama - Aspirin

Zenaari Mix 013 - Efdemin

Estonian Duo Abdul Raeva Debuts on Talman Records with Explosive "No Risk, No Reward" EP

Vinyl Release end of October 2024

Abdul Raeva - No Risk, No Reward - TALMAN17 - Samples

@maara

Bandcamp: https://punctuality.bandcamp.com/album/drama-on

Tracklist:
A1. What U Do 2 Me
A2. Drama On
A3. Sigmund Freud's Big Day Out
B1. Giving Me Ecstasy
B2. Not My Web, Not My Problem

A third Punctuality enters the chat; its latest member Maara proclaiming Drama On for Spray’s ever-evolving label. The Montreal maverick cues up a psy-eyed sesh for the ages, 5 wily thumpers shaded sapphic for those enthralled by the mischievous dance.

Since 2021, Maara has operated on an ‘all pills, no frills’ basis. Her prolific run of EPs for the likes of Kalahari Oyster Cult, Step Ball Chain and Radiant Records has cemented her rightful place within the club pantheon of the prog and divine. Spray and his Punctuality cohort reside there also, teasing clubland salvation for those who dare. Maara giddily joins for the ride, offering a gift in the name of Drama On; an EP of direct dancefloor transmissions that map out kinetic paths to sordid euphoria.

The curtains rise as What U Do 2 Me skips, gallops and jumps across theatrical plains, breaking for a titular reflection before reuniting with its ravey chaos. Drama On swings sharper, riding a sleazy donk through a dimly lit groove of pulsating vulgarity. An outright sassier affair celebrates Sigmund Freud’s Big Day Out; an unconscious slip of the hard house tongue that feeds an otherwise techno-driven delirium with wry glee. Give Me Ecstasy eases the tempo while raising the temperature, commanding your gaze with a noxious roller that seductively writhes in sexed-up delight. The house lights beckon, and Not My Web, Not My Problem she retorts with an unforgiving groove thrusting its charged-up rump through a cauldron of salacious murmurs and groans.

It’s Maara’s world, and we’re all just dancing in it.

Cat Num.: PNCT003
Format: 12” / Digi
Written & Produced By Maara-Louisa Dunbar
Mastering & Cut: Marco Pellegrino
Distributor: One Eye Witness
Artwork: Lucia Dominguez
Release Text: Nevan Jio
Release Date: 30.10.24

buy on bandcamp

Maara - 'Drama On' [PNCT003]

next up on @punctualityrecords ! <3 <3  full release on October 30 2024

https://punctuality.bandcamp.com/album/drama-on

Maara - Giving Me Ecstasy [PNCT003]

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CTCE w/ Sarkawt Hamad & Nèna - 10th October 2024

CTCE W/ Sarkawt Hamad & Nelly - 18th December 2024

Sarkawt Hamad: First Hour
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December's guest is Nelly.

Explorations beyond the dancefloor and emotional storytelling: Nelly crafts otherworldly soundscapes wherever she goes. The Rotterdam-based artist feels true and utter freedom behind the decks, drawing inspiration from nature and her own mind palace.

CTCE w/ Sarkawt Hamad & Nelly - 18th December 2024 @ Operator Radio

Het Vreemd w/ Nijkamp - 19th December 2024

kirakira - 19th December 2024

Grand Hôtel de l'Univers - Chambre de loisirs avec invité Kris Pijn - 19th December 2024

Locus Error - 18th December 2024

Known for her blend of contemporary club music, featuring breakbeats, bass, Electro influenced, and percussive sounds.

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CTCE w/ Sarkawt Hamad & LazerGazer - 14th January 2025

CTCE w/ Sarkawt Hamad b2b Jasmín - 11th February 2025

Sarkawt Hamad is a DJ whose sets strike a rare balance: they are melodic and grooving narratives that activate a dancefloor’s collective body, but also press the dancer to really listen, to hear a wild range of textures, timbres, bliss and grit. With a fully-rounded sound ranging from leftfield- and dub-techno to sparkling house to breakbeat-derived bumpers, the sum total is a kind of mesmerizing sublime – both eerie and blissful, alien and loving. Threads of vocal samples are often woven in and out, and pivots from chugging bass to bright and weightless terrains animate the seamless progression. In the artist’s own words, each set is built as a layering of moods and dynamics.

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CTCE w/ Sarkawt Hamad & Mila V - 11th March 2025

CTCE w/ Sarkawt Hamad & Belia Winnewisser - 3rd April 2025

Sarkawt Hamad is a DJ whose sets strike a rare balance: they are melodic and grooving narratives that activate a dancefloor’s collective body, but also press the dancer to really listen, to hear a wild range of textures, timbres, bliss and grit. With a fully-rounded sound ranging from leftfield- and dub-techno to sparkling house to breakbeat-derived bumpers, the sum total is a kind of mesmerizing sublime – both eerie and blissful, alien and loving. Threads of vocal samples are often woven in and out, and pivots from chugging bass to bright and weightless terrains animate the seamless progression. In the artist’s own words, each set is built as a layering of moods and dynamics.

Neska digs deep to craft sets that enchant and surprise. The Basque-born DJ and producer with roots in classical, jazz and punk music, masterfully blends genres to create captivating psychedelic musical experiences. Currently based in Amsterdam via Barcelona, she has performed at Spanish festivals like Sónar and Primavera Sound as well as Dutch renowned clubs including Garage Noord, Lofi and RAUM. Out of the booth, she curates fauna & flora, a cutting-edge multidisciplinary event merging electronic music and art installations and hosts Neskafe, a new music radar show residency on Echobox Radio Amsterdam. 

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CTCE w/ Sarkawt Hamad & Neska - 13th May 2025

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