We're ecstatic to present a sensational recording from a deep head, Compliments.

"Here's my two (and a bit) hour set from Field Maneuvers back in August, my favourite festival in the world.

This was by far the most time I've ever spent preparing for a single set or mix—I probably went through 10-15 crates of tracks, obsessing over flow, texture and tempo. Eventually, I landed here: an expression of love for dance music at 174/140 BPM.

After learning the recorder malfunctioned on the night, I quickly re-recorded it to ensure I reflected the flow of the night as closely as possible.


The set represents exactly what I personally wanna hear on massive sound systems right now and is a love letter to the hours danced in that field with my best friends.
Thanks for listening, I'm insanely proud of it." -- @djcompliments

subglow/Live 7: Compliments @ Field Maneuvers '25

Our next mix comes from Montreal’s enigmatic DJ Frog. Dusty loops and crushed grooves are the highlight of this Doo Records mainstay. Her selections and productions flutter between the minimalist zones of house and dubby techno. It takes in a whole host of unreleased material from Cheeks, Hashman DJ and sometime studio collaborator SnP 500 and stays resolutely buried in swampy sonics and swirling dub undercurrents. Subtlety is key to how moods are built up, then fade away. There are no big moments, just a slow teasing of tension that grows ever more irresistible.

Dekmantel Mix 498 - DJ Frog

In the clear light of winter's coming
Notes collected over many years
Reappear.

Recorded at home in Tokyo, December 2025.

Light notations

Sweden's Olof Dreijer is one of electronic music's most beloved outsiders. His work as half of The Knife alongside his sibling Karin is the stuff of experimental pop legend, while his solo output is just as wonderfully weird. He showed that again in September with Iris, his second EP on Dekmantel, which featured two originals that twist textured beats and smudged chords, intricate sound designs and hyper-real melodies.

Across his 75-minute mix for us this week, Dreijer works quickly through everything from carnival house to zippy club music, mutant bass and thumping techno. Plenty of his own music features, including his recent remix of Björk, Rosalia, plus cuts from DJ Hyperactive, Jeff Mills, DJ Rush and many more. It's a full throttle selection for the peak time.

Dekmantel Mix 501 - Olof Dreijer

On the first day of the new year, we kick off 2026 with absolute sonic precision. Our 100th mix captures a live recording of Objekt (@keinobjekt) at the PURE G event in FINAL Taipei, a fitting document of an artist widely regarded as one of the most formidable of our generation. Objekt is TJ Hertz, a Berlin-based producer and DJ whose background is as multifaceted as his sound: born in Tokyo to British-American and Filipino parents, raised between Belgium and the UK, and settled in Berlin in 2009. He first turned heads with the self-released white-label 12"s Objekt #1 and #2 in 2011, before a string of defining releases on labels such as Hessle Audio and a remix for Radiohead. Tracks like “Cactus,” “Unglued,” “Agnes Demise,” and “Ganzfeld” didn’t merely shake dancefloors—they rewired them, introducing a generation of clubgoers to a sound that felt both violently disassembled and eerily controlled.

Listening to Objekt is like watching a vast structure built from nanomachines collapse and reassemble in real time. His music reveals an almost pathological obsession with spatial depth and sonic texture—precision so severe it borders on the cruel—yet within the fractured grids and skewed rhythms pulses a startling vitality. Cold digital signals are transmuted into something fiercely alive, futuristic without losing its physical impact. This approach earned early admiration from figures such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, led to a split EP with Drexciyan pioneers Dopplereffekt (with “Ganzfeld” crowned Resident Advisor’s #1 track of 2014), and produced crossover moments like the breakbeat house anthem “Theme From Q” on Objekt #4. Even his slowest record to date, Objekt #5 (2022), twists dancehall rhythms into something unmistakably his own—measured, menacing, and exacting.

That same hyper-detailed vision extends to his album work on Berlin’s PAN label. Flatland (2014) and the landmark Cocoon Crush (2018) treat the LP as a canvas for immersive, hyperreal sound worlds—synthetic simulations of splintering wood, dripping caverns, and insect wings that trigger an acoustic uncanny valley, at once familiar and alien. Pitchfork awarded Cocoon Crush an 8.0, praising it as containing “some of the most meticulously arranged compositions that dance music has ever produced,” and the project later evolved into a full-spectrum live A/V show with visual artist Ezra Miller, touring festivals such as Unsound, Atonal, and Primavera. Parallel to this, Objekt has built a fearsome reputation as a DJ: crowned Mixmag’s DJ of the Year in 2018, capable of guiding a room through half a dozen genres or plunging it into a psychedelic wormhole of self-discovery with surgical precision. His 2016 mix CD for Tresor, Kern, Vol. 3, was described by Resident Advisor as “a window into the very essence of DJing.” 

Underpinning it all is relentless quality control, a genre-agnostic ethos, and a deeply technical mind—honed not only in clubs and studios, but also through his ongoing work as an engineer at Native Instruments, developing audio and machine-learning algorithms. In Objekt’s world, rational calculation and visceral intensity are not opposites, but twin forces locked into a singular, unmistakable circuit. With the launch of his own label Kapsela, he continues to conjure dancefloor weapons that are both fiercely experimental and immaculately detailed, carving out a singular sonic circuitry where rational calculation and visceral intensity collide.

PURE Guest.100 Objekt

salam and solstice blessings, 

another one from me! live from the beautiful sunday gathering for playbody : afterglow as part of the 2nd birthday run. absolutely honoured to have been involved 

sundays have always been my favourite day of the week. where possible, i always try to make space for grounding, for self care, for shaking stagnant energy and moving into the new week with intention- leaving behind what doesn't serve. settling into the shift with a kind, gentle, forgiving stillness. i tried to soundtrack that state of being in this set 

it was a blessing to be able to set the base for the afterglow. to be able to emulate what i hope for sundays to a bunch of cuties who came to the space with open hearts, these spaces are so incredibly important ~ queer afterglows are a beautiful thing to be part of

thank you to the whole team for carving out this space for us all ~ playbody forever! 💘 and huge love to my sweet babe Maxim for the invite 

big love, 
ray
𖦹 photo by the wonderful alicia (@:alicia.hra)

SEED006 ~ ray ~ 'shaking of the stagnant' ~ on grounding [live from playbody : afterglow]

an ode to my dissociative tendencies
compiled in moments of transit on tour in asia, december 2025 

_be - because
louis marlo - word space
radioactive man - goodnight morton
autocreation - snatch
dreamlogik - rain dear rain
spooky - what are we waiting for? (dub)
axine m - avoid eclipsed memory (k wata remix)
aquila - identity
WOLVVES NYC - communication (patrick russell mix)
bop - skeptikos
calibre - fall away
IYA SHILLELAGH - scyatta
velv.93 - inner self
jeff samuel - hopefullness
yin - cooldown
aspetuck - model de loop
sabla + D.K. - dove
terrain - barossa dub
dls - de-disco
exos - stagm
terrain - hive
o yuki conjugate - forgotten summer
lb honne - untitled wechsel
el irreal veintiuno - fisura
efdemin - be here now
CAIV - shimmer
2501 - foil

pic is a still from chungking express by wong kar wei

purgatory tapes pt. 87640 (asia)

remix of Get Out My Head by Redlight

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Polygonia at Waking Life 2025

“Ethernal” es un viaje hacia adentro. Un Melodic Techno donde los sintetizadores toman el control y el tiempo parece disolverse. Las voces son sutiles, casi etéreas, más una presencia que un mensaje.
Compuse este track para esos momentos de introspección, cuando el ruido externo se apaga y solo queda el pulso interno.
Es música para cerrar los ojos, respirar profundo y encontrarse con uno mismo dentro del sonido.

PURE Guest.100 Objekt

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