Guest Mixes ✣ Radio ✣ Live ✣ 2025 - Oldies

We are glad to bring you a new mix to the series. This time by Detektiv, a DJ, music selector, diggin enthusiast  and co-founder of Radio28 based in Cholula, Puebla. 

Expect a mix of house, breaks and trancy stuff.

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Esencia 055 - DJ Detektiv

We are back to our podcast series this time around presenting Dj Detektiv. Currently living in Cholula, he is one of the minds behind the well known @Radio28, a dope local radio station that has placed themselves as one of the most influential spots for the local electronic scene. Dive into this well curated selection that showcases Detektiv's sound at its best.

032 - Dj Detektiv

Shanti is a veteran and expert in four to the floor dance music - tune in once a month for a considered two-hour selection of the best house and techno around, transmitting direct from the NTS studio.

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Recording of DJ Shahmaran at Draaimolen Festival 2023

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Jegsaha World Episode 12 @Radio28 (24 De Mayo, 2024)

The Underground (Mixtape)

London’s Customs duo are connoisseurs of finely crafted garage music, two life long devotees to the sound’s deeply swung rhythms and unifying dancefloor vibrations.

Finessing their take on all things garage (not garage) through their regular spots on Kiosk Radio and at London's Giant Steps, the guys join us with a swinging smorgasbord of 90s and early 00s records from the UK, dabbling in top notch garage and some of the sounds that anticipated broken beat and early grime productions. 

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Q. What inspiration did you draw upon when combining for this mix, and what kind of setting might you imagine it being enjoyed in the most?

Guy: 

Firstly, thank you Myles so much for sharing this mix. Longtime fans of MDC! Both of us answered “driving” as the best setting, which is funny since neither of us drives. So maybe “riding” rather than driving. Lots of thoughts percolated for me on night drives to inner city Manchester a few months back. Definitely inspired by the All Bad Boy & All Good Girl archive work of Death Is Not The End, resurfacing the sound of Moss Side blues parties like Soul Control. Reading Ed Gillett’s new-ish book Party Lines also gave a push further into alternate UK dance histories, specifically Black club scenes and music that ‘swings’.

Tom: 

I’ve been bingeing on a bunch of old club recordings from the ‘speed garage’ era lately - sets from places like Club Koo and The Colosseum - and I think some of the energy from that early blend of UK and US sounds has definitely bubbled over into this mix.

Q. With the mix showcasing your shared appreciation for deep garage music and its many adjacent styles and offshoots, could you give us a brief insight into your journeys with the sound, and what years, artists or labels have you found to be responsible for the most timeless cuts in your record bags?

Guy: 

It was a nocturnal radio sound for me as a young teenager I guess, largely mysterious, coming largely from London when I was growing up in the north west. But the sampling of R&B vocals from stuff I knew made it immediately accessible. In more recent years, digging in London, I’ve tended to get most excited by either one-off/ white label riddles that are sometimes garage-not-garage, and also alias stuff from bigger name producers across bigger labels in the genre - G-Spot Records, Nice ‘N’ Ripe, Unda-Vybe etc. 

Tom:

I actually started out as a bedroom garage DJ, so it’s a bit of a full-circle moment for me. I had a mate at school who wanted to be an MC, and on Saturdays we used to hit up Music & Video Exchange to pick up whatever white labels we could find before heading back to his flat in Ladbroke Grove to practice a set that nobody would ever hear. Shout out to Nick The Greek, wherever you are! Twenty-something years later, I’m still finding exciting stuff from the same producers we loved back then - guys like Jeremy Sylvester and Mike Millrain who have these unfathomably deep back-catalogues.

Q. Are there any songs in the mix that are especially close to your hearts, and what is it about these tracks that resonate with you so much?

Guy: 

I’d call out 2. Artist Formerly Known as PP - When I’m Down, from 1998. Bit of a private press oddity from a producer who’s prolific but mysterious (the PP = ‘Persian Prince’). It’s a kind of rolling, morphing megamix type cut that samples Brandy - Best Friend but also features raw toasting style MC bits the likes of which you hear from the live party recordings in All Bad Boy & All Good Girl. The other is Colour 3 - La Femme, a beautiful, melodic white label that’s been so versatile for me since I picked it up from Crazy Beat in Upminster. Has worked a treat on sound systems like Giant Steps and after parties alike. 

Tom:

The penultimate track, Drivers Anthem, is a special one for me. Super deep and melodic production, but with that trademark UK bump on the bottom end.

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PD100 w/ Rootian - Vida y muerte. Carta a Coatlicue

Este PD100 está lleno de significado y gratitud a las raíces que he construido durante mis 10 años en México, década en esta tierra que ahora construye mi identidad más que ninguna otra. Aquí mudé mil pieles como Quetzalcóatl, di a luz a mis propixs hermanxs, muchxs de la comunidad. Vi arder a mis demonios y me quedé limpiando con ellos las esquinas marchitas de mi habitación, mientras veía cómo se enterraban en el recuerdo. 

Hoy le escribo a Coatlicue, diosa de diosas, a Guadalupe, la diosa madre, símbolo de maternidad y fertilidad, transformación, muerte y renovación. Fuerza creadora, devoradora, signo de esfuerzo y trabajo, perseverancia y resistencia. Desde una perspectiva arquetípica es la fuerza que invita a confrontar nuestros procesos cíclicos internos, con espirales de encuentro, pertenencia, lucha, huida, pérdida, muerte y resignificación. Ciclos como los de Huitzilopochtli en su eterna lucha con la oscuridad, consiguiendo “darse a luz”, al sol y los días, para encontrarse a sí mismo en las noches estrelladas. 

Con este set quiero agradecer a todas las mujeres que me guiaron a ser quien soy hoy, capaz de afrontar la muerte y el dolor, la pérdida y el olvido… donde todo proceso nace, trasciende y llega a su movimiento mortal con la impermanencia y el miedo en una cara y la confianza, fertilidad y renacimiento en la otra.

Esta carta es un ritual de cierre y gratitud a la dualidad como concepto central de la cosmovisión en las deidades de Mesoamérica, que me hizo caminar con la mirada al frente y la rodilla hincada a través del dolor y la trascendencia, la incongruencia y los contrastes que no han parado de resignificar mi camino, que me llenan de Luz tanto en el terreno personal, como en la experiencia colectiva. 

Camino con el amor a un país que me vió moverme muchas veces entre el hombre, compañero, camarada, profesional y humano vulnerable que soy hoy en día. Un proceso dual que no deja de sangrar, pero que a su vez ya empieza a cicatrizar. 

Hoy honro a todos los sueños que se quedaron en el camino y no alcanzaron el final de la historia. 

PD100 w/ Rootian

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Chris Brown, Busta Rhymes & Lil Wayne - Look At Me Now (Al Dente Remix)

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Retomamos las palabras, pensamientos y música tranquila en esta noche lluviosa.

Sonidos De La Noche Ep.09 @Radio28 (20 De Octubre, 2020)

Rootian is the project of Luis Cobos, a Spanish DJ, psychologist, and relational artist who, after spending nine years living in Mexico City, has returned to Spain. Inspired by his experiences in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, and Mexico, the name Rootian reflects the personal and artistic roots he has cultivated over nearly a decade of his career. His music is characterized by a deep, psychedelic, and cerebral sound that invites listeners to delve into his mind and explore dystopian soundscapes, dark atmospheres, and immersive textures.

Rootian invites us to navigate between mind and movement, blending experimental and leftfield club electronics. He aims to break free from conventional 4x4 patterns, drawing influences from acid, industrial, ambient, spiritual trance, dub, and deconstructed sounds. The result is an introspective 'state of mind' filled with absorbing layers, expansive textures, and vibrant rhythmic cycles.

His project has reached iconic venues in Mexico as well as clubs in Spain and the Netherlands. Additionally, he cocreates @HonestAllies, a relational art collective connecting artists from Latin America and Europe, fostering creative freedom through music, performance, and installations.

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