Wonja (@wonj) is an elite level record collector. The Oakland-based DJ and producer has been putting together mixes for many years that are filled with music that is hard to describe, let alone to find. From teary-eyed Italo disco to her series of Wood Glass Metal mixes via world music and more club ready sounds, she is a Jedi-level digger who also occasionally produces solo, or with partner Dan as Motoko & Myers. Her main priority, though, is to devour and share as much music as possible.

This week's podcast is a two hour trip to the outer edges of Wonja's collection that her partner describes as "hard sci-fi party tracks." It is a wide open and spacious selection where alien details, solar pulses and cosmic motifs all drift by as scattered percussion only hints at the most skeletal rhythms. Nothing about the tracks is at all familiar, and all genre terms are redundant. Even when more propulsive grooves do arrive, the sound sources are wonderfully weird and abstract, yet the desire to dance is as primal and compelling as ever. Few mixes are as full of WTF?! moments as this one.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 328 - Wonja

Be it House, Acid or soulful Techno – Iron Curtis has made some dope records over the last ten years and is part of several collaboration projects like Achterbahn D’Amour and Moon. Enjoy!

ITPS064 IRON CURTIS

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"For this mix I wanted to pull together something that captures where I'm at musically in terms of what I'm listening to regularly, obsessing over and who I'm inspired by. I feel like it's a proper time capsule. I'm very thankful for the dancefloor experiences I had this summer which introduced me to some pretty incredible producers and DJs, ones who are more influenced by nature and the environment surrounding them with these organic, psychedlic textures seeping through their soundscapes. There's a lot of percussive and deep spacey elements in this mix, spanning everything from the trippy and minimal to the sometimes obnoxious style of psytrance."

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Mantissa Mix 323: Basic Chanel

TML has been a vital force in the Midwest electronic music scene for nearly two decades, defying easy categorization while pushing an evolving, boundary-pushing sound.

Growing up in the northern suburbs of Chicago, TML (aka Peter Lansky) would journey into the city to immerse himself in underground culture at illicit loft parties and venues like the Fireside Bowl and Metro/Smart Bar. Inspired, he moved to Minneapolis and swiftly kicked off a residency at the iconic First Avenue nightclub. Running weekly over the course of eight years, the Too Much Love party brought together diverse local acts and international names, won nightlife awards, and cemented his reputation as a curator of unique sounds and killer parties.

After ending his weekly residency, Lansky began releasing his own music. TML’s productions closely mirror his genre-crossing DJ sets—a functional, rhythmic collision of acid, electro, and the darker corners of the hardcore continuum. Releases on Scuba’s Hotflush Recordings and his co-owned Always Human Tapes label highlight a blend of raw energy and lived-in sound design. 

TML can be found pushing this idiosyncratic approach across discerning corners of the underground. He excavates new sonic spaces on a long-running monthly show for Bristol’s Noods Radio and as a resident DJ for acme. collective's infamous basement parties. Whether headlining Midwest raves or clubs from New York to Berlin, performing live, or featuring on iconic mix series like Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space, TML continues a midwestern legacy of speaker shaking electronic music, championing the weird and wonderful sounds that make dark dance floors transcendent.

Tracklist:
Richie Culver - Slow Car
oneoneone - Wound Up
Immediate Proximity - Ground
Silas - Wot
Mosca - Look After The Dead
Mike Parker - Voiceprint: Voice Two
DJ Bone - Soul Controller
Laksa - The Art Of Slip
L-VIS 1990 - Run With It
Radioactive Man & Ben Pest - Bar Tab
Azari - Aqatetra (Gesloten Cirkel Remix)
Emily Jeanne - Liquid Crystal
dBridge x Forest Drive West - Death Race 3000
Sapiano and the Partycrashers - Let It Rip
Special Request - What Time Is Ardkore
Alberta Balsam - Cosmic Runner (Peder Mannerfelt Remix)
Xen Chron - Return of Drone Face
Stingray313 - Herd Instinct
Conrad Pack - Deep Distrust (Raw Mix)
SHXCXCHCXSH - DO 1
Erin Hopes - I Don't Want To Feel
Escape - Escape (The Optical Mix)

RND 110 - TML

New music alert! Minneapolis duo @mutualidentities have a tape dropping soon via @particlemagazine. Pre-order The Hand You Were Dealt on Bandcamp–available digitally on August 1, tapes ship soon after. 

We caught up with Ethan and Nathan to talk about their first physical release. Stream track A1 “Ace High” here, read the full interview on flyoversound.com/ace

Pre-order: https://particlemagazine.bandcamp.com/album/the-hand-you-were-dealt

PREMIERE: Mutual Identities - Ace High [The Hand You Were Dealt, Particle Magazine]

music_is brings you Brera Som Som by Amandra

Amandra, half head honcho behind Ahrpe Records, goes for subtly evolving and droning atmospheres. With releases spanning both a wide range of electronic genres and record labels: Nous'klaer Audio, AD 93, Tikita or Semantica, just to name a few; the French producer based in Toulouse illustrates with coherence his own vision of acid and tribal rhythms that can be presented with either bright and soft feelings or through a darker, more disturbed path.

Prorokini:
"This one belongs to a phase where I was exploring the sampling side of electronic music. Until that moment I was building 100% of my drums and ideas based on raw drum machines and some processing, then started feeling how it would feel to sample some raw external beats from a drummer for instance and process them my way. I didn't pursue that sampling lead much afterward because it felt like a boring approach to me at that time but a few tracks stood out anyway, like this one, which I'm very proud of. The synths are clearly programmed on the Prophet 08, it can't go any more Dave Smith Instruments than that, if you like them, go grab that synth!"

Brera Som Som EP
As always with Amandra, there is a blend of poetic and soft hidden touch given to the music through carefully crafted personal track names. Brera Som Som is a 4-tracker EP, recorded back when he lived in Warsaw Poland, showcasing the artist's ability to navigate through niche genres. It comes as a double 12" package cherry-topped with four intelligent and eclectic remixes from artists with their own unique identity: Shielding, Whylie, Martinou and Brainwaltzera.

Bandcamp: https://music-is-amandra.bandcamp.com/album/brera-som-som

Release Date: 26th September 2024

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Premiere: Amandra - Prorokini [music_is]

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This is what happens if you mix Aaron Hibell and Hamdi with Lady Miaou and Polar Youth :-)

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The Twilight Zone (Lady Miaou x Polar Youth flip)

Rubber Works proudly announce the release of our first solo project with a new 4-track EP from Manchester based producer Luma. "did you forget to stretch?" is the club ready compound derived from atmospheric leftfield arrangements, bass heavy substance, and post-garage influenced vocals.

did you forget to stretch? turns up the intensity as an energetic entry to pure peak time, late night garage. Trippy and constantly oscillating, no rest here, this one is made for you to sweat.

You can pre-order the EP via our Bandcamp, with "b-a-b-y" available as the first single to listen and download right now. Full release lands 05.12.25.

Luma - did you forget to stretch?

Based in Chicago, R&D is a music event/mix series focused on nurturing new sounds, experiences and atmospheres while exploring the music and culture it was born or mutated from. Techno, electro, EBM, bass, breaks, club and beyond.
Current personnel
Jeremy Alvarez - JS Alvarez
Eric Fernandez - Makeen
Shanti Chu - Shanti
Dan Hood - Dan B Hood
Kona Mazariegos - Zona Cinco

RND 110 - TML

Research & Development Mix Series