Mixes – Techno

On Oct 6th 2021, about 2 years after my last set in London, I played from open to close (11pm to 5am) at Village Underground in Shoreditch. Here's a recording of the whole night with a bit of the crowd noise. 

Perhaps a full tracklist at some point... some unreleased stuff in here. 

Even though it had been a while, we had all night so no use in rushing things! I came across a lot of lovely music this year, but it mostly lived in my rekordbox or in a radio mix. I actually record a lot of my sets but it always feels like they're in a constant state of iteration, making it hard to pick just one "version" to release. Over the years I feel like this has led me to only very sparingly drop live-recorded sets. A "party" doesn't often lend itself to the archivable realm, maybe the memories are best suited to the ephemeral. 

Anyway, eternal gratitude crystals to those who came and those who danced, and to those listening now.

-av

Avalon Emerson Live in London (6 hour dj set) Oct 2021

Recording of Call Super's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

"Thank you for letting me do this, and much love to those who joined me. This set is dedicated to the memory of Steve Bronski."

Call Super at Dekmantel Festival 2022

a floaty housey fix to soundtrack your afterparty, full of old and new favourites (✿◠‿◠)

Sunrise at the afterparty mix

John Talabot Mix N°60

What better way to kick off a new year than with a new project? Sure, podcasts are nothing new, but by now the Dekmantel family has grown to the point where we have a lot to shout about. The DJ collective, festival and label are all well established, but we feel we need even more outlets for all the great music we have from our extended family. As such, we are launching a new weekly series that will showcase exclusive mixes from our favourite friends and freaks, with Marcel Dettmann going first. 

Aside from being a supremely tall and long haired human being, Marcel Dettmann is of course one of the techno powerhouses behind Berghain. It is his long, seductive and firmly rooted techno sets that have made the Berlin club, and man himself, so hallowed around the world. Also a fine producer who lays down his own brand of concrete funk on labels like Ostgut Ton, 50Weapons and his own eponymous label, he inaugurates our series with a very special live recording then from New Year’s Eve 2014 at Berghain. The resulting 90 minute set is everything it should be - supple and seductive, then freaky and funky, then deliciously dark and increasingly weird towards the end, so enjoy the ride. 

Dekmantel Podcast 001 - Marcel Dettmann

Jorge Velez "All Vangelis" mix for Berceuse Heroique

https://soundcloud.com/ithqdetroit / http://interdimensionaltransmissions.com

Cut & folded paper artwork by Matthew Shlian: http://www.mattshlian.com/

"When DJing or making music, I try to go to a state where I can touch the edge of my subconsciousness and just feel, feel what I am thinking about or what moves me, and then explore that with sound. Kind of like a musical ouija board. 

I try not to consider genre, but more the monochromatic moody and potentially hypnotic nature of the music. 

I am trying to get you to forget time - to be totally within the moment and lose modern society's overly hectic and unnatural hurried view of time. To connect the listener back to eternity, a state of time where no time passes. 

To return to the source."

TRACKLIST

Never on Sunday - “The Journey”  (Retroactive)
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - “Fraledune” (Spectrum Spools)
Bernard Badie - “Time Reveals” (Night Club Records)
Idjut Boys - “Droid Two” (Droid)
Women of Povungnituk - “Inuit Throat Singing A11” (Canadian Music Heritage Collection)
Marco Shuttle - “Dontuwant” (Clone Store Only Series)
Kenny Glasgow - “Dance 2 Da House” (No.19 Music)
Jordan Zawideh - “Newton’s Sleep” (Kstarke Records)
Virgo - “In a Vision (808 State Edit)” (Harmless)
Auntie Flo - “Daabi” (Autonomous Africa)
Jody Finch - “Jack Your Big Booty” (Let’s Pet Puppies)
The Prince of Dance Music - “Let Your Body Ride” (City Limits)
Blake Baxter - “When A Thought Becomes U (BMG Edit)” (Underground Resistance)
Jungle Wonz - “Bird In A Gilded Cage” (Trax)
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - “The Bank Robbery (Lory D Edit)” (Subdance)
The Maghreban - “Amok Time” (Zoot)
Delta Funktionen ‎- “Sun Storm” (Delsin)
Alien Rain - “Alienated 5 B” (Alien Rain)
AFX - “Phase Acid” (Soundcloud demo)
Sandman - “Machines Like This” (Take The Elevator)
Expansives - “Life With You …. (The Fantasy Edit)” ( Leader Records) 

GhostlyCast #59: BMG - Return To The Source

Here we find BMG warming up for Orphx live in Detroit, presenting a strong atmosphere of the vision of Eye Teeth, Interdimensional Transmissions' new sub label. This mix includes a few upcoming Eye Teeth releases and is recorded at Sound + Vision at the Tangent Gallery on May 2, 2015.

Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - “Fraledune” (Spectrum Spools)
Israel Vines - “Relapse (BMG Version)” (Eye Teeth) forthcoming
Donor ／ Truss - “Ash 1” (M Rec Ltd Grey Series)
Oscar Mulero - “Dualistic Concept”  (Pole Recordings)
Rødhåd - “Haumea (Ø [Phase] Satellite Mix)” (Token)
Christian Wunsch - “DMT” (Tsunami Records)
Reeko & Exium - “Part I” (Mental Disorder)
Kessell - “Kelva” (Pole Recordings)
Ø [Phase] - “Burden Of Proof” (Token)
Reeko - “Capitulo 2” (Mental Disorder)
Alien Rain - “Alienated 5B” (Alien Rain)
J. Tijn - “Nuke” (Pennyroyal)
Oscar Mulero - “Rotula” (Modularz)
Israel Vines - “WWKD (Silent Servant Remix)” (Eye Teeth) forthcoming
Monolake - “Alto” (Imbalance) 
Silent Servant - “Untitled (Regis Mix)” (Sandwell District)
Delta Funktionen - “Petrol” (Delsin)
Asusu - “Serra” (Impasse)

Eye Teeth Label Mix | BMG at the Tangent Gallery, Detroit

Tracklst and full article: http://www.factmag.com/2015/06/08/fact-mix-499-bodyjack/

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We’re one mix away from 500 – and it’s time to jack.

Chris Finke has been an important part of the UK techno scene since the early 2000s, releasing music from Mark Broom, DJ Urban, Victor Simonelli and more on his Flux Recordings label and co-running London’s Split raves with Ben Simons (as well as the Split Radio Show). As a producer, he’s steadily released singles and EPs of his own music, mostly on Flux but with diversions to labels like Mote-Evolver and Hidden Recordings. In short, he knows how to make people sweat.

In 2013, he dropped the Finke name to focus on a pair of aliases: Bodyjack and He/at. As He/at, he’s self-released ripping techno records while also holding down a residency at crucial UK techno night Atomic Jam, but it’s been his Bodyjack work that has been most rewarding. As well as setting up a small ring of Bodyjack-related labels, he’s released music on Hypercolour, Unknown to the Unknown, Leftroom and Ultramajic – all labels that share Bodyjack’s love of house and techno music that’s educated and authoritative but totally unpretentious.

That’s also the case with his FACT mix. It draws from the gods (Johnson, Deeon, Tyrell, Falcon and, at one point, Jeremy Sylvester and Mike Millrain’s G.O.D. alias – see what we did there) and the best of the current crop (Peverelist, Kowton, DJ Haus), and is very clearly the work of someone who’s bought dance records for years, but it’s never less than a shitload of fun, with martial snares, organ riffs and instructions to work it all over the place. Bodyjack’s latest release, the self-released Throwdown EP, is out now.

FACT Mix 499 - Bodyjack (Jun '15)

Midland is a quiet and reserved character but one that always makes a big impact. Despite only being active for a few years, he is already someone who resides in the upper echelons of the global house and techno scene. This is evidenced by the fact that as a DJ he plays only the most revered places, and when he does so he manages to reach far and wide, calling upon many different electronic sounds without ever falling prey to modern trends. It is the same when producing on labels like Aus and his own Graded, where his records are functional but fun affairs with corrugated drums, rugged bass and physical grooves that never fail to arrest a dance floor’s attention. This mix he has served up for us is another fine example of that. 

Starting off in an abstract world of atmospheric sound and smeared chords, it’s not long before Midland establishes a groove that then grows in stature for the next hour. Atop the always physical drums are all manner of cosmic melodies, soul fuelled pads and spryly percussive patterns. Touching on house that ranges from dark and mysterious to more sun kissed and playful, this journey feels much long than it is because of how much Midland manages to so masterfully pack in. 

Dekmantel Podcast 022 - Midland

Recorded live at Factory
Circus, Osaka
26.09.15

Live at Factory, Osaka - 26.09.15

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Ben UFO - Essential Mix 05.10.13 (320kbps clean version)

A leader of the scene looks to the future.

Ben UFO, Dixon, Steffi, Nicolas Jaar and Omar-S mark our 500th podcast.

Read more: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=500

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RA.500 Ben UFO

I haven't posted a live DJ set for a long time - so here's one from this summer's Rural Festival held in the mountains not far from Nagano in Japan. It was my 2nd year at the festival, and I had an amazing time playing from 2.30-5am, with my set starting in pitch black and ending with the sun emerging for the last moments of the set. Big shouts to all the crowd and of course the organisers for having me back! 

Tracklist: http://www.mixesdb.com/w/2016-07-17_-_Pearson_Sound_@_Rural,_Yunomaru_Highland,_Chubu,_Japan

DJ Set @ Rural Festival, Japan - July 2016

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First upload of 2017, have a great one folks. Shout out to Drew again for the share.

Cassy

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As another (rather unusual) year comes to an end, we close off our 2020 Mix Series with a sensational hour-long recording from one of the UK’s finest electronic music producers - Daniel Avery.

Daniel’s mix, however, is far from the ordinary. We'll let him explain in his own words below.

"The act of DJing feels like it exists on another planet at the moment but, unemployment aside, I feel fortunate to have closed my eyes this year,” Avery explains. “I’ve found a real solace in my metal box down by the water, the doors of which seemed to have been locked from the outside. In a good way. It’s all meant that the pile of new music is bigger than ever and, when asked to make a mix for my favourite dance emporium Phonica, I had the opportunity to do something different. So, to round off the slow-motion blur of 2020, here is a mixtape made up of new and exclusive stuff: unheard demos, versions, live jams and studio experiments. Most of it was made for the club. Hope you enjoy and please pass it around. I’ll see you on the other side very soon. DA xxx”

Full feature and interview on our editorial site, Off The Record - bit.ly/phonicamix78

RA.500 Ben UFO

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