@poly-chain very much takes electronic much into the future. The Kyiv artist born Sasha Zakrevska uses IDM, electro, and techno as building blocks to construct her own eerie, intense, and atmospheric sound worlds that are as cinematic as they are physical. Her edgy melodies are inventive, and her machine rhythms are hugely distinctive. She has not only written solo albums but has composed for theatre and museums, collaborated with Nene H, and released charity albums for Ukraine as part of her ongoing musical resistance.  

For this week's podcast, Poly Chain has sent us the recording of the very special live show she played at Dekmantel Festival this summer. It is an absorbing hour of beatless sound that will move you as much as any drum track. There are storytelling chapters to the set that takes you from darkened underworlds to starry cosmic expanses as the moods go from reflective and calming to more intense and unsettling. It is very much the sound of tomorrow, today.

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Dekmantel Podcast 450 - Poly Chain

We enter June with DSS 086. Brought to you by the talented Italian, Atoloi.

As a devotee of nature, Atoloi explores sound creating a mellow amalgam of layers using echoing synths, processed field recordings, and self-created samples; all mixed in a lysergic experience of heavy-grained noises and evocative instrumental compositions.

Not sticking only to club-oriented sonorities, instead, his productions and mixes search for other depths, in which the listener can get lost in a dense "no boundaries" journey between the worlds of dance and meditation.

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DSS 086 | Atoloi

BL Radio EP 120: KOSMIK [LIVE AT GRADIENT CAMP]
Raw live recording from Kosmik's all vinyl set at the beautiful Gradient Campout in the deserts of Johnson Valley, 4.26.2024. Kosmik travels through various disco, early Chicago house and midwest techno sonics for the 2 hour journey under the desert stars.

BL Radio EP 120: KOSMIK [LIVE AT GRADIENT CAMP]

With music being the only external force that has found its way into Cisco's soul, he is constantly seeking these profound and heartfelt emotions when discovering new music. Brutally stubborn refusing to fit into a single genre box, Cisco wants his DJing to be a true reflection of his personal music taste. Through the Deep Dive collective, hypnotic and deep territories of electronic music are expored. Yet his love for soulful grooves will never die, and honestly, who can resist some proper house tunes?

Cisco FM & Malo Z @ Kiosk Radio 07.08.2024

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A selection of mixes from our Saturday programme in the 24hr Relaxation Station at Floorless Festival.

These mixes were specifically made for sore legs and tired minds, helping punters to take a moment away from it all throughout the weekend. Big thanks to the Floorless crew for the opportunity, it was truly one of the most fulfilling experiences we've had at an event.

The magic of the tent wouldn't have been nearly as good without the amazing light installation by Metic, who leveled things up in a serious way with his Ripples II installation - something we'll never forget.

Big thanks to Edie Medley for the beautiful artwork, and to all the DJs who contributed.

BONSE1 x Floorless: basic chanel

4BIDDEN - Just a folklore

Ziggy Devriendt is a Belgian DJ known as Nosedrip. He has a focussed aesthetic that is all about dark music, heavy moods and enchanting trance vibes “that brings people to an early grave with a smile.” He has his own show on NTS that often gets wonderfully weird and freaky as it touches on post punk, new wave, synth and psych, as well as many occult sounds in between. He also played on the Red Light Radio stage at our recent festival and now casts another bit of brilliant sonic shade with this new mix for us. 

In just over an hour, Nosedrip stitches together a spine tingling and haunted selection of slithering electronic sounds from across the ages. Sometimes with eerie keys, at others with rasping electro grooves and always with a rather desolate sense of atmosphere, there is a proto-techno and primitive electronic feel to the whole thing. War reporting monologues and spoken word poetry from John Cooper Clarke only add to the absorbing but unsettling nature of the whole thing and it marks one of the most singular selections of our series. 

Dekmantel Podcast 087 - Nosedrip

The first-ever DJ set from a key Detroit live act.

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Tracklist: https://www.thefader.com/2019/08/08/shyboi-fader-mix-discwoman-yulan-grant

FADER Mix: SHYBOI

Oceanic makes distinctly modern house and techno with attention grabbing synths and lithe sound design. The Dutchman's production is often quirky and curious and finds him bringing plenty of subtly inventive new ideas to his grooves. They have come on the likes of Nous'klaer Audio, while last year he put out a live recording of one of his many sets at Amsterdam's De School. It was an experimental ambient mix from the club's auditorium and this week he starts in a similar fashion before getting down to his more dance floor orientated sound. 

The mix races up to speeds of 150bpm, often with hyperactive drum programming and day glo synths lighting up the airwaves. The whole thing races by like a high speed hallucination, a trip to another dimension that somehow never sounds like house, or techno, or anything in between. It is genre-fluid, thrillingly unusual music littered with alien lifeforms and cyborg funk of the highest order.

Dekmantel Podcast 260 - Oceanic

Dj set warming up for Forest Drive West at the exchange in Bristol two weeks ago.
Much love to the No Signal crew Adi, Joe, Tim, Jenny and FDW.

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