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DJ-sets & podcasts

A relentless mix from the Warsaw-based artist and Oramics member, who chooses to spotlight tracks from Polish and Eastern European artists.

Check out the tracklist on crackaud.io: crackm.ag/3vclc8Z

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Crack Mix 402: Avtomat

Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2021/truancy-volume-280-mor-elian/

Access the download and tracklist on our Patreon: patreon.com/truants

Soundcloud: @morelian

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Mor Elian

Truancy Volume 280: Mor Elian

Up next for our mixtape series: @naty-seres!💫
The berlin-based DJ and producer is one of the newer additions to the booking roaster of @berghainostgut, where she recently started her residency 🏢
Initially born & raised in central germany, her eclectic sets have brought her the opportunity to visit many corners of the world within the last few years. 
In 2021 she also co-founded her own label Never-Not-Now together with a bunch of friends 👏
Enjoy an hour of breaks-driven and techno-focused energy! ✨

SPND20 Mixtape by Naty Seres

The second show from my EOS Radio residency (07/07/2022)

Tracklist:

Grand River – Secondaria
Oshirijima – Trail Running Pt. 1
Objekt – Strays
Oyubi – Oh Yeah
Tango & Ratty – The Killer (‘93 PA Mix)
DJ Fulltono – Apaches
Aleksi Perälä – FI3AC2036060
Voices From The Lake – Prima Luna
De Bons En Pierre – Gras Saturé
Ploy – Unit 18
Brainkillers – Screwface Pt. 2 (Hardcore Mix)
Less-O – Bumblebee
Fixate – Off The Hook
Blawan – Style Teef
Aæe – Drop
Unit 1 – Love Me
Digital & Response – Broken Dub
Rhythm & Sound – No Partial

Pariah @ EOS Radio 07/07/22

Recording of Aquarian's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Aquarian at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Don't let @solid_blake's diminutive stature fool you: she plays with a ferocity and precision that flips Europe's most tasteful dance floors inside out. Born in Glasgow but operating out of Copenhagen, she was a founding member of the Apeiron Crew DJ collective, has produced as Historical Repeater with Ctrls and often plays with Mama Snake as she did at our own festival a few years ago. Her Rinse FM radio show is always packed with new sounds that have you desperate to find out more, as is this week's mix. 

It's built on bold, body-shaking rhythms that are elastic and acrobatic. They're loose and roomy to start before the kinetic energy builds through jungle cuts, thumping deep techno and unhinged club music. Though squarely aimed at the dance floor, these selections are detailed with freaky monologues or wild vocalisations that bring them to life outside the club. They're both deep but lively and run through with a subtle sense of party-starting fun.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 408 - Solid Blake

Tracklist: https://bit.ly/rxycmix
Read the cover feature: https://bit.ly/rxymmix

"As a DJ, I have been more and more interested to play more percussive based tracks, giving me more freedom to navigate genres. But recently, I have got the chance to muscle up my game a bit more on some techno dancefloors, and I really enjoy playing with this kind of energy. So this podcast is a bit a reflection of these experiences. The track selection contains some unreleased tracks of mine and others."

Tracklist

The Cover Mix: rRoxymore

Tracklist + Q&A: https://mixmag.net/feature/danielle-dj-mix-soft-raw-interview-impact-bristol

@danielle_dj is the tastemaking DJ keeping people on their toes

"I went to record this mix at the end of a super busy November where I had a lot of late-night/closing sets, and was kind of in that headspace. There's a mixture of old and new tracks - it showcases many different genres from 170 stuff to bassier bits, then into techno, electro, house, and breaks. I wanted to include one of the tracks from the Slacker release on Soft Raw, and since it's a faster tempo, I decided to go about the mix a bit differently than usual by starting off fast and then going slower and back up again. It's the kind of mix where you're not sure where it's going to go next, but when it goes there, it makes sense!"

Tracklist + Q&A

Impact: Danielle

A journey at light speed through the universe of Akua, focusing on old school techno from the ’90s and early 2000s.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2023/01/10/akua-fact-mix/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 890: Akua (Jan '23)

We're not in the habit of quoting press materials all the time, but in Kajetan Łukomski's case, it feels appropriate. The first sentence of his bio is "Avtomat is a person with way too many interests." If you know any artists from Poland's wide-ranging, always-growing electronic music scene, chances are he's one of them. He's a DJ, producer, organizer and activist, once a member of the queer feminist collective Oramics, and is endlessly passionate about supporting, spreading and playing music from the Central European and Eastern European regions.

With roots in metal, goth and electroclash, there's a certain spikiness to Łukomski's style, but also a polyglot knowledge and a hunger for new sounds. Lately he's been trying to mix club music with Polish folk traditions, which is the mission of Łukomski's RA Podcast, but it's also just the jumping off point. In these almost four hours of expert blending, genre-jumping and incredible pacing, Łukomski touches on almost every style of dance music you could think of, with aplomb and occasionally surprise (like that irresistible Bloc Party edit). If you can, it's worth digesting all in one sitting, so you can truly appreciate the ground he covers.

@avtomatmusic

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/869

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Emma Blake is, musically, something of a nomad. She made her name—Solid Blake—that is, in Copenhagen, where she cofounded the influential Apeiron Crew alongside Mama Snake and Smokey. They were responsible in establishing the city's "fast techno" sound, which blended sleek techno and trance influences into something colourful and retro-futuristic. But Blake's side of things was always more rooted in electro, with a party-starting flair that you might be tempted to pin to her Glaswegian upbringing. (Her first release, <i>Mario</i>, came out on the label of the legendary Glasgow taps-aff basement nightclub La Cheetah.) And she's also spent time in Berlin, so she has those techno bona fides, too.

Another EP, released on Modeselektor's Seilscheibenpfeiler, further fleshed out her electro-techno hybrid sound, also explored in her Historical Repeater project with Danish artist Ctrls. DJing has been her major focus, though—she has an excellent Rinse FM show—and you'll hear a refined approach on her excellent RA Podcast, which is like a club set in miniature, starting out midtempo and rushing towards a heady climax with tracks like Pariah's "Squishy Windows." It's loaded with creative grooves, toothsome textures and the kind of sleek melodies that helped define her stint in Copenhagen since the beginning.

@solid_blake

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/873

RA.873 Solid Blake

A fixture in Poland’s underground club scene, DJ, producer, vocalist and graphic designer @avtomatmusic brings an anarchic industrial edge to their wildly varied and intricate DJ sets

Alongside a blazing mix for the Recognise series, Ben Murphy talks to him about activism, Polish folk music and playing Berghain

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-avtomat-interview

Recognise: Avtomat

STOP THE GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE!

Tracklist:
Yasmine Hamdan - Hal (Kwaidan)
Damna - Get Up To Be Shy (self-released)
Reni Jusis - Kiedyś Cię Znajdę (Avtomat Remix) (upcoming)
Ship Sket - CONCUSSION (self-released)
RAVL - Fausse Monnaie (JEROME)
Ida Dillan - Project Nu (Knightwerk / Afterlife+)
Slick Shoota - Dragonfly (self-released)
Avtomat - ID (upcoming)
Liar - Mutagen (Infinite Machine)
Avtomat - Black Lotus, White Lotus (upcoming)
Caroline Polachek - Sunset (acapella) (Perpetual Novice)
Avtomat - Tatuś Hula (Unholy Ukrainian) (upcoming via Zejście)
Avtomat - ID (upcoming)
Some Guest - Wine Yuh (self-released)
Yasmine Hamdan - Hal (Kwaidan)
Prodigy - Break & Enter (XL Recordings)
Dadan Karambolo - Turnicki (Ciarki)
T’ien Lai - HoL (Brutality Garden)
Gora & Eloy - Terremoto (Hitec_Condo)
T.Raumschmiere & Sandra Nasic - A Very Loud Lullaby (Apparat Remix)
cadeu - LANGUAGE (Hyperboloid)
Maribou State - Bricks (Fat! Records)

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Avtomat - HÖR (9 Jan 2024)

Hailing from Warsaw, producer, DJ and vocalist Avtomat is a core part of Oramics and Ciężki Brokat, two collectives that focus on supporting women and LGBTQ artists from Central and Eastern Europe and creating safe spaces for queer ravers, respectively. 

Collectives like these have always been important in Poland, but now more so than ever. A recent statement from Poland's far right President Andrzej Duda laid bear his views towards the LGBTQIA+ community, fostering an even more hateful and violent environment than before for those living in the country.

This is nothing new though, these sentiments have been shamelessly echoed through the government for several years now, demonstrating how instrumental Ciężki Brokat and Oramics' work is. As well as championing these communities on the ground, last year in a bid to support queer Polish organisations and fracture these degrading far right ideals, Oramics released Total Solidarity, a mammoth compilation to raise money for Miłość Nie Wyklucza and Kampania Przeciw Homofobii.

As well as providing platforms and spaces for these communities, Avtomat has his fingers in many other pies. As a composer and producer he leads folktronica project Pleśni, matching traditional Slavic polyphonic singing with electronica, while on a weekly basis he teaches production and DJing at Instytut Dźwięku in the capital.

For this week's Wednesday Alternative mix he takes us on a full throttle ride through abrasive, vibrant and energetic electronics, from jungle to ghetto tech and deconstructed rhythms, and shines a light on several Polish and Eastern European producers. If you didn't already miss the club, now you most definitely will...

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Avtomat: The 'Wednesday Alternative' Mix

Here’s the recording of my Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, which I recorded at the start of 2020 and was broadcast in June. Feeling like I’d been given some big shoes to fill, I spent a couple of months planning a rambunctious, high-energy party mix that would also still be pretty ambitious in the range of styles and tempos it would cover, finally finishing it just as the first lockdowns were kicking in. Obviously, by the time it was eventually broadcast it felt a little out of step with the times. But listening back to it I still feel like it’s one of my better studio mixes, and with the holidays (and a vaccine) around the corner maybe its energy will even feel newly appropriate. So in case you missed the official broadcast – or wanted a download – here it is.

I included a handful of all-time personal favourites, and most of the tracks marked “unreleased” are presumably up on Bandcamp by now so go show the artists and labels a bit of love if you’re feeling it.

TL:

Lyra Pramuk - Mirror (Bedroom Community)
Laughing Ears - Blue Dusk (DECISIONS)
Batu - SYX (unreleased)
Doctor Jeep - Snake Eyes (DRX)
Miss Red - Come Again (Pressure)
Yilan x Ren - Ark (Infinite Machine)
Chants - Diptych (Astral Plane)
Quincy Jones - The Verb To Be (Qwest/Warner Bros.)
Pearson Sound - Alien Mode (forthcoming Hessle Audio)
Galaxy Lane - Days Gone By (unreleased)
Roman Flugel - Pattern One (Ongaku Music)
Orange Kush - Tremolo (Botchit & Scarper)
Renegade Soundwave - The Phantom (It’s In There) (Mute)
Lenk - 444 (H. Productions)
Badsista - Soca Sem Parar (ft. MC Morena) (self-released?)
Slowdive - In Mind (Bandulu Out Mind Remix) (Creation Records)
Paul Damage - Passing By (HOG Records)
KAB - Anjua (Sneaky 3) (Azurite Records)
Archetype - Inhabit the Rhythm (Theory Recordings)
Sun Electric - Entrance (R&S Records)
Nothus - Konnor 3O12 (XCPT Music)
Rhyw - It Was All Happening (forthcoming Fever AM)
Nan Kolè x DJ Tess - Gimme Any Riddim feat. NyNy (self-released)
Surgeon - Floorshow Pt. 1.3 (Counterbalance)
Lhasa - Gather Like Dust (Dark Entries)
Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy - Locked In Syndrome (forthcoming BFDM)
Reelle - Hybris (Danse Noire)
RAC - Doublejointed (2) (Warp Records)
Mystic Letter K - See Her Weaving (MLK)
Thee J Johanz - Bass Up (Emergency Broadcast/Furthur Electronix)
Odd Lust - Planet Is Transparent (forthcoming Trilogy Tapes)
X/319 - Effekt_03 (Tau)
DJ Boss - Zakruta (Audio Assault)
Lag - Znoj (unreleased)
Ceephax Acid Crew - Grand Marniacid (WéMè Records)
Grandmixxer & Scratcha DVA - Free Gaza Remix (Allyall Records)
Scorp - Atomitron (Scorp)
Luxus Varta - Magnetic (unreleased)
Al Wootton - Natural Forward (Trule)
FFT - orr din (Super Hexagon)
Pepe - Palinka Hammer (Naïve)
N-ter - Low (Databass Online)
Radioactive Man - Jommtones (Asking For Trouble)
DJ Balani - Balani Sanga (Sahel Sounds)
The Criminal Minds - Change The Pace (TCM Recordings)
Fast Floor - Plight Of The Innovators (Smooth Recordings)
Luxxuryproblems - Ideal, Whirlpool, Transfer (Turbulence) (SPA Recordings)
MC Jessi - AQFFE (Laza Edit) (Tormenta)
Jonny Megabyte - Pickles & Tootsie Pops (Databass Online)
Homemade Weapons - Svalsat (Donato Dozzy Remix) (Samurai Music)
Artilect - Mefo (Samurai Music)
Digital & Sight Unseen - Out of Control (Function Records)
dgoHn - Ninnyhammer (Love Love Records)
RTR - Untitled21 (Analogical Force)
Greta Wohlfahrt - Ausweichquartiere (Greta Wohlfahrt)
C-Tank - Walk On Base (Overdrive)
Lakker - Suburban Cutting (self-released)
Smog - Surfactant (Failed Units)
DJ Pacifier - Ready (Failed Units)
Sample: Rhythm Device - Acid Rock (Music Man Records)
DJ Pacifier - Beginning to Breathe (Daniel Ruane Failed Reset) (Failed Units)
Etch - Lost Orbit (Chrome Drum VIP) (Altered Roads)

Radio 1 Essential Mix

Not your run-of-the-mill working-class Eastern European non-binary DJ. The producer, vocalist, but also visual and digital artist strives for innovative sound design and visceral body response, despite (or maybe coupled with) raw emotion that permeates their musical output. They’re a proud member of the Ciężki Brokat crew (with whom they run the annual Warsaw Pride official afterparty), ex-Oramics member (2019-2022), co-creator of Radio Kapitał, Polish ambassador for Keychange and SHAPE Platform 2021 resident.

Their own music has morphed several times throughout the last 15 years – from industrial or purely synthetic timbres, through polyphonic singing with Pleśni to a perplexing fusion of rhythmically and sonically jagged compositions, bass-heavy club tracks on their EPs, 'Gusła (Human Rites)' on Tańce, a limited vinyl release on London-based 51-53 Records, 'Doolska' and the latest, more experimental 'Lamenty' EP.

They presented their music during numerous festivals (Unsound, CTM, Schiev, Up To Date, Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Les Siestes Electroniques, Audioriver) and an assortment of clubs (including the legendary Berghain) in Poland and abroad (Berlin, London, Prague, Oslo, Copenhagen, Ljubljana). They remixed tracks by Kamp and Baasch, recorded mixes for Resident Advisor, DJ Mag, HӦR and CRACK, composed and created impromptu live music for interactive theatre plays: Method of National Constellations, quadraphonic sound for Jawić się, music for a Women’s Strike street theatre Manifesta and original score for Ideologix, a US-written and directed queer opera.

In the club their seventeen-year experience of supporting queer, anti-fascist and underground scenes results in an almost annoyingly disparate selection of the most forward-thinking sound offered by today’s scene. In their series of DJ-sets and club nights they blend unusual rhythmic patterns kicked up a notch with their improvised vocals.

RA.869 Avtomat

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