@airmax97 concocts rhythms and manipulates synths in weird and wonderful ways. His tracks are brilliantly curious and drip with personality while also making you want to move. He layers up textures and atmospheres like a painter spreads oil on canvas and does so with both eyes firmly on the future. Releasing mostly on his own DECISIONS label as well as the likes of Timedance, the multidisciplinary artist works across a number of creative fields from design and art direction to mixing music. Most recently, he has put out his 'Psyllium / Eat The Rich' release on Timedance featuring two highly detailed, sub-heavy bangers.

On this week's podcast, he threads together a diverse array of sounds. There are contemporary grime rhythms, heavy bass cuts and stripped-back techno twisters from the likes of Ikävä Pii, Azu Tiwaline and Ayesha as well as plenty of some unreleased exclusives and a host of his own remixes and originals. It's seriously playful and - like his more recent productions - grows increasingly minimal and skeletal as it unfolds, with devastating results.

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 354 - Air Max '97

Glasgow's @fergus_clark has a depth of musical knowledge way beyond his years. He is one-quarter of the 12th Isle label, party and radio collective and digs deep into everything from early techno to musique concrete to obscure exotica. Back in 2017 he released a still essential tape on Tasker's 88T label and a thrilling compilation with JD Twitch, Miracle Steps (Music from the 4th World). Both of these releases are indicative of how Clark puts together music with a sense of storytelling, scene-setting and endless mysticism. 

This week's mix sure does give you a sense of exploration, of journeying through new worlds somewhere in the global south. The music is humid and wet, with tribal vocal chants and digital synths paired with indigenous instrumentation. As you get deeper into the aural jungle, the drums get bigger, proto-house rhythms make you move and you end up at a steamy tropical rave. It is another accomplished and subversive mix from this ever more renowned DJ.

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Dekmantel Podcast 364 - Fergus Clark

Roniere Santos was born and raised in the favelas of São Paulo, Brazil. The streets on which he grew up were often alive with music from local rap heroes, funky old school dance legends and heralded MCs such as Proibidão, Primo and Barriga. It is those sounds that inform and infuse the music he now makes and plays as RHR (@rhrmusiq), whether it's electro with a self-proclaimed ghetto twist or techno with hints of grime. After a debut on OMNIDISC in 2019, RHR has self rebased his music which seems only right given that it operates in its own musical universe. 

The Brazilian invites us deep into that world on this week's mix, which is a 90-minute exploration of broken rhythms and scuffed-up textures. There are shades of everything from club to techno, gqom to jungle as the sounds unfold with a constant sense of movement that keeps you on your toes. Later on, rap and hip hop switch up the vibe and slow the tempo, but your body will keep on popping. This is raw, physical music that shows off a very different side of the Brazilian underground.

Dekmantel Podcast 367 - RHR

"Слава Україні!" is the album which has been released with the aim of helping to our Ukrainian brothers and sisters, 
who have already been attacked and murdered for 7 sleepless days. All of the album sales will be transferred to fundraising of Ukrainian organizations. 
The amount of power and empathy you all expressed is simply wonderful and very humane. The unity is only thing that can beat the evil, we won't 
stop protesting the war. There is no place for war!
credits
released March 4, 2022 

Artwork : Assassin Kitana 

Mastering : 

DJANUNAK 
Nasty King Kurl 
Go Nuclear 
Dist 
Stuster 
Partizahn 
MOD-R 
Shevin Kields

Слава україні

djewuschka

@monotronique hails from Kharkiv, which is one of the cities affected most by the war in Ukraine. Before the invasion, he had become one of its most definitive DJs thanks to his residency at Zhivot. That was the platform that helped him break out on the European scene with his brand mix of house, techno and bass. Drawing on those genres, his productions pair minimalism with experimentalism and have come on the likes of Livity Sound, Opal Tapes and Banoffee Pies.

This week's mix is an epic one spread across two and a half hours which showcases Monotronique's ability to start slow and build a fantastic mood. Nothing is rushed here as the electronics go from deep and dubby to smooth and seductive. House, techno and raved-up breaks all build the pressure then well-placed moments of euphoria break out to release the pressure before things build once again. It's a brilliantly balanced mix from this essential Ukrainian.

Dekmantel Podcast 391 - Monotronique

Name: عين (Ayn)
Alias: فناء‎  (fana)/ @fanafellahin
Pronouns: They/them
Location: Cleveland, OH (originally from NYC)

Influences: My chosen family, my ancestors, my enemies.

Affiliations/Residencies: Resident DJ & co-founder of Disco Paradiso
Projects: hivelike is a multi-media project that I had been DJing and writing music under from June, 2016 until now. I wanted this project to represent the mosaic that I am as an individual, as well as my relationship to the Jungian concept of the Collective Consciousness. hivelike is set to release a self-titled EP in early 2018 on Mistake By The Lake Records. My current project, فناء (written “fana”), is a reflection of my faith as a Sufi Muslim, my heritage as a Pan-Mediterranean Arab Kurd, my identity as a nonbinary queer person, and my inner and outer conflicts as someone who is of mixed race. فناء will be releasing material in mid-2018 on Crisis Urbana.

Favorite Quote: “All the world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: For every Abdulla Rashim there are countless DJs, musicians, artists of color whose voice matters exponentially more than that of the white cishet men who seemingly run the scene. If you don't think you're heard, I hear you; if you don't think you're seen, I see you. Do the same for your fellow musicians, artists, DJs who are queer and of color. Be there for each other because we are all we have. In the words of a good friend of mine, “Don't let white people tear us apart.”

Tracklist - https://www.facebook.com/DaisychainPodcast/posts/390705701353707

Daisychain

Daisychain 004 - فناء‎ (fana)

Héctor Oaks at Unpolished 2019

Stelar Booking Podcast
Serie 7 - Podcast 24 - Sync 24 (Cultivated Electronics, UK)

DJ Set @ Mechatronica x Cultivated Electronics 25.10.19 (Griessmuehle, Berlin)

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BIO ·

Given that a spotlight trend can shine on a genre at any given time, only a certain few producers can truly say they were there well before, and after, popular appeal takes place. London’s Sync 24 is an electro devotee whose imprint in the scene since the early-2000s has perpetuated the demand for electro in contemporary techno clubs, working most directly with the likes of Jensen Interceptor, Privacy, Morphology, Silicon Scally and The Exaltics.

His repertoire of sound sees his style converge the energy of a Den Hague basement rave mixed with round 808 kick drums and classic Detroit-influenced textures, with obotic grooves and flitters of cyber, sci-fi themes running solidly through his productions.

His Cultivated Electronics label, too, has been operating for more than 12 years and has released music from artists as diverse as DMX Krew, James T. Cotton and E.R.P (aka Convextion) through too Versalife, Plant43, Boris Divider and Alpha 606. With his latest solo releases for Central Processing Unit and Propaganda Moscow now added to his growing discography, Sync 24, while remaining a guardian of electro and its perimeters, continues to wield influence in defining the shape and legacy of the genre and its modern contemporary language.

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Podcast 24 Stelar Booking | Sync 24 | 29.04.20

Binairekutof

"Australian-born, London-based Nite Fleit has cultivated a distinct, uncompromising sound ofher own, setting the club circuit ablaze, through refined DJ sets and genre-melding original productions.A kaleidoscopic palette of influences, ranging from golden-era EBM and rave, to contemporary acid and electro, runs through the young artist’s recorded works. Distilling years of idiosyncrasies as a curator, Nite Fleit, real name Alysha Fleiter, unleashed her first, complete solo effort, Steel City Dance Disks Volume 7, in late 2018, promptly following it upwith Overcast on Tiffany D’s label – a braindance-leaning exercise in rhythmic propulsion. Following this in 2019, Fleiter released her next offering, Moogie, in collaboration with long-time friend and famed selector, Mall Grab on his coveted Looking For Trouble imprint. The Australian’s left-of-center body music gems quickly caught the ears of many esteemed electro and techno elites, setting Nite Fleit on an upward trajectory through the ranks.
 Her fourth release came early in2020 on DJ Haus’ Unknown to the Unknown Dance Trax series and was quickly followed by another release back with her Steel City Dance Disc family. Mid-July released her EP "The Film Just Breaks" on Helena Hauff’s Return to Disorder label, followed by another three releases scheduled for later in the year."

@nitefleit
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https://www.discogs.com/artist/5337483-Nite-Fleit
https://nitefleit.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.facebook.com/NiteFleit/

Phormix Podcast #185 Nite Fleit

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