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Dazion - Grooveboxxx - Dekmantel - DKMNTL093

https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/dazion-grooveboxxx
https://daziondekmantel.bandcamp.com/album/grooveboxxx

1. Welcome To Grooveboxxx (Ft. MC Paul T)
2. Meet Me At The Mecca
3. Jetlag
4. La DS
5. Eau Membership
6. Marathon (Rap Version)
7. Kimberly & Nance Backstage Rehearsal
8. Secretly Silly
9. Sound Of The Dune Town
10. Asta Grand Closing
11. Exposure
12. Sandokan (U-nite In Peace)
13. The Temple

Welcome to Dazion’s Grooveboxxx – a maxi-sized love letter to The Hague’s 80s and 90s club scene crafted with minimal tools and loaded with vibe. It’s no coincidence it arrives on Dekmantel, a label with its own roots in the same Dutch city’s electronic music culture.

Dazion is The Hague’s Cris Kuhlen, previously spotted releasing on Second Circle, Safe Trip and Animals Dancing. He cut his teeth clubbing and working at long-since closed clubs like Eau, described in Kuhlen’s own words as, “clubs with blocks to dance on, lazers, decorations, crazy extravert [sic] parties.”

In capturing the spirit of Eau and the other formative parties of his youth, Kuhlen limited himself to just one machine to make his longest work to date – the Roland MC-303 Groovebox. While these entry level units from the mid-90s had stripped down functionality in the wider spectrum of studio gear, they contained all the iconic Roland sounds in a Rompler style, giving the user access to everything necessary to make raw, immediate club tracks without requiring an entire studio’s worth of hardware.

The brash gear of choice set the tone for a record of rough, ready and playful jams which end up more sophisticated than you’d expect from such limited means. ‘La DS’ jacks with a freaky, bleep techno intensity, while ‘Kimberly & Nance Backstage Rehearsal’ rides an angular groove tooled to inspire the weirdest dance moves of the night. Every track is named in reference to a particular nightspot, a hazy memory or moment from Kuhlen’s formative raving years.

This is the sound of Dazion having the time of his life. You might well hear a nod to the odd rock totem being given a re-version in irreverent new beat style or some gnarly US acid breaks vibes riding underneath helium rap licks. But for all the cheekiness, the tracks stand up both as nods to halcyon days and relevant workouts for the sweatiest parties in the here and now. As MC Paul T says in dramatic style heralding the intro of Grooveboxxx, “This movement will live on forever.”

DKMNTL093 // Dazion - Grooveboxxx

Decided to upload this track otherwise I would forget about it haha, enjoy a trancey piano track :)))
(Holy shit Job Jobse just played this at pitch festival closing set 2025 🥹)

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Barqiemoon - Can You Feel My Piano

Synergy Remixes

Sexy Genoeg (feat. MEROL) (Lucky Done Gone Remix)

Arcade Heartbeat

Peaking

Aptly named after the vocal sample at its core, Tjade's 'Luv U' combines infectious drumwork and an irresistible blend of bass. As all the elements lock in, he sweeps in a zippy 303 and a Trance-tinged sequence, lifting the energy for a hands-in-the-air, hug-your-mates moment.

Releases June 12, 2025 on Agrio Tracks

Written and produced by Tjade De Vries.
Mixed by Mathijs Smit.
Mastered by Placid Punch.
Additional production by Tim Albers.

Luv U / Hipon Shaker

BUY HERE

Tjade - Luv U (Original Mix)

Sunscreen (Ft. @merely )

Full EP out July 4th

Sunscreen (Ft. Merely)

First and last SPEEDY G 🚨🚨🚨

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INTERPOL - Gary Payton III (Free Download)

909 RACING TEAM - PUBLIC ENEMY

Newcastle’s Lewis Taylor makes his first appearance on Tjade’s Agrio Tracks this July
with the two-track ‘Love Everlasting / I Feel It’ EP. Known for weaving together UKG
grooves and piano-led House motifs, he turns in a confident, floor-filling release
destined for heavy summer rotation.

With ‘Love Everlasting’, North-East producer and DJ Lewis Taylor delivers a
Trance-tinged anthem built for golden-hour sets. The track beams Balearic warmth via
its soaring melodies and that nostalgic shimmer that perfectly captures the upbeat
sound of today.

Taylor’s ‘I Feel It’ then flips the vibe, its pumping, driving rhythm underpinned by a deep,
Reese-like sub while a big piano lead and vocal sample give it that unmistakable 90s
Rave feel.

1. Love Everlasting
2. I Feel It

All tracks written by Lewis Taylor
All tracks mixed by Mathijs Smit
All tracks mastered by Placid Punch

Out now on Agrio Tracks!

Buy here

Lewis Taylor - I Feel It [Agrio Tracks]

PRE-ORDER: https://safe-trip.org/products/dazion-dragon-wave-vx-ltd-single

URGENT: IT HAS COME TO OUR ATTENTION THAT THE SAFE TRIP ORGANISATION HAS TAKEN TO THE WATER IN A BID TO SPREAD THEIR CODED MUSICAL MESSAGES FAR AND WIDE. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THEY HAVE RECRUITED YOUNG OPERATIVE KNOWN AS DAZION, A KEEN WINDSURFER, TO DEVELOP A METHOD OF BROADCASTING THEIR ADDICTIVE AND MIND-ALTERING MUSICAL MISSIVES WHEREVER THERE IS A SUITABLE BODY OF WATER.

OUR OPERATIVES TRACKED DAZION TO A REMOTE SPOT ON THE DUTCH COAST, WHERE HE WAS SPOTTED TRIALLING THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY WITH HIS FAVOURED F2 DRAGON BOARD. AS HE RODE THE CHOPPY WAVES, WE WERE ABLE TO DETECT AND RECORD RHYTHMICAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC EMINATING FROM THE BOARD ITSELF. WE ENCLOSE THIS RECORDING, WHICH FEATURES THE KIND OF TRIBALISTIC, DELAY-LADEN DRUMS, SWELLING ELECTRONICS AND EXOTIC MELODIC REFRAINS THAT ARE KNOWN TO INSPIRE FRENZIED DANCING IN MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. WE HAVE CHRISTENED THIS RECORDING “DRAGON WAVE”.

AFTER EXITING THE WATER, DAZION PACKED UP HIS TOP-SECRET WINDSURFING TECHNOLOGY AND DROVE TO A BACKSTREET ADDRESS IN A QUIET AREA OF AMSTERDAM. THERE, IN A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL UNIT, HE CONTINUED TO TINKER WITH THE TECHNOLOGY, TESTING IT OUT BY BROADCASTING ANOTHER MUSICAL COMPOSITION. THIS WAS MORE POIGNANT AND MELANCHOLIC IN TONE, UTILISING SPAACEY ELECTRONIC MELODIES, GENTLY BOBBING CHORDS, HEART-ACHING GUITAR FLOURISHES AND A TOUGH BUT BROKEN RHYTHM TRACK. THE RECORDING – CODE NAME “VX LTD” – HAD A HUGE IMPACT ON US EMOTIONALLY AND EVEN REDUCED ONE OPERATIVE TO TEARS.

IT IS OUR BELIEF THAT THE SAFE TRIP ORGANISATION WILL ONLY INCREASE IN STRENGTH WITH DAZION’S INVOLVEMENT. WE RECOMMEND WATCHING THE WAVES AND WINDS INTENTLY FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS.

Dragon Wave/VX LTD

VX LTD

Melbourne imprint Animals Dancing & Dutch producer, Dazion present a little surprise during these dystopian days we find ourselves in. A fast-tracked, straight to digital pre-release for all of humanity to dance in the apocalypse in self-isolated pleasure (before the vinyl is released).

On Animals Dancing’s eighth disc, Dazion aka Cris Kuhlen lets rip with three psychoactive, percussion-laden mind benders for all good dance floors.

A tweaked vocoder mantra speaks in tongues across interlaced layers of live percussion on ‘Yu Go Bah’ before sirens ring in the distant chants.

Blood Moon takes the marching band down to the basement, fusing more twisted percussion with electro squelch to soundtrack the sweat rain down from the heavens.

’The Chant Of Celebrational Beings’ beckons in a sunrise as the last inklings of serotonin jerk a tear to your eye.
credits
released March 20, 2020

Music By Dazion, Produced and recorded in. the Hague, Holland. Photography by P. Kouwenhoven.

Dazion - Yu Go Bah

Dazion - The Chant Of Celebrational Beings

Dazion - Blood Moon

@thedazion

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VX LTD

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