@surusinghe is one of many exciting Naarm/Melbourne artists to have broken through in the last couple of years. She has been working behind the scenes in the industry for a decade but only started to release her own music in 2022. Now based in London where she has co-founded the Phenomena label, she has an international mix of influences that make her club-ready sounds utterly thrilling. They all draw on the fact that she is a clubber first and foremost, and one proud of her Sri Lankan heritage. 

She goes big over the course of an hour for us this week and threads together plenty of body-popping rhythms from dembow to techno to wobbly London dubstep. She drops in several of her own tunes, one of which is unreleased, as are two others from Doctor Jeep and Tom Kami. It's a fresh and futuristic workout of high-octane sound from an adventurous DJ who always brings the party in fresh new ways.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 444 - Surusinghe

Tati au Miel winds through the sounds of their fantastical world.

https://www.factmag.com/2024/01/16/fact-mix-tati-au-miel/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 940: Tati au Miel

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2024/truancy-volume-322-ema

Soundcloud: @emma-jane-g

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Live Rec

05 Manere L’arbre-soeur (Live Sonic Protest 2023)

Excited to release this awesome mix by MESTIZO for the MFI guest mix series! 💥 

@jpmestizo is a dedicated music enthusiast hailing from Montréal in Québec. 
It's a pleasure to welcome him on board and hear the following by him: 

''Since the pandemic up until today, I have spent countless hours listening to @ecoutesauvert and @cobeia's SoundCloud channels. This unique catalog significantly widened my musical taste and my ever-growing appreciation for global and unhurried sounds. 

Many thanks to Cobeia for his work! If you enjoy the music he puts out there, through this mix series, consider supporting via www.paypal.com/ecoutesauvert "

Indeed, that helps to pay the SoundCloud Pro account yearly subscription costs to keep all mixes accessible for everyone to enjoy. :) SoundCloud hides them when you stop to pay... :(

The mix is entitled: "Relieved Romantic" and here's something @jpmestizo says about it:

"This recording dedicates its first and last segments to slower songs that capture a specific emotion I associate with different moments from the past few years. From chanson francophone to street soul, going through folk, rock, and synth-pop, what ties this mix together isn't genre; it's my love for love songs! Cheesy? Obviously. What can I say? I do love me some fine and (even better) smelly cheeses.''

JP Metis is a Filipino-Québécois mestizo music lover from Montréal. The self-proclaimed ''relieved romantic'' (romantique soulagé) works as a copywriter and is a founding member of the Inner Circle collective. He started collecting records as a teenager and took up DJing in 2015. He recently cofounded @public_averti, a mix series anchored in collections' overlooked, enigmatic, and often poetic sections. Behind the booth, he has a full range of sensibilities spanning a variety of sounds and a taste for off-piste music, broadening the expectations of listeners and dancers.

www.instagram.com/jp.metivier
www.facebook.com/jpmetis
https://ra.co/dj/jpmetis

Cover artwork by Francis Picabia, French painter & writer

Please support if you enjoy this: Like > Comment > Repost > Follow > Share on Socials 💜 Thanks 

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Music for Indoors 31 - MESTIZO (Public Averti - Montréal)

Simon Aussel is known for a particularly wild DJing style and leftfield bassy bangers, and it's his curious and playful approach to clubland that's won him loyal fans over the years. Whether photographing drink tokens from gigs or creating an 8-bit version of his debut album on a Game Boy cartridge, he seems to approach every endeavour with childlike joy and wonder—rare qualities in an industry that can leave so many jaded.

The Nantes-born, Paris-based artist's love of club culture, digging and world-building has set him on a blazing path in club music. He's released an exceptionally wide range of music, including a Memphis rap tape for Trilogy Tapes, dubstep-trap-jazz hybrids with Egyptian singer Abdullah Miniawy and deadly hard drum for Livity Sound. His mixes, meanwhile, are fast becoming DJ lore thanks to his knack for connecting seemingly opposed genres like new wave and fast techno. Look no further than his now-infamous Dekmantel Selectors set from 2021 or a marathon back-to-back with Skee Mask in 2022. 

As the French DJ gets more comfortable with story-telling, he's getting more personal and focusing on deeper, slower sounds. That's evident on this RA Podcast—six months in the works—which incorporates woozy downtempo, weighty dub and bleepy beats. Of course, in the chaotic middle section there's plenty of huge basslines, plus old-school electro, acidic techno and even a bouncy edit of the Montell Jordan classic "This Is How We Do It." Showcasing his quirks, influences and growth, this is Simo Cell in prime time.

@simocell

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/934

RA podcast

RA.934 Simo Cell

The Dekmantel favourite kicks off 2025 in an exploratory mood.

Since her breakout in 2017, Thessa Thorsing has built an enviable CV: a debut release on Nous'klaer Audio, an album on Dekmantel and a residency at former Amsterdam clubbing institution De School. Over these years, she's honed a singular sound, navigating wild variations in tempo and mood that dance along the edges of techno, IDM and drum & bass (we could list many more, but you know the drill).

Her creative arc has seen her delve into ever more abstract concepts, such as 2024's ambient-leaning album, Strange Meridians, exploring the interplay between synthetic and natural textures through drumless experimentations. As she explained in her 2018 RA Breaking Through profile, "I just want to hear the weirdness in the music."

Thorsing's RA Podcast showcases exactly why she's one of the most  consistently adventurous names in dance music. Describing it as "a mix with a narrative," the former landscape architecture student flexes her ability to build sonic environments, beginning in a landscape more akin to a swamp than a club.

Across 90 minutes, she moves through numerous layered terrains, exploring everything from Skee Mask's lucid, beatless techno to the piercing acid of Mike Parker. Unfolding with a restless sense of curiosity, RA.970 captures an artist challenging the boundaries of electronic music, ever upward.

@upsammy

Read more at ra.co/podcast/970

RA.970 upsammy

@eli-verveine is a musical chameleon who can do it all from banging peak time sets to pensive warm-ups via weird and wonderful hour hours sessions. She has proven that over the years in many of the scene's most cultured clubs whether playing solo, B2B as Among Trees with Andrey Pushkarev or live with Gwenan as Gin & Tonic. On top of all this, she has a well-formed discography that delves further into her versatile sounds.

This week's mix reflects her musical malleability as she draws on plenty of diverse tempos and textures to craft a lively trip. There are moments of blissful deepness next to more nuanced rhythms, futuristic bass explorations and cosmic electro sojourns that keep things moving at pace, but always with great control and expert selections.

Dekmantel Mix 484 - Eli Verveine

Mesmerising dance floor tapestries from a singular experimental musician.

Can you reinvent the human voice? The oldest musical instrument in existence, our voices are the foundation of music as we know it, and few push its limits in electronic music today like Lyra Pramuk. On her masterful debut, Fountain the Berlin-based, US-born artist's voice was the only instrument. No drums, no synths—just her voice warped, synthesized and layered to achieve orchestral-like electronics.

Five years on from her breakout, Pramuk's practice has steadily evolved, with a continued interest in ideas of folk and futurism, and how technology can enable us to build community beyond boundaries of time and space. There’s a holistic nature to her artistry, one that extends seamlessly into her DJing.

As she explains in the Q&A accompanying this week's RA Podcast, she sees her work as "part of a continuum of sacred, folkloric, and communal music represented by many different subcultures and communities across the world."

It's an approach that, like much of Pramuk's output, feels explicitly choral in nature. The first voice we hear on the mix comes from Lonnie Holley, his woozy Southern drawl calling out, "Earth will be there to catch us when we fall." (Although, you have to wonder, if we keep flogging the Earth, will it?) 

More voices follow across an eye-catching tracklist, from the poetry of friends (Nadia Marcus) to esoteric French chantresses from the ’80s (Anne Gillis), while Pramuk wraps an extensive amount of her own forthcoming material around tracks from SD Laika, Leyland Kirby, rRoxymore and 33EMYBW, to name just a few.

By the end, voice and noise become indistinguishable—stammering, glitchy vocals colliding with an orchestra of instruments. The effect is mesmerising.

Unfolding as one continuous composition, RA.979 exists somewhere between an ambient set at Kwia and the main stage at Unsound, voices and textures blurred into a fluid tapestry of sound. It's a singular offering to the series from a singular artist.

@lyra_songs

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/980

RA.979 Lyra Pramuk

Bristol-based @k_means operates at the fringes of electronic music. It's not tempo and genre that unites their sound, but more an exploration of mood and texture underpinned by bass-heavy low ends and hypnotic rhythms. The Noods, Rinse FM and Kiosk Radio regular is also resident at Bristol's Psychotherapy Sessions and will debut at Dekmantel Festival where you should fully expect to be taken into plenty of unknown musical territory.

It is the same with their mix for us this week - a wild trip into futuristic drum patterns and interplanetary sounds that melt the mind and contort the body. There is a constant push and pull between the organic and the synthetic with tribal percussion and warped vocals brushing up with bleeping synth modulations and experimental minimalism. It's a magnetic selection that's as much an imaginary movie soundtrack as it is a dance floor escape.

Dekmantel Mix 487 - k means

j_basco - Unity
Davis - Tempo de Vida
Leifur James - Ritual
Mapstation & Nicholas Addo-Nettey - Lagoon
Clap! Clap! & Kety Fusco - Rising Fire
Jordon Alexander - Feeling This
Will Lister - Hive
Hajj - I Tried To Tell Ya Something Through This Fucking Phone
Parquantic - way to go
J. Albert - Woo
Sleep Runner - Some Other Place
Baruch Williamson - Ball of Gas

Image: Paul-Émile Borduas

Émission du 21 juin 2020

Émission de musique électronique diffusée les dimanches soirs à 21h sur les ondes de CISM 89,3 FM à Montréal. Fidèle au poste depuis le 11 septembre 2003.

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