Hodge mixes through the past, present and future of Livity Sound, the Bristol label that's been shaping forward thinking dance music for a decade.

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Label Of The Month Mix: Livity Sound mixed by Hodge

GOP TUN - NAO EXSTE

Badsista b2b Evehive @ Não Existe [Gop Tun Festival 2023]

Exhausted Modern LIVE set @ DT CAMP 2023

Recording of BSS' set at Dekmantel Selectors 2023.

TASCAM DR-40

BSS at Dekmantel Selectors 2023.mp3

MASSIMILIANO PAGLIARA - Thursday 18th April 2024

Recording of Nèna's set at Lentekabinet 2024.

Nèna at Lentekabinet 2024

Rinse FM Podcast 

Tasha - 08 June 2024

Luxembourg’s Ogazón (of Nathalie Ogazón Faber) followed her studies to the Netherlands and fell deep down the rabbit hole of Amsterdam nightlife, Trouw she recounts as transformative. Enough so that she followed that thread starting in the mid 2010s as neophyte DJ before upping sticks for Berlin a few years later. There, her passion for digging and upbeat outlook landed her in Ryan Elliot’s sights, a partnership that’s taken B2B form on more than a few occasions and led to further work with fellow blue chipper Marcel Dettmann (she signed to his agency in 2023). These days Ogazón’s sound is spreading to the pace of its rapid tempo, and her schedule’s all the more punishing for it. Dekmantel, Awakenings, DGTL, Berghain, Robert Johnson, the list gets longer. Refusing trivial categorisations, her work pivots between groovy house and austere techno, bringing together various influences (the ambient inclinations of Sofia Coppola she also cites) and keeping her vision broad. For Bassiani Podcast 241 she errs on the side of techno, delivering a profound two-hour mix that marches unrepentantly forward, zipping from ascetic track to track and building an atmosphere thick with subtle detail. This is deep, utilitarian techno for unsettled times and Ogazón leads the way.

@ogazon

Bassiani invites Ogazón / Podcast #241

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

Relive Teqmun opening the Filter by Lipton Ice Tea on Sunday, April 20.

Date:
April 20, 2025

Location:
NDSM Docklands, Amsterdam

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