@zvrra is an avant-garde artist by anyone's standards. Her background as a video game developer has a clear influence on the music she makes. That can be anything from industrial to techno, witch house to hip hop, but most often her sounds exist in the intricate spaces in between all that. Her perfectly entitled November album Bizarroland on Avian was a fine example of that, and one united by an eerie darkness that kept you looking over your shoulder.

But this week's mix is full steam ahead through a shadowy world of grit and grime. It's a one-hour techno excursion that explores myriad different rhythms from flat-footed to floating, broken to brutal. It is unrelenting from start to finish, building the tension through a mix of texture and tempo, pulling back then going again just when it matters. It speaks of DJ with a unique sense of control and mastery of darkness. 

To learn about what inspired the mix, how it was put together, the influence of video games on Zvrra's music and about her recent EP, head over to our website to read a quick interview with the artist herself: https://dekmantel.com/editorial/dekmantel-podcast-363-zvrra

Dekmantel Podcast

Short Q&A

Dekmantel Podcast 363 - Zvrra

Hailing from the other side of the pond, Lydo is best known for tearing up semi-licensed New York venues with their X-TRA.Services party series: think hazy basements, hard and fast rhythms, underground feeling. This staple of Big Apple nightlife has even spilled into a requisite line of rave equipment (X-TRA.Gear) made for those in attendance. With a sound self reported as ‘sweet to moody, but always sexy’ Lydo fuses blistering techno-trance with traces of their love for R’n’B as well as anything they might pick up through intimate ties to the Fast Forward crew on the way. For this instalment, Lydo expertly packs together tracks that morph from delicate ambient pads to flirtatious beats, fleshy and slick techno sounds that march defiantly into the small hours.

@lydole

Bassiani invites Lydo / Podcast #121

Next up in our mixtape series is the incredible @helena-hauff 😍
We are extremely happy to have her on board for this one, since she is easily one of our very favourite DJs! 🙏
Helena started out as a resident DJ at Pudel Club in Hamburg, a legendary space where she perfected her mixing skills that now make her one of the best djs in the world 🧨  

Over the last 10 years she has not only stuck to djing but also produced her own music, resulting in two albums that she released in 2015 & 2018 which were both widely celebrated, as well as several EPs. 

For Spandau20 she has delivered one hour of pure vinyl-mastery, full of electro / breakbeat gold and we couldn’t be prouder to share it with you today 🖤

SPND20 Mixtape by Helena Hauff

Producer / live act based in Nuremberg / Germany. 1/2 of POLLAAR.

Touch LAZARUS: @lazarus_nbg
Touch OECUS: www.oecusmusic.com
Artwork: Ava Krohn
www.instagram.com/ava.krohn

OECUS Podcast 320 // LAZARUS

Locked Groove Transmission #04: LYDO

Recording of CEM b2b DJ Nobu at Draaimolen Festival 2022

CEM b2b DJ Nobu at Draaimolen Festival 2022

A woodcarver begins with a piece of wood and workpiece preparation. They smooth the surface and eliminate all defects. Next, they keep transforming it using knives and proceed to the final stage: post-processing. They grind it, soak it in certain substances, and then stain. 

So there we go: 
Workpiece preparation = Mix idea
Smoothing = Track sorting 
Knives = Faders, Filters, and Frequency 
Post-processing = Mixing process
 
Our woodcarver for today is fleika

A staple of Prague’s Techno scene, fleika has been cultivating his dj skills for almost a decade.

Between his membership in the Polygon collective, regular exposure at Cukr events and performances at Prague’s Stalin plaza, he has become one of the local scene’s most sought-after selectors.

fleika’s experiences behind the decks have been rapidly developing in Ankali’s DJ booth thanks to his involvement as a club resident and co-curator of Archiv Teknologi night series.

His commitment manifests in persistent digging through vast worlds of music, and in extensive, marathon sets.


Soundcloud: bit.ly/fleika_sc
Facebook: bit.ly/fleika_fb
Instagram: bit.ly/fleika_ig
Resident Advisor: bit.ly/fleika_ra
Booking: booking@gravitynetwork.eu

ANMUT 021: fleika

"I am going to take you on a ride where I will challenge you to back down or go with me," Parrish Smith says in the interview below. "If you don't like to do this, and you see a glimpse of me, you will dislike me. But the second time it happens again, I will be there to change your mind again, just to be challenged."

It's a confident, confrontational idea that goes with an unusually confrontational RA Podcast, a mix that represents a truly free spirit in the European dance scene. Smith, who also moonlights in the band Volition Immanent with fellow Dutch trailblazer Mark Knekelhuis, makes and plays hard, aggressive techno. But instead of gabber BPMs and overdriven kick drums, he directly incorporates ideas, sounds and influences from rock, punk and metal, a tricky combination that he nails like few others have been able to. (Just check his album Light, Cruel & Vain.)

Case in point: this mix blends Regis, Tzusing and Playboi Carti with Sepultura, Juno Reactor and Celldweller. It's a journey to the end of aesthetics, where opposites don't attract so much as crash and melt into each other. It's a fierce hour-and-a-half but never quite overbearing or overwhelming, gracefully weaving in and out of chaos like the work of someone who knows the real impact and art of heavy music.

@parrishsmith

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/874

RA podcast

RA.874 Parrish Smith

Spencer opening @ Locked Groove (March 2023)

Samuel Kerridge is the 338th guest of our original HATE Podcast series.

Download available after 10.000 listens.

Follow #SamuelKerridge here: 
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Spencer opening @ Locked Groove (March 2023)

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