Wonja (@wonj) is an elite level record collector. The Oakland-based DJ and producer has been putting together mixes for many years that are filled with music that is hard to describe, let alone to find. From teary-eyed Italo disco to her series of Wood Glass Metal mixes via world music and more club ready sounds, she is a Jedi-level digger who also occasionally produces solo, or with partner Dan as Motoko & Myers. Her main priority, though, is to devour and share as much music as possible.

This week's podcast is a two hour trip to the outer edges of Wonja's collection that her partner describes as "hard sci-fi party tracks." It is a wide open and spacious selection where alien details, solar pulses and cosmic motifs all drift by as scattered percussion only hints at the most skeletal rhythms. Nothing about the tracks is at all familiar, and all genre terms are redundant. Even when more propulsive grooves do arrive, the sound sources are wonderfully weird and abstract, yet the desire to dance is as primal and compelling as ever. Few mixes are as full of WTF?! moments as this one.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 328 - Wonja

"For this mix I wanted to pull together something that captures where I'm at musically in terms of what I'm listening to regularly, obsessing over and who I'm inspired by. I feel like it's a proper time capsule. I'm very thankful for the dancefloor experiences I had this summer which introduced me to some pretty incredible producers and DJs, ones who are more influenced by nature and the environment surrounding them with these organic, psychedlic textures seeping through their soundscapes. There's a lot of percussive and deep spacey elements in this mix, spanning everything from the trippy and minimal to the sometimes obnoxious style of psytrance."

@basicchanel
@untitled909

Mantissa Mix 323: Basic Chanel

Rinse FM Podcasts

TAÑ - 24 April 2024

Veronica Vasicka presents a monthly 2-hour show featuring the lost synth-wave treasures she has archived from the late 70s and early 80s, along with other iconic underground electronic music drawn from over four decades. Expect to hear exclusive tracks from releases on her seminal Minimal Wave and Cititrax labels plus cassette-only and private press rarities. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/veronica-vasicka/episodes/veronica-vasicka-11th-june-2024

Minimal Wave w/ Veronica Vasicka 110624

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MJK b2b Kessie - 02 July 2024

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Devil's Work with Farrell & S Ruston - 08 July 2024

Listen back as Bailey Ibbs brought 60 minutes of deep, dark techno and electro cuts to the arcade, joined by mosai for a b2b in the second half.  Rave-ready selections inside from Nikki Nair, DJ ADHD and more.

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Bailey Ibbs w/ mosai - July 2024

Spoke - You Make Me Feel Dramatic 
LP
TC02: Nostalgic Wavs 04; Déjà Vu; 
WLC013

Out 26th September 2025

https://tr.ee/WLC013_Feels_Swatch

Hey this is Skwirl here to gab at you briefly about the records we have coming for this year’s thematic cluster! The theme is Nostalgic Wavs and each record has been linked to a concept under the rather large umbrella of nostalgia as a function of emotional attachment to memory. 


The fourth record for Nostalgic Wavs is Spoke’s endlessly colourful and spirited LP ‘You Make Me Feel Dramatic’ and it’s our Déjà Vu selection.

Déjà Vu is a concept that needs no introduction as an estimated 97 percent of people have experienced it at least once. It is categorised as a strong familiarity with a present situation or experience - to the extent of believing it has been perceived or experienced before - despite it being new. We’ve mapped it as restorative, present, unknowing on our Nostalgic Wavs map.

https://tr.ee/WLC_Nostalgic_Wavs-Graphic

Spoke is a queer, non binary German producer based in Berlin known most prominently for their blistering hip hop productions that have become a fixture in the international, experimental, and non-traditional fringes of the Berlin Deutschrap scene. Spoke started their musical career as a DJ in Berlin in the late 2000s, amidst a cascade of grime and garage migrating from the UK en route to the thumps and stomps of the techno capital -  that fertile ground of cross pollination and the exciting rise of the German beat scene can still be found reverberating through their work now.


Indeed, when arriving upon what the LP for Woodland Creatures would sound like we found mutual excitement in exploring their roots in club music both classic and contemporary, pop and underground. A stint living in the UK some years back had solidified their love for garage, drum and bass and the wider UK funky continuum; and, this merged with a keen infatuation with stateside movements like jersey house, juke and footwork in the years since moving back to Berlin - all culminating in a collision of style, sounds and ethos that had been percolating in them for quite some time. 

The result is ‘You Make Me Feel Dramatic’, a punchy, short and sweetly diaphanous transatlantic club scene love letter born of Spoke’s personal journey and subterranean explorations which is brimming with immediacy, life, colour and aimed squarely at breathless sweaty dancefloor workouts. Spoke’s authentic filtering of inspirations and synthesised style mashups yields a record that feels impossibly familiar - like club joints you could swear you know but are of course brand new - and speaks of a producer poised to take the audience on a personal journey they might not expect but one that is kaleidoscopic, spritely, infectious, and just flat out fun.

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all tracks written and produced by Spoke

“Moon Landing” was composed for the theatre 
project Henrike Iglesias - Space Dudes

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“Shukhus” is a rework of OMAR KTD’s “Shukhus”  

Used by permission

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Mix assistance and mastering by Jacob Korn @ Tailout

Artwork and design by Blake Thompson 

Feels Swatch and Nostalgic Wavs Map by Brittany Myers 

Distributed digitally by EPM Music

Executive Produced by Skwirl

https://www.instagram.com/spoke.slomostudio

https://www.instagram.com/woodland_creatures_label


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