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Deep Sets series no. 101

Created: 2025/09/05 (released on that date with 7 tracks)

These sets were uploaded mostly in August and September 2025.

Nice ones!

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Vybz Kartel -Neva Get A Gal Mi Love So Much

150BPM Live hard techno acid set featuring Elektron’s, TD3’s and distortion.

SEQUEL - Bassix NYE 2024

DJ DIONYX X VYBZ KARTEL & GENERAL LEVY (WILL BADMAN RIDDIM) 2024

Amsterdam natives Maarten Smeets and Lars Dales, aka Dam Swindle, unveil their third long-player with the release of a new track, the first to be shared from the upcoming album, ‘Open’ - out on 30 May 2025 via Heist Recordings.

The new album sees the acclaimed duo dive far beyond the deep sonic waters they’re most known for, exploring lower tempos, synthwave, hip-house, and ambient across fourteen tracks. With a gestation period that traces back several years, ‘Open’ is their most intimate and personal body of work thus far, birthed during a time of self-reflection away from touring and personal transformation as individuals.

“We felt the need to tell a very personal story through our music as a translation of our personal development in the past years. We also wanted to make music without a specific goal in mind; We simply wanted to create. By taking away the grid of dance music and any expectations of what a Dam Swindle song should sound like, the creativity started to flow naturally with songs in many different styles and tempos. The result is an album that feels refreshing and uplifting and still very much true to the heart and soul of our sound.” - Dam Swindle, January 2025.

While the trademark Dam Swindle four-to-the-floor beats are still ever-present on tracks like ‘The Present Is Always Perfect’, ‘I Need You’, and ‘Is This Love?’, it’s the gentle waves of synths on opener ‘Home’, the contemplative piano chords of ‘Bloom’ featuring Joep Beving, and the lo-fi ambience of ‘It’s Okay, I Can Wait’ that showcase a melancholic, ethereal sensibility previously uncharted by the duo. Collaborations with vocalists such as NYC’s Haile Supreme on ‘Not Enough’ and Neo-soul singer Faye Meana on ‘Girl’ expertly find room in between the dancefloor and home listening sessions, and a clear standout on the LP is the title cut where message-heavy rapped vocals from UK artist Samson ebb and flow amongst iridescent grooves.

Under the helm of Maarten and Lars’ adept A&R, their Heist imprint has become a beloved home for house heads of both schools old and new, platforming some of dance music’s biggest names from Cinthie to DJ Sneak as well as the musical dawnings of artists such as Kassian and Makèz. The Dam Swindle alias has achieved house music royalty-like status across a storied 15-year career that includes two critically lauded full-lengths, collaborations with the likes of Tom Misch and Kerri Chandler, and a globetrotting touring schedule. This album stands as their most profoundly personal work of art to date, and they can’t wait to share it with you.


Open

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The present is always perfect

„Mehr FLINTA*s an die Decks!" - Kycyc's Motto seit über 4 Jahren. Um mehr Diversität hinterm Mixer zu schaffen, hat Sie angefangen aufzulegen, mittlerweile auch Vinyl. Vielleicht schwappt Ihre Motivation auf euch über und ihr startet etwas, was ihr schon immer mal machen wolltet!
Schon bevor Marie selbst aufgelegt habe, wurde Sie mit Minimal und Deep House infiziert. Ihr Sound ist spritzig und schmatzig, Sie liebe fetzige Claps und bouncy Bässe. Hoffentlich regt euch ihr Set zum Popowackeln an!

Humble Encounters Radio Show (EP. 14) - Kycyc

Live recording of my set @ Musik Me Luv x Wraz [Pieces EP] Deep Medi launch party in Montreal, Canada. One was for the books, mad vibes all around.

SHIGERO LIVE @ Musik Me Luv x Wraz [Pieces EP] Deep Medi launch party

Live is Life - Shônagon invite Joey 808 - 25.04.25

Ronja is a Finnish, Helsinki-based DJ who was introduced to the techno scene in 2021. She fell in love with the genre a year later after discovering artists in the hypnotic and mental scene, some of whom remain her favourites today. While she has no formal musical background, discovering and sharing music has always been her passion. This made DJing feel like a natural step, and she finally began her journey behind the decks in the second half of 2024. 

This set marks Ronja’s second podcast and showcases her signature sound. The tracks are characterised by simple yet hypnotic and captivating loops, creating an immersive atmosphere.

Session # 147 Ronja

To be a small horse in the sun

"To see the lingering ember of humanity in the most corrupt. This is the truest form of mercy." – Grahame, Realms Unravelled

Track list and start times:
00:00  evergreen avenue – Maybe If I Really Tried with All of My Heart (excerpt)
05:10  Mads Emil Nielsen – Vibrations
12:09  Zoë Keating – Empty Field
14:08  Deadman's Ghost – Chthonic Currents
17:28  Hand To Earth – Gaḏayka
23:18  Lavatone – Rain Lashes
30:28  Donald Gisbey – Jazz - Punk - Seagull
40:11  John Murphy & Underworld – Mercury (from ‘Sunshine’)
42:10  Peter Chilvers – A Frosted World
44:47  Loop(c)y – Underground Walk
48:00  Third Ear Band – Water
54:45  Stan Magendanz – levetatha
58:44  RNL – Anxiety Engine
1:04:55  Himukalt – Sehr Empfindlich
1:12:15  Marcin Lasek – Untitled 4 (excerpt)
1:16:54  Passepartout Duo – From Narva
1:21:19  Roberto Vodanović Čopor – I didn't even know that you had died
1:27:15  Peter Chilvers – The Unbroken Sky
1:32:16  Thalictroa – A Spiral Density Wave
1:39:12  RNL – Anxiety Inhibitor
1:45:00  Zoë Keating – The Last Bird
1:46:52  Underworld – Distortions (from ‘Sunshine’)
1:52:31  Passepartout Duo – From Taipei
1:57:40  Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee – Spiral of Breath (excerpt)
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Image: Lexica.art



Eclectic current – The embers of humanity

The opening track from 'Fully Aware' is a journey into bleeding-edge, psychedelia-infused, tech-trance crossover. The talented Quantaloop really flex their production muscles on this timeless gem of a tune.

Fully Aware

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Rising Death Star ft. Matriöchka

Originally Turkish but born and raised just outside of Zurich, Alci’s entry into DJing came via Hip Hop and street culture, trying his hand at graffiti and breakdancing before discovering turntables. At the age of 17 he was already on the Zurich circuit and today is called upon to play all around the world. Igniting his passion for music, his taste has evolved over the years, shifting into the electronic world where he now places his sound between funky House grooves and minimalistic Techno.

https://soundcloud.com/alci

MEOKO Podcast Series | ALCI #252

Jam D'amour

Path to Extinction EP // Zenon records 2020

Oblak

Tommy Lee Sparta - No Love [No Blue Riddim] Feb 2013

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
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I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
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This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

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You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
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My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
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I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
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Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

To be a small horse in the sun

Tanya Poulin

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