230916MIX

Live recorded at Passos Manuel 16.09.2023
Artwork João Eurico

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We are back with our second Elektorni vinyl release, this time with three original cuts from the legend Mesak (Klakson, Orson) and a remix from Picture (Help Recordings, Kalahari Oyster Cult)! Release date 1.11.2024.

The A-side opens with Mutella, a slapping electro track powered by a growling bassline and dripping with gothic emotion. Next up is Ei Damagea, a smooth slice of electrohypnotism calling to you from an otherworldly dimension inhabited by floaty rhythms and quirky synth stabs. Flip the record, and Mesak flexes his versatility with the 155 bpm piece Musantropia, cruising top down and top speed somewhere between electro, IDM and D&B. Fresh! The journey ends with Picture’s mesmerising remix taking Musantropia deep into an eight-minute techno meditation reminiscent of Basic Channel material, but with an Århusian take on the sound.

Pressed in Finland at Puristamo. @puristamo

You can pre-order via record stores like Decks, Deejay.de, HHV, Juno, Red Eye Records etc. or head to elektorni.bandcamp.com/album/mesak-mutetettu to order a copy straight from the source!

ELKTRN002 B2 Mesak - Musantropia (Picture remix) [snippet]

@djjsaliva

Kicking off a stacked CENTER BOOTH Season 2 is the Porto-raised, Berlin-based Mauro Ventura, better known to techno fans as DJ Saliva. Founder of the long-running Porto queer-centered party series Arena Spa Superiora, Ventura is also a resident DJ and label manager at Herrensauna and an accomplished visual artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, installation and performance. He has played at world-leading venues and festivals including BASEMENT, Tresor, Nuits Sonores, Body Movements, Bassiani and RSO Berlin, sometimes B2Bing with crew mates such as CEM and Salome with electrifying results. We’re thrilled to have him grace CENTER BOOTH with this enigmatic, eclectic set brimming with energy and texture. 

Across 65 compelling minutes, DJ Saliva dips in and out of genres and styles including gothy, plangent techno, subterranean acid, wiggly tech-house, psychedelic IDM, and Carribean rhythms. The mixing is mostly fast, loose, and unsuspecting, whether he’s dropping dancehall into springy, electrifying techno, chasing Karenn’s gnarly “Crush The Mushrooms” with glowy braindance, or breaking up Latin percussion with ravey psytrance. There are moments of tension throughout, an admirable amount of risk-taking, and an experimental quality to the set that makes it feel as though DJ Saliva is taking the trip alongside you, guided by his fervent curiousity, and always landing somewhere slick (the electro-grunge Garbage closer is chef’s kiss). 

Lock in for a lively, daring journey from an artist unafraid to paint outside the lines.

https://youtu.be/iQqpiBy1Wjk?si=cmONTOu-R0D35mWH
https://www.lettonne.dance/

LETTONNE

DJ Saliva – Center Booth ◎ S2E01

@dans-market

Interface is for interaction. What would this interface sound like? This is the question Skalm is asking in the second season of her show Interface. With the premis of limits as something that pushes creative process and its outcome, Skalm selects an interface artifact for every episode to inspire herself and the show's guests.

Interface 2.1 w/ Skalm

TRIP 003

Animalia's natural evolution into new regions & sounds comes with the introduction of @sub-basics to the label. For the first iteration in a new series of releases by the London based artist, Sub Basics brings his signature blend of minimal UK bass, with prismatic percussion loops & spaced out, psychedelic grooves, meeting a tech-house adjacent score that underpins the release.

Immersive yet functional, the release is versatile by nature, timely and fitting for both the autumnal shift in the northern hemisphere, and the welcoming of spring in Australia.

Artist: Sub Basics (London, UK)
Title: Wavelengths
Format: 12” / Digi
Distributed by: Clone (Rotterdam, NL) 
Artwork & Design by Josh Abramovici, (New York, USA)
Mastered by Jason Goz, Transition Mastering (London, UK)

Animalia would like to acknowledge that whilst all tracks were produced in the UK, the label itself operates on the traditional land of the Woiwurrung & Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation, and pay respect to their elders past, and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.

2025 Animalia Label

Sub Basics - Wavelengths (ANIMA17)

R Levántate from the Shelter crew (Los Angeles) 

R Levántate for N.U.

A special mix from saliv8, featuring Techno from Portugal.
Check out the artist: https://soundcloud.com/cokman666

Exit Loop Radio: Episode 12 - saliv8

Queerky invites Makaan resident S3BA for our 4th mix series edition! a trans*disciplinary musician and artist whose individual practice spans DJing, live performance, flute, and vocals. In a performance career lasting over a decade, they have been seen in museums and stages around the globe before making her DJ debut in 2024. 

Since then, S3BA has played iconic events such as Playbody, Howl, Club Are, TM8, Boudica, Unfold, Wraith x Eusexua, Sextou, to name but a few, and is becoming known both for her sexy grooves that keep you moving and more introspective and experimental ambient sounds always with a political influence. 

Recently named one of BCCO x Soundcloud New Faces, she hosts a monthly show on Netil Radio with MYTO collective, of which they are co-parent, and works as part of the trio SEMARA who recently performed at the new V&A Storehouse in East London and will soon be releasing their first LP.

Trans Rights are Human Rights, Black Lives Matter, Free Palestine, Free Sudan, Free Congo, Free Lebanon. None of us are free until all of us are free.

QKY004: S3BA

Inspired by Romanian minimal and house music, “trip to the dentist” rides a deep, bass-heavy groove with tape-warped textures and playful vocal edits. It’s not strictly minimal, but it lives in that same hypnotic space.

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