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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You Make Me Feel Dramatic

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Release Date: October 3rd, 2025
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Release date: 25th September

Buy it here: https://realityclub.bandcamp.com/album/rcr006-2

Reality Club Instagram: https://instagram.com/realityxclub?igshid=1lnz2wa2pbvpi

Reality Club Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realityclubrecords/

Reality Club Soundcloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/reality-club

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Public House Contact: public-house@homtail.com 

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Indulge in some full-fat, buttered on both sides, whipped cream on top goodness from this local melkman. Guaranteed to keep you dancing til the cows come home.

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Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/djbotermelk

Reach Out Records
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/reachoutrecords
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reachoutrecords.seoul

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A very warm welcome to our long distant friend - Julio Araujo aka Dagga, joining us today for our fourth mix series. 

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The don dada provided us with a two hour mix featuring some of his own material, stuff he has been digging lately and also some tracks from our compilation. Get loose!

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SC: https://soundcloud.com/daggatrx
IG: https://www.instagram.com/bydagga/
BC: https://steelcitydancediscs.bandcamp.com/album/gutter002-12-track-attack

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@user-384342108
@youinmcdonalds
mastered by @LiamDoc
disclaimerglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/dc001

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Maté
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mate999
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mate999999

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dj-Frankie-651416541913603

Backside Slice
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/backsideslice

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