The newest Spandau20 mixtape is brought to you by our longtime friend and extended family member Victor, one of our favorite DJs and head of the Magic Power Label. The mix showcases a lot of forthcoming music on bespoke label, some Spandau20 bits and some other tracks on befriended labels. None of the tracks are out yet so don’t bother shazamming. It comes in perfect timing, as today is Victor's 26th birthday - so tune in and then wish him a happy birthday!

SPND20 Mixtape by Victor

For @eliasmazian, music is a time capsule - a form of transport to somewhere safe and secluded away from every day worries. It is a way for the Dutchman with Moroccan roots to express his deepest emotions and connect the music of his childhood with contemporary sounds from around the world. He showcased this with us at Dekmantel Connects back in 2021 and always in the music he makes. 

He crafts a moody and atmospheric start to this week's podcast with melancholic melody over languid beats. There's then a slow shift to the dance floor before party-starting house jacks your body with plenty of hands-in-the-air pianos and ever more pumping basslines. It's a high-energy selection that wears its heart proudly on its sleeve.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 387 - Elias Mazian

The latest Off-Kilter submission comes from DJ extraordinaire Shanti Celeste.

All killer/no filler - over an hour of colourful club ready techno, electro and house - we struck gold with this one - it's like fizzy golden fireworks melting into the night sky.

@shanticeleste

OK008- Shanti Celeste

Being named a resident at Berghain is likely an unattainable dream for so many DJs, but for Sedef Adasi, it all happened naturally. The Turkish producer grew up in the mid-sized Bavarian city of Augsburg, where a lack of spaces she felt comfortable with—she's mentioned DJing in shoe stores—led her to start her own party, HAMAM Nights. From there she made her name with a vibrant, diverse sound that encompasses breaks, electro, techno and more, with soft-focus melodies and plenty of vocal hooks. She's one of the first residents at the legendary club to truly reflect the glorious cross-pollination of dance music styles in the '10s, when techno absorbed ideas from dubstep, garage and more. 

Adasi represents both floors of that club, and you could imagine this RA Podcast going down in either room, but of course, she exists outside that club's narrative too. What you'll hear here is a cutting-edge and dynamic blend of electro and Latin techno—with two tracks from 2022 MVP Nick León—mixed with grace and finesse. Her sound is immediately approachable, well-paced and full of catchy moments and breakdowns. Listen and find out.

@sedefadasi

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/861

RA podcast

RA.861 Sedef Adasi

With what was mostly a full and fruitful year for us with many beautiful moments, we now turn our eyes forward to what is looking to be a very exciting year for us at Phonica as we walk into our 20th year of being alive. 2022 saw our mix series get even more killer contributions from artists like Paramida, Sally C, Fred P, Eden Burns, Alex Kassian, Erol Alkan and more. 2023's series line up plans to keep moving up and we have opened this years mix season in the capable hands of two of the finest DJ/Producers doing it right now. Bringing nothing but powerful, euphoric and goddess energies it can only be Octo Octa and Eris Drew of T4T Luv NRG. Amazingly celebrated for their strand of psychedelic, rolling progressive, trancey-house and break rhythms we can't think of two better selector's to take on our series. With an excellently curated compilation and mix for our good friends at Fabric last year as well as two banging cassettes on T4T we can't begin to imagine what this year has in-store for Maya and Eris but we have no doubt it's even more on the upward trajectory! Most likely to the heavens and back! We had a chat with Maya and Eris to see what they have been up to lately and little about how they approached the mix.

Interview Here

Phonica Mix Series 103: Octo Octa & Eris Drew

Acid techno boss Dr. Rubinstein is on top form here for her new mix for us. Smashed-out, empowering selections from the word go. #IWD23

Dave N.A. - Pink Moon
Nigel Richards - I Like It 
Defence - Flow
High Prime - Funky As
Num Num - Hi-Num 4.1
Atomu Shinzo - Metabol / Infrared 
Biosphere - The Fairy Tale
Headrillaz - Weird Planet
Paradise 3001 - Long Distance Call To Heaven
Export Audio - Stay ( Break Even Mix ) 
East Leipzig Theory - Reminiscence Of '99
Doms & Deykers - Sweet Sanctuary
Jack Roland - Lost
Ever Vivid - Lost Love
N.E.D. - Distant Drums

IWD23 - Dr. Rubinstein - fabric podcast

REC 007 w/ Levon Vincent

The REC series compiles outstanding performances recorded in the club throughout the year, highlighting artists representing our love for electronic music.

Not so long ago, Levon Vincent took over our Motion Room with his inimitable style. The owner of Novel Sound puts in motion a knotty two hours mix where emotions collide with minimalism. Delicates melodies, satisfying synths, the recorded set sums up pretty much the hallmark of the American artist and perfectly captures the experience of a heady night on Fuse’s second floor. Until the next one Levon!

▪️ Soundcloud: @levonvincent
▪️ Resident Advisor: ra.co/dj/levonvincent
▪️ Discogs: discogs.com/artist/208750-Levon-Vincent
▪️ Instagram: instagram.com/levon_vincent/
▪️ Facebook: facebook.com/DJLEVONVINCENT

Levon Vincent — Recorded live at Fuse Brussels (04/02/23)

Black Cadmium in The Beat Mix! Om te vieren dat hun debuutalbum Dream Computer uit is, en om vast op te warmen voor hun set op DGTL Asmterdam.

The Beat is het elektronische muziek programma op NPO 3FM. Gepresenteerd door Justin Verkijk elke zaterdagavond tussen 22:00 en 01:00.

The Beat Mix: Black Cadmium

Hard work can pay off. Just ask Elisa Bee. The Sardinian producer and DJ has been working diligently since 2007, exploring and then refining a style of techno that has that rare, hard-to-put-your-finger-on quality: a soulful reverence, paying homage to the old days and the originators without just copying them. She struck it (relatively) big with an EP on Unknown To The Unknown in 2019 and has since become a fixture on labels like Hardgroove, Symbiosis and Balkan Vinyl, imprints that specialize in a kind of meat-and-potatoes techno that underlines both the fundamentals and subtle innovation. She's also a resident at Milan's Tempio Del Futuro Perduto, which she talks about at length in the interview below.

Now, in 2023, Elisa Bee is part of a vanguard of younger techno producers who carry the flag for the '90s without resorting to pastiche or the bigger-is-better aesthetic of much of the rest of the contemporary European techno landscape. Her RA Podcast is as buttery smooth as it is propulsive, flying through tracks from like-minded artists like Austin Ato, Nocow and Black Girl/White Girl. Sleek, vintage and futuristic all at once.

@xelisabeex

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/881

RA.881 Elisa Bee

Recorded Live on April 30th 2018 in Berlin.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on June 9th 2018.

Tracklist

Intro
Maurizio - Domina (Carl Craig's Mind Mix) [M - 3]
Skatebård - Stalheim-Mix [Digitalo Enterprise]
The Plan - Red Shift [Submerge]
 Project Future - Ray-Gun-Omics [Capitol]
Dexter - Echo Park [Klakson]
Stingray313 - Armchair Psychiatrist [Naked Lunch]
Monika Ross - Ever After [Entity London]
Octave One - Empower [430 West]
Marcel Dettmann - Quicksand [Ostgut Ton]
Get Fucked - Dark & Dirty (Matthew B. Remix) [Eukahouse]
Yak - Zephyr [Le Chatroom]
Artist Formerly Known As P. P. - Ruffneck Chicken [White]
A.W.E.S.O.M.-O. - Excellence Of Execution [Zyntax Motorcity]
Pangaea - Cuba Vox [Unreleased]
Syclops - Spin Cycle [BubbleTease Communications]
Pure Science - The Art Of Being [B+Positive]
EGZR - Untitled [Wania]
W.V. - Nachschub (B) [Auftrieb]
Donato Dozzy - Cleo [Eerie]
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands [Skull Disco]
Optic Nerve - G-Man's Journey (Mystic Mix) [Puzzlebox]
The Experience - Tubes [Mystic]
Barker - Filter Bubbles [Ostgut Ton]
Chino Amobi - Law II [NON]
Bitstream - Step Retracing [Touchin Bass]
Call Super & Michael Smith - SE X Mi Cyaan Believe It
Embaci - Walk On May 5th [Discwoman]
Dianne Lynn - Forever My Sunset (MAN-D.A. Dub) [Flying]
Powder - Spray [Born Free]
Chez Damier - Help Myself [KMS]
SMX - Sleep [Whities Blue]
Terre Thaemlitz - Admit It's Killing You (DJ Sprinkles' Dead End) [Comatonse]
Maurizio - Domina (Carl Craig's Mind Mix) [M - 3]

The Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1

Recording of Sandrien & Fafi Abdel Nour's set at Dekmantel Connects 2020.

Dekmantel Connects

Sandrien (house set) & Fafi Abdel Nour at Dekmantel Connects 2020

Weekly Saturday night radio show on NPO 3FM focussing on electronic music, hosted by Justin Verkijk. 

Playlist: spoti.fi/3mncuFI

The Beat Mix: Black Cadmium

THE BEAT

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