Kamma & Masalo at Dekmantel Selectors 2021.

Dekmantel Selectors 2021

Kamma & Masalo at Dekmantel Selectors 2021

Fred P at The Labyrinth 2011.

Venue: Naeba Greenland, Niigata, Japan.

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To celebrate 20 years of building Labyrinths, we have decided to release one set from each of the last ten years. I've chosen ten timeless moments that both document the history of the event and provide a historical snapshot of underground electronic music over the past ten years.

We have chosen a broad range--from closing techno sets, to morning ambient sets, to experimental sets to close the night. Each set represents a different side of the event. Taken together, they present a portrait of a decade of music.

The Labyrinthの20周年を記念して、過去10年間を振り返り、それぞれの年からひとつのミックスをピックアップすることにしました。イベントの歴史を記録すると同時に、過去10年間のアンダーグラウンドエレクトロニックミュージックの歴史的なスナップショットを提供します。今聞いても色褪せない、タイムレスな極上のミックスをお楽しみください。

テクノのクロージングセットから、朝のアンビエントセット、そして夜を締めくくるエクスペリメンタルセットまで幅広いセレクトですが、どのセットもThe Labyrinthの欠かせない側面を表しており、ここ10年におけるエレクトロニック ミュージックの全容とも言えるでしょう。

The Labyrinth 2011 - Fred P

4.5 hours of sun-drenched sonic magic, etched into the soul of a place that already felt like a miracle. Kala Festival 2024 - Gjipe Beach, Albania
@kamma & @masalo-music

KAMMA & MASALO @ KALA FESTIVAL 2024 - GJIPE BEACH, ALBANIA

Six years since his last album, the peerless electronic and club producer Djrum returns with “Under Tangled Silence” - marking the release with a rare guest mix on NTS. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/djrum-1st-may-2025

Djrum 010525

This gig leaves me speechless. Many thanks to everyone who was still awake and dancing <3

Leon Licht - Fusion Festival 2025 - Luftschloss 30-06-25

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles

Babushka

Today we’re all super hyped for for Lente Kabinet this weekend so to get us even more excited we’ve got Job Jobse making his entry to the series. He will play a closing set at the festival and as resident at De School is a master for serving up the perfect record at the perfect time. Initially a slow burner, he’s long been loved by Amsterdam locals for his richly melodic take on house, techno, Italo and disco, and himself is happy to call it trance. 

It’s certainly a spell being and emotional style that characterises his work here. With something of an old school slant, there are stiff vocal cuts and robotic grooves that slowly loosen up and turn to more hands in the air and zoned out fair before getting more sci-fi and occult later on. As ever with Jobse, it’s feel good and fun without being obvious.

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Dekmantel Podcast 231 - Job Jobse

SI TRASFORMANO IN UN RAZZO MISSILE: artiste e artisti elettronici di pregio renderanno omaggio a "Si trasforma in un razzo missile" di Stefano Di Trapani con delle playlist esclusive dei brani delle sigle che hanno illuminato il loro cammino musicale. Iniziamo con la selection compilata da Donato Dozzy:

1) KIMBA
2) DANGUARD
3) GOLDRAKE (GRENDIZER)
4) TEKKAMAN
5) DAITARN 3
6) BLUE NOAH
7) GACKEEN
8) LUPIN 3
9) GAIKING
10) GUNDAM
11) GOD SIGMA
12) ASTRO ROBOT
13) GATCHAMAN (SCIENCE NINJA TEAM)
14) CAPITAN HARLOCK
15) GATTIGER
16) CYBERNELLA (MIRACLE GIRL LIMIT-CHAN)
17) PRINCESS SAPHIRE
18) BEM
19) BALDIOS
20) JET ROBOT
21) STARZINGER
22) JEEG ROBOT
23) ZAMBOT 3
24) DAIKENGO
25) RYU (THE CAVE BOY)

Donato Scaramuzzi aka Donato Dozzy è uno dei DJ e producer italiani più importanti e rispettati in ambito techno, con una lunga carriera caratterizzata da uno sviluppo lento e progressivo, punteggiata dal 2004 in poi da tanti 12” e album (spesso testimonianze di esplorazioni in territori più lontani dal dancefloor) pubblicati in solitaria o in varie collaborazioni (il progetto Voices From The Lake merita un approfondimento specifico).
[Bio scritta da Alessandro Pogliani per sentireascoltare.com]

"Si trasforma in un razzo missile" è un viaggio nel lato oscuro dell’industria discografica nazionale che, dalla metà degli anni Settanta fino ai primi Novanta, ha prodotto sigle originali per i cartoni animati d'importazione. Una complessità creata da band nelle quali militavano (quasi in segreto) i nomi più autorevoli della musica italiana. Musicisti al servizio di Lucio Battisti e Ken il guerriero, parolieri che lavorano per Bobby Solo e Astro Robot, arrangiatori al fianco di Francesco Guccini e Capitan Harlock… bit.ly/Razzo.

Demented Burrocacao, aka Stefano Di Trapani, è musicista, scrittore, critico musicale. Conduce Italian Folgorati per Vice.

SELECTION di Donato Dozzy per "Si trasforma in un razzo missile"

JOOF - The human jukebox.

The DJ world has embraced live streaming in these uncertain times and there’s a lot of music to digest every week, so I want to mix things up a little and add some fun in-between my usual mixes. If I had to name one thing that I dislike when I’m playing, it would be requests. I don’t mean this in a rude way, I’m unfolding a musical story whilst also reading the crowd so my DJ gut instinct is telling me where and when the story should unfold, and requests usually don’t fit within my vision.
So as requests are a burden for me, I thought let’s turn that on its head and all I’ll did on this session is play requests! We have an amazing community of people that join these weekly sessions, they were in control of this one, threw the requests at me via the comments and I frantically tried to find them and put some form of mix together and have a mass laugh together…especially as you’re watching me panicking!

We ended up going full power Turbo.


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Babushka

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