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Juanita's Mix 047 with downstairs J @downstairs-j

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. Music maker and music listener : ) 

Q. How long have you been a part of the NYC music scene?
A. Have been living here since 2015, in and out making beats a little before that..

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. A downtempo crescendo.

Juanita's Mix 047: downstairs J

A resident DJ for renowned Leeds based party truelove., Lawson’s sound explores a selective palette from cosmic downtempo through to high energy breaks and techno - always with a subtle nod to UK rave culture

TASCAM DR-05X

Connectcast 016 - Lawson

My Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1.

Tracklist:

Lazer Worshippers - Lazer Worshippers Theme [EXperimental]
Young American Primitive - These Waves [ZoëMagik]
Pete Namlook / DJ Dag - You Gotta Hold It In Your Lungs Longer, George [Fax +49-69/450464]
Dylan Forbes - Djibril 9 [Coymix]
Match Box - Quantum Transients [GODDEZZ]
Vegas Soul - Day By Day [Bellboy Records] 
Priori - Tulip A/B (Beat) [NAFF]
Benoit B - We Come In Peace [Animals Dancing]
Confession - I Found My Love (Trance Mix) [Abfahrt]
Speedy J - Pepper [Warp]
LDC - Plasma [Dance Pool]
Dance 2 Trance - We Came In Peace (’91 Mix) [Logic Records]
Capricorn - Love In London (Piano Mix) [4th & Broadway]
Snakebite - The Bit Goes On (Alex Kassian Edit) [Multiply Records]
Epsylon 9 - Life Formation [Forbidden Planet]
Pob - Strata (Seismic) [Seismic Records]
Tranquil Voice - Acid India (Little Rascal Remix) [Music Man Records]
Escape Artist - Energy Breakthrough (Adam Pits' Lightspeed Mix) [Phonica Records]
Dylan Forbes - Take U Over [Hâws]
Sonic Sound - The Hungarian Thing [Sonic Sound]
Luke Slater - Love (Loved) [NovaMute]
Cologne Summer - Sunshower [Le Petit Prince]
Shades Of Rhythm - Sound Of Eden (VFT Mix) [ZTT]
THK - France (Saturn Mix) [Warp]
Phasis - Mind Illusions [Influence Recordings]

Job Jobse - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (April 2022)

Solstitium 22

Long waited party in Tallinn with our Traveling Hedgehog back at home.  I really loved the second night - the energy, vibe and people in our amazing "Church" at Krulli kvartal. Thank you everyone for being there and making this magic happen!

Ivo Naries

Ivo Naries - Traveling Hedgehog Party

The Hedgehog has been traveling around Europe for the past 2 years and actively carrying out the mission of spreading love & creativity all over the world! In October the Hedgehog was in town, celebrating meeting old & new friends at Krulli Industrial area to hold an immersive congregation for all music & dancing lovers.

This is my recorded morning melodic techno cardio set from the first celebration day 4.30-6.30). 
Enjoy and dance with me!

This Is My Church

Traveling Hedgehog "This Is My Church"

Indie dance set played by PASHA on Saturday night at Surf to the beat 2022 festival

PASHA - Surf To The Beat 2022, Midnight Set, Indie Dance.WAV

2022 has been particularly challenging in many ways and Canaanite Records would like to thank you all for your support.

For the last fragment of the year, we'd like to welcome Vand.

Established in Amsterdam, Viktor has dedicated almost a decade to playing and experimenting with electronic music. DJ and Producer he is now mostly affiliated with the ISOTOOP collective, helping with transmitting their unique sonic identity. Today, Vand is delivering a beautiful selection of deep electronic music. Driving slower and deeper he is introducing us to his world. 

‘’ With this selection, I stepped back into the slower territories again. The process of constructing it was a great escape from the fast-paced world around me. Some of my all-time fav tracks with an added harmonic touch ‘’

We hope you'll enjoy the ride by @vandmusic.

Tracklist:

١. Deep Nalström - Mother Of Energy
٢. Earthen Sea - Outcropping
٣. Koss - Negai
٤. Marconi Union - Ginza District
٥. Signer - Shifting Between Standing And Sitting
٦. OK EG - Intertidal Zone
٧. Clarian - Inuit
٨. Shoal - Untitled
٩. Donato Dozzy & Claudio Fabrianesi - Disco Infecta
١٠. Petter B - Shut Your Eyes
١١. Claudio PRC - Mana
١٢. Donato Dozzy - Sotto Ma Sotto (Lucy Remix)
١٣. Fabrizio Lapiana - Into The Clouds
١٤. Shoal - Untitled
١٥. Gal Tsadok-Hai - The Green Eden
١٦. Lena Deen - Lateral

Wishing you a wonderful weekend and a happy new year,
Canaanite Records

fragment30: Vand

There is a discernible revival for the 90's. That era is getting the retro love it deserves, and I'm all for it.  Interest for this era has never been higher in eons. Those tracks are full of space-alien references, obscure movies from the 90's, meditation lectures from gurus of that time and dreamy pads with acid leads. Most of these tracks found their way onto the shelves of many discerning listeners in the 90's thanks to a frothy mix of dubwise ambient house and melodic electronica aimed for post-club melting sessions. File under ambient/ chill out / house / trance / acid & bleepy melodic chill anthems. https://funkyjeff77.wordpress.com/2023/04/25/the-ambient-house-revival-planet-love-3-h-33-mix/

Tracklist : 

Planet Love – New Era
The Orb – Blue Room (CocoDaBank Remix)
Alien Mutation – Starship Heart Of Gold
Alien Signal – Deep Sky Delights (1993)
Bliss Inc. – Offensive Username
Biosphere – Novelty Waves (Biosphere Arctic Mix)
Ebi – San
Manipulate – It’s Not A Mindtrip
Air Liquide – Chromoplastic (Remix)
Ex-Terrestrial – Mojave Skyline (ANF Virtual Music Mix) – Euphorbia EP
If You Don’t Love Me (Future Sound Of London Stateside Swamp Mix)
PLO Man – Rare Plastic
Maurizio – Ploy (Battersea Was An Island Of Mud Mix)
Air Liquide – Sun Progress
Air Liquide – This is not a mindtrip Live at the Love parade
Air Liquide – Liquid Air (Acidtrance 1992)
The 7 th Plain – To Be Surreal
Maara – Tranquil Lust Mommy
Orbital – Impact (The Earth Is Burning)
Biodive – Limpet Minds
Ex-Terrestrial – Vanilight (Rezoned)
Gnork – Rays
Sueño Latino – Sueño Latino (The Paradise Version)
Conoid Tone HIA
Barry Human – Beauty (1993)
SPACE E.C.C.O. – John C. Lilly
Aphex Twin – Digeridoo (Aboriginal Mix) 1991
Phobia – Phobia (Silent) (1991)
Maara – Plum Plum Paradise
Biosphere – Patashnik
PREMIERE E00 – X-71 Odyssey [Paradygme Records]
Ex-Terrestrial – Insect Reject
Sun Electric –  Space Therapy (Orbital Therapy Part 1)
Global Communication- Maiden Voyage (Ripperton Edit)
Lhasa – The Attic 
Trans4M – Arrival
Number Stations The Conet Project Part 1
PLO Man – TX-i
Pacific State (Nathan Jassi Remix)
My.Dinner.With.Andre.
The Higher Intelligence Agency – Speedlearn (Reformed By The Irresistible Force)
The Arc – Orphic Mysteries
Atlantis – Paradise Part 1 (Chill Out Version)
Ongaku – Mihon # 2
The KLF – Dream Time in Lake Jackson
The Orb- A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre of the…
The KLF – 3AM Somewhere Out Of Beaumont
Prince of Darkness – This is not a Dream

Planet love : early transmissions & inspirations

Surf to the beat 22

Zen polymath Sebastien Mullaert’s project Circle of Live marshals a raft of diverse global talents for ‘free-flowing collaborative jam sessions in clubs around the world’. This time round it brought together the Swedish musician himself, plus Spazio Disponibile gaffer Neel and the moody soundscapes of German techno-pundit VRIL as part of their ongoing collaboration. What’s clear for anyone following these three trajectories: the trio couldn’t be more perfectly aligned, their occult compositions are bound by a set of influences that border on the metaphysical. The music itself: meditative, deep, ruminant and transformative. Textured layer upon layer, these preternatural melodies and jerking beats are sublime astral audio from another dimension: Bassiani Podcast 170 is a freeform and mind-expanding journey through uncharted waters recorded live at the club back in December.

@circleoflive

Bassiani invites Circle Of Live (Sebastian Mullaert / Neel / Vril)/ Podcast #170

the most beautiful mix by JOSE PADILLA.........enjoy........

Essential Mix - Jose Padilla - Live @ Cafe Del Mar in Ibiza (09-10-1995)

A mix for the laziest of Sundays from George FitzGerald.

"It’s a rainy, English summer’s day as I record this, and I have a latent feeling I should be doing something out there, but I won’t. Some new, some old, mostly electronic, all tinged with the right amount of wistfulness to make the time pass more comfortably."

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Sunday Mix: George FitzGerald

An ode to the perfect summer day. Those diamond days where there’s nothing else you want to do than to hang out with your friends, lie in the sun and dip in and out of the water. So play it on the beach, at your pool party, on your roadtrip or any other sun drenched setting of choice. 

Expect early 00’s Global Underground Ibiza vibes, 90’s Italian dream house, old and new school progressive and a big Balearic sunset moment to finish it off. Including some hidden gems, some unreleased cuts and some bonafide hits, all tried and tested for SUMMER. 

Featuring tracks by Spray, Aldonna, Fantastic Man, Running Hot, Alex Kassian, Chicane, eoin dj, Nalin & Kane, Asphalt DJ & Gzardin, Paul van Dyk, NairLess, Trent Voyage & Elena Moroder, Gaskin, Spooky, Underworld, Jex Opolis, CC Disco, Perishing Thirst, Dylan Forbes, tape_hiss and many more.

Dagen Van Diamant (Summer Mix '23)

Stella Polaris Music , Frederiksberg, DK 5 August 2023

Simon Russell - Meeting Your Past (Redrocca)
Joyeria - Decisions (Speedy Wunderground - SWP008V)
Chilly Gonzales - Minor Fantasy (Gentle Threat - GENTLE017V)
Kira Skov & Lenny Kaye - Lenny's Theme (Stunt Records - STUCD 21022)
Luke Abbott - Kagen Sound (Border Community - 55BCCD)
Tying Tiffany - Deep Blue River (Trisol - TRI 489 CD)
Das Spezial - Even When It Rains (Instrumental) (SPZL)
Pavel Milyakov & Yana Pavlova - Strong Willed (PSY X Records - PSY-005)
FTR - Low (Icy Cold Records – ICR094-CD)
Parchman - Let It Flow (City Beat - CBE 1254)
Tones On Tail - When You're Smiling (Situation Two - SIT 21)
The Cure - In Your House (Fiction Records - 2442 174)
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts (Bella Union - BELLACD377X)
Depeche Mode - Dream On (Dave Clarke Acoustic Version) (Mute - LCDBONG30)
Pole - Grauer Sand (Mute - CDSTUMM476)
The National - About Today (Brassland - HWY-008)
I Am Kloot - These Days Are Mine (Dave Clarke Acoustic Remix) (541 - 541416507606
Ulaan Khol - Rain Tea (Worstward Recordings)
Kate Bush - King Of The Mountain (EMI - CDEM 674)
DubXanne - Bring On the Night (Dub On the Night) (Echo Beach - EB 067)

Stella Polaris 2023 (Exclusive)

Purelink have emerged as underdogs of the Ambient and Downtempo scenes – the past couple of years has seen the group release a number of records which showcases a deep sense of understanding and ambition toward a genre which is often misunderstood and misheard.

Tommy Paslaski (aka Concave Reflection), Ben Paulson (aka Kindtree) and Akeem Asani (aka Millia) have been releasing music as Purelink – broadening the narrative around their sound as they weave intricate layers, samples and melodies together to create a new age world of their own making.

Their music is atmospheric and rooted in moments of personal reflection and self awareness. They rework material and samples to create something else entirely and the music itself is as much a soundscape or a backdrop to the world of the listener.

Recent releases have come on Peak Oil, UwU dust bath, Naff and Lillerne Tape Club.

Purelink: The Wednesday Alternative Mix

Our podcast series continues, this month’s story is told by Hod. 

Emerging from the city of Medellin (Colombia), Hod is a concept that arises from the belief in the liberating strength of sound, aiming to create contrast through prominent percussion and deep harmonies.

With releases on labels such as Profundo Collective (Amsterdam), Circular limited (Spain), Khoros (UK) among other labels, Juan’s music can be characterized by a particular interest in contemporary sound, specifically within electronic music through techno, ambient, and experimental sound. 

"The music portrays a duality inspired by Mother Earth and Father Sky, fusing day and night with the natural sounds, creating a modern ritual in a contemporary musical expression."

١. Nahualism - Oditp
٢. Azidax - Kojoeng 
٣. Szórëgg (Dåggěr) - Psionic Inheritance
٤. Data Domain - Deep Adventures
٥. Szórëgg (Dåggěr) - Charmer's Grasp
٦. Martyn Päsch - कल्पनाकर्ता Énigmatique
٧. Elle - In Ogni Angolo
٨. Laima Adelaide - Y (Vera Logdanidi Re Interpretation)
٩. Nils Edte - Robinie
١٠. Martyn P​ä​sch & Octte - 2AM (Noah Lyas Remix)
١١. Attenuator - Wyrd
١٢. Andrea Cossu - Lost

We hope you'll enjoy the ride by @951012.

Wishing you a wonderful week,
Canaanite Records

fragment38: Hod

Purelink have been described more than once as an "ambient boy band." (They themselves say "jam band.") It's not meant dismissively—the American trio purposefully mean to function as a band, even if their main instruments are laptops. Ambient might not quite cut it as a descriptor, though. The group's music crosses eras and scenes, touching on the late '90s clicks & cuts boom as well as the billowy ambient techno put out by labels like 3XL, West Mineral Ltd. and NAFF. 

Their most recent LP, Signs, released on enigmatic imprint Peak Oil (and one of our favourite albums of 2023), is especially impressive, made of stuttering rhythms and glassy textures. In other words, it's ambient-not-ambient. While members Concave Reflection, kindtree and Millia have all made excellent music on their own, something special happens when they come together.

Purelink's RA Podcast is another stellar contribution to our post-New Year's tradition, where we highlight a more laid-back sound to soothe weary minds and frazzled brain cells after the heavy holiday celebrations. This is 90-plus minutes of intricately textured downtempo, dub techno and even UK garage, all cut through with a floaty, almost drowsy quality, with plenty of exclusives and unreleased cuts from the likes of Nick León, James K, Downstairs J and more. It highlights Purelink's position as a bridger of worlds, sounds and tempos.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/917

RA podcast

RA.917 Purelink

Hideouscast 20 is from truelove. resident Elliot Holt, and was recorded live at The Imaginarium in Leeds.

Hideouscast 20 - Elliot Holt

https://soundcloud.com/elliotholt: This mix contains a lot of new music I love at the moment as well as a couple of older favorites. I did my best to include a range of sounds to encapsulate the way I would typically approach an all-night set. Starting out ambient and building the tempo throughout, with a balance of deep, dark, light and euphoric energies. 

https://soundcloud.com/truelovesound
Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/oniss
🔊 https://youtu.be/NH-pRnyyxoQ

Elliot is the founder of truelove. – a Leeds-based, forward-thinking club night and mix series.

Over the past 7 years, they have frequently invited guests who rarely make appearances in the city, whilst providing a platform for emerging artists who share a like-minded view of musical expression.

Elliot also hosts a residency on alto radio and draws music from a diverse sonic palette in his sets. He is a patient DJ who allows records of their time to breathe, equally as adept at telling a story through a well-crafted warm-up or a euphoric, peak time offering.

Play on YouTube

LAYER #376 | Elliot Holt

My warm up for Carlos' DJ set at Headrow House, Leeds 07.09.24

I was unsure what to expect from the crowd so took the first 30 minutes super slow while people settled and I got a feel for the room, then built things up from there. It was a class night and I had a lot of fun playing - hope you enjoy.

@elliotholt

Elliot Holt warm up for Fontaines D.C. DJ set - Headrow House Leeds 07.09.24

Mix for Bicep's FMB Mixtape series.
https://www.feelmybicep.com/fmb-mixtape-233-james-shinra/

Tracklist:

1. Cameo Blush – In Cadence
2. Datassette – Partita for Unattended Computer
3. Lazer Sword feat. Machinedrum – CHSEN
4. Client_03 – Unity Candidate
5. James Shinra – Poppin
6. Struction – Kreen
7. The Exaltics – The New Beginning
8. Len Faki – Yantra (Planetary Assault Systems Remix)
9. Aux 88 – Alias
10. Manao – Automata
11. Scuba – Nowot
12. Ctrls – NP Soup
13. Stenny – Onda
14. AFX – oberheim blacet1b
15. The Tuss – Synthacon 9
16. pq – Derby Road
17. James Shinra – Ghost in the Machine

FMB MIXTAPE 233 | JAMES SHINRA

recorded live at good work in a backyard on a lovely saturday in brooklyn

Loidis @ Good Work - 12 July 2025

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2000). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come by.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. It's Theo through and through. Once again, he proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

@theoparrish @fabric @soundsignaturedetroit @crownruler

Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

Head of Grimy Edits, Zernell Gillie's style can range from the heart of disco to the soul of Chicago house - he heads up a 2 hour slot once a month from our LA studio.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/zernell/episodes/zernell-1st-september-2025

GET GRIMY W/ DIANA CHAN 010925

Hailing from East Kingston, Jamaica, Gavsborg is the founder of Equiknoxx/Equiknoxx Music. He’s been producing for over ten years, with his first success being the Billboard charting single, “Step Out” by Busy Signal.

Gavsborg’s left-field approach to production has afforded him the opportunity to work with a wide variety of artists and labels from different corners of music such as: Sam Morton, Addis Pablo, DDS, Busy Signal and more.

‍

Woodblocks Festival w/ Gavsborg @ Kiosk Radio 05.09.2025

Live recording of my chillout set from @endless-city at Holding Patterns in Leeds on Sunday 7th September '25 🌀🌕

https://ra.co/news/83553

Elliot Holt live from Endless City at Holding Patterns 07.09.25

When OK EG enters Varden it’s 8:30PM on Sunday. It’s been a slow and steady build during the day, much slower than the day before, people have been given time to rest properly from a late night on Saturday. This is the journey. The ebb and flow of the forest. It’s their job to get the crowd going for the last couple of interval sprints. They are well rested and ready.

OK EG’s expansive sound is deep and diverse. Their compositions display a range that shifts between delicate, textural soundscapes, and spiralling, mesmerizing, mind-trip techno.

They first went to Monument festival in 2024, taking a break from a residency at EMS in Stockholm to spend a weekend in the forest. They brought a field recorder with them and spent time on the riverbank recording the sound of stones and water.

And listen to this level of dedication; while preparing for their live set in 2025, they used those recordings to write a closing track called Monument Stone. This is what they said about it. ”In the moment of performing it at the festival, we felt that everything came together. The crowd, the music and the site connected and it happened just as we’d imagined it.”

During their set day turns to dusk. We transition together, ready for the night - the sound, nature, forest and lights. Hand in hand. 

Follow
https://soundcloud.com/okegmusic
https://www.instagram.com/okegmusic/

Monument Festival 2025 : OK EG (live)

https://soundcloud.com/powel
| 17-04-2017

Mezcla 47 / Powel / Akumandra

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The renowned ADID producer Powel joined us last Friday night on Ibiza Sonica FM for a very special All Day I Dream x Amsterdam Dance Event edition of the When We Dip Radio show. ADID returns to Amsterdam on Saturday 21st October with Lee Burridge, YokoO and Powel taking over at Transformatorhuis.

Follow: https://soundcloud.com/powel // https://soundcloud.com/alldayidream

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Powel - When We Dip Radio #30 (ADE Special) [13.10.17]

@powel gets on the decks from Berlin, Germany.

Tracklist:

DJ Phono - Paper Aeroplane
S.A.M. - Alone In The Crowd
Coldfish - Arvie Awakens (S.A.M. Reshape)
K-S.H.E - Double Secret
Louf - Outside My House
Luvless - Sometimes (Desos Remix)
Rolhay - 71 Ideas (Manuel Sahagun Blind Remix)
Shelter On Wax - Untitled (Pbar Cut)
Akasha System - Muted
Janeret - Abyss
Tom VR - A Fantasy
Louf - Hiccup
Lazare Hoche & Traumer - Compass
Tom VR - You (Or Someone Like You)
Analog Inside - Deep Time 808
Loskober - Lake Michigan (Andy Hart Remix)
Primitive Trust - Little Love
Tom VR - Indigo
Rebelski- Paper Tree
Thomas Wood - Flowing Ocean

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Dreamcast - Powel

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Gorje Hewek & Izhevski - All Day I Dream 2018

POWEL on:
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/powel.music
- SoundCloud: @powel

HOW I MET THE BASS on:
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/howimetthebass
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/howimetthebass
- Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/HowIMetTheBass

3 QUESTIONS to POWEL:

Q: Let´s talk about your mix. Reading the tracklist offers a long journey yet. So how did these tracks find the way to your heart?

A: This mix can obviously only be an overview of the different styles of Electronic Music I liked between, roughly, 1997 and 2007. So between the time Electronic Music first appeared on my radar, until the time I got into producing again. It is probably the weirdest and most eclectic mix I've ever recorded. It represents most of the phases I went through, not chronologically though, that would have made the mixing impossible. It includes my IDM phase represented by “Boards Of Canada”, "Dntel" and “Mouse On Mars”, which hasn't lost any of it's impact on me, even after all those years. I think I've gotten into that, when I discovered “Arte Space Night”, a TV show which was showing random images of space combined with ambient music, a perfect thing to get stoned to. I included also a little bit of Drum'N'Bass, which was actually the music I played during my very first club gig. I think I was about 16 years old at then. There's also some House, including this track “I'm lonely” by “Hollis P. Monroe”, which I only had on a  mixtape at the time and never really found out what that track was. Until it popped up somehow a couple of years ago when I was browsing through youtube, and I was like: "Hey that's the track you used to love as a kid." That was quite a moment for me. That track “Resurrection” by “The Amalgamation Of Soundz”, is one of the first records I bought, right after I bought my first decks in 1999, so this will always have special place in my heart, it's a very versatile record, which somehow manages to cover so many different styles within just 4 tracks. I also included some minimal or minimal-ish sounding tracks in the podcast, which was quite revolutionary at the time I discovered this, at least for me. Creating so much with so little, I was really impressed by that. [see full answer on www.facebook.com/howimetthebass due to limited SoundCloud space here]

Q: You´re playing your music all over the planet. Do you have a favorite spot and would you prefer playing more local instead of endless travels every weekend?

A: For me, one of the most amazing part of traveling as a DJ is to get around, meet new people and developing friendships all over the world. I would say that this is sometimes even better then the actual DJing part. Sure, on the other hand you have to spend a lot of time at airports and they are the combined horror of overcrowded train stations, shopping malls and border crossings, but you get rewarded by playing music you like at some of the most interesting places in the world, so who wouldn't like that. I also like playing at home, but I'm trying to keep it low, just to make it more special for me.

Q: There´s a new Powel release out on Do Not Sit On The Furniture Recordings. Which other exciting projects are on the way?

A: I just finished my second EP for “All Day I Dream” on which I was working on for quite a while now. I think I’ve been pushing the release date for almost a year and half now, because it never felt a 100% ready to me, but it does now finally. So there's that. I'm also about to finish my first full length album, which I want to release sometime next year. So that's what’s kept and is still keeping me quite busy in the studio.

Powel - HOW I MET THE BASS #124

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

Leeds based club night, mix series and dance music community ✨

2024
February 2nd w/ Syd Minsky, Matthew Hum & residents
March 1st w/ Elliot Holt, Lawson, Ten Bob
March 22nd w/ Andrew Devine b2b Elliot Holt & Matt Long
May 17th w/ Elliot Holt b2b Lawson, Ellis Weeks, Ted Coyle
November 15th w/ Man Power + Elliot Holt

2023
September 29th w/ Optimo (Espacio) All Night Long
August 27th w/ Lovefingers, Kiara Scuro b2b Tia Cousins + more
April 14th w/ friends & family 
March 24th w/ Ethan McNamara, Roya Brehl, Elliot Holt, Lawson
February 17th w/ Antoine Kiim, Elliot Holt, Kaidun

2022
January 29th w/ John Talabot
April 9th w/ Ellie Stokes & Chez de Milo
September 23rd w/ Luca Lozano
November 18th w/ Craigie Knowes & Dream_E

2021
August 21st w/ Kiara Scuro, Bugs Groove, Ethan McNamara
October 9th w/ Roman Flügel, babyschön
November 13th w/ Man Power

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