Dekmantel Podcast

Club bangers, high-concept artist albums, all night long sessions and wide-ranging DJ mixes - UK talent Leon Vynehall can do it all. More than just a producer, he is a thinker who likes to explore beyond the usual limits: in the past, he's served up novellas and short films to complement his music. His most recent album, 2025's In Daytona Yellow, centred around human voices and embraced real vulne...

Toronto's Ciel has never stuck to one sound, but what she plays is united by "various shades of dub-influenced electronic music." That is true of Slowburn, the party dedicated to slow chuggers that she has run since 2021, but also the music she's released on plenty of influential labels and the sets she plays across the world. The tempos, the timbre and texture might change as she traverses dreamy...

Young Marco at Lotus - Lentekabinet 2026 by dekmantel

New Delhi-raised, Bali-based DITA steps up to our podcast series with a mix of wonderfully loose and elastic rhythms drawn from her own unique colleciton. There's a steamy tropical heat to everything, from the dubby grooves to the electro-tinged breaks, breezy house and 90s rave throwbacks, all mixed with great control. It's a colourful glimpse into DITA's world in 2026, full of new finds and old...

Amsterdam-based Hervé's endless curiosity for finding and sharing music takes him into all sorts of interesting in-between worlds. Groove and subtle progression, psychedelic swirls and deep bass are ever-present no matter where he heads, including Lentekabinet last year. As a producer, he keeps things layered and introverted, and beyond the decks he co-runs a label, event space and creative agency...

Now Amsterdam-based, Naone was shaped in her native South Korea. Her bottomless knowledge of 90s and 00s house and techno informs the sets she plays, particularly at the No Clubs events she is closely associated with. Beyond that, she heads up the Down2Earth label and expresses herself with productions that fuse ambient textures, acid lines and dubbed-out rhythms. Dekmantel Selectors is a few days...

Dasha Rush emerged more than two decades ago but has never settled into one style. From techno sets on the main stage to more intricate experimentalism in the back room via floor-focused 12"s and a soothing ambient full-length, this self-confessed "hyperactive and neurotic" mind continues to ask questions of herself and her audiences. This weekend the FullPanda label head links with Oscar Mulero t...

DJs have always had to dig for records, but Nicolas Lutz has taken the search for sound to obsessive new levels. The Uruguayan has spent more than 20 years excavating tunes, labels and artists most of us never knew existed. Genre is largely irrelevant; instead, the My Own Jupiter boss threads his finds into beautifully dark and alluring soundscapes full of mystery and tension. Playing in that way...

Ryan Elliott has been woven into the fabric of the underground for two decades. The Detroit native and Faith Beat label head cut his teeth back home before relocating to Berlin in 2009, where he became a core member of the Berghain and Ostgut Ton family that helped shape the sound of the contemporary scene. He has always straddled the house and techno divide, merging moods and rhythms from each in...

Techno heavyweights Function and Nastia Reigel first came together over a shared love of early, rave-leaning and transcendental grooves. After months swapping tunes from both the old and the new school, they got to work in the studio and, in May, dropped their Devocion EP on Dekmantel. The four tracker explores broody and melancholic techno that is doused in emotion with plenty of shadowy atmosphe...

Guy Blanken has been part of the Dekmantel family for almost 20 years. Under his Makam alias, he explores a light, deep and dreamy sound that contrasts with his darker work as Talismann. He recently returned to our label with the delightfully dubby house album Tarp, featuring tracks from the last 10 years, made all over the world with complete freedom. “It’s more about creating a space or a feelin...

Curaçao-born sound curator Rozaly both ignites and unites the dance floor. The sounds he plays are designed to blow open preconceptions about Caribbean music and tap into a more collective sense of memory. The distillation of his musical heritage through a new contemporary lens has made him a favourite at our festivals, which is why he will join us again in Amsterdam and Croatia this summer. But f...

BASHKKA plays with a purpose beyond making people dance. The Munich-born artist is an advocate for the social and political power of electronic music and is a proud advocate of queer culture. Next to her residency at Amsterdam's Raum and Blitz Club in her hometown of Munich, she plays across the world while dropping evocative originals and remixes across the house spectrum. For this week's mix, sh...

Rene Wise - Johnson's Theme - Dekmantel - DKMNTL-UFO21 https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/rene-wise-johnsons-theme https://renewise.bandcamp.com/album/johnsons-theme a1. Johnson's Theme a2. Granite Skin b1. Flow b2. Kanga Tapping into the otherworldly frequencies of the UFO series, UK-born, Lisbon-based prodigy Rene Wise (@renewise) arrives on Dekmantel with an assured demonstration of his positio...

Alfred Anders is the sort of character every good local scene needs—collector, curator, connector, risk-taker. This week, we get a taste of his mix, cruising at 110 BPM on the slower fringes of club music. A journey through trippy, outer-space spacelines and wonderfully weird grooves, moving from early ’80s house and tribal vibes to New Beat and Proto-Techno, all anchored by his Belgian sound as a...

Locked into the rhythm of today’s techno landscape, Berlin-based sorcerer Jesse G shapes an intense, ritualistic musical journey. This mix brings you to the depths of dark minimalism, melting into deep, psychedelic passages that become pacy and percussive before the boosters kick in and the trip gets cosmic.  Her textures contain power, but never at the expense of emotional nuance, as elements of...

Hailing from Düsseldorf, Time Passages label head Binh takes crate-digging dedication to another level. His ear for discovering unknown gems has made him a long-time underground favourite, often showcasing his wax during marathon-length sets in Berlin or back-to-backs with fellow cult vinyl heads. Dive into 75 minutes of his signature minimal pressure: thudding kicks and spangled synths, laced wit...

Léa Occhi is Berlin-based, Paris-rooted, but hard-wired into the dancefloor’s more introspective frequencies. The co-founder and resident of queer collective Spectrum Waves channels techno into mental, minimal rituals that are emotionally charged and deep, regardless of energy levels. Outside of the club, she's a proud champion of marginalised communities who uses music to bring people together, d...

Roza Terenzi & S-candalo at Lentekabinet 2025 by dekmantel

Amsterdam’s T.NO delivers the 503rd Dekmantel mix, giving a taste of what he’s bringing to this year’s festival season. The Rinse FM resident draws on his Surinamese heritage to weave kawina rhythms into club music with a sharp, contemporary edge. Bass-led and grounded in Afro-diasporic traditions, his productions carry a restless, exploratory energy on labels like TraTraTrax, Club Djembe and re:l...

Our first mix of the New Year is an otherworldly back-to-back between DJ Nobu & Aurora Halal that was recorded live at Dekmantel Festival 2023. Japan's Nobu is a renowned selector with a singular but fluid approach to techno and experimental electronic music. He’s the cult figure behind the long‑running Future Terror party series and Bitta label, both of which showcase truly adventurous sounds. Ha...

Recording of Kamma & Masalo's set at the Greenhouse stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Recording of Shanti Celeste's set at the Selectors stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Javybz at Greenhouse - Dekmantel Festival 2025 by dekmantel

Recording of Casper Tielrooij & Victor's set at the Selectors stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.