Dekmantel Podcast

As @sleepd, childhood friends Maryos Syawish and Corey Kikos have greatly helped shape Melbourne's underground scene over the last decade. Between them, they have Iraqi and Maltese heritage and put out music on the likes of Incienso, Play On and Cocktail d'Amore Music as well as their own blog/party/label Butter Sessions. Like their expressive live show, it explores "the rave unconscious" so think...

We're delighted to arrive at our 400th podcast with CARISTA (@iamcarista) at the helm. Since winning a DJ competition a decade ago, the Utrecht native has not stopped. She is now a firm part of the European underground who has platformed plenty of talent on her own United Identities label, regularly plays our own festivals and hosts on NTS while also emerging as a fine producer in her own right. S...

Jasmín (@jasminhoek) is one of the latest talents to emerge from the ever-fertile Amsterdam scene. Like many of her generation, she is impossible to pin down with genre restrictions. She is bold and adventurous in her selections and has played everywhere from South Africa to New York where she unites club, techno, bass and plenty more with her elastic DJ style and knack for exciting rhythms. Durin...

Brooklynite @benbondy elevates ambient to a whole new level. He's done so over the course of more than 12 albums in just two years. Each one is like a dairy - a capturing of intimate feelings that translate into sensitive sounds that are subtle yet moving. He occasionally veers into downtempo and IDM, and has worked on collaborative projects like Blessed Kitty and xphresh. This week's mix is a dee...

Recording of SHERELLE's set at Dekmantel Festical 2022.

Recording of Job Jobse's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Recording of DJ Lag's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Recording of MC Yallah & Debmaster's live performance at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Recording of Carlos Souffront's set at Dekmantel festival 2022.

Recording of Yu Su's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Recording of Scorn's live performance at Dekmantel Festival 2022. A message from Scorn: '' i DO APOLOGISE FOR THE RAW OVERLOADED SIGNAL ON THIS RECORDING, IT WAS A BIT OF A RUSH WITH LINE CHECK AND SEVERAL FX PEDALS REFUSED TO WORK BUT MICK MONGOOSE HARRIS HAD A GREAT TIME AND WOULD LIKE TO THANKS ALL .P.MMH''

Recording of Parrish Smith's performance at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Recording of Fafi Abdel Nour's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

A vast technical understanding underpins the work of Rotterdam's @albertabalsam. It allows her to deconstruct norms and rebuild music with her own rules as she draws on electro, IDM, heavy techno, broken beats and avant-acid sounds. This has made her a firm favourite at artful events all across Europe where she joins the dots between outlier sounds while never forgetting to get people dancing, whi...

UK dance music has always been defined by its eclecticism. And few artists capture that better than @yazzus-1. Both her sets and her productions are turbocharged tornados that collide rave, breakbeat, techno, jungle and footwork. They are playful and knowingly over-the-top, take in plenty of bootlegged edits and have landed her on labels like Diplo's Mad Decent, Mall Grab's Steel City Dance Discs...

For as long as there has been footwork, there has been Jana Rush (@jaru-1). The Chicago-born pioneer started on the decks aged just 10 and was producing not long after. Since the mid-nineties, she has put out music that endlessly innovates within the juke and footwork framework. Her coiled rhythms and stripped-back drums are the vehicles for emotions that range from anguish to empowerment. Last ye...

American @tonebnimble has been a vital part of the dance music underground since growing up in Chicago in the mid-eighties. He's one of those artists who has always stayed under the radar but is a firm favourite with those who know, from Sadar Bahar to Gilles Peterson. Part of that is because of the faultless labels he runs which shine a light on both lesser known and more modern soul, disco and g...

@orpheuthewizard is one of the many jewels in the Amsterdam scene, as well as being a regular with us here at Dekmantel. He's one of those DJs who was born for the backroom, a place where his curveballs and oddities make for subversive soundtracks that span sounds and scenes from across the decades. For that reason, he is an ever-popular guest on stations like NTS and can either cast you adrift in...

Recording of Shanti Celeste's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022.

Recording of Steven Julien & Shy One's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022.

Recording of Bradley Zero & Elias Mazian's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022.

Recording of ZULI's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022.

Recording of De Schuurman's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022.

Recording of Waxfiend's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022.

Recording of Rey Colino's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022.