DKMNTL at RAUM

Club Raum, Sunday, August 2 at 11:00 PM GMT+2

Thrilled to reveal the complete night programme for #Dekmantel26, with over 30 new acts, stretching the festival spirit from sundown to sunrise.

This year, from Friday to Sunday, the sound worlds of our key festival stages continue at Amsterdam’s very best venues: UFO moves into Radion, The Nest meets Garage Noord, and Selectors takes over ISO.

In addition, there will be a Sunday closing party – with a fully secret DKMNTL lineup – at queer bastion Club RAUM.

Tickets for Dekmantel at Night are now available.

Lineup:
Secret line-up

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/dkmntl-at-raum

mad miran All Night Long

Club Raum, Friday, July 3 at 11:00 PM GMT+2

It’s hard to define mad miran’s sound. Unpredictable, deeply personal, and entirely her own, it’s this authenticity that has earned her the respect of heads across the scene and taken her to some of the world’s most celebrated festivals, including Dekmantel, Draaimolen and Waking Life.

One of the most exciting DJs to watch behind the decks, mad miran keeps you on your toes. It’s exactly what makes her such a perfect fit for an all-night-long set.

We’re beyond excited to welcome her to the Studio for the first weekend of July, where she’ll take the reins for a rodeo all night long. As she puts it herself: “Genres are disturbing, I play vibes.”‍

Tickets available in our webstore. 

Lineup:
mad miran

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/mad-miran-all-night-long

Out now: https://shed030.bandcamp.com/album/rave-echoes

After several months, I still think that "Everybody" is a top-notch song. An EDM anthem of the 21st century. It just feels like you're at a rave or a electronic music festival.

"In a continuation of his devotional celebration of the dance, Shed arrives on Dekmantel with Rave Echoes — a supple, mesmerising album of angular techno caught between the heat of peak time and the time-blurred hours after the club.

Few artists have nailed the intersection of the intellectual, emotional and physical in techno as evocatively as René Pawlowitz. For more than 20 years and across scores of aliases the Frankfurt/Oder-born, Berlin-based trailblazer has pushed a distinctive strain of machine music in thrall to the functional demands of motion without ever sacrificing subtlety, space, intrigue and expression. While his vast catalogue of work touches on many different moods and energies, on his Dekmantel debut Rave Echoes he shrouds eight forthright workouts in a blanket of misty melancholia to evoke the enchanting afterglow of the party.

"It's not nostalgic," Pawlowitz explains. "It's about that feeling that remains for a day, a week or even years after celebrating a rave. I still have that feeling for about 30 years now. This record tries to describe it."

The vaporous pads that soar over 'Password (Techno Mix)' certainly come charged with a bittersweet sentiment. Meanwhile the rhythmic locomotion comes on like the rumble of the first train back after leaving the club. The insistent bell loop up top rings out like the hook of the last track that rang out over the soundsystem. It's a sensation familiar to anyone who has spent their last drop of energy at the altar of dance, where exhaustion meets with satisfaction and disorientation as you recalibrate back into the real world.

This approach — dreamlike atmospherics and rugged propulsion — takes on many guises across Rave Echoes."

#Shed #EDM #Techno #Dekmantel #Rave

Dekmantel Festival x STOOR Live: Speedy J, Azu Tiwaline, Barker and more.

Paradiso, Thursday, July 30 at 05:00 PM GMT+2

Tickets for this program are sold via Dekmantel. For questions about ticket sales, please contact [email protected].

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/dekmantel-festival-x-stoor-live-speedy-j-clark-barker-and-more

Anderworld Records - Wilco Prinsen - EP Release party

OT301, Friday, June 19 at 10:00 PM GMT+2

Anderworld Records is a new project by Amsterdam Alternative. It’s a not a traditional, hierarchical record label but a cooperative, post-capitalistic initiative focussed on music, research and experiment.
Join us on Friday 19th of June at the OT301 to celebrate the first release by Wilco Prinsen.
Program
22:00-22:45: oernaut
22:45-23:30: Wilco Prinsen (live)
23:30-00:15: Mathilde Nobel (live)
00:15-01:15: Bastian Benjamin (live)
01:15-03:00: Zohar
Artists:
Wilco Prinsen
The Amsterdam-based producer and live musician Wilco Prinsen balances his instrumental electronic music between genres such as psychedelia, kraut, lo-fi electronica, IDM, and ambient. His love for a gritty, organic sound originates from the east of the Netherlands, where he began experimenting as a guitarist with analog effect pedals and overdriven tube amplifiers. In his quest for more freedom, wonder, and abstract sounds, the guitar has given way to a modular synthesizer. From a labyrinth of knobs, cables, and flickering lights, Wilco Prinsen builds hypnotic live performances in which the boundary between rhythm and melody blurs.
Insta // Soundcloud
Mathilde Nobel
Mathilde Nobel is a Rotterdam-based musician and visual artist whose work bridges ethereal sound design with a deconstructed club sensibility. Her music is marked by cinematic pads, angelic processed vocals, and fragmented rhythms that feel painterly in their emotional depth and contrast. With a background in Fine Arts, Nobel builds immersive worlds where sound, visuals, and performance dissolve into one another.
As a self-taught musician, she released her debut EP May+Be in 2022, followed by the full-length Founds on Land on Nous’klaer Audio. The album received critical acclaim and was included in NRC’s Top 25 Albums of 2022. Founds on Land was also reinterpreted by techno pioneer Marcel Dettmann, who released four remixes that expanded her sound into new sonic territory.
Nobel has performed at renowned festivals such as Rewire, Dekmantel, Draaimolen, and Motel Mozaïque, and continues to present her work in compelling audiovisual live shows. In addition to her Dutch appearances, she has debuted internationally with performances in Iceland and Switzerland, further establishing her unique voice at the intersection of sound and visual art.
Insta // Bandcamp
Bastian Benjamin
Sculpting sounds into compositions that fit both the club and solitary walks, Bastian Benjamin’s music bridges rhythm and emotion. He has released on labels like Nerve Collect and Who’s Susan, and collaborated with artists across various disciplines, he is also part of the live act A#, with performances at events such as Draaimolen and STOOR. His sensibility for molding the abstract into something that moves both body and mind comes to life in his compositions and live sets.
Insta // Website
Zohar
Cutting-edge sonics as the shifting of storms. Percussive and pulsating, Zohar is known for a razor-sharp and highly dynamic club-signature.
With years of formative experience controlling dancefloors, the artist behind Zohar has been treading a diverse and eclectic musical path in which rattling low-end and rhythmic tension can be regarded as the common denominators. Known for technical refinement and mixing witchcraft, Zohar now intuitively seeks innovative and surprising connections, both disorienting and exciting listeners in the process.
The artist’s sparse yet prolific output as a producer is best channeled through the illustrious ZHR label. Its catalog consists of two DIY releases (Object, 2022; self-titled, 2019) and have been distributed in collaboration with Clone Rotterdam. These highly personal records provide temporal signs that define Zohar’s artistic development. Furthermore, works appeared on compilations by Dekmantel (DKMNTL X PATTA, 2020) and Traumgarten (Flowers That Bloom At Midnight, 2020).
Quickly becoming a mainstay in the vital Dutch scene, Zohar has recently featured at renowned institutions such as Dekmantel Festival (2022, 2019) and FIBER Festival (2022) as well as making international appearances at Positive Education (2022) and the Opera House (2022, 2018). The latter took place in collaboration with dance performer Hannah Grennel (formerly involved with the Royal Ballet UK).
Insta // Soundcloud

oernaut
oernaut is a DJ from another planet, bringing sounds what humans attempt to identify as "alien". Influenced by minimal and experimental interpretations of various genres, he likes to interact with melodies and beats that are utterly weird, essentially emphasizing the joy that could be extracted from the meaningful meaninglessness of life.
oernaut is a resident DJ at Slim Radio, and runs an experimental music label called SPEKTRO with fellow artists.
Soundcloud // AA mix

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/anderworld-records-release-party

Wonderful DJ set - rightly deserving the Dekmantel seal of approval ->

And in late July / Early August I will mostly certainly be in Amsterdam, again!!! :-D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeQrKwYje2U

#DJSet #EDM #Dekmantel #TheLotRadio

Novo EP do londrino Quirke lançado na editora do Dekmantel. Muuito, muuito bom!! Parece-me bem melhor que o álbum de 2019 ("Steal a Golden Hail"). Quase que estaria tentado a atribuir-lhe 4 estrelas e meia (4.5)

https://quirke.bandcamp.com/album/configuration-ot

#Quirke #Dekmantel #EDM #IDM #Techno

A MECA DA EDM:

"From the greens of the Amsterdam forest to the heart of the city, we’re expanding your festival experience with 160+ acts that (re)define electronic music.

#Dekmantel26 unfolds from July 29 until August 2. Head to our website for the final release weekend passes – on sale now – or to pre-register for early access to single-day tickets, dropping this Thursday. The general sale starts on January 23 at 12:00 CET.

dekmantelfestival.com"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6xggzHJdhU

#Dekmantel #EDM #Amsterdam #Netherlands