We started broadcasting MANTIS in May 2007 and this for this show, we celebrate the past year, our second, of broadcast by selecting the top 5 most downloaded of the shows broadcast in the past year.

A massive thank you to all the artists who have provided the music and the showcases for the shows. Each and every showcase has blown me away and it has been an honour to share this music with the MANTIS audience.

Of which, without you, the listeners, there isn’t much of a show. So a huge thank you to our listeners, you.

the 6th MANTIS:presents: comes from the upcoming producer C. Mantle. He’s presented his unique blend of electronica, glitched techno and electro a great mix of current and new work of his.

Nymate Association consists of 2 Hungarian gentleman living in the countryside. Nymus (Tamas Jacso) and dr.Telsa (Adam Reiner), classmates who became friends. Nymus’s influences come from early electronica, Trance, Progressive House and Techno until around 98 when he discovered Drum + Bass. dr.Tesla got his fix from abstract Hip-Hop, classic Nu-Skool Breaks and Drum + Bass. The two of them approach music from different points of view, with Nymus being the live performer and dr.Telsa the DJ. Their favourite artists include the almighty Aphex Twin, Tipper (particularly his Surrounded and Holding Pattern albums), Radioactive Man and pretty much anything Si Begg has ever touched. (And who’s to blame them).