French producer SNKLS steps into our session slot with a live set of reggae glitch, bass, and breakbeats.

Plus, new music from Aloka, Andew Nolan, Anna Hjalmarsson, Commissar Lag, Cristian Vogel, D3070, Ferdinger, Flore, Dublin’s GOTD, James Shinra, Kerrie, and Paleman.

An uninterrupted music only version of this episode is available. All the tracks, none of the chat.

DARKFLOOR
Cristian Vogel – Stepping Stones [EPM Music]
Bakey – Take it Further [Timeisnow]
Erika – Excavation [Tresor]
Al Wootton – Essene [Puu]
Rune Bagge & 1Bjarke – Nightlights [Northern Electronics]
Samuel Kerridge – Norman In The Wall [Blueprint Records]
Brodinski x Low Jack – Tango & Cash [Les Disques De La Bretagne]
Andrew Nolan – When the Sun is High and Fierce [Industrial Coast]
GOTD – Girl Beppu [SCART]
FUCK!LACREME – Welcome To My Crib (Flore remix) [Beat Machine Records]
Paleman – Come I Leave [Club Glow]
Kerrie – Beware of Monotony [Cultivated Electronics]
Ferdinger – Luxury Beliefs [Life In Patterns]
Anna Hjalmarsson – Drive [Peder Mannerfelt Produktion]
Introversion – Night Terrors [ARTS]
Nicolas Cetina – NC29 [Mincode]
Commissar Lag – Aim Without Mercy [Earwiggle]
James Shinra – 1310Clap [self released]
D3070 – Interceptor [Slow Process]

SNKLS
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DARKFLOOR
Fennesz – Transit (feat. David Sylvian) [Touch]
Clark – Globecore Flats [Throttle Records]
Aloka – Lurker [Typeless]
Sinecure – Vintage Planet [Radial Records]

Featured Guest

SNKLS is the work of Romain Dessert. Over the last few years Romain has established himself as a singular figure in the contemporary electronic scene there and in Europe, exploring territories of sound from electronic bass music to musique concrete.

It’s via the label POLAAR that I first heard his sound, quickly thinking to myself, what is this? I like it. A feeling that was solidifed when I heard a live set of his last year for Rinse FM sister station Rinse France. POLAAR is headed up by Flore, who guested a few years back on Mantis Radio 316.

In 2022 SNKLS released the EP Glu River, for the Polish label Outlines. It marked him as a name to follow.

Romain is driven by a demanding approach to sound and forward thinking club rhythm, something he develops through a monthly show called Take Me Higher for Hong Kong Community Radio station, now in it’s 7th season.

His session for Mantis can be considered a radical and immersive live set, where the pulse of the Hardcore Continnum meets music concrete with unpredictable glitch textures.

Recorded live on a Elektron Octatrack, and a Makenoise Strega, the session takes in music from reggae classics, Oklou, Ramadanman, Offa, French-Congolese singer Théodora, Richard D James, 700 Bliss, and New Jersery’s Ase Manual.