Dekmantel Podcast 330 - Sapphire Slows by dekmantel published on 2021-04-26T10:05:28Z Tokyo's @sapphire-slows has her own distinctive aesthetic. The music she makes is ghostly and delicate, eerie yet beautiful. The multi-talented artist plays her own synths and keys and layers her own beautiful vocal drones into her tracks to lend them extra intimacy. This of course means she has toured extensively and released on labels such as Japan's Big Love, Greece's Nous and LA's Not Not Fun/100% Silk. Despite often making and playing music with the brain cleansing purity demonstrated on 2017 album Time, Sapphire Slows can also do more caustic and mechanical sounds, as on 2014's Allegoria LP. This week's mix explores a melancholic and introspective mood, but it is never dark. A range of mid-tempo rhythms set the tempo. Sometimes they're dubby and linear, at others more bubbling and off-grid, while the synths above glow like fireflies or glisten like knives in the sun. Organic bird calls float above hyper-real synthetic textures and the overall effect is to cocoon you in suspensory and meditative sound that feels out of this world. Comment by Salazsar Beautiful :) 2024-03-19T13:32:59Z Comment by dwell ☯ id on this gem? 2023-04-21T19:06:03Z Comment by KOHJIfujita QUNQUN I listened again. I really like it! 2022-07-02T19:47:34Z Comment by BRNN banger 2022-05-23T13:02:44Z Comment by BRNN fire 2022-05-23T12:53:26Z Comment by Occult Techno Aces 2021-09-01T13:18:05Z Comment by Ujin Dark oh fuck 2021-08-13T02:51:52Z Comment by Corentin Harbelot great 2021-07-21T13:56:18Z Comment by ◤◢ Liepu Saloj ◣◥ nice 2021-07-17T20:22:50Z Comment by ◤◢ Liepu Saloj ◣◥ nice 2021-07-17T20:22:46Z Comment by ◤◢ Liepu Saloj ◣◥ wow 2021-07-17T20:22:33Z Comment by ◤◢ Liepu Saloj ◣◥ fancy 2021-07-17T20:22:28Z Comment by ◤◢ Liepu Saloj ◣◥ +++ 2021-07-17T20:20:41Z Comment by diNOS dubdubdub 2021-07-15T08:24:14Z Comment by Ressika ID? 2021-06-17T14:28:33Z Comment by Pieter Jansen <3 2021-06-11T11:03:39Z Comment by A B E J A Lush 2021-05-29T13:06:16Z Comment by Apersonal Music awesome dj set! 2021-05-26T12:53:00Z Comment by christoff dope! track id? 2021-05-24T22:13:52Z Comment by KOHJIfujita QUNQUN Nice this 2021-05-17T13:44:23Z Comment by Shulgin FM WOW! that very last track is especially beautiful.. :) ID anyone? 2021-05-15T10:33:45Z Comment by Pacific House What a gem! 2021-05-13T09:31:13Z Comment by Neil Waters Like this! 2021-05-13T05:59:04Z Comment by Zilka ? 2021-05-12T21:14:30Z Comment by Sam Thefaut lovely stuff 2021-05-12T08:43:53Z Comment by Linnemann What an interesting mix.. Digging it! 2021-05-11T10:48:43Z Comment by mrkssprl yes 2021-05-04T12:34:06Z Comment by Laura BCR <3 2021-05-03T12:04:34Z Comment by Lara Elizabeth 💕💕💕 2021-04-30T17:35:08Z Comment by dileta such a vibe 2021-04-28T18:03:50Z