Snufkin races via a joyous dash of grinning experimentation and unabashed enjoyable, the right chaotic chaser to an extended pageant season.
Amsterdam-based DJ, audiovisual artist and curator Snufkin takes their title from one of many central characters from Tove Jansson’s Moomin universe, an anti-materialist thinker and vagabond with an adventurous spirit and a hatred of authority figures. From the primary moments of their ecstatic Reality combine, as swirls of cavernous dread noise courtesy of Bonaventure are punctured by the text-to-speech call-to-arms of Varg2™’s propulsive anti-police music, it’s clear that the mischievous spirit of Jansson’s iconic character is alive in Snufkin’s exuberant method to enjoying. “My focus has all the time been on sustaining a flexible and playful method to deciding on and mixing and this combine is certainly an ode to precisely that,” they assert. “With at the moment’s nightlife tradition, that appears so overly severe and predictable, I consistently attempt to deliver again a way of pleasure and pleasure with my membership units. Although this recording is certainly an announcement to that, it has additionally made me realise I miss enjoying with sound outdoors of a membership surroundings, so it feels as an ideal finish and thrilling begin to a brand new starting. Nonetheless, I hope everybody enjoys this ridiculous compilation of tracks I wish to lose my thoughts to.”
As the previous programmer for legendary Amsterdam membership evening Progress Bar, a curator for the Sonic Acts Biennial, one of many foremost festivals for experimental sound and visible artwork, as properly a core member of Valley, a multidisciplinary platform that has launched initiatives with Estoc, Himera, Swan Meat and IVVVO, Snufkin is not any stranger to subverting conference and pulling from a dizzying breadth of expertise. Smashing collectively a deadly arsenal of edits, precision engineered membership weapons and bleeding edge updates of traditional dance anthems previous and new with defiant abandon and tangible glee, sprinkling in some selection EDM, laborious techno and laborious home for good measure, it’s a joyous dash via grinning experimentation and unabashed enjoyable, the right chaotic chaser to an extended pageant season.
You could find Snufkin on Instagram, SoundCloud and on the Valley Bandcamp. Images by Ville Vidø and make-up by Elvira Hilgevoord.
Tracklist:
Bonaventure – ‘Supremacy’
Varg2™ – ‘Parasites (Sincere Music For Dishonest Folks) [Feat. G19]’
E-Saggila – ’83C’
El Irreal Veintiuno – ‘Maaaaaasev’
Hertz – ‘Recreate (Slam Rework)’
Armand Van Helden – ‘Witch Physician (The Darkish Ages Combine)’
Ingrate – ‘Crypto Poser’
Onleash – ‘Creatine’
Bapari x Underworld – ‘Born Slippy Edit’
Fever Ray – ‘This Nation (Paula Temple’s DESTROY Combine)’
NIKENINJA – ‘And They Ate The Flesh Of The Angel (Rapala700 Remix)’
Da Hool – ‘Meet Her At The Love Parade (Sl8er Jungle Refix)’
TAAHLIAH – ‘Transdimensional [Feat. KAVARI]’
KAVARI – ‘Uppe’ntra – Lust (KLARHK Reeemix)’
LOFT – ‘spookie one [jam city x heady one x mark frost]’
LSDXOXO – ‘Taking Me Excessive’
Lorna – ‘Papi Chulo (Bours? Remix)’
Salvatore Ganacci x Sanjin – ‘Motorspeed 300 km/h’
TYGAPAW – ‘Magenta Riddim’
Clemency – ‘Sauce’
MORENXXX – ‘Our bodies Hit The Ground (Byrell the Nice x ANNA)’
Celeda – ‘The Underground (Felicie Edit)’
Warnung – ‘3 Tage Wach (Sport Combine)’
Tessela – ‘Hackney Parrot (Disaffected Bootleg)’
Vandall – ‘Exhausting Tech Motion’
Sega Bodega – ‘Addictive Love’ (Nicki Minaj Vs. Kessel)
Basswell – ‘The Satan’s Chortle’
Tiësto – ‘Totem’
Cortina – ‘Music is Shifting’
Pay attention subsequent: Reality Combine 875 – KAVARI
