Wow, what a day it was. Dekmantel festival weekend is unfolding, and today was the day I entered the musical highway with them. An afternoon and evening full of musical highlights.

First excitement I got when the Dekmantel Soundsystem (the founders of the festival) mixed in Talk Talk's "It's my Life"! Such a great track, from maybe my most favourite band from the 80s, maybe of all times. Next excitement was when we discovered this new area, a smallish metal building like the military uses to store whatever they need to store. Jam-packed; Super cool music. Errorsmith (live) pushed damn obscure electro sounds through the speaker system. A few hours later, it was time for The Advent: 90s electro; The reason I was at Dekmantel, and he didn't disappoint me. He actually made me very happy with his live performance: Fast, breakbeat-ish at times, drum&bass-ish at times, this guy from Lisbon knows how to create music.

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DJ Stingray was next and closed the evening at this stage. Seen his name already various times at cool location, I never listened to his work. Opening tracks didn't amaze me, techno, while I expected electro. Not bad at all, but still. I left for some drinks and food. But upon return, I got a whole different impression from this guy from the States. Guess the techno tracks at the start of his set was just a distraction since he found his ways into the electro underground. I'll certainly want to listen to more of his work and look forward to a performance at one of my favourite clubs, De School in Amsterdam or .WAS (a popup club) in Utrecht. For now, I share an older podcast DJ Stingray done for Dekmantel. Still need to finish listening the second part of the recording, but so far so good, I like what I hear. Hope you do as well?