DARK REAL DARK

12/04/2024

A mysterious crackling noise, dubby, echoed chords, and the
foreshadowing of an abysmal bass greet us on "Jigjag", the opening track of the "Along The Years LP" by Leipzig producer
With his LP for he crafts a musical reflection of becoming part of the drum & bass scene in Leipzig and the evolvement of his passion for this culture. The development of social constructs, the experience of club cultural highlights and the acceptance of musical influences are rounded off in a package that, above all, brings a lot of
vibe.

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A mysterious crackling noise, dubby, echoed chords, and the foreshadowing of an abysmal bass greet us on "Jigjag", the opening track of the "Along The Years LP" by Leipzig producer Borisson. With his

14/10/2023

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The 42nd installment of our podcast series comes from none other than producer, dj, and visual artist Morgan Hislop! Morgan has held down radio shows on infamous stations such as Rinse FM, Radar Radio and just closed a four year residency on Reprezent Radio. His vibrant and colourful music is usually paired with his equally bold design and animation work. Remixing everyone from SOPHIE to Rosalia, his club bootlegs and edits have been praised by the likes of VTSS and I. Jordan. His debut album ‚Ghostin‘ Me‘ sent him in a new direction, injecting his club influence into future pop sensibilities and collaborating with vocalists from around the world.

After moving away from radio to focus more on making music this year, he’s been lacking a regular outlet to show what inspires him. In order to catalogue these tracks that accumulated over the summer in one concise mix, he created this bubbly and powerful selection for us. Uplifting and playful like everything he does, it snakes between lofty breaks, melodramatic house and garage. There’s a nod to the late great DJ DEEON (RIP) and a few other surprises thrown in there as well. Sit back, turn up the volume, and reminisce in memories of summer days passed or what it would have felt like, to have an actual summer!

03/09/2023

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When it comes to dj's fiercely dancing on stage, we instantly think of fake moves executed mainly for the feeds. But that's not always the case. As with Eva Jakimoska - Moska - hailing from the small town of Ljubljana but lately more frequently spotted in Graz and even more in Vienna where she currently resides. Her stage moves are enthusiastically honest, but more importantly she doesn't read the floor, she's a part of it - whether she's doing a head noddin' true school hip hop set, a laid back soul-funk soiree or conducting a serious footwork/bass/ghetto/house club workout. Sometimes she even mixes it all up.
The bio formalities and impressive references: Moska started actively deejaying around 2015 and since then performed in different countries across Europe (Sweden, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria ...), on different festivals and radios such as Elevate festival, Impulstanz festival, Ment festival, Radio FM4, Redlight Radio, Radio Helsinki, Res.Radio, Radio Nula, Radio Študent ... She shared the stage with names like Traxman, K-Lone, DJ Fulltono, DJ Innes, MC Sa-Roc, MC Dynasty, FVLCRVM, The Bug and Miss Red. She used to run a weekly radio show called Mishmash Mo’ on the online Radio Nula and occasionally organizes events with her fellow DJ friends. She's part of not one but three collectives that connect her triangle of home bases: Service (Vienna), Whammy (Graz) and Ghetto Trunk (Ljubljana).
Moska truly and thoroughly embodies the classic dj ethos: peace, unity, love and having fun ... and giving it always 100%! Keep it fresshhh.

Here's what she said about her mix for our podcast series:
It’s a game of tempo 80/160bpm. Doubling, halving, doubling, halving ...
Doubled up, doubled down ... in the mix! It’s a musical romance between genres which are circling around hiphop, starting from the roots and going to the branches. ‘Somebody gonna love you, somebody gonna hate. I will love, I will love, I will love.’ - Seven Davis Jr. feat. Kutmah - Afterlife.

31/07/2023

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Even as a child, medea mad was playing her cassettes wherever it was possible. 1999 the first encounter with DJ culture happened and the first set of turntables were bought. D’n’B and Break Beats as the foundation, she dove through many different scenes and styles of music. Then life happened and she lost interest in mixing electronic music for a while until 2019. Instagram opened the world of music again and she learned about all the UK Bass Music and Footwork and the passion for DJing came back. The long lasting Lockdowns gave the opportunity to spend more time on music and now, enjoy what she comes up with.
You can catch her playing DJ sets in Munich on the mighty elemental wave soundsystem and she also runs her own radioshow on Radio 80000.

17/06/2023

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Through digging the parents‘ Soul and 80‘s Dance Tapes in his childhood, Tension got influenced with music early. By listening to genres like Hip Hop, Metal and later Drum & Bass aswell as House Music, he got enthusiastic about the diversity of electronic music. Those inspirations are defining his musical career, but contributing to his eclecticism in sound.
By gathering experience at clubs and festivals since 2006, he soon got deeper into DJing and producing various electronic sounds. This was followed by several releases amongst labels like Kaputt Musik, Vector Functions and recently Illegal Alien.
Based in his homebase Bielefeld, he took his sound to South Africa in 2013 for a fourteen days tour, followed by gigs at Berlin‘s Kater Holzig, Maria am Ostbahnhof and Tresor. Beside several EP‘s, he released his first self entitled album on his regular, Berlin-based label „Be Sure“.
Relevantly embossed by labels like Basic Channel, Ostgut Ton or Perlon, he situates his sound between the poles of (Dub-)Techno, Electronica and Breakbeat, but with a touch of minimalism which he expresses aswell in his DJ- as in his Livesets.

13/05/2023

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Common Mob is a DJ, vocalist and promoter based in Dresden.

Raised in the mountains of eastern Germany he is deeply connected to nature, understands sound as a medium to communicate across far distance and music as driving force to gather the tribe.
His DJ sets are moving straight forward through uneven terrains such as Grime, Dubstep, Halftime Drum'n'Bass and Footwork, ready to cross every obstacle and break down all barriers when roaring from a sound system. In 2021 he started producing first tunes and performed lyrics on Dj sets.
Since then he played several shows at parties and festivals with Rap phenomena Kreis01.
Next to several years organization of „Waldfloor“ at the event series „Krach am Bach – Oberpöbel Musik Fest“ and „Pochwerk Orange“ at Putzmühle, he's throwing parties in Dresden and surroundings with Pamb Sound crew and their handbuildt soundsystem.
As founding member of Subkontra collective he has been organizing Bass Music open airs with two sound system floors, interactive and educational programs.
For the mycelium's sake the idea is to invite different sound systems every year.
In 2023 Subkontra will turn into a festival taking place from 21st to 23rd July in Oberpöbel.
With his work he is contributing to electronic music scene's biodiversity as a source of resilience and supporting growth of a strong eco system of cultural activists.

Deeply grounded while lost in bass, Common Mob brings wild forest energy to the dance floor.

14/04/2023

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The Hamburg - Berlin connection is strong at DARK REAL DARK. Not only because many of our members are living in these two cities, but there's also constant interaction and conversations between crews and artists from the German capital and the northern bass hub.

One of the interesting new faces of Bassmusic there is Sarah Qu, who blessed us with a stunning mix for our podcast series.

Music has always fascinated Sarah endlessly - ever since her brain started forming thoughts and maybe even before that. Her first rave experiences were key moments and she immediately knew that she wanted to DJ, but it took some years to move from the dancefloor behind the decks. It all started with her and DJ Babyblade (fka Claud) playing a back-to-back set for the capsule livestream. Shortly after, Freddy Kuno gathered Usus, Selsela, and Sarah Q to form the crew KINETIK SESSIONS. They started throwing small parties at Astrastube and also had slots at Waagenbau and Fusion Festival. In recent months, Sarah represented the crew at renowned clubs like Uebel & Gefährlich, Golden Pudel, and Südpol among others.

Her podcast for DARK REAL DARK features a mixture of deep and dubby afrobeat tunes with a dark tone running through the whole mixtape. Get ready for some future s**t from Hamburg!

07/04/2023

Happy release day Casement!

His track 'Division' is now live on our Bandcamp - Link in the comments as per usual 🔗.

'Division' provides an energetic, yet uplifting vibe, drawing inspiration from US club sounds and up north UK niche music alike, clocking in at 150bpm.

02/12/2022

YOU CAN GRAB OUR ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY FOR ONLY 5,30€ FOR THE NEXT 24 HRS!

WHAT U WAITIN FOR - GET YOURSELF SOME CHOONS M8!

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08/11/2022

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You wouldn't really call Kyra a newcomer, although she started DJing only three years ago. But as a music passionist from day one with her father being a musician and audio engineer, she started her musical journey very early. She grew up listening to punk, 90's, experimental sounds, self-recorded tapes as well as soul in her children's room. You
would meet her often at underground events in Berlin as a guest but in
the last years even more behind the decks. All these influences and
events merge into her eclectic DJ sets where her love for bass music
meets her enthusiasm for instruments, organic sounds and singing, especially soul and musicals. Over the years she developed an addiction to soundtracks, bass driven music, as well as drums, rhythms,
experimental, darker and melodic/harmonic soundscapes.
Always open to explore old and new fields, she is playing genre-fluid
and likes mixing different genres together (to push the boundaries of
musical limitations (just) a bit more.) As our approach has always been
"no genre-boundaries" DARK REAL DARK is very happy to present you her
mix for our podcast series, which matches this attitude perfectly.

27/10/2022

Happy release day !

His debut album 'Odyssey' is now live on our bandcamp.

skylin is the moniker of Hamburg-based producer Freddy Kuno, created specifically to express existential escapades into sonic territories such as wave, future garage, vaporwave, ambient and neo-grime.

Following an impulse to deviate from previous projects of club-oriented breakbeat music, skylin focusses on emotive sound-design beats completed by cinematic concepts and digital aesthetics.

The skylin project is an exploration of sonic storytelling revolving around the mystical journeys, dystopian sceneries, and hyper-real phantasms of the post-modern world we live in.

Don't miss the album release party if you happen to be in Hamburg this saturday!
skylin will perform the album as well as some unheard bits live and will be joined by .sessions residents , & .

bit.ly/skylinodyssey

29/09/2022

https://darkrealdark.bandcamp.com/album/50dix-the-flow-ep

Happy release day 50Dix (Amor Entrave)!

50Dix really turned our heads with his very unique take on Hip Hop and Footwork, which he is showing off perfectly on the latest release for our label.

On "JANGHEL" you are greeted by an old school inspired headnodding beat, before 50Dix unleashes fast breaks, simultaneously doubles up the tempo and creates a fast-but-slow-kinda track ready for any dancefloor. A true amalgamation of warm, embracing frequencies and feverish percussion.

"WHO'SGOTTHEFLOWNOW" sees 50Dix return to this trademark sound. Once you hear the soulful piano chords, dreamy synth lines and chopped-up samples you‘ll see yourself driving through LA in a Chevy Bel Air 56. 50Dix interrupts you from this daydream with racing drums and snares but keeps an overall fluid vibe, creating an atmosphere of pure soul dripping out of this track.

Artwork: https://www.instagram.com/chez.pawel/

2 track album

22/09/2022

https://darkrealdark.bandcamp.com/album/50dix-the-flow-ep

The pre-order for our next release is now up on Bandcamp!

50Dix really turned our heads with his unique take on Hip Hop and Footwork, which he is showing off perfectly on the latest release for our label.

Artwork: www.instagram.com/chez.pawel/

2 track album

19/08/2022

tonight's the night - 5 Years Dark Real Dark w/ Casement at Club GRETCHEN!

10/08/2022

We have a DARK REAL DARK takeover for tonight's Sub FM show in preparation for their 5 year anniversary event at Club GRETCHEN in Berlin. After an intro from DJ Typewriter we have mixes from DRD DJs rrrobyn and Bandulera with a special mix from their guest for the night Casement.
6pm UK and 7pm Berlin time.

https://linktr.ee/begrime_berlin

05/04/2022

Today, we have the honor of premiering yet another release for our friends at Defrostatica Records.
GREAZUS return to the Leipzig-based label with a 4 track EP, influenced by UK hardcore, jungle, and electro and with a clear focus on taking raver's hearts by storm.
Or to put it in their own words: "This record is our love-letter to good ole' warehouse rave days. The era that we both think back fondly to, that inspired us, and where we cut our teeth musically."

"WTF" is an absolute belter of a tune, clocking in at 160 bpm, and provides relentless, fierce energy as soon as you hit the play button.
The tangy acid synth and nostalgic sample use in combination with sharp breaks sum up to an incredible production, that will leave no limb unshaken!

Buy the release:
https://album.link/DICA019

Today, we have the honor of premiering yet another release for our friends at records. return to the Leipzig-based label with a 4 track EP, influenced by UK hardcore, jungle, an

13/01/2022

https://soundcloud.com/darkrealdark/premiere-djbadshape-hurrican-kick-feat-stormskater-defrostatica

We are happy to present another fine release from our beloved friends from Leipzig Defrostatica Records. This time they are dropping the first stand alone EP from DjBadshape aka Maria Schwind. Release date is the 14th of January 2022.

DjBadshape is a multi-talented artist from Leipzig,
Germany, working in the fields of design and music. The singer, producer and DJ debuted on Defrostatica Records in Summer 2021 on the various artist compilation Hybrid Hooks with “I See Red”. Her light-footed and open-minded approach to club music was premiered and reviewed with great praise by Leipzig’s electronic music magazine frohfroh. In her first own release on the label though she puts a different emphasis. Influenced by gritty personal events DjBadshape has written two tracks that are on the dark side of two different genres: drum and bass and techno.

Hurrican Kick is a minimal autonomic drum and bass tune carried by instruction calls from London’s roller skater star Stormskater. Few percussive elements are floating around a hypnotic kick pattern that soon elevates the dancer in the ‘zone’.

Buy the release on bandcamp: https://djbadshape.bandcamp.com/album/hurrican-kick

Follow the artist:
https://soundcloud.com/djbadshape
https://www.instagram.com/maria_schwind/

We are happy to present another fine release from our beloved friends from Leipzig Records. This time they are dropping the first stand alone Single from aka Maria Schwind. R

11/09/2021

The days are getting shorter and the night is creeping in earlier and earlier. But you're just in luck, because we've got the DARK REAL DARK crew to guide yo...

08/07/2021

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Eazy people,
Episode 35 of the DRD podcast series has landed and we sincerely hope y'all staying safe and sound out there while the world continues to turn upside down. Just like most communities and businesses we have also been affected by regulations and personal measures in order to protect our own well-being. Hence slowing down our output of content is the result of recognizing our own boundaries and caring for one another.
Having said this we happily invite you to a 160 bpm deep dive alongside our endorser of today's issue: maltin worf, who takes keen-witted listeners on a playful journey of changing styles starting off with dystopian textures that unfold into head nod-inducing bass-heavy beats. Following along eerie soundscapes, you will find yourself in the midst of minimalistic jungle sounds just before entering the downright half-step territory.
This rollercoaster of emotions proceeds throughout the mix while Maltin showcases an outstanding feel for consistently mesmerizing ambience. The Defrostatica affiliate is associated with jungle, footwork, dubstep, and wonky hip-hop infected bass music. He plays live shows, already put out a handful of smashing releases and we are stoked to welcome him into the ranks of our show. Ladies and gentlemen, sponges and sea stars, and everything in between we present to you: MALTIN WORF!

31/08/2017

The BLOCK - Berlin

not even a month left until this going down!

postergame wavy zebrastyle strong /// see dem & you tmrw at di teklife ting 🔥🔥🔥

30/08/2017

Livecuts

To show you all that we're far from done we started another playlist on soundcloud:
Livecuts! This playlist will contain recordings of sets played by our crew members & affiliates

So far it contains Rbyn - DJ, Blog's, ROKO's & 65 Shapeshifters' sets from A Bass Odyssey, which we're exclusively uploaded to hearthis.at before. Each one is downloadable for free, ENJOY!

live recordings of sets played by our crew members & affiliates

30/08/2017

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29/08/2017

Dark Real Dark Podcast #01 - Petroschi (Tropical Vibes)

since we want the flow of good news to keep going we have a little surprise for you today:

The Dark Real Dark Podcast series has officially started!
On a monthly basis we're gonna share sets of crew members & other artists to watch out for. No genreboundaries, no regulations, just PURE VIBES delivered directly to your ears!

For the first installment we have the mighty Petroschi, who's bringing a lovely selection of tropical jungle tunes to remind you that summer is not over yet! so download this set, get your gunfingers & sunglasses out and head towards the next beach.

The Dark Real Dark Podcast series has officially started! On a monthly basis we're gonna share sets of crew members & other artists to watch out for. No genreboundaries, no regulations, just PURE VIBE

05/08/2017

CATCH OUR HOMEGIRL Bandulera ON Byte.FM FROM 12 - 2 AM TONIGHT!

Hi babes - there is a livecut for you from me you can listen to. Thank you for this wickef festival season Feel Festival, Off the Radar BECAUSE WE ARE FRIENDS &&& big up.

Check ByteFM female:pressure with my gyal Yesim! 👯

Saturday to sunday night 00:00 - 02:00 am

Habe a good summer y'all!💃🏽 I will hang at bandulera-beach 🤙🏾

03/08/2017

Cyborgs In Love

Don't miss this podcast from our techno girl IVANOVNA for Cyborgs In Love
Up now on soundcloud!

This time we have IVANOVNA as a guest for our CIL radio show. Happy to have such a power girl on board!

https://soundcloud.com/cyborgsinlove/sets/cil-radio

27/07/2017

65 Shapeshifters

catch himmmmm

Next Weekend is going to be a blast!
catch me here (if you can):

Friday - Bassism x Outlook Festival Launch Party at Void Berlin
Saturday - DreiGroschenDisko – Open Air

24/07/2017

ASPECT RATIO

Good evening everyone,
this is free DRUWGS for you. Literally.

Formerly releasing songs under his pseudonym Pavel Rogatzki,
DRUWGS really kept my attention over the past three years
delivering his specific sound on a constant output rate.
Two years ago I featured him in the Gimme A Break!-Mix
and just yesterday he released a song I happily share with you too.
ASPECT RATIO is another showpiece for DRUWGS.
It comes with a buoyant groove on the keys, a stank ass bass line and his distinctive organic drums.
Inspired by Drum and Bass artist Current Value, he started to synthesize his own drum sets. Also characteristical for this style child are his vivid grooves he plays without extensive knowlage on the keys. Thats why he ends up with a 10 to 90 write/edit ratio, so he says.
The hard work pays off imo. Defo keep an eye out for DRUWGS.
What do you think? Like, comment, follow - let him know.

Thats Petroschi for DARK REAL DARK,
enjoy yourselves and speak soon.

Listen to ASPECT RATIO by DRUWGS on

19/07/2017

Linko

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just recorded a little mix for the sunandbass competition :)