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.

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?