Two Dux
Like a ding dong I missed Bandcamp Friday but this is not to be slept on - super danceable, wonky music for the club and the head.
Favorite track: A Rhythm Protects One - Continuous DJ Mix.
Skunk Ape
Love you digging in your heels against disposable SoundCloud mixes. Even if I didn’t love the music it would be worth supporting this project. I grew up on DJ mix CDs and have lost almost all of my respect for the art form since it turned into a sea of low effort streams. Thanks for this and I hope more artists do the same.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
A1. Conny Slipp - Blue Sun II
A2. Ondo Fudd - Limelight
B1. Cleo - Four Yolks
B2. eye gritt - Same Battles
C1. Call Super - Waterways
C2. Scarletina - Scarlet Fever
D1. Call Super - Mothertime
D2. Clam1 - Milkyways
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Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
design by Jan Tomson
packaging manufactured by Daniel Mason
Disc 1 containing all exclusive separate tracks
Disc 2 a continuous DJ mix
pressed on golden discs.
Includes unlimited streaming of A Rhythm Protects One
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Call Super revives the endangered art of the mix CD with a fluid, technicolour hour of elegantly advanced club music featuring a striking assembly of emergent artists.
Since their first releases in the early 2010s, Joseph Seaton has been a many-sided artist balancing expressive electronics with organic instrumentation. Their background in jazz has informed ambient and experimental albums, but they've proven to be just as comfortable tackling all shapes and speeds of impactful club music. This extends to their practice as a DJ, regularly surfing the slipstream of the club and festival circuit with a sensitive, seductive instinct for the movement of a dancefloor.
Seaton set out to make ARPO — an acronym for A Rhythm Protects One — to honour the meaning of mix CDs in a world drowning in online DJ streams. Part of the generation raised on seminal series like the metal-tinned fabric and fabriclive (which Seaton themselves contributed to), they cast back to the lasting impression of landmark sessions like Coldcut's 1995 opus Journeys By DJ: 70 Minutes Of Madness. These were mixes to absorb over and over again, where every deeply considered track and transition became lodged in your psyche.
As a DJ, producer and composer with a reputation for distinctive, head-turning musicality, Seaton puzzled out a selection for ARPO that bristles with invention. Every track feels like a moment, loaded with motifs and loops that gently impose their presence across an ever-shifting, intricately woven tapestry of dancefloor psychedelia (not to be confused with any genres with 'psy' in the name).
As well as exclusive new material under their Call Super and Ondo Fudd aliases, Seaton seeks out uncanny talent from breakthrough artists in tune with their creative vision. In terms of slinky 4/4 groove and mid tempo pace, you might locate the likes of Conny Slipp, Scarletina and Clam1 on the wilder fringes of minimal tech house, but their productions teem with textural depth and melodic subtlety that reach past that scene's typically functional tendencies. Curveballs abound, and Seaton relishes in the chance to divert into dramatic workouts like their own 'Limelight' and 'mothertime' or strip everything down for the striking, swooning poetry of Malgo & KVS' 'The Argosy'.
Way beyond neatly boxed-off club styles, the individual tracks have their own unique qualities that hold space within the mix as a whole — memorable hooks that burrow in deep, sequenced as a complete and immersive whole to carry with you through life. As Seaton puts it themselves:
"There is a line in the Malgo & KVS track that goes, 'I must be the place where the storm catches breath.' The line captures that feeling of the best of times in a club, where everything slips away in terms of time and you feel like you’ve reached a place beyond the outside world, a place of your own that is somehow communal with those around you. The mix was meant to be an honest reflection of those moments for me as a DJ. The zones that somehow encapsulate the physical and mental harmony you feel in that place. This is a mix for that zone."
Of course, the importance of a mix CD is also rooted in its physicality. Seaton thought back to some of their favourite CD packaging, landing on the iconic pill box that housed Spiritualized's 1997 space rock opus Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. The original designer and manufacturer of that packaging, Daniel Mason, was sought out and enlisted to collaborated with Dekmantel's Jan Tomson. They created a triple-gatefold digipak that centres on figures and a typeface created from dance notation, and a volvelle — a rotating circle dating back to the middle ages originally used to calculate the phases of the sun and the moon. In ARPO's packaging, it acts as a key to detail the artists and track names that feature on the mix. It's a lovingly thought-out, unique piece that further cements Seaton's offering as a memorable entry into the mix CD canon.
credits
released October 3, 2025
Digital masters by Matt Colton (exc. Limelight and Same Battles - Beau at Ten Eight Seven)
Physical masters by D&M
Artwork by Jan Tomson
Packaging by Daniel Mason
Words by Oli Warwick
released by Dekmantel Records with catalogue number DKMNTL110
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