{"product_id":"various-dekmantel-ten-a-decade-of-dekmantel-festival","title":"Various - Dekmantel Ten: A Decade of Dekmantel Festival","description":"What is it that draws people back to Dekmantel — summer after summer, release after release, tour after tour, year after year?\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe musical options at Dekmantel Festival are golden: we know that. Being on the ground is heaps of fun: this is a given, too. Each year's line-up release gives rise to duelling anticipation: the first existing in the context of what you already enjoy; the second, an anticipation that a portal will be opened up to the next phase in your lifecycle as a listener. It's an insatiable driving force that compels an annual pilgrimage back to the Amsterdamse Bos.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\nBecause when it comes to festivals, programming isn't everything. Authenticity is hard to acquire and easy to lose. An undervalued yet integral factor is framing — the attention to detail which informs the texture of the entire event. How to sculpt stage environments that feel distinct, yet compliment the greater whole? And how to do so while attaining balance, so that 15,000 attendees can have a totally randomised combination of experiences and still come away with an identical afterglow? In your hands is a distillation of the answer.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\nDekmantel Ten is a mirror of Dekmantel Festival. This boxset breaks down into seven records that mirror the seven stages to be found at the 2024 event. The tracklisting isn't rigid — some of the musicians gathered here have in fact played at most of the available stages — but like a Möbius strip looping round, or a cat-and-mouse game, it's not hard to discern a symbiotic relationship. Split seven ways, DKMNTL100 is a testament to the art of curation and the importance of quality control.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\nSome of these areas have proved an enduring constant from the earliest editions of Dekmantel Festival. You have Greenhouse, where live bands and earthbound DJs overlap, often building to a fittingly frenzied jungle by night; Selectors, an enclave for premium DJs to stretch both their legs and record bags with mammoth, anything-goes sets; UFO, the home for powerhouse techno; and The Loop, formerly Main Stage, where artists attain true ascendance—not only within the confines of Dekmantel Festival, but in the hearts of thousands of onlookers.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe year-on-year expansion of Dekmantel Festival's remit has brought with it an incremental terraforming of the Amsterdamse Bos, too. A trio of newer stages with specialist focuses are represented on Dekmantel Ten: UFO II, first minted in 2018, a sweatbox of jagged-edge experimentalism; The Nest, which pulses along with the current underground vogue and possesses a distinctly UK flavour; and Radar, where onlookers hang off scaffolding to get a glimpse of electronic music's cream of the crop as they are beamed in real-time to the world.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\nAt artist level, Dekmantel Ten finds room for several artists — including Blawan, Jeff Mills and Marcel Dettmann — who played at the very first Dekmantel Festival in 2013, and are by now impossible to detach. The Loop's disc contains names whose stories have dovetailed alongside the festival, concluding in memorable headline moments: Young Marco, Palms Trax and Alchemical Sisters, aka Eris Drew and Octo Octa.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\nWiden the lens and you'll find history from across the landscape: the laboratories of professorial techno (Dasha Rush, Steve Rachmad, DJ Nobu) and gilded halls of house (Steffi, Luca Lozano, Bufiman); varied soundsystem icons (Kode9, Adrian Sherwood, DVS1) meeting limelights of contemporary Amsterdam (upsammy, Identified Patient, Zohar); as well as the modern conduits channelling decades of outernational vibrations (Nick León, BADSISTA, Animistic Beliefs, Veracco and a great many more).\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\nAll 44 artists presenting exclusive material are indispensable into the Dekmantel story to date, and no doubt make up future developments over the horizon. That goes for the areas, too: Because while the seven stages found at Dekmantel Festival are individually resonant enough that they could become splinter festivals in their own right, it's that union which lends the core festival its strength.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\nTo accurately convey the breadth of our musical climate, and satisfy the omnivorous appetite of modern clubbers, requires a lattice made of component parts that strengthen as they fuse; a coalition of individually resonant areas, catering to specific taste profiles, that compliment and enliven the overall picture.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\nIt's this mantra which guides Dekmantel Ten. After ten editions of Dekmantel Festival, it's fair to say they've got it down to a science. Congrats — and here's to the next ten.","brand":"Dekmantel","offers":[{"title":"7x12\"","offer_id":60447378211161,"sku":"DKMNTL100","price":100.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1084\/7079\/6633\/files\/r8687_0_118e02fe-b500-4c27-92fd-77c6052d7acb.jpg?v=1794397621","url":"https:\/\/checkout.dekmantel.com\/products\/various-dekmantel-ten-a-decade-of-dekmantel-festival","provider":"Dekmantel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}