Snufkin races through a jubilant sprint of smiling experimentation and unabashed enjoyable, the ideal disorderly chaser to a long celebration season.
Amsterdam-based DJ, audiovisual artist and manager Snufkin takes their name from one of the main characters from Tove Jansson’s Moomin universe, an anti-materialist theorist and vagabond with an daring spirit and a hatred of authority figures. From the veryfirst minutes of their delighted Fact mix, as swirls of spacious fear sound courtesy of Bonaventure are punctured by the text-to-speech call-to-arms of Varg2™’s propulsive anti-police music, it’s clear that the naughty spirit of Jansson’s renowned character is alive in Snufkin’s abundant technique to playing. “My focus has constantly been on keeping a flexible and lively technique to picking and blending and this mix is absolutely an ode to precisely that,” they assert. “With today’s nightlife culture, that appears so extremely severe and foreseeable, I continuously attempt to bring back a sense of enjoyment and delight with my club sets. Though this recording is absolutely a declaration to that, it has likewise made me understand I missouton playing with noise exterior of a club environment, so it feels as a ideal end and interesting start to a brand-new start. Nonetheless, I hope everybody delightsin this absurd collection of tracks I like to lose my mind to.”
As the previous developer for famous Amsterdam club night Progress Bar, a manager for the Sonic Acts Biennial, one of the primary celebrations for speculative noise and visual art, as well a core member of Valley, a multidisciplinary platform that hasactually launched jobs with Estoc, Himera, Swan Meat and IVVVO, Snufkin is no completestranger to overturning convention and pulling from a excessive breadth of skill. Smashing together a deadly toolbox of modifies, accuracy crafted club weapons and bleeding edge updates of timeless dance anthems old and brand-new with bold desert and concrete glee, scattering in some option EDM, tough techno and difficult home for excellent procedure, it’s a jubilant sprint through smiling experimentation and unabashed enjoyable, the ideal disorderly chaser to a long celebration season.
You can discover Snufkin on Instagram, SoundCloud and at the Valley Bandcamp. Photography by Ville Vidø and makeup by Elvira Hilgevoord.
Tracklist:
Bonaventure – ‘Supremacy’
Varg2™ – ‘Parasites (Honest Music For Dishonest People) [Feat. G19]’
E-Saggila – ’83C’
El Irreal Veintiuno – ‘Maaaaaasev’
Hertz – ‘Recreate (Slam Rework)’
Armand Van Helden – ‘Witch Doctor (The Dark Ages Mix)’
Ingrate – ‘Crypto Poser’
Onleash – ‘Creatine’
Bapari x Underworld – ‘Born Slippy Edit’
Fever Ray – ‘This Country (Paula Temple’s DESTROY Mix)’
NIKENINJA – ‘And They Ate The Flesh Of The Angel (Rapala700 Remix)’
Da Hool – ‘Meet Her At The Love Parade (Sl8er Jungle Refix)’
TAAHLIAH – ‘Transdimensional [Feat. KAVARI]’
KAVARI – ‘Uppe’ntra – Lust (KLARHK Reeemix)’
LOFT – ‘spookie one [jam city x heady one x mark frost]’
LSDXOXO – ‘Taking Me High’
Lorna – ‘Papi Chulo (Bours? Remix)’
Salvatore Ganacci x Sanjin – ‘Motorspeed 300 km/h’
TYGAPAW – ‘Magenta Riddim’
Clemency – ‘Sauce’
MORENXXX – ‘Bo