Now you can listen to my Monday-Mix by manuell #084, live mixed and broadcasted on the 16th of November 2020 to the audioasyl.net platform. It's a super calm mix for electronic music lovers who appreciate different and calmer mixes besides the pushy club mixes. This Monday mix is located in the genres Ambient and Chillout and is best suited as background, for reading, writing or falling asleep, but also for attentive listening on a qualitative system or with headphones.

Technical challenges I had with this mix

After so many years and thousands of mixes, mixing can start to be boring a little bit. Because of this, I always try to give myself some new challenges for mixing. Sometimes I mix with more than two decks, sometimes I add some effect devices, mix with vinyl instead of USB sticks, use a different controller with my computer, and so on.

For this mix, the challenge was not a hardware decision, nor a decision about the medium to play with. I decided to ask my love to do the music selection. My love has a wonderful musical taste and a superb sound library and so the challenge was to mix with a sound library I'm not comfortable with. Her music selection for this mix contained a lot of super calm tracks, some with pianos, some super weird and experimental.

To my surprise, the result is one of my best mixes ever and I'm really proud of it!!!

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What is Monday-Mix

My “Monday-Mix by manuell” is a live-broadcast with nice Electronica, Dub-Techno, Chillout, spiced up with a lot of Creative Commons music from netlabels and my field recordings. It started as a technical experiment (Icecast) for myself, became a broadcast for my friends, and ended up until now with 84 shows over 11 years and listeners all over the world. You can read the full story about my Monday-Mix in this past article: The story behind my Monday-Mix

Who is manuell

I'm a DJ from Zurich, Switzerland. I'm mixing since 1994 and my sound is mostly influenced by Techno, Dub-Techno, and Deep-House. Aka “manuell maschinell” I mix with up to 4 decks and integrate a Drum-Maschine and/or other machines as live components into my setup.

Previous performances: Open-Air Nation of Gondwana (Pyonen, Berlin), Schatzalp (Abundzu), Open-Air Vision (Dekadance), Feieralarm (Pyonen, Berlin), About Blank (Berlin), Kater Blau (Berlin), Sisyphos (Berlin), Garbicz (PL), Chaos Communication Congress (Berlin), Inteam (ZH), Cabaret (ZH), MiniMüzikhol (Istanbul), Suma Beach (Istanbul), Chateau des Foux (FR), Friedas Büxe (ZH), Pan-O-Rama (La Gomera), Haus von Klaus (ZH), Kauz (ZH) and many more…

Listen to my Monday-Mix by manuell #83 with Karl Knatter
Listen to Monday-Mix by manuell #082 (with free download for offline listening)
The story behind my Monday-Mix
Listen to Monday-Mix by manuell #080 (with free download-code for Publish0x Readers)
Listen to Monday-Mix by manuell #001 - How everything started