VA – Selectors 005 – Lena Willikens / DKMNTLSLCTRS005

RELEASE: Selectors 005 – Lena Willikens
ARTIST(S): Anatolian Weapons, Borusiade, DoseZero, Garland, JASSS, Le Matin, Parrish Smith, Sandoz, Sysex, Towlie, Varoshi Fame, Vromb

REMIXERS: Chekov

LABEL: Dekmantel / DKMNTLSLCTRS005
GENRE: Leftfield House & Techno
RELEASED: 2018-04-16
BITRATE: 320Kbps
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 170.56 MB

TOTAL TRACKS 12

1. Anatolian Weapons – Disillusioned (Original Mix) (08:59) / Bmin, 104bpm
2. Borusiade – Night Dive (An Exercise in Indulgence) (Original Mix) (05:34) / Cmaj, 153bpm
3. DoseZero – Tribal Dose (Original Mix) (07:56) / Gmin, 113bpm
4. Garland – Sepses (Original Mix) (05:15) / F♯maj, 108bpm
5. JASSS – Little Lines (Original Mix) (06:10) / Fmin, 108bpm
6. Le Matin – Oil (Original Mix) (05:17) / G♯min, 100bpm
7. Parrish Smith – Minima (Original Mix) (04:19) / Cmaj, 126bpm
8. Sandoz – Morning Star (Dubmix) (07:22) / Cmaj, 87bpm
9. Sysex – Deep Space (Original Mix) (05:11) / Bmin, 121bpm
10. Towlie – Conan (Original Mix) (05:21) / D♯min, 120bpm
11. Varoshi Fame – Voice of Command (Chekov Re-Edit) (06:30) / C♯maj, 110bpm
12. Vromb – Amalgame (Original Mix) (06:33) / Dmin, 97bpm

Total Playtime: 01:14:27 min

Lena Willikens is the kind of artist who’s only capable of following one path – her own. In many ways, she’s the archetypal selector, an unpredictable DJ who often eschews all notions of genre in favour of what she describes as “different temperatures, different time zones, different moods and a healthy portion of chaos.” Although her methods have certainly proven effective on the dancefloor, Willikens also refuses to be bound by its traditional limitations.

That willingness to buck convention also extends to this compilation, as the German DJ and celebrated Salon des Amateurs resident has elected to stock her contribution to the Selectors series with a surprising number of previously unreleased tracks. “I’ve been playing most of these songs for a while now,” she explains. “I benefit from my friends and colleagues who constantly send me their unreleased music. Now I want to give something back by sharing these tracks with everybody.”

Nevertheless, those looking for vintage gems won’t be disappointed, as Willikens has also included a handful of oddball favourites from her record bag. At the same time, she’s made a point to avoid notably rare and expensive tunes. “There are already enough passionate people out there doing a great job digging and reissuing,” she says. Instead, her curatorial instincts have taken her in a much more conceptual direction, which she describes as a “little trip through the dunes.” She adds, “It might be challenging to walk or dance on the sand, so perhaps it’s more comfortable to lay down and glide along without having a certain destination in mind.”