Editorial, Feature
Juan Atkins for Dekmantel x Patta Magazine
Juan Atkins for Dekmantel Festival x Patta Magazine
This Was Dekmantel Festival '26
Flashes from five days in the city and the Amsterdamse Bos. Core memories, unlocked.
The making of Dekmantel Festival ’26
Five days. Over 200 acts. Three days in the forest (including three new At Dawn sessions). Seven stages. One conference day. One Into the City night. Ten club e
Everything in one place
A warm welcome to our brand new app: all things Dekmantel, in one place.
The Artist Guide to Dekmantel Festival 2026
The phrase "Your favourite DJ’s favourite DJ" exists for a reason.
Between the stages:
There is a moment, somewhere between late afternoon and nightfall, when Lentekabinet begins to fold in on itself. Not in scale, but in perception. Paths that fe
Dekmantel Picks: Steve Rachmad
Dekmantel Picks: Steve Rachmad
Behind The Record: Makam
Behind The Record: Makam
500 Episodes. 10 Years. Millions of beats.
The only plan when we started our podcast series was to showcase great music from great people. Looking back over a decade of transmissions, we think we've mana
Designing the Moment
We all know that feeling of crossing into a festival realm: the road leading up to it, the beat growing louder, passing the ticket check, finding your first dan
Dekmantel Picks: Moritz von Oswald
Dekmantel Picks: Moritz von Oswald
Behind The Record: Broken English Club
Behind The Record: Broken English Club
Dekmantel Picks: Skee Mask
Dekmantel Picks: Skee Mask
This was Dekmantel Ten
Ten! A few summers later than expected due to COVID cancellations, 2024 turned out to be the year of our big festival anniversary. Naturally, we had to celebrat
This was Dekmantel Selectors 2024
Eight years in, Dekmantel Selectors has firmly established its identity in the busy summer season. It's an identity intrinsically linked to the idyllic setting
This was Lentekabinet 2024
Ten defining memories from our big spring celebration.
This was Dekmantel Naarm
We had it coming for a long time, but 2024 was truly the year we expanded our festival activities to Australia. And what an inauguration it was!
Expanding Sound and Scope
It’s been over two years since Dekmantel released Aquarian’s Mutations, a collection of club tracks crafted from a perfectly puzzling blend of techno, IDM, elec
In Conversation with Matière Noire
Described as dystopic and evolving, Matière Noire undertook the task of completely redesigning UFO I and UFO II under the guidance of Dekmantel's artistic direc
Cakes da Killa isn’t Afraid of Being the Industry’s Black Sheep
Over the last decade, Rashard Bradshaw aka Cakes da Killa has been based in and performing throughout New York, where he’s been a mainstay in the city’s thrivin
European Club Land’s State of Affairs in 2024
The best clubs serve many purposes. They are gathering places for the like-minded, acting as artistic community centres and microcosmic music utopias alike. The
Exploring the sounds of SWANA at Lentekabinet Festival
The post-pandemic era has ushered in a generation determined to recontextualise popular music from the SWANA region and reimagine what it could sound like.
Between fiction and nature. A walk around the woods with Jonathan Castro Alejos
"I do think of myself as being a self-taught designer. Before design though, there was music. Music was my school! It was my first safe space to experiment and
Behind The Record: Tunik
With his Dekmantel Festival 2023 slot coming up, we had a chat with Tunik about his creative process; the Barcelona music scene; and his Dekmantel-debut, A New