Call Super releases ‘A Rhythm Protects One’ mix CD via Dekmantel Records

Call Super is set to release ‘A Rhythm Protects One’ (shortened to ‘ARPO’), a new mix CD compilation via Dekmantel Records.

Officially landing on 3 October in CD, vinyl and digital formats, a limited number of physical copies will be available this week at Dekmantel Festival.

This is no series launch, but a singular, carefully conceived format that the Berlin-based, British producer (real name Joseph Seaton) was determined to explore.

The CD’s design itself is an artefact: a triple-gatefold digipak complete with a volvelle (a rotating wheel revealing artists and track names) crafted by original ‘Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space’ designer Daniel Mason alongside Dekmantel’s Jan Tomson.

Described as “a fluid, technicolour hour of elegantly advanced club music featuring a striking assembly of emergent artists”, ‘ARPO’ breathes new life into a near-forgotten medium.

Inspired by mix CD landmarks like Coldcut’s ‘Journeys By DJ’, Seaton pieces together exclusive material under both his Call Super and Ondo Fudd aliases, as well as selections from kindred new voices like Conny Slipp, Scarletina and Clam1.

It’s a deeply textured, melodic ride through slinky 4/4 grooves, ambient abstractions and curveball cuts, all laced with striking detail and subtle psychedelia.

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Here’s what the artist has to say about the mix: "There is a line in the Malgo & KVS track that goes, 'I must be the place where the storm catches breath.' The line captures that feeling of the best of times in a club, where everything slips away in terms of time and you feel like you’ve reached a place beyond the outside world, a place of your own that is somehow communal with those around you. The mix was meant to be an honest reflection of those moments for me as a DJ. The zones that somehow encapsulate the physical and mental harmony you feel in that place. This is a mix for that zone."

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Accompanying the release is a print zine titled ‘A Rhythm Protects One: a magazine celebrating mix CDs, routines and rituals’, with written pieces and CD picks from Eris Drew, Batu, Shanti Celeste, Ogazón, Skee Mask and more.

Batu contributes an essay on Afro house and the CD’s role in its evolution.

Listeners can preview the tracks ‘Limelight’ (a new Ondo Fudd single taken from the mix), along with Call Super’s ‘Mothertime’.

Pre-order ‘A Rhythm Protects One’ here.

Amira Waworuntu is Mixmag Asia’s Managing Editor, follow her on Instagram.

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