SPEYS [Journey Series]

Magician On Duty returns to Berlin-based producer and music selector SPEYS for a new installment of the Journey Series. Since 2020, SPEYS has been operating somewhere outside the usual genre grid. His music moves through deep house, acid, indie dance, organic grooves and mid-tempo territory, but the distinctions tend to disappear once the music is in motion. What remains is the groove, patient, hypnotic and quietly insistent. For this Journey Series episode, SPEYS enters that undefined space once again. The mix unfolds like a passage through unfamiliar terrain. Nothing is announced, nothing is forced. One moment gradually gives way to another, with rhythms appearing almost from the shadows and disappearing before they can be fully understood. Familiar sounds become slightly distorted, unexpected connections begin to surface, and the line between one mood and the next becomes increasingly difficult to locate. There is a deliberate sense of restraint throughout. SPEYS leaves enough space for the music to breathe, allowing small details to become significant and repetition to take on a ritualistic quality. The journey is less about reaching a climax than about losing track of where you are. This is perhaps the defining quality of SPEYS' work, an attraction to the spaces that exist between things. Between darkness and light. Between movement and stillness. Between the familiar and the unknown. His previous appearance on Magician On Duty came through “In Between”, an EP that explored the same territory from a production perspective, moving between acid, organic house, indie dance and mid-tempo boogie. The release received support from Deer Jade, Joyce Muniz, I Promised Mom, Robbie Akbal and Nhii, further connecting SPEYS' music with artists exploring the less obvious corners of the dancefloor. The new Journey Series episode continues that exploration, but this time the destination is deliberately obscured. Tracklist: 1 jorke & Christopher Schwarzwalder - Point Blank 2 Menachem 26 - Mitzpe Ramon (Original Mix) 3 Christopher Schwarzwalder - Bold (Original Mix) 4 Menachem 26 - Calexico (Original Mix) 5 Thodoris Triantafillou - Camel (Original Mix) 6 T-Puse, Menachem 26 - Agafay (Original Mix) 7 Nico Stojan - Ginkhoe (Original Mix) 8 Menachem 26, Headwaters - Pixel Desert (Original Mix) 9 SPEYS - Air Wizard [Magician On Duty] 10 Edu Imbernon - Dalt (Original Mix) 11 Pambouk - Hidden Faces (Original Mix) 12 Acrobat - Rhea (Original Mix) 13 David Rausch, Flave, mimikri - The Rain (Original Mix) 14 Meera (NO) - No Title Yet (Original Mix) 15 Don Mescal, Soul of Zoo - Madifayou feat. Stephane Salerno (Badwolf Remix) 16 Guy Gerber - Timing (Original Mix) 17 Remcord, Acumen - The Human Poison (Original Mix) Follow SPEYS here: https://linktr.ee/speys.dj https://soundcloud.com/speysinthemix https://www.instagram.com/speys.dj https://speys.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/SPEYS.djs