DJ Leinad
Souvenirs

Mysticisms’ prides itself on finding the groove, but with a nod (and wink) to discerning ears. However, sometimes it’s right to just let it all out and go route one. Berlin based producer Daniel Scholz aka (DJ) Leinad was all about the dancefloor, releasing a series of simple but highly effective EPs of cut up, looped house music that summed up that late 90s Chicago-NYC-London-Paris influenced bombs.

The jack that house built – the “heroes” with the “touch” – Souvenirs embodies Leinad’s sound. Moving from high-school DJ, to computer programmer to professional producer, DJ and soundtrack artist, remixing for the likes of Yello and Peter Gabriel’s Real World, moving from early classic mid-90s German techno and trance releases on to his ‘Leinad’ moniker (Daniel spelt backwards), the series of releases can now go for dizzing sums.

In Souvenirs, taken from the Disco Part’s III EP, Mysticisms found the source – elastic bass, filtered loops, watertight kick and twisted disco’n’strings, all cut back and forth ‘for the party’ to abandon.

Present day remixes come from Lewie Day’s ‘Deep Dean’ project, offering a wonderful example of an artist at work, a laid back groove, pushing all the right dancefloor buttons, all presented with respect to the past, but with acres of modern day swing; Mysticisms’ own cohort Piers Harrison, side stepping his edit school as one of Soft Rocks, to produce a literal peak time acid banger; and to close the ‘DJ’ returns, Leinad offers a bumping 2022 remake to show he’s still a teacher.