Derek Poten

@derekpoten

Denver, CO 💍 Soulmate // @jessica_j_besse @hand_selected_denver_
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We are excited to share our first recording from our new series Hand Selected Recordings via YouTube. @derekpoten mixing up a set from the @intimatchannel basement. We knew that @intimatchannel was parting ways with basement location and we wanted to capture a recorded set before their last day. @derekpoten views records as chapters to a story. He has a real talent for refined blending, leaving you wondering where one track begins and the other ends. We hope you enjoy the journey. Special thanks to @djfiatluxx and @intimatchannel crew for allowing us to use their space and time. Mad love. Huge shoutout to @spike_stephens and endless appreciation for recording the set and putting the finishing touches together. Gang Gang. 🫶 ⛓️‍💥Video is up on YouTube. Link in bio⛓️‍💥
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3 months ago
Last Friday was intimate and special.💙 Thanks to those who braved the cold to come groove and shake. It may have been below freezing outside, but inside it was cooking. ♨️ @derekpoten got things warmed up and @___tonyacosta___ took it up a notch. 🎢 Much love and respect to @tj.coito and @titomazzetta for coming out to Denver and bringing the rave. Proper selections and amazing human beings. Thank you both for the journey. 🫶🫶 A rave was had. 😈 As always, endless gratitude to @breakeven_soundsystem for always delivering the sound waves. ❤️ Much love and thanks to the captain @glob____ Luke. Really enjoy working with you and respect your hard work to keep glob up and running for our scene.❤️‍🔥 Venue, Sound, DJs and the shakers/groovers all play a part to keep the records spinning. Without you, there is no us. 💙🌀 Thank you for believing in us and supporting us when it comes to curating. It doesn’t go unseen. We will be back in May. Until then take care of yourself and others. We need love in this world more than ever.
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2 months ago
A few months back, @steep_______ invited me to play a date in February. When that date turned out to be Valentines Day, @jessica_j_besse and I couldn’t think of a better place to be celebrating our love than a dance floor surrounded by music lovers 💘 The word was indeed LOVE, and it was one of the most memorable nights I’ve experienced behind the decks. It’s great to see such a vibrant scene full of dancers and positive energy, willing to take the journey with me. I am truly grateful to @steep_______ , @zella__________ @cutwoes for giving me the opportunity to play all night, and the dancers who came along for the ride. The room was moving 😍 Also great meeting such warm people @julizambra @rohan.jams @rasaaq @camila.bettencourt @crown_vic__ @marelle_music_ @planestrangermusic 🫂 Until next time, thank you for the memories 🙏🏽💖❤️‍🔥 Last Slide: a drawing by @tuncahurbas inspired by my set that night 🥹
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2 months ago
Shakers and Groovers, We are calling you to the dance floor for our gathering on 03/06/26. We have two special guests joining us @titomazzetta & @tj.coito from Atlanta, GA and partners of the @bloom__atl parties series. @titomazzetta , is co-founder of @mithra_records and @bloom__atl Beginning his digging journey at the age of 15, his path has been shaped by decades of obsessive listening, collecting, and experimentation across underground dance music. He has released across a wide spectrum of international labels, including Voigtmann’s Subsequent, with premieres on platforms such as Trommel, alongside an anonymous release on Ukraine’s Chivalry. His DJ sets are long-form, story-driven journeys that bend darkwave, Italo, house, techno, and minimal into emotionally charged, unfamiliar terrain, weaving contemporary records of today and tomorrow with lost and overlooked gems of the past. He has played across Atlanta, New York City, Miami, Paris, Ibiza, and Ukraine, with each appearance rooted in digging culture and exploration, guided by authentic expression and an ongoing refusal to stand still. @tj.coito partner and resident vinyl selector of @bloom__atl He was Los Angeles grown and now deeply embedded as an Atlanta transplant. While quietly cooking up unreleased productions in the background, he lustily expresses his diverse artistry as a selector to any dance floor he connects with. With roots as a lifelong drummer and early influences in tech house / electro / prog house, his time spent digging in record shops across Europe and the U.S. over the last decade has shaped his precise and passionate style focused around collecting and playing sophisticated records from across the spectrum of genre and era. Locals support for the evening will be @___tonyacosta___ and @derekpoten . It’s also Tony’s dirty thirty birthday so let’s celebrate. 🎉 Y’all know the drill. This is a vinyl only affair. @breakeven_productions sound system in effect. 💥 @freakinbeats303 : pop up booth👀 Venue: @glob____ 🫟 21+ event. BYOB - bring your own alcoholic beverages. There is not any for sale. Drink responsibly. 😶‍🌫️ 🎟️Ticket link in bio🎟️ 🌀10pm-late🌀
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3 months ago
Some dig. Some accumulate. Then there are those whose shelves bend, whose floors creak, whose homes are rumored to sink under the weight of sound. Stories circulate about this fabled collector. Call it obsession. Call it addiction. Call it love. Valentine’s Day — an extended trip through Poten’s world… Email [email protected] to RSVP Steep has zero tolerance for harassment of any form. 21+ 🎨 @steff.gar
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3 months ago
🥳 Happiest of Birthdays to my beautiful wife, best friend, soulmate, number one @jessica_j_besse 🎂 You’re the greatest partner, companion and lover I could ask for, and I’m so proud of what you’ve managed to do with your vision for @hand_selected_denver_ over the past year. To many more adventures near and far, dancing the night away and another trip around the sun 🥂 I love you to infinity and beyond, and I hope you have the best day!! 💝😘
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4 months ago
Last gig of the year. I’m on closing duty to celebrate 4 years of @static.proof tonight, after @nelli_sounds and the California Boys take us for a ride 🏄 🌊 🤙🏽
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5 months ago
I’m late posting, but wanted to remember my last hour in the space that is @intimatchannel basement. It’s nothing short of a commitment to provide a (literal) underground space where promoters, DJs, artists and dancers can build a community, and @djfiatluxx and @recurse._ , @arteamour @gcfmathew @__hayl0__ have given every weekend of theirs to Denver’s after hours scene since opening the space. They’ve continued to improve the space in the past year+ and have made it nothing short of a proper venue with their @danleysoundlabs system we all love. I can’t thank y’all enough for your friendship and hospitality, and the entire @intimatchannel family for being such good people. Y’all have provided Denver with a proper space and it’s greatly appreciated. The basement may be taken over by new tenants in time, but it will not be the same. I wish all of you the best on the next chapter and look forward to the next dancefloor adventure. Infinite love to y’all ❤️‍🔥 Big thanks to @allangallego for helping me setup my decks in less than 4 minutes. Great meeting you! 🫂
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5 months ago
The dust/fog has finally settled from last Friday. 😶‍🌫️ What a journey from start to finish. ❤️ Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all that came out to support, dance and made memories. That’s what this is all about for us. We love you. Mad love to Denver’s local talent @breakeven_productions and @nicootobon for the proper opening b2b. You guys nailed the assignment and got things cooking. ♨️ @derekpoten and @colinnthedj got us ready for lift off. Setting up the vibes nicely. 🛸🫧 @ricardo_roessel brought the magic🪄 Certified deep digger. 🫡🌀 Thank you for coming out to Denver and thank you for the masterclass set. ❤️ As always massive thanks to @spike_stephens for the amazing pictures and helping with decor. Gang Gang for life ❤️📸 Huge thanks to @breakeven_productions for the sound system. 🔊 it was eargasmic. 👌🏻👀 Enormous thanks and endless love to Luke for being the captain of the space ship @glob____ Long Live Glob!! 🫟 Shoutout to @freakinbeats303 for slinging the wax. It’s spreading 😈 “insert evil laugh” Mad love to @fordeerlife for holding down the door. We cherish you! 🥰 Much love to all. Until next time……
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7 months ago
Dimensions ‘25 dump pt.2 It was a week full of moments and memories and one I will never forget. I met many people I’ve been in contact with for years (some a decade+) and some I’ve felt I’ve known for years. # 2-6 @vsionsvsions Boat Party w/ Markus Sommer, @rocky__m_ b2b @paynedylan (Wow boys!!), Liquid Earth b2b Mari.te WHAT A PARTY TOM!! 🙌🏽 @chadandrewdj - 🍾 Vsions Boat MVP @evanrckw - you’re the man!! # 8-9 - Gene On Earth @ Cosmos had people climbing the rafters (& shoulders) What a set!! # 11 - Jane Fitz closing @ Cosmos providing a masterclass 😮‍💨 # 16 - mood most of the weekend # 17-18 - me dancing my little heart out on the ledge for Rhadoo’s closing set @ The Beach # 19 - D.C. - Denver Crew MVP - @therealtobu Thanks again for everything ❤️‍🔥 Thank you @dimensionsfestival for the experience Thank you to my Numero Uno, Partner in Crime and Love of My Life @jessica_j_besse I love you beyond words, and not bad for our first EU experience, eh? 💖 Tomas Station once asked me, “Do you live for the rave?”….without question, yes. I was and always will be a dancer. 👟 I absolutely love this shit. ❤️‍🔥
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8 months ago
Dimensions ‘25 Dump pt.1 After waiting >20 years for my first real European music experience, I can’t find the words to explain the feeling, so I’ll leave it to the pictures. Needless to say, it exceeded any expectations. Anyone who’s been to this “party in paradise” knows exactly what I mean. # 5 - Laurine & Cecilio (Slow Life) @ Oven Club Boat Party # 8 - Onur Ozer @ Cosmos # 10 - Masda b2b Binh @ Cosmos # 14 - Sonja Moonear @ Barbarella’s
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8 months ago
Denver, Calling all shakers and groovers to the dance floor. We would like to invite you to our gathering on 09/26/25. We have a special guest, Chicago raised now based in Copenhagen - @ricardo_roessel Ricardo is a devoted record digger and underground curator, a visionary DJ for those whose obsession goes beyond hobby, he has held a relentless pursuit to dance music and its timeless ritual. The creative mind behind Alternate Time Movements @______atm_ in Chicago. Playing internationally recognized clubs and underground venues across the world - from BRET Amsterdam, Mansions New York to London’s AMF. Salon Daomé in Montreal to Detroit’s TV Lounge, into the morning hours of Los Angeles’s warehouse district at MELT. From the basement of YuYu in México City and Smartbar’s legendary Queen night, to the highly curated Process Club in Portland. Ricardo is known for playing out extended vinyl sets, showcasing a vast influence of rare, sometimes unconventional records. Ranging from deeper mid to late 90’s house, Y2k era breaks and downtempo, experimental minimal, progressive, EBM, electro and tech house. Continuously blurring the lines between genres old and new, finding the common thread within the lost and forgotten yet timeless records, mixed into a new age sound. Sewn effortlessly into the right context with skill and precision, presented to dance floors in a symbiotic yet loose natured feeling. Help us give Ricardo a warm welcome to the Denver underground scene. Local support on the decks for the evening will be 👀 @breakeven_productions b2b @nicootobon @derekpoten b2b @colinnthedj If you know you know. If you don’t, come find out. 😘 Venue: @glob____ 21+ event BYOB 10pm - Late We will have free water and free snacks. 🍌🍊 @freakinbeats303 will have a booth with vinyl for sale. We don’t stick to one genre of dance music. We let it flow. 😈 We do not tolerate any disrespectful or inappropriate behaviors towards attendants, staff, venue or space. This is a safe space for all. Anyone that violates these guidelines will be removed immediately from the premises. Be cool 😎 Hydrate and put on your dancing shoes. 🚨 ⛓️Ticket link in bio⛓️
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8 months ago