KEXP DJ Sharlese on Dutch Darkwave Band Desinteresse
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Host Evie Stokes sits down with DJ Sharlese from Mechanical Breakdown to talk all things dark wave, synth, and “wavy” music. Sharlese brings in a fresh find from the Netherlands – Dutch band Desinteresse. She shares their song “Zwart Wit” from their 2025 album, Onschuld, out now via Fabrika Records.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In Our Headphones, and I'm Eby Stokes in the studio today with DJ Charlese. |
| 0:06.0 | Yay! |
| 0:07.0 | Yes. |
| 0:09.5 | I guess I'm supposed to clap for myself. |
| 0:11.4 | Yeah, let's call for Charlize. |
| 0:13.9 | Charlese, you wear many proverbial hats at K.E.X.D., don't you? |
| 0:19.4 | I love that P. Word. |
| 0:20.9 | Sure. Sure. |
| 0:21.3 | For the sake of today, you are just the host of Mechanical Breakdown on K-E-X-B. |
| 0:28.3 | That is true. |
| 0:29.7 | So, hey, Charlize. |
| 0:30.6 | Tell me about Mechanical Breakdown. |
| 0:33.0 | It's a show that's on Friday night, Saturday mornings from 1 to 3 a.m. |
| 0:39.0 | And I lean into darker, wavy, synthy styles, sometimes punchy, eBM, post-punk. |
| 0:50.5 | Yeah, and it's my time to share. |
| 0:55.7 | I love your show. I know I tell you that, but I just want to tell you again. I love your show. |
| 0:59.9 | Thank you. I really love it too. When I first started hosting, you know, I started, I did variety and then I did audioasis. |
| 1:13.9 | And I couldn't listen to my voice. I couldn't, |
| 1:21.0 | I just couldn't listen to my show. It was like so hard. And now I, I only talk like very specific times of the show and I, I love listening to my show. Good. I'm so glad. |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah. I really like it. You know what? It's hard as a DJ. I've said this before, but it's hard to listen to your own voice. Yeah, that's a part of it. I'm like, what is she talking about? And why is she talking? Why did I say that? Yeah. Turn it off. Well, you brought a song that you're going to share with us today from the Dutch band Dissentressee. Did I say that right? That's what my Dutch friends, they sent us little sound bites. Yeah. So, yeah. Okay. Well, we'll go with that. From the Dutch band, Dysentresi. Yeah, Descentresi. |
| 2:01.6 | So tell me about this drag. |
| 2:03.0 | This is Zwart Witt. |
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