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This 21st label release offers five wonderful and carefully-chosen selections of melodic electronic grooves, ranging from progressive house to techno to melodic techno, produced by a handful of the Windy City’s finest. In yet another year of unprecedented change and challenges, music has been the fabric keeping us united in the face of uncertainty, and this cherry-picked collection of truly top-tier quality songs is being sent out to you all around the world to help close out 2021 – from Chicago with lots of love (and also with a bit of pent-up rowdiness)!

Label newcomer on last year’s sampler – FJ9 – returns to this year’s offering with “In The Absence of Time” – a sharp saw-toothed roller-coaster ride of a melodic techno track. Aggressive yet elegantly-styled analog synth lines meet deep pumping grooves and layered percussion to take the mind for a wild ride.

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From Chicago With Love 2021 EP

In The Absence Of Time

Premiere: FJ9 "In The Absence Of Time" - Vested Recordings

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This 21st label release offers five wonderful and carefully-chosen selections of melodic electronic grooves, ranging from progressive house to techno to melodic techno, produced by a handful of the Windy City’s finest. In yet another year of unprecedented change and challenges, music has been the fabric keeping us united in the face of uncertainty, and this cherry-picked collection of truly top-tier quality songs is being sent out to you all around the world to help close out 2021 – from Chicago with lots of love (and also with a bit of pent-up rowdiness)! 
 
Vested label mainstay Rez Dorsia brings you “Ghosts & Memories” – a deep and driving melodic tech gem that oozes swagger with vintage feel. A deep and bouncing bassline paired with warm synth tones and a throwback vocal element really hit the sweet spot here and start this release off right.

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Ghost & Memories

Premiere: Rez Dorsia "Ghosts & Memories" - Vested Recordings

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This 21st label release offers five wonderful and carefully-chosen selections of melodic electronic grooves, ranging from progressive house to techno to melodic techno, produced by a handful of the Windy City’s finest. In yet another year of unprecedented change and challenges, music has been the fabric keeping us united in the face of uncertainty, and this cherry-picked collection of truly top-tier quality songs is being sent out to you all around the world to help close out 2021 – from Chicago with lots of love (and also with a bit of pent-up rowdiness)! 

Rounding out this release is a sublime serving of progressive house titled “Clockwork” by Crystos – a promising newcomer to the label and the Chicago music scene alike. Fusing elements of progressive, melodic tech, and big synth melodies in this composition, he delivers a ticking timepiece-driven piece of music that truly finishes this compilation with an exclamation point. The Gear and Spring Mix makes the groove of the clockwork a focus and leaves a little room for something more involving this tune to come to you in 2022!

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Clockwork (Gear And Spring Mix)

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This 21st label release offers five wonderful and carefully-chosen selections of melodic electronic grooves, ranging from progressive house to techno to melodic techno, produced by a handful of the Windy City’s finest. In yet another year of unprecedented change and challenges, music has been the fabric keeping us united in the face of uncertainty, and this cherry-picked collection of truly top-tier quality songs is being sent out to you all around the world to help close out 2021 – from Chicago with lots of love (and also with a bit of pent-up rowdiness).

Back on the label after a brief hiatus is surgically-concise producer and Chicago artist Alex Castaneda in bringing you “Recon” – a big, spacious, booming and driving slice of techno. Boasting a full-on galloping rhythm section and a blissfully-wide low-end groove that feels simply amazing, this peak-hour burner will do nothing short of setting the night on fire.

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Recon

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This 21st label release offers five wonderful and carefully-chosen selections of melodic electronic grooves, ranging from progressive house to techno to melodic techno, produced by a handful of the Windy City’s finest. In yet another year of unprecedented change and challenges, music has been the fabric keeping us united in the face of uncertainty, and this cherry-picked collection of truly top-tier quality songs is being sent out to you all around the world to help close out 2021 – from Chicago with lots of love (and also with a bit of pent-up rowdiness)!

“Wilderness” is a lush and textured progressive house composition born from a collaboration between two label newcomers: SinnerSaints and Alfred Clayton. Inspired on some level by nature’s elements and featuring a unique melodic hook juxtaposed against a cinematic driving groove, this lovely, intricate, and moody piece of electronic music here will have you coming back time and again.

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Wilderness

Premiere: SinnerSaints & Alfred Clayton "Wilderness" - Vested Recordings

.aali - Muted (Original Mix) [Integrate Records]

Excited to share with you my very first set of 2024, recorded live at Ratherlost party at LoFi, Amsterdam on January 1st, 2024. 
It was truly one of the best NY shows I've ever been a part of. The club was completely packed and on fire as I took over the decks following Quelza & Nørbak’s incredible B2B set. My aim was to keep this massive momentum going while leading the floor on a journey to get lost in the music. Hope you can feel this mood and energy from the recording. 

Special thanks to everyone who attended, and to Ratherlost for curating such phenomenal parties and granting me the opportunity to share this mix.

Wata Igarashi at Ratherlost 2024.01.01

Live at the Melody Lounge in Chinatown in the heart of LA underneath a plethora of bright red Chinese lanterns, NEKTER provides the tunes for a late, intimate night of techno.

Split Checks presents: Dimly Lit with NEKTER

Set Times Episode 37 JIA

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Set Times Episode 37 JIA

My closing set for RE/FORM Spring Pre-Party

Closing Set @ RE/FORM Los Angeles, April 2024

Reclaim Your City 588 | Dustin Zahn (Berlin)

Active since the turn of the millennium, Wisconsin-born / Berlin-based DJ and producer Dustin Zahn has been trading some of the most consistently powerful techno blends over the past twenty years. Incisive and empowering, his sound epitomizes the perfect balance between strenuous, big-room-focussed wares and an acute sensibility for the sharpest sound design. Throughout an endless flow of grade-A heaters for some of the scene's most highly-regarded imprints, including Blueprint, Rekids and his own record label, Enemy, Zahn has been sculpting a body of work both ebulliently intense and future-facing, never quite resting on his laurels but throwing all of his nerve and energy into staying relevant in the age of disposability. Ageless, boundless.

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Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 588 | Dustin Zahn

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Yigitoglu & KVTS. "Sundowner" is the title track off the new EP forthcoming on L.A.'s Synthetik Sounds. For this release, the duo delivers three original tracks that range from punchy dance floor grooves (Sundowner) to striking hypnotic rhythms (Babylon's Fall) that leads us to Vision, the final track of this EP that will sure lock in dance floors with the nicely layered hypnotic grooves which has become the signature sound for the young Turkish DJ/producer, Yigitoglu, and his collaborator KVTS.

Pick this one up on April 26th on digital at: https://synthetiksounds.bandcamp.com/album/sundowner-ep

PREMIERE: Yigitoglu & KVTS - Sundowner [SS006]

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Tracklist:
01.Sundowner
02.Babylon's Fall (Risa Taniguchi Remix)
03.Sundowner (TonalTheory Remix)
04.Babylon's Fall
05.Vision


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CAT#: SS006
Label: Synthetik Sounds
Format: Digital

Premiere: Yigitoglu & KVTS - Babylon's Fall [SS006]

Interested to hear what happens when 012 label maestro Claudio PRC is booked to play for 3 hours? The result — 6 hours of pure blissful MAGIC, with the floor staying packed throughout and Claudio deciding to play from after midnight till the very end.

This set was recorded live at Turbina, Budapest on our event at the end of 2023 and uploaded here in full unedited form.

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For each release a fitting color is chosen by the contributing artist from the Pantone universe. Claudio's choice — 5555, is a refined slate green-gray hybrid.

HEX | #5C7F71
RGB | 92/127/113
CMYK | 29/0/10/50

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Technokunst Podcast 5555 | Claudio PRC

On the mix for this episode, we are excited to present a new artist signed to the label. His name is Kahai Owens and he’s got an exclusive mix which includes a preview of his own forthcoming tracks as well as some unreleased gems. To find out more about Kauai, head on over to our new website at http://TechnicheSD.com & check out the Artists section, get familiar with Kahai as well as all the other artists on the roster. Enjoy the mix!

Tracklist
01. Correlations - Kahai Owens [Unreleased]
02. Dissemination - Kahai Owens [Techniche Recordings]
03. Inferno - Setaoc Mass [SK_Eleven]
04. One Hour - M.I.T.A. [Agencia Son]
05. Carnal Fever - Alarico [Primal Instict]
06. Flashbacks - Jonny Maven [Unreleased]
07. Mood - Uncertain [Beard Man]
08. ID - Kahai Owens, Jonny Maven [Unreleased]
09. The Day After Tomorrow - DJ Dextro [Second State Audio]
10. Blur - BAUGRUPPE90 [CAPACITY]
11. Searching - Iglo [hereandthere]
12. Fear - Deas [CLR]
13. Bad Habits - Malugi [SNC RECS] 
14. In This Moment - Kahai Owens [Unreleased]
15. Tide - Altinbas [Observer Station]
16. Solace - Danny Wabbit [Tronic]
17. Counterweight - Kahai Owens [De-Konstrukt Records]
18. ID - Kahai Owens [Unreleased]
19. Entangle - Kahai Owens [De-Konstrukt Records]
20. Down by Law - OFF/GRID [Entourage Concept]
21. Marla Singer - Disguised, FANK [Inherit Records]
22. Funana - CRAVO [Hayes]

TRS237: KAHAI OWENS

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This 17th label release offers five wonderful and carefully-chosen selections of melodic electronic grooves, ranging from progressive house to deep house to melodic techno, produced by a handful of the Windy City's finest. In a year of unprecedented change and challenges, music has been the fabric keeping us united in the face of uncertainty, and this small cherry-picked collection of songs is being sent out to you all around the world to help close out 2020 – from Chicago with lots of love.

First up - Vested label regular Jeff Ozmits and label newcomer Bedroom Logic team up to bring you "Secret Sky" – a driving melodic peak-hour progressive gem that begs to be hammered during a prime stretch of evening. A deep and bouncing bassline paired with pleasing synth arpeggios really hit the sweet spot here and start this release off right.

Second - Vested label head RJ Pickens teams up with Tru Musica label head Brian Boncher to collectively bring you "Astral Dream" – a house-driven melodic progressive tune layered with guitars, synths, stacked percussion, and a bassline paying playful homage to an electronic classic. Special thanks to instrumentalists Jim O'Reilly and Skeebo Geebo for their melodic contributions to this composition!

Next up is the multi-faceted My Boy Elroy in a team effort with OpenOptics in bringing you "Where Do We Start Now" – a sublime deep melodic house offering infused with synthwave leads, organic handpan textures, a trotting rhythm section, and a low end groove that just feels amazing. Special thanks to instrumentalists OpenOptics and Troy Page for their contributions to this project!

"Clearing Space" is a lush and textured melodic techno composition with deep and driving groove from staple Chicago artist: Hummingbird. She's assembled a lovely, intricate, and moody piece of electronic music here will have you listening to all the nuances amongst the smooth energies of this piece over and again.

And rounding out this release is "Deeper Than Us" by FJ9 – a really promising newcomer to the label and the Chicago music scene alike. Fusing elements of melodic techno, house, and electro in this composition, he delivers a modulated-synth-driven piece of music that truly finishes this compilation with a big bang. A bonus edit of this track has also been provided for those of you who just want to cut to the chase.

Artwork by: Chicago-based photographer Eric Formato

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From Chicago with Love 2020 EP

Clearing Space

Premiere: Hummingbird "Clearing Space" - Vested Recordings

Global house + techno community promoting the culture of work & play
Est. 2008 Los Angeles

For the past 2 decades, RJ Pickens has been a leader in building and growing Chicago’s melodic-driven electronic music scene. With nearly 25 years of DJ experience and tirelessly pursuing the perfect mix of deep, progressive, techno, and house sounds.  He rocks venues ranging from intimate to huge, and can go from being the headliner himself to being the supporting act of choice for countless global headliners on the best club and festival events the Windy City has to offer.  RJ is also a principal collaborator in a recently-launched and acclaimed music act called Portals & Parachutes, taking first flight in post-pandemic 2021.  RJ’s record label and music event banner — VESTED — has become synonymous with top-tier progressive electronic sounds.  Vested Recordings, while a relatively young label still, has seen remarkable support from some of the very best artists in the industry.  The event showcases produced under the Vested brand have been consistently showcasing the finest quality in its music bookings for the last 10 years. 

VESTED:  an adjective that means “to hold something completely, permanently, and inalienably — an unwavering commitment.”  In an electronic music sense, it simply means RJ is really serious about our party music, and his work on all fronts speaks for itself.

If you haven’t yet, tune in and turn it all the way up.

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Premiere: Hummingbird "Clearing Space" - Vested Recordings

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