DJ firebrand Takaaki Itoh has come a long way since his early days of Detroit-influenced techno and parties in northern Japan. Without compromising anything in the way of quality his appeal has grown exponentially. Like a musical surgeon, his approach relies less on sweeping gestures and more on small millimetric cuts and tweaks that slowly ramp up the mood and leave the listener with sound that is at turns growling, mystical and amorphous. Bassiani Podcast 105 is a monolithic, trance-inducing opus from the land of the rising sun.

@takaaki_itoh

Bassiani invites Takaaki Itoh / Podcast #105

500 podcasts in and counting is a thing to contemplate, and we are forever grateful for the amazing lot of people supporting RYC in any way - from tuning in our weekly show to buying our releases (bonus cheers to those who do both), y’all are the reason why we’re doing it, so shout outs! Such a crucial milestone in our development was to be celebrated proper, and we’re chuffed to bits to welcome a longtime hero of ours in the series, Rødhad, to steer us into absolute bliss! True to his exploratory approach, moving the cursor elegantly from hi-intensity 4x4 traction to chiselled ambient techno spans, through hybrid entrancers and inch-perfectly engineered plot twists, the Dystopian and WSNWG spearhead has us tip-toeing the edge between big-room trouble and the most intense Martini effect. Cast off, trip out, elevate. 

soundcloud.com/rodhad

01. Scuba - All I Think About Is Death (Radio Slave Atmos) - Hotflush Recordings   
02. Donato Dozzy - K7 - Further Records  
03. Reeko - Miracle - Pole Group 
04. Deluka - Arcade - No Signal
05. ORBE - Agovox - ORB012
06. Paul Ritch - Cruise Control - Illegal Alien   
07. Clotur - Echo Chamber - Counterchange 
08. CNCPT - Exit - Olympian  
09. Hemissi - Aztec - Blank Code 
10. Augusto Taito - Agnostic - Children Of Tomorrow   
11. Rene Wise - Tizer - SK_eleven   
12. Flits - Small - Drawner Records   
13. Fadi Mohem & Rødhåd - 210407.2 - WSNWG008 
14. Psyk - Out Of Sight - Non Series   
15. Yotam Avni - Panic - Second State  
16. Rødhåd - Wise Saying Feat. Sara Clarke - WSNWG (Back To Zero)
17. Linear System - Static Position - Illegal Alien    
18. DJ Dextro, A. Paul - Escorbuto - Disturb •  
19. Ignez - Boot - Unknown 
20. Paula Cazenave - Sleep Paralysis - Symbolism
21. S-File - Get Down! - GND Records
22. Marcal - Never Wrote This - Enemy Records    
23. Alarico - Lost in Time - Mutual Rytm
24. Red Rooms - Drift - Planet Rhythm   
25. Kaiser & Matrixxman - Distress Signal - KSR009   
26. SAMA - Kill The Heat - Unknown  
27. A.Morgan - Geisha - Self-released   
28. Anika Kunst - Detox - Symbolism  
29. Rødhåd - Alternation - WSNWG (Back To Zero)     
30. Egotot - Shaku - SYXT  
31. Klint - Molecularized - Truncate
32. Svarog - Dubwise (Gabriel D'Or & Bordoy Remix) - Selected Records
33. Ricardo Garduno - Groove Bender - Illegal Alien
34. Ø [Phase] - Intensity Fluctuations (Setaoc Mass remix) - Modwerks
35. Regent - Efficient - ARTS
36. FaceFace - Amazonia (Rene Wise Remix) - Unknown
37. Arkan - Tribute To Victo - Canticle Records 
38. Sterac - Light In The Darkness - Token
39. JakoJako & Rødhåd - PASSERI FLOOR MIX - WSNWG009 
40. JakoJako & Rødhåd - PASSERI - WSNWG009

Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 500 | Rødhåd

Steve Rachmad’s techno project STERAC has for many years been a seminal force in his native Netherlands and beyond. Releasing over 100 releases across the much feted Delsin, Klockworks, Mote-Evolver, Tresor and others, he’s become something of a cult figure, and dubbed a father of Detroit in The Netherlands for added points. It’s hard to imagine a more venerated artist and there’s good reason why, Rachmad’s fearless approach to production puts him a cut above many of his peers, often taking pure feeling and a collection of well worn machines as a starting point and trusting his gut along the path to finished product. For Bassiani Podcast 190, the Dutch master of techno delivers a thorough lesson in expert mixing. From orchestral strings to utilitarian bleeps, Rachmad’s sound bridges a gap no one else can. An ode to the motor city with a healthy measure of string composition thrown in, recorded live at the club during the Token X Reclaim Your City night on November 3rd.

@steverachmad

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Bassiani invites Sterac / Podcast #190

This is the live recording of the first 3 hours at Ratherlost, Lofi Amsterdam on NYE 2024. The second half is mixed together with Polygonia.

Abstract Division & Polygonia @ Ratherlost (NYD 2024)

Active for nearly three decades, Japanese DJ and producer Takaaki Itoh has been carving out a niche truly his own in the realm of deep techno. Pumping out multi-sensory DJ tools for breakfast, Itoh champions a sound highly dynamic yet infused with the kind of minute textural work and layers of modular complexity one can not but marvel at. Punching in with a wild two hours of electro-magnetic hardware funk and entrancingly immersive brainwaves, the Sendai-based wizard elevates us to a whole new world where hi-tech submersion and atmospheric club music reign supreme. A work of art. 

soundcloud.com/takaaki_itoh

Reclaim Your City 581 | Takaaki Itoh

Recording of Luke Slater's set at Dekmantel Ten

Pre-register for Dekmantel Festival 2025 here: bit.ly/4fyWKXc

Luke Slater at Dekmantel Ten

powerful increasing energy of a friday night at la clairière
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Border One - La Nature 2024

Back in the series with a special hour-and-a-half-long live set, fellow RYC alum Arthur Robert graces us with a mix that best exemplifies his cosmonautical approach to production, flush with alien-engineered sounds and sci-fi-indebted atmospheres. Like traversing a dynamic hall of mirrors and prisms, distorting our cognitive scope to hypnotic effect, Robert’s mix is a maze of fast swiveling grooves and bubbling, modular-like reflections. If you like your techno both hi-velocity and uncompromisingly trippy, Robert’s blends extrapolate the finest of galloping techno and outer-spacey poetics, birthing the kind of transporting narrative that’ll sooth your nerves from the daily heartbreak we’ve come to process as an integral part of our lives.

soundcloud.com/arthurrobert

Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 631 | Arthur Robert Live

US-born and Berlin-based, Dustin Zahn has been a force in techno’s global underground for over two decades. His sound is punishing yet precise—big-room power shaped by hypnotic loops, sharp sound design often layered with haunting vocals and an unshakable sense of momentum.

With releases on Blueprint, Rekids, and his own imprints—Enemy Records and the American-rooted Abiotic Recordings— Zahn’s output is consistently high-caliber. Behind the decks, from Berghain to basements,  his work is a masterclass in high-impact techno that never sacrifices depth.

For Podcast #243, he delivers a 2.5-hour journey that doesn’t let up. No compromises. Just techno. 

Artwork by @ankhsious

Vault Sessions #243 - Dustin Zahn

Support here: https://reflect-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/v-a%E2%80%A6ion-vol-1

Album Name: V.A. Fundraiser Collection Vol.2
Artist(s): various
Artist [track]: Franz Jäger
Label: re:flect recordings
Catalogue: REKAVA-2
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Release date: 11.07.2025
Mastering: Jan Goertz
Artwork: IG: x.fram3s

Support the Artist:

SC : https://soundcloud.com/franzjager
IG : https://www.instagram.com/franzk_jager/

Support the Labels:
SC: @re_flect | @klangangriff
IG: www.instagram.com/re.flect/ | www.instagram.com/klangangriff_/

DS Premiere: Franz jäger - Feel blood [REKAVA-2]

Grounded podcast number 139 welcomes Japanese techno master Takaaki Itoh as part two of the live recordings taken from the sold out SVBVERSION & OMEN party in the Kaizen bar, Dublin last month.

Needing little introduction with releases on labels such Planet Rhythm, Modularz, MORD and his very own WOLS... Takaaki's career spans over 20 years in which he is held high in regard as Japan's most respected and underground techno DJ whose unique style captivates crowds, leading them on deep, dark, hypnotic adventures.

https://soundcloud.com/takaaki_itoh
www.facebook.com/wols.takaakiitoh

www.facebook.com/svbversion
www.facebook.com/omenevents.ie

Photo by Bastien Réau - www.instagram.com/bastienreau

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