Name: Sodium Vapor by Cube
Duration: 4 min 36 s
Description: Streets of days old bathed in an orange glow

The Outer Reaches

Marcel Dettmann - BBC Essential Mix

An ambient piece made entire with the Novation Peak and a handful of percussion pieces from the Synthstrom Deluge.

The Comfort of Knowing

Track 2 of a 2 Track single I was gonna release on distribution in a month or two. you can have it here first - Let me know what you think!

Southside - Prod. Love George

HARDSTONE PSYCHO

BROTHER STONE (FEAT. KODAK BLACK)

ЙОУ ЭТО Я ПРИДУМАЛ ЙОУ by Krabboy & LilSemmi

ЙОУ ЙОУ ЙОУ

PREMIERE: Modēm - Lacrima (CHAKRA EP)

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

Als Multi-Genre Producer und DJ befindet sich Tripstoph auf einer kompromisslosen Suche nach dem Sound an der Kreuzung von Techno-Tradition und Moderne, Dunkel und Hell, perkussiv und melodisch.
Mit diesem Mix schließt sich für ihn das erste Kapitel seiner Produktionsreise die 2021 begonnen hat. Auf seiner Lernreise setzt Tripstoph statt Ellenbogenkampf auf radikale Kooperation mit anderen Künstler*innen.

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Tracklist:
Tripstoph - High rise
Tripstoph - Transformation
Miles Kvndra - Angst (Tripstoph Remix) @mileskvndra
Tripstoph - Expectations
Tripstoph - Reborn
Tripstoph - Obsession
Tripstoph - Reign
Tripstoph - Scavengers
Tripstoph - Horizon
Tripstoph - Balance

510-Cast #9 - Tripstoph

After making a strong impression at "rural presents New Acao" in Atami, the Spanish techno master Oscar Mulero returned to the rural stage for the closing set on the third day of the festival this year, and once again pulling the floor into a deep groove universe. As a prelude to the release of the live recording of 2025, we are pleased to share it with you. We hope you enjoy this solid techno set, filled with pure techno pleasure in every direction.

熱海で行われた〈rural presents New Acao〉でも鮮烈な印象を残したスパニッシュテクノの雄 Oscar Mulero が今年は3日目のクロージングセットのために rural の舞台へと舞い戻り、再びフロアを深いグルーヴの渦へと引きずりこみました。2025年のライブレコーディングの第一弾として、まずはこのセットから皆さまと共有できることを嬉しく思います。純粋なテクノの快楽性があらゆる方向から詰め込まれた、揺るぎのないテクノセットをお楽しみください。

Oscar Mulero at rural 2025

Streets of days old bathed in an orange glow

Sodium Vapor

Manchester based electronic musician, creating whatever feels right at the time.

Sodium Vapor

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