Your djing was the best of the other dj’s at the Airhouse in Korea! Plz come back next year!!!!

A recording of Nicolas Lutz closing the Pavilion stage at sunrise, 5am-8am on Sunday morning in 2022.

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Recorded at Houghton - Nicolas Lutz (2022)

Continuing to share memories from the Can You Jigit? Archives.. a sunday evening masterclass. Something to keep the tired feet moving, the soul breathing while also tickling the mind. One of our favorite moments of the weekend, where we could also let loose. In safe hands, with dear Vera.

Can You Jigit? Archives 002 - Vera

Three hours of high drama, recorded live at Nowadays in New York.

We know what you're thinking: why did it take so long to get Binh on the RA Podcast? There's no easy answer, especially given that he's been a favourite of ours for over a decade now. So to make up for lost time, the revered digger lands on the series with a tantalising three-hour mix, recorded live at Nowadays in New York earlier this year.

Crammed with rare and unreleased gems spanning house, techno, and electro, RA.989 is heavy on drama, catching the Düsseldorf native in unbridled performance mode.

This is Binh in 2025. But rewind across the past two decades and you'll find a DJ who excels in pretty much any situation, whether warming up for Zip or Margaret Dygas, going back-to-back with masters like Nicolas Lutz or rolling out solo sets that stretch across ten or even 12 hours.

He's acted out all these scenarios most often at Berlin institution Club der Visionaere, the cosy canalside club that became a kind-of spiritual home. (He'd sometimes spend every night of the week there, before parenting duties got the better of him.)

To play for half a day you need a lot of records, and the backbone of Binh's craft has long been a freakish passion for vinyl. Along with Lutz, Vera, and others in CDV's orbit, he approaches the pursuit of wax, new and old, with next-level dedication and a fondness for blind buys. 

That's true of RA.989, although among the un-Shazamables are many tracks that are either out or coming out on Binh's popular Time Passages label. The mix finds him on a house-y tip, luxuriating in roomy basslines, driving 303s and twinkly melodies—with just the right amount of evil. Lock in and savour a one-of-a-kind DJ, completely in the zone.

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RA.989 Binh

Two hours of EC1 regular Nicolas Lutz's off-kilter electro, trippy house and deep-cut techno recorded live at our 26th Birthday.

He returns to fabric on 17th January for an all-night stint with Craig Richards.

027 - Nicolas Lutz - Recorded live from fabric

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Recorded live @hors-sol at Macadam (May 2025)

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Z@P at HORS-SOL  — Macadam, May 2025

At Houghton 2025, Nicolas Lutz served up three hours of booming techno and big synths for the Pavilion dance floor.

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RA Live - Nicolas Lutz - Houghton, 2025

Hailing from Düsseldorf, Time Passages label head Binh takes crate-digging dedication to another level. His ear for discovering unknown gems has made him a long-time underground favourite, often showcasing his wax during marathon-length sets in Berlin or back-to-backs with fellow cult vinyl heads.  Dive into 75 minutes of his signature minimal pressure: thudding kicks and spangled synths, laced with a dark yet futuristic mood. A taste of what’s to come when Binh joins us for the 10th edition of Dekmantel Selectors on the Adriatic coast.

Dekmantel Mix 505 - Binh

Timeless Mixtape #58 comes courtesy of Brussels-born DJ Rey Colino, the curator behind One Eye Witness, Kalahari Oyster Cult and Mineral Cuts, whose work across labels and distribution has helped shape the trajectory of contemporary club music in recent years.

Here, he crafts a seamless, shape-shifting session: precise, expressive, and unmistakably his own, designed to steer the chemicals.

What unfolds is a tightly controlled session built on tension, intuition and flow.

Rey Colino - Timeless Series #58

DJs have always had to dig for records, but Nicolas Lutz has taken the search for sound to obsessive new levels. The Uruguayan has spent more than 20 years excavating tunes, labels and artists most of us never knew existed. Genre is largely irrelevant; instead, the My Own Jupiter boss threads his finds into beautifully dark and alluring soundscapes full of mystery and tension.

Playing in that way requires great technical skill as well as refined taste, and this week's podcast is further proof that Lutz has both in high supply. For almost two hours here, he navigates stark and moody atmospheres, trippy, stripped-back machine grooves and music that fires both head and body. Techno, breakbeat, IDM and wave all feature, but the outcome is never predictable. And that's exactly where the magic lies.

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