Episode 240 brings a transmission from Decoder, the Dallas-based artist crafting hyper-minimalist body music with a distinct sci-fi sensibility.

Through releases on storied labels like Axis and Molecular, as well as modern outposts such as Blank Code, Float, AMTK+, and his own imprints Codec and Toca Records, Decoder has shaped a sound that feels engineered for deep space — stark, rhythmic, and precise.

His work has drawn the attention of techno’s most forward-thinking figures, including Jeff Mills, Rrose, Amotik, and Richie Hawtin, the latter bringing him on an international tour spanning North America, Europe, and India. Decoder’s performances at venues like De School, Fold, and Watergate reflect his alignment with the more experimental edges of the genre.

This mix is not just a set — it’s architecture in motion. Sparse, physical, and charged with tension. All of the tracks featured here are unreleased material by Decoder, offering an exclusive preview of what’s to come.

Blank Code Podcast 240 – Decoder

Brace yourselves for a breakneck ride this month as our longtime friends and distributor Clone hijack RYC frequencies with a massive takeover for the whole month of October. Breaking this four-part installment in, Amsterdam’s Afra cuts in with two-hours of old-school Detroit electro vibrations, hi-velocity breaks and future-facing floor narratives beckoning us onto a whole distinct dimension entirely. All in finessed vortical dynamics and rapid-fire bass deluge, the Dutch DJ pulls out an absolute charge of a chiseled and finely-curated mix, locked-and-loaded on having ravers lose their mind to this effervescing fusion of frantic sci-fi-like atmosphere and proper nuclear propulsion. Buckle your belt.

soundcloud.com/aframusic


Reclaim Your City 664 | Afra

Dirty Epic welcomes aboard @shantievanti for the 127th installment of Amplify Series.

Shanti has made textured waves in Chicago’s techno scene with her curation of dark, sinister, and ethereal soundscapes. Music has always been a means of coping with the otherness and hybridity Shanti experienced throughout her life. She has been deeply moved by the transcendent ability of music to express concepts, states of consciousness, and conflicting emotions. Shanti’s sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition and illustrate an intentional trajectory through combining and cultivating surreal, atmospheric, and haunting sounds.
 
Enamored by the liminal dynamics of sound, she cohosts Otherworldly Ambiguity with Scum.ee –an experience that is centered around the phenomenon of existing in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories. She is also a member of techno collective Research & Development and hosts a monthly radio show, “Liminal Radio” on WIIT 88.9 FM featuring thoughtful artists at the core of Chicago’s underground music scene.
 
Experiencing music outside of the confines of a club or the underground is extremely important to Shanti as she had initially discovered her favorite artists through online podcasts and radio. The universalizability of podcasts and radio enable music to be experienced by more humans situated in different contexts. This is why she has contributed to many notable online mix series and radio channels. Her mixes have been featured on The Black Lodge Radio, SutroFM, Mutant Radio, PPRZ, Distant Signals, Death Decay & Magic, Braid Records, Low Visibility, Dance All Day, and m50’s etc radio among other podcasts and shows.

"For this closing set, I wanted to cultivate an atmosphere of releasing the turbulent emotions we have been experiencing in Chicago as a community. I anticipated the desire for this release but experiencing it in the subterranean context of Smartbar - in the darkness - in real time- felt so powerful and transcendent. This experience was not merely an escape, but a channeling of the heaviness within us - how do the mind and body cope and grasp what is happening? I was fueled by the defiantly heavy energy from the dancers and it was such a testament to the healing power of music during these dark times."

LINKS:

SHANTI:
Soundcloud: @shantievanti
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shantiism/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/shanti

DIRTY EPIC:
Website: www.dirty-epic.com
Merch: shopby6am.com/collections/dirty-epic-collection
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DirtyepicLA
Twitter: twitter.com/dirtyepicla
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtyepicla/

Amplify Series 127 - Shanti (live Smartbar, Chicago 10/25)

Live recording from our event Singularity, every Monday at Tresor, Berlin 🖤

SUBSTANCE*live 12.5.2025 Singularity @ TRESOR

Recording from Boris - BeHærd Invites KHIDI  at Levenslang 7 NOV 

Thankyou for the good energy and this beautiful set. 
@borisdolinski

Boris - BeHærd Invites KHIDI  at Levenslang 7 NOV

For episode 242, we feature Sphinx, a Detroit-based DJ and multimedia artist whose path into electronic music is shaped by years of creative exploration and deep connection to community.

What began in a bedroom in West Michigan—while studying Fine Art and Illustration—has evolved into a distinct sonic practice rooted in Detroit’s rich techno legacy. After returning home in 2021, Sphinx immersed herself in the city’s underground, drawing inspiration from its enduring ethos of experimentation, resilience, and collective energy.

Her sound blends layered percussion, acid grooves, and Detroit’s driving pulse into mixes that are both introspective and physical. Influenced by early exposure to live jazz, spiritual traditions, and symbolic storytelling, she creates sets that move beyond the functional—toward the transformational.

From stages like Movement, Electric Forest, and The Great Beyond, to this latest offering for Blank Code, Sphinx continues to craft experiences that resonate on and off the dance floor.

Tracklist: 

Vacil - Infans
The Living Planet - Foreign Material
Corel - Cloned
Wobani - Luigi Tozzi 
The Summon - Wata Igarashi
The Message - Forest On Stasys
Bacchanalia I (Al Wootton Remix) - Big Hands
Block Nine - Forest Drive West
Bending - Kobe Dupree
Marchesa Deserta - PRG/M
South Meridian - Cliche Morph
Wandering Endlessly - Robert Hood
Winged (Donato Dozzy Remix) - Priori
808 Trax (Original) - Alpha 606
Multiform - al dente
Doctors Note - Acutek
Mockingbird - KGIV
Bolt - Planetary Assault Systems
Chez Driss - Feral
Mindless Chaos - Joshua Calleja
Cave - Rene Wise
No Dice - Paul Fleetwood
Breathing - Son Error
Goddess Within (Give It To Me Daddy) - Maara
Epoxy (Patrick Russell Remix) - Jasen Loveland
Diamond City - Obscur
Curve Pericolose - Marco Shuttle
Norm - Philipp Stoffel 
Vardana Zaf - QUELZA
Virgo Space Acid - GiGi FM
the temptation - al dente

Blank Code Podcast 242 - DJ Sphinx

A chugging deep and suspenseful techno track with psychedelic overtones

Lava Tube

Varuna Agosti, the Amsterdam Princess of Dub Techno made another warm spacious and above all unforgettable opening appearance at the Psyrom Weekender.

Varuna Agosti @ Psyrom Weekender 16 Nov 2025

artificial

Recorded by @0bscur for The Memoir, 2025.
All tracks are written and produced by @0bscur.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Curated by Hypnus Records.

00:00 Obscur - Unreleased
04:18 Obscur - Psychosomatic [Oldbridge Records]
06:55 Obscur - Event Horizon [Ciclo Cosmico]
09:20 Obscur - Unreleased
12:25 Obscur & Connor Wall - Unreleased
16:30 Obscur - Unreleased
18:41 Obscur - Unreleased
22:03 Obscur - Unreleased
25:10 Obscur - Unreleased
27:49 Obscur - Unreleased
31:10 Obscur - Unreleased
34:02 Obscur - Unreleased
37:36 Obscur - Unreleased
40:14 Obscur - Superficial [Newrhythmic Recs]
43:20 Obscur - Unreleased
46:12 Obscur - Unreleased
48:20 Obscur - Unreleased
51:27 Obscur - Unreleased
53:35 Obscur - unreleased
56:11 Obscur & Variable - Unreleased
01:00:13 Obscur - Unreleased
01:02:50 Obscur - Fear of Dark [Newrhythmic Recs]
01:05:26 Obscur - Unreleased
01:08:31 Obscur - Unreleased
01:11:50 Obscur - Unreleased
01:15:00 Obscur - Blasphemy [Moving Pressure]
01:17:10 Obscur - Unreleased
01:21:25 Obscur - Unreleased
01:24:00 Obscur - Unreleased
01:27:50 Obscur - Unreleased

Love and light