A cut of the set from the Unterwegs label party at Tresor in June just gone. Big thanks to Cami & Jack for the invite, massively appreciated, and thanks also to everyone who turned out. I've put it into three parts as I had a few issues with the fx chain and it sounded a bit bonkers listening back

support Unterwegs Records: unterwegsrecs.bandcamp.com/

Head Front Panel Live @ Tresor (Unterwegs Records Party) 13th June 2025

Bringing this month of Clone-ruled brilliance to a closure, legendary German act The Exaltics treat us to a face-melting avalanche of abrasive kick-n-snare-heavy assault and future-proof sound engineering. Championing that no-surrender electro pulse and the same acid-soaked dystopian atmospheres that innervate their whole discography, the two-hour set here presented showcases the uncompromising nature of The Exaltics sound: both rugged to the core and infinitely complex in its musical phrasing. The result is a highly corrosive and equally dynamic mosaic of paced-up fragments, polychromatic ambiences and that signature in-your-face punch wrapped in a post-apocalyptic cinematic envelope. Steel yourself for liftoff. 

soundcloud.com/the-exaltics


Reclaim Your City 667 | The Exaltics

Episode 049 of the Shaw Cuts podcast series features the Serbian DJ, producer and promoter Commissar Lag whose mantra „all emotions in music are valid“ is felt across all of his creative outlets. His diligent work ethic, the drive to forge his own path in the music world and also his turbulent personal journey has made him to an important figure in Serbia’s culture of electronic music. 

SHAW CUTS PODCAST 049 - COMMISSAR LAG

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

Knife presents Sunil Sharpe for the 200th podcast in our series.

Sunil Sharpe is one of Europe's most renowned and well-loved techno DJs. Gaining an enviable reputation for his DJing in the early '00s, he was soon inviten to play at Berlin's Tresor Club, marking the start of an intensive involvement in the techno scene. Sunil has played extensively
around Europe at the likes of Berghain, Fabric, Concrete, Sub Club, Glastonbury Festival and much more. He was also DJ of choice on the first two Karenn European tours, the last of which was marked by his now classic Boiler Room set in London.

Known primarily for his fast-moving, skillful style on the decks, Sunil's reputation as a producer of raw, individualistic techno, has grown in tandem with his reputation as a DJ. To date he has appeared on labels such as Works The Long Nights (aka Sheworks), Black Sun Records, Rave Or Die, Trensmat, Mord, Inner Surface Music, Violet Poison and many more. Sunil also recently setup
On The Hoof, a label dedicated specifically to his own productions and collaborations with friends.

Sunil makes up one half of Tinfoil alongside fellow Dublin-based producer DeFeKT. Initially forged as a studio partnership in 2014 (and more recently as a live show), the pair have since racked up an impressive catalogue of 12"s on their own self-titled label. Additionally, Sunil runs the wonderfully erratic Earwiggle imprint that has built a dedicated following, releasing new names and old heroes into the battlefield.

Sunil's application to techno and the scene in general, pushes far beyond the standard
DJ/producer mould. Enjoying a long stint in pirate radio from his early days of active DJing, Sunil joined national station RTÉ 2fm in 2007, where he has since offered up a monthly mix of new music. The show has also been characterized by in-depth interviews with the likes of Jeff Mills, Surgeon, Blawan and many others.

Sunil has also devised a new format for playing/reviewing new music in "The Quarterly Crate". Now in its third year, the hugely informative video series supplies a special insight into his most recent vinyl acquisitions.

www.facebook.com/sunilsharpemusic

www.soundcloud.com/sunilsharpe

www.instagram.com/sunilsharpe

Booking Contact: stina@apelago.com

Knife Podcast 200 | Sunil Sharpe

This month's guest mix comes from Berlin-based, Irish DJ and producer Thomas Kilmurray aka https://soundcloud.com/offtrack_csr 

OFFTRACK has been making waves across Ireland and further afield over the past few years having set up and firmly established his techno label, https://soundcloud.com/circuitstructrerecords releasing some really excellent techno from some emerging Irish artists, including himself.

In May 2025, Hardware and Circuit Structure Records joined forces to bring the legendary clubbing institute Tresor to Dublin for an Irish showcase. Offtrack went B2B with Mareena for that occasion.  On Friday 28 Nov 2025, Shift NYC in collaboration with Circuit Structure Records celebrate their 3rd birthday at Lark Berlin.

I have known Tommy for many years now and seen him develop into one of Ireland's finest techno DJs, with exceptional abilities behind the turntables. 

OFFTRACK can be see performing on a regular basis in Ireland, Berlin and New York. He has prepared an excellent mix for us, showcasing his skills and taking us through a journey of first-grade underground techno music.

Check out OFFTRACK's Bandcamp and Instagram pages etc. here:

https://linktr.ee/offtrack.csr


PLAY LOUD!

1.	Peel, Sevds – Succumbed
2.	Etap Kyle – Alpha
3.	Amandra – Caftan
4.	Radial – Asial
5.	Blawan – Careless
6.	Thythm Assembler - Til The End
7.	Valentino Mora – Portal
8.	Inox Traxx & Rødhåd - Silvene 02
9.	Jay York – Untouched
10.	Sandwell District & Function - Ember (New Mix)
11.	H.MESS – Ferost
12.	Jeroen Search - Tango (Archive 002)
13.	Cari Lekebusch, Alexander Johansson, Mattias Fridell – Hojtarolja
14.	Arkan - Up & Down
15.	Rene Wise - Deep Under
16.	Confusion (Raserei) - 0-800
17.	Chaz Moloney - Baptism By Fire
18.	Z.I.P.P.O – Eleven
19.	GiGi FM – Floresta
20.	Chaz Moloney - Carpet Burn
21.	Karenn - Summer

Warehouse Manifesto presents: OFFTRACK In The Warehouse

Deniro – a producer pur sang. Synthesizers are his way to communicate with the world. Deniro has been gradually emerging from the Dutch techno scene as one of the most exciting artists in Europe.

His music, markedly emotional and with roots in Detroit-inspired soul music, reflects over 15 years of isolation exploring his vintage machinery to then appear in the catalogues of labels such as TOKEN Records, Dekmantel or Tape Records Amsterdam, to which he is heavily bounded.
But it is also in the booth that he has proved to be an excellent sound architect, with sets that go beyond genres and whose contagious groove irrevocably binds us to the dance floor.

BADASH Podcast Series 030 | DENIRO

This year, the underground comes alive again. The Bas[s]ment is back at ADE 2025, and we couldn’t be happier with this night !

What started as a passion project for techno lovers who crave raw energy and uncompromising sound has grown into a movement—and now, after a year of anticipation, we’re bringing that same spirit once more to ADE.

The Bas[s]ment isn’t just a venue. It’s a feeling: low ceilings vibrating with bass, bodies moving together in sync, the kind of atmosphere you can only find when music meets community. Every beat is deeper, every drop hits harder, and every night feels like it could go on forever.

Line up:
David Leese (NL) / Jeff Rushin (NL) / Man With No Shadow (NL) / Mind Your Step (NL) / Tahko (NL) / TBA / λ (Anonymous Function) (NL)

ADE 2025 at the Bas[s]ment

live recording of my opening set for Tresor Invites Daniel Bell with Paula Koski, Luke Hess & Menal Batti

mastered by @saxmachine1234

Marteka Fair at Tresor Berlin 07.11.2025

Fuse feat. Ellen Allien

Label, booking agency & online record store

A seal of quality. It's the banner for a global network of friendships and creativity and - let's not forget - parties.
Made in Berlin. International. One of the most polyphonic chords ever struck by an electronic music label: Techno, Electronica, Indie, IDM, Pop, Beats, Song Writing. 
What matters is music that moves: bodies, spirits, emotions.

Fuse feat. Ellen Allien

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