DJ Sodeyama’s murky alias The People in Fog is up next for a very special number. The DJ/producer has been active since the 90s, reshaping his home city, extensively touring the globe, releasing music, founding record labels (Arpa) and toying with different incarnations of his palette under a few different names. The People In Fog is one such project, founded a decade ago as license to lean into his more disco and house inclinations, a means of connecting with a lighter penchant for Chicago-style and Balearic rhythms. It’s a manifestation that’s given the world several first-rate releases like debut album A Ray of Light (2013), Album: 1977 (2021) and this year’s Too Much Knobs and Cables. His whistle-stop promo tour of Japan for that latest release has been whipping up plenty of shifting grooves and phase distortions, and delivering that fresh take on sound to IRL crowds in his native land. For the rest of us, the nine-tracker’s a perfect source for summer anthems: a fuzzy, analog patchwork of synths and low-end bass. Bassiani Podcast 273 takes all of this and turns up the heat, The People In Fog’s deep reverence for underground sounds is here for a two-hour mash up of grimy percussions and sensuous urban sounds. A-game grooves from a Tokyo legend.

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Bassiani invites The People In Fog / Podcast #273

172nd guest of KHIDI’s podcast series is Maris Shilton. With a decade of experience behind the decks, Maris shaped his sound to become a true storyteller, knowing how to catch a crowd and create an ecstatic atmosphere that has marked the dancefloors many times. Navigating between slow and stripped-down sounds and faster sides of techno music, Maris is a DJ who knows how to adapt to every situation

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KHIDI Podcast 172: Maris Shilton

Deftly merging her background in sound design with techno and its real world applications, Toxido Mask is a shadowy DJ/Producer who calls Berlin home and has been challenging the fringe of her craft for over a decade. Her fastidious selections and skill on the decks are nothing short of legendary, providing experiences that rumble and vibrate with mystical power, characterised by a raw intensity and fragile balance between ‘harmony and disharmony, clarity and distortion’, a testament to the transformative nature of the genre and her keen understanding of it. She’s a Tresor resident and curator of the OMM Transmission Podcast and party series, an outlet for further explorations into the murky world of this defiant sound. Productions too have offered a glimpse into the shifting sands of her percussive mayhem with releases on Semantica Records, Aneelhi and Pregnant Void. Toxido’s paradigm has found form wherever possible and proven her singular vision can constantly change and provoke. Bassiani Podcast 274 is a dose of primal techno that radiates and consumes its listener, expansive and potent beats from a formidable talent. 

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Bassiani invites Toxido Mask / Podcast #274

Batumi-born, Berlin-based DJ/Producer Nicole has been instrumental in the evolution of Tbilisi’s role as axis for music and politics. Her earliest ventures in sonic creation saw her attend music school as a child and drum in a band, followed by a pivot into electronic music as half of teenage duo Body Thrills. It was 2018 that she truly emerged solo as a talent to watch on the Georgian scene, with a Boiler Room performance at Bassiani to celebrate its reopening following civilian protests against the government’s shutdown of cultural spaces. And with the threat of authoritarian ideology looming once more, her kind of energy is perhaps more important than ever. Nicole’s sound represents the best of what Georgia has to offer, a free and open enthusiasm for life where creativity reigns and anything is possible. Witty minimal with a generous measure of acid squelches and positive funk, these tunes are a mirror to the dancefloors she plays on. Her strength is in knowing her audience, which strings to pull and when, and that’s just as true of her other work, which now counts promotion duties at Tbilisi space Cafe Gallery and an EP on Marco Shuttle’s Eerie Records. This latest episode carries Tbilisi’s flame forward, a six-hour compilation that brings together her unique perspective as native to the city’s struggle, and her disparate musical references. Bassiani Podcast 275 is a knockout set from a top-notch local talent.

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Bassiani invites Nicole / Podcast #275

173rd guest of KHIDI’s podcast series is Younger Than Me. Originally from Italy and now based in Berlin, Younger Than Me masterfully fuses 90s-inspired sounds, including progressive house, trance, breakbeat, and jungle.  His DJ sets are defined by a playful yet forceful energy, constantly pushing boundaries while keeping the listener engaged

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KHIDI Podcast 173: Younger Than Me

Hailing from Santiago de Chile, eclectic talent Marcelo Antonio is a formidable voice for deep, mind-bending techno. Since 2018 the DJ/Producer has been putting out a growing number of releases on labels like Float, Keyhole, Methodical, Antiterra, EVOD Music, and delivered killer sets across his native Chile and Europe, honing a class of sound that’s full-bodied, deep and geared for marathon raves. His self-published work via Bandcamp-only outlet Out of Sight too, offers a further glimpse into his intimate studio workings: high-concept and movement driven tracks that foment rhythmic contemplation. His frequent collaborators include widely recognised industry staples like Kwartz, DVS1, Kr!z, Ruben Ganev, TWR72, Border One, Biri and Samuli Kempi, a sounding board comprised of peers that share in his passion for primal loops. It’s an elegant techno that layers up textures and builds up tension second by second, and steers its bow towards a distant and euphoric horizon. This master of mood is here with a number that’ll push your body and mind to the limit, liminal techno that hypnotises and fringes the frontier of techno. Bassiani Podcast 276 is one you don’t want to miss.

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Bassiani invites Marcelo Antonio / Podcast #276

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Germany-based Natalie Robinson is a champion for soulful house, weaving together the threads of her American/Ghanaian upbringing with her clubland one and bringing her identity as a young queer artist to the fore. In seven short years, she’s gone from apprentice to high-flying selector, firing up crowds at some of Berlin’s most esteemed cultural spaces and leaving a trail of sweaty dancefloors in her wake. Through her many bookings, a narrative line has emerged in her work, a dialogue with the energy on any given night but also with herself, in which she constantly strives to stay authentic and true to her roots. It’s a kind of reverence to the music that made her too: “when I weave in tribal percussion or gospel-inspired vocals, I’m paying homage to the communal spirit that shaped house from the beginning.” And so it goes on, Bassiani Podcast 277 carries that flame onward. This one’s an hour-long number with all of her usual bells and whistles, a smooth and joyful exploration of house, r’n’b breaks and other syncretic moods, groove-fuelled tunes with a spring in their step. An upbeat manifestation of resistance and full-throttle number from a maturing voice on the Berlin scene.

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Bassiani invites Natalie Robinson / Podcast #277

The 174th podcast of KHIDI features vinyl set from The Forest, a pioneering local DJ and producer who’s paving the way in the electronic music landscape with his unique style of deep, driving, and hypnotic techno

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