Next up in our Mix Series is Sweden-born, and Berlin-based DJ Philippa Pacho. Pacho is the co-founder of Positive Source, a label started with Blue Hour, focusing on progressive artists while paying homage to our roots in early club culture.

The mix for is a live recording from Vault Sessions, BRET Amsterdam from February 26th, featuring energetic and groovy techno mixed in mixed super seamlessy and skillfully. 

@philippapacho
@positivesource

Ute Mix Series #56 | Philippa Pacho

Happy to share the whole recording of my closing set at Tresor.
Recorded live , download available

Tracklist :

1.Intro Acapella UR - Transition + KW34 A1
2	Hemka	Rutah 
3	Truncate - Is It Skinny ?
4	Planetary Assault Systems - x speaks to x 
5	Planetary Assault Systems - Pull 
6	Forest Drive West - Cut and Run 
7	Lucy - Beautiful People 
8	Phil Kieran & Green Velvet -Rocket Yoursel
9	Z.I.P.P.O - Order (
10	Robert Hood - Untitled 1 
11	Alarico- 	Spit 
12	Quelza - Unreleased
13	Spherical Coordinates  - Matchup Looped Reconstructed
14	Quelza - Unreleased
15	Mascon - Vandalium
16	Stanislav Tolkachev - White Blood Cell (
17	Franz Jäger - Processed Hammer 
18	Tenebre - Axe Nord-Sud 
19	Forest Drive West - Transmission (
20	Spherical Coordinattes - Various Loop Reconstructed 		
21	Reeko - Cyberpunk 
22	Villalobos & Butch - Up // Atom tm - Ich Bin Mein Maschine
23	ERIC FETCHER - 	Space Obsession (
24	Ritzi Lee - Framework 
25	ERIC FETCHER - 	The Battle of the Crater 
26	Robert Hood -  Protein Valve 1 
27	Alarico - unreleased 
28	Leiras - No one behind
29	Divide - Ritardo (
30	P.E.A.R.L.  - Speculum 
31	Forest Drive West - Functional 
32	Quelza - Atmospheric Tools #1
33	Quelza - unreleased
34	Regal - Report A Crash 
35	Forest Drive West - UN 
36	Quelza - unreleased
37	Quelza - unreleased
38	Ben Sims -  I Feel It Deep ( Sandwell District Remix)
39	James Ruskin - Unknown Destination
40	Quelza - unreleased
41	Antigone - The Fugitive 
42	Quelza - unreleased			
43	Objekt - The Stitch-Up 
44 Depeche Mode  - Dream On (Dave Clark Club Mix)
45	Quelza - Unreleased	
46	Speedy J - Something For Your Mind 
47	 TBA 
48	Jeff Mills - The Bells 
49	CRAVO	EVO	03	
50	TWR72 - Snake 
51	Planetary Assault System - Tap Dance 
52	Obstructor - Single-Serving Friend (
53	Jeroen Liebregts - Vloer 
54	Marcel Fengler - Thwack (Planetary Assault Systems Remix) 
55	Luke Slater - O-Ton Reassembled 4
56	Quelza - unreleased
57	DVS1 - Running 
58	Peter Van Hoesen - Challenger
59	DJ Deep - Demonstration 
60	Peter Van Hoesen - Rift 
61	Special Request - Vortex 150 
62	Ben Sims - Manipulated (Adam Beyer Remix) 
63	Overmono - So U Kno 
64	James Ruskin - Work (Steve Rachmad Remix) 
65	Robert Hood - Minus 
66	Peter Van Hoesen - Kelly Criterion
67	Peder Mannerfelt - Year Of The Rats 
68	Peter Van Hoesen	Trench 
69	Atonism & Tehotu - Action
70	Temudo - Tough To Say 
71	Rhyw - Unpunishable 
72	Regina Leather - Tip 
73	Quelza - unreleased
74	LSDXOXO - Mutant Exotic (D.Dan Remix) 
75	Roll Dann - Resultado 
76	Quelza - unreleased
77	Quelza - unreleased 
78	Ricardo Villalobos - 909 Track 
79	Dettmann | Klock - Prophet Man 
80	DJ Slip - Streetwalker 
81	PVNV  - Library 
82	Forest Drive West - Ritual 
83	SSTROM - Volatile Substance 
84	DJ Slip - Every Time It Takes Awhile
85	Robert Hood - Full Armor 
86	Marcel Dettmann - Throb 
87	Planetary Assault System - Dungeon 
88	Joy Orbison x  Overmono - Bromley 
89	PVNV  - Default  
90	Antigone - And When The Sky Was Opened	A
91	AWB	 - Ecliptic (Antigone x Shlømo remix) 
92	Developer - In Pure Form 19 
93	Cio D'Or - Tomorrow Was Yesterday
94	Closer Muzik - One Two Three (Quelza Reaktor Unreleased Remix)	
95	DVS1 - Delta Wave 
96	Marcel Dettmann - Music is Playing
97	Tiga	 - Easy
98	James Ruskin - Time & Place	J
99	Rove Ranger - Seventh Wave 
100	Quelza - Unreleased 
101	Robert Hood - The Greatest Dancer 
102	UVB - Cardiff Luv (
103	Underworld - Born Slippy 
104	Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face	
105	UR - Transition (Accapella)	 FINAL

Quelza @ Tresor Berlin 10.06.2022 I 5 Hours Closing

@madalba was born in July 1985 in Bari, south of Italy. From a very young age, her musical interests moved across a broad spectrum, going from house and dance music to rock and punk leading her lastly to techno and club-culture.

At age 22 she approached the local scene as Djane with numerous performances in the club circuit of Bari. Through the years she has developed a continued and careful respect of the musical experience. She moved to Berlin in 2011 started djing with only vinyl records.

This helped her to build a strong reputation as an underground techno DJ, providing opportunity for her to play in clubs such as Tresor, About Blank, SchwuZ, SO36 and Mikz in Berlin where she lives today.

In September 2011, she spent one month in Detroit where she started the collaboration with DJ Seoul, Tom and Angie Linder of Detroit Techno Militia. This travel has definitely and radically changed her approach to the techno concept, which she considers more a political and social phenomenon and a lifestyle than just a musical genre.

Back to Berlin she immediately came into contact with the queer scene, then in full bloom, building a network primarily of interpersonal relationships based on mutual support and collaboration, a network that naturally strengthens over the years, leading her to basically all queer realities of the city and beyond. At the same time she cultivated her main profession as a trauma surgeon in a historically male-dominated environment which strengthens her awareness of her role as a woman in a still strongly male-dominated society.

Thanks to these solid experiences she became resident of the party Homopatik, at the time the flagship of the Berlin queer reality.

Her first releases on vinyl came out in 2014 on DTM-Label (Detroit) and Arkita Records (Berlin), the label that she spawned together with Synkopheit till 2016.

In 2017 she launched her own record label Future D\'e9j\'e0 Vu releasing 5 EP respectively by Transient X4, Ken Karter, Mannella a.k.a. DHARAXT, Phontonz & Shcuro, Rage Therapy.

In September 2017 she played her first house set for the summer closing of the Berlin party Buttons.

In Summer 2018 Madalba became resident dj at the historical club Tresor in Berlin. The same year she collaborated with the London based crew Aria with a party series in the UK capital.

Currently she is techno resident dj and co-organizer of the party Buttons in About teaming with Danilo Rosato, Anna Bolena, Jabob Meehan, Shingo Suwa, Akirahawks and Paolo Di Nola.

Over the years, his awareness of the communicative power of his role as a DJ not an end in itself but always aimed at creating a network based on the basic values of absolute respect for all forms of diversity, has been strengthened to the point carrier of all her artistic and interpersonal expressions.

Here, @madalba delivers a 5h hours stunning set recorded straight from the @tresorberlin booth.
Many thanks to the artist and the mythic club.

GUEST SERIES : Madalba (Tresor Extended Set)

Hyperaktivist, coming from the vibrant streets of Venezuela to the pulsating beats of Berlin, has been electrifying dance floors with her infectious energy. Known for her dynamic soundscapes, she draws inspiration from the golden era of the '90s, infusing old-school tracks. Brace yourself for an immersive journey where the past intertwines with the present, guided by Hyperaktivist and her mastery of experimental sounds.

Tune in for #162

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Artwork by Ankhsious

Vault Sessions #162 - Hyperaktivist

Swedish DJ and label head Philippa Pacho began her career in the illegal party scene of Stockholm. As a resident of Under Bron since 2012, she has gone on to become one of the most in-demand DJs, renowned for her legendary marathon sets, razor sharp mixing, and powerful, radiant approach to techno.

About the mix Philippa said: 

“I tried to keep a ’festival in nature’ - theme whilst recording this, less peak moments and more groovy, hypnotic and repetitive/trippy, more leaning to what I would play at a closing set.”

Follow:
https://soundcloud.com/philippapacho
https://www.instagram.com/philippapacho
https://positivesource.bandcamp.com/

MNMT 436 : Philippa Pacho

Recorded live in Amsterdam at CODA (Ratherlost x Pax Romana ) during ADE 2024 in Lofi.

Both Ratherlost and Pax Romana have been crews that keep a particular space in my heart. A little archive from a memorable night of two combined force of the Amsterdam club scene ! Enjoy the ride , as much as I did !

Musically yours,
Léo

Mastered by Erik Luebs.

Picture taken during that event by @aesthetic_lunatic

Quelza at Coda I Ratherlost x Pax-Romana ADE 2024

This year, the spanish techno legend Oscar Mulero will return to the stage at rural, and we are happy to share the recording of his closing set at “rural at New Acao” in 2022.

This three-hour raging techno set guided the audience to the most intense and deeper world in the otherworldly main floor of “New Acao”, a gorgeous Showa-era building overlooking the sea.

今年、再びruralの舞台に戻ることになったスパニッシュテクノの生きる伝説 Oscar Mulero による2022年の“rural at New Acao”でのクロージングセットを公開します。

来場者の記憶に深く刻まれることになった、海を一望できる豪華絢爛な昭和建築“ニューアカオ”の異世界的なメインフロアの中でも、最も激しく、より深い世界を案内することになった3時間に及ぶ怒涛のテクノセットをお楽しみください。

rural Podcast 014 Oscar Mulero

GiGi FM is the 433rd guest of our original HATE Podcast series.

This mix is a cosmic, spiraling journey ~ a meditation on movement, intensity, and expansion. Opening and closing with the mantra Per aspera, ad astra (“through hardships to the stars”), GiGi FM wanted to invite listeners to surrender, transcend, and travel beyond the visible ~ where words dissolve and sound begins to speak ~ to move us in ways language never could.

Perhaps even reach that liminal space where mind, body, and soul dance in sync.

Download available.

Follow #GiGiFM here:
https://soundcloud.com/gigi-fm
https://www.instagram.com/gigif_m/
https://www.facebook.com/GiGixFM/

Photographer credits: Yumiya Saiki.

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HATE Podcast 433

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GiGi FM — HATE Podcast 433

Fuse resident Downside delivers the ninth release on Fuse Imprint with Traces Of Spring, a record that reflects both clean articulation and careful tension building. Across four tracks, he explores a balance of intensity and restraint, depicting a narrative that mirrors his evolving role within the club.

Opening with Until It Fades, the A1 sets a hypnotic tone through patient layering and ambient space, hinting at drama while maintaining subtlety. With Blackout Protocol, the atmosphere turns into focus through an imposing, clear low-end that takes control, driving a darker framework designed for moments of deepened urgency. On the flip, Revolt moves with raw immediacy, its rhythm pushing forward with detail and weight, yet strangely uplifting. Closing with the title track, Traces Of Spring offers a suspended atmosphere, delicate in rhythm and melody, it's a reflection of the fragile balance between soft synth tension hanging by a thread and a focused, monumental pace.

With this release, Downside contributes a coherent and articulate statement to the Fuse catalogue, one that captures both the physicality of the dancefloor and the subtleties that extend beyond it.

Buy here: 
https://fuseimprint.bandcamp.com/album/traces-of-spring

Written and produced by Downside
Additional mix down and mastering by Ahmet Altinbas
Artwork by Ahmet Altinbas
Layout by Studio Phazed

GUEST SERIES : Madalba (Tresor Extended Set)

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