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"All I want to do is express what I love." The beloved Berghain resident talks about learning from failure, putting in the time and how good sound systems have changed his life.

Born and bred in Minneapolis, Zak Khutoretsky, AKA DVS1, has been throwing and playing raves for decades. Now 47, he's at the top of his game. As one of Berghain's most popular residents and a producer known for his deep and versatile sound, he's amassed thousands of followers around the world, releasing on Klockworks, Transmat and Ostgut Ton, in addition to his own label, HUSH.

Not just an artist, Khutoretsky has garnered a reputation for speaking critically about the challenges facing the electronic music community, notably through his essay about the battle between art and entertainment, and more recently through the inauguration of his revenue sharing platform ASlice. The organisation was designed in 2020 as an antidote to the pay disparity between DJ earnings and producer earnings, and its basic conceit is that DJs submit playlists of their tracks and share small percentages of their gig fees to be redistributed among the artists whose tracks they've played.

In this RA Exchange live from ADE, Khutoretsky talks with journalist Christine Kakaire about the platform and the impetus behind it, as well as his underlying tendency to be a "fixer,"  from the problems in his house to the issues he sees plaguing his community. Listen to the episode in full.

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Recording of James Ruskin B2B Julie at The Tunnel, Draaimolen Festival 2023, Day 1.

James Ruskin B2B Julie at Draaimolen Festival 2023

Further information and tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-278-ufo95

Leading up to his debut Tresor release Backward Improvement, @ufo95ufo95 has prepared a mix of ultra forward motion and cavernous four to the floor thumps. Starting with tense dissonant chords and sparse hits reverberating in a sci-fi atmosphere, the mix launches us into an hour of hefty techno shuffles, and rebounding rhythms and rumbles. Alongside the unreleased cuts are select tracks from the Sandwell District crew, like ‘Hunting Lodge’ with icy grains flowing between synth stabs while heaving kicks pulsate and implode. “I made this mix on Ableton and added some 909 jams. The major part of the mix contains my unreleased tracks mixed with techno classics from Sandwell District, Silent Servant, Shifted & more. I went through deep, hypnotic, dub and club oriented techno during these 60 minutes.”

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NYC-based DJ and producer Auspex has been one of the central figures at the forefront of the Brooklyn underground and club scene for the better part of the past decade. Currently, he holds his residency party ALTÆR at new global hotspot, Basement, playing host to notable house and techno acts from around the world--from buzzworthy up-and-comers to established legends of the booth. While no stranger to playing for other communities stateside, he's also made frequent appearances in Berlin at parties like Staub and Pornceptual, and venues like RSO, Renate and the legendary Griessmuehle, As a producer, he has released music on Soma, Diffuse Reality, Otomo, Mainmise, Insane Industry and more--as well as releasing on his own imprint Oath, a label dedicated to his output with his most distinct point-of-views.

Touch AUSPEX: @djauspex
Touch OECUS: www.oecusmusic.com
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拘り抜いたアーティスト選定＝コンセプト、LDG Mix Series第六弾は実験的、且つ儀式的、ヒプノティックでアブストラクト、長きに渡りテクノシーンに大きな衝撃と影響を与えてきた巨匠Mike ParkerがLDG Mix Seriesに降臨する。

本シリーズの裏コンセプトである現場感、大きなフロアに映えるダンスセット、2023年7月にWOMBで開催したEDEN Promo Partyの録音です。ミニマルでドープな世界観は健在ながらも、アップデートされたMike Parkerを堪能ください。

The sixth of the LDG Mix Series is experimental and ritualistic, hypnotic and abstract, and we feature Mike Parker, a master who has had a huge impact and influence on the techno scene for a long time.

This is a recording of the EDEN Promo Party held at WOMB in July 2023. Dance set on a big floor, minimal and dope worldview, enjoy an updated Mike Parker!

LDG Channel: Mix Series 06 / Mike Parker

Polygonia is the 378th guest of our original Hate Podcast series.

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Birmingham Crew!

Introducing our latest offering from the esteemed UK electronic music icon, Surgeon. Dubbed 'the finest techno DJ in the world' by Fact Magazine, and after we heard this one we're definitely inclined to agree!

This one is a proper journey, so crank up the volume and let Surgeon show you why he's seen as one of the most innovative and forward-thinking players in the UK techno scene since '94.

Tracklist:

Bas Dobbelaer - Layers of Territory
Rebolledo - Raid a la Joya
Stanislav Tolkachev - Frozen No More
Teste - The Wipe (Rrose remix)
Temudo - U Were My Second First Choice
Architectural - Rare Ceremony Tapes
Leod - Untitled 03
Deetron presents Soulmate - Screen
KTM - Love Dem
Rhyw - Wolf Town
Surgeon - Return
Temudo - 2029
Material Object - Cobalt
Porter Ricks - Shoal Beat
Atrice - CN3
Jurango - PSI
Architectural - Love Drums Massacre
Al Wootton - Natural Forward
Grovskopa - Sex And Violins (Surgeon remix)
Surgeon - Klonk pt2
Peverelist & Kowton - Raw Code (Surgeon remix)
Roska - No Sense
Sylvere - Ah Oui Ah Oui
Scion - Emerge (British Murder Boys Remix 1
Surgeon - Second Magnitude Stars

Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/dynamic-tension
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/tony_surgeon/
Spotify : https://shorturl.at/nBGPR

Surgeon - Minirig Mix

Hailing from Belfast and now rooted in Berlin, AOIFE navigates the pulsating heart of Europe's electronic music scene. With a background spanning DJing, event promotion, international publicity, and label management, she quietly solidifies her position as a respected figure in the realm of dance music. AOIFE's DJ sets are a testament to her uncompromising style, skilfully curating raw, dark, driving, and hypnotic elements; her versatility extends to a love for techno, breaks, electro, EBM, and house inspired by luminaries such as Jeff Mills, Dasha Rush & Blawan. From her beginnings & notable appearances on platforms like Rinse FM and HOR, AOIFE has consistently evolved. She has played at renowned institutions such as Tresor, Berlin, Khidi Club, Tbilisi, Amsterdam Dance Event and, Fold in London, while also securing a residency with Berlin’s Disconnekt. Aside from DJing, AOIFE has been focusing her purpose on production with forthcoming releases on the horizon. A sound that is a slow-burning odyssey through the depths of techno, infused with tantalising breaks and ethereal melodies, AOIFE's music is one of subtle power and undeniable cool.

@aoife_ie

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Sam Coates took to techno like a diligent pupil, falling in love with the genre through labels like CLR in the late '00s. It didn't take long for the student to surpass his proverbial teachers. Almost immediately, the Manchester native was putting out pitch-perfect, functional techno records with everything intricately balanced. The requisite move to Berlin only sealed his fate as a future techno luminary, and by now, based in Kyiv, he's one of techno's most reliable, yet exciting, workhorses. Setaoc Mass records (and those on his label, SK_eleven) are minimalist but colossal, deceptively simple but not easy to pull off. 

We've praised him in these pages for his "sense of economy—how to get the hardest impact out of just a few elements," and that's the idea behind his RA Podcast as well. Put together from records old and new, and intricately layered, Coates's mix is like a time-travelling wormhole connecting disparate eras from techno, and highlighting the genre's most timeless attributes: mechanistic rhythms, careful pacing, rudimentary melodies made out of the strangest sounds and, of course, the power of the bass drop. It's hard to imagine anything that sounds more capital-T techno than this mix, which is a high compliment. It's easy to hear why his records and DJ sets are only more in demand from techno heads across the geographical and generational spectrum.

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JakoJako (@jakojako_live) always wanted to make music and her self-confessed hyperactivity ultimately led to her getting the most joy out of playing about with machines and patching up synths. These days the Berghain resident is a celebrated live act and DJ who draws on the considerable knowledge she picked up working at Berlin's legendary synth shop SchneidersLaden, but she has also worked on several high-profile motion sensor dance projects at places like The Royal Albert Hall. Her smart sound designs and unique rhythms have landed on Leisure System, Tresor and Figure and she has a new EP coming on Mute this June.

Her mix for us this week features a sneak preview of one of the tracks from that EP as well as mixing up music from Alaric, Siege, Altinbas and many more. It's full of high-speed sounds couched loosely in techno but with moods and textures borrowed from industrial, minimal and even trance as things reach an emotional peak late on. Though she broke through as a live act, this set shows JakoJako can now speak just as freely through the decks.

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Born in Algeria, and raised between France and the Netherlands, with a later stint in London, Mary Lake has lived a life through the lens of different cultures, each adding a little more to her experience in the realm of electronic music. It wasn’t always her medium, but in DJing she’s found her most authentic voice, with her start at more intimate house parties, then on to the best and brightest of Dutch clubs and festivals. For her, creative discovery and expanding the limits of craft is key, covering both the range of utilitarian techno and more atypical sounds, the likes of which she was apt to share via her experimental pandemic-era radio show Worshipping Discordia. Alongside that, and a slew of catchy releases, she’s now a Spielraum resident and frequently billed on stages from Dekmantel to De School to Tresor, Bassiani and beyond. Her percussive techno spreads the kind of wildly infectious crowd energy that drew a younger her towards it many moons ago, now she's on the inside looking out. Bassiani Podcast 209 is an hour of vanguard beats delivered fresh by this burgeoning selector, driving and serpentine basslines to rattle your musical senses.

@marylakeworld

Bassiani invites Mary Lake / Podcast #209

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