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friday at sustain-release 2021, 12-2am. thank you karen nicole for the photo :)

thank you @sustain-release-nyc

livwutang @ Sustain-Release Year 7

CCL on their staggering Friday performance at ROTUNDA: 

“I normally don’t get to play that fast from the get go but the crowd was so great it felt easy to play literally everything. It felt a bit like a wind tunnel in there. The shape of the stage, the whirling in and out of different tempos and the crowd’s energy made up for the perfect environment to play nothing but fast and half time rollers.”

CCL at Horst Arts & Music Festival 2022

Roza Terenzi at KWIA [03 Aug 2023]

Words by Ceci (@ccl-url): 

"Special thanks to Steevio & Suzybee & all the volunteers, workers & dancers 💙

This is my recording from Friday night Room 2, 12:30-2am, my first time being at the mythical Free Rotation. Playing one of the first sets & seeing the room, decor and the big bad subs of Room 2, years of fantastical lore and reality melded, I wanted to keep it sexy, wonky, trippy— imagining a psychic electric swamp and how one would levitate thru it... to the sky. No bpm trickery this time. Out to the heavenly bodies of the universe! ;)

Mastered by Wordcolour"


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ani/live Fifty Six: CCL @ Freerotation

Recorded live from @RefugeWorldwide - this show inspired by Mist, all things deep, atmospheric and spacious, with some warmth and soul -- dub techno, deep house, dub-wise tracks.

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #12 Mist @refugeworldwide

The third offering in our mix series is a live recording of Priori and Cousin's dj set at Sustain Release 2024. Recorded on the last morning between 6am and 1pm on what was meant to be an ambient stage, it featured everything a 3 day festival closing set should. Eclectic picks, strange and emotional sounds, dubious transitions and a few feigned endings. Massive thanks to all the dancers, the Sustain staff (Aurora, Ash and everybody else who put their blood, sweat and tears into this), the music makers, the birds, the stars. 

Much love,

P & C

@secondcousins x @priori-ties

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naffcast003 ⦾ Cousin & Priori ༻ Sustain Release 2024 Bossa Nova Stage closing set ༺ ❁

For her 2024 set at MUTEK Montréal, Brooklyn-based DJ Ayesha performed a one-hour mix of original music made during a period of healing and exploration whilst recovering from a brain injury.

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Live from MUTEK Montréal: Ayesha

TRACKLIST

Syclops - New Bro's In NYC
Koreless - Seven (Drumhell)
Kreggo - Pheeroan
Rhyw - Calippo
Unknown Untitled - uu011 - a1
Marcel Dettmann - Cycling Bits
DJ Patrick R ft. MC KVN & DJ Pikeno MPC - Vai no Chão
Deft - It's Made of Shine
Andy Martin - Electric Blue
Pump Media Unlimited - Bobo 500
Identified Patient - My Way (Hilton Mix)
Harmon Eyes - Tension
DJ Doomscroll - Doomscroll
STEYA - Fast Life
Cirkle - Lunar Orbit
Dead Man’s Chest x King Kutlass - Ananda Tandava
Boris Noiz - Inceptive Point
E-Unity - E-Ternity
DE GRANDI - I Can Relate
Aulic Veil - A-V_001.2 (Bonus Track)
G Jones - Help! I Can't Find My Way Out
Meat Beat Manifesto - Into The Sun (Pts 1 / 2)
Dom & Roland - Interstellar Subs
CCL & Ciel - Spiral Drive (Objekt edit)
gyrofield - Occam's Razor
Shxcxchcxsh - DO 3
Uneak - Bless Dem
DJ Trace & HLZ - Raptor
DJ Phiene - Bass Fanactiks
Marco Maldarella - Buio Omega
solar-x - bionic man
Carrier - FATHOM
Stingray313 - Sentiment
Otto - Hazer
AceMo - Jungle Storm
Objekt - Ganzfeld (Djrum Remix - short edit)
CCL - Strange Attractor
Sonic - Taxi Driver
Instra:mental - Photograph

Objekt at Draaimolen Festival 2024

x3butterfly live at Sustain-Release year 10

Recording from a special night at Ankali for the Dekmantel party 2 weeks ago, it’s one of the best clubs in Europe for me, truly a place for pure creative expression.

From House to Techno to Ghetto Tech to more minimal and tribal and dub stuff. Lately, I feel like I’m getting deeper into my sound and storytelling as a dj. I’m also getting better at playing with 3 decks, and I got back into vinyl. It changes everything, the music feels physical again. I'll try to share things more spontaneously like this one in the future, thanks for your constant support.

Tracklist available on IG : https://www.instagram.com/p/DHtG-0aoyMJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Simo Cell (dj set) @ Dekmantel in Ankali - 2025

Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

My set (with crowd noise) from the Grove Saturday Night 1-3am, after Djrum, before Identified Patient. 

Out to all the sexy witches of the forest, thank you to everytone there + entire crew @sustain-release-nyc :)

<3 Mastered by the best @wordcolour

CCL @ Sustain-Release Year Ten

ED047: Markus Live at Nowadays

Noise.Pulse!

“Higher” (Radio Edit!)

DKTech returns to Rhythmic Beatz Records with his latest three-track EP, Keep the Groove.

DKTech delivers a masterclass in modern hypnotic hardgroove techno, a sound that channels the raw, pounding energy of the classic Berlin underground while pushing the genre's rhythmic boundaries. This EP is a high-octane journey into the heart of the dancefloor, built on deep, driving grooves, razor-sharp percussion, and an uncompromising focus on hypnotic intensity.

The three tracks are perfectly tuned peak-time weapons, embodying the "tough with groove" ethos of the hardgroove revival. Expect pounding kicks, intricate syncopated drums, and dark, looping synth textures that are both relentless and mesmerising. This is the sound of the contemporary European rave scene: fast, funky, and powerfully driving.

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02 DKTech - Feel the Groove (Original Mix)

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