This mix is a sonic metaphor for the sunset: a moment suspended between light and darkness, calm and tension. An inner journey where the light slowly fades to give way to a darker, more mental kind of techno.

Soundcloud ➟ @emma_uranga
Instagram ➟ www.instagram.com/emmaurng

Upperberry | Emma Uranga

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

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

@atomic-moog

Recorded live at HORS-SOL Festival 2025 - (Foresta Stage, July 2025).

www.instagram.com/hors_sol_festival

Photography: Margot Lavigne

Atomic Moog (live) at HORS-SOL Festival 2025

AMULADOR - EXTRAMOSTRA x BÜNKER

"Si že nt, sam še neveš kk globoko"

Tracklist:
Artefakt - Fugacity
Rhytmic Theory - Longevity
Efdemin - Wrong Movements (Circles)
Samuli Kemppi - Modulaari
Dj Qu - The Zones
Albert Van Abbe - Astrofurt 03
Function - Gradient 2
Paleman- The Peg Loosens
Variable - Unreleased
Kike Pravda - Spheroid
Connor Wall - Splash Your Face
Svreca - Seda Muerta (Conceptual remix)
Ruben Ganev - 13th Sequence
Obscur & Connor Wall - Unreleased
Tauceti - Jasmin
Dj Hi-C - Tenma
Planatery Assault Systems- Undertow
Just Local - Outer x
Coefficient - Vacuum Instability
Planetary Assault Systems -  Serc
Farceb - Kuant
Giri - Apathy
Anthony Linell - Just to feel Anything
Echoplex - The Sun Still Shining
Function - Voiceprint (reprise)

Emit 005

[DISSECTION] is a mix series where various artists show their personal spice and flavor. During this 31st mix, AHIL guides us in a flowwy manner through a percussive landscape. Shifting through patterns while deep ambiances hypnotize, AHIL weaves together a well-functioning moment of driving and enchanting sounds.

linktr.ee/gifkikker

Soundcloud: @gifkikker-bxl
Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCu2MFFR2ShHK0X6HoIJzUwg
Instagram: www.instagram.com/gifkikker_bxl/

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GIFKIKKER is a Brussels based collective and label that fuses roughness and bite with depth- and clarity. Inspired by the sounds of the rustling leaves, flowing rivers and industrial soundscapes, our aim is to create genre-fluid music that blast the listeners into a wall of sound. Experimentation is key, where there are no boundaries.

w/ AHIL

[DISSECTION031] w/ AHIL

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Intellephunk boss and The Great Beyond co-founder Centrific delivered a three-hour masterclass at the inaugural Unknown Perception. A lesson in patience, precision, and deep musical intelligence, where impeccable track selection met flawless mixing. Pure Midwest quality.

Unknown Perception is a weekend camping techno experience taking place ina private ranch immersed in nature, just outside of Los Angeles. Info: ww.instagram.com/unknown_perception

Follow Centrific
SoundCloud: @centrific
Instagram: www.instagram.com/stevencentrific

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Website: www.6amgroup.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/6amgroup
Twitter: www.twitter.com/6amgroup
Instagram: www.instagram.com/6amgroup
SoundCloud: @6amgroup
YouTube: www.youtube.com/6amgroup

Live at Unknown Perception 2025: Centrific

Re:Axis (José Diogo Correia) is a Portuguese sound artist and producer whose work spans experimental dance music, techno, ambient and deep atmospheric soundscapes. Classically rooted through piano, harmony and improvisation studies in Oporto and further trained in engineering and sound design in Lisbon, he blends hardware and software to explore inner worlds and expanded awareness. Active professionally since 2006, he has released on labels such as Aurora Mística, Monocline Records and Planet Rhythm, performed worldwide at renowned clubs and festivals, and is known for immersive, contemplative sets that feel part sound bath, part sonic meditation.

Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reaxis/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/re_axis

SPAWNcast 101 - Re:Axis

16th August 2016 episode of Deep Space Helsinki radio show with Samuli Kemppi in the studio. 
Tracklist:
1. unknown: Gravity (Hypnus)
2. Daniel Avery: Sensatio (Rrose remix) (Phantasy)
3. Na Nich & Vero: Time (Svreca remix) (Rhythm Büro)
4. Sebastian Mullaert: Fusion (Wa Wu We reduction) (Kontra Musik)
5. Steevio: Llwybr (Mindtours)
6. Jesper Dahlbäck & Nima Khak: Kittens Are Llamas (Parabel)
7. 04LM: Afterbye (Soma)
8. Svreca: Instituto Para El Futuro (RYC)
9. J.C.: Hator (Exhibition Design)
10. Pharaoh: Landing (Parallax)
11. Marla Singer: Gravity (Birth Of Frequency remix 1) (Nachtstrom)
12. Shifted: Persistence Of Vision (Avian)
13. Daniel Avery: Clear (Abdulla Rashim remix) (Phantasy)
14. Oisel: Radiazone (Aine)
15. Nihad Tule: Bleed (STHLM Ltd)
16. Pär Grindvik: Tradition (STHLM Ltd)
17. Christian Wünsch: Reactive Patterns (Jonas Kopp remix) (Tsunami)
18. Patrick Siech & Sebastian Mullaert: Rivers Will Turn (Drumcode)
19. Matrixxman & Echologist: Freeway (PRRUK BLK&WHT)
20. Abstract Division: Encounter (Lewis Fautzi remix) (Dynamic Reflection)
21. Neznan: Rotor (Jeroen Search remix 2) (Float)
22. Pär Grindvik: Rested (STHLM Ltd)
23. Aiken: Inductive (Timeline)
24. Joey Beltram: 5.7 Litre (Tresor)
25. Joey Beltram: Oval (Tresor)
26. Fanon Flowers: Mode 12 (-)
27. Terence Fixmer: Beneath The Skin (Ostgut Ton)

Deep Space Helsinki - 16th August 2016

Deep Space Helsinki is a radio show hosted by Samuli Kemppi and Juho Kusti, serving you with the most essential underground techno since 2009.