Next up for our mixtape series we’ve got the very talented parisian artist @francoisx join the team.
Starting out as a resident dj in the legendary, now closed Concrete club in 2012, 10 years later he looks back at countless gigs at numerous institutions all around the world. He also launched his first label @dement3d in 2011, followed by @xxlabrec in 2021, which functions as a research platform for independent minded artists whose musical aesthetic is oriented towards avant-garde electronic music. 
Enjoy!

SPND20 Mixtape by François X

Fresh off a contribution from his brother-in-arms / fellow Vault Sessions’ resident DJ Phil Berg a couple of weeks back, Amsterdam’s Lobster clocks in our weekly show with two hours of heavily gusty, cyclonic big-room techno. Muscles bent to maximal effort and feet beating an infernal tempo, Lobster bulldozes his way in with monster strike force and accuracy. Poised for the most intense climactic workouts, this is no-prisoner 4x4 expression at its absolutely rawest, most euphoric best. Seismic business. 

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Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 511 | Lobster

This next one’s a very special B2B set from two of techno’s freshest talents. German/Dutch pairing Phil Berg and Lobster have emerged from their respective habitats masters of their art. From raves in both their homelands to releases on SK-eleven, HAYES, Room Trax and positivesource, as well as a shared residency for Vault Sessions that’s brought them here for Bassiani Podcast 210, the duo posit a deep and driving compound of high-voltage rhythms in their day-to-day praxis. Slamming techno that has claimed a rightful space among the greatest names of their generation. Layer by layer, an instinctive formulation of heaving basslines and delicate hi-hats balanced with utmost precision. It’s a seamless communion of complementary worldviews in respect to sound, a rich tapestry of ever morphing loops. It’s focus on gradual build, a slowly evolving chimera in lieu of schmaltzy instant gratification. This latest edition clocks in at three hours, a redacted version of their 12 hour set for the Vault Sessions night at Bassiani back in early February. Immersive and rolling, monolith techno that’s sure to set a higher bar for those who follow.

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@lobsternl

BASSIANI PODCAST SERIES

Bassiani invites Phil Berg & Lobster / Podcast #210

Only good vibes! Thank you Nation Of Gondwana! <3

Tracklist:
William Arist - La Historia Inicia
Pierce - Esoteric
AgainstMe & Red Rooms - Unreleased
Funk Assault - Forgotten Dunes
KaioBarsaloss	- Express
JSPRV35	- Pimp
Contakt - Unreleased
Red Rooms - Unreleased
Ignez - Spirit
Pierce - Unreleased
Rene Wise - Caging Green
Sciahri - 10k In One Year
Blenk - Vibration
Cirkle - Subsonic
Stef Mendesidis - Cyborg
Rosati - Automatic Response
Thomas P. Heckmann -Amphetamine
UVB	- Mixtion
Mathys Lenne - Satellite
Stef Mendesidis - Methodist
Rosati - Ufo Memory
Cirkle - Sonice Surge
DJUS - Amasia (STIPP Remix)
Stojche - Counterpunch
DJ Deep - Surge
Glaskin - Silk
Obstructor - Taboo
Aregone	- Above Us
Vince Watson - Aurelon (Deetron Remix)
KiNK - Unicord
Introversion - Hopeless Dreaming
Glimm - Unreleased

Red Rooms DJ Set @ Nation Of Gondwana 2024 (Live Recording)

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FOWRU 005 | Eerste Communie invites Stephanie Sykes

SHDW is the phantom moniker of Marco Bläsi, a Stuttgart native with a penchant for racing percussions and big room sounds. 2014 saw the beginning of his long-term partnership with like-minded techno dealer Obscure Shape (Luigi Urban), with whom he co-ran the party series and label spin-off From Another Mind. Ten years later and Bläsi has set out on his own journey, building on a decade-long legacy of sounds with just himself, ‘his music, decks, and a mixer’. Following on from his previous label, he founded Mutual Rytm in 2022, an outlet and creative platform focused on putting out the type of expansive techno SHDW’s come to be known for. His signature style a blend of intelligently superimposed and shuffling basslines, blink of an eye beats that elicit movement and social bonds. Unerring prime time techno, Bläsi’s path forward is looking promising, with a surge of Mutual Rytm releases and worldwide dates, the next ten years look set to further build on what he’s achieved since he started out. Bassiani Podcast 267 is a true to type episode from this master of the genre, a sleek and contemporary spate of rumbling kicks, dizzying effects and hedonic vibrations, a chugging and groovy 65 minute edition with SHDW’s fingerprints all over it.

Bassiani invites SHDW / Podcast #267

Track part of the EP "Mente 7 Realidade 1".
Written and produced by Jonas Cout.
@hongoslongos
Master by Inverted World

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Hongos Longos - Ride Ohn

Premier for "Sticks" by Freakwork @freakwork from "Foreign Mail 03" [FMAIL03] for Foreign Mail @foreignmail out 3rd october 2025 via https://foreignmail.bandcamp.com/album/foreign-mail-03

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