artist: @setaoc_mass
recorded on the 15th of december 2024 (climax x Mutant.)
length: 01h34min22s (excerpt)

[After climax x Mutant.] Setaoc Mass @ essaim, Paris / 15dec2024

"You can get deeply lost in the darkness if you let yourself merge with it and not fight it.” With this statement, Denise Rabe vividly encapsulates her musical philosophy. As this episode of DYSTOPIA exhibits, her sound is less a musical form than a collection of sounds generating a tense, haunting atmosphere. Rabe's methods and ideas show with total clarity how darkness, what our society incorrectly perceives as negative, is in fact an opening onto a radically liberated world of abstract forces. In this episode I seek to define the meaning of darkness in techno and Denise also shares her thoughts with us about Berghain, the role of gender within the techno scene, how her personal philosophy is expressed through her music, as well as the fortuitous synergy between her name and the spirit of her music. Enjoy the darkness!

Tracklist:
Pretending (RABE)
By Doom (RABE)
Manifesto (Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Psychic Survival (BPitch)
Walking on Borders (Soma)
Purple Parks (30D)
Phønix's Ash (RABE)
1394 (Arkham Audio)

DYSTOPIA 003: DENISE RABE

.defaultbox Podcast 111 - Soulcontrol

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.defaultbox Podcast 111 - Soulcontrol

Right on cue to support the release of his newest EP on SK_eleven, here comes Manchester via Berlin's own Setaoc Mass with a banger of a mix to break June in proper, pedal to the metal. Exponent of a sound both intrinsically rugged yet layered to mind-altering effect, the British producer has been dishing out unstoppable slices of hi-velocity techno laced with a signature stripped-back, psychedelic edge. This new RYC podcast doesn’t veer off from such a direction and we’re graced with a two-hour mind trip boasting both bass-driven warehouse impact and an elegantly-woven tapestry of abrasive grooves, leaning by turn towards atmospheric elation and on other occasions pushing in the direction of utter fibrous, steel-coated industrial pound. The result is a wilder than wild ride down a smouldering pit of acid-washed hard hitters. Brutal. 

soundcloud.com/setaoc_mass

Reclaim Your City 646 | Setaoc Mass

LUST - SETAOC MASS B2B EMAN 24.05.25

Co-founder of Manchester’s infamous Rhythm Theory parties, A.Morgan lands his inaugural mix for RYC, showcasing both the breadth of his style and clinicality of his mixing skillset. Fresh off the release of his five-tracker, ‘Hyper Tension’, Morgan onboards the series with two hours of no-nonsense floor-destroying wares, stripped-down 4x4 aerobatics and epic-sized buildups. Muscular and mind-expanding, brace yourself for a set at the junction of proper hi-tech grit and heavily verbed-out grooves, merging the finest of classic 909-fuelled pound with atmospheric abandon and tape-delayed psychedelia. Blast this one out loud, all windows opened and woofers set to eleven.

soundcloud.com/a_morgan

Reclaim Your City 651 | A.Morgan

Sideral 12-04-2025 (vinylset)

A new week gives us a new opportunity to dive into our past editions of UNFOLD. Today, we bring you Rorschack’s (@rorsch-ack_closer) set from Edition LXXXVIII, coming just as the sun set in our Main Room.

Showcasing the CLOSER founder’s affection for the deep, this genre-defying set from the Italian artist fused elements of fast-future techno and hypnotic psytrance into something unmistakably his own.

First shared with those in attendance last December, this set can now be brought to the world this morning.

‘UNFOLD LXXXVIII - Rorschack (LIVE RECORDING)’ is now available to listen to on our FOLD SoundCloud.

UNFOLD LXXXVIII - Rorschack (LIVE RECORDING)

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Fran-TK (Ext Mix)

Save Us - $kiMa$k $ummerz latest album featuring 5 Dark, Proggressive and Melodic Techno tracks. Ensemble of gritty underground sounds featuring a dark atmosphere and enlightening melodic highs.

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Production, Mix&Master, Cover by $kiMa$k $ummerz

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