Australian Kia very quickly rose up through the grimy after-hours rave scene of Melbourne to make her mark on the international stage. Now Berlin-based, her unique grasp of rhythm is rooted in a love of bass, IDM and deeper techno though she is adept at exploring a wide range of moods within those worlds. She has done so at places like ADE and our own festival and extends her good taste to the curation of her Animalia imprint and its ambient sub-label Cirrus as well as her own original tracks on Nous'klaer Audio.

In this week's mix, Kia showcases a colourful and kaleidoscopic take on techno which she says was awakened by an early trip to Japan's famously head Labyrinth festival. It's a hi-fidelity feast of supple rhythms, icy synths and deep space ambiance that unfolds in late-night fashion. The melodies are as delicate as silk, the drums rubbery yet punchy. It's high-paced future music that manages to be as delicate and beautiful as it is dynamic.

Dekmantel Podcast 440 - Kia

Sometime after dawn, in my favorite warehouse in Detroit – the Tangent – I got to play my favorite party filled with all my favorite DJs – No Way Back. It felt like the time for the party to take a deep breath and refill its lungs. Playing directly after Patrick Russell and right before Erika, I took the moment to give the party what I felt it needed. First, rays of light, and then expansions and contractions in the sound. 

For the technique, I played on a Model One mixer with a Moog MF Delay pedal and 4 CDJs. Much of the music is upcoming on Interdimensional Transmissions, or things I have recorded in and remastered for DJing, especially to be played on the giant Jim Gibbons rig in this room, a process I call “quick masters” or “QM” for short. Some are very rare, some have never been playable in this context, or lost gems by my heroes, like CH BB. Some are new jams being played for the first time, like “Another Planet” where I jammed with Neel in his studio in Rome this spring on my 608 (modified 606) and 303. My favorite approach to NWB is to compose new music for it and test it there, it is such a special room. 

Recorded at 6am to 7:30am sometime in the wormhole of May 28, 2023 at No Way Back, day 2 of Return to the Source. 

Mastered for podcast by Jim Gibbons of AVS. 

Tina Turner - Buddhist Chant 2 
Tina Turner - Buddhist Chant 1 
Janet Jackson - Interlude: Pledge 
Gemini Sounds - R U Afraid
Heaven & Earth - Prescription Every Night
Quince - Ghost In The Machines
Jump Chico Slamm - Feelfree
Infiniti - Techno Por Favor (BMG Edit)
aNaloG 87 - aNaloG 87 (feat. DJ M-TraXXX)
Neel - Deep Quarantine [forthcoming on IT 53]
New Order - Video 586 (BMG QM)
Jaquarius - Love is Happiness 
Distant Echoes - Parallel Binary
Kerrie - Find Your Tribe
D'Marc Cantu - Some Fantasies Are Good (DVS1 Remix)
Decius - Delicate SF (BMG QM)
Love Letters - Falling Star (BMG QM) [forthcoming on IT 54]
Dopplereffekt - Master Organism
CHBB - Keine Elektronik (BMG QM)
Love Letters - Let the Bass Go (Mike Servito Remix) (BMG QM) [forthcoming on IT 54]
Electric Soul - X2 (BMG QM)
Liquid - Liquid is Liquid
BMG & Neel - Another Planet (BMG QM)
Psyk & Orbe - OSI Model
Luigi Tozzi - Spiral (Rrose Remix)

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

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IT.podcast.s12e08: BMG at No Way Back 2023

DJ Nobu's exclusive mix for RDC 2024 podcast:

A rare house/disco set recorded back at RDC "Sound Horizon" 2023 by one of the most highly acclaimed techno djs from Japan who travels across the globe.

RDC 072 - DJ Nobu

pi/live: Aurora Halal b2b deep creep @ Mansions 02-16-2024

"Chicago native Justin Aulis Long discovered his fascination for uncanny music at an early age when his mother entrusted him with her record collection that spanned from UK punk to American dance. This  served as a gateway, stimulating his journey into the sonic vortex. As a child of Medusa’s on Sheffield, Long gained a higher level of musical education. His weekly pilgrimages to this venue’s all-ages hedonistic dance parties supplied a compelling musical concoction of acid house, UK bleep, industrial and new wave. Possessed by these unorthodox forms of music, Long purchased his first set of turntables and began to collect 12-inch singles from local record shops. Though his intentions were solely to pander to his musical appetite in the privacy of his bedroom, this acquisition proved to be the genesis of a voyage that continues to present him with new challenges that are met with an unforgiving dogmatic approach.

Long cut his teeth during the early 90’s at many of Chicagos Infamous DIY and underground warehouse raves. pulling selections from a variety of his musical influences and interests. Eventually graduating to take residencies at many of the cities established club venues and landing a residency at Smart Bar where he is currently the longest consecutive resident."

Episode 63 w/Justin Aulis Long

Tacos And Techno 001 - DJ Roach B2b Isaac Prieto

"We were searching for our own voice." The Chicago artist talks about pioneering the sound of acid house and the spirit of experimentation in early dance music.

The Chicago-based Nathaniel Pierre Jones—AKA DJ Pierre—may be best known for forming the "squelch" we now call acid. When he and his friends Spanky and Herb J picked up a TB-303 in a pawn shop, they captured the sound of the knobs being turned as a pattern started to run. While this wasn't how the instrument was intended to be used, they were enthralled by the result, reproducing it and releasing it as an EP called Acid Tracks under the name Phuture in 1987. The result was the birth of the acid house era and a new, international musical craze.

In this RA Exchange recorded live at International Music Summit in Ibiza, Jones retraces the acid craze and the nature of experimentation and risk-taking more generally. In his view, there's a marked absence of this mindset in contemporary dance music as many producers have become accustomed to using sample packs, presets and generally operating within workflows that stymie originality. At the end of the interview, he raises important questions around if and how the music being released today enhances our lives, as well as what a truly transcendent and mutually supportive industry could look like. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.717 DJ Pierre

New York hailing underground staple, Mutual Dreaming label head and founder of Sustain-Release Aurora Halal, takes to the tools on the latest Crack Mix with a warm, groove-laden 55 minutes

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Crack Mix 581: Aurora Halal

What does great techno sound like in 2024? Enter LYDO. This week's RA Podcast captures @lydole in full flow, combining the old-school vernacular of European and North American techno—reduced rhythms, hi-hats and punchy 909s—with tracks from the new guard (Sev Dah, GiGi FM, D.Dan) sprinkled throughout.

After moving to New York in 2015, the Vietnamese-American sound artist and X-XTRA.SERVICES founder became one of BASEMENT's first residents; the scene built around the revered Queens club has helped nurture their adventurous sound. Lately they've been making waves beyond North America, playing with the MARICAS crew in Barcelona and locking down slots at De School, Bassiani and Draaimolen.

RA.947 is the sound of artful hypnosis: it's techno with elegance, depth and just the right amount of thump. Rig this up on a proper system, turn off the lights and any worries—about the genre's direction of travel, or otherwise—might melt away. 

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/947

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RA.947 LYDO

Where to begin with this one? Don't say that we aren't good to you...

Surgeon & Speedy J need no introduction. However, you might not have heard of their recent collaborative project called Multiples which they are using to work together on live improvised jams. It's a chance for them to embrace the diy aesthetic once more, bouncing ideas off one another and recording the results.

The first record from the pair is called 'Two Hours Or Something'. An aptly titled release which lends a nod to the chaos and approach in the studio.

We received this mix not long off the back of being sent the record and it doesn't disappoint. It weaves and wanders between elements of IDM before emerging into the realms of Techno. The proper stuff - no hype, no pop edits. Pure Techno as it was meant to be.

Multiples (Speedy J & Surgeon) : The Ransom Note Mix

A short decade ago, Galcher Lustwerk seemed to come full speed out of obscurity with a moment defining mix that landed him and his sound at the centre of everyone’s attention. 100% Galcher was a blend of his unreleased works, borrowing from the alternative Americana of midwestern house and urban focused hip-hop, as well as another of his motherland’s key exports: film. The Cleveland native subsequently pushed that vision and its variants further with releases on Tsuba and the founding of label Lustwerk Music, as well as releases under aliases Road Hog, The Fock, Macchiatto, 420 and Power User; the pandemic didn’t slow him down either, with another batch of releases that spanned both rap and ambient with equal skill. A polyglot when it comes to musical genre: for most there’s a little daylight between hip-hop and electronic music, but for Galcher the two are at the vanguard of new sounds, genres united in a constant push into the unknown and discovery of the new, a key modus in his creative process. If any of this is difficult to envision, think lo-fi melodies and velvet smooth house with his very own voice thrown in, a dreamy patchwork of inspirations that are given form by his limitless innovation and nerd-level turnover of hardware. Bassiani Podcast 224 is a four-hour whopper recorded live at Horoom, the DJ/producer’s usual antics in more danceable format, laid back house and a measure of the ‘noodly’ jazz sounds he’s known for, with the supporting role of a driving bassline. Essential Galcher.

@galcher-lustwerk

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