Deep pulsing power dub

Remix I made for AADJA on Pushmaster discs
Originally released April 16, 2021 on vinyl & digital

BUY: https://ddan.bandcamp.com/track/aadja-falling-in-a-dream-d-dan-remix

Written & Produced by D.Dan
Mastered by Joel Krozer at Six Bit Deep

@aadja
@pushmasterdiscs

Vinyl:
lobsterrecords.co.uk/products/aadja-falling-in-a-dream-ep
www.decks.de/track/aadja-falling_in_a_dream_ep/chw-nf
www.juno.co.uk/products/aadja-falling-in-a-dream-ep/818025-01

Label Bandcamp & Full EP:
pushmasterdiscs.bandcamp.com/album/falling-in-a-dream-ep-pm026

AADJA - Falling In A Dream (D.Dan Remix) OUT NOW!

Music to put your hood up to

1.) Joe Hisaishi - Pure White (Dolls)
2.) Emma DJ - Coco Eckichii
3.) Dean Blunt - rap.mp3 (prod Vegyn)
4.) Significant Other - Love Beat
5.) Yves Tumor - Conflict Of Interest
6.) Rat Heart Ensemble - Ratty’s Reprise
7.) Luke Slater - Time Dancer
8.) Roll The Dice feat. Sophia Loizou - Head Drop
9.) Takashi Yama - 002 The Scenic Route
10.) Member- Too Much Jungle
11.) Ghost Phone - Soul Seeker
12) GAS - Untitled
13.) Penny P - Untitled
14.) MIKE - Summer 17
15.) Pink Siifu - Nation Tyme
16.) Rat Heart Ensemble - Swan(ny) Song

NTS 3.7.2022

Boomkat Product Review:
Super elusive techno mystic Nebuchadnezzar - favourite of Blackest Ever Black’s Kiran Sande, among many many others, here with a super rare physical release, deploying 90 minutes of hard techno ballistics infused with highly atmospheric pressure, hugely tipped if yr into Carrier, Hoavi, Chain Reaction’s Matrix, Live Adult Entertainment, Quiet Husband, Regis, Lost Domain.

For Reel Torque’s auspicious 30th release, the San Francisco-based, US-Ukrainian wunderkind Nebuchadnezzar lays down 90 minutes mostly derived from his own productions. Playing between 4-6am on a bill shared with Jam City, DJ Loser, Tamus and Conor Thomas; Nebu showcased one of the most extraordinary mutations in contemporary techno and 157bpm+ club music, hypnotising a crowd with a patented, peerless masterclass in modern body music. You kinda had to be there - engulfed by the smoke, strobes, and bodies of The White Hotel - for optimal effect. But this tape, recorded and mastered by TWH sound engineer, Miles RS, clearly conveys the unique tip-toe balance of ballistics and atmospheric pressure that Nebuchadnezzar has made his own over the past 6 years of prized releases, and is properly put into hypnotic context in the club.

Mesmerising from start to finish with a seamless, almost laminar flow of offbeat drum patterns that appear to fold-in on themselves mid-phrase but always go forward, alloyed with a melange of textures and samples lifted from ‘90s noir thrillers, grime radio chat, and contemporary warehouse techno, Nebuchadnezzar kept the ‘floor going quite unlike anyone else. There’s no big drops or overworked: just a ceaseless but exquisitely tempered flow of his own material, which notoriously average around 10 minutes individually, but are here layered and chained into an inexorable traction on 3 x CDJs.

For us, Nebu’s sound vividly flashes back to febrile memories of being snagged in the subbass-powered hydrodynamics of tech-step, flashcore and frenchtek at Manc free parties in the ‘00s, but uchronically warped with aspects of original grime (a curiosity he admits was piqued by sitcom ‘PJDN’ and has turned into personal edits of Target, Dizzee, Youngstar classics) and subtle rhythmic accentuation of new Latin machine music, with the gritty focus of new Eastern European techno. Held in an atmospheric physics with the sleazy sheen of samples from ‘90s noir thrillers and slivers of cold-rushing trance, the result is just an absolute chef’s kiss of uncompromising, contemporary dance music that taps into something far more essentialist and non-clouty than so many others, and feels entirely of the 2020s. Fucking love it to bits.

Nebuchadnezzar @ The White Hotel - Manchester, UK 14.10.2023

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

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

Dj Persuasion 93 - 94 Hardcore mix for Berceuse Heroique

DJ SWISHA b2b OK Williams at Draaimolen Island X Sustain-Release 2024

Part three of RA.999: a celebration of soulful footwork and the timeless influence of DJ Rashad.

As we gear up to celebrate the 1,000th episode, RA.999 lands with five mixes across five days. First up was 1morning and Regal86, then Prosumer and Peach. Today, we turn our eyes to Chicago, with two of footwork staples, DJ Spinn and Manny, taking the reins of the third installment of RA.999 (both make their RA Podcast debut).

Ten years ago, Teklife Records was founded, following the untimely death of DJ Rashad in 2014. His collaborators started the label to honor the Chicago-born producer’s musical genius and continue his legacy of soulful footwork. Its first release would be Afterlife, a compilation of unreleased Rashad material that, in the words of Pitchfork, "captured the spirit of familial connection and experimentation integral to the Teklife crew."

Listening to RA.999, it doesn't take long for any footwork fan to realise that this is an hour-long homage to Rashad's phenomenal discography. The first lyric we hear is "Throw your L's up for Rashad!" on "L's UP FOR RASHAD," and a string of Rashad classics follow, many of which Spinn and Manny collaborated on. It's a that reminder  you of not just how staggeringly talented Rashad was, but how central collaboration was, and still is, to the Teklife project

Although many of these songs are more than a decade old, not one song sounds out of place in 2025. This is an emotional, riveting listen documenting the work of the best to do it in footwork. Back then, Rashad was the future, and he still is.

@deejay-manny-2
@dj-spinn-1
@teklife57
Find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1007


RA.999 DJ Spinn & DJ Manny

✨🤲✨ Here’s a set recording at one of the last of a festival-filled summer: @sustain-release-nyc

No set theme/mood, just a journey thru a bunch of tunes I really do love and hoped people would enjoy; but to quote my girl @livwutang, it was rooted in a love for Black music (this mix cover was taken by her during the set <3). Stitching together threads of dubstep, jazz, house, breaks, garage, hip hop, dub, etc.

At some points this kinda feels more like a beat tape with selector style mixing + no long blends. A lil fusion of tired/nervous/letting the tunes shine

Thank you @itsallhalal + the rest of the team for the opportunity to close The Gym on Fri night and for looking after me. And ofc out to the amazingly welcoming dancers inside ❤️

MK closing set @ Sustain-Release Festival [NY, Sept '25]

00] Hole In One - Spiritual Ideas For Virtual Reality
[09] The Primitive Painter - Levitation [Klang Elektronik - KLANG 1]
[18] Dubtribe Sound System - Sunshine's Theme (Sunshine's Remix) [Organico - ORG 004]
[23] State Of Flux - Mercury [Finiflex - FF1009]
[29] The Primitive Painter - Cathedral [Klang Elektronik - KLANG 1]
[36] Ebi - Chuu [Space Teddy - ST 007]
[43] Some Other People - Astralise [Infinite Mass - MASS 018 T]
[52] The Primitive Painter - Invisible Landscapes [Klang Elektronik - KLANG 1]
[58] Squid - Emprisoning Sound On A Piece Of Wax [Apollo - APOLLO 16]
[64] The Keyprocessor - Feary Tales [Eevo Lute Muzique - EEVO 008]
[68] State Of Flux - The News [Bold! Stars - BR 2009-1]
[71] Ian Pooley And Alec Empire - Untitled (Pulse Code E.P. Side A) [Mille Plateaux - MP 3]
[83] Ebi - Sou [Space Teddy - ST 007]

NTS 3.7.2022

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