One year ago, I undertook a (nasty) challenge to eat all 10 levels of spicy sauce at the infamous 'Curry & Chili' in Berlin to earn a spot on their Imbiss wall, where successful challengers are immortalized with a picture. Through this challenge, I developed the procedure of 'Tactical Mayonnaise,' which involves eating mayo in between bites of extremely spicy Currywurst to ease the pain and finish the portion.
After completing the last level of 7,777,777 Scoville, which caused me solid 16 hours of immobility, immense stomach pain, and further suffering that I will spare you from in this story, I sat down and produced a track called 'Tactical Mayonnaise'. It contained everything I went through in this experience and emulated the sensation of relief brought on by the mayonnaise, achieved by a deliberate BPM slowdown in the middle of the track.

'Wanton,' having witnessed my journey and heard the track, approached me with the idea of a remix. This sparked my motivation to invite more friends to join in on the project, resulting in a collaborative Remix EP. To honor the anniversary of those events, I am very happy to finally share with you what I believe to be a very sophisticated roster of tracks, rooted in a humorous and personal genesis.
This Remix EP includes the original track, an additional four-to-the-floor club version that I made, and remixes by:

ALIVEMAEX - @alivemaex
CTSD - @ctsd
Malwere - @malwere
Wanton - @wanton-official

ALL TRACKS ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD! 

I am very happy about any form of support and your feedback. I hope you will enjoy this project as much as I did! ❤️‍🔥

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Tactical Mayonnaise Remix EP

Tactical Mayonnaise (Alivemaex Flamin' Hot Mix)

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Achat - Tactical Mayonnaise (Alivemaex Flamin' Hot Mix)

Excited to share with you my very first set of 2024, recorded live at Ratherlost party at LoFi, Amsterdam on January 1st, 2024. 
It was truly one of the best NY shows I've ever been a part of. The club was completely packed and on fire as I took over the decks following Quelza & Nørbak’s incredible B2B set. My aim was to keep this massive momentum going while leading the floor on a journey to get lost in the music. Hope you can feel this mood and energy from the recording. 

Special thanks to everyone who attended, and to Ratherlost for curating such phenomenal parties and granting me the opportunity to share this mix.

Wata Igarashi at Ratherlost 2024.01.01

Stone Techno Festival 2024 - Colin Benders (live) - ARTE Concert

Barker, Brawni, Chaz Moloney, Kangding Ray join forces for a 4 hour improv set in Dublin City

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Waves of pulsing, layered techno from the revered Mala Junta resident.

If the electronic music industry is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over what makes for true techno, then D.Dan is one of the underground's great modern emissaries.

A figurehead from the new guard of DJs to arise in the '20s, the Berlin-based artist and Mala Junta resident is an ambassador for a sound that is strongly anchored in the classic roots of techno. His productions, like his mixes, are revved-up takes on the hypnotic wormholes that defined dance floors last decade, but with a fresh (and high BPM) millennial twist. 

Originally from Seattle, D.Dan became enamoured with the spectral stylings of psych rock and shoegaze in adolescence. It's not difficult to see how the cosmic tapestry of bands like Cocteau Twins became a blueprint for the entrancing music he's gone on to make as an adult. His releases on Mutant Future and summerpup are latticeworks of loops and layered percussion, custom-tooled for lost hours on the dance floor and drawn-out mixes behind the decks. 

This approach directly extends into his DJ practice, where he pairs song selections from contemporaries that mirror his own reduced, controlled approach to techno. RA.994 is a Grade A display of contemporary four-to-the-floor from flagbearers like Roll Dann and Marcal.

And like D.Dan's standalone records, his RA Podcast finds room for sweetness—the intermittent peal of an open clap, the steady ripening of a chord—while ultimately emphasising the beauty of function and form over flair.

@ddan-sounds

Find the full interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/994

RA.994 D.Dan

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