FRANKIE J - The Red Dread House Head

Colin McBean is old school. Through and through. His stripped back brand of analogue house and techno has been emulated many times but never bettered. Heads will recognise his work from the first beat and if they don’t hear him then Mr. G will sure as hell make sure you see him coming. His flamboyant performances are in no way an attempt to mask a lack of creativity as he is still dropping bombs over 20 years after he launched his own Phoenix G record label. [continue reading at...https://trommelmusic.com/music/podcast/trommel-123-mr-g/]

Cast

Trommel.123 - Mr. G (live)

D1 - Step Back Up - DJ QU

LAYFAR - YES YOU CAN KAYTRONIK RUB SC

Feel My Bicep FMB Mixtape
@feelmybicep

Track List
Slick N Flash - Split
Synapse – Cosmic Connection
The Exaltics - NGC 253
Insync vs Mysteron - White Plains
Que Sakamoto + NT -ここは何処 Kokowadoko ( Forcecoming )
Phreax - Jitterballz
Froyd - FUNKMUTANT
Dr. Scissors – Emotions Babe
Fiction & Spice - Digital Overload
Chimera - Nude Epartur
DJ Vela - IRRESISTIBLE
Que Sakamoto + NT -  寿 Kotobuki ( Forcecoming )

FMB MIXTAPE 255 | QUE SAKAMOTO

2 hours in the lovely surroundings of Veniceberg club in Verona, kindly invited by Edwin Europe to celebrate the launch of their collaborative tshirt with the club.

Old tracks and some new tracks....It was a rowdy one!

2 HOURS IN VERONA - LUCA LOZANO

Recorded at Houghton - Alex Downey (2024)

@cinnamusic is a Chicago-based DJ and former curator whose roots trace back to his early years after moving from Mexico. As a kid in primary school, he recorded B96’s Mixmaster Throwdown onto tapes and tried mixing them together—an early spark that grew into a lifelong pursuit. By 17, he was already DJing at suburban teen clubs like Mission (Medusa’s Elgin). A classically trained pianist and saxophonist, his musical foundation gives his sets depth and versatility.

Over the years, he has collaborated with respected Chicago institutions such as Vision, Smartbar, Spybar, Vested, and Paradigm—experiences that shaped his sound and strengthened his role as a community builder. In 2016, he co-founded Obscure, a forward-thinking techno and house party brand.

With an eclectic music collection built from years of traveling and record shopping across the globe, Cinna draws inspiration from club and festival culture worldwide. His sound bridges the soul of 90s house & techno with the energy of today’s dancefloors, earning him opportunities to share the stage with Joris Voorn, Robert Hood, George Fitzgerald, Dusky, Palms Trax, Skream, Shanti Celeste and many more.

GM009 - Cinna

Michelle emerged from the Uruguayan underground back in 2018. Since then, she's explored the sort of sounds that have made her homeland such a creative hotbed: stripped-back techno, electro and early tech house all collide in her tracks on the likes of My Own Jupiter, CABARET Recordings and, most recently, Element Of Impact. Though designed purely for dancing, they're rich with intriguing textural contrasts between steely metal surfaces, wonky acid lines and sultry synths.

Michelle only plays live, so this week’s mix is a raw, unfiltered one-hour transmission pulled straight from her machines. It’s a rugged ride that grinds through industrial tech, shadowy broken beats and deeper techno. The energy is relentless and the tension is palpable, as if intergalactic warfare lurks just out of sight. The pounding rhythms, strobe-lit grit and sweat-soaked intensity make this a masterclass in pressure and release that's alive, dangerous and keeps you right on the edge.

Dekmantel Mix 495 - Michelle (live)

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

1. Takuya Morita - Tamaoto
2. Mike Sharon - I Wonder
3. Djalo - Onwards
4. DP-6 - Terracotta
5. Janeret - Echoes
6. Mielafon - Get Warm
7. Okain - Resist
8. Cocktail Cool - Just Listen
9. Ohm - Flickering Lights
10. Badeo - Facade (Thor Remix)
11. Interstate - Dancer ate my Bird
12. Burnski - Green Room
13. Renato Ratier - Atacama (Ney Faustini Remix)
14. Nicolas Barnes - Blind Habit (Eric Louis Remix)
15. Ohrwert - Lyft
16. Skudge - Tryptic
17. Arcarsenal - The Vessel
18. G-Prod - One Trice
19. Doctor DUB - Reach For The Sky (Vocal Version)

Givi Gelashvili - HÖR @ Trust Festival Tbilisi  (4th July 2025)

Recording of Sugar Free's set at the Selectors stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Sugar Free at Selectors - Dekmantel Festival 2025

Read what Jane Fitz had to say on Mixmag Asia:
https://mixmag.asia/feature/mixmag-asia-radio-rural-festival-2025-jane-fitz-mareena-innerworld-zundoko-disco

Mixmag Asia Radio 165: Jane Fitz at Rural Festival

Label		R2 Records		
Genre		House 
Formats    DIGITAL
Release Date  19th February 2016 		 
		
R2 Records are happy to present the first full-length project from Karizma’s alter ego Kaytronik.
From his earliest days as part of Baltimore’s premier crew - The Basement Boys - Kris Klayton was never one to stay in a musical box, always probing beyond the constraints of the soulful house domain. 

His Kaytronik persona, (previously reserved for remixes of other artists and a single on Atjazz Recordings) has allowed him greater freedom to explore beat syncopation, mood and impassioned expression further with an album that showcases his ability to work at any tempo, with a variety of styles, but always with the emotional content intact.

“State We In” is the first single taken from the album, a hard driving groove punctuated by a harder hitting narrative on the current disarray in the world as a whole, and the U.S. specifically.

The package also includes “I Say”, a straight up club banger to help shake off the tension.

Both tracks taken from the full length “Thee Album”- out on 4th March.


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